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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY, JULY 8, 1912. PROMmEUT ELKS attending national convention, including committeemen and: candidates, incomno delegates and elk editor GIRLS GET IN ON FUN ELKS, MORE ELKS, STILL THEY COME Auto and River Trip Planned for Women Elks, All Day Long Antlered Hosts PARKS WILL BE VISITED Pour Into Portland and Are Welcomed. One Thousand Machines Will Be at Disposal of Wives, Sweethearts and Daughters of Delegates to Portland Grand Lodge.' THRONGS MEET ALL TRAINS Largest Delegations- Arrive HeT Prom California Steamer Roa noke Bears Lodge men to City From Los Angeles. "Brother Bill. the. Town Belongs to Ton" was the tune of the Blka' Ad ministration Band at the Union Sta tion yesterday all day, as delegation after delegation of Elks, representing every section of the country, poured from the special trains to take posses sion of Portland for the week of the convention. California delegations were among the heaviest arrivals. Elks came in on all of the regular trains from the south, supplementing the throngs that came In at intervals throughout the day on the Fresno special, the Los Angeles special, on the steamer Roanoke and in special cars on the regular trains. Reception Corpa Boar. Sixth street, from the depot to Wash ington, then around onto Seventh to the. registration offices and the Elks' headquarters on Stark, was the route of the arriving delegations. As rapidly as one crowd had been escorted to the headquarters and all Its accommoda tions bad been attended to, the band and the drill . team hastened back to the station to meet the next crowd of visitors. Around the entrance of the station was a pandemonium of puffing and honking automobiles, gathered by the reception committee for the accommo dation of the visiting women. Small delegations were escorted to the regis tration office by details from the re ception committee and when the larger delegations arrived triumphal marches through the streets took place. Weary, but full of enthusiasm to wel come their Incoming brothers, the mem bers of the reception committee were on the ground at the depot from the arrival of the first delegation in the early forenoon until the last special train from the East pulled into the sta tion about midnight. Railways Aid Elks. The railroads have been co-operating with the Portland lodge to assist in the prompt and easy handling of the throngs of visitors. "Tired?" asked J. L. Miller, city pas 'senger agent of the Southern Pacific, of one of the reception committee, who had taken advantage of a momentary lull In the excitement to sit down on a bench in a secluded part of the station for a momentary rest. "I should say. I am!" was the answer. "I've been on the march practically every minute since daybreak and I'm going to have to stay up all night from the appearance of things now. It's plenty of fun to meet the fellows, but we won't get any chance to sleep from now on. I'm afraid." "We're busy on the wire now," said Mr. Miller, "and wil do everything in our power to bring the last train due tonight Into Portland by U o'clock or a very little later. After that there will be nothing more coming until to morrow morning. We will do every thing we can to arrange while the trains are still coming into Portland for the reception committee to get little respite for part of each night, at least Depot Crowds Large. The throng about the gates seemed never to diminish. It was necessary to wall In the gates with benches, leav ing narrow alleys through which the people leaving trains or passing through the gates to board trains might make their way. On each side of these bar riers the people were packed in a solid mass so closely together that it was Im possible for one to force a way through it. "Here they come!" , At intervals the cry of the crowd would announce the approach of a new special. Few of the trains came In ex actly on schedule, for it seems that kindly Elks at stations all the way up from the Southern Oregon line, stopped them to greet, their brothers on their way to the convention. -, A lively hurrying on the part of the band to line up and