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 /
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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
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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.
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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.
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