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THE STJT3AT OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. OCTOBER 18, 1914.
BY DEAN COLLINS.
SOME "popular and well-known"
writer, so well-known that it
really makes little diffcrnce If his
name slips our memory, just for the
moment, remarked at one time that the
history of a country was the history
of its' great men. One may add to this
today quite without intention of ap
pearing to make a bid for the feminine
vote that it is also the history of its
great women. And as it is with a- na
tion, so It is with a city in' a corre
sponding degree.
Frequently the successes and achieve
ments of the great man or great woman
occupy a big place in the history of a
city, to Buch an extent that the general
public, which is notoriously casual in
Its observations, almost overlooks the
Individual who is the radiant energy
"back of the achievements.
This might be peculiarly the case,
when the achievements constitute, in
part, a procession of stars of the first
magnitude that have never before
eparkled in the firmament of that par
ticular city. However, if the public
-pauses to examine closely, it is bound
to look for the captain that made the
procession move.
Field 3iot Sought by Women.
Since 1901, the history of Portland's
musical development has been making
striking advances, and every season
has been illuminated by the sparkling
of the first magnitude luminaries of
the musical firmament. And if we come
to pause long enough to consider it,
we are led to turn our attention to the
individual who first conceived the idea
of diverting their orbits through Port
land, and who has kept the stellar pro
cession moving for 14 years and in
cidentally has achieved success in a
line in which even an optimist might
not have predicted it for her, for it is
seldom that a woman sets out to
achieve things as an impresario.
Now we've given away what we were
talking about. Portland has developed
only one impresario, and that is Lois
(Steers.
Really it is confining the field too
much to speak merely of Portland, for
the tours that have been arranged by
Mibs Steers embrace the principal cities
of the whole Northwest. So when we
are talking about "the history of a
city," the word "city" might better in
this case be deleted and the "North
west" substituted.
Work In Doubly Hani.
The work that Miss Steers per
formed was pioneering work in more
senses than one. Not only was she a
pioneer in bringing to the Northwest
musical celebrities that had. never be
fore come this way, but she was also
under the necessity of creating the de
mand for them and the patronage of
their concerts.
Her entrance into this field and her
successful work in it for the past 14
seasons upset more than one pleasing
old-fashioned tradition. She has proved
that a woman can go into the game of
business without any previous training
of a special nature, and, by determina
tion and enthusiasm, can make a suc
cess of it; and she has proved that a
woman can play the game of business in
strict accordance with the same rules
that a man plays it by, and succeed.
Lillian Nordica was the Instrument
of Miss Steers entry into the field as
an impresario and it was the oppor
tunity to book Lillian Nordica for a
Korthwestern tour that suggested to
-Roiv4lea,tjeuiialUr,g.bc8Cif perd..
manently in the. Northwest as an im
presario. "I saw the need in the Northwest at
that time of just such work as we have
been doing in this office ever since,"
Bays Miss Steers, "and this opportunity
gave me my first means of entering
into the work."
Xordlca Is Booked.
Miss Steers brought Nordica to Port
land for the first time in the first great
National tour Nordica made. This first
season comprised three other concerts
besides that of Nordica. These were
Josef Hofmann, Charlotte Maconda and
Katharine Fiske. The tour covered
four other Northwest cities besides
Portland.
That was 14 seasons back.
Since that time Miss Steers, and
Wynn Coman, with whom she was as
sociated for some years, have brought
to Portland an almost endless list of
the world's most famous artists.
Among those who made their first
appearance in Portland under these
auspices were: Madame Schumann
Heink, Geraldine Farrar, Mlficha El
man, Pavlowa, Mordkin and the Rus
sian dancers, Mary Garden, Emma
Karnes, Fritz Kreisler, Adeline Genee,
Kubelik, Madame Gadskl, Carreno and
Harold Bauer.
Modest Altschuler and the Russian
Symphony Orchestra, Damrosch and
very other world-famous orchestra
leader that has come to Portland with
his orchestra, have come under these
same auspices. Two seasons back the
Northwest saw grand opera for the first
time under these auspices.
Territory Is Enlarged.
From a circuit of three or four cities,
the scope of her work extends through
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana,
Utah and British Columbia.
