The Sunday Oregonian., February 01, 1914, SECTION FOUR, Page 7, Image 49

PROPERTY-OWNERS WANT STARK STREET EXTENDED NORTHWEST
'Proceedings Have Been Begun to Lay Out Course of Extension to Cornell Road and to Obtain Necessary Data,
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BASED on a. petition recently filed
by large property owners on
Stark street, and many others, for
the extension or Stark street from
Thirteenth street to Cornell road, at
the head of Lovejoy street, proceedings
have been begun to lay out accurately
the course of the extension, ascertain
the amount of property in its path, the
value of the property and the size of
the district. to fie assessed damages and
benefits.
The street as proposed will, be 80
feet wide throughout its whole extent,
end will provide one of the largest and
best residence sections of the city with
quick entrance to and exit from the
heart of the business district. It is
asserted that this thickly-settled sec
tion and the area of sightly and pro
ductive country behind it, as well as
the whole district north and west of
Burnside street, never has had proper
Access to the civic center, because the
plat of Couch Addition was not made to
conform to the original plat of Port
land, and did not continue on and
across Stark, Oak, Pine and Ash streets.
These streets so extended, property
owners say, would have made a won
derful difference years ago in the
makeup of the city, by increasing fa
cilities of travel, and bringing into
close touch with business life a wider
north and west, which has always been
Just as near the business center as sec
tions having better transit facilities,
but has never realized this nearness
because Its streets have never connect
ed it directly with the center.
They declare that upper Washington
street, formerly Burnside street, has
never reached their district and never
can. and that they should not be com
pelled to lose the greatest advantage
of their property . holdings; namely,
nearness to the business district, simp
ly because proper facilities for travel
to and from It were not provided in
early days. They say upper Washington
street turns away from, instead of into
their district, and that one street
towards the west, under any circum
stances, would be absolutely 'inade
quate for u. city now of 250,000 people,
which is growing fast. They say "Wash
ington street was never intended to
serve the district to be reached by this
extension, because it was originally
made merely as a passage to and from
the river and the western hills, and was
located In a depression from Thirteenth
etreet west, through what was then
heavy timber, because this was the line
of least resistance.
Street to Reach Height.
This original road, they point out was
rood enough for the then small village
of Portland, for only a passage in and
out of town was needed, and one pas
sage was enough, but in these days,
when time is such a factor In active
dally life, nearness to the center of
such busy life, means increased uses to
which property can be put, with conse
quent increase in values, and, they say,
the extension of this street is an ab-
IN ANECDOTAGE IS SHOWN WISDOM,
WIT AND EPIGRAM OF H. W, SCOTT
Rev. C. E. Cline Tells of Late Editor-in-Chief 's Pithy Comments on People, Places and Things, of His Kindly
Approval and Caustic Satire, and His Aptness at Repartee.
BY REV. C. E. CLINE.
IT WAS my good fortune to be ac
quainted with Harvey W. Scott, In
all, 25 years, during which time I
visited him occasionally in his edi
torial office, where I was received with
uniform kindness. ' In most respects
Mr. Scott was an extraordinary man.
His mind was of that Independent con
sistency not in the least in danger
from surrounding damp. His was a
robust temperament with a kindness
that never melted Into caresses. In
addition to being a college-bred man,
he had that which comes of early ad
versity, discipline and a knowledge of
men.
The first time I met him was In his
office, soon after my arrival in Port
land, while gathering funds to pay an
old debt against a little church in the
city, of which I was the pastor. Not
a little courage was required to make
a call and solicit a contribution from
the head of The Morning Oregonlan,
In whose sledge-hammer editorials I
was taking much interest. Walking
into the office, as he looked up, I an
nounced my name. "Tes." said he, "I
know who you are. .What do you
want?"
"I am soliciting funds to pay an
embarrassing debt against the strug
gling little congregation of which I
was at the last conference appointed
the pastor." I said.
"That's all right, sir; that's ajl
right." said he, reaching me J25. "I
am glad to assist you; the more one
knows of common life like those peo
ple you preach to, the more Is seen a
quality of character without any pa
rade of it. Such people are worthy
any parade of it. Such people are
worthy of help. I hope you may be
successful."
