La Grande evening observer., January 16, 1912, Image 8

LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1912.
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GRASS VALLEY
SELECTED
JMJCCJJSSOR TO LATE MR. McAL
LISTEN .NAMED.
Members of Executive Committee lie
turn to 'f heir Homes Today
Fred Krusow, a resident ot Grass
Valley, and until Saturday vice presi
dent of the Farmers1 Co-Operatlve and
Educational union of Oregon, lias been
chosen president to serve the balance
of the term left vacant by the ueain or
President John W. McAllister. The
newly ordained president returned to
Me home'this morning, with nearly a
year before him to serve.
The death of Mr. McAllister brought
evcral of the executive committee to
. Xa Grande and a special meeting has
been held at which the president was
selected and the; policy of the new
regime outlined. Among those who
attended as members of the execu
tive committee were M. M. Waterman
of The Dalles and J. D. Brown of Arl
ington. Both of these men returneu
to their homes today after spending
several days here.
Another matter which came up be
fore the executive committee meeting
was the proposition of sending Slate
rganlzer A. P. Davis of this city to
Idaho to start unions there.
THUEE Sl'ElTAL TRAINS TO CAIlltY
MOOSE II EKE.
jKliiborate IluiKiunt and Installation of
Officers Object.
The Moose will organize In La
Grande Sunday, the 21st day of Janu
ary lh the K. of P. hall, with a mem
bership of over two hundred and fifty.
Two visiting lodges will come here in
special trains,- one from Baker and
one from Pendleton, to help Install the
lodge. Tlie visiting lodges will bo
given charge of the work for tho day,
and there will be a special from El
gin brluglng In 50 candidates on that
date about three hundred out of town
attendants Is anticipated. Arrange
ments to take care of 500 at the ban
quet Jiave been made, and this will be
one ot the biggest events of Its kind
La tirande has ever seen, but still the
Doove of La Grande hope for more be
cause Pendleton has a membership or
t'S and Baker City a membership or
3:0 and La Grande Is not going to be
oukfloae fcy any of Its sister towns and
are all working for a membership of
700 W the near future. The Moose char
ter win be open until the 21st of Jan
wary, anyway so there Is still time to
get ay with the big crowd and
goofl Time.
Tho local membership is striving
hard to make the event a huge huccpbj
In trery way possible. To do this en
tertainment features requires- lime and
effort Imt the Moose are out to make
It a gnulne triumph from start to
finish.
N't'k Restoration of Army Canteen
New York, Jan. Ifi. A meeting to
arouse Interest for the restoration of
the army canteen was held at the Waldorf-Astoria
today under the auspices
of the .National League for the Civic
education of Women. A number of
prominent army men delivered addres
ses strongly favoring the restoration
tit tlie canteen. Many army men and
their waves were present and acted as
patrons of the gathoring.
Ml
GRAND MOOSE
DAY SUNDAY
! Beautiful Line I
Of Valentine postcards
Regular price 2 for 5c
OUR SPECIAL PRICE
lc - EACH - lc
Dalton's Cash Store
AT 6A. M.
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JUUn Holds Guest Within Doom Until
.Morning.
Ladd Canyon. Jan. 14. (Special)
Perhaps the most enjoyable event
wliich has even beeu held in Ladd
Canyon for years was the neighbor
hood dance which was given by Tom
Bates on the W. V. G randy ranch Fri
day night. A large crowd of the Ladd
Canyon citizens and a few from the
valley filled the spacious dance hall
up stairs until long after the roosters
had crowed.. The dance did not break
up until arter 6 o'clock In the morning
on account of the rain. But one could
not help enjoying dancing so late any
how, nut such excellent music as the
Messrs. Lawrence Spencer and Jack
Walker from La tirande furnished on
the violin and organ. A splendid sup
per was served at midnight.
The Misses Ruth and Frankie Peeb-
ler and brother, Roy Peebler, enter
tained a number of young folks last
Wednesday evening at the home or
their narents.iMr. and Mrs. Dick Peeb
ler, In honor of George Crosby, who
loft the following morning for Wyom
ing. Games and music were the or
der of the evening until 12 o'clock.
Mrs. T. W. Bates left this morning
for Wallowa to be at the bedside of
her aunt, who Is not expected to live,
the hard blizzards on Sunday and
Monday a week ago and the recent
rains have caused the roads to be In a
very bad -condition. They were almost
impassable most of last week. The
dally mall carrier only succeeded In
getting through once, und on horse
back then. The high buow drifts, which
were considered to be the largest that
have been formed for years, are dis
appearing very fast since the rain.
Tost Prices Juggled.
Chicago, Jan. 16. The government
today Introduced testimony in the
packers' trial tending to show that
while the packers were howling about
the hard times and panic In 1!)07 they
were making millions. Through ques
tlons put to Harry Tlmoinns. chief ac
countant for Morris & company, they
showed that the packers Juggled the
accounts and Inflated the costs. In
one Instance hides which appeared to
cost $34,000, sold for $31,4!i7.
Strikers Less Troublesome.
