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THE -MORNING OREGOXIAN, MONDAY, JULY 6 1914. JLUt . i 25 KIDDIES 10 GO ON FRESH AIR TRIP First Party Leaves for llwaco Tomorrow C. A. Lyons Takes Six Boys to Camp. . MANY OUTINGS' ARRANGED to Tnlted Artisans to Take 70 Children Tillamook Associated Chari ties Needs $3000 for Work. Boys Write Letters. coNTRiBnK-s to fresh-aib FTXD OF ASSOCIATED CHARITIES. It is planned to send more than 600 children and working mothers who have no other opportunity for a rest and a vacation, to the country this Summer for ten-day outings. Last year the fresh-air campaign gave vacations to nearly 400. A fund of $3000 is to be raised this year to pay expenses of clothing and transportation for the children. The first party leaves tomorrow morning for llwaco and other parties will be organised and sent out as fast ! as possible and In as great numbers f as the funds permit. J Contributions to aid the expense of 1 the vacations of the "fresh-air kids" imay be sent to R. S. Howard, treas urer of the Associated Charities, at Ladd Tllton Bank; to Secretary V. t R. Manning, at 411 Commercial block. i or to The Oregonlan. .....' Even before the first party of Fresh Air children is on Its way to llwaco, where they are to be cared for by gen erous people of that place, offers have come' to the Associated Charities which will assure another beach trip for a, fresh-air party to be organized later. H. S. Hudson, of the United Artisans, has informed V. R. Manning:, secretary of the Associated Charities, that when the Artisans go to Tillamook, August 15, they will be glad to arrange to take a party of 70 fresh-air children with them by attaching: a special car to their excursion train. The Artisans in Tillamook will make arrangements for the entertainment of the children for ten days. The party of 25 children will go to llwaco tomorrow morning: on board the steamer Potter. i Chester A. Lyons will leave this morning: with a party of six boys for a two-weeks' outing: in a camp near Lebanon. He has a farm of 20 acres near Lebanon. - Seaside Visits Beneficial. The seaside visits are expected to be of especial benefit to children under the charge of the Associated Charities, as many of the little ones have never aeen the beach. Silverton and other cities In the val ley are organizing; for the campaign. From now on many parties will be sent out. More than 600 children and mothers will be cared for in the fresh air campaign. Th -reserve fund for the fresh-air work left from the donations of last vear will serve only to arrange ror me first few parties. It will be necessary for the Associated Charities to raise a fund of about 13000 to carry the cam paign through the hot season. In advance of the fresh-air parties several of the larger boys who wanted to be in the country all Summer long and to work for their board and lodg ing during that time, have been sent out to farmers near Portland. Letters from nearly all of them Indicate that they are having the best time imagln able. Letters) Tell of Good Time. "Ed," one of the boys who was sent to a farm to work, has sent back to hl mother and to Mrs. Thoroman, of the Charities, a series of strikingly In terestinsr boy letters. The following are fair samples of how well he Is en Joying himself: Iear Miss Thoroman: T am glad to hear from you. I am getting along fine. I could ride a horse for five years. I'm learning ar WnulH von nlease send me some overalls and a hat and a pair of old shoes to work in? Best wishes. Goodbye. Dear Mother: I arrived safe and reached th. farm at a o'clock. It is a nice farm. He treats me fine. I don't have to work hard. He has 13s acres. The man is all lone, his wife is at the hospital watching hi .on. His son is S years old. He fell and hurt both knees; he had three opera tions. Mamma, along 7 how la the kids getting Mb. has the cod been there ana does he want roe? Is poor Steve getting in trouble?" Ma. I don't smoke no more. That im an i .nt in uv. noodbve. ED. Be sure and answer at once and tell me liow things are getting along. Tell Pinky be can have my