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THE 3IORMXG OREGOATA, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 19U7. 6 DEEDS INSPIRE 'S Grateful Republic Honors He roic Dead in Shaft and ; ' Statue. WORLD LED IN MEMORIAL From Washington Monument to Modest Granite Block, This Coun try Reveres lis Great Citizens, Both Civic and Military. BY FREDERICK HASK1N. WASHINGTON, May 3. (Special Cor respondence.) If the erection of monu ments expresses the gratitude of a na tion, then the United States Is a republic which cannot be charged with that tradi tional sin of republics Ingratitude. One of the youngest of nations, the United State haa almost as many public memo rials to Its departed citizens as any other country on earth, and no country is build ing as many as America is today. From the Washington momiment at the capi tal, the greatest memorial ever erected in honor of one man, down to the modest shaft of granite which marks the site of a historic spot In some now obscure wood, the United States is a country of monu ments. George Washington has been honored oftener than any other American in this fashion at home, and European capitals are also setting up statues to the man we know as the Father of His Country. Beat tie, the metropolis of the state of Wash ington, is preparing to put up a beautiful monument to Washington to be unveiled on the opening day of the exposition in 3909. In New York City there are four public memorials to Washington. First Monument Destroyed. The first monument erected to General Washington was unveiled In 18.77 at South Mountain, near Boonesboro, Md. " It was a structure of such soft stone and was so badly neglected that in 1SS2 only W feet of the original pile was left standing. A movement to restore it was inaugurated, and the monument waa raised to 50 feet and surmounted by an iron framework, reached by a stairway to the top. The monument was struck by lightning and half of It was knocked down, so that it now presents the appearance of an an cient ruin. Another movement to restore it has been started and the Society for the Restoration of the First Monument to George . Washington Is now soliciting funds. Perhaps the most pleasing feature of American monument building to the pa triotic soul is that the ones now being erected are not all to honor the memory of some lately deceased hero or "boss," but that many of them are being put up in the dawn of the twentieth century to mark the appreciation of the age of elec tricity and trusts for the prowess of the pioneer Americans. For instance, funds are being collected to build a monument to mark the site of the battle between General George Rogers Clark and the Indians under Black Partridge at Spring Bay, Illinois. Plans are almost com pleted for the building of a $25,000 memo rial to mark the site of the victory of William Henry Harrison over Tippeca noe at- Battle ' Ground, Indiana. The Braddock Monumental Association is raising $12,000 to buy the old Robinson burying ground at Braddock, Pa., that a suitable memorial may be erected on Braddock Field. Texas Is to build a monument at Huntsville to Sam Houston, leader of her revolution, president when she was a republic, and Senator after her Ixme Star shone on the blue field of the Stars and Stripes. Memorial to Inventors. Monuments are the expression of hero worship and heroes are mostly made in wars. But America does not confine her bronze and granite adulRtion to sol diers and sailors. In Washington there are bronse memorials to Dr. Samuel Gross, the surgeon; to Professor Joseph Henry, the scientist: to Hannemann. the founder of the school of homeopathic medicine: there Is a monument to Da guerre, the inventor of the photograph; and, in the Capitol and the Library of 7ongtess. two bronze statues of Robert Fulton, the Inventor of the steamboat. The steamboat is one hundreds years old and the Fulton Memorial Association has been formed to erect a memorial on the banks of the Hudson River, where Fulton's first boat was suc cessful. The monument proposed will cost JGO0.0O0. Cornelius- Vanderbilt is president of the association, and Mark Twain is vice-president. Samuel F. B. Morse is remembered by a bronze statue in New York. A movement has been started among Ice manufacturers to build a monument at Apalachicola, Fla., to Dr. John Gorrle, inventor of the practical Jce machine. In many other places great inventors and scientists have been thus honored, and the list is not closed. South Kemcmbers Her Heroes. The monuments erected on the greaf Vattle-lields of the Civil War by the tales, both North and South, to mark the position of regiments and in memory of the dead, continue to multiply. Almost every village in the North has a shaft of granite or marble dedicated to the memory of Its sons who gave up their lives in the