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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-30

Washington, June 24-The flrst-hand
impressions and experiences gained on
his 3o-day tour Of the National For
ests are described as "invaluable". by
Secretary of Agriculture Houston in a
letter which he has sent on his return
to Washington to the Chief Forester.
expressing his approval of the ad-
ministrative work and methods OF the
Forest Service.
Starting out with the expressed in
tention Of seeing the work with his
own eyes and studying on the ground
the principal problems involved in
managing and developing the Forest
resources of the country, Secretary
Houston visited typical Forests in each
of the six great Forest districts of the
West penetrating into the wilds on
logging locomotives. automobiles.
horseback, and at times on foot, and
getting into personal touch, not only
with the rangers and guards, but with
homesteaders. cattlemen, lumberjacks,
and others among whom the Forest Of
ficers do their work.
Il especially desired to familiarize
myself" says the Secretary in his let
ter to the Forester, with the adj
ministrative machinery and business
methods, to acquaint myself with the
grazing conditions, the water-powcr
developments, the timber operations
the relation Of the Forests to agricul-
ture, the road and trail and other i'm
provements the recreational use of the
/ nd tn
of the typical homestead claims. |
was afforded an opportunity to see
typical Forests in each of the Districts
and some of the more striking opera
tons of each of them.
Il regret that it was physically i'm
possible for me to visit more of the
Forests in each District. l feel. how
ever. that l accomplished my main
purposes and that the results of my
| rip are invaluable. l was exceedingly
gratified with the evidence of en-
thiusiasm. loyalty and devotion to
duty on the part of all representatives
| of the Department with whom I came
| in contact. was especially i'm
pressed with the intelligent and SYM
pathetic attitude between the Forest
Service and the users of TIE Forests
and of all communities dependent upon
| them. 1t was pleasing to observe that
in the Forests themselves the residents
and other users look to the Forest Of
ficers. not only for information bear
i ing on forestry problems in which thc5'
are interested, but also for assistance
III many other matters. The efficient
and sympathetic handling of forestry
problems on the part of the Service,
in the interest not only of the Nation,
| but particularly of the sections in
which the Forests are located gives
promise of the successful solution of
any problems that may confront us
! In q statement experimenting his
letter, Secretary Houston said that
among the first of tie activities with
| which he came in contact was the
! recreational use of the National For
osts. under which upward of a million
persons every year travel, camp, hunt
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PASsIl The
RIFLE AS 'PRINCI
PAL WEAPON

ASSOCIATED Press Correspondence I
Rotterdam. June 9.-Military ex-
perts here are of the opinion that
is highly probable the present war
will see the end of the rifle as the
principal weapon Of infantry.
According to German agents IN
Holland the German army is rapldly
substituting men armed with machine
guns in place Of rifles. Men so arm
ed, and protected by concrete works
and wire entanglements. can hold OF
a long line of the enemy. The ten
dency, it is said, is to bring up main
forces of infantry only in emergen-
cies.
At the beginning of the war, Ger
many was credited with having $4,000
machine guns. Notwithstanding some
heavy losses of these weapons, the
factories have been working day and
night and it is now asserted that the
number being used on the various
fronts is twice that total.
A German agent in Rotterdam
states Germany's case as follows:
Military science develops so rap
idly in times Of actual war that the
weapon of today soon Is discarded
and something better taken up. the
greatest asset Germany possesses is
her ability to see ahead and make
today the weapon of tomorrow
with the enemy, the rifle is sort
Of fetish. The English are highly elat-
ed because the war has shown that
their men can shoot straighter and
quicker than the Germans. There is
10, -y0 a
Of the time spent in training their
troops is spent in teaching the con-
struction and use of the rifle, while
our men are being taught how to
handle and serve the machine gun.
The present war will see the end
of many things as it has seen the
birth Of many things. and although the
rifle may not disappear before peace is
signed, it's doom as the principal arm
Of infantry is sounded.
