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THE MORNING OBEGONIAN, FRIDAY, JTTLY 13. 1906.
BATTERY BEGINS
PRACTICE MARCH
Artillerymen of National Guard
Pitch First Camp at
Oregon City.
TRAVEL IN BROILING SUN
Few Soldier Boys Forced to Walk,
but Riding Horseback or on
Sprlngless Caissons Proves
to Be Xo Fun.
It was a tired but still enthusiastic
lot of National Guardsmen that went
Into camp early last evening at Mount
Pleasant, a mile and a half east of
Oregon City, after completing the first
stage of the annual practice march of
First Battery. Field Artillery, O. N. G.
In spite of the fact that early in the
morning when the boys were heading
for the rendezvous, the day showed
every Indication of being, as it later
proved, one of the hottest of the sea
son, the Guardsmen were on hand
promptly and began arrangements
with a vim for the trip, which is to
last 12 days.
There was a sprinkling of fair
maidens In the crowd about the Ar
mory long before 8 o"clock, the time
set for the departure of che artillery
men. Each pretty girl was as enthusi
astic about her soldier boy as the boy
himself was about his coming out.
When not engaged in fixing harness or
saddles, the young men were in charge
of their sweethearts, who were busily
seeing to It that "his- red bandana
handkerchief fitted 'his" neck as it
should, that "his- hair was parted just
so and that "his" campaign hat was
tilted at the proper angle.
Bugle Sounds for Start.
At the sound of the bugle, shortly
after 9 o'clock, the procession moved
down Couch street into Fourth, and
along the river road on the West Side
There are five officers. 65 men and a
mascot In the Battery on the march.
Forty-five horses were taken along
and it is needless to say that none of
the men will walk, even though the
outing is known as a practice march.
Those who were not mounted in a sad
dle, which looked comfortable before
the start, and became a torture before
the day was a third over, rode on the
caissons or In the clumsy commissary
wagons. The boys were not exactly
looking for comfort, and did not get
it. yet at the camp last night few if
any complaints were heard.
The men "marched" yesterday until
nearly noon, when they went into
camp near Oswego, where they re
mained three hours. Then, with the
mercury officially recorded at some
thing like 98 in the shade, they re
newed their outing and drove into Ore
gon City shortly after 4 o'clock. The
roads had been dusty and the artillery
pieces drew the heat, but every
mother's one of them had a smile on
his face as he crossed the bridge into
the town up the river.
Kald on tlie Soda Fountains.
With the arrival of the battery in
the city there was a rush for the soda
fountains that fpr a time threatened
to develop into a riot. A number of
the fair ones had gone to Oregon City
to be there with the arrival of their
"boys in blue." and congratulations
were soon going the rounds upon such
a successful trip.
"But remember, little one," a fine
looking fellow said to his sweetheart,
"we have nearly 200 miles to travel
yet. and so far we have covered but
14."
With this he wiped his brow, bade
her another farewell and was soon in
the saddle and on his way to the first
night's camping place.
The mascot Is little Jack Tucker,
aged 10 years, a son of Dr. E. F. Tuck
er. Jack rides In the ambulance, and Is
the only one of the crowd who really
has a snap. Jack doesn't do anything,
nnd isn't supposed to, and is really
having the time of his life, even if
the others are not. Captain Welch,
who is in the heavyweight class, en
Joyed the march immensely, but his
horpe, although it is a large animal,
is certainly having a hard time.
Will Bench Liberal Tonight.
Early this morning the battery will
move on until Liberal Is reached. From
there the militiamen go to Silverton,
where they have been Invited to give a
parade and drill Saturday afternoon,
the occasion being the dedication of
a new hall erec ted by the Woodmen of
the 'World. At Hillsboro. where the
soldier boys will camp three days, the
men will be Instructed and practice
revolver shooting. Several thousand
rounds of ammunition were taken
along.
