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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-26

YNCLE SAM is the greatest sum-
mer resort proprietor in the
world. The national parks that
a. belong to the United States
and are for the enjoyment Of
the people have a combined area al
most half as great as that of Switzer-
land. Within their boundaries may be
found every attraction that Switzer-
land has to offer and many other
scenic maryels such as no other coun-
try In the world affords. There are
giant glaciers, snow-capped mountains
that are as hard to climb as Mont
Blanc or the Matterhorn, great for
ests, lakes and mighty rivers, water
falls more than twice as high as the
Metropolitan tower, geysers that spout
a thousand feet in air, huge caverns
In which a city might be hid, big trees
that were forest monarchs before the
Pyramids were planned. titanic
chasms-the list of attractions IN I'm
Gle Sans summer resorts is endless.
Many of them are unique.
Many of these national Fairgrounds
are in the empire of the west. The
greatest of them are easy OF access.
Year by year the number of those that
can be reached by the railway or by
the trolley is growing. A generation
or so from now, when the United
States west Of the Missouri is more
thickly populated, these breathing
spots will occupy the same relation to
the country at large that Central,
Bronx and Van Cortland parks and the
other open spaces in New York bear
to the metropolis. They will be sum-
mer recreation grounds to which mill
ions will flock They are so large that
for centuries to come they are not
likely to be overcrowded.
The Yosemite National park, In
California, is $50 miles from San Fran
cisco as the crow flies. 1t is not pos
sible as yet to trolley thither from the
Golden Gate, but it may be within the
next few years. Already stage line
leading to its boundary has been paral-
leled by an electric railroad. The
Yosemite park is in the heart Of the
Sierra Nevada mountains. Originally
1t was fifteen miles in length and "one
mile back from the main edge of the
precipice on each side of the valley"
but the park in its entirety now COW
ers, a domain thirty-six by forty-eight
miles.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-26
Attitude of the Captain of Modern
Ocean Liners Toward Passen-
gers Entrusted to His Care.

New York.-Ever since the Titanic
disaster there has been much discus
sion relative to the extent to which
the officers of a big liner mingle So
cially with the passengers. The
statement has been made that many
captains of big ships nowadays pay a
great deal of attention to the social
side of a voyage and spend a great
deal of time promenading with pas
sengers or chatting with them in the
lounge or the smoking room when
their attention ought to be devoted to
the ship.
Persons who have been crossing the
ocean ever since the days a 5000 ton
ship was called a "leviathan" say that
the amount of general sociability on a
ship has steadily diminished with the
increase in the size of vessels. In the
DAYS when there were three long ia
bles in the dining saloon, with the
captain presiding over the middle one,
the purser at the head of another and
the doctor commanding the third, the
captain frequently knew everybody by
name. Anyhow, everybody knew the
captain and said Good morning" to
him, for in those days everybody In
the first cabin got to know everybody
else.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-26
WHERE BRAINS ARE CHEAP
Low Range of Salaries Paid to High
err Class of Educators in the
United States.

New York-The range of salaries
for the heads and faculties of state
aided institutions of higher learning
in this country is given in bulletin is
sued by the United States bureau OF
education.
According to this authority enc can
see that Bert Williams, the negro
comedian, can make a great deal more
money than even the highest type of
college president The best paid head
of any institution of this class is the
president of the University of Califor-
MIA, who receives $4,000 year and
house. The presidents of Illinois uni
versity and Cornell university each re-
ceive $4,000 a year and house, while
the president of the University OF
Minnesota gets $4,000 without a
house.
From these figures the presidents
salaries run down as low as $1,000.
The salaries of the faculty members
range from $50 a year for the least
paid tutor to $4,000 a year for the
best paid full professor, both extremes
being touched at Cornell.
The bureau of education's bulletin
shows that the United States now con-
tains exactly 100 universities and
other institutions of higher education
which depend in considerable measure
on the state or federal government for
their support.
Of these, sixteen are agricultural
and mechanical colleges for negroes.
Four of these state aided institutions
have more than 400 members on their
faculties-namely, the University of
California, with faculty of 421; the
University of Illinois, with $50; Cor
nell university, with 652, and the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, with 486.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-26
San Joaquin Valley Acres Now
in BUSINESS Hands.
TETON Ranches, With More Than 276,.
600 Acres of Land, Constitutes
One of the Very Few Great
Tracts Left.

