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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1907)
-. . . . : ' . THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. TPRTLAyp, 31 AY 19. 1907. ..5 M ' .1 ) .1 "11 ! I ill f a a m READY TO BEGIN WORK SCHEME Co-operative Christian Feder ation Will Develop Cen- tral Oregon. IRRIGATE ARID SECTIONS Invites Subscriptions to $50,000, 000 of Bonds Money Will Be Vsed to Reclaim Desert Lands and Btilld Railroads. The big scheme for development of certain section of Eastern and West ern Oregon, announced some time ago by the Co-operative Christian Federa tion, has been set in motion and it is said by officers of the federation that the period of planning is over and ac tual work will now bo begun. Pros pective have been issued inviting sub scriptions to bonds and setting forth the uses to which money realized v their sale will be put, and engineers "nave taken the . field to work on the irrigation projects mapped out by the company in Eastern Oregon. The Co-operative Christian Federa tion has a comprehensive scheme for tho settlement ana cultivation of great tracts in this state now unpeopled. Water is to be led down from moun tain streams Into the thirsty and arid portions of Malheur. Baker and Harney counties anj the desert made to yield large crops. Homes are to be made ready for settlement and the great work of making bountiful crops grow where no blade of grass grew before is to be the mission of the federation. F.nglneers and their assistants have started for Ontario to begin work on the irrigation system, which they have orders to continue, until the project is completed. AH of the party will have left for Ontario by Tuesday, making up a full quota for the engineering work. Agents of the federation will follow the engineers, obtaining water contracts, which will be handled from the New York headquarters of the or ganization. "Wnile we have said nothing about the progress "f our work during the past year." said Wallls Nash, secre tary of the federation, "we have been gaining strength day by day. We have been doing no talking, but plenty of effective work has been accomplished and we have sufficient strength to go ahead actively. The work will be pushed from now on until our plans bear fruit." Plans for Irrigation. The Irrigation, scheme upon which the engineers wilt work from Ontario is the F.l Dorado system in Baker and Malheur Counties. Two reservoir sites, where the dams will be built., will hold water sufficient to Irrigate 10.1,000 acres of land. The main ditch is to be 5 mils long. It heads on the south ern slope of the Blue Mountains, where there is a heavy annual snow fall. Sixteen townships are the direct collecting area. Willow Creek will be used to carry the water trom me reservoirs onto the land to be irri gated. Settlers have moved into the terri tory to be irrigated in Jarge numbers within the past few years. They ex pect to purehase'water from the feder ation as soon as tho system is complet ed and the water can be delivered to them. The general laws of the state regarding Irrigation districts will be utilized and water will be sold to the settlers on the best terms available. Another Irrigation and development scheme which will be pushed by the federation is the purchase of the Mil ler & Lux ranch m Malheur and Har ney Counties, embracing 120,000 acres. This tract is now held under option by the federation at a price that will not -xceed S7.S5 an acre. It is estimated that when the property is made ac cessible by a railroad it will become worth three times its cost. It is said to be available for cutting up into mall farms and ranches and will sup port a large pcpulation. Another project the. federation in tends to carry out is the establishment of what is to be called "Garden City" : on the Clackamas River, within 14 miles of Portland. The tract to be ac quired consists of 1740 acres of land in one body, part of which commands a large water power in the Clackamas River. It is said that by the construc tion of a dam SO feet high, 9000 horse power can be generated. Near this dam there is said to be an attractive site for factories and manufacturing establishments of all kinds. Upwards of 1000 acres, lying level above the river, is said to form a very attractive town site, and to offer a beautiful am) healthful location for a city. It is planned to make gardening and truck farming a feature of the garden city and to offer a healthful and delightful residence spot for thousands of fam ilies. Will Bntld a Railroad. The building of the Mid'Oregon & Kastern Railway is another of the pur poses of the federation, which has heretofore been outlined. This road is planned to traverse Central Oregon from Portland to Boise, Idaho. The prospectus just issued invites subscriptions to a bond issue of $10. 