T-nwrence. June 1C Still dreading
the striker's outbreaks eight companies
of militia are held under arms totla.
Tlie owners of the plants today are as
serting that between SO.OOOand .iu.uwu
operatives have returned to work. Tho
strikers claim that the higher class
workers are still out.
MANY IIEAU 11 RE W Kit
Socialist Discourses on Labor Topics
to Audience at Illgli School.
George D. Brewer, sent out by the
socialist bureau, lectured last night to
a Bond-alaed audience at. the high
school auditorium on class war in the
labor situation. His audience was well
entertained with a clear and concise
argument on the theme in hand.
m: ( ahim:y iurt.
Trainman Falls From Top of Cur at
North Powder Lust Night.
As the result of a fall from a box
car nenr North Powder last night, Ben
Carney, a local well known trainman.
Is in the hospital here today. Ills
hurts were severe but In no way criti
cal and his recovery will no doubt be
rapid.
Marriage License Issued.
County Clerk Wright lias Issued a
marriage license to Mr. Eklund or
Pendleton and Miss Merva Bell of this
county.
PORTLAND IS
PAINTED RED
LA GKAXDEBS ATTEND MAJiY
ITSCTIOttS IX A DAY.
Hu!i(iiet, Classic Dancing, Auto Rides,
and, und, and, und .
Portland's latch string was torn off
and portals to the municipality razed
when the La Grande delegation struck
town Sunijay night according to Con
ductor II. C, Grady who returned this
morning from Portland where he fell
in with the band of tourists from La
Grande and was forced to partake of
the hilarity which fell their way.
About the first thing that fortune de
creed for the merry jourueyists was
an elaborate banquet at the Imperial
where, aside from the regular tourists,
Fred Stanley and J. M. Berry, former
La Grande people, the Mlsses Gaskell
and Miss Wood, daughters of Fred,
Gaskell and Mac Wood, members of
the party and II. C. Grady were seated
at the festal board.
The best was retained to the last,
however. Still content with tho elab
orate dinner at the Imperial, and pat
ting satisfied stomachs, the tourists
dragged the Portland ex-La Grandors
and Mr. Grady with them nnd got
front seats at the Heillg at a Sunday
night performance where one-of the
greatest heel kicking' production ever
shown In Portland manifested itself.
Modification Is necessary to the afore
going sentence, however, for George L.
Cleaver "nigged" and refused to keep
up with the crowd, He seceded and
went , to Epworth League services,
which was no doubt the more sane
celebration of the two.
The La Grande bunch came near be
ing tossed out of the fashionable Heil
lg, however, but especial compassion
was taken on the crowd when it was
noised about that the Eastern Oregon
ers were out to get acquainted. Port
landers who have seen Parisian thea
tre production kow tow to the "misses"
seen at Portland, says Mr. Grady to
day In speaking of the quality of clas
sic dancing. Paris has nothing on
these heel manipulators.
An automobile ride about town was
only a small portion of the celebra
tion In the metropolis and the local
conductor sprouted salty bubbles at his
inability to stay with the La Granders
on their way south. "They are hav
ing some time, believe me," Is the
way Mr, Grady summarized the tour
only then commence.- "If the pace Is
kept up that the merry makers set In
Portland I see some tired business
men at home next week ye gods, what
a time they are having." ;
EQUAL TO . THE TEST.
Daniel Wobster, the Boy, at His En
trance to Exoter Academy.
Almost a year passed, however, be
fore the plan so long cherished wus
fairly started and Daniel, dressed In a
brand new homemade suit und astride
a sldeenddle, rode with bis father to
Exeter to be entered at the famous
ucedemy founded by .lobu Phillips.
Thu principal then uud forty years
thereafter was Dr. Benjamin Abbot,
one of the greatest teachers our couu
try has yet produced. As the doctor
was 111 the duty of examining the new
pupil fell to Joseph S. liucl.minster,
iheu an usher ut the academy, but
destined to influence strongly the reli
gious life of New England.
It was the custom of the doctor, we
are told, to couduct the examination
of applicants with pompous ceremony,
and that, tmltatiug lilm. young Buck
minster summoued Webster to his
presence, put ou his hat and said.
"Well, sir. what Is your age?" "Four
teen," was the reply. "Take this Bi
ble, my lad. and read that chapter."
The passage glveu him was St.
Luke's dramatic description of the eon
spiring of Judas with the priests and
scribes, of the last supper, of the be
trayal by Judas, of the three denials of
Peter and the scene Id the house of
the high priest But young Webster
was equal to the test and read the
whole passage to the eud in a voice
and with a fervor such as Master
Buckmlnster had never listened to be
fore. "Young man," snld he. "you are
qualified to cuter tbls Institution." and
no more questions were put to him.
John Bach McMaster, "Daniel Web
ster." A Word to Study.
that's the technical and
locally accepted name of the automo
bile In Flanllers. "Snell" (note that
the second letter Is n. not un means
"rapid." "pnardeloos" means "horse
less." "looudeerspoorweg" Is the rec
ognized way of describing a thing
"without rails," and, finally, "pltrool
rljtung" Implies a thing "driven by
petroleum." So you have It, quite sim
ply, and mere white whitKors and drab
devils are outclassed. Itut tiow'd you
llko to be hit by a real "snellpaarde
loost" etC.?-St. Louis Hepubllc.
