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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1878)
( May. THE WEST SHORE. 13a schools. In other wonts, we need I will We admit literature of a flashy or a compulsory education law, and be-; sensational nature. In fact, it will be fore we built a State University, and , . , , . , , equipped a State Agricultural College, "M" " f" pnnciples that we needed a State Normal School for have gOVtrned the Monthly Wkst the training of teachers, and a State Siioke since its publication, for nearly Reform School in which to educate three years, always high-toned, and those of our youth who are too unruly ever W0 j , , smaU ,,ct , i( to be allowed in the common schools. . .. ... , 1 The money which has annually been 9" m:,1,cc- W c ,hd! as hereto spent in the support of the State I'ni- forei OBVote considerable space to the versity and the Agricultural College, resources of the Pacific Northwest, anil for the benefit of a select few, if it had to the preservation of historical items. been used in maintaining a State Nor- n.i fu i. 0..:.,ii.. :. u. , o i , , , , " , . , Uur tliemls can matciialiy assist us by tnal School, would have benefited ev- .,. , . - , ..." cry school district in the State, by send- c:'"mS "ttention ol their neighbors ing them trained and skillful teachers. ' 'his enterprise, and we shall en- Massachusetts was the first State in deavor to merit whatever interest thev ments, and supplied with seed, etc., THI OREUOX. the object being to afford an industri, , SUpplcrncr,, 'fom we prcscllt our ous settler the opportunity of acquir- sllbscriUer8i this issae, With a lH.-i.utif.il ing a farm and homestead without in- ,ilh h o( iro slc:1,mhip Ore- vestmg any capital but the labor of his .,s we hc,. gMmt co,nmmiWt, own hands. Commodore Francis Connor. The I he available capacity of the irri- Q u , of hc , h first.,hlss gating canal will sumcc to water to, ooo acres tor the first vear, and from 15,000 to 20,000 acres the year following. trie American i niotl to estahush .Nor mal Schools. There are now 137 of these schools in the United States with over 29,000 pupils and i,oooinstructors. Ohio and Pennsylvania each have 12 Normal Schools, Xew York has 9, Il linois and Missouri, S each, and Massa chusetts 7. It is sometimes claimed that a thor may take in us by giving them a first class Weekly tor $3 per year. A CHANCE FOR POOR IMMIGRANTS. AN OLD STAGER. A splendid chance for poor immi grants is now offering in Idaho. Mr. Wm. li, Morris, resident of lioise CttVi ough knowledge ot the subjects to be owns, near town, about 20,000 acres of taught is all that is necessary for sue- what s known as desert land, ami cesslul teaching. But observation, rea- ...u- 1 u ... 1 1 . ? ... . which he is now reciaimiiiff bavins son, and experience, alike concur in re- tuting this assumption. It is well contracted an irrigating ditch of ven known that many of the best scholars miles in length, at an expense of over utterly fail as teachers. Why should j $40,000. From the lower end of the this be the case if mere liter ary attainments are sufficient r It is absolutely necessary that teachers should possess high scholarly attainments, but other qualifications are equal ly necessary. The power to communicate; a keen insight into, and a warm sympathy with the child's nature; a mastery of the art of ques tioning; the ability to com mand, control, and Influence the young; a knowledge of the history and nature of ed ucation; of school organiza tion and management, and of the best metho.ls of conduct ing the complicated opera tions of the school all tlicsc, and many other things, are quite as important as high attainments in literature, sci ence, and arts. And the voimg teacher must be trained oV instruction, practice, and criticism, to n knowledge of these principles and methods, and to their judicious applica tion to the details of school work. These principles can not be learned and applied by thegre.it mass of teachers in a State University or in an Agricultural College they must be learned in institu tions especially set apart for the work. Experience has demon crated conclusively that a vstcm of schools without agencies for the special pre paration of teachers, is not n complete system, but merely .1 fragment; and, like a dis ordered machine, is incapable of fulfilling its beneficent de signs. So long as scnoois are needed for the education .... ., .. of the people, Normal Schools will be main ditch, two miles of smaller ditches needed for perfecting and strengthen- ( have been constructed for distributing ing them, and enabling them to accom- j thc watcr lhe laml plish the purposes intcnueu. ivcry steamers running between Sar CttCO and this city, and is the prop erty of the Oregon Stenmship Com panv, to whom our citizens are indebted for the many improvements elVccted in the travelling facilities between Oregon Whilst at Boise City, Idaho Terri- am tu. outside world. Well do we tory, lately, we had the pleasure of remember when a trip from Portland meeting Mr. E. Tayneft retired stage to San Funcioa cunaidcicU quite driver. He drove steadily for nineteen I an undertaking, anil iu f;yt, it took years, up to May 1st, tS;S. On the j from six to seven days sea voyage 5th Of May, 1859, he drove one of B, ing to accomplish it; now lr is usually B. Haywood's (now of Walla Walla) ,liaile n from two and a half to three Salem and Oregon City 17. passenger days and, indeed, the Oregon has ae Coneord coaches, the fare between complished it in