THE SUNDAY. OREGOXTAX. PORTLAND. SFPTEMBER 27, 1914.
AMERICAN
RELIEF
SCENE Or OPERATIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE.
Prices Are
Shot to
Pieces at
Calef Bros.
We are going
closing - out and
fire-sale prices
one better during
our 9 -day sale.
WORK ABOUT ENDED
Few Tourists Remain; Money
is uei i cii uonsuiaies
for Stragglers.
SOME STILL COMING IN
About 3 O Are Said to Be at Breslau.
Secretary Garrison Orders Assist
ant Secretary Breckinridge
to Come Home.
LONDON. Sept. 36. Majors Ryan and
Martin and Captains Meller, Benton
and Cross, of the American relief com
mittee, arrived In London today from
Berlin, bavins come through Germany
and Holland on a special train provided
by the German authorities.
Major Ryan says the American relief
work In Europe is virtually ended.
Most of the Americans, except those
remaining for business or other rea
sons, are now out of Berlin. Since
August 23 between 2000 and 3000 have
been sent out of the German capital.
A large number of Americans strand
ed were tourists who were in Europe
for the Summer and had failed to get
remittances from home or had letters
of credit , they could not cash. Others
had return tickets on German steamship
lines, which, however, later were re
deemed. Between 50 and 60 Americans
still remain in the outlying parts of
Germany. Money has been sent to
them.
Only a few Americans are now in
Austria, but money has been left there
in case any stragglers should appear
at the consulates. Americans wanting
to return home are arriving from Aus
trian and German provinces at the rate
of about a dozen daily, according to
Major Ryan, and there still are about
SO Americans at Breslau.
WASHINGTON, bept. 26. Orders for
the immediate return of Assistant Sec
retary Breckenridge, of the War De
partment, head of the American relief
expedition to Europe, were issued to
day by Secretary Garrison at Seabrlght,
N. J. "With Mr. Breckenridge will come
all officers in his party who have not
been assigned as special attaches at
various embassies to aid in clearing up
the work of assisting stranded Amer
icans. They will return by liner, as
the cruisers Tennessee and North Caro
lina, on which they were rushed to
Europe, will be retained in European
waters for the present.
STATE FAIR IS READY
NEW PAVILION FILLED WITH EX-
Other Buildings Taxed to Space Limits
aad Preparation Are Complete for
Admittance of Crowd Monday. ,
SALEM, Or., Sept. 26. (Special.)
Secretary Meredith announced today
that everything was ready for the
opening of the Estate Fair Monday. The
$50,000 pavilion has been completed
and is filled .with exhibits. Other build
ings have been taxed to the space limit
by exhibitors, and Mr. Meredith is con
fident the fair will be the most suc
cessful in the history of the state.
With favorable weather it is believed
the attendance will exceed that of last
year, which set a record.
One of the features will be the dahlia
exhibition. Prizes aggregating $115
nave been offered to exhibitors in the
amateur class, and the exhibit far ex
cels that of any other year. Cut flow
ers, including chrysanthemums, roses,
asters and lilies will be shown. The
beds of growing flowers are in ma best
Of condition.
Mr. Meredith announces that all ex-
niDitors wno win prizes will receive
them immediately after the selections
re made.
The grounds will be policed by the
Home Guards, of which Roy Near, of
eaiem, is in neaa.
FARMER KILLS BIG SNAKE
Reptile, 22 Feet lxng, Found In
Benton Field, Is Assertion.
ALBANY, On. Sept. 26. (Special.)
js. warmer nunea jonnson, residing near
Wren Station in Benton : Conntv. wa
In Albany yesterday and reported the
killing- of a snake 22 feet long on his
farm this week. Johnson asserted that
he could produce photographs to sub
stantiate nis story.
The snake was killed with the as
sistance oi several neighbors. A rone
was thrown about the head of the
reptile which was then choked to
death. Johnson claimed that the snake
was a spotted one and about as big
srouaa as a man s leg.
Where the snake came from he did
not know but said that he discovered
It in his field and that It appeared
lu uo Harmless.
T. J. DAVIDS, PIONEER, DIES
Washington Resident Survived tj
Three Children.
