THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND. JTXY 31, 1910.
ROSEBURG WANTS THE CRATER-LAKE ROAD
Citizens Plan Campaign for Funds With Which to
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ROSEBURG, Or., July 30. (Special.)
At a Bpeclal meeting of the Hope
burp Commercial Club held on Tues
day evening1, the question of building a
wagon and automobile road from Rose
burg to Crater Lake was discussed at !
some length. j
According to members of the club well
posted on the cost of road construction
and acquaitned with the country which
the road would necessarily traverse, it
Is declared that the work could be ac
complished for less than $500,000, or for
a somewhat less amount then the con
templated Medford-Crater Lake road
would cost.
8. C. Bartrum, superintendent of the
Hoseburg forestry bureau, asserted that
over 6000 people travel annually from all
parts of the country to s "the world's
greatest wonder. Crater Lake." He said
that in the event a good wagon road or
automobile road was built from Rose
. burg to Crater Lake, It would more than
treble the present travel. It would make
. the Umpqua route the Yosemlte of Ore
gon. Roseburg would then become the
gateway to this famous caldera.
Outside of A. few hunters, trappers and
others, very little Is known of that par
ticular country drained by the Umpqua
River above Glide, Douglas County. Un
til recently this country has been acces
sible only by the faintest, roughest and
most dangerous of trails, thus shutting
out, so to speak, tourists, sightseers and
lovers of nature. It is these obstacles
which have enshrouded this wonderfully
Interesting and picturesque mountain
stream from attracting those who would
develop it and prevented it from becom
ing famous as a great public playcround.
Through the shades of the mighty for
est, the canopy of which often hangs
over its banks, this stream flows through
a region of precipitous rock, waterfalls
and cascades. It Is fed by springs of the
coldest and purest water and it drinks
from and Is soothed In Its mad rush to
the sea by medicinal mineral springs,
both hot and cold. The entire distance
of this route is most interesting; it pre
sents a wonderful plcturesquencss, beauty
and grandeur.
Here nature has concentrated her
greatest efforts in producing the greatest
and grandest views and the most ro
mantia situations, which make up a
scene that has a greater variety of at
tractions, it is said, than can be found
in any other region of equal extent in
this country.
From some vantage point, as far as
the eye can reach, one can trace this
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wonderful winding, bending.' seething,
foaming Umpqua, seeking its natural
topographical channel westward. A
person can hear Its thunderous roar as
it 'dashes hundreds' of feet over pre
cipitous walls and against giant boul
ders, disturbing the intense stillness
and quiet of a grand forest. It is, in
deed, enchanting, and the most prosaic
must regard it with interest and awe.
Among the many attractive features
along the route, mention should be
made of the Illihee, Umpqua' Soda
Springs and Riscan Falls, Diamond
Lake, Mount Thtelson and Mount Bai
ley. The first of these as the traveler
goes up the river Is the Illihee, some
28 miles from Hoaglin, the last post
office. The Illihee is a flat plateau,
rising 500 feet above the river bed,
back of which are. large areas of graz
ing land. It is one of Oregon's historlo
places.
In the long ago, possibly in the mem
ory of some of Oregon's earliest set
tlers, different tribes of Indians con
gregated there In large numbers, to
Indulge in their tribal sports, hunting,
fishing, horse-racing, trading and also
to listen to the superstitious legends
and traditions of their ancestors. Mute
evidence of other scenes, more tragic
than sports must have taken place, as
an occasional skeleton, disentombed
from Its resting place, points silently
K to a drama enacted by a race once
I strong and powerful, but now almost
extinct.
A few miles above Illihee are the
Umpqua Soda Springs. The quality of
the water from these springs cannot
be excelled by any in Oregon or North
ern California, not excepting Shasta.
Still a few miles beyond the Umpqua
Soda Springs is a large mineralized
hot spring, the Vesta Hot Spring. The
development of these two springs, situ
ated as they are, would place them
among the most popular resorts of the
country.
