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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-01-03

corner blocks, etc, until the ma
chine work amounts to a large bill and
the result often is a disappointment,
but the architect is not to blame;
he is simply trying to please an over
fastidious client. 1t is difficult for a
person not accustomed to reading
building plans to get a correct idea of
what they a Plans are necessar-
lily drawn to a scale, and this opens
the way to numerous misunderstand-
ings. The owner fails to grasp the
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-01-03
Bearing.

Whether u crosses are bearable or
not depends upon our method of car.
rying them.--Elizabeth Gibson.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-01-03

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The mole u one ~
the animal kingdon)f
starvation Il dsprivsd
hours.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-17

half dozen battles, and come AWAY
with $40 or $50 in premium money.
There is a broken window even vet
down on Oliver street through which
the terrible Swede knocked Jamaica
niger for Darby MCGOWAN in the
spring Of '93 and many a darker house
can boast it's darker feat of violence.
But If the life of Jack ashore is
somewhat lurid even today, when he
Is on duty he is one of the finest types
OF the American workman. On duty
he is sturdy workman, methodicaI
regular as the ships bells. as pune.
'tual as clerk at his desk or a milk.
man .on his morning round. The pity
OF 1t all is that he gets nowhere. His
while life, from the time he takes ia
the sea as a lad until the declining
year he spends in some seaman's ale
mousse charitable mission, is made
up of just these things-a trip out and
a Jamboree ashore. Some of his fell
lows may work up to be quartermas-
tiers or boaswains themselves-there
is one chance in a hundred; some may
take to the fishing industry; here and
there one of them finds a snug berth
for his old years, caring for boats at
summer boating place. Up and down
the coast there are always positions in
which ne may decently grow old and
end his fever of unrest. One thing he
mas to be thankful for, however. and
that Is the disappearance of shanghai
ing"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-17

One of the projects that the club
has under way at the present time is
the bringing of Tom Richardson, fam
Gus publicist Of Portland, to Walla
jWalla in the near future for the pur-
pose Of delivering one Of his interest
ing addresses. In addition to Mr..
Richardson the club is also arranging
for other clever speakers to visit the
Garden City in the near future.
, The recent work of the club was
also seeing to it that Walla Walla
was represented at the Spokane Apple
show.
The officers of the Walla Walla Ad
Mems club are as follows: Presi-
dent, John r. Garvey, assistant gen
eral manager Of the Davis-Kas COM
pany; Vice-President, E. A. Swezea,
advertising manager of the Morning
Secretary, Ralph Kaye, ad-
ivertising manager of the Northwest
ern Gas & Electric company and the
Walla Walla Valley Traction COM
pany; treasurer, A. Arthur Riggs, of
the A. Arthur Riggs company; execu-
tive committee, Arie Hover. president
TO the Hover Schiffner company; w.
H. Beherrall, advertising manager Ed.
Claussen company; r. c.. Mcleod,
publisher Up-to- the Times Magazine;
press committee, George Ingham, ad-
vert1sing manager Evening Bulletin
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-17

in Quebec, or New York or New Or
leans, or East street in Frisco, and
happened to stop in moment for a
slug of whisky, you were apt to wake
up two days out to sea with nothing
but a pair Of shoes and a 'donkey's
breakfast which in the parlance of
the sea dog, is merely a straw mat
tress.
To-day all this has changed. Sail
ors missions are more popular than
might be thought, considering the
roistering spirit of the frequenters.
When Jack is in port, no matter his
age, race or religion, if he hasn't
girl or family, he is pretty apt to
turn up at the secretary's desk-that
is, after his money has been spent
elsewhere in traditional pursuits. Snug
harbors, be it said, with their free
reading rooms and their beds and their
general assistance, seem to be ideal
places for the mariners to go to-
when they cannot get in anywhere
else and are drifting rudderless through
the surge of the city. The use of
these institutions is not a matter of
religion with him so much as it is the
necessity of keeping body and soul to-
gether. To accomplish this bodily
comfort he is willing to undergo q lit
tie temporary treatment for his soul,
If his benefactor insists upon admin
istering it.
1T used to be different back in the
iolden times, in the sos and earlier,
when they shanghaied men off James
slip, and when Catherine street and
Cherry and Roosevelt and Water
streets used to be filled with sailors
boarding houses instead of with the
Yiddish sweatshops and the Italian
pickle vendors of the present day. In
those times you couldn't walk north on
Water street of a balmy evening with
out getting into a fight; every door
that was not a lodging house door led
into a saloon and dance hall, and up
stairs they had an empty room or two
where a four-round bout was always
in progress, the men before the mast
always being great fighters and loving
TO watch a little harmless mill. You
couldn't get a job downstairs as wait
er in a ballroom if you could not box,
and you certainly would not be able
to hold your job if you could not box
a night now before New York's amaze
mic little athletic clubbs for a short
go used to browse around from
! Harry Hills to the Bucket Of Blood
fof Sunday night 20 years back, fight
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-17