Los Angeles, Cal.-One by one the
great ranches of old California, the i'm
mense grants of early days, the lordly
domains of wheat and barley mag
mates, have melted away before the re-
lentless sweep of progress. For half
a century and more the change has
been going on. the passing Of each
vast rancho marking swift epoch in
the history of some section of the
state. The subdivision of the first
great rancho in California may be said
to have marked the passing of feud-
alism of the soil in this western world,
for the old California was in truth al
most a land of overlords, and even
supported something like peasantry
population all it's own. And yet some
thing may be justly said in defense of
the pioneers, both Spanish and Ameri-
can, and of the pastoral system of that
early day. There was then known no
such thing as the system of small
farms and comparatively dense agri-
cultural settlements which marked,
and now more than ever mark, the
east and central west In California
land had to be acquired if acquired at
all, in immense tracts.
Between Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco, here and there in the mighty
reaches of the San Joaquin valley, and
interspersed like exaggerated white
squares on the curious checkerboard
whose black squares, representing
acres of something that perchance may
be called intensive" agricultural de-
velopment, greatly predominant, may
still be found a few of the oldest
ranches of old days. Most of them, it
is true, are more or less under the
sway of the surveyors rod and the
modern idea, but few (you can count
them on one hand) are almost as they
were a half century ago.
Such place is the great tract now
known as the "Tejon Ranches" the
original Gen. Beale rancho, which lies
well at the bottom of the San Joaquin
valley, in the elbow formed by the
Sierra Nevada and the Coast range
The recent sale of this vast pastoral
empire to a group of Los Angeles land
buyers makes the sensation OF the
year in California real estate circles.
Forty years ago, in his interesting
volume, California, Book for TRAY
elers and Settlers" Charles Nordhof
declared the TETON to be the most
magnificent estate in single hand
in America" And Mr.. Nordhoff, who
was the correspondent of the New
York Herald, had traversed continents
in the service of his paper.
The TETON Ranches, with their more
than $4,000 acres of land, constitute
one of the very few great tracts of the
old days which has not through all
the years lost a whit of its identity,
Today this landed empire, now, as for
nearly half century past, an undi-
vided principality, Z is in essentially
the same condition in which it was
xhen Mr.. Nordhoff visited the spot as
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-26
Social Side of the Journey

When marine architects began su-
proposing deck upon deck and the
first cabin accommodation of a ship
stretched to 200 and 300, and then to
600, and accommodations became so
luxurious that one could pay $1,000 or
more for a trip across the Atlantic
the figure has now grown to some
thing like $5,000-it became impractic-
able TO know everybody. In a ship,
of the size of modern liner there are
now so many places where a passen-
that if 'le wants to be exclusive he
can readily accomplish his desire.
On the Titanic he could have had
even private promenade deck all to-
himself. On the Olympic you have
the choice of four decks for your stroll
and if anybody is looking for you he
may have to visit the main dining
room, the restaurant, the tearoom, the
gymnasium, the two open air cafes
and.the big companionways on the va
rious decks before he finds you. There
was time when besides the one
promenade deck one had to go only
to the smoking room or the dining
room or perhaps the writing room to
find some one else.
One result Of the increased size of
the ship and of her passenger list is
that nowadays you can cross the ocean
without making a single acquaintance.
and there are really some who con-
slider this an advantage.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-26

the worst possible time. In the last
inning l came to the bat with two
runs against US and knocked a three
Dagger that put US one ahead. And
all the boys that had been making fun
of my fielding were the first to hist
me to their shoulders and carry me off
the field in blaze of glory. So you
can see how little sense there'd be in
being cast down over a poor play. or
swelled up over a good play, when
people are so quickly swayed by a
streak Of luck. If were you |
wouldn't care a continental what they
said about me. You may lam out a
home run the next time up"
And the boy seemed properly en-
couraged.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-26
When It's III.cotten.

