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Conscience - Smitten Youth
Writes Exposition. -
pp. RMHKttc spectacle ot
Exposition Is Now '
SchodSled. ,
WENT TO THE FAIR FREE
Children Twelve Tears and Less
Were Admitted "Wlthcmt Charge,
but This Lad Is Thirteen
Years of Age.
'S LAKE THE SCENE
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"le an 4 Shore Batteries
, "Will Participate In the
Event Wednesday.
. 4 ' , ADMISSIONS. 15,882.
l . Sht 6tioidfpartmfnt reports
' tSat 1S.382 pase4 through the turn
f silt yesterday.
' . .
Ut the world hold its breath again
K 4li when Togo and Rojestvensky
Wfi'sparrlng lor an opening: In Asiatic
yrtkrp. Another great naval battle Is
4)ttT(ftent. And Togo and his adver
'imflr'Ot'tha formidable name and fragile
fkt "Wight ust as well turn their at
t&tWi to writing verse or practicing
tttftV finance Sf they expect to perpetu
al 'their names. For new heroes of
tjfce sleep are springing up on every
Jnd.
jTiJe next scene of warfare is Guild's
liilt, a fresh water body which occu
pife jgome hundreds of acres of space
at the Lewis and Clark Exposition. To
Jy the placid waters bear only the in
spiring reflections of beautiful build
ing &t)d peaceful mountains garbed in
Ar arid, cedar. Gondolas creep grace
fluly along the surface bearing happy,
aijngiag parties of pleasure seekers.
" Butnext Weduesday It will be a seen
naval splendor. Battleships will feel
their way warily along, portending
atttne terrible catastrophe of man's pro
ducing. Sleek little torpedo-boats will
islaneuver here and there securing In-
iyr mtuiun oi a iiosuie iieet ana uasn
wr back to thf sturdv warshlns. Xow
' Afl4fenV. Juff of smoke will be fol-
ij Viv one heavy boom of the coast
rnca
larUery asjsome daring torpedo scout
the -
roadsides From Warships.
hen at 3 o'clock in the evening the
rajn will cease. Bedlam will take
ltsj)llce. Land batteries and broadsides
'.irom warships will bellow constantly.
Bursting torpedoes and submarine
.mines will belch forth their deadly
rnilssion of destruction. Search lights
.will play their ghastly rays from the
lighting tops of warahips and from the
fortifications.. Rockets from ships will
itgiiaj a last call for aid. It will all be
intensely realistic exactly what one
would expect to see at a -fall of Port
Arthur and a battle of Manila com
bined. By many odds the battle will be
the Exposition's most spectacular
amusement feature, and one "of the
TiitJrt "Spectacular ever -held.
The warships, of courte. will not be
borrowed frm Uncle Sam's Navy. Nor
has the Czar offered the use of the
Kni&z Poterokine for the occasion. The
vessels are being constructed especially
-I for the occasion In the Lewis and- Clark
-naval .yard. There will be -eight war-
hips and six torpedo-boats. The war
ships will be 40 feet long and will be
anned oy crews or 20 men. The tor-.
edo-boAts will be 16 feet long with
crew)f eight men. The land batteries
will be equipped from the National
Guard artillery arsenal and from the
rapid-Are guns in the Go-ernment
building. Fortifications and warships
'alike will be true to life in de
tail. Torpedoes for the fight will
be speplally loaded so as not to
carry real danger with them. The
submarine mines will be the genu
ine -artlcie on a small scale. Ono of tnem
will be exploded when a big battleship
is lying decorously right over it. Not,
however, until the crew has been safe
ly rowed out of harm's way.
Heroes of the Occasion.
j Of course, there cannot be a great
aa.vi.1 battle without Its heroes. The
xin behind the guns will be National
Gvardfraen and regulars. The men be
hind the: men behidn the cutis
-ifercy- selected yesterday at a spe
cial meeting of the board of strat-
-'Hp IBf fiBsB 1 B sIIIkBIIhIbi
egy. They will direct the des
tinies of the fleets and shore batte
ries and work out the naval problem
of a squadron attacking a" land fort,
which Is supported by three warships
and a flotilla of torpedo-boats.