Miss Steers began this work with
out having experimented previously in
me Business game in any way and
wttnout having even the object lesson
of somebody else's experiences, suc
cesses or failures in the Is'orthwest to
help her work things out.
"If I had been trying almost any
otner line of work," she said, "there
were plenty of people here to whom I
might have gone for advice and as
sistance, but in this particular line it
was simply up to me to work the busi
ness out for myself the best way I
could.
Of course there were discourage
ments at times," she said in response
to a query as to whether it was all as
easy sailing as it looks on the surface.
"Sometimes 1 was really ready to quit
kl me orop or the hat.
She didn't quit, however, and therein
lies the difference between success and
failure in most ventures in this world.
The first four years of her work she
was alone in the business. Then Miss
Coman joined her and for seven seasons
they worked together. For the past
three seasons Miss Steers has been
again solely in charge of the 'work.
Business Found rve-Rack.lng.
"It is- a nerve-racking business at
times," she said, but immediately has
tened to put to sleep a rising question
as to the fabled "tantrums" of tem
peramental artists. She says that, as a
rule, such things do not-arise to make
thorny the path of the impresario in
these enlightened days and that the
average artist is most interesting in
personality and easy to get along with.
The nerve-racking part of the game is
more due to the Intertwining threads
of myriad details of business.
"But it does keep you busy. You
simply have to keep busy, for the only
way to accomplish anything in this line,
at least. Is through hard work. One
can't wait for anything to come to
them, for it isn't going to come they
have to go out and get it.
"But, being continually busy, one
finds themselves happier, for the hap
piest person is the person whose days
are full."
Miss Steers, like everybody else who
thinks, has a distinct philosophy of life
and activity, but it won't do for a lazy
person or one who likes to "dabble."
Portland's Successful Women
Iff.' - I X
In her scheme of success attainment
there Is no more of a royal road than
Euclid could find In geometry.
Single Aim Is Advice.
"A person who expects to dabble at
one thing and another can't expect to
get very far with anything," she says.
"I wouldn't advise anyone to take up
any line of work that they cannot put
their very best into."
Among all of her articles of business
faith, the most emphatic for women in
business lines is:
"Transact business as a man trans
acts it."
Miss Steers lives up to the letter of
this law strictly, as one can find
quickly who may chance to call at her
office in the Columbia building. The
office looks like that of an effective
and successful business man. Nowhere
is found the touch of the "eternal
feminine." Not a frilled curtain, not a
of ribbon, but desks, chairs, files and
everything speaking system, system,
system and the business-like directness
and emphasis of the ruling spirit with
in the office.
Even in the ante-room one doesn't
find the stenographer doing an endless
piece of embroidery or constructing an
elaborate bit of tatting between tasks,
and it's a safe gamble that she is in
the minority in this respect, when one
ALLEGED THIEVES FREE
jidge m ginn dismisses suit, bit
there: is no rancor.
Court Deems Month's Imprisonment
Sufficient Punishment for Charge
of Stealing; Chicken Feed.
Judge McGinn yesterday dismissed
the indictment In another case being
prosecuted in his court by the District
Attorney's office, being that of the
state vs. Eugene Spencer and William
Washburn, charged with burglary of
a boxcar in the Alblna yards and the
theft of three sacks of wheat that was
used as chicken feed.
Instead of the tense atmosphere that
prevailed earlier in the week on a num
ber of occasions, when brushes oc
curred between the court and the Dis
trict Attorney's office, however, smiles
spread over the faces of jurors, at
torneys and the Judge himself. Smiles
of the two prisoners were broadest
of all.
"How long have these men been In
jail?" asked Judge McGinn, when Dep
uty District Attorney Hammersly was
making his opening statement to the
Jury.
"About a month, your honor," said
Hammersly.
"Don't you think that is punshiment
enough?" asked the court.
"I am not a Circuit Judge,"-sald Mr.
Hammersly. "It is the province of the
court to fix punishment. I am here
doing my duty to prosecute offenders
against the law."
"Well, I will dismiss this indictment,"
said the Judge. "I do not want to send
these men to the penitentiary for the
theft of three sacks of wheat, and if
fe continue the trial and find them
guilty, I would parole them, anyway,
so what's the use? - This case should
have-been brought in the police court
and not here."
"Dry" Challenge Awaits Re
ply of 100 "Wet" Backers.