ball. Tvaa r Mother: I been walten for an an' swer and never got one. I still like the Mnrh nnH aretten nice things to eat. . "Mamma, ha has a COW 1 It Is a dandVI it Is so Jentle. I learned to milk on her. I could play with her and she never bites. She gives 5 gallons of milk a day. He wants ISO for her- she is 7 years old. She gives vine rich milk. If you want to buy her I an laari her home. Ma. I never think of going home. Ma, would vou send me a couple dollars so can buy a pair working shoes and a ISO atraw hat 7 That is "II I got to say. Hows the kids tell me about that tobacco thing. Address In care of E. R. Gelse Ranch, Route No. 1, Box 81, Battle Ground, Wash. Please write and let me know about the cow Your son, r. A. n.. PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING DESTRUCTION WROUGHT BY FIRE AT OCEANIC DOCK. 1 . Jo.... 4a. .est i v '"tja vr - ... .tor aV. T IJllHivyilyi. SsaiVwb McSW . . .V -i-iP .1 A..HI . Pi! ir if'i ..at 1 -Vet-.. . -. . :. !3 s ah TT (X)F,REBOAT DAVID CAMPBELL P L d" DOCK FIRE SERIOUS Balfour Guthrie Property De stroyed; Loss Is $300,000. TWO TIED FOR $50 PRIZE Echo and Medford Students Get Same Mark in Essay Contest. Oscar Wilbert Doble, of the Echo Hieh School, and Miss Willie "W. How ard. of the Medford High School, Med ford, Or., tied with a grade. of 94 points In the 300-word essay contest, open to high . school seniors, conducted by George C. Blower, extension secretary of Pacific University. The contest closed May 15. with nearly every lead ing high school In Oregon and. South west Washington competing. A ririze of 150 value was to be award ed to the writer of the best 300-word essav on the subject: "Is the Four Years' Arts Course a Paying Invest merit?" Band to Play at South Parkway. The Municipal Band, Charles Brown, director, will play the follow lng programme at South Parkway to tiiKht: -Mai-fh rsnnhauser." Wagner Waltz, "Blue Danube"........... Overture. "Merry Wives of Windsor. 6olo for baritone. (Request) Strauss tTantaaia Original. Flcehl Cloffl. IVTB-RtfTBfiinW Serenade tor flute and horn (Request). .Tltl Messrs. K.mgm ana Divium. r- a i . i i ni. "T iida Hi lammermur. Donisetti t pitrHm'n Chorus. "Tannhauser, ' . , Wagner b')" "Gavotte, "Mignon" . . . .Thomas Ballet and soldiers- march., "vviiuam Ttif ....... .Rossln The Tuesday evening concert will be at Lents Park, on the Mount bcott car 111 , " l , . 1 1 1 1 .. . 1 1 , .. .... . ...!.!.... v.:. .- i l e - , t V : ) WOODEN PILING ALL THAT RE- STEAMER MARIA DAMAGED Conflagration,. Which for Time Threatened Pacific Grain Elevat or Dock, Is Third Big Water front Fire In City This Year. (Continued From First Page.) me the dock was afire. A little smoke was Issuing from the south end, and going there we found the blaze in a pile of empty grain bags. The oock was dry as tinder, and soon the whole thing was afire. We had Just time to slip our ropes and get away from the aocK unaer our own power. At that, the flames scorched us somewhat. We were load ing wheat- for Ireland, and already had taken about S00 tons aboard. Twenty-five' hundred tons more of our ra rtrn was still on the dock. Besides this there was about 5000 tons of bar ley." The Port of Portland boat Astoria, now being used as a police patrol boat. soon was on the scene and assisted In getting the Maria out of the danger gone. No other vessels were moored In the .Immediate vicinity. The Maria tied up at the Pacific Grain Elevator dock. Just south of the Oceanic. So furious was the blaze when it got well started that cinders, carried over the city by a brisk north wind, fell In the streets in the business section. Even in South Portland ashes and cln ders were noticeable on streets and lawns. Fire Eiglie Helpless. The fire engine could do nothing. Arriving on the scene it found the gates locked, and for some time could not get in. There were no hydrants within a radius of more than a quarter of a mile. The flreboat David Campbejl turned all of its water on the flames, but the fire already had gained too much headway, and the chief efforts of the firemen thereafter was to keep the blaze