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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1912)
Vol. II. No 15. PORTLAND, OREGON, JULY 27, 1912 T H E PHONOGRAPH. DEMAND FOR ts Invantion Waa the Reeult of a Cut LABOR IS on the Finger. A d accident—a cut on tbe Unger— roused Edison to invent the phono TEMPORARY I graph or talking machine. G overnor W ilson W elcom ing Speaker Clark to Sea Girt Mr. Edison told tbe story of this In Hay Harvest and Irrigation Proj vention At the tim e, be ects Need Men for Summer said, be to was a reporter. singing Into a telephone, Work Only. and In tbe telephone's mouthpiece be placed, for safe keeping, a fine KLAMATH FALLS, Or.—There bad steel point. Suddenly this point cut is a good demand for labor here bis Huger. B e found, to bis surprise, It bad been moving here and tbere now, but is is a temporary condi that and guided by tbe vlbra tion. Throughout Klamath Coun tlons roundabout, of bis voice. ty the farmers are putting up hay. H e placed a strip of yellow paper the steel point, replaced It In tbe At Olene the Government has es m UDder outhpiece and said tbe alphabet. Tbe tablished a construction camp and steel ran over the pa is doing work on the Poe valley per. and while for be each spoke letter of tbe alphabet m ade a different m ark or scratch. extension of the main canal, and It This w hat Mr. Edison bad hoped in this city the Strange-Maguire for. B was e now held tbe steel point still Company is employing a small aDd drew tbe paper scratches slowly It. There was given forth, very force paving around the White over the alphabet as be bad repeat Pelican Hotel. The work will last ed faintly, It a few weeks at the most ill both T bus tb e principle of the phonograph and tb e reproduction instances. Men willing to work of —tbe tbe registering voice’s vibrations—w as discov can get positions in the hay and ered through cutting of a Huger. It harvest fields ; however, when the was Edison's tbe Hnger. though, that was Sm ith's or Brown’s might have crops are harvested local labor rut. been quite backed off and no phono will be sufficient to supply all de graph would have resulted. mands. The work on the courthouse site A R T IF IC E O F AN AR TIST. is furnishing employment for 'a the Color In One of number of men with teams. If The Secret T u of rn e r’s Picture*. the decision of the Supreme Court The late Mr. Horsley, R. A., has re is adverse to II. F. Murdoch, who corded th at at one tim e be studied al most dally one of T urner’s Hnest w ater is asking for a temporary restrain colors, “T he Snowdon Range." ing order, work on the new build adm iring called especially the tender w arm th ing will be vigorously prosecuted of tb e light clouds encircling tbe moon. B e tried all sorts of glasses to see If be as long as weather conditions will could discover bow tbe particular glow permit. The erection of the court was gained, but w ithout success. house would give most of the lo Chance revealed the secret. The pic ture began to buckle from its mount, cal laborers, especially those with and Sir Seym our B aden, families, steady employment until put It Its Into owner. tbe hands of a noted expert late in the Fall. to be rem ounted When he bad suc removed It from Its old mount 'MAr- , J / .A The building of the courthouse cessfully the expert tb e ow ner to show at this time seems to meet with him w hat be sent had for discovered. Photo copyright, 1912. by American Pres* Association. A circle the approval of the majority of of orange vermilion bad been plastered J OODROW W ILSON'S sum m er borne at Sea Girt. N. J., has been a tb e back with an Ivory palette knife ! the business men of this city. Con on where meoea for political notables ever since the governor’s nom ination for the artist w anted tbe effect and j president Practically all the liig men in Dem ocratic national poli ditions are a little quiet here as then worked off sufficiently far through tics have called on tbe candidate to congratulate him and to pledge elsewhere and the expenditure of the pores of the previously w etted pa their support. the governor’s visitors have been Speaker Champ Clark per to give the show of color, while re $100,000 of county money would taining the smootb surface, w ithout a of tbe national Among house of representatives und O scar W. Underwood, the Demo house leader Roth Clurk and Underwood were candidates for the nom i be a big boost to this city and trace o f workm anship on tbe right side cratic which w ent to W ilson Speaker Clark waa enthusiastic In his congratu surrounding country. This may have led Mr. Horsley him nation lations. and the governor's welcome was most cordla'. Tbe speaker told the L W DECLARES WAGE INCREASE WOULD EATTHESURPLUS self to use. as be (lid, brilliant orange candidate th at he would stum p the country for his election as tbe foundation tor a w bite muslin dress. --------------------------- W alkin g Canes. From the tim e wbeo man wandered through tbe pathless forests bearing od his shoulder a m urderous bludgeon with which to strike down nls enemies tbe cane bus npver entirely gone out of fashion. The modern exquisite would feel an much at sea w ithout It as did tbe beau of wtioni Steele’s T atler spoke I d 1709. when It said th at tbe cane bad “heroine as indlsiiensable as any other of his lim bs’’ ami that w ltb “the knocking of It upoo bis shoe, leaning one leg upon It or w histling upoD with tils mouth he does not know how be should he good company w ith out I t" It may be Hattertng to tbe vanity of such a one to know th at the grotesque and arabesque Heads tb at be delights In displaying od bis walking stick are lineal descendants of tbe carved baton th at the fools and Jest ers of tbe middle ages wielded. NEW YORK.