THE SUNDAY OREGON'IAN. PORTLAND, AUGUST 28, 1910. OREGON NAVAL RESERVE ORGANIZED AND TRAINING VESSELS REQUESTED Artinf Gorernor Bowennan Signs Decree and New State Body Comes Into Being Officers Are Chosen and Recruiting Is Started Captain Shepherd Asks Nary Department lor Yorktown or Vicksburg; and Retired Ship May Come Here Men to Be Taken on Annual Cruises. E! FREE! FREE! . - .: . ;;: 'ry ;-: Br VIKTt'E of Acting Governor Bowerman'B tvnaturs of lust Thuslr. tho Oregon Naval R nrr was created, mod officers of the ortanliation were appointed. Ore son la the last state on the seaboard of the United (States to have a naval reserve. The scope of the new organisation Is to be much like that of the Oregon Na tional Guard. In times of peace regu lar drills like those conducted by the landsmen will be held so that In case of hostility with any otlu-r nation, lire son will be able to contribute Its quota it fiKhtina- men tor the Navy. Already the officers of the organisa tion have a larKe list of recruits for the rrserve. many of whom have seen act ive service In tne Navy and are anxious to continue with the life without the necessity of enllstlnc for an extended period sucb as la necessary In the regular service. All of the officers of the new organ isation are either retired Navy men or liave had much seafurtng life. Of dorrs Are Chosen. The officers of the new organization . LVngree. set Intervals durfng; the year. If the Yorktown or Vicksburg Is secured. It will be necessary to make a number of cruises because j0 men are required to complete Its crew. The reserve Is ex pected to have nearly 1000 men by next Bummer. All of these will have to be taken for a cruiew. thereby necessitating at least three trips. During these cruises . the vessel will probably play at war tac- lies wnn inv inru si ine puuuiu ui mo Columbia Klver. and act In the war games with the Oregon National Guard to the advantage of both bodies. At least one regulation cruise per year Is demand ed of each naval rcervp vessel, and as many more as possible are urged. John McNulty. who la the United State's nautical expert in charge of the Portland hydrographlc office Is represent ing the Government tn the organisation of the reserve. Mr. McNulty has seen active service, snd Is well qualified for the position of commander. Mr. Mc Nulty waa aWei appointed recruiting offi cer, and Is now at work. The next session of the Legislature will be asked to enact a bill providing for the maintenance of the organization. This bill will be similar to the Foss bill, which I will appear before the next senslon of are: George H. tnepneru. captain, juno McNulty. commander: Jacob B. 8 pel ex. exacutlve orficer: John Blaln. naviga tor: W. I. Edwards, chief engineer: Al bwt 3 Cspron. paymaster: Ir. Loula J. Wolf, surgeon: tTharles llamman. as sistant engineer. I-lvlslon officers, rarrylng rank of lieutenant: Maxwell wmte and G. J. Hlomherg; boatswain. Staron: Gunner. Moltby: carpenter, W. K. Knright: chief boatswain's mate. A. s Reeves: chief master-at-arms, Wlss chusen: chief quartermaster. Slnex; bandmaster. J. ' Abbet. The reserve will have at least eight divisions, each of which will nave Its own officers to be elected by the en listed men. The officers of each divi sion will be lieutenant. Junior lieuten ant, two ensigns, paymaster and a sur geon. It .a planned to have six divi sions In Portland, one or mora at As ton and on or more at Marahfield, no Cooa JSay. Hach dlviraun In the Naval Kesrve will correspond to a com pany In the Oregon National Guard. Regulation I'nlted States . Navy clothes and paraphernalia will be used. The uniforms will be supplied by the state. An appropriation to cover this ex pense will he asked for at the next ses jaoti of the legislature. Each man will have two uniforms. Ilk all "Jack ie " Training Phlp Wanted. Immediately following the action of Governor Itowerman. George S. Shep herd telegraphed the tecretary of the Navy asking that th Vnlted States gunboat Yorktown or Vicksburg be plven to the Oregon Naval Reserve as a training vessel. The Yorktown. one of the last of the old type of gunboat In active service. Is soon to be retired, and It Is thought that the wishes of the newest naval reserve In the United States will be granted. The Yorktown waa a recent visitor In th Portland harbor, coming to Port land at the request of the Portland Chamber of Commerce and the men in terested