The practice march is in charge of
Captain 11. U. Welch, and is accom
panied by Lieutenants Lee M. Clark.
F. H. Burns, Frank I. Randall and
Surgeon-Captain W. E. Carll. The men
will return to Portland July 25.
CROWD ENJOYS CONCERT
Thousands at Holladay Park to Lis
ten to the Band.
Holladay Park resembled an Im
mense picnic ground last night, when
several thousand persons from all
parts of town filled the square to listen
to the concert by the park band. Di
rector Brown had arranged what he
calls a "hot weather programme"
every piece being a catchy tune that
everyone In the audience wis familiar
with or had heard before. Near the
end of the concert the crowd was
thinned out considerably by the sudden
rain that fell in drops as large as
cherries, as the dismayed crowd de
clared. The benches In the park 12 in num
ber worked overtime, but the people
were good-natured and seemed per
fectly contented with the grass as a
resting place. Between the tunes and
during the Intermission of 20 minute
Informal receptions were held by the
people living on the East Side and
their friends from the other side of the
river, who had gone to the park to hear
the music.
The park band will render the fol
lowing programme In Chapman Square
(plaza) tonight at S o'clock:
March, "Laustrausser" Chambers
"Waltz. "Wedding of the Winds" Hail
Overture. "Fra Dlavolo" Auber
ta Waltr. "In My Merry Oldnmobile" . .
Edwards
b Tntermeaxo. "lola" Johnson
Medley of popular BGngB, "PiilllnK Down
the Bay" Ascher-Mahl
INTERMISSION.
Scenes from "The Sultan of Sulu" . . Wathall
Two-atep. "The Troubadour" Powell
Porto Rlcan dance. "Rnulta" . Mlssud
Excerpts from "Th Strollers". .. . Englander
Boldlers' chorus, "Faust'' Gounod
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F ON PRACT MARCH, AND CAPTAIN H. U.WELC j
VISITS OIL PLANT
East Side Improvement Asso
ciation Committee at Work.
FINDS YARDS WELL KEPT
Every Precaution Taken Against
Outbreak of Fire Citizens, How
ever, Are Not Satisfied With
Conditions Now Existing.
The special committee from the East
side Improvement Association, composted
of H. H. Newhall. C. E. Fields and Joseph
Buchtel. appointed to investigate the sur
roundings of the Standard Oil Company s
storage plant an the East Side, and its
effect on property in that district, has
partly completed its work. "Wednesday
the committee went over the plant and
grounds, being given every facility and
shown every courtesy by Manager J. C.
Flanders. As far as the plant itself
Is concerned, the committee found
everything as the manager repre
sented, clean and provided with every
known means for reducing the danger
from tire around the premises. Xo waste
of any sort is allowed at the plant and no
lanterns are permitted on the ground.
The committee also examined the re
ported leakage of oil from cars that stand
on the Southern Pacific Railway tracks.
which had been reported as a menace to
the nearby warehouses. Inquiries were
made of those doing business in the neigh
borhood of the plant. It was noted that
a warehouse is being built of reinforced
concrete near the oil buildings.
Will Confer With Fire Chief.
The committee will hold a conference,
with Chief Campbell today and ascertain
whether he regards the presence of the
oil In the big tanks or warehouse a
menace to that faction from his point of
view. Manager Flanders said In his re
marks before the East Side Improvement
Association that the underwriters do not
reckon the presence of the oil plant as
specially dangerous and do not increase
their rates in consequence of its presence.
The Standard Oil Company carries its
own insurance.
On this point the company is also mak
ing exhaustive inquiry, and it is consid
ered important. The findings of the com
mittee will be madte uu In its report to
the Association next Tuesday evening, the
day before the Council holds its meeting.
whfch will make the report available at
that time.
Meanwhile a petition has been circu
lated by the committee representing the
busdiness men and property owners in
the warehouse district demanding that
the Sharkey ordinance be passed. This
petition has been signed by practically
all the property owners, or at least 93
per cent of the property owners between
East Burnslde street and Hawthorn ave
nue. E. M. Brannick, of the Studebaker
Company, has been largely instrumental
in getting up this petition.