the drill team to take Its position alongside the track, where the train was to pull in, fol lowed the announcement of each com ing train. As the special would come puffing into the station the band would strike into the 'official song of welcome with a crash and a blare that would bring the newcomers in a body to the win dows and platforms. Photographer la Busy Has, "Hello Bill!" The greeting shouts would fill the air as the train halted. Piling off the train, the guests were Instantly surrounded by the reception committee, which would break ranks at once, each man hastening to make himself Individually useful In getting the visitors safely started toward the headquarters. The official photographer of the Elka was one of the liveliest figures at the station all day long. Never able to tell Just where the next crowd might land, he darted here and there between trains, chalking off semicircles in favorable places for a group picture, until the pavement inside the gate was everywhere ringed with his marks. The instant a large party landed, the members of the reception commit tee were pressed into service long enough to get the party grouped about one of his multitudinous chalk lines for a photo, after which they were taken to their automobiles or marched up to the registration headquarters. Pendleton came in with all the mem bers of its delegation wearing som breros typical of the round-up coun try, and announced that the Pendle ton crowd will wear the typical "woolly West", chaps and bandanas in the big Elks parade Thursday. V Medford Brlnga 143. One of the largest drill teams that inarched up from the station, although the men were not in the uniforms they will wear on the day of the parade, was t?e Medford party of 145, wider the leadership of Captain A. W. Dean. Medford Elks all carried to Portland purple and white umbrellas, which, with their big "apple and pear" badges, will be one of the distinctive bits of Insignia of their delegation dur ing the convention. Klamath Falls sent in an advance guard of 18 on the same train that brought the Medford party, and Grants Pass and other Southern Oregon cities -were represented. The Grays Harbor special reached Portland an hour before the Medford train. Hoquiam having an especially strong representation in this party. Dallas, Tex sent its advance guard of 40 into the city about noon, an nouncing that about 90 more would follow today. "Poppy-pickera" from Log Angeles, tl: -r fell 0k g - VIM-' V V;; 1 V. -(Tizsnizi - ' -.-VFI ,tiA i $r&fffl - , . ,- ftp) : way here? Well, didn't we! Our train f,' NSS. ,4V M ? - ;' 200 strong, arrived in Portland "with bells" yesterday at 5 o'clock, six hours behind their schedule, and were re ceived ;by hundreds of enthusiastic Elks and citizens. The delegation stopped at Ashland Saturday night be cause of a disabled car. At every sta tion which boasted an Elks' lodge the southerners were welcomed. Forty more Los Angeles Elks are coming by boat. At the station to meet the Los An geles delegation .was the Elks' admin istrative band, the entire reception committee and a crowd that thronged the station and overflowed into the streets. Polioemen were forced to clear doors to allow passengers to pass through, and the Elks had to crowd down a narrow lane of human beings to reach the cars that awaited them at the curb.. The women and older men were taken in cars by mem bers of the reoeption committee, while the selected company in uniform and 100 others formed a parade. This body inarched up Sixth to Washington, te Seventh and down Seventh to quarters at the Oregon Hotel. "We're here with bells," was the cry of the visitors as they jingled tiny brass bells which were fastened to their wrists by, straps. Open House to Be held. The Los Angeles delegation will hold open house, beginning today, at a b)i; reception room in the Hotel Orego'i and will welcome members of all lodges to their Jinks. The programme of stunts has not been given out, but the "poppy-pickers" promise everyone who calls a Jolly good time. "We have - a drill company that Is going out after all the- medals, and I believe we can take them," declared John F. Howard, who was in eharge of the