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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 4, 1911)
THE STJDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND. JUNE 4, 1911. bava been started for the hospital and diverted to the morgue, and men. have started for the morgue and been di verted to the hospital. Many a sufferer haa lain for precious minutes on a germ-laden bunk at the Jail, receiving homely first aid from the Jailer while awaiting the arrival of an ambulance. Man have died because the trained and sterilized hand of a physlc'an did not touch their wonnds In time. With tha general hospitals two miles away from tha center of the city and no other place to car for th wounded and dyinft, the emergency hospital Is a crying need. At the election next week the electors are asked' to vote upon a. measure pro viding for the issuance of bonds for 1200.000 to build an edifice In whtch the police department can b housed in a manner fitting to a city of tha aix of Portland. The measure haa the hearty approval of all who are eos;- GASOLINE POWER CRAFT MAKE COOS BAY KNOWN AS VENICE OF OREGON Launches on Harbor Number 250, and Are Used by Ranchers to Convey Produce to and From City Large Boats Ply Between Towns on Bay, and Fishermen Also Employ Them in Work. CITY NEEDS QUARTERS FOR JUSTICE AND TO HOUSE ITS MANY PRISONERS dirges Cannot B Treated in Humane Manner Until Adequate Means of Caring for Men and Woman Criminals Ij Provided by Bond Issue Which I a to Be Voted Upon at Kext Election. 4 run- V 1 ; ----f.,'-"-c. V" nixant of the conditions aa they exist E ; .'--': fl SB f t a I ; : V J . : i 1 i o . !: if ' I if I I f .-' , - : rs : - ' U-Z: ' ? V at present. Each Man Has But One Life to Risk ;1 !--. 3" , -5 ir ci r-s rrs X f V If fel?!?JT ! V, - . ' il ky;-?Hf-'',;'---:--.y r -i - (.sy.,-. il ONCE upo tlui th city polio tartd cn-.paln la nforc tb ordlnanc whtcb rqutr loORlnir hou to furntth a flxnl minimum of cubic ir-pc (or each lxlcr. From thatr stuCy bunk Ch!nrs. Hlndua and othar a-rcarlua ailcna were routed aut and ant to th pottca Blatioa. Then urn o3li'ta ttliouiht him that tha !aat condition vi wor than tha ftrat; that In tha cttr Jail firro waa Irs air par pr pair of )un than In tha uaxtara from whlh the men bad bean taken. The cruatid stopped quicker thaa It atArted. Il Ut quiet Saturday nlslit at Second and Burr.sl.le ken the cltjr Jail la not la contempt of the ordinance referred ta and the atlnird euppljr of air allowed tha captives comes to them laden with whisky fumes tobacco and what-not. It la Bsjea Old Joke. Twenty yeara a. as now, there was -.an.tmc ika about the regularity1 with which monthly irrand Juries in corporated tn their Una: reports a charfe that th Jul accommodations wer Insufficient and dertrient. In the nearly four decade sine th present 41 Dc wa built Portland haa spruns from a str:ins; Ttllaae tj a (real metropolis, jet Its fa.'lllCes for deal In with it criminal hare not ad vanced a step. Kxtsttnc conditions bav worked aaalnst liuman treatment f priaonera. against efficiency and dis cipline In the fore and alartncly against decorum In the Municipal l oort. With ry year" growth thee condition progress geometrWar.y. Oeaeral quarters for male prisoner, pa th ground f'.oor of th Jail, ar 1 ircumscrlbed within th limit of a room not larger than th average cor ner grocery. Her a many as l't men at tlmea eat. sleep and tak what xr. cla they can. Every day those who have received prises sentsno or can not pay tiieir flnea ar sent tn the IJr.n lon quarry, yet before midnight their p.a.e ar ft:. led an l the Jail corridor again become a reeking cave of a thousand smell, la which the caeual visitor quickly acquires a headache or nausea. Sometime, as when two holi day com together without a session of th court to dispose of th accumu lated cases, ths situation would be past handing did not the Chief of Po lice and his captains exercls their dis cretion and release without trial those charged with lmpl o!f.