Citizens Sign a Petition.
The petition sets forth that the pres
ence of so much oil as la kept in the
tanks Is a menace to the millions of
dollars' worth of property, and that
the . storage of oil in railway
tanks. leaving them standing along
the tracks, is also dangerous. It Is
the contention of the firms doing business
in that district that admitting that Man
ager Flanders has done evrything possi
ble to make the oil plant safe, there is
always the element of danger that cannot
be eliminated, and that gas will accumu
late that will explode from the oil and
that oil will burn.
Just now there is a movement to fill up
the low grounds and build It up with
warehouses, but the presence of the oil
makes all this difficult and slow. In
vestors fear the oil and will not invest,
and no precaution that might be taken
5 'H Theater box office, fourteenth and
can remove the constant fear that the
public has of these oil tanks. On the
other hand. Manager Flanders calls at
tention to the fact that during the years
that plant has been located on the East
Side it has had but inside fire and that
caused no damage outside of its own
property, and that It was In the ware
house. ORANGEMEN OBSERVE DAY
Local Lodge Celebrates Anniversary
of Battle of Boyne.
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The 216th anniversary of the battle of
Boyne was celebrated last evening by the
Loyal Orangemen Lodge No. 79 and their
friends in the Manley Hall on Williams
avenue. Upper Albina, it being July 12,
the day that the Orangemen celebrate
wherever there Is an Orangemen's or
ganization. The battle of Boyne is signif
icant of the principles for which the
Orangemen stand throughout the world,
it having marked the defeat by "William
of Orange of the attempt to make the
Roman Catholic Church the national
church of Great Britain.
There was quite a large attendance of
members and specially Invited guests.
Only a brief and informal programme was
rendered, the addresses being In the main
Impromptu. B. B. Abbott, who Is the
head of the lodge, presided and welcomed
the friends to the celebration. Dr. E. L.
; Lane made a short address in the course
J of which he set forth the belief and pur
l poses of the Orangemen's order the world
I over. Dr. Lane Insisted that the object
j of the Orangemen's organization was to
develop good, loyal citizenship and lib
erty-loving people.
"We are opposed," he said, "to all eccle
siastic Interference with the control of
our public schools. We are opposed to
anything that will give the control of
our public schools to any denomination,
whether Catholic or Protestant. We are
opposed to the raiding of the state
treasury for the support of religious in
stitutions, or the taking of any public
money for private schools."
Dr. Lane read the declaration of prin
ciples of the Orangemen's order, which
declares that each member must believe
In the Bible, be a loyal citizen and be
desirous of promoting all that Is good
and noble. It was set forth that the
Orangemen of the United States take the
Constitution of the United States as their
real declaration as embracing all they
contend for in this country.
There were other speakers during the
evening who followed along these lines
In their talks, holding forth the Idea that
every man should be allowed to worship
God according to the dictates of his own
conscience, be he a Protestant or Cath
olic. Refreshments were served at the
conclusion of the programme.
APPRECIATES GOOD WORK
Portland Man Sends Commercial
Club Donation From lVance.
A contribution to continue the good
work of the Portland Commercial Club
reached Manager Tom Richardson yester
day from Paris. France. The check Is
for $180 and was sent by Robert Living
ston, who is now traveling in Europe.
Mr. Livingston, who is president of the
Oregon Mortgage Company, announces
that this subscription to further the good
work of the club will be an annual one.
Manager Richardson was somewhat sur
prised to receive a subscription from
abroad for local promotion work, but It
shows the strong interest Mr. Livingston
takes in the exploitation of Portland and
that he has not forgotten the good work
for this city and state that is going for
ward under Mr. Richardson's direction.
$10.10 VANCOUVER, B. C.
