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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1915)
THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1915. I Celil WATER transportation on the Columbia is at last freed from obstructions that nature placed to test the ingenuity of man. Boats, barges, all the various floating forms of water transit can glide in security around the dangerous rapids and falls at dream long cherished by the pilots of the Columbia. If a log, a stick, a boat breaks from its moorings at Lewiston, on the Snake. 500 miles inland, will it stop at The Dalles, at Vancouver, or turn up stream on the Willamette 1 5 miles to Portland, or passing the Willamette, halt at St. Helens or Kalama or Rainier and ask a heavy messenger from across the seas to breast the current and meet it at any of these inland places? , , The laws of nature are inexorable. It will float to the river's mouth and if not stopped by the hand of man, glide still onward to the Mighty Deep. The whole world has something at stake, for our commerce reaches all seas and all climes. Interest now centers upon how and where this immense commerce will be handled where transferred between rail and barge and ocean ship by what facilities, under what conditions, for all this bears upon the price to producer and consumer of a multitude of the articles of commerce. It affects all lines of the transportation of the Pacific Northwest every ship-owner of the world whose vessels may visit the Pacific shores. What is being done to meet these changed conditions? Uncle Sam, seemingly aware of the approaching need, has worked, with might and main to increase the depth of water on the Columbia's bar until now thirty-two feet are available at lowest tide, thirty-five feet almost in reach with forty assured within two years. " This will allow the large vessels to enter the Columbia, which the great steamship companies have repeatedly said would be as far as these ships would go. Fill your waterfront, build a city and build it well, that was the cry, and every citizen responded until now all is nearly accomplished and ASTORIA. NOW A CITY OF FIF TEEN THOUSAND POPULATION. IS READY TO DO HER PART, fill her place and reap her harvest so richly deserved; for without her the wonderful canal the depth of bar the millions spent, would be without avail and the traffic would still flow Soundward, as it has steadily been doing. Arise ye sons of Portland, of Western Oregon, Eastern Washington. Northern Idaho and Western Montana and bless Astoria for the par she has played, for she alone will save the great ocean traffic to the Columbia River, the natural, the cheap artery, and make it possible for Rainier, St. Helens, Kalama, Portland, The Dalles. Kennewick. Lewiston, and all other Columbia River towns to hold their trade and profit through the building of the great Panama Canal. , Astoria municipal docks provide the necessary transfer facilities, her boat and barge line, authorized by the last Legis lature (the first authority of its kind ever given in the United not run your ships up to Portland you can at least come into the Columbia River. We'll not receive our goods via Puget Sound." Will Astoria grow? Will she prosper? Aye I thrice over. The old city is coming into its own. Her flouring mills, soon to be greatly increased in capacity, "ship their product to New York, Asia, South America the farthest corners of the world. Her sawmills owning their own ships reach almost as great a field. Her salmon, a $4,000,000 pack of which now is ready, keeps the cash at home, and last year she handled nearly 400,000 cases from plants other than the Columbia River assembled at Astoria for reshipmcnU She is a direct port of call for New York and Alaska ships. She is the center of one of the three great cranberry districts of North America, is surnAinded by sixty billion feet of merchantable timber and one of the finest dairy and agricultural districts of the world. Her beach resorts, the largest and most populous of the North west, bring her trade and tourist travel. She is preparing to grow. Her streetcar system has been extended and put into operation past the municipal docks and . shipbuilding plant. m r-- , - - . - vVW' .j? 4r J. -S? Av ff,x MAGNIFICENT NEW DOCKS, PORT OF ASTORIA v ' She ' vyvrs tfZX Photographed From Taylor's Astoria. April lath. 11)15. tC 1. yr- . AST OX A J" s y .o COLUMBIA AND SNAKE RIVERS, NOW NAVIGABLE FOR 500 MILES, FROM LEWISTON TO THE MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA will follow the line of least jesistance Nature's route. With an untrammeled river, at