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NOTED PERSONS AND WORLD EVENTS CAUGHT Z-i7'x-1-- t.T- 4, trv w - J , " ' -I''-' glL''. 4 .-'V . '.,fcJ- '5v;H'ixtS "P the canrs. which will depict rV' Cf;f ' t ! - ,!fvC- ' r T-.- - ---v' aJlfCt.' : . .-v "w V xV-' the eenes of the canyon In natural col- .. -;!X?;:.:.'r-c .f-' ' - -'t :-'- ' - &t f' S ' i-'v" - VUJf V5 ora. Thla concession to occupy 800 by ;r. V.N .". .f ; f . - p- ; . . 'Tci ' .w C ; ! f ' , V t . .2 -JtrM ' S- 7M ft Is now under construction and N I EW YORK. Dec. . (SpclaL Pictnrea of the eacmpe of Pegvy Uulse have Just reached New York. They Illustrate also the escape of Vegzy'a father, Shirley Hulse, and her mother. But Peggy waa the moat Inter estln gflcure of the little party which sway from La Boqullla and over the j:To Grande to safety under the Stars and Stripes. PepsT'a father was one of 43 American men living at la Bo qullla. There were also six women end Peggy. Mr. Hulse. who Is a son-in-law of John M. Reynolds. Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania, was Interested In a water dam at La Boqullla. The revo lutionists some time ajto sent word to iim that his life would be in danger if he impounded any water Just at that time. As It was the rainy season, and therefore the only time for Impounding water. Mr. Hulse appealed through Mr. Reynolds to the State Department at Washington. The State Department took the matter up with the Mexican authorities. But after a time it be came too hot in the La Boqullla for the Hulse family and they started on horse hack and by wagon for the United States border. Peggy rode her favor ite horse and took the whole adventure as a lark. The party was able to avoid the wandering bands of revolutionists on the way North and to reach the Rio (rande without any dangerous encoun ters, though there was not a minute of the time when they were not in dan ger. ,It was a groat relief to all but Pggy when they forded the rler and set foot on American ground. The Suffolk Is one of the three Brit ish warships ordered to Mexico. She !s a cruiser of 9S00 tons and carries 1 six-inch guns and two torpedo tubes. Her horsepower Is 22.000 and she can make 23 knots an hour. She la more than 10 years old. The other two ships are oi ine same ciass. The steamship Pannonla with the 10$ passengers who were rescued from th steamship Balmes off the coast of Ber mud a arrived at New York November 19. The passengers originally were ' Peggy Hulse Escapes From Mexico-Crowds Gather About White House on Wedding Day will be sent back to Spain as soon as campaign In the by-election now pro the next Spanish liner departs. Five cecdlng to elect a member on the Bat trinn from the rescue boats of the Pan- I tersea London Borough Council. nonla were made in a raging storm and all the passengers and crew were res cued. Fourteen women and six children were among the rescued. . Great crowds gathered In the streets surrounding the White House on the day that Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson. daughter of the president, was married to Francis B. Sayre. The police kept the people out the srounda. The famous schooner Fram. of Ant arctic exploration fame, is wilting in Colon Harbor. Panama, for the open ing of the canal. She will be one oi the first vessels to pasa through the big waterway. The Fram Is bound for the Arctic regions for north polar work. It was this schooner which was used by Explorer Amundsen on his voy age to the Antarctic wnen ne oiscov- ered the south pole. The Duchess of Marlborough is per sonally conducting a great women s WHAT TO NAME FUN STREET AT 1915 WORLD'S FAIR IS GREAT PUZZLE Among Titles Suggested are the "Main Drag," "The Locks," "The Canal,", "the. Isthmus, " "The Zone" and "The Ditch" Faint Ideas of Amusement Features Is Divulged Aeroscope to Replace Ferris WheeL O AS FRANCISCO. CaL. Dec . (Spe i.i Progress on the concession section at the fanam-r im position Is so far advanced tnat mel inite Information may be given about hi fascinating district. The con- cession center promises to be the most marvelous features .monition grounds. At night rne of ot the It will glow with myriads or incanaescenis. its streets will be "paved with gold": shafts of colored light will be hurled against Its lofty towers and minarets. Many amusement features wiu be THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND. DECEMBER 7, 1913. Her grace Is the founder of the new- ly-formed Women's Municipal party. whose special object Is to see tnat women have a fair share of representa tions on local governing bodies. The party, which is entirely non-political, came into existence only last July, and with the duchess as Its extremely ac tive head, is making a determined ef fort to see that its first candidate, Mrs. Ellen Cassldy, Is elected. The executive committee of tht new party is composed of women. There Is a woman chief agent who received a keen Insight Into party organisation