The Sunday Oregonian., May 24, 1908, SECTION THREE, Page 11, Image 35

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GATES SELLS HIS
IE
THE GREAT CLOSING-OUT AUCTION
SALE OF THE A. N. WRIGHT ESTATE
Still continues. The store is crowded every afternoon and evening. Come; you will find some of the best
people of Portland! attending this sale, as it is the chance of a lifetime to get high-grade goods at your own price
Severs Last Tie Binding Him
to City Where He Began
His Career.
MANSION BRINGS $66,000
XIIE SUXDAT OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MAY 24, I90S.
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Was Built by Millionaire 15 Tears
Ago at Cost of $300,0 00 Auction
Sale Strange Scene Pur
chaser Also a Plunger.
John W. Gates is no longer a Chi
cagoan. The last tie that bound the million
aire speculator and one of the most
spectacular of the Western magnates
to Chicago was severed when his $300,
000 mansion at 2944 Michigan avenue
was sold under the hammer, says the
Chicago Inter Ocean.
w Michael H. Spades, 2716 Michigan av
enue, bought the house, grounds and
stables for $65,500. Mr. Spadee, who is
a real estate dealer, bought the prop
erty as a speculation merely, as he
does not intend to move from his own
home, a few blocks north.
His home sold, his seats on the local
Stock Exchange and Board of Trade
sold, his horses and carriages shipped
to New York, John W. Gates can no
longer be classed as a resident of Chi
cago. From New York City he will now
direct his financial operations in an en
deavor to twist the tail of the Wall
street tiger that so successfully clawed
away from him a portion of his fortune
recently.
That the sale of his Chicago home
means Mr. Gates is Intent upon leading
the "simple life" in the East was de
nied by his representatives yesterday.
But In the future the East will be the
scene of his activity.
Scenes Are Characteristic.
In the scenes that marked the end
ing of Mr. Gates' Chicago career there
was much that was in keeping with
the meteoric rise of the millionaire and
his subsequent plunging methods.
Michael H. Spades, the purchaser, le a
newcomer to Chicago. A few years ago
lie was a real eBtate dealer in Indian
apolis. A few lucky deals and he was
on the road to wealth. And he bought
the Gates property probably as Mr.
Gates would have had it bought as a
. gamble.
Archie C. Tlsdelle, whose private
bank recently got him into the glare
of Federal and state court investiga
tions, was a bidder for the property.
Although supposedly without funds,
Mr. Tlsdelle bid $65,000 for the prop
erty. His was the second highest bid.
The Gates home was built 15 years
ago at a cost of $300,000. Its stable
Is said to be one of the most complete
In the country. With its private rooms
and baths for the attendants, 12 box
stalls and a garage attachment, it was
as much the part of a millionaire's
home as the house Itself.
A large yellow sign on the iron fence
In front of the house proved the mag
net for a dozen automobiles yesterday,
and from the outside It appeared as
though a society function was go
ing on.
Inside, the house was dismantled and
drear, and when Dan Long, the veteran
auctioneer, began his singsong, "How
much am I offered?" there were no
society Jights in attendance.
Real estate men in large numbers
made up the business part of the audi
ence In the "greenroom," where the
auction was heid. But the curious, hun
dreds of them, who wanted the experi
ence of looking over the home ot a
millionaire, filled all the other rooms.
Men and women strolled through the
rooms, looking at this and that, and
figuring on the cost.
The bidding was brief.
"Sixty thousand dollars." sang out
William Richardson as soon as the bid
ding was opened.
Appeals for Higher Bids.
"Why, It " cost $300,000," answered
Long, stroking his white goatee. "Who
offers $65,000, $65,000, offered $60.000 "
The sight of men dealing In so much
money proved more of an attraction to
the crowds than walklirg through the
stables, and they pressed forward. But
there was little or no excitement.
"Sixty-one," said Clarence W.Marks,
the shoe manufacturer, in a few mo
menta. "I shouldn't take a bid under seventy-five,"
said Long Indignantly. "The
decorations cost that much."
"Sixty-two," said Mr. Richardson,
after much persuasion from Auctioneer
Long.
Lanlel F. Crilly, W. W. Waller, W.
H. Babcock and other real estate men
In the room took no part In the bid
ding. When it had reached $64,000
Mr. Tlsdelle made his bid.
"Sixty-five," he said.
"Name, please?" asked Mr. Long.
"Sixty-five," replied the former bank
er, without answering the question.