OREGON CITY, Sept 26. (Special.)
nomas J. uavias. a pioneer in South
west Washington, died at the home of
liis son, L. S.. Davids, in the Peach
Mountain district at 1 o'clock this
afternoon, after an illness of three
weeks. The funeral will be held at 2
o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the
Holman Chapel. The body will be
sent to Centralia for interment.
Mrs. Davids died several years ago
and Mr. Davids came to Clackamas
County to make his home with his son.
He is survived by two sons, L. S.
Davids and J. A. Davids, and one
daughter, Mrs. Cynthia Schwartz.
Everett. Mr. Davids was born in New
Tork state August 30, 3834. and crossed
the plains to Washington about 1850.
Candidates' Xames Announced.
v SALEM, Or.; Sept. 26. (Special.)
secretary or state oicott today an
nounced the list of ' candidates whose
names will appear on the ballot at the
November election. He will certify to
them Monday and iorward copies to th
various County Clerks.
Fall From Train Kills Man.
SALEM. Or, Sept. 26. (Special. )-
Albert Schults, 21 years old, who, it 1
believed, lived in Portland, fell from- s
train near Jefferson early today and
was killed. The man obtained work a'
a logging camp in Drain several day
ago and started for that place today
He was badly mangled.
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GUNS REICH BERLIN :
Germans Celebrate Sedan Day
Viewing War Spoils.
WOUNDED ARE LIONIZED
Percentage of Recoveries From Bul
lets Surprisingly Large, ' Say
Surgeons Prisoners Are
Being Treated Well.
(Continued From First Page.)
bled about Bismarck's statue before the
Reichstag building. Bis left leg was
entirely stiff, bandaged, I suppose. His
girl was with him; and bow she adored
him fingers, hands and arms were
locked and her eyes never left her
hero's face.
He was well-fed, pink-cheeked, good-
looking, and she was poor (Judging
from her clothes), sallow, short and
Bhrunken-looklng, She "ran over" her
worn shos badly, but how happy she
vas In her adoration; how ecstatic!
He was her man; he was safe, back
from the wars (for the present) and
he . was a hero,, a wounded hero, who
twined his fingers with hers In the
shadows of the statue of victory in the
Sieges Allee. I suppose that girl
doesn't touch very high spots in her
life, but one she surely touched on the
afternoon of Sedan day of 1914.
SOOO French Prisoners Seen.
We were taken out today to see 6000
French prisoners . at Alter-Grabow, a
maneuver camp about 100 miles east of
Berlin. There were half a dozen Amer
ican correspondents and a couple of
our naval men under escort of Lieuten
ant Baron Kurt von Lersner, formerly
secretary of the embassy at Washing
ton.
We went In three automobiles be-
longing to the Imperial Volunteer Auto
mobile corps, ana we went me iuu miies
fast each way. There are no speed
regulations rSQJ" army automobiles, at
least not -in -war times, and the roads
were marvels of straight smoothness.
There are 300 machines in this volun
teer corps, all high powered, and driven
by their former owners (ranking as
lieutenants), accompanied by their
former chauffeurs, who know the
whims and fancies each of his own spe
cial par. They are painted war gray,
new, and carry a pair of cavalry car
bines and four extra tires apiece.
Autos Bear Messages Swiftly.
For carrying messages between wide
ly separated Oenerals behind the firing
line they make the galloping couriers
of old seem hideously slow ana pain-
fiillv Rhnrf-vlndArl.
The Belgians, it seems, learned to
string wires at night between trees at
proper ooints to decapitate the drivers.
and motors with headless chauffeurs
are reported to have plunged into
ditches at 80 kilometers an hour. So
now the army autos of Germany are
equipped with wire cutters, two steel
beams set in front of the seats, at an
angle of 70 degrees, with sharp edges
that will either cut the wires or -lend
them above the heads of the occupants.
In the trip to Alten-Grabow, whore
the prisoners are, we saw a cross sec
tion of uermany at 50 miles an nou.
The harvest was going on, old men,
boys and women doing the work. Hay
was being put up, potatoes sacked the
beets aren't ready yet.
Children Aid With Harvest.
Children were everywhere along the
road cheering the army automobiles
whizzing by. The women, generally
deep-chested, broad-hipped, powerful-
many of the farm women barefooted.
going with wooden rakes to the hay
fields.
They seldom waved at the cars as
the children did, but they looked at the
tall young lieutenant chauffeurs in
gray, sitting so graven still at their
shining posts and wheels, and going so
fast, as we might look at Martian
for Germany is first of all aristocratlo
and the army officers are the aristo
cracy.
