The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, January 18, 1914, SECTION TWO, Page 16, Image 34

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    THE SUNDAY OREGpyiAX, PORTL1M), JATTTTA "ITT" T5, 1914.
GUS MOSER WOULD
RUN FOR GOVERNOR
MAYOR ACGU3ED OF
LABOR LAW BREACH
WRITER LIKES CITY
MAY IRWIN, IN WITTY
VEIN, TELLS LIFE STORY
PORTLAND GIRL BECOMES
SILENT DRAMA HEROINE
Rhea Mitchell, Tonner Baker Stock Ingenue, Writes of Thrills Encoun
tered as Leading Woman for the "Movies" Theater Lights Missed.
Star at Heilig Theater Writes "Confession," in Which She Admits Every
thing but Her Age Sons Are Her Fads.
Minnesota Professor Says tf,v
tinction Is Portland's.
State Senator Is Aspirant for
Republican Nomination at
Primaries in May.
Complaint Made That Police
and Firemen Work More
Than 8 Hours Daily.
SCENERY CAUSES ECSTACY
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RECORD IS HIS PLATFORM
T'ornial Announcement Cites Meas
ures Supported In Last Legisla
ture and Declares for Rigid
Enforcement of Laws.
Ous C. Moser. State Senator, is the
latest announced aspirant for the Re
publican nomination for Governor at
the May primaries. Mr. Moser made
his formal announcement yesterday.
Mr. Moser refers the people to the
record he made in the last Legislature
.s an earnest of what may be expected
of him if he is elected Governor. The
minimum waye for women is cited as a
type of the legislation that he sup
ported during the session.
Good roads, improved schools, effi
cient executive administration and effi
cient and vigorous enforcement of all
criminal statutes are included in the
planks of Senator Moser's platform.
Mr. Moser was born and raised on a
farm in .Buffalo County, Wisconsin.
Later he taught school for several
years, and then attended college at
Valparaiso, Ind. He came to Oregron
nearly 23 years ago, and has made his
homo in Portland ever since. He was
admitted to the bar in 1894. and since
that time has always followed the prac
tice of his profession. He Is a life
member of the Multnomah Amateur
Athletic Club, and for many years has
been a member of the Portland Com
mercial Club, and has taken an active
part in the professional, commercial
and political affairs of this city and
state. He served for nearly four years
Chief Deputy District Attorney for
Multnomah County, and is a holdover
benator for Multnomah County.
Mover Always) Republican
He has always been a Republican,
and has campaigned in various parts
of the state for the National Repub
lican ticket in every Presidential elec
tion, beginning with the McKinley cam
pal en in 1S96. He is a vigorous cam
paigner, and will make an active com
paign. The following; la the formal state
ment issued by him: ,
"After mature deliberation and con
ferences with many of my friends In
different parts of the state, and having
received many assurances of earnest
nupport and probable success, I have
positively determined to become a can
didate for the Republican nomination
for Governor at the primary election in
May, 1914. and I therefore solicit the
support of my friends and the Repub
licans of Oregon generally, for such
nomination. 1 realize that the position
is one of high honor, and should be one
of dignity and firmness. By this I do
not mean thathe Governor should feel
that he is above or better than the
great body of his constituents, or that
he should hold himself aloof from them,
but that he should faithfully and con
scientiously discharge his full duty, and
do all within his power to see that the
laws are faithfully executed, and that
the dignity of his sovereign state is
properly preserved.
"My platform will be more complete
ly set forth in the declaration I shall
shortly file with the Secretary of State,
hut in the meantime I shall here men
tion some ot the things for which I
stand. ,
Record Part of Platform.
"In the first place I am willing to
stand by my record as State Senator
made at the last session of the Legls
Uiture. No doubt I made some mis
takes. Anyone would. But taking that
record as a whole. I am glad to make
It a part of iny platform as candidate
lor Governor.
