January 1, 1006.
THE OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEE.
Work the City Ticket Agent Does to Make the Passengers Happy
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OEORGFJ F. WE8T. CHICAGO A NORTH
WEST BRN.
FRANK H. DUNLOP. CHICAGO GREAT
WESTERN. .; .
R. R. ROSE; ILLINOIS CENTRAL. GEOROE E. ABBOTT. UNION PACIFIC.
A. L. ANDERSON, CHICAGO, MILWAU
KEE Sl ST. PAUL.
THOMAS F.
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GODFRET, MISSOURI PA-
FFUCn T. Rt'THERFORP. CHICAGO
ROCK lSIND & PACIFIC.
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EXT to th. German army per- had enjoyed una ot the moat, refreshing study the tima table., find out the shortest come In and raise the commission In order price, and he believes the agent can cut
haps, It la doubtful If In the sleeps in years. way to et there and come In and buy to get the business. Perhaps a third and a over tintier If he wants to. I have had
world there can be found more . "That's the way we have to handle their ticket. People who do not travel fourth passenger agent would drop In ana them talk to me by the hour and then go
system than In the operation of them," remarked the passenger man with .very much will go from offlce to office in raise the bid of the others. The commls- away mad as hornets, satisfied that my
ft railroad. There are other a smile after the iirirmr hui nna out: the endeavor to set a ticket for less -than sions were wiped out about three years ago reaaon for not giving a befW rate was slra-
"H was no circumstance to what wa get 'the price you quote. Some of them event- when the railroad presidents got together ply a display or contrariness on my part
aometlmes. Yesterday a" man oame In to ually wind up In some cut-rate office. For- and decided not to pay them any mora. It and that I could have done It with a
have me look up a trunk that has been eigner. are great for thia, especially the shows what they can do If they want to acratch of the pen bad I .been courteous
miscarried or loat. He went In the air lower classes. They will pay board and and all agree to work together. , enough to accommodate the customer,
when I told him I didn't know where the wait over a week and come around day "In those days there used to be a bigger "The ausplcloua man aa may be Imagined
trunk waa, but that I would try to have after day In the hope of getting a reduo- fight on the part of the traveling passenger doe. not ride very often. He comes In
It located. He wanted me to go out and "on. They are, of course, not familiar agenta to get business. They had consld- aaUafled that that he Is going to be done
look It up. The trunk will turn up all with the pa?seng-r association lawa which erame leeway ana u mey learnea or a a u -
right, but It may be a week before wa overn these rates.
get track of It. Everything depends upon "In 'd day. it waa no unusu
the cause of the delay, of course when t0 cut under a rival line If we saw
a complaint of this kind cornea to us we to 8et bl '"d profitable haul. The pas-
fields, ot human endeavor where the busl
neas la wall organised and where eaob
n baa oerlaln duties to perform, and cer
tain responsibilities to asaume. But It la
also singularly true that In the other fields
there la always some one or ones who are
Willing to assume the cares and responsi
bility of the entire establishment. They
may divide the work, the drudgery, but
they wear the anxieties of the depart
ments nevertheless. The railroad Is an
on the train. Finally he broke down en- minutest detail the smallest place in the)
tlrely, admitted It was a broker', ticket mart obscure corner of the erth and tell
and offered me to to square the thing .up precisely how to get there offhand, and
and Indorse the tlckVt so that he could gat precisely what minute the train will arrlvst
through all right. He agreed to raise It "We have to carry a great deal of thia
to $10, but I told him that the only way knowledge, but there la much mora tha
to fix It waa to take his chances with the ppi, eipeot as to know, particularly with,
conductor or buy a new ticket. He finally rt to lhe or lrmJn, on oth
took It back to the broker and bought a M.rt. . ,h. ,,. -lnh, br otha
large movement of people they would find In with the air of a man who takes it for
sual thing out tne leader and call upon him one after granted that we are professional swlnd
t a chance tn other- J200 traveling agent impressed lera and that he ia 'on to our game,' but
upon the prospective patron the Importance wining io usien 10 wnai we nave 10
itralght ticket."
"Do you experience much trouble with
acalpers' tickets?"