Via the Great Northern Route.
Trains leave Portland S:30 A. M. and
11:45 P. M.. making direct connection at
Seattle L'nion Depot with Great Northern
fast trains for Vancouver. B. C. and in
termediate points. For tickets and sleeping-car
reservations call on H. Dickson,
C. P. and T. A.. 122 Third street.
Never fall to cure sick headache, often
the very first dose. This is what is said
by all who try Carter's Little Liver Pills.
EXECUTIVE BOARD ACTS
Imposes Penalties on Three Firms
Who Fail to Complete Their
Work by Specified Dates.
Merely a -Starter.
So many cases have come before the
Mayor's Executive Board In which con
tractors have faied to complete street im
provements within the time specified In
their agreements with the city, that the
members have concluded that something
must be done to expedite the work. At
the meeting of the street committee of
the board yesterday penalties were im
posed on three contractors who failed to
complete their jobs within the time limit
and were unable to give satisfactory ex
cuses for the delays. These are the first
cases in which contractors have been
given a penalty tor delay Dy me preseni
b Gieblsh & Joplin will have to forfeit $265
of their pay for the work of improving
Halsey street, between East Twenty-first
and East Twenty-second. Altogether, 103
days elapsed between the time that this
work was to have been completed and Its
acceptance by the city. As the penalty
for overtime is $5 a day. the firm could
have been made to forfeit $515, but in con
sideration of the fact that the entire con
tract amounted to only $1217, the commit
tee voted to fine them for only 53 days.
Bechlll Bros, were 30 days behind their
contract for the improvement of Front
street, between Couch and Flanders, and
will have to accept $150 less than their full
remuneration. This firm had a previous
extension of more than a month. Harry
Haward was also penalized $105 for run
ning 16 days overtime on the improvement
of Thirteenth street, between Couch and
Glisan.
In Imposing these penalties the members
of the board expressed themselves as In
clined to make contractors live up to their
agreements hereafter, except in cases
where the best of excuses for delay are
presented. Comparatively few street im
provements are made without the original
time having to be extended, and the re
peated delays have elicited considerable
complaint from property-owners. Wet
weather, shortage of material and many
other excuses are advanced to obtain ex
tensions. While the board realizes that many of
the pleas are valid, they do not believe 1
that they are in ai: cases, ana closer
watch will be kept in future. Mayor Lane
suggested yesterday that it will probably
be necessary to have contractors appear
in person before the committee when they
desire extensions and present their rea
sons in detail. When good excuses are not
given the penalties will be enforced.
The following contracts for street im
provements were let: Goldsmith-street fill,
to Pacific Bridge Company, $26,123; Haw
thorne avenue fill. Pacific Bridge Com
pany, $15,779; East Salmon street, Con
crete Construction Company and J. R.
O'Neil, $12,374: East Yamhill street. Con
crete Construction Company. $1107; Stan
ton street, A. L. Keenan. $3138; Sellwood
street, Bechlll Bros.. $3370; East Nine
teenth street, Lundstrum & Johnson, $625.
AT THE THEATERS
What the Press Agents Say.
FAREWELL TO BAKER.
Closing Performances This Week of
"Uncle Tom."
This Is the closing week at the Baker.
"Uncle Tom's Cabin." that great, strong.
Intensely Interesting play. Is the bill, and
the people are going In droves to witness
this great production of a time-honored drama.
Tomorrow (Saturday) wil. fte the last mati
nee of the season, and e grand closing
performance of the season takes place Satur
day night, when everybody in town should
be on hand to bid a temporary good-bye to
the popular members of the Baker company.
RUSSO AT HEILIG.
Famous Italian Tenor in "Cavalleria
Rusticana" Tonight.
The music you hear at the Heilig Theater
these evenings is superb. EJverybody of any
appreciation is saying so. The visitors In
town are enthusiastic especially. Russo, per
haps the greatest tenor alive, is singing
Turiddo in "Cavalleria Rusticana" each night.
