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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, MY- 31v 1910. BIPLANE iRRQWLY t PORTLAND POSTMASTER, WHO DIED MONDAY MORNING. imm wmmmwmmmmmmm MISSES UPSETTING price one pays for cloth ing is more often a matter of habit and custom than a ques Curtiss TbIIs of His Close Call While High Up Near Storm King Mountain. tion of what one can afford. Some try to buy cheap clothes rather than good clothes; it's poor economy. HEART OF AVIATOR JUMPS i r : ? , - V s f ' -J - V Trompt Action on Control Averts Disaster Traveling Is Better Xear Eartli Than Higher In Air, lie Declares. PREVIOUS RECORD TKITS FROM ALBANY TO NEW YORK. XEW YORK, Mar 30. In compari son with Curtiss' flying trip of two hours and y2 minutes today, these achievements of ' navigation and travel from New York to Albany stand out In history: September 12. 1014 Henrlk Hud son, In the Half Moon, sailed from New York on the first voyaue to Albany In five days. August 17. 1S07 Robert Fulton's first trip to Albany on tho steamboat Clermont, 22 hours. October 23. 1830 Steamboat Chap lain raced to Albany In nine hours and 81 minutes. 1000 Fastest railroad time from New York to Albany, two hours and 40 minutes. ........ .4 NEW YORK, May 30. In a statement concerning his flight last night. Mr. Cur tiss said that shortly after he rose at Al bany, he . found himself going well and Hying high and swift.' He was surprised when Poughkeepsle came within view so quickly, lie had no idea he had been making such fast time. Nothing in particular attracted his at tention during the flight, he said. The only thing he watched (from above was the smoke from locomotive and chimneys, by which he could tell which way the wind was blowing. ; Narrow Kscnpc, This. He was very happy when he landed at Poughkeepsie, and was anxious to get away from there in order to make New York while the weather was good. He said that when his machine dropped suddenly passing the Storm King Moun tain it was anything but a pleasant sen sation. , "I was nearly upset," said Curtiss, in speaking of the incident, "and my heart Jumped into my mouth, but by Quick and strenuous efforts, pushing the con trols forward to the very limit, 1 man aged to regain my equilibrium and when I slowed down speed and dropped to a lower level. I dropped until I was but fifty feet above the water at times, I guess, and found conditions there much ibetter. , The air near the ground is often banked, like a cushion or buffer, and of fers safe traveling when the upper reaches of the atmosphere are not so inviting." Too llusy for Sensations. Of the sensations he felt during the flight, Curtiss said: "My sensations in flying so high and over tho water? "Well, I don't know just what ray sensations were, I was too busy to have any." Shortly after reaching New York, Cur tiss delivered to Mayor Gaynor's secre tary a letter written by James McEwan, Mayor of Albany. CURTISS WAS OXCE NEWSBOY Interest in Flying Machines Grew From .Making Gas Engines. NEW YORK, May S0.--Glenn H. Cur tiss, like all the other successful -aviators, is a young man, only 32 years old. He was born at Hammondsport, N. Y., and became interested in aero planes through the construction of gas engines. As a boy he sold newspapers. From making motors for bicycles it was an easy step to try the construc tion of light gasoline motors for fly ing purposes. His little shop at Ham mondsport became the headquarters rbr aeronautical students and aerial flight received its first impetus, next to that given by the Wrights, when Dr. Alex ander Graham Bell, In November, 1907, organized his Aeronautical Experiment Association, with Curtiss as one of its six members. Meanwhile, Curtiss had been learn ing a lot about flying and the making of light, compact motors. It was his motor that was used in the Silver Dart, which made such a sensation by its long flights, at Baddeck. N. S.. In the early Winter of 1909. i The young avi ator received his first laurels by win ning the Gordon Bennett aviation tro phy at Rheims. France, in August, 1909, after he covered the prescribed dis tance, twice around the course, 12.42 miles, in 15 minutes 50 3-5 seconds, beating his closest competitor, Bleriot, by 5 3-5 seconds. Since that time Curtiss had done nothing of particular note up to today's flight to add to his fame, his appear ance at Governors Island during the i Hudson-Fulton celebration last Octo ber being a disappointment. In the ; meet at Los Angeles in January he .was distanced in all the leading events by Paulhan, although he captured the prize for quickness of starting. AKMY MUST HATE AIRSHIPS Chief of Signal Corps Much Im pressed With Curtiss' Flight. WASHINGTON, May 30. Brigadier General James Allen, chief of the Sig nal Corps of the Army, was