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THE HOICXIXU OKIiUOAIAIV. ' FKIDAr. JULY 4.
DINERS REPRODUCE
CIVIL WAR BATTLE
Gettysburg Survivors at Penn
sylvania Club Feast Ex
change Experiences.
DESCRIPTIONS ARE GRAPHIC
Kolloivlns Repast and Address of
Welcome, Late Wearers of Blue
and Gray Tell of Struggle
From Two Viewpoints.
BY ADDISON BENNETT.
.The Pennsylvania Club of Portland
yesterday gave a dinner to the vet
erans of . the battle of Gettysburg, the
affair taking place at the Hotel Port
land, a portion of . the main dining
room being: curtained off to give the
dinner an air of privacy. The mem
bers of the club were out In full
force, also .-i number of Pennsylvan
lans who are not. members. First
Vice-President J. A. Curry acted as
chairman, while the secretary, C. R.
Meloney, looked after . the comfort of
the guests.
After an hour or more had been
passed in disposing of tha edibles, the
diners sat over their coffee and cigars
In little groups swapping yarns and
talking of the great events of 60
yeurs ago and then the chairman
arose and gave the guests welcome,
but called upon Wallace McCamant to
do It more formally.
Mr. McCamant was at his best and he
had the history of the great battle
at his tongue's end, and particularly
the part played In the struggle by the
i'ennsy lvanians.
Many Prnnsylvanlnns in right.
In the (. n i T r t o r, f V, 1 1. . o .1 c (f
came out that practically 25 per cent
of the F&deral troops on Gettysburg
field were from the Keystone state,
and the following oflcers from that
state took part in the conflict: Gen
eral George G. Meade, General John
F. Reynolds, General Wlnfield Han
cock, General Thomas A. ltowley. Gen
eral John Gibbon,. General Alexander
Hays. General David B. Birney, Gen
eral Andrew A. Humphreys, General
Samuel W. Crawford, General John W.
Geary and General Iaviii McMurtrle
Grigs.
The first. General Meade, was in
command, Reynolds and Hancock were
corps commanders, and the others
were commanders of divisions. Bri
gade Commanders were Generals John
R. Brooks and Strong Vincent.
Mr. McCamant gave a general pur
view of many of the salient points of
the battle, told of events leading up to
It and those Immediately following and
paid particular compliments to General
Meade and tho brave Reynolds, who
fought there his last battle. He alsc
gave great praise to the Union and Con
federate troops.
Colonel James Jackson, one of the
Gettysburg veterans, next spoke and
he had much to say about the battle
from the vlsws of one who was a par
ticipant as a member of the regular
Army. it is not orten that he Is
called upon to talk upon a s"ubject
about which he is better informed than
that of the great battle, and his heart
and head were full of it, full of Inci
dents, full of the days leading up to
H and running over with the various
marches and counter-marches which
had caused so much bloodshed.
Aftor Colonel Jackson finished there
was the rare treat of having another
Inside account of the conflict from the
other, side. Judge" David Lee Johnston,
late of Pickett's division, giving a de
scription of the battle as he saw It
from the Confederate ranks. He has
a mighty good recollection of It, about
as good as lias Colonel Jackson. He
took up Pickett's brigade on the morn
ing of July 1 and brought them down
to the battlefield and through the
charge in a way to bring tears and
cheers from those who then fought
against him, as well as the few pres
ent who fought with him.
Battle Graphically Described.
Indeed his graphic account of minor
Incidents were worth traveling far to
hear, for they seemed to bring back to
the veterans the great battle even bet
ter than the accounts of the move
ments , of corps, division or brigade.
The judge's accounts of some of the
humorous incidents were given -in"- a
way to convulse his hearers.
After the . Judge had finished there
was a running tire of comments as the
roll was called and the veterans an
swered and gavo their company regi
ment, brigade, division and corps, also
their present residence.
The following veterans were present.
Vnlon J. If. Hardy, George A. Vannler,
B. H. Brach and A. C Sloan, all of Port
land: Andrew Rood, Heppner; Daniel E.