Mayor Brand Whitlock of Toledo
was praising the modest comfort Of
the life of the physician, the author,
the school teacher, and such-like
workers. Don't let us desire wealth"
he said. Don't let us waste our lives,
forfeit our Joy, in scramble after
wealth that is bound, nine times out
Of ten. to be fruitless anyway. Wealth
what is it, after all? May not
wealth too often Just be defined as
the rogues advantage-over the honest
mann"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-26
drew himself up to his full height. e

drew himself up to his full height. 81
am coming to that presently" he re-
torted icily, while the justice with
cred" while I was saying that to
Justice Gray" says Governor Har.
mon, when relating the incident, Il
was trying to discover my line of ar
gument. Finally, while looking
through my pockets for something
else, l came upon an old envelope
on which one word was scrawled
That word gave me the point was
trying to recall, and went on with
out a hitch. l believe that that old
envelope with the scrubbed pencil
note on the back won the case. That
was one time it paid me to tumble in
my pockets and spar for time, al
though Judge Gray didn't know it,
Joe Chapple's Newsletter.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-26
Soap Removes Kettle.

New York.-Doctors labored two
hours to remove an agate soup kettle
from the head of two-year-old Peter
Szusca. Soft soap finally accomplish
ed it. The boy playfully put the ket-
tie on his head.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-26
Harmon "Bluffs" Opposing Justice.
couraged

Governor Harmon of Ohio has in
his memory many interesting remi-
niscences of trying experiences he
had while attorney general. At one
time he was endeavoring to cover a
certain thin streak in his argument
when he was tripped up by Justice
Gray, who said: How about that
point?" With all the dignity he
could summon, the attorney genera!
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-26
Called Christ an Athlete.

Boston.-Anthony J. Drexel-Biddle,
the Philadelphia boxer-evengalist, told
the New England conference of the
Brotherhood of ST. Andrew that Christ
was an athlete.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-26
Making II Riaht.

Lady Cat fashionable balD-Do you
know that ugly gentleman sitting OPP
posite US?
Partner-That is my brother.
madam.
Lady lin confusion) beg
your pardon. I had not noticed the
observation-disclosures Advertiser.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-26
Did His Best.

you can't sit up with my daughter
after II o'clock"
Would you mind telling her that,
sir? l have been trying to get homo
early for six months. Life.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-26

stage lines through the park The
tourist season is from May to No
vember l, but the park is accessible
and hotels are open throughout the
year.
There is an electric road which
leads to the Sequoia National park,
near Yosemite. Here IS the home OF
the big trees, although they are found
in a continuous belt nearly 800 miles
long, from Placer county to Kern coun.
ty in California. These big trees are
the greatest of living things and date
back to the youth of the world Some
of them are believed to be 5000 years
old. They antedate the oldest civiliza.
ton of which the archaeologist finds
any trace. They were forest giants be.
fore Moses or Confuctus or Buddha
were born. Barring accident and
catastrophe, they appear to be immor-
tai There is no evidence that they
ever die Of disease, decay or old age
Some of them are dead at the top, but
they were blasted by lightning and
the trunks are still as sound as ever
Rainier Central Gem.
Rainier National park, of which
Mount Tacoma is the central gem, lies
about seventy miles southeast of Ia
coma. and contains nearly 400 square
miles. 1t was set apart by the gov
eminent on account of it's marvellous
scenery and magnificent forests. Other
world-famed mountains must be
viewed from afar as cold, inaccessible
peaks, but the traveller may explore
every part Of Mount Tacoma with COM
parative comfort and ease. Wherever
he goes its snow-crowned head, tow
ering nearly $4,000 feet above sea
level, stands before him. 1t may be
assembled to it's very crater, into which
the climber may retreat from chilly
winds and have the exciting expert
ence of comfortably sleeping on a
warm lava bed in the mouth of a
slumbering volcano.
The journey from Tacoma may be
made for a few dollars, and with no
extra preparation. 1t is only a days
trip to go, see the sights and return
An automobile line runs from Tacoma
to the park during the summer. The
tourist season is from the middle Of
June to the middle of September. In
the autumn the splendid SHOWS that
cover the summit of Mount Rainier
descend lower and lower until they
cover the foothills at its base What
Fujiyama is to the Japanese, Mount
Rainier is to the people of the far
northwest. It's giant mountain dome
of snow seems suspended In the sky
and dominates the region for miles
about.
The Yellowstone National park is
the largest of all these Fairgrounds of
the people. 1t is nearly $500 square
miles in area, and is in Wyoming,
Montana and Idaho. Around it are
mountain ranges with peaks $4,000
feet high, and within it are exhibitions
of natures freaks and moods such as
no other land contains. They are abb
solutely indescribable. r.
The other national parks are the
GeSsral Grant, in California, near the
big trees; Wind Cave National park
in South Dakota, which may be
reached by private conveyances from
Hot Springs, or from Custer; Sully's
Hill park, North Dakota, on the shore
of Devils lake; Plat National park,
at Sulphur, Okla, and the Hot Springs
reservation in Arkansas, which is in
the town of the same name.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-19

