THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 12, 1914.
BEAUTY OF HAUNES
IS BURIED IN DEBRIS
Barely 1000 of 60,000 Citizens
Left; Ancient Cathedral and
Business Houses in Ruins.
VICTORS TAKE FOOD, HOMES
Few Belgians Who Remain Cannot
Stay During Winter Unless Out
Bide Financial Aid Is GiTen
to Repair Shell Damage.
weekly luncheon meeting at the Com
mercial Club tomorrow on "Bonded In
debtedness and Taxes." Music will be
provided by the Woodmen quartet and
P. Q. Bald-win will make tunes with "a
broom-handle, a cigar box and a piece
of catgut." -Fred W. German will be
chairman of the day.
MALINES, Oct 30. (Correspondence
of the Associated Press.) Barely 1000
of Malines' former residents remain In
this ruined city, and thousands who
are still here cannot stay after the
beginning of cold weather unless out
Bide funds are provided to repair shat
tered roofs and walls cracked by the
German field suns.
Before the German invasion Malines
had 60,000 Inhabitants and was an im
portant art and manufacturing center.
Bt. Rombold Cathedral, one of the most
Interesting medieval church buildings
In Eiirone. dates back to tne mceenin
century and contained an altar-piece
which was one of Van Dyck's master
pieces.
Rubens' Paintings In Church,
Bt. John's Church and the Church
of Our Lady contained paintings by
Rubens. The historic Palace of Jus
tice was once the home of Margaret
of Aur.
Malines is half way between Ant
werp and Brussels, on the principal
stone roads connecting the two great
cities of Belgium. Cement roads
flank this central highway on the east
and on the west. It was along this
central artery and the two flanking
roads that the Germans moved against
Antwerp, sweeping away every obsta
cle which afforded a refuge to the op
posing Belgians.
Like most ancient cities, Malines has
narrow streets. The main traveled
street, along which nearly all traffic
moves In passing northward toward
Antwerp, Is scarcely 30 feet wide, from
curb to curb, and has many turns in
It, which made the passage of an enemy
exceedingly difficult.
Debris Fills Streets.
Stone and brick' business houses and
residences three or four stories high,
built in a continuous line, stood along
this street. Many of these were bat
tered down by the German artillery
and the debris filled the street so com
pltely that only enough has been
cleared away in places to permit the
passage of a single automobile.
Where fire did not spread to the
wrecked buildings, the ruined stocks
of merchants and the broken furniture
of their living apartments in the upper
stories may still be seen.
Such food supplies as were useful for
the army were taken by the German
officers, and soldiers are billeted in
the houses which are-still fit for habi
tation.
Germans Shatter Cathedral.
Malines is Intersected by several
arms of. the River Dyle and is prac
tically surrounded by a canal and wide
boulevards. Visitors entering the city
from the south are challenged by Ger
man soldiers standing guard at the
canal bridge and are again stopped as
they enter the great medieval stone
arch, forming the entrance to the main
portion of the old city.
The historic cathedral stands in the
very center of the town. In a sort of
triangle. Its tower, at least 300 feet
high, was evidently a target for the
German artillery, whose aim was not
sharp enough to bring down the mas
sive pile of stone. Corners of the tower
were chipped by shells, but the foun
dation and walls suffered no serious
damage. However, the main portion of
the church was less fortunate.
Factories Are In Ruins.
It stands in- such a way that it pre
sented its entire south side as a tar
get for the approaching army. All the
windows were riddled, the south wall
was hopelessly shattered, so badly shat
tered In fact that it Is feared the en
tire main portion of the building must
be torn down.
the cathedral were buried In the
crushed tile, stone and mortar from
the damaged roof and wall.
Factories along the river and the
canal shared the same fate as resl
dences. business houses and churches.
The great railway shops were ruined,
Hat factories, . tapestry factories,
woolen mills and starch factories, which
furnished employment to thousands
were wrecked by artillery fire.
