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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1913)
rnPTT An OTCTCftOX. SATURDAY. MAY 24. 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. , VOL. L.I1I-XO. 1G.3SO. . . SEE YEARS OF PLENTY Great Crops Expected in Northwest. CONFIDENCE ON INCREASE Merchant and Manufacturer Write of Conditions. CREDIT MANAGEMENT GOOD Continuance of Healthy Trade For' cast Through Replies From More Than 200 Firms as Result ot R. G- Dun. & Co. Inquiry. TRADE COMPARISONS IX LEAI . I0 LDiCS, Department store business ransae from same aa laat year to 40 par o.nt b t tor. Wholesale dry roods eubetanUaUy Increased over Ut year. Five out of tlx wholesale srocera report InctnM. Ktll srocarr buai smi good. Wholesale hard are business from rlr to very good. Wholesale meat and provision trade has Increased from 7 to over SO per cent. Ft TO oat off MTfn lumber-houri report larger business. Lima and ce ment trade nm a last year; paint and oils, quiet. Iscnam In steal trado art from SO to BO per cent. Railway earnings larror: street railwav business same aa laat year. Whole volume of trade rood; eol lectlona vary, but eneralty better; lone, amall and outstanding; accounts tn good ohapo: proapecta good. Portland's business, wholesale, retail and manufacturing-, rests at the pres ent time on a safe, solid financial ba sis. The volume of operations may be called normal, collections as a whole are Improving and the prospects are almost unanimously reported by mer chants as bright. Letters asking- tor a statement of con ditions rt sent by R. O. Dun & Co. to all the leading; merchants and manu facturers of the city., and the replies from more than 100 are summarised In the statement below. As might be expected, the reports on volume of business vary, even In the same lines, but nearly all agree as to the favorable outlook. 'Where trade has been retarded, weather conditions were In most Instances the cause. As regards) the future, a leading- factor is the splendid crop promise In the North west. Confidence on Increase. The Improvement In collections re ported by so many of the merchants Indicates plainly a growth of .confi dence. Losses In the past season have generally been small. The conserva tive policy adopted by business men Is showing Its results In the present sound condition of the city, while the care ful management of the credit situa tion Insures a continuance of a healthy trade. The reports summarii id by R. G. Dun & Co. compare the present business with that of 1S12. The summary fol lows: Agricultural Implement s Three houses report increases of from 15 per cent to 25 per cent. One house attrib utes this Improvement partly to condi tions within Its own organization and partly to good crop conditions In East ern Oregon and Eastern Washington, which have made dealers more liberal in buying: orders are coming in for Fall of 1913 and Spring of 114 quite satisfactorily, and they are looking for ward to a good Increase In business. The same house haa less In past due accounts and bills receivable than a year ago. A fourth house reports a alight decrease In business, while a fifth 'reports a decrease of about 20 per cent. All regard prospects as good. Demand Greater Tkaa Output. Automobiles One house reports a decrease of 13 per cent, attributed to a backward Spring: city collections poor, country collections normal; no great activity expected until Fall. A second house reports a decrease owing to In ability to obtain sufficient cars from factory to meet demand, and states that business could have been tr'pled this year If cars could have :een ob tained. Collections slower and money tighter than laat year. Automobile supplies One bouse re ports a slight Increase, a second an In crease of 16 per cent, a third an In crease of (0 per cent, a fourth a de crease of ( per cent, and a fifth a de crease of 13 per cent. Those reporting decreases attribute tame to weather conditions. Prospects reported from fair to very good. Two houses report collections poor, one normal, a fourth slightly better than last year, while a fifth claims losses of less than one tenth of one per cent. Bakers, confectioners. etc Five houses report Increases of from 2H per cent to to per cent. A sixth states that business Is upon a more profitable basis than a year ago. A seventh re ports a decrease of 10 per cent and an etahth. 