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Rear-Admiral Ijichi, of Mika
do's Navy, Is City's
I . Guest at Dinner.
WELCOME MOVES MARINER
In Masterful English, Japanese
Squadron Chief Thanks Portland
for Its Hospitality Chamber
of Commerce Bountiful Host.
The friendly relations existing now, and
promising to endure for a considerable
period, if not forever, between Japan and
the United States were brought forth
lasC night at a oanquet given by the
Chamber of Commerce and a number of
Portland leading citizens to Rear-Admiral
IJlchl and his staff at the Hotel
Portland. With a profusion of decora
tion, characterized particularly by its
simple, tasteful nature, in which flow
ers, shrubs and palms were the most
prominent features. Admiral Ijichi him
self admitted that the sight that greeted
him was one as new to him as it was
pleasing.
A fountain played in the center of the
room and electric lights were scattered
along the Ion tables, but the decora
tions in no way detracted from the pur
pose of the dinner to cement still more
firmly the commercial and other rela
tions which the United States and Japan
are proud to proclaim to the world.
William MacMaster, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, was toastmaster
and to him fell the lot of Introducing the
speakers. As representing the honored
visitors, the speech of the Japanese Ad
miral in reply to the welcome pronounced
by W. D. Wheelwright, was perhaps the
most noticeable. Admiral Ijichi showed
himself to be a master of the English
language, even if at times he did re
lapse into an idiom that made proper un
derstanding of his phrases a little dif
ficult. He spoke of his pleasure at being
welcomed in Portland's hospitable man
ner, and the enjoyment he derived from
his visit here. He continued:
"In February of this year, when the
Rose Festival committee extended its
kind invitation to this squadron, through
the Consul, to participate in the Festival,
the Japanese authorities at home found
It unable to accept the invitation, the
programme of itinerary of the squadron
having already been decided long before
that time. But I hope that' on a similar
occasion in future the Japanese ships of
war may be brought alongside the
wharves of Portland.
City Impresses Him.
"As soon aa I arrived In Portland I was
much Impressed with the greatness of
this city and still greater prospects of
future development and prosperity, to say
nothing of the grandeur of its natural
beauty. And I shall never forget these
pleasant hours of sitting side by side with
the distinguished and representative gen
tlemen, both official and private, of the
State of Oregon, and I will tell my fellow-countrymen
at home my own im
pression of this City of Roses and the
elaborate entertainments and warm hos
pitality of which we are now recipients.
"My pleasure Is deepened when I think
It is a rare fortune for a sailor like me
to receive such a welcome In a great city
so apart from the seat of anchorage of
my squadron. I think I need not dwell
upon the sincerity of Japan toward Am
erica. I am therefore convinced that this
txchange of visits and reciprocal friend
ship will go far toward strengthening the
(rood will already existing between the
two countries linked together. Instead of
separated, by the Pacific Ocean, which
opens a broad channel of ever-Increasing
commerce and navigation .
"On behalf of my brother officers here
present and myself, I wish to thank you
cordially for your hospitality and to drink
to the health of Oregon and the con
tinued prosperity of your great city."
Sterling sailor that he is. Rear-Admiral
T7riel Sebree received a thorough sailor's
greeting from the Japanese naval offl
vers, as a tribute to his abilities as a
warrior. He, like they, had seen active
service on many occasions, and it was
with something approaching awe that the
Nipponese "middles" looked up to him.
Plain Speech by Sebree.
"I can t say anything new to the Ad
miral here." said Admiral Sebree; "he
has heard my speech before and knows it
by heart. But there is just something I
would like to say . to the rest of you gen
tlemen, who have not heard it.
"Nearly all of us officers have had a
mighty good time in Japan and when
we go there we find we have something
to learn In the art of entertaining. We
in the Navy know and like Japan. We
love Japan.
"If our guests will Dermlt m T mu
leave the subject of the Navy for a
little.
"I came to Portland 24 years ago as
a lieutenant. I went back East, got
married and came back. My boy was
born here, so I have the warmest pos
sible remembrances of Portland. I
don't remember anything but what was
pleasant of my stay here, and that Is
because there was nothing else but
what was pleasant."
With a solemnity befitting the oc
casion, Mr. MacMaster gave the health
of His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor
of Japan, to which Y. Numano, the lo
cal Japanese Consul, responded. Mr.
Numano said that Japan owed no small
part of her greatness, her supremacy
to America.
"Nowhere Is this more thoroughly un
derstood than in Japan." he added. "Gen
tlemen, I ask you to Join me in drinking
a health to your great President. Presi
dent William Taft."
After the honors had been accorded, Mr.