—W. W. Atter- burv, vice-president of the Penn sylvania Railroad, was the princi pal witness yesterday before the arbitration commission, sitting to pass upon demands of the locomo tive engineers of all eastern rail ways for increased pay. Mr. Atterbury said the Penn sylvania’s method of arriving at a basis of pay for its employes had been a “ constant effort to pay a fair rate for a fair day’s work.” To grant the demands now SHADOW PIC T U R ES . made by the engineers, the wit Photograph* T h a i Can Ba Mada by the ness said, would add to the oper Aid of a M agnet ating expenses of the railroad I t la possible to produce, w ltb tbe aid $911,580 a year, and if propor of a m ag n et shadow photographs re bling those m ade by action of the tionate increases were made in sem X ray Either an electrom agnet or a the pay of all other employes, the perm anent m agnet will answ er tbe par- cost would be $11.878,688. which, pose. Place a key or other Iron or steel he declared, would wipe out in one object on the sensitive Him of an ordi year the surplus of the Pennsyl nary photographic plate, then bring the poles of the m agnet near tbe other side vania railroad. plate and keep them there for Dealing with the question of of five the m inutes more. Upon develop granting the request of the steam the plate or a shadow picture of the engineers that the right to operate ing key or other object, as sharp and well all electric trains be given them, defined as uny of tbe X ray pictures, Mr. Atterbury said: will be found. method only Iron or steel or “ There is a serious side to that By this param agnetic substances may be proposition. The Pennsylvania other but tbe sensitive side Railroad's practice has been, photographed, plate Is turned tow ard the m ag when we have electrified, to as of netic tbe poles a disk ot iron nearly sign to that electric service, at a! as large as and the plate Is placed on tbe reasonable and fair rate. our| side then shadow pictures of any steam engineers. The question of j other nonm agnetic objects, placed on tbe obligating ourselves to continue| sensitive Him facing the m agnet, may that for the future is a more seri-j be obtained The operations are, of course, conducted In s dark room. ous matter. W ith an electrom agnet capable of “ We have not thought of mak lifting of 100 pounds one scien ing any change, but the decision tist has a weight made such pictures through by this commission that such j two Inches of Interposed wood. He has shall be the ease in the future also obtained shadow plcturee with a would so tie up the railroads and ! compound steel m agnet weighing little the property as to prohibit thej more than a pouud — New Vork Trib lease or »ale of the property.” une. W reck of th e Schw aben, Latest Zeppelin A irsh ip D estroyed Price 5 Cents I. W. W. AGITATORS CURSE FLAG AND COUNTRY, URGING WORKMEN TO SPURN JOBS Cursing America ami the Stars street employment offices. The I. and Stripes, I. W. W. agitators \Y. \Y. agitators climb on chairs in have been taking up their stations front of the offices where the men the last few niglits in front of the are being shipped and knock the employment offices on Second St. jobs, call the agents thieves and between Burnside and Couch. Dis robbers, call the men g«*ing on the inclined to work themselves, they job slaves and freely interlard are endeavoring to induce others their remarks by saying “ Down to refuse work. with the Stars anil Stripes and to In vain have appeals been made hell with America,” to the police to have the agitators “ What 1 fear,” says one agent. move elsewhere. The police have “ is something serious. Many of promised to see what can lie done, the men who are going out on jobs hut patrolmen never appear on the are Americans horn and they re scene until after the agitators sent the insults to the flag and have quit for the night. The police the cursing of the country. A few explain that they have no ordi nights ago when one of these agi- nance by which tile soapbox ora tators was making unpatriotic re tors can lie made to move on. marks. it took two of us to take a “ There is work for every man revolver away from a working who is willing to work, and at good man who was in the office ready wages," explained an employment to take an out-of-town place. The agent. “ But these loafers don’t workingman wanted to shoot the want to work, yet next winter agitator. It is this kind of trouble when work is scarce they will he I am afraid of if the police do not demanding that the city open soup interfere, and if there is blood kitchens. The same class of fel shed the situation will he harder lows who were howling for mu to handle.” nicipal soup kitchens last winter Agents assert that I. W. W. are now refusing work them scouts stationed in front of the selves and they don’t want others Municipal Free Employment Bu to he employed.” reau have not hesitated to tell men Several big jobs are in progress that they should not work and out of Portland and each night at that the free bureau is as full of 10 o'clock there is a large ship grafters and slave drivers as the ment of men from the Second licensed agencies. \ PLAN TO FIGHT GRAND TRUNK WHITE PLAGUE PACIFIC HAS IS URGED I. W. W. STRIKE Dr. MacKenzie Urges State Dis VANCOUVER. It. 0. Two pensaries to Exterminate thousand men, members of the Tuberculosis. t Industrial Workers of the World, have gone on strike on the Grand Pacific and have pretty SALEM.