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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17

D REALIZATION on the part of railroad interests k@ that the farmer is their most valuable depend- HN enee, and the ally to aid and abet whom will
 most profit the roads has come with a sudden which the mass of the agricultural popula- aon still fails to appreciate, and vast segents or the railway world do not yet realize
 Inspection Long Island, which Ralph Peters made as soon as he became president of the Long Island Railroad, revealed enormous acreage, par tieularly In Suffolk county in the eastern section that was mere wilderness. Covered with scrub oak and pine that struggled after the lands had been burned over. 1t widely known as a waste destined to re- main perpetualiy barren.
 In August. 1905, Mir Peters instructed H. B. Fuller ton, who ranks special agent in the Pennsylvania Railroad-hs speciality being farming-to pick the worst ten the north shore of Long Island for the establishment of an experiment. station Wnleh should demonstrate the important ight-produeng fact than any one, poor or rich, on or or or Long Island, could go there and raise paying erops-erops that would be growing at the thresholds of the lour millions who constitute New Yorks huge market
 "But why does he to choose the worst place." anxiousy asked Mrs Fullerton. who Is always the junior partner in her husbands experiments and to write most interesting books about them afterward.
 Because" answered the senior partner ''he doesn't want everybody to say, .Oh wonder made good; you picked out the very best land to be found where you've got the capital of the Pennsylvania The native Long Islanders agreed that at wadng River there ten of scared and charred and chestnut that was about the poorest sample of soil outside of the desert of Sahara
 eff you find six inches of soil there" they deelared "youTl be doing mighty well-and then tn be cold and sour"
 The story Mrs. Fullerton wrote of the year that followed is positively fascinating to any who any tme has dreamed of emancipation from the thralls of city trade, and than fascinating to farmers who have toed through the drudgeres of the old time grain farm
 Dynamite. at far less cost than the ancient power cleared out the incumbering stumps gang. Italians from New York not only brought wilder ness chaos into the sembance of tillable fields but afforded the farm 'help" that put the experimsnter ander way, and developed surprising efficiency help for the erection of the necessary buildings
 There were troubles and sethaeks such every family of pioneers encounter, in this day Of conveniences at the gates of Greater New Fork, But the year that followed wrought such mar
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17

Or. If you cannot conceive in your mind the amount of water equal to such displacemen imagine a tank 174 10 inches long, 174 feet 10 inches high and 174 feet 10 inches wide, filled to the brim with Its rejected liquor, . sumption liquor from Commiissioner Capers. of the Internal Revenue Bureau. The total produc- tion during the amounted to l2s Ss TAO tax gallons which was 40 100000 gallons less than the amount produced during the similar period in 1907. =,
 Because of this decrease the revenues for the full current year are Sl 665.O0O less than year.
 Evidence. isn't it, that Uncle Sam has been turn ing down his glass!
 This sudden and remarkable decrease in spirits has ginning in southern states. has swept the country.
 fine sale liquor has been prohibited In other states doubtless result of the campaign many have taken the pledge People have turned to water and lemonade possibly milk sarsaparilla
 Just as prohibition sentiment has rolled over the country the production ef liquor, like great has receded.
 An ordinary battleshp, like the Connecticut, has
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17

