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TTTE SUNDAY OREGOXTAX. PORTLAND, 3IARCn 19, 1911. THEODORE ROOSEVELT TO CIRCLE UNITED STATES IN 39 DAYS ' - , , ,. . f Quick Repartee Between Colonel and Editor John Temple Graves Brings Loud Applause at Recent Banquet Given in Atlanta, Georgia, ; TRAVELING nor than toon mQl in IS dr might be a big task for vm, mm!i bat It li br do means regarded 0 by Theodore Booaevelt. ex Pweideot. traveler, hunter and lecturer, wbe la cow en bis way to the Pacific Coast and scheduled to arrive In Port land on the afternoon of April a. Mr. Roosevelt la traveling as a private cJtl- sen. buytr.g his tlcaets. Pullman and railway, the same as any other resident of the Republic Whatever may be hta object In thus covering the National Orel from the Atlantic to the Guu. from the Gulf to tie Pacific from the Pacific to the Great Lakes and on to the Atlantic no on seems to know but himself. - The sus picion that he Is feeling- the pulse of the American people with regard to bis own standing has been put forth by some of the more or tees aetute polltlclana, but on the other hand, his friends declare that he Is simply paying off obligations which he assumed during bis stay In Africa. There Is also the surmise that be la eassjred primarily upon a tour to d-liver lectures before certain aesem bllee and that he will receive a goodly rum for his speeches before the students cf the University of Csllfornla at Berk ley, of which there are five In number. Itoowrelt Loirs Strenuoslty. Be that aa it may. Mr. Roosevelt Seems to enjoy that same love for the strenuous that his csreer aa President ! gave so many evldencea of. His Itiner ary from Oyster Bay to the West Coast and back to his home covers 23 type written paces, and In these are 13 WicthT addresses covering an hour or nor. In length. It Is alen presumed that Mr. Roosevelt has a desire to pave a way for the fu ture In the lecture field a path already well formed from previous speeches be fore unlversltv audiences, not only In th:s cnuntrv. but In Europe. In departing from Oyster Ray. the ex Pre.il.lrnt must have noticed that there was a lack tt the ttaual preparation on the part of the newspapers tn neglecting to send delegations to report all of his movements. Since leaving Atlanta only tn, newspaperman has accompanied blm. When the Colonel arrived In Atlanta en March he found the city rejoicing over the holding of the Southern Com mercial Cor.gr fa en Institution which has grown to be a factor of Importance. President Taft was billed to appear the next d.iy and the town was full of dele gates and visitors. Insomuch aa It waa a sort of a holiday, the Southerners gave the Colonel a rousing reception. He waa eervjrted to the hotel, dined and feted fid gfvn opportunity to talk about "Civic Righteousness- to his heart's con teat and here an Incident Is related. At the baoqoet tendered Mr. Roose veit end the visiting newspapermen In attendance trpoa the congress. John Temple Graves, himself a proud At lantan. wsa one of tha speaker. Inci dentally he la editor ef the) New York American. In dealing with the honored goeet he spoke of bis wonderful activ ity. He took bla listeners through the snajor Incidents of tha ex-President's remarkable political and military career. Tracing Mr. Roosevelt's career from hta first vHit to Atlanta while President. Mr. Graves followed hlra from Mombasa to Lnndm. pictured hlra standing before the Pyramids of Egypt, where tha great Napoleon had called ee centuries to wit ness the greatness of his performances, traced his footsteps over the pathe where !arc Antony had trod and told bow black suvase kings kowtowed before htm and emperors took him ta their arms. Finally he traced the returning conquer or to London, where, aa the representa tive of the American Republic, ha walked la a procession with seven kings with "crowns upon their klnglv beads." At this point the colonel broke la: "John, yoo are two kings shy. fl (-parte Is to tbe Point. Giving no Indication of tha Interrup tion. Mr. Graves shot back: "We'll make It a royal flush," and continued: The glint of his spectacles waa not dimmed by the rays reflected from any ef the kingly crowns." Ths happy phrase of tha noted Oeor gtan editor provoked aathuslaatlo ap plause. The Journey ef tha Coronal, who la accompanied by hla private secretary. Prank Harper, waa resumed on the nlsht of March t. and at Birmingham he delivered an extended addreaa on "Civic Righteousness.' U s next Im portant atop a as at Houston. Tex., on March II. where he delivered tha same lecture which he. had delivered at Bir mingham. The stops before the leoture at Houston were at Jackson. Mlaa. and at New Orleans. From Houston he went to fort Worth and I "alia, la both towns he was sntertalned at banquets. When It came time' for ths Colonel to leave Fort Worth, on tha night of March It. he started