The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-07-24
SHIPPERS MEETING
FINDS DIVERSION
OUTSIDE BUSINESS
Luncheon, Viewing Worlds Big
rest Locomotive and Man.
dan Trips Featured

The Northwest Shippers Regional
Advisory board broke away from
close application to its business,
Tuesday, for the noon luncheon at
the Patterson, to visit the biggest
locomotive in the world, No. 5000 of
the Northern Pacific, and to go
sightseeing after the sessions were
adjourned at 4 o'clock.
The locomotive was spotted back
Of the Bismarck Grocery building. It
had been brought ovc from Glen
dive to Mandan the day before, then
run over to this city in the fore
noon. In charge of it were ]. c..
Murphy, travelling engineer, of
Jamestown; C. f. Glass, engineer,
Jamestown; C. A. Miller, fireman,
Jamestown; and Travelling Engineer
Shoemaker, Glcndive, who is with
the Yellowstone division. The loco
motive had been dressed up nicely.
1t was shiny and black in the upper
works and the driving parts were
protected with metal paint. A
gangway built up one side and down
the other allowed the visitors to
pass through the cab and take a
look at the inner equipment.
See Roosevelt Cabin
After looking the engine over, the
delegates gathered on the track and
two photographers took pictures of
the crowd, a part Of it perched on
the upper works Of the engine and
on it's high pilot.
After the session had adjourned a
fleet Of arr took the major portion
Of the board to the capitol, where
those who before had seen it,
inspected the Roosevelt cabin. Then
runs were made to the Country club
and to the Northern Great Plains
Experiment station at Mandan,
where the flourishing crops of corn,
oats, barley and wheat growing
in alternate patches under slightly
modified conditions to test theories
and methods, yer inspected. Here
the visitors also saw garden truck
and fruit, hedge and windbreak
trees growing. The whole outlay
proved that crops need not necessar-
lily be a failure in the dry regions
If the proper methods n used in
growing them. There was evidence
that the success Of the experiment
station farming was due largely to
summer following.
Indian Girls Sing at Luncheon
The noon luncheon at the Patter-
son was marked by a short program,
but it was rather long-drawn out.
Four girls from the Indian school
sang, Alice Slater, Dora LaFrance,
Marie LaFrance and Vitalline Azure.
Also Mrs. w. ]. Targart, who gave
the diners Obey Speaks Morning"
and sang Grieg's Sunshine" song in
Norwegian. The Indian girls sang
"Pale Moon" and "Waters Of Min
netonka," while Alice Slater sang
Dawn" as an c Mrs. Hermann
Scheffer accompanied.
Governor George F. Shafer was
POSTMASTER.
Talks were made by H. G. Taylor,
Of the public relations department
Of the railroads. and by Curtis L.
Mosher. Mr.. Taylor spoke Of the
rapid progress Of the period, requir-
ing business men to be increasingly
alert to keep up with the times. It
has got so, he said, that nobody
knows what the morrow may bring
forth. At present five industries
that did not exist 80 years ago are
employing 30,O00,0 900 workers, while
machines have displaced 100000
workers in the last sever years. The
new industries he indicated were
the automobile industry, the movies,
chemistry, electricity and radio.
M0sher Tells of Its History
It was once thought that no me-
dunn could surpass wrought iron for
transmission Of electrical current,
said Mr.. Taylor. but a scientist, set
ting at naught the old experience,
combined nickel with the iron and a
new cable will be laid through the
ocean Of this alloy by which, owing
to the electrical intensity acquired,