Trenches in the sandy beet fields,
which flank the highway leading Into
.Malines, and thousands of rifle pits,
onow how stubbornly the Belgians re
elsted the Germans, Many of the
trenches are so long they resemble
drainage ditches.
YOUNG FORGER SENTENCED
John Cornwall Gets Term in Monroe
Reformatory.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. Nov. 11 (Spe
cial.) John Cornwall, alias John Har-
wln O Sbaughnessey, alias Jack O'Con
nor, who, on October 2 forged the
name of A. J. Dorland to a check and
cashed It for ?10 on the Curran & Gard
ner drugstore, was today sentenced to
from six months to 20 years In the
State Reformatory at Monroe.
Cornwall. 21 years old, represented
that he was a. stenographer and had
wealthy parents living in San Jose.
Cal., and that he forged the checks to
get money to go home. Investigation
proved this to be untrue and it has
been learned that he has served time
In reformatories In other states.
Cornwall came before Judge R. H.
Back for sentence.
NEW ROADS ARE SOUGHT
Extension of Base Line From Trout
dale to Sandy River Desired.
' Petitions are being circulated and
have been signed by several hundred
farmers and taxpayers asking the
County Commissioners to extend the
Base Line road from the Troutdale
cross-road eastward to the Sandy River
and thencTS along the Sandy River to
grounds of tho Portland Automobile
Club and the new bridge. It ie urged
that by .extending the Base Line a
saving of two miles would be made
and a bad hill avoided. The property
through which the proposed road would
pass is owned by Sam Strebin, A. B.
Conrad and E. B. Williams, and they
have signed the petition. This exten
sion Is considered important, as the
Base Line road connects directly with
the Columbia Highway.
Another well-signed petition will be
presented to the. County Commissioners
asking that a road along the east bank
of the Sandy River be established from
Troutdale to the Base Line road and
bridge.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Darling, of
Nome, Report III Effects.
MANY LEAVE FOR FRONT
Fur. Ivory and Whale- Oil Markets
Shattered by Conflict Xo Offer
Made for $100,000 Skins. -Stefansson
Given Up.
CARS . TO OPERATE SOON
Willamette Valley Southern Expects
to Be Ready Next Month.
OREGON CITY, Or.. Nov. 11- (Spe
clal.) From the state of construction
work on the Willamette Valley South
ern officials of that company, here are
convinced that the line will be com
pleted to Mount Angel by Thanksgiv
ing and trains can be operated by De-
f-teiDDer.
Practically all of the grading work
Is completed and the tracklayers now
are near the terminus of the road. The
power line from the River Mill gener
ating plant of the Portland Railway,
Light & Power Company to Beaver
Creek almost Is completed and a tem
porary sub-station ready.
Celebrations are being - planned at
Molalla and Mount Angel when the first
electric car is run over the route.
SOCIETY ELECTS OFFICERS
Dr. A. M. Webster Chosen to Head
Minneaotans for Xear.
Dr. A. M. Webster was elected pres
ident pro tern, of the Minnesota Society
of Portland, which met In room H of
the Central Library last night. Mrs.
Thomas Hawkes was chosen temporary
secretary-treasurer.
About 75 persons were present at the
meeting, which is a preliminary one to
the first regular meeting to be held
at the call of the chairmATi.
The chairmen of the following com
mittees to serve under Dr. Webster
were appointed: Samuel Olson, enter
tainment and meeting-place committee;
Mrs. F. P. McKay, membership commit
tee; Frank P. McKay, constitution and
by-laws. Permanent officers for the
society will be elected at the next meet
ing.
CARDS TO BE SOLD FOR AID
Holland Committee to Dispose of
girls'. Pictures for AVar Stricken.
Picture post-cards of six Portland
girls in Dutch costumes will be sold in
Portland next week to provide funds
for the relief of Hollanders and Bel
gLan refugees who have fled to Hoi
land. This Is the plan of the Holland
relief committee recently organized
here.
Girls will visit various clubs of th
city and will make a canvass of th
office buildings. The work In getting
out the cards is being donated by Port
land firms.