20 per cent. Two houses report collections better, two about the same, two worse, while another claims that city collections are worse this year, but ICoociuiied. en face 1& BUS ESS MEN . : I I RESCUE THRILLING OFF ROGUE RIVER PORT ORFORD MK" SAVED 1 MILES OCT TO SEA. Wirelesp Call Instrumental In Work When Bandon Crew Is Reached. Powerboat Rushes to Aid. MARSHFIELD. Or.. May S3. (Spe cial.) After their boat had turned completely over four times on Rogue River bar and they had been washed out to sea, where their water-logged craft was rolling over like a barrel. Fred Silver. 23. and W. D. Weinegar. 2 of Port Orford. were the principals In a thrilling rescue laat night off the mouth of the Rogue River. Silver was nearly overcome from cold and ex posure and would have been able to have held on only a short time longer when Captain Johnson and the Bandon Ufe-savins crew reached them and brought them to safety. They were taken to Port Orford today, the life saving crew being compelled, by fog and darkness last night to put In to Hunter's Cove to await daylight. Silver and Weinegar built an Impro vised sailboat for Ashing and started from Tort Orford to Gold Beach, off Rogue River reef. The craft became cranky and turned over. but they righted her and attempted to return. They had sand for ballast and the lit tle craft had a heavy list that caused her to turn over three times, the single mast breaking when she capsized the last time. This left the fishermen at the mercy of the tide and they drifted out to sea. The telephone line was down and n&rtlM on shore whv had witnessed their disaster were unable to send word to the Bandon life-saving station, their only hope. Finally, by getting word . Crrmr-mt mtv the -tireless was used and tie life-saving crew called. The crew's power boat enabled them to overtake the drifting boat about seven miles off shore shortly after 6 o'clock last night, and tho water-logged sail boat waa about to eink when they took the men off. ARMED MEN DEFY STATE Malheur County Farmers Prevent Releasing of Water. MALHEUR. Or- May 23. (Special.) An armed force of water users of the Jamieson and Brogan irrigation dis tricts, a few days ago gathered at re- ervolr.No. 3 of the Willow River, and prevented Warren Reeder, State water M-itr. from raisin the gates and re leasing the water, as had been ordered by the State Board of Control, In up hi:iHnr the ancient riparian rights of early settlers. The water users declared the action would have meant Irrepar able damage and almost total ruin to the lower country. Th armed force destroyed, or se creted, the tools necessary to raise the water gates, and Water Master Roeder then. It Is said, threatened to blow the gates out with dynamite, and the de fenders of the dam kept guard to pre vent this until a temporary injunction against the state was secured by At torney C. M. Crandall. ROSES ASSURED FOR SHOW Blooms Will Be Out in Millions by June T me of Ff f-tlval Opening. V Only change In the weather such U hi. never nappeneu ueioro in mt history of the state could possibly pre vent the rose bushes of Portland from producing all the blossoms necessary for the Festival in June .according to the rosarians of the city. The sunshine of the past few days Is bringing the buds forward rapidly and within few more days the blooms will be out In millions all over the city. The weather of the earlier part of the month had the effect of retard ing' the development of the buds and for a time It was feared that the roses would fall to reach their prime by Festival time. This fear, however. Is now entirely past and officials of the Rose Festival and rose fanciers, both professional and amateur. In Portland predict a finer array of roses ny June 9 than In any previous year. COMFORTS MAY BE FREE Mlsche Makes Proposals for Public Rest Station on Sixth. The use of hot water, pins, needle and thread, city directory and clothes brush will be free at the new munici pal comfort station at Sixth and Yam hill streets, if the park board adopta the suggestions of Park Superintend ent Mlsche for the conduct ot the sta tion. Napkins will be furnished for 6 cents. a comb for E cents, and 6 cents will be charged for the use of a