THE MOUSING OBEGOSIAJi, MPS DAY. JUSB 17. 1912.
NAVAL MILITIA OFF
OREGON NAVAL MTT.TTTA FOBCS
WHICH LEAVES " TODAY ABOARD CRUISER ' .MARYLAND ftf QrCgOll HOtlOTSHZT PjOllCCrS TfalS WCCll SCC D.Sphy
of Relics From Historical Society in Our 5th-St. Window
Aboard Maryland Organiza
tion Will Undegro Test
of Fitness to Exist.
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ANNUAL CRUISE
ELLICOTT TO MAKE REPOR
While at Sea Men Will Be Drilled
in Various Duties Except Boat
Drills Bandou Division '
Also Makes Trip.
Only one of the regulation exercises
prescribed In the life of bluejackets
aboard ship will be omitted In the an
nual cruise of the Oregon Naval Mili
tia, and that Is boat drills. The Navy
Department had advised that as the
organization has the cruiser Boston as
a station ship, available during; the en
tire year, boat drills naturally form a
large part of their work, and while at
sea they will be given the benefit of
all other drills, station assignments
and such details as will be regarded
tne most important.
It bad been arranged that the men
of the Oregon Naval Militia would re
. port on board the Maryland at 3 P. M.
yesterday, getting aboard the big cut
' tera alongside the Boston at 2 o'clock
bat a change was made through which
the militiamen left the Boston about
s:e"o o clock and were received on the
Maryland at f o'clock and assigned
. quarters. They passed last night In
getting acquainted with their new sur
roundings and minglfng with the regu
lar crew, out tneir - real duties will
commence today.
Statloas Force Doubled.
While the crew of the Maryland out
numbers that of the Boston, men from
the latter will be assigned the same
numbers and perform duties with an
equal force of the big cruiser, so where
there has been one man to look after
a certain station In the past, there will
be two during the militia cruise, and
' the officers of the Maryland will ex
pect them to execute the same re
sponsibilities. Governor West looks to Captain El-
. llcott to follow features of the cruise,
so far as they pertain to the militia,
closely with a. view to making a spe
cial report, which Captain Ellicott
would have adhered to regardless of
the interest of the state executive. The
latter will report direct to the Naiy
Department and In turn copies of the
report will be forwarded to the Gov
rnor. If the material In the militia 1
regarded as unsulted the report will
so state and should the men be found
of the stuff that will make fir th
state a creditable naval organisation
mat win be set forth.
Following the cruise of 1911, Lieu
tenant W. E. HalL of the cruiser Penn
sylvan la. who was assigned to the Bos
ton, made a report that some of the
militiamen thought severe, yet the'
overlooked its unfavorable points be
cause of the knowledge that the or
ganisation was less than a year old
and that the Boston hsd not been In
the harbor long enough for them to
get acquainted with her.
Jtea to Work Bard.
Now It Is different. Thav hm 1.
bored during the Fall and Winter and
those fortunate enough to go on the
cruise are Dent on Duttina- forth
best in them, for It means not onir
favorable mention for them if they
make good, but on the report of Cap
tain Ellicott as to their conduct, abil
ity and desire to drill depends whether
the organization will live or whether
the Governor will order It disbanded
and ask that the Boston be returned
to tne Bremerton Navy-Yard. "
Some of the officers had been aboard
tne Boston two days when the dlvl
aions started for the Maryland last
evening. Details in each department
have been worked out so every man
is - ready. A dally report system has
been decided on to keep check on In
dlvlduals and while the militia offi
cers will have no advance knowledge
of Captain Ellicott's report, thev will
have a summary of how each man has
conducted himself and from that ana
their Inspection of drills and the like
will have a general Idea of what to
expect.
Captain Edgar M. Blmpson will be
in command of the - cltlsen sailors.
Lieutenant W. H. Rober Is acting
executive officer, though It was under
his efficient training that the engineer
aivision reached a nigh standard. En
sign Charles E. Melvln will command
the engineer division: Ensign J. A.
Beck, the first division: Ensign Lloyd
Bpooner. of the second division, and the
fifth division, from Bandon. will be in
charge or Ensign E. I. Galller.
23 Is Fifth Dlvtaloau
The fifth division Is composed of P.
waiter, 15. watklna, otie Dandleman,
Lewis Laird, J. Bogie, William Ney
gren. H. McNalr, A. Munck, C. Conrad,
N. Langlols, C. Hesslck, J. Miller, B.
Parks, J. M. Dodge, C. Pfortner, V.
Carlson, C. McDonald, C. Crockett. W.