A. H. Metzelaar, of F. N. Clarke
Co., is chairman of the relief commit
tee. John H. Hartog is secretary and
J. L. Hartman treasurer.
ALASKA FEELS WAR
to that of George Chamberlain resulted
n the loss of a good Booth vote.
ASLASKA'S GOVERNOR HERE
John F. A. Strong Predicts Great
Future for Northern Territory.
Alaska is' a country where oppor-
tunitles for the young man are unlim
ited, according to John F. A. Strong,
Governor of Alaska, "who is In. Port
land to visit the Alaska Insane sent
here for treatment.
In a. few years, the greatest auartz
neias in the world will be near
Juneau," said Mr. Strong last night.
'There are literally millions of acres
In the interior of Alaska waiting for
placer mining and gold dredging; there
is tne opening of the coal beds and the
proposed railroad, which will cause a
tremendous Increase in population. The
world over, there is not another spot
that can rival Alaska for opportunities,
for the next hundred yeara It will be In
the course of development, and that is
as far as I care to probe into the fu
Governor Strong Is an appointee of
President Wilson, with a" four-year
term.
4000 WOUNDED MEN ARRIVE
Germans Badly Maimed at Dlimnde
Are Taken to Liege.
AMSTERDAM. Holland, vla'London.
Nov. 11. Four thousand severely
wounded Germans arrived at Liege yes
terday from the battlefields around
Dixmude, where most sanguinary flght-
All the furnishings of dlspatch from Maestricht to the Nleuwa
van den Dag.
The message adds that 800 Hunga
rians passed through Liege today en
route to Cracow with several 8.30 cen
timeter guns.
the Multnomah Hotel for several days
before proceeding south.
ERROR COSTS BOOTH VOTE
Cottage Grove Man Thinks Chamber-
Iain la J. II. Chambers, Millman.
COTTAGE GROVE. Or., Nov. 11.
(Special.) Here is an account of a pe
culiar way In which Candidate Booth
lost at least one vote in the recent
election
Two acquaintances were talking over
the election. The first one bad voted
for Booth.' The second one evidently
had intended to do so. "I voted for that
fellow that owns all this timber," he
explained. "I think his name is Cham
bers." He had heard the talk about
one of the Senatorial candidates own
ing so much timber and the name of
the Democratic candidate being - so
much like that of J. H. Chambers, the
Cottage Grove mill man. he had got
things mixed up and voted against the
man lor whom he Intended to vote.
Mr. Chambers was a Booth supporter
Proof that the war ravaging Europe " i,f "
has an echo in remote parts of to learn that the similarity of hl name
world Is shown in Its enect upon bohi,
Alaska. In this far northern town the
fur market is paralyzed and many
residents have left to enlist in the
armies of their native countries.
This is the report of affairs brought
to Portland yesterday by Mr. and Mrs.
E. Darling, of Nome, who are on
their way to their Winter home In
Berkeley, Cal.
Most prominent among the reservists
who have gone from Nome is Lord
William Percy, son of the Duke of
Northumberland. He was in research
work in the Arctic region when word
of the war reached him. He Immediate
ly made his way to Nome and there
offered the owners of small boats $6000
to take him to Seattle. They refused
because of the risk, and Lord Percy
was forced to Wait until the regular
boat arrived. To join the Grenadier
Guards, of which regiment he Is an
officer, this nobleman made a journey
of more than 12,000 miles.
Markets Are Affected.
Though the gold output was greater
about Nome this year than it has been
for many years past, ana business
conditions are encouraging there for
this reason, the market for furs. Ivory
and whale oil has dropped out of
sight. English and Russian capital
which has been backing the Alaskan
trade with Siberia has been withdrawn.
London. England, and Leipsig. Ger
many, the srreat lur marKeis oi tne
world, have ceased operations, leav
ing the traders in a precarious situa
tion.