last accomplished, traffic will flow in the same lines, the cheapest known transportation will follow, and the Columbia River will come into its own as the great entry into the Oregon country. No longer will the freights for Portland's rightful commerce come and go via Puget Sound. Swiftly will the pendulum change, imports and exports : Columbia River, sixteen million dollars; Puget Sound, one hundred and sixteen million dollars, which have gradually come to this unequal balance, will begin to equalize and in a few years the balance will again be favorable to Astoria, the Columbia's natural port of entry. Then, and only then, will the Oregon country command its rightful trade and commerce, and industry and plenty be ours once more. This wonderful era is immediately upon us. Every man, woman and child of - the ' Columbia's drainage are vitally interested. What does this mean to commerce 102,000,000 bushels of wheat, 68,000.000 bushels of oats. 20.490.000 bushels of barley. 55.000.000 pounds of wool, 300.000 cases of salmon, half a billion feet of lumber, an immense quantity of fruit and tons upon tons of miscellaneous freight will be cared for annually at the Columbia River's mcuth. Behold there were wise men in the land the Port of Astoria was organized capital provided, feverish haste and activity at the river's mouth. The word went out, "No facil- ' ities are too effective, none too good, for the handling of this immense commerce, build ye thoroughly and build ye well no lack of room; wide basins, long slips, nothing temporary solid earth foundations, pumped from the channel's sides, brick and tile and cement nondestructive, fireproof. Depressed tracks, feathered sidings for quick switching monorails, hoists, con veyors, motor trucks and everything to aid the port nearest the sea in quickest and safest handling of freight. Cold storage for fruit and salmon, assembling docks and warehouses for wool, lumber, and other commodities, elevators for handling grain in bulk, and anchorage and net room for, small crafts engaged in .various pursuits. Nothing like this has ever before been pro vided on the Pacific's shores. . States), will fix the rates and the transport from inland points to and from her docks. The warning sounded by the Portland Collector of Customs is timely; but the collection of duties on imports does not constitute com merce, it merely changes statistics. The flow of traffic, its handling, the trade it brings, builds up com munities, and will people the dis tricts where it disembarks when the end of the European war permits the comming of emigration once more. Freight handled through Puget Sound in bond for Portland will make the latter no less a sub port of Seattle, so far as the advantages of trade are concerned, than it is at present. There is only one way to escape this inevitable calamity let all shippers do as one of Portland's largest firms did last Fall refuse to receive their freight via Puget Sound. Notify ship companies as they did. " you can to the heart of Taylor's Astoria, where ample room and beautiful landscape allow for her business and residential ex pansion above. md along Young's Bay. Car service has been arranged to allow the work ers of the Penin sula across the bay to live in Astoria's confines and enjoy the ad vantages of . city conveniences. Hard surfaced highways are be ing built for the same purpose. Astoria has every convenience, lights, gas. electric power and pure mountain water in abundance; splen did schools and churches and stores and a re markable trade from both sides of the Columbia. No vacant houses, no idle men no bread-line or beg gars or agitators or poverty or want. She needs apart ment houses, new homes, stores, shops, industries, and real men and women to join her and help her with her labors and share in her gen eral prosperity. When in Astoria do not fail to ride to the western end of the carline and visit Telegraph Hill, just above. The panoramic view enjoyed from that point is not excelled in the West. O. W. TAYLOR Fourth and Stark Sts., Portland, Oregon. GEmAt- lrYOOT b&T OF fsT0-i.l "OCKS VANCOUVER IS GAY Trans-Columbia City to Aid in Reception Today. BIG PARADE TO BE HELD of the disembarking there. At tlie Northern Pacific dock "Colonel" E. E. Beard and Field Marshal N. W. Merri fleld will do the honors. A fleet of 15 motorboats will arrive hero ahead of the uprlver fleet, and will act as an escort to the fleet to Portland. It Is the plan to give every visitor at least one rose and Mrs. Prank K. Hodgr kin will have a bevy of 20 young; women to assist her in setting the flowers and distributing