000.000, being the first of issues to the total amount of JR0.000.000 which will be used in the carrying out of the vari ous projects outlined. These bonds will run for 50 years and will bear 5 per cent interest, with a further con tingent non-cumulative annual interest up to C per cent, payable from a fund consisting of one-half the entire net profits earned by all the enterprises ef tho federation. Bonds to the face value of 2 2-3 per cent of all bonds subscribed and paid up will be drawn annually for redemption after the' first five years from date of subscription nd the full amount subscribed paid oft In this way. The management of the various In dustries and properties of the federa tion in Oregon are to be intrusted to a ;ommittee of 15 members, acting as an executive committee, but to be gov erned by the federation as a whole. The first members of thi committee are: J. Frank Watson, president Merchants' National Bank, Portland: Samuel Con nell, president of the Northwestern Door and Lumber Company, lately vice president' of the Lewis and Clark Ex position. Portland: L. O. Ralston, late president of the Oregon Savings Bank, Portland; R. U Durham, vice-president of the Merchants' National Bank. Port land; n. C. Tobias, secretary and man ager Oregon Timber and Lumber Com pany: Wallis Nash, Portland: J- R Btackaby. president of the Bank of Ontario. Ontario. Or.: N. X'. Carpenter. president of First National Bunk of Sumptir, Or., vice-president m nr.i National Bank of Burns. Or., cashier of ; Citizens" National Bank ot Baker City. THE GREAT FER-DON ARRIVED SATURDAY He Will Proceed With His Work in 'This City at Once Promises a Few of the Demonstrations Which Have Made Him So Popular in Other Cities. All Arrangements Completed for a Long Stay in Portland. TRAVELING SALESMAN SPEAKS Last night there arrived in our city from the Kast a man whose appearance has been eagerly looked for by many of our citizens. The Great Fer-Don, lecturer, philanthropist and traveler, of whose works tho papers in the East and South have been filled, is the man who will continue his demonstrations and will establish an office of the Fer-i Don Medical Experts here in Portland. His business manager, who has been here for the past week, has secured for Fer-Don offices in the Grand Theater Building and quarters at 20th and Washington sts.. where will be held the lectures and demonstrations. The Ureat Fer-Don Is accompanied by his justly famed Diamond ' Cluster Band and colored performers, for whose con certs there has been erected at 20th and Washington sts. a large electric lighted platform. Chasles R. Beatty. a traveling sales man, was talking in the Perkins Hotel lobby last evening. He was In Houston, Texas, recently during Fer-Don's stay there, and spoke as follows: "If half the things they say of this man Fer-Don is true, he certainly is a wonder. I heard but little else talked ot in that city but the works of the man. "According to what I heard he made deaf people hear in a few moments' time, and the lame and paralytic walked after an application of one of his remedies. Of course some of this talk may have been exaggeration, but if only half what I heard is true, he is certainly doing a wonderful work with his medical preparations. Fer-Don ap parently is a very generous man from what I could learn, for he gave lots of money and food to the poor." Or.: C. W. Thompson, of the Commer cial National Bank. Pendleton, Or.: H. S. Wallace, president of C. C. Federa tion; David Leppert, vice-president C. C. Federation. CARS TO ROSE CITY PARK Will Be Regularly In Operation by Last of Next Week. Streetcars will begin running regu larly to Rose City Park the last of next week. The permanent crossing at the O. R. & N. is completed, and will be put in Monday. The track will be ballasted between the hill and the O. R. & N. crossing by Monday night. Three work trains will then work bal lasting between East Twenty-eighth street and the O. R. & N. crossing. The hill on the Sandy road is being cut down, at eome places ten