Mr. Darling tells of one tra-der wno
returned this 'year from the Arctic
with the accumulations of flve years
in valuable skins, worth more than
$100,000, upon which he could not raise
a cent from the markets with which
he had formerly dealt. With this wealth
of furs, the trader finds himself virtu
allv -oenniless for the present. From
London and Berlin nave come cames
to the effect that they will -make no
offer on the furs and advance no
money.
Nome Back to normal.
Nome has recovered entirely from the
great storm of last year, which wiped
out half the town, asserts air. uarung,
and 40 dredgers now are at work.
If any man. by training and narai-
hood. could wrest a living from the
Arctic snowfields. that man Is Vil
hjalmar Stefansson, said Mr. Darling,
but he declares that hope has practlo
ally been given up of seeing the ex
plorer again, ror tne cnances nave oeen
too heavy against mm.
Mr. and Mrs. Darling left Nome on
th last boat to come out this year.
There will be no return steamer until
after June 15. 1915. An incident or
their departure was the rough
which made It necessary to take on the
last group of passengers In a net. A
huge net swung from a crane was used,
and the last boarders made a ludicrous
picture with their arms poking through
the large meshes.
Dog Racers Mrs. Darling's.
Mrs. Darling is the owner of the fa
mous dog teams that have won three
first prizes, three second prizes and one
third prize in the annual Nome 408
mile race. In 1909. 1911 and 1912 her
team won the first prizes, last year the
second prize, and will be a strong con
tender for the first prize next ApnL
team of 15 dogs will be used, driven by
"Scotty" Allen. Heavy prizes are of
fered for these races, the largest being
$10,000 in 1909. and the lowest $3000.
The race Is from Nome, on the Bering
Sea, to Candle, on the Arctic Ocean,
and return, a distance of 408 miles. The
best time made on the route is 74 hours.
The rogs raised by Mrs. Darling are
Siberian and Alaskan animals. The
Siberians have a strain of the fox. but
the "Siberian wolfhounds" are a pure
fabrication, says Mrs. Darling. The
other dogs are A-laskans, a breed with
the strain of the setter crossed with
the "husky" of the McKenzie River
region, or "Malamute" of the Coast
region.
Mr. and Mrs. Darling will remain at
Women's Tailored Suits
Reduced
A special lot of fine suits bought from a New York suit maker
' at a price which enables me to sell them at
Less Than Wholesale Cost!
Regular $24.50 to $34.50 Suits Regular $39.50 to $44.50 Suits
$14.85 $19.85
The very newest styles at the lowest prices in Portland.
early for choice of size and model.
See Yesterday's Papers for Particulars
Come
$10.00 Peter Thompson Dresses $4.95
Misses' and Women's $10 Balmacaans $6.95
BEN SELLING
The Entire
Third Floor
Morrison
at Fourth
spent annually, will not be done the
coming year. The lighting may .be cut
out in certain districts.
The Council has made a levy of 10
mills for the general fund and this is
the limit.
MAYOR TO RUN AGAIN
Oregon City Executive Takes Stand
for Proposed "Water System.
OREGON CITY. Or., Nov. 11. (Spe
cial.) Mayor Linn E. Jones announced
tonight that he would be a candidate
for re-election December 7. Petitions
are out asking Judge Grant B. Dimlck
and CoundlmanE. C. Hackett to enter
the race, but neither has reached a decision.
Mayor Jones" Interest in the new
water project, coupled with his stand
for the municipal elevator and the re-
paving of Main street, had much to do
with his decision. It generally is un
derstood that he has entered the race
with these three issues as his platform.
Judge JJlmlcK is opposed to the pro
posed water system, favors the re
pavement of Main street, but has taken
no stand In regard to the municipal
elevator. Councilman Hackett in
dorses a programme of the strictest
economy.
IRECT0R DESCRIBES FAIR
. H. Perry Says War "Will Keep
Tousrists- at Home for Exposition.
