13 THE -MORNING OREGONIAN'. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, t9Q0. A V POSIES OF WORLD TO BE TRIED HERE Festival Chiefs Plan to Make Portland Bud Hothouse of Universe. EVERY KNOWN ROSE SOUGHT Celebration Committee to Auk Gov ernment to Aid Portland in Its Quest Hoyt to Begin Plan Soon. It is planned by the Portland Rose Festival to undertake the propagation in this citv of every variety of rose that grows and thrives under the sun- By this means President Hoyt hopes that the Festival idea will be perpetu ated more than by any form of celebra tion or expenditure of money that may be devised. The plan will be set in motion immediately to secure either slips" or bushes of every kind of rose that arrows on the face or the eartn The I'nited States Department of Agri culture directly through Secretary Wil son will be asked to lend the influence of his department to the development of this idta. it is also to be furthered through correspondence with the com mercial ascents (Consuls and v ice-con su!s of . the United States Government wherever they mav be stationed.' Portland has claimed the credit of lieine the foremost "city, of roses in I he world. "And now let's make this boast good, declared President Hoyt yesterday. . Boast to Be Verified. -The first step in this line was taken yesterday when Secretary Wilson was thanked for his promise to send a rep resentative of the Agricultural Depart ment here tor "Roue Planting Day," February 22. Secretary Wilson had suggested in reply to the invitation to be nore.in person that the lar-iamea Bohemian rose, which is known the world over for its production of the "attar of rose" pe-fume, has been ex perimented with in the United States, and that it should be sent to Portland and given a chance in this favoring climate, ideal soil and other generally atractive conditions. In response thereto, request was made for a number of the "attar" roses which will come from their native soil and be delivered here tinder the patronage of the Agricultural Department for propagation. Rose Festival officials feel that by turn . ins these samples over: to some of the expert reparians of this city results, equal to those obtained in the old country, may be obtained in Portland. Portland to Try Perfume. Although the rose . has been the queen of flowers in this city for more than half a century no attempt has been made to see what can be dene to produce the ex quisite perfume known the world over as the "attar of roses." It is believed, how ever that condition here are such i! at Portland may eventually become a i o ducing center for this wonderfully at tractive article of tommerce. - - According to President Hoyt, of the Festival, Portland has already been able to show the world that It is the greatest rose-producing city in the United States, if not In the world, and his purpose now Is to ask all the Consuls of the United States to furnieh reports regarding the culture of this flower In the countries and cities where they are stationed and from them secure bushes for planting and experimentation here. "This may seem like a mighty difficult thing to accomplish." said he last night, "but Secretary Wilson's letter, received several days ago, is sufficient evidence of the fact that Portalnd stands at the head of 'rose cities' In the country, and that is why we feel that we have a right to ask the Government to a.sist us In gath ering every variety of rose that is grown the world over so that we may try them here. Help of All Sought. "This is a line of endeavor that so far as we know has never been undertaken anj where and we hope to make this sche.-nt a distinctive Portland Idea." The co-operation of the leading rosar ians and nurserymen of Portland will be asked In furtherance of this plan for mak ing Portland not only the "rose city" but also the "rose garden" of the world. Cor respondence with the Government and with American Consulates will be under taken at once with a hoie of securing re sults if possible for "Rose- Planting day" next February and If not, in time for considerable development during the rose season next Summer. MAYOR CHAFES AT DELAY Karly letting of Contract for Gar bage Crematory Simon's Wish. Mayor Simon is determined that there shall be no more delay in regard to awarding a contract for the garbage crematory, and when bids are opened December 20, by the Board of Health, it is his intention to ask the members to refer them to a committee, which will make a quick Investigation and rpport back, if necessary at a special session of the Board, at which he de sires that a contract be let. "F am very desirous of having the .-crematory proposition off my hands," said-the -Mayor yesterday. . "While we are getting along well now with the garbage at the -present crematory, we need a new one very much, and I hope that it will be possible for us to build ' it not later than the first of next year." Councilman Lombard .Is visiting throughout the East, and is sending In data from various places regarding crematories, but he is finding that it is a difficult problem for a layman to learn much from a casual visit to the Incinerators. It Is an engineering prob lem, and it is probable that the Board of Health will leave the selection of the new crematory largely to Superin tendent Napier, of the crematory, and City Engineer Morris, both of whom have considerable knowledge of the subject. REALTY BOARD IS GROWING Seventeen New Members Added to - Portland Association. At a special meeting of the Portland Realty Board yesterday afternoon. 