Supported by the Kendall Musical Company,
and having the splendid Joint support of
Bessie Tannehlll as Santuzza. And the whole
Is preceded by two acts of Audran's "La
Mascotte," In which the Kendall people and
their fine chorus put the audience In the best
of humor. Matinee tomorrow (Saturday).
Popular prices. Seats now selling at the
Two Acts "Olivette" Scenes From
"II Trovatore" and "Rigoletto."
Look out for next week's bill at the Helllv
Theater. Fourteenth and "Washington streets.
It is to be just a shade beyond anything
this fine company now singing there has yet
plven the public. Russo and Beesle Tanne
hill will appear in a scene and duo from
"II Trovotore," and also the "Sllaerere" scene
will be given from the etame opera. First
will come two acts of "Olivette," by the
Kendall Musical Company, and between the
two operas Russo will sins "Because," Harde
lot's most fascinating and very popular eong,
and also "La Donna E Mobile," from "Rigo
letto." Opening Monday night, July 16. Seats
now selling; at the Heilig Theater box office.
To see Montle Collins and Dick Mack as
the "Two Jacks" at the Star this week is
better than going to a circus. These comedi
ans are a pair of lively entertainers who are
the life of the stock company. They are al
ways up to date, and this week they ars
offering a line of fun which Is irresistible.
In the vaudevills olio are many strong fea
tures, the Six Oregon Girls being an added
attraction. These girls sing, dance and make
themselves general favorites. J. W. Clifford
has a fine yodel song and the rest of the
entertainment Is calculated to accord with the
stage of the thermometer. The Star stock
company In "The Two Jacks is something
worth seeing. The bill will hold -until Sunday
night.
Grand.
Entertaining in every respect Is the vaude
ville bill being presented this week at the
Grand. The vaudeville specialties cover a
wide field of amusement and the programme
this week embraces music, mirth and novel
ties. Faiarno is called the instrumental man,
because he gives Imitations of musical In
struments. Dracula Is a contortionist of great
ability, and he can tie himeelf into double
bow knots without the slightest difficulty.
Stanley and Scanlon are musical comedians
and give a representation of a circus parade
which never falls to win an encore. This is
the last week of Master Harold Hcff, the
child wonder, at the Grand. He Is singing
one of his best illustrated songs this week.
CHECKS ILLEGAL FISHING
BARB WIRE THE LATEST DE
VICE OF WARDENS.
Strung on Snags in Rogue River, It
Menaces Fishnets and Pro
tects the Salmon.
"Snagging" unlawful fishing grounds
with barbed wire is a novel method em
ployed in Rogue River by Deputy Fish
Warden H. A. Webster to check violation
of the law. Sooner than lose or spoil
fishnets with such snags, fishermen stay
away from the forbidden waters, and the
Warden is spared the work of making ar
rests and prosecutions.
Three miles above Grant's Pass is the
dam of the Golden Drift Mining Company,
standing 21 feet high in the Rogue River.
Through this dam is a fishway. for pass
age of salmon to the spawning grounds
and hatchery, 50 miles above. Below tnis
dam, as at other places of the kind, the
salmon gather in large schools and tarry
a few days before shooting into the" upper
river. .
This makes good net fishing, and catches
of between 1000 to 2CO0 pounds of fish have
been easy. The law prohibits such fishing
within 600 feet of a fishway, but it has
been ignored until Mr. Webster snagged
the protected waters, six weeks ago, with
strings or barbed wire, anchored to stones
weighing between 500 and 1000 pounds each.
"The fishermen were angry,' remarked
Mr. Webster, last night, and threatened
to take up the wires. But they haven't,
and if they should try they would have
their hands full. They'd have to take up
100. snags, and they wouldn't do anything
else all Summer."
When the snags were first put in the
fishermen did not know of their presence.
