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THAT tha OrBon caTes will soon b
rom known U all tourist a
point of rt Intertit and b In
:!ud4 in tl". Itinerary of traveler pa
'nj through this state. I virtually as
sured. Thosa wbo bav visited the place
Highly praise tha grandeur ami coloring
tf the Interior of tha caves, where na
ur has wrought the most exquisite de
ilns at ber own frea will.
The caves are located la tha southern
part of Josephine County, near tha
California line and. at present, are a
little out of the route of tha tourist.
Hut the forest ranger have almost
rompleted a trial to that point and
during the Summer mouths, tourist
will find It a pleasant and interesting
trip.
On request of C. F. Watson, of Ash
land, the Oregon titate Conservation
Commission applied to the Government
to have these caves set apart for the
us of the public and have there pro
tected, and about two years ago they
were withdrawn and reserved under
the name of the Oregon Caves. Here
after during the Summer month per
rons will be employed by the forest
ervlre department to prevent the d
atructlon of these historical landmarks.
R. L. OUaan. who made a trip to the
raves last Summer, in an interview
said:
"I hkve traveled for miles through
the Mammoth Caves vt Kentucky, have
visited the rave of the Winds at Uanl
tou. Colo and have 'cn the caves In
the Grand Canon of Arliona, and other
rave mure or less exploited for their
grandeur and beauty, but In exquisite
-olorlnir. freshness and Intricacy of de
sign, the formation of the Oregon
raves far outclass the better known
cave.-
Mr. Glisan also give an outline of
Ma trip, which will probably b of
value to those contemplating trip
to that vicinity.
"At T:10 In the morning, K. B. Wilson
and I left his orchards in the foothills
southwest of Medfurd. In a light
wagon." he said. "W drove west
erly, passing through Jacksonville, J 4
ml'e distant, hiilf an hoir later. We
CARTER HARRISON WILL BE CHICAGO'S
MAYOR FOR FIFTH TIME, IS FORECAST
Old-Time Official, Six Tears Out of Harness, Is Picked as Favorite Woman's Club Popularizes Classical
Music by 10-Cent Sunday Concerts Streetcar Transfers Made to Last for 100 Miles.
CHICAGO. Jan. 28. ir I were mak
ing a Winter book on the Mayor
alty election In Chicago, Carter
Harrison would be the favorite among
the entrants, actual and prospective.
political observers here say that
statement argue the "bookmaker" a
very bad guesser. but I stand pat on
the selection of a favorite, although
Mr. Harrison has a fight on hi hands
for the preliminary prlxe the Demo
cratic nomination.
Carter Harrison. Edward F. Dunne
and Andrew J. Graham are Democratic
candidate, each - with a full-grown
platform on which he la making bla
canvas for the primary election. Each
has a sturdy following.
Harrison baa been Mayor four time.
Dunne ha been Mayor once. Graham
1 a substantial banker and business
man. Aa lo personal integrity and a
sincere regard for the welfare of Chi
cago each Is entitled to a vote of confi
dence. The question then narrow
down to one of vote-getting ability and
to the popular Judgment as to who
would make the best executive. Here a
process of elimination may begin.
Graham ha not been tested suffi
ciently to how th atuff that la la hint.
Jn the popular mind he I aa uncer
tain quantity ea that account. Behind
him I the entire strength of the Roger
C. Sullivan force of the Democratic
power. Thie la both aa assent and a
liability, according to tha viewpoint
of the voter. The Sullivan faction I
generally credited with corporation
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passed Ruch at :!. where we took
the right fork of the road and soon
reached Applegate Kiver. following
along It north bank. An hour's drive
brought us to Applegate postofflce,
where we turned tu the left and crossed
the river. At 10 0 we arrived at Pro
volt postofflce. 1 miles from Jackson
ville. Turnlnn to the left in a south
erly direction we reached William
Creek at 11:20. where we atopped for
lunch.