Contradiction to S 13,000,000 Saving
Yearly, With Liquor Banned Yet
I'nsupported by Required 3i umber
of Reputable Oregontans.
PORTLAND, Oct. 1. (To the Ed
itor.) It would seem that the wet
element could hardly avoid the chal
lenge issued by the Commitee of One
Hundred. The people of Oregon are
interested and would like . to know
whether we have among us disinter
ested men who do not believe that pro
hbition would be good for Oregon.
We have seen many posters and arti
cles purporting to show the evil effects
of prohibition and would be interested
In knowing whether or not there are
100 men in Oregon willing to back
those statements with the positiveness
with which the Committee of One Hun
dred assert that prohibition will save
Oregon $15,000,000 a year.
The challenge is clean cut, as one
w'ould expect from such a committee.
After enumerating many things which
they know, they close their challenge
in this manner: "Knowing all these
things, they ask the wet interests to
produce tb-e names of 100 reputable
remembers the innumerable crocheting
or embroidering stenographers to whom
they have handed their card as they
went the rounds of business off ices, up
and down the city.
Determination Big: Factor.
Miss Steers, however, does not ap
pear Inclined to attach anything
unusual to success in business.
"Anybody with the average brains
and determination, and the necessity
for doing something, can accomplish a
great deal, she says.
Although at no time during the in
tervlew did she "point with pride," her
own success seems to indicate that she
had both the brains and the determina
tion, and the personality and several
other attributes that she did not men
tion in her recipe for success, to go into
a new field and work out therein
really enviable destiny.
Miss Steers is a Portland-born woman
went into the field as an impresario
she was perhaps the only woman in
the United States who had dared to at
tempt such a work on such an ex
tensive scale. Today there are two
other women Impresarios. They are in
New York covering fields perhaps as
great, but Miss Steers still stands in
the first rank among the . women in
the United States who have tried It
and succeeded.
Oregonlans to back up their state
ments."
We are waiting,
now.
It's up to the wets
HARRY L. ASH.
Idaho County Division. Opposed.
GRANGEVILLE, Idaho, Oct. 17.-
(Special.) Business men of Grange
ville are making a concerted effort to
oppose the division of Idaho County.
A mass meeting held here was attended
by people from all sections of the
county. The division plan is opposed
on the grounds that the cost of eov
ernment will not be reduced materially
and that this will result in higher
taxes. It 4s proposed to organize an
anti-division league and extend the
campaign throughout the county.
SHERWOOD BABY WINS THIRD
PRIZE AT STATE FAIR.
't. :M .4l.S it
Photo by , Ashbaugh.
Jack Barnea Baldtna;.
SHERWOOD, Or. Oct. 15
(Special.) Jack Barnes Balding-,
the 2-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. John R. Balding, won third
prize at the eugenics baby show
at the State Fair last week.
Master Barnes scored 97.2. There
were more than 180 babies com
peting. Mr. Balding is manager
of the Sherwood lumber yard of
the Copeland Lumber Company
and Mrs. Balding" is active in
parent-teacher circle work In
the Sherwood fllatrlct.
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RETURN OF MARKED
FISH PROVES GAIN
Salmonmen to Raise $5000 to
Continue System of Holding
Fry in Retaining Pond.
TAGS OF 1911 REAPPEAR
Extraordinary Run of Bluebacks In
Columbia Deemed Due to Plan
of Liberating Fish Tried at
Bonneville Four Years Ago.
Columbia River commercial fishing j
interests are raising 55000 to turn over
to the department to enlarge the scope
of fish propagation, under the system
adopted by the fisheries department of
the Oregon Fish and Game Commission.
Not in many years has there Been
such a run of blueDacK and eariy
Spring Chinook salmon as now. Packers
and fishermen believe the phenomenal
run is directly attributable to the work
of the department of fisheries. In sub
stantiation of this belief they point to
the laree number of marked fiBh caugm
along the river at the egg-taking sta
tions on the headwaters 01 tne Willam
ette and McKenzle rivers.
TTntil four ve&rs asro it had been tne
custom of those engaged in artificial
propagation of fish to liberate the fry
at an early age. The young fish either
were turned loose with the yolk sac
still attached or soon after its absorp
tion. At this age the fry are prac
tically helpless and easily fall a prey
to larger fish and their many other
natural, enemies.
