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CITY - COIM UOAZIXE SECTIOX. OREGON CITY, OREGON FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 17, 1905. PAGES 1 TO 4. OREGON CONSUELO ENCOURAGES SEX. DAUGHTER OF VANDERBILTS SEES IMPROVED CONDITIONS IN FIELD OF LABOR. Comparison of Past Restrictions With Present Freedom Reveals Growth of Woman's Sphere. An ex-President of the United States thinks it not beneath his dignity to talk to the women of the country through the pages of a popular wom an's magazine, warning them of the dangerous and undermining effects upon their character of active partic ipation in public affairs. The feminine club life of to-day he especially con demns. Following this comes tho announce ment of an interview with a represen tative of the new and charming wom anhood of America in the person of Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough. A daughter of the , Vanderbllts, married into one of the oldest and proudest families of England, surrounded by every luxury and crowned with beauty, youth and grace, yet is she democratic enough to be interested in her sisters of the working world. Women's Work Commended. Concerning woman's work the Duchess says: "It is gratifying to see the improve- CONSUELO, DUCHESS ments which have been made in the conditions under which women work in this country since I was last here. You know that I am deeply interested in this question of the betterment of the conditions of life for women. England is doing much in this direction, but it is to America that we all look for leadership in movements of this kind, and I am happy to say that our hopes have not been disappointed." The particular society in which the Duchess is interested is the Young Woman's Christian Association. She is to that organization in England what Helen Gould is to the Y. M. C. A. in this country a patroness, generous or time, money and sympathy. It is evident, however, that the Duchess' sympathies go out to the workers and the work along all the lines of betterment for women. She calls attention to the various associa tions and their enormous growth in membership, and to the change that has taken place in the position of wom an in the world's work during the past sixty years. Speaking of woman's efforts at eman cipation and particularly of the famous meeting in Seneca Falls, N. Y., she says: "The first woman's rights convention was held in this country in 1850. Three years later a woman attempted to speak In a world's temperance conven tion in New York and it took her three hours to make a ten-minute speech be cause of the jeers and interruptions of the men delegates. Florence Night ingale, just about fifty years ago laid the foundation for the glorious work of the Red Cross in the hospitals In the Crimea. When Efforts Began. "These were the beginnings of the activity of women in public movements, involving social reform, which now are having their full development In all lines of endeavor. When one reflects that the hardships faced by women ppeakers in those days ranged from hos tile and rude interruptions to measures of even more active discomfort and un pleasantness, reminling .one of an un tionuhr political campaign, and ypt that they have persevered in their ef forts, one cannot help Deing proud of their pluck and perseverance which has had such splendid results." Reference to the woman who at- ml O P- N" Mj A r ffC& ' Mj v 111 tempted to speak at a temperance con vention recalls to mind the old story of Lucy .Stone, of Massachusetts, a pioneer suffragist, who, after her grad uation at Oberlin, Ohio (the only col lege admitting women at that time), desired to speak in one of the Mass achusetts churches. The announcement of the address was made by the min ister of the church in the following words: "A hen wishes to crow like a rooster In this church on Thursday evening. Any body liking that kind of music is in vited to attend." It seems almost incredible In these days that time was, and only half a century ago, too, when woman's activ ity was limited to so small a circle. As a means of livelihood she had but three vocations from which to choose: housework, sewing and teaching; and all poorly paid, at that. Marriage was supposed to be tho chief end and aim of her existence. This state she sought, sometimes as a refuge from greater ills. A girl single at 22 or 23 was con sidered an "old maid." No woman, except among the Society of Friends, could be ordained to preach the gospel. The woman physician or lawyer was an unknown quantity. The Women Held Aside Their Skirts. When Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first woman to graduate in medi cine in this country, appeared on the streets the "women she met held aside their skirts for fear of contamination from so unwomanly a creature. The bars of prejudice were high and strong. OF MARLBOROUGH, Only the hardiest dared face the dis approval of the public of that day. But now the army of stenographers, clerks, physicians, preachers, social