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THE SUNDAY OREG ONI AX. TORTLAND. MAY 18, 1913. EVERY 12 MINUTES TWOXAR TRAINS LEAVE FOR LENTS New Suburb of Portland, Founded by Oscar P. Lent in 1852, Had Only Three Buildings in 1887. -Itt T ft rn - " " - - S.L v.riS a t!- T ig'su1 itt w ilt f'lii BY ADDISOX BENNETT. EVERT II minutes throughout the business portion of the day there Is a two-car train dispatched from the corner of First and Alder streets bear ing; the legend. "Mt. Scott" You might think such trains had been or were go. lng to some town of that name, but that Is not the case, their real destlna tioa being Lents, the most Important of Portland's suburbs not belonging, po litically, to the city. Or is St. Johns larger? Well, no matter, for perhaps there is not a vast difference In their siie. Anyhow, Lents has a population of practically 10.000 people. Funny thing about it is there Is no such thing as the. town or city of Lents. Think of the cities In the state cutting a wide swath with from 500 to 5000 people, and here, is the community south of Kelly's Butte and north of ML Scott having 10, 000 people and not Incorporated! In that sentence I gave away the lo cation of the place, and gave the rea son for the words lit. Scott upon the cars. Well. If yon take one of those cars you will, after riding eight miles In about 45 minutes, and for the prince ly sum of S cents, arrive at Lents. Or you may go on a transfer from any por tionof the city: returning you may pay your nickel for a ride in and get a transfer to any other line belonging to the Portland Hallway. Light & Power Company. For instance, it costs the rltisens of Lents 10 cents to get to the ball game and return, which Is pretty cheap. And then consider that the Mount Scott line runs to and from Lents about 170 trains a day. or 85 each way. Rii Alsaost Meaat Tabor. Leaving Portland over the Hawthorne-avenue bridge on your way to Lents you go out Hawthorne avenue almost to the western slope of Mount, Tabor, thence sm-ing off to the south i and east past Creston, Anabel, Archer Place, Myrtle Park, Stewarts, Kern Park Arleta. Firland, Nashville, Tre mont and Gray's Crossing, thence a little less than a mile to Lents. Grays Crossing is a part of the city at pres ent, has been for a number of years, but the 10.000 people mentioned are be tween Grays and Kelly Butte and Mount Scott, embracing a territory of not much over two miles square. tk. thincr in attract vour atten tion will be that mammoth 20-room schoolhouse. where about 1000 of the Lents "kids" attend school. "When these few pupils were dismissed the day I was there I thought all the "kids" from Portland were outon a picnic, for the streets Just naturally swarmed with lads and lassies. I'pon Inquiry I found Lents Is in the Portland school dis trict, so It is really a Portland school. Likewise, Lents is in a Portland road district, so Multnomah County keeps up her roads, called streets (and pretty well kept, too), and the gas company furnishes them with gas, the Water Board with Bull Run water and the electric light company with "Juice." Annexation la Slaty Days. So they are enjoying most of the city conveniences without bearing the burden of taxation. And yet In less than 60 days we can call the Lents peo ple fellow-cltlxens of the city of Port land, for they held an election last Fall and by a small majority agreed to be "tooken In." According to the Portland viewpoint they acted wisely In thus voting. As to the Lents viewpoint, I "dunno." But then I don't have to. A majority of about SO of them decided to come In and in they come. When I got off the train, the other morning at the Lents station, after being admonished by the conductor if I wished to ride any further I would have to "cough up" another nickel. 1 noticed the street were full of wag ons, buggies and autos, not to mention people. I thought It must be moving I day or sonthing like that. Nothing of the kind. All around Lents there is a splendid farming country, and the farm ers do their trading at Lents. It is really an important trade center. There are many large stores there, and they all seem to do a big business. A couDle of years ago or so they had a nastv bank failure there. Or is "nastv" a bad enough word? Anyhow, It made the Lents people shaky about banks. And yet less than two years elapsed since the present bank was started, and it has deposits of over 175.000. It Is called the Multnomah State Bank. In reality it is owned by those controlling the Scandinavian American Bank of Portland, H. Rostad being the cashier. Town Has Celebrities. Mr. Rostad Is also the president ef the Commercial Club, Mrs. Theckla Brle-ht being the secretary. When you speak of the progressive citizens of Multnomah County