Once on entering his office, finding
him with coat oft and vest unbuttoned,
as was hln wont when writing an edi
torial, I said: "Brother Scott, are you
religious today?" After finishing the
sentence he was digging at. the reply
came: "Oh, yes, I'm traveling the road
to heaven with a vengeance!"
"Does the devil worry you any on the
way?"
"Now, that's just the way you saints
of the saucepan talk; your stock in
trade Is fear. Fear in fact has been
the parent of superstition all the way,
urging trembling mortals to deprecate
the wrath of invisible enemies. I'd
like to ask what you preachers know
about the devil, anyway? If you would
climb down to where, the people live.
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solute necessity to malce their property
wrmt n snouia be.
The street will meet the Cornell road,
a main artery from the west, will lead
directly to Macleay Park, and-, they
say. eventually will reach Willamette
Heights and the hillsides north ana
west, over a bridge spanning the Mac
leay Park ravine. They feel that it will
be a retail business street its whole
extent, and "that property owners on
and in the vicinity of the extension,
having now no business chance because
of being off the direct line of travel,
will be able to erect buildings and rent
stores and own the same class of build
ings as are on like business streets.
Property values on or. near the Im
provement, they assert, will be In
struggle and sin, men of sense might
come to hear you preach; but you sel
dom Introduce in your sermons any
body below a patriarch, a patriarch's
wife or an Imaginary saint. But then,
brother Cline. I'm too severe, the fact
Is, my religion consists chiefly of work;
from day to day I tug away here at
this desk; and what does it all amount
to; nobody cares!"
The annual meeting -of the Oregon
Pioneers 10 or 12 years ago had Just
adjourned, a people of special interest
always to him, and about which he was
presently talking. After getting out
in the hall from his office door I made
a memorandum of his words, which
ran about as follows: "It's too late to
record the dramas hidden away in the
commonplace lives of the first settlers
of Oregon. We shall, I regret to say,
never know them, for the grave Is a
famous keeper of secrets. These peo
ple were not by any means indifferent
to the finer impulses. Their religious
faith was of the vigorous sort, though
they never stopped to analyze it. Their
nature was virgin soil; conscience in
them had never been tampered with;
feeling they had. deep and- strong; re
pentance, trouble, love, work and sor
row developed In them endurance and
will power which overcame obstacles
seemingly Insurmountable. They were
truly a royal race. I lived among
them and knew them. They marched
through life under the banner of in
stinct, with little time or inclination
for the world's sophistries. My father's
home was the home of the early itiner
ant preacher and my mother spread
before them her best food. She also
ruled things In her household so that
everything was in conformity with
the heart."
A trial some years ago running in
the courts, for murder. In which the
defense was the "unwritten law," at
tracted at the time wide attention.
This, at one of my visits In Mr. Scott's
office, came in for discussion. "A lot
of women," said he, "tamper with
chastity, cherishing a sentimental
flame interesting to the heart and pas
sions, but dangerous to their morals:
notwithstanding this, observation cov
ering a period of more than 60 years
leads me to believe that the unwritten
law plea Is In a majority of cases only
a covert form of assassination in which
the assailant has in advance planned
to kill his victim with no peril to him
self, having already formulated his
plea of defense."
Mr. 3ryan now Secretary of State,
creased at once from one-third to one
half, according to location, because of
the great change in adaptability to
many and varied uses. Streetcar travel
to and from the city will be facilitated
tremendously, because the straightness
and grade of the street will make car
operation much less expensive. There
will be a great saving of time In re
routing the Willamette Heights, Twenty-third,
and Sixteenth-street cars. At
present cars on both Nineteenth And
Sixteenth-street lines must come to a
full stop on steep side hills before
crossing Washington street, and then
again to get well started downtown,
wait until that street clears itself of
heavy automobile and other traffic, be
fore passing down across and up hill
for whom Mr. Scott had no particular
affection on account of his 16-to-l va
garies, was In Portland on one of his
campaigns for the Presidency, making
a speech in the old Exposition building
on Washington street. In discussing
me matter next aay, Mr. Scott, in a
gruff manner, freed his mind as fol
lows: "Bryan's talk is so nimble that com
mon sense can't overtake it; he makes
me think of a sewer after a heavy
rain. He held up before that crowd
of yelpers last night the bait, but not
the hook."