"Not much here. If we catch a scalper's
ticket Is Is usually on the train. We have
more time to examine tickets of this kl id,
but they rarely come In here. Occasion-
lines. The passenger agent has to make
out daily and monthly an account giving
the minutest detail of every transaction,
so that 'It can be 'referred to with dlspntch
years from now If ar.y question arUea; ha
has to account for every ticket In hls pos-
axceptlon. Every department Is systema-
Used. It 1. system, ayatem. system. From " lm 'cora w" LaoctaHon U made uTof a aenerL of taking no definite action until he had -ay. He goe. from offlce to offlc. and
the aectlon gang ..on, th. track, to the T Jot th'a "0 .icT U - would cut under the. If h. come. back at all It Is with the ....
chairman of th. board of director. tt I. " rate for ome special reason In a terrl- who were ahead of h.m and get the party ylotlon Uiftt ail th, passenger agent. In
ysxem. avery pan i in. wr u..u.. - - - r ' ,rv r.hd k th. .h, ,.n. i, m.u. i,. to route over the lines he was Interested In.
wishes known and the association takes It Tne Passenger agent and the traveling paa
up. If the rate Is ratified by the assocla- aenger agent frequently worked together
tion It sroes Into effect. Sometimes a road 'or perquisites Nowadays they give us no
(imply announces that It Intends to put a eway. and all we can do Is to Impress
Into departmenta and every department occaalonally go astray.
haa a head. That head la responsible lor
what happens In his own department, but
he doesn't have to worry about any other
department. He lets the other man worry
about that. The average person who has
occaalon to use the cars knows only one
He
his
the
Man the Most Troublesome.
"With whom do you experience
most trouble, men or women?"
"Men. A woman Is usually satisfied If
you have a good., plausible explanation.
the city are In league to do him.
finally goea to a scalper and buya
ticket.
"One of these men came In the other
day and had the nerve to ask me if the
ally they get timid and want us to look It ""'on. see that the train service is what
over and aee that It la all right." 11 should be, report any faults and com-
- plaints, report any claims for damage en-
Womea Guud Bluffers. tered acalnat the passenger department.
"Are women easier to detect than the and, n fat, look after the dertalla of the
official besides the conductor. This Is the She may not grasp the technical part if
ticket agent. There are scores of other the explanation, but she goes away satla
officials connected with a railroad, but the fled. She is more persistent. If anything
general public la not familiar with them, goes wrong she will follow It up from day
They seem to have a hasy conception that to day until the matter Is ' straightened
rate Into effect upon a certain date and the uPon th Patron the superiority of our line ticket he had purchased waa all rlsht.
ana tne scenery along me way. lr we aon t tie naa spent two days going rrom place
happen to have any scenery we are up to place and finally bought of one of the
against It, as the expression is. brokers. I avked him If it was hi ticket.
$ 'Certainly,' he replied. I then uKke l him to
Two Classes of Traveler.. duplicate the signature on the coupon. He
"There are two distinct types of hu- wrote his name and I easily convince.! him
niantty with which we have to combat, that the signatures were not the same;
other roadft have to fall In line. or let the
rival get the business Such a move, Inde
pendent of the Western Passenger associa
tion, was taken here only a short time agu.
men?"
"No. Women usually have their lesson
well learned. They are good bluffers. A
mild mannered woman with a winsome face
will look you straight In the eye and lie
to the last. A man, on the contrary, be
gins to aweat and fidget as soon aa he ia
bualne.. If faults arise which eome within
his Jurisdiction they must be corrected. If
the problems are beyond his control they
are reported to the officials next higher up
to' whom he reports. Thia would be to tha
general passenger agents. We also try to
get our nhare of the business that la muv-
Jio More lonimlitloni.