by no means leave ut the name of Mrs. Bright. Yes, and there is "Mayor" Coffman. When you go to Lents search out the "Mayor" and he will tell you all about the place and the people. Along in the '40s the Johnsons. Kel leys and Waterman Gates came over the plains, and In looking for good land they selected tliat along what later came to be Johnson Creek. Kelly Butte and Mt. Scott. In 1852 Oscar P. Lent came along in his auto of those daye an ox cart and took up the land where the town stands. By 18S7 there were three buildings there and a postofflce was established: then came a little store, but the real Lents of today was started seven or eight years ago, when the people built a railroad to connect with the Steel line. Then came along a firm and platted a few acres of build ing lots and sold them at "Three dollars down, three dollars a year."t and then came the real. Lents. There Is a good newspaper The Bea- I 1 r. TCyla ' t mm ; ' ! -: :.-.-; . i.-.r:: 4 - : I fKHt;fe fif4i" jyaMllLS. P1 Steel Industry (John Wiley & Sons), translated from German by Von Baur, p. 261. (4) Proceedings the Engineering So ciety of Western Pennsylvania. Janu ary, 1911. p. 521, by P. McNiven Bennle, consulting electro-chemical engineer of Niagara Falls, N. Y. (5) Eugene Haanel. Director of of Mines. Ottawa, Canada, in a letter to the writer dated March 26, 1913. (6) Report of the Commissioner of Corporations, on the Steel Industry, Part2, p. 130. January 22. T912. (7) Statement by F. T. Snyder, of the Bentley-Snyder Electric Steel Company, Chicago." (8) President of the Metallurglc En gineering Company, of Chicago, build ers of electric furnaces, in a letter dated May 10, 1913. An electric wood distilla tion plant, designed by Mr. Snyder, has been in operation at Vancouver, B. C. since July, 190. The manager of such plant owned by the Canadian E. T. Syndicate, writes under date of April 24. 1913, that "Our plant from an operation point of view works admirably." (9) Bulletin No. 52. Special Agents Series, U. S. Department of Commerce and Labor. Utilization of Atmospheric Nitrogen.' p. "6. (10) Bulletin No. 3 on Construction of the Electric Furnace by Department of Mines, Ottawa, Canada, p. 13. (11) Statement by E. Berg. Chief En gineer of Norwegian Company. NEW GAS ENGINE DESIGNED Cottage Grove Man Invents Power ful notary Type. COTTAGE Gr.OVE, Or., May 17. c ti r c fnchran. of this City, will have in a few days a model or a gasoline engine which his backers, who are prominent business men of Cottage Grove, predict will take the place of all enKlnes now in use for automobiles, motorcycles and aero planes. It is of the rotary type and pro j ,,,, ,,!l amount of DOwer be- UUI.C3 ,m. - cause of the number of explosions which can bo secured per revuiuumi, ranging from three to it. The machine was produced within the .hnri nerlnd of three months from the time he evolved the idea. . ver State Herald also The Lents Optl- I tion; several fine churches really an mifit, wmcn is just now ian,ms t.v v ' . UNIFORM FIVE . CENT TELEPHONE RATE IS IN SIGHT IN NEW YORK Thieves Break Into Old Essex Market, Tearing Out Lead Pipe and Flooding Cellar Pennsylvania and Grand Central Terminals Adopt New Eule for Porters, to Convenience of Public. BT LLOTD F. LON ERG AX. NEW YORK. May 17. (Special.) After a Ions; and hard-fought , campaign, a uniform rate of five cents for telephone calls throughout New York City seems In sight. The Duhamel-Larrimer bill, which fixed the rate between all five boroughs at five cents a call, passed both houses of the legislature, but at a recent meeting; be tween Governor Sulzer, Chairman Stev ens, of the Up-State Public Service Commission, and John G. Milburn. of the New York Telephone Company, Mr. Mil burn gave his word that bis company would obey any order issued by the Commission. As the Commission Is shortly expected to Issue an order mak ing a five-cent rate between Bath Beach, Coney Island and New York City, the company's willingness to obey the or der renders It unnecessary to pass the bill, for it was to lower the rates in these sections that the measure was Introduced. Governor Sulzer criticised the Public Service Commission, for refusing to or der the reduction before, saying: "If the Commission did Its duty, my time and the time of the legislature would not be taken up with bills like this. I am determined to compel the commissioners to do what they ought to do." Baby Congress Held.. A congress of babies was held a few days ago at the University Settle ment. 184 Eldrldge street. It created a good deal of Interest among the moth ers of the lower East Side, for $100 In cash was distributed to the winners. There were babies of all nationalities, and the mothers received much valu able advice from