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7 VANCOUVER. GIVES TWO VIEWS OF CELILO CAN At, CELEBRATION AT VANCOUVER, WASH., YESTERDAY. Now Is the Time to Buy JOYOUS GREETING Your Spring Clothe: You'll want to be dressed just right wherever you may be, and one sure way of knowing you've got the right clothes is to come here for them. Whole Town Turns Out and Programme Includes Pa rade and Addresses. EXHIBITION DRILL FEATURE THE MORNING OREGOXIAX. FRIDAT, MAY 7. 1915. Motor Trips Made to Productive Territory Surrounding and Vis itors Are Impressed Partic ularly by Good Koads. VANCOUVER, Wash., May 6. (Spe cial) Here, In sight of the place where the waters of the Willamette mingle with the waters ot the Columbia, a mighty outpouring of people this morn, ins gave evidence of their delight over tho completion of the Celilo Canal and crave optimistic utterance to their be lief thRt the new waterway will aid materially in building; a bigger and busier Vancouver and a more populous and more productive Clarke County. These canal celebrations have been ptacrod this werk in turnn, beginning on Monday, with l-ewlston, at the head of navigation, and working down to this point this morning, when it was Van couver's turn. But Vancouver grew impatient awaitingr its turn- Its resi dents and those of the neighboring c-ountrvslde made the occasion a holi day. Business in Vancouver was sus pended. The festival fleet, which figured in the formal dedicatory exercises at Ce lilo yesterday, was not due to arrive here until 10:S0 and everyone in Van couver know ff, but that didn't keep anyono at home after 8 o'clock. As early as that the streets were comfort ably filled. An hour later the whole mass of humanity started to move riverward like so many Kuropean sol diers commanded by a stern general. Incline Late In Arriving. There the crowd good-naturedly waited. The Undine, flagship of the fleet, wan nearly half an hour late, but the people were not impatient. In frtend, they set up u demonstration at tho appointed hour. Just the same as if tho vessel actually whs tiring up to the dock. They continued it until the Undine turned the corner of the lane, in tho river many miles up the stream. Then they arhled whole volumes of sound to tho noise, already deafening. Numerous smaller motor craft started up stream to greet the flagship. Admiral Gray, commander of the fleet, from the pilot-house smiled a broad smile and waved a hard fist in kind of acknowledgment, of tho joyous welcome. But Vancouver was not satisfied with a mere welcome. It insisted on a. real reception. It gave attractive expresion to its cordial sentiments by r regular college yell, administered by a group of school children. T-ach Rotable f.urat Welcomed. Then came tho business of unloading the vessel. As oon as the various state and l-'cderal officials, who have been making their homo on the Undine for nearly a week, wero safely deliv ered on shore, a parade was started through the principal business streets to Vancouver'.-! beautiful city park, where giant fir trees afforded shade and protection tor the thousands who by this time were beginning to swelter in the midday sun. Peter J. lTlynn was grand marshal of tho parade. A batallion of soldiers from Vancouver Barracks the school children, distin guished visitors and citizens in auto mobiles completed the line. At the speaking stand in the park, W. P. Connawiy, president of the Com mercial Club, took charge. lie instant ly aroused the good humor of his audi ence by introducing tho notables pres ent in turn. Kach, as his name was called, arose, so that tho public might see. Admiral Gray, Mrs. Jacobs, the only survivor of the Whitman massacre, Captain Hosford, of the Undine; Senator Jones, Senator Poindexter, Represen tative Humphrey, Senator Lane, CJov ernor Withycombe, Representative Mc Arthur, Kx-Governor SIcConnell, of Idaho, were Introduced, -one after the other and the crowd it seemed, would wear blisters on their hands in ap plauding. Good RoaiU Advocated. Mayor Uvans, of Vancouver, added further to the pleasure of tho as semblage by announcing that the 'Speeches would ho short, and they were. Governor Withycombe reiterated his utterances of earlier in tho week, that the people, now that the canal has been built, must provide themselves with goo,) roads so that they can haul their products to tho edge of the water. More than 100 students from the stato school for the deaf, which is located near Vancouver, were present, nni as the speakers delivered their addresses. Professor Clark and Pro lessor Lloyd interpreted their remarks in tho sign language. A large party from the state blind school also