Various state boards of agriculture especially in the East the middle West. have during the last few years found their hands more than strengthened by of the position assumed by such roadsnot only but to cooperate by supplying spe cial trains literally put the state colleges on wheels and carried their stores of much-needed knowledge directly to the fa~mers.
 Tn states like Indana and Psnnsylvania'M has be- come Q common thtng in the autumn to see assem- blages ranging in number from 30 to ioo waiting at the way stations strung through fertile territory, for the arrival of the promised Farmers Special" The locomotive. with it's two or three coaches sweeps up to the platform. and several pre- instructors from the state college spring alertly the ground.
 FThis way, gentlemenr they announce. "The for- ward coach for the talks and dairying. Rear coach for soil improvement and crop rotation. The stop here is just forty-hve minutes" -l--s-
 Perhaps no very large amount of specific informa- supplied in recoectable form during those crowded three-quarers of hour albeit far more is actually accomplished than the layman would imagine because 1t is of experts talking plain. under standable facts to plain eminently practical men,
 But basic principles of the modern scientihc methods in farming be- and sufficiently enun- cfated driven home with ample illustration; and. the close of the lectures abstracts. held in readi ness handed to every visitor for study at ms leisure
 In the results, these farmers institutes wheels are proving just much leaven. stirring to amazed activity of Inquiry whole neighborhoods or husbandmen stimulating them to persistent demands agricultural bulletins and to- attendance at the state colleges vicarously in the persons their sons,
 There is probably nothing railroad hates more than called upon to furnish special train: yet there have been requests ecitfng compliance with such aaerity these. They recognized as bread cast upon waters, and 1t has not taken many days they returned golden streams of freight
 But the special institute" trains auguries the future. in comparison with what the special pershable freight have accomplished in the very recent past There two states in the East that have shown overwhelming gains in their crops during a single year
 In south Jersey a railroad plan of development pagn, in operation for only the last few years. has aimed to supply to produce commission merchants who buy in various territories list of reliable grow
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17

TT NGIE SAM has been turning down his glass
 more frequently than usual of late. Which N means, of course, that there has been
 deqraase in the production of liquor in this country during the past year.
 As a result of the prohibition campaign, com bined with an increased price of grain, there decrease in the production of intoxicating spirits of 10000 900 gallons for the year.
 Not that Uncle Sam has stopped drinking en- tirely; he has only determined to be mod crate And he has been moderate to such an extent that the quantity of liquor which he has rejected is equal to the displacement of six battleships of the new North Dakota type.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
How The Railroad T akes New Methods to Its Patrons

f TT HE latest--and one of the most posc-
 erfal--amon fhs factors to operate
 for fhs advancsmeaf of the farming .;aieres5 of Ike couMtyy is the demonsiratiom of the possibilities of the land by railroads !" Ike iafcrest of their osvt transportation de- partmenfs.
 Jnst one. generation las gypsUu np since UIes raiirodd sUorld soomdsred whether Jasnss J. HiH had gone crazy. All along the line Df fthe Great Northern he sUas pashiHg special rtock cars, m charge of special agents, and loaded sWth special cattle.
 The cagy lined ap af eVery promising favm along bse tracks, and fhe special agenf called politely or the farmer.
 @ "I've broaghfy yoH blooded bull for your kerd," ole informed ths astoande6 farmer. 1Pseseht yOa kMosO4 from Mr. HiH, the pres Nsnt of the road"
 How many thousands of dollars those free gifts of blooded stock cost the Great North- ern the railrUay Sporld could only gaess; bur it remained mildly certain that Hiil g0as q IH- aatic, antit the Great Northern began 10 show the vast returns that came from the farmers shipments ip cattle and cattle products, d. rectIy seqnent upon Mr. HiPs far-sighted ntuaifcence. Freight rsfHrms still poar over the tracks of the Greaf NOrfhern, and the railroad criticasfers have long since admitted that MY. EiPs crasinsss had q remarkable streak of horse sense in it.
 IM another form, and apon q scale of far greater magnitude for the future, is the aerp 0nd modern eHdeaVor of railroad enterprise to create crops on neglected lands and 10 in- crease crops oa those already under hilage. The conspicuous success Of one notable ex- pertinent or Long IslaHd nosO promises to bring aboaf rspetitiOns for the beneft of the entire DeIasvare peninsula and other iaHds adjacent to great railsOGy lines.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17

