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THE MORNING OREGONIA5T, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1914. RAIN NO BARRIER PEOPLE, HAPPENINGS AND MISHAPS THAT FIGURED IN LABOR DAY CELEBRATION AT THE OAKS. PORTLAND GROWS and GROWS and GROWS . TO LABOR DAY FUN Attendance at Oaks Cut Down but Sports Are Entered Into With Enthusiasm. 5000 ENJOY PROGRAMME Varied List or Attractions Keep Visitors Happy and Spirit or Gathering Is to Let Xothlng Mar Occasion or Festivity. 18 Ill labor was at play yesterday. Labor had planned to play with vim and energy Just as hard as labor works, something on the line of "Labor omnia vincit," the motto of organized labor, but labor counted without the weather. At that. It must be admitted labor made a mighty good show of driving Jupiter Pluvius to cover, instead of taking to cover Itself. All of which was proved yesterday at the Oaks Amusement Park, where was being held the labor festival, un der the auspices of the Central Labor Council. It fie showers had held off there would have been more festivity, but, anyway, the celebration went on Just the same. Of course, the crowd was not what "might have been" but it was far "bet ter than anyone expected," which is another Way of saying that instead of there being between 25,000 to 50,000 people at the Oaks rolling shekels to wards the new labor temple, there were probably not more than 5000. but these 6000 made up in vigor what they lacked in numbers. "Let it rain" was the general sentiment as Wage Earner, Mrs. Wage Earner and the "kids" mushed over the damp grass from one attraction to another. Attractions Are Numerous. There were any number of attrac tions, from "stunts" pulled off by repre sentatives of labor, such as exhibitions of riveting, carpenter work, pole climbing and so forth to the regulation attractions on the trail. Labor at play enjoyed the spectacle of labor at work, demonstrated in such Contests as those by the riveters. Labor at work buckled to the job, pipe or cigar in mouth, "derby" hat cocked de bonairely on back of head and sleeves rolled up, and labor at play made re marks, many of which were unflatter ing. It did not seem to matter how-labor at work was garbed, for rivets flew through the air with expedition and the lengths of steel riveted were as neat a job as Portland ever knew. Because of the chill of the morning air the baby contest was held In Man ager Cordray's office. There are only two windows in the office and these became peeping places much in de mand. The popularity contest resolved It self between Mrs. L. Gee, a garment worker, and Miss Catherine Galvln, stenographer for the Building Trades Council. No other candidates had the nerve to hustle votes at 1 cent each in the rain, and even the indomitable en ergy of Mrs. Gee and Miss Galvln found it just a little deDressinir. Miss as me winner. Three Addresses Heard. C. E. S, Wood. W. A. Munly and Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway delivered ad dresses in the auditorium at different times. The building was well filled on each occasion. The sports were held between show ers. Often a contest ended with con testants, judges and spectators vigor ously sprinting for the nearest shelter, but the minute the raindrops ceased the programme was resumed; and, let it be recorded here, that of 20 women contestants in the nail-driving con test, only two missed the nails and struck thumbs. Each contestant had a coach, most of the coaches being from the carpenters' local. Hence It was that Places on the plank were selected care fully and nails and hammer Just as carefully. Perhaps that had something to do with the fact that Mrs. Alice Holmes and Mrs. I. Greenberg, first and second In the women's r.ail-drivlng contest, are the wives of union carpen ters. The weather was responsible for there being hot competition for the prizes offered for the best waltzers and skaters, both the dance hall and the skating rink being crowded all Of a long sports programme at the Labor day celebration at the Oaks the most exciting was the catching of the jcreasy pig. The porker gave its pur suers, who numbered at least 500, a full half mile's hunt, dodging under the trees and over