workers and business women attest the wonderful change in her status. . To day, given capacity, training and perse verance, there are few, if any, avenues of legitimate endeavor closed to woman. If now and then a few overstep the bounds of discretion and good taste, and thereby call down the censure of the better element, who knows hut thnt it is the pendulum swinging a little far a reDouna irom the extremes of former days. The real balance will be maintained when wnmnn )a noi-mit. ted to express her individuality and to live ner own lire. A Lullaby. Hush, baby, hush! In the west there's a glory With changes of amethyst, crimson and gold. The Sun goes to bed like the King in a story, Told by a poet of old. Hush, baby, hush! There's a wind nn tho ri A sleepy old wind with a voice like a sigh, And he sings to the rushes that dream ily quiver, Down where the ripples run by. Hush, baby, hush! Lambs are drowsilv hipatins- Down in cool meadows where daisy- duos grow; And the echo, aweary with all day re peating Has fallen asleep long ago. Hush, baby, hush! -There are katydids calling "Good-night" to each other on every breeze. And the sweet baby moon has been falling and falling, Till now she is caught In the trees. Hush, baby, hush! It is time you were winging Your way to the land that lies no one knows where; It is late, baby, late; Mother's tired with singing. Soon she will follow you there. . Hush, baby, hush! E. O. COOKE. COAL STRIKE PROBABLE. AGREEMENT MADE THREE YEARS AGO BETWEEN MINERS AND OPE RA TORS EXPIRES NEXT APRIL. Miners Vs'-II Then Demand Eight Hour Day and Recognition of Union. Owners Will Vigorously Oppose. Charles E. Kern. With the coming of winter many a householder has calculated, upon the probability of a strike in the anthra cite coal regions and wondered wheth er he should take the precaution to lay In a full supply of fuel. The day when the provident man laid up great stores for the frozen period of the year, filled his larder with good things to eat and his bins with fuel, against the inclement weather, has departed so far as the cities of this country are concerned. Now rich and poor alike, the provident and the improvident, look to the merchant to keep their lar ders filled. Their only providence Is in laying up the money with which to purchase supplies when needed. It is this change in the method of providing for tne home, that has made the strike in recent years so terrible to the humble consumer, who may live a thousand miles from the scene of the industrial discontent and know nothing of its causes except that which he reads in his daily paper, and yet be the principal sufferer from the shortage of supplies that follows. The effectiveness of the strike is its power to create such a shortage in supplies and to bring the country up on the verge of n famine as bad as a food fauinek (TraunpoVttition, by quickly distributing products over the world, has routed the famine of old that sprang from tho failure of crops. Now the cessation of labor produces the same shortage of supply that wns formerly produced by the uncontroll able elements. The chief protection against the re currence of strikes hits been found in agreements made between employers and employes, the present agreement in the anthracite coal fields being effective until April 1st next. Until after that date, according to the state ments of leading labor organization officials, there will bo no strike, as they propose' to stand for the inviola bility of contracts made by any of their affiliated associations. The good offices of the President of the United States were used with great advantage in bringing about nn agreement, between the coal opera tors and the miners three years n'o, so as to make possible the production of coal. The fact is the President used only tlint indefinite power that may be regarded as the influence of his great office skillfully employed A NEW SEA The new twin screw, Amerika, which came sweeping into New York harbor the other day, after her maiden voyage, is one of those new leviathans of the deep, the dimensions and appointments of which would have petrified even the owner of Aladdin's lamp, had he been able to produce such a result. The Amerika is said to be the largest ship ever built for passenger service and is a sister to the Kaiserin Auguste Vic toria, now In progress of construction. The Amerika Is some 700 feet in length, 75 feet wide and over SO feet deep. Her capacity is 23,000 tons, which is some thing over twice the tonnage of the famous Oregon, Captain Clarke's great battle ship which made the long jour ney around the Horn in time to con tribute to Cervera's defeat. Although she is a passenger ship and has accommodation for 3.400 nassen- gers and 600 crew, she has also a capac T . '"" " ''l';-.--;'"--l!,MV"yW!.i..w u;. mi umi .'