the nurses present as to the proper care of their Infants. The babies were divided Into three classes, the first consisting of children under six months old. the second of those between six months and one year, and the third Including babies between one and two years old. Dr. L. Emmett Holt and his corps of nurses at the Municipal Milk Station, 171 Eldridxe street, examined all ap plicants for the contest. It Is believed that the baby contest will result In much good, as the East Side mothers have, undoubtedly learned a great deal as to the care of their children from Dr. Holt and his assistants. Dr. Holt's research work has not dealt entirely with child diet and hygiene, but has also been with subjects of psychological interest. He says that girls usually learn to talk from two to four months earlier than boys, and that the normal Infant gains the mas tery of speech in the following man ner. First, the names of persons: sec ond, the names of things, and there after the order Is verbs, adverbs, adjec Uvea, conjunctions, prepositions and personal pronouns. New Dlaease Discovered. Every now and then a physician springs into the limelight as the dis coverer of a new ailment. Mrs. Made Ion Le Compte, of Astoria. N. Y., whs Is suing for a separation from her husband, has "litigating paranoia," ac cording to the testimony of Dr. Sieg fried Block. Dr. Block says that Mrs. Le Compte Is afflicted with a malady which leads her to seek the courts on the slightest provocation. He states that he made visits to her in the guise of a news paper reporter, as a result of which. In addition to a scrutiny of her legal rec ord, he reached this decision. . One of the youngest licensed wireless operators, if not the youngest, is Charles Banks Belt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Belt, of 14S West Fifty seventh street. Young Bejt, who is only 13, passed the Government examina tions for licenses as amateur radio operators at the Brooklyn Navy-Yard last week. The rest of the 150 candi dates were all men. but Charles sue cessfv'ly answered all of the 12 ques tions sked. Hit rlcense states that his knowledge of g. neral adjustment, operation and care t apparatus Is good: that In transmitting and sound reading. Con tinental and Morse, he exceeded a speed of eight words a minute, and that his general knowledge of International reg. ulatlons and of acts of Congress to regulate radio communication was like wise vry good. . Boy Studies Wireless at 10. Toung Belt worked for four months with A. B. Cole, his teacher. In order to pass the rigid examinations. It is said that he became interested in wire less telegraphy when only 10 years old, beginning with a small sending ap paratus, but th etnow he has a regula tion outfit, costing several hundred dol lars. New York has had plenty of "crook" plays on Broadway this season, but an unstaged drama was recently enacted the old Essex Market Court building. which was as interesting and as unique as any of the theatrical productions. Thieves broke into the old court, al most within sight of a policeman on fixed post, and helped themselves to everything of value In the place. Even the window sashes were not forgotten, and the cellar was flooded with water due to the fact that quantities of lead pipe had been ripped out. The robbery was discovered when Inspectors from the Controller's office visited the place. It was decided to place a guard at the old court, for while there is prac tically nothing left worth carrying away, the thieves might come back for the building, and the authorities in tend to take no chances. - A great improvement in convenience to the traveling public has been ef fected at the Pennsylvania and Grand Central Terminals, for the "Brownies," as the regular railroad porters call the men employed by the New York Public Porters' Association, Inc., meet all in coming trains and carry the baggage of passengers to their hotels. One Porter New Enough. Travelers now can have one porter carry their luggage from hotel to train, or vice versa, although in the past public porters were not permitted to pass the train gates. This made it necessary for those who desired to have their hand baggage carried to employ two porters, one from the train to the street, and another from the street to the hotel. Park Commissioner Stover, who Is always thinking of plans to make the children happy, has discovered a use for trees in the city parxs tTiat Have died of blight. It is his intention to con struct, in the near future, three log cabins, one each in Hlghbridge Park. Isham Heights Park and in Fort Wash ington Park. Later cabins may be erected In other parks throughout the city. They will be built of chestnut logs cut from trees that died by thou sands in the parks during