the flower beds and lawns. It was caught by accident, the team ster who had hauled out the animal from the Union Stockyards grabbing it as It drshed by. His name was H. C. De Witt Details of Sports Given. Other results follow: Tug of war Won by Building Trades Council team; Waterfront Federation team, second. Pole cllmbina- contest Won by W. J Knight, time 8 seconds; C. W. Gill. second, 9 seconds; J. J. Barry, third w. seconds. Rlvet-drivlng contest Won by Hess, Brossman. Osborne and FItzgibbon; Armstrong. Gaston, Kribs and Lewis, econd. Women's nail-driving contest Won by Mrs. Alice Holmes; airs. j. ureen burg. second. Nail-driving contest Won by A N. Vail : Dan Moore, second. Fifty-six-pound shot Won by P. R. Ward; C. F. Wurfel, second. Sixteen-pound shot Won by W. E. Weaver; L. E. Beach, second. Greased pig Caught by H. C. De Witt One-hundred-yard dash Won by A. B. Paris; Glen Livingstone, second. One-hundred-yard obstacle race Won fc.v F C. Post; J. D. Harkelroid. second. One-hundred-yard three-legged race Won by Livingstone brothers; A N. Vail and M. A. Weaver, second. Kifty-vard wheelbarrow race Won by Abe Weinsteln and William Duane; John and Carl Tuma. second. Twenty-five-yard potato race Won by L. E. Beach; Ed Curtin, second. Kifty-yard asx. Won by William llei iman; Melvin Keeley. second. Fifty-yard three-legged race Won by Frank and Melvin Keeley; William Jlerrman and Frank McLerin, second. Egg-and-spoon race Won by Ruth Beach; Mrs. A. J. Ellis, second. -Seventy - five - yard dash for lean women Won by Emily Tuma; Miss R. Bitts second. Fifty-yard dash for stout women W'on bv Mrs. Stella Peterson; Mrs. Josle Greenburs. second. Fifty-yard boot-and-shoe race Won "by Mrs. E. V. Mitcbelson; Mrs. J. T. Kremyr. second. Fifty-yard dash Won by Elinor Tuma; Lola Vaughan. second. Twenty-five-yard boot-and-shoe race Won by Sophie Tuma; Elinor Tuma, second. Best lady skater First, Miss Reda Ahern; second. Miss Mary Bodman. Best gentleman skater First, A. Krest; second, F. Landers Best lady waltzer First, Mrs. S. Robinson; second. Mrs. Donahue. Best gentleman waltzer First, J. Macson; second, A. Sallee. Best dancing couple First, A. W. Straus and Miss Borland. . f' jkwBr 1 Tmi Hopefuls and Their Mothers. 3 W. J. Knight Winning the Line man's Contest ; He Ascends and De scends Telephone Pole in Eight Sec onds. 3 Miss Catherine Galvln "Most Popuir Woman" Connected With Organized Labor. 4 Doris Leigh Gorden, 100 Per Cent Eugenic Baby. 5 Mrs. L. Gee, Candidate of Garment Workers, In Popularity Con test. 6 Rivet-Driving Contest. 50 BABIES CONTEST Doris Leigh Gordon, Age 38 Months, Is Perfect. JUDGES BATTLE SCARRED Bewliiskered Physicians Tears Tes tify to Pulling Ability of Little Mites in Labor Day Contest. Several in Ties. Seven physicians measured and fussed over 50 babies in Manager Cor dray's office at the Oaks yesterday, where the eugenics contest was trans ferred from the auditorium. A news paper man, who evidently knew how to handle babies, put the squirming little things on the scales and after it was all over Doris Leigh Gorden. with a score of 100, was acclaimed winner of the massive silver cup donated to the Central Labor Council for the Labor day eugenics show. Little Miss Gorden, whose exact age is 38 months, lives at 3S8 Eleventh street. Her father is a lawyer and her parents are of Russian birth. For the other prizes, special arrange ments have yet to be made by the Cen tral Labor Council, for a tabulation of records shows a number of ties. Fol lowing are the main results: Second Dora Wilburs and Beatrice Rai ding, score 96. Third -Vena Lewis, score 5.5. Fourth Wallace Lecter Home, Winifred BracUenniise, Francis Jerome Dunnins and May me Lewis Ellis, score 94.6. Fifth Edwin Grisworta and Hazel May Tast, score 94. t Jane Virginia Deik and Allen Bears Kendrick, score 93.5. Mothers Are Dissatisfied. There was considerable dissatisfac tion with thts scores." "Of course. I did not care a rap about the prizes; it was the score I wanted," said one worried mother after another. over Manager Cordray's desk. Mothers carried them from one physician to another. Each added something to the score. According to the office force there was one baby that should