-nes. Jail Not Bad Might Br. Kllthy the Jail la not, a Jail go. be cause Jailer Pranc-h and Thompson re tain from among the rovkpll prisoner a goodly number of trutle who war cewseirssly upon dirt and dlseaaa and disorder. Tet at Its best and prettiest th Jail la muggy. m;:y and altogether ordid. Every department of the police ad ministration Is hampered by lark of reasonable facilities. On of the worst condition I that which compels sepa' rat quartera for th detective depart ment. Th city pay 135 a month for suit of offices for th detective In f-e Worcester building, where they are a block away from head-tuarters. From this fart results a la. k of co-ordination and co-operation between the two oWaascbaa i Mtvi. itUch taora r J ! e'lJr -T. w -.V i e M iii Ul i ) than one has acted deleterlously upon th reult of an Important criminal Investigation. It Is held lo be funda mental that the detective bureau should be at headquarters and In touch at all time with th tentacles' that reach throughout th city. Lack of separata quarters for fellow-conspirator I another source of embarrassment to th best Interest of the service. A few Isolated cell on th third floor adjoining- th woman's quarters ar available when It Is de- trd to keep a prisoner incommunica do, but when ther ar two such at one time, the police are forced to In voke the hospitality of the Sheriff, or mak some other shift which causes loss of time and efficiency. Quarters for women are extremely limited and this condition has a direct and powerful bearing upon th admin istration of th underworld, which ba of let been a matter of lively Interest In ' city. Tiier being no workhous for women. It become necessary either to let them off with such a fin as they can pay or not to arrest them at all. When a dozen ar consigned to th care of th matron at on time, th ward becomes too congested. Henc. women of th streets, when biourht before th court, ar fined amount which act aa a tap on th wrist and a spur to gratr activity In making up th deficit ar.d no ood purpoa ba been served. Comfortable housing of th officer of th department haa long alnca been given up a an lnsolubl problem. On mall locker-room la all th provlalon n-.ad for mn. In which to keep their belonging and to assemble when waiting their call to duty. Some few of th officer, crowiied out of th pac aOoted by tb cliy. hat privately n '1 -l?w v.nx. .-e- . ' :: mm m km eJkt engaged room In th neighborhood In which to don and doff their uniform. probably the most serious result of th crowded condition 1 Its direct bearing upon the manner in which Jus tic I administered to the stifled cap tive from below stairs. Some modern Mrs. MaJaprop. when told that tha acouattc In a theater were bad. replied that ii didn't smell anything. In a morning session of th Municipal Court the acoustics can be smelt and heard and felt. Becau th hearing I bad. all Interested partle crowd about the Judge's bench, shutting off tha sound of tl witnesses voire and giving rise to a score of disturbing features which tend to make the administration of Justice an unbecoming procedure. Th spirit of the thing spread to th spec tators, who swarm on three wabbly benches In the rear of the hall. Tney laush and converse. A hum of conversation swells above tha vole of the witness or tha court. Lawyers arrange their evidence, collect their fee. Warring faction recrim inate in audible undertone. , Street cars and trucks rattle outside and busl nes stop till they have passed. Be cause it Is hard to make one's self heard, person lean over th Judge's bench and talk to him In tones not au dible except to tha two. A fertile field for auggestlve scandal la thus provided. Every Judge who has presided over the Municipal Court has sighed at tnt condition and made futile efforts to better it. but at last has thrown np hia bands and let business procede tn Its old slipshod wsy. "When we have a decent courtroom things will be bet ter." they say. Plans for a new Jail Include an emergency hospital, tban which no civic Improvement Is worse needed. Cruelty most Inhumane I practiced every week in the delay which meeta the handling of accident cases coming to ina attention of tiie pollca. Men O Ts Make Snefru of That Owe, Each Man Mwat Art aa Xkeeutk World . Had Walteal for Hla Co ml a;. BT MADISON C. PETERS. I. g-i STANDS for Seriousneaa. Life Is kv an earnest, essential, vital affair. "' Many men act aa though they had many Uvea and could afford to lose one. W bava only one life and If we make a failure of that ona life It means the failure of all. To make a success of your Ufa, act as though tha world had waited for your coming and expected you to perfom a grand part In It, It U Stands for Uprightness. Un principled men win success. Swindlers roll In wealth. Tricksters are crowned with public office " and acoundrela cun ningly manage to keep out of th clutches of the