OLD SIIIPCLOGKS.
Crude Devices Mariners Used In
Reckoning Time.
SANDGLASS MOST POPULAR.
If It Were Carefully Attended to ths
Skipper Could Tell the Dave Fairly
Well, but It Wat Often Juggled The
First Chronometer!.
To ascertain the time when at sea is
now a matter of the utmost simplicity.
But such was not the cuse In the old
sailing days, and in order to acquire
even the vaguest Idea of longitude and
time the Hcamuu bad recourse to curi
ous devices.
Crude as these devices appear com
pared with preseut day Instruments,
tbey save the mariner from chaos and
destruction, and even If be could not
name the hour with any degree of cer
tainty be at least knew the day of tbe
week.
Eclipses of tbe moon and the posi
tions of tbe stars afforded a little guide
to the' skipper, who was, nevertheless,
greatly handicapped by his lack of as
tronomical knowledge and the Inferior
quality of bis spyglass. Moreover,
eclipses could not be arranged for ev
ery night In tbe week, and there were
dark nights when the stars could uoi
be seen, ho various devices had to be
pressed tuto service.
Tbe most popular form of old sea
clock was the snndglass. Many ot
these glasses were timed to run twenty-four
hours, und prior to the ship
leaving land the glass was set exactly
at noon. If It were carefully watched
and turned us soon as the sand ran
down tbe skipper could reckon the
clayH with fair accuracy.
Side by side with th& large glass were
placed half hour and minute glasses.
The man at the helm carefully watch
ed this old sea clock and announced
the time at regular Intervals by strik
ing n bell. It was customary to esti
mate the duration of any incident by
so many glasses. "To flog the glass"
wns an operation very congenial to
lazy seamen. It cousisted In turning
the glass before all the sand had run
down so that the watch was appre
ciably shortened.
When tbe twenty-four hour glass
was employed a little Juggling was In
dulged In for the purpose of finding
tbe longitudo. The difference between
tbe twenty-four hour gluss and the
time by the sun wns estimated und
tbls difference wag beld to represent
tbe longitude east or west, according
as tlie sun's time might be before or
after tbe time returned by the glasa.
"Taking the sun" wus a weird and
wonderful operation. Clumsy quad
rants were utilized, and toward mid
day the captain appeared on deck to
perform his solemn duty. After much
screwing of eyes und waggling of the
quadrant tbe captain would bawl out
to tbe mate. "Make It bells!" the
number varying according to personal
Idiosyncrasies. 1
A demand for a more satisfactory
device for estimating time at sea was
responsible for experiments being
mude with pendulum clocks, though
with little success. The luterest of ,
inventors was aroused when the Eng
lish government In 1714 offered 10.
000 to any oue inventing a method of
reckoning longitude to within a de
gree, or sixty miles; 15,000 if within
forty miles and 20,000 if within thirty
miles.
John nnrrisou, an obscure Yorkshire
carpenter, who had achieved a local
reputation by repairing nnd cleaning
clocks, came forward witb a chronom
eter which at once attracted attention.
Through tbe influence of Dr. nnlley he
was enabled to make a voyage in a
government vessel to Lisbon, where be
succeeded in determining tbe longitude
to within 1 degree 30 minutes.
for this achievement be was grant
ed 500 to enable him to proceed witb
Ills' invention. After thirty years' hard
toll he produced a chronometer on
which the preseut marine chronometer
Is based. Ills invention was shaped
like a large watch, and in 1701 Har
rison's sou embarked for Jamaica in
order to carry out tests. On the voy
age out tbe chronometer was only 5.1
seconds In error, and during the whole
trip from Portsmouth to .lumnica and
back the variation was ouly 1 minute
54.5 seconds.
The accuracy of the chronometer
thus enabled the longitude to be deter
mined within eighteen miles, a result
which exceeded tbe admiralty's most
sanguine expectations. After further
demonstrations an act of parliament
was passed In 1705 awarding Harrison
20,000, half of tbe money to be paid
as soon as he explained bow his time
keeper was constructed and the re
mainder when the government was
couvinced that these timekeepers could
be made by others. Despite the ful
fillment of these conditions, Harrison
had to wait several years before tbe
money was paid over.
Larcum Kendal, who had been Har
rison's apprentice and who was ulti
mately bis successor, followed on tbe
lines laid down by his master and pro
duced a chronometer which was used
by Captain Cook during his daring
voyage In the Resolution. Of tbls
chronometer Cook wrote, "Our longi
tude can never be erroneous while we
have so good a guide as Mr. Kendal's
watch"
Various horologlsts have Introduced
so many Improvements that little trace
of Harrison's model is to be discerned
In tho modem chronometer, though to
blm must be assigned the credit of
pointing out the way.
Tho heart has reasons that reason
does not understand. Uoasuet,
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