"The business Isn't what It used to be. 1
the other offlclale are employed by tne, out. A man explodes and after he haa can remember when the passenger agent One is the suspicious man; the other la the that they were written by different per
railroads to dreas well and draw ineir spoken his piece he goea out with a chip made all sorts of coin. They used to pay one who believes we are 'not quoting him eona. I showed him also that the ticket
salaries because the company does not on each shoulder ant awaits develop- the passenger agent a commission for rout- the lowest fare for which a ticket can be -vas made out for a person much younger,
know what else to do with its money. ments." ' jnB through passengi . over some partlo-, bought. The latter thinks the question of and that he In no way ngreed with lhe de-
They know the passenger and ticket "What class of people give the most ular line. ' Ortce In a while they got Into a price la a matter left with the ticket agent, aeration,
agent, however, because he Is tha perjon trouble when selling tickets?" scrap and the road.. Would bid for the bust- and that he can cut the rate If he wants to. "Then he began to fidget. He still In-
wlth whom they come In contact. While "People who do not travel much. Peo- ness. One road would, offer, a certain sum This man will present all sorts of argu- alsted that he waa the party for whom the
they have a vague Idea that he haa some- pie wno use tn, cars considerably know to have people routed over its line. The menta to convince the agent that he ought ticket waa made out, but he wanted me
thing to do with running the trains, they what they want and how to get It; They traveling agent of the other road would to get a ticket for lese than the regular to fix It so that he would have no trouble
Tb know that he aella the ticket and han- '
dlea their cash and they a' aatlsfUd that , . , . :
hta authority la bounded only by tha limits
of hla conscience and good nature. They
believ that he makea the rates too and
that ha can give away all the passes he
ante to.
What the Paaseaerer Ageat Does.
Thia la the publlo Idea of IL In a meas
ure the publlo conception of tha passenger
agent la correct. He haa considerable au
thority and he aella tlcketa. The passen
ger agent la In ft aenae tha link which
connects the Interests of the public and
Fish Eaters Versus Beef Eaters in Manchuria
fwl
(Copyrighted, 1904, by Frank G. Carpenter.) 'blned. Hete lit the United Stales we have "Where are tha chief Japanese fisheries, clear and It has much the aame proper- tlmea using aa many aa alxteen bird, toj
IASHINGTON, Dec. 28. (Bpeclai aooui lov.wu nsnermen. jiyjan nas imeu ur. omunr lies. - one Boat. Before the bird, are started
Correspondence of The Bee.Wl fishermen to our one, and that notwlth- "They are found everywhere along the "I have been told, Dr. Smith, that the out a string Is tied tla-htlv about th
saw thta morning a specimen of atandlng the nation Is only one-half the coast. Japan consist, of many hundreds Japanese eat sharks." of each to keep It from swallowing the
the emergency ration lurmsnea size oi ours. ux voicumu witmus, luuia mi .a mu buiuo uic uu, wu uto repiy. iuy nsn.
under suspicion. When we have him cor- jng baci and forth,
nmi no inrows up ins nanas ana tries to
hedge. A woman will atick It out to the Getting; the Hnslaesa.
lam. After she la bluffed out she will go ..w nM the mang and the newspaper, a
out with her head In tlie air and a chip on rreat deal In getting business. If there ia
her shoulder. A man sort of backs out and any large movement of people In any one
trie, to lose himself in the crowd. direction, aa for instance to a convention,
we get In touch with the head men, the
What He Has to Knew. leaders of the movement and try to inter-
'A good many people have an Idee, that est then In our line. Often we go to tha
the hardest work the paaaenger agent haa Individuals themselves and perauade them
to do la to drees well, spend money and to go over our llnea, If we can. We can't
carry a map of the world In hla head ao offer the Inducement, wa could once, when
that ha will be able to describe with the we cut under the other fellow, but lta a
. poor passenger agent whe can't convince ft
3 person that hi. road 1. tha beat one to
travel over, that hi. service I. the beat,
that his trains are the speediest, that the
route Is the most picturesque, that hla
trains are more certain to reach their des
tination on time and that there are point,
of interest along his line which cannot
be enjoyed In traveling over any other
road. In fact our Una Is alwaya tha 'onll
eatl' It'a 'the' Una and the othara are
xney are also tied hv inner ,irinn . . '
h. Tnnn. ormv It looked like . "Tell me something about thia fish that verv small. The water is very deep a make JU0,0Uv a year out of thtlr shark fish- to th hn.t. nm..i. , " -"""" - i.u uim more.
