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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1913)
UAUu UIIAUII 1IIAM Ik lrt Ulmllu if nil I u 2,000,000 00 r Commissioners Issue Repor Dealing With General City Park Plan. VOTE FOR ISSUE ADVISED History of Park System Given From Early Days When Portland Wm Small Commnnlty to Time of Present Government. The first of a aeries of reports by the City Park Board to show the need of the authorization at the coming city election of $2,000,000 In bonds for the purchase of parks and playgrounds In Portland, was issued yesterday, dealing with the general park plan of the city and some of the needs for 1m provements and also giving a short history of the park movement. Turlng the 'early days, when Port land was yet 'a small community, reads the report, "park affairs were administered by a committee of the Council. This was. and Is, a common custom of small towns. After each election. If a change of administration took place, the employes of the le partment went out voluntarily or other wise. Along with this typical phase of objectionable politics, graver charges were made. To better conditions cltlsens committee was organised to place park affairs upon a more solid foundation and eliminate the glaringly obnoxious political control. Of those composing this committee I am only Informed as to two members Messrs. Charles E. Ladd and Brook White. Park Board Provided For. "To secure the enactment of legis lation was a first object of the com mittee, and In 1899 It was accomplished. The statute provided for a board of seven members, two being ex-offlclo and five were to be citizens appointed by judges of the Circuit Court They held office Indefinitely. The board had power to make rules and regula tions, levy taxes, hold, acquire and Im prove park property. The genera skeleton of the statute was In close conformity to similar enabling acts of ether cities. Its constitution proviaeo for a form of organization that has nrobablv not been excelled In this country. "In 190S the form of board organize tion was altered to conform to the . general revision of the city govern " ment- One of its theories was to dele gate legislative affairs to the Council and all executive matters to the Mayor. who was to scDoint all board mem 'bers and be ex-offlclo member of ail boards. Park Board members were ap pointive by the Mayor and hold office for four years. "During the first period of organi sation the following persons consti tuted the membership: Ex-Mayor H. 8. Rove and ex-City Engineer William B. Chase- City Engineer, were ex-offlclo. The others were: Messrs. C F. Beebe, T. I. Eliot, Henry Fleckenstein, L. I Hawkins and Bufus Mallory. Present Ckarter Adopted. "In 1903 the present - charter came Into effect, and with It the original Park Commission was abolished. The new board was constituted as follows: Two-year term. T. L. Eliot and J. D. Meyer: 4-year term. L- L. Hawkins and Ion Lewis, with ex-Mayor George H. r Williams as chairman ex-officio. i On July . 1901. Dr. T. I Eliot pre-J sented a report to the Park Commls sion. giving Information he had ob tained during a brief visit in the East ern states where he inspected park sys . terns in leading cities. In the report. attention was called to the desirability . of a broad general investigation of the whole surrounding district of the city and to secure advice that would define, in broad outlines, the policy and the direction of the park movement. As a consequence of Dr. Eliot's report, Mr. John C. Olmstead. the worthy son of the eminent park genius, the late Fred erick Law Olmstead. was engaged to make an Investigation. Wide publicity was given to his report outlining a sys tem of parkways, boulevards and parks. ' Fvtare Provision Counseled. "With the special report the board took occasion to state, "while It is the ludgment of the board that the Main Tark. Park Biflpksaijd Plazas furnish perhaps enough Improved parks for the present population, we continue to em phasize the advisability of some pro vision for the future by the purchase of tracts contiguous to the present parks for the purpose of rectifying their boundaries or adding to their a beauty, and of tracts of wild and neg lected lands, such as neighboring mountain ridges. or river banks. Special attention is directed to 'forest reservations' and "hillside