Where is there any sound argu-
inent against the gradual substitution
of the light machine gun for the rifle?
| After all. a Maxim is merely an i'm
proved automatic rifle with water
jacket. A man who could fire kick
| ing gun Of the period Of 1915 could
| fire and carry a Maxim with less eff
| fort Are we not told that in the
old days the concentrated fire on one
side of an English square emptied
| less than score of French saddles
at effective range? One modern ma
chine gun would have wiped out the
whole squadron.
in modern warfare and particu-
| larly in trench warfare, the soldier
who can fire hundred shots to his
opponents five has ninety-five chances
of coming out unscathed. The Ger
man soldier. prefers the machine sun
to the rife; it enables him to Sit down
! comfortably and squirt death at the
| foe as water is slurtcd through a
hose. and it gives him that sense of
| superiority and security which the
possession of superior weapon al
W.,yS brings TO the Gght;nS man"
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DUTCH STAPLE
Trades S(lj;tFEE.n'
THROUGH WAR

ASSOCIATED Press Correspondence
Amsterdam. June ?.--The big cities
u Holland. and above all the capital
/ suffering seriously from the effects
/ The war on their staple trades,
h;ch have been brought almost to
standstill since the beginning of hos
;li,.es. Local authorities everywhere
W.. . experiencing difficulties in find
ng funds to meet the distress among
he unemployed, many of whom had
made no provision for such crisis
trades unionists, during the first few
months of the war, were able to draw
;n the out of-work funds of their
,;nions, but these have long since been
exhausted or almost so, and the gov
ernment and the municipalities have
had to come to the rescue
During the month of March the
unemployment funds of the various
trade unions paid out in benefits to
their members no less than $116,062.
Now that the municipal authorities
have stepped in to help them out, the
city Of Amsterdam alone pays out
for this purpose $14,S0O weekly. In
the city there is a total of 27,234
workmen belonging to trades unions.
OF this number at the end of May
8949 were totally unemployed: 20SS
others were only partially employed
and $3.50 had been called to the colors.
These figures show that 1928 ;per cent
are totally. voorhees,, rs partially I'M
employed and 14.4 per cent in the
army-altogether over so per cent.
In the whole of Holland there are
114,559 trades unionists and Of these
1882 Cor rs per cent? are either I'M
employed or are working only one
day a week.
The figures of the Central Union of
Building Trades Workers show clear
ly how much this branch of industry
has been affected by the war. Total
ly unemployed. partially employed and
serving in the army were 4O.S per
cent Of the membership. The union
of Painters had 53.5 per cent in these
categories, while the General Carpen-
ters' Union of the Netherlands suffer-
ed in the same way to the extent of
1872 per cent and the Plasterers'
Union 45.6 per cent.
The Diamond Polishers and Cut
tiers. who form a trade entirely de-
pendent on the demand for articles
OF luxury. are in even worse condi-
ton. since over rs per cent of the
skilled workmen in this branch Of in
dustry have been deprived of their
means Of livelihood.
Printers and the allied trades. too
are depressed, for among the $500
members of the largest trade union in
these branches there are 1900 wholly
or partially unemployed, besides s25
serving with the army
Not only have men been affected by
bad trade conditions, but women also
have difficulty in finding work. Queen
Wilhelmina takes great interest in the
welfare Of the unemployed women and
girls. Her Majesty since the begin
ming Of the war has purchased and
sent to the Netherlands Union for
Providing Employment a quantity Of
wool sufficient to make 10000 pairs Of
gloves. 10000 pairs Of socks and 10000
pairs Of mittens. The Queen, as "a
matter Of fact, in order to be able to
provide more money for, this object
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Albado n. Parsons Of Yarmouth.

4 Albado H. Parsons died Monday at
Yarmouth after short illness, from
Bright's disease. Ee was born in
Yarmouth in May, 1S4S. the son of
James and !iulda tBaker) Parsons
He was educated in the schools Of
Yarmouth and, after spending q few
years at sea, entered his fathers store
About 90 years ago he took over the
business and continued it until six
years ago. Re was member of the
knights of P@thias the Masons ana
the Ped Men He was twice married
His second wife, Louise Williams Of
Midway, Mass, survives He has one
son, Richard. a Portland LAWYER TIE
funeral will take place Wednesday af-
tcrnoon.