struggle of the '60s. The Southern States are now building scores of such monuments, the delay not being caused by lack of patriotism, but be cause of poverty. The statues of Jef ferson Davis and J. E. B. Stuart, soon t be unveiled in Richmond: those being erected In New Orleans to Jefferson Da vis and General Beauregard; the move ment for a monument to General Hood In Baltimore, and the great monument to Southern Women of the Confederacy to be ereoted soon, are notable examples ef monument-building in the South ptatues of Robert E. Lee are to be found in many cities of the South. At Fairfax Courthouse, virgina, within trollev dis tance of Washington, stands a shaft of granite to mark the place where fell Captain John Qulncy Marr, the first man to lose his life in a conflict between reg ularly organized bodies of troops in the ( Ivll War. In Illinois the Eleventh Cav airy is building a monument at Peoria to Its Colonel, the late Robert O. Inger oil. General George A. Custer will be remembered at Monroe, Mich., by a beau tiful statue. McKInley's Ate Revered. In September the great McKinley memo rial at Canton will be dedicated by Pres ident Roosevelt. The monument to Mc Kinley in Buffalo is one of remarkable beauty. President Roosevelt also will deliver the principal speech at the un veiling of. the monument to General Hen ry W. Lawton, in Indianapolis, on May General Lawton was killed in the Philippines. North Carolina has already erected a statue of Worth Bagley, the only Naval officer who lost his life in the conflict with Spain. Monuments to statesmen 'who did not reach the. coveted goal, of the White House axe znany, Henry Clay, Daniel NATION REGARD Webster and John C. Calhoun are remem bered In many cities in their respective parts of the Union. Thomas B. Reed is to have a monument at Portland Me. Seattle is to build a monument to Wil liam H. Seward, whom New York hon ored with a bronze statue many years ago. Alexander Hamilton, Horace Greeley. Henry W. Grady, Roscoe Conkling ana many others are similar instances. Of the Presidents after Washington, Lincoln, Grant and Jackson have been honored with public monuments oftener than any of the others. There are a few of the Presidents of whom no like ness is preserved in marble or bronze, which Is the only particular in which the office of Vice-President is more notable than tha,t of the chief executive. There is a marble bust of every Vice-President of the United States around the gallery of the Senate chamber, this be ing the American exception to the Amer ican rule which almost forbids such hon ors to the living. Levi P. Morton and Adlal B. Stevenson may walk in any day and look at themselves In marble, and the bust of Theodore Roosevelt will soon be added to the collection. , Authors Not Forgotten. Authors and poets have not been forgotten. Longfellow is to be hon ored by a bronze statue in Washing ton. Richmond, Virginia, has appro priated money to build a monument to Edgar Allan Foe. Washington Irving Is memorialized in bronze in Bryant Square, New York. The metropolis also has monuments to many writers not Americans, Including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Burns, Walter Scott, Heine, Schiller, Thomas Moore; and to com posers Beethoven and Verdi. As so many foreign countries have honored our Washington, it is fitting that there are monuments in America to Simon Bolivar, the South American liberator; to Garibaldi, and of course to our allies of the Revolution, La fayette, Pulaski, Rochambeau and the others. Two spies who died on the gallows are memorialized in bronze, Nathan Hale, executed by the British at New York, and Sam Davis, executed by the Federals at Pulaski, Tenn. In the South there appears to be a growing appreciation of what the rail roads and great railroad men have done for the development of the coun try. Employes of the Southern Kail way are to erect a monument to the late Samuel Spencer, president of that road, in Atlanta. In Nashville, monu ments will soon be unveiled to the memories of Colonel Jere Baxter, president of the Tennessee Central Railroad, and , to Major John W. Thomas, late president of the Nash ville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Rail road. ' List Has Not Been Compiled. These are but a few of the monu ments now being built. Others that may be mentioned are those to General St. Clair, the first Territorial Governor of Ohio; to Curl Schurz, In New York; to Nelson Dewey, the first Governor of Wisconsin, at Lancaster, Wis.; to the late Senator James McMillan, in Mich igan; and so on. No list of the monu ments in the United States has been compiled. It would be much longer than the average careless citizen would think if it oould be made up. It would also furnish a universal surprise in that it would disclose that there have been