"Sixty-five five hundred," said Mr.
Spades, and then the bidding stopped.
After all his coaxing had failed Mr.
Ijong sang the swan song of John W.
Gates in Chicago.
"Sixty-five once, sixty-five twice, last
chance, go-going gone for $65,500 to
this gentleman," said Long.
The terms of the purchase were
$5000 down, the balance in one, two
and three years, at 5 per cent Interest.
While the contract was being drawn
up the real estate men talked about
the "bargain," the ordinary visitors
poked their noses Into the pantry,
pushed buttons to hear bells ring, tried
to find out if the electric lights were
on or not, and then went outside the
house. A trim serving maid clanged
the iron gate behind the last visitor,
and John W. Gates no longer figures
on the books of Chicago.
Jnp to Study Forestry System.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 23. Dr. Ta
kafusa ShIJo. commissioner of forestry
and secretary of the department of
commerce of the Japanese Imperial
Bureau at Tokio. has arrived from the
Orient. Dr. ShIJo is commissioned by
the Japanese government with the task
of Inquiring into the forestry systems
of the United States and Europe'. Dr.
Shijo said in conversation that he in
tended to remain for four months in
this country studying American meth
ods, after which he would Journey first
to London and then to the continent of
Europe before returning to Japan.
Many Attend Bacli Festival.
NEW YORK. May 23. Music lovers
from many sections of the country have
made Montelair,- N. J., near this city,
their Mecca, because of the Bach Festival,
which is in progress in the First Congre
gational Church there. The New York
Philharmonic Society orchestra, the Bach
choir of 135 trained voices, a choral choir
of 60 women, boys and men and a number
of well-known soloists are taking part
In the festival, the preparations for which
have been elaborate.
1 wish
prices,
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A. N.
"Death List of Civil War Soldiers
Eev. C. E. Cline's Statistical Presentation Kansas Lost Most Men
Northerners Had Best Staying Powers Regular Sol
diers Worst Deserters.
PORTLANB. May 23. (To the Editor.)
The following compilation of facta
gleaned from the "Official Records of
the Union and Confederate Armies."
published by authority of Congress, may
be considered, in the main, reliable, with
whatever of interest it may have for the
men who served In that conflict and the
general public.
There were killed in battle, died of
wounds, disease and other causes in the
Civil War, such as drowning and sun
stroke, a total of 361,519, or more than
391 regiments of 1000 men each.
One commissioned officer was killed to
every 18 enlisted men, showing greater
mortality In battle on the part of offi
cers, who constituted one officer to
every 25 enlisted men. On the other
hand, only one officer to 90 men died of
disease. This is accounted for from sev
eral causes. Officers were generally bet
ter sheltered than the men and their
food was better as a rule; nor were they
so much crowded together in small tents
and quarters and were therefore less
liable to contagious diseases and epidem
ics, such as measles, a malady that car
ried off many soldiers. Officers also had
better opportunities for cleanliness. - As
prisoners of war they were generally
treated better and more leniently. An
other favoring circumstance was the
elasticity of spirit with the officers,
growing out of a man being invested
with a commission with the possibility
of being able to resign and go home, a
thing the enlisted man could not do.
It Is worthy of note that the battle
mortality of the Union soldier was
greatest In the northern tier of states,
with the exception of Kansas, which had
the highest rate of men killed in battle
of any one of the loyal states. This
latter fact Is accounted for by reason of
the origin and experience of the Kansas
men making- a lot of them pugnacious
fighting cocks who thought when a fight
began it must be to a finish, for one or
both. It Is also to be said that more
than one-half the able-bodied men then
living In Kansas entered the Union Army
without bounty.
The Eastern troops, or the Army of the
Potomac, lost by disease less than 33
men to the thousand, while the men of
the West, who poured into the malarious
valleys of the lower Mississippi, lost 72
to the thousand. Virginia proved to
be a healthier field of service than the
bottoms of the Mississippi, Tennessee.
Cumberland and Arkansas rivers. - And
It Is now certain that the Eastern Army
was the best provided for of all our
large armies. This was largely owing
to the influence of General McClellan.
Its first commander, who persisted in
having the private soldier cared for.