from spreading. The Pacific Grain Elevator dock for a time was threatened from the flying sparks. Nothina- but the wooden piers or tne dock was left standing. .Near tne norm end is a huge pile of grain, which sanK through the floor Into the water. Part of this may be saved, but in this vicin ity the fire was still smouiaering last nitrht. The fireboat was at the scene all afternoon. Captain Johnson keeping the streams turned on the emoers. ine hua-e streams of water, striking the burned wooden piers, bowled many of them over like nlne-plns. Manager D. W. L. MacGregor, of the grain department of Balfour. Guthrie & Company, roughly estimated the loss yesterday at 3150,000. This includes the dock and all equipment. There was londine- machinery, grain bins, sacks and 6ther equipment on the dock, and all of this was lost. Docks Fully Insured. "Luckily." said Mr. MacGregor. "the auantltv of grain was comparatively mall. . This Is near the end of the crain season. At any other time w might -have had a great deal more on the dock. I can't say exactly how much wn there at the time, as we haven compiled any figures as yet. The dock anri contents were fully insured, but fni- what amount I cannot say." The first big waterfront fire this year raa th rfpstructlon on March 12 of Columbia dock No. 2 and Montgomery Hn-u No. 1. The second was the burn Ins of the Northwest Door Company's plant and the Irving dock on June 3. In this fire two men lost their lives. The cause of none of these fires has been settled beyond doubt, although the Coroner's Jury that held an inquest over the victims of the Northwestern Door Company fire decided that con flagration caught from piles of burning grain left from the first fire. John Kearns, the watchman for the Maria, tells his part of the story as follows: "At 4:30 1 had Just gone to call the ship s cook. Coming out again, I noticed smoke pouring out of the eaves of the dock. I looked inside and could see nothing but smoke. Then I called the ship's officers and we went to Investigate. Flames Shoot to Celling. "When we located the fire it -had I alreadv gained considerable headway, and the flames were shooting up toward the ceiling. I immediately called the watchman of the dock. Then turned in a call for the lire Depart ment. ... We tried for a while to stop it who water from the boat, but it was go ing too fast. Pretty soon tne nreooat arrived. When we came out from tne fire In the south end or the oock, an other blaze was shooting at the north end. I could not tell wnetner tnis caught from sparks or not. une wnuie dock was filled with smoke, and the flames were roaring." The firemen on the Davia uampoen had little time to do anytning wnen they arrived. The dock then was prac tically a mass of flames, so fast had the first blaze spread. Tne nremen icww to the dock and attacked the fire with hose, assisting the streams irom mo boat. Very soon, nowever, mo driven back to the vessel. 'The engine and trucK couia ao nothing," said Assistant i'lre cniei Laudenklos. "They stopped at the Pa cific Grain Elevator dock, for there h?ct-a no hvdrants near enough to reach th fire. All the work naa- do aone from the fireboat. I have no idea-as to now n swrieu Th dock was dry as tinder, ana was well afire when we arrived." HOPE HELD IN HOI Nation's Future Depends on It, Says Minister. 2 Full-Page Advertisements in Sunday Papers ; "i Give You the Particulars of MEIER & FRANK'S antic Stock Reduction- Gig CLEARANCE SALES! In All Seventy-five Departments Unequaled Economies Await You ! SIXTH-STREET BUTLDIXQ. Monday's Grocery Specials! PiUsbury'B Best Flour The most popular of all East- f0 flf) ern hard wheat flours, four sacks for $7.50; sack P.4i.VI Victor Flour, the sack 2 Killer's Marmalade, imported Scotch, jar . . . . . Imported Pickles, Cross & Blackwell s Gherkins V2-pint bottle -0 Imported Gherkins, Cross & Black well's, pint bottles Imported Peas, extra fine, dozen can. i no Gluten Flour-No. 10 sacks, iML.95; No. 5 sacks $1.00 Baby Olives, cherry bottles, solidly filled, 1 bottle.... .... .... -C Empson's Peas, Apex brand. Latest