From the. Illihee, the country through
which the road would traverse to Dia
mond Lake is practically level, Dia
mond Lake is acknowledged to be the
most scenic and . picturesque spot in
the state, andprobably in the North
west. It is nestled at the foot of
Mount Thielson to the east, and Mount
Bailey to the west, while in the dis
tant south, rising far above its lmmedi-
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and to the north. Diamond Peak. of Roseburg's most substantial busl
The visitor is amazed and impressed I ness men, was appointed by President
with the clearness of the atmosphere. Seely, of the Commercial Club, and
He can discern with the naked eye the
union of vast distances, limitless for
ests, towering mountain peaks, and the
mirror-like expanses of the beautiful
Diamond Lake at his feet.
Mount Thielson, the monarch of
Southern Oregon, stands as a sentinel
above, 9258 feet above sea level. Just
a step south. In perfect view, on a
gentle slope, is Llao Rock, one of Crater
Lake's rims.
they will immediately acquaint them
selves with the route of the contem
plated road, that they may determine
the amount of money that will be nec
essary in its completion.
The matter of raising the required
money will be left to popular subscrip
tion, and it -is declared that little dif
ficulty will be met to this end. The
committee will report at the next regu
lar meeting of the club.
GOTHAM REJOICES THAT "MASHERS"
CAN AT LAST BE COMMITTED TO PRISON
Much-Maligned Legislature Accidentally Passed One Popular Act Martin Sheridan, John Flanagan and Matthew
McGrath, Athletic Policemen, Lose "Snap" Jobs and Have to "Pound the Pavement."
BT LLOYD F. LONERGAK.
NEW YORK. July 30 (Special.)
The Legislature, which adjourned
some time ago, with a record of
pleasing nobody, did one good thing
that no one realized until after the
law was on the statute books.
For it amended the act relating1 to
mashers, so that it is now possible
for judges to send these pests to jail.
Instead of simply imposing a fine.
How this law happened to be en
acted is a mystery that has not been
explained. So far as the records show,
no committees went to Albany to ask
its enactment. The first that was
known of it was the other day, when
one of our regular offenders was ar
raigned in a police court, on a charge
of insulting a very pretty girl, who
had the misfortune to be walking
alone to her home.
The prisoner smirked and smiled
when the complainant (Cave her testi
mony. He expected that the usual
course would be pursued. He looked
foe a lecture from the Magistrate, and
a tine of not exceeding flO. But the
announcement from the bench made
him gasp with surprise.
"Under a new and most excellent
law;" said Magistrate Appleton, "I am
In a position to deal properly with
your ease. The revised statutes give
ma the right to impose prisoo terms
on "mashers.' I accordingly sentence
you to the Island for 30 days.'
The young nuisance Is over there
now. The facts have created a panto
among certain classes of young men,
and the chances are that decent wo
men will be annoyed much less in the
future.
Heretofore a masher could onlv be
treated as guilty of disorderly "con
duct, carrying with it a penalty of a
JS fine or in lieu of the cash a term
of five days In one of the police court
prisons. Now the Magistrates have
the right to send these persons to the
workhouse for not more than 30 days,
with no option of a fine.
Policeman Has S3 Children.
To the credit of the city jurists, it
must be said that one and all are de
termined to enforce the law to the
limit. They have served public notice
to that effect, and the result is that
this particular class of crime seems
to be on the decrease.
Former President Theodore Roose
velt has always been a warm champion
of large families. One man who has
carried out his ideas to the limit, and
perhaps much further. Is Policeman
Phillip Oppenheimer, of the Borough
of Queens. And all that he has geft
out of it is a possible chance of losing
his job.
For Oppenheimer baa been married
twice, and has 23 children. Some peo
ple say that 23 is an unlucky number.
Oppenheimer is thoroughly convinced
that they are right. For his two
broods have never got along as they
should, and the policeman spends part
of his life in fighting with the dis
orderly classes, for pay, and stopping;
battles at home, purely for love.
The climax came . the other night,
when Oppenheimer was on post, and
found his wife and the daughter of
his first wife engaged in fisticuffs on
the public streets. As an officer of
the law. he felt called upon to inter
fere. Neither woman recognized his
authority, either as a bluecoat or as
head of the household, so he decided to
arrest them. Then after they had
been locked up, he bailed them out.
The next day he was much surprised
to find that he was called upon to
defend nlmsell on charges.
For one of the police regulations
provides that no officer can arrest a
member of his own family. Oppen
heimer, when arraigned before the
Deputy Commissioner, said he had
never heard of such a rule. The trial
judge frankly admitted that he was
puzzled, and took the case under ad
visement. It will probably take a
letter from Gaynor to settle it.
