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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1903)
THE SIORNIKG OBEGONIAN, MONDAY, JULY 20 1903. PORTLAND UNITES WITH GOLDENDALE IN FORMAL CELEBRATION OF RAILROAD OPENING (Continued from First Page.) sen all of these accommodations. The atel, with 65 rooms, cared for S3 per- jna Saturday night. The new hotel Is equipped -with an elec ta plant, but when the management "was for light the plant was prepared jr the occasion, and not a volt of elec- lcity came forth from the dynamo-room". len the resourcefulness of Goldendale ime into play, and when the cxcurslon- tts finally retired, their journey toward le rooms was marked by a procession of How candles. I There were a number of humorous Ind ite connected with the stay at Golden- ile, but one of the best of them concerns le new hotel. The house was opened a ftk or ten days ago, and the builders ive not yet connected the bells in the looms with the office. A luckless Port- id business man learned the fact at 7 'clock this morning. The proprietor had iven up his room for the visitor, but he neglected to provide water and tow The loss did not worry the man from Portland at the time. He stepped joy jsly to the electric button and pushed. ?hen he shoved again. Finally he swore. rentually he raised the window and felled for help. An hour, it is declared, kfter the first attempt to make the bell In ao office ring, towel and water appeared. Jt that was the only inconvenience sur- lered. cn the entire trip by any one In the ?crtland delegation. Pnna See a Baseball Game. Irhere was consolation for those rest refs fans deprived of Saturday's game at Portland. Goldendale has a baseball team led the town Is unanimously In favor of xoldcndalc's winning. The town shuts up Its? stores and pulls down the blinds In je houses, trooping off to the new base- iu, park on those festal occasions when Invaders come in from the outside to show roHcnd&lc new versions of the National rante. Goldendale Is more that 1500 feet iboe the sea level, and In a baseball ray the town feels about that much bet ter than the rtst of the world. They tell ith enthunlasm of a day .early In the year rhen Dunbar, the man who serves them xnlxejl up, had the first 17 men up swing ing out into the "balmy Spring atmos- jpnerc m the hope of locating a ball that kept as white and new as the minute It came out of Its box. It was Just like ."playing catch" out In the cow lot until IfNb. IS come up. Manager Baker, of the rbaseball team, was confident up to that f, fateful moment that he- would be able to take the ball back and get a discount at the local sporting goods house for Its return, but No. 18 did things. However, it is further related with pride, Dunbar (recovered. Just what he recovered is not made clear. Perhaps they sent him after the ball. But on Saturday Dunbar did not give 'the eight men that help him much to do. JWben he was not busy teaching the sol 'dlers from Vancouver the folly of invad tng Goldendale with sinful thoughts In their hearts about baseball matters, he 'Wae dumping line drives over the fence. fAll in all, Dunbar was rather entitled )to push out his uniform In front and let 'the small boys fight over the honor of car ,rying his glove and bat down the street. .Just to show that he Is a versatile chap, s&e sang- a song at the night reception. Goldendale won the game all right, de spite the fact that Portland furnished noise for the men from Vancouver. Per jfcapa they might not have been, so suc cessful but for the fact that Manager Baker and N. B. Brooks turned the "score Jboard" over. Unquestionably it brings luck to a home team to have the score board turned over and Manager Baker, knowing the fact, took an unfair advan tage of the unsophisticated visitors. In cidentally, it may be added, that was a necessary precaution, for small boys had varnished the "sheet-Iron score, board, and (chalk would not make any Impression 'on Its .surface. The game was delayed while it was pried loose from the fence .and re-established in the position of honor, where it subsequently told the world Goldendale triumphed, 15 to 3. Whereupon the excursionists ceased to , cheer lor the soldiers. A reception at the Armory, followed by tp utuiquei uiai was conciuaea a;i a. ju., Jkent the excursionists their candle-lighted (ffay after a happy day of sightseeing and enjoyment. Cheers for One and All. . Cheers for Goldendale and cheers for Portland were given as ,tho party left i Goldendale yesterday morning. Cheers rwere exchanged with the people of Center Iville, and when the party from The Dalles -left, they divided their cheering between jthe railroad offidfitls and the people from Portland. Enthusiastic responses were .given. Just before the excursionists left The Dalles the suggestion was made that a Iguesslng contest on the time that the whistle would sound for the steel bridge ,was made. Paul de Hass made the sug- i gestlon, and it cost him money to propose the game. Nineteen members of the party registered guesses on the available .statistics, and then went to lunch. Sub sequently many of them went to sleep to .make up for the time lost the night be fore. There was