pack. Dozen, $1.40; can la. Ginger Ale-Cliquot Club, delicious and refreshing, dozen. . $1.60 Fancy Peas-Small Early June, dozen, $-; can . . . . . . . Imported Beans, La Forest String or Lima, dozen o, can -oC Bed Salmon, No. 1 tall cans, dozen, $1.70; can Oloverleaf Butter, always satisfactory, roll Imported Macaroni, best brand, package..... W Pare Fod Grocery Ba-ement, Shf -r J"""' Direct Entrance Cor. Alder Street. Laundry jjelps Gloss Starch, Kingsford's 6-pound wooden boxes 57 Naptha Soap, Victor brand, 6 bars for 230 White Soap, Cotton Boll, 7 bars for 25 Parson's Ammonia, extra .tren?th, bottle 350 and 20 Good Brooms, 4 rows of sewing, each 39 Experienced Grocery Saleswomen at Telephone from 8 A. M. Before Leaving For Beach or Mountains It is well to see that your val uable Furs are safely stored and insured against loss, fire or theft. Our dry, cold-air storage plant is a satisfactory -solution of this question. Furs received Fifth Floor, 6th-st. Building. WEALTH SEEN AS DANGER OAKS CROWDED AGAIN CONCESSIOJTAJRES ANNOUNCE THAT "BUSINESS IS FINE." Neir Bill Fat on. More Films lasen, Swimming Pool FnTOrite Place and - ' " All Enjoy Programme. , Although it would have been thought that the recreative and amusement fea ture of the Oal. would have been ex hausted the Fourth of July, yet another i.r i-mwd made its way to me amusement park yesterday. " , r mnrsa it was nothing in compari son to the literal mob of the day be fore. Yet a ' change of programme added new and piquant interest to the Summer rpsort Ti'rom the rerjorts of tne amusement nnrasainnaires there was no indication nf navcholo&rical or any other kind of denression. .However, tney oia nut put it that way. "Things are mighty live tnrfav." was the matter-of-fact way thbv oTnrfR!iMi it- Over at the bathing pavilion folks splashed the water and each other to rhalr hearts' content. "Tiny" Snyder's dellgntiui tenor wo heard to excellent advantage. torn Stockton Juggled banjos and the words of colored folk songs to nis own con tent and that of the audience. The three musical Shirleys deserved to be rated as the best attraction of the Tracey and Carter were the weakest n.inih on the bill. They devoted too much time to indefinite "patter." stma mora motion clotures were tairan nrf these, with those filmed Sat urday, will form the leading feature of next week's bill at tne uans. Only One Fire Reported. VANCOUVER, Wash., July 5. (Spe .i.i -Rut nn fire occurred here dur ing the Fourth of July celebration, and that was not until after midnight, when tVi a Hdnnrtmant was called to extinguish b. hlnze at the residence owned by Georsre B. Stoner, east of the garrison. The loss was about 1000, partly cov ered by Insurance. Country AV111 Pass Away Like Rome Unless Patriotic Fathers, Moth ers and Children Prevent It, Is Assertion. The Christian home with mother and father and children, a nation not intox icated with wealth and power, but in which Justice and equal rights shall prevail, are the assets that make for perpetuation of this country, but with out which the Nation will follow In the footsteps of Rome and pass away. Tin. flnrlareci Kev. Henry mareuu. n his sermon yesterday morning at Westminster Presbyterian cnurcn on the topic "Our Country. "I wonder now miny in i" ooHnn eit. a. thrill run tnrougn mo veins as that song, 'My Country, Tis of Thee" was sung this morning, said Rev. Mr. Marcotte. "Certainly all must have felt that thrill that comes to every natrlotie heart on hearing mai sune- Well vwhol- do you Knovrabout "mat r I Knew old Dad could go some but be Yfill be tuttfo$h over some o) u? MOUOQ 5eHos missed " . number yeT J kan ora 19 iv-" y es any oem.j This Is July 5. I wonder how many re called the steps In the foundation of this country yesterday as they cele brated either In the quietness of their homes or elsewhere, and recalled some thing of the cost to the men who made the beginnings, when it meant liberty or death to them? How many heard the echoes of the past and saw the pic ture of this Nation in the forming and of the men at the formation? Did it ever occur to you to think