VOL,. LiIV. NO. 16,697.
PORTLAND, OREGOX, MONDAY,
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SAYRE IS IN CITY
1905 FAIR
QUEEN'S SERVANTS
THREATEN STRIKE
JUAE 1, 1914. PRTHP! fttt. rrvTq
WAR
HAS
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WOMEN EXCHANGE
GROUNDS
STORSTAD'S CAPTAIN
DENIES HE BACKED
Empress Blamed for
Vessels' Separation.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
TO BOOST COLLEGE
ITS BRIGHTER SIDE
TART AMENITIES
The W eatner.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
decrees; minimum. 59- degrees.
SCENE OF
BIG FIRE
PRESIDENT'S SOX-IX-LAW AIDS
ECONOMIES MENACE DOMESTIC
WILLIAMS ENDOWMENT.
TODAY'S Increasing cloudiness, followed
by showers, cooler; winds becoming
PEACE OF PALACE.
Huioeny,
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Life on Battleship Is
Full of Interest.
EFFICIENCY MOST STRIKING
John T. McCutcheon Tells of
v Voyage Toward Vera Cruz.
WEN ARE LIGHT OF HEART
BOoring: Pictures Help Slake Hours
"Pass Pleasantly for Men and
. v Are Expected to Stimu
late Recruiting.
BT JOHN T. STCTTTCHEON.
0pecial Correspondence The Oresonian and
the Gnlcag-o Tribune.
APPROACHING VERA CRUZ. TJ. a
B. Wyoming-, May 18. It la probable
.that the Mexican situation will have
undergone a radical change by the
time these words are printed. Per
haps La Paloma, the Mexican dove, will
be cooing- a peaceful duet with an
amiable looking--American eagle, or
perhaps we may be involved in the
stern actualities of warfare. Qulen
Babe? Weeks, or days, alone can tell.
In the meantime, before grim vis
aged war has become so grim that
one may not have the heart to look
upon the lighter and pleasanter as
pects of It, there Is still time to con
eider "going to war" more from the
angle of an Interesting experience than
from that of a tragic fact.
Men Gay and Light of Heart.
If the reader Is thirsting for somber
details of the stern business of prepar
ing for war this story will be a bitter
disappointment, for It has to do with
moving-picture shows, of sailing on
Summer seas, of busy, alert and light
hearted jackles and of broad, smooth
decks as expensive almost as parade
grounds.
The ships of the Navy may have to
send landing parties cshore, and the
men to whom this duty shall fall must
be thoroughly prepared for any service
that may fall to their lot. It was the
necessity for this sort of service and
the preparedness for It that made It
possible for Admiral Fletcher to seize
Vera Cruz so quickly and effectively
with the marines and bluejackets un
der his command. And future emer
gency of a like kind will find the Navy
ready, as usual. If one may judge by
the thoroughness of ' the drills that
have been filling the days on the Wyo
ming during the week since she left
New Tork.
Men All Highly Efficient.
To any one who has never seen a
giant battleship In Its daily routine on
the eve of war the experience is un
forgettable. There are 1200 men on
this ship, and each one must know
what he is to do and know how to do
It when the word comes for action.
Each one must know how to take care
of himself ashore in camp conditions
and how to act in order that his effi
ciency may be of the highest sort.
In consequence the last few days
have been filled with small arm drills.
machine gun drills, tent pitching drills.
knapsack packing drills, and drills and
talks about every possible phase of
their duty ashore under conditions of
warfare. Lieutenant-Commander Mil
ler will have command of the Wyoming
battalion If it goes ashore for war
service, and If he has overlooked any
feature that makes for effectiveness
I can't Imagine what It can be. Chief
Surgeon Oman has given talks to the
men In order that each one may know
clearly how to preserve his health
tinder climatic conditions which may
be very trying.
Activity Is Ceaseless.
Men are cautioned about the drink
Ing water, about files and mosquitoes.
about fruit and vegetables, about the
necessity of cleanliness in person and
equipment, and about the proper care
of themselves In case of sunstroke,
snakebite or wounds of all kinds.
From the bottom to the top of this
great ship there has been the steady
ami orderly and almost ceaseless activ
ity that is fast transforming green
sailor boys into experienced fighting
men.
One is struck by the yonthfulness of
the sailors. Most of them are boys or
very young men.' The older men, the
second or third enlistment men, seem
to be In a decided minority. The same
Is true of the officers. Captain Glen
lion, in' command, is little over 30
Lieutenant-Commander Todd, the ex
ecutive officer and the one to whom
falls the duty of running the ship ac-
coming to the captain's orders, is
hardly 40; and the rest of the officers
range down in age from that point to
a point- low In the 20s. In no equal
number of men would one find a
greater degree of clean-cut, high-grade
qualifications of excellence and effi
ciency than may be found among the
men who direct the destinies of the
Wyoming.