build-the famous "clippers"-
were artists in their profession and
well paid. Shanghai was one of the
great ports and there sailors after their
long voyage were likely to dissipate
their pay and fail to report for the
home voyage. AS the value of eastern
cargoes depended largely on prompt
handling, the practice arose in Shang-
hal of obtaining men to man the YES
sells by force or trickery-usually by
the use of drugs and drink, and from
this, it is believed, came the term
shanghaing.
In the old days New York's water
front calculated first to get the money
of Jack ashore and then to shanghai
him for the regular fee formerly paid
by captains, was the most picturesque
and roisterous in the country. What
is now the famous Bowery was then
Jacks special stamping ground and
due to the disappearance Of the typical
old time sailor
"The Bowery was once the Fifth
avenue of the town." says the Apple
ton chronicler, "but beginning on South
streets from Coenties slip, up and
down the waterfront, the dives started
to creep in and fill up the whole lower
east end of the Manhattan city. They
did not require much law in those
lurid, buxom years, and whatever hap
pened that wasn't right was hidden
beneath the fog of navy cut, blown up
from Jacks inevitable clay pipe, and
was drowned beneath the plunkety
PUNK Of some yellowed and cracked
piano Sailor men were more or less
of a luxury in the late '70's and the
police therefore let them alone. That
end of the big city was packed full
of the sea drift Of the seven oceans;
Hollands and Swedes from the north
rubbed elbows with Chinks from Hong
Kong, by way of Frisco with the
smoked Irishmen' as the sailors called
the blacks, from the Antilles, with
Hindoo coolies who had floated from
Suez up past Joppa and Naples across
into the lower bay"
The old-t time sailors boarding
houses or places as they were called,
all had their "runners''-men skilled in
the game of attracting Jack ashore,
getting his money and then drugging
him and turning him over to the cap
tain of any vessel short Of hands "a
quarter century ago." says Mr.. Lyon,
IF you walked along the short front
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-17
PICTURESQUE
SAILOR SOON
To Be ONLY A
VIVID MEMORY

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-(Special
Correspondence.)-T American sail
or Is passing. Indeed he has almost
Gus customs and practices Of early
days. Shanghaiing-the practice Of OBJ
tanning sailors by force-wh1ch under
the less graphic name of impressment
was the chief cause of the war of 1912
with England, has been stamped out
except in rare instances, it's only sur
vival being found in the oyster fish
cries Of Chesapeake bay. There the
practice of shanghaiing has persisted,
according to writer in Appletons
magazine, to such an extent that the
matter has recently been brought to
the attention Of the federal authorities.
Generally speaking, however, the old
school of American sailors, together
with the characteristic features of sail
or life ashore, which gave p1ctur-
esoueness to the waterfront section
of every port city, has disappeared for
ever. In New York, the greatest port
in the country, where once the pitfalls
for Jack ashore were myriad, the num-
Der Of shops and resorts conducted es-
pecially for the purpose of separating
|tars from their money, is steadily d.
minishing.
lust where the term shanghaing got
it's origin Is a matter Of dispute. but
the best authorities agree that 1t came
from the city OF Shanghai, China. When
Iour far eastern trade was carried on oy
the fastest sailing ships men couio
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-17
The Wd||d Wd||d Ad Mems Club

