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THE MORNING- OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1909. 5 t TUFT SPEAKS TO BDWERY WRECKS On Wild, Windy Night of Rain, President Motors to Haunts of New York's Outcasts. BRINGS MESSAGE OF HOPE Tells Audience In Mission Chasm Between Them and. Apparently More Successful Not So Great. Future Slay Be Brighter. NEW TOHK, Dec. 13. Alter speaking tonight In Carnegie Hall at the Diaraona Jubilee of Methodist Missions to Africa, President Taft motored through a driv ing rain storm to the Bowery Mission, where he made an address to a typical Bowery audience. He afterward in spected tho "bread line" room, where each night hundreds of unemployed are given food. The President, in immaculate evening clothes, was in striking contrast to the men of the mieslon. He'urged his hear rrs not to be down on their luck, but to struggle on In the hope that the future would be brighter for them. Auto' Ride Is W ild. Tho drive to the mission was one of the wildest auto trips the President has ever had. Rain was coming down in torrents as liis car, preceded by a police machine, rolled into the Bowery. The fa mous Qld thoroughfare was almost de serted. Pastfng the front door of the mission, the President was driven into Rivington street. Hundreds of residents of the crowded neighborhood had heerd of his coming and braved the storm to give him a cheer as the automobile reached The misssion. The allev was ankle-deep in water when the President alighted. Although suffering from a severe cold, he refused to listen to & postponement of Ills visit. "Mother of Bowery" Met. Kntering the hall, the President met a number of missison workers, among them Mrs. Bird, "the mother of the Bowery," and Dr. Hallimond. superin tendent of the misssion. The President was introduced by Dr. Louis Klopsch publisher of the Christian Herald, who established the misssion. Dr. Hammond tirst spoke to the men. "I wonder If you understand what an honor it is to have the President of the Vnlted States come down here to se you?" he asked. "We do." came a chorus of answers. "Are you gratified V- "We are." "Do you from the bottom of your hearts thank the President for coming here.?"' . "We do, we do." Bowery Cheers Given. "It took a man with a big athletic heart to coma nil the way from the White House to the Bowery." said Mr. Hallim ond. "hut the wings of the Bagle are very wide, and lie has come. I might say, from the. (teats of the mighty to the bottom pits of despair, to encourage you. Now give him three rousing Bowery cheers." The audiem-e responded with a will. "My friends," said the President, "I am almost as much surprised at being lire as you are to see me. I was in vited to come hy your good friend, Dr. Klopsch. whom I know, as you know him by the things ho has done. I was glad to come to the Bowery. IN"ot having lived in New York, I always had been curious to see it. I know that where the Bowery and Dr. Klopsch met -that there would be the best part of It, so I came here. Chasm Not So Wide. "I am glad to be here and hope by sa ving so I can convince you that the so called chasm between you and those who snem for the time being to be more fortunate is not so much of a chasm at all, and that there is between you a deep feeling of sympathy on their part and an earnest desire that you shall have that equality of opportunity of getting on your feet, of earning a decent living and of supporting your families, which we hope every man who lives under the Stars and Stripes enjoys. Future May Be Brighter. "I know it is difficult for you to believe that I . who am receiving a large salary from the Government and living in com fort, can understand or take to my heart the feelings that you have in your des peration, and that you have not had he chance other men have. But in spite of the seeming difference, your fellow citizens are not all greedy and grasp ing. Their hearts are more open today and they are more ready to help the needy than at any time in the past. And that feeling is growing every day. So let me say to you to struggle on, in the hope tttat. the future will be brighter for you." After inspecting the "bread line" room, the President again entered his auto mobile and wae whisked uptown to his brother's home. , ome of the civilization that is expected to widen out In that neighborhood. "Missionaries in China, missionaries in Africa, are the forerunners of our civi lization, and without them we should have no hope of conquering the love and the admiration and the respect of the millions of people that we hope to bring under the Influences of Christian civiliza tion. 'Those who go for mercantile purposes into those distant lands, I am sorry to say. are ouicker to catch the savage tendencies than the savages are to catch from them the best of our Christian civilization. 