. I. i mi I'm . . In i ,. I"" ' -'ihnaamwr ii'iiiH:'-1iii-:--n i ; ' ip - iff. """"y ff'TOywwti'y'tiw'"''t'i ; ; " ' - ' r v ; "t y ,,' I i ; fv x' 'h $ ft i ' " ' ' in bringing the two sides to the con troversy together. Wields a Great Power. Few people understand what an im mense power is wielded by the Presi dent of the United States when that office is filled by a man of good judg ment The President, by issuing an invitation to the men on both sides of the coal controversy under the circum stances that existed three years ago, practically forced them to agree to an arbitration of their differences, be cause, had either party to that contro versy declined to enter the agreement, it would have so fully lost public sym pathy as to have been eventually driv en to surrender wholly to its opponent. In that case the power behind the President was the power of public opinion. . Not only is public opinion, when focusspd by so skillful a hand as that of President Roosevelt, capa ble of forcing arbitration, but it is a satisfactory guarantee that the agree ment when made will be kept faith fully by both sides to the controversy. More Drastic Measures in Reserve. But while the office of the Presi dent, with nil its effective although indefinite power to force compliance was used in that case, it is a well known fact that the President was considering other means for forcing an arbitration, had the mine opera tors declined to agree to lay their differences before a board of arbitra tion. The President not only has well defined powers that are constantly ex ercised, and with which the people are fully acquainted, but he has other still more important powers which he can exercise at his discretion in cases of great emergency, and which it was un derstood at the time of the great an thracite coal strike he considered using in order to bring relief to the shivering multitudes of tho land. He may do many things for the "public good." That is an indefinite term allowing a wide interpretation, but there are many people who believe that had the coal strike of 1!)02 contin ued a little longer tho President would have declared martial law in tho anthracite regions, and not only would have thrown troops into that section, but would have ordered the mining of tho coal and its distribution to relieve the distress of the country. But, according to assurances that have been given to the public, the country is safe from a coal famine, at least until April 1st, 1000. Then there will be another meeting between the miners and the coal operators and the miners will demand both an eight hour day and the recognition of their union. The recognition of their union will be resisted by the mine owners to the last, and while it seems but a sentimental issue it will be insisted upon by the miners, and it may event ually be made the cause of another strike. One thing which may be borne in mind is that in case of a strike, the public, in the last analysis pays all the costs. GIANT. ity of 1(1,000 tons of cargo. She can carry 2,300 steerage passengers, but she has also provision for passengers who have a little money to spend. One of her "Imperial" suites for a voyage, affording accommodation for six peo ple, can be secured for $2,500, or an average of about JC0 a day for eacD person. One of the novelties of the Amerika is the electric passenger elevator which whisks the passengers up and down be. tween the five decks of the ship. A Marconi wireless telegraph apparatus found on the Amerika has now become an established feature of all large mod ern vessels. The Amerika, while not designed, It is Stated, to lie a rernrrt.l speed, is driven by quadruple expan sion engines of over 15,000 horse power and Is scheduled to makn thn trln across in seven days. THE HUMAN FLY. REMARKABLE EXPLOIT OF A IVN ING HANGER WHO CLIMBS TALL BUILDINGS. Witnessed by Gaping Multitude, He Ascended and Descended the Tow ering " Flatiron."-Wife and Child ren Among Nervous Spectators. There is a man who climbs the outer walls of the highest buildings and who uses neither rope, tackle nor scal ing ladder. This man does not tell of his daring feats, nor has he a press agent to exploit his dizzy achieve ments. He performs this work in view of gaping multitudes who cheer and shudder as this man goes up sheer walls, digging his tough and nimble toes into the interstices of the stone, catching a cornice or a window sill and "chinning" himself up and doing other most venturesome acrobatic. b 5 HaV " ' R 'lYn f' i mm mi PT' l lilt.. !!.,' THE FLATIRON BUILDING, feats. The name of this man is John Garrick, and he is called "The Hu man Fly." His occupation is hanging and removing awnings. To do his work he simply walks up and down the out side of buildings while other workmen go from story to story by means of the stairway or the elevator. John Garrick before he took up the trade of awning hanging was a sailor. He followed the sea from boyhood to manhood, and during his service on deep-sea sailing ships ho learned to climb and cultivated his nerve. A few days ago he was engaged in removing awnings from the Platlron Duilding, In New York. Broadway was choked with people watching the Hu man