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ATCHILDSPECTAGLE
Governor Calls Multnomah
Field School Pageant 'Most
Inspiring Sight.'
DrRECTOR KROHN CHEERED
C500 Portland Pupils Marcli on in
Regiments and Crowd Goes Wild
at Beautiful Drills and
Dances of May Festival.
DRILLS TO BE REPEATED.
Portland will have another op
portunity to view the beautiful
May Festival which was given by
6500 school children on Multno
mah field yesterday afternoon.
Robert Krohn last night an
nounced that the drills will be re
peated as a Rose Festival feature
on the afternoon of Friday,
June 8.
After the exhibition yesterday
there was an immediate demand
that it be repeated as a special
added attraction of the Festival.
O. M. Flummer, representative of
the Board of Kdueation on the
directorate of the Rose Festival,
approved of the plan, and with
his sanction Mr. Krohn an
nounced the decision to give it
again.
BY BEN I1CB LAMPMAS.
A surge of murmur beat against the
roof of the great grandstand at Mult
nomah Field yesterday afternoon. It
was the anticipatory gossip of the
thousands assembled to witness the
May Festival, enacted on the earthen
stage by 65U0 children of Portland's
public schools.
People poured through the entrances
in a sustained stream gay folks, seri-
ous folks, gray-haired, the middle-ged
and the youthful as though all Fort
land would respond to the call of chil
dren at frolic in merry May. They
filled the stand, they flanked the field,
in deep platoons of eager spectators.
' A squad of schoolboy aides, white
'. shirted and alert, escorted them to their
seats.
"Before the audience lay -Multnomah
' Field, a great slate upon which was
drawn the white-chalked lines of the
puzzle that the city's children were to
'." solve in rhythmic and beautiful motion.
: At either end of the field stood the
'Maypoles, 2f of them, fluttering with
4 streamers of delicate rose, and topped
- with greenery and great bouquets of
" early roses.
Regimcntn March In.
Someone clapped their hands, and it
: grew to a tumult of applause. Led by
two bravely trudging color bearers, the
vanguard of school children was en
tering the field. The black stockings
, ' of the boys and ttie white ones of their
little consorts twinkled in perfect
marching time. Regiment after regi
ment marched in. took its station and
came to a halt with its own color bearer
, at the fore. Kaeh child bore a wand
at "present arms."
Then It was noticed as the white
" ranks took form that Multnomah Field
. had become a garden of forget-me-nots,
for each little girl wore a hair ribbon
of that very same blue. Robert Krohn,
supervisor of physical training in the
Portland school and genius of the May
. Festival, ran across the field to the plat
form from which he was to animate the
- waiting ranks, already stamping with
. eagerness. A cheer greeted him.
He called an order and the ranks ad-
vanced straight toward the stand. They
came to a halt, and their captains,
; teachers of the various schools, walked
forward and left them. Another order
-c and the close formation resolved itself
into long lines like flowers planted
7- with -a drill. Then McElroy's band
burst into lively tune and the field
' was a. perfectly timed sea of movement.
EvoludoiiH Are Intricate.
Through intricate . evolutions they
went, with dramatic instants when the
. girls sank on one knee, their wands up
raised in both hands, and the boys
faced them in fencing posture with a
click of meeting wands. And there
- were other figures, a bewildering num
" ber of them, but that which woke the
spectators to greatest applause was the
crossing of the wands, with the young
; -, actors facing each other in postures of
; grace. And many of the little boys, it
must be confessed, smiled at the little
girls, and were repaid in kind.
The children of the wand drill left
. the field at a quickstep. In a line that
... hemmed three sides of the field. Be
fore the last had marched through the
. gate ot exit, tne entrance to the field
was again streaming with a column of
. children. The girls of this contingent
wore red riDbons in their hair, and the
- - forget-me-not formation was replaced
by a crimson poppy field. And the
poppy field was the taller, for the boys
and girls of the Indian club drill were
from older classes.
The 1600 came upon the field in col
umns of two, boys to the right and girls
to the left, with the colors flying be-
rore eacn company. . Before the stand
the ranks parted. At the shouted order
of Mr. Krohn they crouched swiftly and
, laid the clubs crossed at their feet. An
other order and the cap of each boy
' was on the ground beside him. Yet an
. . other, and the clubs caught up the
drill was on. It was a compelling sight,
those thousands of tossing arms with
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the clubs weaving a pattern that did
not vary over all the field. The ath
letes were cheered again and again, un
til Mr. Krohn laughingly suggested
that they might find 'time to go over
it again." Two motion picture cameras
made film of the spectacle, as of all the
other drills.
