Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-10-21

beautiful stein for his readiness in
making off-hand speeches as chair.
man of the Portland delegation. He
has the happy faculty Of saying the
right nice thing and saying it with q
bank. Nothing but his characterizine
Eugene as the smile of Oregon, -
at the University banquet, would have
: made everybody feel as good as they
did feel after it was said The talent
for doing what he did and doing il
so many times is a rare one, but Hy-
land has It,
We Caught the Train.
Geo. 7. Lawrence, Jr., whose senior
established a saddlery and harness
business at First and Oak streest
within block of where an uncle OF
the three Lawrence brothers opened
up in the same line in 1857. | had
a pleasant experience with Mr.. Law
renee in Eugene, where we both
missed the special train by two min
utes. A friend rustled an auto and
took us the fourteen miles to Junction
in 80 minutes. We could not have
made it but for few miles out of
Eugene is piece of first class high
way built by County Judge Thompson.
Major JuSt-as-GOOd.
Geo. j. Major represented the Fair
banks, Morse Scale Co., whose scales
have become the standard by which
other scale manufacturers get their
wares on the market by advertising
them as being Just as good as" This
firm also handles electrical apparatus
and mining machinery.
Wants to Fly Soon.
c. II. King, a fine-looking New
Yorker, is with the Keats Auto Co.,
and has followed the game for eleven
years He has seen the DEVELOPMENT
of the bicycle, the motorcycle, the
motorcar, and the areOplane. He says
he Will live to see the study of the
airship taken up by colleges and in
the meantime is keeping up with the
science of aerial navigation himself.
lie says it has all come about in a
perfectly natural manner of progress
along the line of the least resistance,
via the pneumatic tire and ball-bear-
ings to reduce friction and make high
! speed explosive gas engines possible.
Dig Ghper houses.
| l.. A. Cotton has been with the Pa
cific Paper Co. at Portland for 19
years, They started at Front and
Alder with 10000 square feet floor
space and now use 125,00O square feet.
This shows about the way all whole
sale business has expanded at Port
land.
Another Portland paper house,
Blake-McFall Co., represented by A,
b. Galloway, has been running II
years. 1t started on Front and Stark
in a space about 40 by 100 feet, and
now has six-floor building, 100 by
100 feet, at Fourth and Ankeny
streets Mr. Galloway is a native of
Montana and a nephew of Judge Gal
loway of this city.
Got Into Music.
f. w. Graves of the Graves Music
Co. went into the music business in
1898, He had one girl stenographer
at SS week, in a room Is by 45. He
has today forty people on the payroll,
one a woman at 1925 a month, and
carries a stock of 100000, with a
branch store at Spokane, and annual
sales Of 100000. This represents
little of the magical power of person.
ality, Mr. Graves was a money-lender
by profession A bad loan got him
into the music business when he did
not know one musical note from an
other as all his experience had been
with thirty and siXty-day notes with
the jingle of coin as the only accom-
paniment.
Was EditOr-in- Chief.
Lloyd w. Mcdowell, publicity agent
of the Ruth Trust Co., was editor-in-
chief and he had some able assist
ants.
AT Grants Pass E. L. Churchill took
us to see the wonderful sight of the
trip-a hundred thousand salmon,
weighing from ten to forty pounds,
in the wier built by the government
hatchery The river for 1000 feet by
400 feet wide was one mass of live.
leaping royal Chinook.
Pianos and Pork.
The Eilcrs piano house was repre-
sented by A. H. Eilers, brother of Hi
Eilers, who has conducted the music
business at Portland for thirteen
years He had not enough money to
pay freight on carloads of pianos
when he started. He could buy pianos
on redit, but freight was always cash
on the Southern Pacific. He has made
money enough to get into a building
built for him especially on one of
the finest corners in the city. Hi
Ellers has travelled in Europe and has
taste for the better things in music
and has heard most of the great per-
formers and singers He is almost
Dig enough a man to become United
States senator.
}. l.. Sterrett represented Schwarzs-
child and Sulzberger. one of the big
tour meat concerns of the United
states, and his house supplied the
steaks for the special train dining
car, He is himself a living represen-
tative of the good food products sup
piled by his house.
s a, Kroschel represented the
Wenhard Brewery, and for three
years has been manager of the firms
outside business in the Northwest.
A. P. Rlitz represented the Portland
Brewing company on the trip
Ii. A. ktllan has for ten years rep
resented the agricultural implement
department of the Marshall
Hardware Co.. a firm that started in
business in an old stable at the east
end of the Morrison bridge some years
ago, and now occupies several blocks
OF buildings Their floor space is
measured by the acre and their sales
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