impressed with Curtiss' flight Sunday and the speed with which it was made. "It may seem strange," he said, "but it isa fact that we do not know just what these machines can do, especially in warfare. We must have -a supply of aeroplanes and dirigibles. "It is men like Glenn Curtiss who are going to supply a long-felt want in America. Fellows of his type should get all kinds of encouragement and the American people will have their ?yes opened by today's flight to the possibilities of machines that fly in the air." LONE THiEF'S HAUL IS BIG ilohl-Up Man Makes Jap Ills Vic tim, Getting $56.50. was Another daring and sensational holdup is accomplished Sunday night when the dry goods store of M. Mateushima, a Japanese merchant, 264 Davis street, was entered by a lone robber and $.16.50 in cash secured. Most of tho money, was It mm 1 :k x: 1 : .1 - tfiitiiimiiiii;iii .1.-?rt.frfs.WAlitf-r JOHN C. TOCNG. in the safe at the time except $17.50, which was in the possession of one of tho clerks. About 9 o'clock last night, S. Tambara, who was alone in the store, heard some one trying to open the back door with a key. Thinking it was one of the other clerks he opened the door only to be confronted by a lone highwayman who shoved a, gun in. his face and ordered him to throw up his hands. The clerk was ordered to march upstairs to a small back room which is used for sleeping quarters. Here the robber questioned him in regard to the combination -on the safe but the Jap refused to give him any information, saying he was only a clerk and did not know how to open it. Marching Tambara before him at the point of his gun, the holdup man wnt to the storeroom ana ransacked every drawer, securing in all only $9.50. He then went through the pockets of the clerk and secured $47. Tambara was then taken back to the room up stairs, where he was bound hand and foot by the highwayman and a pillow tied tightly across his mouth to pre vent any outcry. After tieing his vic tim, the robber went again to the of fice in the store and tried to burst the lock on the safe. He went about the work very coolly, while his victim above, finding himself being slowly smothered to death, made a desperate effort and freed his hands. Quickly releasing his feet he rushed to a win dow, and Jumped to the pavement be low. His cry for help brought aneigh boring countryman and the two at tempted to hold the door leading from the store while a third Japanese went for help. However, the desperado, evi dently discovering the trap which- was being laid for him, hurled himself against the door from the inside, and pushing the Japs aside. As he emerged from the door he drew his gun on the two men and ordered them to get out of the way. Running through an alley on Fourth street he rapidly distanced his pursuers and disappeared down a 'side street. Sergeant Goltz hearing the shouts for help hurried to the scene but too late to "catch his man. 3 HURT IN AUTO WRECK MACHINE HITS OBSTRUCTION IN DARK COUNTRY ROAD. . J. G. YOUNG IS DEAD Portland's Postmaster Suc cumbs After Hard Fight. END EXPECTED FOR DAYS Chauffeur and Two Women Receive Painful Injuries .When Heavy Car Plunges Over on Its Side. An automobile containing a party of eight joyriders from the Kingston Lodging-house, Third and Taylor streets, while en route to the Twelve-Mile House, was overturned Sunday night and three members of the party injured. Larry Talbot, the chauffeur sustained a badly bruised leg, while two of the women of the party received serious bruises. The accident occurred about ten miles out, while the driver was running at a speed of about 35 miles an hour. . Builders had dumped a large quantity of gravel in the center of the road and had hung out no danger signals and the driver of the machine did not discover the obstruction until he was within a few feet of it. In attempting to swing around it, the machine plunged forward and turned over on the right side. Both wheels were smashed and the car was damaged to the extent of $600 or $700. Talbot was pinned under the ma chine and nearly an hour was required to extricate him from the wreck. The party was brought back in other ma chines passing shortly after the accident. RICE IS HIGHER IN CHINA Famine Conditions Prevail In Prov inces Where Crop Fails. AMOY, China. May 30. The price of rice has risen 50 per cent and the poor are unable to buy food. As a consequence of this a demonstra tion took place at Changchow. Owing to the practical failure of the rice crop in certain of the interior provinces this year, an almost prohibitive price already prevails for the cereal. A further advance means famine conditions among the teeming coolies, whose prin cipal article of food Is rice. Body That of Chris Anderson. ASTORIA, Or.. May 30. (Special.) The body of a man whose remains