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I 11 IA 1C It iid bv far the most in-his -bad. The agent took enough Interest in the mat-and it is likely that in its long trip through space it’ ■ * •£ . m *•*« f 1i »rorthrid has comeTY«* A V Wt■1 lt;* IIi4 American MuseumXi, r* t\\FXnrv throuerii the srenerosity ofire of this city.r T' V. Irn vvl iuse far-away planet, or!- extinct world whicheoWilho process of dissolution, is ^^ ,aif.;rite, and is now incl/ £ TC-. 4nirtViV.itw111shippedV... ”4tiransit arra iigemen i sv ecost, delivered to then$2$U(F of which £20,000 representse ,1 - + HI itt the lucky- person on whoser-* »•w f I CTQ .I III ill« fr*11 u ra 11 U O ivit the hugeiar holes and erosions,v Iand from suchsiancirrnnI, An itraction in the finestoilecB50world. But there is forlies in livee.\ tremely interesting'historyIt is the onlyItAwhich the courtsi* ■ A•TAMtna tA1 V,ier of ownership, and from the lowest courtrt t\v,years to determine who was-V T V •lty-ton planetary frag-%, *u4 *a prospector, and an-iC ?Iwere digging* aroundtfarougthI Ieaonilds in thexxiof Willamettethey suddenly cametonupon what seemed outcropping of iron ore. The re-i rnnir thet'TUrles of rough andfolt;i ne]f i *ge. but, wild and•y1'a c*COA V1 I: H lt;*X J A cl VIIrAnq /I v’ .1 ip.an nn r_L ct • I V Uv’-ii 2 U Iter to walk along the road until hh came to the holeheid this position, or doubtless the rapidity of itsin the ground on the property of the land company.flight gave it a conical shape.Then he told the lartd company. The company, hav-,mg some knowledge of the value of meteorites, ivrt-In the lower half of this great cone are a numberof round bore-holes, irregular as to position and more- « ■ * ■ • * •mediately pitc in a claim for the planetary fragment. Then the courts took up the mutter. The land corn-general near the bottom or base ot the memc-iite. These holes are nearly circular and well defined.pany claimed it as a mineral property, possession of which goes|with the land.B . . ■ — . — — — .Thev 3.rc from one to four* inches in depth find thvfi©. * V . ■to eight inches in diameter at the outside. AnotherHughes’s claim was that while the landownerfeature of this remarkable meteorite consists in themight claim anything on his land down to the centredeep furrows or channels cutting into the lower coneof the earth, he couldn't put in property rights as far up as the Milky Way, and that, in short, anythingThese furrows extend vertically to the lowerarea. —edge or base of the mass, whose border they breakthat dropped from the sky belonged , to the person who found .it.+ +with -channeling.+The extreme length, of this great mass of molten iron, once a bright, shooting star darting throughThe courts found for the landowners and estab-spaee, is \i) feet 4 inches: breadth across base. 7 feet;lished a precedent that whatever falls from Mars, theextreme vertical height from base to summit of dome,moon, or any other distant sphere whose occupants4 feet; total circumference of base, _’•» feet 4 inches.. . are not on visiting termswith the people of this earthbecomes a part ot the hereditaments of the land uponIt weighs approximately -•* tons.’Py.iq analyses of the illamette iron have beenwhich it may fall. No syndicate from any of theplanets having put in a claim for the meteorite, itwas recognized as the property of the Portland Landmade, small particles having been chipped off the mass for that purpose. One analysis shows iron, m.4b; nickel, lt;S.:.U. The other analysis shoOs iron.Company, and all Hughes’s three months of effortH.05: nickel, 7V cobalt. .-1: phosphorus. .01). Thefor nothingWhen the Lewis and Clarke Expo-specific gravity of the irons i . I .The color of thesit ion opened the winners of the suit carted theexterior of the meteorite is a dull ieddish bio«vn. Themeteorite off to Portland, where it was put on exhibi-mass is much oxidized, with- a tendency to scale inlion.A . 