"A man spending five hours a day in
visiting the exhibits of the Panama
Pacific International Exposition for the
288 days the fair will be open will have
een almost half of the displays," de
clared George Hough Perry, director
the division of exploitation of the
915 fair, yesterday, to give an Idea of
the magnitude of the great fair to be
staged at San Francisco next year. Mr.
Perry spoke to the Ad Club at the noon
luncheon.
In the 12 principal exhibit palaces
there are 47 miles of aisles," he con
tinued.
Mr. Perry explained that the fair will
not suffer from the war, as all Euro
pean nations, with one exception, will
be represented, and the 250,000 Ameri
cans who usually go to the Continent
will be diverted to San Francisco to
ft set the loss of about 6000 Europeans
who would have come to the fair.
There will be no robbing of the tour
ist by the San Francisco hotels, he said.
EVANGELIST DRAWS CROWD
Appeal of J. Brnce Evans at White
Temple Is Convincing.
A large attendance at all the meet
ings In the White Temple this week at
tests the popularity of J. Bruce Evans,
the celebrated California evangelist,
who has been speaking there every
night for the past ten days.
Rev. Mr. Evans is a brilliant and
convincing orator and Is meeting with
success in Portland. There is In his
addresses something that makes direct
appeal to rich and poor, old and young.
Tonight there will be a prayer service
at 7 o'clock In the parlors of the church
and the regular evangelistic meeting
will be held at 7:30.
Special musio adds to the interest of
the services. All seatd are tree In the
White Temple and a special invitation
Is extended to all who are Interested In
hearing an eloquent address to attend
tonight and tomorrow at the same hour,
G. W. STAPLETON IS NAME!)
Portland Attorney Chosen Mayoralty
Xominee at Gresliam.
George W. Stapleton, a Portland at
torney, was nominated for Mayor of
Gresham at a mass meeting held in
Gresham Tuesday night. Mr. Stapleton
makes his home in Gresham. and was
prevailed on- to accept the nomination
by many citizens.
Other nominations are: Recorder, D.
M. Roberts and C. J. Lindqulst; Treas
urer, J. H. Metzger; City Marshal.
James McKlnney; three Councllmen, L.
L. ludder, M. D. Kern, George W.
Kenny, Emmet H. Kelly, S. S. Thomp
son and J. M. Zimmerman.
Mayor Shattuck was not a candidate
for re-election. The election will be
held December 8.
Auditor to Speak of Taxes.
City Auditor A. L. Burbur will ad
dress the Portland Realty -Board, at Its
ADVERTISING TALK NO. 3
Morning Newspapers Are
the Best Advertising
Mediums x
The afternoon newspapers are hurriedly read
they reach the home a large majority of them
after 5 o'clock. At that time the housewife is
either just returning from an afternoon out or is
in the midst of preparing diner for the family.
After dinner she is hurried with household duties
and is ready to go to the movies, the regular
theater the vaudeville the dances the women's
affairs on clear weather, an auto drive, and the
hundred and one other pleasures in these up-to
date amusement-seeking times. Thousands and
thousands of homes are deserted in the evenings.
By the very nature of things, the evening
paper can get only a hurried perusal, while the
morning paper is in the home all day is read by
the husband in the morning, then by the mother
and the other women folk of the house. Only a
very small percentage of the total circulation
comes down town on the v streetcars but that
which does is of value to advertisers because it
certainly is read in the offices during the day.
The percentage of afternoon newspaper circu
lation which never reaches the homes is much
greater than that which comes from the homes in
the morning.
The Oregonian is the best advertising medium
because it has the largest home circulation and
because by the excellence of the paper and the
confidence the people have in it as a newspaper,,
it brings that same confidence to the advertising.
NOOSE RETENTION IS SURE
Malheur Returns Make Count
on Hangman's Side.
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Returns yesterday from Malheur
County made the vote on the measure
before the voters last Tuesday provld
lng for abolition of capital punishment
virtually complete and served to make
sure the defeat of the bill.