—State-wide co-opera Trunk well tied up construction work on tion through a central dispensary that between Hazelton and was the means advocated in an Burns line Lake, a distance of 181) address last night al the dose of miles. the tuberculosis convention here The Industrial Workers of the by Dr. K. A. .1. MacKenzie, dean World that by the end of of the University of Oregon Med the week assert entire grade through ical School, to exterminate tuber Yellowhead the will lie tied up and culosis in the state. that another thousand men will While there were different in quit but nuthing is known stitutions now treating the disease here work, regarding that. Burns Lake and conducting a warfare upon is a short distance northwest of it. there was no co-operation, In1 George. declared. He believed that there Fort men quit last night, accord should lie established a central ing The to news which leaked through dispensary with a staff of trained liy today. For weeks physicians and nurses, and when code has message been talk of a strike in ever eases were reported to it there north, lint as was the ease with they could be distributed among the the Canadian Northern strike, no the different institutions for treat demands been made on con ment. '1 hose able to he up and struction have contractors for higher walk could he eared for at the wages or changed conditions. dispensary. By visits made by The Industrial Workers’ plan is the physicians, eases of tubercu apparently to tie things up for losis could also be located, he this Fall and delay tilings so seri stated, and lie favored a compul ously that work cannot, lie re sory reporting of all eases located sumed before Spring. liv physicians practicing in the Cnntratcnrs have wired provin state. officials fo r par Dr. W. L. Me m»r and F. O. cial of government soldiers and special police to DiM'kebach also delivered ad ties sent north immediately. Even dress«*». During tin* afternoon pu lie if this is done it will take ten days pils of tin* t’hemawa Indian lor men to reach outlying portions School visited tin* city and made ot the grade where work is being an inspection of the exhibits. carried on. Station men who him small contracts on the grade are tin LOS ANGELES only ones now working STRIKE IS NEARLY OVER CHILDREN OF STRIKERS ARE 75 Men Return to Work on Docks, Saying They Quit Fearing TOBESENTAWAY Violence. NEW BEDFORD. Mass. Fifty LOS ANGELES. The strike »if children cotton mill strikers »lock laborers in the Imrbor sec were sent of from to I’hiladel- tion of this city, which had gained phia. New Vork here and •lersi'V some slight headway through agi jl’ities by tile | \\ W. New During the I tatuili by men sani to be lndus- I week, according to plans uu- | trial \\ orkers of tin* World, vir I nntinccd bv Grover I’errv of San ■> tually came to an end when 75 who is in idmrgc of the OUNT Z E I’I’E U N surely ha* bad tough luck with hi* airship* The re j men returned to work under their Francis»’»! I. \\ . \\ . muse here. lUO more will cent wreck of the Schwa ben by an explosion of gas, when thlrty-fou. lobi wage schedule. Fifty others be s»'iit t»i tin- homes of friimds in soldiers were Injured, several of them fatally, recalls the series of mls- tri*-»l to obtain their old positions, the name »'¡ties. The plan which ! fortunes to his dirigibles The Zeppelin I was « ris ked on Aug. 5. 1UOS. after m aking a Hlght which astonished the world The Zeppellu II was blit their places had been filled. proved so sueeesHfiil for the Law- .Many of the men who strin-k renee strikers last winter, was wracked In i w indstorm on April 2-Y 1910 On June ’¿H. the sam e year, the Deutschland I w as wrecked In a gale On tbe following Sept. 14 the Zeppelin j were foreigners, who said they H'lopte.l when it was seen that the VI was destroyed when a stern motor blew up On May Id. this year, ilia i lm»l «juit their work bemuse of the | I W. W. and the A. F. of I,, Deutschland II was canght In a gale and completely demolished The I receipt of iiiisignerl threatening S- h en ben was lying at anchor Itefore the balloon shed when a strong gust of I letters. They declared themselves eiiiibl not get togi'ther to tight the wind tore It from Its moorings The »hip broke In the middle, snd a few glad to resume their labors under mill owners, ami plans id" the miu- u.tcrial union to arrange a confer m inutes later It exploded, caught nre snd was entirely burned : police protection, whii-h was prom- j ence between the strik.Tsand own- lse<l them. ••rs lm»l failed. C V I V