4 , V y ,small flakes. The fractured surface is more coarselyThis great meteorite is in the form of an abbrev i-granular in structure than other iron, and is of a for-ated cone, having its base on two sides so prolongedmation peculiar to itself.as to produce an'oval whose long diameter is ^one-third greater than its transverse diameter. There are no angular outlines to the mass as a whole, all, whether in vertical or horizontal sections, are b'ound-*+«It Is impossible to tell hew long the meteorite lay imbedded in the Oregon fo’-est before Hughes discovered it. It may have been there for centuries. It ised by broad curves. When found partially buried incertain that it was there for a great many yea* s, andchased by the Portland Land Company.CARTING THE METEORITE AWAY AFTER ITS DISCOVERY.the ground the ba.se of the meteorite was uppermost,vlthough Hughes Inst his find ho will go dov n intohistory as the only man know Vi in eommon life ot- Hugliedidn'tkak■»* + ■ +was■O A N VA * *old Australian prospector, and itandmmA. A 1 I A * 4to find .out that there was something iV I. u MV/ Uthis stray bit of iron. Daledrag it for the fifty yards they would have to take uphad alrema. bit andwith a rlt;inie4 * ^1A. A,but Hughes chipped offill the road back of the car, relay it in front, and go■ o n i esolnists In the East,+ f fl*.t lt;4Ll 4, illell him what it was.7 f' Vl TATXV XJ dlt h s. t noown.ric iron has properties all itsTliere is no other iron just like it. On accountT'lrormation, cleavage, and a lot of?• t bina, i i u if'-, aS C1-i f V V. 1 t A AVi In tn• A-All'that lire bita-boiit it is impossi-f he got a report d sent on was of meteorichrough the f.rocedure over and over again.The first problem was to get the meteorite on the ear. To do t’his they rigged a capstan, which was to be worked by a horse, and after days of toil they got ropes around the iron mass and started the horse on his journey. Th? sequence of effect to cause followed. So did the meteorite. But when the thing began tomove the work had only begun. Some days it wasorigk. J *! ■»A A *he had struck somethingIk *I Ai him to make use ofpossible to move the great mass of iron only the length of the car. Other days they got it ten and* )twenty feet further along on its journey, and one daITItA VTVile awav from thethey succeeded in moving it fifty yards. After threed he and his sonmonths of incessant toil the big bit of planet was* - iTwent:|eon piece *i nto•aetice a plan to drag thefinally dumped in front of Hughes’s door.ver to their shack. To do+ + +*st dug all around it so as to expose it on. ^All- this time the men had worked without molesta-1 cleared a path in a direct line from’ tion. Their nearest neighbors were miles away, andmet iATII litvas found to wherein1 euihe\should ultimately repose. The twoand built a sort of rough road.such as is shown in thethey were too busy with their own affairs to pay any attention tc Hughes's queer actions, But after tiier, \ 11 trX 4**1 ■v1 UUsh YU, Imeteorite had been secu ed Hughes sent out noticeO ; -nd wide that he had found the most wonderfulfaiA Itjstration, and the plan was to getheavenly visitor that the world had ever seen.he 4On KM) ior irXon the car and drag it overThen the crowds began to come. In the crowddwas an agent of the Portland Land Company. Fn-aniong scientific col lectors, who ever trPd to tunawav with a twenty-ton meteorite.The Willamette meteorite will'form the centre ofan attractive group of heavenly visitors in the Mu-The other .three were brought from tlrn arcticseum.regions by Lieut. Pe-iy. The greatest of these is “ The Tent,” which, although heavier than the Will-unette. has not so large an area.andThe other two areknown as “ The Woman ” and ” The Dog.” There isa §tory connected with these three which is also ofinterest.huh yiyuAmong the Eskimos there is a legend thatmany centuries ago a woman was turned our of hertribe. She wandered away with her baby and,tookilong her ient atid her dtig. ’These and the womanthe Great Spirit turned into stone aA evidence of hiswrath.‘ Mrs. Dodge’s liberality,” said Director, Burnpusof the American Museum of Natural Historj. hasmade it possible for us to have here the finest collection of meteorites'iir the world There are but twoothers known which are in the class of the WillametteOne is in the m mntains in Mexico, and itwould be necessary - to build a' railroad fifty mileslong into the heart of the hills In order to. nansportitTlie other is in Mexico City. By a permanent investment of approximately •'4 a day Mrs. Dodge hasgiven the City of New York and all the people whomay-.visit it an opportunity of viewing the most Interesting heavenly visitor of which we have anyi. is-A. I Ito