tate to announce that there is roo,
in the Walla Walla valley for at least
one hundred thousand more people;
more railways and many new indus
trial enterprises.
hobby with the club is the pro-
noting in every way possible the dis
trict's magnificent climate. 1t is con-
fident that if thousands of people who
now reside in the older states of the
middle west and east once knew of
the splendid climate of the Walla
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-17

ings important addresses have been
delivered by a number of the most
prominent advertising men in the
northwest. Some of the speakers
might be mentioned as follows: G.
c. Chapman, president Of the Chap
man Advertising company Of Port
land, Oregon; Arthur 'Bittel Wells,
head of the Publicity Department
Southern Pacific railway, Portland,
Oregon; E. L. Gachieus, manager of
the American Engraving company,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-17
The Great City.

INBOUND
1t is, ah, such world wide London.
And the king such a great high
king,
When you're steaming in from ocean,
Where the city's fingers cling,
Till it seems In wanton grasping
They will soon grasp the ocean, too,
And you think of the towns arms
clasping
All the sea like a maid in blue.
OUTBOUND.
1t is only little London,
And the king is a little king,
When you're steaming out to ocean,
And the great, gray, crawling thing
Seems to rise up straight and blind
you,
Like the wall of the world, so vast
That the town men have made behind
you
Is dot in the far-off past.
Success
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-17

new organization and one Of the
most progressive in the Garden City
is the Walla Walla AID. Mems club.
The membership of the club includes
Some forty or fifty prominent young
bubsiness and advertising men.
The club is in business to learn the
best methods of advertising; to bring
together the advertising men Of the
City; to increase their efficiency and
enlarge their knowledge of the sub
lect; to foster their fraternal and So
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-17

Walla valley they would quickly for
sake their present bailiwick and take
up their residence for all time in this
famous section of the Inland Empire.
Another hobby that the club has q
leaning for is the establishment OF the
country and city beautiful. 1t realizes
that country is doing clever adver-
Using when 1t is in q position to show
to the strangers many attractive
homes, model roadways, etc.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-17

ity of the W. 10 promote the public
entire INV Ine Malla Walla valley and the
ago tbs organizing organ some three month :
Psci5 5ne cub club sought admission ~ ms
soi c,t Coast Advertising Wan, 70 the
'nat strong body. animated with
months It's meetings which ARA ,o,,
ways carr, a splendid program Is ne e,
carried out At the 1 CHM. Is al
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-17

Spokane. The clubs initial banquet
which was held in the Y. M &C. A.
auditorium was one of the niftiest
affairs of the kind ever held in the
city.
Inc clubs policy is not to follow but
20 Keep at the head of the procession.
Inc feature OF the organization is the
interest 1t evinces in civic matters and
IN the matter of community pub
ncity. The organization does not hesi-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-17

re TAKE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING THAT WITHIN THE
w NEXT FEW WE WILL PLACE ON SALE TWO HUN
w DRIED AND FORTY ACRES OF THE BEST FRUIT AND
GARDEN LAND EVER OFFERED FOR SALE IN THIS VAL
1Ev AND WILL. BE KNOWN OPPORTUNITY MODERN ACRE
ACE TT WILL. BE PROVIDED MODERN WATER SYSTEM
WATER WILL BE ACRE TRACT UNDER PRES
SIRE TO BE AS WE'LL AS DOMESTIC USES
TT WILL BE ELECTRIC LIGHTS AND TELEPHONE
SYSTEM THE PLATED IN FIvEACRE TRACTS,
ARoAD WILL BE OPENED GRADED AT THE END OF EACH
FIVE ACRES so THAT FIvEAcRE ROADS,
WILL; HAVE COUNTY ROADS. 1T WILL ALSO HAVE
IT'S OWN NTERURBAN CAR LINE THE STATION
IS TO BE THIS PROPERTY IS LOCATED
TN THE FAMOUS FREEWATER MILTON FRUIT ABOUT
ONE MILE AND A FREEWATER ENOR-
NOUS SHIPMENT OF FRUIT DISTRICT
YEAR AS WELL. ATHEISTS CHARACTER
OF TO FRUIT RAISING THAT HAS
BEEN THE WONDER COMERS. THIS SECTION
OF THE COUNTRY wAI.LA WAILA VALLEY
FAME AS A GREAT FRUIT PRODUCING
THIS PROPERTY EXTREMELY LOW PRICES OF
FROM TWO THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS
PER FOURTH CASH, BALANCE IN
FIVE EQUAL PAYMENTS SEVEN CENT INTEREST.
WATCH THE NEWSPAPERS ANNOUNCEMENT OF
OPENING FURTHER PARTICULARS CALL AT OUR
FICE.
l2WMeies&!: nzz' Co. Y l2w:Ms;est
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-16
BALLOON RESCUED
IN THE NORTH SEA
Two German Aeronauts Pulled
Out of Water by Passing
Steamer

