La Grande evening observer., March 11, 1915, Image 2

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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1915.
FELICE LWE AS ; MARGUERITE"
IS EXACTLY TO LONDON'S TASTE
MISS LYNE, PERSONAL FRIEND OF MANY LA GRANDE PEOPLE,
WHO IN RECENT YEARS HAS WARBLED BEFORE POTENTATES
AINU H1NUS.
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, Sir ;, '.,.
On February 10, 1912, the London
Standard bad many things to say
about Felice Lyne who, with Prof. J.
J. McClellan of Salt Lake, comes to
the L. D. S. tabornuclc March 19,
undor auspices of - the, Chautauqua
association, to give a recital to her
old-time friends and such as are in
terested in music of her highest cal
iber. The Standard remarks:
"Miss Felice Lyne can be paid to
greater compliment than, by saying
that her Marguerite, as seen at the
London Opera house lust night, is
proof against the anomalies of the
operatic convention. No artist within
the memories of the younger genera
tion has met in the collectiv snse
so fully the requirements of the part.
Miss Lyiie's youth and inexperience
. are her most priceless assets. She
has not yet had time to acquire the
tricks of her calling. What she does
she at least appear to do by, instinct.
And the result is a performance the
freshness and girlishness of which are
delightful.
Miss Lyne did not fly in the face
of tradition insofar as the business
of the part is concerned. Her per
formance did not give the impression
of a conscious effort to create a stand
ard or to make history, and for that
reason sno largely succeeded in ; do
ing so. It was all wonderfully ini
forced and natural. Bashful sixteen
breathed in every movement and ges
ture. She did not make Marguerite
quite such a bread-and-butter miss
as have some. Cheerfulness and the
lightness of heart, however, are not
inconsistent with innocence. H
voice never got in the-way of her
acting, or vice versa. - She sang the
"King of Thule" with just the requis
ite sense of preoccupation and with
a clear, fresh tone, while the love
scene was one of the most deeply
felt episodes seen in opera ror a long
time. The houso was packed from
floor to ceiling." f
LOCKLEY DESCRIBES GEULO CANAL
In view of the approaching celebra- ; through a channel of basaltic rock
tion over the completion of the Celilo ! only 125 feet wide at one point, and
canal and the consequent, unshackling 'says: "Among the things to be con
of the Columbia River to commence, it sidcred are the strong currents; the
ifjtfnteresting to look into the history . sudden bends; the immense rise in the
Hi the building of the locks at the; river duaing the freshets; the eddies;
Cascades, says Fred Locklcy in the j the whirlpools; the large masses of
Portland Journal. j river during the freshets; the eddies;
V. W. Tompkins, the superintendent, 'of floating ice from up river pointa
gave me much interesting information at the break up of the winter. At
about the construction of the locks. I Hell Gate, three miles above Celilo,
Every pioneer who come across the ' ne ,"lv.er becomes gorged with ice to
plains and came to the Willamette
valley by way of the Columbia river
route will remember the terror to nav
igation, were the Cascades. They will
remember the toilsome and dangerous
portage or the cascades,
the heiirht of fin nr 7ft font At IVio
Cascades a permanent . improvement
can be made by the construction of a
canni and locks. The work will be al
most identical in character with those
at the falls of the Willamette near
were invited for the completion of
the work. The bids were opened by
Major Thomas'- H. Hmdbury -in
charge of this district, on November
15, 1891, and the contract was
awardod to J. G. and I. N Day a
Arm- of San Francisco contractors.
The contract was signed on Decem
ber 27. 1892 and on February 10,
1893, the government buildings were
turned over to them. Times had been'
prosperous and labor and materials
were high when, their bid was ac
cepted. The panic of 1893 came on,
labor was a drug in the market, and
the cost of materials dropped, all of
which was greatly in ; favor of the
contractors.
ThftV were paid 60 cents per cubic
yard for dry excavation $1 per
yard for subaqueous, $1.35 per cubic
yard, for rock excavation dry and
$2.50 per cubic yard for subaqueous.