as an assistant to Captain Middleton while he was chief of the unionist headquarters, and a woman agent in the present election. as Filipinos from the various provinces turned out en masse October to greet Governor-General and Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison on their arrival. The Governor and Mrs. Harrison were driv en to the Luaeta, the public promenade the tallest of which will be 250 feet In height shown for the first time. The art of presenting huge panoramas and di oramas has advanced marvelously dur ing the past decade and the world's most celebrated amusement purveyors will display their finest productions. The concessions will be notable not only for their huge size and the ex cellence of their presentation but for their educational merit. Between 111. 000.000 and $13,000,000. It Is estimated, will be expended upon Installation In the concession district So fax the exposition management of Manila, where the PNlllpplne policy of President Wilson ihat wherever feasible the Filipino la to be preferred to the American as an official, was re ceived with great cheera. Governor has received more than 7000 applica tions for privileges. The hundred larger concessions already granted cost more than $7,500,000. A flood of applications Is being received from Eu rope and a staff of experts Is kept busy segregating them. Maay Names aaggratrd. What to call the main street of the concession center is a question. Chi cago had the "Midway": St. Louis "The Pike": Portland the Trail." and Seat tle tha "Paystreak." Frank Burt, di rector ot concessions and admissions, baa offered a priae for the best name - Persons Rescued From Steamer Balmes Reach New York. 1 S .ti( Harrison was a member of the Blxty second and Sixty-third Congress from New York City previous to his appoint ment as Governor-General by President Wilson and Is being flooded with suggestions. Among the titles already suggested are the "Main Drsg": "The Locks: "The Canal": "The Zone": "The Isth mus." and "The Ditch." First work In construction on a num ber of concessions has already begun. Among the more important concessions are the Grand Canyon, a spectacle to be presented by the Santa Fe Railroad Company; Toyland Grown Up. a great city in which the buildings will be enlarged reproductions of children's toys, a mass of wonderful palaces cov ering 12 acres; the Panama Canal, a working inodef of the great canal: Creation, based on the first chapter of Genesis; the evolution of the Amer ican Dreadnought; a replica of the world-famous city of Nuremberg; an Ice Palace; a Korty-Nlne Camp; the Battle of Gettysburg; Hagenbeck'a Wild Animal Exhibit, and Prehistoric Garden: Asia. Mahomet's Mountains: the Dayton Flood and the Aerscop. One of the most artistic of all the concessions will be the Grand Canyon of the Arizona. Some of the most acted scenic artists In America are engaged BY THE when comDleted will cost $300,000. The model of the Panama Canal to cost :50.000, will be an exact repro duction of the great work at Panama. n.iiiii Lake Mlraflores Dam ana ail nhiua of the canal with which Amer leans are familiar, will be reproduced in miniature. Fortifications will be hnwn and the workings of the great gates at the locks will be Illustrated. Two thousand people will be able to make the trip through the canal every 20 minutes. Oraoa Doaates Big Flr. The concession center will be 300 feet In length, with a great street running through its center, in the center of the length of the street will be a huge plaza, from which will arise the tallest flagpole in the worm, a giani iir uw niioj hv the citizens of Astoria. Or. The plaxa will be the glory spot of the night life of the exposition. Here will be great bandstands, where the famous bands of America and Europe will play. Comfortable settees will be provided for the thousands of specta 1AM The Evolution of the Dreadnought will be a panoramic Illustration of the birth, growth and development of the American Navy, entailing an outlay of 1150 000. A novel feature will be the Aerseope, an Inverted pendulum which will carry sightseers at an elevation of Ifii feet. This Is four leet nigner irnin mo moii. Ferris wheel at the Chicago Ex position. It presents a novel feature In construction. Crane arms. 240 foet In height mounted on a steel tow?r 50 feet high and made of- two parallel riv eted trusses, will operate on a balanced lever. One of the crane arms will carry a double-decked car for passengers. The face of the Ice Palace to be pre rented by Vancouver concessionaires m h. n.inn. in deslens of ice. through which will run ammonia pipes. In the Interior will be a skating rinic fourths of an acre in area, upon which will be held international matches, rumaln Asalast Qnacks On. . A camsalgn against alleged quack doctors Is being conducted by the Call fnmli State Board of Medical Exam Iners. and already a number of arrests has resulted. The latest of the arrests Is that of