The salmon men started agitation
for holding and feeding the young flsh
until they could care for themselves.
The cannerymen raised $1500 to con
struct retaining ponds at the states
central hatchery at Bonneville. This
was three years ago, and the 1.600,000
young blueback salmon tiaicnea xrom
the eggs secured from the Government
the year before at Yes Bay, Alaska, as
well as several thousand chlnooks were
kept in these ponds and fed until they
were from five to eight, months old.
Marked Flab Return.
Many of these were marked by hav
ing a V-shaped section cut out of the
gill cover.
A royal chlnook, 4 ' years old, was
taken in spawning time at the egg-
taking station on the McKenzie River
a few weeks ago. The big fellow
plainly shows the effects of the trials
and difficulties encountered in his up
river migration to the spawning
grounds, and when taken from the
water weighed little more than 30
pounds. When he passed through the
City of Portland last Spring he was in
prime condition and weighed about 40
pounds. The V-shaped mark in his gill
cover was made three years ago, just
before he was liberated from the
hatchery at Bonneville, and when the
nsh was not more than five inches long.
State Senator McGowan, of Wash
ington, who has long agitated the adop
tion of a system of feeding young nsh
and who has made a careful investiga
tion of the marked nsh taken this year.
as-well a3f-...euiertof.Tjiej3aUea,
and nearly all the leading packers of
the lower river say there can be no
doubt that large numbers of the blue
back and chlnook salmon taken this
year are the 'fish liberated from the
Bonneville hatchery during the year
1911.
Flesh of High Quality.
The success of the experiment with
the blueback salmon is particularly
pleasing to the commercial interests
by reason of the fact that its flesh is
of the highest quality. It is the only
fish, they say, which ranks with the
world-famous royal chlnook. The re
sults are all the more striking by rea
son of the fact that the blueback had
almost ceased to come into these
waters.
No one is more elated at the success
of the experiment and no one is more
in favor of extending the work along
this line than R. E. Clanton who is in
charge of the salmon propagation
work for the State Fish and Game
Commission. He says it is the purpose
or tne Commission to put forth every
effort toward the extension of the sys
tem. He believes it will be possible to
make salmon in the Columbia River
as plentiful as they were before the
coming of the white man. ,
This has also been a great year for
the egg-taking stations established by
the Commission possibly the greatest
in the history of the department. As
the quality of the early or Spring: run
of Chinook salmon is far superior to
the Fall run, the packers requested the
Commission to devote all its energy to
securing the eggs from these fish. A
greater number of them reached the
spawning grounds than ever before and
more than 19,000,000 eggs were taken
at the stations on the McKenzle and
Willamette rivers alone. Altogether
30,000,000 of these eggs have been se
cured during the past few weeks.
OrrROn System la Only One.
Just as Oregon is the only state In
the Union which has adopted the sys
tem of holding and feeding the young
fish, so the Oregon department of fish
eries is the only one, state or National,
operating In the Northwest which Is
prepared to take the eggs from the
Spring run of Chinooks.
The Fish and Game Commission has
directed Sir. Clanton to Investigate a
number of creeks tributary to the Co
lumbia with a view of constructing
feeding ponds in their channels by
means of low dams. Two creeks have
been selected for this purpose. Thev
are Herman Creek, which flows into
the Columbia River Just above Cas
cade Locks, and Big Creek. which
empties into the river near Knappa.
.ven witn xnese aaaitional ponds the
state will hardly be able to care for
all the eggs, so arrangements have been
made for turning the surplus over to
the united btates Bureau of Fisheries
and to F. A. Seufert, who has estab
lished a private haatchery near The
Dalles.
TRAIN KILLS HOQUIAM MAN
E. Anderson Steps In ion t of
Shasta Limited Xear Ridgefleld.
RIDGE FIELD. "Wash., Oct. 17. (Spe
cial.) Edward Anderson. 35 years old,
was struck, and almost Instantly killed
about 4 P. M. yesterday, by the Shasta
Limited, northbound, about a mile and
a half south of the Northern Pacific
depot here, while trying to cross in
front of the train, which was said to be
going at the rate of about 40 miles
an hour. A companion of Anderson's
asserts that he walked deliberately in
iront or tne train ana minks it a case
of suicide.