were picked up on Desdemona Sands last Friday was today positively identified as that of Chris Anderson, of Knapp ton, through the finding of a cuffbutton on the clothing worn. An inquest will be held tomorrow. WcH-Known Citizen -and Govern ment Official Passes Away . at 1.3 5 Tills Morning, Surround ed by Members of Family. John C. Young, Postmaster of Portland, died peacefully at 1:35 Monday morning at his home. 300 Going street, after a wast ing illness that had lasted for over two months. . He was - unconscious at the last. At the bedside were his wife, his son, Scott Young, his son-in-lavf, A. W. Or ton, and a nurse. Another son, Goodwin Young, of Cascade Locks, was in the house, as was his daughter, Mrs. Orton. Mr. Young had been suffering from cancer of the stomach. He had been unconscious since Saturday morning and did not rouse even when the end was near. For most of the past week he had been in a comatose condition and the severe pain incident to the disease had been relieved by narcotics. It was a gradual failure of the life forces, and so quietly did death creep upon him that the watchers at the bedside hardly knew when the last breath had been drawn. No arrangements for the funeral have been made. John C. Young was born in .Salt Lake City, December 21, 1850. He was a nephew of Brigham Young, the fa mous Mormon, and received his educa tion in the public schools of Salt Lake. The early years of his life were spent as a school teacher, and while yet a young man he became a reporter on the Salt Lake Tribune and through extraordinary ability was soon pro moted to the position of one of the chief editorial writers on the paper. Twenty years ago he moved to Ba- "Arrow Mart Schaffner & M arx clothes are made of all-wool fabrics; best of tailoring; perfect in fit; cor rect in style and worth whatever you pay for them $20, $22.50, $25, $27.50, $30 and $35. John B. Stetson Hats $4 to $10 Manhattan Shirts $1.50 to $3 ii The Multnomah $3.00 Hat 5 J for style and quality leads them all mmmh mm m iili II 1 mm mm mm -.-.--..Vv;.'--'- Copyright Han Scbiffaer & Marx Sam 1 Northwest Corner Third and Morrison ker City, Or., and engaged in mining. For a number of years he was one of Baker County's strongest promoters. He represented Baker County in the Legislature of 1905, and this marked the dawning of his political career. In 1905 he removed with his family to Portland, and during the campaign of Jonathan Bourne for United States Senator he was Bourne's secretary and right-hand man. When Bourne went to Washington Mr. Young was made his private secretary. His name was later sent to the Senate by President Roose velt for confirmation as Postmaster at Portland. Through a bitter fight by his political enemies the appointment was held up until 1909, when his name was again sent in by President Taft and he was appointed Postmaster of the Portland office April 1, 1909, which office he held until the time of his death. John C. Young was married to Miss Cynthia- Crismon, January 22, 1880, in Salt Lake, and to them six children were born, all of whom survive him. They are: Goodwin C. Young, of Cas cade Locks, Or.; Mrs. A. W. Orton. of Lakeview, Or.; Mrs. Edith Bloch, Scott C. Young, Miss Afton C. Young and Miss Florence Young, all of Port land. His mother, who is 87 years old, also survives him. COLLAR. with the Ara-kotch in place of the bothersome buttonhole 15c. each-2 for 25c. Cluett. Peabody-Jc Co.. Maker ARROW CUFFS. 25c. a Pair skm Powder vt. For Health and jfj Economy y3 r-rn ii. .ji ii.i.. Inpfptfiiij HAIL DAMAGES NASHVILLE Freak Storm, Lasting Ten Minutes, Wrecks Church. NASHVILLE. Tenn., May 30. A hail and wind storm which lasted less than ten minutes today and which swept a territory in and -near this city less than a mile wide and four .miles long caused damage to the amount of many thousand dollars. The Reld-Avenue Christian Church was so badly wrecked that.lt will have to be torn down. Many trees were uprooted and streetcar traffic was demoralized. Three streetcars on a via'duct narrowly missed being tossed to the ground below by the wind. WORK WILL BEGIN SOON COOS BAY-BOISE LINE MEANS BUSINESS, SAYS CLARKE. Completion to Itoseburg Promised by July 1, 1912 Money Declared to Bo Provided. That construction on the Coos Bay & Oregon Central Railroad, the road from Coos Bay to Boise, via P.oseburg, will begin before September 1, was a state ment made last night by Francis H. Clarke, president of -the road. Mr. Clarke said that work would be begun not later than that date, but he believed himself that gangs would be on the job considerably earlier. He said that the road would be constructed as far as Itoseburg before July 1, 1912. Mr. Clarke intimated that powerful in terests were behind it, but declined to give datails. Despite the