feet, to leave a low grade for the streetcar line. This cut will be the full width of the wagon road, leaving a splendid grade for teams. A large water main is laid to the foot of the hill, has been tested and the water turned on. The work of laying It on top of the hill will begin the first of next week. Coleman avenue and Alameda and Wauna streets are finished south of the Sandy road, and sidewalks will be started on these streets the first of the week. The fin ishing touches are being put .on Carvel and Wemath avenues, and sidewalks will be started on these streets next week. The grading of Aldton avenue south of the Sandy road will also be finished the coming week. The office building at the Intersection of Sandy road boulevard, Thompson street. Mlsh lah nd Carvel avenue is nearly com pleted, and will be ready for occupancy the coming weck. The basement has been excavated and foundation started for Mr. Schle gol's $5000 ton-room bungalow on Cole-" man avenue and the Alameda. Archi tects McNaughtonv Raymond and Law rence are working on plans for a 12500 house for W. H. Head, to be built at the corner of Aldton avenue and Thompson street. Bennett, Hendricks & Tobey are preparing plans for a schoolhouse and church building for Rose City Park. Eighteen teams with road scraper and the latest grading appliances are working regularly on street-grading. Over 600 lots have been sold In this new suburb in less than three months, at an average price of about $500 a lot. These prices include city water to the front of every lot, graded streets. cement sidewalks, with wide-parking, and cement curbs, electric .lights and telephone connections. MELDRUM BEHIND BARS Ex-Surveyor-General In Jail Pend ing Removal to Prison. Henry Meldrum, ex-Surveyor-General of Oregon, was arrested at Oregon City yesterday by Deputy United States Marshal Griffiths and brought to this city and lodged in the , Multnomah County Jail, where he w-ill remain until next week, when he will be taken to McNeil's Island, Wash., to serve out a sentence ot three years in the Fed eral penitentiary for forging applica tions for surveys. When arrested, Meldrum was en gaged in playing a game of cards. In addition to his term of imprison ment, Meldrum must pay a' fine of 5200. Meldrum, upon his return from Washington City recently, was allowed a short time to arrange his business af fairs, before going to McNeil s Island. The story somehow became current In Oregon City that Meldrum would not have to go to jail, provided he paid his fine. His arrest set that ru mor at rest, i The Federal officials say they have never hinted at such an arrangement. NOTICE. Mr. Winkler, lately with the Meier Frank Company, in the capacity of fit ter, has entered our employ as design er and fitter of ladies' garments. Mr. Winkler enjoys the reputation of being a very thorough and competent fitter of ladies' garments, and we are pleased to announce to the ladles of Portland that Mr. Winkler has connected him self with our modern, up-to-date de partment house. THE J. M. ACHESON CO. -ffii Wl f fit ttt afiJK k ill v44-M ilin 7 if. Tl Mi J! 1 , m liSIf! I mwmm lullt'Jl'ki MID-MAY CLEARANCE SALE OF LACE CURTAINS-COMMENCING TOMORROW From our immense stock of Lace Curtains we have selected every lot consisting of one and two pairs of a pattern and placed on sale for tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday at clearance prices. This spe cial assortment consists of the best of our Spring purchases limited quantities of one and two-pair lots of patterns that we are unable to duplicate within any reasonable time. The following will no doubt suggest the opportunity for renewing the window hangings in the home. Drapery Department, sixth floor. 2 pairs regular $1.60 values in white laces, per pair. ; -SO 1 pair regular $2.00 values in white laces, per pair J'JJJJ 2 pairs regular $2.00 values in white laces, per pair l-0 2 pairs regular $2.50 values in white laces, per pair. 1 pair regular $3.00 values in white laces, per pair regular $4.7o values m wnite, laces, per pair . regular $5.00 values in white laces, per pair regular $1.75 values in Corded Arabian laces, per, pair regular $2.25 values in Corded Arabian laces, per pair romiiar !fc9.fn values in Corded Arabian laces. rer pair regular $3.00 values in Corded Arabian laces, per pair . . . 