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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 376, 23 July 1903, Page 3

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If tli* United* States, were.* &»#• funnel, with the smaller end at New, T York, so thnt all things from all sections could scramble in at one end and land with a certainty at the other, the business men of New York might not be engaged-! as they are at present, in what threatens to be the last struggle to prevent the general trade cen- ' * (Mr of America from sloping to the interior of the continent, says Arthur 1. Street, in Ainslee's. Twenty or more years ago nearly H everything gravitated toward New York, Boston, Philadelphia and other cities of the North Atlantic sectionTha raw products of every portion'of the west, from Utica to Denver, tumbled over themselves to reach'the manufactories of the east; The retailers of the west, from the Monongahela to the Nyrth PJat.te.ai'd th£?Sacrnmento, sent thieir orders for puis, pansflioehandles and groceries to the jobbers of thefllarlem and the Schuylkill. The farmers of the west; shipped_their wheat and corn from" the Mississippi valley to the shores of the Hudson and the Narragansett to purchase x their plows and their liay-rakes. But in the latter portion;;of"the seventies,; tt 2 process began to stop, and it haa be<*n ■topping ever since. The food stuff and fhw material of the west; have found that home is a good; place to stay' Grocers'and furniture dealers and clothiers and'shoemakers'think that freight charges saved are better than trade-marks of old firms oh the Atlantic. 1 ' ;■ ■ -> ■ ''■^ r ~:'l4

.Woods grown in. the-forests of the northwest.'and the south-are turned into harvesters and-wagons aijd office desks in the vicinities, of their birth. The man in the west does his business in the west. The man in- the south ■does his business in"the south. NewYork is simply submitting to a law of geography. There are mountains and river:; bo tween the west and the south •nil ihe north and east, and commodities of trade, like human beings, cliuib or swim only for necessity or for sport. Grain refuses to go up the Blue Ridge iiuorder to get down to the At* lantic, been rise it can reach the ocean at the gulf or Hie great lakes with half the effort. Orders for metal or cloth balk at the mountains and the distance to the east and north, because they have found that they can set what they want in the nearer fields of Birmingham and Superior and North Carolina.

As Col. J. M. Lowe, of Kansas City, put the thing rather aptly some yearn ago, in a speech made in reply to a declaration by railroad managers that the diversion of traffic to the gulf was to be checked: "It's no use. The flat has gon* forth and all the managers in'creation tannot stop it. Western grain will not submit-to climb the mountains and b« hauled 1,300 miles down to a seaport when it can reach deep water on a down grade in half the distance. For .a quarter of a century the west, like .a gigantic Alderney cow, has been standing, stretched across the continent with her hind feet in the east, and we are getting tired of all this and propose to change ends." SATISFIED WITH HIS JOB. A N«w Hired Man Who Ufa Sol C«r« About tta« Prohibition oft graioklnar. One of Cleveland's leading busines* concerns hired a new man the olliej day, and a little later, when the HUrjrrintendent passed by, he noticed that the new man was smoking a pipe. The rule ar;i;inst smoking on the premise! is a rigid one, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "See here, my man," cried .the official, "you can't smoke here." The new man looked up and nodded and the superintendent passed along. A half hour later he was back again. and lo! the new man was still enjoying his pipe. "Say," the official cried, "didn't 1 tell you that smoking was not permitted here?" " You did," replied the new man. "Didn't you understand me?" "I did." "See here, perhaps you don't knot* who I am ?" "That's a true word." "We'll, I'm the superintendent." The. new man looked up at the official with an expression of deep interest. "Are ye. sure*?" he cried. "Superintendent, eh? Well, it's a fine job—take care of it." ;- And he calmly returned to his work. Where Anthony Wayne On«e n««t«l, Standing on a bluff, overlooking Lake Erie and commanding the approach to Presque Isle bay,., is .fort Anthony Wayne. It is built on the state soldiers' home grounds, near Erie, and is eared for by the veterans of that institution. It is bus!* of roughly-hewn logs, cut from ghe same woods from which Com'm'mwre ' Perry Secured timber to bu'U lit* fleet, in exact imitation of t!■;• old block house which'stood on the same .spot during the. French and Indian war. It "was here that "Mad Anthony" Wayne was first buried, but his body has been removed and placed among the bones of his ancestors at Waynesboro.—N.Y. Sun. Citizenship in ffwl'iffliiiH. During the last ten years there were 10.024 retptests for citizenship in Switzerland, of which 7,833 were 1 granted.—N. Y. World.