Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-22

act OF the committee chosen by the
Womans World Is 70 publish % book.
edited by Ernest A. Bell, secrctary.of
the vigilance association. WAR On the
White Slave Traffic" which will come
from the Curricr company's presses
shortly 20 give more facts and com
plete knowledge Of this monstrous evn
20 serve as a guide and warning 20
the public
SLUMP IN GRAIN.
Real prospect Is seen that Chicago's
slump in pre-cmlnence as grain cpn-
ter win be checked though the decline
is shown by the fact that only two
elevators have been rebuilt of the 70
which have burned since 1891 The shall
low river obstructcd by many center
pier bridges and With a strong current
has caused tho first class boats to give
Chicago wide berth The widening
Of the Chicago river channel TO 200 feet
proceeds slowly but the drainage truss
tees have Just acquired 200 feet addI-
t.onal river frontage and profess to be
pushing the widening process as rapid
ly as possible. but as grain port the
city has slumped the grain OF the
great northwest including western
Canadian provinces, does not move to-
ward Chicago as in days of yorc No
decisive steps yet have been taken to
remedy the neglect OF years during
which time the dockage ana water ter
minal frontage hls been acquired by
railways creating the kind of situation
which, Il is now said. will bee likely TO
hold until rcmodied any federal appro-
priation for waterways. including that
20 the gulf Commenting ON Chicago's
predicament in this regard report Of
the harbor commission has this to say:
The deliberate intent OF the railroads
TO dominate the lake traffic through the
control Of the Buffalo water front can
hardly be mistaken. Let Chicago.
through its failure to provide adequate
harbor facilities deprive itself of the
benefit Of water transportation, and Il
viii soon see the railroads doing less TO
advance its interests, because the in
centive to do SO will be removed As
long as the water route is available. the
railroads must be on the alert TO serve
Chicago well and chcaply Chicago is
stll tho worlds greatest lumber mar
ket although the arrivals by water
have greatly decreased" For the year
1907 Chicago received, IN round num-
hers, 400 600, 000 feet Of lumber. Of
which 4oO, 900 900 feet. or one-sixth.
came by water. Not many years ago
the receipts Of lumber by water greatly
exceeded those by rail.
ADVICE TO BANKERS.
The country bank rs a school for a
metropolitan banker Is eulogzed from
personal experience by Joseph r. Tai
bert, who Nov. 1 will go from the vice
presidency of the Commercial National
OF Chicago TO that OF the National City
institution in New York-the STANDARD
OIL institution. His advice TO would-be
bankers, which explains his own sue
= q t. Naaa .asaNa
and learn the business from the ground
up. Touch elbows with the farmer and
the men who are making the west more
and more Important each day in the
financial world" BANKERS say Mr. Tai
bert's salary win be $4,000 a year He
learned the rudiments of the banking
business in his native state, Mississip-
pl. He came to Chicago IN 1895 as a
national bank examiner aud was con-
nected with the liquidation Of the Ma
tional Bank OF Illinois which had failed.
In December OF 1897 he went TO the
Commercial National as cashier Five
years later he WAS elected its vice pres
ident and for TIN last two years ne has
been at the head OF the clearing house
He has been ambition personlhed and
success has been his idol. Toward the
public his attitude privately has been
shown by the comment he made about
currency ltiAflls NY 10 Teach liltiille
TO the public? Not by a sight" he said
Cornelius Nanderbln's remark pleased
Talbert.
NEW MARK IL PROSPERITY.
The Chicago postoffice. sensitive
barometer Of trade conditions of the
west. is breaking records rejecting
commercial prosperity having reached
a new high mark in money orders
S624.3O6 for one days payments The
largest previous days disbursements 10
Chicago's business houses and individ-
uals WAS S4s5.003. paid out on April
last. There is some profit for Cncle
Sam In the maintenance of the Chicago
office, for it's receipts for the fiscal
year ending July I. 1909. totaled $l6,73
900. The year before the amount was
sl4 599 600. SeDtembcr's showing was
81 129, 900. indicating that this year win
exceed all others. Tn September show
ing for the other cities Isl: New York.
81 a6l 900; Philadelphia, 1856. OO0 Boston.
t5il ,o00 81 Louis. 1873. 900. and Brook
Ign. S2lS,000 The number of pieces OF
first class mail Cancelled yesterday was
2.62l.00o. That was lust an ordinary
days work" but u showed "a gain OF
22i per cent over the same day Of a
year ago.