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mas exercised her Unborn Dutch econ
oi'iy 10 sueh an extent that trades
men OF The Hague have begun 70
srulnoie. Every cent Her Majesty can
spare is handed over to the ,yarious
socieces. She has almost entirely
uesisted from entertaining for the
past ten months and this has bad ~
e'iect OF causing the ladies. of the
Outch aristocracy to follow her ax.
alnpie-much to the loss of the store
Aeepers' for Holland possesses IN nro.
pvltlon TO its size a much larrsr
in Europe. county 81
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GARDINER - scott's Ca
rage. A. G. Robinson,
Vannah Co., E. E. Lam
caster, c. r. Farr. A. w.
Cunningham, w. NJ. Wood
d Son.
SOUTH GARDINER-Mel-
vim Spencer, w. w.
Brewer, Lawrence Broth
ers, c. j. Thurlow. -
RICIIMOND-C. A. Foster,
E. B. Rankins,. C. w.
Reed, j. Haynes & Son.
Rogers Brothers, Randall
& Temple:
DRESDEN-Geo. H. Moody, J.
F. Houdlette, ]. H. Mayors
G Sons. H. A. Bickford.
PITTSXpN--A. p. Lord. a
EAST sEPITTSTON-W. H.
Heatns SO
wHITEFIELD-P. e. Chan
ney, E.. M. Hilton, H. w.
CoOPER's M1LLs-F. F.
Coombs, C. w. Brann.
WEST GARDINER-A. D.
Cole.
LIT HFIELD-F. N.
Adams.
BELGRADE LAKES-Bel-
grade Auto & Garage Co.,
c. E. Tillson. e. A. Bean,
H. e. Harnden.
BELGRADE-E. H. Mosher.
COOMBS MILLS-Pinkham'
& Philbrick. a.
SOUTH CHINA-C. W. Allen.
PALERMo-E. s. Kitchen.
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Dies from Auto Accident lnjuriss.ss

George Labares, who was ,inJuh4
an automobile accident at POI q,
sunday evening, while riding
John Pappas. died Monday niosns
the Maine General hospital. al
cident occurred at the junsse I.
Danforth and Vaughan streets
the smooth pavement is SUPP
have made the, automobile
change It's course. and AZ -
post at.lthe, cursini
with the menrMs T
= a1eld. but was
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WEEKS gcE MILLS = Edgar
Ra l EH r. Fossett
MANcHESTER-A. M. Bow
man.
WINTHRoP-E. S. Norcross,
II. W. Stevens, r. II. Horn,
w. c. Kinds, Mi sell Ga
rage.
MoNMoUTH-Day 6 Richard
son. .., -
LEEDs-w. s.. Lane. E. S.
Waite 4 Co.
= NO. LEEDS-Rose & Pratt.
! READFIELD-A. H. Wilson,
n. D. Gordon Co.
MT. VERNON-A. P. Cram &.
Son. Merton Jacobs.
NORTH MONMOUTH-w. A.
Richardson. '.,
WAYNE-C. D. Lincoln, Lin
coin Bros.
AUGU STA-Capital Garage,
w. B. Stebbins. C. A. Moor
len, Malcolm. & Dyer, J. W.
Church & Son, H. G. Tur-
ner. Brooks Hardware Co,
J H Cogan Co., F JsStaples.
RICHMOND CORNER-B
r. Temple.
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What profiteth a man ii he
save two dollars on a printing
job and his patrons call it
punk" *. j.
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was recommended 70 IIIo
by an eminent children's
Specialist in Boston, as
the best Powder to use
in my work. I must say
it is a wonder worker.
/ am sending two pic.
4,,raa of little ones who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-25

live within his means would never get
any of his money
The Commodore kept his favorite son
upon this solitary Staten Island farm for
twenty-five years. Although no one but
Cornelius Vanderbilt himself knew it, this
period was really an apprenticeship in
frugality and industry. Although the
Commodore loved to call William H. to
his face stupid blockhead, the object
of this parental by-play was really not a
fool at all. And the Commodore under
stood this better than other men. He had
already selected William H. as his heir;
this long, harsh training was an essential
preparative. When the Staten Island farm
began to yield profits of $4,000 a year,
no one was quite so delighted at Williams
success as the Commodore.