Then neat villages of stucco and red
tile and geese flashed by, the bugle
sounding In plenty of time for every
body to get out of the way. The army
autos have three alarm signals bugle,
horn and buzzer but the bugle is the
favorite and is forbidden to civilians.
We were stopped once and a trainful
of soldiers lumbered by. I was aston
ished at its slowness, perhaps 10 miles
an hour, but duiing mobilization days
that marvelous mobilization though
the trslns ran 10 miles an hour to the
frontier, they ran seven and a half
minutes apart.
The soldiers In the train cheered as
if they were going to a county fair
when they saw the army machines.
They seemed joyous Indeed at going to
war. The last car of the train was a
flat car with an auto like ours on it.
The young aristocrat chauffeur was in
his seat jolting along on the flat car
in . the sun. There was no other place
for him to be, because German mobili
All of Southeastern Gallcia Is In Con
trol of the Russian. Troops, at A,
While at B the Russian War Office
Reports That the Austrian Retreat
Has Become a Rout. Russia Is Also
Pushing Forward at C, From Poland,
and at Bat the Germans of East
I'ru.Hla Have Checked the Russian
Advance There and Near fvoenlga
berg, at E. Vienna and Budapest Are
la Alarm Over the Russihn Advance
From Gallcia, Coupled With the Serv
ian Advance Over the Save and Dan
ube at Semltn, Across the River From
Belgrade, and Other Place Nearby.
zation contemplates one place for each
soldier, but no extra places for any
one. Captives Treated Well.
Arrived at the camp, we found 3500
Frenchmen and 1500 Belgians very
much down on their luck. They were
treated well enough, as far as I could
see. Each man had a straw mattress
of his own, all the chance In the world
for washing and keeping clean, free
dom to wander anywhere in the 200-
acre lot fenced in by high barbed wire.
and sufficient bread, water and soup.
To my utter astonishment, the French
all 'wore. red trousers. What could be
a more, shining mark in modern war?
Nearly all of them wore red caps, too.
though I understand that in the battle
they had gray covers for these.
The Frenchmen were little men be
side the Germans. The contrast in the
height and width of the races was very
evident as the prisoners and their
guards stood near together.
Anion; the French were a small num
ber of Turcos, dark-skinned soldiers re
cruited from French possessions in
Africa. They were a part of France's
famous armee nolr, and they were by
far the cheerfulest of the victims. They
showed dazzling white, teeth in the
most enjoyable of grins as they will
ingly faced the cameras. ,
The Belgians were the most unkempt
and depressed. Among them were a
few franc tireurs, or civilians, caught
with guns in their hands, who had been
shooting at the German troops. This
is a mortal ottense under the laws of
war and many franc tireurs have paid
the penalty already, just as a number
of Mexican civilians did at Vera Cruz.
But the franc tireurs we saw at the
prison camp, I was told, were not to be
executed. Some of them were 60 or 65
years old.
Many of Captives Wounded.
A good many of the captured were
slightly wounded; the more seriously
wounded had been taken to the prison
hospital in Osnabruck, near the front.
But the rate of recovery from rifle
wounds in the war, according to aar
geon Osterhog, of the American Navy,
who was 'one of our party, is no less
than miraculous. Shrapnel wounds are
quite different. They tear and rip
jagged, uneven holes, and rifle bullets
make little round neat ones. .
Surgeon Osterhog has' examined sol
diers In the German hospitals who have
been shot clean through the lungs and
made quick recovery. I talked to
Frenchman who had a bullet enter his
cheek and come out from his opposite
hip and he was walking about, a bit
gingerly to be sure, a cigarette dan
gling from his swollen lips.
The families or the prisoners woti t
know for a long time, perhaps not until
the war is ended, that their men still
see the sun.
British Prisoners Play Football.
They say that the British prisoners
already have begun to play football
in their prison camps, but aside from
an occasional game of cards, the French
and Belgians merely stood still or
walked slowly or lay on the ground.
They didn't talk much to each other
the blow of defeat and capture was too
recent.
The trip back to Berlin was even
more rapid than from it- The bugles
sounded, the road was cleared before
us of all civilians, and the machines
of war swept through the people of
peace like armored knights.