parkways.' "The policy of bonding the city for ' park funds In long-time loans Is almost universal at this time In the cities of America. It Is supplemented by spe cial assessments and annual taxation. It la the general verdict that these ex penditures, when Judiciously made, commend themselves to all. and the benefits accrue to taxpayers as well as to the general public "The bill before the last Legislature for bonding the city for park funds, though not prepared by the Park Board, met with its approval after the naming of special tracts was omitted, and the responsibility of choosing tracts and prices was placed unreserv edly In the city's hands. The bill failed 4o become a law for extraneous rea sons. Bond Legislation Advised, "We continue to recommend to later . legislation the wisdom of enacting a ' law for the cltv which will authorize the Park Board by referendum, to sell bonds for the purchase of additional tracts, and to rectify the lines of some of- the present parks. "On June J, 1907. by vote of the peo- ' pie. a bond Issue of $1,000,000 was authorized to proceed upon the general - plan. After Its validity was tested In the courts, the funds became available the last few days of 1908. A ' real start was made In extension work In 1909. Immediately It became evident that the delay was extremely expensive ' and only a small part of the work as determined upon could be executed. To measurably forestall the unnecessary excessive cost of conducting a public 'project, the Park Board again admon ishes the citizens about tha heavy toll to be paid for procrastination. "in a following article, attention will be given to the general plan. Mean while the nubbin of the matter Is whether we are to profit by others' and our own experience by making present purchases. 'Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn In no other.' said Benjamin Franklin. Shall Portland play the fool's part? Presumably that Is the question the men and women of Portland will an swer at the polls on June t." HOOD RIVER VALLEY IS CARPETED IN BLOSSOM Every Breeze Causes the Snowy Petals of Kings and Gravensteins to Flutter to Earth Bountiful Strawberry Crop Promised. . a it s " - ' f mn 3 C ( Ja I tirf--g'.iSfit-Hnnfins-l.rl set iniwwf P'i, HOOD RIVER VALLEY OOD RIVER, Or., May 10. (Spe- H clal.) Every apple tree In the Lower Hood River Valley Is now a bouquet, and the delicate perfume of blossoms Is wafted by every breeze that causes the snowy petals of the Kings and Gravensteins to nutter to the earth and make a white carpet In the orchard. Could one glimpse the district from an aeroplane the Valley would seem like some giant bowl, Its bottom ana sides Dalnted creemy white aid pink. while the rim of hills, garbed In their trees and rocks, would appear green where the pines and firs stand thickest and gray and brown on the bare slopes. A warm shower prevailed over the orchards Thursday afternoon, and the odor of the moist earth was mixed with the perfume from the blooms. The rain was gladly welcomed by the apple- growers, many of whom have straw berries planted between the rows of young trees. Weather Good for Berries. The weather has been excellent for the berries, and Indications point to bountiful return from the neiaa or luscious Clark Seedlings, which are as well known over a limited territory as the apples are to the markets of the world. The strawberries are In full bloom. also. In the lower altitudes, and In a month's time the harvest will be at its GARDEN PRIZES OFFERED TRACTION' CO MP ANT EMPLOYES TO HEAR LECTURES. Contestants "Kill B Rewarded for Best Flowers, Shrubbery and Veg etables Grown This Season. To Increase the Interest of employes of the Portland Railway. Light & Pow er Company In nature subjects and to encourage the beautifying of yards with flowers and vegetable gardens. arrangements have been made by a committee of the company for a flower. shrubbery and vegetable growing con test. All employes of the company will be eligible to contest for prizes which are to be given for garden prod ucts. Features of the contest will be lec tures by landscape architects and oth ers and an exniomon 01 fui grown during the Summer by amateur gardeners. The first ot the lectures will be given by Howard Evarts Weed. landscape architect at the tiawtnorne moms. Mav IS. at 8 o'clock. The sub ject will be "Improvement of the