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THE SUNT) AT OREGONTAN. PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 9 1913. CONGRESS HALL RE-DEDICATED AS RAIN DRENCHES CROWD - - . . . - .riKz .. .,. , i. 1:1;,".''. : - t 1 President Wilson Makes Speech From Balcony Often Occupied by George Washington Ovation Tendered French Executive Recent Air Disaster Worst in History. NEW YORK. Nov. 8. (Special.) Congress hall, the hlstorlo old building- at Sixth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, where between the years 1790 and 1800, the young Con gress of the li states making up the United States, held Its sessions, was, after being remodeled and rebuilt so as to appear as it did, more than 100 years ago, rededicated on October 25 by President Wilson in the presence of an assemblage of men of National and International prominence. Regardless of the rain which came In a downpour, the square before the old-time capital of the United States was literally jammed to hear President "Wilson speak from the balcony from which George Washington, the first President of the United States, deliv ered his public utterances. Represent atives from the original 13 states were present. During the ceremony President Wil ton sat in the chair occupied by John Hancock, the framer of the Declara tion of independence. This chair had not been used since the Centennial, in 1876, when General Grant occupied It. President Polncalre, of France, was tendered a banquet by the Marseilles Board of Commerce, at which 530 ban queters 'greeted him with cheers, in an ovation the like of which has not been Been at Marseilles for years. -After the banquet the President went over the ground of the site of the Colonial Ex position to be held In Marseilles in 1916. He later visited the schools and was given an ovation by the school chil dren. The photograph shows the Presi dent kissing one of the girls In greeting. Not since the air was conquered by man with the flying machine has there been such a catastrophe as that which occurred when the Zeppelin airship was wrecked at Johannisthal, Germany, Oc tober 27. The airship was 900 feet In the air when the explosion wrecked the giant craft, killing Its 20 passengers. A great host of American and Euro pean scholars gathered at Princeton October 22 to participate in the dedi catory exercises for the Princeton Uni versity's Graduate School and the Grover Cleveland Memorial Tower. Gifts amounting to $2,850,000 had been received for the erection and endow ment of the college where Princeton will house all her graduate students In a body. The tower was presented to the university by the Cleveland Monu ment Association, which received con tributions from every part ' of the United States. Ex-President Taft de livered a memorial address on Grover Cleveland; To be able to figure almost to a cer tainty Just how much cotton will be raised during the year is the business of a young woman who has the dis tinction of being the only female cot ton statistician. Seven years ago the name "Giles" became famous "when it was flashed over the wires of the Stock Exchange as the authority on the con- rrth ' - : IMt Jt?$ Pm - sf -i ':f I V.::rJ , . ' ; 1 A f-H; . i I I Hi x ' , - f V,' 5 . 7 r IMP- m -i !i ...:. .--.. j. jriy i( ;;! J ' iM' fjhr '111 V - . f "J yggg? jr-g ZZtxx- dition of the cotton market. Her re port sent the cotton prices soaring so high that the values increased more than $5,000,000. So dependable are her reports that the United States Gov ernment calls on her for cotton sta tistics. Miss Giles started as a ste nographer In a big cotton brokerage house In New York. Her love for sta tistics, which the great majority of people call "dry," soon plafted her In a position to start In business for her self as a cotton statistician in Wall street. Not long ago It was rumored that Miss Giles was to be married ABked If she would give up her busi ness in such an event, she said: "Never, not even if I married millions. I love my business as my life, and have worked too hard, to ever dream of giv ing it up." Eugenette Bolce is the first baby born In England in accordance with the laws of eugenics. Her father is should be required to show at least one year's actual clinical service, either in a hospital or a dispensary, under ex perienced practitioners. Every week or so the error of some physician gets into the papers and ther'e the matter ends. In almost any other business the young graduate is required to start at the bottom and prove his efficiency before being pro moted and when he does succeed It is usually through merit and a pretty thorough practical grasp of his busi ness. On the other hand, the young medical graduate, having successfully passed his theoretical examination, is licensed by law to treat diseases, many of which he can hardly be expected to recognize on sight. Deer Are Plentiful. Deer are more plentiful in New York State than they have been at any time in the last 25 years, according to Game Commissioner Fleming In his annual re port. He adds: "All hunters report seeing large numbers of deer through the Adiron dack forests. They have also reported many deer in the Catskllls and south ern tier of counties. In several of the Hudson Valley counties where there is no open season, the red deer has returned to his old haunts and today in the more thickly wooded sections the deer are probably almost as numerous as on the day when Hudson first sailed up the river that bears his name. "Two weeks ago a party of grouse hunters saw five deer together in a Rensselaer County woods, which com mands a view of the Capitol at Albany. In a buckwheat field the same party saw three deer helping