the past few years. Mr. Stover got his idea some time ago. when he visited "The Philosopher's Retreat," a log cabin owned by C. G. Kolff, at Emerson Hill, S. I- Mr. Stover said that the three cabins to be erected would be used as head quarters for the Boy Scouts, and that in return for the use of the cabins the tin. Cm,, fa h a V O nmmised tO help guard the flowers in the parks. Each cabin will have two rooms, a large room with a fireplace and a smaller room. Portland May Compete in Steel With Pittsburg (Continued from Page 6) steam engines would require the burn ing of 1144,000,000 worth of coal an nually. In preventing this waste we are at the same time conserving the limited coal supply in Alaska for fu--ture generations. We might take a more active interest in the development of this power if the streams were lo cated in Alaska or some other inhos pitable region, instead of at our very doors. Heavy Penalties Imposed. "The state and the Nation have seen fit to Impose heavy penalties on pri vate capital seeking to put this power to use, and have made no provision for its development with public funds. The state Imposes an Indeterminate annual tax, varying from 12 V4 cents to $2 per horsepower developed, the amount being adjusted from time to time by the State Water Board. Much of our undeveloped water power is located on property of the United States. It can be developed only under the provisions, of a permit which can be revoked at will be the Secretary of the Interior. Both state and Nation limit all fran chises to the use of water for power purposes to a particular period. This restriction, however, is not as objec tionable to private capital as the two Indeterminate restrictions mentioned above. "In order to lessen somewhat this enormous waste of whlte coal,' it ap pears that we should do one of two things: Either go backward and re move some of these restrictions so as to encourage development by private capital, or else go forward and make this resource available for use at pub lic fxcense. "There is great confusion in both state and National laws relating to water, and capital is exceedingly slow to invest in large undertakings where the statute laws are not well support ed bv Judicial interpretation. 1? urthor more, it will be somejears before trade channels are fully established and the practical difficulties in the path of these new. industries are ruuy over come. Development by private cap ltal will, therefore, be slow at best if each new industry to be estabiisiiea must also go into the electric power business, to Insure a permanent supply of cheap power. Sweden Has Free Power, "In Sweden the rapid development of electro-thermic Industries is perhaps due largely to the fact that the gov ernment develops and furnishes power at low cost. For two j-ears practically free power was granted the Iron and Steelmakers' Association, which con structed a $100,000 plant and carried on extensive experiments upon a commer cial scale. The report of T. H. P.orton to the U. S. Department of Commerce and Labor, October 16, 1911, shows these experiments to have been a suc cess. Eugene Haanel states that ad vices from Sweden, dated April 29, 1910, show that 300,000-horsepower at Porjus .will be developed soon, while another project of like capacity Is in contemplation. "There is no doubt that such a policy pursued in Oregon at least during the experimental period, would bring about a much more rapid development than would be possible by private capital acting alone. "At the last session of the Legisla ture a constitutional amendment, au thorizing the issuance of Btate bonds for the construction of power plants, was submitted for a vote of the people in 1914. It is' extremely important that the various organizations interesetd In the development of the state study this question with a view to supporting or opposing such amendment. In this way an active and intelligent public opinion may be created which will result even tually in the enactment of some prac tical legislation to promote the early development of our water powers, hav ing due regard to the rights of poster ity." - Authorities. (1) Scientific American, March 15, 1913. (2) 1911 Report Canadian Depart ment of Mines, p. 5. (3) Electric Furnaces in the Iron and PRACTICAL POINTERS IN POULTRY-RAISING GIVEN Prospective Breeders Urged to Gain Some Information on Subject Be fore Embarking, and Caution in Investment Emphasized. T'JE poultry business, like every other business, has some general rules and principles underlying it, says a poultry grower in Farm and Ranch. While there are numerous minor problems that vary with local condi tions, these general rules must be thor oughly understood and practiced if suc cess Is to be attained. A man