more monuments erected in Washington to defeated and unsuccessful aspirants to the Pres idency than have been put up to honor men who have been President. There are monuments In Washington to Washington, Lincoln, Jackson and Garfield, who were Presidents. There are monuments to George B. McClel lan, Winfleld Scott and Winfleld Scott Hancock, who were defeated candi dates for that high office, and to Daniel Webster and General John A. Logan, who were credited with the ambition to become the Chief Magis trate of the land. Tomorrow The State of Minnesota. WILL IMKE MIRRORS HERE GRAND RAPIDS FIRM TO ESTAB LISH l'LAXT IN POKTLAXD. Interested in This City as Location Through Efforts of the Manu facturers' Association. J. Tourner & Bro., of Grand Rapids. Mich., will establish a mirror factory in Portland. The firm became Interested In this city as a location through the Manufacturers' Association of the North west. A number of weeks ago Mr. Tourner notified the assdclation that if a suitable plant could be secured he would undertake the manufacture of mir rors and ornamental glass for decorative purposes in Portland. Under existing conditions most of that class of work is brought to the Coast from the ,East. The association saw at once that if French mirror plate-glass, German looking-glass plate. American plate-glass, beveled plate-glass and all other kinds of glass for ornamental and decorative purposes could be furnished by a local house there would be a great saving to builders and, decorators. Portland, owing to its admirable ship ping facilities and central location. Is rapidly becoming the furniture manufac turing center of the Pacific Coast, and the establishment of such a factory as Mr. Tourner intends to establish here is sure to meet with success. After correspondence with Mr. Tourner the association went into the matter thoroughly and being satisfied there was a field for the enterprise, secured promises of capital and various conces sions from business men of Portland. Mr. Tourner was advised of the situation and will arrive in Portland In a short time to complete final negotiations and begin preliminary work in the establish ii it'll l , 1 1 int. mciorj. A firm In North Portland has tentative ly agreed to provide quarters in its plant for the new concern. When It is considered that Portland alone brings in from the East about three carloads of mlrrow plates a month, the officers ot the association figure that right from the start the new industry will have orders enough to Insure suc cess to the enterprise independent of orders that are sure to come from other points on the Coast. The furniture factories of the North west alone use sufficient quantities of mirrors of various grades to keep the factory In operation the year around. One point waa brought out in the cor respondence that is of Interest. The mlr row factory will be in the market to buy what is known in the trade as remnants. For instance, if a big plate-glass window should be broken the pieces would be bought by the factory and cut into sizes needed and made into mirrors or decorative-glass furnishings making a nice item of salvage. Even the small pieces would be useful In making the mirror decora tions so much employed in modern archi tectural effects. WANT MILLINERY TRIMMERS For Day or Evening Wages. Work Big Those employed during the day else where may earn good pay for trimming hats evenings. 7 to 10 P. M Apply today at the Shafer-WhltUer Co s. trig mllllnerv aie asnmgion.. atreev ujataira GARRY OWN TRUNKS Ocean Passengers . Act as Longshoremen. STRIKE NOT WEARING END Xew York Docks Piling Vp With All Sorts of Freight and Thousands of Boxes of Citrus Fruits Are Rained. NEW YORK, May 9. The striking long shoremen gained a victory today when the Savannah line compromised with its 600 employes. The strike leaders claimed today that 30,000 men were out on Manhattan. Brooklyn, Hoboken and Staten Island. Though these figures are disputed, the steamship companies were nevertheless badly crippled. Throughout the day the freight gath ered In formidable piles along the piere, and comparatively little was gotten aboard vesssels. The passengers came to the aid of the Oscar II. of the Scandinavian line, which sailed this afternoon, ana put aboard their own baggage. All the scheduled steamers got away to day, though with short cargoes and usually a trifle late. The coastwise com panies are suffering most from the strike. Many of these carry fruit, which, if not promptly unloaded, entails heavy losses. The lemon trade has been already serious ly affected. It is Impossible to auction off lemons until they have been taken out of the hold, and there are now awaiting the auctioneer- 131.500 boxes. Only 10.000 boxes have been landed since the start of the strike. Clash With Strikers. . There was an