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THE SUNDAY OBEGONIAAV PORTIiAXD, OCTOBER 11905. SMALLEST PAPER-MAKING MACHINE IN THE WORLD Invention of Joseph Kaster, Named inHonor of H. L. Pittock, Will Be an Exhibit at the .Exposition 18 SATURDAY' afternoon there will be exhibited at the Lewis and Clark Exposition, In the Machinery building, in the exhibit of the Willam ette Iron & Steel Works, the smallest paper-making machine in the world, complete In every respect, and- that ac tually manufactures paper from pulp. Joseph Kaster, superintendent of the LaCamas -mills, designed ani! built the machine, Avhlch embodies improvements on some of the modern machines used in the manufacture of paper, demon strating in this successful product of his genius and labors that he not only knows how to operate a mill and take caro of Its machinery, but is capable of creating a machine that involves im proved principles and does the work. In horior pf the pioneer of the paper manufacturing Industry In the North- NO BETTER PLACE if- If there Is a better place In which to spend Sunday than tho Lewis and Clark Exposition grounds, it has not been dis covered yet, and isn't likely to be. From the'tlme you click-clack your way past the gate to -the time you click-clack your way out, there's something to see that you've in all probability never seen before. And that isn't all. You'll hear - sounds, harmonious and otherwise, that you've probably 'never heard before. For these two reasons alone, to gratify the senses of sight and hearing,, the Fair ground is the only place to go, and par ticularly on a Sunday. .Tour ticket has scarcely been "chopped" and you've had but a fleeting glance at the beauties wltlhn the gates, when you feel that Indescribable something which tells you thai you are In the presence of all that man has made slnco.-tho creation. . History of Paper-Making. Mr?lV . fJimfeJ M M History of tho paper-making Industry- of the Northwest Is closely allied with the . largest consuming mediums of paper of the region.- The first mill was installed at Oregon City, Just above the present bridge over the Wil lamette, in the '60s. H. L. Pittock, founder of The Dally Oregonlan, and the man to whom more than any other the Industry owes -Its present promi nence, was one of the Interested per sons In this-pioneer -project. The.mlll was not a .success In any respect, through the mistake of Installing old machinery and discontinued operation after a few months. The -second mill, erected was that of That is -the object o'f an exposition to show to all mankind what mankind has done and can do and will do. And Is there a more fitting thing to do on a Sunday than this to meditate upon things human, upon things finite, upon things animate and upon things inanimate? Look upon the graceful but yet mighty structures as they line themselves up before you, and you cannot help but feel a wee speck of -pride in the fact you be-, long to a race and an epoch which make possible these evidences of a higher civi lization. Ehey may bo but makeshifts, but in their very short existence they do much to make you realize that down the long stretches of yearn things have been done in the way. of coddling the man ani mal -that will hardly be excelled In the ages to come. To the ordinary person, to the person who cannot express himself in terms tech nical, these building are merely grand and- great and beautiful. Each has Its the Clackamas Paper Company, loccdTl on me uacKamas Kivcr, a rew miles above its mouth. in 166S. This plant was owned and operated by IL L. Pit tock, and was entirely successful, and for 16 years manufactured all of tho .paper used by The Oregonian. William Leuthwajte. superintendent of the mill and a thoroughly competent and pro gressive paper-mill man, who had chargro of the plant, still resides near Oregon City. His son is one of the great papermakers of the East, and his brother, John Lcuthwaite, is gen eral superintendent "of tho big Willam ette Mills, at Oregon City, "the success of which has 'been In a large measure attributable to his untiring efforts and intimate knowledge of the business. First Mill at Oregon City. When the first mill t Oregon City was established and proved unsuccess THE LONGEST AND FASTEST FAFER. MACHINE IN-TILE WORLD, THE " JOSEPH KASTER," AT TILE CROWN COLUMBIA MILLS AT LA CAMAS, AND TILE SMALLEST MACHINE OX WHICH FATEK IS MADE." "THE H. X. PITTOCK, MAKING A SHEET OF PAPER TEN INCHES WIDE. For Quiet- Relaxation From Care and Toil Than the Exposition. duty to perform, its little d.