In the welfare of the naval reserve . Local man wer t ken aboard for a complete Inspection. All showed keen enthusiasm. JxM-al Men fo Command. If the Navy IVpartment awards th Yorktown or Vicksburg to th Reserve, It will be IB complete command of th total men. Officers of the reserve ap pointed bv Governor Howermsn will act as navigating officers, engineers and executive ofrh-ers. Seamen from anion it the ranks of the enlisted men will do the work regularly done by th I'nlted States "Jack tars." Whenever the Navy pepartment give a eHp to a naval reserve it sends with It creer of six men who act as guar dians. These nien are paid by the Gov ernment and are regular members of th nsvv. The crew an, I vessel can be utilised to tight tire. Kverv man aboard a war irp a a fireman. Drills are held almost la'ly. The Governor of the state Is the commander In chief of the Naval Re serve, lie has the power to order the men Info active service when occasion iemanls. At th nevt Portland Rose Festival the men of th Naval Reserve will ap pear In full nntform and will play an important purt In the entertainment. If tre Yorktown or Vicksburg ie secured it will he stationed In the harbor nhd will be thrown open to visitors, adding another attraction to the already ions list. , Men to io on Cruise. Already the officers art planning for m crnise for trt men. As no Govern -ment ship Is yet obtainable the cruise wlil b taken on the pilot schooner San Jose. As the San Jose Is a two-mated ehooner. this would give the men a taste of real sailing. When a Government ship is procured far th reawrr crujsc will b mad at The Portland Commercial Club and the Chamber of Commerce have taken an ac tive Interest In the organization, and have signified their willingness to help In the work of the body. Oregon, about 10 years ago. had a naval reserve, but because the Navy Depart ment at that time was not able to help It out In any way It whs abandoned. The present progressiva policy of the Navy Department did not begin until Kx-Preel-dent Roosevelt ordered many of the old veneris retired, and encouraged state re serves, Oregon's former attempt waa be fore this era. when all th ships were needed, and the Nation was Just recover ing from th cost of th war with Spain. It is because of the former failure that the present officers are determined that th now reserve shall be a success. If bard work can accomplish that end. they aver. Oregon wtU 'have one of the best naval reserves In the United Mates. Astoria and Marshfleld have taken a decided Interest In the movement, and are preparing to lend. a helping hand in the way of organising divisions In their town. Whenever a new naval reserve Is or- Spv--7SS1T'eeSWrysSSSW'l''MJI-l'.JBl,J''l.' 4 . . . .2 ' -l . ... v If .xfi . . v . AWT - . ' S "J-.. ..ef I ' ' ' J - 4aW""a , 1 .- - i t 1 J . . - ..; -,. I f K ' f . - - '". - K J Eton mm ii aiilisiJfc i ' " i !; c ' ; U 'J - v SassaaBBJ J y. n Cn ' omcr-RS or oreoov navai. reservb awd ttpu or ship dkhiheo FOR VSB I ITS MANEUVER". ganised the Navy Department In addition to supplying a "ssel supplies a drill mas ter to whip the recruit into shape. Sev eral naval officers have expressed the deal re to be sent to Portland to Instruct th men here. Th Navy supplies the coal for the ship. This feature alone will be a big saving In the cost of mslntonance. Acting Governor Bowerman ha as his advisers In this matter the earn body of officers that sets on the affairs of th Oregon National Guard. The latter or ganization serins enthused with the Idea of having another fighting body of men In Oregon, and will probably lend much as sistance. Captain Shepherd haei for year been Identified with shipping Interests of Port land, and has been Admiral of the As toria Regatta, and this rear la on of the officers. He has had much seafaring experience In the merchant marine, hav ing been an officer of a sailing vessel. Executive Officer Jseob Speler wa for merly commander of an Army transport before coming t Portland. Th Yorktown la of 1710 tons displace ment, 230 feet In length, 14 feet draft, twin crew and can develop a speed of 18 knots. She wis built In 1M at Philadelphia. Th Vicksburg was built In 1897 at Bath. Ma, and I of 1000 ton displacement. 