Governor I Prnentrd.
The poppy garden blew away, and
in its stead blossomed a hedge of
wild rose, advancing in formation of
fours. The boys and girls of the rose
hedge waited but a moment, while Mr.
Krohn introduced School Superintend
ent Alderman, who in turn announced
that he had the pleasure of presenting
the Governor of Oregon. At both pres
entations the cheering was vociferous
and long.
Governor Withycombe tactfully ac
knowledged the introduction without
delaying the pageant.
"This is the most Inspiring sight I
have ever seen," he declared simply.
"Every Oregonian should be proud of
our coming citizens."
Then came - a calesthenlc drill, in
which 3000 pupils took part. At the
prompting gestures from the directors'
platform their bodies swept lithely and
gracefully through evolutions of strik
ing beauty. They touched the tips of
their fingers to earth, then rose with
the finger tips meeting above their
heads: they wheeled and stooped, and
the field became a solid drift of white.
Through an intricacy of drill they
followed the director"without faltering,
and many a figure roused the audience
to prolonged enthusiasm. During the
drill McElroy's band played a medley,
and its conclusion was the tripping,
patriotic air of "Yankee Doodle." Each
girl and boy struck a posture, with
handkerchiefs tossing, over the entire
field, and vented a cheer that had more
of genuineness than training in it.
3Ia-poIe llanrr Beelnt.
As these trooped from the entrance,
color-bearers took their stations at in
tervals about the field, and the girls
of the Maypole dance took possession.
They were dressed in white, with
blouse-bows and hair ornaments of,
fluffy pink chiffon. They advanced in
lines of 16. with clasped hands, their'
teacher and instructor in the center.
Bearers entered the field with May
poles, placing them in symmetrical
fashion
That which followed was an episode
from fairyland to the thousands who
witnessed it. Across the field skipped
the visions of pink and white. They
ringed the posts, dancing magic circles.
They knelt before the symbol of the
waking year to pay their homage. In
graceful play they saluted one another.
With arms akimbo they postured, then
joined hands and circled the Maypole
in rollicking dance.
They parted, greeting again with up
raised hands that met in air with
friendly spats, multipliied into ringing
sound. Their circle reformed and
closed about the Maypole, gradually
widening, then receding. Each 'dance
was a thing of beauty in itself, and
there were I!.". Maypoles on the field.
At the conclusion of the "Swedish
Klap Dance" the winding of the May
poles began. Tn ajid ont wove the
girls, and the white pole was dressed,
in a raoric fashioned from the stream
ers of pink and green. Again they
knelt before the Maypoles. There had
been music throughout, but the great
audience knew it only as u part of the
perfect entity. Now they were aware
of an air that brought them, the thou
sands of them, to their feet, the men
with uncovered heads. It was "The
Red. White and Blue."
Band Plays "Dixie."
For a moment tney stood thus, the
field of kneeling girls before them,
the'n the band swung into "Dixie." the
girls sprang up, the ribbons rapidly un
wound, and the May festival was over.
The following Portland schools parti
cipated in the spectacle: Couch. Davis,
Chapman, Vernon, Wood lawn, Kennedy,
t'ortsmouth. Peninsula, Central, Aorth,
Albina Homestead, Thompson, Shaver,
Holladay, Irvington, I-ernwood, Eliot.
Montavilla, Kerns, Rose City, Haw
thorne. Sunnyside. Buckman, Sellwood,
Llewellyn, Brooklyn. Stephen, Clinton
Kelly, Woodstock, Creston. Woodmere,
Lents, Arleta, Hoffman, Ladd, Ains
worth. Multnomah, Shattuck. Holman,
Failing, Terwilliger, Fulton Park,
Ockley Green, Highland. Kenton, East,
Mount Tabor, 31encoe, Richmond.
The May Festival was under the
supervision of Robert Krohn, super
visor of physical training. Others in
charge were R. II. Thomas, field direc
tor: A. R. Draper, director of forma
tions; L. A. Wiley, director of columns;
E. T. Stretcher, director of assembling.
The pupils were trained in accom
paniment with music by McElroy's
Band and School Superintendent Alder
man pays the highest tribute to the
assistance of that organization. The
School of Trades' Band attended, and
played a number of appreciated selec
tions. TILLAMOOK HIGH ELECTS
Juniors Win Content unci Seat lcl
niar Powers, President.