Home Ground." He will speaK tne loiiowmg LEBANON CHILDREN JE1XGTTB GtRlAM), BRIDE) JAMES LAIKD, BRIDE".ROOM HARLAAD M1XTOSH, CLERGYMAN. LEBANON, Or May 10. (Special.) The wedding of Tom Thumb and Jennie June, which was given In pantomime w.dne: .ay night at tbe Presbyterian Churc by a group of children under 7 years of age. attracted much attention. . ' . . T . . The bride, Jeanette Garland. Is the daughter of Samuel Garland. The bridegroom. James Laird, is the son of Dr. F. J. Laird, and the officiating clergyman. Harland Mcintosh. Is the son of Professor Mcintosh, of the Lebanon Elgh School. , THE SUNDAY OltEGOyiAN. PORTLAND, MAY llt 1913. - 13 APPLE TREES ITT J3LOOM. height, for the growers always figure on the harvest just one month after a full blossoming period, Sunday will be a kind of festival day for the Valley residents, many of whom will entertain visitors from Portland and other neighboring cities. The Com mercial Club made s,n attempt the first of the week to secure a number of automobiles Sunday to escort a party of 0.-W. R. & N. and Southern Pacific officials over the district. Officials' Trip Deferred, However, It was found that all cltl sens would be using their machines for the entertainment of their own guests on that day, and the entertainment of the railroad men was deferred until Mondav. Not only are the orchards blooming but every hillside Is dotted with the snow-white clusters of dogwood trees. open spaces are golden with the large flowers of patches of wild sunflowers and the blooms of the Oregon grape. In protected coves and along every stream the pink sprays of wild currant invite the pleasure-seeker to pluck a bouquet. As soon as the wild' flowers of the Lower Valley have ceased to bloom, those of the higher altitudes will be in full bloom, and even .es late as August the traveler Into the wild region at the base of Mount Hood may be able to find great areas covered with purple lupin and flowering shrubs. night on "Practical Gardening ftr City Dwellers." Cash prizes will be given as follows: For the best exhibit of asters, $10; dahlias, $10; gladioli, $10; annual flow ers, $10; perennial flowers, $10. For the best planned yard, arrangements of flower beds, quality of lawn and har monious group of colors, to be consid ered, $10. Best general exhibit of flow ers, shrubbery and vegetables, grand prize of $30 cash. The contest is to be strictly amateur, but there will be a separate depart-' ment for professional gardeners of the company and a blue ribbon will be given the winner. New Acreage Tract Opened. Bland Acres, a new acreage subdi vision, consisting of $36 acres, on the proposed Southern Pacific Electrlo line, 12 miles from Portland and overlooking the Tualatin and Willamette rivers, has been placed on the market by Gilbert & Tilbury. The property has been platted In two to ten-acre tracts and la moderately priced. The tract Is to be opened" for sale today. Three tracts have been sold In the past two days. V. L. Wenger has purchased eight acres for $2500, on which he in tends building a home; C. M. Frederlclo son has purchased eight and one-half acres for $2550, and Miss Sophie Huff has purchased five and one-quarter acres for $1575. Maurice Browne, well-known actor, plays of today are not true to lite. says PRESENT WEDDING OF TOM THUMB IN PANTOMIME. ' V- tit V7J t. 1 MyHS XJ 41 L'sh I k"Jr&j 1 u 4 ylMr iv V-' i t. VL ' I CBJaajgaft. nTtytf JJXfimff I Tff) hard gas, sites and VIEW PRIEST TAKES ISSUE Proposed Action by Episcopal ians Resented. MR. RAMSEY IS ANSWERED Tier. jr. F. Dolpfim, or MiiwauMjc, Quotes Authorities to Substanti ate Contention. Against Appro priation of "Catholic." nrrr.WATTKlE. Or- May 10, (To the RHitr While the reading public may not be especially Interested In learning whether Thomas Nelson so or Oregonlan will be pleased with the de oinn to which the general convention of the Episcopal church will come on the question or cnanging m name so that It may embody the word rntKniii-" lust at Dresent It Is very mnc.'i Interested In leanrlng what de fense the Episcopal cnurcn win set up to clear Itself from the cnarge 01 ires- pass In proposing to appropriate to Itself a name which the largest cnurcn In Christendom already holds ana Dy which. In fact this cnurcn is distin guished and recognlied everywhere throughout the woria. In The Oregonlan last sunaay