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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1895)
THE MOUmisGr OEEGONIAS TUESBAT, JAXUABY 1, 1895. 23 Portland's history, he was called from his position as foreman of an engine to take lull charge of the department with all the authority of the chief engineer. One of these fires -was that -which destroyed Har baugh & Stitzel's mllL During the height of the Are, Chief T. G. Young -was disabled hy being badly burned- Chief Young im- . mediately selected Mr. Buchtel to act In his place, and it -was under the able man agement of the latter gentleman that the conflagration was quickly brought under control. The next time Mr. Buchtel was called upon to fill the same office was at the great levee lire, which leveled three entire blocks to the ground. On this occa sion he relieved Archie Williams as chief at the latters request, and again, under the prompt action of Mr. Buchtel and his assistants, control was finally gained over the fire, which at one time threatened to "wipe out the entire city. Mr. Buchtel has the record of having twice filled the office of chief engineer of the old volunteer department. He per formed the responsible duties of the posi tion with signal credit to himself and with the greatest degree of satisfaction to the people. He was chosen to represent Port land in the great national convention of chief fire engineer?, held at St. Louis in that year. He also represented the Port land paid fire department in the conven tion of chief engineers recently held in San Francisco. The only gift ever voted by the old vol unteer fire department as a body was a handsome gold watch and chain presented to Chief Buchtel in acknowledgment of his valuable services, and which is still carried by the chief. While Mr. Buchtel has given much at tention and considerable study to the sub ject of fighting fire, he has also been prominent In other important positions of trust. He was sheriff of Multnomah county, of which Portland is the seat, for two years, an J he was accorded the honor of having been the best officer who was ever elected to that office. He is a promi nent Odd Fellow, and he was made the grand representatH o from this state to the grand lodge of this order held In At lanta. Mr. Buchtel never lost his interest in matters pertaining to the success of the fire department of the city. A number of years since he invented the telegraph fire hose and electric hose coupling, which he has had patented. This invention is of such great practical value that it will yet be used by every fire department in the "United States. He did not solicit the ap pointment to his present important posi tion, realising as he did the responsibili ties and great labor Incident to filling this offlre as it should be filled. His fitness especially commended him to the people, however, and, at the earnest solicitation of the mayor and other prominent citi zens, he at last consented to accept the appointment, and it is the general feeling that the city is fortunate in being able to aall itself of the services of as compe tent a chief engineer of the local fire de partment as Mr. Buchtel has proved to be. He received his appointment as chief about one year since, and it Is the hope of his friends that he may long be spared to serve the city in that capacity. Perhaps the most unique and distin guished service Mr. Buchtel rendered the city was the task Imposed on him In fighting the fire along the river front during the unprecedented flood of last year. During the time that Portland's principal streets were un der water, it was impossible to get any of the fire engines into the business district along Front or First street. With wise forethought. Mr. Buchtel had mounted a number of engines on barges, which he kept moored at convenient points through out the submerged district, ready for in stant use. The time came for the aid of the floating fire-destroyers in the confla gration on the river front in the most thickly built district of the city, and It was due to the wisdom of Portland's able chief in having these engines mounted on barges, which could easily be towed to any part of the city that was under water, that saved Portland from, one ot the most disastrous fires in her history. During the crisis of the flood Mr. Buchtel arranged a canvas suit for attaching hose to sub merged connections that has been termed one of the most remarkable devices ever Invented by a chief engineer. This, with the other numerous inventions made by Mr. Buchtel, will soon be exhibited here, no that the people of Portland may have the opportunity to gain a just apprecia tion of their merits. DAVID CAMPBELL. One of the ablest men on the present force of Portland's paid fire department Is David Campbell, the popular assistant t hief engineer immediately under the head of the department, Joseph Buchtel. Mr. Campbell dates his connection with the Rhvip Campbell Photo by DaUes. city fire department from 18S0, three years before the old volunteer fire organization was succeeded by the present efficient paid department. He holds an exempt certifi cate as a fireman, and he has reached his present position as the direct result of the valuable experience he has gained by long cars of service in the department, which has enabled him to win promotion by steady but successive