who decides to make teach ing, or the practice of law, or any other profession his life's vocation at tends school to acquire knowledge of his particular line. The poultry busi ness as well requires thorough study. Not all can attend an agricultural col lege, but all can take such a course of study by correspondence. Our colleges offer such courses. The extension de partments of the colleges offer this course free of charge. In addition to this, all available bulletins and papers pertaining to poultry raising should be procured and studied. Practice Declared Necessity. Persistence, next to a thorough knowledge of the work, is an absolute essential. Knowledge of the work is of little value if it is not practiceu, and Dracticed constantly. A great number of people go into the business with the expectation of getting rich in a year or two. They invest large sums and failing to get the. immense profits they had expected, quit, pro claiming it a profitless business. Few investments return large dividends, if any, the first year or two. If such peo ple, after the original expense nas Deen made, would continue in their work and improve their plant constantly their books wouia soon snow quite a profit. When you decide to take up a business prepare to stay with it. Raise pure-bred poultry. Pure-bred birds have been systematically bred for many years for certain desirable points. Largely they are bred for heavy laving. This heavy laying has become a fixed characteristic with them. Few people would undertake to improve their flock of mongrels along any par ticular line. Furthermore, pure-bred birds are often sold for $5, $10 or 525, and sometimes even for J500 each. whlel the mongrel sells for 20 and 30 cents. Need of Fresh Air Told. Buildings require close attention, yet they should not be expensive. They should be simple and neat. Two points should be given close care in building your poultry houses. They should be so constructed as to be easily cleaned and to admit sunshine and fresh air. The open front type is decidedly the best for the South. Sanitation h of great importance in the poultry business. Filth and droppings should not be allowed to accumulate. The droppings should be removed at least twice a week. The yard, should be plowed and sown to some crop if the double-yarding system is employed. Spraying and dis infection should be practiced at fre quent intervals. Cleanliness is a great preventive of disease. , Sick birds should at once be re moved to a place where the healthy do not go. This is of prime importance and should not be neglected. The best way of course is to prevent the outbreak of disease. However, sick ness will sometimes find its way in to the best-kept flocks, and separa tion is the first step to be taken. No hen will do satisfactory laying unless she gets the proper feed. Some feeds are rich in carbohydrates or fats, while others are rich in protein. Both are necessary food elements, but they should be properly balanced, the egg is made up mostly of protein. It follows, then, that if iou want your hen to lay you must give her feed that Is rich in protein. The bulk of the laying hen's food should consist of small grain and Its by-products. Small Start Recommended. If you expect to go in the fancy poultry business you should not for get that your success depends to a great extent upon advertising. You should select a good medium one with a wide circulation. The space will doubtless cost more, but it pays. Then, you should advertise the year round, "for you must establish a repu tation. Advertise liberally and in telligently. Many breeders in the fancy poultry business make great promises for their stock and ask enormous prices. These neoDle break down the business, uo not ask too much for your stock. Ship your stock on approval and refund the nrite paid if satisfaction is not had. Do not make any erroneous, foolish and exaggerated assertions about your stock. Say only what you can back, but advertise that constantly, and with businesslike tact. Be saving. Do not Invest great and unreasonable sums at first. Start on a comparatively small scale if you have had no previous experience. Too many people waste large sums of mon ey by purchasing high-priced speci mens from a number of different placos ail over the country and mate them together without having the least Idea of their breeding tendencies. Buy your stock from one man and begin line breeding. Saving Is necessary in this as well as In every other business. SUNNY CREST FARM Thoroughbred S. C. White Leghorns ExcluKlvel-. Eggs for hatching $1.50 and $3 per setting of 15 eggs; $8 end $10 per 100 eggs. Baby chicks in any quantity at $15 and $20 per hundred. FRANK GOWAN, Prop. Phone Red 7B3. Harrison Street, Mil vt ankle, Oregon.