"After Innch we followed the east
bank of William Creek for several
mile when w forded the stream. At
1:&0 we came to a Methodist I'huroh,
where we turned to the left. Keeptntc
the main road we passed the creamery
and small combination church and
school. Another turn to the left
brought ua to the ford of Williams
Creek. We then followed a southerly
course to the ranch of C. If. Stephens,
the end of the road St mile from Jack
sonville, arriving at 1:10 P. M.
"The next morning at (:46 w left
camp on foot and followed the forest
rangers trail southerly, the trail rod
wide at first, then regulation width
winding by easy grade upward several
thoussnd feet through virgin forest to
the Meadow seven mile away, which
we made at :J0. Here the good (rail
ended and forced u to pick our way
for half an hour over the meadow to
the upper end of the meadow on tha
crest of the mountain.
' We reached the cavea on the oppo
site side of a timbered glade, nine miles
from Stephens' ranch, at noon.
"After lunch, taking our candle lan
terns, with extra candle pocketed, and
fastening on end of a large ball of
while twine at the entrance to the
upper caves, w went In. Our string-,
which unwound aa we went, served as
a guide on the way back. Without a
guide of some sort It would be sheer
folly to attempt to explore the caves,
as there are frequent passage-ways on
different levels, ramifying in hopelesa
confusion, and presenting an entirely
different appearance when you endeav
or to retrace your steps. Deeply did
we regret the very limited time at our
disposal and the few flashlight powders
to feebly photograph our impressions.
"The combined candle llsrht proved
In the gaa company. Reside the Sul
livan crowd ha won the undying:
hatred of the Harrison, the Dunne and
the Hearst crowds. These facta prob
ably are enough to spoil the chance of
Graham for the nomination.
Dunne achievement or lark of
achievement during hi previous ad
ministration will connt in the net
against him. He was elected an a
municipal - ownership platform. He
meant well In hi effort to redeem hia
platform promises, but he failed. He
was charged with being vacillating and
with lack of backbone at critical
stage of hkt regime. Viewed la per
spective, hi administration does not
Impress the mass of voter as entitling
him to another chance. Business inter,
est are not strong for Dunne.
Harrison' election four time prove
hi popularity. There la no evidence
that he ha lost ground In the six years
he ha been out of office. As Mayor
he was honest, industrious and a rarely
good fighter for what he stood for. He
waa consistently for the city and the
people as against the public service
corporations. At the same time he
waa not rad'cal enough to alienate the
good opinion of the Influential business
element. Hta present platform, espe
cially the plank calling for 70-cent
gas, Is making a strong appeal to
voter. Altogether, then. It appear
that Carter Harrison ha by far the
best chance for th nomination.
A to the election: Chicago waa
TVmocratlo territory lust November, ft
Itfofcs dcUdodlx like Democratic terri
nTE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND, JANUARY 29, 1911.
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much better than we had hoped, as the fully sculptured, frescoed and tinted,
pass. a ways are for the most part the work of ages by nature's own art
narrow and the ceilings low. J 1st. fashioned drop by drop in lime in
"Cotllnars and walls were all care- 1 eternal blackness, awakening the ad-
tory still. Th Buses administration,
brilliant and fruitful of practical re
sults for the good of the city, never
theless ha been bitterly assailed for
th evidence of graft and corruption
found here and there among subor
dinate. It I vary doubtful If the Re
publican party will be able, with thl
handicap, to win at th poll, let th
candidate be who he may. And so it I
repeated that Carter Harriaon I like
ly to be placed In the Mayor' chair for
the fifth time.
Fourteen week ago the Chicago
Woman' Club startsd on a campaign
of popularising the music of th mas
ters through the medium of 10-cent
Sunday concerts In Fullerton Hall at
the Art Institute. The women active
in the movement are not merely de
lighted with its success. They are un
deniably surprised. The patronage la
remarkable In numbers and in the seri
ous Interest manifested. Now the club
ha started to popularise the art of the
masters by taking th concert-goers, at
the close of the musical programmes,
on tour of th Institute, and pointing
out In non-tcchnlcal language the
things that make a painting or a sculp
ture great. -
At the concerts the hlghewt class of
music la Interpreted by artist. Th
programme is designed to last Just an
hour, and It I repeated for the second
audience. At the last two concerts 600
attended on each occasion. That is the
comfortable capacity of the hall. There
Is every reason to believe these con
certs will grow In favor until the
Auditorium Theater, seating 8500, will
be required to accommodate those who
wish to attend.