steps to.his present office, which, with the exception of that of chief engineer, is the most important office in Portland's paid fire department today. In this connection a word of the old Portland olunteer fire department may not be amiss. Every old Portlander will remember distinctly the rivalry which ex isted between thedifferent companies com poMng the old department, and they also realize that it -was this rivalry which re tailed in the volunteer department attain ing a degree of proficiency never reached by any other volunteer department of the coast. Mr, Campbell, like most every highly successful fireman who ever tugged at a rope In Portland, was educated in the best of M-bools this old volunteer organi zation, made upof son of the best men of the city. Dave's fire-red buggy dathlng down the Mreets immediately following the first tap of the flrebell today is a re minder of the halcyon days of the old vol unteer department, when he responded w ith the same promptness to the alarm of fire and took a hand at the rope with the same degree of earnestness that he shows xoaaj in nis attempt to get te the scat of me comitgration wiui ail possible dia- patch behind the heels of one of the best nags on the street. Mr. Campbell was born In Pittsburg. Pa. He lived In his native place until 1SGS. when he removed with his parents to Youngstown. O. He dates his residence in Portland from 1S72. He early became connected with the city department, as stated above, and on February 3, !$, he as appointed to his present important position. Mr. Campbell has the respect and confi- nce of the entire working force of the department, and he has the indorsement of the property-owner as one of the most r flli lent officers ever connected with the local firs department. CAPTAIN A. J. COFFEE. The position of superintendent of the, fire-alarm system of Portland is no; a ISJ sinecure, as was demonstrated by the re-1 lnstatement of Captain A. J. Coffee, the present incumbent of this office, by the fire commissioners in 1SS3. On political grounds Captain Coffee had been dismissed by the commissioners to make room for a man whose views on politics were in har mony with those of the board. Three months' trial with the new electrician was enough to convince the people that Cap tain Coffee, who had brought the fire alarm system to a high state of efficiency, could get along easier without the aid of municipal office than the city could get along without him, and in consequence the arc commissioners at the end of three months offered him the very position which they had thought could be easily filled by one of their numerous following. Captain Coffee was appointed superin- tendent of the Portland fire-alarm tele- J grapn on August 1, 1SS1. unaer nis aoie management this system has attained a degree of efficiency second to that of no fire-alarm system in the United States. Not only is Captain Coffee a general elec trician of recognized ability, but he is an inventor of considerable reputation. He invented many of the practical electrical devices now In use in the fire-alarm and police telegraph systems of the city, on most of which he has been granted pat ents. He invented the electrical devices for unhitching horses which are now used in all the engine-houses. He also invented a recorder of fire alarms. In a suit brought against the city of Portland by Robert Bragg on this as an infringement of his patent, the city was victorious. As a con sequence, Portland today is using this and other devices patented by Captain Coffee, saving much expense in royalties, and it Is worthy of note that Portland Is the only city in the United States in which Mr. Bragg was jiot successful in his suits for infringement of patent on recorders of fire alarm. Captain Coffee has. made the gratuitous offering of all his patents to the municipality here, a gift of great practical value to the city. In addition to his important work on the fire-alarm system. Captain Coffee also installed the police telegraph system. It is directly due to the practical knowledge of Captain Coffee that this branch of the city service has proved such a signal suc cess, especially in its telephone connec tions, which are indispensable to 4i com plete system of police telegraph. The dif ficulty of connecting the telephone with this system can be appreciated when it is stated that all the city's wires are stretched on the poles of the Portland GflPTAJCOFFEE. Photo by ilcAlpin & Lamb. General Electric Company, whose wires carry high potential alternating currents. Running telephone wires in close proxim ity to wires thus charged is an application few electricians have successfully solved. Captain Coffee also Installed the fire alarm telegraph system at Tacoma. His advice has also been widely solicited by the management of other fire-alarm and police telegraph manipulation, which he has always freely given. He has made himself thormitrhlv nenualntpd with the Nvorkings of various fire departments, not only here where he is directly associated with fire business, but also abroad, and he has made an especial study of Tecent applications in this branch of the service. In addition to his highly successful work as a general electrician. Captain Coffee has devoted considerable attention to drill tactics. He is, in addition to being super intendent of fire alarm, drillmastcr