Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 18, 1913, Page 2

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Miller Building, East Side Square BARTOW o FLORIDA IF YOUU ARB THINKING OF [BUILDING, SEB ' MARSHALL '€ SANDERS ,' The 0Id Rellable Contractors Who have been building houses in Lakeland for years, and who never “FELL DOWN’ or failed to give satisfaction, All classes of buildings contracted for. The many fine residences buils by this firm are evidgnces of their abilityto make good. . MARSHALL & SANDERS Phone 228 Blue LW".M‘T‘ GOVERMHENT RAILROA ALASKA & il 0 TFORE the present congress ends it is possible that the United States government will be in the railroad-building busi- ness on a huge scale with the construction of two great trunk-line roads for Alaska. It is an experiment that will be watched with keen inter- BORAM, LAK ELAND, FLA,, AUG. 18, 1918. TFREIGHTING TEAMS AT SUMMIT est throughout the country, for if euc- cessful the experiment will have pro- found effect upon the regulation of | railroads in the states themselves. But the more immediate results of the building of railroads by the govern- ment in Alaska will be the develop- ment of a teritory of imperial rich- ness, and it is expected that there will be a rush for Alaska land that will| exceed in keenness anything in Amer- ican history. When the railroads tap the enormous resources of Alaska there will come another ringing chal- lenge to American brain and brawn for the conquest of the new west. Starved and neglected as Alaska has been by the federal government, it already has produced $450,000,000, but when railroad development comes this total can be added to easily by $100.- 000,000 a year. Alaska is coming into its own—not for soulless exploitation by greedy monopolists, but for the benefit of all its people and the people of the United States who own it. May Build Two Trunk Lines. The promise of hope for Alaska is held out most strongly at this time in the work and recommendations of the Alaska railroad commission which Uncle Sam sent to Alaska last fall to study the railroad needs of the coun- try, and whose repoirt to congress was made public this spring. In transmit- | | ting this admirable document the president made an outright recommen- dation for the construction by the United States of two trunk line roads i |at an estimated cost of $35,000,000, and the friends of Alaska are now presenting all the arguments they can think ' of to the senate committee { | which has the matter under consider- ation. Apparently we are about to embark in Alaska on governmental construction and ownership of rail- roads. The commission consisted of J. J. Morrow, major corps of engineers, United States army, chairman; A. H. Brooks, United States geological sur- vey, vicechairman; L. M. C8x, civil engineer, United States navy, and C. M. Ingersoll, consulting engineer, of New York. Three of the members are engineers and the vice-chzirman is the head of the division of Alaska min- eral resources of the geological sur- vey. Proceeding immediately to Alas- ka, the commission visited the south- ern and central parts of the territory, including the valuable hartors and practically all of the railroads, and by banks gained a knowledge of the in- terior, The report made by the commission is not only favorable but optimistic, and it comprises just such a close | analysis of the situation as might well | Ibe expected from a body of men so | |emlnenlly qualified to consider the lgreatest needs of a new country— railroads. Not only is it entirely feas- fble to provide adequate railroad fa- cilities for Alaska, but the commission, points out the immense results which will follow. It calls attention to the vast undeveloped mineral resources, and also the large areas of farming and grazing lands in Alaska. These are south of the Arctic circle and fully as capable of high development as Norway and Sweden lands and of as great an area as all the states lying east of the Mississippl and north of the Ohio and Mason and Dixon's line. The climate of the Pacific coast region je comparatively mild, and while that of the interior is more severe it is not unfavorable to colonization and ag- riculture, Two Great Problems. Alaska's development, it is well ree- ognized, centers around two great questions, opening of the coal flelds and transportation. The former is de- pendent upon the latter. The fabulous resources of this enormous territory are unquestioned, but without an ade- quate transportation system they will remain largely potential, undeveloped and unused; but with railroads Alaska must respond to a degree which will make even the great activity and the large production of the past dozen years seem as it has been in reality, mere pioneer work. At the present time all sorts of traneportation methods are in use in Alaska. Some railroads, it is true, are in operation, but the development PRTEA B an overland trip of 700 miles to Fair- _,SM' ) Roap House | of the country has been so retarded that few of them have been completed and none of them are believed to be paying. Most of those that are in operation at all run for only a part of the year. The consequence is that the travel and freighting in Alaska to- day is in almost as primitive a state as it was during the Russian occupa- tion. Men pack goods and supplies for days upon their backs to reach point after point which should be connected by busy railroads; pack trains of horses and dog sleds are used, boats of various kinds and sizes and even ox teams are employed to carry pro- visions throughout the great territory. The freight rates are of course tre- mendous, and the cost of even the ne- cessities of life is so great as to ap- pear fabulous to the pcople of the United States, The consequence is that the price of labor is terrific and only the richest mining properties can be worked. Deposits of gold, silver, copper and other minerals are plenti- ful, besides great areas underlain with fine coal. Mary of these deposits would be considered of great richnese iin the United States, but in Alaska, | | because of the enormous cost incident to their development, they lie idle; idle they will remain until transporta- tion, the real key to the situation, is provided. All depends primarily on the construction of railroads. Will the railroads be built? This is the ques- tion now before congress. OPTIMIST ALWAYS A WINNER History of the World Proves That Faith Is the Stepping Stone to . All Kinds of Success. John D. Rockefeller