Mrs. John B. Pherwood. member of
Lbs eoiUiuUU 1a charge, conducted
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the tour of the Institute art
rooms. She Invited one hundred
women to compose the party of pupils.
Acceptances were prompt and so many
uninvited persons Joined' the party that
It was necessary for Mr Sherwood to
mount a table to give her informal lec
ture on the pictures. That was the cue
that resulted In the decision to make
these tours a cermanent feature
Already the effect of the concerts i
observed in the nature of de-nands
made on cafe orchestra for encores. A
gradually higher class of compositions
Is being asked for. Selections from
Wagner and other great opera are
taking more and more precedence over
the simpler waltxes and marches. The
meditation from "Thais." the barcarolle
from "Tales of Hoffman," and similar
works, made more or less familiar by
the grand opera orchestra, are fre
quently called for. These phenomena
of an Improving popular taste, to
gether wlUi the brilliant eucces of the
opera season, lead to the conviction
that the Chicago Grand Opera Company
already Is assured permanency as an
Institution like the famous Theodore
Thomas orchestra.
Clever users of etreet-car transfers
In Chicago have found a way to de
crease the cost of living by decreasing
the volume of their business expenses.
Salesmen who have occasion to go from
place to place to sell goods have fig
ured out a route by which they are able
to make the nickel paid originally for
fare last them throughout a full day's
travel.
Spice Is added to the hunt for cheap
transportation by competition among
salesmen for a record. One vendor
I boasts that he has been able to ride
100 miles for one nve-cent piece ana
that he has. during stop-overs. Inter
viewed scores of customers and sold
them his wares. This method of mer
chandising is made poasible by the fact
that tha life of a streetcar transfer Is
one hour and that transfer are good
at most intersections of lines. Caboose
of freight trains which stop at urban
and auburban stations to load or un
load are used by some vendors, the
stops giving them tlmo as a rule to re
join the train crew before the train
pull out
Th pleasure-eeeker who might care
to do so would have no difficulty in rid
l&c ba.uk; and ierio. on elevated WUu.
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miration of the most exacting critic,
and, alas, the ruthless grasp of the
Insatiate curio seeker, for It fairly sick
ened one to approach in wonder some
marvelously-formed chrysanthemum
shaped, cream-tinted formation, and see
how the delicate points had been need
lessly shattered to furnish a suuvenlr
from among the broken fragments, or
some tinted domes blackened by care
less torches.
"In one chamber we found a hupe
column In the center, another time
brought us bv petrltied cascades and
waterfalls, while stalactites and stal
agmites of various sizes were every
where In endless profusion.
"Reluctantly we retraced our way to
the entrance after several hours' in
spection, realizing we had only seen
a trifling portion of the upper caves.
'Before leaving we went in the lower
caves for a short distance, having to
pick our way along the edge of a small
stream.
all day for a nickel. Long rides of this
kind on hot days are not unusual.
There may not be such an organiza
tion as the Black Hand, as many Amer
ican police officiule contend, but resi
dents of the Italian colony here cannot
be made to believe the thing is a
myth. Kxtortlons, murder and bomb
outrage are becoming alarmingly fre
quent In Italian quarters in Chicago, l im
utmost daring ha been shown In the
execution of ome of these Crimea. The
criminals themselves have been seen, but
the police have been thwarted In every
attempt' to find and arrest them.