'The men whom I wish to commend are those who. in the face of all the obstacles that certainly tend to discourage the toravest. enter the dark continent of Africa in attempt to win those fields to Christianity. "The United States has no territory or any interest there, but we did make an experiment or encourage an experi ment some years ago in Liberia and we do have the interest that we ought to have in trying to preserve the integrity of that little negro republic, but you know, and the nations of the world know, that we are not in Africa to spread our ter ritory. We have enough. Some people think we have a great deal more than enough and certainly no one is so im perialistic as to desire a part of the African continent. Good Comes From Slavery. "It is curious to see how 'the Almighty works his ways. Our interest in Africa for many years -was in the slave trade. "We here, all of us, were, responsible. New England got out of it a little earlier than the others, but we were all responsible for the encouragement of that trade and now we have living with us 10,000,000 de scendants of the negroes that were taken by force from, that Dark Continent. "And yet I think no one would eay that the descendants of those people brought here are not to be congratulated on the fact that they have been able to enter in proximity to civilization, at once that they are 100 years in advance of their relatives in Africa. And yet they came here through greed and sin." OPEN EVENINGS BRIDGE FRIENDS HAPPY PEOPLE WELCOME CITY ATTOR NEY'S BROADWAY DECISION". Advocates of Proposition Foresee Trial and Final Decree Munly Replies to Henry. Advocates of the Broaflw&y high bridge were elated last night when in formed that City Attorney Kavanaugh had rendered an opinion holding that the Port of Portland is without legal authority to delay this Improvement by raising technical objections. Before the actual construction of the Broadway bridge can be proceeded "with, however, pending litigation attacking the legality of the bond issue as voted by the people of the city and the right of the municipality to dispose of the bonds so voted, will have to be threshed out in the courts. In addition to the . damage suit brought against the city by Albers Brothers for the appropriation of some property which will be necessary if the bridge is iuilt. there are two other suits pending. Joseph Buchtel is the plaintiff in one of these actions which is a friendly suit against the city, brought for the purpose of testing the legality of the proceedings by which the building of the Broadway bridge was ordered by regular election. Sub sequent to the time Buchtel filed his suit, Frank Klernan brought a proceed ing In which he makes the city and Buchtel defendants. The object of the suit is similar to that of the Buchtel action, except that in the Klernan suit an attempt Is made to restrain Buchtel from prosecuting his action. For that reason Buchtel is made a party defend ant in the Klernan suitt Friends of the bridge aver that a deci sion in the Buchtel suit will determine the controversy without confusing the is sues by linking it with the Klernan suit, which, the bridge people say, is brought for the single purpose of delaying a final decision in the premises. "There is Just one thing I desire to say at this time." said Judge Munly, yester dav. "and that is partly in answer to the communication from C. K. Henry, published in The Sunday Oregonian. In that letter. Mr. Henry seeks to create the impressicn with the general public that the proceedings incident to the pro posed Broadway bridge were 'railroaded' through the Council and submitted to a vote of the people of the city without the subject being submitted to a vote of the people of the city without the subject being generally understood. In answer to this, I merely wish to say that no ques tion which has been before the people of Portland in the last two and one-half years, has received the same amount of publicity or has been better understood than has the proposal for building the Broadway bridge. Those who have fol lowed the Broadway bridge controversy know this to be the fact. I am making the statement solely for the information of those not so familiar with the sub ject and who may have been deceived in what Mr. Henry has represented." .FOR -Cgfe THE DIAM IMA; has a distinction all its own. Its attributes of beauty, lasting value and high favor the world over, make it the gift of all gifts. The purchase of one from this establishment has the same corresponding reputation as a Government bond safe, reliable and above board; therefore We Invite Strict Comparison of Quality and Price INTERESTING Ino?S Diamond Rings Gold Watches Necklaces Scarf Pins Beauty Pins Lavalliers Link Buttons Bracelets Monogram Fobs Toilet Sets Military Brushes Manicure Sets Colognes Picture Frames Match Boxes Card Cases Writing Sets Smoking Sets 5-Pc Tea Sets Sandwich Trays Berry Bowls Salad Sets Mayonnaise Sets Meat Platters 3-Pc Coffee Sets Vegetable Dishes Candlesticks Rook Wood Opera Glasses Umbrellas Shopping Bags Fine Wallets Bead Bags Desk Clocks Traveling Sets Field Glasses 283-285 Washington St, Between 4th and Fifth Rothchild Bldg. LEADING DIAMOND MERCHANTS JEWELERS OPTICIANS ZELAYA IS GRILLED TAFT SPEAKS FOR MISSIONS Extols Missionaries as Forerunners of Civilization. KEW TOKK. Dec. 13. With a smiling reference to the "attack of the Metho dist Church on Africa," President Taft addressed an immense gathering at Car negie Hall tonight at the Diamond Jubilee of the Methodist Kplscopal Church, called to celebrate the completion of a campaign started last January whereby $300,167 has been raised" to further mission work In Africa. Of this,, 72,493 has been received in cash and the remainder has been sub scribed, payable In. installments due in live years. The Rev. J. C. Hartzell, bishop of Africa, through -whose efforts the money was raised, was the only other speaker. The President said in part: Expansion Begins With War. "It is not. perhaps, appropriate to date a religious movement from a war, but H does seem to tne as if our