A large amount of stone has been
gathered by the government ana 1
most of it was cut and ready to be
used. - This 'was turned over to the i
contractors. For lavine Granite di
mension stone the contract price was
$63.50 per cubic vard. basalt dimen
sion stone $36 per cubic yard, basalt
face stone $32, and basalt ' quarry
field stone $28 per cubic yard.. For
rubble masonry' thev received $2 uer
cubic yard and for paving the slopes.
cuuuieie wvrK mey received $d.zd per
cubic yard, - ;.
The locks were turned over ' to
Captain W. L, Fisk of the corns of
army engineers by the contractors on
November 6, 188. The first boat
Sadie B.
Tin Sadie B., tfcevDnlles Citv. the
S .n h Dixon and tno" Harvest Queen
were put through the locks toe-ether.
As they " went through there was a
continuous ovation. The Sarah Dix
on had . mountefl a rnnnrm nn hap
deck, and this ' was fired in salute. I
The Harvest Queen hod on board 400 I
excusioniss. . It turned around after
passing through the locks and started
back to Portland, thus being the first
boat to make the round trip through
the locks. ; j
William E. ' Moi-ris wfas in local
charge of the construction work for
I. N. and J.-G. Day at the locks.
The original cost of construction
was $3,820, 629.48, but on March 4,
1913, an additional appropriation of
$100,000 was made to complete the
south wall of the upper lock. This
and some expense for dredging and
repairing the slopes, makes the total
cost of the work $3,926,648.13. ;
. The cost of labor and the operating
expenses of the locks last year was
$4,168.56.
. During the building of the locks
quite a few accidents occurred. Cap
tain P. M. Price had his leg broken
by a blast at Umatilla reef on De
cember 8, 1882.
A daughter of thomas Coyle was
killed while eating her supper by a
rock from a blast crushing through
the roof and falling or. the head. A
crew of Chinamen were tipped over
in the rapids and drpwned, and some
white workmen were injured.
In the sixties and early seventies
several boats came over the locks in
extreme water, among them the Ok
anogan, Nez .Perce Chief and Sho
shone. . ,
A trip from Portland to the Cas
cades on the Columbia is one of the
most picturesque and most eniavahln
trips of its kind in America, and it
is one oi wnose recoi wtmna nf haun
ts one and majesty will haunt one's
ory ever alter. ,
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Baker, March 10. Huker mining
men are trratified to learn that Govr
ernor Withycombe has appointed two
of the Ave members of the Oregon
bureau of mines from Eastern Ore
eon, and the selection of W. C; Fel
lows and Robert M. Betts are popu
lar ones. Governor Withycombe is
taking an interest in' mining affairs
and as stated in a telegram received
day before yesterday by the Baker
Commercial club from the chief exe
cutive, he is doing all he can do to aid
it. : .A, -. . , ;':"y'-
Mr. Fellows served - as a member of
the bureau for the last two years
with great, credit, and in Mr. Betta
will have a willing and capable ally
to advance the interest of ' Eastern
Oregon in the mining world. The
former manager of the Ben Harrison
mine, -while Mr. Betts is manager of
the Union-Companion mine at Cornu
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Klamath Falls, Or., ' - March
(Special.) Klamath County's
biggest sawmills, the . Pelican
Lumber : Company's - and . the
goma Lumber. Comoanv's Dlant. will
begin operation this year on April
1. Thel (plant of tthe . Pelican Bay
Company burned last July, but a new
one has been erected and will re
open with about 800 men in employ
men. The new plant will have a ca
pacity of 150,000 feet of lumber every
ten hours, or about twice that of the
old mill .which was destroyed last
year.
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Eventually a short railroad was ! (Ji'0Kon City, and in reality will not
built on the north bank of the Colum- ouer tne 8ame uilticulty." His esti
bia to. transport passengers andl,mate as to e e08t of tne canal and
freight from the lower river to the tKS, 1 scaes rapids and the re
miflrlln rivnr. .moval of rocks was 700.000.
Series of Rapids. . 11 is interesting to note here that
The Cascades consist of a series of iV. r- and N- Day of San Francisco
rnpias, wim a lau oi at.n leev In a
distance of five and three-fourth miles
They extend from upper Mailboat to
lower Mailboat Landing. The main
rapids are three-fourth of a mile be
low upper Mailboat Landing, and tho
water fall twenty one feet in a dis
tance of 2000 feet.
