THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX. PORTLAND. JULY 28, 1912,
CAMERA CATCHES INTERESTING CURRENT NEWS EVENTS
Photographic Glimpses of Various Notables, Who Have Recently Stepped Into the Limelight of World-Wide Publicity, by Reason of Their . Accomplishments, Taken at Close Range.
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EW TORIC. July 27. (Special.)
The 35-foot motor boat Detroit
left New York recently with
Commodore Thomas Fleming; Day in
charge, bound for St. Petersburg;. Rus
sia, via Queenstown. The Detroit has
a crew of four men, including Day.
They expect to make England in 21
days, which would take 14 days off the
present record, made in 1904. After
reaching- England, tne Detroit will pro
ceed up the Enplish Channel, through
the North and Baltic Seas, and after
touching at various ports, will sail
straight for St. Petersburg, where the
boat will be sold. The little craft Is
35 feet long, has feet S inches beam,
and draws S feet 6 Inches. She is
equipped with & two-cylinder, 16-horse-power
Scrlpps engine. Her average
speed is seven miles an hour.
Grahame-White and his bride, who
waa Miss Dorothy Taylor, of New Tork,
are enjoying their honeymoon making
flights in their aeroplane built for two.
They have flown across the English
Channel and have sailed over France,
Belgium and England. The bride is
well known in society. She is an ex
cellent swimmer. Grahame-White is
well known in this country, where he
has taken part in aviation meets. In
sne of his flights he circled the Statue
af Liberty in New York Harbor.
The strike of the longshoremen and
seamen around New York is getting
graver dally, and serious riots have oc
curred. The steamship and railroad
companies are busy hiring1 strike
breakers, and have established head
quarters at various places on West
itreet for this purpose. Should the
strike continue, it will mean a food
tie-up. Already there is a scarcity of
meats, fruits, vegetables and bread,
raused by the strike. Some of the big
liners will In all probability have to
all with strike-breakers instead of
:helr regular crews.
Mrs. James Speyer and Mrs. Cornelius
C Cuyler departed recently for Europe
on the Hamburg-American liner Amer
ica. Mrs. Speyer was accompanied by
her husband. They intend to spend
un months abroad in Germany and
France. Mrs. Cnyler is well known so
rlallv in New York. Mrs. Speyer Is
toted for her philanthropic work.
There are no prettier children among
oyalty than the children of the King
ind Queen of Italy. Princess Yolanda.
he eldest child, is the beauty of the
amily. She has perfect skin, a wealth
jf black hair, a massrve Greek fore
aead, perfect features, and eyes that
typify the purest traditions of Italian
beauty. Crown Prince Humbert, Italy's1
future King, is a determined self-willed
boy. full of boyish spirits, and boyish
fun. In his mischievous pranks, he is
aided and abetted by little Princess
Mafalda, who though not 10 years old,
is more than a handful for her govern
esses and other attendants. The fourth
child, little Uiovanna, is not yet out of
the nursery. She is carefully looked
after by the Queen herself. The Italian
royal family Is a thoroughly happy
one, and might serve as a model to
many In the humbler ranks of life. The
Princess Yolanda was born June 1,
1901: the Princess Mafalda Novembr
19, 1902; Prince Umberto, Heir Apparent,
September 15. 1904, and the Princess
Giovanna was born November 13, 1907.
A new device, for first aid to the in
jured on the field of battle, is the
French military x-ray ambulance. The
ambulance is fitted with x-ray ap
paratus. This apparatus will prove in
valuable in caring for the wounded, as
negatives that have been exposed to
injured parts will show the exact state
of the injuries. This will not only en
able attendants to treat the patient In-
POOR BARRED FROM CITY BATHS
BY RICH WHO MONOPOLIZE POOLS
New York Alderman Seeking Way to Bar All Except Tenement Classes Daily Passenger Traffic of Gotham
Equals Population, According to Figures of Public Service Commission.
BY LI.OTD P. LONERGAN.
EW YORK, July 27. (Special.)
The municipal baths, which were
supposed to be able to solve the
Coney Island bathing problem, have
failed utterly in their purpose. Now
the city fathers are struggling with
the matter, but whether they can do
anything or not remains to be seen.