on tha longest stretch of his Journey. At El Paso, where be arrived last Wednesday, he waa received by a large delegation. He charred lrnes hern and went en the Santa Fa to Albuquerque. M. M. Here be met Mrs. Rooeevelt. bis daughter Ethel and her girl friend from tha Et The party now traveled on west until they came to Ash Fork. Axlm-. where they were switched to the branch running to Phoenix and a short distance from that city thsy made tbetr way to the dedication of tha Rooeevelt dam. tbe largest of Its kind In the worM. and by far the largeet of the IrMmUoa projects of the Government. Here the Colonel touched tha button which let loose the water upon tha thousand of acres below and tha next day at Mesa, Miss Ethel touched the button which) started the electrical Il lumination. A view of tha Rooeevelt dam la the Fait Klver Valley. Arlions, which waa dedicated Saturday afternoon by ex President Roosevelt. Is shown In tha ac companying Illustration. The dam to - Ti1 9 1 '-i m I " ibi i i , i . - - - , rfi - T"jzzzzrr-?A- ' ' . -,-r r--: 1 J " 1 ".;-V.; "'"71 V sff : :-v ii ? x x .v,f I : i i -1 sy y-H I " ' in & i Y ?. , i f -m tt esujjuj.ij aa,wv.k. - "-v., (tAS.-r f;-.i,Y., ,r fc.-i rMa WsS UV ' ' I s ,rs3sa. JM vA II -"CM. A ATCJUAt. -r Mill V V a. sea-a' T, 1! J"i' ?-v"J ?rt--t:f ; V-sryv-xr. ew-Jt 3ZfWA V t..-? X .1 S...' ' '';.'--'- . 'rT- ".'.H:VTi r-tv-''"'r-'; - j tha largeet In the world, and cost 13. 100.000. It will furnish water to hun dreds of farms and will develop water power sufficient to light 1400 homes. Engineers say that the dam holds In storage enough water to cover the State of Delaware to a depth of one foot. Tha great structure Is ISO feet In height, and on tha top la 1060 feet long. March 10 (tomorrow) the party will arrive In Los Angeles, and here Mrs. Roosevelt and her daughter will go to Santa Barbara and become the guests SEATTLE PREPARING TO ATTACK DUAL TELEPHONE SYSTEMS NOW City on Paget Sound Tales Exception Finally to Source of Annoyance and Expense Incurred Ever Since Inde pendent Company Obtained Franchise on Ground of Entering Competition With Sunset Company. SEATTLE. Wash.. March II. (Spe cial.) Evidences accumulate that Seattle la preparing to attack tha dual telephone syatems which have been a source of annoyance and expense ever since the Inde pendent Company obtained a franchise a tha ground of entering Into compe tition with the Sunset Company. Cltl- xens lone aga awoke to the fact that the only effect of a second company waa to make an extra telephone neces sary, and that any thought of competi tion, la the hope of forcing down rates and at tha seme time Improving tbe service was barren. A complaint, which may ba taken as stating tbe case for the entire city, has GROUP 07 PORTLAND MEN WHO ARE PROMINENT IN PERFECTING THE . M AP OF COLOXEL ROOSEVELT'S ITINERARY CHARACTERISTIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF HIMSELF A'D OF THE COWBOYS' WELCOME TO HIM. of Mrs. James A. Garfield, widow of President Garfield. It Is stated that they will stay at Santa Barbara until the Colonel la almost ready to leave San Francisco. They will then go to the home of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who Is engaged In bualneas In San Francisco. AU tha Roosevelts are look ing forwsrd to a happy event during tha month of April la the home of Roosevelt Junior. The Colonel wiy spend a week In the environs of San Francisco delivering during the morning houra a lecture be been made In a newspaper Interview by suburban groceryman. who em phasises the fsot that in order to meet his needs be has been obliged to In stall both telephones. He sara. In part: v- Tbe secretary ef tbe Chamber of Com. meres' seems to express satisfaction that tbe Railroad Commission aew baa charge of telephone rates, and that It will adjust and resulate them. U that explanation enousn for tbe hundreds of men Ilk m In Seattle it ho are trying to mk a living for wife end family out of a small business T Whsre has our competition son If I can't set along asray oat where I ran my business lib on'.r one telephone, hew een any busi ness man dowa town gt along with only ens? Of course, ray question Is absurd. Everybody knows that If you are In business Id atlle you mull bav two tslephonea. Xsi I r i hi ii i ersssT nssr fore the students at Berkeley on vari ous topics and after an address In San Francisco on March 27 and one el Reno on April 3, he will start for Portland on April 4. arriving here at t o'clock In the afternoon of April 6. It la understood that he will ride In a private car from San Francisco, If one should happen to be attached to the train. If not be will take the Pullman. Mrs. Roosevelt and daughter will not aocompany him In his Journey to the north. He will make only two atops In Coupled with the defective service of both oompanlea, necessitating the pat ron of tha telephone to Install both sys tems. Is a persistent rumor that the Paclflo Telephone Company, which owna the Sunset lines, has also ac quired control of the Independent sys tem. "If this rumor be true, says The Town Crier, "the sooner the way Is cleared for actual absorption of the operating plant and abolition of the dual system, the better for the public' This appears to be a correct statement of public sentiment. The manner in which the railroad commission is deal ing with the problem is not understood as promising relief; for whatever tbe rate may be, as settled by that trlbu- ARRANGEMENTS FOR COLONEL I . '. . ". 