Some striking features are observed in
connection with the colored troops. They
were, out of all proportion, subject to
disease and sickness, averaging no less
than 142 out of every 1000 on the sick
list, while the sick among the white
volunteers was a trifle less than 60 to
tho thousand men. This is more re
markable because the colored troops
were not so severely exposed to the
hardships of war, or field service
proper, as were the white men. ,
When we come to the colored soldiers'
mortality In battle, the showing Is sig
nificant. Sixteen only to 1000 darkeys
were killed in battle, while that of the
white volunteer was 36, more than dou
ble. When it came to facing the deadly
fire or charge, the colored soldier did not
have the nerve of his white comrade.
Perhaps he would have been more at
home with a razor. The negro was
every way less able than the white man
to endure the exposures and hardships
of military service. It was assumed by
the surgeons and commanding officers
that when a colored soldier died of dis
ease, five others were Bick. so that a
large proportion of the colored troops
must have been constantly on the sick
list. There seemed to be a great differ
ence In the stamina of the two races
when put side by side of each other in
a campaign. It may have been because
of a lack of heart and hope In the col
ored man.
Moreover, contrary to general expecta
tion at the breaking out of the war,- the
staying power of the Northern white
man exceeded that of the Southern white
soldier. In every battle extending over
the second day, Shlloh, Chlckamauga,
Antietam, Gettysburg and other bat
tles, with the odds in a number of In
stances against him the first day, the
Northern soldier won on the second day.
The Southern soldier was something long
to be dreaded in a charge or a pitched
combat, but when it came to a dogged
determination never to retreat, the man
of the North exhibited superior staying
power.
Of every 1000 men killed in battle of
the Union Army, 51 were regulars, 31
colored, and 948 white volunteers.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
to call your attention to our very large and fine line of high-grade goods, which is being snapped up at almost nothing
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these, 32 were artillerymen, 123 cavalry,
with the enormous number of 845 Infan
trymen. Thus It will be seen that the
poor infantryman not only had to foot
it all the time, weary and often lame,
but had .to stop more than his share of
Confederate bullets. This writer had a
little experience In all these branches
of the service infantry, cavalry and ar
tillery during the progress of the war,
and can certify that the infantry columns
had the hardest part of the contract.
It appears beyond dispute that deser
tion was characteristic of men from the
larger cities. The average ratio of de
sertions among the white volunteers was
62 to 1000. In New York state it rose to
90. New Jersey 107, Connecticut 118, New
Hampshire 113, while In the Western
states the ratio of desertions was very
low. The State of Maine had the lowest
rate of deserters of any Eastern state,
her men being mostly lumbermen,
farmers and villagers, while with whole
regiments from Minnesota, Iowa, Wis
consin. Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and
Ohio, not a single desertion is recorded.
Purtheremore, the fact is revealed that
desertion was a crime of foreign rather
than native birth. But a small propor
tion of those who forsook their colors
and slipped away, were pure Americans.
It Is a notorious fact that the great mass
of professional bounty-Jumpers were Eu
ropeans. Manufacurlng states like New
York, Massachusetts. Connecticut,
Rhode Island and New Jersey rank high
est in desertions and bounty-Jumpers, a
result growing out of the fact that those
states had a greater per cent of foreign
ers, who enlisted, many of them, for
the bounty, repeating the process again
and again.
It must, however, in justice, be stated
that this foreign-born population did in
deed produce a mass of faithful troops;
but with these were mixed a vast num-J
ber of adventurers unworthy of any
country, with little . or no love for the
republic, and who enlisted only for the
money.
Localities paying the largest bounties
for volunteers are marked in the offi
cial records as having the largest pro
portion of desertions. The bounty was
meant to be an Inducement to enlist, but
in its practical workings became an in
ducement to desert. Among the states
with a high rate of desertions is Cali
fornia. This may be explained by the
fact that a good proportion of the troops ;
credited to California were levied in the
big cities of the East, and of adventur
ers collected from all quarters of the
globe in San Francisco, "cultus reliows.
But, when it came to desertion, the
regular soldiers not only took the cake
during our Civil War, but the whole
bake shop, reaching the appalling num
ber of 245 men to every 1000, while the
reneral average of desertions from the
volunteer regiments was less than S2 to i
the 1000. The regulars had many nooie
men among them, but as a class they
were. then, as now. far Inferior in char
acter to the volunteer native-born sol
dier which local pride and state patriot
ism poured into the companies and regi
ments, many of them made up in agri
cultural localities the best blood in the
world. .
T rto not know how others may feel.
but I do not think the fellow who
sneaked away, deserting his comrades
and the flag, when the awful struggle
was on at Shlloh or Gettysburg, should !
now be allowed from the Government a ,
pension. Such perfidy should not be
rewarded.