17 tirnis were admitted to membership. These firms are: Keasey. Humason & Jeffery. Wilson & Pagcler. C. F. Bunker. W. J. Smith. Murphy & Caswell. C. L. Bamberger. Weldon Darling. Souther Albertson Co., Goddard & Wiedrick. J. Fred Larsen. F. I Purse. Fruhauft i K -1 Lv Co., D. Parker Bryon & Co., J. ' M. French. M. R. Lewis, V. Vincent Jones, Smith & Everett. Almost all these applications resulted directly from the enthusiastic meeting in con nection with the board dinner early In the month. The campaign for new members will be continued. A committee was appointed by Presi dent Fries to take charge of the ar rangement for the December dinner, which will be held on the first Friday evening of the month. At this meet ing the members o f the board and their guests will be given a talk on the work the O. R. & N. Is doing in Oregon. Resolutions relative to the death of R. M. Wilbur, a pioneer real estate man, who was a member of the board, were adopted. They read in part: "Be it resolved, that in the death of R. M. Wilbur we have lost a business associate whose business integrity was unquestioned, whose sense of honor was the highest, whose nicely balanced judgment in business affairs was ac knowledged by all with whom he came In contact, and whose kindness of heart, affability and innate courtesy jnade him a pleasant companion, and a pleasing associate at all times." The resolutions were signed by H. P. Palmer, George Dekum. E. J. Daly, Allan Slausen. J. O. Rountree. DETEGTIVE HITS JUDGE JOE DAY SCORES JURIST IX PO LICE SCANDAL. Responsibility of Delay Placed on Shoulders or Captain Moore. "Welcomes Investigation. Joe Day. in whose hands the work of clearing the city of bunco men and like crooks had been placed and who admit tedly is the object of Judge Bennett's attack, retaliates by saying that Judge Bennett has motives which ought to be made clear. He throws the responsibility of the delay upon the shoulders of Cap tain Moore and accuses A. K. Bentley, who has been in the City Council for two terms, of having been behind the activity of Judge Bennett, insinuating that Bent ley had a deal with the crooks and that an endeavor was made to "nx" Day by the offer of money if he would protect certain men. Detective Day began his remarks by saying that he had never taken a dis honest dollar in his life. "With my right hand in the air and before my God I can truthfully say that." (jaid he. "There may be something in this, but I welcome any investigation. I have no favors to show to any thieves. I fear not the consequences of an inves tigation. I will be glad to have It run down and the real truth made known. I will tell what I know about it. When McSherry and Abbott and their gang were run out of town it was done be cause they came to me and made me an offer to protect them. Kid Hazel, who goes out fishing with Bentley, and Bent ley you know has his office with Ben nett, came to me on the 'street and of fered me J250 per week ir I would let them work here. I marched that gang of men down to the police station at the point of my gun and told the Chief all that . had transpired. They had defied me and said that they would work in spite of me, and that was the climax to it. "Now here is the trouble with It. Some one had approached me in behalf of these men. and I think I can prove that Mr. Bentley was to come to me and make a offer, a proposition for crooked work. Hazel had approached me on .the street and told me that a prominent man who had been In the City Council twice would see me in their behalf and that they wanted to operate on condition that they fixed all' and got their . suckers out of town. A man afterwards called me on the phone and told me not to be a fool, but to listen to his talk. He requested that McSherry. Kid Hazel, Kid Abbott. Smithy Watson and Torky work In this town. "When I demanded Tils name he said that he wouldn't tell. In two or three hours more another man called me on the phone and wanted to make me a proposition. He said that there were a few people in town that wanted to do some business here. I knew what he was after and I tried to lead him on, so I kept asking him questions. "I wanted to know his name again and he said that when we got through with the proposition, if it were agreeably fixed up he would tell me his name.. There will be a good sum in It every week for you. Day, he said. When he said that I said "I am very much obliged to vou. Mr. Bentley. but there will be nothing ' and with that he hung up the phone. "I don't claim to be infallible. All that I can say is that the charges directed against me are wrong. Every crook that I knew who entered this town has been taken down to the Chiefs office, as it Is done in every big city in the country. It Is quite possible that a bunch of men unknown to me, whom I have never seen before, might get Into this city and work a little before they would be found out, but that any gang has been at work here under protection from me Is absurd. No one man nor no dozen men could protect a gang like that spoken of. The city government would have to be corrupt in order to accomplish a thing like that. I hope the investigation Is immediate, for I will tell all I know. "I am glad that I made the statement that there was a motive behind