16 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JUNE 1915. LARCH MOUNTAIN BROUGHT MUCH NEARER PORTLAND BY NEW ROAD Trail Will Ee Completed in Few Weeks Route Is Through Beautiful Fern-Clad Country Trip Will Be Delightful With Grand View in Store for Those Who Make It. fp fs P r v';d L&-1 I -1 j& & 4 i M till I. J mi fo :s?4 f -;r" ,r i-W I- wAd $s I s fesa-!-:- J IJk JL-Z. ; SA W rfcr-D. I : r --TT LARCH MOUNTAIN is rapidly being brought nearer to Portland as the new trail, which reduces the dis tance from the Columbia by about one-third, is nearing completion. It will only be a question oC weeks now when the trail will have been completed and the lookout on the summit of the peak will be ready for the many who are expected to make Larch Mountain the objective point of their trips. A party of Portland persons made the trip over the trail last Sunday and reported that it was rapidly nearing completion. The lookout on the moun tain, they said, was all completed with the exception of a sort of crow's nest platform which is to be put on top. The party consisted of Mr. and Mrs. George Jackson. Charles A. Benz, Osmon Royal, V. L. Ketchum, J. C. Sparks and Chester Hogue. Mr. Benz secured a number of pictures of the trail and the lookout and scenery visible from the trail and the peak. Ferns nnd Berrlea Abound. Of tVe beauties of the trail Mr. Benz says: "All along; the trail we find a pro fusion of the beautiful maidenhair fern, while wild flowers and berries seem to decorate every nook and open spot. As the traveler nears the bench land he grazes down into the canyon whose walls are about a thousand feet high. There he sees the Twoholaskie falls, which has a drop of about a hundred feet. "The trail follows the canyon for several miles, when it crosses one of the forks and a little later the other fork of the Multnomah Creek. Alter crossing the streams It enters a dense forest. Forests Mass of Pink. "A little further up the trail enters the domain of the rhododendron, which grows to a height of from 12 to 15 feet. .The lovely pink flowers fairly cover the branches of these bushes. "From the lookout on the summit the view is wonderful. Mounts Hood, Rainier, Adams, St. Helens and the Three Sisters all are visible. Portland also can be seen to the west, especial ly Council Crest and Rocky Butte." It is planned to build a lodge on the crest of Larch Mountain for the benefit of those who make the trip to its summit. It will be provided with huge fireplaces and other conveniences. SCHOLARSHIP IS GIVEN COLLEGIATE AllMXAE AWARD IS WOX-BY MARJORIE STEARNS. Principal of Washington High Willing for School to Be Judged by the Miowiiig Made by Graduate. Nine years ago the women compris ing the Portland branch of the Collegi ate Alumnae Association instituted the custom of giving each year a scholar ship of J200, available for study in the University of Oregon. This scholarship is open to any girl in the state who has been graduated from a high school and the award" is based on evidence showing good health, good character, good scholar ship, and the personality which shows qualities of leadership. The committee has awarded the scholarship for 1915-16 to Miss Mar jorie Stearns, a graduate of this year's class from the Washington High School of Portland. Miss Stearns' scholarship record is unusually high and she has also contributed a considerable share to the various activities of the high school. Principal H. H. Herdman said of her: "I am perfectly willing that Washing ton High School shall be tested by what she can do and judged by the success which she is sure to attain." The committee making the award be lieves that the association will be ably represented by Miss Stearns in the uni versity. The work of the Collegiate Alumnae during the year 1914-13 has been un der the leadership of Mrs. Edward T. Taggart. president. The most ambi tious undertaking of the year was the production of "Alice in Wonderland" at Ihe Heilig Theater In May, with Miss r rank 1 owsiee directing. The - pro ceeds of this play are to be used for the scholarship fund. The membership of the Portland as sociation includes about 135 women, representing Stanford, Welleeley. Vas far, Smith. Radcliffe. Barnard. Oberlin. Urinnell, Cornell. Northwestern. Syra--use, Chicago, Mount Holyoke. Bryn Mawr. California, Minnesota. Michigan, ivansas and ashlngton. EX-SALEMITES TO GATHER Second Annual Reunion to Be ut the Oaks Next Saturday. l'ormer residents of Salem, who or ganized last year as the Ex-Salemites, will hold their second annual reunion at 2 o'clock next Saturday at the OakM. Officers of the Ex-Salemites are: C. K. Wolverton. United States District Judge, president; T. T. Geer, ex-Governor of Oregon, vice-president; Scott Bozorth, treasurer, and Mrs. Mattie Palmer, secretary. Officers to serve until the 1916 reunion will be