Moving Pictures Shown.
Efficiency, however. Is taken as a
matter of course in our Navy, and one
Is not surprised to find it. It Is In
other matters Incident to life on a
battleship that one finds the surprises.
There is a completely equipped hos
pital, dispensary and operating room
(Concluded on Fage
At Dinner at University Club To
night He Will Tell 15 Alumni of
Plans to Raise $2,000,000 Fund.
Francis Bowes Sayre, son-in-law of
President Woodrow Wilson, is In Port
land. He arrived yesterday from San
Francisco and registered at the Hotel
Benson.
Mrs. Sayre, who was Miss Jessie Wil
son, Is not with him. The reason for
that, Mr. Sayre explained, is that he is
on a business trip In the interest of
Williams College.. at Williamstown,
Mass. Mr. Sayre is assistant to the
president of Williams College.
Active steps were begun last Fall to
raise an endowment of $2,000,000. On
his present trip throughout the country
Mr. Sayre Is meeting alumni and inter
esting them in the endowment plan.
There are nearly 15 Williams men
In Portland, Mr. Sayre said. He la to
meet them at a dinner tonight In the
University Club. From here he will
go to Seattle.
Mr. Sayre Is enthusiastic on the sub
ject of the endowment. Its purpose.
he said. Is not to put up new college
buildings nor to Increase the equip
ment, but to increase the salaries of
its professors and provide new pro
fessorships. "Wo want to make Williams College
the best small college in the United
States," said Mr. Sayre. "It now has
about 500 students, and we are not
campaigning to increase the number,
nor trying to compete with the large
colleges.
"Our aim Is to develop our students
so that they will be thoroughly
equipped to take Intellectual leader
ship, but even more important than
that is to make them real men.
"We hope to have the first JL000.000
raised by next Fall. Already about
$800,000 has been pledged."
NEW BISHOP TO BE CHOSEN
Clergy of Diocese Select Prelate; but
Confirmation Is Required.
To select a successor to Bishop
Scadding a diocesan convention has
been called for September 16.
The convention will be attended by
members of the clergy and laity. The
clergy, by majority vote, select their
candidate for bishop, who must then
be approved by majority vote of the
laity.
After this the name of the candidate
must be submitted to the house of
bishops of the United States and ap
proved by a majority vote and finally
ratified by standing committees of the
various dioceses of the country, but
this latter is largely a formality.
No one has been suggested yet as
a probability. ,
MEN DIE TO SAVE GIRLS
Three Jump From Sinking; Boat to
Lighten It; Companions Rescued
PHILADELPHIA. May 31. Three
young men Jumped from a leaking row
boat sinking in the Delaware River late
yesterday and were drowned. Their
four companions, rescued by a motor
boat after . their own craft had cap
sized, said today that the trio, oom
of whom could swim, took to t4r water.
hoping the lightened boat coi.d reach
shore.
Raymond Tinney was the first to
jump. His fiancee, Sarah German, was
one of two girls rescued. The others
who Jumped with Tinney were John
Mouchoch and John Murphy.
WOMEN DISTURB CHURCHES
Snffragrette Delivers Harangne in
St. Paul's Cathedral, London.
LONDON. May 31. A suffragette,
evading the officials in St. Paul's Ca
thedral, mounted the steps of the lec
tern at the morning services today and
harangued the astonished worshippers
upon the "wrongs -of women." despite
the efforts of ushers to dislodge her.
She was finally carried bodily from the
cathedral. Other suffragettes then be
gan praying for "martyred women."
They were also ejected.
In the Birmingham Cathedral women
rose In their seats and shouted "In the
name of Christ, stop forcible feeding."
RADIUM CURES ONE MAN
Florida Railroad Official Leaves
Baltimore Free From Cancer.
"BALTIMORE, May 31 It was an
nounced tonight that radium had ef
fected a complete cure of cancer of
the throat, for which A. L. Glass, a
railroad official of Gainesville, Fla..
came here for treatment two months
ago.
Last January Mr. Glass experienced
an irritation of the throat which grad
ually grew worse. After an unsuc
cessful operation the trouble was pro
nounced to be an Incurable case of
cancer.
STORM HITS MILWAUKEE
Damage That May Reach $500,000
Is Done by Wisconsin Cyclone.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 81. A se
vere wind and electrical storm, resem
bling a cyclone, struck Milwaukee and
its western suburbs today and blew
down a score of buildings in West Al
l's and Wauwatosa. It demolished
fences, barns and other buildings on
the state Fair grounds and crippled in
terurban traffic
The damage may run to 1500,000. No
lives were lost.