themselves to the grain which had. been cut and shocked." Commissioner Fleming finds that the game situation in most parts of the state shows encouraging improvement and believes that his department is making good its promise to the sports men of the state to furnish them more hunting and fishing. ."rc.wy .)MHMMniHg)snWM4u I, millUMl'li I iiiiihi IMBiWI I IIIIIilslJI) ' ' - - -- of Austrian descent, born in Califor nia. He is the author of the "New Na tionalism." a book on economics. Her shire. For a 7-months-old youngster. this being the age of Baby Bolce, she Is displaying remarkable intelligence mother is an English lady of Devon-1 and already has a pronounced sense of humor. Since her birth she. has been reared under the healthiest conditions. A photograph recently taken shows the physical perfection of the youngster. who as the first English eugenlst baby, is Deing watcned ana studied wltu great interest by all the followers ol eugenics in the British Empire. SAN FRANCISCO FAIR WEAR JEWELS TO $1,000,000 AT PORTOLA BALL Guests Made Unhappy by Detectives in Evening Dress and Police, Who Watch Flashing Gemjj One Sleuth Paid $200 for Night's Work "Charlie" Gates Well Known in San Francisco. i BT HARRY B. SMITH. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8. (Special.) George D. Collins, the attorney who was sentenced to the State Penitentiary for 14 years on a perjury charge, wants a pardon and not a parole. Collins, whose case became noted because he avoided serving his sentence for so I many months, has petitioned the Su preme Court for a writ of mandamus directing Governor Johnson to grant aim an unconditional pardon. Collins bases his petition on the alle gation that his sentence of 14 years was extreme. He asserts that the pris on records will show that the average sentence for gross perjury is from three to five years, and that he has already eerved, counting his credits for good behavior, approximately 12 years on a conviction for simple perjury. The maximum sentence was given to Collins. This penalty, however, he de clares, was Intended to be only ap plicable to those cases where the per jurer committed an act of treason In volving the safety of the state, life im prisonment of an Innocent man or simi lar crimes. Bigamy Sentence Less. Collins' crime consisted of entering a denial in-a civil 'suit, whereby be swore that a ceremony, admittedly not a marriage and therefore void, had never taken place. He entered this de nial during a .trial in w.hich be was charged with bigamy. He was ac quitted on that trial. Had he been adjudged guilty of big amy, which he avers Is a more heinous crime, he would have received a sen tence of but three years, whereas for swearing falsely that he was not guilty of bigamy, he receives 14 years. He asserts that was a miscarriage of jus tice. Charles G. Gates, the extravagant young millionaire, who has Just died at the age of 37 years from an attack of apoplexy, was a few years ago a familiar guest at the Palace. This was at the time his father. John W., was alive. Many a time they drank deep and shook dice heavily at the bar of that hotel. Father and son never liked to be in the same gambling game. They were good chums and pals, but each thought the other a hoodoo when they courted Dame Fortune. Separate and apart, they could al ways win, or at least thought they could, but when they made a four handed dice game at $1000 a throw, with Tom Williams, the wealthy horseman, and Sam Leake, the former newspaper manager, they always lost heavily. Gates Private Train Fiend. Young Gates was a private train fiend. A Southern Pacific official says that Gates had paid that road 818,000 for special trains since 1906. In seven years be has had 14 special trains at a cost of 868.000. At the Palace, be once gave a waiter a check on the cashier for 8500. The dinner cost 870 and he told the waiter to keep the change. The flight of Walter McCreery to escape the incompetency decree of a California court is no new experience for the rich, eccentrlo fellow and for mer brilliant polo player. This time he used an automobile in escaping from his guardian and keeper. wnen he fled from a similar decree in London he made use of a sailing vessel to Belgium. During the past 10 or 12 years Walter has had one long struggle with the bottle, the American and Brit ish courts, American and English law yers, his wife and brothers. Lawyer Only Friend. H. H. McPike, his present lawyer and guardian, was for years the attorney and adviser of his late father, and is, perhaps, the son's best friend. But In the past years Walter has had 15 at torneys on both sides of the Atlantic, who have cost him over 8250,000. To this must be added the fees he paid his wife's attorneys. It was a pretty penny he paid D. M. Delmas and his New York lawyer partner Spellman to go to London from New York and at tempt to straighten out matters with his wife and the English courts. McCreery Is his own worst enemy, and nobody seems to hold out a sympa thetic hand to him, unless it is Attor ney McPike. While he was in the mood, gamblers here robbed him right and left. McCreery has a 13,000,000 fortune. That Is why gamblers sought him and why the chase on for him now Is like an excited hunter's pursuit for the big-pronged buck. He's got too much money. Besides, designing people know his weakness for liquor and feed him accordingly. Fully a million-dollar valuation of pearls and other rich stones were worn on the night of the Portola ball at the Fairmont The Count and Countess Salazar were there and, to do them justice, all the pretty wives of the Cen tral and South American Consul Gen erals appeared In the best of their cos tumes. Detective