Wheelwright rose to extend welcome to
the visitors, to which Admiral Ijichi re
plied. Practically all of Mr. Wheel
wright's remarks were lost, owing to the
passing of a festival parade. In which,
said Ralph Hoyt, there were no less than
even bands. C. E. S. Wood quoted Mr.
Hoyt as saying: "He believed he had
fixed Wheelwright this time." And ap
parently he had.
Mr. Wheelwright said he wished to of
fer a few conventional but none the less
heartfelt words of welcome to the visit
ors, who were the descendants of the
(treat families of pne of the greatest races
the world has ever Been. He said his
words were not the words of diplomacy
but the words of fact. He spoke of
Japan s supremacy in war, declaring Its
strussle was without precedent for com
pleteness of preparation, promptness in
action, for celerity of movement, for fury
of attack, for humanity to the prisoners
and for perfection of sanitation.
Warm Praise for Japan.
"It was a fight for national exist
ence,' continued Mr. Wheelwright, "and
therefore justified: It was on the part
of the masses a war of pure and pas
sionate patriotism."
"Wherever the Anglo-Saxon is." he
concluded, there is appreciation of
courtesy, of the xeal for knowledge.
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of courage, of broadmindedness, of
statesmanship and wherever those qual
ities are valued and reverenced, even in
the uttermost parts of the world, there
is, and there ever will be, a welcome
to Japan."
It was a delicate allusion that Colonel
C. B. . Wood made to the passing or
chestration, when he -said there were oc
casions when "Music did not charm the
savage breast."
Peace His Theme.
"We are met tonight to do honor to
one who is a warrior," said Colonel Wood,
"and yet I am asked to speak on the
'Friendship of Nations.' Where there is
friendship there cannot be hostility.
The friendship of a nation means uni
versal peace. No one knows the horrors
of war better than those who have seen
It rear Its fangs above the nations.
"One of our greatest Generals said.
'War is hell.' In the beauty and courtesy
of Admiral Ijlchl's country, there is no
hell and he has not had the privilege of
being brought up on hell as a religious
breakfast food If Admiral Ijichi cannot
phrase It as Sherman did he will say it
is a curse.
"The god of war is not a god of justice.
He is on the side of the heaviest battal
ions and the largest treasury. The blood
drain may leave a nation ruined, though
victorious. There has never been a ques
tion settled by war that could not bet
ter have been settled by Individuals.
"The friendship of nations is not only
the dream of poets, but It Js the destiny
of man, that he may. In the golden age of
universal peace, reach up to heights now
beyond our sight, and even touch the
great white throne of Justice.
"When war shall have ceased savagery
will have ended and man's progress will
have Just begun."
There were about 60 guests present,
those especially Invited being as follows:
Captain C. F. Pond, U. S. N. ; Colonel I.
C. vv oodbury. Commander Department of
Columbia; Admiral Uriel Sebree, Comman
der J. M. Elllcott, U. S. N.: Bishop Charts
bcaddlng. Archbishop Christie, Japanese
Consul Y. Numano, Governor F. W. Ben
son. Colonel McGunnlgle. u. S. A.; Mayor
Harry Lane. S. B. Vincent, Judge E. C.
Bronaugh. V. S. Judge W B. Gilbert. C. K.
S. Wood.
Other guests present were:
William M. Ladd. B. S. Josselyn, William
Mac Master. W. D. Wheelwright. William
Mao ltae. Theodore B. Wilcox. Edward
Cookingham. H. L. Corbett. Peter Kerr C
S. Jackson, I. x. Fleischner. Dr. A. K.
Rockey, J C. Frlendley, Harvey Lindley,
General Charles F. Beebe, C. F. Adams. F.
W. Mulkey. Scott Brooke. J. Frank Watson.
Thomas I. Honeyman. J. C. Ainsworth, A.
L. Mills, F. M. Warren, L. Allen Lewis. Y.
Shiota. O. M. Clark. Ralph Hoyt. P. S.
Malcolm, W. B. Ayer, C. F. Swigert. R. R.
Hogue S. M. Mears, C. K. Henry. Y.
Nagashlma. .
RECEPTION STELLAR FUXCTION
Admiral Ijichi, His Staff and Consul
Numano Receive at Hotel.
Quite file event par excellence of af
fairs social and civic during several sea
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RIGHT) JAPANESE COJfSCL NXIMANO,
ADMIRAL IJICHI, ADMIRAL SEBREE.
sons was the long reception at the Hotel
Portland last night, given by the Japa
nese Consul at Portland, Y. Numano,
and Mrs. Numano, In honor of Rear
Admiral Hikojiro Ijichi and his staff of
13 officers of the cruisers Aso and Soya,
of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The
function was attended by more than one
thousand guests, and was followed imme
diately by a banquet, given the Admiral
and his party at the Commercial Club.
