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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1909)
if THE SUNDAY OR EGO XT AX. PORTLAND, JUNE 20, 1909. TOURIST FLOOD IS QUINTET OF STUDENTS WHO WILL TAKE PAP.T IN" CHRISTIAN BROTHERS COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT. STILL POURING IN Willow Furniture Portland, With Her Roses, Is Mecca for Continuing Flood of Travel. f it V Si ' -i ' ' ih HOTELS ARE ALL CROWDED Many Visitors Come Merely for Day or Two, but All Make Mot of Opportunities to See City and Country Near. Just how far behind Seattle Portland is this year as a point of Interest for tourist travel Is a question exciting con siderable interest among railroad- and hotel men. Not very far, certainly, when all the available hotel accommo dation in Portland is taken nightly. But after all. the, hotels are compara tively a bad Index as compared with the train arrivals. Take the i'nion Depot alone. iBvery train of the four a day of the Northern Pacific cornea In loaded down to the brakebeams. The Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company sends in tourists by every train and they come to Portland clamoring to be interested, to be amused, to be educated. And Portland la doing her share. Kvery possible means of entertainment that can be suggested in or without the city limits finds its eager crowd of de votees, for Portland hotel clerks are mines of information about where to go and how to get there. As a result of this Information, the Bailey Gatzert takes a load to The Dallea every day. the As toria 'boat has many tourists viewing the lower reaches of the Columbia. Oregon City and up-river points are visited aeekly by hundreds and all the electric lines are working overtime and running extra trains at what are usually not the rush hours of the day. ( Visitors Number 7 00 Daily. Taking the most moderate estimate made by any one in authority or position io make such an estimate, and discount ing it heavily for fear of exaggeration, there yet remain about 700 visitors a day visiting Portland. Many of them stay but a day. Many stay a week, or peveral weeks, but by far the great majority arrive one day and depart on the morn ing of the third day, after spending two day seeing what they can In the time t their disposal of the sights Portland, the Willamette and Columbia rivers can supply. It Is only the. man with the foresight to reserve his rooms that gets accommo dated. In a leading hotel the evening of June 17 an important-looking man said to the clerk: "I reserved a room a week or ago; where la It?" "I am afraid you are mistaken, sir." "T am absolutely certain." The clerk took the trouble to look and then said: "Your reservation calls for a room on June 18. On that day it will be ready for you." And the 'stranger had to be satisfied with that, for every room In the hostelry was spoken for. At another hotel last night guests were being doubled up In rooms to accommo date the multitudes anxious to upend only a few hours in the city. That they , sre accommodated at all speaks wonders for the resources, of the clerks. For Portland is experiencing the rush season. Never in the whole existence of the city has there been such a Jam of visitors. The cars are crowded on "off" hours, the stores are filled with people looking for souvenirs and the parks are dense with visitors. Tourists of All Classes. They are of all classes, these visitors. But a few days ago 71 Dakota farmers rambled through the streets, two days ago 100 prominent California business men admired and exclaimed at the beau ties of the city. Now it la the tourist agent with his string of rushing pleasure seekers In tow, now the widow seeking quiet, now the collegian seeking recrea tion after his year of work, now the business man seeking pointers, but through it all is the same spirit of ad miration for the city that in a few brief years has made such tremendous strides. Of course the visitor expecting to see Indians and cowboys walking the streets and shooting up the town occasionally happens along, with his ludicrous ques tions. But. after all, he is a harmless and unfailing source of amusement to the rem of the visitors. The "seeing-Portland" cars run in trip lets. The "rubber-neck" antos sre mul tiplying, taxl-rnbs are run to their limit and all by a horde of visitors insisting on Portland producing those roses, that scenery about which so much has "been written. Come for Historical Interest. Many of these guests of Portland have barely heard of the Exposition that is another attraction- of the Northwest, but re visiting Portland for iu historical interest. There Bre thosn who visit Aa- I "la. to see the site of the oldi Hudson . Bay station. Vancouver for the fort and ban-acks. or Portland merely for the