of the city police, and he has brought this branch of the service to its present high state of efficiency. He is also captain of com pany I, First regiment infantry, O. N. G., which company is recognized as especially proficient in drill and dis cipline. Under Captain Coffee, who has been captain of the company for seven years past, it has enjoyed with its compe tent officer the respect and esteem of both the officers and the men of the Oregon National Guard. Captain Coffee had much valuable ex perience as a practical electrician before he came to Portland. He is a native of Oakland, Cal. He was educated in the public schools of that city and San Fran cisco. supplemented by courses at the Urban academy and in the telegraph de partment of Heald's business college, both educational institutions of the latter city. His first work was with the California Electrical Construction & Maintenance Company, as apprentice in electrical con struction and as salesman. He next en tered the employ of the Cleveland Supply Company, of San Francisco, as apprentice in electrical construction- While in the employ of that company he assisted in putting into use the first electric arc lamps used on the Pacific coast. From this company he went to the American District Telegraph Company and the Golden Stock Telegraph Company, of San Francisco. He was in turn lineman, teacher of telegraphy and electrician, after which he was appointed assistant inspector of the American Speaking Tele phone Company, afterward the Pacific Bell Telephone Company, of San Fran cisco. It was while he was with the tele phone company that he assisted in put ting Into practical use the first telephones on the Pacific coast. He was promoted to the responsible position of assistant elec trician of the company immediately under John I. Sabln, an office be filled until his appointment to the more responsible trust of electrician of the Portland Telephone. Telegraph &. Electric Light Company, Oc tober 28, 1SS0. After coming to Portland, Captain Cof fee retained this position until the latter part of 1SS3, when he entered the employ of the United States Electric Lighting Company of Newark. N. J., with head quarters In this city. He was placed in charge of installing the plant of the first commercial electric-lighting company of Portland, of whlch Mr. P. F. Morey was general manager. It was at the time of the completion of this plant, on August 1, 1SSI. that he was appointed superintend ent of the Portland fire-alarm telegraph t-ystem, an office be has filled with such advantage to the city since that time. MICHAEL LAUDENKLOS. The people of Portland entertain some thlng more than a kindly feeling for the men who attained distinction in the old volunteer fire department. It Is doubtful if any department of the coast ever at tained a greater degree of proficiency than , did Portland's volunteer fire department. i and as a training school for successfully t flchtinsr fire its rraduates carrv a better indorsement than they could have hoped to secure from any other source. One of the old-time fireboys In the effi cient Portland paid fire department today i is Mr. Michael Laudenklos. the present i competent dlttrict engineer. This is one of the most Important trusts connected j with the departraenL Its responsibility J can be appreciated when It is stated it is j made obligatory on the district engineer to see that all the apparatus and cvery- I thing connected with the different ensrine- I houses, are In perfect working order, he is held responsible for the inspection of all I hydrants and cisterns north of Morrison street, and he must report at every fire that occurs in his district. A man to fill this position acceptably must have a thorough knowledge of ovary detail connected with the practical working, of. the fire depart- imik "- V,T " 'S mentTTie must havethe confidence cf his superiors and the Individual members of the department, and the general public must be assured that he Is both competent and is worthy of the important trust re posed in him. From his long and success ful connection with the department, Mr. Laudenklos has the full confidence of the public and the department alike, and he has the hearti' support of everybody with whom his official duties bring him in con tact. Mr. Laudenklos first joined the old Port land volunteer fire department in 1S7S. He served three years with the volunteer de partment, two years of which he served as second assistant foreman of engine company No. 5. He accepted a position with the paid department March 5, 1SS3. He held the responsible position "of fore- man of engine company No. 1 for 7 years. He was appointed to his present position on July 5, ISM. and he has been In contin uous service in this office since that time. Mr. Laudenklos is a native of Rock Island. 