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THE MORNING OKEGONIAN, TTJESDAY, SEPTE3IBETI 5, 1910.
SCHOOLS OPENED"
WITH FEW POPILS
Attendance Less Than Half
That of Last Year, Due to
i: Labor Day Registration.
DATE PROVES ILL CHOSEN
Opening Accomplishes Little, as
Children Could Not Secure
Books, and Work Will Be
, Bone Over Today.
Opening; of Portland's public schools
on Labor day did not make for large
attendance. Enrollment In the major
ity of the city schools yesterday was
from 40 to 60 per cent less than at the
first day 'of school a year ago.
Disapproval of labor unions and their
sympathizers was directly responsible
for the small number who responded to
the call of learning:. The depleted at
tendance was more marked In the
grammar schools than the high schpols.
Hop fields claimed many young peo
ple, but this would not account for
the low mark of attendance compared
to last year, for the hop fields had
their quota then, too.
In the official reports received by
Bchool Superintendent Alderman last
night. attendance in 62 Portland
schools yesterday totaled 11.916, com
pared with an attendance of 21,937 for
the same schools for the first day of
the 1915-18 school year. Eight schools
had not reported last night. They
were the Brooklyn, Creston, Holladay.
Mount Tabor, Peninsula, Richmond,
Bellwood and Woodmere schools,
which had, a year ago, an opening at
tendance of 3450 combined.
Classes Less Than Half FnlL
Schools where the attendance yester
day was less than one-half the mark
reached the year prior on opening day
were: Alblna, Homestead. Allen. Ar
leta, Buckman. Capitol Hill. Chapman.
Clinton Kelly, Bast. Eastmoreland,
Eliot. Fulton Park, Glencoe. Glenhaven,
Gregory Heights. Hoffman. Hudson.
Kenton. Lents. Llewellyn. Montavilla.
Ockley Green, Portsmouth, Shaver,
Stephens, Terwilliger, Thompson, Ver
non, Woodlawn and Woodstock.
The high school registrations were
more complete, compared with last
year's record. For James John High
School there were 100 enrolled, com
pared to 107 last year; Franklin High,
51 compared to 402; Washington High.
788 compared to 117; Lincoln High,
789 compared to 1262. and Jefferson
High. 1111 compared to 131.
Two new schools opened yesterday
with a flourish. They were the new
Franklin High School, at East Twenty
ninth avenue and Fifty-fourth street,
end the new one-story Capitol Hill
Bchool. on the Oregon Electrlo line. A
portable school building was opened
at Laurelhurst with a registration of 27.
Few of the pupils were detained In
the classrooms more than half an hour.
They merely entered, registered, re
ceived book lists and left. Book stores
were not open yesterday. Most of the
work will have to be repeated today,
for none of the pupils who attended
yesterday will have their books unless
they get up early this morning to buy
them, and there will be as many again
who will hot even know what to get.
Registration In the schools last year
reached a final total of approximately
84.000. This year is expected to ex
ceed that mark.
Opening; Days Compared.
A table of attendance comparisons In
the schools for the first day of school
In 1915 and 1916 follows:
School 1816. 1915.
Ainsworth WJ 17.;
Alameda 40
Alblna Homestead 20J
Allen J
Arleta 1J 0.
Heaumont 2o IS
Benson Tech.. boys 134 229
Benson Tech.. e'rls 114 2TT
Brooklyn .................... .... 87
Buckman 179 8l4
Capitol Hill 21 BO
Central 220 400
Chapman 132 3i
Clinton Ke'.ly 280 603
Couch 478 629
Creston 840
Davis 109 2oa
Deaf 10 17
Bast 57 123
Kasunoreland 16 39
Eliot 194 435
Vail in 423 643
P'ernwood 197 316
Klorence Crlttenton ........... 12 18
Franklin High 251 403
1'razer Horn ................. 14 6
Fulton Park 1 -42
Olencbe ISO 357
Olenhaven 37 1Q6
OreKory Heights 16 53
Hawthorne 237 551
Highland 285 -561
Hoffman 10 277
Holladay 494
Holman 1G9 . 317
Hudson 48 103
lrvlngton .. 433 55n
James John High ............. 100 107
Jefferson Hign 1.111 1.314
Kennedy 113 187
Kenton 88 18U
TCerns z4 44
l.add 3T.9 667
Laurelhurst 27 ....