at tended. Following the speaking a battalion from the Twenty-lirst infantry, under command of Major Wilson Chace gave tin exhibition drill from Butts' manual to music. This was one of tho mo-, entertaining features of the entire week of celebrations. Country Seen From Motors. Waiting automobiles then took the visitors through tho productive grain and orchard districts near Vancouver, and most of them were thoroughly im pressed with the nature of the roads in Clarke County. The hard-surfaced high ways were especially admired. The stay ot the Admiral's party in Vancouver was made additionally de lightful by the attentions of a group of high school girls, under direction of Sirs, Frank E. Hodgkin. Every visitor was presented with a bqutonniere of roses. The dock in Vancouver at which the Undine tied up is historic from the fact that it is the place at which the ocean going vessel Beaver in 1836 fitted her self with the machinery that made her the first steam-operated vessel on the Columbia. Tho Beaver was fitted out in London as a sailing vessel. She car ried her engines and her paddle wheels in her hold and made the change when she came to the site of the present-day Vancouver. Potential Greatness Pointed Oat. Vancouver residents declare that to day's event is equally historic. They point out that Vancouver is at the head of navigation for ocean-going vessels in the Columbia. They declare that with additional development in the river channel between the mouth of the Willamette unci their city, which is a distance of only a few miles, the blsrgest freighters of the Pacific can cull at their port. They declare now that the canal is built, it will be possible to haul wheat from the interior country at the lowest possible rates, to Vancouver, that they will erect mills there to- grind it into flour and that by means of the ocean carriers they will ship flour to all parts of the world. Friend This is a nice studio you have. Is, tho rent high? Artist 1 don't remember. - :4 2d W pr-H -""" nFI' '! lllllMlllilllilllihmt'igfiWi'iMtfigm ' I'PrKH GUVEH.VOIt fllTHlCOMBH A 1XU CRAFT GREET UNDINE Sirens Loudly Welcome Flag ship of Celilo Fleet. PARADE IS MILE LONG KJreboats Discharge Water Arch, Through Which Vessel Passes Kscorteil by Myriad of Uig and Little Harbor Vessels. Portland harbor yesterday arternoon extended a joyous welcome home to the steamer Undine and the other river craft that had participated in the up river celebrations incident to the com pletion of the Celilo Canal. Never did the waterfront turn out a more demonstrative throng and never did the river craft present a more united effort to welcome the flagship. From the mouth of the Willamette to Oregon City the river demonstration was spread. Tho Undine lay at Vancouver until nearly 1 o'clock, but as early as 12 o'clock scores of small motor craft plied through the lower harbor, sput tering and screaming excitedly in their effort to express their pleasure over the Celilo project. When the Undine finally rounded into the Willamette from the Columbia .she found a whole flotilla of escorts. Bach ono tried to outdo the other in its endeavor to give a fitting welcome to dmiral Gray, his passengers, and his crew. Oregon City Pleet Welcomes. When the ?iead of the pageant reached the Broadway bridge the ves sels that had participated In the cere monies at Oregon City earlier in the day joined the line. The nreboats David Campbell and George H. Williams gave a spectacular demonstration that was one of the pret tiest seen on the river in many a day. They steamed along the water's edge, one on either side, at the time throwing forceful streams of water toward the center of the river, thus forming sort of an arch through which the Undine moved majestially. The sun was beat ing down from overhead in mid-Summer fashion and at the point where the flreboat spray met the river surface picturesque rainbows were formed. The wind, too, was doing a brisk business and at times the spray from the gush ing fire Sghters was carried back and fell upon the Undine passengers like a gentle, rain. But so cheered were all with the sight that they suffered the dampness rather than seek shelter. Crowds Swarm to See. From every available viewpoint on the river, throngs crowded and swarmed for a vantage point to witness the river pageant. Every member of the Porf land Motorboat Club who had a launch was on the river and each had a great deal to do with making it one ot the most successful river parades ever held on the Willamette. The parade, led by the steamer Un dine, was more than a mile in length. Three patrol boats were out, the Har vey. W. Scott. Harbor Patrol and Fred Failing's Sabrina, and all carried either customs officials or members of the harbor patrol. One pleasing feature was, the fact that the boats docked tn time to start the street parade promptly at 3 o'clock. as HURKSSI i CROW l AT ttl'V I'VHIv. FLAGSHIP I'AUI.Mi I i'0. 