Bennett. Elgin; Colonel James Jackson Port
land: William H. Krum. oiex; H. W. Spear.
K. A. Dunmtier and James Nevlns ' Port
land : Edward Creech. Salem: William
Hutchinson. Portland; w. B Blanchard
Urownsvllle; Oeorite w. Kerr, Cottage
Grove r Jeremiah Tourney and Theodore
Messlnger. Portland: C. C. Wiley, Lents; E
Clark Hall and Thomas F. Cowtntf. Port
land; A. Beckwlth. Sheridan; S. T. Blumen
wrother. Bandon;. Fred Dictz. Hood River;
H. L. Hull. Oregon City; Fl M. Hortoir and
J. W. Gray; Portland: Charles Huesler,
Lents; William Meyer. Albany; L. C. Koser
Rlokreall; F. C. Hubbard, Portland: A.
Gottsche, Thomas Tweet. T. W. Adklns,
Lewis Hanson, H. S. Hilton, J. F. Hancock
George A. Vamler, o. Thomas, J. W. Curran,
L. T. Pierce and Charles H. Stockton.
Confederates S. S. Stahks and Dr. J. H
Neagle. Portland: J. M. Welch. Med ford
David T. Johnstone, Portland, and William
ai. Lancaster.
PORTLANDERS.WILL SPEAK
Several on Programme for Seattle
Conference on Sex Education.
Portlanders will be prominent In the
proceedings of the sixth Pacific Coast
Conference on sex education, to be
held in Seattle July 7 and 8, under the
auspices of the American Federation
for Sex Hygiene. The Conference will
be in connection with the National
Conference of Charities and Correc
tions, the sessions of which will be July
5 to 12. President Foster, of Reed
College, will speak on "A Social Emer
gency' 'at the session July 7 In the
Washington Hotel Annex. Professor
oissou will speak July 8 on "The Prin
ciples of Sex Kducation." Dr. Calvin S.
SEW PASTOR OF HAWTHORNE
1-Alltv CHURCH ARRIVE.
The Rev. L,. IC. Grimes.
The Rev. L. K. Grimes, the
new pastor of the Hawthorne
Park Presbyterian Church, ac
companied by his wife, arrived in
the city last night from Superior,
Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Grimes are
temporarily at the Seward Hotel.
Mr. Grimes will be presented to
his new congregation and assist
in the services Sunday morning.
A visiting delegate to the Citi
zenship Conference will preach
the sermon, Mr. Grimes taking up
the active work the following
Sunday.
In the course of a few days
Mr. and Mrs. Grimes will be set
tled In the manse.
White, secretary of the Oregon Board
of Health, will speak the same day o"n
"Methods of Public Education of the
Present and for the Future." Rabbi
Jonah B. Wise will have for his topic
"Quackery A Source of Misinforma
tion." Rev. W. G. Eliot. Jr., will speak
in Plymouth Church July 8 on "The
Function of the School in Sex Educa
tion." A. F. Flegel will talk on "How
to Make a Local Society Effective," and
11. R. Perkins, religious secretary of
the local Y. M. C. A., will have a part
in the -discussion of "The Boy Prob
lem." UN'MERGING MAKES JOB
O.-AV. Tt. & X. Company Forced to
Put Agent In Willamette Valley.
As a result of the unmerging of
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
properties, the O.-W. R. & N. Co. has
been forced to employ a traveling
freight and passenger aerent for rvin.
in the Willamette -Valley. Fred A.
Love, heretofore counter clerk in the
general passenger office, has been se
lected for the job. He will begin . his
new duties at-once. Tom Dowd, pas
senger refund clerk, succeeds Mr. Love.
Before the order to unmerge South
ern Pacific agents solicited business in
the valley for the O.-W. R. & N. Co.
Now, however, the Southern Pacific is
at liberty to route Its business between
Portland and points North and East
over the Hill lines, and It is under
stood that some freight has been going
that way.
TWO TOWN'S WANT PLANT
Milwaukie and Gresham. Citizens
Take Stock in Auto Company. "
Milwaukie is making a vigorous ef
fort to secure the location of the Beaver
State Motor Company's plant, and It
was announced yesterday that N. B.