Huttman. L. D. DuBell, A E. Dlnxer,
J. Jiruger and Kolaud Edwards.
In the event Adjutant-General Fin
ser does not Join the Maryland today,
when she starts down the river, he
probably will arrive In Ban Francisco
before the Maryland puts to sea from
there and will complete the cruise, on
her. Lieutenant-Commander A. J. Cap
ron. who was the first paymaster, but
resigned, has accepted the berth again
and goes on the Maryland In that ca
pacity, and also as the representative
of the Naval Board, of which he Is a
member.
Lieutenant Louis Wolf, surgeon of
the organization, will Join the Mary
land and Chief Gunner H. B. Maltby
also may go, though ho was not certain
of this last night. There will be about
1M of the militiaman left at homo, as
they are unable to leave their busi
ness interests. Drills here will be con
tinued Tuesday and Friday nights un
der command of Lieutenant W. E.
Bouschor.. ordnance officer, and Lieu
tenant. Junior grade. Clyde T. Spooner.
Maay Visitors gar Farewell.
Aboard the Maryland yesterday there
was a large crowd of farewell visitors,
but under the system adopted early In
the week there was no crowding at
launch landings on the cruiser. The
vessel had been stripped of the lights
that made her such an attraction dur
ing Rose Festival nights and with only
a small awning stretched . over part
of the quarterdeck, ahe has again as
sumed the businesslike aspect that was
noticeable on her arrival a week ago
yesterday.
Most of the officers passed the last
V lay ashore with friends. Though Cap
tain Ellicott was aboard the Maryland,
he only received a few callers Infor
mally. At the Invitation of Captain Ellicott
orders have been given by Mayor
. Rushlight for Harbormaster Speier to
stake the trip down the river today,
nd he will lave the Maryland at As
toria. The Maryland is to be piloted
to the lower harbor by Captain Archie
Pease and she Is to weigh anchor at I
o'clock this morning. Captain Pease ex
pects to make the run In alx hours, so
h can get to aea at niga water.
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Today at Meier ? Frauti's
Many Rare Opportunities for Sav
ings From Our Immense Stocks of
Beautiful Summer Merchandise for
Pe rs ondl and Home Adornment
Two Full Pages of Store News in Sunday
Papers An Entire Page for Our Great
June Mi-Mbnth Sale of Pure Foods!
ABOVE, AT LEFT. CAPTAIN EDGAR M. SIMPSON. COMMANDING NAVAL MILITIA) AT RIGHT, GROUP OF
MILITIA OFFICERS, FRONT ROW, LIEUTENANT W. H. ROBER, EXECUTIVE OFFICER) . LIECTEN-
- ANT-COMMANDER A. J. CAPROX, PAYMASTER) ENSIGN CHARLES F. MELVIN AND CHIEF GUNNER
H. B. MALTBY) REAR ROW, LIEUTENANT W. E. BOUSCHOR, ORDNANCE OFFICER) ENSIGN D. W.
GALLIER AND ENSIGN J. A. BECKWITH LOWER VIEW, GROUP OF "BLUEJACKETS OF MILITIA ON
FORECASTLE OF CRUISER BOSTON PREVIOUS TO EMBARKING IN CUTTERS FOR MARYLAND. '
HOLIDAY GARB GOES
Decoration Contractors Strip
Buildings and Depart.
ELKS' DESIGNS IN EMBRYO
case the burning of the flags was due
to carelessness of the decorators In
putting them . In place."
Portland Praised by Bunting Spe
cialists as Easy of Adornment,
Honest . In Its - Citizenship
' and Ideal Climatically.
Buntlns: and flags that have dressed
the city In holiday colors tor tne psi
week will have been removed before to
night and Portland will be once more
In her workday, garb. At least eight
large decorating companies from differ
ent parts of the United States were
engaged In dressing the city for the
Rose Festival and many of them have
additional contracts for the Elks' con
ventlon In July. Others, whose decora
tion contracts were only for the Rose
Festival, had their flags taken down
and packed for the jump Into the next
city where they . are . to , worn, mon
noon yesterday.
Elks' Deeoratkma Flasme
Decorations for the Elks' Convention
are already under way. In the construc
tion of the big welcome arcnes on
Stark street, but the real dressing of
the dtv to receive the coming delega
tlona of Elks will not be commenced be'
fore July" 1, although the decorators
are aJreadv at work upon sketches and
designs for the draperies they ' Intend
to Install at that time. - xne electric
lighting features that were used dur
ing the Rose Festival are about the only
decorative .t-etalls irom tne r esuvai
that will be In service during the con
ventlon. and the coloring of most of
these will be changed to conform to the
purple and white of the Elks. , '
Flags and bunting will all be In the
Elks' official colors, and will cover the
city almost as thickly as the red. white
and blue during nose r esuvai wees.