The city provides ocean bathing fa
cilities for 10 cents, the idea being
that in this way one of the burdens of
the poor would be done away with.
Now the denlsens of the tenements are
complaining that they do not get a
chance to cool off, because "auto par
ties' monopolise all the accommoda
tions. Identification" la I'rged.
Investigation goes to prove that
there Is more or less truth In this con
tention. Many well-dressed men and
women daily spend their dimes for mu
nicipal bath tickets, and under exist
ing regulations there is no legal way
whereby they can be barred. Hundreds
of them are on hand every day, es
pecially on Sundays, and many of them
have their own autos.
One aldermanic suggestion is that
would-be bathers be 'identified," that
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telligently and effectively, where tin-I enters and thus afford more ready re
der the old methods guess work largely lief to the sufferer, but in :iany cases
is, that they be compelled to have
cards from pastors or certain charita
ble organisations. Whether this would
work out in practice is another mat
ter. It cannot be denied, however,
that the "auto bathers" have practically
killed what was intended as an en
couragement to the poor to. bathe in
the ocean.
The municipal bathhouses only ac
commodate 8000 bathers daily, or about
three persons out of every 100 in a
holiday crowd. The owners of pri
vate establishments declare that the
city's competition has not affected
them to any extent and prove it on
Sundays and holidays by charging as
high as 2 for a room and suit.
Army to Attack w York.
Grim war will reign all over West
chester County and far down in the
Bronx next month, when "a hostile
army" will try to capture New York.
Twenty thousand men. Including reg
ulars and National Guardsmen, will
participate, and for the first time in
the history of warfare in America
aeroplanes will be used.
The attack will be under the lead
ership of an officer to be selected by
Brigadier-General Tasker H. Bliss.
Brigadier-General Frederick A. Smith
will command the defending army.
In the war game it is assumed that
the American fleet has been defeated
by the enemy's fleet in the Atlantic
and that, under convoy or a victorious
fleet, a body of hostile troops has
landed in Connecticut. An American
army, hurriedly mobilized in New Eng
land, of regulars and militia, has been
hurled against the enemy, but decis
ively beaten.
At this Juncture another defending
army appears, with orders to make a
last stand to save New York City.
Tho enemy's natural programme after
its landing, is to cut off communication
between Boston and the West, stop
New York City's water supply, iso
late the city and capture it. Hartford,
Conn., has been selected as the strat
egic point of vantage, and the defend
ing army will make its stand there.
Brigadier-General Bliss will act as
umpire, in the important theoretical bat
tle. He will decide after the battle
has been fought whether New York la
to be thrown open to a victorious in
vading army, or whether the Invaders
are to be looked upon as & defeated
army, subject to capture before it can
return to its ships.
The heretofore popular bar of a
it will prevent injuries for life, as the
result of improper treatment. The x
ray ambulance is to be used in the
Morocco campaign.
The damage sustained by the Bat
tleship New Hampshire in her recent
collision with the Fall River Line
steamer Commonwealth, was found,
upon examination in the" dry dock of
the Brooklyn Navy Yard, to be very
Bowery hotel has -been closed because
a man who never drank a drop of
liquor in his life no longer goes there.
The place In question is the liquor
section of the Occidental Hotel, long
recognized as the down-town head
Quarters of "Big Tim" Sullivan, State
Senator and theatrical magnate.
For many years the mere presence
of Senator Sullivan in the neignoor
hood Insured a good business to the
cafe, but now he has moved up town,
and the section that once knew him so
well no longer sees him. Because of
this the place has been doing a losing
business or late, and tne new managers
have decided to close It.
The change of the Occidental, by
the way, is only another sign of the
decadence of the Bowery, which Is
rapidly losing the picturesqueness that
once made it famous in song and story.
Lemon Alen Want Hot Weather.
Lemon importers who say that this
has been the most disastrous season
in history, are praying for continued
hdt weather, hoping that thereby they
may be able to recoup their losses.
