Show hy Frank Francis V The years cars speed by and with tho the speeding goes goca oes much that be be- becomes becomes beComes comes only a recollection but those memories are arc like tho the mir mir- miracle miracle acle icle of ot the resurrection calling back as JS they do the dead tead past pMt It was WM Just a plain piece pIece of ot ofa ota a board taken from a a. house which was being torn down lown at Sixteenth street and thereon was 1115 penciled a simple message that brought to the mind of ot a prominent business man a n train ot of thoughts from out the misty past Iut Here Is 13 the tho Message jJ J AA y Abbott and A A. G. G Click Glick were sheltered In this house from the rain Sunday Sunda April J 20 20 1879 while on way to Ogden can can- canon yon 3 on They aro are much obliged to tho the owners cf f the tho house for hav hay having havIng hayIng ing had the protection of ot a n structure structure ture turc some one is to call home When hen Mr Abbott was shown the tho relic ho said It meant much to him and ho he related how ho had left lert his Ion Iowa a home homo on April 1 of ot that year with young oung GUck Click to make his first great venture out in the world At Omaha he and his i ion Son who later became his broth broth- law in purchased p bedding bell ding for forthe forthe forthe the trip to Ogden on a 0 combination tion freight and passenger train In those days on C t t. slow trains the traveler tra had to supply his own bed The young oung Iowa boys were ere practicing economy for they had no surplus funds They were eight days making the Journey arriving in Ogden in inthe Inthe inthe the early part of ot April They took rooms at the home of the tho widow willow West Vest a log house which stood where the Doyle Boyie Furniture company now operates just north of ot the tithing house In I I remember my first night Ogden said Mr Nr Abbott in a reminiscent way war as I entered the tho bedroom and saw that billowy feather t be bed ed I thought I would sink out of sight when I dropped Into that soft couch It was a pleasant experience Tho The home was so neatly kept and th tJ p aged lady ady of ot the house so 50 IO accommodating dating that I 1 remained there near near- nearly nearly nearly ly a year In those days as as now every stranger had to see Ogden can can- canyon yon and so on Sunday April 20 0 Abbott and his companion young started to walk up Sixteenth at street treet There was no dugway that that time Caught In a rainstorm they en en- entered entered the house which was being built and on one ono of ot the boards which the thc carpenters later must have nailed into the wall J. J AA W. thanks Abbott scribbled his which after arter nearly half a century has hM returned to ask How goes goesL L 8 Hn 1 nil ir r member me in the long lont ago How about the days of your youth Would If it were possible you CU so go 0 back hack or is ono one fling at life lIfo enough 7 What have ha you done with Ith your our years What hat Is the meaning of it all Mr Ir Abbott referred to his Iowa of home nome Of course ho thought mother and he spoke of his fath lath er He mentioned his boyhood What hat a. a big story Just a word from out of the past tells t And he and young Click Glick walked to Ogden canyon on that Sunday Walking dusty roads horses wagons chuck holes nailed hob boots sunbonnets gingham gowns and the boys and girls of all ail y all have gone nearly gone nearly all Today automobiles paved high high- highways highways ways swiftly moving impatient humanity and a startling change of scenes cenes as aa viewed in the light of fifty flety years ears ago ItIs It ls Is not surprising that Mr Ir Abbott said ald the tho story slOT unfolded by bytho bythe bythe the tho uncovering of ot the piece of board with his youthful writing impressed him Ho Ito spoke of the old business methods and the transformation since he ho started Ills Is is business ca ca- career career ca- ca career reer In Ogden He referred to chain stores installment buying and then wert vert back to the time when hen tho the first trust was or or or- organ gan iced Izell In the early nineties he said nails naUs were being sold lold in PIUs Pitts- Pittsburg burg at 85 cents a hundred pounds with cooperage Notice that thol nail naU In the old 01 piece of ot board It is a cut nail and that of ot itself Is a reminder of ot old days At 85 86 cents a keg there was demoralization of ot the nail Indus indus- Industry industry try tr brought about by overproduction n and the keenest kind of ot competition At At that time I suggested to George A. A Lowe that no mistake would be made in buying kegs of nails even cn though it took years ears to Ci dispose of ot them as they the had greater intrinsic value A little later on on we bought 1000 kegs end and nd after keg a Cent Cent-a- I Parks arl s organized his trust we wo sold those nails at a a. profit of ot 1500 although alth ugh prior to lo that our profit Continued on lao Pago Two To T o NEWS AND ViEWS Continued from front Page One was not more than 25 5 cents a a. keg cg In the Bryan campaign of ot 1896 1596 one ono of ot the Issues had to do with trust busting g but later on trusts were so BO organized and conducted as to be accepted as necessary to the stabilizing of ot prices and In in in- Since then the Sherman anti anti- antitrust antitrust antitrust trust act has been seldom Invoked except where serious of ot re restraint re- re restraint restraint of ot trade has been ben Today Mr r. r Abbott said the the American Steel Wire company exacts a a. good margin but avoids any attempt at excess cess profits I He recalled how In the panic of ot 1907 with trade disrupted the A. A S. S W. W raised the price 10 cents a a. keg In order to inspire confidence and the effect was most stimulating preventing the genera general genera business depression from Invading g that line of ot hardware He sees in this stabilizing of ot in industry In- In Industry industry through big business ss a force toree for good so long as aa it Is wisely administered and he would not go back to the old system of qt wild fluctuations with disorganizing disorganIzing disorganizing izing and crippling tion Mr Abbott has that message of ot r yearly early fifty years ago on his desk and as he contemplates it no doubt It grows Into a picture In which are the characters of ot half halt a II century of ot his life lit The Th relic has been placed on in tho the display windows It f the Geo A. A Lowe company From Jackson Mississippi tomes lomes the statement that farm farm- irs following close on the ng ag waters of ot the flood are plant plant- ng Cotton Is peeping above the newly enriched soil soli the news dis dis- dispatch dispatch dis- dis dispatch patch says and on this prospect of a a. crop farmers will be able to obtain loans That Is 13 most reassuring The clouds hovering over the Mississippi sippi are not as dark as a week ago in fact they are arc beginning to disclose a silver lining The whole country will rejoice if It the people of the South finally discover the flood was 1 not as a. a dis dis- disastrous disastrous disastrous as it promised to be when the mighty Inundating stream swept S over its banks If It the South In tho the flooded area can grow crops this season seaSon half halt of ot the seriousness of ot the calamity will disappear immediately and the other halt half be forgotten when unexpected benefits such as soil eoll enrichment prove proc that an element clement of ot good fortune was waa carried In to Inthe Inthe the engulfing waters Every ery one one wants warmer weather er Before the spring has ended and long before summer eummer Is over there will be warmth enough to satisfy all On this day of ot Its formal open open- opening openIng opening ing let us s pay our respect to those who made the tho Hotel Bigelow possible le They have han performed a big service for tor the community and an anthey they have made Ogden O den a better place In which to live |