111. He came to Portland early in JSCi. and he has attested his faith in the permanency of the city by making it his constant residence since that time. He is thoroughly wedded to Portland and the institutions of the city, and he feels, as PrHRELLAUPENKLOS. Photo by Da(er. every enthusiastic Portlander feels, that he would not be content to live anywhere else. A. M. DONALDSON. The duties of district engineer of the East Side district arc particularly onerous. The East Side is much less sparsely set tled than is the business district on the West Side, while the territory covered by the fire department east of the Willamette is of a much larger area than that part of the city on the other side of the river. The streets, too, on the West Side are paved and are kept in much better condi tion than are the streets on the East Side. Many of the streets of old East Portland and Albina, included in the East Side dis trict, are impassable for the heavy fire engines and trucks during the winter months. All of these difficulties add great ly to the responsibilities of the district engineer on the East Side, and the fact that so little damage has resulted from fire In that part of Portland east of the Willamette recently Is recommendation of the fitness of the present East Side -district engineer for the responsible duties he is called upon to perform. Mr. A. M. Donaldson, who so ably fills this office, first came to Oregon in 1SS0. He became a member of the Portland vol unteer fire department In 1SS2. and he suc cessively filled the important positions of foreman of the hose company of the Grant R M PnNRU?50N. Photo by HcAlpin & Lamb. engine company and chief engineer of the fire department of East Portland. He was also a member of the board of East Port land fire delegates. He became connected with the paid fire department when it was extended to cover the East Side districts, and was appointed to his present import ant position In July last. Mr. Donaldson Is a native of Scotland, and first came to Boston, Mass., in 1S72. His record as a successful fireman Is such that the people feel safe In any business that is Intrusted to his charge in connec tion with the department. BEAUTY AND SLEEP. Kerc Is Another Dictum "Which. Fur ther Complicates Life. Positively life Is getting too complicated. A woman specialist has arisen who calls upon us to take lessons in sleeping. Beauty sleep, she declares, is a delusion and a snare. The woman who goes to bed early, expecting to get up rejuve nated. Is quite as likely to add 10 years to her age in the night by sleeping herself into a full set of wrinkles. "We spend." goes on this doctrinaire, "eight hours out of the 24 in bed, and in that time postures are assumed that work injury not only to a woman's health, but to her possible good looks. One girl has no chest. I watched her day after day to find out the cause, but was completely, baffled until I saw her while asleep. She shrugged her shoulders forward so far that it's a wonder the lungs were not squeezed flat. "The up-to-date girl who wants to rise from sleep rested and with her face cast in the lines of beauty should sleep on a narrow bed, so there will be no room for her to distort her limbs by throwing them into grotesque positions. On this bed there should be a good mattress and one small, rather hard pillow. The bedclothlng should be of light weight, but warm, and the room well ventilated and comfortably cocl. "On this couch the would-be beauty should He fiat on her back, arms and legs straight. To make a change from the back she should learn to sleep first on one side and then on the other. 'Oh. I always sleep on the left side, or "I can t sleep ex cept on my right side,' are remarks con tinually heard among women. The dress makers for such sleepers find that pad ding is needed on one side, and that Is the bide 'I always sleep on. "Some people when asleep screw their faces into most grotesque shapes, and thereby, instead of getting beauty sleep, add a wrinkle or two every week or deepen those already carved. This ap ples particularly to those creases about the eyes. Perhaps you are young, but hints of wrinkles suddenly appear, appar ently without any cause. Find out if you do not squeeze j our eyes tightly together when going to sleep, as a child does when it makes believe sleep. Many women draw the corners of their mouths down, and so produce furrows from the nose to the cor ner of the mouth and down the side of the chin. "To get a beauty sleep, go to bed think ing of the pleasantest thing that will be fall you. In the sleep beautiful the eye lids rest lightly over the eyes, as if a flut tering breeze sweeping across the face would blow them wide open. The lips should meet easily, the mouthshould never be open, and on the sleeper's face should rest an expression as If absolute content ment possessed mind and body." LOCAL POLICE FORCE A DEPARTMENT WELL ORGANIZED AM) EFFICIENTLY CONTROLLED. Discipline of the Force The Effect ive Patrol of Portland's Large Territory. HE history of the police department of Portland is the history of a city well governed and free from the great convuls ions o f ( crime which are only controlled in many of the large populous centers of the country by the most strenuous ef forts of the police, supplemented by the aid of the state militia or the United States army. With the exceptions of the Chinese dis turbances in 1SS3 and the C o x c y movement and rail road strike of last year, the lawless element has never proved anything of a menace to the peace of the v'ity, and even these disturb ances offered no obstacles to the effective cortrol of the city's .attains by the mu nicipality which thepollce authorities were not able to overcome. The cosmopolitan population of any sea port alwavs contains a disturbing ele ment to the easy government of the city which is not encountered in most of the interior