When a San Francisco nrelate and
his wife a few years ago were making
frantic efforts here, and In Seattle, to
marry their daughter to a Japanese
house servant, people were asking
on every nana, "what makes these peo
ple in the higher walks of life so des
perately anxious to marry their daugh
ter to an Asiatic?" Mr. Scott quaintly
remarked: "The girl's mother knows!"
The developments of a brief period
showed his insight of the situation.
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Possibly one or both the gentlemen
present on Alder street the day after
president Itoosevelt was received with
such extraordinary demonstrations in
Portland may recall, on reading this
allusion to It, Mr. Scott's soliloquy:
"Yes, Mr. Roosevelt fattens on the food
Portland gave him yesterday; he has
reached the place In position and life
where a man tells everything he
thinks, and Mr. Roosevelt feels It a
responsibility entall&d upon him to
leave nothing without the advantage of
his opinion."
It Is well known that Mr. Scott
never cared to appear on the rostrum
as a public speaker. This may be
accounted for from the fact that he
was inclined to the rhetoric of the
written rather than the spoken form
and this preserved his work much bet
ter than if he had given himself to the
ephemeral forms of oratory and debate.
He once said to the writer that In his
work as an editorial writer he had
taken Edmund Burke as a model.
"While Burke," he added, "belongs
more to the history of politics and to
the history of thought than to that of
pure literature, I also recognize him
at the very summit of prose writers.
"With It all I give special attention
to expression. jiose, terse expres
sion in writing for the public is indis
pensable."
Mr. Holman in his admirable article
In the last Issue of the Oregon Histori
&al Society Quarterly, says, correctly,
Property owners say the Portland
Railway Light & Pawer Company will
be glad, of a chance to reduce the danger-of
acidents at these Washington
street crossings, and will welcome the
saving of time in- the handling of its
cars, by putting branches on the exten
sion as soon as it is ready for business.
Tyhe Twenty-third street line would,
it is pointed, out be saved the distance
uphill from Irving to Washington
street, the Willamette Heights line
would turn directly Into the extension
at Twenty-first street, thus avoiding
the roundabout route through Glisan
and Nineteenth street to Washington
and Morrison streets, and the Sixteenth
street line would connect midway be
tween Davis and Couch streets, cut
that Mr. Scott's field of special thought
and investigation was theology. With
tne great preachers of the past, such as
wmieneia, ror whom his devoted
mother named him, he was entirely fa
miliar. He also scanned the preachers
of Portland and their work with more
interest and sympathy than was com
monly supposed. On one occasion
when a Portland pastor was conspicu
ously parading a man whom Mr. Scott
believed to be an all-round humbug,
the following comment of "a general
character was made, which may be
worth preserving by men of holy call
ing: ,
"The cause of civil liberty and civil
government gains as little as that of
religion by this confusion of things.
Ministers wholly unacquainted with
the political world with which they
now and then meddle, speaking with
so much confidence, excite, in my opin
ion, only the passions of their hearers.
Surely the church is a place where one
day's truce ought to be allowed to the
discussions and ' animosities of man
kind." When one political crotchet after an
other began to rain upon the people of
Oregon through the initiative and ref
erendum, the following estimate was
expressed: "Oh, this state has a full
share of those who, If an angel of
light were to whisper wisdom in one
ear, and one of these faddists should
speak to the other ear, the angel
would have to whistle for an audience."
Some 15 years ago one school of med
icine was clamoring for recognition on
equal terms in Oregon with another. At
the solicitation of one of the "regulars"
the writer prepared and submitted to
The Oregonian some reasons why the
"old school" of physicians should alone
have the right of way. This was hand
ed in person to the editor-in-chief, who
glanced it over, with the remark:
"This thing is well written, but I'll not
print it; these doctors make me think
of a synod of old maids, very jealous
of their respectability, when the truth
Is, Cline, a slight distemper in the
hands of one of these learned forerun
ners rf the undertaker, would carry
you or me to a much warmer place than
this. No, I'll not ' print It. Let 'em
fight It out."
