La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, December 23, 1915, Image 13

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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1915. , PAGE FIVE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER MISTRESSES OF THE WHITE HOUSE An Infinity of Tact Required of "First Lady." IN no previous Instance ever has a ml tress of the White House been a Washington woman. The present situation therefore la . a lilt peculiar, especially In view of the circumstances that the president's bride, for all ber descent from Poca hontas, has not been hitherto a mem ber of the capital's Bmart set' No sooner . was ber engagement to the president announced than, as a matter of course, the fashionable crowd was eager to take her up and even to ac cept her as Its leader if she so wished. Dolly Madison led Washington so ciety, her reign continuing, Indeed, for a number of years after she left the White House. So, likewise,' did Mrs. Cleveland, and tbe same may be said of Mrs. Roosevelt The "first lady," if she would lead the coterie of fashion, must possess In nigh degree the special faculty and most do a -great deal of entertaining. Two White' House mistresses have been pronounced Puritans. Mrs. Hayes banished wine. Mrs. Polk put a stop to dancing,' of which she did not ap prove on general principles and which abe deemed out of harmony with tbe dignity of the presidential mansion. The most unpopular mistress of the Whit) House was Mrs. James Monroe, who had lived much abroad while her husband was minister to France and Great Britain. She was full of Ideas acquired at foreign courts, and she es tablished a code of rigid etiquette that made tbe administration unpopular. Jefferson had two married daughters, but they could be with him only at times, and so it came about that Mis tress Dolly Mndison, wife of bis secre- E&MrfVWMJSK AGVL JVWA. Ail Photo 9 by Arnold Genthe.. TUB NSW HISTBB98 OF THE WHITE H0U8B tory of state, officiated as "first lady" during bis administration. Later when ber husband succeeded Jefferson as president she added to her popularity and left behind her the greatest social traditions of any woman who has ever presided at the White House. Another great social favorite was Harriet Lane, niece of President Bu chanan, who as mistress of tbe White House was noted for her tact In a rather surprising number of In stances the mistresses of the White House have been invalids. Mrs. McKln ley was never able to be present at public receptions or other large enter tainments and when she did appear re ceived her guests seated lu a chair. Mrs. Taft suffered from ill health, and Mrs. Andrew Johnson was like wise an invalid, and when out of bed rarely left her chair. Mrs. Taylor was a Bufferer from chronic nervous de pression. Mrs. Pierce was a shrinking and sensitive woman who had suffer ed wretched health since childhood. Mrs. William Henry ' Harrison was never in the White House. At the time of her husband's Inauguration she was too ill to make a long jour ney across the country. Delicate health likewise afflicted Mrs. John Quincy Adams. Mrs. Fillmore on the same account made little effort to promote social festivities. Mrs. Garfield's life In the White House was one of seclusion, her taste for society being but slightly develop ed. The first Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, 111 when she entered the White House, died during her husband's term. The first wife of President Tyler was partly paralyzed and died not very long after her husband's term began. Later, and while still president, he married quietly In New York a girl of twenty, Julia Gardiner, who was the daughter of an old friend. He was fifty-nine years old. The shadow of the civil war gave the Lincoln administration little chance from a social point of view, but any way Mrs. Lincoln was not fitted for the role of a social leader. Mrs. Grant also cared little for such a role. The first mistress of the White House was Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, the first occupnnt of the White House and second president of the United States. She was of stern Hew England stock and presided with nacb dignity. -'. . Ages of Coast Trees - News was recently received by Portland officials of the Forestry Ser vice that the Doubles fir found in the Washington forest in Western Wash ington, reported to be more than 1300 years old, is by the count of the an nual rings 1144 years of age. It still is the oldest Douglas fir of which the authorities of the Forestry Service have record. . The rings were counted by the ranger on duty near Finney Creek, where the monster tree was found. The tree has been cut downi the stump partially burned and 50 feet of the trunk sawed into wood. For the first 600 years of the tree's growth it attained a radius"of 27 1-2 inches and the other 644 years added only 14 inches to the radiue. The oldest hemlock on record is 643 years old and was found somewhere in Western Washington. ' It had at tained a diameter of 60 inches. The oldest red cedar yet discovered by the forest officials was found in the Sno qualmie forest, was 100 inches . in diameter end' 1137 years of uge. The oldest yellow pine in Eastern Oregon is 687 years old, its diameter being about four feet Five thousand trees were examined in the growth study. .. . :, . . , , ; Expert Report