the Rich ardson prosecution before Judge Bennett, for I may he able to prove it. The first delay In the work on the Watson case was caused by Captain Moore. He said that he had all the evidence and that no other work was necessary. The case was never turned over to the detective department until days afterwards." EAST ST. JOHN SEEKS CARS Plans Laid Looking Toward Kenton Line Extension. At the meeting of the University Board of Trade Monday "night at the office of Slbray & Hart, resolutions were adopted declaring it the sense of the meeting that the Kenton elec tric line should be extended to East St. John. D. V. Hart. E. B. Tucker and M. Carter were appointed to Inter view the officials of the Portland Rail way, Light & Power Company and urge the Importance of this branch line. The meeting also went on record as opposed to making streets out of the boulevards on the Peninsula, which are now In the hands of the county. In the matter of sewage, it was the opin ion of the meeting that It was too soon to start to build a sewer- system on the northwestern half of the Peninsula, as the district is not yet sufficiently settled and the cost would be too heavy at present. Councilman Ellis was present and ad dressed the meeting on improvements on the Peninsula. He said that he would act against the expressed wishes of the people In regard to the boule vards, if they wanted them to continue as county roads, although he thought some portions ought to be taken over so street crossings could be made. He also spoke of plans for providing hose and fire plugs. WUHD STEALS AWAY Grandmother Says Father Kid naped Him at Troutdale. BOY FLEES AS SHE SLEEPS Henry Proctor, of Vancouver, Ac cused by Mrs. Tillison Lad's Guardian Visits His School for Clews. . GRESHAM, Or., Nov. 16. (Special.) Threats of a criminal prosecution against Henry Proctor, of Vancouver, Wash., was made today by Mrs. Tilli son, of Troutdale, who accuses Proctor of kidnaping her sob. The boy, it seems, went away voluntarily last Fri day night, going home with his father but Mrs. Tillison, who declares she is the boy's legal guardian, asserts that the departure of the boy was unknown to her and against her will. Proctor, it is said, told schoolmates of the lad, of the Terry school, that he Is the grandson of Mrs. Tillison on his mother's side, but was not accorded the treatment due him and was dis satisfied with his home. Proctor is also quoted as saying that the youngster wrote to his father last week with the result that Proctor went to Troutdale Friday. Father and son, Mrs. Tillison says, made a night trip to Vancouver before she knew her ward had gone. George is about 1 years old and has lived with Mrs. Tillison for the last five years. She says the boy's mother died when he was two years old and that he was mistreated by his stenmother. resulting in his father giving consent to a legal adoption, and that she took the boy to rear. A .talk between father and son at the schoolhouse Friday resulted in a meeting late that night after the boy had gone to bed and had stolen out of the house, when his grandmother was asleep. When she found him gone Saturday morning she gave an alarm but was Informed by some of the boy's companions whom he had confided in that he had fled. Mrs. Tillison visited the Terry school yesterday in an effort to secure evi dence needed to file a complaint against Proctor, accusing him of kidnaping. ANENT THAT MISSING LINK. Mr. Edtson recently stated that there was no rinuht that In ten years flying machines r. nnld be used to csrrv malls. They would Ho at a Apeed of 1 ixt mile. r ' would carry passengers. Some Doubt Whether Man and the Ape Had a Common Ancestor. SALEM, Or., Nov. 16. (To the Ed ltor.) In The Oregonian of October 12. an article tells us something about "The Missing Link" that from time to time comes to the surface in the maga zines and newspapers. A few days ago in Texas, by the reports, the scientists have unearthed one or more specimens. .As The Oregonian truly says such "links" are numerous below us though undiscovered. The beautiful continu ity of Nature represented in Its animal and vegatal forms is a vast vital chain composed, not only of adjacent but of connecting links. as well. This is perhaps more true of the chain above "ground and around us than of the broken fossil one below. The writer continues: "Geological history offers no warrant for the belief that life was originally created perfect in a blissful Eden." - I am not aware that anybody thinks it does nor that any sort of history does. Certainly Bible history does not. According to Genesis "blissful Fden" does not appear till sometime arter creation was finished, and vegetable and the lower forms of animal life pre ceded the creation of man by, some think on the testimony of geological history, thousands, of years. Be the time what it may, science cannot take us back to origins to the first dawn of life and of creation.' 'All life was "perfect" in Its own domain, whether the life of a spore, of a rhizapod or of a man. It is a question still open, yet I be live, whether the present forms of life are improving in the way of perfection, physical or moral. "There never wa any 'fall of man,' but there has been a continuous rise from low beginnings." I know this is the echo of the trumpet of science today, standing upon the high eminences of Its wonderful ac complishments. But of what value is the echo when the original shout is based, on testimony that would not stand in court? There may have never been any "fall of man," as The Ore gonian says, but can it prove the state ment is false by the rules of evidence in earthly courts. "No person of respectable standing in the world of science doubts that human beings and the apes had a common an cestor.'