populous centers. There is a con stant movement of the tramp, the vicious and the idle classes to the seaboard cities, and this, with the army of sailors from the shipping which frequents the port, supports a line of business which is patronized principally by the dregs of society, and which affords, to a certain extent, a harbor of refuge for the vast army of men outside the pale of the law, and who are always under police surveil lance. While those lines of business are not prohibited by law, yet the law Recog nizes the nature of the callings which to a certain extent make them something of a disturbing element in the public peace, and by licenses and by exercising special police supervision in the districts in which they are located, serious out breaks of crime which emanate from this source are usually prevented. Portland has always had the usual floating popula tion of the disturbing elements in society found in important seaport centers, yet the fact that this element here has never been an Important factor, in creating dis turbances of the public peace is attested by the statement that the annual ap propriations for the support of the local police department are "20 per cent below the average Of thesei appropriations in other large seaport cities The present police force in Portland con sists of 51 men, including the chief, live captains and four mounted police. Con nected with the department is a small body of able detectives, and the depart ment has the benefit of an excellent patrol wagon, which is kept ou constant call. The discipline of the entire department ia good, and with the immense territory under constant patrol, the city is given ex cellent police protection. The appropriation made for the support of the police department of Portland for 1S34 was but $100,000. As the department ha3 been conducted on the most economical basis with the view of rendering efficient service, this was sufficient to meet all the expenses for the year. The police force of the city during the preceding years had been at times considerably larger than it is now. and" the appropriations for ,the"'maintendnc'e'Alfthe department "ilHHnT. VfnfttrtEjHrt fvwiVo xvort ttdnnn. my Was not a3 carefully practiced as it is today, wercxonsluerablv overdrawn" by the board or police, commissioners. The present board, 'however, states thit with the present discipline of the force the number of patrolmen is ample to in sure protection to the people here, and that with this reduced force there will be no difficulty in keeping the expendi tures for the department within the es timate of the amount required for run ning the department during 1S33. Tho first ordinance passed by the first city council of Portland at its first meet ing April 14, 1E51, provided for the annual election of a "competent and discreet per son to act as city marshal." At the same meeting Hiram Wilber was elected to the office by a vote of four of the seven mem bers of the council. Wilber served one year. He was succeeded, April 15, 1S32, by W. L. Higglns, who was also elected by the city council, Mr. Higgln3, who Is still a hale and hearty resident of Port land, has an excellent recollection cf the early events of Portland history, and he gives an interesting account of the first robbery of any importance that occurred in this city. A merchant named Cohen, whose store was located on Front street, had occasion to go to' San Francisco, leaving his busi ness in charge of his confidential clerk, whose name was also Cohen. In the safe of the store was stored some 510,000 in gold dust and coin. The clerk knew the combination of the safe, and while his employer was away abstracted about 53500, hiding the money in a thick growth of bush near what is now the corner cf Sixth and Stark streets. Upon the mer chant's return, the clerk, who had not been. suspected, made preparations to re turlf'lo' his home in New York, where he expected to be married. On the eve of his intended departure. Marshal Higgins ac costed him and led him into the mar shal's office, where Cohen was accused of stealing the money, the marshal demand ing to know what he had done with it. The culprit finally broke down and con fessed. He led the marshal to the hidli.g place, where the money was found, wrapped in two handkerchiefs and buried In a shallow hole. The merchant Cohen had promised Mr. Higgins. in the presence of Mr. Camp bell, a lawyer, $300 of the money in case it was recovered, but when the marshal brought in the culprit with the stolen funds, the merchant denied any recollec tion of having made such a promise. He very generously, however, offered to pre sent Mr. Higgins with a hand-me-down suit of clothes as a reward for his vig ilance. Mr. Higgins brought the mer chant to terms by quietly taking one of the handkerchiefs in which the money was tied and putting it in his pocket. Upon this the wily clothing-dealer, who had been reminded by Mr. Higgins that Mr. Camp bell had witnessed his agreement to pay a reward of J500, came to terms, and Mr. Higgins received the sum promised. The clerk was confined in the old log jail which stood on a portion of the ground now occupied by The Oiegonian building. He afterwards managed to escape aftsr nearly losing his life by setting fire to the Jail In a first attempt. Mr. Higgins constituted at the time the entire police force of