elected at next Saturday's gathering. Three hundred former residents of the Capital City attended last year's reunion, and even more are expected for this one. Kvery person in Port land, or elsewhere in Oregon or any other state, for that matter, whose home was ever in Salem, no matter how long or how recently, is urged to attend. "There will be no formality of any kind." said the ex-Governor. "Bring a well-filled lunch basket and prepare to stay the whole afternoon. Present res idents of Salem are invited to attend well as ex-Salemites. It has been said, and I believe it to be true, that there are more persons who lived in Salem 20 years ago now living in Portland than there are in Salem." PIONEER SERVICE IS SET Rev. John Flinn to Preach Before Taylor-Street Church. A Pioneer Sunday service will be held in front of the old "Taylor-street" Methodist Church this morning. The sermon will be preached by Rev. John Flinn, chaplain of the Oregon State Historical Society, who officiated in the dedication services in 1S50. An address will be given by ex-Governor Geer. ex-president of the Pioneer Society and the son and grandson of pioneers. Many of the first religious and other public meetings of Portland were held on the site where the church now stands closed. All pioneers are invited, and are re quested to wear their badges, and all their friends will be welcome. JUNIOR POLICE TO MEET Organizing Band to Be Considered at Gathering Wednesdaj. Work will be planned for the Sum mer at a meeting of the Junior Police at the Public Library Wednesday night. The boys are considering or ganizing a Junior Police band, and it is probable that the matter will be settled at that meeting. The itineraries of several hikes and camping trips also will be decided upon. "The Junior Police force now num bers about 25 boys, besides four ser geants and two captains," said For rest Bennett. Junior Chief of Police, yesterday. "Wo are now trying to raise the force to 100 members, as we want to do more work and can be of more use to the public and give better serv ice with a larger number." PERSONALMENTION. J. M. Clark, of Eugene, is at the Perkins. C- J. Buchanan, of Lebanon, is at the Imperial. M. E. DeLong. of Eugene, is at the Nortonla. J. M. Poorman, of Woodburn, is at the Seward. Dr. S. R. Walker, of Albany, is at the Perkins. F. J. Kraber. of Kennewick.. Is at th Imperial. Mrs. G. . L. Baker and . Miss . Ruth Cooper, of McMlnnville, are registered at the Eaton. Dr. J. H. Thompson, of Salem, is at the Imperial. Perry Henderson, of Madras, is at the Cornelius. 3. N. Pickerell, of Colfax. Wash., is at the Perkins. H. M. Rogers, of Salem, Is registered at the Imperial. M. E. Taylor, of Farmington, Mo is at the Portland. M. M. Winter, of Cottage Grove, is at the Nortonla. Mrs. B. J. Dudgeon, of Berkeley, CaU and Mrs. J. C. Dudgeon, of Helena, Mont., are registered, at ths Eaton. N. S. Doumltt, of Stevenson. Wash., is at the Oregon. G. R. Hale, of Spokane, is registered at the Cornelius. J. W. Hobbs is registered at the Ore gon from Eugene. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Wilson, of Salem, are at the Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Neff, of Salem, are at the Nortonia. X. R. Cowden. of Silverton, is reg istered at ' the Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hart, of Salem, are at the Multnomah. R. O. Bailey, of Pendleton, is reg istered at the Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. H. Wood, of Kansas City, are at the Seward. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Smily.'of Warren ton, are at the Multnomah. Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Allen, of Rich land, are at the Cornelius. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Boyd, of Dallas, are registered at th'e Eaton. J. R. Henderson, of Multnomah, la registered at the Multnomah. . Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hodgdon. of San Francisco, are at the Nortonia. Mr. and Mrs. . W. W. Burnett, of Omaha,, are at the Multnomah. Mr. and Mrs. R. 11. Burns. Jr., of Pittsburg, are at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Giddings. of Cleve land, Ohio, are at the Portland. Mr. and- Mrs. J. H. Richards, of Boise, are registered at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. D. Schiffer, of Toppen ish. Wash., are at the- Cornelius. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Adams, of Idaso Falls, Idaho, are at the Seward. Mrs. W. Mandevllle and daughters, of Rochester, N. Y., are t the Seward. F. W. Morrison, vice-president of the American Central Life Insurance Com pany, of Indianapolis, lnd., visited Portland two days last week. Mr. Mor rison, accompanied by his wife and daughter, visited the exposition cities on his way to Portland and will return East by way of Seattle. "CHICAGO. June 26. (Special.) The following from Portland, Or., are regis tered at Chicago hotels: Great -North ern. L. Larson; La Salle, O. H. Fithian, Frank W. Camp. THETAS ARRIVE BY SPECIAL TODAY AND OPEN CONVENTION TOMORROW Three Hundred Young Women Will Participate in Anual Conclave With Northwestern College Girls as Hostesses Portlanders Take Active Part. COIN DEVICE CASE flEAR BITTER FIGHT EXPECTED IX TRIAL OF CASHIER. COMPANY AGE-NTS. Government Alleges Fraud In Sales of Stock and One Indicted StUI Eludes Officers. Preparations are actively under way by both the Government and attorneys representing the i defendants for the trial of officials and salesmen of the defunct United States Cashier Com pany, of Oregon, which is to begin be fore Judge Bean, of the United States District Court, July 6. The defendants are Frank Menefee, of Portland and Minneapolis, president of the company; Thomas Bilyeu, di rector in the concern and Inventor of various coin machine devices, for the exploitation of which the company was organized; F. M. LeMonn, ex-sales man ager; Oscar Campbell, of Eugene, di rector; O. E. Gernert, R. E. Bonnewell, H. M. Todd. Joseph Hunter and P. E. Muraine, salesmen. They are under in dictment for alleged conspiracy to vio late the postal fraud statute in selling stock of the company. O. L. Hopson, another salesman under Indictment, is a fugitive from justice, having successfully eluded the Federal authorities since his indictment. F. M. LeMonn, the ex-sales manager in the stock-selling operations of the com pany, was also a fugitive for several months, but was caught in the East several weeks ago and brought to Port land. He is now out on bail. All the other defendants voluntarily appeared before the United States authorities after their indictment. The Government expects to examine at least 100 witnesses, and probably as many more will be called by the de fendants. From all present Indications the trial will last a month, and per haps a month and a half. Clarence Reames, United States At torney, will conduct the case for the Government. Among the attorneys for the defendants are W. M. Cake, Dan J. Malarkey and Martin L. Pipes. Exposition Lcture Scheduled. Under the auspices of the Irvlngton Club, Miss Anne Shelby will lecture at the clubhouse Wednesday on the archi tecture and statuary of the Panama Pacific Exposition. The women of the Irvington Club are taking considerable interest in this lecture. The patronesses for the affair are: Mrs. W. F. Wood ward. Mrs. R. L. Sabln and Mrs. E. G. Titus. From present indications it. looks as if the clubhouse will be filled. The heart of an average man makes about one three-thousandth of a volt of electricity at every beat, and an instrument sensi tive enough to measure it has been invented. J Steppe 4S?. Y7i3-Z1 2EZcjyz.n h ?" ; V VSX A l iT ".'w V" p vnfy i V'UYsfe l j -T T HREE HUNDRED young women, members of the Kappa Alpha Theta college fraternity, will ar rive in Portland this morning on their way to Gearhart, where they will hold their biennial National convention this week. They come from almost every state in the Union, and will make the beaches at Gearhart and Seaside gay this week, for they will be in ses sion until Friday, transacting the busi ness of their organization and elect ing officers for the next biennium, as well as enjoying a most delightful re union and outing. Kappa Alpha Theta is the oldest of women's fraternities. It was organ ized in 1870, at DePauw, then called Asbury, University in Greencastle, InU. The founders were four young women, the first co-eds of DePauw, Bettie Locke, Alice Allen, Bettie Tipton and Hannah Fitch. Bettie Locke, now Mrs. E. A. Hamilton, who was the moving spirit of the organization, and Hannah Fitch, now Mrs. A. Shaw, are still liv ing; the former at Lawrenceburg, lnd., and the latter still at Greencastle. where her comfortable home is not two blocks from the college halls in which these ambitious girls trod the diffi cult path of pioneers in the field ot college education for women. One of the treasured relics which will be shown at the convention this week is a photograph of this first, chapter of Theta. Educational Pathwny Biased. These four young women who estab lished the first woman's fraternity played a brave part in the early days of higher learning for women. They not only studied by tallow candle light, and recited to grim old half-disapproving professors, but they faced the in tolerance of their generation toward immodest girls who craved the un seemly privileges of book learning. And when they had the effrontery to invade the young men's field of college clubs and fraternities by establishing one of their very own, they were more than ever frowned upon. However, Kappa Alpha Theta lived, and in time spread to other institutions where am bitious girls were studying. There are now 37 active chapters of the fra ternity, in as many colleges and uni versities throughout the United States. The latest of these was established only last month at Purdue University In LaFayette, lnd. Charters for three additional new chapters, located re spectively in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Virginia, are pending the action of CARRIERS OF THE OREGONIAN WHO WON TRIPS TO SAN FRANCISCO EXPOSITION IN RECENT CONTEST. 