One fisherman cast his net at night and a
snag took hotd of it fast and refused to
let go. The swift current, dragging on
the boat, almost capsized it, and he had
to drop down stream to quieter water.
He had a long task recovering his net. and
he was compelled to rig up a derrick be
tween two boats and pull snag, rock an
chor and all to the surface.
The three dams in the Upper Rogue
River, Mr. Webster says, are now well
supplied with fishways. The first dam is
that of the Grant's Pass Water & Light
Companv, at Grant's Pass; the second
that of Liie Golden Drift Mining Company,
three miles above that city, and the third
that of the Condor Light & Power Com
pany. 20 miles further up. The dams shut
off almost completely the run of salmon to
the hatchery last year. Only 170,000 eggs
were secured, whereas the number there
tofore was between 4,000,000 and 9,000,000.
Guarantee for Orient Surplus.
HARTFORD, Conn., July 12. The di
rectors of the London & Lancashire In
surance Company, which owns the Orient
Insurance Company of this city, have ca
bled the management of the Orient, which
was involved in the San Francisco disas
ter, that they have appropriated a special
fund guaranteeing the Orient's surplus
shall not fall below $250,000.
PORTLAND PAYS
TO KEEP
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Mercury Rises to 98 and Mar
ket for Cool Beverages Is
Stimulated by Heat.
DRINKS COST THOUSANDS
Men In the Cold-Storage Plants Have
Coolest Jobs, While Workers In
Iron Works Suffer Most
From the Temperature.
MAXIMIM TEMPERATURES AT
VARIOUS CITIES.
Portland 98
Baker City 02
Boise 04
Poeatello 02
Red Bluff 108
Roseburg 102
Sacramento 08
Salt Lake City oo
San Francisco 68
Spokane 94
Walla Walla , , . 102
Helena 84
BY A. H. BALLARD.
This heat is like a taste of Sheol. We
do not covet another existence like the
calorific intensity of this week In Port
land. Or.
There were 3000 people who went in
swimming in the Willamette River yes
terdaytrying to cool off at the Oaks,
free swimmlr.g baths, Y. M. C. A. and
Multnomah Club.
The Weather Bureau people are the
first ones to whom we go to find out
how hot it is, and they are in fact the
last ones to whom we should go. We
don't really know how hot it is until
we see the figures set down In black
and white.
Home would not be home without a
mother-in-faw to upbraid and spank
you, and so would Pandarus be some
other place, possibly, if there were no
thermometer to register the tempera
ture. But look.
Yesterday at 5 A. M. the mercury
stood (in the shade) at 70 degrees
Fahrenheit: at 6 A. M. it stood at 71;
at 7 A. M., 73; at 8 A. M., 75; at 9 A.
M., 77; at 10 A. M., 82
(are you- getting hotter as it rises? I
am.) at 11 A. M., 86; at noon, 89; at 1
P. M., 93 (can't you feel the moisture
collecting on your forehead? I can.);
at 2 P. M., 96; at 3 P. M.. 97; at 4 P. M-,
98; at 5 P. M.. 96; at 6 P. M., 94.
I won't go further.
On the 3d of the present month the
mercury passed the century mark, and
on that day the humidity was a little
greater than yesterday, the amount
in the atmosphere being, yesterday 75
per cent, and the amount July 2 being
76 per cent.
That is to say that the air was yes
terday within 25 per cent of being ab
solutely saturated with moisture. The
less humidity there is in the atmos
phere the more readily the perspiration
evaporates from the skin. Kvapora
tion, of course, cools the body, and
therefore the less the humidity the
less one feels the heat.
Big Sum Spent In Beer.
Whether you can go to the Oaks or
not, whether you can be a preacher at
a fat salary and have a Summer home
thrown in or not, and whether you
like the fact or not, Portland drinks
up about $10,000 worth of lager beer
WEATHER FORECASTS FOR TO
DAY. Portland and vicinity Fair and not
so warm. Northwest winds.
