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The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1911-02-02
PIONEER RAILROAD AND
BUSINESS MAN PASSES AWAY
Death of Harry o. Bardin, One of Whitefish's Most
Popular Citizens Occurred at Portland last Sat-
urday--Was One of the Oldest Engineers On this
Division--Citizens and Fraternal Orders Paid
Their Last Respects Yesterday.

Harry o. Bardin, a vetern rail-
roader and business man of White
fish, passed away last Saturday af-
ternoon at $3.50 p. m, in St. Vim
cent hospital in Portland, while he
was enroute to Los Angels, CAL, i'll
hopes that the climate there might
help to build up his broken health.
The cause of his death was pulmon-
ary tuberculosis.
Mr.. Bardin had not been in good
health for the last two years, but
was not the kind to complain at all,
and was always around attending to
his duties until the past two months
when he stayed very close at home
so there were but very few that
realized his true condition, and
when his death was announced it
came as shock to many.
He probably never himself res
llzed how far gone he was, as he
would never go to see a physician
and when he was at last persuaded
to do so by his family a short time
ago, it was recommended that he
must have change of climate, SC
he left here week ago Tuesday
morning for Los Angeles. He had
to stop off at Portland for the boat
which was to leave on Friday, but
when he got there he was so weak
and exhausted that he had to be
assisted to a hotel. Fortunately he
had a cousin there, Fred Pickering
who was informed of his condition
and he took Mr. Bardin to St. Vim
cents hospital, where it was found
out how serious his condition was
and then he telegraphed for Mrs
Bardin to come. She left here last
Thursday on No. 3 and arrived al
his bedside late Friday afternoon
and was with him until the end.
Mrs. Bardin returned from Port
land Monday evening accompanying
the remains, and was met at the
depot by large delegation of cit
liens, members of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers and the
Fraternal Order of Eagles, both Of
which Mr.. Bardin was member
and the G. l. A. to the B. of l.. F..
of which Mrs. Bardin is a member
who escorted the remains to the
residence on East Second street
Mr.. Rardin was one of the proprie.
tors of the Milwaukee hotel, and ou1
of respect, all the hotel bars ir
town were closed, and the lights
turned out during the time thai
the body was being escorted from
the train.
Mr.. Harry Osce Bardin was one
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1911-02-02
BRYANT-RLETiNS.

Chauncey Bryant, who is one of
the old time switchmen here, start
ed things last Wednesday when he
quietly stole a march on his friends
and took his fair lady, Miss Bessie
Blevins, to the county seat and had
the nuptial knot tied, and returned
home without anyone getting an ink
ling of what had happened until he
passed the cigars around the next
day. Here's to their success and
happiness.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1911-02-02
LONG RETURNS TO kALISPELL

Former State Senator Thos. D.
Long, who a few months ago re-
moved from Montana to Portland,
has returned to this state and will
reopen his office at Kalispell. "Mon-
tana Is the best place in the country
a fact that l realized only after
had lived elsewhere" said Senator
Long to the Helena Record. He will
remain in Helena some time while
the legislature is in session.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1911-02-02
GROENE-STEPHENSON.

Our city attorney, Merle c.
Greene, returned on the early train
Sunday morning after a months Wis
brought back with him his bride,
formerly Miss Leah Stephenson, OF
Westphalia, Kansas. They were
married January 10, and will make
their home with Mr.. and Mrs. Chas
H. Jennings for the time being.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1911-02-02

DR.. and Mrs. Coe returned last
Thursday from a trip through Eu-
rope. Mrs. Coe is daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. d. Haskill and stopped over
here for a few days before going to
their home at Tacoma, Wash.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1911-02-02
WE SHOULD HAVE MORE.