-rmb speech to make. Look at 'the Administration building It makes you think that It's a sort of-chief, an overseer responsible .for both the ex istence and the welfare of the others. Look at the Agricultural building, and you at once think, as you look at Its splld iront ana its aigninea proportions, or the things that make this little old world of ours possible, and If you're a man, of good things to eat. , Look at the Manufactures building and you begin fx realize that man, after all. is not so puny, not a thing of Insig nificance. All the things that man; during his growing day, learned to avoid as hardships or inconveniences, all the things that he evolved out of his own mind, all the things that he caused to bo by the sweat of his brow, all the things that are because they became such by dint of- hard knocks thce' things are thought of as you look at the Manufac ful, or reasons above mentioned, ne cessity for large water power did not exist, as the use of wood pulp In man ufacture of paper had not been 'de veloped. Overtures were made to H. 1 Pittock for sale of -the Wlllometta Falls for purposes of power to operate paper mllls.at a price ridiculously low when present-day methods of paper manufacture are considered, but which did not receive serious consideration. In 1S84 the new mill at La Camas, Wash., was started, in which Mr. Pit tock was largely Interested, having de veloped, the great water power neces sary, and in doing this acquired the townslteand other necessary indus tries, tho -whole representing an out lay of about J250.000; Tho Columbia River Paper Company was tlio corpo rate name of the mill company, and when erectedJt was the finest plant on the Coast..- Leas than two years after tures building and that which Is within. And you wonder at the ingenuity of man. and you ponder upon his greatness. Look -at tho Mining building, and you will he -ade aware of the fact that the broad and smooth "pavement upon which you tread, and the lofty girders which .support yonder vaulted dome, and the Jewels which adorn the fair maidens of your acquaintance, and the warmth of the grate fire, and the engines which brought you hither, and the very salt of the 4arth all these are made possible by the things within this structure. Look at the Forestry building, and you begin to think that, after all, these things made by the hands and the brains of man are Indeed puny and but Imita tions of that greatest of manufacturers Nature. And it takes you- back, far back,' to the days of the pioneer, to the days when comforts of the kind you now enjoy were unknown, when to have was to fight, and to hold, yet another and a greater struggle. All these things, and- more, you'll think of as i you stroll along the broad paths and take "in the glories of a landscape made more glorious by the -handiwork of men ,skll!ed In such beautifying. Stand on any of the high knolls and gather in completion it was burned, and rebuilt soon thereafter; again it Nras not a financial success. Although a. good markot for the product existed in Mr. PIttock's newspapers at Portland and Spokane, being interested In the Re view at the latter point, tho fire loss was too severe, coupled with the strest of tho following years, and tho prop erty was sold at a nominal figure, Mr. Pittock, as the principal owner, being the largest loser. Investment Proves Opportune. F. W. Lead better acquired the mill property and the Investment proved most opportune. With the Spanish-American War situation that developed soon after, when pricea of paper increased tremen dously, It was possible to increase tho plant to Its present magnitude.. Having consolidated with the Crown Mills at Oregon City, .the Crown, Columbia-Pulp your mind the broad sweep' of the -water front, the bright and sparkling surface of the lake, bearing on its placid bosom hun dreds of humanity-laden craft, the bright color3above and around you, tho gently rolling -sward, dotted here and there with happy men and women and children, tho gay bannerets as they fling themselves un reservedly Into tho arms of. the winds trace out the winding paths as they lead to everywhere and nowhere gather In all these, and at the samo time attune your ears to the clash of tho cymbal, the blare of the trumpets, the rumbling of the drums, 'the whining of tho strings and the piping of tho reeds. Take all these In today, and call your self blessed. Blessed because of all these things, and -above all blessed because of the glorious Oregon sunshine over alL Misused Bank Funds. . PHILADELPHIA. Sept. SQ.' Henri Lear, former 'president of the Doyles ton. Pa., bank, was convicted in tho United States District Court today of willful misapplication of the funds of tho institution., He