Almost the entire lower floor of the
Portland Hotel had been drawn Into
requisition, the several drawing-rooms)
and halls being elaborately decorated for
the occasion. Japanese colors and flags
were used profusely in the color scheme,
with myriads of gaily colored lanterns
swinging from the ceilings. In the re
ceiving line were Mr. and Mrs. Y. Nu
mano. Admiral Ijichi and his staff. The
scene was one of almost Oriental splen
dor. Handsome gowns of the women,
and the flash of jewels, added to the gold
'broideries and elaborate richness of the
Japanese officers' military uniforms, was
only made more picturesque by. the sub
dued glow of the hundreds of quaint,
swinging lanterns.
The balcony and the upper stories of
the hostelry were ablaze with electric
lights, while at the pinnacle of the
roof an electric fountain of large di
mensions and wonderful brilliancy
played at a great height. The court
facing Sixth street was screened. An
orchestra discoursed music In an al
cove off from the drawing-room in
which the hosts and their honor gmests
received, while In the court the Japan
ese Squadron Band of 30 pieces, at
tracted much comment and favorable
attention. Bandmaster Akasakl, In
charge of this organization. Is con
ceded to one of the best In the navy
of Japan.
The court proper was a scene of
fairyland In miniature. Oriental rugs,
draperies and screens were used in
profusion with'a plentiful scattering of
divana and tete-a-tete tables where
supper was served later. The grounds
were an artistic triumph in floral ef
fect, thousands of roses being Intro
duced aa growing naturally from the
center lawn. From overhead count
less wires were stretched, bearing
floating pennants and flags where the
Japanese insigma mingled with Old
Glory, and the colors of the Rose Fes
tival, whose opening night was pro
pitiously ushered In by the event of
stellar, civic and social magnitude.
The Portland Railway, Light & Power
Company has placed cars in service to
run from the west entrance of the old
Madison-street bridge on Front and Madi
son streets to First and Burnslde streets.
The signs on these cars will read "Ore
gon Electric Railway Depot." This new
service will be greatly appreciated by
patrons of the electric line, as It wiil
bring car service within1 one block of 'the
Front and Jefferson street depot. Pas
sengers boarding these cars at Front and
Madison streets will be transferred to
any une in trie city.
TENDERED HRAR-Allwiii .
RBAR-ADM IRAK, UltHI
ONE OF ADMIRAL IJICHI'S AIDS,
HALL SOLID BOWER
Rose Show That Opens Today
. Greatest Ever Held.
FINEST BLOOMS AT BEST
California Building at Exposition
Grounds, Transformed Into
Flowery Kingdom, Will Open
to Public at 2 P. M.
The exhibition of roses which opens
this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Cali
fornia building at the Lewis and Clark
Exposition grounds, is conceded by au
thorities to. be the finest floral expo
sition ever shown either in Pacific
Coast cities or DOints in the East. The
Immense building is a bower of roses
of every variety, which Interwoven
with a profusion of greens and com
bined with the splendid electrical ef
fects Is little less than a modern Eden
of scents and blossoms.
Long tables are placed against the
walls at every turn of the maltese
cross corridors and the floor space in
the center is occupied by more tables
all banked with masses of fragrant
roses of every color. Printed placards
show the section and class of each
entry and the room Is a bewildering
bower of color and fragrance. The
roses are wonderfully developed, and
have kept their sweetness and fresh
ness seemingly centered within them
selves until this exhibition. The halls
are simply a riot of bloom and rose
glory in all stages of perfection.
Decorations Are In Green.
The decorative scheme of the ceiling
is entirely of green. The high walls,
pedestals, railings, display tables and
columns are woven and garlanded In
green. The roses alone are the primal
decoration. Heretofore varl-colored
buntings, etc, have been used In con
junction with the roses, but this year
they are unmarred by any other colors
used in contrast to their own perfect
selves, other than the cool greens of
their native background.
Indian baskets, giant woven vases,
brass Jars, pedestalled cups, and tall
slender jars hold quantities of beautiful
.
8T. JAPANESE Si AW, AT
IS THE PREMIER PART OF
PORTLAND IN WHICH TO
BUILD YOUR NEW HOME
especially on the terms how being offered to those
who will agree to erect new homes within six months.
We have priced these lots at $350 to $500, all 50 by
100 feet, and wili make a tremendous reduction to
those who will s'elect lots at once, for building pur
poses. The character of improvements already in
stalled in IRVINGTON PARK will be continued
through this new section, including graded streets,
cement walks and curbs, Bull Run water with strong
pressure. Extension of carline runs through property.