of the cost of the formation and development or this Nation? It may be seen in the bat tles of Gettysburg, Shiloh, the Wilder ness and elsewhere. "Where do we stand today? A hat are the problems of today? Have we made Justice the basis Of our social and economic conditions? If we have not, and if the home, with patriotic father and mother and children, is not the symbol of our civilization, then we are lacking and shall pass away like Rome. Rome destroyed the home and what it stands for, and was destroyed. I have given this question deep consideration, and I ask the question if the accumu lation of vast fortunes is not a danger to this country, with the tremendous power they bring. "'....- "The hope and strength of this Na tion is in the home, the Christian home In the home that stands for God and for country, and that stands for Justice and equality. It were better that 600 men might have little homes on a little land than that one man should hold the that ahmild eo to these men bet- . tha TJarlnn. We must heed the National siiajio. IS REV. F. W. GORMAN POI.NTS -COMEDY OF HYPOCRISY." OUT a-n --. CLrA in ""V" a f ih You are must perpetuate juu -; f the rafter. ..-.a..aal if ann MnHRK IdUKIli - " " " " pei ;ci umw ! Criticism la Healtay. Declares Preacher. When You Tell Your Neighbor's Faults Between Thre and Him, Alone. "There is abroad in the land today what has been wisely termed 'The Pharisaism of the Publican,'" said Rev. F. W. Gorman, pastor of the Atkinson Memorial Congregational Church, last nlirht in his sermon on the "Comedy of Hypocrisy." "The Pharisaism of the man who makes no religious professions Is as bad as the Pharisaism of the man who abounds In them," continued the "Thou hypocrite! Cast out first the beam out of thine own eye. then shalt thou see clearly to pull the mote out of thy brother s eye. tha unlnmn warnings of sacred scripture now and again we discover an element of comedy. "You will miss the flavor of this theme and of Christ's rebuke if you do not recognize that It contains a genial -iriiriile. The lesson is serious, but the picture is a caricature. You meet a friend and perceive that he has a tiny speck of chaff or wood In his eye. 1 ..nil a ra SO concerneu. onn, jw- - a lOK. a Drum, In your own eye. I think tne per spective Is purposely exaggerated to bring out the humor of the situation. "No man cuts so absurd a figure as when he sets himself up as crltle of his neighbor's faults and follies. "Your friends may listen In silence to your comments, but, benesth an Im passive exterior, they are 'sizing you up.' to use a parlance of the street. "No one can Indulge the passion of malignant criticism of the faults of others without becoming Indifferent to their own. In fnct. to enaasre In ad verse criticism seems to be the main hobby of qulta a numher of people nowadays. "Jesus Christ taught that honest criticism was all very well. If. wh-n your neighbor has done a wrong, you go and tell htm his fault between thee and him, alone. SLANDER SUIT STARTED Klamath Man Accused by Xelglih"' of I'olsonlns Cattle Ask 1 0,000. KlaAMATH FALLS. Or, July . (Special.) Suit for defamation of character In the sum of 110.000 has been brought by John Connolly against Eugene Spencer. The two men are ranchers living In the southern part of the county. Connolly alleges that Spencer has accused him of poisoning his cows and otherwise defamed him. If It is the skin use Bantlseptlo Lot I o a. Adv. LeVme tell you,U M fee TKWS15TO bad been invented intbose daysoU Fence de Leon wouldn't We-wM . I. I 1 .'. La. "it, n -fowtaio of f aNf 1 TV-' V I . " . a.f II a a -SSV - . ,: v,, ei-n v,ia rirl rlad came out from the East to spend the Everybody who has ever met Bill Spiyui i agree lL 72 year, young. At an impromptu dancing Summer here they're gradually imamg mu - y - -h last niffht Dad Spivens and the Irresisto, wiucn luuers peopi. ti,. tnr. floor of one of the swell West Side apartment-houses last 8a rtirrled off nearly til the honor.. X"sr;X tnrmoan. with the 16 free dance selections ana if omen, . UaKX JXUDilCU UV VJJLtA v -m uu.w -.- j A A line. 1