On hot day a citizen from up the
Willamette "Valley, of enormous girth,
was leaving Mr. Scott's office after
boring" him with his presence in The
Oregonian building, just as I went In.
"Who is that big fellow?" I inquired.
"Oh, that's my old friend S. from
"He's a buster, isn't he?"
"Tes, indeed he Is; his entrails must
owe him a grudge for the hard work
he has forced them to perform."
.
Nine or ten years ago when the
Methodist General Conference appoint
ed a new bishop to reside In Portland
an appreciative Item about the dis
tinguished newcomer was taken by the
undersigned to The Oregonian for pub
lication. It. was carefully .read, bjr . the
ting off the distance to and the wait
at Washington street.
The Willamette Heights cars now run
to the Union Station via Morrison and
Fifth street, which Is a long way
around. No shorter way is provided.
Cars routed via this extension and
Burnside street, will save Willamette
Heights people and others from 10 to
15 minutes in reaching the station, be
sides benefiting by transfer the whole
Western portion of the city.
Property owners assert this extension
will not only be far-reaching in its ef
fects, but that a little study of the
situation must convince everyone of
its absolute necessity aa a public Im
provement, since Washington street
alone Is not feasible as an artery and
editor-in-chief and marked to go up
to the printers' room, with the follow
ing comment to the man who brought
it: "These bishops lard their Insldes
generously and have a good time,
while you common fellows, the fungous
growth of the human dunghill, look
up to them with a facility for being
overawed by their importance; but
that's the way things go."
There was in later years something
sad and grand about his individualism,
as there is about the last great chief
of a tribe, or the King of a great
dynasty. He is the last of his type.
He had battles to fight, and he fought
them, enemies to make and he made
them. Ardent friends and worshiping
admirers he always had, and deserved
them. His striking figure, like it had
been hewed Into shape with an ax,
held a unique temperament well adapt
ed to the work he performed.
Mr. Scott was not outrageously cul
tivated; but when he wrote, the common
sense of his readers was sur
prised and Inspired. His characteristics
take him out of comparison with any
other, and give him a place vacant
till he came. The Influence he at
tained was of slow growth. He was a
combination hard to hit, and possibly
well that It is so, for changing con
ditions may demand a new type of
work. Colossal soul, he lies vast abroad
upon his times.
BEER EXHIBIT STOPS SHOW
Ministers liar Olympia's Food Show
From Tabernacle.
OLTMPIA, Wash., Jan. 31. (Special.)
The Pure Food Show which the
Olympla Chamber of Commerce ex
pected to hold here this Spring, has
been postponed indefinitely, because of
failure to obtain a suitable building.
The Chamber of Commerce expected
to hold the show In a tabernacle
erected at considerable cost by the
churches of the city for revival meet
tings that have been held here all this
month. When the committee of min
isters In charge of the building learned,
however, that the Olympla brewery
would be one of the exhibitors at the
Pure Food Show, the use of the build
ing was refused. It will be torn down
shortly after the revival meetings are
concluded.
Boys to Be Farm Iiaborers.
SYDNEY. N. S. W., Jan. 31. (Spe
cial.) The Tictorian government pro
poses to adopt active measures for the
introduction of boys as farm laborers.
Last year 2500 boy Immigrants arrived
in Victoria, and it is hoped this year
to secure 4000 or 6000. A special pub
licity campaign with this end In view
is contemplated In English provincial
cities and in Scotland, the common
wealth government bearing a portion of
the expense,
Map Showing Proposed Extension of Stark
Street to Make Artery to Drain Traffic
of Northwest Portland
there is no other solution for the hand
ling of a population fast Increasing,
and more eager and anxious every day
for rapid transit.
In referring to rapid transit they set
forth the tremendous importance of
such a direct route from the city cen
ter for fire, police and hospital pur
poses, the two leading hospitals doing
a heavy ambulance business, being lo
cated well towards the end of the ex
tension. The straightness and direct
ness of this street, on which vehicles
could travel at great speed if neces
sary, would mean quite as much time
saved to travel as the actual saving In
distance because the streets are now
at right angles and cannot be traversed
without great loss of time, and in times
TOTAL AGES OF FAMILY
OF 16 ARE 1450 YEARS
William H. Hardy, Aged 78, Who lives in Portland, Is Youngest of 19
Children, 16 of Whom Survive,
BY MART A. SMITH.