telephone or of a cake of soap with an Individ ual towel. Without soap, a towel may b used for 2 cents. Placards will be posted asking visitors not to "tip" the attendants, and the station will be open from 7 A. 11 to 11 P. M. BANK CLEARINGS INCREASE Northwestern Cities Show Gains, Portland Being 32. Per Cent. Portland's bank clearings for the week reached a total of $12,398,000. with a gain of 12.8 per cent over the totals for the corresponding week of last year. AH cities on the Pacific Coast made substantial gains, with the exception f Spokane, where a slight decrease was registered. Wisconsin Metallurgist Dead. MADISON. Wis.. May 23. Francis Thompson Harvard, associate profes sor of mining and metallurgy at the University of Wisconsin, died today of pneumonia, aged IS years. WQRK AS WAITRESS REGARDED AS BEST Girl in Restaurant Is Satisfied With Lot. 'TIPS" ARE MATERIAL KELP Rural Domestic Service Has No More Attractions. MANY WOMEN ARE HEARD Missouri Senate Committee Told Heat In Laundries Is Overpow ering, and That Workers Often Are Overcome. ST. LOUIS. May 23. That the work of 'a waitress Is the best employment for a girl, that the low wage paid to domestic servants in the rural districts is one reason why country girls seek employment In tho city and that the girls In steam laundries work in such Intense heat that they often faint at their work waa testified today before the Missouri Senate wage investigation committee. The testimony as to the relative de sirability of work In a restaurant for a woman was given by a girl em ployed at the Gem restaurant here. She said she received $7 a week and that her tips averaged $1 a day. She lives' with her cousin, who works at the same restaurant during the noon lunch hour. She pays the cousin $3 a week for tak ing care of her 11-year-old daughter. Girl Thlnka Before She Buys. "I manage well," she said. "I stop and th'nk twice before I buy. 1 work ten hours a day. Our room costs $2.50 a week and it Is good enough for a working girl. I am in It only at night. I get all my meals at the res taurant. I manage to have a suit for Sunday and a suit for work. "My employers treat me well. I have a little bank account. Waitress work Is the best there Is for a girl If she has nobody but herself to look out for." . A frail little girl, who looked so thin -.bat State Senator Kinney asked her If she had been 111, testified that she worked at Penny & Gentles' store for $3 a week, all of which she pays to an aunt for board. A 14-year-old girl said she went to work at the same store recently for $2.60 a week. Bayer Gets "10 a Week. A girl 2i years old. buyer for the fancy goods and pattern department at Penny & Gentles, said she got $10 fConoluded on Page 2.) AXvBEE AND LABOR. I I ' 1 I " OF LABOR. Ij i ' " . l W 10 "a COOP MAN " , I'M I' -rS 1 ; L... INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 73 degrees; minimum, 03 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds. Rational. Tie vote on wool and sugar schedules is pos sible In Senate. Page T. Western Democrats plan subterfuge to save embarrassment on wool and sugar. Page 2. Senate finance committee gives out ques tions to be asked of manufacturers. Page 7. , Japanese Issue losing features of urgency. Page 1. Domestic. Two checks In payment of "strike expenses- traced to William M. Wood. Page 2. Michigan editor will urge truth of Hoose velt charge aa secondary defense. Page a. Missouri wage Investigators told work of waitress Is desirable for young women. Pago 1. Two men, both known as Jack Lewis, figure In Portland marriage swindle case. Page 2. Republican National Executive Committee to meet today. Page 4. , Pacific Northwest. Father wins fight for son and heir to $2,- 000,000. Page 1. North Pacific fruit distributors to decide future course In session at Hood River today. Page 7 Portland's new charter legality decision, due soon. Page 8. Ros-burg proves royal host at Strawberry Carnival, page . . Carlton dedicates city hall and auditorium. Page 8. Six are seriously hurt in wreck near Grants FtM. Page 1. Governor Lister and party reach Vancouver after long trip acrosa state. Page 9. Thrilling is rescue made by Bandon llfe- avera seven miles off Rogus River bar. Page L Governor Lister tells development body Washington is city top heavy. Page . Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Venice 2. Portland 1: Oakland 7. Los Angeles 4; Sacramento 6. San Francisco 6. Pago 8. Northwestern League results: Portland 3, Tacoma 2: Vancouver 8, Seattle 1; Vic toria 3, Spokane Page 8. Two Important track meets scheduled for today, page 0. Ritchie and Rivers to fight In San Fran cisco July 4. Page 0. Commercial and Marine. Orecon hop crop backward, but In fair con dition. Page 10. Wheat lower at Chicago with further profit taking. Page 19. Stock movement narrow and trading dulL Page 1. Best business reports are from Western sections. Page 19. Roadway over Columbia bar believed per manently located. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. Committee of investigation reports on can didates. Pago 12. Saving by County Court shown at trial of editor for libel. Page 6. Rose Festival coins will be sold today. Page 11. Club women are urged to use voting power at coming election. Page 12. Business men see great business year ahead. Page 1. Rushlight. In speech, saye he has saved peo. pie thousands ot dollars. Page 14. Albee tells auditors be will do all possible to help build up city. Page 14. Oaks amusement park opena for season to day. Page 12. . Aatm. n ti rl fnrecant Para Iff. Heusner franchise to be decided by voters. I'ago J. News carriers are guests of The "reson!aa. Pago 14. Nation Asks for Islet. BOSTON, May 23. The deeding to the United States of Outer Brewster, an Islant at the entrance to Boston harbor, ftr purposes of National de fense is i-equested by the Federal Government. y in a letter received by Governor Foss today and immediately transmitted by him to tho Legislature. Outer Brewster is a mass of rocks about four acres In extent and suitable for small batteries or range finders. ALIEN ISSUE LOSES URGENT CHARACTER Both Sides Willing to Go Into Court. LEGAL PHASE IN FOREFRONT Question Is Which Side Shall Take Responsibility. TEST MUST WAIT ON LAW Sisson's Speech In House Asserts Su. premacy of State Law Over Treaty - JIaking Power of Federal Government. WASHINGTON. May 23. Probably as a result of the anxiety In official circles In Japan over the condition of the Emperor no instructions have been received at the Japanese , embassy to make the expected further representa tlons to the United States Government regarding the California alien land act. The embassy Is engaged In collecting material for the continuance of the negotiations on the lines Indicated In tke original Japanese note of protest May 9. This relates principally to the phase of the negotiations touching the possible conflict between the Califor nia state law and the treaty, leaving to the Foreign Office the broader ques tions of policy. Legal Action Seems Probable. Legal proceedings of some sort seem to be Indicated, both parties desiring to use that means of settlement, of the issue, and the question apparently hinges on which side falls the re sponsiblllty for making this test The new law will not go Into effect until August 10, before which date It would not be possible to bring suit and for that reason the negotiations appear to be losing some of the features of urgency that characterized the early stages. Representative Slsson's speech on the Japanese question today. In anticlpa tlon of which he had been "enjoined to moderation by the President, was an attack on the principle that the treaty making power of the Government su perseded the law-making power of the state. "If any Nation." said Slsson. "should decide that It will dictate to us our land laws, then we would be unworthy of National existence -i we submitted to such dictation. Does anyone claim that this is a declaration of war be cause I announce this truth? "It Is no declaration of war for the (Concluded on Page 2- SIX HURT IN WRECK NEAR GRANTS PASS IX REAR-EXD COLLISION EN'GIXE TELESCOPES MOTOR COACH. Southern Pacific Locomotive Rounds Curve and Crashes Into Car Stopped to Take on Fishermen. GF.ANTS PASS. Or., May 23. (Spe cial.) Six persons were Injured seri ously In a wreck caused by a rear-end collision between a Southern Pacific motor-car running between Grants Pass and Ashland and Southern Pa cific engine No. 2545, running light behind the motor, three miles south of this olty about 6 o'clook tonight. The Injured are: August Goetche; engineer on motor: back seriously wrenched and back of head cut. Mrs. Emma Daniels,, of Eagle Point, arm broken by being thrown in aisle, striking against seat. Arthur Ellis, ankle sprained. Marcus Brown, teeth knocked out and face bruised. Claude Bardon, shoulder wrenched and back hurt. , William Decair, right arm Injured. The motor had stopped at the dan to pick up fishermen and was a little behind time. Conductor Hall was In charge of the motor and Engineer Dinniny of the light engine. Dlnniny did not observe that the motor had stopped until the fireman saw it just around the curve. Dlnniny reversed the engine and whistled, but it was too late. The engine skidded Into the rear portion of the motor, partially tele scoping It, knocking off the rear trucks and totally wrecking the rear end, leaving the motor resting on the pilot of the engine. The Injured were brought to Grants Pass and placed In the hospital. l!EIGHB0RH00DCLUB BORN Residents Near East Twenty-Fourth and Broadway Organize. Permanent organization of the Broadway Neighborhood Club was ef fected last night at a meeting in the First Unlversalist Church. East Twen ty-fourth street "and East Broadway with the following officers: President, the Rev. James D. Corby; vice presi dent, D. P. Price; secretary-treasurer, J. H. Knight. The object of the club Is the development of the district be tween East Twenty-fourth and East Thirty-sixth streets north of Sullivan's Gulch. Petitions asking the Portland Rail way. Light & Power Company to re store through service on East Twenty eighth street from Halsey, signed by several hundred residents, were sub mitted. The committee will present the petitions Monday at 1:80 o'clock. A committee from the East Twenty- eighth Street Club will also attend this conference with the railway. It was decided to hold a special meeting next Tuesday night The fourth Friday night each month was made the regular meeting night. BARRETT IS CONSIDERED Shoster Does Xot "Want Job of Gov ernlng Philippines. WASHINGTON. May 23. (Special.) John Barrett, Director-General of the Pan-American Union, may be appointed Governor-General of the Philippines to succeed W. Cameron Forbes. Barrett's name is now being considered by the President. It la reported that W. Mor gan Shuster, to whom the Governor Generalship was offered some time ago, prefers to continue his employment with large New York interests. The Governor-General's salary of 320.000 annually did not appeal to Shuster from a financial viewpoint. The President will soon nominate E. M. Watson, of Honolulu, to be Gov-' ernor of Hawaii, It was reported to day. Watson Is backed by many prom inent Hawaiians and the Mississippi Congressional delegation. He is a na tive of Mississippi. The Administra tion is reported to have dropped con sideratlon a month ago of L. L. Mc Candles and G. J. Walker, candidates for the Hawaiian post. 15 STUDENTS HURT IN FALL Balcony in Akron, O., High School Auditorium Collapses. AKRON. O.. May 23. Fifteen stu dents of the Central High School were seriously injured and scores were bad ly cut and bruised here today, when the temporary balcony which had been erected in the auditorium of the school building collapsed. The majority of the Injured were girls, many of them sustaining broken arms and legs. More than 100 boys and girls, seated in the balcony, were thrown 20 feet to the floor. Several girls, hearing the creaking of the temporary structure, " became frightened and jumped. All the stu dents In the balcony seated themselves at the same time, causing its supports to give way. It is not believed that any of the injured will die. LILLIAN RUSSELL IS SUED Man Actress' Motor Car Knocked Down AVants $5000 Damages. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., May 23. fSDeclal.) Suit was started today in the Supreme Court for 35000 against Lillian Russell for Injuries received by William Fitzgerald when he was knocked down by her automobile In August, 1910. Miss Russell was not in the car at the time, but Fitzgerald thinks she ought to pay him 3D000 for his in juries. ' . FATHER WINS FIGHT A HEIR Five-Year-OId Lad Gets Back Original Name; MOTHER'S PLEA ALL IN VAIN Law Heeds Not Woman Rich in Own Right. GRANDPARENT NEAR DEATH Henry AV. Shoemaker, of Altonrn, Pa., Receiving o Notice of Adop tion Hearing, Is Victor in Scat tie Court and Boy Renamed. SEATTLE, Wash.. May 2.I. Ilonry Barclay Perry, the S-year-old adopted son of Dr. and Mrs. Richard W. Perry, of Seattle, was' changed by decree of Superior Judge Walter E. "French Into today to Henry Francis Shoemaker, huh of Henry W. Shoemaker, of Altoonn, Pa., and grandson and namesake of Henry Francis Shoemaker, retired banker of New York, and was mad the promised heir to $2,000,000 from hi." paternal grandfather, who Is reported to be on his death bed. Under the court's decision the child retains his home with his mother, Mrs. Beatrice Barclay Shoemaker-Perry, wife of Dr. Perry and former wife ot Henry W. Shoemaker. Judge French said It was only on ac count of a flagrant error in tho adop tion proceedings when Henry W. Shoe maker was not notified of the hearing that the decree of adoption was set aside. Father Geta No Xoticc. "It Is best for the child," said Jiidst French, "that he retain his present home with Dr. and Mrs. Perry, where he Is supplied with all that a boy should need. It is only on the cold question of the law, and the fact that the father was entitled to notice of the hearing In adoption, that the decree of jdoptlo. wii; be vacated." Ex-United - States District Judse Donworth. arguing In behalf of Mrs. Perry, who opposed the petition of hor former husband for the setting aside of the decree of adoption, declared that it was not the father but tho grandmother, the wife of Henry Francis Shoemaker, of New York, who was attempting to take the child from its present surroundings. "He Is now surrounded with every advantage that a good home and a good mother can give him," said Judge Donworth. "It is the purpose of this petitioner to take him from this atmo sphere, give him another name, and make him one of the Idle rich circle of New York to which Harry Thaw belongs." Grandfather on Death Bed. The boy's grandfather, now 67 years old. Is said to be on his death bed in his' New York home. His will provides for a bequest to his son, Henry W. Shoemaker, of Altoona, of 32.000.000 which ultimately Is to doscend to the 5-year-old child who was given back his grandfather's name today. The petition of the father for an nulment of the adoption decree con tained a clause that he was unmarried and not likely to marry again and that the boy was the only scion of his stock to perpetuate his name. During the hearing today It was brought out that Mr. .Shoemaker mar ried a young woman of Altoona May 10. and was now In Europe on his honeymoon. Mrs. Perry declared that If guaran ..2j ..nxicturhed nosscssion of the boy until he is 15 years old. she would have no objection to his resuming d..n.vr then, but she protested against the decree of adoption beln et aside. She saia sne i e of a rich lumberman and has $500 000 in her own right, replying that the boy would be amply provided for under his name of Perry. Couple Wed In June, lo. Beatrice Barclay, daughter of Georae . t chfiomiikrr B Barclay, ana ticm. ... were married In Pennsylvania June 1- 1907. ...... Mrs. Perry charged mat. ' h- marrlasre to Henry V- Shoemaker, the mother-in-law, in who? home she lived at the time, so preju diced her husband that quarrels ensued and she was compelled to leave her usband. Remaining in jersey v,.., for a time, she wrote letter aixer iei trr. o her husband. Imploring him to to his wife and child, and waa answered only with curt business let ters, inclosing monthly remittances tor ier maintenance. Tiien sne tou. "; Mill iin.i came home to her father, George B. Barclay, of Seattle. On May 13, 1910, airs, snoemaaei wnreri a. divorce from her husband on the grounds of desertion and non support. The child, Henry Francis Shoemaker, was awarded to the mother. it.li a $25,000 maintenance runa ror the care and education 01 tne ooy. tjn ..w, 7 1910 Mrs. Shoemaker married Dr. Richard W. Terry, of Seat tle, and on October 17. 1911, Dr. Terry 1 vie n-.M cranted naners of adoption for the boy and his name was changed to Henry .Barclay i-erry. In December lonowmg tne iat.net asKed senator rn i jnutuic mo restoration of the boy's ancestral name. Inheritance Right Confirmed. NEW YORK, May 23. Mr. and Mrs. Hcnrv Francis Shoemaker are at pres ent at their country home in Green- tConcluded oa Pace .. n