occasional clash today between strikers and new men, but no very serious damage was done, s Police Commissioner Bingham has taken the precaution to keep in rcxve at the stations ail policemen except those on patrol, which is in one sense a mobilization of 4000 policemen in the city. J. H. Thomas, operating manager of the International Mercantile Marine Company, speaking for the trans-Atlantic lines involved In the strike, said that the heads of all those lines had discussed the situation. They were unanimous, -he said. In the position that the demands of the strikers were exorbitant. - The com panies will bend their energies to get ting their vesssels away on schedule time, even if it be with partial cai;oes. Divided Into Classes. The strikers are divided into two classes, those opposed to the trans-Atlantic lines and those opposed to the coast wise lines. The former claim allegiance to the Longshoremen's Protective Asso ciation and the latter say they constitute Longshoremen's Union No. 14. Some coastwise lines have come to agreements with their longshoremen. To emphasize their contention that higher wages are needed, because living Is higher, the longshoremen talk of hav ing a parade of their wives and others dependent upon them. Ask Second Advance Within Week. OMAHA, Neb.. May 9. A committee representing 5000 pacing-house workmen in the South Omaha packing-houses called upon the managers of the plants today and asked for Increased wages. A strike Is threatened If the Increase Is not grant ed. The packers asked time to consider the matter with the Chicago heads of .the companies. The worklngmen who are making the demands were granted an In crease only last Monday. REV. WILLIAM FOl'LRES FOR MALLY INSTALLED. Rev. D. M. Hare Presides Over Serv ices at First Presbyterian Church. Other Ministers Participate. Rev. William Hiram Foulkes was last night installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. The meeting was presided over by Rev. David Henry Hare, moderator of the Portland Presbytery. Rev. B. E. S. Ely, Jr., D. D., spoke on "The Spirit's Abiding the Church's En couragement." taking for his text Hag. 2:6. He cited Instances of the growth of Christian work in foreign lands as well as in America, and said these are signs that Christ still works through his church. "It has come to be a common thing." he' continued, "when we take up the newspaper in the morning, to find it filled with accounts of crime in Its most horrible type. But we read that when He, the spirit of truth is come he will convict the world of sin. The results of our efforts show he is working with us." The prayer of installation was,-offered by Rev. J. R. Wilson. D. D.. after which Rev. Edward M. Sharp delivered the charge to the pastor. He drew from the story of Joseph and Pharaoh's dream a lesson for the hour, saying it was the duty of the pastor to be the King's inter preter. Rev. W.- S. Holt, D. D., then charged the church to be faithful and loyal. "Your heritage," he said, "Includes 300 churches in Oregon beside the Portland Chinese mission, and believers in Alas ka and Korea. Tou have only had three pastors before this one. In no pastorate has vaudeville had the right ot way on this platform. On this platform there has never been any superheated caloric commonly called hot air. By all that has preceded you you are called to fidelity. Loyalty is only an extension of this, and as your loyalty has kept you from the time in I860 when you were only 17 mem bers strong until now, so It will keep you firm for right to the end." Dr. Holt here paid a tribute to the womanhood of the church, saying that the true women who serve in church will go straight forward with the things per taining to the Kingdom of Christ. Crowd Hall to Hear Fluno. OREGON CITY. Or., May 9. (Speclal.V1 Dr. Francis J. Fluno, M. D., C. S. D., of California, lectured here tonight in Willamette Hall on "Christian Science vs. Finite Sense." The hall was crowded with people from Portland, Salem and other towns, and the lecture was interest ing and ably delivered. Dr. Fluno is a member of the Christian Science board of lectureship, and was here under the aus pices of the First "Church of Christ, Sci entist, of this city. Mead Paroles Prisoners. OLYMPIA, Wash., May 9. (Special.) Governor Mad today granted paroles to Frank Brown, serving sentence from Spokane County for criminal assault, and George W. Edgar, from King County, for JLobtaininx money under false t releases, J WASHINGTON STREET BETWEEN PARK AND SEVENTH SALE FDR TIBER LANDS OUTSIDE CAPITALISTS SEEK TO BUY HOLDINGS. Demand Also Continues Steady for Portland Realty and New Build ing Projects Are Launched. Oregon is very much on the map of the United States Just now. In addition to th nhenomenal business done in city and town lots, there is no diminution in the