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THE MOBBING-- OREGONIAN, TUESDA.Y, : APRIL 4, 1905.. 11 CHRONICLES OF MEN WHO WOULD BE MAYOR H. S. ROWE, EX-MAYOR, IS WILLING TO ASSUME AGAIN THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CITY'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE (Interview No. 4.) DOWX on Railroad Row there is a Man Who Was and by the same token there is a Man Who Wants To Be Again. It is a fine large "honor to he Mayor of Portland. Finer and 'larger than to be Governor of Oregon and many other of the lesser common wealths, for the office carries with it greatly more patronage, and patronage is the life blood of the body politic Henry S. Rowe has tasted the bread f power and there still remains a tickling in his palate for more. He was Mayor for two years following 1900 and he liked the job so well that he Is will ing to serve his countrymen in like capacity from tne Junetime of 1306. Mr. Rowe is general agent of the "Milwaukee," a railroad of conse qufcnce, which he has aided, and abet ted for many years. He is a railroad man by natural endowment and educa tion. All the time since the Civil War period he has been identified with rail ways, excepting the brief two years ho spont as chief executive of this city. He was a boy in 1864, but big enough and smart enough to hold a position as telegrapher lor a Michigan road. When he grew to manhood there was a rush to Kansas and 5ie followed It. In sun flower land he remained a decade or so and then came to Portland. That was 25 years ago. Villard brought him here, a young man of 30 or thereabouts, to become general superintendent of the O. R. & N. This particular railroad did not then exist except in the future scheme of things. There was a fleet of boats on the Columbia and maybe a ship or two for the sea. That was all. He had much to do with building a great modern highway of commerce which linked Portland to the big world which lay to the eastward, x For his part in this Henri- S. Rowe deserves the gratitude of us all. Be cause he knew how to build, and run a railroad the voters once thought he knew how to build and run a city, and five years ago they elected him Mayor. He was faithful to the trust, as he understood the nature of it and during his administration the city grew apace, waxed fat and put on airs. In a way the years between 1900 and 1903 were evolutionary and assuredly the man who presided over the destinies of the gov ernment may take some of the credit to himself just as Mr. Rowe does. During those yeare the town struck its gait. When he left the Mayoralty, Henry1 S. Rowe went back to Railroad Row, and to this day has expended his energy in the business of attending to his own and the railroad's affairs. He has not posed as a dethroned mon arch nor troubled the public with his advice on municipal matters. He has sawed wood and behaved himself. Now there seem to be a lot of people who want him to stand again for the job he gave up two years ago. He has a feeling that there are enough voters so disposed to carry the primaries for him, else he would not have shied his castor. If he fails of the nomination he will support his successful rival, so lie says. He will continue his employment on Rail road Row and be thankful that things arc as they are. Should he be elected, he says, he would do his best to give the town a good ad ministration without frills or furbelows. Mr. Rowe is gray, middle-aged and of H. S. HOWE, IiX-MAYOR AD TBO.MINEXT CANDIDATE FOR REPUBLICAN N 0311 NAT! ON. full habit. He has the reputation of be ing a success socially as he has been -a success in his business. He is not the type of man who would set the world afire, but he Is level-headed, which most of us are not. Under a second Rowe administration there would be nothing sensational, but there might be many things profitable for the taxpayers. At all events he has climbed into the balance to take his chances with the others who think they represent about the correct fashion In Mayors. He does not figure himself a sure winner, but he thinks he has a strong chance and is backing this belief with a noiseless, still hunt campaign that may end right for him. He positively declines to discuss local issues. He knows better. He has been Mayor before. A. A. G. Heard in the Rotundas SEVERAL residents of the upper Wil lamette Valley from the vicinity of Cottage Grove came down last night and registered at the Imperial. Most of them took the little trip on the recfjitet of Francis J. Hcney, and he, having the force of the law behind him, was not to be put off with