BERLIN. Oct. 15.-The German bal
loon Busley came down Tuesday morn
ing at o'clock in the North sea. The
two men on board We're rescued by
passing steamer
This news was received in a telegram
from Edinburgh and caused the great
est relief, for there was great anxiety
Busley is one of the % balloons that
started in the race for the International
trophy last Sunday from a suburb of
Berlin, and now every one of the con-
testants has been accounted for. There
are still. however, two balloons miss
ing These are the Plauen and Herg-
zelt, which started on Monday in the
endurance race. The dispatch received
from Edinburgh says that the Busley
early yesterday morning got into COM
munication with a coalfng steamer
bound for Edinburgh at a point in the
North sea northwest of Heligoland. The
steamer signaled that she would stand
by. The aeronauts then opened their
safety valve with the idea of bringing g
the balloon down. In the meantime the
steamer had launched smalS boat TO
to the sea and was driven by stron &
wind away from the steamer. The men
in the boat pulled their hardest and
finally managed to get a line fast TO
the car, which was being dragged amid
clouds of spray oyer the tops of the
waves. They hung on until the two
aeronauts had been rescued. The trans
fer OF the balloonists to the small boat
was attended with the greatest diff
Guilty. AS soon as they were safe. on
board the connecting line was cut and
the balloon, free of the boat, went
careening away over the sea.
The aeronauts were half naked, and
utterly exhausted. They were taken to
the steamer. where they received every
attention and We're given food and re-
storatives
The men rescued. from the Busley
are DIR. Niemeyer and Hans Fiedemann.
They landed at Edinburgh this morn
ing and Immediately started for home
by way of London. The point where
they were picked up is 10 miles from
Heligoland.
Although the news of the rescue of
the two balloonists from the Busley
was heartily welcomed, the most seri-
Gus apprehensions are felt for the
safety of the other two airships.
1t is now three full days since these
balloons have been heard from. The
exhaustive observations indicate that
they were driven out over the North
sea. The German admiralty is con-
Quoting a thorough search of this body
of water. The surveying ship Zieten,
IA torpedo boats and fleet of 20
fishing smacks are constantly engaged.
One division is steanling in radiating
lines from Heliogoland 70 the coast:
a second is cruising along the west
coast of Schlesweig- -Holstein and a
third is patroling the North Frisian
and Dutch coast.
Although no award has been made
officially the English balloon, Ban
shee, which came down on the coast
of Denmark. is regarded as the winner
of the international cup contest. The
French balloon. Condor. is second and
the Belgian, Belgica, third. As it is
not practical to hold long flights in the
British isles the Banshee may give
over for some other country
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-16
CAME TO DIOCESE
MANY YEARS AGO