of water of the same quantity as the decreased out put of liquor would require nine ships with little less the displacement of this vessel
 A battleship of the North Dakota o Della ware type-2O0oO tons displaeement-makes more striking comparison.
 In a general way it may be stated that the shrink of liquor production during past year repre- sens the displacement of about six baleshps of the newest American type.
 In other words, if six battleshps of the newest type were placed in narrow waterway prow against stern. and equivalent of the 40,000,000 gallon auction fin the liquor production of the country were
 1bs s na te sSaJpst ti,o drtnEs has been widespread and effective. Not only there quiet turning down the glass but during the cam paigI against illicit dstiileries conducted. Ac- cording the report the number destroyed 1lSO There seized 73,15t gallons of Illicit liquor
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17


 w higher mathematics. found that out when
 l trade in lot of old hens for some choice outlets that the storekeeper willing to swap. for fancy homng pigeons the huekster had in he reached the store. just were dlcir ering
 "It turned right into a three-handed deal, mostly chicken favored with having engineer iL be- my old eating their heads off and aoaFca- y laying an egg
 'I proposed that should count every pigeon as chicken Then I'd give the storekeeper many hens he bullets the huekster many hens he had pigeons They liked that fine. But next the storekeeper was give many as had left and the huckster many had then. The huckster said that the squarest deal heard of. But after that the huekster was give many had then and the storekeeper many he had left And always keep outlets and the pigeons moving in proportion the hens. Both of those other fellows thought 1t looked ali around; and so it was when had traded down last bird every one Of us had l6"
 How many did each of have at hrstg' inquired bystander.
 "oh I've forgotten now. It would take college professor to tell that-and maybe he couldn't" Could he?
 Answer to the problem of the two fur coats: Mira upups coat cost ss5; Mrs soarinss coat cost stS.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17

Y IMAGINE Uncle Sam sitting down to a table with
 this vast quantity of liquor beside him. Can you conceive itR An amount of wine and whisky of six hatteshipsi
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17

CTS and shippers located in those sections The raii road thus became the and promoter for the full responsibility of being his distributing medium
 contract far bigger than dreamed of in the daya when the daringly original James J.. Hin creatsd a cattle industry for his roads benefit by the simple sx- psdeut of the blooded sires.
 It meant that the railroad must not occa- sional special train as was required fer the eges wheels but whole schedule of specialsthat. in fact entire railroad must bs adjusted to ht the seasons with all their uncertainties and emergencies
 The preference freight" system came into existanoa the West Jersey Seashore Railroad-a schedule of special freight the swift haul markets of all of south Jerseys wealth of produce running ct speed equaled only by that of passenger trains.
 The Delaware peninsula the middle and extreme South have likewise been accorded these advantages until strawberries flying up from Florida with the ecat of speed great though each box were destined dinner Pierpont Morgans table that night. and Delaware peaches were handled with the dispatch-and the tendsrnesswhich the Congressional Limited can accord a Delaware senator.
 TREMENDOUS GAINS |
 And that Is why in 1907. no fewer than 12ooO car- loads of that spershabIe freight shipped oE southern New Jersey and into "gonesp which. haye ing important cities like New York. Philadelphia tmore and others their centers accorded ciai rates previously enjoyed only by the ters of population. That Is largely why. also, the showing of such month July, 1907. Is not worth mentioning beside the showing of July 190s when the south Jersey farmer enabled to load for delivery in the New" England states Canada and the middle West, 2s4s special cars, which, if they had been pied into single train must have formed ribbon Of the earth's riches twenty miles long.
 The railroads cooperating with the farmer intimately that they have established not merely preference freghts but first preference" and other preference freighs each speeding along sohedula fitted to the pershableness of It's particular ok produce, fruit and vegetable. They such inti- mate terms that the railroads have the very of the harvests advance northwaEd calculated to miln and the minuteits fifteen miles day. just tk one happens to be curious about it. IFS
 They have close a cooperation that good year bad year, the preliminary of the crops by the railroads special agents permit all requi- site, and more, to be waiting, like many grey- hounds. to the "pershable freghts" and dash on with them at the instant man and nature perfected the reh successive miracles of the
 And that Is why the lamentable bad year. Of 1907 in Delaware meant waste of effort to the railroads on it's crop of peaches. apples eantaoupes and
 It is also why the grandy good year of 1908 abled the farmer of that territory to load inc santly and to sell surprising prices than 1iss carloads of peaches Ss carloads of apples 2ee carloads of cantaloupes and s4 carloads of pears,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
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wells as set Long island wondering, and hampers of away Paris. 45
 The experiment was by means designed to be one proving how much could be accomplished with plenty money the contrary its essential aim to demonstrate how much could be done with very little.
 So 1t had to produce results in cash. well prove the possibility of various crops a paying basis
 Hampers were one of the innovations in the keting system instituted the farm. Home ham pers" they were caed-boxes sold directly to the nicely particular families in the metropolis who willing to pay for vegetables which should to them fresh from the field in absolutely perfect condi- ton the morning dew still upon them
 Theshamper enterprise brilliant success. and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
Problem of the Puzzling
 Poultry