Anderson and his companion were
on their way to Hoquiam where the
former said he resided. The injured
man was placed aboard the train and
taken to Kalama, where he died soon
after arrivaL The Clarke County Coro
ner removed the body to Vancouver.
Anderson was a member of the Eagles
Loose at Hoquiam several years aso.
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GRAVES
BRITISH MARIS BUSY
Letter to James S. Winters
Says Trade Active.
HEAVY WAR TAX FEARED
Contractor Reports 600,000 Men
Have Joined Colors With More
Coming In Dally 15,000 fsald
to Have Died at Sfons.
Few letters received In Portland of
late will prove more Interesting; than
the fojhowlng communication received
bv James S. Winters, a contractor of
Portland, from a London correspondent.
who describes In detail the effect the
war Is haying- upon Great Britain:
"17 Chesterton Road, North Kensing
ton West, London, England, September,
1914. Mr. James S. Winters Dear Sir:
As I could see no signs of the finan
cial depression in the United States
and "Canada Tif ting thts'year, I "accepted
an offer to superintend a building In
the fashionable part of London. It will
fnUo ma till next Spring to finish.
"You will be surprised to hear that
up to the present the war has not af
fected Eneland srreatly. That In Lon
don the building trade is booming. I
have never seen as many buildings In
course of construction In London as
there are at the present moment. And
a ax to make up for any slackness In
the building tnade In the provinces the
government has Just voted szu.uuu.uuu
to be spent In building- workmen s cot
tages In the rural districts.
Visitors Yet at Reaorts.
"I have just returned from a holiday
at Bath, an ancient city, founded by
the Romans about 2000 years ago. It
is In the west of England. Is close
to the Bristol Channel and has a pop
ulation of about 60,000. Quite a num
ber of these are visitors, who go to
Bath 'to take the waters." For the
Romans found some mineral springs
there which were round to cure rheu
matism. Several of these warm mm
eral sDrlnirs the Romans enclosed with
massive stone walls, and one of the
finest of those baths Is In use and In
a splendid state of preservation to this
dav.
"In Bath are several tourist cars.
They take visitors to nearby Inland and
seaside places every day. I took one
of the trips to a watering place. The
return fare was $1. We started at 9
o'clock In the morning and returned at
7 in the evening, and bad five Hours
at the seaside.
"But there was a marked difference
between the two places. At Bath bust
ness was gorng on just as usual. The
bowling greens, tennis courts and
cricket grounds were well patronized;
also the seats at the open-air concerts
and bandstands were well filled; but
the seaside resort was almost deserted.
The apartment-houses and hotels, which
at this time of the year are usually
filled to overflowing, were practically
empty, and there were so few people
to listen to the band on the pier tnat
it was not nearly paying expenses ana
had decided to disband at the end of
the week. The reason for the lack of
visitors was because war was declared
at the height of the holiday season.
Those who were at the seaside for
their holidays returned home and
others who had booked rooms in ad
vance canceled their orders.
Damage to Expoaltlea Feared.
"Those empty apartment-houses made
me think of San Francisco. If this
war lasts for long, I think it will cause
the ruin of many hotel proprietors and
business men there. For where are
the visitors to the exposition to come
from? Certainly not from Europe,
The people here will want all their
ready money to rebuild their rulnea
cities, restart their businesses, make
good the wastage of war and pay the
increased taxes. Before the Boer war
the Income tax in this country was
elghtpence In the pound. To defray
for the cost of the Boer war. the in
come tax waa raised to 1 shilling and
2 pence and has kept up to that fig
ure ever since. What the Income tax
will be raised to to defray the cost
of the war, goodness only knows. As
it Is, at the present moment, people
who earn less than $800 per annum
pay no Income tax, but for every (5
a man earns over $800 per annum he
has to pay a tax to the government
of 28 cents, and If he Is a man of
leisure and gets his Income from In
vestments, as stocks and shares, he
has to pay an extra 4 cents 1 shilling
and 4 pence In the pound! Very few
people in. Europe will either have the
money or the leisure to go to the expo
sition because of the war, and I imag
ine that many moneyed Americans, es
pecially those on the Atlantic Coast,
will sooner make a tour of Europe
and see the battlefields and cities, after
the war Is over, than visit the expo
sition. I feel very sorry for San
Francisco.