excuses of crops to be planted and that sort of thing. Among the number was J. W. Baker, state game warden, who, however, was traveling of his own free will. He had a scheme to have cages full of Chinese pheasants and quail at the Fair, and some yarns up his sleeve. "An old Kentucky colonel wrote me a few days ago," he said, "and asked about the game laws here. I sent him back a copy, writing at the same time that I would be glad to have him visit me at Cottage Grove, within easy reach of all kinds of birds and deer. And if you want any 'b'ar,' " I added, "I can take you over towards the coast and ac commodate you. " 'No, thanks,' he wrote back, 'I don't have to travel all the way to Oregon for bars, we have plenty of them here, but I carry the stuff with me and we won't suffer from lack of It, even if we can't locate a b'ar.' " E. N. Atherton, of Hartford. Conn., lean and 40, with the back of his neck no burnt that the tan will never wear off, dropped Into town last- night and took such a fancy to the place that he decided to remain, without further con sideration. The tan on the back of his neck gave him away. For when a man reaches his age and has a tanned neok and sprightly gait he is an athlete of one of two kinds. He either plays tennis or rows. Mr. Atherton rows. In fact, when the name is considered a moment, its meaning be gins to break on the mind. For years he has been one of the crack single scullers of the country and has entered into many metropolitan events in the East and carried off the honors. Local sports will take an interest In having him stay, for he is known for the clean stroke he rows and the neatness with which he feathers the oar, even on the sharpest spurts. He is one of the best trained oarsmen in the country- "The only trouble is," he says, "that the distance I can row best and that set by custom do not Jibe. For a mile I can do my best and can make a spurt from the start that will carry me through, but when it comes to one of these back-breaking three-mile affairs, I lack the beef to carry" the race through at my speed." PERSONAL MENTION. O. P. Hoff, state labor commissioner. Is at the Perkins. " George Teal, formerly of Portiand, for seven years post a merchant of Juseau, Alaska. Is visiting his family here. Mr. and Mrs. William D. Fenton re turned from California yesterday after an absence of four weeks. Mr. Fenton re ports an enjoyable vacation, and is In excellent health. J. M. Hannaford, general passenger agent; J. G. Woodworth. traffic manager, and C. M. Levey, assistant to the presi dent of the Northern Pacific, registered at the Portland last night. Max M. Cohen was appointed yesterday manager of the Star and Arcade Vaude ville Theaters. Milton Schwartz, who has been assistant manager for several months at the Star, is' the treasurer of S. Morton Conn's new vaudeville theater at Victoria, B. C. NEW YORK, April 3. (Special.) The following people from the Pacific Northwest registered In New York ho tels today: From Portland F. Bach man and wife, at tne Grand Union; V. S. Hardy, at the Manhattan. From Seattle J. H. McGraw, W. D. Hofius, at tne Imperial; J. D. Farrell, nt the Wolcott; Mrs. M. Bennett, at the Grand Union. Working on Dunsmuir Estate. SAN FRANCISCO, April 3. Public Administrator M. J. Hynes applied to day for special letters of administra tion on the estate of the late Alexander Dunsmuir. and the hearing of the peti tion has been set for Thursday. Spe cial administration is declared to be necessary because much personal prop erty of the estate In California is said to need attention. Society and Club Events MRS. HENRY WALDO COE has just returned from Washing ton, D. C, and the Eastern cities, having made a month's visit after seeing the President's inaugura tion with Dr. Coe, who came home "sooner. Mrs. Coe enjoyed the trip very much and found everything pleasant and comfortable in Washington, where visitors expect to make the best of in conveniences during inauguration week. Many who had engaged rooms months before were obliged to look for quarters in the country, but Dr. and Mrs. Coe were so fortunate as not to meet with any inconvenience. Mrs. Coe is a very good observer of people and things and she brings horns with her many Interesting reminis cences of the inauguration ball In the huge Pension building, where Mrs. Roosevelt looked, as she says, "ever so much more charming than nor pic tures, which do not begin to. do her justice," of the way Miss Alice peepcl at her friends and waved her hand to them from behind a column ir the gal lery, not being allowed to join the presidential