Western Oregon and Western Wash
ington Fair, not so warm In interior.
Northwest winds.
Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washing
ton and Idaho Fair and continued
warm.
on a hot day like yesterday 400 bar
rels, averaging about 500 glasses to
the barrel, or 200,000 glasses, costing
5 cents a glass.
There are 425 saloons In town, and
they do most of the selling. They pro
vide most of the beer. Yet. the bottle
trade in the private families amounts
to something. It all foots up about
200.000 glasses. Whether that money
ought to go into the contribution boxes
of the churches or not. the sun and the
thirst of mankind, especially the work
man, makes It go into beer. There are
people in the trade who talk intelli
gently about beer being good, in mod
erate quantities, for the stomach
better than an indiscriminate amount
of water. It slightly stimulates, and
seems to be the natural drink for the
average person. The average person
imbibes it freely, anyhow. The sales
on a day like yesterday tell the tale
truthfully. The ordinary consumption
Is nearly doubled.
Market for Soft Drinks Brisk.
Likewise the soft drinks.
There are not a hundred exclusively soft
drink emporiums in town, but they sold
over 50,000 soft drinks yesterday, and they
peddled out over 1000 gallons of ice cream
between three and four tons In this
sweltering City of Portland alone. The
greatest call is for vanilla cream, with
strawberry a close second, and chocolate
a third in the race, together with large
quantities of pineapple, and some more
large quantities of water ices of various
flavors lemon, particularly. Mineral
water, siphon shooting, ginger ale, root
beer, bottled soda, creme de menthe. Iced
tea, cold milk, variegated concoctions of
flavored soft stuff made up a running
stream of liquids and semi-liquids to cool
the abdominal portions and the fevered
brows in this land of the beaming sun.
The beer supply did not grow materially
less, if it did take J10.000 to slake Port
land's thirst yesterday. The breweries are
all running at full speed today, and serv
ing customers at the same stands. Also
the ice cream and soft-drink establish
ments did not become fefced at the ac
quisition of about $10,000 more for their
portion of the spondulix that went to
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HENRY SENGSTACKEN, Manager.
help Portland keep cool on this melting
Summer's day in 1906.
The ice companies reported that their
usual sales of about 100 tons of Ice per
day for general consumption, both In pri
vate homes and at public restaurants,
butcher shops, saloons, etc., ran up Into
more than twice the usual amount yes
terday. In fact, during the hot days of
the last week or so they have sold on
an average of 250 tons of Ice per day.
Who Has the Coolest Job?
There is no natural ice sold in this city.
It Is all artificial Ice. made by the refrig
erating process, and that brings us log
ically to the man who has the coolest Job
in all Portland during this kind of
weather.
It may be the man who works in the
refrigerating plant.
The men In the refrigerating plant in
Portland yesterday were tlie envied ones
In town. So were the men who worked in
the cooling-rooms at the breweries. The
hands in the ice cream manufactories,
like the Hazolwood and the Washington
establishments, were also among the most
favored of mortals. The Weather Bureau
men at the top of a building were all
right, too; but the workmen who labored
at shingling roofs, the carpenters who
hammered and sawed In sun-baked in
teriors, and the mechanics who climbed
up a little nearer the sun on the Wells
Fargo sky-scraper,' met some shimmering,
hot-oven conditions that were liable to
send them reeling to the street at any
moment.
The worst suffering of all was among
the foundrymen at such places as the
Willamette Iron & Steel Works. Mr. Cor
bett said that on ordinary days these
men. although they encounter the most
intolerable heat when they are pouring
the molten metat. which is at a tempera
ture of perhaps 2500 degrees, can get some
relief by stepping into the ordinary air.
But on a day like yesterday they cannot
obtain any relief.
