PIONEER STEAMER MAN
WILL BE 87 TOMORROW
Jacob Kuam, Alert t Advanced Age, EecoonU Early History of 'Willam
ette Shipping Craft, Carrie Ladd, Leads to Giant Merger.
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INTERESTING
JACOB XAMM. pioneer steamship
builder of the Willamette, and
pointed to as the founder of the
buine that developed the great Ore-Kon-Wathlneton
Railroad & Naviga
tion Co., will be " years old tomorrow.
Despite the accident suffered by the
j-atrlarrh three years ago. and which
has left him an Invalid. Mr. Kamm is
In comparative pood health, alert and
active and abla to transact a volume
of business every day that would tira
many men half his years.
Modesty has always been one of his
virtues and It was this trait 4hat
prompted him to resent the Idea of at
taching all the credit for startlnc the
Industry th.it crew Into the recent
great merKer upon himself.
"It Is true that the steamer Carrie
l-arld was the nucleus of all the later
day business." he said, "but I was not
Ihe sole owner of that vessel. Pha
was one of the steamers owned by the
1'nlon Transportation Company, that
later developed Into the Oregon Steam
Navigation Company, and to trace the
ownership of the Carrie Ladd It Is nec
essary to refer to two other steamers.
ISe Jennie Clark and the Express. These
two boats practically controlled the
business between Oregon City and
I'ortland."
Mr. Kamm referred to his ledger that
he used 60 years a-o to show the own
yrshlp in the Jennie Clark was divided
rs follows: Abernathy A Clark. ; J.
C AJnsworth. f; Jacob Kamm.
Tile steamer Express, he explained.
waa built by Captain Irving, who was
In command and owned a share. George
Hoyt. who waa purser, also owned an
Interest and the steamer Jennie Clark
owned one-fourth.
The steamer Carrl Ladd made her
trial trip Krhruary K and was owned
ss follows: Steamers Express and Jennie
I'Urk. "a: Abernethy Clark and other.
4: J. C. Alns worth. H: Jucob Kamm. l.
Through his Interest In both the Jennie
Clark and Express and his one-nuarter
sham In the Carrie Ladd. Mr. Kamm
"BIG EDDY BUNCH" HAS
NEWSPAPER OF ITS OWN
It Name Is the Big Eddy Review, and It Tells All About Doings in Great
Construction Camp There.
THE DALLES. Or.. Ic. 8. The "Big
Eddy Bunch." as they style them
selves, of young men occupied as
engineers, draftsmen and clerks at the
headquarter building on the Oovemment
construction works at Big Eudy. have
tisd pome of their tjir time lately In
editing and publishing the Big Eddy Re
view, a three-column, tour-pace newsy
little sheet devoted to current topics per
taining to the development of the Gov
ernment canal project and. as stand In
the leading editorial in the Initial num
ber, dated Dicemher 4. "This Is our first
printed Issue and If It proves as much of
a success as we anticipate, we will con
tinue the regular puMloatlon every two
weeks." The publication was printed In
tMe job department of the Optimist of
fice. The editorial stafT is composed of John
R Medcraft. managing editor; M. Bent
ley I1pr. engineering editor; ft. Herman
Oberteuffer. society editor: Harry W.
Tvwigiaa. Joke editor: Kred D. Swank.
Sidney Mills. Fred K- HufTmsn. asso
ciate editors. The columns of the psper
are devote dto ti;e consideration of such
weighty subjects as "Editorials. "Pig Ed
Cr IXctlonsry." "Engineering News."
"Hot Air Shotsi" "Favorite Expressions.
"Sport." "Notes of Interest." "Society."
Sra! columns were devoted to the atory
of the visit of an automobile load of
PaT.ea damsels- the n'ght of November
IT. when the latter were entertained t
the headquarters building with dinner
and dancing and seemed to have mad a
most favorable impression on the rus
cTtlbVe masculine hearts of the "Big
Frtdv Bunch." who are dwelling In an
Eve!ea parad -e
From the "El.sineerlng Doings" Is
gttneii the fsct thst "the construction
department has passed Into the hands of
Urorge G. Ooodwtn and 1- Y. Russell has
been appointed superintendent of plsnt
and transportation mnd will have Imme
diate rbarg of the purchas of equip
ment. Its transportation, erection and
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OF STEAM CRAFT IX PORTLAND AND
MARINE DOCUIEM.
reallv owned nearly one-half of th
latter vessel. As he was the builder of
all the three boats It is likely that in
this way he came to be known as the
founder of tile great Industry.
When the Carrie I.add was built." ha
explained, "some of her owners wanted
to place her on the Oregon City-Portland
route, but the two steamers there could
take care of ail that business, so sha
waa nut on the Tortland-Cascade route,
and was the only stenmer that could
reach the middle landings to connect
with the Portnge tramways at the Cas
cades.
"The Union Transportation Company
was formed In ISiO and controlled all tha
steamere betweeu Portland and the Cas
cades, so we. through the Steamer Car
rie Ladd. were taken Into the first
steamboat company In Oregon. Up to
that time we hd no companies or cor
porations, all the business being done
on nartnershlns.