Harvey, the nurseryman, will donate
a site of five acres for the factory near
the Southern Pacific crossline. About
$12,000 of tho $25,000 of stock required
by the company has been subscribed.
Gresham is equally active in its ef
forts to secure this factory, and a
meeting, was held there Wednesday
night,-under the auspices of the Com
mercial Club, when favorable reports
were received. Assurances were given
then that the $25,000 In stock will be
taken. - .
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POLICE KEEP ORDER
AT PACKING PLANT
Mayor Albee, Incognito,. Visits
Walkout Scene and Is
Called "Stool Pigeon."
STREET ORATORS ACTIVE
Wages Considered Xot Unreasonable
and Conditions Improving in Re
port Made by Industrial
Welfare Commission.
Conditions at the plant of the Oregon
Packing Company,, at East Eighth and
Belmont streets, continued unchanged
yesterday, though a gang of street ora
tors, sought by various means to In
flame the girls who walked out of the
plant last week. Under strict instruc
tions to maintain the peace, but take,
no sides, a squad of patrolmen under
Sergeant Harms kept station at the
scene of the trouble all day.
Abuse for every one who differs from
them, was the keynote of the speeches
which continued throughout the dav.
Mayor Albee, who made a visit of in
spection Incognito, on Wednesday, was
denounced as acting as a stool-riereon"'
for the employers.
.bather O Hara, who, as a member of
the Industrial Welfare Commission.
which has completed an investigation'
of the shop conditions, also came in for
tirades, as did the police, the reputable
newspapers and employers In general.'
Findings Are Set forth.
That conditions at the factorv since
the acceptance by Its management of
the proposal made by the commission
compare well with industrial conditions
elsewhere, is the sense of a report is
sued by the commission yesterday. The
report, however, carefully refrains from
committing Its signers to an unqualified
indorsement. The findings of the com
mission are as follows:
On June 24, this Commission notified the
owners of factories In Portland that It had
begun . an Investigation of the wages of
women employes with a view of establishing
a minimum wage rate for such employes as
provided by the act creating the Commis
sion. A few days later a report of dis
satisfaction among the emDloves of the
Oregon Packing Company, determined the
Commission to make a thorough investiga
tion of the plant.
The entire Commission undertook the task
and interviewed personally and at- length
the employes who had left, those who still
remained at work and the employers, made
an Inspection of the plant and examined
the books of the company. The Commission
finally secured from the owners a written
agreement to go into effect immediately and
continue uuring tne present fruit packing
season, fixing $1 a day as the minimum to
be paid to any worker and a piece rate to
be regulated for each kind of fruit so that
fast workers can earn more according to
their efficiency.' Aged and crippled work
ers may receive permits to work from the
Commission.) The following considerations
led the Commission to accept this agreement
unanimously:
It offers Immediate relief, whereas any
regulation the Commission might seek to
enforce by law would require 00 days, and
by that time the fruit-packing season woula
do nearly over.
Improvement Is Noticed.
The-improvement in wage conditions is
notable. Before the new schedule went
into effect, many girls got only 40 and 60
cents a day. Now none will receive less
than $1, and the more capable workers can
earn more. The rate for assorting cherries
Is advanced from 10 cents a box to at least
IS cents a box. and the workers are assured
that with each change- In the kind of fruit
handled the rate will be maintained at a
satisfactory standard.
Many other factories In Portland are pay
ing women workers only S3.50, S4 and S4.GO
a week. The Commission considers that 16
a week may be considered not unreasonable
as a minimum rate for an Individual fac
tory until the whole question of wages,
with which it is now engaged, is thoroughly
sifted and all factories and other estab
lishments employing women are brought to
reasonable standards.
Fruit packing being a seasonal occupation.
attracts a number of workers who varv to
an extreme degree In efficiency. The Com
mission has found girls working side by
side, one of whom made $1.50 a day and the
other, at precisely the same work, only 40
cents a day. To fix a high minimum would
simply be to throw a- number out of em
ployment. The-Commission was confronted with the
certainty that further demands would mean
the immediate closing down of the plant,
the cancelling of orders and the dismissal
of . the 170 girls who are reporting faith
fully every day for work. - A full inspection
of the books of the firm, together with a
knowledge that the price of the product
was fixed by Eastern demand and compe
tition with California factories, convinced
the Commission that the alternative was no
Imaginary one.