delegation. "It has been train ing a long time and has prepared fea tures that we want to keep secret, but which will be prise-winners, anyway. There are SO men In uniform, in eharge of a competent captain who knows this drilling game, from one end to the other. "Did we have a good time on our way here? Well, didn't we! Our train was stopped at Ashland, and, although it was 11 o'clock, the Ashland lodge met us and showed us a fine time. "We stopped at Roseburg, Oregon City and other towns, and this ac counts for our being late." Jersey City Elks Here. .Seven cars of Jersey City Elks ar rived in Portland last night at 7 o'clock. The delegation marched up Sixth street carrying the long cloth banner which had decorated one of their coaches for eight days over a Journey of 4000 miles. There were 100 in the party. The party left Jersey City Saturday, June 29, and made the Journey through Canada to Seattle and thence to Port land. At Laggan, Canada, they cele brated the Fourth of July, The dele gates shot off firecrackers and sky rockets and sang patriotic songs while the Canadians looked on. At Glacier they climbed the . big glacier there, which is two miles high. Soon after they got out of St. Paul the tin wedding of Mr. and Mrs. George Huber. of Newark, was celebrated by a banquet. Poems in honor of the cou ple were composed and read, tin pres ents were given and wedding marches were played. En route the party stopped at St Paul, Portal, Laggan, Field, Glacier and Ko. 1, Members of Credentials Committee (Reading From Left to Right), Jamea A. Flnlen, of Streator, Ill.f E. P. Strong, Cleveland, O.j A. C. Crowder, Chair man, Jackson, Miss. A. C. Crowder, Jr.j Dr. R. J. Lawler, Niagara Falla, IV". Y., and John D. Shea, Hartford, Conn. So. S, Douglass Preston, Cheyenne, Wjo.j Daniel M. Halley, Past Grand Esteemed Lecturing Knight, McAleater, Okla., and Edward J. Kelly, Cheyenne, Member of Committee on Preserva tion of Elk Xo. 3, San Joaqnin Valley "Live Ones" With Toy Telephone and Cow Bella No. 4, Norman Vaushn, Ertilor National Elk's Horn, M. Louis. No. 5, E. M. Dlckerman, Tucson, Aria., Candidate for Grand Esteemed Lec turing Knight ( L, P. Laveronl, of Keene, N. H.. Grand Inner Guard, and C. G. Comegys, of Jaraesville, Texas. Member Committee on TnberculoslH Sani tarium No. B, Lloyd R. Maxwell, of Marshaltown, la.. Candidate for Grand Esteemed Lecturing Knight No. 7, Judge Henry L. Kennan, or Spokane, nd Robert W. Brown, of Louisville, Members of Grand Forum No. 8, B. O. Jaffa and John Lee Clarke, of Albuquerque, N. M., Who Are Booming Clarke for Grand Inner Guard. Vancouver, B. C. There the party boarded a Puget Sound steamer for Se attle. They stayed in Seattle for a few hours and then took the train for Port land, arriving here at 7:10 P. M. yes terday. BILL! HERE'S THE NEWS FROM YOUR HOME TOWN Berkeley Duo Alone in Glory. BERKELEY. CaL. July 7. (Special.) Captain John Sargent, a veteran pi lot, 4s dead at his Alameda home. A. J. Snyder Is to build a seven-story office block at Sixteenth and San Pab lo. "Fat" Mills and Jim Davis, of Berk eley Lodge No. 1002, are alone in their glory. Milton Bernard, a member of Oak land lodge, was hurt, with his father, when his automobile was hit by an electric car. Their injuries are serious, JL Howard Hermann, former presi dent of the Berkeley Board of Trade, is to enter business In San Diego as a contractor with Brother Grpve, organ ist of the Jodge. ' Charles White, of Berkeley lodge. Is acting city editor for the Independent in Krugers absence. Mayor Mott, of Oakland, has issued a call for a conference of seven adjoin ing cities to form an inter-municipal water district. Deputy Sheriffs Moffitt and Burke were arrested because of a row with the driver of the prison van, in. which guns were drawn. Pittsburg Hottest In Years. PITTSBURG. July 7. (Special.) W. E- Howley, contractor and Democratic politician, died today. Pittsburg had the hottest July 7 In 10 years, resulting In three suicides, one drowning, one death, one attempted suicide and scores of prostrations. The highest' temperature was 96. Acting Police Inspector John Capp opposes the abolition of the Elk goat. Ha said: "The goat is