Power in the days of armor belonged
to the few with war horses; gunpowder
gave it to the many, and now the
pendulum swings back again. Searchlights.-
shrapnel, machine guns, modern
explosives, war Zeppelins, - 42-cmm.
howitzers, and everything to do with
navies, can't be managed by amateurs.
no matter now willing they be.
The gap of military efficiency be
$350 Value
jt, ..,.111
r$ii8f
Read Pace Fourteen, This Beetles.
tween the profession soldier and the
civilian probably is as wide now as it
was in the. Middle Ages.
Gap in Efficiency Wide.
The men behind the war at Bunker
Hill had as good weapons and could
use them as well as the redcoats. That
wouldn't be even remotely true today
in a fight between the volunteers and
regulars on land or sea.
The lists of dead and wounded are
posted dally on the polished granite
sides or the Red Cross hospitals In
Dorotheen-strasse. Where the action
took place is never given. That might
indicate to the enemy where such a reg
iment was and thence he might make
strategic deductions. Simply the name
of the regiment and the man s name,
thus:
Johann Herrings, lnfanterlst. tot (dead).
Paul Stein, lnfanterlst, verwundet (wound
ed).
(Or for an artillery refciment).
Fritr stowronnett - Hauptmann (captain).
senwer verwundet (badly wounded).
faude, kanonler. vermlsat (mlssins).
Huso Relnecke. kanonler, leunt verwundet
Uignt wounded).
There is always a crowd before these
lists, looking . each for a particular
name, but if ' ever any of the crowd
found the name of a friend or relative
in the bulletins while I was standing
by, I didn't know it. No sign was ever
shown. They say that no sign is ever
shown, that there has never been
scene at this bulletin board.
COMPLETION OF FIRST UNIT AT.
TRACTS 250 FAMILIES.
Larze Acreage In Fruit and Knti Com.
Injj Into BeartnsT, and Vegetables
v Will Be Added Also.
SHERIDAN, Or.. Sept 26. (Special.)
When the first unit of Sheridan's
packing and fruit canning establish
ment was dedicated today by the Sheri
dan Fruitgrowers' Association, 250
farmers and their families gathered in
the big warehouse to rejoice over the
event.
They represented 16S2 acres of apple
orchards, 1251 acres of prunes, 544 acres
of walnuts, 360 acres of peaches and
140 acres of pears, an acreage that is
this year coming into bearing- and
which will soon become a rival to the
big fruit producing sections of the
western half of the state. In produc
tlon of prunes the Sheridan district
will rank with the famous prune belt
at Dallas. Large acreages of vegetables
will be set out for next year, that the
cannery may be supplied with a suit
able and seasonable variety, and to em
phasize the determination of the grow
ers to "not risk all eggs in one basket.'
Sheridan is to become a district of
diversified products.
It is asserted that Sheridan fruit
orchards and berry patches are at least
two weeks later than the remainder of
the Willamette Valley in ripening,
caused by the ocean breezes which
sweep through the gap in the Coast
Range west of Willamina, and that the
growers of the district are thus given
a distinct advantage In marketing.
H. B. Miller, organizer of the associa
tion, presided at the meeting today.
Among the speakers were Professors
French and Brown, of Oregon Agricul
tural College; H. A. Hinshaw and Mark
Woodruff, of the Southern Pacific.
The entire plant, costing SSOOO, will
be completed and ready for the seasoo
of 1916.
Teachers' Institute Announced.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Sept. 26. (Spe
clal.) The annual institute of Cowlitz
County teachers will be held October
IFTY-THIRD ANNUAL
OREGON STATE FAIR
Salem, Sept. 28, Oct. 3, 1914
20,000.00
offered in Premiums for Agricultural, livestock,
Poultry, Textile and other exhibits.
Horse Eaces, Shooting Tournament, Band Con
certs, Boys Camp, Moving Pictures, Children's
Playground, Bee Demonstrations, Animal Circus
and other free attractions. You are invited. Free
camp grounds. Reduced rates on all railroads.
For particulars address
Frank Meredith, Secretary, Salem, Oregon
Famous Lentz
Tables
Reduced as never before. All have
solid quartered top.
$42.50 8-ft. ex., 54-in. top... $31.50
$19.50 6-ft. ex., 45-in. top. . .$10.50
$75.00 8-ft. ex., 54-in. top. . .$48.00
This particular Table has 60-in. top;
extends 8 feet.