1IKU Alt HI The manner in which the boats lined up at the start eliminated danger of commotion over obtaining pliices in the parade. . Signal Starts Craft. Before the Celilo fleet hove in sight, members of the Harbor Tatrol had no tified the captains of tho waiting Port land vescvls when to heave 'to and at a signal all moved into position. Kvery boat was decorated, cither with flags and bunting, or flowers and evergreens. - Banners- on most of the boats designated the delegation aboard. More than 20 boats made up the direct line but nearly 100 dotted the AVlllam ette during the parade. As the leaders passed the Municipal UocK ro. 1 the cruiser Boston fired a salute and the Undine responded by shooting a small cannon carried near the pilot-house. The "shells" from the Undine exploded in the air and from them came balloons of many fantastic shapes. The queens of the Celilo Canal cere bration AVednesday had been taken to Oregon City early yesterday morning by members of the Portland Motorboat Club to participate in the transfer of the Oregon City locks to the Govern ment. After remaining in tho Tipper Willamette town until 1 o'clock all were -brought back in time to taKc their positions in tho street parade. . Through George J. Kelly, secretary and treasurer of the Portland Motor boat Club, and Kenneth Beebe, commo dore of the club fleet, the boats Sylph, Wunderlust and Mildred If. were ob tained to take the maids to Oregon City. Craft Ileautlfnlly Decorated. Many of tho wharves, notably the St. Johns municipal dock, were elabo rately decorated for the river parade. The steamer G. K. Went worth, in the lower harbor, also had on her holiday attire. Tho lumber mills at Linnton blew their engine whistles in salute as the Undine passed by. Passing loco motives on nearby railroads added to the din. The gas plant and the plants of the oil companies between Portland and Linnton also blew their whistles in a series of welcoming salutes. Among the decorated riverboats in line were the J. X. Teal, the Georeri- anna. the Ocklahama, the Shaver, tlx. iiiinsinger. tne cascades, the Sabrina. the X. R. Lang, the Ruth, the Hender son, the Grahamona, the Woodland, the Oregona, the Pronto and the Game Cock. FREE METHODISTS ELECT Kev. W. X. Coffee and Key. P. L. Burns Kept as Presiding Klders. Rev. W. N. Coffee and Rev. F. L Burns were re-elected presiding elders at the Oregon Conference of the Free .t idist Church yesterday morning at th meeting held in the First Church, East Ninth and East Mill streets. They will be asigned to their districts later. Rev. Mr. Coffee was elected minls erial delegate and D. M. Cathey dele gate to the World's Conference, in Chi cago in June. At 10 o'clock an address was given by Secretary Fox, of the Prohibition party, in which he set forth the pur pose of that organization in the fu ture. Bishop Pearce occupied the last 15 minutes of the morning session with an address to the ministers and lay men full of suggestions for their work. - Sea-to-Sea Telephone Open. LOS AXGELES, May 6. Transcon tinental telephone service between Los Angeles and New York was opened to day with a conversation between Mayor Henry Rose, of this city, and Acting Mayor McAneny, of New York. . Teacher Johnny, mention one re spect in which Mexico is superior to the United States. Johnny Her former Presidents don't write for the magazines. e sf- f. LOW Kit WRT UK tHOttl) UHEET. VAL. ASTORIA ALL READY Plans Made for Finale of Week's Canal Celebration. SIDE TRIPS ARE ARRANGED Sessions or Columbia and Snake Itiver Waterways Convention AVill.IJc Held Tonight and Tomorrow for liusiiicss. ASTORIA, or.. May . 6. (Special.) The week of continuous celebrations in honor of the formal opening of the Celilo Canal will culminate at Astoria with the annual convention of the Co lumbia and Snake River Waterways convention, which will bo convened here tomorrow night with the sessions and festivities continuing until Sun day night. The visiting delegates will arrive from Portland on tho steamer Georgl ana tomorrow afternoon. They will be greeted by the reception committee and escorted to the Weinhard Hotel for din ner, and an informal reception. Cap tain William P. Gray, of Pasco, presi dent of the association, will preside at the opening session and addresses will be made by a number of the visiting delegates from all sections of the Co lumbia River Basin. Early Saturday morning