the town. He wore citizens' clothes, with a badge under his coat, and his principal work was in tak ing an occasional drunk to the lockup or in notifying some of the business men of slight infractions of the city's or dinances which they had unwittingly made. Portland has always cnjoyeillhe reputation of being law-abiding, and until the completion of the Northern Pacific railroad, In 1SS3, which furnished this city with transcontinental rail connection, the vicious classes found but little lodgment here. In 1E53 Mr. Higgins was succeeded by William Grooms, who one year later was followed by Mr. Higgins, who wa3 elected to the position a second time. Mr. Higgins wore the slouch hat and badge cf the city marshal until 1ST3, when he gae place to Thomas J. Holmes, who served until lSbl. The successive Incumbents of the office in the order named were: James K. Lappeus, who held the position from 1SCI to 1SC3: Henry L. Hoyt, who served until 1SS7; D. Jacobl, whoheld the office for about eight xncnthsJ. H. Lappeus, who served for the balance of 1S, and FTKI mff 7S l I Philip Saunders, who xras-lowh marsnaT from January 1, 1870, to November 2, IS70. In 1S65 a deputy was appointed to assist the city marshal, add the number was in creased each year, until, at the beginning of Saunders term, there were four depu ties under him. Saunders was the last of the town marshals, and with the end of his term began the growth of the present efficient department. FIRST CHIEF OF FOLICE. i Appointment ! Authority for III Given, by the- Legislature In. 1SOO. HE legislature of 1853 author ised the abolishment of the old office of city marshal in Portland, and created in its place the office of chief of po lice. The first appointment to this office was James H. Lap peus. Chief Lappeus held the office from November 2. 1S70, until 1877, when he was suc ceeded by Luzerne Besser. Mr. Lappeus was reappointed to the offlre in 1SS0. he beinsr the immediate successor of the man who had succeeded him in his first term The act of the leg islature authorizing the appointment of a chief of police for Portland also pro vided for the formation of a local board of police commissioners made up of thre; members. This board was an elective one, and it had full authority and control over the police department. It was under the I board that tho police department of the city was conducted during tne mcum cumbency of Lappeus and Besser, and It was the board which was held directly re sponsible for the service rendered by the local police. After tho second appointment of Lap peus, Besser was active in securing the passage of an act through the legislature of 18S4 by which the Portland police de partment was taken from under the con trol of the commissioners and placed un der the direct supervision of the city council. Under the new regime the Thief of police was appointed by the mayor and his appointment was confirmed by the council. By the authority Imposed in the mayor under the terms of this act. William H. Watkins was appointed to succeed Lap petis. Watkins -held the office for a llltlft over nine months. By an act of the leg islature of 1SS5, a new board of police commissioners was created, the appoint ment of three members of the board be ing a prerogative of the governor of the state. At the expiration of the terms of the first three appointees to this office, the commissioners to the office were to be. made elective by the people of Portland. By authority of an act of the legislature passed in 1832. and which took effect In July last, the board of police commission ers was placed under the direct and soie control of the mayor of Portland. Under the authority given him by the terms of this . act, the mayor may at any time remove any or all of the members of the board, and he can make appointments tor this Important position to fill places made vacant at his pleasure. The members of the police board serve without salary. The members of the pres ent board are: D. M. McLauchlan, presi dents A. L. Maxwell and H. Haussman. The secretary of the board Is J. G. Mack, Watkins was succeeded by Sam B. Par rish. who held the office uninterruptedly from 1SSS to 1S92. July IS, 1852, E. W. Spencer wag appointed to succeed Parrlsh, but Spencer only held the office until No vember 7, following, when "he was dis placed by the appointment of C. H. Hunt, Chief Hunt held the office of chief of po lice until October 2 last, when J. W. Min to, the present efficient head of the de partment, was appointed to the position. As before stated, but few crises have arisen in the history of Portland in which the regular patrolmen of the police force were not able unaided to maintain the peace of the city. One of these disturb ances was the anti-Chinese demonstration ot 18S3, during which time the police were called upon for much extra duty. The 4gitatlon on this subject, however, quirk ly subsided, and while there w'as consid erable noise made during the time of the threatened riots, there were no serious breaches of the peace. Preceding the trou ble here, the Chinese had been driven out of Orgon City. This was at a time when the Chinese question was the paramount issue among the laboring classes of the coast, and the agitation of the subject here was especially encouraged by the decided stand the people of the Puget sound cities had taken op the issue, which