"Five of the laws passed at that ses
sion wore referred to the people by
referendum petitions. Pour of these
wore approvd by the people last No
vember by overwhelming majorities. 1
voted for these four. The fifth was
almost as badly defeated, and I had
vot-'d against it. I worked and voted
against the new tax law which has
caused so much unfavorable comment
and wilr work great hardships.
"I worked and voted for Senator Ma
larkey's minimum wage bllL which
places in the hands of an impartial
commission the fixing of minimum
wages and maximum hours of labor for
women and girls, the employers, em
ployes and disinterested parties consti
tuting such commission. This in prefer
ence to a flat eight-hour law to apply
in all cases, and I believe a fair trial
will justify the law In the minds of all
concerned.
"I believe tnat eight hours per day
Is as long as any man should work at
hard manual labor, but there are ex
ceptions to all cases, and rather than
fix a hard and fast rule by law that
no man shall labor more than eiirht
hours per day, 1 favor a law providing
lor an impartial commission to fix the
maximum hours of labor for men in
various employments along lines simi
lar to the provisions of the Malarkey
viil wiin reierence xo women.
Good Koailn Advocated.
i nave long been, and am now, an
earnest advocate of good roads. The
last Legislature made a good beginning.
although many conflicting views and
opinions hud to be harmonized, and
concessions had to be made by all to
pet any start at all. Experience will
jiolnt out the weaknesses, and I shall
favor any amendments which will rem
e1y these. Good roads, permanent good
roads, should become general, reaching
inn iarms and the producers in every
airection.
"One of the great bulwarks of the
date and Nation is our public school
system, and 1 favor every action pos
sible to Improve and advance it so tha
our boys and girls may all be able to
net the advantages they deserve, and a
least the fundamentals so necessary in
every-oay lire.
"I also bellve in placing the advan
tasres of higher education within reach
of all, and to that end favor proper an
suitable maintenance of our state edu
cational institutions.
"I believe in economical and efficien
administration of the affairs of th
state, and pledge myself to such policy,
li nominaieu anu elected.
"And above all, I believe in the vigor
ous and efficient enforcement of all the
criminal statutes, including those regu
lating or prohibiting the sale of intoxl
eating liquors, and this I should d
with firmness and Impartiality. Th
rich, the poor, the great, the humble,
the capitalist, the laborer, the church
man and he liquor dealer shall be meas
ured by the same standard, and each
shall answer for his own acts.
"I here pledge my best efforts to do
all within my power to lighten the bur
ilen and increase the happiness and
prosperity of each of Oregon's proud
citizens.
GREATEST CUJ IN PRICES
ever known in pianos and player
pianos. See Graves Music Co. adv.,
page 10. section ?. Adv.
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TACTS OF rTKREST IN "WIDOW
BY PROXY."
There ar many Interesting things
about the alar of "Widow by
Proxy," which comes to the Heilig
Theater this week that are not known
to the rank and file of theater
goers. For Instance, her name never
was May Irwrn, She was born
Campbell, and now is Mrs. Kurt
Eisfeldt.
As a star, some of her best roles
were in "The Widow Jones." "Sis
ter Mary," "The Swell Mins Fitz
well,M "The Belle of Bridgeport,
"Mrs. Black Is Back and in
George Ade's funny one-act play,
"Mm. peckham'a Carouse. The songs
she made famous are almost with
out number.
Miss Irwin has written for The
Oregonian in her characteristic, hu
morous way her "confession," as she
'calls it. and tells why she went on
the stage.
BT MAT IRWIN.
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T maiden name was Ada Camp
bell, but that was some time ago,
so don't try to remember It. My
father was a good, kindly lumber dealer
in Whitby, Ont. Pop was a good liver.
and what with his interests in pine
and hemlock, frequently omitted to lay
something- by for a rainy day, feeling
it might snow and upset things; so
when the end came we were left penni
less. It's hard enough, goodness
knows, to be penniless in places like
New York or Camden, N. J., or Dea
Moines, la., but nothing to jingle in
vv nltby is something terrible.