Elkdom's most cherished institution. . Thousands have felt its uplifting power. Previous mem ories cluster round its whiskers. Alle gheny Elks will not see it effaced with out a fight." The State Railroad Commission will probe the, Llgonier Valley wreck, in which 28 were killed and 28 Injured. Cincinnati Bank Reorganised. CINCINNATI. July 7. (Special.) The Second National Bank was for mally reorganised yesterday. The stockholders voted an assessment of $100 a share to be paid In by July 18. C. A. Bosworth was elected president; William H. Alms; first vice-president; B. H. Kroger, Ferdinand Jelke, Jr., Horace Lothman, John Ommwalke, T. a. Kennedy, C. A. Bosworth and M, L. Klrkpatrlck, directors. Fifty Elks Journeyed to Indepen dence, Ky., yesterday to attend the fu neral of W. B. Wilson, who died Fri day, A letter from Henry Reuch, former tax collector, who recently embezzled 111,000 and fled, says that he is In Honduras with Bob Reynolds. ' Frank Whitney, who inherited a for tune from his father, William Y. Whit ney, the millionaire lumber merchant, is dying in the chsrity ward of the city hospital. Mrs. Ireland Killed t New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, July 7. -(Special.) Mrs. Ireland, wife of Brother George G. Ireland, was killed when a revolver was'accldently exploded. Several ships have sailed without in terference by striking seamen. Governor Hall and Lieutenant Bar rett opeSly attacked eaoh other on the floor of the legislature. Brothers L. H. Marrero, Jr., and Fred Mlddleton oppose each other for Dis trict Attorneyship In Jefferson parish. -Charles Whltte declines nomination for Mayor. The Fourth of July smoker given by the Stale Beer . Club at the home was a hugs success, P. M. Lambremont has quit politlos and entered the practice of law with Brother C. S. Herbert. . Solons at Baton Rouge have put the antl-tlpplng bill to sleep. The first heat prostration was re corded yesterday, when Mrs. Marc Juler was overcome. Muskogee, Okla,, Notes, MUSKOGEE, Okla., July 7. (Spe cial.) Jess Thomas baa left on a two weeks' vacation at Eureka Springs. W. G. Robertson, for 40 years a Re publican, has read himself out of the party to become a Democrat. While fishing for crawfish, the 9-year-old Eddie Brunk, stepson of Fred Thomas, traveling salesman, fell from a raft and was drowned. Two little companions, son of Justice Wheeler, were helpless to aid the drowning boy. Harry Oliver is telling fish stories now. He is Just back from a three weeks' camp in Wisconsin, looking fine. Colonel Clarence B. Douglas has withdrawn from the Republican Sena torial race to give mora time to boost ing Muskogee. E. B. Grubbs and Charles Dlckman were able to leave the hospital today, Paul Williams is improving. Happenings in Wichita. WICHITA, Kan., July' 7. (Special.) Funeral services for- Dr. P. S. Thomas, a prominent Wichita Elk, who was killed by the collision of his auto mobile with a train July 4, were held yesterday, ' Orient trainmen threaten to strike this week. R, J. McKee will build a $50,000 flat on North Topeka. Ed Blood, the tallest Wichita Elk, has finished harvesting a record crop of rye on his farm south of the city. Nine motorcyclists entered the en durance run to Cottonwood Falla to day. The police raided Wall Jennings' place, 714 East Douglass avenue, yes terday. ' A fine of $100 and 80 days for Joy riders is provided of a new ordinance adopted by the Council. Three hundred Catholio men met to night to make plans for Cardinal Gib bons' visit. Sacramento Suspects Incendiaries, SACRAMENTO, July 7. (Special.) The police suspect an attempt was made to burn down, the Southern Pa cific Railway station shortly before the departure of the Elks' special train for the north. The Elks' bag gags had a narrow escape. George W. Peltier is to ereot a six story building on the west side of Ninth street, between K and L streets. It is admitted today that the Fourth of July military celebration was a fi nancial failure. A deficit of more than $1500 exists. "Too many counter at traction" is the explanation given. ' .' : '' ' ' ;' ' ' ' Ed J. Kay Is reported to be in com munication with William . Ely relative to opening a new theater