1 v&'xi ? jr.'"V,V --W-.v, J - 8 4 V: A -A i j I - It; v I I s " - '-. - Twelve live-wire carriers will be given trips to the Panama-Pacific Exposition as guests of The Ore gonian as a result of the recent carriers' contest which was held from March 1 until May 15. The contest was Judged on a point system, in which efficiency, new subscriptions and renewals to The Oregonian were important factors. In order to give each carrier an equal opportunity, the districts were made into four di visions and only routes of equal size competed against each other. The winners of trips in the first division are Augustus Hixson. Harold Yoe. and Albert Albrecht. Jonas Folen. James Jordan and Morgan Saxon are victors in the second division; Paul Humphrey, Jack Montgomery and Joe Towbridare, in the third; Allen Rice, Oscar Helntz and Waldo Buckler, in the fourth. . The boys will leave in early July and will go by train to Flavel, where they will board the Great Northern for San Francisco. At the exposition reservations have been made for the boys at the Inside Inn. a fine, big modern hotel within the exposition grounds, where under the personal supervision of C. S. Barton, assistant circulation manager of The Oregonian, an opportunity will be given to see everything of value. The return trip will be made by the same route. The trips are . transferable, so that the winners may let any member of their family use the tickets or even sell them. To each of the non-winning candidates BO cents in cash was paid for each average in crease of one. The contest closed with better results than ever before. this convention. There are also 30 alumnae chapters, principally in the larger cities where graduated Thetas are gathered. Sisters Entertain Delegation. The special train ot banner-bright coaches, 12 in number and overflowing with exuberant young women, left Chi cago Sunday morning, June 21, arriving the next morning at Minneapolis, where the Thetas of the University of Minne sota entertained their Eastern sisters. At this point the party was joined by the Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado con tingents. By the Great Northern to Glacier Park in Montana, with a stop at Grand Forks, where the Dakota Thetas joined the party, the special traversed, the most beautiful mountain region in America. A day was spent in the park. A -day each was spent in Spokane and Seattle, where resident Thetas furnished sight-seeing trips and Western welcomes, and where parties of enthusiastic girls added their presence to the special. They will en joy the day in Portland, and here some 40 or -more Oregon sisters have provided for their pleasure, and will leave with them this afternoon for Gearhart. The California Thetas will also join the others here. The hostesses of the convention are Thetas of the Northwest, of whom there are eight organized chapters. Ore gon University has one of the largest of these, and the Portland alumnae chapter is also a live and well-organized group. It has had charge of all the details of arranging for the con vention, and has for several months been most busily preparing for the oc casion. Mrs. W. H. Thomas, of Irving ton, is the president of the Portland chapter. Chairman of the convention executive committee is Mrs. Charles R. Hart, also of Irvington. Other mem bers of the committee are Mrs. A. H. McCurtain, Mrs. Horace Fenton, Mrs. George Woodley and Mrs. Carl On thank, until recently Miss Ruth Mac Laren. of Hillsdale. Miss Inez Cross, of Mallory, has charge of all the conven tion music. A day of delights for the fraternity girls is arranged for them in Port land. On the arrival of the special in Vancouver early this morning it will be boarded by a committee of Portland Thetas bearing roses for all those on the train. Arriving at Portland a sight seeing trip over tne city oy niuwi wm be tendered by friends in the city. This will end at the Waverley Club, where a luncheon will be served at 1:30, after which the party will be convoyed by launch from the Waverley dock to the Weidler dock, and meet its special train again for the run to Astoria and Gear-hart-Sessions of the convention will be held in the rustic auditorium at Gearhart. located in the heart of the pine woods not far from the hotel. Here also, on Tuesday evening, will be conducted the model initiation serv ice, led by the Eugene chapter, which will be one or the pleasing features of the convention, for the Theta