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Dresser Prices Shot
to Pieces
$20.50
$26.00
$36.00
$29.50
$60.00
$68.00
Dressers
DTessers
Dressers
Dressers
Dressers
Dressers
now. .
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now. ,
now. ,
now.
now.
S13.00
.817.50
S22.50
819.50
S37.50
-832.00
19. 20 and 21. according to an an
nouncement of County Superintendent
Jenkins. The Institute probably will
be held at Castle Rock.
MARION WINNERS NAMED
Two Competing at County School
Fair Go to State Fair.
SALEM. Or.. Sept. 26. (Special.)
Announcement was made today that
Perry Nathan Pickett and Elmer Roth
were .winners of the first prizes at the
school children's industrial fair of Ma
rion County. They will be the repre
sentatives at the State Fair camp, as
the guests of the management of the
fair. Among other prize-winners were
the following:
Darning Lois Miles, first: Ida Vogt,
second, and Grace Jasper, third.
Hand-made aprons Ruth Weaver,
first; Lois Miles, second.
Machine-made dress Lois Miles,
first; Mildred Garrett, second.
Field corn Elmo Moon, first; Elmer
Roth, second, and Kenneth Beno, third.
Sweet corn Otto Russell, first; Per
ry N. Pickett, second, and Glen Pow
ers, third.
Tomatoes Perry N. Pickett, first;
Ralph Mase, second, and Sidney Fowers,
third.
Potatoes Maurice Sawyer, first
Percy Sheffler, second, and Frank Har
ris, third.
I.iniitori Kate Suit Started.
SALEM. Or Sept. 26. (Special.)
Suit to restrain the State Railroad
Commission from putting into effect an
order increasing the passenger fares
of the United Railways Company from
Linnton to Portland was instituted here
today. The plaintiffs are Mark Crandall
and other residents of Linnton. Offi
cials of the town filed suit several
weeks ago for an injunction against
the rates of the commission being put
into effect. It is charged that the order-
Is unconstitutional and in viola
tion of a decree of the Multnomah
County Circuit Court fixing rates.
Jackson School Report tade.
ASHLAND. Or.. Sept. 81. (Special.)
Jackson County has 101 schools and
233 teachers. Six thousand, eight hun
dred and six children of school age
attended through the County at the
date of the last official report made by
the superintendent. Of the teachers
employed 43 were men and 190 were
women. The average pay for men. In
cluding principals and city superinten
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Reduced y
From fi?p 'tJPt To
$60 $36
Comforts
and
Blankets
13 Off
dents, was $99.36; of women, $67.53.
The average salary of principals was
$971.70, and of city superintendents in
the leading districts. $1900. The value
of buildings and grounds- was $600,000,
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not be content with the older models, even if offered at reduced prices. Why
should you, when you can here buy a brand new 1915 model by paying $215
Instead of $325,' and if you do not want to pay cash, on terms to suit your
convenience? However, our last shipment of these pianos will soon be sold
out, so come tomorrow to make your choice, tomorrow or next-day.
Nearly New and Used Pianos Now as
Nearly New 88-Note Player Pianos $345, $395, $415, 435, Etc.
Terms 6. S $10 and 12 Monthly.
Your Old Silent Piano Taken la Part Payment for Player Flaao.
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An especially delightful after-theater
service
Ready This
The large parlor on the main
floor is being transformed into
a beautiful dancing pavilion
with hardwood floor. We are
now prepared to book reserva
tions for private functions and
after-theater parties.
Portland Hotel
C. J. Kaufmann. Manager
Davenports
Like cut, in Spanish
leather, reduced from
$75.00 to $49.00
$60.00 to $40.00
$37.50 to 29.00
$36.00 to $26.50
$32.50 to $25.00
$30.00 to $18.75
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aiei mos.
East Third and
East Morrison
and of equipment $60,000. The school
buildings, and grounds in the Willow
Springs, Panky. Tolo and Agate dis
tricts receive f avorable mention as
model ones.
UMOll MOMHLV.
pianos offered elsewhere, and you will
Low as $45, $65, $95, $135, $165, Etc
While the
JVlotor Purrs-
A brisk run through y
the bracing Fall air'
brings a keen appe
tite which you can
satisfy by a tempt
ing luncheon or a
dinner at The Port
land Grill.
with music
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