.' There is such a thing as be ing cock-sure ai d being mistaken at the same time, and here is one of the instances. Wonder if The . Oregonian writer ever heard of Sir J. W. Dawson? Did he ever read Dawson's "Modern Ideas of Evolution," a comparatively modern book If ho has not I would advise him to. Sir William was cer tainly a scientist of no mean repute an authority on geology, author of several scientific books and papers. He did assuredly "doubt that human beings and apes had a common ancestor." Also the lato Professor Rudolph Tire-how. the foremost physiologist of his day in Europe, and his day was only two or three decades ago. Also the celebrated Louis Agassiz, of Harvard. In 1877 Virchow stood up in a congress of distinguished scientists at Munich and declared it was not a proved propo sition of science, that man had de scended from apes nor from any other animal. And Agassiz is well known to have disavowed the development hypothesis, at least as to man. And the lamented Hugh Miller, the famous Scottish geologist, and A. R. Wallace, co-promulgator of the doctrine of nat ural selection with Darwin taught that the rational and spiritual nature of man was not derived from his ape ancestors but were the gifts of the Almighty. These were all men of "re spectable standing In the world of science." I may aso mention Jas. D. Dana, the famous teacher of geology in Harvard, and Professor Arnold Guyot. These, too, were "respectable" scien tists, much doubting their simian origin. The Oregonian ought to modify some of its statements. It is quite likely the "missing link," one of which would be but one among thousands, according to the theory, will never be found. So better give up trying. N. J. BOWERS. ROBBER SUSPECT FIGHTS Alleged Postoffice Thief Bearing Stamps Is Caught. .Robert Plegg, an alleged postoffice robber, was brought to this city yester day by Marshal Snodrss. of Cottage Good JHEN you pick up the beautiful big De cember number of THE DELINEATOR you may like to exercise a woman's pre rogative of turning to the last page "just to see how it comes out. If you do, you will find there a most artistic appeal to every sweet tooth in America. Then if you turn backward past the quaint little Eskimo eating his Christmas-tree candles, past Aunt Betty's cheery letter, past Sir Launcelot's. Christmas fun for boys, past Donakins wonderful adventures with his "Wild West" book, past Mammy Possum, and the Jenny Wren Club, you will run into the last end of Eugene Woods magnetically human fact story, "Attending to His Drop" Among all the interesting, amusing, and necessary things that fill each months Delineator there is always something that insists on being read first. This is one of them. If you start at the front end, after you have enjoyed the lovely painting by Gardner Soper, run through the pages where the last word in fashions is illustrated so charmingly in color. Pause for a moment at page 494; dont over look its message. Read how a great group of readers can be of help to the editors, and how simple it is for the same readers to be of service to others. Now look at the story of the Pope's gentle life, at the charming tale by the author of "Wee MacGreegor," guess "What a Home with Forty Daughters" is about, and fall haphazard on the new Kipling story there again you are treed, and it may be hours, perhaps days, before you will ever strike the heart of the magazine with its four full-page wonder-paintings of NEW YORK, that took nearly a year in the making, and that would look so cheerful on the nursery walls. Tackle it from either end, front or hack, it makes little difference; it's a fine, big, inspiring, sumptuous number of THE DELINEATOR, and you need it BETTER GET IT NOW THE BUTTERICK PUBLISHING CO., Butterick Building, NEW YORK Grove. Or., and turned over to the Fed eral authorities. He is held, in the County Jail awaiting arraignment In the Federal Court. , Plegg is believed to be one of a gang of thieves that entered the postoffice at Irving, Or., the night of October 28 and after ransacking it carried away a quantity of stamps. He was captured at Cottasra Rriv Saturday bv the Town Marshal, who succeeded In land ing him behind the-bars after an en counter. Several sheets of stamps and other Government paraphernalia were found on Plegg's person. He carried a brace of Colt revolvers, a bowie knife and a large supply of ammunition, but was unable to put his armament to use. Plegg admits that he was formerly a oldier in the United States Army and served throughout the Philippines and I Cuban campaigns. Health Commissioner Ritchie, of Boston, declares that pneumonia Is now the most fatal disease in his jurisdiction. According to the present figures of the board of health, pneumonia comes first, heart diBcase sec ond and tuberculosis, which was first in luuo. third. Sounds good d o e s n't It? Tastes better. Why shouldn't it? It's m a d e from fruit and grain as pure as old mother nature. Children brought up to drink this will be free from all stomach trouble!). All arrocers.