The com.inders.of the opposing fleets
arc Admiral C. C. McDonell and Ad
miral Gowan. The former used to be
a Major of infantry in command of tho
Centennial Guards before he got into
the navy and the latter was a humble
Captain in command of two companies
of the Tenth Infantry before the board
of strategy promoted him yesterday
morning. Oskar Huber. too, surrendered
his place as the Exposition's director of
works and is now naval constructor. To
him has been assigned the mighty task
of producing the navy. He. will have
one warship done Saturday and the
others ready by Wednesday morning.
Construction work is already under
way. It usually takes a tailor about a
week to- make a pair of trousers, but
Mr. Huber Is going to get the navy out
In five days.
Titles They Bear.
Greater still are th Tionors which
the international complications haxo
bestowed upon others who were until
yesterday In the humble walks of civ
ilian life. Witness Henry E. Reed be
coming Mjkado of Baluchistan, and
Theodore Hardee, Czar of Kongo Free
State. For it Is those two countries
which are at war and the board of
strategy thought it advisable to prc--ide
them with rulers. The Mikado
used to be secretary of the Exposition
and -director of publicity to boot. Two
dajs ago his royal nibs the Czar was
assistant to the Exposition president.
Both have appointed their eotlre office
forces as Ministers, Ambassadors, fan-
bearers, .etc Then comes James Thopm-
DIEKKETS BAND. OPENS ITS ENGAGEMENT AT TIfE LEWIS
son, who used tb be electrical director.
He Is now rtevated to the dignity of
General, with the artillery forces und
submarine tnlnes under bis thumb, and
F. B. DaIson, who suggested the fight
in the first place, will command the
torpedo flotilla. John Wakenlcd de
clined an offer to serve as a floating
torpedo.
Assurance is given the public tiat
there will be no danger to those lining
the fSiorcs. The details are being
worked out along lines which will not
leave way for mlsfiaps of any kind to
spectators and fatalities will be con
fined to the actual fighting forces. It
Is believed that one of the largest
crowde ever at the Exposition will wlt
'ness the realistic demonstration.
DIERKETS BAXD AT THE FAIR
Masterly Performance of- "Lohen
grin" Is Given at Exposition.
The spirit of Lohengrin, the Knight of
the Holy Grail, first called Into being by
the genius of Wagner, dominated the
music echoes floating around Guild's
Lake, exposition grounds, last night, made
real and living by a master hand, a new
bandmaster. Charles Dlerke. He and his
newly organized band of nearly 50 pieces
made the biggest kind of a success.
Dlerke' s Band is the first large musical
organization under a Portland conductor
to play on Gray Boulevard, and Its ad
vent was awaited with no little expecta
tion. In the person of Charles Dlerke It
Is led by a natural, educated musician,
who Is full of music to his finger tips,
and who soars above both Innls and
Liberat! in direction, sanity and tone ef
fect. The chief criticism that can be
leveled at the other large bands that have
played at the Exposition Is that they have
been largely of the orchestral order, have
WORLD'S FAIR OFFICIALS PLAN
undoubtedly pleased in fine choral effect,
but have been wanting In climaxes and.
fortissimos. Here Is where Oierke'a band
shines. It is a genuine, oen-alr band,
and the brasses arc the ablest and best
ever heard here. Their tone Is thick and
sonorous. For massed effect and band
playing as a whole, the players eo not
need to lake a back seat to other mu
sicians who have preceded them. And
this Is nothing wonderful when It Is ex
plained that The most of Dierke's men
are symphony players. They have been
picked from the best bands golnr. have
rehearsed faithfully at San Francisco, and
among their number are no less than
three band conductors. The bass drum
mer, Louis van der Meden. of San Fran
cisco. Is a first-class pianist and cellist,
and has composed symphonies that will
live. He is here because he Is a personal
friend of Mr. Dlerke. and wishes to know
Portland. Why, therefore, should not
such musicians play well?