sake of Its roses, famed throughout the Kant. There la the Hindu, the Ruwian, the Ja.panese, the Englishman. Who that ha not walked on Portland streets for the last few days and been a reasonable observer can have failed to notice the cosmopolitan nature of the stream of people? From every quarter of the globe they are here. (Most of them for pleas ure, some for business, but all wanting to be interested and amused. Ask the real estate man of his sales to visitors, the restaurant keeper of his in creased profits and particularly the hotel man and the picture postcard provider and you cannot fall to be impressed with the importance of the tourist travel to Portland. As an Idea of what the tourist thinks of Portland, here are & few phrases ; picked up in conversation with visitors in the lobbies of the hotels. '"The loveliest city I have ever seen." "I never saw jso many- rose, anywhere " "With a river like this there is no won der Portland rs the finest citv on the Pacific." "I have flshe.i ,,.,. done everything one could do in the wilds ami all within a days ride of Portland." "I Intend to bring my family here to settle as soon as I can." And still they come. The railroad men E"tern traffic is heavier than ever year and everyone says he wants to see Portland first, if possible, but if not first, certainly some tiny-. HOTELS PRESSED FOR ROOM Itoxtntonn Ho.telries Have to Ac commodate Guests Outside. All Jort land hotel, are still doing slashing business, although there has r 1 - v j ' - v & Mm I -7 - "jT, 7 4 f " jSX JL ' - A ' aX-,. , " -fSfe.l" ' been a falling off in travel since the end of the Rose Festival. Frequently during the last week the downtown hostelries have had to send guests to the uptown hotels and all re port full houses with no prospect of a let-up jn the travel. Last week the Masonic grand lodge communication added to the large throng of tourists daily arriving In Portland helping to crowd the hotels and for this week many reservations have been made for the delegates to the Northern Baptist convention, which meets here June 23 At the Hote Portland the statement was made yesterday that 50 people who arrived on late trains were turned away for lack of rooms in the hotel Friday night. The Perkins Hotel has been utiliz ing rooms engaged by the hotel manage ment across the street. The Imperial reports it has been unable to take care of all persons seeking rooms during the week. The Oregon reports a full house with travel still heavy. The Nortonia. with 190 rooms, accommodated 20S guests Friday night. The Cornelius has been full to overflowing all week. Hotelmen say there is no prospect of abatement in travel before Fall. The real rush of tourists has not. yet started, they say, and during July and August it is exneeted nil th. i i s. and little, will be taxed to their utmost. BABY BOY BREAKS LEG Xot Quite Year Old. He Is Taken to St. Vincent's Hospital. Perhaps the youngest victim of an acci dent received at St. Vincent's Hospital during many years was little Willis Chuinard, not quite 1 year old, who was taken to the hospital last night with a broken leg. The little fellow could neither walk nor talk but when left alone for a few minutes in front of, his father's house at 10T4 Macalam road, he tried to climb into his brother's tricycle. He fell and broke the bones in the leg between the ankle and the knee. He was taken to the hospital in the Red Cross ambulance and will soon recover. Royal Arcanum to Give Picnic. Arrangements have been made by a committee from the Royal Arcanum for a basket picnic to be given by that organization at Estacada Park on July 5. A special train has been chartered from the street railway company to carry the 300 excursionists to and from the picnic grounds. An orchestra has been engaged to furnish music for dancing. There will be a series of athletic contests and races during the afternoon. The arrangements are in c harge of a c&mmlttee of which Dr. H. W. Hegele Is chairman. Tomorrow (Monday) is positlvely the last day for discount on East Side Gas Bills. Read Gaa Tips. MAP SHOWING WATER-GRADE ROUTE TO PORTLAND OBTAINED BY MILWAUKEE ROAD FROM PLUMMER, IDAHO, THROUGH TRAFFIC AGREEMENT WITH O. R. & N. I 7 n?T ,,h,e ,e of the traffic agreement reached between the O. R. & N. and the Chicago. Milwaukee & M. Paul Railroad, there will be a general Interchange of traffic between the two roads at Plummer. Idaho. Klummer is on the Milwaukee road as well as on the Wallace branch of the O. R. & N.. IS miles south of .! . advantaS accruing to Portland from this arrangement lies In the fact that another trans continental railroad system gains entrance to this city on a water-grade route. The Milwaukee road also is enabled to handle business on the line of the O. R. & N. between Spokane and