TILLAMOOK. Or.. May 17. (Special.)
Student body officers for next year
were elected yesterday at the Tilla
mook High School: Delmar Powers,
president; Clark Kmbum, vice-president:
Lee Ioty, manager, and Misa
Neva Maddux, secretary. The office of
manager was recently created to handle
all student body enterprises, and to
centralize the business of the school.
These officers are all juniors in the
school this year, the three sophomores.
August Boquist, Charles Lamb and
Lowell Edwards, who were nominated,
receiving about a third of the votes,
but looming up as promising candi
dates for next year.
THOUSANDS THRONG TO MULTNOMAH FIELD WHERE PRESENTATION OF MAY FESTIVAL SPECTACLE
WAS GIVEN BY 6500 PORTLAND SCIIOOI CHILDREN.
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A View of the Raw Land Newaukum Tracts
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Oregonian, 5:18-16
David P. Eastman,
1308 Third Avenue, Seattle.
Mail Free Booklet, Lewis Co., to
Name
Address
GOES UP
O.-W. II. & M. OFFICIAL CIIOSKiV AU
IJITOll OK PACIFIC COAST CO.
Career llenun In 18U7 as Office Hoy,
and Advance lu Railroading?
Have Come Itapldly.
II. M. Watkins. who nas been assist
ant auditor of the O.-W. R. & N. Com
pany since 1913. will leave the service
of the company on May 20 to become
auditor of the Pacific Coast Company,
with headquarters at Seattle.
The Pacific Coast Company operates
steamship lines along: the Pacific Coast
from Alaska to Mexico, railroads in
the states of California and Washing
ton, and extensive coal mining interests
in the vicinity of Seattle. J. D. Farrell,
president of the O.-W. R. & X. Com
SOOO PI IMtS TOOK PART; 0'K POSTI
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MAIL
pany, is a director of the Pacific Coast
Company.
Mr. Watkins entered the service of
the O.-W. It. & N. Company as an uffice
boy in 1S97. and. with the exception of
about one year, when he was in charge
of the bureau of material and property
for the Isthmian Canal Commission, his
entire service has been with Union
Pacific system lines. He was' appoint
ed auditor of freight accounts of the
O.-W. R. & N. Company in 1910, and
in January, 1912, went to Omaha as
assistant auditor of the Union Pacific,
returning to Portland in the Fall of
the same year to become assistant au
ditor of the O-..-W. R. & N. Company.
Xxr. Watkins' successor has not yet
been named.
Vancouver Man Is Delegate.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. May 17. (Spe
cial.) James O. Blair, County Attor
ney of Clarke County and delegate to
the convention! of the Woodmen of the
World, held at Centralia today, was
elected delegate to the National con
vention of the Woodmen of the World,
to be held in Denver in July.
RB OF TI1K MANY THAT STIRRED
The more markets you have the
easier you sell your products at
the highest prices.
LEWIS COUNTY
the center of 1,000,000 people
The Finished Farm on the Pacific
as Level as It Looks
TRANSPORTATION
About three hours' ride from Seattle or Portland with 18 passenger trains daily. The Newaukum Farm
Tracts (of 1000 acres sold in 20-40-acre tracts or more) have the Best Transportation in the Northwest with
the lowest freight rates. All the big markets are open to the Napavine farmer.
Prices $40 an acre to $75 an acre, with some cleared land. Terms: 10 cash, 50c an acre monthly at 6
per annum. Land easily cleared without capital. The best clay loam soil, with running water. No irriga
tion needed! See the land now! Go direct to Napavine. Napa vane Office open daily, including Sunday.
You can make round trip from Portland or Seattle select your tract in one day.
DAVID P. EASTMAN, 1308 3d Ave., Seattle
10D MIXUP KEY HELD
DISMISSED CITV EMPLOYK OFFERS
INFORMATION FOR JOB.
C. I Chrintrniirn Drclnrea He Will
Cilve Namca of Offendera If He
la IteinMatrd.