Lents 127 543
Lincoln High 7S9 1.24S2
Linnton ......... ........... . 104 140
Llewellyn t'l ISft
Montavilla coa 513
Mount Tabor 346
Multnomah 44 52
North 98 ISO
Ockley Green 535 607
Peninsula 829
Portsmouth .................. 122 3rt7
Klchmond .... 675
Itose City Park 276 437
Pellwood .................... .... 56i
Fhattuck 40CI 70O
Shaver S2 33B
Stephens 181 4O0
Cunnyside 419 es:t
Terwilliger 40 1B5
Thompson 275 616
Vernon 183 56
Washington High 781 1 177
M'illhrldge ft ' .
Woodlawn 193 "i7
"Woodmere ................... ... 400
Woodmock 1S2 353
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Totals 11.916 25,887
Eight schools unreported.
PERSONALMENTION.
J. R. Bond, of Newport, Is at the
Imperial.
J. Stohler. of Blsmark, N." D.. Is at
the Oregon.
Guy Brown, of Victoria, B. C, Is at
the Portland.
James Johnston, of Bend. Is regis
tered at the Oregon.
W. H. Davis, of Pendleton. Is regis
tered at the Imperial.
E. Dorbernann, of Cincinnati, is an
arrival at the Seward.
W. R. Alexander, of Seattle, is among
the arrivals at the Oregon.
George J. Stevens, of Eugene, is reg
istered at the Cornelius.
A. C. Bohrnstedt, of Salem, arrived
at the Imperial yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Walters, of Walla
Walla, are at the Seward.
J. A. Howard, of Albany, Is among
the arrivals at the Perkins.
E. d. Van Slyke, of Salem, is a re
cent arrival at the Perkins.
Mrs. J. R. Shaw and son. of Mill City,
are registered a., the Imperial.
Frank Buckholder, of Coqullle, Or,
arrived at the Nortonia yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Bloom are regis
tered at the Portland from Chicago.
W. V. Beyries, of San Francisco, la
on bis wax. home from an Eastern trip
with h I f amllyrThe -party-is regis
tared at the Seward.
J. A. Porter, of Brighton, Or., is
among the arrivals at the Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Gordon arrived at
the Seward yesterday from Pendleton.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Sanborn, of Sea
side, arrived at the Washington yester
day. Kathryn Woodruff and Lulu Dickson,
of Union, are registered at the Corne
lius. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Oran, of Fort
Canby. Wash., are registered at the
Nortonia.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hudson are reg
istered at the Portland from Washing
ton, D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Sullivan and Bam
Meyer, of Spokane, are registered at
the Oregon.
Allen E. Ransom, of Seattle, arrived
in the city yesterday. He Is registered
at the Oregon.
W. C. Everett, of the Pacific Chris
tian Advocate, Is registered at the
Seward from Dallas, Tex.
Mrs. C. A. Talbert, Mrs. A. R. Remick
and Miss M. Carr, of Kelso, Wash, are
registered at the Washington.
E. M. Burke and Mrs. P. J. Burke, of
Great Falls, Mont, were among the ar
rivals at the Portland yesterday.
W. W. Blxley, of Spokane, is at the
Cornelius with Mrs. L. R. Bixley and
Miss Helen Blxley, of Lawton, Okla.
Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Bennett arrived
In the city yesterday from Colton, Cat
They are registered at the Cornelius.
W. W. Calkins, a banker of Eugene,
motored down to Portland with his
family on Sunday. They are registered
at the Nortonia.
Captain J. J. Macgenn arrived In
Portland yesterday after making his
last voyage on the steamer Breakwa
ter, of which he has been the master
for the past nine years. He is regis
tered at the Perkins.
CUT WATER Ifi PERIL
MEDFORD ntXTS INTAKE TRACT ON
GRANT LANDS.
Special Act of Congress Found Neces
err to Preserve Rights at
Little Butte.
MEDFORD, Or., Sept. 4. ((Special.)