forty-seven and a half those points then being On the hours running time, a distance of six 14th of September, iSlio, the first stage bundled ami seventy miles. The ap coach drove out of Portland, on the poiutments are first-class in every pur great overland route, and Mr. l'aync ticular; nothing has Wen left undone handled the ribbons on the run from to make it comfortable nnd agreeable Portland to Salem. for passengers, and for this purpose $320,000 were expended DO YOUNG'S R1VKK FALLS, CLATSOP ' OUNTY, ORKGON OUR QU sCKS, citizen should carefully consider the situation and use his best endeavors to In order to severely test lhe pro ductive character of this sage-brush secure a whole system the common 1 9J nearly two sections wort) put schools and its naturally related gen-,. . wh , , l..:i nn ..' hall ham hMtl adopted and faithfully put into practice O'c a'! Wt including some 10,000 by the masses of the people, our schools fruit and forest seedlings. An area of can never adequately accomplish their some 16,000 acres ot land west and beneficial purpose, or command that j north of thfi 8trirj pacC(1 umlcr cuitjva. commence " "Z tion. will be offered to the ioor and in- promoters of civilization and progress, they are so pre-cmineniiy cm mm. Poust f THE WEEKLY WEST SHORE, dustrious immigrants under the mott favorable terms. He will be per mitted to settle on 40, 80, or 60 acres, on thc condition of improving all the wIM. AWAKE The first number of our Weekly will 1 land so occupied within three years, positively appear in July. This delay i He will have the use of thc land and il found necessary in order to enable j water right free the first year. Thc the nnblishcr to perfect certain arrange- 1 second year he w ill be charged one- ments, so as to issue it at once com-' third of thc crop raised on the land i An excellent magazine for .,.... to hMVMri the necessity of 1 and also a third of the crop for thc folks is "Wide Awake." It apologizing for th: iias been the habit fore she was ready for sea she is, without a douht, the fastest ocean steamer on the Coast, and her builders, M essrs. K oach X Co. of Chester, Pa., may well feel proud of her workmanship. The Oregon is two hundred and ninety-four feet long over the twelve foot water line, .m.l three bundled feet over all ; thirty -eight feet beam moulded. Her depth, from base line to top of spar deck, is twenty-live feel tun inches; depth of hold twenty three feet ten inches. Her tonnage is aa'jo tons. The capacity of her coal bunkers is six hundred tons. She has two compound surface con densing engines, 1656 horse power. Her boilers are four in number, each twelve feet eight inches iu diameter, and ton feet sit inches in length. The working pressure is eighty pounds to the square inch. The propeller is of the Hirsch pattern, having four bladis capable of being removed either singly or to gether from the hub to which they are fastened by bolls. The diameter of the propel ler is fifteen feet, and the mean pitch is twenty-four feet nine inches, to revolve seventy times per minute. Thc vessel has three decks besides lhe hurricane dcrk. The spar deck is Under the head of" The Red Flag entirely of iron; the main deck is par of Danger," we, in the lust issue, can- tially of iron; the deck frames arc all tioned our readers against a pack of iron, fastened in lhe most secure man . ... ' nr ner known in naval architecture. She unprmcpled scamp, now mtcst.ng our ha, I(CCOmmM,alio1, fnr firHt.cU State, who sail under the name of Doc- J()U, passenger. Her in- tor. We particularly cited a case 1 terior is dazzling ly beautiful; the pan - w here a fellow, a former barber of San neling is composed of maple, French lose, was now roaming over the conn- -dnut & JV trma with gold. J 1 , n t ... Her upboUiermg, carpels, mirrors, sd- try French doctor. On. Mttthlou ctiWy, Kawarr, ,,,,,1 Souvillc callcil .it our office during our ,e li,,,.,,, ri. f ,C. atCKt anil moil alienee, ami claimcil that he i. thc expemive Mtttm. In her equip- one meant. All right, Mr. Souvillc, nients lhe "Oregon" Il the mo.1 per. i .1 i r i,n feet vessel all' .il; all that siieivct ami as vui e aim the honor of tieing the , , , . . experienee iouIiI no to make her m, qwek vie spoke of, we have no right h,u i,wl,,1K., Hcrcoinmandcr.Cow to (liipulc your word. A guilty eon- j pionorc Connor, has been on thi line wience nceili no accuser. Nevl. for nearly 2S year.. Making the trip in .ueh a .hip, with .ut h a captain, otic nnccted with no greater danger than going to Astoria on a river steamer. 1 he company s In in young New Yrk , ot.,l(( , b, Mr. . puli- illard, the pre.'ulent. At San Fran- i, or that defect, a. i third year. At lhe end of three years' li.hed hv D. I.othrop K Co., at lloston, u.o the elegant office, on Hatterv ,it with moat new I he will have the option of purchasing ! M.K, for $ per year, and i. well lreel ; are preside.) over hy Captain , , , ... V .5. . " .1. ,1.. ; r.. ... an Oterendorp.lhc well known trans. puUicatloni. Our Weekly will he 1 the Mud thus MtUM upon at trom 5.2.50 ournnl for the merchant, mechanic, 1 to $5 er acre, payable in convenient nincr, and farmer, a well ai for the installments. The settler, when need household. I'ndcr no consideration i ful, will be assisted in making improv e- worth the subscription price. tides are of more tfau ordinary merit, M g( . 'company, whilst in this and its beautiful illustrations make it a tl, v V.T j,,itrU-arc claaely looked desirable companion for the v nnng. after by our genial friend, Weidler.