them. Mrs. M. M. Connor and Mrs. Thomas P. Clarke will assist Mrs. Hodgkin In providing flowers for the visitors. Ceremonies to . l-'ollow Pageant in City Park Mutes to '.Sins' Amor, loa- in Sign Language Roses . to Be Distributed to Visitors. VANCOUVER, Wash.. May 5. (Spe cial.) Vancouver is in gala attire for the welcome of the Celilo fleet and vis itors who will arrive tomorrow morn ing at- 10 o'clock, and leave Just as the -whistles blow for 12:30 P. M. This period will be a holiday, stores will be clotted, and a monster parade will he held througrh the business section. Tlie parade will form at Kirst and Main, near the Columbia River, within a block of the old witness tree, whence started- the surveys of the Pacific Northwest in 1846. Thence the parade will move west to Washington, north to Fifth, east to Main, north to Eighth, west to the City Park, where the cere monies of the day will be held. John H. Elwell, rear-admiral of the fleet, will be master of ceremonies, and W. P. Connaway, president of the Vancouver Commercial Club, will deliver the ad dress of welcome. The response for Washington will be made by Governor Lister; for Oregon by Governor Withy combe and for Idaho by Governor Alex ander. Mute o 'SinK" -With Sigma. The novel feature will be a class of mutes singing "America" in the sign language. Troops from the Twenty firt Infantry will go through military maneuvers. Major Wilson Chase will be in command of these troop. A few motorboat races on the Columbia will be held. v The parade will include Peter J. Klynn, grand marshal of the day; the Vancouver police force, the Twenty first Infantry band, a battalion of the Twenty-first Infantry with Major Wil on Chase In command; pupils from the citv schools, under C w . bhumway. city superintendent of schools; students from the Washington State School for the Deaf, with Superintendent Thomas P. Clarke in charge; pupils from the Washington State School for the Blind, with Professor W. B. Hall in charge; the Chemawa Indian band; visitors in automobiles furnished by residents of Vancouver: the Astoria Centennial band: the auto fire department of Van couver, with C. E. McCall as chief. Hlatorie Dork Vsed. The fleet will disembark at the Gov ernment dock from which steamed the Beaver, the first steamer to ply the Pacific Ocean, in 1SS6. The Beaver sailed here with the side wheels in her hold and they were fitted on at this dock and she steamed away to the sea. John H. Elwell. vice-admiral, and Field Marshal Clement Scott will be In charga WALLACE HAS NEW MAYOR Preparations Started for Big Inde pendence Day Celebration. WALLACE, Idaho, May 5. (Special.) The new city administration of Wal lace took charge yesterday. The newly- elected officials were on hand. Monday night, expecting to take over the busi ness after the conclusion of the Coun cil meeting, but City Attorney Gyde held that the minutes of the expiring body must be written into the record and formally approved by the expiring body before the new administration could take hold. Dr. Charles R. Mowery, the newly- elected Mayor, announced the names of the eight men who will serve on the Fourth of July committee, as follows: M. J. Flohr, Herman J. Rossi, Ramsey M. AValker, M. A. Corner, Charles John son. F. E. Stone, AV. J. Baker and E. R. Denny. Among the plans for the celebration will be a baseball game between mem bers of old college- teams and some cracks from Spokane. Preparations will be made to care for the 5000 vis itors that are expected and special trains' will be run from Spokane BAKER CHINESE GIVE $1253 Support for Country Threatened With War Is Liberal. BAKER, Or., May 5. (Special.) Baker Chinamen have rallied under their country's flag in the threatened war with Japan. While none have sig nified their intention of going back they have contributed liberally to the war fund. In answer to the recent call for finds. $1253 was collected among the Chinese patriots in this vicinity, some donations being secured in maineur, Harney and Grant counties. Seventy three Chinamen contributed and none gave less .than $20, while two gave $150 each. After the expenses of the collectors were deducted $1258 was sent to San Francisco o be forwarded to China. OREGON CITY READY Canal Fete Will Be Biggest Day in Town's History. 2 RIVERS COMMEMORATED Klamath Falls to Have Revivals. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. May 5. (Special.) The First Christian Church of this city has extended a call to the Minges Evangelistic Company, of Des Moines, la, to conduct a series of re ligious meetings here next August. It is planned to hold the meetings in a tabernacle or tent to be built for the purpose. Evangelist Minges and his wife carry with them five other work ers, and are now, engaged at Lexington, Ky., where they are said to be meeting with Ei cat success. Transfer of Local Locks and Celilo Opening Are to Be Celebrated With Many National Notables Present to Take Part. OREGON CITT, Or., May 5. (Spe cial.) "The biggest day in the entire history of Oregon City." This is the expression used by T. W. Sullivan and M. D. Latourette, the com mittee in charge of tomorrow's cele bration to commemorate the transfer of the Oregon City locks from private to public control and the final com pletion of the Celilo Canal. Never be fore have as many nationally promi nent men gathered in Oregon City. From up the Willamette Valley hun dreds will come to Oregon City to take part in the celebration. Excursions will be run on river boats and rail lines have granted one and one-third fare for tomorrow and Friday. The Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany will bring hundreds from Port land, including J. N. Teal, Franklin T. Griffith. Representatives in Con gress, United States Senators and Gov ernors who have followed the celebra tion down the Columbia River. The programme will tegin at 8:30 o'clock with band concerts at Seventh and Main streets. From 9 to 10 vis itors will arrive on boats, by automo bile and by railroad. The 43 sponsors of the tributaries of the Willamette and Columbia rivers will come to Ore gon City on launches furnished by the Portland Motorboat Club. The parade will leave Fourteenth and Main streets at 10 o'clock, march the length of Main street and return tc the courthouse at Eighth and Main W. R. Logus, marshal, with nfayor Jones will lead the procession. They will be followed by the Moose band and automobiles with distinguished visitors and prominent local citizens. The programme on the courthouse steps will begin at 10:45 and last until noon, when luncheon will be served in the Commercial Club. The Ruth and Lang, of the fleet of the Willam ette Navigation Company, will leave the Eighth-street dock at 12:30 for Portland in charge of Admiral McBain and members of the local Commercial Club, so that they may take part in he celebration there. Mayor Jones has issued a proclama tion asking that all places of business be closed from 10 to 11 tomorrow and a number of merchants have signified their intention of closing their stores. Offices will be closed during the pro gramme and all of Oregon City will turn out to aid in commoworatlus the completion of tha two waterways projects. big Federal NEPOTISM ACT IS UPHELD Idaho Woman Seeking Writs Is Now Under Jurisdiction of Xew Law. BOISE. Idaho. May 5. (Special.) The Supreme Court held this week that the nepotism act passed by the last Legislature is constitutional. It will go into effect May 8. The courts ruling was given on the application of Louise M. Barton, matron of the Soldiers Home, for a writ of prohibition directed against the home trustees, wno neia mat wnen the law went into effect she could no longer continue her work as matron as the is a sister of the commandant, and. therefore, barred. The court holds there is no necessity of granting the writ, as she does not come under the Jurisdic tion of the act. The nepotism act makes appointment to office of any relative of an official by that official either individually or as a member of any state, county or city board unlawful where the relationship is within the third degree either on the side of the official or his wife. The court holds that first cousins do not come within the third degree. It is further held that officers or their employes who were appointed under it and a.-e within the relationship degree cannot draw their salaries. It is fur ther held tho terms of the law do not apply to irrigation, dralnagre. Improve ment or school districts. FARMERS' PICNIC ARRANGED Umatilla County Event to Be Held at rilot Kock May 39. PENDLETON, Or., May S. (Special.) The executive board of the Umatilla County Farmers' Union has accepted the invitation of Pilot Rock to hold this year's farmers' picnic and the date has been, set for May 29. This date was determined upon in order to procure the presence of J. D. Dornblazer, of Georgia, a National lecturer of the Farmers' Union, who will make a tour of Oregon and Wash ington, spending ten days in each state. The picnic will be an all-day affair. the details of the programme to be ar ranged by the Pilot Rock local. - North Bend Is Doing Paving. MARSHFIELD, Or.. May 5. (Rpe cial.) The Warren Construction Com pany has started work on seven blocks of bitulithic paving for the City o North Bend. The work extends from the baseball park on Sherman avenue, southward to Washington avenue and east ore Washington to Sheridan ave. nue. North Bend expended $70,000 for grading in 1914, and the work now under way will give the first permanent streets the municipality has ordered. FOREST FIRE NEAR TOWN CARLISLE, WASH., . X ARROW!. Y CAPES WESTIIICTIOX. ES- Williams, C. F. Berg, Frank Rogers and L. A. Spanker participated. Mr. Berg won the prize for the best speech I. ok Kin K RaUvrajr mnd Some Timber Are DeMtroyed and One Klsrater of Flame la Iajurrd. ABERDEEN, Wash., May 5. (Spe- cial.) Carlisle, a sawmill town of 400 Inhabitants. 