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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-04

Failed To Appear For Trial
Yesterday was the time set for the
hearing of the case of the City of Sa-
lem against j, S. Taylor for violation
of the plumbing ordinance; but owing
to the fact that the defendant failed
to appear, the trial was postponed.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-04
Basketball Tonight

Baraca's VS.. Hawthorne club, of
Portland. Y. M. c. A. Gym, Sis.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-04
Presbyterlnns, AttentlOn :

AIesDy tIluns, AIIehllOH~ -
The Baraca club VS., Hawthorne
club, of Portland, tonight. Y. NJ. c..
A. Gym, Sis.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-04

A FULL 5Ox15O foot lot, east froDt
2Srd street at $3.50, with abst,'''
and W. deed. This is 2a Der CO.,.
below the market. Non-ro,,S I
says sell. See The Fleming Rsalts
.o ~. Ban
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-04
Fine Music

I Fine Music
While you eat your Sunday dinner
at the Elite Cafe.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-04

WANTED-sSOOO and $500 .,
class acreage security. See pa.s a.''
tel & Bynon. Deea'
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-18
The Worlds Great
est Asphalt Ia
dustry.

No industry is more closely related
to the progress of city, town, and
country than is The Barber Asphalt
Paving Company, represented in
this locality by an enormous plant
covering thirty acres at Maurer, New
Jersey. Here at the Company's own
docks are unloaded the steamers
that bring from the island Of Trini-
dad, in the British West Indies, and
from Bermudez Lake, in Venezuela,
the asphalt that builds the principal
streets of the country, that goes in
increasing amounts into country and
town road construction, asphalt
blocks, Genasco asphalt roofing, and
other manufactured products.
To describe the Maurer plant of
the Barber Company as "the greatest
asphalt industry In the world is
merely to use a worn out phrase
without conveying any Idea OF the
greatness of the industry here repre-
scented. For the Maurer plant so lar
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-18

of the largest and most experienced
staff Of experts engaged in the as
phalt industry.
And so from the Bermudez asphalt
lake in the tropical jungles Of Vene-
zuela is coming by the shipload TO
Maurer, New Jersey, and from there
shipped worldwide, the material
that has solved the modern road
problem.
Bermudez Road Asphalt is used
either by the mixing or penetration
process. In the former case, the as
phalt is mixed with the stone
or gravel and then spread upon the
foundation of the road to be rolled
into a compact, waterproof, wear
resisting crust. BY the penetration
method the courses of stone are first
placed in the road bed and the as
phaIt poured into the intersttces.
After this has been rolled, there is a
surface coat covered with fine stone
and again rolled with steam rollers.
Road building lessons of the past
FIVE years, as taught by the expert
ence of states where the science has
made its greatest advances, leave no
room for doubt that asphaltic ma
cadam is the form of construction to
be employed wherever the conditions
demand a smooth, dustless, durable
highway of moderate first cost. Not
only for country roads, but for city
~boulevards and town streets this
form of construction is preferred by
road engineers whose experience has
taught them the uselessness of ordt-
nary macadam and the costly error
of using cheap substitutes for lake
asphalt.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-18

f%acturer and, in proportion, less and
less that of a paving or contracting
company. This evolution has of
curse resulted in the steady expan-
sion of its works on the Raritan Bay,
which, starting with a few acres and
a few wooden buildings, has grown
to its present huge proportions year
by year.
The trust era in the asphalt in
dustry-with all the evils that fol-
lowed upon the attempt to monopo-
lie the business and maintain in
fiated prices to pay dividends on
watered capital-this passed away
with the organization of the General
Asphalt Company eve years ago.
Now the industry is on a basis Of
open competition, and the price of
what was once the most costly street
improvement has dropped until a
Trinidad asphalt lake pavement can
be laid at less cost than wood block
or stone. This great reduction, in
price Is also in part due to lessened
cost of producing asphalt, which sells
now for about one-third less per ton
than the prices maintained a few
years ago. In this accomplishment
of which the cities of the United
States have obtained the benefit
the Maurer plant has played al i'm
portant part.
Not only in the United States but
abroad Trinidad asphalt pavements,
as developed by the Barber Company,
have come to be regarded as "The
Worlds Standard" Not long ago
the engineers Of the London County
Council adopted Trinidad asphalt for
the Victoria Embankment after half
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-18