this city. At the same time Portland is placed practically on equal footing with Seattle in all Northern Pacific territory. A v : Ail ... r V :w Li SCHOOL YEAR AT END CHRISTIAN RROTHERS COLLEGE TO HOLD COMMENCEMENT. Archbishop Christie Will Present Di plomas at Exercises N'ext Thursday NTight. The commencement exercises of Christian Brothers College will be held in the college alumni halL Grand ave nue and qackamas street, next Thurs day evening, June 24. Archbishop Christie will preside at the commence ment, which will be the first I eld in the Brothers' new hall. An elaborate programme has been prepared. One of the features of the entertainment will be an elocution con test for the Motter gold medal by six of the best speakers of the college These were selected some days, ago from about 20 who entered the contest. Five weli-known Portland orators will act as judges. "The Holy City" will be sung by Robert D. Driscoll, of the business de partment. Master Driscoll represented the college in the competitive examina tion in Irish history some weeks ago and won a $15 cash prize offered bv the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He has a remarkable soprano voice. The College Glee Club of over 100 voices will sing the patriotic chorus, "Let the Hills and Vales Resound," by Richards. The address of the evening will be by the Rev. W. J. Deeney, S. J., a grad uate of the Christian Brothers' College in California. His grace. Archbishop Christie, will award the gold medals, certificates and Palmer diplomas. The evening's programme will be as fol lows: Two-part chorus. "Let the Hills and Vales Resound." College Glee; piano duet, "March Triumphale." Masters E. DcuKlas and J. Jennings, pupils of Professor F. W. Good rich : recitation. "Jamie Douglas."' Francis Elvers: vocn.1 solo, "As l onf? as the "World Rolls Around," John 'W. Henl-y: calisthenics, dumb-bells. Juniors; violin quartet, "Hope March" tVaplnll. Masters Sauvaln. Gans reder. Miller and Driscoll, pupils of Pro fensor Frank C. Eichenlaub, teacher of vio lin. Christian Brothers College; extract, "The American FlaK," John W. Henry; vocal solo, "The Holy City." Robert, B. Driscoll, ac con pariled by cathedral sanctuary hoys, in pantomime: recitation, "Erin's Flan:." 'Alov slus Hyland; piano solo. "Tarantella In A. Minor" iDTnfi; John Edwin Kenfirk: ex tract. "Immortality of the Church." Robert Bruce Driscoll; vocal solo. "Meet Mc. in Se attle." Charles Van Hoonvepen: ptiyslcal cul tur drill (dubs). "Our Ynnn? Athletes"; violin polo. "Flower Song." Forrest Sauvaln. pupil of Professor Frank G. Eichenlaub; solo and chorus. "Just a Bit of Cloth, But It's Red and White and "Blue," Arthur Al berttnl and Albert Duggan, soloists; extract.' "Deathbed o Benedict Arnold." Herbert J. Westeiifelder; awaiting: the Judges' decision: sddrAss, Rv. W. J. Deeney. S. J. ; awarding of first and second-year certificates. Palmer penmanship diplomas and honor medals. Boycott Temporarily Lifted. The boycott promulgated by the miia i in a wide range of distinctive designs. The color ings include the natural wood, green, mahogany, blue, red, canary yellow and pompeiian bronze. Our window display of Jansen willow pieces should be seen by everyone interested in beautiful and seasonable furniture. Painters' Union against the contractor employed in repainting the building oc cupied by Henry Jennlng & Sons, furni ture dealers. Second and Morrison streets, has been lifted temporarily by that body. It is understood a certain ultimatum has been made to Mrs. Clara Kauffman, the owner of the building, the occupants and the Henry Berger Company, the contracting painters. Un less the stipulations set forth in the ultimatum are complied with early next week, the union, it is said, will resume its boycott. During the progress of the work, a union "picket" has been sta tioned close , by and has heretofore paraded the streets with a highly litho graphed banner condemning the de cision of the owner of the building, the contractor employed and the present occupants. REPLY BY MRS. CARROLL Says Her Sentiments Were Mlsrepre . sented by Her "Women Auditors. PORTLAND. June 13. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian June 17 appeared an article which I feel does me such injus tice that if is Impossible for me to ignore it., "Whoever may have been your inform ant, she absolutely misrepresented -my utterances, as I have witnesses to prove. That I have repeatedly said "the children in Portland were bringing up the par ents," could never be construed by any intelligent or honest individual into im plying that I thought there were "no decent women and girls here," etc. ' It is manifestly absurd that I should ever have made such a statement, inasmuch as my closest personal friends are all Portland mothers. It is disheartening to one who loves the truth to know that even In the privacy of her own home, among her pupils to whom she haa given the best that is in her, she is liable to misrepresentation and scandalization. What I really have said I have always believed. I am not afraid to be quoted accurately, even in my most forcible state ments. That I have personally no respect for the intellectually mediocre or for the lazy, is history to all who know me. and if to continue , to be a piano teacher in Portland depended upon any compromise of mine with the low Ideals, or the lazi ness of parents or ipupil, I should have to abandon the Held. However, the tribute paid in your columns to the excellence of my work shows that such action on my part will never be, necessary. Since I have Involuntarily been given so much space in your paper, I must ask your indulgence still further, while I take this opportunity of making a clear and responsible statement of my real princi ples and beliefs. Then, In future, no such misapprehension as that enunciated in your article of June 17 oould ever be entertained by the intelligent public. Let me preface my statement by the remark that I by no means think music is the only goal to be worked for. and. that everything In life should be subordinated We are pleased to announce the arrival of a large shipment of the famous Ed. Jansen willow furni tufe! This furniture is notable for its beauty and originality of design, its unusual coloring and finish. Its comfort and durability make it especially suit able for living-room, den, bedroom and Summer house. We are showing chairs, rockers and tables Fifth and Stark to it. Music happens, however, to be my vocation and. therefore, I apply my gen eral educational principles to its demands. Life is not one long holiday, and the sooner the child is made to realize that work and play must alternate and that she must acquire the stamina to carry on this great responsibility, the happier and more 6elf-respecting will she become. The parents are not benefiting the chil dren by any coddling processes, but only unfitting them for the great struggle called life or development. If the parent has been remiss In his duty toward the child, by allowing her to waste her days and years in dawdling and vacillating from one thing to another, he has no right to resent any suggestions from the teacher that will help to overcome the faulty conditions. The parents need not flatter themselves that the child has not discerned their deficiencies, and has substituted charity and sympathy, for respect. How well I have endeavored to instill habits of In dustry that are Impelled by a love for and Joy in work and- how well I have succeeded is well known. My pupils are taught to realize the relation between to day's habits of life and action and to morrow's character. To the pupil there results a dO e DP r nnnrpolntlnn oil t-1. . is great In life, there comes a finer sense to iu tne oest. in music books In fact a refinement of all that touches their lives. It Is a scientific fact that you cannot make an artist in the real sense, unless you can so elevate every instinct and faculty that the pupil is willing to do no matter what, to perfect the smallest detail of her work. She must be aroused to think, to rpnnprt ir-. . v, .. 1 1 else. Only great souls can accept crlti- aJ,u prom Dy it; only infinitesimal minds and common clay resent the truth. No one who is conversant with the educational discussions of the day denies that thinkers all over the world deplore the puny results In power, skill and Ch-IT-I. .W... . . . are accruing to our stu dent bOdV. Thft iMfhcra o - ... .. . uvi. ucm ly so much to blame as the parents. Money uvc, uui pay me teacher, and when mothers cannot stand the daily wear and tear of pumDlner mpt r spring, is it probable that they will ... "io ltisiiionaoie "mushing school some one who has more interest and to whom the child's mental, moral and spiritual development means more than it should to the parent? Parents may eVadA thAli rnl aKI . ... - - UUI150UUU lu me c n 1 1(1, but they are only deceiving themselves .u Junius on me evil day of reckon ing. The idle rich are quite as demoraliz ing td society as the idle poor. Every man, woman and child must have a purpose if they truly live or are worthy to be respecfjed In the community They must be taught to love "solitude books and work." ' For teaching these great fundamental principles and truths that have existed In "Creates Appetite!L Delicious food Served in a Dainty Way Creates Appetite. ostToasties tg7,Limited Y (Co all days and ages, I am ridiculed and maligned by the indignant matrons whose exalted sense of motherhood had no scruples about becoming talebearers, even though their souls rebelled against the truth even in minimum quantity. I a.m quite willing to be judged by my use of time, by my work and must be accordedthe privilege of Judging others by theirs. Believe me sincerely, EMMA B. CARROLL. 