people ac quired a world feeling from the time we undertook the responsibilities of freeing Cuba and 6aying what should be done by our neighbors with reference to internal government when that internal govern ment seemed to us to pass the bounds of what, we thought to be civilization. "We began our war expecting to finish It shortly, and we landed in the Philip pines atid we are there still, but our horizon was widened much beyond these Kerns of the Pacific Ocean by reason of the responsibilities which we have been obliged to assume with reference to the entire world. We are armed with tremen dous potior and tremendous wealth, and, unless we use that for the benefit of our international neighbors and they are neighbors of ours, for the world is very fvnall we are failing to discharge the i duties that we ought to as mem bers of the international- community. "The mission is a nucleus) and an, eplt- FOOTBALL CAPTAIN DIES 'JACK" BEVMER, OF TACOMA, SUCCUMBS TO TYPHOID. Parents Declare Football Training Prolongs Iiife and Do Not Hold Game Responsible. TACOMA. Wash., Dec. 13. (Special.) Charles McD. Beymer, better known as "Jack" Beymer. captain of the Tacoma High School football team, died at Kannie Paddock Hospital, at 3:40 o'clock this afternoon, of typhoid fever. He was 21 years old. Following the Tacoma-Broadway game this year Beymer contracted a boil on his left foot and went to the hospital for blood poisoning. He ventured out Thanks giving day to view the Tacoma-Queen. Anne game and soon after showed sym ptoms of typhoid, which developed rapid ly. Richard K. Beymer, father of the young man. declares neither he nor Mrs. Bej-mer believes football had anything to do with their eon's death, but that they believe he had typhoid before he went to the hospital the first time and but for the strength and vitality en gendered in him by his previous football training could not have withstood the ravages of the disease as long as he did. There will ' probably be a memorial programme at the high school at the time of the funeral, but arrangements have not been made. RICH OHIO WOMAN DIES Mrs. Mary Hanna Third Wealthiest Woman in Cincinnati. CINCINNATI. Dec. 13. Mrs. Mary Hanna, the third richest, woman in Cin cinnati. died at her home here today. As the widow of Henry Hanna, she was. left a fortune of $7,000,000. . Mrs. Hanna was 91 years old. One daughter Inherits the estate. Senator Rayner Calls Him One of Greatest Criminals. HIS PRIVATE LIFE ODIOUS Man From Maryland Says In Speech ori Resolution Dictator Should Be Arrested for Murder of Two . American Citizens. WASHINGTON, Dec 13. "One of the greatest criminals of the age," Is the way Senator Rayner, of Maryland, des ignated Zelaya in a speech in the Senate today. "This desperado is everything the Secretary of State says about him," said Rayner, "and a great deal more. If the country knew what is known in ofneial circles in reference to his general deprav ity, it would regard the Secretary's com munication as exceedingly temperate. This Government is a cowardly govern ment if it does not make an example of Zelaya before the world." Senator Rayner spoke on his resolution offered in the Senate last Friday, author izing the President to take all necessary steps toward the apprehension of Zelaya on a charge of murder of the two Americans, Groce and Cannon. Continu ing, he said in part: "What il am concerned about now," said Senator Rayner, "is not the question of the belligerent rights of the revolution ists, or in case of their success, their rec ognition either as the de facto or the de jure government, but In the speedy ap prehension and punishment of Zelaya. "I have been reliably informed that the vices of his private life are more infamous in their indescribable details than the in iquities of his public career. Such a creature as this deserves the execration of mankind. "Now. as the culminating infamy of his administration, trampling upon every in stinct of humanity. In violation of uni versal law, in defiance of those precepts of the international code that have been recognized ever since the night of bar barism receded before the rays of civili zation, he has put to torture and then to death two American citizens who were not guilty of treason, who were not spies, but whom he had captured as prisoners of war in the army of the revolutionists. "This act was not only the act of a fiend, but an insult to the honor of this Republic, and cannot remain unavenged. "It is absolutely preposterous for us to talk about indemnity. Indemnity is no recompense for murder. "It is said we ought to break off of ficial communication with ' his accred Ited representatives. We 'have already done that, and that amounts to nothing and is a matter of absolute unconcern to him. Then it is said we ought to de clare war against Nicaragua. I think that is unnecessary. "Once spread before the American peo ple, the details of the execution and our people will rise in arms and demand retribution. They have not yet fully ab sorbed the significance of this deed. "If Zelaya had the right to sentence these men to death and execute them in cold blood, then we must acknowl edge that right and recognize it before the nations of the world. If he did not have that right, this Government is his accuser, and if he Is guilty, he must be awarded the doom and fate that he deserves, so that every tyrant on this earth. In every nationality under the sun, and In every, government, large or