Antis' Methods Likened
to Polecat's.
RETORT ACCUSES 'FEMINISTS'
Social Revolution Declared
Real Plan of Extremists.
SUFFRAGE IS ONLY PART
"Free Woman's Concern Is to See to
It She Can Bear Children With
out Soliciting Maintenance
From Man" Is Quoted.
WASHINGTON. May 8L (Special.)
Ihe headquarters of the National As
sociation Opposed to Woman Suffrage
today issued a statement which
charges that the suffragists called the
antls "polecats" in a resolution adopted
by the 47th annual meeting of the New
England Suffrage Association. In their
retort the antis call the suffragists
"social revolutionists" and declare
there is nothing in common between
the suffragist and true feminist.
The antis say the New England suf
fragists passed a resolution at their
annual meeting saying:
"We denounce as a erross slander th
charge of the anti-suffragist that equal
sunrage means loose morals, and w
protest especially against their attrib
uting to prominent women statements
which these women have emphatically
disclaimed. '
"Tactics of Polecat" Charged.
"These are the antics of the polecats
when badly frightened."
Mrs. A. N. George, of Brookline,
Mass., a leading platform speaker
among the antis, said:
"This is perhaps the most extraordi
nary resolution ever adopted by a pub
lic assemblage.
Is this metaphor a foretaste ot the
amenities " In which political women
will deal? These suffragists should
not condemn their opponents, but they
should hasten to withdraw from the
suffrage platform those who are
preaching feminism. The resolutions
should be aimed at the suffragist
feminists who are giving daily evi
dence of the tendency of the younger
suffragists to work for the 'social revo
lution' promised by Mrs. Harper
Gooley. Feminism Defined by Woman.
"A New York dally under date of
May 26 quotes the secretary of the
National Suffrage Association as de
fining feminism as the 'rebellion
against being ticketed and treated as
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Man who went down with Empress, but
lives, tells story. Page 3.
Storstad's captain denies be backed away
mvui Aiupreia. fage A.
Foreign.
Royal economies threaten to cause strike of
queen a domestlo help. Page 1.
National.
Mediators virtually decide to Ignore Car-
ranza. rage 2.
Domestic.
Suffragists denounce methods of antls as
those of polecat, badly frightened.
Page 1.
Colorado strike settlement seemingly no
nearer, face 3.
Marvelous development of wireless subject of
report. page 3.
John T. McCutcheon describes blighter side
oe going to war." Page 1.
Sports. -Paclflo
Coast League results Portland 10,
Los Angeles 4: Oakland 2-5. Venice 2-4;
- Sacramento 3-2, San Francisco 0-5. Page
Northwestern League results Portland 1.
Seattle 4; Vancouver 4, Spokane 1; Vic
toria 2, Tacoma 4. Page 10.
Los Angeles buys 'Joe Gedeon from Wash
ington. Page 10.
Evan Evans arrives to Join Beavers. Page It,
Pacific Northwest.
Resolution denouncing prohibition move
ment adopted by Uerratn Staatsverbund
in Eugene. Page 4.
Astoria will -welcome Important delegation
Wednesday. Page 2.
Karluk's crew believed to have saved in
struments and supplies. Page 2.
Queen Thelma and party entertained roy
ally in North Yakima. . Page 5.
Two counties hold up official count of
primary election. Page 4.
Portland and Vicinity.
Fire destroys California building at 1905
fair grounds. Page 1.
Orpheum has dual wizards in Japanese
psychologist and chimpanzee. Page 14.
Oaks visited by 12,000. Page T.
Mrs. O. H. Snell says Raymond Merz bad
her jailed . and . robbed her apartment.
Page 14. .
Bishop R. J. Cooke preaches at Sellwood
Methodist Church. Page 11.
Francis B. Sayre, President's son-in-law, ar
rives nere m interest of Williams College
fund. Page 1.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 12.
TAMPICO RIOT QUELLED
Rebels Promptly Put Down Anti
American Demonstration.
WASHINGTON,' May 31. Constitu
tionalist authorities promptly quelled
an Incipient anti-American demonstra
tion by drunken peons at Tamplco
yesterday,, according to Rear-Admiral
Badger's report to the Navy Depart
ment tonight. Admiral Badger gave
no details of the demonstration.
The Admiral said native keepers for
the. Lobda Island lighthouse had not
yet arrived and that the beacon was
being maintained by a detachment
from the Cummings.