The canal is 90 feet wide and 3000
feet long. One lock is C21 feet long,
the other 614 feet. The depth of the
water 8 feet. The lower lock Tins a
lift of 24 feet, and can operate upto
20 foot stage about extreme low water
at the lower intrancc of the canal.
The upper lock is formed by the upper
gates of the lower locks and a pair of
guard gates so the w.nul can be used
ii to a 40 foot stage of water at the
iower entrance.
On June 23, 1874, congress passed
an act authorizing "a survov of the
cascades and dalles of the Columbia
river for the purpose of escort:. ining
the practicability and cost of con
structing canals and locks at these
points
This survey was made under the di
rection of Major N. Michler in the fall
of 1874. Robert A. Habcr.tham, later
surveyor general of Oregon,wns chief
of Hie party, and Captain Allen Noyes
later become a river Captain, and is
now retired and lives here in Portland.
Scenery is Praised.
The map of tho survey whs sent to
the Brigadier General A. A. Humph
ries, the chief of engineers by Major
Michler on January Hi, 1875.
In his report Major Michler, after
speaking of technical details of the
work,- says: "The Magnificent, bold
and peculiar scenery at these two
places can only be appreciated after n
personal inspection." He speaks of
the river at places being forced
did most of the work, the cost being
lM.ozu.oziP.ia.
Contract is Awarded.
I. N. Dny, the Cascade lock contrac
tor, was a senator from Multnomah
county durjng the recent session of
the legislature. It is said that J. G.
and 1. N. Day did not lose money on
the contract.
In the fall of 1876, an additional
survey was made bv C. M. Bolton, nnri
the report submitted to the chief of
engineers by Coronel J, M. Wilson,
under the date of February 5, 1875.
Bids were onen on October 1. 1878
and the contract was awarded to Ball
ratt oi New York city.
A. H. Ball with a force of workman
arrived on December 21, 1878. Tin
work was soon underway, but is was
interrupted by the death of A. H. Ball
who died on January 4. Ift79. lust two
weeks after his arrival from New
York, and after taking up the work,
The contract exnired after OotnW
31, 1879, but was extended to July 1,
loon at 'wmch time it was abrogated
and on December 2, 1879, the plant
vi can a: natt was purchased by
the government. Ball & Plnbt hnH
only started the work, as the total
amount paid them was only $79,
911.67. From December 3, 1879, to Sep.
tembcr 30, 1892, the work lagged, on
account of insufficent appropriations.
Most of the work done was bv hired
labor and not by contract.
On August 13. 1881, a contract was
!?1 ,t,, Uavis Chalmers and Willinm
k. Holmes of Portland for the re
moval of ex nosed rorlc nnd sr, n
cubic yard for submerged rock. They
vtmjjii:iuu uivir contract on recruavv
ii8 1 882.
Panic Hits Country
On September 16, 1892, proposals
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La Grande.. March 11 (Ta the
editor ) I consider it my duty as a
citizen to let the public in general,
including the police and sheriff's
force, know about where to look fnr
devilment done by youngsters. They
will find it in the neighborhood of
the Tent city on Monroe avenue.
About five oclock an evening or two
ago, I came home from a walk and
I noticed nine bov had l'nst start
ed a fire inside a rock screen lav-
iner nsar my Dlace on Greenwnnrl
and S. avenue. The boys used some
of my old lumber and the smoke;
rose near my home, thus attracting
me. un r lr street near tne Harris
building some of the Imva )io- a
hole in the ground and build a fire
and do it often regardless of the fact
Tney are warned not to. The dan
ger of accidents is great. Many
oi me parents oi tnese children see.
tnem do this too.
Anight or two ago nine boys
were busy throwing rocks, building
fires and making themselves harmful
generally, i have the names of all
these boys and unless' the parents
take warning and watch their
child ren 1 shali publish these names.
Some parents would not like to have
their children's nnmes printed, I
take it for doing nets of this sort.
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