Difficult Phase Presented.
As for shorter hours: Any regulation of
this sort must be preceded by due notice.
Fruit must be taken care of when It comes
or It will rapidly decay and be a complete
loss, in California, where an eight-hour law
for women is in force, explicit exception is
made in favor of fruit-packing. Indicating
that the case requires special consideration.
In regard to all other conditions, the Com
mission has the promise of the co-operation
of the company in making the required im
provements, e. g.. as to restrooms and other
conveniences. In respect to cleanliness and
ventilation, the factory is really In credit
able condition.
The Commission has not acted In this
matter In the capacity of a board of arbi
tration between employers and employes,
though It has sought to be conciliatory and
has sought information fully and impartially j
irom Doth siaes. ut wort of the Com-
mission Is to fully Investigate, to determine
Impartially and to enforce leeallv such
wages, hours and conditions of work for
women and minors as are reasonable. Just
and possible under the given conditions.
The acceptance of $1 a day as a minimum
rate in the present case is not to be. .taken
as an Indication that the Commission con
siders i6 a week - an adequate minimum,
when the question of fixlns a general min
imum rate for all establishments employing
women comes to be settled.
THE. INDUSTRIAL WELFARE COM-'.
MISSION.
Edwin V. O'Hara,
fiertha Moores.
. Amedee M. Smith.
BOYS GO TO SPIRIT LAKE
Other Parties of Y. M. C. A. Will
Leave Later for Trip. '
The first group of boys - from the
Young Men's Christian Association to
visit Spirit Lake has left Portland un
der the leadership of J. C Meehan, as
sistant boys' secretary. There are. 16
members of the party, and they will
be followed on July 14 by a second
party, led by P. 11 Wyman, and on
George 91. Gllnea.
After an illness of about six
weeks, George M. Gllnes, local
freight agent for the North Bank
Railroad, died at St. Vincent's:
Hospital yesterday morning, fie
was nearly 50 years old and Is
survived by his widow and one
son, an employe of the Southern
Pacific freight department. They
live at 942 East Everett street.
Mr. Gllnes was -one of the best
known and most popular railroad
men in the Northwest. He was an
active member of the Portland
Transportation Club and of the
.Northwestern Freight Agents' As
sociation, and at one time was
deputy warden of the Washing
ton penitentiary at Walla Walla.
He was a native of New Hamp
shire and first entered railroad
service as agent for the Frisco
system In Arkansas. In 1889 he
went to Tacoma and was em
ployed by the Northern Pacific.
He was promoted to Puyallup and
from that place was appointed
to the position of deputy warden
. at Walla Walla. He -served suc
cessively at Pendleton, in -the
traffic departments of the North
ern Pacific, O.-W. R. & N. Com
pany and North Bank in Portland.
The funeral-will be held Satur
day afternoon from Finley's
chapel. Members of the Trans
portation -Club will gather In
their clubrooms at 1 o'clock and
proceed In a body to the serv
ices, r
July 24 by more boys In charge of J. W.
Palmer, boys' secretary.
While at the camp this Summer the
boys will assist in the construction of
a log cabin. This will be used as a
permanent headquarters, it being in
tended to maintain a Summer camp at
Spirit Lake every year.
The activities of -the boys' depart
ment are keeping up well during the
feummer. A new schedule of gymna
sium and swimming classes has been
announced as follows: Students, pre
paratory boys, Intermediates and Juniors
from 2 to 4 o'clock Monday, Wednesday
and Friday; business boys from 6:30 to
9 o'clock on Tuesday,- Thursday and
Saturday. .
SENTENCE IS CONTINUED
Judge Stevenson Deals With Case of
Youthful Immorality.
"Take oft your star and I'll lick you,"
said' Margaret Wilson, a mere slip of a
negro girl, when she was arrested by
Patrolman Frey at Sixth and Salmon
streets, Wednesday night. Declining
the encounter, the officer took the girl
to the station and she was on trial in
Municipal Court yesterday.