police. This demoral ising puzxla is a fearful temptation be fore which soma young men are not strong enough to stand. This I true: Great trusts may be sought by scoun drels who sometimes find them, but great trust never seek unprincipled men and the service of upright men are always sought, and they are not found In shoals, but In clear springs. Though a crooked age, yet men ar ask ing: "I he honest?" Let a man get th reputation for uprightness in his dealings and he will be sought, while the man who wants watching, no mat ter what his other merits are, will finally find that honest men will have nothing to do with him. The world Is always on the lookout for men who will stand for the right, though the heavens fall. Capital is not counted by whst a man has, but by what he Is. Character Is capital. Honor Is success. Stained success Is failure. lit, C Stands 'for Concentration. "My father." said a boy, bragging about his parent, "can do almost anything; he is a notary public, a druggist, a horse doc. tor, he can pull teeth, he can mend wagons and things, he can preach, be can play . the fiddle and he Is a Jackass at all trades." It does not pay to know everything. Only sophomores are omniscient. The best way to pre vent a gun from scattering is to put in a single shot. Better be a tenth-rats something tban a first-rate nothing. An old German proverb says: "To change and to change for th better are two dif ferent things." It is not the most bril liant men, but the stickers who gener ally achieve the highest success. IV. C stand for Courtesy. Good manners can do more for a man than money or Influence. ' Lord Chesterfield wrote to bis son: "All your Greek can never ad vance you. but your manner. If good, may." Emerson aays: "Urve a boy dress and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palace wherever he goes. He ha not th trouble to earn or own them, they solicit him to enter and pos sess." The "I-don't-know ' and "I-don't-eare" men generally stay where they start. Show courtesy to others, not be cause they are gentlemen, but because you are one. V. . E stands for Energy. There is no genius like the genius of energy. Genius Is the talent for hard work. We are bringing up In America gentlemen idlers who are passing down the stream of life at th expense of their fellow passen gers. Alfred the Great, the Saxon King of Britain, a paragon of attainment in hla time th ninth century when asked how he found time to accomplish so much, answered: "I find time by never losing It," This answer Is the secret of success. To succeed you must be up and doing. Millals said: "I work harder than any plowman; my advice to .boys Is 'work.' " The old German inscription on a key: "If I rest 1 rust" is as true of men as It la of the Iron in the key. VL S stands for Sobriety. The world of business haa put a ban on the drinking' man. Every lln of business ts barring out the man who drinks. One secret of the growing success of the Jew In A men Ira Is bis sobriety. Sobriety must char sctertze the msn who con hold his place In the contest for place and power. The business of the country, both large and small. Is conducted today by men who don't drink. You don't, as a rule, find successful men lined up at the bars: they are usually the fellows who either now are, or are on the road to become loafers. Take any community in any city or In the country, and as it has be come successful it has become more so ber. VII. S stands for Sen-Ice. Useful work done for others. To slop over a Job Is equiva lent to stealing, when a msn puts Into his work the best that Is In him he can. like Longfellow's "Village Blacksmith." look the whole world In the face and fear not any man." Some men a only - aim Is lo get through with their work, to get the money, regardlees of how the Job Is done. The majority, of workmen need to be watched. It Is becoming in creasingly difficult to find honest help. There Is no country in the world where there Is so much poor work done as tn America. Things sr actually thrown together, so that often European goods are cheaper at double th price. A ser vant girl had the correct idea of what practical religion stands for when aeked. on Joining the church, what reaoon she had for thinking herself a Christian, replied: "I now sweep under the mats." Training of a Nurse. Housekeeper. Mary Minor Lewis' sympathies go out toward the nurse. In an article, "Th Trained Nurse and Her Training," she says: . "Prom