have had 1,000 in deportment, for there was only one baby that did not cry or otherwise protest. Babies changed from milk white to blood red in an instant. Yells rent the air. At one moment fully 45 infants at one time were raising their voices to high heaven. Physicians' Whiskers Attract. Babies were crawling, walking and climbing; babies were cooing and talk ing; they did everything that babies should do. They picked out bright ob jects, they all knew their mothers and they did all manner of bright and in telligent things. Some of the physicians wore whis kers. They had evidently never scored at eugenics contests before, otherwise they would have come clean-shaved. Even a 1-year-old baby has a frightful tug, as tears in more than one worthy doctor's eyes testified. One little hopeful fought and clawed everyone with whom he came in con tact. Four physicians, two newspaper men and one or two innocent bystand ers can testify to the length and vigor of the tiny nails that drew blood. All in all, the baby show did not lack interest or ginger. LABOR HELD AS GOD C. E. S. Wood's Talk to Unions Savors of Bernard Shaw. WAR AND MONOPOLY HIT GRAND JURY WILL DECIDE Enforcement of Accounting Law Af fecting Commission Men Is Vp. A closer accounting by commission merchants to shippers for produce sent them probably will be the result of the enforcement of the state law regu lating the business. This matter will be presented to the grand jury that will be called together tomorrow by District Attorney Evans. A suit lately instituted by the com mission merchants to restrain the Dis trict "Attorney from enforcing the pro visions of the state law failed, and Dis trict Attorney Evans will bring the subject before the grand jury, so that if indictments are warranted they may be returned for violations of the law. It is required by the statute that the commission men render an account to shippers within 30 days on all consign ments of produce. The commission men must first procure a license, file a bond and make reports to the State Railway Commission at regular intervals. Fail ure to return true statements to th'e shippers as to the disposition of pro duce sent them within one month renders the merchant liable to fine. In the event that fraud is disclosed the act becomes a felony, with far more seri ous consequences. Southern Pacific Employes Picnic. MSTMINXVILLE, Or., Sept. 7. (Spe cial.) About 350 employes of the Port land freight house of the Southern Pa cific, upon their first annual excursion, came to McMinnvllle and spent several hours here. They had asked the city to provide a place for them to spread their dinner, and the City Auditorium was properly arranged and hot coffee furnished. The party included the fam ilies. The excursionists left for Port- Babies in their birthday suits swarmed land at 3 o'clock. - Monopolies Declared I.aw-Makers Ratlier Than Law-Breakers and Degeneracy Is Forecast as Result of Hostilities. Representatives of organized labor in Portland heard C. E. ST Wood yes terday afternoon, at the Labor day celebration at The Oaks, tell them that labor was God. He said he hoped to see the time when labor would lead man's angel, leisure, by the hand, for only with leis ure could man find his best and real ize his opportunity. Many of Mr. Wood's remarks, all of which were applauded enthusiastically, had a distinctly Bernard Shaw savor. Mr. Wood contended that opportunity was a crime. It was particularly a crime that the son of a laborer might become a millionaire. opportunity Declared Unequal. "It is a crime and an evil of society that the son of the laborer may be come a moneyed king" there was a pause with a bare ripple of applause "but it is equally as great a crime that the son of the rich man may be ground into the earth with poverty." same opportunity in Jlfe, whereat op portunity was wrong. Since creation all had not had the same opportunity. "The demagogic papers and platform orators will tell you that every bojr and girl has the same opportunity. I deny it," he shouted. He discussed the "unscrambling" of Standard Oil and said it had only made the price of petroleum products higher, and that the real owners were still the same. War Toll