Medford's entire water system has
been Jeopardized by the passage of the
Oregon & California land-grant bill by
Congress, according to City Attorney
McCabe. Some eight years ago the city
took possession of a tract of land near
Little Butte and there located the city
Intake. Formal application was never
made for the land and it is now being
classified under the act. After classi
fication it may be filed on the eame as
any other land under the grant, and a
loss of Jl.000,000 may be entailed by
the city unless a special ' act of Con
gress can be secured to give title to
the land about the intake.
Immediately after the passage of the
act, Jity Attorney McCabe wrote to th
oarewrj or ine interior m regard 10
tne land, ine communication was
ferred to Louis L. Sharp, of Portland
chief of the field division in the sur
vey of grant lands. His reply to (Mr.
McCabe In part said: i
"It may be that In order to get title
to the land on which the Intake is
situated, it will be necessary to secure
the passing of a epecial act of Congress.
I have no doubt, however, that such
action by Congress can be had with
little difficulty."
Action must be taken by the citj
during the next session, according to
City Attorney McCabe, and to secure
this action it will probably be neces
sary for Mr. McCabe to appear before
congress. t, f
STATE GIVEN VOICE
FIFTH OF HOPS DAMAGED
STEADY RAIN CAUSES LOSS TO
GROWERS NEAR SHERIDAN.
Wind and Warm Weather Are Now
Needed to Prevent More Injnay
From Honey Dew and Mould.
SHERIDAN, Or., Sept. 4. (Special.)
The showers of Saturday settled
down into a steady drizzle that has.
continued through today and threatens
wholesale damage to grain and hops.
Hoppicking commenced this, morning.
with the growers anxious to get the
crops in. They estimate a 20 per cent
loss already 100 bales of the S00 that
was estimated as the season output
from this section.
Th.e hot weather preceding the rain
drove out the lice from the hops, but
the rains are causing honey dew and
mould. Should a hot sun follow, the
vapor rising from the ground will be
as detrimental as two days more of
rain. Hopgrowers and grainmen are
hoping for a light wind that will sweep
the valley and dry off the ground, fol
lowed by warm weather.
Oregon Insurance Federation
Joins National Body.
PLACE GIVEN IN COUNCILS
Chamber of Commerce of United
States Notifies Local Officers
of Election of New Unit
to Membership.
From now on the Insurance Feder
ation of Oregon will have a voice in
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, the most representative
business organization in the country.
According to a notification received by
Secretary Louis Sondheim from Elliot
H. Goodwin, of Washington. D. C.
general secretary of the National Cham
ber, the Insurance Federation of Ore
gon . has been formally re-elected to
membership to the central body, which
already numbers over 700 commercial
organizations and represents upwards
of 300.000 business men.
Closely following Its election to the
National Chamber, the Insurance Fed
eration of Oregon will appoint a Na
tional councillor who will serve as the
connecting link between his organiza
tion and the National Chamber. This
is an office of Consequence, inasmuch
as the councillors. Individually and as
a body, act as advisers on the policies
of the Chamber and have other Im
portant functions to perform.
Hereafter when policies affecting
commerce are under discussion by the
Federal authorities, the Insurance Fed
eration of Oregon will have a chance
to express itself, inasmuch as one of
the main purposes of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States Is to
focus business sentiment. From time
to time referenda are sent out by the
National Chamber for the purpose of
ascertaining, for the benefit of Congress
and the President, business opinion
prevailing throughout the country on
questions of immediate Importance.
In fact, the Insurance Federation of
Oregon expects to secure much assist
ance from the National Chamber in
many ways. It will receive a weekly
general bulletin which probably con
tains the freshest and most reliable
news of its kind to be secured from
any source. The Information is along
the line of commercial opportunities
and of development In different Fed
eral bureaus and departments.
In addition to this there will be a
legislative bulletin which follows the
Progress of all legislation introduced
Congress affecting business and
ommerce.
PIONEER WOMAN DIES
MRS. L. M. CAPLES. OREGON RESI
DENT SINCE 1846.
Funeral Will Be Held Tomorrow at
Colombia City Five Children and
Other Relatives Survive.
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Lucinda M. Caples, ic-fflewl V the late
Dr. C. G. Caples, a pioneVr of Oregon,
died yesterday at her home at Colum
bia City. .
Mrs. Caples was born in 1836. . She
came with her parents. Dr. and Mrs.
James McBride. to Oregon in 1846, and
was married to C. G. Caples in May.