Being penniless, my sister and I
were what you might call "in reduced
circumstances," but we did not lose
heart. I had long had an ambition to
be a trained nurse, but in Whitby there
were no trainers, and so I took the
next best thing and entered upon a
dramatic career at the age of 11 years.
I was married before I was 16.
Home Thought Best.
From early childhood I have alwavs
felt that home was the finest place on
earth. Think of frying crullers and
playing the banjo, and working doilies!
feople really do not know me. Seeing
e in a Hotel dining-room or on a
trollej- car, or the stage, is very, very
different from seeing me at home. I'm
quite another person there. Atmosphere
is everything. On a Btage a woman's
one thing, and making chutney sauce,
she's another.
If ! were not on the stage playing
"Widow by Proxy," the best comedy I
have ever had, I would settle down
into the most domesticated woman in
the world. I love to fuss around the
shooflles and boil cabbage and bait
mouse traps, and enter into the true
spirit of the fireside. For a long time
x ve nai it in mind to retire: but It
has never got beyond my mind. Ie
hesitated. Backing away from the
treasurers office requires real hero
ism, and I'm a woman. When I decide
to quit. I shall go, bift-bang, just like
that. One night in the calcium and
the next In the kerosene. Over the
fence is out, is my way of retiring. No
farewelllng all over the works year
after year.
Thank heaven, I can afford to retire
at any time I can afford to retire. Cur
rency has been given to a rumor that
I have made some money. The cur
rency in true. I am a capitalizette. so
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WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE GLEE CLUB TO 3VL.-KE PACIFIC COAST VISIT THIS YEAR.
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ORGANIZATION PLASS EXTENSIVE TOIB.
PULLMAN, Wash.. Jan. 17. (Special.) The Washington State College Glee Club for the first time in several years will visit the Pacific
Coast cities. The tour as planned is the most extensive which the club has undertaken since its organization. Coincidental with the Coast
trip is the ract that the Glee Club of this season Is perhaps the . best which Washington State College has ever produced. This Is the 17th
annual tour and the itinerary of the trip is as follows: January 23, Tekoa, Wash.; January 24, Harrison, Idaho: January 26, Coeur d'Alene. ,
1, :fan"ary 27. Harrington, Wash.; January 28, Wenatchee, Wash.; January 29, Cashmere, Wash.; January 30, Mount Vernon, Wash.; January
81. Belllngham, Wash.; February 2, Tacoma, Wash.; Ferbuary 3, Olytnpla. Wash.; February 4. Chehalis. Wash.; February 5. The Dalles. Or :
February 6. Prescott, Wash.; February 7. Pomeroy, Wash.; February 14, Pullman. Wash-
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to speak. Still. I'm not boasting. I en
tered the profession as a slip of a
girl, and from a slip I have grown a
bank account. I haven't been lucky at
all. but a very hard-working woman.
That's what I was, am and will be.
Genius is only the art of taking pains.
I work, work, work. I have scarcely
time to draw my breath or my salary.
I don't go home till morning. It's a des
perately gay and flippant life just one
round of merriment and spearmint after
another. My supper is usually so near
my breakfast that were I other than a
person of fine constitution and by-laws
I'd. have indigestion long ago.
Both Are Fads.
Yes, I have fads. They're my boys.
I'm very ambitious for them. Walter,
the elder, is in a broker's office in Wall
street. Harry is learning the insurance
business. The stage for them? Not
much; in fact, not any. One actress in
the family will be about all.
My sense of humor is keener today
than it ever was; and I owe it all to
a drop of Scotch in my veins. My
mother is Scotch-Canadian, and. al
though she's 81, she doesn't look a day
over 50. Her sense of humor keeps
her young; and that's true of every
woman who looks upon life with a
twinkle in her eye.
Any time you hear any one say that
wpmen haven t a sense of humor, don t
you believe it! I'd rather play to an
audience of women than of men any
time, and still they tell me I know men
pretty well. For that matter, I natter
myself that I know how to make men
laugh. And this brings us to the be
ginning and end of this happy meet
ing. No woman outlives her sense of
humor. It sticks to her as long as she
can stick to earth. All she needs is
a chance to express It. It was purely
by accident that I met "Widow by
Proxy." A friend of mine bumped Into
Willie Elliot, who asked: "Is May Irwin
looking for a play?"
fahe s going blind looking for one, '
replied the truthful boy.