Paid f 200. The San Francisco dowagers and their following of local beauty did like wise. This was the first time since the famous de Sabla Jewelry robbery at the Mardi Gras ball at the Palace that the latter appeared with the real Instead of the paste ornaments. But the women were not as happy as they might have been. They all knew, or at least most of them were aware, that behind their extravagant display of wealth was a big phalanx of trained watchers against thieves. Two big detective agencies had a dozen men there, some of them in dress suits. And the local police, as well, were represented. There were no missing Jewels ' and no thefts or robberies have been heard of. Several suspicious men in dress suits, however, were put out of the ballroom and hotel, while detectives rode home with women possessors of pearl necklaces and their escorts. One detective agency was paid 8200 to see that a certain woman safely placed her 860,000 necklace in a safe deposit vault before she returned home from the ball. This detective was one of the best-dressed men at the ball and never lost sight of the pearls and the woman who was wearing- them all night long:, . , "FINEST APARTMENT IN WORLD" IS PURCHASED Commodore James Pays $3,500,000 for Fifth Avenue Property, New York, Cheapest Suite in Which Rents for $10,000 Annually, Highest $25,000. BY LLOYD F. LONERGAN. NEW YORK. Nov. 8. (Special.) The "finest apartment-house in the world" has changed hands. This is No. 998 Fifth avenue, a 12-story structure, and the new owner. Commo dore Arthur James, has given 83,500, 000 for it. The. building is 12 stories high, and. unlike other apartment-bouses, has no name. There are 18 apartments in all, the cheapest renting for 810,000 a year, while United States Senator Root and Murray Guggenheim pay 825,000 an nually apiece. The smallest apartment has 14 rooms and five baths, while the largest has 22 rooms and eight baths, including nine servants' rooms and baths. The builders Intended it to be the sort of apartment that would appeal to persons who had ' occupied well-built private dwellings, and that they were successful is indicated by the fact that many of the tenants, who are well known in financial and socialcircles, gave up large, pretentious apartments to move into the building. As the house was built to attract Fifth-avenue residents, especial atten tion was given to the space to be used in entertaining. It is said that of such space there is an amount equal tt that in the average eorner house on Fifth avenue occupying two. city lota. The Interior of the building is, of course, most elaborate, and so complete is the house that even private wine cellars have been installed for the ten ants. Autolsta Have Cbase. Members of the Long Island Automo bile Club celebrated election day by having a "hare and hounds" chase. The "hare," a committee car bearing a large hag, left the clubhouse at 10 A. M. and proceeded to the scene of the' "hunt," a territory about 40 miles square. There the "hare" roamed at will. Each time a competing car met or overtook the hare it counted one point for a "kill, the score being kept on cards provided for that purpose. Occasionally the hare took up a position In some ob scure road and waited there for a period of not less than 15 minutes. On such occasion the lucky hounds scored two points each.. A large number of cars participated in the event, which was voted a great success. - Are New York doctors competent and are the examinations which they un dergo severe enough? This is a propo sition that is being more and more talked about and It would not be sur prising if it resulted in legislation next year. The charge Is freely made that med ical schools now do little more than drill their students in how to pass the State Board of Sxaminers. It is point ed out by some critics chat theory and practice are wide apart and that ap plicants Xor license as physicians WINE LAW IS UNDER FIRE French Growers Assert Zone System Causes Losses. PARIS, Nov. 8. (Special.) The agi tation of th.e winegrowers of the de partment , of the Aube for the sup pression of zones, or at least for the reincorporation of the Aube in the Champagne zone, was marked by an important meeting at Bar-sur-Aube a few days ago. at which it was resolved to confine efforts for the redress of grievances to parlalmentry . channels for the present. M. Clementel, the Minister of Agri culture, Is said to be prepared to sup port an amendment to the Darlac bill on the repression of fraud. M. Chocq the president of the Winegrowers' Syn dicate, explained the views Of the lat ter -as follows: ','The state." he said, "must guar antee the origin and genuineness of a product, but it cannot. "The fact is that in champagne the method of preparation Is of consider able importance. Moderate wines well prepared and handled may yield a product superior to excellent but bad ly prepared wines." The wine growers declare that by the zones law their wines have suf fered a depreciation in value of 66 per cent. No use to try to make a rabbit's foot take the place of hard work. Darken Those Gray Hairs A simple, and sure way to darken gray hair and restore it to its natural youth ful lustre Is to use Mrs. Nettle Harrison's 4-Day Hair Color. Do not experiment. This is an old tried and true remedy, success fully used for over 20 years. Contains no harmful Ingredi ents, easily ap plied In the pri vacy of your own home. At all drug gists 81.00. 17 DTP CAMPIP and Beauty Book riVLfiMJAlllILLi Sent on request. MRS. NETTIE HARRISON CO., Sa Frmnciic J Phone Marshall 1580. A. DE BLANCHE Ladies' Tailor. Importer, Designer and Maker of Gowns. Goodwin Corsets Globe Building, 408 Washing-ton St.