matte machine work and the turret
lathe.
The fact that the plant operates
its own furnaces, blooming and fin
ishing mills with which IL supplies
its finishing departments places it in
position to control the chemical and
physical properties of its steel and
to furnish promptly and with the
utmost reliability screw stock exact
ly according to specifications and
best adapted to its intended use.
The proximity of Perth Amboy to
the great markets of the East be-
comes of value to the works in that
it enables them to make very prompt
delivery. This factor combined with
frequent rollings of the popular sizes
make it possible for buyers who need
special lengths for immediate use to
have their wants satisfied without
the usual waste in cutting bars.
To the uninitiated the plant is a
maze of narrow gauge railway tracks
for the private engine and cars of
the works and overhead electric rails
and cars which in the shops find
their way amidst massive machines
which toy with tons of glowing
metal.
But in reality all is precision, &C
curacy and economy. Each process
is the result of concentrated thought
and study to the doing of one thing
and the doing of that thing we'll and
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-18

The story of the G. Pardee Works
from the organization of the indus
try ten years ago as one of the pio-
neer large manufacturing plants of
the city, bristles with the achieve
ments of modern progress.
It's establishment meant two new
Industries for Perth Amboy.
The activity of the work then as
now was divided into two distinct
departments, unrelated in their
processes and in their products,
and which really constitute
two separate Industries under one
ownership, each with its own man
agement, skilled by years of exper-
ience and training. and both having
at their service all the latest devices
and appliances conducive to econ
omy and efficiency.
Mr.. Areo Pardee, the son Of the
founder of the firm, is its present
head. He takes an active part in
the firms enterprises and displays a
thorough knowledge of the details of
the business as well as of the prob
lens confronting its management.
The officers of the company are:
Areo Pardee, president; A. D. Par
dee, first vice president; Charles H.
Edwards, second vice president;
Howard Pardee, treasurer, and
Charles F. Eilert, secretary.
These gentlemen have always pur-
sued a liberal policy in the firms
relations with the city of Perth Am
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-18
Asphalt Roofing.

A pioneer IN the paving industry,
the Barber Company was also-ths
first to manufacture asphalt roof
ing material. using for this purpose
the product Of Trinidad Lake. NOW
the Maurer plant turns out a steady
string Of cars loaded with Genasco
roofing for all sorts Of buildings all
over the world. Considered at first
as being suitable only for small or
temporary buildings. Genaseo as
phalt roofing materials are now use3
for office buildings, manufacturing
plants, residences in city and coun-
try, warehouses, and structures small
and large Of every description.
In the manufacture of asphalt
ready roofing sheets of wool felt fed
from large rolls are thoroughly i'm
pregnated under pressure with liquid
asphalt; the surfaces receive a
further coating, and special types of
roofing T made with two layers of
felt and the outer surface covered
with small pebbles or finely ground
stone, The waterproof and weather
resisting qualities of lake. Sphalt
make this roofing the most q Nle
house covering-and cheaper as
as of longer life than shingles or II
Asphalt blocks, interpreting ce2s
ments, asphalt paints, wood blocks
for paving and other preserved tim
Der, complete the output Of The Bar
Der Asphalt Paving Company,s
Maurer plant, employing hundreds OF
men and contributing largely to theS
welfare Of Perth Amboy's vicinity as
well as to the street and highway
improvement the world over.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-18

ment are either utilized by other de-
partments of the works or are ship
ped to meet outside requirements,
the slabs being re-rolled into plates.
In the rolling mill these billets
are made into merchant bars and
are used extensively for reinforced
concrete construction either in the
round or square steel bars, cold
twisted squares or patented shapes.
The cold twisted bars for concrete
work show an increase in tensile
strength of from twenty to forty per
cent. and an increase in the elastic
limit of 100 per cent. Because Of
this they require 20 per cent. less
steel than others. They are also
made in greater variety of size than
any other concrete bar. A closer
union with the concrete is also in
sured by the removal of oxide or
scale by the twisting.
In the rolling mill'are also manu-
featured special shapes and bars for
the finishing plant.
The products of the works possess
many qualifications recommending
them to the special attention of the
buyers. This is noteworthy of the
turned and polished as also cold
drawn shafting, and shapes finished
round, square, hexagon or fiat, be-
cause of their accuracy, st~raightness
and superior finish. They also make
a specially of screw stock for auto
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-18
The Barber Asphalt Paving Company