The next thing I knew. I was say
ing "Good morning" to Mr. Klliot. and
as luck would have It, Mrs. Cushing
ame in while I was looking over her-
play. That settled it A bargain was
made then and there.
PIONEER OF 1851 PASSES
AVIIIiam J. Howlett Dies on Farm on
AVhlch He Located in 1854.
William J. Howlett, who died at his
home at Eagle Creek, Clackamas Coun
ty, January 7, was born In Jennings
County, Indiana, in 1831, and crossed
the plains to Oregon in 1851. In 1854
Mr. Howlett located on the farm where
he died.
September 20, 1854, he married Miss
Sabina Markwood, daughter of David
Markwood, who came West in 1853. To
Mr. and Mrs. Howlett were born four
children, Mrs. Viola A. Douglas, of
Portland; Mrs. Mary Jane Douglas, of
St. Joseph, Or.; Mrs. Louise F. Cooke,
of Damascus. Or., and Mrs. Lydla
Woodle, of Estacada, Or.
Mr. HowTett was Justice of Peace 14
years and school director and clerk for
many years. Funeral services were
conducted at his home by Rev. A. G.
Dix. of Portland. A large number of
friends gathered to pay their last re
spects. Six grandsons, AVIIIiam W.
Cooke, Ray Woodle. Walter Douglas,
Ed Douglas, Guy Woodle and Roy
Douglas were pallbearers.
He left a widow, four daughters, 27
grandchildren and 42 great-grandchildren.
THREAT OF ARREST ISSUED
City Attorney Im. Roche Favors Get
ting Decision From Supreme
Court, as Cost of Change
Would Ran Into Millions.
To test out the eight-hour state Iaw
to see whether the Supreme Court will
interpret.it to apply to firemen and
policemen in the Portland service as
well as to all other city employes and
laborers In general. Mayor Albee will
submit to arrest by the State Bureau
of Labor. This action was decided
upon by the Mavor and Clt- Attn-c-
La Roche yesterday upon receipt of a
irom u .f. j-iorr. Commissioner
of Labor, in which he declares that th.
city is violating the eight-hour law
py requiring firemen to work mm-o
than eight hours.
Should the city lose in n raw of thi.
kind it would be thrown into a deplor.
able financial condition by reason of
the necessity of trebling the number
of firemen in the service and E-re.-.tu-
increasing the Police Denartmont in
the Fire Department the ih
amount to approximately S600.inn a
year. To comply with the eight-hour
law the salary item would have to be
increased to about $1,800,000. Other
expenses which would be necessary to
handle the department would raise the
cost probably to over $2,000,000 a vear.
The number of firemen would have to
be increased from about 400 to about
1350.
Coat Would Be Tremendona.
In the Polled Department the cost
would be increased greatly because
under present conditions many of. the
men work long hours overtime and
would have to be paid for such labor
under this law.
The demand from Commissioner Hoff
to enforce the eight-hour law in these
two departments was received by
Mayor Albee yesterday as follows:
Hon. H. R. Albe, Mayor, Portland Or
My Dear Sir: After Investigation of the con
dition In the Portland police dnirtm.ni nnrf
alBo the fire department. I find that you are
.,u.nu..H ii.il is commraoniy Known as the
eight-hour law on public works by permit
ting your firemen and your police officers
to be on duty longer than the hours pre
scribed by this law. chapter 61. sections 4 and
a. general laws of Oregon, 1913, and as in
terpreted by the Supreme Court of the state
In the case, the State vs. Dr. R. l,ee Sterner
Please see that this Is remedied at once and
the law compiled with; otherwise it will be
my duty to make arrest and take the matter
Into court.