148 feet long, 12 feat draft, and has a speed of IS knots. She Is barkentlne rigged, and waa formerly used on the Eastern Coast for a training ship. The Vicksburg would make an Ideal naval reserve ship. She Is on her way from the Central America war son to San Francisco to be retired. Th Yorktown relieved th Vicksburg from duty In protecting th American In terest about Nicaragua. From there the Torktown will probably go to New York, Captain Shepherd wired hla preference for the, Yorktown. naming the Vicksburg a hit second choice. It Is thought that th Vicksburg could be delivered her almost Immediately. LESSON IS EXPENSIVE MILLIONS LOST IX FOREST FIR.ES BY NEGLECT. White Men Should Learn From In dians How to Clean the Woods of Inflammable Stuff. ASHLAND. Or.. Aug;. 10. (To the Kdltor.) The piltcy of neglect and Im practical forestry fad theories are to blame for th loss of millions of dol lars worth of our finest timber In the present great forest fires. Instead of following th common sense policy of burning th surface of the ground over whenever enough twigs, leaves and brush accumulated. Ilk the Indian did for hundreds of years while our forests were growing, th white man has been coddling the brush and debris In our forests under the false but attractive theory that It was necessary to protect our water supply and also to assure a future growth of timber, with the results that th brush and rubbish accumulating for years Is now the cause of destroy ing millions upon millions of feet of our finest timber. Our wise forestry faddists admit that the situation Is be yond control and all they can do Is pray for rain. Arguments have misled timber land owners to believe that their patrol sys tem of keeping out fires was a success and that each succeeding year losses by fir were lesa Th lattsr statement no one has undertaken to dispute, but It has been doubted by observers her in the Northwest art it can no longer b used to fool th people In believing that timber Is safe from fire under the present fals system of protection. It Is a surprise that the Tacific North wast newspapers have not had more to say on this subject. Why duD't some of our pioneer men explain the condition they found our forests In when they first came to Ore gon? Let us get bark to where the white man succeeded that child of na ture, the Indian, and learn his ways and then let ns profit at one by his methods. After th rains start again clean up the accumulated rubhlsn In our forests and make them safe from fires, no matter how dry or how long the dry seasons extend or how many fires may be started In the future. Lrt ever)- timber land owner begtn this Pall to clean up his frest. It will be a big Job becaus It has been neg lected so long, but It will have to be don. If the timber la worth anything. It Is worth protecting from destruction by brush fires. Better employ men at reasonable wages Spring and Fall to clean up the surface of th ground and make th timber safe from fires In the dry sason than be compelled to pay them big wages In th dry and busy season, when men are hard to get to fight a hopeless battl that In many cases could not b won by all th men In the world. Control the fir situation Instead of letting It ruin you through th policy of neglect and prayers. No penalties can be mad sever enough to prevent fires from starting because firebug ar not easily caught. Thr are many reasons why wretched specimen of humanity will start destructive fire and each succeeding year that the ac cumulations ar permitted, condition get more dangerous and more destruc tive fires will be started. The best In surance against timber loss Is to clean up the surface of the ground before and after the dry season. The building of wide fir trails. Ilk Is dona on th brush-covrd mount ains of Southern California, la the first necessary move. This could be dona before another dry season. Than there would be some chanc to atop or con trol fires until such time as th brush and debris was all cleaned out of the woods, when all danger of destructive fires would be eliminated. Th Indians' policy could then b followed and th surface burned whenever enough leaves and twig accumulated so that the fir would spread. These light fires would not hurt growing timber, and th result would b complete safety from loss by fires. To let faddists make us believe that th brush and debris In our forest of Western Oregon Is necessary to our present strsam flow. Is to admit that w don't know a much a digger squirrels and It I classing Western Oregon with desert countries like Southern r-altfornla, Arlsona