Alberta line now terminates in the center of IRVING
TON PARK. Thirty homes built and occupied.
Many others building. Terms only 10 per cent cash
and 3 per cent per month. Be one of the first ten to
reap the advantage of this great, special reduction to
homebuilders. Present prices far below actual values.
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blossoms and greens, while hanging
baskets and flower over-run jardinieres
are suspended from the railing along
the sides of the balcony. The walls are
fairy bowers of fir boughs, used with
spruce and pine, and great garlands of
huckleberry, wild ferns and the grace
ful fronds of blossoming wild spirea,
make the great hall a fragrant minia
ture woodland.
High above the gala scene, and rim
ming it as a picture, the balcony is an
interwoven mass of green boughs,
graceful festoons and brilliant lights.
The stairways are banked with massed
blooms, in huge baskets and the or
chestra Is stationed on the balcony
above.
Bower Made for Guests.
At the right of the entrance a small
reception room is railed off with
boughs of rustic wood, together with
an effective use of the wild spirea,
which makes a bower of charm for the
several distinguished guests who will
be present at various times. At one
end of the long corridor is a decorative
pagoda of greens and roses. Inside
its columned portals a small pedestal
Flashlight Photograph by Electric Studio. 14S Sixth Street.
HOTEL PORTLAND BV PORTLAND CHAMBER OK COMMERCE.
brass Jardiniere of rarest
The Nave Is a wondrously lovely, place.
In this nave a huge pyramidal mass of
cut flowers and greens 25 feet high forms
the display of Clarke Brothers, florists.
Tall palms wave gracefully at the pin
nacle of this floral pyramid, and at Ita
baae a rippling stream gurgles over its
bed of rocks from a cool grotto Interior.
An electrical display adds an enchanting
effect to this bit of near nature, which
is emphasized by a miniature pond, into
which the brook flows, bedded with love
ly water lilies and full of goldfish.
Tonseth, another florist, has also a
beautiful display. A long table is banked
high with hothouse blossoms, palms, cal
adiums, gloxicanlas. hydrangeas and
masses of ferns, with tall candelabra
used at intervals. Two smaller tables,
round and low, are of Tonseth's exhi
bition. These, covered deep with sweet
moist moss, are a background for a va
riety of cut flowers, from the modest
blue cornflower to the stately lily.
It is beyond all doubt the loveliest
show of roses ever given in Portland.
Mrs. J. H. Minto. president of the Rose
Society, has been untiring in her ef
forts, and the decorative scheme, as well
as the system of entries, is entirely her
bears a
blooms.
own work. She has been assisted In tha
decoration by Miss Gussie Marshall. Mrs!
Archie I Pease and Mrs. R. H. Birdsell.
The undertaking has been a tremendous
one and Mrs. Mlnto and her secretary,
Mrs Herbert Holman. who has done a
Kre1. rt ?f the work- are Biven much
credit for the success of the display.
Praises Roses Entered. .
'The entries are wonderful," said Mrs
Mlnto. "I expect hundreds of Irosa-.
rlans will bring In flowers tomorrow
morning, and we shall have to work
quickly to get them all attended to. But
our system of entry Is simple and will
avoid any confusion by those who bring
flowers. Each rosarian is given a num
ber to place on his Jar when he presents
himself at the secretary's desk. Each
entry positively must bear the name of
the rose attached. The numbers and
roses are all that the judges have any
cognizance of, aa the name of the com
petitor is only given to the secretary to
be placed opposite the entry number for
identifying later."
Mrs. Laura Mlnto Irwin Is acting as
secretary of the day and Miss Mary
Abry assists her in cataloguing the en
tries and recording the names and num
bers of those competing.
The doors will be open to entries and
assistants from 10:30 until 11 A. M., after
which the judges will take charge. TJiey
are Rev. J. J. Sulliger, of Vancouver;
J. Settlemeier, of Woodburn. and W. S
Sibson. of Portland. Seventy-five valu
able cups and trophies are the awards for
the winners In various classes. At 3
o'clock the doors will be opened to the.
public and the prize-winners announced.
To View the Columbia,
A' party of 30 Including the Japanese
naval visitors and a number of promi
nent local Japanese win be taken for a
30-mile trip up the Columbia this after
noon. Later In the afternoon and evening
the naval band that accompanied the
party will play in the Rose Festival
grandstand at the Postoffice and the
visitors will be provided with seats to
view the parade.
Since Manchuria was converted into a
province it expedlture ha. Increased rap
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