led to the big flots in Seattle and the expulsion of the Chinese from Tacoma. Following the expulsion of the Celestials from Oregon Citv, a big mass meeting was held In Portland, which was addressed by Sylvester Pennoyer and other speakers. The feeling was strong among the labor ing classes that the Chinese ought to be driven out of Portland, and for a time excitement ran high. During the height of the crisi3 all the gun stores of the city were guarded by the police, and guards were placed all over the city. On this is 8ue, as on every other which has pro fpundly stirred the people of Portland, the good sense of the community averted bloodshed, and no violence was resorted to by any of the parties to the threatened conflict. The great railroad strike which para lyzed traffic for a short time last summer in nearly all parts of the United State; was flret felt at i-"ortiana on June -a. It became general locally on July 2, and na3 declared off on July 17. While there was no violence resorted to, the police were kept on almost constant duty dur ing the strike, as they were luring the Coxey movement, and it was due to their vigilance that personal encounters be tween the strikers and the friends of the railroads were averted. But few cases of copital punishment have ever been noted in Portland. The first man executed in the city was Dan ford Balch, who was hanged October 17, 1K0. The deed for which he paid the fullest penalty of the law, on the scaf fold, was the murder of his son-in-law on the Stark-street ferry, November 18. 1S58. Balch was the owner of a claim here, on a portion of which some of the best part of Portland was afterwards built. The next execution In the city was on March 14, 1879, when James Johnson and Archie Brown were hanged for the shooting of the young boy, Louis Joseph, on the streets of Portland on August 20 preceding. Since these two important executions there have been but four hang ings in this city a Chinaman, two In dians and a white man. The present headquarters of the police department are at the Oak-street station, on the west side of the river. In that part of the city included within the limits of the East Slte boundary lines are the districts of old East Portland and Al bina. There is but one captain of police, however, stationed on the East Side, he having charge of both the East Port land and the Albina circuits. In the pres ent arrangement of the police force, 14 pa trolmen are on constant duty during the day. 11 of whom are allotted to the West side and 5 to the East Side. On night duty are 53 patrolmen, 34 of these being assigned to beats on the West Side and 19 to the East Side districts. The entire territory protected by the police covers an area of over 30 square miles, and, while the thickly built up streets of the cen tral parts of the city require the services of a greater number of patrolmen than the outlying districts, there is no part of Portland today that is denied police protection. With the present force at his disposal, Chief Minto is affording excellent protection to the city, and his efficient management of the department is meet ing with the hearty support of the entire community. CHIEF MINTO. John W. Minto was born in Salem, Sep tember 27, 1S4S. After having received a good common-school education, his abili ties for public sen-fee were early recog nized by the people of his native' town, who honored him by electing him to the office of chief of police of the municipality for three successive terms. He was twice elected sheriff of Marion county, and for many yeara he was one of the most promi nent members of the Salem volunteer fire department. He today carries two ex empt certificates, given him in recognition of bis 14 years' continuous service as a, volunteer fireman. Mr. Minto first came to Portland In the summer of 1SSS. He left Salem with the firm determination to make Oregon's me tropolis his future home, and what money he possessed he invested in Portland real ty. His first work here was with the lead ing agricultural implement and machinery house of Staver & Walker. He subse quently received an Important appoint ment in the United States custom-house ac mis pore Jtie nas always caicen an active Interest in polities, and In reeocnt- tlon of his valuable services as one of the chief counselors of the party he was given the. nomination for sheriff of Multnomah county on the republican ticket at the last June election. Although Mr. Minto was as strong a man as the party could have placed In nomination for the position, he was defeated by a combination of the citi zens, populists and democrats, who united on George C. Sears, a man particularly strong with the G. A. R., who was able to obtain the support of the many secret or ders of which is a prominent member, and who from his long residence in Port land has attained a local popularity which has made him a great gatherer of votes on election day. Mr. Minto accepted his de feat gracefully, shook hands with his suc cessful opponent, with whom he is on the most cordial relations, and took things easy until he was appointed chief of police of Portland by the police commissioners on the 2d day of October last. Mr. Minto has great executive ability, and from his long experience with the criminal element the Portland people feci J.WMiMto that the direction of the city's police