Mr. Dlerke Is a masterful but easy con
ductor, and he shows his scholarly train
ing with German bands and orchestras.
For Championship Regatta.
All Is now in readiness for the Lewis
and Clark open championship regatta
which "begins this afternoon at 3 o'clock
on Guild's Lake at the Exposition
grounds. The laylng-out of the course
has been completed and the buoys all
set In position. The crews of the Port
land Bowing Club and the Nelson Club,
of Victoria, B. C did not follow out
their usual training programme last
night, but Instead rowed slowly down
the Willamette to a point opposite
Government Island, and then trans
ferred their shells from the river to
Guild's Lake, where the boats are now
moored at the Life-Saving Station. E.
O. Gloss' and William Patton. of the
Portland Rowing Club, and Alex Fape.
of the Dolphin Club. San Francisco, fol
A GREAT MIMIC NAVAL BATTLE FOR AUGUST 2
AND CLARK EXPOSITION.
lowed in the &ake of the four-oared
crews, transferring their racing sculls
from the river to the lake. The other
contestants In the regatta will place
their boats this morning.
The feature of today's races will be
the senior singles, with Gloss and Pat
ton, of the Portland Rowing Club, and
Alex Pape, of the Dolphin Club. San
Francisco, pitted against one another.
Gloss has been anxiously waiting for
several years a. chance to try conclu
sions once" more with Papc, the cham
pion sculler of the Coast. This Is the
first opportunity that has presented It
self, and Gloss Intends to make the most
of it. Both men have many admirers,
who are backing their favorites for all
that's in It.
The lapstreak fours will also take
place today and promises to be closely
contested, as each crew has won several
races In this event.
Froducts of Lebanon Mill.
ALBANY, Or.. July 27. (Special.)
Among the exhibits In the Linn County
booth at the Lewis and Clark Fair, af
ter today, will be an excellent exhibit
of the products of the paper mill at
Lebanon. Judge G. Lovelee. of the mill,
has Just taken to the exhibit, over a
ton of the excellent papers manufac
tured by that Institution and will place
these samples on display. In addition
to the finished products, there will be
many exhibits ot the paper in various
stages of the process to the manufac
tured product.
Give Evening; Exhibitions.
Although It was known by very few
persons that the N. C R. Company was
gotng to give evening exhibitions, the
first exhibition last night was very well
attended, the company's auditorium being
very comfortably filled. J. J. Patterson,
director of the C. C. R. exhibits, said
last night. In discussing the matter: "We
have been contemplating this for some
time, owing to the great number of peo
ple who said that the only time they
could come out to the Fair was in the
evenings and on that account had no
chance to hear our lecture. A great
many visitors also said that, on account
of their limited time here, they did not
have a chance to hear the lecture In the
daytime, whereas If it was given at night
they would have this chance. On ac
count of these requests we concluded
to give the evening exhibitions.
"We will get as much good out ot our
exhibits here as at those at St. Louis."
ilesults of Press Bureau "Work.
The Lewis and Clark Exposition Press
Bureau not long ago sent to all parts
of the United States an article describ
ing the giant pansies. some of them being
four Inches in diameter, which were being
raised on the grounds. The article was
printed In many newspapers. Yesterday
a letter was received at the Exposition
from a man living at Cape Town. South
Africa, requesting information where he
could obtain the pansy seeds, saying he
had read about them In several different
publications. The address of E. J. Steele,
who furnished the seed?, was forwarded
to him. The Press Bureau receives in
quiries from all parts of America asking
for additional information about different
features of the Exposition.
Life-Saving Crew Drills.