small, especially these dictators in sev eral of these Central American states, who have received every favor and consideration at the hands of the United States, and to whom has been extended the official hospitality of our land, and who in return therefor have exhibited to us at times the bitterest hatred and visited upon our citizens the most cruel indignities and outrages. shall be told once and for all that our flag follows our citizens wherever they go, and that when an assassination like this occurs the malefactor must take his place like any other culprit at the bar of criminal Justice, and must an swer for the deed with his liberty or his life." MANY CONFIRMED BY SENATE Large Batch of Nominations to Of fice Goes Through Mill. WASHINGTON. Dec. 13. In executive session today the Senate confirmed a large number of nominations, among which were the following: W. Cameron Forbes, of Massachusetts, to be governor-general of Philippines; John R. Carter, of Maryland, to be minister to Roumanla and Servia; Chandler Hale, of Maine, to be third assistant secre tary of state; William Phillips, of Mas sachusetts, to be secretary of the em bassy at London; B. S. Cable, of Illi nois, to be assistant Secretary of Com merce & Labor; James . L. Davenport, of New Hampshire, to be commissioner of pensions, and Leander Stillwell, of Kansas, to be deputy commissioner of pensions. FLAMES LICK UP 7 Tenement Fire in Cincinnati Causes Horrible Panic. SLEEPING HOUSE AROUSED BEN I CIA REACHES PORT i WATERLOGGED BARKEN'TIXE IS ASSISTED BY" TUG TYEE. Storm's Fury Overtakes Craft on tho Second Day Out and Loses 2 50,000 Railroad Ties. PORT TOW N SEND, Wash., Dec. 13. (Special.) .Barkentine Benicia. reported in waterlogged condition 170 miles south west of Cape Flattery Thursday last, by schooner Ethel Zane wrecked off Clallam Bay Saturday, was brought into port at sundown this evening by tug Tyee, which picked her up well inside straits between Clallam Bay and Port Crescent which position she had made unassisted while a large fleet of tugs and Government vessels were scouring the ocean off-shore seeking her. The Benicia left Willapa Harbor. No vember 30, carrying a big cargo of rail road ties consigned to. Guaymas, Mexico, and after the second day out met heavy weather which daily Increased in fury. Having plenty of sail, Captain Hayes shaned a course to Puget Sound and suc ceeded in making slow progress even in the storm, and when, a lull came and breeze favored, shaped a course for Flat tery. During the experience through which the Benicia passed she was stripped, of a deck load down to the rail, losing some thing over 250.000 ties. The irony of fate was demonstrated in the fact that the Ethel Zane which resumed her voyage here under sail after reporting the Benl- cia's predicament to the Government Observer Clallam Bay, has not yet ar rived and will eventually arrive in port to find a presumed wrecked and sinking vessel she reported, here ahead of her. Astoria to Vote on Port. ASTORIA. Or., Dec. 13. (Special.) The County Court at an adjourned session to day granted the petition for a special election to establish a Port of Astoria, in cluding the entire county and set Friday, January 28, as the date for holding the election. Overturned Lamp Starts Blaze and Terror-Stricken Men and Women Rush to Windows and to Roof and Make Attempt to Jump. CINCINNATI. Dec. 14. Two women, two men and three children lost their lives, and seven other persons were seriously injured in a tenement fire at Third and 'Sycamore streets which broke out at midnight. Three of the dead were burned to cinders. The fire occurred in a building oc cupied by a dozen families. It was caused through the upsetting of a kerosene lamp in a hallway on the sec ond floor. All the occupants were asleep and, before the fire was discov ered, all egress was cut off from the upper stories. The frenzied inmates gathered in the windows and climbed to the roof whence they jumped into blankets. A woman, clasping her 8-year-old son in her arms, jumped from a third-floor window. Both were instantly killed. Six men fled to the roof, where fire men had to use force to prevent them from virtually committing suicide by Jumping to the street. Dwellers in. the tenement were so overwhelmed by panic that some rushed headlong into the flames. The fire was extinguished with slight trouble with a total loss of about $23,-000. ROYAL ARCANUM .ELECTS New Members Initiated and Officers , Chosen by Lodge. Last evening at a largely attended meeting of Multnomah Council Royal Arcanum three candidates were elected and initiated, eeven new applications were received. The following officers were elected for the year 1910: Regent. Otto COUGHED ALL NIGHT Till This Recipe Van Tried. Cure Fol lowed Id R Hours- A prominent medical man who suf fered with a severe cough and cold on the lungs, often being kept awake all night, and weakened by loss of sleep, finally discovered a simple formula which will cure any dough in five hours by the clock. It is a laxative tonic cough syrup which can be made at home by anyone and the formula is here given for the benefit of those who pass sleepless nights in painful paroxysms. Those who have tried it say it is magical, and beats any high priced, slow-acting cough ntediclne ever sold. Mix in a bottle one-half ounce fluid wild cherry bark, one ounce compound essence cardiol and three ounces syrup white pine compound. 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