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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1913)
; 4 . TnE SUXPAY OREGOXlAy. PORTLAND. 3IAY 11, 1913. : r NEWPORT ON ANNUAL TRIP WITH 75 EMBRYONIC SAILORS T Bread Line Formed for Paterson Strikers-New Wireless Instrument Invented for Sending Distress Signala-Railroad Managers Discuss Grievances of Employes. . I EW TORK. May 10. (special.) The training; ship Newport has started on her annual cruise from New Vork. She is carrying To boyg who want to learn to be sailors. She will cruise of Halifax on the North anil Ber muda on the SoutTi. Last year the ship m-ent to New York, and after a visit to Great Britain, took her apprentice sail ors to Stockholm to see the Olympic games. The ship Is under command of Captain B. H. Tillman, of the United Btates Navr and under control of the Board of Education of New York City. A law which a;oes into effect In October will place her under control of the state of New York. A great crowd assembled t the pier when the ship departed, and raved "goodby" to her young .pas sengers. Development of water power in the Mississippi River at Keokuk. la.. Is at tracting considerable attention all over the United States. This will be the greatest power dam ever constructed for Impounding billions of gallons of water to revolve the water wheels or turbines. It extends from Keokuk, on the western bank, to Hamilton. Ill on the eastern side of the river, a distance of nine-tenths of a mile. It is surmounted by a viaduct, car rying a roadway 29 feet wide; rises S3 feet above the river bed, and contains 11 spillways, controlled by steel Hood gates, each of which is 30 feet wide and 11 feet high. These gates are operated by electric hoists, so that by the turn ing of a switch the volume of water behind the dam can be Increased or dl- i minlshed at will. The dam is built en- tlrely of concrete and will be the long est monolithic structure In the world. The huge generators, of which there are 30. each weigh COO.000 pounds and will develop 300.000 electrical horse power. " Strikers at Paterson. N. J., have been rendered almost destitute by the long period of idleness, and dally gather in the bread line at restaurants, where . rations are distributed. The Industrial Workers of the World, under whose au spices the strike Is being conducted, started the bread line when the predic tion was made that the strikers soon would have to return to work or starve? ' Raymond Phillips has invented the wireless harmonophone" which prom ises to revolutionize the methods of sending distress signals at sea. This apparatus sets a siren going that can ' be heard all over any ship without any one being In attendance. A peculiar feature is that signals sent by this ma chine take precedence over all other wireless messages, for it cuts off all ' messages being received by any vessel within Its reach. The mechanism or the invention is a secret, known only to Its inventor. A committee of railroad managers re cently met in New York to bring about ' a scheme of arbitration that will be acceptable to the firemen and them- , selves. Some of those taking part in the conference were: Ellsha Lee. as sistant general manager of the Penn sylvania Company, chairman: J. O. Walker, assistant to the third vice president of the Baltimore St Ohio: A. lf The training ship Newport has I J,f C- K . - , . ' - . ' S I I i - 2y UA I 3L H Wi V - 'II FIGHTING NOT EXCITING ENOUGH TO OREGONIAN Dalmatian Slav Sells Bit of Property in Oregon Metropolis and Hastens Back. East to Draw Blood at Least Once on Turkish Foe. . BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. Special Correspondent of "the Chicago Daily News. CETTINJE. Montenegro. May 0. At the hamlet of Tlrpasar. sur mounted by ruins of miniature castles on frowning crags by the side of the lake, we went aboard a little steamer and presently were gliding slowly out through the reedy channel on the way to Cettlnje. a barge of flour lashed mlongslde. much hampering our progress. There were on board a num ber of peasant girls, a quartet of Serb officers on a mission and some Ill kempt soldiers. One of these last pres ently moved over to where wo were sitting on our baggage and addressed us, to our .surprise. In good, racy United States: -American H" Thought so! Well now ain't this fine! Mighty glad to see you! What you boys doing away down here?" He was a Dalmatian Slav, still young, a glass worker, who, at the beginning of the war, being single, had thrown up his Job, sold his bit of property In Portland, and staked almost the whole of his 12 years' American savings in hastening back to draw blood at least once on the Turkish