I. Forecast. "Don't fool yourself that monopolies are lawbreakers they are not they are lawmakers." he insisted. Mr. Wood said he came to preach a sermon and he intended to do it Dis cussing the war, he said, that 100 years from now the world will pay for it with a blood toll, a race toll, tax toll and a toll of degeneracy, "for those who should be fathers are food for powder " Labor itself had no dignity, he said. He poured scorn and well-calculated epigrams on ' the phrase "the dignity of labor," and declared its possibili ties lay In its soul. "Labor Is God the creator of all things," said he. W. A. Munly discussed in the morn ing "The Progress of Labor," while at noon Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway spoke on "Home and Mother." $250 RAISED FOR VICTIMS St. Helen's Hall Plans Will Be Dis cussed at Meeting Today. Subscriptions amounting to about 250 were taken at a meeting of the alumnae of St. Helen's Hall yesterday. the money to be turned over for the temporary assistance of the sisters. It probably will go to several teachers who had just arrivea in t-oruano. irom the East and who had lost everything. A most enthusiastic meeting was held, nearly 40 members being present in spite of the heavy rain. Mrs. C. 8. Jackson, president of the Alumnae As sociation, was chairman of the meet ing. Any further subscriptions may be made to Mrs. H. C. Cabell at King's Court. There will be a meeting or tne "I was sick for three months with stomach trouble. I saw Chamberlain's Tablets advertised and concluded to try them. The first dose did me good, and two bottles of them curd me." Mrs. T. E. Hullinger, Waynesville, Ohio. FACTS In 1870 the assessed value of the City of Port land was $9,000,000; population, 8300. In 1890, 20 years later, the assessed value was $18,000,000; population, 46,000. In 1910, 20 years later, the assessed value was $274,000,000; with an increase of population to 207,000. Last year assessed value $315,000,000; popula tion over 270,000. In 10 years more, with the Panama Canal, it is estimated by those who ought to know, it will have an assessed value of $600,000,000 and half a million people. Make Your Bid In this temporarily low market, with bed-rock prices, brought about by the unfortunate Euro pean war, and resell when the great European influx of population commences and an active market is sure to follow. GREATEST Real Estate AUCTION TWO DAYS' SALE Thursday, Sept. 10th Friday Sept. 11th Commencing at 2 P. M. Each Day Large Dining-Room, Hotel Portland Send for Our Illustrated Catalogue Ask Your Own Brokers for Values The Fred A. Jacobs Auction Dept., Company 269 WASHINGTON STREET In Conjunction With A. J. RICH & CO. San Francisco and New York official board of St Helen's Hall at 2 o'clock today, at which time there will be discussion of temporary plans for the continuance of the school this season. CLUB TO HEAR NOMINEE C. N. McArthur. Republican nominee for Congress, will he the principal speaker before the ' Portland Trans portation Club at the first regular bi weekly luncheon of the season at the Multnomah Hotel next Monday. C. D. Kennedy, general agent for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company and vice-president of the club, will be chairman of the day. The club will continue Its bi-weekly luncheons throughout the Fall and Winter. E. A. Muncsv. r.n.i-.l ...... for Wells. Fargo Company Express. I me day on Ksp- 111 be chairman tember II. When the court say sell pi anos, it means something. $97.20 for a $300 piano. This reems almost impossible, but it is not a question of the value of the piano, the retail price, or even the wholesale price. Every in strument positively must be sold at once. Read page 9, this paper. TODAY Tuesday, September 8 Y.M.C. A. DAY SCHOOLS OPEN FEES 1 3 6 9 12 Department Mo. Mos. Mos. Mos. Mos. College Preparatory $10.00 $28.00 $50.00 $65.00 $75.00 Business or Shorthand 10.00 28.00 50.00 65.00 75.00 Electrical 10.00 28.00 60.00 66.00 76.00 Boys' Schooi 7.00 18.00 28.00 38.00 45.00 Oenl. English School (Men) 7.00 18.00 28.00 38.00 46.00 10 per cent is allowed for full cash payments on day courses. Y. M. C. A. Building. Sixth and Taylor Streets. Telephones Main 7065, A 6561. i