One day Staten Island railroad be-
came bankrupt. The Commodore sur
reptitiously had his son made receiver
William handled the job with financial
skill worthy of his father. "Theres some
thing in the boy, after all" the latter ex-
claimed gleefully. He called him from the
farm and put him into the office of the
Harlem Railroad. In few years he was
president. He now became his fathers
business intimate, and, in the latter's life
time, the manager of all the Vanderbilt
properties. Certainly, from Commodore
Vanderbilts own standpoint, the man
justified his severe training. In seven years
he increased his fortune from 500, OOO, 600
to$200, OOO, 600, and had added enormously
to the Vanderbilt railroads.
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summer vacation. He spent two months
one summer with surveying gang on the
Union Pacific. Harriman's will clearly
expresses his ideas on the wisdom of giving
large fortunes to inexperienced young
men. He left his children nothing at all,
but gave his whole estate Internationally
to his wife. Another son, Averill, who
was recently graduated from Yale, made
a reputation there for manliness, industry,
and simplicity of manners. Young Henry
H. Rogers. as a result of careful training
in industrious and abstemious living,
was able to take over all his fathers bust
ness responsibilities.
Louis Hills mother wished him to be-
come painter. But the boy was deter
mined to follow in his fathers footsteps
and become railroad man. "Then,"
said James j., "you must be a good one,
and you must start at the bottom. {"
Young Hills first job was with a con-
struction gang in North Dakota. Then
he learned railroad mechanics as laborer
in the St. Paul shops. He also studied at
first hand the operating department, and
learned all the details of the passenger and
freight business. In time he became the
president of the Great Northern.
young John d. is another million
aires son who has not frittered away his
lights. His interests, however, are not
mainly business. "I'd rather lead Sunday
school than run an Office" he once said.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was "cut off
with million" because he married the
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girl of his heart, is the one member of the
family in the fourth generation who has
gone in for hard toll; and he has sue
ceeded. Eben Jordan, of Boston, is the
working head of the great department
store founded by his father. August Bel
mont is the representative of the Roth
schilds in this country, as his father was
before him. Peter Cooper Hewitt, the
grandson of the great millionaire Peter
Cooper, has won worldwide fame as an
inventor. Winthrop Ames, scion of the
millionaire shovel-making and railroad
building Ames of Massachusetts, is doing
excellent work in elevating the theater.
Cameron Forbes, descended from the man
who created the Burlington Railroad,
made an excellent record as Governor of
the Philippines.
Rudolph Spreckels, son of Claus Spreck-
els, the sugar millionaire, went to work at
seventeen, soon engaged in business on his
own account in opposition to his father
beat the old gentleman at his own game
and retired" at twenty-six, millionaire
self-made. al was never licked but once"
said Claus Spreckels, "and that was by
my own boy!" Rudolph Spreckels' work
as political reformer has since made his
name one of the most honored in America.
Clearly, the son of millionaire is not
preordained to be a fool or wastrel. The
record, however, rather indorses the theory
that for him, as we'll as for others not
born to the financial purple, an early life
of industry and reasonable abstemious-
ness favOrs success.
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The Making of Madiggan

N his fight for success Madigan had
two advantages. As boy he had
been poor, clever, and Industrious:
l. combination that can kick like a
mule and fly like an eagle. And in the
second place Madigan was the first man
to make the United States government
give him first-rate letter of introduction
to the solid citizens of New York, let
ter of introduction that was not only as
good as money, but was literally just the
same as money.
Madigan was born at Milton, in that
region where the eastern end of the corn
belt melts into the western end of the
factory zone. He started life with the
normal number of parents, but was
speedily reduced to one. Madigan, ST.,
otherwise known as Dynamite Bill was
blasting rock one very fine morning
when he made a miscalculation. So his
wife became widow, and both she and
her son We're obliged to scratch gravel.
Mrs. Madigan went out by the day
and took in washing. Her son ran with
a milk wagon in the morning, went to
school at nine o'clock, and carried a paper
route at night. This affected his social
standing among his school-mates in
somewhat marked degree,-a social stand
ing further involved by the fact that his
trousers were patched.
IN spite of these handicaps, however, or
perhaps because of them, Madigan was
the star of his class. Like the girl in the
fable who said, off you're not pretty,
you've got to be smart, Maddy seemed
to think that if he couldn't achieve sar-
torial triumph he would at least hit the
bull's-eye in education. So, when Silas w.