They work nine-hour shifts, and it is
only when they pour the metal that they
are subjected to the greatest heat. The
bakers In the large bread and pastry
factories, the coal stokers, the firemen
and engineers on locomotives, are among
the human beings who become accus
tomed to intense heat. They get used to
it. and do not mind it so much, as they
feel that at any time they can go into
cooler places, away from their work, and
get relief. But on extremely hot days
like yesterday this relief is denied them
and they suffer accordingly.
The Water Board is sizzling with admo
nitions to the populace not to use too
much water. I pay $3 or $4 a month for
the water they use at my house, and the
rest of the family use more water than
I do. There are perhaps 60,000 homes that
pay as much or more than I do for water.
Gee! those Water Board fellows have
mean dispositions! They say that the
daily consumption during the hot days of
the last week has swelled to the enor
mous total quantity of 20.000,000 gallons
per day.
When you go for a drink of water you
let the faucet run for a long while in or
der to have the water as cold as possible.
HOW THE PORTLAND RESIDENTS
FOUGHT A HOT DAY.
Three thousand men, women and
children went swimming.
Consumed $10,000 worth of lager
beer. 400 barrels, or 200,000 glasses.
Consumed 50,000 soft drinks, 1000
gallons of Ice cream and 250 tons of
Ice.
In fact. Portland people spent at
least $50,000 yesterday Just to keep
cool..
You take an untold number of extra
baths. Everybody wants to hose down
his yard, his front steps, and himself, for
that matter. Closets are left running in
innumerable ways the water is used. Ex
tra quantities are used legitimately, and
a huge quantity is wasted. To avoid
waste, the Water Board says is essential.
Everybody should take note of that, and
so prevent a water famine.
We cannot have a water famine here,
however. We might run short of Bull
Run, and that would be bad enough. But
the illimitable waters of the Willamette
flow by our doors, and the Columbia is
near enough to feel. Take a ride up the
river, the Columbia, on the boat one of
these hot days. But keep out of the sun
or you will get blistered.
Every one who can, goes to the ocean
beach this weather. Those who cannot,
talk about the weather, as I am doing
now.
Do you want to know who had the cool
est Job in the city yesterday? It's my
selfsitting in my cool little den, witn
the windows up, and the transoms all
open, writing this article.
A siphon of soda, a bottle of grape
Juice and a large bowl of ice, to keep the
inner man comfortable, the breezes that
blow in the windows do the rest, and I
bow to you as the man who has the cool
est job in town this day.
BURNED BY A LIVE WIRE
Miss Mary Seeley Injured Through
Car Company's Negligence.
Xegllgence on the part of the street
railway company almost caused the death
of Miss Mary Seeley, of 209 Grand ave
nue, yesterday morning', and only by a
chance was he saved from electrocution.
A broken trolley-wire near her residence
on. Grand avenue struck the young woman
on the head, producing paralysis of the
left side of her face and body.
The wire, people living near the scene of
the accident pay, has been dangling over
the sidewalk for several days, and many
persons have narrowly escaped injury.
When the wire struck Miss Seeley she was
kno'eked unconscious to the sidewalk.
She was carried to her home and Dr. J
S. Courtney was called to attend her.
It was found that she had been badly,
burned and paralyzed. It will be soma
days before it can be known whether the
young woman can recover.
Union Company Gets Oil Contract.
XrOS ANGEt.ES, July 12. Lyman J.
Stewart, president of the Union Oil Com
pany, announced today that the Graclosa.
Oil Company has secured the Japanese oil
contract, amounting to 20,000,000 barrels,
for which that company, the Union Oil
Company and the Associated Oil Company
had been bidding.. The price is not an
nounced. BUSINESS ITEMS.
If Baby Is Cnttinc Teeth.
Be nre and use that old and well-tried rem
edy. Mrs Winslow'B Soothing Syrup, for chil
dren teethtnjr. It aoothes the child, softens
the jrums. allaya all pain, cures wind colli,
and diarrhoea.
BCilwaukle Country Club.
Eastern and Seattle races. Take Sell
wood or Oregon City car. starting from
First and Alder street.