C. A. Baxter, proprietor oi ine iiooe f.llfr.l ComDany. said doctor being charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. The complaining wit ness In this particular case happens to be Frank Lilltp. who ssys he was suf fering from an Illness and went to see Baxter. According io nis assertion. n.Tier said he was a physician and could cure him. He alleges that later CAMERA he was examined by a reputable physi cian and was told that Dr. Baxter had furnished him with a treatment calcu lated to keep him ill for same time. Attorney Louis Ward, who la prose cuting, declares there will be other ar rests, and that he Is contemplating drafting an ordinance to abolish muse ums conducted by fake specialists. A species of persimmon known as the seedless persimmon, which was be lieved to have been lost, has been dis covered growing at Pents, near Oro vllle. The United States Department of Agriculture has carried on a search tor years for it. but without success. By chance a sample or tne iruu was taken to the Orovllle Orange and Olive Exposition, and It was while Judging the fruit that the discovery was made. A number of the buds have been given to the United States plant introduction garden at Chleo. where they will be used to again grow the species. It is said that the seedless persimmon has greater agricultural possibilities than the one with seeds. San Francisco experienced a gale one day last week which was decidedly out of the ordinary for this city and drew thousands of spectators to the beach to watch the elements. Driven by a great gale somewhere out in the Pacific, a surf roared on the beach and was so strong mat lau ien i mo Olympic Club's pier to pipe salt water to the club tank was carried away. The waves reached the top of the em bankment along the sidewalk of the ocean boulevard and dashed their spray across it. It Is not uncommon for the bar to break badly during the Win ter storms, but it Is a rare thing for It to break across the North channel. QUAKES USHER IN WINTER Re-rere Season Is Promised In Alps, noy First Victim of Cold. GENEVA. Dec. . Slight earthquakes In the Cantons of Lucerne and Grisons and heavy falls of snow in the Alps have ushered In the Swiss Winter. The weather in the valley towns also has suddenly turned cold, and a severe Winter is predicted by the observatory at Zurich. On the Alpine passes the depth of snow measures three to four feet, hindering communication wiin me valleys. A sad fate has overtaken a boy. who. -i hi tirnther ran away from his home at Schwanden. in the Canton of Glarus. The lads had the idea of go- InK to the Canton or tirisons oy a of the Panlxer Pass. The bovs trudged on for bdoui i. miles until they fell exhausted. They were found by a workman, who carried them to a hut in Panlx. on the other side of the pass, but before a rescue partv from Elm could reach the hut the younger of the boys, aged 10. died. Till condition of the other boy, aged It. is serious. " AEROPLANE NOT PAWNABLE French Brokers Turn Down Flyer Who Would Save Ilansnr Kent. PATHS Dec. . (Special.) It is sel dom that an article, however blxarre its nature. Is refused by the French Monte de PIcte. or state pawnbroklng establishment, except, perhaps, in the case of a menagerie. An aviator In the Nidi, however, suf fered a disappointment To save the . . ,.,., for the Winter, he got Into his new machine and flew to the nearest large town, wnere ne irieu In vain to put it into pawn. Aero nlanes were not on the list of articles taken in pledge. It is recalled oy ine . similar experience befell one of the first automobile sportsmen In Paris when h tried to pledge his car for the' Winter in 18U2. FRENCH CONSCRIPTS PASS 63.65 Per Cent of 20-Year-OId Men Found Fit for Service. PARIS. Dec C. (SpeclaLI The med ical examination of the 20-year-old con scripts of the 1913 contingent, has giv en satisfactory results. Of these men 63.S5 per cent were passed as fit for service, while in the 1913 continent. consisting of conscripts a year old- 75.77 per cent were passed. J These percentages are brought is" voluntary enlistments tj S nd ..US. per cent respectively, fn J tlon of enlistment at tiTsre of 20 was discussed In the Cham per of Peputiw. the opponents of tl.K years service asserted that not more than 50 per cent of the contingenwou'd be passed as fit. CROWN PRINCEBOY SCOUT Danish Royal Youth Has Badge s Interpreter of Enelli-h. COPENHAGEN. Dec. . (Special.) The Danish Crown Prince Frederick and his brother. Prince Knud. are enthusi astic Boy Scouts, and have been pro moted to the first-class Scouts. The Crown Prince, who is 14 years old has his badge as an Interpreter in English, after palng an examination, which included. m-nting Engilhh letters, speaking EngVsh fluently and trans lating articles from the English papers Into Danish. I He also obtained a Pioneer badge af ter felling treds nine inches thick and constructing bridge models. nouna tor (acis jrom Barcelona an j 1