1855. She resided in Columbia County
trom that time until her death.
She leaves the following children
Mrs. Margaret Wharton, Dr. Byron M.
Caples. MI99 Willie Caples, Mrs. Dell
Shinn and Fred C. Caples. Other 1m
mediate relatives surviving her are her
brother. Justice L. A. McBride. of Deer
Island; Dr. J. H. McBride of Pasadena,
Cal., and her sisters. Mrs. Louisa A.
Woods and Mrs. N. E. Dolman.
The funeral will be held from the
family residence at Columbia City tO'
morrow at 1:30 P. M.
Homesteader Wins Jong Contest
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LAMATH FALLS. Or.. Sept. A.
(Spe'eial.) After a contest that h
lasted about 12 years. B. St. peorge
Bishop, of this city, has at Aast re
ceived patent to his homestead on Up
per Ivlamath Lake at the north end,
on Crystal Creek. The patent was to
day filed with County Clerk De Lap
for record. Bishop filed on this land
when it was a Government forest, al
leging that the land was more valuable
for homestead purposes than for Its
timber. He calls his home "The Cedars."
Holland Is annually increasing Its rro-
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FOR THE, INFORMATION
OF THE PUBLIC:
The Railroads' statement of their post'
tion on the threatened strike, as presented
to the President of the United States
A strike on all the railroads of the country has been called by the Train
Brotherhoods for 7 o'clock Monday morning, September 4.
This strike was ordered from Washington while the President of the
United States was makinjg every effort to avert the disaster.
The Final Railroad Proposal
The final proposal made by the railroads for a peaceful settlement of the con
troversy, but which was rejected by the brotherhoods, was as follows:
(a) The railroads will.-effective September i, X916,
keep the time of all men represented in this movement,
upon an 8 hour basis and by separate account, monthly,
with each man, maintain a record of the difference
between the money actually earned by him on the
present basis and the amount that would have been
earned upon an 8 hour basis overtime on each basis
to be computed pro rata.
The amounts so shown will be subject to thft
decision of the Commission, provided for in Paragraph
(c) of this memorandum and payable in money, as
may be directed by said Commission in its findings and
decision.
(b) The Interstate Commerce Commission to
supervise the keeping of these accounts and report the
increased cost of the 8 hour basis, after such period of
actual experience as their judgment approves or the
President may fix, not, however, less than three
months.
(c) In view of the far-reaching consequences of the
declaration made by the President, accepting the
8 hour day, not only upon the railroads and the classes
of labor involved directly in this controversy, but to
the public and upon all industry, it seems plain that
before the existing conditions are changed, the whole
Bubiect in so far as it affects the railroads and their
employees, should be investigated and determined by
a Commission to be appointed by the President, of
such standing as to compel attention and respect to
its findings. The judgment of such a Commission
would be a helpful basis for adjustments with labor
and such legislation as intelligent public opinion, so
informed, might demand.
Statement of Executives to the President
In submitting this proposal to the President, the fifty railroad executives called to
Washington and representing all the great arteries of traffic, made this statement to
him of their convictions :
The demands in this controversy have not been
presented, in our judgment, for the purpose of fixing a
definite daily period of labor, nor a reduction in the
existing hours of labor or change in methods of opera
tion, but for the real purpose of accomplishing- an
increase in wages of approximately One Hundred
Million Dollars per annum, or 3 5 per cent, for the men
in railroad freight train and yard service represented
by the labor organizations in this matter.
After careful examination of the facts and patient
and continuous consultation with the Conference
Committee of Managers, and among ourselves, we
have reached a clear understanding or the magnitude
of the questions, and of the serious consequences to
the railroads and to the public, involved in the decision
of them.
Trustees for the Public
As trustees for the public served by our lines and
for the great mass of the less powerful employees (not
less than 80 per cent, of the whole number) interested
in the railroad wage fund as trustees also for-the
millions of people that have invested their savings and
capital in the bonds and stock of these properties,
and who through the saving banks, trust companies
and insurance companies, are vitally interested to the
extent of millions of dollars, in the integrity and
solvency of the railroads of the country, we cannot in
conscience surrender without a hearing, the principle
involved, nor undertake to transfer the enormous cost
fthat will result to the transportation of the commerce
of the country.