PORTLAND GETS SESSION
Swedish Mission Church Conference
at Tacoma Concluded.
TACOMA, Wash., May 3L Portland
was chosen as the next meeting place
of the Paclflo Northwest Swedish Mis
sion Churches at the conclusion of a
ten days' conference held here.
Reports were made showing the
growth of the faith among the Scan
dinavian peoples of the Coast.
PRESIDENT SAYS IT'S ONLY PSYCHOLOGICAL.
California Building Is
Prey to Flames.
FORESTRY BUILD! jG SCORCHED
Sparks in Spectacular Blaze
Are Carried Far.
WHOLE CITY IS LIGHTED
Chimes Toll as They Topple From
Belfry Tower Police Early
on Scene Believe Fire Was
, of Incendiary Origin.
The California State building at the
Lewis and Clark Fair grounds was
burned down at 1 o'clock this morning
In, a spectacular fire that threatened
for a time to destroy the Forestry
building, the Oriental building, and
houses in the Willamette Heights dis
trict.
Sparks from the blazing structure
were carried by a west wind over the
northern part of the city. Had the
wind not been light many other blazes
would almost certainly have resulted.
Patrolmen Waddell and Johnson,
among the first persons to arrive at the
fire, think it was of incendiary origin.
They were a distance ot only a few
blocks away when it started. When
they reached the scene the entire build
ing was burning.
Walla Fall With' Crash.
The fire started shortly before 12:30
o'clock. When discovered it had gained
great headway.
Within 10 minutes the entire build
ing was in flames. Fifteen minutes
after an alarm had been telephoned
to fire headquarters, bringing Chief
Dowell, Battalion Chief Young, five en
gine companies and one truck to scene,
the south wall fell with a crash.
Shortly afterwards ' the" east .' wall
tumbled to the ground, throwing sparks
high in the air.
Sparks Carry to Forestry.
Showers of red-hot embers and sparks
were carried from the burning Cali
fornia building to the famous old For
estry building, situated about 60 yards
to the south. They fell In streams on
the roof. Three times portions of the
roof were ablaze, but each time the
firemen managed to extinguish th
flames.
Chief Dowell sent crews of his men
on the roof and they fought these in
clplent blazes. Others worked from
the sides of the great log structure.
It was hard work, in a very furnace
of heat, but they saved the Forestry
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Reduction in Force of Maids Makes
Longer Hours Necessary and
This Has Been Refused.
LONDON. May 8L (Special) Queen
Mary Is confronted with a strike among
her domestic staff at Buckingham Pal
ace. The servant problem has lately
grown acute In London and discontent
among the maid servants at Bucking
ham Palace, which has been smolder
ing for some time, culminated In their
flat refusal to conform to the new
regulations by the housekeeper, by
which the working hours of servants
were Increased by more than two
hours a day.
The discontent arose from Queen
Mary's economical policy of reducing
her staff. No servant was dismissed,
but. as retirements took place, either
on account of age or marriage, no
other servants were employed. The to
tal number Is now smaller by 14 than
It was In the reign of King Edward.
The housemaid staff last year
brought to the notice of the house
keepers the fact that their hours of
work were becoming longer and the
work harder, and they asked for more
help.
The Queen has promised to receive a
deputation of maids, and the proba
bility is that her majesty will have to
increase tne staff. She -has been
strongly advised by the master of the
household to do so.
TEMPERATURE HERE IS 86
Sunday Is Hottest Day of Year, With
Exception of May IS.
Except for one day May 13, no day
of the year in Portland was hotter than
yesterday, when the mercury leaped to
86 degrees at 4 o'clock and remained
stationery for more than an hour.
The three hot days of the past month
were May 13, which established the
record of the year to date with a tem
perature of 87 degrees, and May 20
and yesterday, when 6 degrees was
recorded on the official Instruments
at the Custom House.
The hourly temperatures for yester
day follow:
- . Deg. Beg.
2 a. M 00 1 P. M so
S M 1 S P. M 83
? A. M. 63 3 P. M 85
8 a. M tJ
4 P. M Ml
8 A. M. ei
ft P. M..
6 P. M. .
T- P. M..
80
1 A. M 70
11 A. M.. .74
84
81
12 Xoon... T6
JOSEPH CAILLAUX HURT
Ex-Premier in Auto Accident After
Visiting Wife in Prison.
PARIS. May 31. Joseph Calllaux, the
ex-premier, was Injured today in an
automobile collision. He had passed
the afternoon with his wife, who Is in
prison for the killing of Gaton Cal
mette, editor of the Figaro, and was
returning home, when the car was
struck by another machine.