. n,,ik, .1.. on . tha JumnMui are ualni aa war food. Dr. short rilntante from the coast, and vou erles. and something like SS0.0CO out of nut ,v, .. . . don t know about. the other line. We
wh.n i nicu. it nn it tnn ma think' of a Smith." said I. as I olcked uo the brown have all kinds of fishing and almost all shark fins. Many of the fins are rent to from .iirfinr (. .,. .. . are In the business to crack up our own
the railroad company, but ha la more than whet8tone, , t tried to cratcn it With my wheLtone-llka object referred to la my kind, of fish. There Is scarcely any part China, where they are considered a great dlv. down Into the water and brlna- ,.n L . 5 h"ny dv"ta,a
th.t Ha la th human bumper, the cushion, , K lJt . .,. ,K , ..,Mi,- .v.. t, fr.h n.h r,t t delicacy. As to sharks, thev are even .u. .... . .ana Drlna-up we haven t got we don't know It and we
r v;.rnl..a. that receive, th. complaint.. "j:rrjr . ,h , r "7 r:; in tw. country. btm-onin ,.rv.d un e"!UPOn.. ine. pu uk. care, that th. a..enger do.n't
.. - . .. . - amwiivu n um ,cii, ....u.j ... ....at ... ..... .,. -- t-i.. ,. . . . inwin in, jorce open ineir bill, and saueeza it in ,.,. n r. ,
the; crltlolama ot tn. puono ana oiu- N,vertheIes, it was all flsh. compressed 4. caught by the thousands tn the Japanes. list, are .tored away and ahlpped to China, "u" names, iney tat uog nn. the throaU until th. fish drop out. Then tinw.t. wh.; L
it. ahork.af tha officials ever him. Ha .. , ... 4kii i iv, ,'r niumio f ., a- ..t such aa we have In great droves along our .v. . " F out lara ticket.. When a person coma. In and wa
keepa jui ey. en the aervlce, looks after food u ,a ,uch Bhgpe that it can be pounds of it. were taken, and the annual -xhe government doe. more to foster coa"; do not eat
the passenger, ana proteota tne mw packed In bag. or boxea and carried on the, output of It sell, for' something like the fisherle than here In the United
of tha railroad company ao far aa his au- backf of mue or men. ' The soldiers can $3,0uu,0U0. The bonito fish weighs three and states. W e devote ourselves to propaga-
thority axtenda. carry It In their pocket, or In their haver often mora pounds. It Is a round fish. In ting fish in order to Increase the fish sup-
Bverythlng good, bad and Indifferent af- ,ackg ad a few chunk, with rice would curing It tha bones are first taken out ply. in Japan the fisheries are controlled
fectlng the welfare of the passenger first form a meal tor a oempany. Tha Russians it la then squeezed and shaped with tha by, the government. They ara regulated and
cornea to tha passenger agent aa a rule. ard bringing their meat over the Trans- hands as you aee It here. It is cooked and advanced In every way pos-lbW. In addi-
alberlan road. They have to aava enor- .mpked, when It become hard and dry tlon to the imperial government, the va-
mou. quantities to ieea tne army, anu m an(i will last for an Indefinite period. In- rinm atnt have fl.hintr pnartmenta con- mi .
cara are taxed to their utmost aect. will not bother It, It can be .hoveled necud with them, and altogether the In- and it la customary to send a big salmon to
The Japanese ship their food In boata. it aboUt like corn, and can be carried any- duatry recelvea large government aid." one'a friend on New Tear'a day."
consuia lai.ciy vi ii,-v aim mi- , - wnere. it is eaten witn nee or it may
though other fooda of different kinds are be .haved off In thin allces and made into
supplied, indeed, tne rate or tne war may BOup. Tha Japanese are fond of it."
If there Is ft kick coming, ha get It first.
If there la- ft claim for damage he usually
haa the first whaok at ourryoomblng tha
passenger's lacerated feeling.. If there Is
a. word of commendation, which Isn't par
ticularly often, ha, by reaaon of hla po
sition, ha. the first .mile and It la he who
speak, for the corporation and conveys
the thank, and good wlahea of the com
pany with renewed assurances of Its es
teem. No person haa to make a closer
study of human nature. No person knows
better What an unreasoning entity the
"dear publlo" really Is.
One of Hi. Experiences.
"Say, what kind of a blankety blank road
Is this, anyway? I can whittle a better
road out of a pine knot," waa tha greeting
given a passenger agent of one of the local
roads the other day by an Irate patron.