7-Jae- . .wV y c -oro w A - .smw.- -sr. i -w- v: WT - CvjfirJr -ef r-Jf . . f " Jt, ' -i Southern Oregon, at Ashland and at Rosoburg-. spending; five minutes at each town. The lack of stops la due to the schedule of the Shasta Limited, which Is a through train. In Portland he will be given a stren uous time. Including a ride about the city, laying the cornerstone of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club's building In their field, a ride to the East Side to view the East Side school children and then a rest of one hour, after which he will ba taken to a ban quet at the Commercial Club. After naL there Is no way to 'regard It as competitive; nor Is there any way to relieve the public from the burden of an extra telephone at an extra charge. If the state of the public mind at pres ent Is any criterion a way will be found either to compel the two compa nies to interchange calls through a central exchange, or actually to con solidate. An Indication of the volume of tele phone business In Seattle is afforded by a recent report by A. L. Valentine, superintendent of the department of public utilities. It shows that the Sunset Company, or the Pacific Tele phone & Telegraph Company, baa 28. 635 telephones. Between 10 and 11 o'clock In the morning an average of more than 0000 calls Is made. At 1 Pt M. the average drops to 1500; be tween S and 8 It Increase to 17,000, after which It drops to a little over 11.000, with Bhort rush between 1 and 9. when It Is nearly 13.TO0: The Independent com pany ban. 13,071. telephone. Before 6 A. M-, Its average la less than 600 an hour; between 10 and 11. It reachea 6500: between 1 and IP. M 7000; between f and 7. 8500, and between 7 and 8. 4500. . Something of the nature of a bomb shell waa dropped Into the midst of the ROOSEVELT'S ENTERTAINMENT AND RECEPTION WHILE Us the banquet comes the speech at the Armory, a reception at the Press Club and then on to the train, which ha will take at 11:16 P. M. for Tacoma. April 6 Is to be spent in Tacoma, and Seattle and April 7 tn Spokane and April 8 In Moscow, Idaho. Then the next stop will be at Mlasoula, Helena and on to Chicago, with only stops where it la Impossible to avoid it. His trip to Chicago from Seattle will be over the Northern Pacific He will ar rive In Oyster Bay on the morning of April 17, having been gone Just 39 days. conservative Chamber of Commerce this week. It came from Austin E. Grif fiths Councilman-elect, who declared that the oldest commercial body In the city had departed from Its enterprising waye, and had ceased to evince a spirit of cordial co-operation to advance the in terests of Seattle.- He demanded that a committee of five be chosen from the floor with instructions to report at the next meeting, the object being "to In crease the democracy, promote the effi ciency, and restore confidence in the use fulness and leadership ot this Chamber." The clear Intent of the Griffiths reso lution Is to take the control of the Cham ber from the hands of Its 26 trustees, and place It In the rank and file of the organization Itself. If such a move la taken, there must be a radical change In procedure. Inasmuch aa the meetings of that body are meetings of the trustees, as Is always shown by the minutes. Speaking to bis resolution, Mr. Griffiths said: Tbe time often comes when w ehould look Into each other's faces end talk straight to the point. Time was when this chambei was a power in the community, but of late Its course has been frequently repudiated by th people, until the feeling has grown that It is no longer responsive to the people. Borne members have even said that tbey felt like quitting the chamber. 