julius Steger and company in a one-act
play. entitled Justice The incident mar
rated in the play is taken from actual life,
having occurred at the prison at Ossining.
During the course OF his sketch Mr.. Steger
will render a song number Blossom See
ley will lay bare several new songs held
especially for this engagement, and they
are promised 20 be revelations. Master
Gabriel Of Buster Brown .Iame. VIII
present humorous sketch, THE Little
Kick" particularly aimed at the young
folks Gertrude Vanderbilt back from Eu-
rope with fresh laurels, will be assisted ty
George Moore in a bright and snappy sing
ing and dancing skit The Thomas j.
Ryan Rlchfeld Company need no introduce
ton with their comedy. Mike Hagserty's
Daughter" Ethel Green and Arthur Dea-
gon. singing comedians, are also features
of the bill Others in prominence VIII be
Mae West. The Firehy of Vaudeville
"Chcvenne Days" clever and realistic
depiction Of Western life; The Three Tyres
comedians and musicians; Adonis and Dog,
Chairman and Berubo sensational aero
hats. Louis Granat, whistllng virtuoso'
The Juggling Jordans and Nic'orlaScope
views
The following acts viii appear at both
the matinee and evening performances 10
day: Sam Mann and company III Inc
Now Leader; Jesse Lasky's company OF
s,xteen I'm The Antique Girl; Ed Hayes
and company in THE Piano Mover Eu
die Leonard, assisted by MaDel hussei'
cartrude Rarnes, Senior Arrudi. the Span
,.h Giant. Mr.. and Mrs. Jimmie Barry pre-
oor,i,q THE Rube". Kalmer and Brown
PHI RAYMOND and company. Falls ana
Falls. Rem Brandt Harry LedhH'' anu
company and new Victoriascope WE'VE
Tho bip organization OF colored comedians
I'D singers called THE Smart set VIII
begin the second week Of its engagement
a. Hurtig g. Seamon's Music Han to-iho'-
-, ac,ernoon. Their Offering Doctor
poare from Boston" has evidently iound
much favor with Harlemites. IN we" Vi
. a.. ,,o,.,, large audiences that have Deeh at
+ractad during the last week. II Is nVeiN
,,,usical comedy. beautifully produced as 10
,'aoro,,, and costumes and very capabiy
presented by an excellent cast "."ueu ~
q II. Dudley. There Is large choiuS "
pretty. graceful colored girls whose "oih
I'm the musical numbers compares iaNolao'S
with any that has been seen III many
Broadway productions.
The Behman Show. one Of the Columbia
Amusement Companys most pretentious
and popular burlesque organizations, VIII
bring the season at the Murray mn inca
tire TO close this week. The sho" y sNe"
bv AN exceptional assemblage OF perform
ers, including Fannie and hltlie ""'son'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-19
PICTURES AT MAXINE EllIoTT's.