Of the eighth grade pupils who
took examination last Saturday, 81
were from the Poison schools, 81
from Eureka, 3 from Rollins, 16
from Somers, 20 from Columbia
from Kalispell, making a total OF
227.-kalispell Times.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1911-02-02

Miss Alice and Josephine Noble
and Miss Lucille Prescott were
Whitefish visitors in Kalispell Mon
day.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10
Their Faithful TypewriterS Clank Right Mer
riIy in Busy City and in Bosky Dell.

who married a coal HEAVIER. 1t was
queer, quaint, and satirical, and Robert
Edeson just said it had to be made into
a comedy, so he could play the coal
HEAVIER who got into society. You know
how Robert is for that sturdy, rugged
hero stuff.
AS play, Mr. Burgess book is TO be
called The Cave Man" and. even as
write it is being rehearsed and the elated
author is pruning it. Sure he is pruning
it. He told me himself that in its first
writing it was full of prunes.
And come with me now, far from the
madding crowds ignoble strife, and all
that sort of thing. This is the forest
primevaI. Yes, we are in the Adiron-
dacks now, AM our sturdy, guide leads
the way through the wild wood on his
motorcycle. Up. up, on up to where the
primitive life is led by Hrillionalres in
their camps" Nothing on the rough
log floors now but Persian rugs. We cat
a hunters homely fare from solid silver
plate, and drink the crystal water from
the bubbling mountain spring from
rough, cut-glaS goblets.
We are now at Al H. Woods mountain
shack, Camp Potluck. The electric eIe-
vator is out of order and we have to
walk up the stairway, treading over the
simple stair carpet of crimson velvet.
The crude mahogany furniture, the
bright glare of the gas log show Camp
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10

quickening spirit upon the throne, sal
ways the traditional center of its respect,
to rise from even the appearance of de-
cadence. There is a new quality seeking
expression in England like the rising sap
in the spring, a new generation asking
only for such leadership and such eman-
cipation from restricted scope and Ungen-
eTOus hostility as a king alone can give it.
When in its turn this latest reign
comes at last to its reckoning what will
the sum of its achievements be? What
will it leave of things visible? VIII it
leave n London preserved and beauti-
fed, or will it but add abundantly to
the Jumps of dishonest statuary. the
scars and masses of ill-conceived re-
building which testify to the esthetic
degradation of the Victorian period?
Renaissance Lure.
VIII a great constellation Of artists
redeem the ambitious sentimentalities
and genteeI skilIfulness that find their
fitting mausoleum in the Tate gallery?
Will our literature escape at last from
pretentiousness and timidity, our phil
osOphy from the foolish celebrations OF
university characters" and eminent
politicians at leisure. and our starved
science find scope and resources ade-
quate to its gigantic needs? Will our
universities, our teaching, our national
draining. our public services, gain
new health from the reviving vigOr Of
the national brain?
.Or is all this a mere wild hope, and
shall we, after perhaps some small flut-
terings of effort, the foundations OF
some ridiculous little academy Of liter
airy busybodies and hangers-On, the
public recognition of this or that So
Geological pretender or financial "scien-
tist," and a little polite jobbery, with
picture buying, relapse into lassitude
and a contented acquiscence in the RI
vllry of Germany and the United states
for the moral, intellectual, and mater
iaI leadership of the world?-H. G. Wells,
in London Daily Mail.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10