"What's the matter?" waa the quiet reply.
"Slatter," waa the rejoinder, "matter?
Matter enough. I'll walk before I'll use
your road again. Tou gave ma a sleeper
right over the trucks. If the train had
been pulled over the tlea on runnera it
would have been smoother riding than I
got on your road."
"You Insisted on having a lower berth
and that la the only one wa had left," ex
plained the passenger agent.
"But I didn't suppose you were going to
put me In a berth over tho tender of the
engine," and It wa. half an hour before
the passenger agent oould mollify hla
man, but before the stranger left tha offlce
he . made him admit that this particular
road wa. one of the beat In the country:
that the aervlce could not be surpassed
and that with the exoeptlon of the rum
ble of the cara. which kept the paaaenger
awake somewhat longer than usual, he
great droves along pur
them, but they ara
excellent when fresh or canned, and . I
predict, that the day will come when one
will be able to buy either dog fish or shark
meat In the markets."
"How about salmon?"
"Th. Japanese have salmon, but they
are not ao good aa oura. .They are like tha
poorest variety of the Pacific coaat salmon.
the .bird, are atarted out for a fresh sea by his action, that he means busl-
catoh."
ness, wa try by all the art. and artifice.
"I suppose corraoranta are raised for thia In our power to sell him a ticket before
purpose?" , he leave, tho plaoe. The ohancea are ten
. "Tea, and' they are also caught in the to one that wa won't have another chance
winter as they go southward. Once trained for If we let him get away and ha goea
they will work for years, the birds living to another office It la very likely that tha
to be 15 or 20 years old. Soma cormorant, other man will .ell him a ticket.
are very skillful, catching a. many as a
nunarea nsh per hour.'
Japanese Fl.h Caaaerlee.
yet rest upon fish, and the fight 1. largely
ona of the fish eater and- beef eater.
Japan's Big Pishing; Indnstry.
Biggest Net. In the World.
"How 1. It caught?"
Red Herring of -Japan. They Want Saghalla.
"Doea Japan have about the aame fiah Ar. there oo4 fl8nerl ,n north.rB
that wa haver' Japan Dr. Smith?"
It haa many aimuar to ours, sucn a. Y verv rlch one. Ther, are many
I rnrt ulnni tha Islnnfla of Thia. and tha
mackerel, halibut, herring and others.
-hiHv In huaa nets. Soma of tha largest cw '"" l"
Th Jananeae are among the most .killed .Jl 7..Tj 1 7 , , . a,a not "nu ",mu' iu" '' fisheries still farther north are valuable.
fisher, of the world They farm the water " " T 7. r Th h. k 18 th ul om,wnt our red Th u eBpeclally so about Saghalin. the
M Xnl iTlutTJtZmZ About MM worth of It I. l8land whlch the Russian, took from
product run. high into th. million.. It wa. JTn III Zi "l..nt ' Tt a conSUmedyearly Japa. I understand that the Japanes.
product run. nign into tne . , w wUh m feet ,ong extendlnK out at
at th. National Bureau of Flsherlea that I ach gn u took thJrty boaU matmKa
aw me nail 1 av. ucv...w., T,. ah nr. flrat driven In ha.
talked with Dr. H. M. Smith, who waa sent
"A. to the herring," continued Dr. Smith, wm demand lis return, If they are suc-
"tliat la one of the most valuable of the ceasful In tha present war. If they get
Japanese fishes. It runs In schools Just it It will add fl5,00u,0uu ft year to their fl.-h-
by the United State, government a Uttle tween wln"8' nnam r w lrom aa off the coast of northern Europe. It la ing product
over a year ago to Japan to examine Into thm ito Tat bag-like net at the ln ,elne, and the product sells for ..How a0 the Chinese fishermen compar.
U. fisheries for the people of the United end' en mn ,Mtafedt? "8t 'nd about KO00.CKK) annuolUy. The herring are wltn ,h0.e of Japan?"