exceeds in size and output any other
asphalt industry that there is no
room for comparison.
AS it from the pitch lakes
of Trinidad and Venezuela, asphalt
contains o or less mineral and
vegetable matter which is removed
by refining at the Maurer works.
The processes differ with the various
purposes for which the asphalt is to
be used-street paving, road con-
struction, the manufacture of roof
ing, water proofing cements, paints,
etc. But in every case the refining of
the crude product makes constant
demand upon the knowledge and
skill the Barber Company experts
have acquired In the thirty years
that comprehend the life of the as
phalt, industry. A completely equip
ped laboratory, with a staff of chem
lists, is maintained for the constant
testing of the output and for exper-
mental work, constantly carried on
to discover new and improved meth
DDS Of making asphaltic products.
100, 900, 900 Yards of Asphalt.
More than 100000 yards Of
sheet asphalt pavements have been
laid during the past thirty years.
The asphalt for by far the larger 2art
of these pavements has been pro-
duced, refined and sold or laid by the
Barber Company, the principal oper-
ating concern of the General Asphalt
Company, which also owns the New
Trinidad Lake Asphalt Company,
Ltd, and the New York and Bermu-
DEE Company. OF recent years the
Barber Company's business has be-
come more and more that Of a manu-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-18

ent to the wear and tear
of traffic and proof against
the destructive influence of the ele-
ments, the Barber Company per-
fected a product which would meet
every bodybuilding requirement.
The Company, indeed, was ready
with this solution of the road prob
lem before the seriousness Of the
problem was fully realized by the
great majority of road builders.
Bermudez Road Asphalt was the out
come of experiments and experience
covering more than a quarter cen
fury.
The Search For the Best.
The owner of large supplies OF
every known kind and quality of lake
asphalt, rock asphalt, gilsonite, as
phaltic oils and other products en-
ployed in road building, the Com
pany's experiments and experience
forced the conclusion that the best
road binder could be made only from
Bermudez asphalt; from this mate
rial only could be made a cement
that would be proof against heat,
cold, wind, and water, and that
would retain its binding or cement
ing quality indefinitely, Unlike some
of its rivals, the Barber Company
had no particular product to dispose
of as a road binder; no by-product to
get rid of; it was not forced to adapt
any n product to road building
needs. Its search "a for the best
material, whatever that might be
a search which could not fail to be
successful, aided as 1t was by the
activities and resources
of the Company and the employment
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-18

a dozen other pavements had proven
unequal to London's severe traffic
requirements. This triumph for
American methods (the Victoria En-
bankment pavement was a duplicate
of the 13-year old pavement on Fifth
Avenue, New York; was a fattering
though tardy recognition of the supe-
riority of the form of street con-
struction adopted years ago by near
ly every progressive city in America.
Solving the Good Roads Problem.
In the construction of country
roads The Barber Asphalt Paving
Company is taking no less important
a part than it played in the devel-
opment of sheet asphalt city pave
ments.
With the discovery that ordinary
macadam-much less dirt roads
could not withstand modern traffic
conditions, there anne a demand for
a cement or binder" to hold the
stone of the macadam together and
make the road dustless and water
proof. Out of this need came Ber-
mudez Road Asphalt, with which
some two hundred miles of improved
highway was constructed IN the past
year. So rapidly is the use of road
asphalt increasing that the larger
part of the output of Bermudez Lake
now goes into the making of this
product. From the Maurer plant it
is shipped as far west as Colorado
and as far south as Florida, as well
as to nearly all the eastern states
and many foreign countries.
When, as noted, the demand be-
came insistent for q road binder that
would render macadam resist
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-18