Malheur returned a net majority of
69 votes against the bill. The total
vote now stands 95,746 for the measure
and 96.387 against it. The majority
against it now Is 641 and it is believed
that fully 95 per cent of the vote in the
state has been reported. . Inasmuch as
every county is included in the avail
able returns, the present figures re
flect the sentiment of the voters.
The three other measures passed last
week were: Prohibition, provision for
merging cities and requiring voters to
be citizens. .
CLYDE DAVIS FOUND DEAD
Coroner and Sheriff Suspect Murder
and. Inquest Will lie Held.
WENATCHEE, Wash--Nov.v 11.
(Special.) Clyde Davis, aged 27. son
of Rev. W. D. Davis, formerly pastor
of the Congregational Church at
Leavenworth, but now living In Seattle,
was found dead in his cabin near
Dryden last night by Ray Woodruff.
The cause of death is unknown.
Circumstances found by Coroner May
and Sheriff Kenyon, who aAoed to the
man s home last night, point to mur
der, but the Inquest tomorrow may
show It to have been suicide or pos
sibly accidental deatn. Davis was
found In bed. but no gun nor any other
instrument by which death could have
resulted was discovered.
His revolver was missing, but two
guns in the house had not been discharged.
HAWTHORNE FOLK ASTIR
PAREMS WANT SCHOOL OR SEW
BriLDIXG OK THEIR OWJT.
Association Disappointed When Talk Is
Cut Off and Routine Work la
' Brought Tp by President.
Nearly? 100 members of the Haw
thorne Parent-Teachers' Circle met at
the Hawthorne School yesterday, many
of them eager to voice reasons why the
School Board should give them a new
school or grant them exclusive use of
their present building, but the regular
monthly programme was so lengthy
that no time was allowed by the presi
dent, Mrs. G. L. Buland, for discus
sion. ''
The residents of the Hawthorne dis
trict are up in arms because the iden
tity of the Hawthorne School has been
virtually lost by the transfer of high
school students from the Washington
High School to the grammar grade
building. It is understood by the Haw
thorne parents that the school author
ities intend to,, give four more rooms
of the Hawthorne building to the use
of high school students in February.
Petitions are now being circulated and
signed generally, requesting the School
Board to bar high school students from
the Hawthorne building -or else pur
chase grounds for a new Hawthorne
school.
Mrs. Buland. president of the asso
ciation, opposed the discussion of the
school subject yesterday on the ground
tbat important routine business would
require all of the time at their dis
posal. Accordingly she telephoned to
the speakers and arranged with them
to postpone the talkfest until next Sat
urday at 8 P. M., when a general mass
meeting will be held in the East Side
Library. City Commissioner Bigelow.
M. B. McFaul. president of the East
Side Business Men's Club; L. M. Lep
per, club secretary, and Whitney L.
Boise have been invited to speak. It
is probable that at least one member
of the School Board will be present.
Tha l.'o b f SIiIa Ptialnaea Xf.n'a rl.
and the Ladd Addition Improvement
Association are co-operating with the
Parent-Teachers' Association in sup
porting the protest.
The fact was told yesterday that the
eight associations In the schools in the
Creston District would support the
Hawthorne petition providing the Haw
thorne residents would back them in
their demand for a new building. The
Hawthorne association yesterday agreed
unanimously to enter into this recip
rocal agreement.
The principal card on the programme
yesterday was an address by William
D. Wheelwright on his recent trip to
Europe and the problems of the pres
ent war.
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LOSS OF REVENUE FELT
Dry Vancouver to Cut Expenses to
Stay Within Income.
VANCOUVER, Wash, Nov. 11. (Spe
cial.) The expenses of running the
city government of Vancouver must be
trimmed on account of the loss of about
$18,000 annual revenue paid by the
liquor stores and saloons in' the city.
Not only will Vancouver be compelled
to do without this, but It will have to
pay back the sum of $7205.25, the
amount due for unexpired liquor
licenses, which has already been paid
in advance.
Just what will be lopped off of the
expense Is not yet certain, but the oil
lug of streets, for which, about 13009 la
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