Bronson, president of the Milton National
Bank, made claim upon the school for its
brightest graduate, William NJ Madigan,
Jr., was the only one who filled the speci-
ficatons.
Wherefore it happened that Mrs. Madi-
gan thanked her Creator one night for
granting the dream of her life. Willy had
accepted a position in bank-in bank!
where dynamite was taboo and fortunes
were made in night!
1t is true that the immediate salary was
only five dollars week But Mrs. Madi-
gan didn't dwell on that. She thought of
the future.
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raised Madigan's salary by fractional
amounts, and doubled his work and re-
sponsibilities with liberal hand.
On his twenty-sixth birthday Maddy
was sitting on the front veranda with his
mother Gt was that cool hour after hot
summer day when the motor-cars come
out for an airing) and she happened to
wonder if she'd ever live to see the day
when her Willy would have his own car,
"as big as any of them
Perhaps that was all Madigan needed:
for he felt his heart jump within him like
a race-horse touched by the spur. He
went out to the woodshed, feeling too
strong to sit still any longer, and there he
took stock of himself. The inventory
showed as follows:
A savings account of Sl2l5
A weekly salary of $25
mother who firmly believed he would
be president of handsome day,
girl with cheerful blue eyes who had
been waiting two years
And feeling of ambition that sometimes
threatened to burst on him and spatter
him all over Milton County and the terri
tory adjacent thereto.
Having thus taken stock, Madigan
SiOoVu 'io ooohS, saying, something
going to break And Selling the ak he
tackled the oak blocks, singing all six
parts of the seXtet at once.
THE next morning Colonel Mapes called
at the bank to see old Silas w. The
Colonel owned the Watchcase Company,
Millions biggest factory Madigan was
at his desk in the corner, answering the
mornings mail
"Silas," began the Colonel, show are
you off for money!"
"How much do you WANT" growled
Silas w.
"a lott" replied the beaming Colonel,
and he preened his beard in an optimistic
manner. "I've got a chance to land a ten
year contract that would double our bust
ness. But to do that shall have to buy
those old houses and stores on the south
of the factory, pull most of them down,
and double our present floor space"
"Big expense!'
It'll cost two hundred thousand dol
lars by the time I'm through. But of
course the factory will be worth that much
more. l can lay my hands on nearly
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almost useful to Silas w. Bronson, who
employed him as private clerk. Within
a month he was almost indispensable.
And within year Silas W. had added an
other five dollars a week to his young
clerks salary to keep him from going to
the Watchcase Company.
Silas w. was known as the meanest
man in Milton. But from time to time
he had other fits of madness, in which he
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Even in those days Madigan had an
eye that said II can and chin that
added Il will for when boy works on
milk wagon four hours before school
opens, and carries a sx-mile paper route
after school closes, he gets chest on him
like young barrel and learns how to
whack at his work like human war ma
chine.
Within a week Madigan had become
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE for July Is, 1915

William was a kinder, more affection
ate man than his father; but his two
sons, Cornelius and William Nissan, also
had plain bringing up. Both spent
their early lives on the Staten Island farm,
mon school education. Cornelius "went
to work" as a clerk in the Shoe and
Leather Bank, and supported himself on
his salary. William X. spent his earlier
days as bookkeeper. Cornelius worked
so hard at his railroads that he died, prac-
tically of exhaustion, at the early age of
fifty-six. His brother, William K, who
also had worked hard as a young man,
took warning. Both my father and
brother died of apoplexy,' he once said.
81 don't propose to end that way Cor
nelius, therefore, was the last of the work.
ing Vanderbilts. And, as already shown,
the Vanderbilt fortune declined with the
decline of industrious habits.
In his heroic death, however, Alfred G.
Vanderbilt contributed one fine chapter
to the family history. The whole family
story contains nothing so splendid as his
act, the other day, in giving his life pre-
server to woman passenger on the
Lusitdnid.
Other Millionailes' Sons
STUYvESANT FISH'S oldest son
started his career as station agent on
the Illinois Central Railroad at Salina,
Kansas. Hartman made his oldest boy
work hard at railroading during every