"From Bath I returned to London
by the Great Western Railway. It was
Mass.
.Maryland iM'hool for the Blind, Baltimore. Ml
Universal bM-iiool af Music. Uncolo, Nebraska.
tateftville Frnial College., Matcsvilia, N C
Meridian Woman's C'olieice. Meridian, Mine.
LindrDwood College for Women, &t. Charles. Md
hit wood College, Hrookhaven Md.
Moot Amoena MmluarT, Alt. Pleasant N. C.
I'mn Hall College, 1 ha mb ortb uxg ,
Stewart Hall, taunt on. a.
Virginia 4 hriMian College. I-ynchnurg; Vs.
Kranklin niaio Seminary. anklin. a.
Washburn College, Topeka, Kan.
Hairtlht College Institute, ' rwt on, Ala.
Illinois Woman's College. Jacksonville, TU.
Thomas ormal Training School, Ito-troit. Mich.
Scran ton Conservatory of Music. Scxanton. l'a.
Kureka College, Kureka, III
1Cxlngton C'ollego, Lexington. Md.
(reenville College, t.reenvllle. 111.
Wet!ean Female College. Macon, Gsw
Shorter College, Rome, t-a.
State Normal School, Athens, Gsw
Smith College, Northampton. Mass.
Oberlin Conservatory. Oberlln. Ohio.
Chichasaw Female College. Fontotoo, Miss.
State Normal College, tireenftboro, '. C.
Mt. Pleasant Academy. Osftinlng-on-Hudson. X. T.
North Carolina Normal College, tireensboro, IS. C,
Miss Martdjall School, Philadelphia, Pa.
Jickenton Seminary, "William sport, pa.
Methodist ltnlian Mission. Altoona, Pa,
Hide's Creek Academy. Bute's Creek, V. C.
(lenvillo Normal School. llmer, W. Va. ;
Shepherd College, Shepherdtown, V. Va.
Wet Virginia Colored Institute. Intitnto, XV. Va,
Wet Liberty Normal School, Wheeling. W. Va.
Pre-, Branch West Virginia University, Keyser. W. Va,
West Virginia I nlverity. Montgomery, W. V aw
111 lie ft eld Colored Institute, Bluefleld. W. V'sw
Concord Normal School. Princeton. W. Va.
Went Virginia School for lcaf and Blind, Romnrj, W. Vsw
Fairmont Normal School, Fairmont. W. Va.
Marshall College. Huntington, W. Vow
The Hills School, PottMown. Pa.
Crescent College, Kureka Springs, Ark.
Spelman Seminary, Atlantic, a.
Illinois State Normal I'niversity, Normal. II L
Kansas State Normal. Kansas City, Kan.
Mar j Baldwin Seminary. Staunton. Va.
Tennessee State Normal. Nashville, Tcnn.
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Used Pianos, $ 45, $ 65, $ 95, $135, $165, Etc.
Player Pianos, $345, $395, $415, $435, $465, Etc.
TERMS, CASH OR fe. $8 AND (10 MONTHLY.
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on that trip I saw more indications of
the war than elsewhere.
Brldgea Guarded by Soldiers.
"Every bridge that we passed was
guarded by at least one soldier, with
fixed bayonet, and the Important
bridges had four soldiers on duty; also
there were troops stationed all along
the line. The reason for so carefully
safeguarding this railway from dam
age by sympathizers of the enemy
there are nearly 100,000 Austrians,
Hungarians and Germans in England
Is- because the railway is used for
the transport of munitions of war for
our expeditionary force in France.
"All our troops embarked from South
ampton and the south coast porta
Those ports were so crowded that
heavy stores were sent by this rail
way to Avenmouth, which is In the
Bristol Channel on the west coast of
England, and from there by boat to
Calais or Boulogne. One goods train
cf 40 trucks passed us. Each was
filled with cannon for the use of the
Royal Horse Artillery, and othtr trains
passed laden with horses, motor cars,
etc. all for the front, via Avenmouth.
"Avenmouth Is the port of arrival for
the line of steamers which bring
bananas from the West Indies. From
Avenmouth the fruit is brought by
special banana trains to London and
other large cities. Now the war is
on, we are having Germany's share, as
well as our own. As a result the mar
ket Is overstocked and for the past
two weeks bananas have been selling
in London at four a penny.