Air. jcx. M. Ramsey presented to your readers i v ..;::..:- .i. lEgi! Dorr E. Keasey & Co., JfK , Foor Chamber of Commerce - ljj 3 all streets surfaced: Bull Run water, k i i i- i .t h - Be-wev to every lot. ijuuamgp- at from $1000 to $3500; there Ls back in half an hour. r' iMiMMSsatssasasM" i if; irf I tit jr 1 1 I OF KINGS HEIGHTS FROM SPA1-D1NG Dorr E. Keasey & 2d Floor, Chamber of Commerce sssslsBsssssssssssssisissss an apologia which fell far short of exculpating the Episcopal church; nay, more. It contained assertions which are so much at variance with historical truth that I beg you to give me space In which to make a few comments thereon. King's Oath Cited. Mr. Ramsey would have us believe that, because the dichotomy Protestant and Catholic Is unknown in the rormu larles of his church, the name Catholic, on the one hand. Is not a distinguishing designation of that church whose orn clal head Is the Pope at Rome, and the name Protestant, on the other hand. Is not a DroDer designation for tne An glican communion, the term Protestant being only an American expreesion anyhow. But though this dichotomy may not be found In the formularies of the Anglican communion it Is found and moreover It Is accepted in tne English lanaruaare which both Mr. Ramsey and I use to express our ideas of things. Let a traveler anywhere in the British realms or In America ask a policeman to direct him to the near est Catholic church and invariably, pre cisely because of this dichotomy, the policeman will send the traveler to a church that la In communion with the See of Rome. He would not think ot sending him to any other. The slgnifi cation of Catholic Is too well under stood. - And if the term Protestant does not properly apply to the. Church of Eng land. how. can the signification of the word ProteBtant be explained as used In the Coronation Service where the King, who practically if not theoretic ally Is the supreme head of the Church of England, is made to promise that he will maintain "the Protestant reformed religion as it ss estaoiisnea Dy ib-w. (New Internat. CycL, Art. Coronation.) And again, how can be explained the signification of the word Protestant as used In the Act of Union In which the churches of England and Ireland are styled "the Protestant .Episcopal Church. Historians Said to Differ. "Whether the Church of England financed the rebellion In the Nether lands and subsidized Gustavus Adol phus 1 not here a materially important consideration, and so 1 let It pass. But when Mr. Ramsey asserts that the Church of England did not origi nate In rebellion against Rome he puts himself Badly out of harmony with his tory. A formidable array of the Church of England's own - historians emphati cally contradict this claim. .Listen to what some f them have to say. Dr. Short, himself an Anglican bish op, writes: Tne existence ot tne Church of England as a distinct body and, her final separation from Rome may be dated from the period of the divorce." (Hist. Church of England, p. 53.) Rev. M. P. Brewer, an Anglican cler gyman, "Kngiisn Btucies, - p. bzd, says: A Cambridge undergraduate is im- prisoned for saying what .nowadays few would tieny: 'If the. Pope Would have consented that the King might have married Anne Boleyn, he would have been Pope still. and been called Holy Father." ' - Froude, "History of England," says: "The Church of England was as a limb lopped off from the Catholic trunk; it was cut away from the stream by which Its vascular system had been fed. and the life of It as an Independent and' corporate existence was gone for ever." x Clinrcb Authorities Quoted. Mr. Ramsey tells us that "in Its rup ture with Rome, the Church of England claimed to be, and, as a matter of fact, was returning to a better and more primitive Catholicism:" and yet Foss, In his "Judges of England," vol. S, p. 29, says: "The power of the Pope was abjured solely In revenge for the papal refusal to sanction his (Henry VIII's) divorce." Or, has Mr. Ramsey in mind some Anglicans' exploded contention that the Church of England Is a re vival or continuation of a pre Augustlnian or early British ChurchT If so let us hear Canon Bright ...a i a m v m iy r ,m t m n i i mi m BUIup,no gm ins, i . Co. reglus professor, Oxford, who says'. "Clergymen who are Interested In the literary aspects of the church defense will do well to discour age