boy, and their interest in the towns
welfare has been evidenced as OPP
portunity offered.
The steel industry started ten
years ago with a shafting plant. This
was followed by the installation of
rolling mills, open hearth and bloom
ing mills in turn as the tonnage in
creased and the products became
more varied.
The first step in the manufacture
of the steel products is the produc-
ton of ingots by the open hearth
process. These ingots are then TAX
en- into the blooming mill and there
converted into billets or slabs.
The open hearth plant consists of
one fifty and two twenty-five ton fur
naces where such weight of metal
is melted into a liquid state and
poured into moulds.
This plant has a capacity of forty
to fifty thousand tons per year.
The handling of the molten metal
as it glows in its emergence from
the furnace in the open hearth plant
is an intensely interesting sight and
as it passes through the following
processes the attention of the spec
tator is riveted until it it's
final shape for shipment.
In the blooming mill the ingots,
weighing three tons, being twenty
inches square and six feet long, are
rolled down into billets and slabs as
the case may be. This plant has a
capacity of about two hundred tons
a turn.
The billets made in this depart
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-18
The c.. PARDEE WORKS

the concrete result is shown in the
position the works occupy in the
forefront of those who manufacture
similar products.
Because OF the energy Of the man
agement and its splendid equipment
the c. Pardee Works have become
the principal source Of supply for
shafting used in transmission ma
chinery. The same may be said Of
the screw stock which is used for
many purposes, one of which, con-
Stunning large quantities. is the man.
ufacture of parts for automobiles.
The steel industry is under the
management of Mr.. Charles II. Ed
wards, who has been associated with
the works for 10 years. For several
years he has been it's executive. His
supervision covers not only the
broader problems of policy and the
relation of the firm with others but
as well into the more minute details
of manufacture and handling The
works have prospered under his
guiding hand.
The Tile Manufacturing Plant.
The tile manufacturing plant had
its beginning when that industry was
then struggling for a foothold in this
country.
Although tile is found in the ruins
Of old Roman cities its use in this
country up to fifteen or twenty years
ago was very restricted and confined
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-18

altogether to what was imported
from abroad, chiefly from Germany,
where the industry has fourished
for a long time.
It was only eighteen years ago
when wall tile from any source was
first used in this country, but as its
value from a sanitary point Of view
became more and more evident its
use grew until today it is required
by the building laws Of various cities
for certain specified uses
This department turns out white
wall tile and floor tile and is one Of
the largest tile manufacturing plants
in the country and the largest IN
Perth Amboy.
The product is used in many
classes of structures. It's use in sub
way stations is familiar to all and
for bath rooms and kitchens it is
ideal as it is also in all hospital wall
and floor work. 1t is also used ex-
tensively in Office buildings, yesti-
bules of residences, etc. 1t daily
finds more uses and is specified now
more than ever before.
The plant is equipped with sixteen
kilns and has a tremendous capacity.
1t numbers among its executed con
tracts many Of the buildings which
are of those most widely known in
the country because of their mas
sive structure and architectural ex-
~cellence.
Among them may be noted:
The New Vanderbilt Hotel.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie's New York
residence
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-18

Mr.. Charles T. Yerke's residence
in New York.
Mr. Harvey Payne Whitneys resi-
dence.
Senator Clark's residence.
Colony Club.
Lambs Club.
New York City Club.
Union Club.
University Club.
Ansonia Hotel, New York City.
BeHeaew-Stratford Hotel, Pbila4
delphia.
Coz an Hotel, New York.
New Belmont Hotel.
Nes Plaza Hotel.
St. Regis Hotel.
The Altman Building.
The Metropolitan Life Building.
National Park Bank Building.
North River Insurance Co. Builds
ing.
Bellevue Hospital
Emergency Hospital, Boston.
Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia.
John Hopkins Hospital, Balti-
more.
New York Hospital, New York
City.
Subway Station, Boston.
Subway Station, East Boston.
This list was compiled as showing
merely a few of the more important
contracts executed.
The high standard quality Of the
Al a. IT, -
time goes on.
Mr.. C. T. Eilert is manager Of the
tile plant.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-01-12
/ ?. WHITES ELECTION
1t viii be Carried to- the Floor d
the National Convention.

