Vagabond Editorials

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A complete tie-up of water shipping in and out of Pacific returning prosperity there will be an increased marriage Coast ports seems, as this is written, to be almost inevi- rate, new buildings will be in demand, millions of present table, and thatis serious, serious business. It would be day habitations will be torn down, real estate will come indifficutt to overestimate how serious it might become with to its own again, rents will be high to pay for the rent all the radical elements in evidence on the Coast at the losses of recent years. present time. The situation in Seattle is a splendid indi- * * :r( cation of what COULD happen.

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Likewise in California. During the present month a big steamship company discharged a common seaman. They claimed good cause for so doing. The entire crew walked out and tied up the vessel. Scores of passengers and worlds of United States mail were held at the docks in San Francisco for six days. It cost the steamship company a fortune before they finally made arrangements to get their ship under way. That will give you a rough idea of the position in which employers find themselves.

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Building generally increases. Plenty of wise men in this country believe that a genuine boom in real estate throughout the nation, is inevitable in the next few ye.rrs. With