The Carnegie-Aaska-Siberia motion pict-
ures taken by Captain +. T.. Kleinschmidt
the big game hunter. and recently shown at
the American Museum Of Natural History
In New York and at the Carnegie Museum
Pittsburgh. are to be exhibited for the gen
eraI public for the first time at Maxine
Elliotts Theatre. beginning tomorrow
evening. . Exhibitions will be given every
evening and at Wednesday and Saturday
matinees. the prices for seats ranging from
% cents TO 81. The engagement OF these
motion pictures at Maxine Elliott's The
atre is for limited period only. These
pictures are said to be absolutely unique
They show the animals and the life and
scenery OF the Arctic regions. herds of seals
en- their rookeries. polar bears. walrus.
moose and caribou. mountain sheep and
colonies OF Arctic birds. In addition, there
are scenes showing the Eskimos at their
native sports.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-19
LUNA OPENS ON SATURDAY.

Luna. Coney Islands newest and biggest
amusement resort. will be opened on Satur-
day. The fence surrounding the. huge In
closure will be torn down at $3.50 .. m. and
half an hour later visitors will be admitted
to the wonders in store for them.
Not since old Luna Park was opened to
the public, In 1903, has such a change been
wrought at Coney. The new Luna Is more
than twice as big as the old park in area,
and this has permitted of greater pro-
portionate increase in the number OF at
fractions Novel rides, 'thrillers" I'm the
way OF shows and smaller amussments
that swell the total to two hundred are
nearing completion, and this week viii n6o
them all In rehearsal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-19

several new songs while playing the Brigh-
ton engagement. Eddie Leonard. THE In
imltable Minstrel" and company will also
be on hand to amuse the audience d.
Howard. the Scotch ventriloquist, Will add
his comedy to the bill. Grace Emmett, irish
comedienne. and company will appear In
Mrs Murphy's Second Husband On the
bill are FL Gotta, OF xylorhone fame; the
Gene Muller trio. hoop rolling experts; Eos
ter. Lamont and Foster. the novelty aero
bats, and others. Sunday concerts VIII De
given. both matinees and evenings
Tomorrow night at the Winter Garden
the two Hollanders. Chretienni and Loui-
settle. will add their Continental variete
number TO the entertainment now offered
The orcho Family" unique acTobatic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-19

VIII j. Kennedy, Lon Hascall.
For the second week of the season the
New Brighton Theatre offers an attractive
hill Zelda Sears, who is well known on
the regular dramatic stage, and her COM
pany will appear in Edgar Allen Woolfs
comedy. entitled THE Wardrobe Woman
Miss Sears is seen as the wardrobe mistress
Of a one-night-stand dramatic company
which Is stranded on the road. Walter
Young plays the property man, Margaret
Armstrong is the heavy woman, Beatrice
Belmont appears as the ingenue and Wal
ter Regain as the Juvenile man. Another
feature will be Cesare Nesi. "the East Side
Caruso." Sam Chip and Mary Marble will
present their sketch. lin Old Edam," writ
ten by Anna Marble. They will Introduce
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-19

act, has just been added to the might with
the Pierrots,' which is the first part of the
Winter Garden entertainment. and AL Jol-
son will spring an almost entirely new list
of songs, such as always seem to become
hits as soon as he puts them over the
footllghts." Stella Mayhem and Blllee
Taylor will do a new speciality. The COM
pany at the Winter Garden includes such
favorite funmakers as Jose Collins, Moon
and Morris, Martin Brown, Lawrance Dor
say. Clarence Harvey Courtenay Sisters.
Willie Weston. Howard and Howard Err
nest Hare, George White. Laura Hamilton,
Florence Gable and Irene Claire. The reg
ular Sunday night concerts at the Winter
Garden VIII he continued throughout the
summer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-19

Old Japan is wonderfully evoked in
"I.Honneur laponais'' at the odeon Cos
tunes, coloring and scenery give us re-
markable picture of the land Of the Sa-