Trusting thla will have your early atten
tion, I remain sincerely vpurs,
O. P. HOFF, Commissioner.
Immediately City Attorney LaRoche
looked up the law and the decision of
the State Supreme Court in the case
of Dr. Lee Steiner, head of the liastern
Oregon Insane Asylum, and found that
In this there is ground for question
as to the right of the city to require
more than eight hours service from
firemen and policemen.
Tborouirh Teat Dtealred.
"If the Supreme Court should hold
that officers or firemen are laborers,"
said Mr. LaRoche yesterday, "these
employes of the city would come under
the provisions of the eight-hour law.
It is too serious a matter for the city
to take any chance with, and I have
advised Mayor Albee to submit to ar
rest by Mr. Hoff and then take the
case Into the Supreme Court for de
cision. I have no doubt but that the
Supreme Court will rule for the city."
ai me lime tne eight-hour law was
before the State Legislature the ques
tion of its applying to firemen came
up and an opinion written by ex-City
Attorney want, was to the effect that
it could not apply. He went deenlv
into the subject and presented manv
arguments and citations to prove his
point.
MRS. PATTERSON IS REGENT
Daughters of American Revolution
Elect Officers for Vear.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution. Multnomah Chapter, met
yesterday at the home of Mrs. Wallace
McCamant In King street and the an
nual election of officers took place.
Mrs. E. C. Shevlln has been regent for
the past two years, and the new re
gent is Mrs. I. N. Patterson; vice-regent,
Mrs. J. T. Mays secretary, Mrs
W. H. Chapin; treasurer, Mrs. H. M.
Van Doeurs; registrar, Mrs. A. E.
Rockey; historian, Mrs. J. T. Rass. The
board of managers elected are Mrs. C.
TJ. Gantenbeln, Mrs. James Falling and
Mrs. W. E. Thomas. Annual reports
were read, but no new business of a
definite nature was transacted. Fol
lowing the meeting a social hour was
passed, the tea table being - presided
over by Mrs. A. E. Rockey and Mrs.
Boudinot Seeley. Mrs. John V. Beau
mont, state regent, attended the meet
ing. Social Hour to Be Held.
The Goodfellowshlp Society of Trin
ity Episcopal Church will hold a social
hour in the parish-house. Nineteenth
and Davis streets, this evening - from
7 to 7:55. Strangers in the city are
especially invited. Take any car pass
ing Nineteenth and Washington streets.
BY T.KON-R CASS TtAllR.
HEA MITCHELL, petite and blonde,
was a familiar figure on the Baker
Theater stage four seasons ago.
Hhe was in her primer davs of learn
ing to be an actress then, although she
crept eteadily to the head of her class
because she had the 'divine spark"
within her soul, and without which Da
vid Belasco says you may just as well
not try to reach anything in the dra
matic world or any other.
When he saw how talented was the
little Portland girl. Manager George L.
Baker, of the Baker stock, gave her 'a
chance," which is the thing all of us
strive for in the beginnings. She was
sent to Spokane as ingenue with
Franklyn Lnderwood and Frances Slos
son. Then her climb was meteoric after
that season. She was ingenue with the
Vancouver stock and then with the
Alcazar, in San Francisco, had a sea
son's dip in vaudeville on the Orpheuni,
and has now realized her life-long
ambition, to be a motion picture act
ress. Always the motion picture the
ater has held the strongest drawing
power for Rhea, and she spent all her
nickels and dimes in a prand orgv of
sight-seeing in the realm of silent dra
ma. Now she is living in Los Angeles and
pursuing the eventful career of a mo
tion picture artist in Santa Monica Can
yon. And best of all. she is a. leading
woman for the New York Motion Pic
ture Company, featuring Broncho Dom
ino and Kay-Bee films.
The pictures are for the greater part
two-reel lllms taking a fortnight to
make. The first one for which Miss
Mitchell posed Is entitled "A New Eng
land Idyll." and is ready for release. A
typical Western story is "Repaid," the
second one in which she worked- Also
she played second woman in a recent
Selig release, "The Heart of Maggie
Ualone."
IVewsy lietter Received.