Btatis. Dr. Smith', coming waa announced ll"".- in Jln. ananti?? nTfia'h 8Uo irM and plul0ed 'r eXPrt-" "I va not been in China." aald Dr.
to the Japanese government, and during Thr uht an-en" ' "How about eating fish raw. doctor. I Bmltn. ..Inde.d but uttle U known abaut
hla stay tn the country he had with hlra - understand that l. common in japan t tna water wealth of the country, except
"In the old day. the traveling paaaenger
agent used to drum up moat of tha bual
nosa. He turn. In all ha can now. Today
there la no object In looking out for the
routing after a passenger leaves our road.
"Tha Japanese are developing their fish- but the traveling agent look ftfter thia
erlee from a commercial atandpolnt." Dr. part of the busln.se. He call, upon the
Smith continued. "They have canning and amenta of the other llnea and aees to It
pickling establishments, and are putting up tnat the connecting llnea have his tlcketa
all sorts of things .for export. Here la a and that they rout8 a ralr ahar of
copy of the catalogue of their St. Loul. buflines. ,vcr int.
fish exhibit. It treat, of everything from
sardine, to whale., and .how. what they
are doing along various lines. The annual
catch of tsardlnea Is now more than 23,000,
000 pounds, and aardlnea are sold - fresh,
dried and salted. At the experimental fish
station of Aicbl-ken they have been salt
ing down fresh aardlnea Into barrela a.
expert, from the Imperial fiah commission
and also the local flsb officers of the various
states. He traveled more than 6,000 mile,
through the country, visiting the fisheries,
and a. a result haa brought back much In
formation of value.
Dr. Smith thinks the Japanese are tna
been caught at one time In auch a net.
The yellow-tail are large fish of somewhat
the aame character as th. bonito. Those
20,000 ara aald to have averaged twenty
pounds apiece, making a total catch of
about 400,000 pounds."
'"How Is the fishing carried on. Dr. Smith,
leading fishing nation of tha world. Bald by Individual or by trusts?"
la I a rcr sal w hv IniilvlHn
"It Is, and I assure you that raw fish ,. lts fish product Is enormous. It Is
are not ao bad when properly served. Take said that It haa mora than 1,000 different
a fresh tal and alica It thin. Bring It varieties of fish, and that ln Macao, near
cold to tha table and .at It with ohop- Canton, ona may have a different kind of
sauce, and you will find it dellolous. The tluh every morning the year round. Tha
Japanese, however, usually eat their fish Chinese must have much the' aame fl.h aa
cooked. They have fried fiah, baked fl.h, Japan. They have mackerel, herring,
fish aoun and fiah -relishes of various shark and carD. They have shell fish.
he: 11 rgeix uy inuiviauais, aitnouga klnds. Tney are good cooka, and are espe- oysters and prawna, shrimp, and craba.
"Tha Japanese have more than 1.000 van- there are companlea of fishermen which c)aiiy skilled ln the preparation of fish." The people use cormorant, for fishing,
tie. of fish, and th.y eat them all In one club together. The large neta to which I ..Tne Japanese have many water products They have a vaat boat population and
shape or another. Their water products have referred; often belong to one village m addmon t0 fiah." aald Dr. Smith. "They there muat be fisherman everywhere."
annaally amount to 130,000,000, and th.y and are owned ln oommon by the fl.hermen ,eaweed and water vegetables. In- "la there any cormorant fishing la
have altogether about 600,000 fishing vea- of that village. Indeed, auch a net often dee(, om Q tJj- Bre far more valu. Japan?"
el. and boat.. Th.y have many ahlpa ralsea a town from poverty to affluenoe. I abl6 fof farmln landa adjoining "Yes, I have brought back axoellent pho
whlch devote themaelvea entirely to fiah- knew one village which had been poor, B Tokyo ia an valuable tographa showing how oormorant fishing la
Ing. and more than 100.000 of their boats but had grown rich through co-operative j heJd ' BOvernment and leased done." aald Dr. Smith. "I do not know
are above eighteen feet long. There are, I flahlng by mean, of one net Th. catch Aunit. narts of that lh cuatom originated with the Jape
should say, almost 1.000.000 professional brought In about $50,000 a year, which I. f" D " , J m ne.e. but It I. m.ntlon.d In Japaneae lit
fishermen, and more than that who devote ft Urge Inoom. for ft amall Japanes. P'"CtSb eratur. as far back aa 700 A. D. The
themlve. to farming and fishing com- town." .rut Sr.? Tie U up 'n bunaie. and .tick P"P th ranU.