12 miles west of here, had a close call from forest fines last night. Tho flames which have been burning in the logged-off lands were driven by a strong breeze to within a dozen feet of the Carlisle Hotel. By concerted ef fort of the mill crew the danger was averted. The fire burned fiercely in the heart of the Carlisle camp yesterday, but to day it was considered that the danger was over, the wind having died down. The greatest damage so far, s-side from the destruction of a small amount of timber, has been caused by the burning of a camp railway trestle which will have to be replaced before logging can be resumed. At Carlisle station a string of flat cars had to be pulled out of a siding to save them from destruction. At Tulips also the flames menaced the railroad right-of-way, but the section crew sub dued them. One injury as the result of the' fires is reported from Malone, where A. Stevens, one of the firefighters, was considerably burned about the face and hands when he became blinded by .the smoke and stumbled into the thickest of the flames. He is in a hospital at Elma, but is not dangerously hurt. Fire at the Lytle camp, near Porter, yesterday burned over a large acreage of logged-off land and damaged two donkey engines. The blaze ate into the railroad landing, which will necessitate the suspension of logging for the re mainder of the week. The fires in the east end of the county are said to be under control. Smoke from these fires hung so heav ily over Aberdeen today that elevated points a mile from the city were obscured. Port Orford Hospital Planned. MARSH FIELD. Or., May J. (Special.) Dr. C. W. Robhins, who recently lo cated in Port Orford, Curry County, is arranging to build a hospital at thHt point uiid it is uiidciKtood thet tb structure will be erected at once. a' HUitable site for the eKtabllMltmcnt hts been given the dih-tor by iu 1.1 U--m1 rlt cd citizens of Port Orford and thry arc, aiding the conut ruction of a home for- , tho ill in every manner possible. Port , Orford is ahout midway between the northern and southern liouiidarlis of J tho fount v. Albany Pheasants to Give Ball: . ALBANY, Or., May 5. (Special.) The Albany Pheasants, Albany's new march ing club, will give the first social af fair on Aiay 28, which will be a ball. This probably will be made an annual event by the club. President Dawson has appointed a committee or. arrange ments consisting of Harry B. Cusick. chairman; Clarence W. Tebault, Jr.. Frank C. Ptellmacher, Bert R. West brook and Edwin F. Fortmiller. GOLDEN WHEEL RECEIVED Kotary Club Gets Invitation Valued at $10,000 From California. The feature of the entertainment programme at the Rotary Club lunch eon at the Benson Hotel' Tuesday was the presentation of the golden rotary wheel from California, which is sent, out by the seven clubs of that state as an invitation to cities" into which it goes to send visitors to the two big expositions in California. The wheel is of solid gold and is valued at $10,000. Besides the main wheel there are small wheels to represent each of the 170 rotary clubs in the international organization. The wheel will be on display until Friday. The speakers , of the day were George D. Lee and Frank Thomp son, who discussed advertising. Harry Kleiser was chairman of the Jay. Be fore this programme was offered a few minutes were given for short talks on matters of club betterment, in which U. G. Wlnstock. Edmond. Myers, D. L. i iV'i The STROUD PIANOLA Price $575 Small Monthly Payments if Desired Your Present Piano in Exchange J The Pianola is within the reach of every home. More and more it is being; recognized as a necessity rather than a luxury. The Pianola brings to every member of the family the fascinating ability to per sonally create music, not just to listen to it. I But so many people confuse the Pianola with other Player Pianos they think of all Player Pianos as Pianolas. 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