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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. SEPTEMBER 20, 1903.
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THE tablllty of a town or country Is
not denoted by a sudden boom or
rush for property, but the constant
and steady growth with a demand that
la normal for homes and business enter
prises, while not showing- up on tha suf
fac In such glaring figures, has that ten
dency of drawing conservative people and
the ultimate result of building up a sub
stantial town or community.
. Heppner never did have a boom, but
today It Is one of the best towns In Ore
gon, and the cause of it is that Its people
are of the sort that don"t stop at re
verses, but keep driving ahead with
determination that wins.
On June 14. 1903, which was Sunday,
at about 6 o'clock In the afternoon, the
sky suddenly became darkened and a
most terrific electric storm, accompanied
with a terrible downpour of rain and bail,
broke over this city. The water gathered
in a canyon above the town and came
down with a rush and volume that
wrought havoc and destruction to both
life and property in such a manner as
to classify the Heppner flood with on
of the great catastrophes of the age.
At that time the prediction was made
by many that Heppner was off the map.
but not so: the prediction of the knocker
has gone down into oblivion, and today
we have a Heppner that Is greater in size
and far greater In business than In the
day prior to the flood. The country is
here and Is being more developed each
year, and there Is a demnad for a town
like Heppner. and there always will be,
only for a town three times the present
size.
Improvements Since the Flood.
Before the flood came there was not a
modern equipped dwelling or business
house In the city, but today we have
msny. There wss no sewerage and the
oltal and waste of Ihe city wars damped
into holes and unused lots. There were
no houses with reinforced concrete base
ments and furnaces for heating, but to
day we have many. There were no
homes costing over 13000. but today they
are common. These facts prove that the
people are optimistic and have the nerve
to stay with what they know to be a
good thing.
Before the flood It was a desire of the
populace to build homes along the banks
of the placid little stream of Willow
Creek, but now It is entirely different In
stead of huddling down along the creek,
they have gone up on to the high ground
and are there building for themselves
much finer homes than ever were on the
banks of Willow Creek.
Extensive Market Town.
Heppner Is the market for 3.000,000
pounds of wool, S'iS.OOO bushels of wheat.
100,000 head of sheep, 4000 to 6000 head of
cattle and many carloads of horses and
hogs. These figures alone prove that there
is a place for Heppner and this year it is
the largest wheat market in Morrow
County. The country around the town, Is
being broken up and cut Into wheat, for
it has been proven that the Heppner
country la one of the beat wheat producers
In Eastern Oregon.
The stockmen are finding that under
high-priced lands, it is necessary for them
to do considerable diversified farming In
order to have their places on an Interest
paying basis, and It Is for this reason
that the sod is being turned under and the
production of wheat is being adopted
along with the stock interests.
The Heppner flood caused the de
struction of over JJ00.000 worth of
property and nearly 200 lives. Sixty
three homes were destroyed and ten
business houses were swept away with
the awful current, but today we have
overcome tills, with tea erection qX
68 modern homes and IS new business
houses. Vacant houses are not to be
found and the only vacant buildings
to he found In the city are saloon build
ings, made empty by the recent elec
tion, and these are not used for the
reason that the owners desire that the
property be Idle.
New Residence and Business Blocks.
A list of the new business blocks and
residences follow: Business houses
Gilliam & Bisbee, two large warehouses
on May street; Morrow Warehouse &
Malting- Company, 2 warehouses, two
story annex of brick to' Fair building,
J. L. Yeager furniture store and
morgue. Pacific Lodging-house, Mead
ows' livery stable, Brennen's shop, hos
pital, office building of A. M. Slocum,
Commercial Club, skating rink, J. C.
Borcher's reinforced concrete, McRob
erts' livery stable. City Jail of rein
forced concrete, McAtee & Swaggert's
restaurant of reinforced concrete and
many warehouses for the different
stores. Residences M. E. parsonage.
Episcopal Church, Don Stalter, two; L.
W. Briggs, C. Gordon, Foster Adams,
two; Jake Young, George Aiken, Will
lam Letraco, Elmer Slocum, Lee Slo
cum, Percy Hughes, H. Conover, Elmer
Bet.man, Jeff French, W. O. Hill, J. L.
Gibson, James Gentry, W. S. Connor,
J. N. Jones, Miss Artie Morgan, Frank
Brown, Clyde Wells, Mrs. Otto Freld
rich, C C. Patterson, Cecil Humphrey,
Jesse Kirk, G. B. Hatt. S. Lazer. Mrs.
F. Luper. E. L. Freeland, A. E. Blnns,
W. T. Matlock. P. O. Borg, two; J. H.
Cox, J. W. Rasmus, Frank Stephenson.
James Fits, T. W. Ayers, Henry John
son, B. R. Patterson, George Swaggart,
William Ayers, Jr., M. Johnson, two;
County Poor'nouse, Sam Van Vactor, W.
R. Irwin. W. O. Minor, two: E. G.
Noble. Julius Kelthly. Tom Brennan,
Miss Gilman. A. M. Phelps, R. F. Hynd,
A. M. blocum. two; John iLUkenney,
W. p. Dutton, two; C S. Kelthly, two;
W. P. Hill, Frank Natter and Mrs.
Pavld.
These houses are all far better than
those they took the place of and fnany
of them are not to be excelled in any
of our Oregon towns.
The fear of washouts by water
spouts is a thing of the past and the
strip of land along the creek Is now
used for gardens and things of this
nature. On the land where stood the
home of R. F. Hynd Is now a nursery,
owned and propagated by Harry Cum
mings. which is giving to the people
of Morrow County a benefit that had
long been needed. The firms of Garri
gus & Son and Gilliam & Bisbee, the
two heaviest losers, have built larger
and better warehouses and the same
can be said of ail. The sewerage of the
city is in a much better condition and
the health of the community is second
to none In the state. Typhoid and
malaria are a thing apart.