Chief of the obstacles confronting the
police Is tlie unwilllngneas of witnesses
to tell what they have seen or of non
witnesses to tell what they suspect. The
victim and the friend of the victims
are in utter terror of a sinister fate as
the price of giving any incriminatory In
formation. Rather than put themselves
in line for vengeance they close tlielr
Up tightly and refuse to say a word
when questioned. They not only suspect
but they are fully convinced that a mur
derous bsnd of cut-throate and extor
tionists doe exist; that the criminals will
stop at nothing.
Following the latest bomb explosion in
an Italian district the same silence
seized everybody who might know some
thing of the outrage. Men were seen
running from the place of the explosion.
Those who eaw them closed up like
clams: A well-dressed Italian was found
dead In an " alley, his body hacked to
pieces with an ax. Not a word of sus
picion, not a clew could the police ob
tain. Nobody purposed making himself
or herself the next target by telling what
he or she knew.
Experience ha demonstrated there is
good reason for this taciturn attitude.
The Black Hand, or whatever It may
call Itself, does not forget. Sometimes
it revenge comes tardily but It usually
comes in aome form or other. It has
been suggested that the knowing ones
might be made to open their mouths If
their persistence In silence were In some
way treated on a partlceps crlmlnte
basis. Otherwise It appears that. If the
outrage continue. It will be up to Chi
cago to resort to frontier methods, or
ganize a vigilance committee and strain
the law to get at the criminals and dis
pose of them.
Fifty-two bomb explosions have now
tataa pliua n4 not a fuiltjr man appre-,
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"To see the caves properly one should
camp there oyer night and not be ob
liged to hurry back as we did to a
late supper. Instead of going at ran
dom a person should have the benefit
of a reliable guide, but even hurried
aa we were and venturing Into one
chamber and then another as fancy dic
tated, down any passage way that at
tracted us, taking tha caves as we
found them without any work expended
In widening narrow openings or mak
ing hard places easy, save for a few
broken-down ladder leading to differ
ent levels, we found our anticipations
more than realized and the caves worth
far greater effort and trouble than Is
necessary to reach them. With the trail
completed and the road better known,
the trip can be made easier and more
quickly than was made last Hummer,
and the Oregon caves will ever remain
a monument to the foresight of the
Oregon Conservation Commission who
secured their protection."
hended. Various perpetrators with vari
ous motive have committed the out
rages, most being attributable, perhaps,
to gamblers. In all of them the public
Interest is the same. By an almost
miraculous series of circumstances the
casualties have been few and generally
unimportant. .But some of these days, it
seems eafe to predict, half a dozen or a
dozen persons will be killed. When that
day comes Chicago will be stirred as It
was In 1806 wnen me not
sacre took place.
Chicago Clocks Ailing.
There are 100.000 clocks in Chicago that
need the attention of the clock doctor.
The 'estimate Is based on itgures fur
nished by the telephone company, whose
officials say that one-eighth of the fam
ilies of the city depend on the telephone
girls almost dally for the rig..t time and
for the correction of timepieces. Fifty
two thousand calte are made every 24
hours for the time exclusively. The tele
phone officials say the aggregate of this
service in the course of a month or a
year is Immense, but that the service is
given gladly and gratis for public ac
commodation. A walk down any of the business
streets and a glance at the atoro clocks
show how very unreliable are the time
pieces en route. The variation is as
much as 40 minutes, and that for busi
ness houses which have an interest in
the correct time of day. Chicago has his
London son who sets his watch by a
chronometer that tells .the London time.
He la an Anglo-maniac freak, but it is
a easy for him to compute Chicago time
as it is for those who make a pretense
of keeping Chicago time.
At the electrical show one of the de
Vice shown was a small clock to be at
tached to office or house telephone.