foe before the fun should be over. geese To Dall far Him. "But these fellers" ain't done much since I came," he complained. "They got all they wanted In the plain out side of Scutari over a month ago. and now they're laying low. You say the Greeks are really having some fighting down Janlna way? Blamed If J. don't believe I'll go down there! Fra vol unteer, you know, so they will let me do as I please. No, I don't talk much Greek, but I know a little. Learned It off some fellers I used to work with. Gues I could get along all right." Scutari proved to be an odd and de ridedly an interesting variety of moun tain lake. Despite Its great length, it Is hardly mors than three miles wide In II - -- . . ..-s&s:-...... w-.- I iwa??tw SillV M. Shoyer, general manager of the Van dalia: P. E. Crowley, general manager of the New York Central, and Martin Quick, secretary of the committee. Pa thetic scenes were enacted when many relatives and friends of entombed min ers gathered around the mouth of the shaft of the Cincinnati mine. Finley ville. Pa., where about 100 miners lost their, lives In an explosion of fire damp. - The London sufTragettes recently de vised a novel scheme of distributing "votes-for-women" literature. They took possession of the famous Fire monument and from Its top. 800 feet in the air, threw pamphlets to the crowd below. After two hours the police ar rested them, but had difficulty In re straining the mob gathered at the base of the monument. Steam - shovels are working on the troublesome Cucuracha slide, which has pushed entirely across the floor of the Panama. Canal, destroying everything in it9 path. It is estimaftd that S.000. 00ft cubic yards of material will have to be removed from this slide before it is under control. The total area of this slide is 47 acres. A unique and Interesting sight for American visitors to London Just now is the London coster. He makes his money in peddling fruit, flowers and vegetables. About this time of the year the coster comes out decked in his new Spring raiment. Covered from head to foot with smoked pearl buttons, he pre sents a sparkling appearance when the sun shines. the broadest parts. And while to the south we could see clear to the mighty mountain, Tarabosch, at whose eastern base the beleaguered city lies, to the north the waters wind blindly through the rocks like a river, seeming at every turn to end abruptly, but proving, as we glided gently along, to extend al ways In one more secret Teach to the right, and then in another to the left, and In another and another, till we thought we should never come to the end. "Say, did you ever see such a rock pile in your life?" It was our friend, the volunteer, who had seated himself on the deck beside us. "It certainly beats all. I've been pretty much all over the United States, and I reckon I've seen some pretty rough mountains, but' these fellers here have got more solid rock In their dinky little country than all the rest put together." We passed an island off to the right on which stood a quaint old castle, said to date from Roman times. Then we came upon two women rowing m crescent-shaped canoe laden with hay. They stood one at each end and each with an oar. "Say!" exclaimed our friend. "Look at that! Ain't that primitive, though-? But for that matter, this here old tub we're aboard of ain't moving much faster than they are. -Say, how'd you like to have a nice little motorboat on this lake, now? Wouldn't It make their eyes stick out? I've been In America too long to be able to stand much of this kind of life. When I start out to go somewhere I want to get there. I like speed!" Tarklnh Coffee Ordered. Pairs of snowy cranes bega.it to fly up among the shores of the channel, and the soldiers amused themselves by fir ing at them until the pilot made them stop, saying shooting on the lake was forbidden. Presently we found we could get Turkish coffee on board. We or dered three cups. "Say. don't you fellers order none of that for me." protested the volunteer. "I'm only a common soldier, you know. These other guys wouldn't know what to think if they'd see me sitting here drinking with you.- Xou boys er, 1 pmk' a W X . ... ' ft. . 1 r; - Miter'' jfob Tfte3e?xTn& tSztffr&ye ties: .! ' 1 -i ''vptyi?- ' ? ' ? - -i . ill i ; . yA - 'J - r $ man. you gentlemen understand, same as I do, that clothes and all that .don't make no difference, and that one man's Just ' as good as another. But these guys ain't up to that yet. They've got their King and all. Say. ain't these kings the blamedest foolishness? If I was these guys I'd kick 'em all out, and elect a President: let him serve his four years and then tell him to run along now ana give some other fallow - .It 4? 