"The other steamers on the Cascade
route" at the time the Union Transporta
tlon Company was organised were the
Senorlta. owned he Henjamtn tark ana
others, and the Mountain Buck, owned
bv Colonel r.uckle and others.
"Pan Bradford and his associates op
erated the Ilasralo and Mary, both slde-
wheelers. between Upper Cascanea and
The Dalles. R- R- Thompson and Law
rence toe owned the steamer colonel
Wrieht and ran her between Celllo and
Lewiston."
After Mr. Kamm retired from the Or'
gon Ptenm Navigation Company, the
Oregon Railway Navigation Company
was formed to be succeeai rew wwkh
ago by the Orciron-Washlngton Railroad
fc Navlcatlon company.
In referring to his early life Mr.
Kamm said he came to America from
jwltxerland when eleht yeara of age.
learning his trade in St. Louis and on the
Mississippi River. September S. he
received his certificate aa chief engineer
from the 3t. J-ouis Association of Steam
boat Engineers. Then he was only IS
years of age. The document Is now
among Mr. Kamm'i most valued pos
sessions. tandem lock has progressed satisfactorily
during the last fortnlitht. Derrick No. I
Is now hoisting skips out of the through
cut of the canal proper and derrick No. 2
will soon connect with derrick No. 1 to
remove the last vestigo of original
ground to be moved in the construction
of the locks." "Work In boat bssln No.
1 Is besinnlrg to show up now and look
like a boat basin, as Is also boat basin
No. I."
Attention Is called to the fill between
the river and boat basin No. 1. which is
beginning to look big. Steam drills are
about ready to start around station S
and the derrick up at Five Mile lock s
now working, as is also the steam
shovel." "Mr. Schubert's house Is ready
for occupancy and plastering on Mr. Rus
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GOVERXMGTT CAMP AT BIG EDDY.
THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX, FOR1XAXD. DECEMBER 11, 191Q
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ON MORRISON
sell has been finished. A fine dark
room for photographic purposes has been
fitted up In the headquarters building
snd the garage for the Buda car Is nearly
completed. The machine shop is com
pleted and all the macmncry insmuru
and a number of coal bunkers sre und.t
construction nt the present time."
WIFE TRAILS HUSBAND
Sirs. Charles II. Crawford Catisca
His Arrest With 'Woman.
Trsod hv nrlvate detectives em
ployed by his wife. Charles H. Craw
ford, former manasrer of the Monarch
Oil Company, and Eva Lamar, arrested
Friday night at Fourteentn ann wium-
bla streets, appeared In the Municipal
Court yesterdsy morning to answer a
statutory charge. Crawford tried to
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Will
eflhie
Iff Yon
on tlhe
-I-G-H-T
1ANO
AT SIXTH ST, PORTLAND,
have "the case continued without ap
pearance In court, but Deputy District
Attorney Hennessy Insisted that both
be arraigned formally.
Stylishly dressed and well-groomed.
In spite of spending part of a night in
Jail, the defendants stood before the
court for a moment, waived the read
ing of the charge and secured a con
tinuance until Monday. Crawford's
wife remained In the court anteroom.
Mrs. Crawford said she married
Crawford in California last Winter,
but that he had been disloyal for many
months. Last September she prose
cuted him In the County Court for non
support and waa awarded maintenance
at $o0 a month.
"This is not the woman I was after."
said Mrs. Crawford. "She Is Just one
of many. There Is another I shall have
arrested as soon as she can be found."
Free Concert to Be Given.
A free concert will he given Tuesday
SIMPLE REMEDY FOR KIDNEYS
A simple Mixture for Kidneys or Blad
der, Maid to Be the Best That
Can Be Had.
"Mix one - half ounce fluid extract
Buchu. one-half ounce Murax compound
and six ounces good pure gin." Take
one or two teaapoonfuls after each meal
and at bed time. This simple treat
ment, taken in time and according to di
rections, is said to be the best remedy
obtainable for symptoms of kidney and
bladder trouble such aa pains In the
back, frequent, scanty or highly-colored
urination, soreness in the groin or
hip. rheumatic pains In the joints, dlx
zlnees. etc. All the above ingredients
can be bought separately and mixed at
home, or any good druggist can put up
ttie prescription.
The kidneys are sponge-like organs,
whose function Is to filter and sift poi
sonous waste me.Uer and uric axrld from
the blood. When they become clogged
or inactive, these impurities are allowed
to remain in the system and are almost
sure to cause trouble of serious nature.
Chronic rheumatism. Brlghfs disease
and diabetes develop quickly from neg
lect of inactive or weak urinary organs.
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Get back of the
case anci in it!
Examine the strings, the hammers, the sounding board,
the heavy metal frame, the entire interior of the
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And. you'll soon learn of the hidden goodness of the
honest inside as well as outside. Then you'll know why
- it is preferred by piano buyers "who know" and why
she would be most
pleased Xmas with
a STEINWAY
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of the Sherman, Clay & Co. guarantees, guarantee,
by the way, that means something.
OR.
night In the Grand-Avenue Presbyterian
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