IN a low, quaint old house near Mount
Calvary Cemetery lives William H.
Hardy and his wife, Ellen Irene.
Mr. Hardy Is 78 years old, the young
est of a family of 19 children, 16 of
whom are still living. The total ages
of the 16 are 150 years. The oldest,
Mrs. Ellen Carver, Is 107 years ' old
and lives In Maine. Mr. Hardy is a
direct descendant of Ebenezer Hardy,
of Revolutionary War fame, the sev
enth son of a seventh son, with no
female Intervening.
He was born in Concord, Mass. May
13, 1836. At the age of 14 he became
a sailor, beginning at this time to
keep a diary, which he has preserved
and kept up throughout his life.
In 1852 he made the trip with Peary
on his first famous expedition to Japan.
Besides one other, Alexander Wier, Mr.
Hardy is the only known survivor of
that expedition.
With his six brothers he fought for
the Union during the Civil War, first
as a cavalryman, then as a sailor and
later as a soldier. He served under
Commodores Foote, Davis, Porter, Pen
neck and Lee, being under Porter in
the last engagement of the war at Fort
Fisher, where he was wounded.
Immediately after the war he was
sent to Arizona as -United States Mar
shal, and there received several more
wounds, which greatly impaired his
physical condition. In 1866 he came
to Oregon with Hugh Brady, and has
since lived here. He was Deputy
Sheriff under William Frazier during
the latter's two terms in office. In
1876 his father, aged 98 years, and his
mother, 95 years old, both died on the
same day at the old home in Concord.
Two years yater he married Miss Ellen
Irene Anderson. To them four chil
dren were born, two of whom are still
living. Robert Morgan Hardy, the
younger son, Is a "Winged M" boxer
and is given the credit for having de
feated J. D. Boatright. champion. An
amusing incident is told by Mr. Hardy
about his son. He says Morgan was
opposed to his heavy beard and mus
tache, so he told the boy he would
have it shaved If he would knock out
Boatright. The morning after the box
ing match the son demanded that his
father keep his promise, which he
promptly did, appearing with a clean
shaven face, to the consternation of
his wife and the amusement of his son
and friends.
The other son, John L. Hardy, is a
merchant at Beaverton.
Mr. Hardy, has had many accidents in
of pressing necessity, without consider
able danger.
How soon the carline would be ex
tended beyond Twenty-third street and
along the Cornell road to Macleay Pari;
would depend upon the neighborhood
property owners and the railroad com
pany. Residents of the district in
volved say they feel sure the whole
city would welcome easy and beautiful
access to Macleay Park, which many -people
have never seen because of the
difficulty in reaching It. This exten
sion. It is declared. Is strictly In line
with the Bennett plan of a Greater
Portland, and they believe that If Mr.
Bennett had lived in Portland, or
known It more Intimately, he would
have provided for It.
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Hardy In 1861.
his life, nearly all of which occurred
on the 13th day of the month.
At the age of 65 he went to Nome as
a miner, returning to Oregon with
sound health. He has lived in his pres
ent home for 20 years.
Mr. Hardy believes that the reason
his family is so long lived is because
they never touch liquor or tobacco and
are contented.
"I have known almost every emotion
and have suffered from almost every
malady," he said, "but I thank God I
have never known the meaning of fear.
I have always lived an honorable, up
right life, endeavoring always to keeri
under my constitutional rights as an
American citizen. Nothing hurts me so
much as for my fellowmen to doubt
my fidelity or honesty."
Mr. Hardy is an interesting, congenial
man, and a hard worker for a man of
his years. On account of continual ex
posure, he has been ill much this Win
ter, but is about doing the work of his
farm now.
Mrs. Hardy is a pleasant, brown
haired little woman, very young look
ing, and quite handsome.
They live very happily in their home,
both busy, and, as Mr. Hardy says,
"very contented."
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