Reports received from various
Lsources within the last week indi
cate that John p. White may be com
PEELED to put up a fght against fraud
and injustice to claim his office, the
national presidency OF the Unieed
Nina Workers, of America W
The following item taken from the
Chicago Record Herald of Saturday
January Z, shows the fraud of the
effort Of the White oppesition;
FRAUD in the recens national cleo
ton OF the United Mine Workers is
being charged by both factions and a
lively fight Is expected when the con-
.vention opens in Columbus, Jan. IL.
President T. l.. Lewis, who, appears
to be overwhelmingly defeated on
The face of the returns, is going to
have the entire Illinois vote thrown
out il he can, as he charges that
some local cast more votes than they
had members"
Mr.. White had been warned thai
Lewis would attempt to carry the
eleCtlOH 10 the nOOEH VI Tie CUhNcii
vention.
Now comes reports of stories be-
ing circulated through the east as
special kilograms dated from Oska-
iocsa in which John p. White is made
to give out a statement virtually con-
ceding the election of Lewis. No.
such statements, press reports or
communications have been sent from
Oskalocsa. Mr.. While this morning
took measures to ascertain if any
such reports have originated in os-
kaloosa. He found that no such
messages had gone out over local
wires. The reports are made out of
whole cloth.
Mr.. White has been prepared to-
defend his rights and in order to
guard against having the election
taken from him he was represented
by friends in the sessions of the can
wasting board.
Claims are made that the enemies
of Mr.. White, when they are unable
to override his election in the nation
al convention, which will be called
to order next Tuesday morning, Jan.
II, at Columbus, in the very heart OF
the Lewis district, will attempt 20
disrupt and destroy the organization.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-01-12
ROSE HILL MYSTERY
An Unwelcome Visitor Making the
Rounds of Several Homes.

The home of True Purdin, Two miles
north of Rose Hill, was visited by
some mysterious person Saturday
evening between 700 and 900
o'clock while Mr.. and Mrs. Purdin
were in Rose Hill. They has left the
home at 80 o'clock and as is the u.s.
ual custom left the doors of the home
unfastened. When they returned at 0
O'Clock every door was securely lock-
ed from the inside. Not caring to
force an entrance and thinking that
the marauder could be caught in the
home they did not venture to enter.
constable at Rose Hill was called
for and later Sheriff Reed, of Oska.
loosa was called None of the off,
GERS called came, as they believed,
whoever had entered the home had
certainly made getaway" pre-.
vious to the call. Mr.. and Mrs. Pur-
din spent the night at the Frank
Scott home, which is situated near.
Mr.. Scott thinks that the same per
son, who had been at the Purdin
place was also visitor at his place,
for his barn was found wide open
late Saturday evening. Other evil
dences show that the place had been
visited by someone, who apparently
is Shopping" about with no intention
of stealing.
The Thomas Cation home, three
miles north of Rose Hill, has also
been visited and evidences show
that the same person has visited all
of the places.
Mr.. Purdin states that his cattle
have been removed from ono field to
another during the night. Nothing
was taken from his home Saturday
evening and the mission of the per.
son who entered the home is COM
plete mystery.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-01-12
PLANS FOR INSTITUTE
Only Two Days This Year. Men
Have One, Women the Other.

The board of management of the
Mahaska County Farmers Institute
and Short Course met Saturday af.
ternoon and passed on lot of bills
of expense for the recent short
course. The bills were not all in,
so the exacs amount could not be
computed, but the total cost will be
between $500 and $500.
Plans were also made for the an
nual. institute, which win be held on
Feb. IS and is. 1t was decided that
the men should have full charge Of
the meeting Of the 18th and the wo
men on the 18th. There will be only
two days OF the institute this year
and II will be necessary. to crowd
fun every minute OF the time. n
The men have selected Thomas
sosernan, w. /. Rice and +. F. Ever
EFT to have charge Of their day; and
| the ladies have chosen three commit
tees. as followss - sfr
Program-Mesdames Clark Terrell
wiiford Hui. Wilbur Johnson. A
Rindeh, J. p MoMurray and Fred
. Music = Mesdames Terrell, sted
dom, John Lyle, Elmer Masteller
Ed Hanna and Joe Hanna.
House--M esdames John Lytle ant
Wilbur johnson.