handling of timber lands, farms and mining claims. One of the prominent real estate men in Portland, handling timber lands, said yesterday that he had commissions from Eastern and Southern capitalists to buy almost any acreage of timbered lands on the best terms possible. A big company in Los Angeles is in this market for this class of property and has even'gone north over the border to pick up whatever offers In the way of suitable locations. Cruisers are out in the counties where good timber Is yet to be had, and on receipt of their reports there are hosts of buyers with orders in for these properties. North side city property is feeling he press of demand, with the result that values in that district are rising rapidly. As an Instance, the city could have acquired a quarter block at Park street and Couch a short time ago for $34,600. Sengstake & Lyman have just closed a deal for a lot of the same quarter block Mrst Hoyt was offered 40.- for J30.000. 000 for a quarter block at the same point, hut refused and holds at 150,000. This brings up the old-time sale of the Park strip between West Park and Park, which in case the city desired to regain would bankrupt the treasury. Work is progressing on the concrete foundation for the Chinese Consul's build ing at the southwest corner of Second and Salmon streets. The two-story brick building on the south has had the divi sion wall taken out, leaving the enterlor exposed to public gaze. The purpose in taking down thia wall is to allow a new foundation to be built of sufficient width to permit a new division wall that will carry the old two-story building up two additional stories. The corner is to be four stories also. G. Phegley is to erect a three-story Colds on the Chest Ask your doctor the medical name for a cold on the chest. He will say, 'fBrpn- -chitis." Ask him if- it is ever serious. Lastly, ask him if he prescribes Ayers Cherry Pectoral REVISED FORMULA for this disease. Keep in close touch with your family physician, and follow his ad- ' vice carefully. The new kind contains no alcohol We have no secrets to hide! We pub lish the formulas of all our medicines. J. C. AYER CO., Manufacturing Chemists, Lowell, Mass. H B. 150 Ladies' and Misses' (Eton and Coat Models) TAILORED AND DEMI - TAILORED Suits Ranging in Price From $25.00 to $125.00 ALF PRICE H & sB WE RECOMMEND THIS AS OUR GREATEST STORE OPENS AT 8:30 A. M. INCLUDED ARE SAMPLE SUITS PURCHASED IN NEW YORK SPECIALLY FOR THIS SALE BY MR. H. -B. LITT, OUR RESIDENT BUYER brick building on Ndrth Sevenh street for business purposes; the cost is reported to be 35,000. W. L. Dlel took out a permit for a fiat building In Abends Addition tor cost 15000. St. Francis Polish Catholic Church Is to erect a new church building on Mary land street, between Falling and Shaver -streets, Albina, to cost SSO00. Plans have been completed for the new Hazelwood Creamery building, a five story brick, to be erected on tire old Willamette Iron & Steel Works site. Excavation has started for the new hotel to be erected at Front and Harri son streets. The building will occupy a quarter block, a four-story brick, and the wails will be of sufficient strength to carry additional stories. WILL LECTURE AT HEILIG Rev. Arthur Vosburgh to Speak on "Christian Science." ' Rev. Arthur Reeves Vosburgh, C. S. B., of Rochester, N. Y., will lecture at the Heiligr Theater Sunday afternoon on "The Idealism of Jesus." Rev. Vos burgh is an authorised lecturer of the Christian Science denomination, and comes to Portland at the Instance of the two local churches. He la rec ognlzod as a scholarly man and his ad dress will doubtless attract a large audience. It is the intention of mem bers cf the Christian Science Church that like mathematics, the faith Is an exact science and can be demonstrated. T,he Peaker b,elleV" " Un3 00 ing to humanity. Seats for the lecture may be reserved without charge at the Heilig- box office Saturday morning. Reserved seats must be occupied, however, by 2:45 Sunday afternoon or they will be thrown open to all. The lecture will commence at 8 o'clock. - Victoria Shipping Notes. VICTORIA, May S. The steamer Hen rietta will arrive here Sunday to load a full cargo of lumber for the White Pass & Yukon Railroad barges. The Mackenzie Steamship Company, which has been operating the steamers Haldls. Halvard and Henriette, frelght tng between Vancouver and Skagway, will LITT CORRECT FOR LADIES AND establish a regular eight-day schedule, connecting with the White Pass river steamers to Dawson. The Canadian Pacific Railroad Steam ship Company will place a steamer In Oregonian $25 if : i t,f ICblledfeCIothes WsS I ' S SteSScwyfev- - cost less than ! I tV'-V'' half, as much I$V- iVC i as the crack iT& i: f , V I custom tailor j F f! 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