opinion the promoters in tended to build an electric line, Mr. Clarke declared this to be impossible. Unless there were to be large passenger traffic, iie said, a steam road would be requirod. as tho cost of building a power plant would be prohibitive. "The surveys are already completed," said Mr. Clarke, "and all the money pledged that will be required in the construction of the road. "I never enter a project when money has to bo raised. So you can under stand there will be no trouble about the financial arrangements." A proposition is on foot to establish in the ancient city of Palos. from which Columbus sailed to discover tho new world, a permanent agrirultural and industrial ex position to Increase the friendly and com mercial relations between the nations of America and Spain. PHONE B 6135 ELEVATOR PHONE EAST 99 S It: -Is-a. Fact Polbllc Improvements Make more valuable private property! It is a fact ONE big enterprise set going starts other enterprises! IT IS A FACT EAST PORTLAND PROPERTY RISES IN VALUE AS BUSINESS INCREASES. Your money expended in East Portland helps to build up East Portland, IS ALSO A FACT. Morgan's De partment Store is filled full of the spirit of g-o-ahead-it-ive-ness, and reaching forward to greater things joins hands with every citizen to make "East Side" the great business section as it is now the larger resident district. SOseB: Sl. "A Greater Morgan's for a Greater East Portland" SLOGAN FOR 1910. Each day we are getting deeper and deeper into the mine of pos sible ways in which this store may prove more helpful to its cus tomers. And w e are working out carefully each vein as it is opened. New stocks are being added here. Service is being strengthened there. Systems are constantly being changed this way or that as ex perience directs. And business keeps growing as Morgan 's ability to satisfy customers and more customers increases. A NEW DEPARTMENT Curtains and Draperies A room devoted entirely to the display of curtains and draperies, showing the newest importations in Portieres, Lace Cur tains, Madras Curtains, etc. This is a department where our buyer has studied carefully the taste and preference of women, for here again she reigns, supreme in selecting the qualities and shades of the hangings for the home "be it a cottage or a mansion" she is the determin ing genius in making "The Home Beautiful." IN LACE CURTAINS the Nottingham' assortment is very complete, ranging in prir-e from 4T to 4.05 per pair. IN IRISH POINT, CLUNY, RENAISSANCE, etc., 1.97 up. RUFFLED CURTAINS A complete stock. PORTIERES in TAPESTRY and VELOURS, newest colors and combination of colors, 1.39 per pair to $23.75. MADRAS CURTAINS, with silk, mercerized or cotton stripe, large variety, ranging from 79 to 3.69 per pair. SflTK This department, now ready for your inspection, is open for the first time, the goods failing to reach us in time for tho "Store Opening, May !)." All who contemplate building a new home, or apartments, or refurnishing the present one. will find here a large new stock to choose from, and nave money for other things. Napkins TUESDAY SPECIAL 100 dozen fringe Napkins, red and blue borders, half linen; regular value 43c. Special Tues- OQ day 60c Napkins 39c 200 doz. all linen Napkins, fringed, with blue and red border; regular values 50c and UOc. Tugs- OQ day special 90c Napkins 69c 50 dozen half linen Napkins, good size, full bleached; reg- CQ ular value 90c, Tuesday.. vJ7C $1.25 Napkins 97c 100 dozen Mercerized Napkins, large size, full bleached; regular value $1.25. Tuesday spe- Q7 eial 57 f C Ladies' Neckwear Assortment sample lines in Bows, Dutch Collars, etc.; only on3 7 g or two of a kind. Values to 50c. Tuesday, only LACE COLLARS, WORTH 5c, AT 47. Ladies' Dutch Lace Collars. Regular values 75c. Tuesday. ... . .47 Pure Silk Hose 98c Pair Ladies' Pure Silk Hose, all colors, lisle foot and top. Regular QQ value $1.25 to $1.50. Special' 70C Ladies' Lace and Embroidered Hose, in variety of styles; 1,7r black and colors. Values to 75c, at T f 90c Damask 69c Yard 15 pieces all pure linen damask, 72 inches wide, variety of CQ patterns. Regular 90c value, Tuesday special VJ57C Table Linens, Tuesday Spc'l 90c Pattern ClotH 63c 200 pattern cloths, 2'2 yards long, 90c value. .63 $1.50 2V2-Yd. ClotH $1.09 19G Table Cloths, 2V-J yards long, variety of patterns; reg- C fQ ular $1.50 value. Tuesday special pAJ57 $2.25 3-Yd. Cloth $1.39 9G Table Cloths, 3 yards long", open border, extra heavy J" OQ quality; regular $2.25 value. Tuesday special. V A057 $1.75 Hemstitched Cloth $1.39 100 Pure Linen hemstitched cloths, 22 yards long, dif- 1 OQ ferent patterns; regularly priced $1.73, at 7 fl057 $1.25 Hemstitched Cloth 99c 2-yard hemstitched Tablecloth, fringed, in part and all linen; QQ regular $1.25. Tuesday special, 57C i