1.50 pair pair pair pair pair pair pair 2.50 2.50 .80 1.15 1.25 1 pair 1 pair 1 pair 1 pair 2.00 2.00 50 7.50 5.00 regular $ 3.75 values in Cluny laces, per pair regular $ 4.25 values in Cluny laces, per pair regular $ 4.50 values in Cluny laces, per pair regular $ 5.25 values in Cluny laces, per pair 2 pairs regular $ 6.00 values in Cluny laces, per pair 3.00 1 pair regular $ 6.00 values m uiuny laces, per pan 2 pairs regular $ 7.50 values in Cluny laces, per pair 1 pair regular $ 8.00 values in Cluny laces, per pair 1 pair regular $10.00 values in Cluny laces, per pair 1 pair regular $16.00 values in Cluny laces, per pair 2 pairs regular $ 3.25 values in white Cluny laces, per pair 2 pairs regular $ 5.00 values in white Cluny laces, per pair 1 pair regular $11.00 values in white Cluny laces, per pair Following we quote also unusual sale v alues in Lace Curtains, comprising a special purchase of attractive patterns in large quantities. 2.50 3.75 4.00 5.00 S.OO 1.75 2.50 5.5Q - - a Mr J-V 1 nair rernilar .4513.00 values in -white Clunv laces. Der Dair. . b-OU 1 pair regular $ 7.50 values in Irish Point laces, per pair. . 3.50 1 pair regular $10.00 values in Irish Point laces, per pair. . o.OO 2 pairs regular $27.50 values in Irish Point laces, per pair. .14.00 1 pair regular $ 9.00 values in Brussels laces, per pair 4.50 icnA i -r i 1 T KI & pairs regular ipru.w values m x i useeis iac, pci pan . . . 1 pair regular $15.00 values in Brussels laces, per pair . . 1 pair regular $10.00 values in Arabian laces, per pair 1 pair regular $12.50 values in Arabian laces, per pair ..... 6.00 2 pairs regular $12.50 values in Arabian laces, per pair 6.00 1 pair regular $17.50 values in Arabian laces, per pair 8.50 2 pairs regular $24.00 values in Arabian laces, per pair 11.50 1 pair regular $65.00 values in real hand-made Arabian laces per pair 25.00 5 patterns in Arabian tint laces, each pattern consisting of from 6 pairs to 18 pairs, regular $2.50 and $3.00 values, per pair. .$1.75 8 patterns of Arabian and white Lace Curtains in large quantities of each pattern, heavy cable nets and dainty Brussels effects, reg ular $3.50 and $5.00 values, per pair ?2.50 11 patterns of Arabian and Cluny hand-made laces, 3 yards long, in new and novel effects, regular $6.00 and $7.50 values, per pair ". $3.75 7 patterns of Arabian and Cluny laces, regular $7.50 to $10.00 val ues, per pair . , $5.00 CUT GLASS SPECIAL BERRY BOWLS $2.85 Heavy patterns, eight-inch bowl, in richly cut design, regular $4.50 value; spe cial for tomorrow only in our Basement Department. LAWN MOWERS, GAR DEN HOSE, SPRINKLERS, REELS, NOZZLES, ETC. In the above we offer only the most de pendable quality, perfect cutting, easy run ning lawnmowers in various sizes from $3.25 up; cotton and rubber hose in various lengths with reels, nozzles and all attach ments; effective lawn sprinklers in several styles; grasscutters adjustable to any size mower. Hammocks in appropriate patterns and colorings from $1.75 up. Basement De-partment. ATTRACTIVE STYLES IN GO-CARTS AND BABY CARRIAGES Fifty styles to select from, the most de-. pendable gear and construction, small folding patterns in plain and fancy designs, baby carriages in novel and artistic body de signs in the natural green and brown fin ishes, auto gear. "Allwin" collapsible go carts in the nickel, blue enamel and maple frames. We have folding go-carts from $2.75 up. - Upholsterings and parasols in ap propriate fabrics and colorings. MAIL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE OUR CAREFUL AND PROMPT ATTENTION 1 YOUR CREDIT 18 6000 J : 'III COMPLETE-H005E-FURni5HEI?51 MAKE YOUR TERM! DR. PERKINS SANITARY REFRIGERATORS BASEMENT DEPARTMENT WORK OF VISITING NURSES AMONG POOR OF PORTLAND Association's Mission Is to Believe Suffering and Teach the Improve ment of Sanitary Conditions as Aid to Health. BARRETT'S MAIN 4iiS-W-13 Morrison 16 11th. Your health dpna upon the condition of your blood. Keeo it uur by taking Mood's Sarsaimrilla. THAT th Visiting Nurse Association is doing for the poor of Portland is well told in the following annnal report of the association's nurse, Florence A. Baldwin, which was read at the an nual meeting: - "It becomes the privilege of the visit ing nurse in Portland, as .elsewhere, to come into close personal contact with the poor, sick and unfortunate of almost every nationality and creed. "They tell us no place is more health ful than our own beautiful city, and yet one need scarce look around to find more than one can care for. In our kinder