"There is no question as to what this
girl was doing," said Judge Stevenson,
"but what am I to do with her?" Mar
garet, while the court wrestled with
the problem, audaciously tried to ogle
him, and Insisted that she could not
help it If tho officers picked her up
as she walked the streets.
This was the -first time that the
problem of dealing with the unfortu
nate women of the city had been put
squarely up to the new Magistrate. He
decided it by giving the girl a con
tinued sentence, on her promise of good
oeuftviur.
t NORTH BANK RAILROAD I
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SALE OF SALOON
LICENSES TO END
Mayor Albee Orders Ordinance
Drafted to Stop Trans
ferring Practice.
REVOCATION IS PROVIDED
Violation of City Ordinance Xot to
Be Charged to Owner, With Per
mission to Dispose of Grant.
Antagonism Is Denied.
Declaring that saloon licenses are
a privilege granted to a person to
transact the saloon business and that
the license has no property value,
Mayor Albee yesterday announced
that the practice of transferring sa
loonlicenses . will be done away with
during his administration. He in
structed Deputy City Auditor Grutze
yesterday to draft an ordinance to
prohibit the granting of transfers or
sale of licenses excepting the transfer
of licenses from one location to an
other where the license Is retained by
the same person to whom it origin
ally was granted. As soon as a sa
loon goes out of business the aim Is
to have the license automatically re
vert back to the city.
The new system is intended as a
death blow at the saloon license trans
fer business, which has been used
during the last two years to perpetu
ate the number of saloon licenses in
the city.
Heretofore the licenses have had a
value because of the fact that the city
administration permitted the holder of
a license to transfer it to another
person upon going out of business. In
many cases licenses have been held
for speculative purposes by persons
not in the saloon business. Inasmuch
as the number of licenses permitted
in the city has been limited to 418,
the licenses have been at a premium.
Saloonmm Have No Trouble.
While the city has refused to grant
any new licenses the saloonmen have
had no trouble In starting additional
saloons by securing a transferred li
cense. These licenses have sold as high as
S5000, and from that figure down to
$1000. As soon as a saloon suspends
the license has been sold to another
person and another saloon has been
started. .These licenses have been
transferred by the liquor license com
mittee of the City Council and the
Council as a whole.
When the number of saloons to be
permitted in the city was limited to
418 it was understood that that num
ber was to be gradually decreased as
saloons went out of business, until the
number got down to one saloon for
every 1000 population. With a popu
lation of 207,000 as given by the Fed
eral census In 1910, the city is enti
tled to 207 saloons. It was planned to
reduce the number from 418 to 207 by
the forfeiture of the licenses of places
going out of business. Instead of
transacting the business In this way,
the liquor iicerse committee' of the
Council and the Council as a whole
adopted the transfer system so that
the number of saloons has not been
reduced from 41S.
Transfers Conoldered Vnfnlr.
Mayor Albee said yesterday that he
considered it unfair, and improper for
the transfer practice to be continued
and accordingly Intends to do : away
witn it. As soon as a saloon goes out
of business the license will revert back
to the city and will not be regranted.
Another change planned by Mayor
Albee Is to tax all violations of the
city ordinances to the license and not
to the holder of the license. Hereto
fore when a man violated the liquor
law, more than twice, his license was
revocable. Instead of It being revoked
in many instances the violator was
permitted to transfer It- The Mayor
says he will hold the license and not
the holder responsible.
"I am not an antagonist to the sa
loon business which is recognized by
law," said the Mayor, "but I intend
that the law shall be observed. When
the law provides that a license is . a
privilege and not' an instrument of
value as other property, I do not be
lieve it should be treated as an asset
In the business. It Is for that reason
that I have asked for the preparation
of the antl-saloon license transfer or
dinance." Look Here! Bull Run Park!
Excursion rate, Friday, July 4; 75
cents round trip. Trains leave First
and Alder streets 7:50, 9:50, 11:50 A. M.,
1:50, 3:50 and 6:55" P.M. Returning.
leave Bull Run Park 9:45, 11:45 A. M.,
1:45. 3:4o. 5:45 P.M. Dancing all day.