pro toctlon is in efficient hands. Since Mr. Minto assumed the control of the police department he has had opportunity to demonstrate his ability both to ferret out crime and in weaving the web of proof of guilt so tightly around the offenders that escape from the toils of the law was im possible, and with the well-disciplined force he has under his control there is every reason to believe that Portland will be better protected from the vicious ele ment this winter than it has ever been in the history of the city. MADAME ALBANI. An Incident in Which P.titl Ans wered n. Remark About Her. To a writer in the Woman at Home. Madame Albanl has been giving some de tails of her life. "My voice Is a certain amount of care to me," she said. "You think that it always sounds fresh and clear? Well, I watch over it, and never allow it to become tired if I can help It. On the days I am engaged to sing at the opera, I do not talk above a whisper for many hours beforehand. Besides which, I believe .In careful diet. Tea I forbid myself. Bordeaux I find excellent. And sometimes, betwen the acts of an opera, I talced through a straw, a cup of bouillon r made in the French way, which I find "very restorative." Madame Albanl could sing any tune sung to her long before she could speak. "My sister," she added, "will tell you that she distinctly remembers my first soprano note a real note, long sustained. We were playing together In our cot in the early morning before the household were astir, and, baby though she too was, she has not forgotten the effect made upon her. At 8 years old I actually entered the musical profession. Ah! do not laugh; it is true. I made a little 'tournee of some months' duration, and was much pelted and spoiled wherever I went. Then a few years later I was sent to be educated at a convent, and engaged to take the soprano solo at a mass." There is a good and a true story of how, one day, Adelina Patti, when walk ing down Regent street with her first hus band, the Marquis de Caux, stopped at the windows of the stereoscopic company. There "were shown, side by side, photo graphs of herself and the debutante, Mad emoiselle Emma Albanl. Patti stood close to the window and was unnoticed by a young man lounging in the background. "Look," he exclaimed in a loud and ju bilant voice, "at the photograph of Al banl. She is the new prima donna, and everybody is raving over her. Patti will be nowhere very soon. That's one thing certain!" And Patti, turning round sud denly upon the speaker, made him a swift little courtsey. "Thank you, sir," she ex claimed, her eyes sparkling with mis chief. The man was rooted to the spot with amazement. Patti stopped just an instant to enjoy the effect she had cre ated, and then tripped off laughing through the crowd on her way homeward. Memories of Lincoln. Ohio State Journal. Friday was a day fruitful in the disap pearance of Lincoln relics. At Lewiston, 111., the famous courthouse In which the martyred president delivered the historic speech that brought on the debate with Stephen A. Douglas and finally landed Lincoln in the presidential chair, was burned to the ground. Here it was that Lincoln made use of the famous expres sion: "This nation can never exist half slave and half free. It must be one or the other. A house divided against Itself can not stand." In Indianapolis the same day Henry R. Pomeroy, who was a personal friend and neighbor of Lincoln, died at the city hospital. In the early days before the war, Pomeroy lived In Springfield, 111., and knew the dead president when he was struggling along as a young lawyer. Pomeroy wa3 also a companidn of General Grant when the former owned an Interest in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and often told how he had many times seen the future president and conqueror of the Rebellion drive into town on a load of wood from his farm just outside St. Louis. Enrope'n Rulers Westminster Budget. The new czar ascends the throne at ?6, but is by no means the youngest of rujers. That distinction belongs to King Alfonso XIII. of Spain, who is only S. The little queen of the Netherland is 14; King Alex ander of Servia. IS; the khedlve, 20, and the emperor of China, 23. The sultan of Morocco is also a yauth, but his exact age Is a matter of speculation. Of older rulere than the new czar there are Kings Carlos of Portugal. 31; Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, 53; the emperor cf Germany, 35; the king- of Greece, 23; the emperor of Japan, 42; the king of Italy, 50; the sultan of Turkey, 50; King Charles of Roumania. 55; the king of the Belgians, 3; the emperor of Austria, 1; the king cf Sweden and ICorway. 03; shah of Persia, 63; Queen Victoria, 75; and the king of Denmark, now the oldest among ruling sovereigns. 76. i Prlson-Mude Carpet. A new carpet for the Waterloo chamber at Windsor castle, said to be the largest ever manufactured, has been woven in the jail of Agra, in India, by prisoners under going penal servitude. They hope to ob tain a remission of sentence for their dili gence in completing the task, which has taken them 11 months. Twenty-eight con victs were engaged on the work, the car pet measuring 77 feet by 40 and containing 55,840,000 stitches. THE FKLTLTIKL. REGOM BUILD DIRECTORY OF OCCUPANTS Rooms. AMOS, DR. W. F.. 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