ritual is very beautiful. Officers of the convention are: Mrs. L. F. Carpenter, of Minneapolis, grand president; Miss Hop Davis, of In dianapolis, grand vice-president; Miss L. . Pearle Green, of Ithaca. N. Y-, grand secretary, and Mrs. Y. B. Huff man, of Merna, Neb., grand treasurer. Miss Norma Hendricks, of Eugene, is the president of the ninth district, which includes all the Northwest chapters. Among the social activities planned for the week are the chapter lunch eons of Monday afternoon, where the scattered sisters of various colleges will reunite under the banners of their respective chapters. That evening there will be a huge beach party, given by the Seattle alumnae, at which three immense beach fires of driftwood will be kindled, and where fraternity songs and speeches will warm the hearts of the college girls. Tuesday evening, after the ritual, there will be a moonlight song-fest in the woods about the auditorium. , Wednesday evening a stunt' party will be given in the auditorium by the Seattle active girls, at which an orig inal play will be presented by the young women of that chapter. On Thursday the newly elected officers will be invested and the convention formal sessions will end with a big banquet that evening. Friday will be spent picnicking, the Thetas of Sil vertoni and Albany. Oregon, being hostesses for the day. Saturday the Thetas will be guests of Astoria, where they will view the annual re gatta. Many of the conventionites will leave that afternoon for San P'rancisco by the Great Northern steamer. One of the interesting features of the convention will be a daily paper, full of the news of the sessions, which will appear eacn morning at breakfast. This will be published from the office of the Seaside Pub lishing Co., by Mrs. C. C. Dodge, of Ontario, Or., assisted by Misses Mar jorie McGuire. of Berkeley, Cal.: Helen Hamilton. of Roseburg; Welletta Wright and Laura Taylor, cf Albany: Bernlce Lucas and Alice Gram, of Portland. The six sub-editors are all students at Oregon University. Kappa Alpha Theta stands high among college fraternities. One of the characteristics for which the organization has always been known is its insistence on "Scholarship First. Fun Afterward"; which has made it popular among college authorities as well as among students. In nearly every college where this fraternity has chapters its members have maintained higher scholarship averages than stu dents not members of the fraternity. Besides this, it fosters ideals which make for a high type of womanhood. It is one of the conservative fra ternities and has riot established chapters without mature consideration of each field it entered. Only colleges of the highest scholarship require ments and the most thorough equip ment and establishment are entered by this organization. So that al though scores of applications for charters are received every year by groups of girls desirous of becoming Kappa Alpha Theta chapters, only a small proportion of these are granted. Yet the fraternity is spreading and is becoming a large force in college and after-college life. More than 7000 alumnae wear the black and gold kite which is the emblem of mem bership. One of the alumnae activities which make Kappa Alpha Theta a strong in fluence is the Scholarship Fund which is maintained for the purpose of as sisting deserving girls to acquire col lege educations. This fund was es tablished some ten years ago, and has grown to large proportions, so that it now assists many girls each year. Another channel through which the fraternity affords much usefulness is its service board, which is occupied in compiling data concerning vocations for women and which furnishes infor mation to girls wishing to secure ef ficient training along occupational lines. This is a newer department of Theta's work. Among women of prominence who will be in attendance at the conven tion are: Mrs. George Fitch, of Pe oria, 111., whose husband is the well known writer, and who is herself a writer of ability and charm. Mrs. Fitch is chairman of the fraternity's service board, mentioned above. Miss Clara Fanning, of White Plains, N. Y., a well-known writer, will also be present, as will Mrs. Eleanor G. Kar sten, secretary to President Thomas, of Bryn Mawr. Mrs. Karsten's lec tures at the University of Chicago last Fall were one of the big features of the secretarial course. 1 SEE THAT iURVE Crookes' s s Most effective in cases when the glare of electric lights or strong sunlight produces constant strain on the eyes. The man or woman who works under electric light will find that these lenses soften and subdue the glare instantly relieve the strain rest the eyes. Others will find these lenses a wonderful aid, using an extra pair for real sunny days or for moving pictures. THOMPSON OPTICAL INSTITUTE 209-10-11 Corbett Bldg., 5th and Morrison.