maIrthe road butfortunately for Hughes lie had failed, before making1Viatme apparent that ifbis announcement, to get rid of the telltale traces ofLOWEROF METEORITE—CHILDREN RESTING IN HOLES WORN BY EROSION.record.»»LlfLISMADEPLEASANT FOR THE66STDYEK55FROMOUT OFW. pr*: • PA-B.vTiVELY T'eccut addition to the- • ' r a-wholesale house in New, * — .can’t be put down on the expense account.nr.' vanal entertain*No bigThe jobbers here did not take long to realize thescan-frivolous nature • of the buyer’s visit. Hence* AiUSC Tail«*■vvi ihouihimnd t il II' inln ii tnIalongtry il Hixm kxiim tlnMi'\\iili the others.the enlertahieis..Ti4 IHer’ a inerurse a hat is no/» * * 11 t nsalhhe dim11 ontgwvv th lt;»ffho .come to New York every Adiruarv and March. MoreAs in everything else the New York business man applies method to this branch.instead of going at it in a haphazard way, he picksgood man for the job. gives him wide latitude in the way of expenses, and tells him to stick to theInner. And the. chosen oneto its population, but if all these buyers were herded together they would make an invading army of no mean size. The prosperity of the jobbing house in Worth, or Leonard, or Franklin Street depends large-* -C*. • •]y on the patronage it gets from these visitors,A natural result of the journeys of Southerners and Westerners to New York is that the jobbers here have to send fewer men on the road. There is some-. , course sometimes the rural buyer, especially in thecannot be found or cultivated in men. If any primWest, is sent to Chicago or St. Louis instead of toand conventional individual imagines that thesetAvo-New York, but he grumbles at such ill treatment.and tells his employer that he fears the ••resultswill not be nearly as good.The first thing' the Southern or Western buyermen visitors are any exception .to the entertainmentrule it is a vast mistake. They have to be taken to theatres and dinners just as do the men. The wo-far distant' State isdoes when he gets to New York is to make a journevman who comes here, from a a 1 wavs old enough to know#now to take cate otdown town to the jobbers. He visits three or four andherself and at the same time unsophisticated-'enoughhev :ikihsr other and nearer citiessticks. He is still asalesman by name, but selling ia a duty to which he s back only when the buyers begin to leave town.tiling ludicrous about the reception many a drummer gets when he goes into a store and interviews atakes a perfunctory look at the- ” goods ” of eachnot to be suspicious of everybody *he meets.oneWhen the evening* sliadows Tally it’s ten to oneJn enlrr toining the women the professionslj outert ?• rsalesman who wants to go to New York soon. Thehe has made more appointments, for that.night thantainer of the jobbing house ” lays himself outVo* * »m nonuertainment they get Msvitlv their preferences.Y itii the devil-uaiv-care. reckless -look of the man;,o ir a iiionsai-ul miles away-from everybody thatNow theatre parties and ” rtibber-neck ” wagons are his field of action.salesman—he is probably called ” clerk ” in the town where h? lives—is so afraid that the drummer willlie can fill. In.his evening suit, which he has wornlavishly than he docs for the men. Maybe thismore is be-The man who undertakes this task—and it soonturns from a pleasure into a lask must have tact.have just what is needed in the store that he hurrilt; s to get him out before the sample ca.se is opened. Ifperhaps twice in the last year, he meets the professional entertainer at some restaurant—arid then hiscause he thinks they’ve more deserving of attention.mavbe their business yiews Up not mingle so readilygood time” in New York has begun.knows hiin, tin buyer strides mp and down the lobbabove all things. The courtesies to a visitor fromthe samples were too good the owner of the storeIt is a week of delirious joys for him. About thewith their social preferences; whatever the jrcasori, the fact remains. It may he added that where theof his Broadway hotel and tries not to stare at tinKansas, South Carolina, or Minnesota must not sa-i ravea lt;•«».! is and d own-at-t he - hee l shoes for a year.vor of a bargain. The dinner at night must not seemmight happen along and decide that it wasn t necessary to send a man to New York.Becond night he discovers that there are a good manymen buyers