This timepiece can bo regulated accu
rately from the central offices. Its adop
tion would relleye the telephone company
of a voluntary courtesy and might add
to the comfort and convenience of house
holders. It was for a fire to disclose that there
Is In active dally operation Inside Chi
cago's loop district a gold mine that pays
as high as 100 a barrel of dirt. The
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Company, which has contracts for the
sweepings of floors in leweiry worKanops,
and in other nlaces where
fold la iweO. Before tb& e vexZ
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It was in the Summer of 1875 that
Elijah Davldon discovered the door
way to the Oregon cavea. He was on a
hunting expedition, and a bear chasn
terminated near the entrance. After
the animal had been dressed, Mr. Da
vidson noticed a clear stream and see
ing no hollow from which It might flow,
he followed It to the entrance of the
caves- From there he struck matches
and followed the stream as far as he
felt waa safe.
Since "Oregon s Marble Halls," as
they have been termed by Joaquin
Miller, were discovered, no attention
was paid to them until the Govern
ment was requested to set them aside
as a reservation forever. There is no
doubt that the Oregon caves will soma
day become famous, and their beauti
ful marble frescolns and artistic color
ing be enjoyed by large number of
person each year.
The Jolly Good FeLlow.
Detroit Tree Pres.
The Jolly good fellow took him out to dine,
He bounht him a bird and a bottle of wine.
He patted his back, and be laughed at his
Jokes.
He paid for his drinks, and he paid for hia
mokes.
He bought him box seats at the very beat
show.
And paid for the taxi, and let his coin o.
He cut loose from everything decent and
sane.
The other man's business expocting to gain.
Hut the very next day
Oh. It hmiDcns this way).
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the hualneas man: "Though Mr.
(Straight Is a crank
And never gala freo.
He'i the fallow for me,
I think I will place my account with his
bank."
The Jolly fellow wbo blowa in his rush,
And stays out st night while has cutting
a daali.-
Who smiles when he ses you and grabs
your right hand.
And treats you to everything splendid and
fine.
Ia not tha man, and I'm aura this la Just,
In whom you itnpoae a position of trust.
While you dinn and you drink.
And your glasa with hia clink.
In the morning you go to the man you re
aped Whose record is clean.
And upon him you lean.
For never by him is a business man
wrecked.
knew that such an industry Is so close
at hand and few even now understand
how tt can be made to pay. This popu
lar skepticism does not bother the com
pany, which is on a stable business basis
and jealous of Its privilege to redeem
gold particle from pecks of unsightly
rubbish.
Valuable Dirt Lost.
Among the valuables destroyed or at
leant temporarily lost through the Are
were several barrels of dirt In the office
of the company. In these barrels was
an unknown quantity of gold. The com
pany officials are trying by a system of
averages to satisfy the insurance com
panies of the extent of their loss so that
the loss may be recouped. The insur
ance people also wish to know how much
salvage there may be from the dirt.
"There was three feet of water In the
plant," said Mr. Cassriel, "and we don't
know how much of the dirt was washed
away entirely. If we could have cor
nered the water we might have taken
the lost gold from that. But the water
even washed the dirt out of the cracks
and that is gone. We have set a force
of men to work to recover as much aa
possible of the precious metal. We do
many thousands of dollars of business
annually in this salvage of gold that gets
away from dentists, sign-makers. Jew
elry makers, repairers ajid others."
Queer things in the Chicago news ol
the week include the attempt of Mrs.
Elizabeth Fltzpatrlck, 45 years old, to
commit suicide In a cell by swallowing
her false teeth after she had failed to
hang herself with a handkerchief and to
strangle herself with a bit of rilibon.
Like Abe Martin's mythical hoosler who
gave up his job in the sawmill because
It took up too much of his time, Julius
Bull threw down his shovel and quit tha
Job given him by a man who befriended
him In court before he was not used to
hard work. Judge Newcomer, of the
Municipal Court, contributed to the spice
of life by Installing a fumigator in court
with which he squirted the objectionable
Inolviduals who appeared before his bar.
The courtroom was like the perfumery
booth of a department store, with some
modification which the Judce tried to neu
tralize with his atomizer. A hobo crawled
up on a slab in an undertaking room to
sleep. When he was disturbed he be
came highly indisnant because the pro,
Diietor didn't go en wlta ibe, funeral.'