Fly at work. Incredible as it may seem, he climbed the sheer wall of that building from pavement to cor nice, two hundred and eighty-six feet and down again. Five years ago Garrick married. Naturally his wife wished him to quit sea-faring. He got employment as an awning hanger and in that capacity he Ill k- ' ! I. A v III 1 I: i Every reader of this paper should have this book. Cut off the coupon and mail to us with $1.50. Illustrated by Ernest Haskell The Missourian The romantic odventures of John Dinwiddle nf I ho Trtitrt r.f fn.lti:A. iwit .....mil ui iUL-ii;o, wnere uritli that f.f thn K r 1: . " -""luijutqueune. ine cent years. "IlatvhattofewoftticlauDoutu, the tlement, of reality-wrought by infinite mine of detail, veriiimihiudr. n,a.ti., . "A remarkiihlr Art I ,.r ...... ,..ki. , , , , r..,,,, "" ory. . x. Times ' aramauc penoa in itoru bean every evidence of careful unA ..! W v n.i..i ' ' J 133-137 East 16th St., New York. made his climbing skill pay. Though married five years his wife has never seen him at his work of scaling the outside of tall buildings until he un dertook the removal of awnings from the windows of the towering Flatiron building. "Until that time," said the lady to a reporter, "I never saw him at the work. I knew he was removing awnings from the Flatiron building, so I went over to Manhattan to meet him yesterday afternoon, and I took our two children, Lawrence, two and a half years old, and Hazel, four years old, and waited for John in front of the Bartholdi Hotel. Of course I never thought John would climb that frightfully tall building. I was stand ing there when one of the workmen, who knows me, came over and said: 'Your husband will be with you soon, he's Just coming from the ninth story now.' I thought he meant John would be coming by the elevator, so I didn't look up to the windows. "The workman told me to look up. I did, and I nearly fainted, for there was my husband with his hands on the sill of a window on the ninth story and his toes in the groves between the stones. I grew dizzy and wanted to turn away. "Something held me fascinated, though, and I watched him coming down in a sort of criss-cross fashion as quickly as a man would run down a ladder. I said to Lawrence, 'There's your papa,' and the baby laughed and clapped his hands with joy. Ho didn't understand the danger, but Hazel did, and she began to cry. I couldn't look any longer and I turned my head away, but I could hear the noise of the great crowd that was watching him. I looked again, thinking he must be on the sidewalk by this time. Imagine my horror when I saw he had started climbing upward after I had turned away, and was then just up to the cornice. He looked like a little black fly against the white stone. He waved one hand and then began to move down. I watched him, but some times closed my eyes when it seemed that he had mnde a misstep. The crowd was so great that when he swung down to one of the store awn ings I could only see him drop off and disappear into the maze of men gath ered about." THE WEATHER IOECASTS. In Spite of Rallerles the Government Prophesies Remarkably Accurate. Flteen per cent, of error, said Chief Willis L. Moore. In an Interview, is the record of the Weather Bureau. Not only is this proportion lower than In any foreign bureaus, but in ten years not a criticism of its work, he adds, has come from any commercial, mari time or scientific organization. Cer tainly, if It does what It Rnta nut in do, eighty-five times out of a hundred, the weather service ought to enjoy an enviable degree of popular esteem. What praise would ho Bhowered on a Congress that acted unwisely only If per cent, or tne time! In spite of the constant gibes di rected at the Weather Bureau, there is undoubtedly among farmers and ship pers an underlying sentiment of friend liness and confidence. It has grown Into a national 1oke thnt th are always wrong, just as Bostonlans live Invariably on beans and Philadel phlans are always lethargic. But these wnimsicai articles or fuith do not in the least affect flnvone's nrnntlnnl at titude toward a forecast, a Bostonian, or a fniiadeipnian. A contributing causo to the railing at the weather bureau a th nctlvltv of the lons-range prophets. The su perior userumcss of a forecast for next month over one for to-morrow being manifest, even sheer guesswork for the former nerinr! la nrnforrprl hv thou sands to a scientific determination for the latter. Recently a moneyed indi vidual offered a substantial prize for the best weather T)roihecv six months ahead. If the Government bureau should try for that and win it and it ought to be able to guess as well as anvbodv It would hficnmn thn popular institution In the country. By Eugene P. Lyle, Jr. Published August 1st 13TH THOUSAND ALREADY All Bookstores, $1.50 Drlscoll ("nicknamed "The Storm Centre ma secret mission comes into conflict Dest romantic American novel of re .... ' .r i . Av curr - ieu mrtjuall un- V . 4 Saturday Review 4 hittory, and the - " - ? S V