eGVXT HAT this chicken business needs" declared
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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-26
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BURY THE RATCHET.

4 NEW YORK. May 28.-J. K. q
J. Ruttschnitt, director of operations i
i of the Hartman lines, today Off 4
i cially announced that arrange ]
i ments have been completed where ]
j. by the Union Pacific, the Northern {
i Pacific and the Great Northern :
+ roads have agreed to bury the j
j Ratchet" in the northwest, and !
= jointly use the bridge over the Co /
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i ern Pacific tracks between Van +
+ couver, Washington and South Ia +
j coma. The Northern Pacific will i
j. begin Immediately double tracking i
+ the the road so it can handle the +
j business of the three companies. i
+ The agreement, it is believed in 1
+ Wall street, will end the legal i
+ battle betwtnl the Union Pacific i
+ and the Northern Pacific over the I
+ rate questions affecting the Port !
+ land gateway. +
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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-26

winter was a bowling success and has
become an annual affair. In March of
this year the Park club established
tag day. the proceeds of which were
shared with the library
But the 'che r. ouvre" in park en-
tertainment will be the Kirmess which
under the direction of Miss Lila Stew
art will be staged June 2, 3, and s.
The Kirmess promises to be the society
event of the year in Walla Walla and
will bring before the public eve the
most brilliant raiment in the history
of the city The Kirmess opens with
the brilliant Tarantella dance in which
the costumes are dreams of elegance
and closes with the disposition of the
beautiful REQ touring car which event
will no doubt engage the attention of
every citizen of the Garden City and
many, many people in the surrounding
country.
Members of the club include: Mes
DANES H. Blynn, T. H. Brents, F. w.
Rees. H. c. Gregg, w. l.. Stirling. r.
A. Horn, Fred Pauly, w. B. Hawley,
M. A. Naley, W. D. Lyman, J. c. Hook
EFT, F. S. McMahan, E. T. Isaacs Oliver
Beatty, H. S. Brode, Walter Uppington,
J. w. Langdon, Edward Cornwell Ia
bitha Jones, H P Isaacs, George
Whitehouse, N. c. Day, j. A Durham,
J. J. Kaufman, Henry Osterman, John
Yeend, I. M. Fisher, j. NJ Crawford,
c. F. Vandewater, o. G. Parker, Misses
Julia Ayres, Ruth Stone, Mayme Paine
and Mary Gillian.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-26
preparations Complete.

Secretary Robert H. Johnson, of the
Fair association, announced today that
he has some real surprises in store
for Walla Wallans who attend the
Fourth of July celebration at the race
track Monday, July 5, and that the
complete program will be announced
in the near future Arrangements are
being made for the appearance in this
city of a number of attractions that
have never before been seen west or
Chicago. Mr.. Johnson returned yes
terday from oregon points, where ne
had gone to make arrangements for
some of the minor attractions to be
in attendance upon the celebration at
the fair grounds.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-26
LADIES TO
PLAY BALL TOMORROW
Walia WaIa Team Will Cross Bats
With Nine From Windy City, of
Which Seven Players are
Women.