Chauffeurs Fight Auto Law.
There are 36,000 professional chauf
feurs in New York State, and some of
them declare that they will fight the
new auto law. They say that it is un
constitutional, because it taxes their
wages. Steps are now being taken to
perfect an organization and to assess
each member 50 cents to provide a
fund with which to fight the law In
the courts.
The chances are, however, that noth
ing will be done in the matter. The
new law has some defects, of course,
but in the main it is an excellent
piece of legislation, and Is so regarded
by owners and drivers throughout the
state. Incidentally it will bring in an
annual revenue of about $1,000,000.
Stress is being laid upon the fact
that some of the questions asked are
ridiculous. For example, one puzzle
propounded was this:
"What would you do if a car, while
proceeding directly In front, suddenly
swerved around In your course?"
Of course the answer to this is, that
you would get out of the way if you
could, and if you failed, you would sue
the other fellow for damages if you
survived the craah. For an emergency
like that requires emergency tactics.
Another question propounded was:
"How often do you consider it neces
sary to examine the brakes of an au
tomobile?" First-class chauffeurs say that a
man should know every minute he is
operating his machine what condition
his brakes are in. And the majority
of them answered that way. Inci
dentally, it might be added that prac
tically all of t,hem passed the exam
ination. '
Oregon Woman Buys 17 Gowns.
Mrs. Queenle Hayes, said to be the
wife of Frank Hayes, a wealthy lum
berman of Oregon,'' attracted newspa
per attention the other day on her ar
rival from Europe because of the size
and extent of her wardrobe. The wom
an had 11 extra large-sized wardrobe
trunks, and it took the Inspectors fully
three hours to examine her baggage.
Included in the lot were 17 Paris gowns,
valued at $10,000.
Mr. Hayes, it might be said, only de
clared a new collar-button that he
bought In Paris, and an English um
brella. By the way, the customs men have
nothing but kind words to say about
the Oregon couple, for they did not
try to avoid paying any duty hat
might belong to Uncle Sam. On the
contrary, they did everything they
could to make the WQrk of the officials
easy and accurate.
Columbia County, up the Hudson tnls
side of Albany, has heretofore been
noted only as being the home of Lou.
Payn, ex-Superintendent of Insurance,
and the oldest active politician in the
East. But now Columbia has a new
claim to be famous.
John Petsel, of Germantown, Is the
man who has brought this about. Mr.
Petsel-ls a farmer at Germantown, and
devotes part of his time to raising
cherries for the market. This xear he
declares that his entire Spring crop of
150 baskets has been eaten by robins.
Now, robins are protected by the
game laws of the state. Which gave
Petsel an idea ana he promptly sued
the -commonwealth for $45, the esti
mated loss. He says in his formal pa
pers that as the "state protects the
robins, it must be responsible for the
damage they do.
Attorney-General O'Malley takes the
ground that Petsel cannot prove that
robins did the damage, as there are
other birds, and anyway, that the suit
is perfectly silly.
A case which threatens to give many
learned judges headache has been com
menced in the City Court. Dr. Leon
Labin, a Madison-avenue dentist, is
suing Mrs. Barstein for the value of a
set of false teeth. He first tried to
prove in . the criminal courts that she
stole them, but failed to do so.
Police Athletes Go on Beats.
It is not disputed that Mrs. Bar
stein had a set of false teeth, and that
she contracted with Dr. Labin to make
a new plate for them. But when the
job was completed, the woman wanted
her old plate back, the woman wanted
it, and when refused, declined to pay
for the work. v
Mrs, Barstein was arrested, but the
lieutenant on duty at the police station
was unable to decide how to book her.
At first he thought that larceny was
the charge, but it was pointed out that
the teeth undoubtedly belonged to the
woman. True she had a plate that' the
dentist claimed, and Dr. Labin had a
right to the plate,, but where was his
authority to remove Mrs. Barsteln's
teeth?
The police gave it up, and now the
civil courts will try to unraver the
snarl. The money involved is only $7,
but both persons are well to do, and
threaten to make a fight "for principle,"
no matter what the expense may be.
Three policemen, noted all over the
country as athletes, are in deep sor
row Just now. The unhappy bluecoats
are Martin Sheridan, the world's chara
olon all-round athlete, and John
Flanagan and Mathew McGrath, cham
pions in Hammer, shot and discus
throwing. All were members of the
Olympic team which won the cham
pionship in London in 1908.