The speculative movement began in
the Spring with reports that the Cali
fornia crop of lemons had been des
troyed by the freezing weather. Heavy
orders were rushed to Italy and by
the time the consignments began to
arrive it was discovered that Califor
nia was still in the ring and that the
reports of a short crop had been ex
aggerated. To add to the woes of the
lemon men the late Spring kept down
the consumption.
Hot weather sent up the prices and
the highest figures of the season were
realized last week. The Importers are
now estimating that New York will
great. It will cost about $40,000 to
repair the hole stove in her stern. A
court of inquiry was convened on the
New Hampshire July J5, to fix the re
sponsibility for the collision. From
left to right, as shown in the picture,
they are Captain E. Capehart, Captain
W. S. Benson and Rear Admiral B. A.
Fiske. The court is engaged in in
vestigating every feature of the disas
ter and will make its final report to
the Navy Department.
Every precaution is being taken by
the federal health officials to prevent
need for its consumption and to supply
interior markets, from 50,000 to 75,000
boxes each week, and not more than
75 percent of this supply is in sight
now. If the hot weather continues, it
Is figured, a good part of the early
season's losses may be made up.
NIcolI To Sleep Ont of Doors.
DeLancey Nicoll, the lawyer, has set
a new style by arranging for an open
air sleeping pavilion on the roof of
his town house, No, 23 East Thirty
ninth street. Plans for the improve
ment have been filed by Architect
Charles Volz, who estimates that the
cost will be in the neighborhood of
$1000. Mr. Nicoll does not explain why
he wants to sleep out of doors, but
probably he figures that it would be
more comfortable on sultry nights.
New York's daily passenger traffic
now equals the city s population,, ac
cording to figures made public by the
Public Service Commission, which is
great on statistics.
The figures show that the total for
a recent month were 143,502.305. a
dally average of 4,783.410. The census
of 1910 gave the city a population of
414,766,883. The increase in the num
ber of passengers carried over the same
month a year ago was 7,579,404.
The surface lines lead the list with
a total of 46,299.183. The Brooklyn el
evated lines were the next In popu
larity, with 37,510,631. The subway is
In third place with 28,328,803, closely
followed by the Manhattan "L" lines,
which carried 26,335.989. The Hudson
Tube, a comparatively new mode of
transportation, carried 5,027,699 passen
gers. In the grounds surrounding thej
the bubonic plague from getting into
this country. Experiments for fight
ing the dread disease are now being
conducted at Quarantine. New York
harbor. One of the upper views shows
doctors attached to the station, in cu
lating a guinea ,pig with bubonic
plague germs. As one of the most
sensatlve of animals, the guinea pig is
an extremely good culture medium, and
officers itself readily to bacteriological
investigation. In another view, doctors
are seen dissecting nats, killed by fum
igation on incoming ships from port
where bubonic plague Is feared.
Rockefeller Institute at Sixty-sixth
street and avenue A 84 boys and girls
are afforded an opport"-"- to observe
plants growing in a water tank. This
farm garden in the city is Irresistible
to the youngsters, and they swarm
around the pool.
The site for the garden and tank
was placed at the disposal of the Na
tional Plant. Flower and Fruit Guild
by Mr. Rockefeller, and here in the
shadow of the large gray Institute
on the hill the children of the tene
ments are making experiments and dis
coveries of their own.
In the morning a dozen or so little
dnes work in their gr"'-- and about
the tank, and all day some of the 84
are busy under the direction of Miss
Anna Walsh.
"There are children here," said Miss
Walsh, "who had never before heard of
a turtle. To them it is a mystery how
the turtles can llv in th water and
not drown. They know that fish can
live in water, but that is different, be
cause fish do not have legs. They do
not understand how anything that has
legs can survive in the tank. But they
are learning rapidly. Do you know that
only two of the 84 children knew that
plants ever grow in water? They had
never heard of a water lily, and not un
til the end of the week, when they
saw that the plants did not die, could
I convince some of them that they ,
could really grow. One of the boys
even went so far as to get a ruler and
with it every morning measure a cer
tain plant. Not until It measured a
fraction of an Inch more would he ba
lleve that it was not artificial."