The ex-premier was cat by glass and
was taken to a hospital. After his
wounds were dressed he went to his
home.
BULL MOOSE BACK IN FOLD
Progressives and Republicans Under
One Banner In Idaho County.
NEZ PERCE. Idaho, May 31. (Spe
cial.) The Progressives of Lewis
County have decided that they will
unite with the Republicans during the
coming campaign.
All Progressive and Republican can
didates will file their nominations on
the Republican ticket and let the best
man win.
Similar action is expected elsewhere
in Idaho.
GAYNOR NOT MILLIONAIRE
Transfer Tax Deposited Indicates
Estate of About $500,000.
t
NEW TORK. May 81. (Special.)
That the late Mayor Gaynor died poorer
than was generally supposed is indl
cated by the small amount. $9500. de
posited with the State Controller to
cover transfer taxes on his estate.
If this deposit is ample to cover the
tax. as executors seem to think, it Indi
cates that the estate is worth little
more than $600,000.
200,000 WITNESS MASQUE
St. Louis Pageant Depicts Chief
Events in City's History.
ST. LOUIS. May 81. Approximately
200,000 persons, about one-fourth of the
city's population, attended the second
full performance, pageant and masque
of St. Louis here last night, celebrating
the one hundred and fiftieth anniver
sary of the founding of St. Louis.
Seventy-five hundred men. women
and children are in the cast for the
spectacle, which depicts the chief
events in the city's history.
MANY SEE AERONAUT DIE
Balloonist at Denver Park Plunges
2 000 Feet to Ground.
DENVER. Colo.. May 3L Harry Cor
bett, an aeronaut, plunged 2000 feet-to
death today while attempting a balloon
ascension and parachute drop at
a local amusement park.
Several hundred persons saw the fall.
A strap fastened about Corbett's wrist
and attached to the bar of the para
chute broke, it is said, when he at
tempted to leap from the balloon. j
BENT BOW CITED AS PROOF
Collier Said to Have Almost
Stopped Headway.
VESSEL HELD IN ARREST
Canadian Pacific Brings Action for
$2,000,000 Damages Storstad
Owners Plead That Public
Suspend Judgment.
FATE'S RATIO.
, Saved. Lost.
First cabin passengers 82 66
Second and third cabin pas
sengers ISO OSS
Crew i;g
Totals
.418 U6t
MONTREL. May 31. With her bows
crumpled in and twisted and a gap
showing on the port side only a foot
or sobove the waterllne. In mute evi
dence of the tragedy in which she fig
ured, the Norwegian collier. Storstad,
docked here toaay. A few minutes
later a warrant of arrest, taken out by
the Canadian Pacific Railway, was
nailed to her main mast by order of
W. Simpson Walker. K. C, registrar of
the Quebec Admiralty.
"By what authority do you come
on board my vessel and place it under
arrest?" Captain Andersen, commander
of the collier, asked.
Authority of Empire Asserted.
"By authority of the British empire,"
curtly replied the deputy sheriff.
The ship at once began to unload
her cargo of coal. ,
The of fleers and men bore traces of
their harrowing experiences. When
questioned on the subject of the dis
aster they were averse to talking. Cap
tain Andersen, after the collier docked,
was in conference with Captain Ove
Laneie, American chief of the Maritime
Steamship Company of Norway, and
John J. Griffin, attorney for the com
pany, both of whom had come on from
New Tork to take the report of the
captain and sailors first-hand.
Backing Away Is Denied.
Captain Andersen declined at first to
discuss the accident, saying he would
make a statement later. Subsequently
a statement based on Andersen's re
port, as well as the reports of other
officers to Messra Lange and Griffin,
was given out.
According to the captain and officers,
contrary to what had been said by the
captain of the Empress, the Storstad
did not back away after the collision.
On the contrary, she steamed ahead la
an effort to keep her bow In the hole
she had dug into the side of the Em
press. The Empress, however, according to
the Storstad's officers, headed away
and bent the Storstad's bow over at an
acute angle to port. After that the
Empress was hidden from view of the
other ship, and despite the fact that
the Storstad kept her whistle going,
she could not locate the Empress until
the cries ot the victims in the water
were heard.
Empress' Position Changed.
Andersen denied he moved a mile or
so away from the Empress after his
vessel struck the liner. The Storstad
had not moved. It was the Empress
which had changed position, he assert
ed. According to the report made by
Captain Andersen to the owners, after
the collision he heard Captain Kendall
shout, calling on him not to pull away.
"I won't," shouted the Storstad's
captain, as loudly as he could. After
that the Empress disappeared from the
Storstad's view.
The statement follows:
"The fact that the Storstad has only
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