party, of Vico-Presldent and Mrs. Fairbanks, whose private re ception she attended, and of Senator Clark, of Montana, who was extremely hospitable and gracious to the Western visitors. She also relates a stor of an old colored woman, one or the" thou sands of colored people who thronged to the inauguration, not all, however, in the pomp with which this particular mammy was attended. "She wore' a gorgeous dress," Mrs. Coe said, "with a train yards and yards long," and she actually had hired a little black girl to hold it up. "We were so fortunate as to have scats on the platform near enough to hear the President's inaugural ad dress," Mrs. Coe said yesterday, "anJ as it was so windy that one could only hear a little way, we appreciated It very much. Then we had a comforta ble place to sec the parade and in the evening went to the ball, which was an admirably managed affair, in com parison with other Inaugural balls, for while there were thousands of people there wraps were not mixed up and lost, and everyone was waited upon promptly. At the end of the room, where the President and Mrs. Roose velt stood with the Vice-President and his wife, were great masses of Ameri can beauty roses, against a solid back ground of green, and In front of the musicians a space was roped off so that people could dance." Besides a small private reception given by the President, Dr. and Mrs. Coe attended one. equally Informal, giv en by Vice-President and Mrs. Fair banks, at their residence. When they met the Vice-President he said. "I want to tell you people from Oregon how near I came to being an Oregonian my self. Homer Davenport and I are cous ins and my father built the wagons that the Davenports crossed the plains In. then building one for himself and his own family that was two years before I was born but something un expected happened to prevent the jour ney and the Davenports went on with out our people, so you can see how narrowly I escaped being an Ore gonian." Senator Clark, who owns one of tho finest collections of pictures in Amer ica, his treasures including four of the paintings of Rubens, took Mrs. Coe through the Corcoran art gallery, where he" has a loan collection, a privi lege which she enjoyed greatly, beingl an enthusiastic memqer of the Port land art class. Senator Clark's pic tures, in the collection of which he has crossed the Atlantic 50 times, will be hung In his New York house, a splendid palace now In course of construction. The mcmbero of the Progress Club and some of their friends were de lightfully entertained yesterday after noon at n. club muslcale, given at the home of Mrs. F. P. Young. The Prog ress club colors, ycfllow and white, ap peared in the prettily arranged deco rations which were of jonquils and lilies. Dainty refreshments, -served after .the programme made a pleasant op portunity to linger and chat. The principal theme for the pro gramme was the musical composition of Richard Strauss. Mrs. Young read a paper which was full of information about him and his'""work. Mrs. E. E. Coovert, who saw and heard Strauss In Germany, gave a brief talk, and dis played a portrait of the great com poser, v The musical numbers began with a Strauss serenade in E flat, Opus 7, for four hands, played by Mrs. Pruitt and Mrs. M. L. Pratt, Mrs. W. L. Marshaill played Opus 3 No. 1 and Opus 3 No. 2, and played each extremely well. A trio by Bendlx for mandolin, raandola and piano was played by Miss Cook, Miss Clark and Mrs. Young, then came two songs by Mrs. Amedee Smith, con tralto, "Dream in the Twilight," (Strauss), and "Sunshine and Rain," (Blumenthal). Mrs. Smith was received with enthusiasm and graciously re sponded by singing a charming sere nade by Purdy. Mrs. Coovert sang several English songs in a way that pleased al very tnucn- Mrs. Pratt nno Mrs. Young played another selection from Strauss and the last number was "Flower Song" for mandolin, mandoia -and piano, by Miss Cook, Miss Clark and Mrs. Myers. ... The regular monthly meeting of the Portland Froebel Society will be held at St. Helen's Hall 'kindergarten, Fri day, April 7, at 3 o'clock. The pro gramme, with Miss Helen M. Stafford, chairman, will be: Song "Raindrops" Training- class "Work In the Klndersarten During April". Miss Helen M. Stafford Song "Easter" Training class "Friedrich Froebel".. MIjm E. K. Matthews Song "Friedrich Froebel" "Child Life In the Tenement District (East Side) of New York"... .Sister Acne Marie Piano solo MIab Helen M. Stafford Thore interested In education are In vited to be present. 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