save for their Now York trip, the womenV A A^rlt;j qi*{\r?i t Wciv i!oni ihe lt;*puntv fiiii 3t:S»r Hdtvilte, lt;Ja., bin ;he ivward has come-hePi- , f * ,*A ** ?is in Newto 4)0 bait for a next day’s purchaser.' it is purely a matter of business with the jobber, but his lieutenant must not show it. For the average buyer the average man in any line—is not a, grafter; helik*It is the same way one step higher up, with the jobbers in the West. Not long ago a representative of a big Southern cotton mill went on-a trip throughpeople here who don’t wear dress suits in the even-This discovery is a distinct relief, and he leavesinvest all their available capital in hats and gownswhich same hats and gowns are trusted to “do thei n ghis own off thereafter, fie has heard in the Southrest.• Aor the West that .Northerners are very cold-bloodedThe buyers for big. New Yol k department, storesthe West. He went to towns of over 15,000 popula-and distant, but lie can’t find-any indication of it.furnish a startling contrast to the out-of-town vail-Aa VV ibird man under 40 years old .in thewants to. get the best goods for the lowest prices.tion seeking only wholesale dealers. This represeu-Slap,. on the back and made much of, he concludes’ittle Southern or Western town turns his faceBlit he likes good treatment and his favor inevitablytative’s main sales office is in the wholesale district.that they’re about the most cordial lot of people hei lie says his prayers. EveryA I 0lov-'ard Xcw Yoi k v/ixcent-he van lay his hands oh he sa ves, so that lie journey hither and take a room where the gongs v: the Broadway cavs keep him from sleeping duringthe few hoiirs that he spends in bed; . The mn whois sent to New York to lay up a stock of ‘ Springfor home -consumption is the en\ ied ot-alt;l ■o He travels, eats, and sleeps “oil thegoes to the man who is courteous and hospitable.other things being equal, or maybe if they are notquite erfual, that is the man from whom the visitorin New York. Pretty nearly everywhere he went hegot the answer:New York—what’ever met. And not the least of his joys lies in think-i lt;Oh; I’ll see you when I come tothe use worrying with it now?ing what he will tell his fellow-townsmen at thePost Office and the drug store the morning after hewill get his supply of goods.He noticed that the men always passed on to another § .Thousands of buyers from thousands of towns andhamlets all over the Foiled States pour into-Newubject rapidly; it took him about a week to find out that everybody he “went up against ” was setTgrooosA )Tiis fc4lIoxir m9 unit t t nv A Amo ny he has saved goes for joys thatYork in February and March to purchase supplies • for the village dry goods emporium or millinery establishment. New York doesn't notice the additionon coming to New York, was going to come whatever he had to say. and didn’t care to discover that pur-Ofchases could be accomplished without the trip.gets back home.Few persons know it, but women buyers come toNew York in great numbers. They are the employes, almost altogether, of millinery houses, sometimes representing three or four in as many rural communities. Their taste in the selection of hats and ribbonsriety. These New York buyers, iii many cases,-draAVvery high salaries. One man who buys towels, tablecloths, napkins, and other white goods for a big de-part men t ^store on Sixth Avenue pets a year.A man of that class will never accept courtesies from the firms he deals will). An invitation to lunch is met with a polite refusal, accompanied by the suspicion of a smile, The manner of the man says: “ No* I can’t go, thank vou, and you know why. Abuyer who has such big responsibilities cannot afford to run the risk of being suspected of partiality. Another thing, lie is in .New York all the time, and the cut-and-dned form of entertainment for out-of-town-t rs Mas no attractions for him.SUNSHINEANDSHADOWSOFHAWAIItiltContinued from Preceding Page.)tuguese, 10,000 Porto Ricans, imported in 1900; lr100, 1 ti'mi ITmI Vronoh 000 Airier-waii—as most do who go to the coast—he appearson com ineutal soil an in nroved being. But in Ha-- * - * , of her and takes another, selling her to any baclie-barbers, tailors. hac‘k ttri\ers, restaura teurs ater.Ar.rr.plit phoiioB is there to
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