Massachusetts, Gas Companies, a hold
ing organization, was capitalized for
S25,OO0,oo0 of preferred stock, $25,00O,-
900 Of common stock, and about sS,OOo,-
600 Of bonds. Both kinds of stock now
pay per cent annually. The hold
ing corporation owns the Boston Con-
solidated Gas Company, the East Bos-
ton Gas Company, the Newton and Wa
! tertown' Gas Company and several
smaller Illuminating companies m the
vicinity of Boston; also the New Eng
iand Gas and Coke Company, which
manufactures gas for all the other
companies and sells coke as by-prod-
uct; also the New England Coal and
Coke Company, which owns steam col
llers and vessels and brings coal from
the Southern seaboard and sells more
OF II, incidentally, than any concern
east of New York; also the Federal
Coal and Coke Company, which owns
mine in West Virginia, and also, finally
the Boston Towboat Company which
! operates tugs in the harbor and else
where. Mr. Richards manages all OF
these corporations. A shareholder in
the holding company has an interest, of
course, in each of the rest. Within two
weeks after taking Office, Mr.. Richards
began to startle the people cf Boston.
For many years. he said to me, Il
was engaged in marketing merchandise.
There is no reason why a street car
company or a lighting company should
not be as fully trusted and as much re-
] spected as dry goods store. Street car
companies sell transportation; gas COM
panies sell light. That is all there is to
it."
The legislature of Massachusetts had
passed a law reducing the price of gas
from 81 to 80 cents, effective on July !,
1906. Mr.. Richards, however, cut the price
to 80 cents on July l, 1905-he had been
president of the company fifteen days
and to 80 cents on January !, 1906. He
beat the law to the reduction six months
in one instance and year in the other
I'VE began" he told me, ''unhesitatingly
to do all the things required of us and
many other things that were not required
One of the most valuable assets that
public service corporation can. have is
the confidence of the people"
Strange Performances Followed.
Surely there had been a revolution in
methods. Here was a gas company vio-
lating all the canOns of monopoly by re-
fusing to take every penny from the pub
lie that was possible. But strange per-
formances We're to continue Mr.. Richards
actually advertised in the newspapers for
complaints. Il told our customers in
big type" he said TO me, that we want
ed to please them, and that we were in
business to sell gas and for no other pur-
pose. l invited persons with complaints
to call on me and promised Them that
written communications would receive
immediate attention by myself or one of
our executive officers. While l do not
claim that we now please every gas user
in BostOn-we never and nobody could
complaints have almost ceased, and not
one of the Boston newspapers, so far as
1 can remember. has found any fault with
us during the past six years. We had
two objects in asking for complaints.
First, to prove our good faith to the pub
lie, and next to let our employees know
that We meant to learn if our customers
were properly treated.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10
PsEUDO-CULTURE.

From Harper's Weekly
'SThe gods themselves give up the fight
against stupidity" says Schiller. and
when one faces sheer density in all its
blunt hopelessness, as It appears in an
elementary race or among people mea-
gerIy endowed, one is half inclined to
forgive the pseudo-culture which is SO
lavishly used to replace effort in many
parts Of the world.
When all is said and done the progress
and comfort of living depends so en-
tirely upon mentality and clear-sighted-
ness that one must look gently upon
even the pretense Of an EFFORT 10 gam
either All jesting and jeering 70 tns
contrary, any honest attempt 10 know
anything or TO exercise and expand ths
mind in any way is laudable. one natu-
rally thinks slightly Of the work done IN
wornen's clubs. and yet II is better than
no reading and no mental aspirations.
In MANY cases an afternoon a week
where women discuss current topics or
ioolr nm subjects In an encyclopedia and
write abstracts, absurd as II may seem
10 mental worker, stand for real
meukal enlargement. When nice
southern girl was brought to see Julia
Ward Howe in the last year OF ther life
the old lady took the girls hand and
said, MY dear, go home and start a
little club for women where they can
read a little and think little always
started little clubs myself" The result
of these little clubs may seem micro
scopic. iand abortive .effoTt is always
pitiful. but. after all. when one stops to
think Of It, II Is much better than no
EFFORT for no effort Il death and effort
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10

and coming. at the point of the manu-
script by the horde of dramatists whose
habitat is Westchester County.
Daniels Topical Song.
Poor Frank Daniels can't take nap
on the l2:l4 out without being awakened
to hear a topical song. In vain Eddie
Foy tells all railroad playwrights that
he's got his starring vehicle for next sea-
son. The smoking car playwrights have
something Just as good" Maybe better,
only they don't like to boost their own
stuff.
Penned against the water cooler IS
Ralph Stewart. James ]. Montague IS
going over the third act with him.
Herbert Hall Winslow carries in so
many plays that strangers think he Is
the train boy with the weekly papers.
So it is on every side and everywhere.
One cannot walk through Central PARK
without hearing cries of Help. Murder.
Thieves Eut it isn't a robbery; it's
playwright who has enticed an actor or a
manager to the park, under pretense of
showing him the goldfish teaching their
Young to swim, and, reaching secluded
spot, have drawn a play on him ana
plunged right into the reading of 1t.
PLAYS are like noses and grievances
everybody has one.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10
Dividends Have Been Increased by Low.
ering Price of Gas, and Employees of -
Company Are Partners in It.