the day of my entrance- until the end of my probation period I re member little but the fatigue, the utter and cruel exhaustlan at the end of each day; the aching, blistered feet; the nag glnar of those over me In authority; the unceaalng rush of work that waa never done. It seemed to me then In my Ig norance that much of this was unneces sary, and th hours inhumanly long. Now, with my wider experience, I am sura of It. Too much attention la given to non-essentials; for. In my opinion, and in the estimation of many wise physicians, a young woman win make an admirable nurse without having first perfected herself In the arts of the mald-of-all-work. Th training is so severe that many a strong constitu tion Is permanently undermined, and the statistics show that the active life of a trained nurse averages only seven years. masMfca i i ii i maamaBim"rSKimTt.fx -ffrrs'rr' I k ' I """ " ',-l'fls hi ui mm.w '" " vJCEVE2-Ly JiZ-ZSX 0CJV2Z I r T I . ' r .1" ' "i jrTznrJI ' " , SjajMiiMsiil ii ii" mi i iii uriiiir r i win .rv-,. - t :iiui.-. .-r. - . . BY MARSH FIELD, Or., June S. Gaso line boats as a means of transpor tation probably are used more ex tensively on Coos Bay than in any other community on the Pacific Coast. So general haa become the. use of this type of boat that the place has coma to be known as the Venice of Oregon. The gasoline launches are the freight and passenger carriers of the whole com munity, serve the same purpose as streetcars, are used by the ranchers for delivery of milk and produce and fur nish great sport for the lovers of speed boats. The public and privately owned boats on Coos Bay and the tributary rivers and inlets number about 250, and range In size from small open boats to launches 0 feet long-. The power of the gasoline boats Is from two-horse power up to 50. Some of the smaller boats are open, some are large cabin boata and others are speed boats with hoods. In fact, most every style of boat Is used. Type Is Distinct. The pattern of the usual launches. however, is rather different from those In other harbors and boatmen say that they can, tell a Coos Bay gasoline launch any place that they may see It. Some are designed to travel the shallow riv ers and others are built to cross out over the bar and most of them are In tended to combine various purposes. Probably half a million dollars 1 in vested In the gasoline launches on Coos Bay. and practically all of tnem were built in this locality. Th white, or Port Orford cedar, of Coos County, which is so valuable In marine work, enters largely Into the construction of these little boats. In Marshfield the Timmerman and Holland shipyards make an exclusive business of building- gasoline launches. There are several other builders and many owners have "built their own boats. Half a dozen machine shops on th bay are kept busy doing repair work. Boats Give Employment. Aside from the absolute necessity of the gasoline boat in this locality. Its use creates quite an Important industry for the place and la responsible for the em ployment of many men. A dozen of the larger boats are sea going, and are used for deep-sea fish ing, while one or two make regular trips to neighboring smaller ports. The gasoline boat Is the only means of di rect water connection with the Curry County towns, and carries all of the supplies to that part of the state. The Coos Bay community could not get along without the little white boats that dart around on the bay at all times of day and night. Many of the best ranches are located on the rivers While ' and are only reached by water. mnnv of the ranchers own their own boats, every river has its regular freight and passenger service, giving as many advantages as if the farms were located on an electric lnterurban line and doing away with the Iiad road prob. lem in Winter time. Milk and produce Is carried from the rancher's door and th boat brings back bis needs from the cities. Passenger boats run between Marsh- AY " . A. t' fwaw..." X : .tat. 4 . m field and North Bend on schedule the same as streetcars, a gasoline ferry maintained by the county, gives the only connection between Marshfield and the city of Eastside, and dozens of boats are prepared at all times of day and' night for charter. During the Summer, Sunday picnics to the beach and river resorfi bring Into use all of the available boats and furnish one of the chief amusements for the people of the cities. On Sundays they are loaded