and New Mexico. To the argument that th brush and seedling trees must be pro tected to assure a future crop of tim ber. I tay let us show our ability to take car of th maturing crop th In diana raised for us. and not try to raise aeveral crop at a time, and thereby lose all. Let our Legislature make laws re quiring th Immediate building ef fir trails and th cleaning up of th sur face of the ground In forests and burn Ing of all debris in logging, and pro vide for state and county aid In mak ing the timber safe from fires. . Th state could well afford to build a sys tem of fire trails and appropriate mon ey to fight fires within ta boundaries of these trails for several years until owner of timber land can get rid of A the dangerous tinder beds that have been year In accumulating. If something worth while la not don at once, on of our most attractive taxable properties will b nearly wiped off th tax rolls of the Northwest, nnd It will not be longer necessary to ratio each year the asaessed valuation on our bottled-up timber. It is no wonder that timber land has become about the hardest thing to dispose of In tills state, with the taxea steadily advanced each year and th fir dangsr Increas ing with every succeeding season, and the Southern Pacific In th way of get ting It to market with exorbitant freight rate which make th lumber ing unprofitable, as the many failure of milling concerns along the rallroal Indicate, I would like to know where th tlmbtr land owner- 1 expected to get off at. N. F. THRONE. PLANETS ARE INHABITED Scientist Is Convinced Life Exist on Heavenly Bodies. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17. Profes sor T. J. J. See, In charge of th Naval astronomical observatory at Mare Is land, addressing the Popular Educa tional Society, known as th Material ists' Association, last night, announced the completion of his researches In coimlcal evolution, to which h has de voted 10 year of hi time. He stated that his investlgstlons have evolved a fr'-vv.'i r -J t '' ' - I i hi . H n Hi h il tn. i . - .i in rl UNTIL SEPT. 1ST Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday For on Thursday we will move our sales department to our new store at 367 Morrison street, corner West Park, (by Olds, Wortman & King's) and be opened up there Friday and Saturday next. If you want to get the advantage of this advertising removal sale, you will have to be on hand here Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, you can get a LADIES SUIT FREE as follows : With each order for a Gentleman's Suit any price we will give a LADIES' TAILORED $35.00 SUIT FREE. Two reasons for this splendid offer. FIRST We are opening a new store at 367 Morrison street, 'corner West Park (by Olds, Wortman & King's). We want you to know this fact and know it quick, and remember it, for we will have a store there for a long time. The arrangement of the win dows and front of the store is most striking and worth your while to see. . SECOND We are opening the Gentlemen's Tailoring Depart nien to this business and we want everyone in Portland to know it at once right away. During the past year we have had many inquiries if we made men's clothes. Now we will make them, and we use the most expensive advertising there is to let you know it that is, giving a Ladies' Suit free with a Man's Suit. THE LINES OF OUR LADIES' GARMENTS are correct the most perfect to be had. You know and can depend on it that every garment we show you is made by us. right here in our large 50x100 making floor and department. The lining tine best to be had. ' NO FIGHTING OR ARGUING with you to deliver or get you to take a garment. If it ain't right you can't have it. Won't cost you. a cent. DON'T BE AFRAID of any misrepresentation. Mr. Acheson absolutely will not allow any of his assistants tJ misrepresent indeed, you can rely on their word and judgment, and you need not be surprised if we differ with you about a piece of goods advise you not to take it, etc., for we know what is best and will work up best. YOU CAN REST ASSURED that we do not use or cut up an inch of what is known as DRY GOODS material, or similar to that used in Eastern ready-made garments. We use only tailor cloth woolens. Those words sound good, are good and mean lots. HUSBANDS, FATHERS, BROTHERS, OOUSmS, UNCLES, SWEETHEARTS Ladies, bring them in; they will have to have a Suit this Fall, and you get one FREE. You