697 Flanders Street. COUNTY MADE BIG PROFIT Bought Poorfarm for $2 0 an Acre, Solt It at Rate of $765. . Multnomah County's, Foorfarm on the Canyon rioad. which brnue-h - 7c i per acre when placed on the market , Friday, was 'given away once, sold for " i-ic. , eventually Dought by the County at a fraction of its present value and disposed of at present-day figures, which afford a remarkable in sight into the evolution of the country in 50 years past. President Andrew Johnson, by act of Congress, September 27, 1850, gave the site to Eli and Ann C. Stewart. In all, they secured a donation land claim of 640 acres. Amos N. King and his wife, Mellnda King, got an adjoining claim. June 25t 1864, C. M. and T. J. Carter, purchased from the two original owners 208 acres of the land. In the abstract of title the transfer price is not recorded, but the amount was not far from $15 an acre. Two years later, the Carters sold the land to Stephen Coffin. Coffin held it two years and sold 202 acres to Multnomah County for $20 an acre. Frank C Barnes, County Commis sioner, Is among those who lived on the place in the days before it became county property. His father, after cross ing the plains by ox-team, rented the farm and lived on it until it was bought by the Carters. He recalls that the land in those days could have been pur chased for $10 an acre or thereabouts. The county's profit. In round figures. Is $150,500, after 40 years' use of the land. Horticulturists Will Convene. The mid-Summer meeting of the Ore gon State Horticultural Society will be held at Salem July 8 and 9 in connec tion with the fourth annual cherry fair in that city. A programme is being prepared, including addresses by prominent orchardlsts and specialists. ) On the concluding day of the cherry exnioition tne visitors are to be driven , is a delicious food the serving is up to to you. "The Taste Lingers" Sold by Grocers. Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich. in carriages through some of the choic est orchards in that section of the Wil lamette Valley. HUGHES GOING TO SEATTLE New York's Governor to Deliver Ad dress at Exposition. SEATTLE. Wash., June 19. Governor Charles E. Hughes, of New Tork, will be one of the speakers on New Tork day. August 2, at the world's fair. It is ex pected that he will be in Seattle four days, and the Bar Association, the Golf Club and the Brown; Cornell and Colum bia alumni hope for a chance to entertain him. Governor Hughes will probably meet Governor John A. Johnson, who Is to be the chief orator of Minnesota day August 3. Tomorrow (Monday) Is positively the last day for discount on East Side Gas Bills. Read Gas Tips. SYNOPSIS OF THE ANNUAL STATE MENT OF THE GERMAN ALLIANCE INSURANCE CO. of New York. In the State of New York, on the 31st day of December, 1908. made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Oregon, pursuant to law: ' Capital. Amount of capital paid up in cash f 400.000.00 Income. Premiums received during the year in cash 558,109.15 Interest. dividends and rents received during the year 50,405.91 Income from other sources received during the year. Total income .. $ 608,515.06 Disbursements. Losses paid during the year. 324,510.22 Dividends paid during the year on capital stock.. 48,000.00 Commissions and salaries paid during the year 155,553.51 Taxes, licenses and fees paid during the year 13,054.93 Amount of all other ex penditures 7.159.5 Total expenditures $ 548,277.91 Assets. Value of real estate owned. Value of stocks and bonds owned 11,220,183.00 Loans on mortgages and collateral, etc 62,952.00 Cash in banks and on hand 41,314.42 Premiums In course of col lection and in transmis 'on 14BJ(7I!2.76 Total admitted assets ... $1,470,20118 Liabilities. Gross claims for losses un paid $ 76.607.96 Amount of unearned prem iums on all outstanding Tlakts 426,354.68 Due for commission and brokerage 40,306.41' All other liabilities 10,000.00 Total liabilities $ 563,269.05 Total, insurance In force December .81, 1908 $ 794,536. hi Business la.OreKon for the Year. Total risks written during the year 11,482,094.09 Gross premiums received during the year 24,538.05 Premiums .returned during year 7,404.93 Losses paid during the year 16,630.23 Losses incurred during the year 16,560.23 Total amount of risks out standing In Oregon De cember 31, 1908 1.610,670.7 WILLIAM N. KEEMER, By German Alliance Ins. Co., , President. Resident general agent. " . W. HARVEY WELLS, 636 Chamber of Commerce, Portland, Or. Portland agents, MALL & VON BORSTEL 104 Second Street. J. M. PITTENGER 119 Killingsworth Ave.