The men went on the police force
some time ago, under the McClellan
administration in fact, and were re
ceived with all the honors. Their work
has been made easy, as they were as
signed to duty in the office of the
Mayor's Marshal, where they simply
had to issue subpenas. It was easy
day work, with a religious observance
of all holidays, and the men and their
friends in the Irish-American Athletic
Club were deeply grateful.
Mayor Sympathetic but Firm.
Mayor GayrJ", who is learning some
thing ever- - day, had his attention
called to this matter, and at his request
Commissioner Baker ordered the men l
go on patrol, or"pound the pavement,"
as It is called, in the vernacular. Where
upon excited delegations of politicians
swooped down upon the City Hall, al
though they ought to have known bet
ter by this time.
"I have the heartiest admiration for
these men," Mayor Gaynor said to one
caller. "They are just the type that we
want on the police force. They are
able to handle any kind of a crowd,
and roughs will give them a wide
berth.
"But the work in the Mayor's Mar
shal's office could be performed by an
office boy. Commissioner Baker has
arranged to send some veterans, men
with many service stripes, who will
appreciate and are entitled to an easy
snap. These athletes should be glad
of an opportunity to do real valuable
work for the city."
And the men are walking beats to
day, and will continue to do so. Some
of their friends may feel hurt that
this is so, but the general public sides
with the Mayor that the hard knocks
and the dangerous posts belong to the
husky young men in the department.
And if they are athletes, they are
just so much more valuable.
PARISIANS FEAR
Frontier Quarantine
DISEASE
Regulations
"Will Be Imposed.
PARIS, July 30 (Special.) Euro
peans with an -eye on America are
sometimes scared by tales of Ellis
Island regulations, but they are to
have sharp- restrictions on this side
too in the future. A crisis has been
reached in France by the publication
of health officers' reports on the
growth of disease in Paris and other
cities, for a distinct connection is
shown between the admission of aliens
and the spread of loathsome com
plaints. Frenchmen are averse to restricted
immigration as a rule but the report
of Dr. Trousseau to the Ministry of
Interior' has startled Parisians out of
thelrSserenity. After the pogroms in
Klshlneff, Odessa "and other Russian
ghettos, hundreds of low class Hebrews
sought refuge in Paris, especially in
the Fourth Arrondissement. Their
success has attracted scores more dur
ing the past six months, for Southern
Russia has anticipated a fierce renewal
of anti-Semite fury.
They have brought to the French
capital a whole schedule of ailments -mostly
filth diseases some of them un
known to France before. The children
of these undesirable Immigrants go to
the public schools and gardens and
there mix with the Paris young child
ren, to whom they pass on their ob
noxious complaints. Chief among
these is trachoma, which is keeping the
eye hospitals of Paris busy to a de
gree hitherto undreamed of.
Such is the danger to Parisian fami
lies that there Is a great outcry back
ing the medical demand for rigorous
frontier restrictions.
COUNTRY LIFE PREFERRED
Lady Ross Cares More for Rural
Than Town Delights.
LONDON, July 30. (Special.) More in
clined to rural pleasures than town de
lights is the American wife of Sir Charles
Ross. Lady Ross, who was Miss Patricia
Burnley Ellison, of Louisville, is rarely
seen among her compatriots In London.
She prefers life at Bain a go wan Castle,
Rossshire, where some of the bes Bhoot
ing and fishing In Scotland are obtain
able. Her appearance in the busy haunts
of men Is generally as a olnger at a con
cert held for philanthropic objects.
Picturesque, if a little grim, is the
story told of the grandfather of the pres
ent baronet when a boy. Like children
of humbler birth, he had an attack of
measles, and was looked after during the
day by an old nurse, who used to return
to her cottage at night. One morning she
looked very depressed. On being asked
to explain her dejection, she said she was
not long for this world, and that the
head of the house, then In excellent
health, would soon die.
On her way home, she said, two lights
had come out of some trees, one feeble
and close to the ground, the other bright
and higher up. These passed before her
to the park gates, and then disappeared.
She said the feeble light was herself and
the bright one the head of the house.
Within a few days the old nurse died,
and In lesa than a fortnight the then
baronet, Sir Charles Ross, passed away.