In a chatty, newsy letter sent me the
other day, Rhea writes of her new work.
"In the 'Royal Barrier' Pictures." writes
Rhea, "I have to drown myself at the
finish. I think it must have been a
pretty mean author who would write a
scenario with a plunge into a cold
stream for this season of the year.
. -During one week I was in the
saddle for four days, nt so much in
the picture, but riding up to locations
which we otherwise could not reach ex
cept by a single trial. . . . The
studio where we work is very large.
There are seven stages built upon a big
hill. The dressing-rooms .are a. row of
log cabins. At the foot of the hill is
the canyon, a magnificent spot. In this
canyon are the tepees of the Indians
and the homes of the 101 cowboys, a
big restaurant, ammunition and gun
rooms, etc.
"We have a buffalo, two bears, and
just now six grand and noble lions are
on the way to Join our zoo. . . .
Besides which we have Indians, real
ones, cowboys also real, a full and
complete wardrobe and sewing-room,
six companies and a lot of camera men.
. . . Believe me. It is 'some' village
all by itself.
"The trip back and forth seemed
to me an endless one at first, but I'm
almost used to it by this time. We
go in an automobile to Los Angeles
from camp. There is no carllne that
reaches us. ... I have to get up
at 6:30. and I get back to Los Angeles
at 6 P. M. I have a cunning apart
ment, and loads of nice acquaintances
whom I scarcely have time to bow to,
I'm so busy. And when -I'm not busy,
I'm sleeping. Sometimes I just fall
into bed, dead tired from climbing
hills or being pursued through gul
lies. The camp is right by the ocean.
It is a wonderful place.
"But please don't think that I do
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not miss tne theater, tor I do. I miss
it terribly, no music, no lights, no de
liclous smell of lots of makeup, no
creeping out into the 8 weet-smelllng
dark after a perfectly gorgeous and
successful night with the audience
you love out front sending its love
across the footlights. Worst of all,
no flowers This seems like a
sort 'of Imitation of -the life I led in
the theater. The social life here is
really lovely, however. We have danc
ing parties, and there is something do
ing every minute of the time.
"I've got a lot of new 'still' pic
tures of 'scenes' I've been taken in
that are rather interesting. One of
them was taken in a boudoir set show
ing ten thousand dollars' worth of
furniture and me. In the same com
pany with me Is Hershall Mayall, one
time matinee idol, and Walter Ed
wards, who played young Ryder In
'The Lion and the Mouse.' and Regi
nald Barker, of 'Paid in Full.' Don't
know how long I'm in It for, but one
never does know. I see the Gleasons,
Jimmy and Lucille, his wife, and their
adorable son, and dear Mina Crollus
every once in a while; also our old
friend Donald Bowles." . . .
The rest of the letter is full of
quaint little messages to Rhea's
friends here and she counts them in
stacks. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
N. Mitchell, who live at 6S1 Kearney
street, today are celebrating their
silver wedding anniversary. Down in
Santa Monica, or presumably down in
Los Angeles, since it's Sunday and a
day of rest, Rhea is eating a big cake
and lots of the attendant "flxin's" that
'were prepared for the silver wedding
dinner at the Mitchell home In Port
land. Rhea gets a box of goodies from
home nearly every week.
BUILDING LAW AT ISSUE
Lawyer In Blrrell Wooden Structure
Case Attacks Statute.
Validity of the building law which
provides for the destruction of edifices
more than 40 per cent deteriorated was
attacked in .Municipal Court yester
day by Attorney A. F. Flegel, ap
pearing on behalf . of A. H. Birrell,
owner of a wooden building at the
northeast corner of Grand avenue and
East Alder street.
Municipal Judge Stevenson refused to
accept argument on the validity of the
law, but ordered the attorneys in the
case to confine their arguments to the
facts concerning the building. He
said that he did not consider it part
of Municipal Court procedure to test
the laws, and would leave that feature
to a higher coTfrt in case the matter
was appealed from his decision. Judge
Stevenson took the matter under ad
visement, and asked for briefs and
authorities.