in Sacra mento. Kay Is said to be raising funds for a venture in Portland. Both men are Elks. A movement . is under way at the Elks' Club, headed by Frlsbee Smith, to drink to the absent members every hour during the trip of the delegation. John D. to Celebrate in Cleveland. . CLEVELAND. July 7. (Special.) John D. Rockefeller will celebrate his 73d birthday here tomorrow. -He said today he had never felt better In his life. Cleveland sweltered in its second hottest day today, with the tempera ture reaching 95. Several were over come, but no deaths were recorded. The Constitutional League today de cided to quia members of the Legis lature to learn whether they stand for "progressive" legislation, as called for by the new constitution. Charles E. Bankston, aeronaut, went up 1000 feet In a balloon from . Luna Park this afternoon, fell with a para chute into the Fairmount reservoir and was drowned. St. Paul Elk Entertains Children. s ST. PAUL, July 7. (Special.) Judge Willis, esteemed leading knight of St. Paul lodge. No. 69, assisted Bob Seng and Governor Eberhart in entertaining thousands of children in the belated celebration of the Fourth at Harriet Island Saturday. It was a success from the start. ' George C Power, president of the First National Bank, who died Friday, will be buried Monday. Walter A. Pocock, of No. 59, ' left Saturday for Chicago to bring 160 members of the National Hotelmen's Association to St. Paul on their way to Yellowstone Park. Lodge No. 44, of Minneapolis, took the cup away from No. 59 in a fast ball game Saturday. The score was 12 to 4. Dan Harrington, ex-policeman, was probably fatally shot by John Mathies in a fight between the two, who are watchmen at the Great Northern freighthouse, Saturday night Mrs. Johnson, wife of the late Gov ernor, has sold her Lincoln-avenue home and will build a bungalow in the outskirts. The Wilder Charities report shows that 1500 worthy poor were cared for and $50,000 spent for relief during the past year. Denver to Have Universal Transfers. DENVER, July 7. (Special.) John Ft . MrfiRuran. nresident of the Board of Supervisors, and John W. Ford, pres ident of the Board or Aldermen, Dotn say that the bill for universal trans fers will pass Tuesday night. John H. Middlebrook, of Denver lodge, died Friday at midnight. T n..A4 1 r era ti a VA hPMI InntitlltoH hv Mayor Arnold against Magistrate Sta- . . , 1 1- TT .1 T V.lk pieton ana ma uieriw jiuu n. a-jubul, charging them with pernicious political activity. Sheriff Sullivan has ordered all hotels and cafes to close their bars tight every Sunday. A deal has been completed for the sale of the Brown Palace Hotel to an Eastern syndicate. oori TT. Muehlhausen. of Denver lodge, and Mrs. Pearl Kratke were married yesterday. Colts Back In Omaha. OMAHO, July 7. (Special.) Rourke'B Colts returned today, opening a series of 16 straight games on the home lot They started off by defeating the Josies 8 to 2, taking third place in the per centare column. The Automatic Telephone Company's plant, bought by the Bell at receiver's sale for $1,000,000, will be allowed to Dass out of existence, says C. E. Yost The stockholders will not receive more than 30 cents on the dollar. The water board has asked the Coun cil for a levy of $100,000 to meet ex penses. Complications are beginning to arise Blnce the plant was taken over by the city July 1. . The University Club has decided to take the Commercial Club quarters when the latter organization moves , (Concluded on Pas 13.) On thousand automobiles will spd through the finest residence sections of the city Tuesday morning, carrying the wives of visiting Elks on a scenic tour, and throughout the week machines will be at the disposal of women who wish to make, sightseeing trips. This is one big feature that has been provided for tne enieriammeni ' women visitors, but It is noi mo oniy one. Ladies villi have the privileges of the Oaks Amusement Park, which the Elks have rented tor an oay Wednesday; Thursday night they will be entertained at Council Crest, and Friday they will make trips up the Willamette and Columbia rivers on 20 boats that have been chartered espe cially for the purpose. Ball to Be