forty years ago believed in the future of this coun- try, bought oil on a big scale and be- came the world's richest man. An- drew Carnegie says he borrowed ev- ery cent he could get to invest in his steel mill and later sold out for some- thing like three hundred millions. J. P. Morgan himselt avowed that he was always a “bull on the country,” and he died leaving a great name 1n| the financial world and a monumen- tal fortune. Washington was an optimist, even at Velley Forge, and he created the world's greatest republic. Grant an. noyed his enemies constantly because he refused to be anything but an op- timist, and his armies saved that same republic from disunion. Bismarck was the prince of optimists, and the German empire is the sequel. In his own day William Pitt outshone every other Englishman in the belief in his country’s coming greatness, and to him more than any other one man can be given credit for an empire on whose dominions the sun never sets. Every pioneer who braved an In- dian and starvation on the American frontier was a supreme optimist. The greatest books have been penned by those who had a firm faith in the future. The Christian religion {tself is founded upon optimism, as is every other great religion. Omit faith from any one of them and the cornerstone 1s gone. A stock market axiom is that the surest way to go broke is to become a “bear on America” Just imagine | what would have happened to a mani who had “soid America short” in the sixties. For every day of hunger in the United States there is a full week of feast.—Philadelphia Ledger. ' How Is This for Realism? Certain rice fields in Japan were at one time devastated by some un- known horse v hich could not be track- ed. One night the farmers lay in wait; the horse appeared but eluded its purcuers. After patiently waiting for several nights they succeeded in following and saw him disapear through a temple door. The pursuers entered but couid not find the horse; finally he appeared on the wall in g celebrated picture all foaming ang still panting from pursvit. The far mers were at a loss to know what to do. Thereupon they consulted certain wise men in the district, who, not wishing to destrov the picture, fnally sent for the artist who painted it The painter studed for a moment, then silently went away and returned with his paint brush and painted g halter ;_;d hitching post in the pie- ture. creaftor the horse o remained Electrical Device Used in Effort to Save Hero. RIS ats For Two Hours After Being Proncunced Dead From Drowning, by Use of Instrument. \ rk.—For two hours after he hflrf;et:;e:%vc'nrnd dead from drowning the young wife and other relatives of l".d‘.’:.!r Monjo watched gpellbound around him at Dabylon, L. 1, as Dr. D. W. Wynkoop slowly brought him back to life, foreing his heart to beat with an electrical device. For long it was believed the young man would be gaved. but suddenly respiration ceased and could not again be restored. Menio, who was only twenty, was a gon of Lewis Monjo, a retired export broker, well known om wall street, and son-in-law of (‘ommcdorevSearle of the Babylon Yacht club. With his wife he was spending the holiday at her parents’ home and went bathing with his little niece, Susan Searle. A few minutes after they had start- ed the child burst, sobbing, into the Searle house, crying «Uncle is drown- ed!” When she grew calm enough to tell her story it was evident that Monjo gave his life to save hers. The two had waded out into the river hand-in-hand. Apparently they had stepped unexpectedly into a deep hole or off a ledge of ground. Monjo, realizing that he could not swim, had with a last desperate effort thrown his nicce back into the shallow, safe water as he himself went under. Dr. Wynkoop, a local physician, was summoned. He got two short lengghs of wire and placed one at the base of Monjo's tengue and the other against his dlaphragm and connected the free ends with an electrode. Monjo had been pronounced dead more than two hours when Dr. Wynkoop began his treatment. An hour after the electrical ma- chine was set in cperation the awed spectators started back in astonish- ment. There were siens of returning life. First came a scarcely perceptible movement of the heart. Then slowly that orzan resumed its functions and respiration was restored. For two hours the heart beat regu- larly and respiration continued. The young wife hung over her husband praying that he might be restored to her and waiting for the return of con- sclousness. But consciousness did not return and suddenly both respiration and heart stopped and could not be re-started. Dr. Wynkoop said he was greatly grieved his efforts had failed. It was the first time, he said, his treatment had been applied to a human being. He had been experimenting with ani- mals some time and had revived many after death, as ordinarily understood, had taken place. He belleved that had it been possible for him to begin earlier he would have saved Manjo's life. He explained that he turned the current on twenty times to the min- ute. KITCHENER SNUBS THE KING Famous English Soldier ignores Ruler While Going Home for His Vacation. Man's Heart Be London.—Lord Kitchener of Khar toum, British agent in Egypt, is home for a vacation to which his wonderful work during the last three years in Lord Kitchener, Catro amply entitle him. But the method of his home-coming is causing much comment, His way of ignoring his official superiors In the imperial government and even the king is without precedent and would not be tolerated in anybody else. He has now been at his home in Broome Hall, Kent, ten days, yet has never condescended even to notify the foreign secretary of his return, much less to call upon him, as is the custom, e ——— Erecting $15,000 Home for Cate. Greenwich, Conn.—Work on g $18, 000 home for cats was begun by Mrs. Cliford B. Harmon on the property of her father, E. C. Benedict, at Indian Harbor, near here. There are to be eight rooms, electrie lights, steam heat, a kittens' nursery and other modern improvements. ——— 8cheol Teacher Slee, 8t. Louis, Mo.——M!s:‘ L:Z't‘:'rimm l’;nchetr, & school teacher, who slept almost uninterruptedly for onme dred and fifty hours following a u::: game, declared that she felt refreshed, though a Mttle weak. IR W. R, GROOVLY, PRYSICIAN AN g, Lakeland, gy xipper Bulidiag, (1y Phoue 335, Residence Pucr, n‘ LAKELA), j Ratadtioked i» p woms 14 aud 18 L.y Pranes: Goe Liv; iy — ] iR, 0. C. 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