scores of au tomobiles will take the visitors to the various points ' of interest about the city and vicinity, including visits to' the municipal wharves and the new Hill terminals at Flavel. Returning to As toria for luncheon, the delegates will go on board the lighthouse tender Man zanita and be taken on a trip across the bar and to the lightship outside the heads, for a view of the lower harbor, the north and south jetties and the dredge Chinook at work deepening the channel across the shoal. Saturday night the second and final session of the convention will be held and on Sunday morning there will be an automobile trip to Cannon Beach. After luncheon at the Warrenton Hotel, the party will stop at Seaside and Gear hart. Quite a number of the visitors are expected to leave for their homes Sunday night, while others will con tinue their trip by water to San Fran cisco and San Diego. DR. WILSON OPERATED ON Methodist Minister Declared Doing Well at Good Samaritan Hospital. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, former Portland pastor and now secretary of the temperance work of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was operated on at the Good Samaritan Hospital yesterday morning for appendicitis and was said to be resting well last night. Dr. Wilson arrived in Portland to be operated on about a week ago. hav ing suffered an attack of appendicitis while he was delivering a series of ad dresses tn Massachusetts. Since his ar rival in this city he has been resting In preparation for the operation. It is ixpeciod that Dr. Wilson will be in the hospital 10 days or a couple of weeks. The operation was performed by Dr. Otis Akin. Copynxht But Schaffsei t Mars JUNIOR POLICE MARCH BOYS FORM I5f LINE OX SIDKS OK SCHOOL CH1LDRKX. Chief Forrest Bennett Leads Juvenile Officer Members to Be T.krn In t Wednesday Xlgnt Srialon, The Junior Folice of Portland yes terday took part in the Celilo celebra tion parade in a practical as well as decorative way. The members of the organization met at their headquar ters, 232 Chamber of Commerce build ing, and there formed in line with the school children to keep the spectators from crossing between the lines. They were led by Junior l'olice Chief Forrest Bennett. Those inarching were Captain Herbert Davis. Sergeants Rob ert Gessell and Slgmond Ablowitz. Offi cers James Sumner. Norman Buoy, lad die Andrews. Garfield Madden, Rudolph Lawson. am Soloman. Kverett Glas cock, Charles Johnson, Adolph Wtnter halder. Ernest Rohlfing, Lee 1'ierce and Roland McBride. They dispersed at the park above the La.di School and there posed for thMr pictures. The Junior Police wcr appointed to march in the parade by Chief of Police Clark and Captain Moore, who are tak ing active interest in the boys. Any boy wishing to join the Junior Police should be at the Junior Police meeting Wednesday evening. May 12 at 7:30 o'clock. Applicants must be at least five feet four inches tall and 15 years old. SMOKING PETITION IGNORED Commissioner Daly Opposes Irlvi' leges on Streetcars. Request of 7500 persons that the City Coi;nciI amend the city's smoking ordi nance so as to permit smoking on the three rear seats of open (streetcars was ignored yesterday by Commissioner Daly when he recommended to tho City Council that the proposal "receive no further consideration." So far the only consideration it has had has been that arlven it by Mr. Daly. Petitions were circulated by" local business men and others and were signed by many women as well as men asking that the smoking ordinance be amended. Commissioner Daly says the request is without reason. His recom mendations will be considered by the Council next Wednesday. VERDICT REGARDED JUST Law son Conviction Will Aid Mining Industry, Says Denver La jer. Of much interest to John H. Fry, an attorney of Denver now In Portland on business connected with irrigation mat ters in Lake County, is the recent ver dict of the jury in the Lawson case. In which the labor leader was found The world has known what Cottolene is for over a quarter of a century Cottolene established a class of its own over a generation ago. Cottolene was in the front rank of the great movement for bettering house hold service and for improving food products. Its manufacture and its constituents are as well known as the simplest things done in every kitchen. The cottonseed oil in Cottolene is pressed from selected seed it is a grade, so choice that it is not listed on the market. It is purer, sweeter and better in food value than most salad oils. The beef stearine is the product of the finest leaf beef suet known. , It is the exact combination of these two fats which gave