Pertlaad Easily 'BeaatlfleeV -
E. M. Elsf elder, one of the decorators
that helped In the preparation for the
Rose Festival, and who will be active
In the decoration- of the city for the
Iks, said yesterday that Portland lends
Itself to decoration Better man ine
areat majority of cities In. which his
company has worked during the pas
IS years. . .
The winds here are not severe enough
to whip and bedraggle the decorations,"
he said," you have no fogs and only
rarely rain that will do serious dam
age.
"Also you appear to have in Portland
an exceptional class of people." For the
first time In Is years, when we began
take down our decorations this
morning, we found not a single flag or
pennant missing, while as a rule in an
other cities where we have worked the
merrymakers have torn down and car
ried away for souvenirs a large portion
of our stock.
"The. loss, of pennants and bunting
by fire was exceptionally small in the
festival Just dosed, and in nearly every
GRANGE DEAD HONORED
Memorial Services ' Held in Lents
- Hall for Members Gone Beyond
In memory of the Patrons of Hus
bandry who have died during the past
year la-this county, union memorial
services were' conducted yesterday aft
ernoon. In the Lents Grange Hall, by
Evening Star. Lents, Pleasant Valley
and Woodlawn Granges, In accordance
with the resolution of the National and
State . Granges. - Mrs. H. L. Darnell,
lecturer of Lents Grange, presided
Members were present from ' many of
the Granges of the county.
The exercises opened by the hymn.
"Father, We Rest In Thy Love." J. D.
Lee, of Evening Star Grange, explained
the object of the -memorial and its sig
nificance.
Rev. W.'J. Douglas, of the .Woodlawn
Grange, delivered a brief memorial ad
dress. He-said that the services were
specially fitting for the Patrons ot
Husbandry, for the reason that all ere
dependent beings. Therefore, he held
that It was highly fitting that parents
should remember their parents who had
passed away, and that the members of
the order should remember. those of its
number- who .had fallen during the
year. Mr. Douglas also spoke of the
fundamental principles of the Patrons
of Husbandry, -which stands for educa
tion, morality and better citizenship,
Brief talks were then made by J. ; J.
Johnson, of Evening Star Grange; J.
w. Black, of , woodlawn - Grange, and
T. J. Kreuder, of Lents. These masters
of the respective Granges paid tributes
to the Individual members . who had
died during the. past year, and floral
tributes were placed an the altar in
their memory. ' "Beautiful Golden
Somewhere,- was rendered as the clos
lng song.
4" STATES. J REPRESENTED
Arguments Made for Y. , W. " C. A.
Conference -at Gearhsrt.
Preparations are being made by the
Young Women's Christian Association
to send delegates to" the annual con
ference, to be held June 25 to. July, z
at Gearhart -Park, Or. Representa
tives will be present from associations
In . Idaho," Washington. . Montana, and
Oregon, when questions of -moment to
the organisation' as a -whole, will be
considered, ' - -."
Dorsey B. Smith will. give a talk in
the Association auditorium tonight at
1:15 on his travels in Europe, illustrat
ing his lectures - with " stereoptlcon
slides.- The lecture 'Is free. A collec
tion will be taken which will be used
in defraying' the expenses of delegates
to the coming-conference. . , ;
transnortatlon department was hard at
work day and nlgnt -enueavoring w
make the service as near perfect as
possible.
CRUISERS OUT TOGETHER
Pennsylvania and Maryland - May
Meet Off Columbia Bar.
The United' States cruiser- Pennsyl
vania sailed from Paget Bound las
night on a ten days cruise with the
naval reserves of Tacoma and Seattle
on board. The plans for her are prac
tically the same as those of the Mary'
land with the Oregon Reserves on
board, as her destination Is San Fran
Cisco, where a atop for a couple of
days will be made and the sailors given
shore leave
The Pennsylvania should arrive off
the mouth of the Columbia this after
noon about the time the Maryland
crosses out. so It Is possible the two
cruisers mar keep In sight of each
other and enter Ban Francisco uay to
gether. .
POLYGAMY IS CHARGED
Man Held Here Believed to Have
One Wife In Denver.
With one wife In Denver, Colo., and
another in Portland, . according, to the
charges against him, Avery J. Gray,
22 years of age and a department store
clerk. Is in jail, held under a charge of
polygamy. His capture is due to the
efforts of the mother and sister of wife
No. 2, who is held as a witness against
him, i
Appeals of a dying sister, since dead.
Rose Festival Crowds Esti- ISJfZ'S ST.
wife. The arrests were made Jsy Ser
geant Harms. Patrolmen Black and
Llllls. Gray was taken at -Tenth and
Morrison streets, and Mabel Gray at
FIGURES MAY TELL
mated by Car Fares.