/ came to you five and twenty years
ago a stranger, not 10 take charge of the
diocese. but merely to assist in its ad-
ministration under the rule of one who
had been its first bishop. who was a
model OF what a great and holy bishop
should be. I was attached to him by
the ties of a most sincere friendship
and l have never lost sight of the
splendid example of zeal and sanctity
which during his whole career marked
his administration, and It is one of the
consultations of my life that 1 have had
the benefit of his example and the as
sistance OF his prayers. When he left
Us 10 enter on quiet preparation for
far OF Spain ! was fortunately sur
rounded in the performance of my du-
ties by those, many Of whom are still
living. upon whose sound judgment Of
men and things / could depend. | was
not like one who was alone-I had the
advice and counsel OF those who were
acquainted with the diocese and its
traditions upon whom I could call
whenever 1 was in doubt. and IT is but
fitting today that I should tender my
heartfelt thanks 10 those Of them who
are still living First the very reYer-
whose judgment I have always relied
and whose zeal for religion and wise
counsel have been of an inestimable
service TO me, TO the members of my
council 1 am also deeply grateful for
their advice, and 1 shall always bear in
grateful and most affectionate memory
the services of my different secretaries
who were and are more closely aSSo-
ciated with me than any others can
possibly be in the administration of
the affairs of the diocese. have been
singularly blessed in always having
men about me loyal to duty and labo-
rious in the discharge of the RESPONSE
bilities committed to them.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-16
LAWSON DERELICT, is
CHARGE OF ATTORNEY
Lawyer Thornton Wants Case
Transferred Because Judge ],
Absents Himself

Angered because Justice of the Peace
Lawson was not present in his court at
10. o'clock yesterday morning to hear
an argument on q demurrer. Attorney
Crittenden Thornton went to Justice
Treadweu and asked him TO take the
case of Thornton against Riley a claim
for SO. ..I want to have this case
transferred" said Thornton because
Judge Lawson is unfit for business half
his time and absent all the time
Lawson explained later in the day
that Thornton's statement was highly
unjust to him, for the reason that he
was subpenaed TO appear in Superior
Judge DUNES court at 10 o'clock yes
terday morning as witness in the
trial Of Alexander Finegold, charged
with perjury. He was detained in
Judge Dunne's court from 10 o'clock
until shortly after II, when hesimme-
diately returned to his own courtroom.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-16
GegOran Chants Feature of Evening Ceremony Tribute Paid
the Archbishop Montgomery Noted Men Event


TO that solemn promise contained in the
words of the preface
You understand as well as 1 do that
without the assistance OF the clergy
and the laity none of the things which
IN Your kindness you say have been
done by me could have been done at all
From the beginning I had the heart
felt cooperation Of both clergy and
laity in the work which came TO me-
Through their help things no doubt
have been accomplished and l have ever
found that you answered every call
made on you for the great general
charities of the diocese; I have ever
found competent and loyal clergy
and loyal and generous laity. I wish
you would accept my felicitations for
the zeal and loyalty which you have
ever displayed in the performance of
the duties of the offices which you have
held. I feel today that instead of re-
ceiving your thanks and fluctuations /
should rather extend mine to you who
have been always faithful coworkers
with me.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-16

continued from Page 2, Column
its interests and problems. For him
mere IS little relief from labor, no re-
-leI from responsibility until the pre-
1TsIhea hour comes when he puts the
Al-lre forever from his weary brow.
And thus even when everything pros
pets under the bishops hands, he is
s-oIecNed 20 constant and severe
llental strain. But in April 1905. there
vas nreak and violent and wide
interruption in the progressive growth
ana development Of the diocese. With
oNl warning from above. without sign
oi impending convulsion from below,
ne forces OF nature, usually quiet and
PtyplllOus were suddenly uncnained.
ana churches and schools and hospitals
and religious homes were reduced ITO
snspeiess ruins. The silence Of desc
-aLlon relgned over a large area which
& lev days before was vocal with
PRAYER; the current of the Catholic life
CT the city was arrested and thrown
back on itself. and the laborious work
OF % years was 10 begin anew
II was fearful crisis. but your grace
rose up in strength TO meet it. Tn
appalled, by appalling devastat tiOn, you
olo not look down silent over silent
city or weep out your soul in fruitleSs
lamentations, but. knowing that the
good GOD has care Of all things, and
that without his sovereign viii a hair
et the head can not perish nor spar
row fall, confident. moreover. that the
strong arm Of religion that had builded
vas powerful 10 build again. you set
your heart and hand at once TO begin
the work Of restoration. giving your
clergy, your religious, your people and
citizens al large an inspiring example
Of unfaltering courage ana unfailing
faith
The story Of the great catastrophe
Viii be told throughout the ages, and
IN that story nothing finer will be
found than the bearing and action of
the archi bishop Of san Fran and of
his clergy following his lead.