know you want one. WHAT YOU CAN DO You-can register your order, select the lady's suit and the gentleman's suit can be selected any time hereafter, before November 15, that you may be ready. There is no cinch to this. We want your business this exceptional offer entitles us to it. You arc not true to yourself or busi ness principles, if you don't accept the offer. v TERMS AND CONDITIONS No deposits or payments on orders or garments are taken by us with a view of forcing you' to take garments, but are taken as evidence of good faith on your part, and if we fail to please you are promptly refunded no jangling about it. All prices are plain and are made according to the goods, style, etc., from printed lists. You can see them. There will be no changes. We know they are right. So will you when you see what we will give you. ' 148 Fifth Street, Fifth Floor of Acheson Building Where we have our big tailoring and making department and sales floor, is where you can see the garments and woolens. Acheson Cloak and Suit Co. and Merchant Tailors 148 Fifth StreetSee Electric Sign Take Elevator to Fifth Floor nw and Improved Uieory of the al derlal universe. Th eclentut claimed that hla theory of coemlcal evolution Involved the ac tion of both attractive and repulsive forces, and had enabled htm to explain all classes of heavenly bodies. By his discoveries during th past two years Professor See said he had reduced cos mogony to an 'exact science. Professor See's concluding argument wa that the planet now shown to revolve about the fixed star are inhab ited by Bom kind of intelligent beings, so that life ia unquestionably a gen eral phenomenon of the unjverse. H cited an address delivered at Phila delphia in 1887. by Professor Newcomb. In which similar views were held, and said that the proof Is much more com plete now than at that time. "Men of science." he said, "must ad mit that life Is general on the count less worlds revolving about the fixed stars or else concede that life upon earth Is an accident and a mistake, ex. Isting for hundreds of millions of years In direct violation of the laws of Nature." than last year. Superintendent Dally, of the Portland-Alaska Packers' As sociation's plant, reports that his com pany' cannery was burned on the morning of August 10, but how the Are started Is not definitely known. The company had packed 63.000 cases of tiah and 28,600 cases of the pack was burned. The run tf fish was very heavv but continued for only 13 days. Alaska Salmon Pack Short. ASTORIA, Or.,' Aug. 17. The Portland-Alaska Packers' Association' steamer North King arrived today from Nuihagek River, Alaska. Sha reports the total salmon pack In that river as 455,000 cases, or about 85 per cent less 'Each of the chief or gan of th body ia a . i link ia th Chain of I Life. A chain ia ao stronger than its weakest link, the body ao stronger than it weakest organ. If there S weakaesa of stomach, liver or lungs, there is a weak link ta the chain of life which may snap at sny time. Ultra ttjis so-called 1 is ceased by lack of nutrition, the result of weakness or disease of the stomach aad other organs of digestion and nutrition. Diseases and weaknesses of th stomach end its allied organ are eared by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. When the wen; or diseased stomach i eared, disease ef other organs which itrm remote from the stomach but which have tbeir engla tn a diseased condition of tne stomaen and ether organ of digettioa end nutrition, are eared also. n mtromg man tarn m mtrmmi mtomaca. Tmtm tmm aeer reauaeaeTee7 "Ofaeor mrr" at roar mar mmv m mtfnt turn m a mtromg Tr. Grvm A wat. Dr. Pierce' Common Sense Medical Adviser, new missd Edition, is cent frr oa receipt of stamp to pey expense of mailing ay. Send 21 ooe-cent stamps for the book ia paper cover, or SI tramps for the cloth-bound vol- Addresa Dr. S. V. fierce, Buffalo, IN. X. Aug. 3 1 and Sept. 2 To ST. PAUL and Return For Conservation Congress Future . Excursions Sept. 8 To all points East Sept. 22 To Denver and other Colorado points. Stopovers permitted on go ing or return trips; Extra stopover given for visit to Yellowstone Park to Sep tember 15. Through trains and sleeping cars from Portland. Westbound Colonist Fares ' Sept. 15, Oct. 15 - Torthern JLl TacSeaicHitbwT Pacific Tkraagh th Railway ia at ranaa A. D. CHARLTON, Aaat. Gen. Pass. Agent 25S Morrison Street, Corner Third, Portland