If City Commissioner Bigelow Is
willing to reinstate C. E. Chrlsterwsen
into the city service he will throw
some light on the question of what be
came of the 1100 cords of wood which
have been missed from the city's wood
pile, according to a promise made yes
terday by Mr. Christensen. He says he
knows that cart of the wood was stolen
and he also says he knows the name
of the offender.
Mr. Christensen wks formerly chief
clerk of the municipal free employment
bureau and was dropped from the serv
ice last Fall when the bureau was re
organized. He says the city failed to
treat him right and for that reason
he has refused to disclose what he
knows about the wood, unless the city
is willing to make amends for the
wrong he declares was done him. The
proposition will be put up to Commis
sioner Bigelow probably today.
Other statements have been made to
the effect that residents along Linn
ton road will be willing to swear tc
statements that some of the wood was
stolen from where it was stacked along
Linnton road. It is declared by these
people that no watchman was kept at
the woodpile at times, and that people
helped themselves.
PERS0NALMENTI0N.
H. D. Vaughan, of Kelso, is at the
Eaton.
C. L. Russell, of Spokane, Is at the
Oregon.
S. A. Miller, of Milton, is at the
Perkins.
M. J. Allen, of Hillsboro, is at the
Perkins.
Dean Hayes, of Eugene, is at the
Portland.
J. M. Corbett, of Seaside, Is at the
Nortonia.
W. C. Young, of Seattle, is at the
Nortonia.
O. C. Shaw, of San Francisco, Is at
the Eaton.
L. c. Edwards, of Sumpter. is at
the Oregon.
Fred W. Heman. of Rainier, is at
the Imperial.
L. N. Parks, of Yreka. Cal.. is at
the Portland.
W. J. Machette. of Kelso, is registered
at the Eaton.
H. A. Macaulay, of Astoria, is at
the Cornelius.
F. C. Stewart, of Kelso, is registered
at the Oregon.
R. R, Blddle, of Eugene, is registered
at the Perkins.
J. H. Ackerman, president of the
iiiig as a Business
Highway, Lewis County, Near
Newaukum Farm
Tracts at Napavine
on the main double track
line, half way between
Seattle and Portland.
The Land lies between the Rail
roads and the Pacific Highway
Oregon State Normal School, Mon
mouth, is at the Seward.
L. B. Davis, of Salem, is registered
at the Imperial.
C. M. Baker, of Bend, is registered
at the Imperial.
C. A. Barton, of Boise, is registered
at the Portland.
Dr. A. E. Clarke, of Victoria, B. C. is
at the Portland.
K. C. Rand, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, is
at the Nortonia.
Mr. and Mrs.' II. Kelly, of Dayton, are
at the Cornelius.
B. C. Harrison, of Eugene, is reg
istered at the Seward.
J. Q. . Gruver, of Kalama, is regis
tered at the Nortonia.
J. E. Johnson, of Fort Canby, is reg
istered at the Oregon.
T. H. Ganette, of Joseph, is regis
tered at the Cornelius.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Day, of Pendle
ton, are at the Imperial.
Charles C. Gumbert, of Roseburg. Is
registered at the Perkins.
C. A. Smith, a merchant of Astoria,
is registered at the Seward.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Johnson, of Eu
gene, are at the Cornelius.
Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Noble, of Poca
tello. Idaho, are at the Eaton.
Mr. and Mrs. C H. Stockwell. of
Clatskanie. are at the Seward.
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Newaukum Farm Tracts
CITY TO APPEAL JUDGMENT
V
Council Thinks $3000, Not $8000,
Is Liberal Offer for Property. ,
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The city will appeal from the judg
ment of Circuit Judge Gantenbein, in
which Charles Schmid received $8000
for property he has at Sixteenth and
Washington streets, which is needed
for the widening of Washington street
at that point. The City Council yester
day authorized City Attorney La Hoc he
to appeal the case.
The city has held that a, payment of
$3000 for the property would be lib
feral. City Attorney LaRoche says he
believes a judgment nearer that figure
than $8000 can be obtained from the
higher court.
Freak Rose Found. B. II. Bowman.
535 Belmont street, -who has a large
collection of rose plants, many of them
just in bud, discovered among the per
fect beauties yesterday a freak rose,
one of the tea variety, with creamy
petals tinged with red and in the
center of the blossom two green bud..
Mr. Bowman takes a pride n his rosea
and is regarded as an expert in their
culture, but this freak, he declared
yesterday is "n new one on him."
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