Churcli to Hold Reception.
Members of the First Christian
Church, at Columbia and Park streets,
will give a reception Monday night in
honor of their pastor, Kev. W. M. Rea
gor, who will leave Portland this week
for Lexington, Ky.. where he will pass
his vacation. Mr. Reagor has been
pastor of the First Christian Church
for five years.
There ere 2S pounds of blood In the body
of an average grown-up person.
Social Charm Konnd Her Declared
Contrast With Business Rush of
Seattle by Richard Burton,
Teacher of Literature.
Richard Burton, professor of English
literature at the University of Minne
sota, who has visited Portland several
times on lecture tours, contributes an
article entitled "Coastwise Cities" to
the current issue of the Bellman, a
Minneapolis weekly magazine, in which
he expresses his impressions of Port
land. Professor Burton swings from
poetic description of Tacoma. which h
calls "a charming town," and the moun
tain or tne same name, to his consider
ation of Portland.
"Sitting in the courtyard of vour ho
tel at Tacoma." he says, "you feel as
though ail the world were offered you
to see, always and ever dominated bv
the sliver cone of the majestic moun
tain." "How different Is the imnression
made by Portland, the stately," he con
tinues, "so much more settled and solid
It seems to the Easterner. Here la a
town that appears to unite the excel
lencies of the new and the old. less of
contrast and more of harmony, yet with
tne sparKie or atmosphere and the ex
citement of scenery, the wondrous nat
ural resources and surroundings that
make for distinction.
"Viewing the city from the heights
where the houses of the privileged dot
tne winding terraces and vantage
points of beauty. the three mighty
peaks of Mount Hood, Mount St. Helens
and Mount Adams, with Rainier Itself
visible under right conditions of
weather, take the eye with rapture and
are sentinels that guard the valleys of
the Columbia and the Willamette. Re
vealed in the clear, or veiled in the
cloud, one is aware that these gigantic
niii-creatures are but the dominant
notes of a scene which is unsurpassed
on earth In its kind.
The Columbia River, most rapid and
deep of great streams, moves through
shaggy forests, and beside its waters,
as the train from the East winds
around dizzy curves, the imagination
easily conjures up visions of red men
and the wild animals they hunted. All
is on a grandiose scale and the tonic
air induces to deep breaths and large
resolutions.
"The social charm of Portland con
trasts with the business rush of Seattle,
and one feels more and more that it is
rare good luck to live where nature
thus meets man with all the gifts of the
soil and man has been so alert to seize
them.
"Portland in rose week pelts you with
royal blossoms that typify this prodi
gality. The apples one buys in Seattle
and Portland are likewise a sort of
symboK the dower of Ceres, standing
for all the kindly fruits of earth that
the great teeming areas surrounding
these cities, or tributary to ihem, offer
the children of men."
MAX REISS NOW HUNTED
Elopement Husband of Jessie Wil
son" Vices After Murder.
That Max RTeiss. husband of "Jessie
Wilson," the woman killed two weeks
ago, and for whose murder J. BedufI
and George Hohoff are in Jail, fled
from Portland the night after the
murder and did not attempt to aid in
the search for the assassins, was dis
covered by Detective Sergeant Hawley
yesterday, after a week's investiga
tion of the man and his Portland
haunts.
Acting on a request from Sol Lange,
of 6405 Frunkstown avenue, Pittsburg,
Penn., brother of Mrs. Reiss, Hawley
has been tracing the actions of Reiss.
Lange wrote that Reiss was the legal
husband of the woman, and that they
were the principals in a runaway mar
riage when the woman was only 17
years of ape.
Detective Hawley says that the
death of Mrs. Reiss saved Reiss from
prosecution on a criminal charge, in
which his wife would have been a
witness.
Pastor St. John to Speak.
The third of the studies on the Na
ture of Man, given by Pastor St. John
at the Central Portland Church, East
Eleventh and Everett, will be held to
night at 7:45, the subject being "If
a Man Dieth. Shall He Live Again?"
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