The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-15
NEWS LETTER FROM GOTHAM
TELLS OF ENCOURAGING
SIGNS IN METROPOLIS.
City Awakening Under influence of
STRENGTHENING for Beauifying
Meets General Approval.

NEW YORK, May I5-Any sign of
harmony between employers and en-
ployes is to be welcomed, especially
when it establishes the fact that in the
ranks of each is held the idea that
what profits one will profit the other,
TO some extent. There are a great
many people in the world, especially
among professional agitators who
think nobody can make anything in
the way of profit except it be at a
corresponding loss to themselves and
their class; whereas there are very
few cases where when one makes, the
others profit to some extent. The lat
sSt instance of carrying out the idea
that a railroad and its employees are
mutually interested in its prosperity,
Is being tried by the general traffic
manager of the Erie railway, who has
called upon all the employees to help
get business for the railroad, to solicit
trade for it, in fact He argues that
the interest of the more business the
Eailroad does. the more wages the men
get as the road can pay more because
1t arms more. General Manager D.
W. Cooke has written to every employee,
and engages to keep a record of the
orders and from whom received. En-
ployes who are successful in the work
are assured that the company will
take adequate recognition of tho ser
vices AS an extra inducement the
names of men who obtain business for
the road will be published monthly in
the Erie Magazine. The wives and
aaaRrgl ,fA
MIR. Cooke concludes his letter to en-
eloyes as follows: I'VE should be one
large family, whose incoem depends
largely upon the volume of the traffic
handled by the railroad This is the
right sentiment. and if Mr.. Cooke is
able to get the system working, he
will have contributed an idea that
will go a long way in preventing labor
troubles
New York is awakening under the
genial influence of spring. The balmy
air puts vigOr and enterprise in her
people. The boats are running on the
rivers: the canals are opening to BUSH
ness, and every man who has an idea
In his head, straightway puts it in
operation. The operas and theaters
are finishing up their seasons, the per
formers going to fresh pastures for
other harvests, or taking a rest, while
society is hurrying with limited"
trains, greyhound steamships, yachts
and automobiles from the winter re-
sorts. When they return, they find
that New York hss had a fine time
when the leaders of the -four hum
0red" have been away, and is pre-
pared to go right on having a good
time. These butterflies of fashion will
be off again soon, and we will hear of
fhem in colder regions. Trade is
priC&ing up its ears, and New York
viii soon be busy. taking in money
with one hand, and paying it out with
Che other Spring is what we wanted.
oil the while.
The planning of making the civ
beautiful seems to meet with general
approval, New York is no mean city.
without any improvements, but with
ats architecture regulated it can be
made to be one of the grandest and
most attractive cities on earth. II
hasr the means of showing itself in its
Coming beauty to the voyagers who
come up the noble bay, or down the
tordly Hudson, or twist and turn up
Or down the tortuous East river and
tae sound. With the Metropolitan
tower in the middle south. it has two
grand stakes for the architecture of the