a feeling among those who sjept that those who stayed awake tam pered with the captain. Whereupon those who were newly refreshed took the cap tain aside and explained the real situation with regard to the pool. Then the cap tain and pilot caucused and agreed the 'whistle should blow at exactly the spot where It was usually blown. This was opposite a white pile that the captain SCENE ON THE KLICKITAT once noticed, and which the pilot averred was present on the river-front. With the question formally settled, the captain went forth And braved the tempters. No one "had counted on stopping for wood, but the fact that this delay was not scheduled would not prevail with the captain and the engineer. The furnaces needed wood, and wood they received at tho expense of half an hour's delay. This eventually gave A H. Devers the pool money, for he timed the wW-u at J:47, correct to the second. "However, J. N. Flelschner had an interest In Devers guess. The delay at the woodpile upset calcu lations, and after Vancouver had been passed the short-time men started anoth er guessing match, with the tie-up at the dock as the determining feature. Again the captain was alternately importuned to crowd on more speed, or to order the en gineer to save his steam. He drifted up the river at his usual speed, and landed the party a minute later than Hugh Mc Gulrv thought he would. However. Paul de Hass was almost two minutes off, and Mr. McGuIre went home with the reputa tion of being a good guesser. During the trip up the Willamette, W. B. Glafke made a short speech, thanking the officers of the Columbia River & Northern for the hospitality shown tho excursionists, and expressing the appre ciation felt by the entire party. Presi dent Mallory briefly thanked Mr. Glafke, and then the excursionists showed the di rectors how they could cheer when they1 meant it. Those Who Made the Trip. The following are the Portland business men who made the trip: Charles A. Cogswell, attorney; C J. Owen. Portland Telegram; H. W. Good, Portland General Electric Co.; Judge C. B. Bellinger, H. L. Plttock, H. W. Scott, E. B. Piper, M. M. Mattison. Portland Oregcnian; I. N. Flelschner, of Flelsch ner, Mayer & Co.; F. J. Fuller, general manager, Portland railway; P. S. Mal com. Insurance; Hugh McGuIre, president Pacific Paper Company; W. B. Glafke, of the firm of W. B. Glaffke Company; F. A. NItchy. manager of the Crane Company; Thomas Honeyman, of Honey man Hardware Company; H. W. Mitchell. fit Mitchell. Lewis & Staver Company; RIVER 4ALOXG THE LIXE OP THE COLOMBIA RIVER Jt NORTHERN. SPECIAL EXCURSTOX EXCURSION STEAMER BAILEY GATZERT LYING AT THE WHARF AT LYLE. W. P. Hawley, manager Jrown Paper Company at Oregon City; H. S. Woods, manager for Balfour, Guthrie & Co. In the Klickitat Valley; a F. Swlgert, man ager City & Suburban; John M. Gearln, tufus Mallory, of the law nrm of Dolph, Simon. Mallory & Gearln; and president of C. R. & N.; George Taylor, of Taylor. Toung & Co.; A. H. Devers, of Closset & Devers; H. C. Campbell, manager. C. R. & N.; Paul de Hass, Portland rep resentative of C. Gotzlan & Co.; Edward Ehrman, of Mason & Ehrman; G. W. Evans, manager Buffalo Pitts Co.; E. H. Averlll, Manager Averlll Machinery Co.; E. Oliver, chief engineer C. R. & N.; George 8Imons; 'auditor C. "R. & N.; John E. Lathrop. Those from The Dalles who Joined the Portland party at Lyle and made the trip are: E. O. McCoy, W. H. Wilson, S. Bol ton, W. A. Johnson, H. C. Llebe, Judd Fish, J. P. Mclnerny, J. M. Patterson, Dr. E. E. Ferguson, W. E. Nixon, Leo Sherman. W. H. Moore, C. F. Mitchell, "fames Snipes, George Rush, Jacob Free man, James Woods, Charles Twineham, M. Z. Donnell, R. H. Weber. Joseph Nltschke, A. W. Zimmerman, S. L. Brooks and M. T. Nolan. BIG GAIX FOR KLICKITAT. Railroad Traaiiportatloa Will Effect Great Saving Ih the Valley. A Btage coach rumbled by the depot at Goldendale yesterday as the excursionists from Portland and The Dalles were ready to return to Lyle to take p. boat for their homes. The contrast between the old and tho new methods In the kllckltat Valley was sharply defined In this incident, which was appreciated by both the visi tors and the people of the valley. Tho story of the enterprise that linked Gold endale with Portland was fully Illus trated, v It is little more than a month since the rails were laid to Goldendale for the Columbia River &. Northern, and passen ger and freight traffic have been handled, In a limited way, for not more than 30 days. Yet the people of the Klickitat Val ley have seen already the effect of the change. Before the railroad came to Goldendale freight was hauled In wagen teams over a mountain range for 20 m&es and more to a ferry on the Columbia. Wagon teams waited until the ferry couti take them across and then farmers rr merchants deposited their products let railroad or steamship offices, then turned about for the laborious return trip. The journey for freighting teams meant a loss pf from two to four days. Passenjers made a similar trip by stage. Now produce Is loaded onto the cars at the Columbia River Si Northern stations, and passen gers ride to and from the boat landings at Lyle In comfortable pasgsngcr coaches. That the