Cottolene its high place over a quarter of a century ago, and which has held this place for it. Cottolene is economical, 1 a r it (juauiy uiu uavui ui an luuua uxjkcu wiui iu Your grocer has Cottolene now Tell your grocer you want a pail now ; arrange with him for your regular weekly supply. Write to our General Offices, Chicago, for oar real cook book HOME HELPS "free. THE N H FA1 PRANK COMPANY! Hart Schaffner, -.Marx v o y Clothes are made for you; the styles are the newest, fabric of the newest weaves, and of all wool and silk and wool texture. ' Whatever you may want, we have it. We offer you remarkable val ues at $25; some more, some less. Sam,l Rosenblatt & Co. The Men's Shop for Quality and Service guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Mr. Fry sail he thinks the verdict is a just one and that it will have the effect of strengthening iaw and order in, that state, which for years has suf fered from labor troubles. "This verdict will mean a lot to the development of mining and industry in Colorado, said Mr. Fry. "The people there are strongly in favor of putting down the elements of disorder, as was shown at the election last November.' when law and order candidates were elected." 2 HIT BY PAINT ASK PAY Girls Say Clothes Were Ruined by Accident on Ilridsc. Two girls. whose clothes were splashed with - black paint when a bucket fell froni the Morrison-street bridge on April US, have demanded that the county pay for their clothes, wl.ieh they declare were ruined. The girls are Miss Kmma Smith, cinploved by the J. K. GUI Company, and Miss Dora l.aughlin, employed by th; George Lawrence Comnanv. Miss Smith asks for T-i2.no as dam- J ages to her clothes. "Astdo from the discomfiture and humiliation I suf fered." she said in her letter to tlio Commissioners, "I was half an hour late for work and my cloihes were en tirely ruined." Miss Laughlin asks for $2S.ri0 ns damages to her clothes, and hr em ployer added a noto saying he believed tho girl's claim was a Just one. COMMITTEES ARE CHOSEN Chamber of Commerce Directors Name Standing Hoards. In addition to election of officers for the new Chamber of Commerce for tht coming year, the hoard of directors has named the standing committees which will have charge of the affairs of the orga nizalion. The personnel of these standing com mittees follow: Finance and budget committee, K. 1 Thompson, chairman: J- C. Ainswortli. W. F. Woodward. Fmery Olmstcad, John T. Dougall. U. M. Clark, Guy W. Talbot, L A. Lewis, 11. K. Reed, Edgar B. Piper. Membership committee, A. G. Labbe, 1 i . I 1 I . . ii v - ( , , chell, K. IX Timms, C. C. Clupman. House coininiLLee, J. l. v.runan, uintu- Nathan Strauss and Dean Vincent. RAT KILLER IS WANTED Washington l'ark Superintendent I-'accs Dfficult Problem. A liberal reward awaits tho person who will show Park Superintendent Convill how rats can be exterminated at Washington Park zoo. Kvery means of killing the rodents which overrun the zoo has failed, so mSw outside .ad vice is sought. Superintendent Convill says some of but better than that it actually improves the -""Jf .fww r i i i :.t ' ' -1! "Cottolene makes good cooking better Northwest Corner Third and Morrison the' rats are as large as monkeys. They cannot be poisoned, bcfiusc thtry might, be eaten by some of the zoo aninmls. They cannot be shot, b'rausi: of Hie daiiscr of fhootlng in tho prk. and they are too wrli fed to be coaxed into traps. The zoo loses about one fruln'-: pig and two or three canary birds to tho rats each day. Washington Hon ill to Vir.it Jrcj on . OI.VMITA. Wash.. May 6. iKpccinl.j The Washington hoard of control !i. day went to Vancouver and will in .-i K a side trip to Snlt m to inspt- t (In m v insane lio.-pita! buildings. These may be taken as model for tli new Imibj ings t the Northern hoplt:il at sv.Jro Woolly. for which tlio Lvgislaturu bi liropriatffi 2i!0.0Ot. Look Down on the World from the eagle's home, n ee below you peaks a-dazJe and cool feen vslleyn, in The Canadian Rockies Mountain rlimbinr;, with real Swi cuide is one of many recreationsofleredat thrCanadian Pacific hotels at Cllacier, f ield. Lake Louise, Han IT. Tate the delightful circle tour throuch these mountains, via Kootenay Lake. Reached only by the Canadian Pacific Railway Thii tour mnr Inrhide n 1M mile Itont trill nn Cliff t oiind. tail or write tor Booklet No. 1124. Tka th 1000 Mil Alka Boat Trip. Srnd fur Booklet No. ij4 . J. V. MURPHY. G. A P. D. Canadian Pacific Railway. - S3 Third Strrat. , muoi Men's VaIk-()v $3.00 Grades..-.. $3.50 Grades.... $4.00 Grades..... $3.00 Grades.... .J)8c I. IS l.!S 'Z. IS VV RIGHT'S. Altlcr. Corner Fourth and sift?! ii