The ball game tomorrow afternoon
between the Walla Walla team and the
Chicago Ladies Baseball club will offer
to the fans of this city something out
of the ordinary.
This team of ladies has been MAX
ing wonderful showing wherever they
have played. Miss Carlton, captain and
manager, has been in the game for sew
trail years and has gradually gotten
together team that really play ball
As a first saeker, she says she will not
take her hat Off to any man.
Contrary to the general opinion al
of this team are ladies except the
pitcher and catcher. Manager Bade
has contract to this effect and in
tends to see that it is carried out
The game will be played at the Fair
grounds tomorrow afternoon at 3:15.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-26
WALLA WALLA WOMEN
WONDER WORKERS
women's Park Club, Unse.fish Organi.
zaton of Local Ladies, Has Been
Life of the Great City Park
Movement.

"They talk about Woman's sphere.
As though it had limit,
There is not pace in earth or HEAVIER
There is not task to mankind given
There is not blessing or woe,
There is not whispered yes or no,
There IS not a life, a death, or birth
There is not feathers weight of worth
Without woman in it,"
Wala Walla has few clubs and yet
il might well be called a club city
from the quality of the work of the or
carnations The club to which the city
is deepest in debt from a civic stand
point and the one under consideration
is the Woman's Park club which had
IFS beginning little more than a year
ago. In March, 1908, the Park COM
mission begun work on the city park
and L. w. LangdOn inaugurated the
novel plan of selling park buttons to
increase the development fund. The
movement was popular and swept the
city like an oklahoma cyclone, every
person wore a park button, there was
no help for it. Then one day two doZ-
en- women met at the library and COR
ganiZed to assist the Park commits
sion with Mrs. Fred Pauly acting as
chairman. The following week a per-
manent organization was effected with
Miss Grace Isacs, president, and a
simple constitution was adopted by
which the Woman's Park club may
engage in any work for the City Ad-
mirable" so all sorts of civic work is
meeting its promise and its scope is
really broader than the name implies.
At the beginning of the club some
one conceived the idea of mingling
pleasure with work and a series of
concerts. amateur threatricals, dances,
ETC. was at once planned and carried
out but-the thing which really walked
the public mind to its endeavors, was
a monster petition, IA feet long bearing
the signature of practically every
woman taxpayer in Walla Walla ask
ing the city council that the park be
piped at once for water in order to
protect the trees already planted. The
petition was granted.
There are no dues in the Park club
and every woman who is willing to
work for civic Improvement is eligi-
Ole to membership. At the park the
efforts of the club are evident in the
Pergola, the sunken garden, the lake
and now steps are being taken for
equipping the children's playground
with apparatus for all ages, sand
boxes and swings for the babies, GRO
quet and tennis, ball grounds and open
ar gymnasium for the larger boys and
girls, The Park ball given here in early
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-26
New Lunch Room Opens Today.

The Model Bakery, after a thorough
renovating, offers the public a high
class lunch ROOM
One of the most popular lunch
was that conducted by the Model Bak-
cry on First street. Conditions be-
came such that they had to close as
the quarters were too crowded to give
proper attention to customers.
People of Walla Walla will be glad
to hear they will go into the lunch
con business again on a bigger and
better scale. The whole establishment
has been re-decorated and painted
the lunch room made larger, and every
improvement made to the conducting
of we'll appointed lunch room.
In addition to the lunches, the
Model Bakery has opened up their new
ice cream soda fountain where all the
popular cooling beverages will be
served.
They will continue their bakery
business with the high class baked
goods so popular in the homes OF
Walla Walla
They are at their same quarters on
First street and invite their old as
we'll as their new patrons to visit
their establishment