railroad has already affected the interests of Goldendale was apparent to the visitors from Portlakd during their stay. Property values havej enhanced rap Idly since construction work was com menced and the railroad headed from tho Columbia toward the Klickitat Valley, and now Goldendale Is building more than a score of new homes, and 'a $10,000 school building Is going up. The present ac commodations are insufficient for 530 -pupils. Upon the question of freight rates de pends the value of Goldendtle's: profit by the construction of a ral'xoad to that town, and this was the question that was uppermost In the minds of the Klickitat' Valley people during- the .excursionists' stay. The railroad official have Vlready made A a big cut In the cost of transportation, and It was promised the people of Klick itat County that further concessions will be made. But the road Is newly estab lished, and business has not adjusted It self as yet. At all times the officials of the Colum bia River & Northern haye promised the people of Goldendale and the Klickitat Valley that the new road would guaran tee tnexn. a i-ajte. that would insure them of the privilege or hlnnlne. during the entire year as cheaply as they'tould be fore the system was built during the most favorable periods. This promise meant that the maximum charge for freight should not exceed the cost of transporting by team to Grants, a point covered by O. R. & N. freight tariffs, and. shipment from that point by rail or steamer to. Portland. On the face ofit this promise does not show what Goldendale gains. The best months for freighting are during the Sum mer. Comparatively little marketing of wheat and other produce is done at that time, the burden of transporting supplies Into the country and produce out of It, being felt keenest In the Fall and Winter. At times the roads are practically Im passable, and farmers have not known definitely that they could avail themselves of the best market conditions. The new road guarantees that the cost of Winter hauling, heretofore almost prohibitive, will not be greater than the cost of hand ling Summer freight. This In itself will add thousands of dollars annually to the value of tho Klickitat Valley wheat crop. It Is estimated the amount of wheat tributary to the O. R. & N. Is approxi mately 1.000,000 bushels annually. Until the proposed extensions of the new road are built there Is much of Klickitat Coun ty not reached by the system, and which may or may not ship over the line. The entire production of wheat In Kllckltat County sometimes run three times as large as the figures given. But a saving of sev eral cents a bushel on 1,000,000 bushels of wheat annually means a big gain for Kllckltat. Tho rates quoted by the new road for general merchandise are lower than the merchants of the valley have ever been able to repelve under the most favorable circumstances. In addition deliveries are GOLDENDALE regular and the goods are received in bet ter condition. This saving lias .resulted in a reduction of the cost of living ex penses. An illustration of the way In which the coat of transportation has been reduced was given by a recent shipment of wool . to The Dalles. Five tons were to be sent out by a. farmer who had determined to ; ship, by his -own teams, holding that the charge' of $15 was exorbitant But he esti mated the cost of teaming, and without adding anything as interest on the money invested in his teams and wagons or the wear and tear upon hla wagons and horses, and taking no account of the value of his own time, he found that It would cost him $24 to send his wool out In teams. He saved J9 by consigning it over the new railroad. This, of course. Is not a fair example of the reduced cost of transportation, though there are times during, the year when tho ratio would be the same on all classes of freight. In the aggregate It Is easily un derstood how" thousands of dollara will be saved by the new road. The Kllckltat Valley Is fairly well set tled at present, but there Is a big acreage which has not been properly worked. The Isolation of the country has deterred farmers from going In, and this drawback has been removed. Attention has been called to Goldendale and the Kllckltat Valley, and this in itself is a matter of great Importance. Comparatively few persons realize the fact that the lumber industry of Kllckl tat County is one of the most important factors of that section's development. The lumber that Is used in constructing the homes In the valley has been, sawed In tho local mills, and there are woods In Kllckl tat County that command the highest prices paid In America. The new road does not reach the timber belt, but It brings rail communication 20 miles closer to the mills which ship lumber, and less ens the cost of production and shipment by that much. Goldendale appreciates the value of the new road, and one of the best evidences of this fact Is the circumstance that the citizens of that town have just construct ed a new $15,000 hotel, with modern fur nishings and conveniences. An electric light plant, plenty of fresh water fur- J CITIZENS READY TO RECEIVE PORTLAND VISITORS. 