was acquitted on tho two other counts In the Indictment which -charged embezzlement and ab- Sc. Paper Company, with connections in California, has become tho largest fac tor In the Industry of paper manufactur ing on the Pacific Coast. S. D. Rosenbaum, of New York, Is pres ident of this company; F. W. Leadbetter. of Portland, first vice-president; L. Schwabacker, uf San Francisco, general manager. LocatHroanageraent of the in terests of the comVany repose with W. P. Hawley, resident manager, and M. Rosenbaum, assistant manager. "What the Illustrations Show. Illustrations presented herewith show the largest and highest-speed paper ma chine In the world Installed In the plant of the Crown Columbia Company at La Camas. This machine runs, at a speed of 600 feet a minute, which mean3 that a sheet of paper 1U Inches wide and 600 feet In length Is run upon the .cylindrical rolls at the end of the big machine in Joph Kaater, Soperiateadent of the Crorra Columbia Mill. one minute. In Illustrative comparison with this the machine Installed at La Camas 20 years ago, at that time the most modern machine extant, manufac tured 133 feet of paper a minute. The machine Installed at that time was about 75 feet long and weighed 23 tons, where as tho new machine at the -La Camas mills Is 223 feet In length, 23 feet wide, weighing 500 tons and produces more than SO tons of finished paper dally. In compliment to the skill and popu larity with the ofiiclals of the company of the superintendent of the plant, the" mon ster machine at La Camas Is named the "joe KaaCer." How fittingly the honor stractlon'of the funds of the bank. Pending an appeal, ball was Increased by -iudge McPherson from $7000 to $10,000. Lear has been twice tried be fore for tho offense. Smothered In a Small Fire- NEW YORK, Sept. 20. Two men were burned to ' death as they .slept, and two more were so badly burned that they died In a hospital, another Is In a dangerous condition, and several others - suffered serious but probably not fatal Injuries in a fire .-la a two-story saloon-restaurant and lodging-house at 221-223 West Third street. Tho two men who lost 'their lives were overcome by smoke and burned to death in their beds. The occupants of the hbuse were sailors and longshoremen except one woman, the housekeeper. Those who suffered death and Injury wre suffocated and burned within afew min utes, the fire being extinguished before the- damage had exceeded $3000. The-net Increase in the British revenue for the, quarter ending .June 20, 1305, was k 731,750, despite the decrease In the duty on leather. ' was bestowed Is reflected In the product of his inventive genius to be exhibited in tho miniature paper-making machine at the Exposition, which is the result of thought and labor during the past two years. PRIZE LIVESTOCK DEPART, Crowds Watch Loudlng of Horses and Cattle in Cars. The stock show commanded the at tention of a large share of tho Expo sition visitors yesterday, but the ex pected parade in front of the grand stands did not take place. The exhib itors had prepared to begin the home ward Journey on Friday, but many re mained over as a compllmont to Port land day. and consequently tho stalls were still well-filled with horses, cat tle, sheep, goats and swine. Only a few buildings were about half-empty. Most of the prizewinners still re mained. Many of the people who went to the show had the pleasure of seeing cattle, horses, etc., put aboard the cars to be taken back to the -farms. Sev eral box-car trains were filled during the afternoon. It -was remarked by many that It was a good thing to bo wellbred, even If you are only a cow or a sheep, as It was plainly noticeable that tho fancy stock were put into more comfortable cars than the com mon herd, which rode In the ordinary rattle trains to the Portland market, and the stock show crowd all had nlc beds In the box cars and plenty of fra grant hay to eat and fresh water to drink. BOOMERANG THROWING SHOWX A. P. Plant Gives Exhibition of His Skill. Professor A. P. Plaut gave an Inter esting exhibition of .boomerang-throwing early yesterday morning in nt of the Government building and re peated It In the afternoon In the pres ence of a large concourse of people. Although hardly any of the conditions were favorable, the professor was high ly successful In the undertaking and earned many well-deserved plaudits for his skill. He has not been In practice lately, and the morning's effort had a tendency to make his arm tired, to such an extent, in fact, that he was obliged to discontinue his maneuvers with the peculiar discs carllor than an ticipated, but not, however, before ho had demonstrated his adeptness to the thorough satisfaction of everybody. Professor Plaut learned to throw tho boomerang some years ago from soma traveling Australian natives, while so-. Journlng at Coney Island, and has been nn ardent adherent of the sport ever since. Ho claims that It Is In every way fascinating, and recommends It as a fine physical exercise, easy of accom plishment. AFRAID TO DO THEIR DUTY Congressmen Know Canteen Should Be Restored, but Shirk It. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, Sept. 30. It Is the unan imous opinion of experienced army officers, as evidenced by reports recently submit ted to the Secretary of War, that the army canteen should be re-established, but there Is every reason to believe that Congress will not repeal the law, which was put through because of pressure rbrought to bear by the W. C. T. IT. and other abstinence advocates. It Is a mat ter of fact and of record that drunken ness in the army has materially increased since the canteen was established, for tha obvious reason that soldiers, unable to buy good liquor at army posts, have sought out the groggerles and low dives that have sprung up Just outside every military reservation; have swallowed cheap, bad liquor In place of good liquor supplied at the old canteen, and have suf fered In consequence. But tho W. C. T. U. and other good ab stinence people can not see It .In this light; a canteen Is wrong because It sella liquor; therefore the canteen, must go. and it did go at their dictation. But tho fact that low dives handling only tho cheapest and most Injurious drinks have taken and will continue to take the placo of the canteen escapes tho notice or at least the reason of the strict abstinence people. The W. C. T. U. will never be able to put a stop to drinking In the army. Sol diers In uniform are going to drink Just as other men aro going to drink, and If they can't get good liquor at aa army canteen, where It would bo dealt out to them In moderate quantities, they are going off the reservation and get it some where else. It thoy can't get good liquor, they will take bad whiskey, chestpeer, and other liquors of the same ordcrTh-Ps "W. C. T. U."does not seem to realize that the liquor habit cannot be stamped out: it proceeds on tho theory that tho aboli tion of tho canteen will tend to reduce drinking In the army, when the very re verse Is the case. The men In blue have that samo streak of human nature that runs through other men; when something Is denied them for arbitrary reasons, as by the anti-canteen law, they are more determined than ever before to have that something. From an army standpoint the passage of the anti-canteen law was a great mis fortune. It established In this country a custom that does not prex'all In any other nation of any prominence and the In crease In drunkenness and the correspond ing increase In desertions Is attributed by experienced army officers to the aboli tion of the army canteen. Congress Is aware of the havoc that was wrought by the enactment of the anti canteen law, but a vast majority of the men In Congress at the time were not In favor of doing away with the canteen. By clever maneuvering the advocates of this law got their bill before Congress Just at a time when the W. C. T. TJ. was holding a convention In Washington and the way the bold legislators, hastened to get under cover when the gaze of the abstinence people wa3 on them was lu dicrous. Cowards they were; even Speak er Cannon hunted his hole, as ho after wards admitted, and voted against his convictions. But Congressmen first look to their own welfare; the welfare of the army Is a sec ondary consideration. And the same In fluence that forced the passage of the anti-canteen law is going to prevent Its re peal, notwithstanding army officers are clamoring for the restoration of tho can teen to save the army. A brave lot, our Congressmen. They see their duty, and they shirk It. Xelther Drunk Nor Discharged. OREGON" CITY. Or.. Sept. 30. (Special.) The management of the Crown-Columbia Pulp Sc Paper Company says the re port that J. Milan, whose body was found In the river here Thursday, was dismissed from the company's service because of In temperance, is an error. Tho company de nies that the man was drunk or that h was discharged. American Flshbuycrs Missing. NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C.-Sept 3d. (SpclaL) Frank CigonI . and H. E. Garfield, two flshbuyer3 on the Frascr River, for American canneries, have mysteriously disnppeaerd. Both had money In the thousands on them and foul play Is suspected. Both men have families In New Westminster.