Cause. ' Spokane, Wash., Dec. 20. Four experts, S. H. Hedges and B. D. Dean of Seattle; F. W. Crocker of Portland, and F. M. Cortelyou of Spokane, have reported on the bridge disaster, find ing that crystallization" of an eye beaim in one of the lower steel cords supporting the 180-foot span caused the collapse- of the bridge Saturday morning. The report stated that no excessive load was on the bridge when the disaster occurred. A Close Shave, for the Barber, Nottingham, Eng., Nov. 20. (By Mail) "Gassed," and with German gas at that, right at home was the fate of Arthur Hemstock, master barber here. After shaving a con valescent Canadian soldier who'd been gassed in France, Hemstock be came violently ill. "Gas infection, second hand," was the doctors verdict. He'll recover. Uncle Joe Cannon is back in Wash ington with the others. They can't Jose him, True they tried it once and Succeeded for a time but , they couldro't make it stick, ' ,'.,,' i Plant Wizard is Lo cated Father George Schoener, the plant wizard of Oregon, will be located near St. Johns, a tract of land having been secured from Coe B. McKenna that is suited to the purposes of developing new species of plant life. The ex periments with flowers and plants are to be financed by an association of business men of the city, but the results of Father Schoener's work will not be commercialized. The public cannot purchase the new plants that are " to introduce new fruits, grains and flowers. The work is to be a broad experiment, but the success which Father Schoener has hereto fore had causes his friends to believe that "Fathelr Schoener's Scientific Garden" will soon be one of the most valuable assets of the state. Cham ber of Commerce Bulletin. .Anti-Hyphen School 30 years Ago El Paso Texas, Dec. 22. The Aoy school here is extracting the hyphen from 1,2000 young Mexican-Americans . annually.. Thirty American teachers are employed teaching ac cording to the Gary system. Swarthy little mustaches and muchaches be come plain American girls and boys with American ways and American ideals. The school was founded more than thirty years ago by a Spaniard, thought to have been a refugee from Mexico. He began his educational work in .the little hut where he lived. Gradually his school grew and after his death a few years ago, it was taken over by the board of education. It is believed that "Aoy" were the initials of the strange man, for all in Mexico' no one of that name has been found. According to the war correspond ents, when a shell strikes the "s' comes off. Magdalene in Real Life , .. Chicago, Dec. 22. A little more than three years ago Grace Rennett was one of the best gowned woman in Chicago's then notorious levee dis tricts. Then came the crusade which wiped out that section. Grace like hundreds of her kind, was driven to the streets. The gowns she had worn in her house were useless on the high way. She became ragged. One day she was arrested and taken before the Morals court Judge Uhlir gave her a chance. Yesterday she was be fore the Morals court again, Jo plead for a fallen girl. Judge Uhlir re cognized the woman he paroled three years ago. After Judge Uhlir put Grace she isn't known by that name anymore on parole, a promient South Side social leader took her into his home. He made her one of his family, on trial. Grace mado good and today is doing reform work of her own, , Grazing on the National Forests. According to the annual report of the secretary of agriculture, there were grazed last year on the na tional Forests under pay permits, 1,724,000 cattle and horses and 7,300, 000 sheep and goats. Several hundred thousand head of milch and work ani mals were grazed free of charge, and more than 3.600,000 head of stock crossed the forests, feeding en route, also free of charge. To show the irareased use of the forests for grazing, the secretary tntj that, during the fiscal Year 1905 there were only 692,000 cattle and horses and 1,514,000 sheep ana goats on airoroxhnately 85.000 acres. The number, of animals now sustained in proportion to the area of the forests is 60 per cent greater- than it was ten years ago. Since ; 1905 the number of persons holding grazing privileges has increased 200 per cent This can be attributed principally to wider UK a hv RAtfclArs and small RtuOcmAn. According to the report, the greater I part of the summer range in the west ern states is in the National Forests. Under the regulated government sys tem the forage is utilized fully, with out injury to the growth, and with adequate safeguards against water shed damage. It is stated that the productivity of the land for forage in most places has been restored and everywhere is increasing; the industry has been made more stable; stock comes from the forests in better con dition; range; wars have stopped; ranch property has increased in value; and a larger area has been made avail able through range improvements. It is probable, so the report states, that 100,000,000 pounds of beef and mutton are sold each year from herds and flocks occupying the ranges. That the forests have promoted the de velopment of the stock industry is indicated. . This is appreciated ,fy stockmen and they are urging that a similar system of range regulation be extended to the unreserved public lands. The secretary concludes by stating that it is not merely the stock in dustry that has been benefited. The