us yearly dividend of per cent, pro-
vided we earned it, Whenever we low
cred the price cents thousand We were
permitted to increase our annual dividend
per cent. AS it happens, we are now SELL
ing gas at so cents and therefore have
raised our dividend rate to per cent.
The act also provides for a reserve fund.
with which to meet emergencies, equal
to per cent of the capital stock of the
Boston Consolidated Gas Company,
whose stock amounts to about S15.OO0 COO.
Whenever The emergency funds equal per
cent of the total capital stock, the excess,
if there be any, must be paid back to the
cities and towns in proportion to the
mileage of the gas mains in each.
Our first reduction in price, . cents a
thousand feet, amounted to $19O,OOO. The
people saved that much. Our first in
crease in the rate of dividend, I per
cent, amounted to s15O,e00. The share
holders made that much. The second re-
duction in price-more gas than before
being sold-saved the people about $780,
600. Both reductions, therefore, amount
ed to s44O.0C0 n year. The second reduc-
tion in price had, in the meanwhile, per-
mitted us TO increase the dividend an
other per cent, or $loOOOO. So while the
600, the gas users saved $780, 600. Lowering
the price enlarged the consumption, but
the net profits, OF course, were smaller
THE book value of the property OF
the Boston Consolidated Gas Company
is nearly 81, O00 The capital, as 1
have stated, IS $15,UoG 900. Thus the
present dividend of per cent is the
equivalent of only - per cent on the
money that is actually in the property
But we cannot make any further in
crease in the dividend rate unless wei
again cut the price of gas cents. You
will perceive that the law creates a
partnership relation between gas, sellers
and gas buyers. So while the officials
of the corporation are working for more
profits and larger dividends, they must
necessarily work at the same time for
4 greater saving to the people.
Takes the Men Into Partnership.
The law required US to make the !
burners of gas, our partners, although
we could have stuck ~. 30 cents and II
per cent indefinitely, I guess, in which |
event our customers would not have !!
prOfited any under the arrangement |
provided by law. But we voluntarily |
adopted a system of premiums by which |
We made it possible for our employees, !
including office boys at 50 a week, to |
share in the prosperity of the company. |
The dividend rate to stockholders is |
the premium rate to our men. At pres !
ent, if an employe, in wages or salary, |
earns $500 n year, tho amount of his !
premium would be per cent of that
sum. or $45."
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10

touch OF nature at her widest to the
scene Fresh country vegetables that
come to Camp Potluck every day by
express from Gansevort Market, and
wild flowers from Thorley's make the
scene truly rural and restful.
How the typewriters click. How the
pile of original sheets and carbon copies
grow beneath the deft hands of the two
Pauls. Potter and West.
Secretively Milt Goodknd, the kind
good playwright of Pelham approaches
by a private staircase, the rooms
in the Hotel knickerbOcker occupied by
Charles FrOhman. Here, admitted to
the presence of the great theatrical
magnate he whispers in that manage
rial ear, all other persons being shooed
away, the plot of his great sensational
play, The Milhonaire's Club"
l know that plot. l was told it under
a crOss-my- heart promise l would never
repeat it, use it, or give it away. And
l never have and am not going to do so
now. But it is a great. Plot, stunning
plot
Alilt is a New Haven Railroad play
wright. The smoking car on the New
Haven local trains are infested with
playwrights. Hard-working actors who
live at Mount Vernon and New Rochelle
are held up in the smoking car, going
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10