Bring your- lunch and picnic . on the
upper Bull Run- and Sandy Rivera.
Portland Railway, Light & Power Com
pany. Don't foraret this! Insectlclda kliia
the bedbug. Main 292, at 260 Third.
Plummer Drug Co."
Edlefsen's Coals' are cheaper than
w ooa.
In Celebration of
enoence
Today
The Store Will Be
Closed All Bay
THE QUALITY STOKE OF PORTLAND
Fifth, Sixth, Morrison and Alder its.
HARPER
HUNTED
Police Scour Northwest and
Coast for Hugh Trainor.
2 CONFEDERATES SOUGHT
Swindlers Using Archaic Kace Track
Game Dnpe Farmer Out of $20 0 0.
Arrest of Gang Expected in
Course of Time.
Every city along the Pacific Coast
has been asked to aid in the search
for - Hugh Trainor. professional con
fidence man, for whom a. grand larceny
complaint has been issued here. Cir
culars with his photograph and descrip
tion, together with meager descrip
tion of his two confederates, have been
mailed to every police department In
the West, and the capture of the swind
ler is regarded as only a matter of
time.
Tralnor s natural habitat is in Oak
and, Cal., but word has been received
here that there has been a general ex
odus from that place since the upheaval
in the San Francisco police department
over the confessed relations between
the swindlers and police.men.
Many of the sure-thing men went to
Canada, and are said to center about
Calgary, where some of their number
are keeping a "store." aa a poolroom
is known among the fraternity.
Picture Identifies) Swindler.
It has been established that Trainor
was in Portland about the time of the
$2000 coup upon an Idaho farmer, com
mitted last May, and added to this the
victim has Identified a picture of
Trainor as the leader of the gang. The
other two are not known.
After fleecing their victim, the
swindlers made a pretense of wishing
to hush his complaint by making resti
tution, and to that end they pursued
the old plan of steering him to Spokane,
where he was to meet one of the gang
and receive his money. The farmer
made the trip, but met no one upon ar
riving there, and returned to Portland.
Old Method Is Used.
The method pursued by the swindlers
in this case is stereotyped and varied
in few details from the plan followed
in other cases reported here, particu
larly in the one exposed by J. C. La
France. now under indictment for
swindling insurance companies by sub
stituting a dead body for his own. La
France, "steered" by a gang of confi
dence men, suspected their game and
played in with them, meanwhile mak
ing reports to Detectives Taft and
Epps, who arrested the gang at the
critical moment.
The procedure is simple, and does
not carry the elaborate apparatus of
a wire-tapping plant. In one case,
which occurred here about two years
ago, the victim was allowed to win"
$3000 before the coup was made.
Soldier or Iiong Service Dies.
VANCOUVER BARRACKS wh i
July. 3. (Special.) Albert Burges. 50
years old. who served 30 va. in
United States Army, died at the pos
nuHpii.. i loaay. ne was well known
1
ay
Qervice is
the biggest
word in the Eng
lish language.
Our work is done
with aa eye to living
up to the full mea
sure of this great
word Service.
This better service .
means better glasses.
Thompson
OPTICAL INSTITUTE
2d Floor Corbett Bid.
5th and Morrison
Portland
Glazed Cement
Sewer Pipe
is the choice of
property owners
everywhere when
they have had an
opportunity t o
benefit by its ad
vanfages. SANE FOURTH
Take your family on the Fourth to Lake
View Park, ,thenew iilcnic grounds on Os
weso Lake. Sneclal train leaves Jef ferson-st.
S. P. depot July -4 at 9:43 A. M.. returning-at
1:54. 4:5 and 7:10 p. M. Buy tickets to
Bryant Station, tare 30 cents round trip.
Boutins, bathiiifr. fishtnc;, swings, tables.
Launch Lotus will meet Osweso trains. Kor
boat reservation or farther information call
Marshall 2:t70.
in Portland. The funeral will be held
bunday and interment wul be in th
post cemetery.