grazing privilege has been distributed so as to promote heal.hy community growth, increase settlement, prevenjt monopoly, and diffuse prosperity. In other words, public control has served social as well as economic ends; Diablo "Adopted" Oakland, Dec. 21. Oakland has adopted The Mountain of Laughter, that storied western peak whose ragged shoulders rise four thousand feet straight into the blue from the flat plain beside this city of three hundred thousand souls. The drives and scenic boulevards which will con nect the parks on old Diablo are planned to wind through the Garden of Jungle Gods. The giant frog, the whale, the elephant, the pigeon, the mastadon and bearded man are but a few of the curious, rock y shapes that speckle the rugged sides of Koo- Wah-K.oom. By air line, Mount yi ablo is distant from this city about fifteen miles. Since July 1851 Di ablo has been a base meridian the point from which all California land surveys have been measured. " We need Diablo as a scenic as set," said the citizens of Oakland. Wherefore the Merchants' Exchange a business men's organization climbed to the summit of the moun tain in a body and adopted it. "We of Oakland hereby adopt you, sentinel peak, guardian of half our state," said the president and broke a bottle of wine, brewed from grapes grown on Diablo's sides, over the monument that marks the base meri dian. . An auto highway with an average grade of five per cent has been com pleted to the summit. Other boule vards are contemplated and an ob servatory and hotel will crown the fiant pile. Diablo, known to the In ians as Koo-Wah-Koom, the "moun tain of laughter," has become the mecca for the motor tourist From its summit one can look down upon half the state of California. Forty thousand square miles, comprising twenty-seven counties are spread out in a vast panorama. GOOD-BYE, COYOTE. United States Health Service Plans Complete Eradication. Since the appointment of E. F. Averill of Pendleton, by the U. S. bio logical survey, as district superin tendent in Eastern Oregon, the work of eradicating rabies has almost en tirely passed from the hands of the forestry department, according to Supervisor Ephraim Barnes, of the Minam National forest, who is of the opinion that the campaign for stamp ing out the plague of hydrophobia in Oregon, California, Nevada and Ida ho, headed by Surgeon J. S. Boggess of the U. S. health service, will in this section of the country, be left to Mr. Averill. . Dr. Boggess has sent telegrams asking for the cooperation of the gov ernors of the affected states and has outlined a plan of exterminating coy otes; chief carriers of the disease, by poison, gun and trap. It is his in tention to patrol Grant, Harney, 'Wheoler, Coos, Klamath and Uma tilla counties with inspectors to over see the work of . eradication, and county courts will be asked to place additional bounties on coyote scalps. ROBBED BY. NURSE. Baker Civil War Veteran Loses Money and Clothing. Baker, Dec. 22 To be robbed while he slept early this morning, supposed ly by the man who was nursing him through an attack of pneumonia, was the experience last night of George Schindler, a Civil War veternn, living on Court street near Second street. His loss amounts to $46 in cash, to gether with a heavy black overcoat, and a black felt hat of the old army style. ... Louis Wambold, believed to be the principal in the affair, a recent ar rival in Baker, had been acquainted with Schindler for only a few days, but volunteered to sit up with the old soldier. At about 2 o'clock this morning Schindler dozed off and on awakening at about 3:80 noticed that his nurse was gone. Then he saw that his trousers were not hung as he had left them, and on rising to in vestigate, found his money missing, together with his hnt and coat. In spite of his illness he hastily donned his clothes and making his way to the police station, reported the affair. Today he is reported to be in a serious condition due to axposur and excitement . TV ae hM been turned over te the county authorities and telegrams have been sent out to cities and towns along the railroad, in the hope of ap prehending Wiambald. Al Selwyn Wept in His Oyster Patty New York, Dec. 18. Arch A. Sel wyn,. better known to Broadway as Al, the abbreviation of his middle name, Aloyslus, who is head of the theatrical film of Selwyn & Co., when ever his brother Eogar goes out to luncheon, has been advised Hhat he will give his annual dinner, to which all Broadway is always invited, at the Hudson theatre tomorrow night This, expensive news was broken to Mr.' Selwyn by Roi Cooper Me grue, C. Pincus Hayes, Douglas Fair banks, Raymond Hitchcock, James) Forbes, Irvin S. Cobb, Charles Bel mont Davis, Miss, Margaret. Mayo, Miss Margaret Hlington, George Doran, Crosby Gaige, Miss Madge Kennedy, Miss Mary Pickford, Wil liam Courtenay, Charles Hanson Towne, Seumas CVSlullivan, Frank Crowninshield and many, many oth ers who chased him all over Gotham just to let him know it , They told him that they had ar ranged an affair which, for costli ness and elaborate splendor will so far outshine anything he has ever done that he will have cause to be proud of their efforts. Mr. Selwyn also learned that he will pay for the taxicabs that were used in chasing him. All Mr. Selwyn has to do is make a mental note of the time end place the dinner is to be held