garten work we find our little children, and it is but a short step from the care of the child there to the family with its At the People's Institute In i North Portland we find little ones from i .. . . . .i-. i ... ) a,w4Bti me nomes 01 uuimu! tuiumu, u " u h, and other nationalities, and at th Neigh borhood Guild in South Portland the Jew ish children, German. Russian and Italian. We give one half day each-week to each of these kindergartens from September until June, giving baths, caring for heads, doing minor dressings, sending the chil Urefi to a doctor when necessary, oft times going into the homes to show the mother how to care for the child. In the past two school years we have cared for 4T3 children, doing 15 dressings. Per haps It is to this branch that we owe the greatest single secret of the work's growth. In the past 20 months the Visit ing Nurse Association has received 229 new cases, and made 1220 calls. This represents people from all kinds of homes from the one or two-room shack, or scow, with a family of sis or seven, to the comfortable home of the wage-earner and it includes all ages, from the new-born infant to the aged and infirm, all ailments the flesh is heir to. ofttlmes the result of neglect or ignorance, or both. The visit ing nurse's work is constantly instruetii-e to those who have had no means of know ing the value of hyElene. "One of the first calls that came to us, shortly aficr I came into therwork last year, was to see a Door little woman 24 years old. living, or rather dying, ot tubercular joints. She lived with her husband, a S-year-old child and a sister. who cared for the patient, in one room In the basement of a lodging-house, in the most deplorable condition. ine air was heavy with poisonous odors. The patient occupied the only bed In the room. where she had been helplessly confined for weeks. The husband slept on a quilt on the floor by day and worked by night. when the same quilt was used for the sister and child. Our first care was to do the dressings and disinfect the room, our next care to find other quarters for the husband and child. Here we did two and three dressings a day for more than two weeks, when death mercifully re leased the poor little woman. At that time almost the last cent of th hus band's wages had gone for medicine. "Then again we find little children in our kindergarten work, under-fed. Im properly clothed. ill-treated at home, never knowing what it means to have a bath or clothes changed, except when they "go to school," One little girl told me one day she did not undress at night, for If she did her sister "stole" her clothes. One little chap came from such a family as I have described, for whom various attempts were made to place him In a home, but each time with the same result, the family vanished, once even going as far as Spokane for a month or so. One evening, about two weeks ago, a call came to go and see 'Johnnie,' who was ill. We found the family of six living in one room. 'Johnnie' on a mat tress on the floor, apparently very ill. but neither the mother nor father would al low us to touch him. In the morning we went again, with the same result, but on our third visit the mother was persuaded to allow the little fellow to be moved into the hospital. The third day he was there the entire family left town 'for a rest': so it is the nurse is not only ex pected to be general information bureau, but counsellor, friend, elder sister and of ten almost a mother. "A short time ago we were called to see a small boy 2 and one-half years old. Either pneumonia or scarlet fever, we. don't know,' the mother said. It proved to be the former. When the nurse ar rived the little fellow was bolstered up In his crib, his little face scarlet with the fever, his eyes heavy, but in one lit tle chubby hand he held a piece of bread, in the other a piece of sausage. The mother explained that he wouldn't drink milk ao she 'gave him this for lunch.' Can you imagine it? And yet we find such things constantly. "Turning to our tubercular work, we find an increase of over three times as many patients thU year as last. Of all diseases this perhaps Is the saddest for the visiting nurse to care for. In the first "place, our patients do not come to us generally, until it is too late to send them to the Open-Air Sanitarium, and when we do find them In time, there is the money to be raised. And just here I wish to acknowledge the generous