Imaginative reconstructions of our old church history, and especially those notions about our relations to tfriusn Christianity, which may seem to sup nort the antl-caoaJ contention, but really give advantage to a fairly In formed Roman arguer." And when Mr. Ramsey cited Freeman and the Encyclopedia Bri tannics, appar ently he did not realize that he was playing with a two-edged sword. Let me Quote from the- same source. Mr. Freeman, reglus professor of modern history, Oxford, says: "The English folk were first called to cast aside, the faith of Woden and to embrace the faith of Chri6t by men who came on that errand from Rome herself, at the bidding of the acknowledged father of Western Christendom." "Tne unurcn of Ensrland is the daughter of the Church of Rome. (EncycL Brit, Art England, pp. 277-8.) Church Division Declared. Another assertion made by Mr. Ram. Bey is that the Church of England "holds and teaches the only creeds set forth by the undivided Catholic Church." Here I am forced to smile. his contention la so absurd. He must know that today the Angllcac com munlon is very much divided into hos' tile camps, low - cnurcn, Droaa cnurcn and high church, arrayed against one another over such main and essential doctrines as: 1. The objective, presence or jnnst In the eucharist. 2. The sacrificial and propitiatory character of the mass. 3. The divine ' Institution of the Enlaconacy. 4. The sacramental validity of nrlestly absolution. 6. The efficacy of ' prayers and masses for the dead. One must be credulous Indeed to think that preserved "apostolio minis' try" exists In a church that exhibits herself split by internal factions whose different tenets on fundamental be llefs clash with one another In the widest contradiction. In passing, I cannot overlook Mr. Ramsey's unfairness In saying: I might quote views of Roman Catholic clergymen In America to tne same er- feet if they were not. for excellent rea sons, adverse to newspaper notoriety." This statement Is a grave Insinuation to which Mr. Ramsey should not have given publio utterance, since he Is not prepared to prove his words. He oucht to know fliat should a Roman Catholic clergyman espouse tnese opin ions he would by that very act put himself Outside the pale or tne cnurcn. No man of' honor In such circumstances would seek to retain under a false title membership . in the Roman Catholic clergy. But If Mr. Ramsey personally knows of men who are so dishonorable he Is welcome to whatever weight the authority of their -word may give to his arguments. All the arguments In the world would not justify the Episcopal Church's at- temDt to appropriate the name catnonc. Thirty years ago In an Episcopal con vention In Philadelphia the motion to change the title "'Protestant Episcopal" to "Holy Catholic cnurcn" was voted down by an overwhelming majority. before that. In 1814, it had been voted down; and: probably It will be voted down again. - , JOHN F. DOLPHIN. LIBEL SUIT TO BE TRIED Motions Made by Defense and Prose cution Denied by Judge Davis. Circuit Judge Davis denied yesterday both the motion of Dan Sleeth and the Portland News Publishing Company to quash the indictment charging them with criminal libel and that of the District Attorney's office to force the defendants to declare what they expect to prove at the trial to establish the truth of the article attacking County Judge Cleeton and County Commis sioner Llghtner on which the Indict ment Is based. The Judge found that the witnesses, whose names the defendants contended, should have been Indorsed on the In dictment to render It valid, had been questioned when before the February grand Jury, which returned the indict ment, about another article entirely different from the one set forth in the indictment The decisions of yesterday mean that Sleeth must go to trial on May 1 and that the District Attorney's of free must rebut on short notice any evidence which Is offered as Justification for the publication of the article, which -charged Commissioner Llghtner and Judge Cleeton with all kinds of mal feasance and misconduct in offloe with out stating any specific wrongdoing. In the densest parts of Bombay there are 740 persons to the acre. New York has 1000 in the same area. Lager Beer Can Be Made at Home for One Cent a Glass CINCINNATI, O.. May 11. 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