Bla- Event. Fridav eveninar thev will have the center of the stage In the reception and grand ball which is to bs given at Elks' Hall. Four orchestras have been secured for this ball, which will be one of the biggest social events ever held in the city. This ball will closa the convention. The lone ride Tuesday will he man aged by the wives of Portland Elks. Cars will be assigned to hotels, and they will leave as fast as they are fi.ied. The route takes in the princi pal residence sections of the West Side. Portland Heights, the residence sections of the East Side, the Ladd tract, Mount Tabor, Laurelhurst and Irvington. In the evening the women will take their places In the seats re served for Elks and their wives to watch the parade. Oaka Turned Over to Elks. Wednesday the Oaks is absolutely at their disposal. The scenic railways, tha chutes and even the "nigger doll" booths, where people throw baseballs at black figures for cigars, will run absolutely free to all women who ac company men wearing the Elks' pin. There will be Informal dancing and in the evening an open-air fish banquet. Accommodation for 10,000 people has been provided for the trips on the rivers. Twenty steamers, several of which are ocean-going vessels, have been rented and the committee is look ing for more. Every boat that can be taken off Its regular run will be brought into service. Women will have seats in the section reserved for Elks at all parades and entertainments not of an official char acter. ' All women, whether members of Elks' families or not, will be admitted free to all basebal games' between the Portland and San Francisco teams every day this week. BABY ELK LODGE IS TO COME New Organization, Formed at Mo Minnville Friday, Mas 84 Members. M'MINNVILLE. Or., July . (Spe cial.) The new Elks' lodge, hereafter to be known-as McMinnville Lodge, No. 1283, B. P. O. E., was duly .organized last night and 36 new members initi ated, together with 48 old members who transferred from the Salem Lodge, giv ing the new lodge a total membership of 84. Gale S. Hill, of Albany, being one of the leading Elks of this district, as sisted by A. Hucksteln, Frank D. Ward, A. J. Anderson, George C. L. Snvder, H. S. Stone. Charleg Burgraff, E. C. Giles and Fred Dawson, all officers of the Salem and Albany lodges, were the initiating forces that labored during the early evening in drilling the new Elks into shape and incidentally put ting an edge on their appetite for the banquet served at a late hour. The new lodge will attend the Elks convention In Portland in a body, and will have an elaborate float this be ing now the baby Elk lodge of the world and the youngest lodge to take part in the Elks' parade in Portland. The officers elected are: Exalted ruler, W. T. Vinton; esteemed leading knight, Francis V. Galloway; loyal knight, A. M. Perry; esteemed loyal knight, J. L. Fletcher; secretary, T. E. O'Neill; treasurer, Frank Wortman; til ler, W. J. Bishop, and trustees, W. J. LllJequist E. B. Ferguson and G. W. Hendershott The personnel of this lodge and the prominence of Its officers makes this one of the mos'. popular lodges for the number of me.nbers, and It Is assumed that it will nave a large membership within a few months. SIXTY ELKS LEAVE CHICAGO Delegation Wants Jlills, of Superior, for Exalted Ruler. CHICAGO, July 7. (Special.) Sixty Elk boosters for Thomas B. Mills, of Superior, Wis., lodge, for grand exalted ruler, left Chicago early today for Portland. The party, which included the two delegates from No. 4, Chicago, was headed by Exalted Ruler Webster H. Rapp and the silver-tongued orator, Charles B. Lahan. Members of Chicago No. 4 impressed on the Portland-bound Elks the move on foot to erect for No. 4 the finest Elks' home in America. Chicago lodge has closed a 99-year lease on a sita In the heart of the city for a sky scraper which will contain 600 suites for bachelor Elks and visiting brothers. The members of No. 4 will meet at a special session July 18 to take final action on the plans and specifications for the new home. Exalted Ruler Jacob H- Hopkins sends royal greetings to all brothers In Portland. 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