"Are premiums paid TO all of your
employes?' 1 asked
"Out of the $50 persons on our pay roll
last year, 700 were profit sharers We
require that man must be in our service
twelve months before he is eligible to go
on what we call our honor roll Besides,
he must be temperate, energetic, honest,
and capable, and receive the recommend
alton Of his foreman or some one else
in authority. We hold that when an
eRploye becomes a partner in the profits
of a business that he becomes interested
in the business and the economies that
are introduced. If he saves for. the COM
pany, he saves for himself With US,
every time the price of gas is cut cents
l per cent is added yearly to the pre-
MUM or dividend of the profit sharer"
rs the money paid the men in hand?'
NO; 1t Is invested in the preferred
stock of the Massachusetts Gas Compa-
MES, the holding corporation, at the cur
rent market price. In consequence, an
employe not only receives a yearly pre-
MUM for his services, but dividends also
on the stock that he owns. Moreover,
he can deposit his savings with the COM
pany and get 4 per cent for the money.
The same interest is paid on any balance
he may have on our books. The shares
of stock that he buys are his property
absolutely. If he desires to sell them,
however, We require that he give US
notice in writing. In case he needs to
sell. no objection is made. During the
four years that the profit-sharing plan
has been in operation the sum of $l66nOO
has been paid out in premiums. which Is
an average of S23S to each employe.
have told our men that If business con-
tinues to improve an emplOye who has
served the company continuously and
capably will have shG reholder's interest
in five or six years equal to about one
half of his annual earnings. A repre-
sentative of the profit sharers is a men,
Der of the board OF directors Logically,
he ought to be. The same policy has
been followed in London with gratifying
results. The Boston Consolidated Gas
Company is as near a copartnership Of
the investor. the employe, and the public
as it seems possible to attain
What do you tell a man when you hire
him?''
To be courteous at all times, never
to lose his temper, to avoid any show
of officiOus Importance, under no cir
to make promises the COM
pany can't fulfill and to walk smartly
and not to slouch along the street or
elsewhere"
DO. you compel users of gas to put
up a deposit before meters are placed in
their homes?'
No; We make no charge, we require
no deposit. The only condition we men,
ton is that a customer shall consume at
least 50 cents worth of gas a month"
tCoryright. 1911. by James B. MOrrowl
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10

lucky. At one time, while he was in the
tobacco trade, he directed the movements
and originated the policies of loo sales
men.
James B. Duke, president OF the
American Tobacco Company, he quietly
remarked, said he would hang my hide
on the fence. The nexf year our COM
pany paid 60 per cent dividend to its
shareholders Then the trust bought our
factory and offered me yearly bonus
to stay out of the tobacco business.
From Tobacco to Trolley Lines.
In the meanwhile Mr.. Richards re-
tanned his interest in the Boston house
where he had begun as clerk, only
selling it a few years ago. He had also
put some money into trolley lines and
into street railroads at Lexington New
ton, MiddIesex, and other places. All
told, he is interested in 40 miles. of
track. THE companies had paid little
something at first" he said, when the
rails and cars were new ana Ihe only
outlay was for power, labor and clerk
hire When the equipment and the rails
began to wear out, however, the pronts
vanished, and in their stead were uehclts.
II got into Dthe companies at that
time. Auditors from the outside whom
employed. went through the books.
State appraisers put a value on &he
properties. The law OF MASSACHUSETTS,
prohibits the watering OF street rallroad
capital Still, suspicion was prevalent
and 1 wanted the patrons OF the roaus
to know the truth. After / had the ng-
ures showing capital, actual Value' earn
ings, and expenses, / went INTO lorty
cities and villages and maze the people
acquainted with the situation, Keeping
nothing hack and avoiding all mystery.
Nv object was to show them that the
fare for carrying a passenger had to be
advanced from cents to cents II the
companies were TO remain out OF bank
ruptCy.
when the people understood the
facts they paid the increase in fare
without objection. The additional pen
ny we collected from each passenger
made the roads profitable instead OF
improbable. Tell the people the truth,
work openly. and they will be just to
the ccrporations which follow that
policy. Experienced men said / couldn
raise the rate. They were ignorant
YOU see, of human nature. The people
want good service. Secondly, they are
opposed to subterranean methods.
Thirdly, they object to paying more
for a thing than il is worth. When
dealt with candidly, the controlling
majority in any American community
will be reasonable. Any way, that was
my theory. and it worked out as clean
ly and clearly as a problem in arith-
metic."
Owner Turned to Richards.
Undoubtedly the snarled and sorely
troubled gas magnates were attracted
to Mr.. Richards by the wonders he had
worked in trolley and street car man
agement. Their property was sick and
required immediate and competent
treatment. Moreover, their customers
were carrying clubs and talking riot
ously. All of the gas companies were
consolidated on June Is, 1905. Gas was
then selling at 81 per 1000 feet. The