But, thank God, the horrible war is
over.
Now the little bird comes from the Bouth,
And builds Its neat In the cannon's mouth;
And nothing- is heard from the big gun's
throat.
But the twittering wren, or the bluebird's
DOte' C. E. CLTNE.
'SLIPPERY JACK" IN TOILS
Aged and Resourceful English
Criminal Faces Court.
LONDON, May 16. For sheer resource
fulness the conduct of an aged seaman
named William Hunt is hard to beat
Hunt stood in the dock at Newington
sessions charged with stealing a boat.
The prisoner is 63, and Is known among
his acquaintances as "Slippery Jack," a
description which proves to have been
singularly appropriate. Hunt's specialty
appears to have been boarding ships at
night In a nude condition and robbing
cabins; and he took the precaution of
greasing his limbs. A'Constabie who tried
to hold him one one of his expeditions
had the mortification of .seeing his cap
tive slip out of his grasp and make his
escape.
XitMZ being liberated from prison seme
PRESENTS GIVEN TO THE LADIES EVERY AFTERNOON.
time ago he was sent to the Salvation
Army at Manchester. He was caught re
turning to London in an express train
without a ticket, and he Jumped out of
the carriage. As a result of his injuries
he was unconscious three days.
Hunt said his life has been a miserable
failure and degradation. He borrowed the
boat with the Intention of getting upon a
foreign-bound steamer.
Mr. Wallace said Hunt had spent 42
years In prison. He is doomed to four
more.
Given Her by the King.
LONDON, May 23. (Special.) The ap
proaching sale of the late Lady Conyng
hara's collection of old plate, Sevres and
other china, and old French and English
furniture, la particularly interesting, be
cause many of the best "lots" came orig
inally from Windsor Castle, having been
given by George IV to the Lady Conyng
ham, who was his Egeria during the last
ten years of bis life. She received pres
ents of immense value from her infatuat
ed sovereign, and Charles GrevlUe relates
that . during the King's last Illness loaded
wagons were sent away from Windsor
Castle every night. The remainder of the
late Lady Conyngham's objets d'art
came to her from her father, the fourth
Earl of Harrington, who owned a large
and splendid collection, both at Blvaston
Castle, Derbyshire, and at his house in
London.
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MITS PHOTOGRAPHS.
Hans Knudsen Proves Marvelous
Possibility of Electric Waves by
Experiments In London.
LONDON, May 16. At the Hotel Cecil
Hans Knudsen, a Dane, famous in con
nection with his Inventions for making
liquid air, gave a public demonstration of
wireless distance photography.
In one room was a transmitter with a
needle point, which passed over a pic
ture prepared on a glass plate from a
photograph. The point of contact con
tinually vibrated over this plate, accord
ing to the roughness or smothness of the
surface, and a succession of electric
waves, caught by a receiving plate on
the wall, was the result.
These waves were in turn caught on a
receiving plate In an , adjoining room
through a wall, or with the door opened
and communicated to a receiving Instru
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pictures were printed on sensitized paper.
Among the photographs sent were those
of tte King and Queen and the Kaiser.
Interviewed - after the demonstration,
Mr. Knudsen said:
"This instrument has never -been pub
licly demonstrated before. I claim that
wherever Marconi can send messages I
can send pictures. I can send pictures by
any wireless system now in use. I do
not claim perfection for the machine at
present, but, In i y opinion. It is suf
ficiently advanced to show that It is quite
practical to send pictures by wireless
waves.
"It is only a question of time when the
police will be able to flash pictures of
criminals and finger prints all over the
klngdo.m, and even to the continent and
to America.
"But I have another invention to which
I attach more Importance, and I can pub
licly demonstrate it within a few weeks.
I refer to my invention for setting type
by wireless waves. By this I can, I claim,
set type in Paris on an ordinary linotype
machine by wireless waves directed from
London or any other point.'
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PARIS, May 23. (Special.) A passion
for dancing has led to the death of a
girl named Valentine Taravel, belonging
to a wealthy family In the south of
France. She began to dance at the ago
of four. All through, dancing was her
chief Interest In life, and she grew to
translate her every sentiment by rhyth
mical movements of the body.
The other night the girl rose, and, go
ing to an attic, began waltzing and con
tinued to dance for hours. Towards 2
o'clock in the morning the servants were
aroused by a loud noise in the attic The
girl was found dead on the floor, having
literally danced herself to death, syncope
following her tremendous exertions.
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