down wltn cniiaren, Sunday school classes and families car rying: their lunch baskets to the attrac tive points. Wedding parties use the gasoline boats and they are also brought Into use at funerals in cases of deaths in the river districts, un Satur days the waterfront of Marshfield Is lined for several blocks with the launches from the different rivers and are laden with produce taken to and from the ranches. The freight consists of everything, from a package of sugar to livestock for the butcher. The boats are also used extensively In the logging operations on the bay and are the chief asset of the salmon and deep-sea fishermen. Sportsmen Employ Craft. In out of door sports the gasoline craft play a very Important part. They are a necessity in reaching all of the hunting and fishing grounds, and dozens of people living In the city own boats merely for the pleasure of running them. Among these are some fast ones. The Coos Bay Motor Boal Club of North Bend is made up of a large mem. bershlp of boat owners, who have a handsome houseboat for a club bead quarters. Last year the club held a regatta and another is being planned for this year. Arrangements have been made by the members for a series of cruises this Summer to different points of interest. Dr. Bartle, of North Bend, who Is president of the club, owns one of the handsomest gasoline cruisers on the bay. Dr. J. T. McCormao, president of the Marshfield Chamber of Commerce, owns the Dixie, one of the largest pri vate cruisers and a launch of seago-ins- Dualities. A. H. Powers and his son. Fred Powers, of tha Smith-Powers LneeMncr Company, own the two fast est speed boats on the bay. They have been entered in races, but throughout the year they use their fast boats to visit the logging camps operated by the company, and which are located on the waterways. Coos Bay's mosquito fleet Is one of the most conspicuous features of the place and one of the most useful. With out the gasoline boat Coos Bay would RW . 1 -aBsr IMS ill jr&Li - . i . . ija'ijar"--II . - ... w. . . ...- a." " v - ..." . lk. :-'-. -.-.v ... ... ofST JgfrJA J 0." . .3 -e - . -l have to come to a standstill, and busi ness could not be transacted. Even af ter the locality has a railroad and streetcars the gasoline boat will always have its place on Coos Bay. Are Yon Money Mad? United States Senator Taylor, of Ten nessee. There is a money madness that has swept over us, consuming everything In its cyclonic path. It Is the gold today that lures millions from their homes in the fields, in the hills and hollows, to great cities, where they try to scale dream ladders that break beneath them. The American people are like a nation of swine rooting up the trees and flow ers In an eternal search for gold and the big hog with the diamond in his snout is our symbol of greatness and success. A millionaire today is ranked above Goldsmith, and the gold of a multi millionaire represents more to our minds than the greatness of Shakepeare. Gold Is the power that is riding today rough-shod over love, law, and liberty; killing romance and destroying a love for. better things. The lust for gold lias killed other nations. Is it net possible that we too are approaching the time when by digging for gold we will dig our own graves? Gold is in everything in the church, society, politics; all. I verily believe that Jf the American people went to heaven they would dig up the golden streets of the new Jerusalem and levy a tariff on the harps of the angels to protect American industries. How Often to Feed a Puppy. Until a puppy is four months old It should be fed four times a day; after that, three times a day until the com pletion of Its growth, which varies with different breeds. A young and growing animal should never be al lowed to overeat, as it invariably will do if the periods between meals are so long that the animal is reduced to a state of ravenous hunger before every meal. The heartiest meal of the day, which should consist in part of meat in some form, should be given at night. Different Kinds of Bids. Llppincott's. "Yes," said the specialist, as he stood at the bedside of the miser millionaire, "I can cure you." "But what will It cost?" came feebly from the lips of the sick man. The specialist made a swift mental calculation. "Ninety-five dollars," was his .answer. ' "Can't you shade your figure a lit tle," wailed the other. "The undertak er's bid Is much less." f: m -w. ..:,fS'WvMv-:;