gift of Mrs. H. U. Green, which made it pos sible to place a child of 14 at the Open Air Sanitarium for five months, giving her a new chance for health, and useful ness. It is difficult to persuade our peo ple to go to the County Hospital, even were they not already too 111 to stand the long, hard trip. Two patient placed there this last year, came home to die. St. Vincent's Hospital is our other hope, and there many times one must wait for a bed. Only a short time ago we were sent to see a young man 28 years old, living in a lodging-house, with hu young wife. One glance told the sad atory. We tried for a bed at St. Vincent's, but had to wait nearly a week, and the man only lived two days after .being moved.. So It seems almost a losing fight. Need an Emergency Hospital. Our great perhaps our greatest need Is for an Emergency Hospital, where our poor unfortunate people can go, and receive the care they so- sore ly need, but which they ar so glow, many times fatally slow, to ask for. I think nursing Is the last charity-the poor will aak for. They seek every kind of aid, but when they are sick the nurse must find them. Our work knows no distance hunt. It stretches from St. Johns to Sellwood. from Mount Tabor to beyond Portland Heights. No place is too poor, no patient too sick. Ignorant or helpless, but what the visit ing nurses do their best to help them back to the hiRh road to strength and usefulness. But to do our ever-Increas ing work, as we wish to do It, we need certain things, an Emergency Hospital most of all and another nurse. "Before closing I wish to thank most heartily the ladies of the board for their ever-ready sympathy and help the various charitable organizations for their willing and valuable co-operation, most of all our associated charities, for their unfailing kindness and help. The doctors, and our liospitals. who have alwa-ys so generously and kindly shel tered and cp. red for so many of our poor and needy people." Drove a Good Man to Drink. Ellsworth (Kan.)' Messenger. A few Sundays ago a farmer drove over to the County Attorney's home and de manded the arrest of a neighor'a thresh ing crew that was "violating the Sub bath." The County Attorney was busy pulling weeds in his garden and suggested that the complainant go before the jus tice of the peace tn his own township, but he was informed that the justice was out fixing his windmill. He was then asked to telephone the sheriff and have him attend to the matter, but he was busy loading cattle at the stockyards. The farmer was exasperated and resolved to saddle a horse and go for a constable, but his good wife, who was busy canning fruit, informed him that the boys had driven the horses to the village, where the boys were in the line-up for a ball game, and that the girls had gone to a picnic. The . farmer has been drunk on hard cider ever since and stoutly refuses to be sobered. Jews Celebrate Church Holidays. Testerday was a high holiday among the Jewish people known as Shebruoth. On this day the Hebrews celebrate their promise at Mount Sinai to give to the world the law of God as made known In the Ten Commandments. Today is tha feast of the first fruits, which was cele brated by the Hebrews when they were an agricultural people in Palestine, and Is still marked by a special service in the synagogues. The day among the reformed Jews of America is also con firmation day. LARGEST IN NORTKWKST. Barrett's, in stock and equipment. It is estimated that Great Brltaia spends llfiO.000 a day on theaters. It the Joy of the) household, for withont it no happiness can be complete. How sweet the picture of mother and babe, angels smile at and commend the thoughts and aspirations of the mother is i II ll H H jf" which the expectant mother must pass, how ever, is so xmi 01 danger ana sunenng uk she looks forward to the hour when she shall feel the exquisite thrill of motherhood with indescribable dread and fear. Ever woman should know that tha danger, pain and horror of child-birth can be entirely avoided by the use of Mother's Friend, a scientific liniment for external use only, which toughens and renders pliable all tne parts, ana assists nature in its sublime work. By Its aid thousands of women have passed this rreat crisis in perfect safety and withont pain. Sold at $1.00 per fTl fTS fl f3 H Tt bottle by druggists. Our book of priceless . f L ' I f f 1 valitA to all women uni fr. Annrl 2 T 3 r-3 fr d , - . i,' p iv