MILLION POINT IS BEATEN
593 Rodney avenue,
been living.'
where they have
YOUTHS ARE BLAMED
AUTO ACCIDENT DUE TO CAKE-
, . LESSXESS IS BELIEF.
Occupants-, of Machine Struck; by
: Streetcar . Assert They Could
Not Stop in Timel
Reckless youths out for a ride-are
said to have been responsible for the
automobile accident at Fifth and Oak
streets early yesterday. In which four
persons were Injured.
The automobile was owned by C. H.
Brown, a real estate man living at (SI
Multnomah street, and was driven by
his son Herbert. There were six In
the party, none of them more than 19
years old.
The Injuries Norma Hammer and
Edna Hammer, of 411 North Twenty-
fourth street, will not prove serious.
Norma, who is 18 years old, has a
broken collar bone, is cut about the
face and head, and somewhat bruised.
It Is not believed that her sister. Edna,
It years old, has any Internal Injuries,
though she sustained painful bruises.
Ward Irving, another of those In
Jured, left the hospital yesterday. He
is a student at Jefferson High School,
and lives at : 72 Broadway. Cecil
Stemler Is still at &t. Vincent's Hob
pital, suffering ' jrom a scalp wound
and .minor brunes. Stemler lives at
725 East Twenty-second street and
works for a typewriter company. H.
Cooper was the other occupant of the
machine. He escaped unhurt.
The automobile was going west on
Oak street.' at about 12 miles an hour,
say the occupants. . At the Fifth-street
crossing the Jeffferson-street car came
rushing along at a 26-mile speed, they
say, and it was impossible to stop In
time. The driver made an effort to
cross the track ahead of the car, but
the rear part was struck, sending the
machine spinning along the street, and
hurling its occupants out In all directions.
17IIEN DUYIKG THAT
Record, Despite Rain, Likely-to To-1
; tal Near to That of 191 1,- When
Over 2,000,000 - . Persons
Rode on Traction Cars.
. Rose Growers Are' Generous.
A recent published report to the
effect, that the rose-growers of Port
land are not generous with their flow
ers Is resented by L. Samuel, who yes
terday declared that rosarlans are al
ways ready to give their blooms to per
sons who appreciate them. - Mr. Samuel
said that it was he who first suggested
the Idea of planting roses along the
sidewalks, and this method, which is
now ' followed throughout the city. Is
an evidence of the generosity of per
sona who own rose bushea
Streetcar officials and other trans
portation men took "a rest . yesterday
from their arduous work of Rose Fes
tival week, and Incidentally began to
figure -on the crowd handled during the
srx days from Monday 'to Saturday, inclusive.
While the figures are not- yet .com'
plete, due to the auditing force not
being at work on Sunday , to tabulate
Saturday's business, the prevailing be
lief seems to be that the streetcars
handled . as many people ; this year aa
last, despite' the rain.
For the years of 1910 and lsii tne
Rose Festival : was held on the same
dates June -lL This year. the Fes.
tlval was held a week later,- and the
means of comparison requires more
detail work than ordinarily, because
all railways - compare with the week
of the previous year.
; . Craputattom Method Oat."
The method of computation taken by
the .street' railways to determine the
number of passengers .carried Is to take
the total number, of cash fares, tickets
used and transfers collected.
Previous to this .year : the transfers
have been 25 -per eent of: the 'total
number of sassenarer. trips taken. Tbls
year It i is estimated-- at u per cent.
Of the collections made by-the con
ductors . upon - the ".various.. cars,, tne
transfers some months will be as high
as 32 per- cent,- but tne average tor
1912 is fixed at -40 per cent.- Hence
the - figures ' when reported ; will be of
"passenger trips."
With the tickets - the average paid
fare is 3.C5' cents. This is Inclusive of
school -children who .were, carried during-the
week to schools, "tickets used
by city officials and free transporta
tion of employes. -
. 1812 Eigne Wear 19)11. . '
Unon a similar basis of figuring the
number of passenger trips taken dur
ing the : Rose Festival of. 1910 was
1.902.522. and of 1911, 2,099,110. It is
believed that the 1912 figures will equal
within a few hundred of 191L
The comment of - the citizens gener
ally Is to the effect that the streetcar
officials . handled the crowd this year
better than ever before. This was In
a measure due to the fact that the
company had moreN equipment " than
during previous years. -. Fully 100 new
ninnirer cars were added to the roll
ing stock of the Portland Railway,
Light Power Company in the Fall of
last year, and this permitted of quicker
service at crucial moments.
During the week every omciai l ins
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