Heppner is a community of contented
and prosperous people. It has given
the City of Portland more moderately
wealthy men than any town of its size
in Oregon. It has more wealth than
any town in the state of Its size, and
today Is offering as good Inducements
to the investor as any of the Western
towns. Heppner is not booming, but
Heppner is growing.
Heppner, Sept. 14.
Pi edicts That Hotels Will Become Homes
iT HE day will come when the hotel
I will take the place of the mod-
ern home."
That is the rather startling prediction
of Ernest Strainchamps, one of the best
known hotel managers In the world.
As manager of the Excelsior Hotel in
Rome, the Excelsior Hotel In Naples, and
the National Hotel at Lucerne, Strain-
L champs has had an opportunity not -only
to see the growth of the hotel habit
among the people of Europe and of the
United States, but to trace the causes
that have been responsible for the change.
"The problem of living and of main
taining a home under modern condi
tions." said Strainchamps, "has grown
greater each year, until 1 believe the time
is close at hand when the public will re
volt, discard their homes in disgust, and
turn to the comforts and conveniences of
the hotels. The result of it all will be
a hotel vastly different from that of to
day." Authority on Hotel Life.
For ten years Strainchamps has had un
der his personal control millions of dol
lars' worth of hotel property abroad. He
has made a constant study of the needs
of a hotel. During the past few weeks he
has visited Chicago. Boston, Philadelphia,
and New York, for the purpose of gain
ing Ideas to be Incorporated in his hotels
in Europe. The greater part of the time
he has spent in New York, for the fame
of its large hotels has spread abroad. It
has also been the ambition of the men
whom he represents to enter the hotel
field In New York, and one object of his
visit was to examine the field In this city
for a great hotel to be conducted on
strictly European methods.
"In 20. possibly in 10 years," said
Strainchamps, "I expect to see huge
buildings, occupying entire squares, which
will furnish homes for scores of families.
They will be hotels In every sense of the
word, catering not only to the families
who rent apartments in them by the year,
but to the transient business, which at
present constitutes the major portion of
the hotel business.
"The one cause above all others that
will drive the families out of their homes
and ilnto the hotels is the servant prob
lem, which, with their excellent organ
izations, the hotels have already solved.
It is impossible for families of moderate
means to copy such organization.
Hotel "ot Perfect;
"Complete and fine as the modem hotel
Is, It is by no means perfect. During my
stay in this country I have Been many
things that we may well copy abroad,
and. on the other hand. I think we have
much abroad that might well be copied
here.
"The ideal hotel of the future will be a
great establishment, designed to accom
modate large numbers of families, and
combining the best features of the hotels
abroad and those In this country. Ameri
can hotels, for example, are superior to
those abroad In the promptness of the
service. On the other hand, the service
abroad is not so businesslike.
"It is that spirit of friendliness abroad
that makes every servant in the hotel,
from the page boy to the elevator man.
know and call each guest by his name
before he has spent 24 hours in the place.
Here you scarcely see the same maid or
man twice, and to each- one you are al
way a stranger.
"In the ideal hotel of the future there
will be no tips. This tipping system,
which, by the way, may be laid directly
to the door of Americans, has' been the
greatest evil with which the hotel man
agement have had to combat. A tip de
stroys tha-efflclency of the servant Once
he receives It he always expects it and
the person who fails to meet the ex
pectation, fares poorly, despite the fact
that the servant receives the same pay.
Defects in American IVays.
"There are many minor things one
sees to criticise In American hotels that
do not exist abroad. Here In New York
I saw a Frenchman, unfamiliar with
the English language trying to make
himself understood at the desk of the
hotel. . Before he was finally able to get
the information he desired it was neces
sary to summon a waiter from the. res
taurant to act as interpreter. A little
thing like that lowered the dignity of the
hotel and provided a situation that was
uncomfortable and ridiculous. Abroad
every employe of the hotels speaks sev
eral languages.
"The speed with which patrons of hotels
in New York are served, however, seemed
marvelous. It requires but an instant for
a man to obtain a paper, a magazine, or
a luncheon in his own apartment on the
15th floor. The telephones In every room
and the pneumatic tubes connecting each
floor with the office are two things I
shall try to have Installed In my hotel
Immediately upon my return.
"Less than five years ago I made a pre
diction at a meeting of hotel managers
In London that the time was not far away
when families would live the year round
in hotels. At that time they laughed at
me, but already it Is coming true, both
abroad and here. I have found in many
New York hotels large suites of rooms
engaged by the year, and this despite tha
fact that no especial pains have been
taken to obtain that class of business.
With a hotel such as is bound to come,
more and more people will take up that
way of living."
To Keep Salt Dry.
Woman's Home Companion.
To prevent salt in saltcellars from be
coming damp and lumpy, when filling
them put in 10 to 20 pieces of rice. This
will not come through the holes in the
cover of the saltcellars but will break
the lumps of salt and gather the
moisture; thus the sH Is always dry and
fine.
Solitude.
TIs not within the deeply verdured dell.
Nur on tha solitary sweep of nhore.
Bleak dunes behind me and wide sea be
fore. , ,,
That moit I feel the lonely hermit ipell;
Nor rocking on some clear lake's placid
swell.
Girdled by druid pine woods dark and
hoar.
Nor on a mountain pinnacle frowning 0 sr
A vast abyss where haunting echoes dwell.
Hers ever there are comrades multifold
The close affinities -tls natures art
To give to those who love her as tneir
own ; i u
'Tli in the populous clty-s teemtnr Bsan.
Bv no serene compsnionhlp consoled,
Conipaixd by man. that I feel moss
'ne! Clinton Scollsrd.