V The eight-hour day without punitive overtime
involves an annual increase, approximately, in the
aggregate of Sixty Millions of Dollars, and an increase
of more than 20 per cent, in the pay ofthe men,
already the most highly paid in the transportation
service.
The ultimate cost to the railroads of an admission
in this manner of the principle under contention
cannot now be estimated; the effect upon the effi
ciency of the transportation of the country now
already under severe test under the tide of business
now moving, and at a time when more, instead of less.
effort is required for the public welfare, would be
harmful beyond calculation.
The widespread effect upon the industries of the
country as a whole is beyond measure or appraise
ment at this time, and we agree with the insistent and
widespread public concern over the gravity of the
situation and the consequences of a surrender by the
railroads in this emergency.
In like manner we are deeply impressed with th
sense of our responsibility to maintain and keep open
the arteries of transportation, which carry the life
blood of the commerce of the country, and of the
consequences that will flow from even temporary
interruption of service over the railroads, but the
issues presented have been raised above and beyond
the social and monetary questions involved, and
the responsibility for the consequences that may
arise will rest upon those that provoke it.
Public Investigation Urged
The questions involved are in our respectful judg
ment, eminently suitable for the calm investigation
and decision by the public through the agency of fair
arbitration, and cannot be disposed of, to the publia
satisfaction, in any other manner.
The decision of a Commission or Board of Arbi
tration, having the public confidence, will be accepted
by the public, and the social and financial rearrange
ments made necessary thereby will be undertaken by
the public, but in no less deliberate nor orderly
manner.
The railroads of the country cannot under present
conditions assume this enormous increase in their
expenses. If imposed upon them, it would involve
many in early financial embarrassment and bank
ruptcy and imperil the power of all to maintain
their credit and the integrity of their securities.
The immediate increase in cost, followed by other
increases that would be inevitable, would substan
tially appropriate the present purchasing power of
the railroads and disable them from expanding and
improving their facilities and equipment, to keep
abreast of the demands of the country for efficient
transportation service.
In good faith we have worked continuously and earnestly in a sincere effort to
Eolve the. problem in justice to all the parties at interest. These efforts were still
in progress wheh the issuance of the strike order showed them to be unavailing.
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Problem Threatens Democracy Itself
The strike, if it comes, will be forced upon the country by the best paid
class of laborers in the world, at a time when the country has the greatest need
for transportation efficiency.
The problem presented is not that alone of the railroad or business world,
but involving democracy itself, and sharply presents the question whether any
group of citizens should be allowed to possess the power to imperil the life
of the country by conspiring to block the arteries of commerce.
HALB H OLDEN,
Chicago, Burlington & Quinay Railraaa.
W. W. ATTERBURY,
Pennsylvania Railroad.
FAIRFAX HARRISON,
Southern Railway.
R. S. LOVETT,
Union Pacifio System
B. P. RIPLBY,
Atchison, Tepaka A Santa Fe Systea
A. H. SMITH,
New York Central Line.'
FRANK TRUMBULL,
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway.
DANIEL WILLARD,
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
WATER HEARING IS ENDED
Sutherlln Valley Decision Hot Ex
pected Until December.
SUTHERLIN. Or.. Sept. 4. fSpedal.)
The taking of testimony In the water
irate caae of the ButaerUn Valley land
owners against the J. F. Luse Com
pany was finished here at a late hour
last night before Frank J. Miller,
chairman of the Oregon Public Serv
ice Commission.
The case was continued from July 26.
It resulted from a complaint In which
local water users charged excessive
rates and unsatisfactory ditch main
tenance. The caae probably will not
be decided until late in December. The
briefs of the attorneys for the defend
ant corporation alleging improper
Jurisdiction, will not be filed for 30
days, and In the event this plea is un
successful, further briefs will not be
filed until 40 days later.
Pe Ell Financially Sound.
CSyTB.aT.TA, Wuh, Sept, 4. .(Spe
cial.) The State Bureau of Inspection
has reported on the financial condition
of Pe Ell. following an examination of
the town's books and records by a
state examiner. The town is on a cash
basis with 1677.03 in the treasury on
August 1. The assets are S6S11.97,
with no liabilities.
Rats every yetr astroy about 5 per cent
ot lbs growing tugu. caae la Jamaica