4 b!, II II sit. 1 f , W a show. But. gosh! I -don't dare talk like that around here. They'd take me out ' and shoot me for treason, like enough!" ' However, we overcame the scruples of this good American, and toward 4 P. M. had the-satisfaction of seeing the scattering houses of Plovnitza Just ahead of us, in a valley that narrowed and narrowed until it was a mere ra vtn. tw. wii th and of the take. In f--V 'x W " the road at the back'of the pier there! were about a aozen inree-norse ti rtages waiting to relay travelers on to Cettinje. Despite his protests that he would Just as soon walk, we packed the volunteer into one of them with us and soon were rattling over the smooth macadam through Plovnitza, which did not take many seconds, and then up the preoipltous cliffs Into the -mountains. Mountain Road Good. This well-built road entitles Monte negro to claim to be the most advanced nation of the Balkans. In all our trip H we had seen Doming iq comyom v.w. it. It rivals the finest mountain roads of Italy, France and England. Though the ascent is continuous all the way to the national capital, which lies, on a plateau In the very lap of the peaks, we were drawn by the wiry little horses at a trot a good part of the way.. It was twilight now. The stars came out bright and sharp. The sounds from the village houses far below rose fainf and peaceful to our ears the barking of a dog, the rattle of wheels, tho glad cry of a child. Suddenly rounding the broad curve of a precipice, we were started by the glaring searchlight of an automobile descending upon as at sharp speed. ' It slowed at sight of us, edging up close against the cliff, so that as It passed I could plainly make out the bluff and grizzled features of the elderly man who sat with two others In the rear seat. It was King Nicholas. Looking back. we saw the carriage in which four Serb officers had boeiv ioHowlns: us draw to III l .. ... A 1 ' ' stop. The automobile stopped also The His Majesty, mere in me roaa in me clear night. We could even watch, them rtoiivor to him the dispatches o which they had been the bearers. Their fis sion was ended. The automobile sped on, and the carriage turned back. That night, as we afterward learned, the Turks made a sortie from the Scutari trenches, but the Montenegrins had been forewarned. Instead of finding the besiegers unprepared, .the Turks were received by a terrible fire which left many dead or groaning on the plain ere they could regain the shelter of their fortifications. Army Watches Closely. " King Nicholas, as the foregoing inci dent indicates, keeps a close watch upon the status of his army. The story Is told of a visit ha made shortly after the beginning of the war to one of the villages in the rocks near Cettinje. On returning to the capital, he sent a mes sage to the local administration of that village, saying that he had been amazed to see as many men in the village street as if the land had been at peace instead of at war, and that he desired that every able-bodies male, no matter what his position- or what his excuses, be straightway mustered in. The King's automobile is a familiar sight on such of the mountain roads as will permit. But, while the scenery ts magnificent, motoring in Montenegro is not without danger. Four days be fore our arrival, on the very curve we were now traversing, a local merchant akhad been spinning down to Plovnitza . In 'his machine, when something hap penednobody will ever now jui what. The automobile with its passen ger and chauffeur plunged over the low guard wall and down 500 feet, to be flattened to bits on the rocks at the base of the crags. x ' WIRELESS, TO SPAN OCEAN Messages to Go From England to America at 6 to 8 Cents a Word. COPENHAGEN, May 10. (Special.) Experiments in wireless telegraphy between Mr. Poulsen's station at Lyng bye and his British station at Culler coats have been carried out in accord ance with the wishes of the Marconi Technical Committee. The tests were watched at Cullercoats by the commit tee, and at Lyngbye by' officials of the British Legation at Copenhagen. The committee requested that 100 words a minute should be sent, but Mr. Poulsen has formerly sent 300 to 400 words dur ing a minute. The experiments were very satisfactory. During next Autumn Mr. Poulsen's wireless Transatlantic station will be ready for regular service. The mes sages will be sent from an Irish sta tion to a station in Canada, and those for America will be forwarded from Canada to New York either by wireless or by cables. The company owning Poulsen's patents intends to charge or 8 cents a word from England to America..