The life-saving crew will give its ex
hibition drill as usual this afternoon and
in the evening will give a special drill In
honor of President Goode, of the Expo
sition. Nebraska Exhibit.
Free moving picture exhibitions. Ne
braska Pavilion. Agricultural Palaca.
COLFAX. TVaih.. July 26. Lwls
ClarIC Exposition. Portland. Oregon
Sirs: I am 13 yrs. old. On July 4th.
this year The sate keepr said either
under 12 free or 12 & under free.
Somebody said I was 12. He told
me to go to chlldrens g-ateand I
went la. Inclosed find 25 cents for
admission July 4th. I think I ought
to have paid.
Away up In Washington, near the City
of Colfax, there is a little farmer boy
who Is happy and contented once more,
having cleared his conscience and re
moved a stigma on his character, which
has been burning in his mind and absorb
ing his thoughts since the Fourth of July.
This little boy, only 13 years of age. is
again enjoying his- Summer vacation, and
as sl result the Lewis and Clark Exposi
tion Is 25 cents wealthier. The conscience
stricken boy, who lives on a farm near
Colfax, spent the Fourth of July In Port
land, and attended the Exposition. He
obtained admission to the grounds for
nothing, the gatekeepers thinking he was
not more than 12 years of age, children
of that age being admitted free. But this
little boy was 13 years old, and his en
tering the Exposition under a pretense
cast a shadow over his sense ot honor.
Yesterday morning Secretary Henry E.
Reed, of the Exposition, received a let
ter from the boy with 25 cents inclosed.
He gave his address, which Is at Col
fax, Wash., in care of a rural free de
livery, which leads the Exposition offi
cials to believe that he lives In the coun
try. Upon the receipt of the 25 cents
the question arose as to what should be
done with the money. As the best way
out of It, Secretary Reed decided to in
augurate a conscience fund, which has
been duly entered upon the books. Thl3
Is the first money that has been received
from conscience-stricken patrons of the
Exposiyon- Whether this fund will be
added to Is simply a matter of conjecture,
as the receiving of the latter from the
Colfax boy. In which was Inclosed the 25
cents, is the first intimation the officials
have had of there being people willing to
make amends for defrauding ths Exposi
tion. Upon the close of the Exposition
the conscience fund will be turned Into
the treasury.
From the wording of the letter received
by Secretary Reed, it is not thought that
the boy deliberately took advantage of
the Exposition officials, or that he had
Intentions of gaining entrance to the
grounds by misrepresentation. "He writes
that when he applied at the gates he was
Informed that boys not more than 13
years of age were to be admitted free on
the Fourth. He states in the letter that
somebody said he was 12 years old. and
told him to go to the children's gate. It
is thought that a gatekeeper told the boy
to go to the children's gate.
Evidently the boy. upon returning home,
began to think about the manner of gain
ing admittance to the Exposition, and
that It was not In accordance with th
lessons of honesty that had been taught
him by his parents and at school. Be
probably brooded over It until he mada
life miserable, finally determining to ac
knowledge his guilt by sending the 25
cents which he thinks rightfully belong
to the Exposition. He probably kept tha
affair secret from, his parents,, aa tha
letter is boyish In the extreme, and tha
wording of It plainly shows that he was
not coached by older people.
There has been some talk among the
Exposition officials of raising a subscrip
tion to make the lad a handsome present,
as he is a decided exception from the
general rule, most people taking -delight
in beating the ''Exposition. Boys with
such ingrained honesty are rare Indeed,
and the officials think he Is worthy of a
gift, as an acknowledgment of the receipt
of the money. Secretary Reed at the
least will write the boy a letter thanking
him for his action, and assuring him that
the Exposition holds no malice against
him, as it will undoubtedly prove a still
greater relief for the boy. Secretary
Reed will not make the name of the boy
public, as he believes the character of tha
lad is such that he would feel deeply dis
graced and shamed.
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