4 nlshed by the town's water system, an excellent sewerage system, good dining room service, and bright Interior decora tions give Goldendale a modern botel, and the town 13 proud of this new mark of its prosperity. The coming of the railroad emphasizes one need of the town, and that Is tele graphic communication. At present a sln glo company Is represented in that rich section, and messages have to be relayed to Grants by telephone. The coming of the railroad will probably mean that busl- ness men and farmers will be granted telegraphic communication, and this aid to business will be of material benefit. LIFE STRENUOUS AT GOLD EXD ALE. Portland Visitors Wonder nt the Hnstlc or Its Cltlxen. Life Is too strenuous In Goldendale. If that busy metropolis of the Klickitat Valley Is a fair sample of the country towns of the Northwest those Portland men who visited the new terminus of the Columbia River & Northern-railroad Saturday will put away the thought of ease and comfort that have been con jured up when one mentioned the word "country." To the business men of the city the name Goldendale may have sounded like a synonym for "haven of rest." Pictures of a delightful spot where they sit In the shade on warm af ternoons and rest may have been con jured up when one mentioned the Klicki tat Valley, but there Is a large delegation of Portland men who know now that the trials and tribulations of a busy Port land existence would be welcomed by a committeeman for a Goldendale func tion ns a restful vacation period. Goldendale. be it known first of all. is a town of 1200 population and It handles the trade of a section of country rich In natural resources and fairly well devel oped. On a Saturday, especially, the streets are thronged by out-of-town buyers and the stores are veritable bee hives. It was out of this community that a committee was selected to welcome and entertain a delegation from Portland -and another from The Dallea last Saturday. This Is a tale of how the programme fit ted Into the only life of some of the Goldendale people. There was N. B. Brooks, for Instance, the attorney who secured the rights-of-way for the new railroad. Naturally he was pushed to the front by the Gol dendale people when there were more things to do. State Senator George H. Baker, a resident pf the valley for 23 years, a prominent business man . and politician and well acquainted In Port land, took up a portion of the burden. Beside there were Dr. H. S. Goddard. Charles Tlmblln, Leonard McKee. Wil liam McGuIre and a host of others. The title of "state senator" sounds like a big private office and nothing to do but watch the returns from a good busi ness roll In, and the reputation of the firm of Baker Brothers confirms this sus picion to the outside world. When the excursionists from Portland found Sena tor Baker out on the edge of the" side walk, near the railroad track, waving his hand at the band as a signal for the commencement of hostilities," the crowd on the train was willing to believe It was all true. Mr. Baker helped out for a time In Introducing the newcomers -and the old residents and then added one mace to the number In a procession that marched to the hotel. While the other members of the party were getting settled he hustled half a dozen friends away to a special dinner he had pre pared for them and spent half an hour presiding as host. He excused himself suddenly and rushed off. A few minutes later an Inquisitive visitor discovered him selling ' a plow to a farmer at his store. Goldendale has a baseball team and Sen ator Baker Is Its manager. Ih common with the other stores he closes for a base ball game, and Senator Baker led the way to the grounds. He helped N. B. Brooks tear down the sheet-Iron score board and nail It up again with the reverse side ex posed and then filled in by alternately giv ing orders to his team and telling the visit ors about the value of Kllckltat farming lands. After the game he hurried, off to his store and sold laces and ginghams while a clerk went to dinner. He went back after his own repast and presided over the millinery and hardware depart ments, In turn. Then he spent an hour sitting on the platform at the evening speech-making ceremonies and topped off the day by helping the waiters and the cooks at tho hotel prepare tho din ing room for the banquet. After all. Senator Baker had an easy time of It In comparison with Mr. Brooks. Beside his services In receiving the crowd Mr. Brooks had to look after the dis position of the town's guests, and he carried off half a dozen to bis home, providing accommodations for their stay. Then a client summoned him and he rushed back to his office. But as Mr. Brooks is official scorer for tho base ball team, he had to be at the grounds and help reverse the sheet-Iron sign. Then he chalked up the score and led the rooting for both factions. There was no time for Mr. Brooks dinner. He Is the owner of the Armory building In which Goldendale entertained Its visitors. His janitor was out on a farm, and Mr. Brooks had to look after the hall personally. When he haa car ried In the lamps and arranged the scats he hurriedly changed his dress and re appeared as presiding officer. He: made one of the most brilliant speeches of the