and pay the bills as they aro presented. Even the slightest detail is attended to for him. Last year's affair set Mr. Sel wyn back ' $1,180,: so this perennial host confossed with a touch of bitter ness while weeping in his oyster patty between dances that night. The taxicab chase was a failure af ter all and finnlly, three playwriters, seven actors, a novelist and four magazine men became clogged in a long distance telephone booth. By brute strength Mir. Megrue finally wrested the receiver from Ernest Truex and at last located Mr. Selwyn in the Kowayton Watercross No. 1 Hook and Ladder's fire ' house, of which Mr. Selwyn recently was made chief in recognition of his work in in stituting the special delivery letjor system of sending out fire . alarms which recently replaced the old sys tem of notifying the Rowayton fire men by post card when a fire oc curred. '.. As a fire was under way out near Kale Durkin's farm last night and Chief Solwyn had only begun to get his uniform out of his'Tbcker in the fire house he found himself unable to give more than five or six minutes to the formalities of discussing the official notification. "May I offer a suggestion, Mr. Chairman?" the fire chief hollered over the telephone from Rowayton to Broadway. Chairman Megrue con ferred briefly with the committee and then hollered back to Selwyn that any suggestion he had to make con cermng his party woudi be received and placed on file by tne committco and considered for whatever the com mittee thought it worth. "I merely wish to say before going to the fire," thereupon said the cljiof, "that I think this year's party you say I'm giving should have as its chief guests the cast of 'Under Fire' inasmuch as that's the company now at the Hudson." ' "That seems perfectly 1 fair," re plied the author Chairman Megrue. "Carried." The committee after carefully counting the seats and measuring the standing room spaces in the Hudson theatre last night decided that it will be possible to get at least 1,000 of Mr. Selwyn's friends to the party. WHEAT GOING EAST. Average of Twelve Cars Per Day , from Walla Walla Valley. I vvmuu tv mm, uw, luuui carloads of wheat are being sent out ;of the Walla Walla valley every day J for Middle Western points, ultimately I to be shipped on to the Atlantic sea board and sent from there across the ocean to Europe. Such were the facts 'gathered today after an investigation I of the business being done at the pres jent time by local shippers. . I For the first time, perhaps, in the i i history of the Walla Walla valley practically all of the wheat being .; moved is being sent eastward, with : the ultimate destination the Atlantic (seaboard. In former years large nr.. 11 .. TIT 1 1 Tl fin Al x in , quantities of the grain have been sent rrom here to Portland and the Sound, I there to bo loaded into vessels, to be sent oil over the world. The slides in the Panama canal, and the European war, however, has meant the withdrawal of large num bers of vessels, and bottoms for the carrying of wheat are practically im possible to find upon the Pacific coast As a. result local wheat is being load ed into cars and sent eastward at the rate of about 12 cars per day, ul timately to be sent to the European nations. Although the cost of trans portation across the continent by rail is considerable, exporters are forced to do it in order to fill contracts. Although the wheat is shipped with New York, Philadelphia and other At lantic ports as the ultimate destina tion, very few of the cars are being sent east of Chicago at present, stat ed one of the local shippers yester day. Lack of bottoms on the Atlantic has caused a practical embargo, and a large number of loaded cars are standing at the sidings east of Chi cago waiting to be moved. One of the local shippers said that he had it on good authority yesterday that there were about 64,000 loaded cars on the tracks east of Chicago and Council Bluffs destined for Eu rope. Of these a good proportion are, loaded with wheat As fast as ves sels from Europe arrive and unload they are immediately chartered for the return trip, and a number of the cars are unloaded. In this way Northwest wheat is slowly fmdlnir its nv aniMi th AilATtfb. -.ijtl THERE ARE MANY REASONS' !' "':..' ' . ' ' 'V"-'" -''' ' 'WHY EVERY rfOME IN LA GRANDE SHOULD HAVE ELECTRIC LIGHT. ; Eastern Always at Your SerVice Special Candy Sale '.'", ' V .' '. ForXmas Boxes of candy from Boxes of candied fruit Boxes of cigars from Bulk candy, pound Nuts of all kinds, pound ' Full line of penny candy for the little folk's. ; 'Corns and look over the stock and prices before buying my place else, or sending away. .'School, church, lodge, and party orders given I-extra special pnees.-"' Your co-operation earnestly solicited. ! Young's X T.D ii ft irn Tra-Bfc Grocery Headquarters For Christmas CANWES Big lots, little lots, and lots of kinds to select from, also all kinds of nuts. Candies from1 12 l-2c a pound up; nuts from 12 l-2c a pound up. ' Don't fail to see us before buying your Xmas candies and nuts. Because here's the , place. . -v, ',. , 1 Yours for a big Merry Xmas, C. J. Black's Grocery -Comer Adams BighiGoods, Oregon Light & Power Co. Telephone Main 43 ,9 ..25c to $10.00 75c w.50c up ..10c up to 50c :....:...25c - ' :- - for Service nflfl - A rw a and Fir Street Right Prices .. '. .-j, .; fliif i 'irV'V.'.t! ';'H;