1 do not share that view. -1 prefer to ctsnd - by It, but I want to see a broader spirit shown, and not hay democracy stifled by Its crea tures. Its board cf ' trustee. This -body has refused to work In conjunction with pther bodies. It I time to sink Its primacy. It Is work of attending to Its finances, and leav ing Its constructive . work., to the members of the body in whom It belongs. In order to save the chamber from passing on the Griffiths' resolution. J. F. Douglas offered a substitute, which was adopted, providing: "That a com mittee of five be chosen from the floor with directions to consider and report, at the next meeting, to what extent. If at all, the by-laws should be altered, methods revised or other changes made In order to Increase the democracy and promote the efficiency and usefulness and leadership of this chamber." Basis Seen for Criticism. Griffiths' criticisms are based on sev eral events of recent origin. One al lusion made by blm points to the fact that the Chamber ot Commerce declined to enter Into an arrangement for pub licity with eight other organizations, unless its own plan for handling the funds should be adopted: and this plan, of course, left the control cf the money with the representatives of the cham ber. Another shot fired by Griffiths had reference to the attitude of the chamber toward the bond issue of $800, 000 for a municipally-owned .streetcar system, and also to other bond Issues and amendments voted upon at the re cent election. In each Instance the peo ple voted contrary to the recommenda tion of the chamber. The "rebuke," if such it may be termed, was particularly marked with respect to the bond issue. The subject had been considered by the Chamber of Commerce committee on taxation, which had submitted a voluminous report. The report of the e.hmmUten. After edontlon bv tTie cam. 1 ber, was used by the Seattle Electric) Company as a part of Its campaign lit erature, anonymously compiled ana widely circulated for the purpose of de feating the bonds. The people voted overwhelmingly for the bond Issue: and that fact is alluded to by Griffiths In support of his contention that the Chamber of Commerce has ceased to be democratic. Ordinarily the meetings of the cham ber are without special feature. They are attended by only a small proportion of the membership. It Is safe to predict that next Tuesday's meeting, when the Douglas resolution will come up, will ' be largely attended. RUSS1ANS1N OLD SCOTLAND Children Speak English, but Elders Retain Their Own Customs. London Graphic ' That 86.000 subjects of the Czar should be hard at work north of the Tweed seems to have come as a surprise to many Southerners, who regard Scot land as Immune from the alien. That he should flock Into London, which is much more accessible to him, and offers greater, though more Illusive visions of gold-paved streets, is quite under standable, yet there be Is Pole, Lett and Lithuanian hard at work among the coal and Iron strata of the west of Scotland., and he has been there slnoe 189s, when the Bairds of Gartsherrle Introduced hint to break a strike. After all. It is but a return visit, for Scotland, during nearly three centuries, sent some of her best blood across the North 6ea to Poland, and at a later pe riod to Russia Itself. Scots went as sol diers, they crowded In as traders, for In those days the sea offered greater facil ities than the road, and the path to the . Baltic ports was easier and the welcome greater than the highway that led to England. Some of the descendants of . these venturers still remain In the land of their adoption, retaining their Scotch surnames, but quite unable to read a line of Burns; and they are readily traced, for they usually carried with them a document, known as the birth brieve, detailing their' origin, a dupli cate of which was kept by the magis trates who granted It, and Is still to be found In what Is known as the propin quity registers of Scotland. The name of "Peter the Painter is equaled in the first half of the seven teenth century by a Scotsman who entered the Polish cavalry and who Is, constantly described In Scotch docu ments as Patrick Gordon, alias "Steelr hand." From the same part of the country came Peter the Great's right hand man, the Laird of Auchleuchries In Buchan, and the Jacobite rebellion drove a Scotch naval officer Into the position of Governor of Cronstadt. These emigrants, indeed, were nearly all men of mark. Our Immigrants are for the most part hewers of wood and drawers of water. The attack on the bank at Motherwell, strongly reminis cent of the Tottenham and Hounds ditch affairs. Is attributed to Letts, but the Lithuanians bear a good name. The children, of course, speak English, with a- Lanarkshire accent, but the elders largely keep to themselves, and marry among themselves. They are very do- , mesticated, and their favorite amuse ment sems to be dancing routs. They have a priest and a weekly paper of , their own, Rankpelnis (the Worker), and maintain their national customs. Cleveland's Dander Is Tp. - Cleveland Plain Dealer Baltimore has just compiled a list of Its most famous sons. Here It is: Joseph Gans, pugilist. Edgar Allan Poe, author. Jacob Kllraln, pugilist. Edwin Booth, actor. Joseph Jefferson, actor. Matthew Kllroy, baseball pitcher. ' William Osier, physician. When we get a little time we are going to put together a roll of native Clevelanders that will make the Balti more bunch look pale and Ineffectual. IN THIS CITY.