Difference In Agents.
"What la the difference between ft dis
trict and a division passenger agent?"
"Well, In a few words, one' looks after
the business In a certain territory, whether
bis line reaches that territory or not. The
an experiment, and If there ia a demand alvWon look fter tns
for them a million barrela may be easily reohd hu road tor a crt"Jn distance,
cured ln that way ln one year. In th. according to where tha limits of Wa dlvia-
past many aardlnes have been presssd Into lon
guano and sold for fertlllxer.. They are "People make aome funny breaka onoe In
now being put up ln oil. A great deal while," aald a ticket agent. "A man
of the herring catch la used for guano, rushed Into the office the other day. He
and this is so with other fiah." was out of breath and evidently he waa
Tou .poke of whale fl.hlng. Do they ,n B, nurrr lo nwn.re. oay. ne
ft aaia Detwuen ereaine, i want to go to
have whale, near Japan
"The whale hunt la chiefly tn the Corean
water.." .aid the fish expert. "Ther. I.
a whale oil company which haa three fac
tories In Japan and many stations on the
coast of Corea. It annually produce. 1,000,-
000 gallon, of whale oil. The Japaneae are
Kanaaa City the worst way.' I eeuldn't re
sist the temptation to say that tha worst
way I knew of was to be trundled down,
there ln a wheelbarrow. He saw tha point,
laughed good naturedly and explained that
he was anxious to get there by the shortest
also making cod liver oil for medicinal -ni qulokest route. We sold him ft ticket."
purposes. .They make all they need them- George F. Went of the Northwestern en-
selves and export ft oonalderable quantity. iV ih distinction of being the oldest of
They make a fine clock oU from tha dol- the city paaaenger men ln point of ootv
phln, and they have recently begun to tlnuous service for one oempaoy, and R. R.
make herring oil, sardine oil and shark Rose of tha Illinois Central, who recently;
oil. Indeed, they are quite up-to-date In succeeded Cass U Mllla, la the roungeet,
the use of all their fish products."
FRANK O. CARPENTER.
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I 1.'. 1 1: fVp fT-' "eAT '-'."i L rv:.'' . ;.. '. ' - r21?-1 1 I the shape of Mwder and uaed for soup
..y, '' '"i,,,,, Tl '.' . . 1 - a.-.' '' . .-. -- :. 't-v-y- . 1 flavoring. aVmt of It might tm made
-TT fi ' J-' ;. ' . v6iljar ' -:r-'V-'v,C''L, a very nourishing breakfaHt food. In
:.??y-JiZ 7- ! '--..' 'La.-V a- jJLLf&-r I now. I call it fish oatmeal.
DaTINQ AND dTORINO SEAWEED A JAPANESE XNDUBTIITJ
It down into the aand so that It Is almost
covered at hleh tide. The spore, of the
water plants attaclr themse.ves to these
bushes and grow, bting lei by the water
which rlcea and fulls with the tide. From
time to tlmo during the, year the plants are
picked off and carried to the market for
sale. They are used for flavoring .oups
and ao a condiment. Several hundred
thousand dollars' worth, of such vtgetab!ei
aro annually taken from Tokyo hay.
lira weed and Fiah Oatmeal.
"An enormous amount of ntawetil Is also
produced ln Japan," Dr. Smith continued.
"This is gathered and used In a variety of
nhupee. It la very nutritious, urd la so
much liked by the people that you will not
find a Japanese family which does not con
sume some of it every day of the year. We
have about the same varieties of seaweed,
but thu muut of it goes to waste. Take tha
kombu, for instance, which la made from
kelp, such a. Is found along our Atlantic
coast. .The Jupaiiete use 11,000.1X0 worth of
It every year and we let it go to waate.
About the only seaweed tiiat we take ad
vantage of I. the kind known aa Irish mots.
We gather about .ljn worth per aar.
up lit
and
into
Indeed,
here
"And then the Japanese make vegetable
Isinglass out of seaweed arid ship It to Eur
ope, America and China. They send It to
Holland for soup and to China to be used
as place of bird a nest soup. It la vary
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