Show Houses Still Hub.
So far the war has not appreciably
affected London. The theaters, music-
halls and picture palaces are all open
and seem to be well patronized; In fact,
except for the extra numbers of sol
diers one meets for London is the
chief recruiting depot In the empire-
things seem to be going on just as
usual.
The first force that was engaged
at Mons only numbered about 100,000,
Out of that number in a very few
days we lost 15,000.
Till that battle people hardly seemed
to realize the magnitude of the war.
and the great Issues at stake; The
government called for volunteers, but
they were only enlisting at the rate
of about 3000 a day.
But after General French sent In
his report of his retreat from Mons,
because the odds were four to one
against him, then the country seemed
to blaze up. Cabinet Ministers, mem
bers of Parliament and public men
started holding public meetings calling
for recruits. Also, all the cities are
posted with placards calling for re
cruits, as follows:
" 'Lord Kitchener's Appeal.
" 'Enlist for the War.
" 'Dismissed When Over."
- To Arms! t I
"'For King and Country.
" "Every Mas Wanted."
" Toung Men of London,
"Tour King and Country Need You
Today.
" "A Call to Arms! I I
" "Lord Kitchener Wants Men."
"To Armal 1 !
" Tour King and Country Need Tou
"'To Keep the Old Flag Flying
Response Comes Readily.
"The response to this appeal h
been truly magnificent. Men have been
enlisting at the rate of over 30,000
day. Over 500,000 have already joined
the colors, and. so as to give the War
Office breathing time and a chance to
get temporary baracks built and proper
equipment, also to get together drill
instructors, the standard of . height and
of chest measurement has been raised.
Still thousands are joining daily.
"In addition, another 100,000 picked
men. professional soldiers, the cream
of the British army, have been sent
over to General French. In addition
to these, 70,000 troops are coming over
from India, 25,000 from Canada, 10,
000 from Australia, besides regiments
from Malta, Gibraltar. Egypt and
South Africa. In a few days after mak
ing every allowance for casualties.
General French will have over 250,000
men under him, and there will be over
750,000 In training for htm.
"Everywhere the army Is com
mandeering horses. In the case of
large firms, an army officer and a
veterinary surgeon go to their stables
and pick out the most suitable horses,
up to 50 per cent of the number owned
by the firm.
"But the army does not trouble to
go to the stables of small firms. In
stead, an officer and a "vet" stand at
the corner of a quiet street and a
busy thoroughfare. When they see a
good-looking horse pass by they tell
the driver to pull up into the quiet
street, so as not to Interfere with the
traffic. The horse is examined, and, if
found suitable, is Immediately taken
out of the shafts and sent to the bar
racks. "A check, not exceeding 40 ($200).
Is sent tothe owner, and he has to
engage someone more fortunate to
take home his van, or else' deliver his
goods.
"I trust you are keeping In good
health and are busy.
"Respectfully yours.
"BERT PEARSE."
A noted diamond Is the one of sapphire
blue tint, known as the Hop diamond,
which is valued at about $100,000. It is
thourht to have been cut from a blue stone
which was once owned by Louis XIV and
which disappeared during the French revolution.
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DELGASSE JUNIOR TAKEN
SOX OF FRENCH "WAR 5UXISTER
CAPTIRED BY GERMAXS.
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lalleeehen Blatt Telia How r,n..
I.lenteaaat Is Made Prlaoaer by
Kaiser's Patrol Force.
Capture of the son of rki. tf.
French Minister of War, by the Got
mans in an engagement near the Meuat.
a short time ago is announced In tha
naiiescnen Blatt, of Hamburg, a copy
of which has reached Portland.
The following translations hv Mia
Elsa Lepplch, from the account gives
the details of the capture. In an inter
view from a German officer:
Tne morning a small German uatrol
entered the village , near the
Meuse. In order to learn if it was held
Dy tne drench. The leader of the pa
trol had hardly entered the school
house with his three men when he saw
through the open window a patrol of
the enemy coming up the village
street.
"Quickly the leader divided his "regi
ment," posted the men at the three win
dows and in the next minute a well-
aimed volley struck the French so that
eignt or them rell. One Lieutenant and
one Fusilier were wounded and taken
prisoners.
It was a great surprise to the Ger
mans when they discovered that they
had taken the son of Deluuu. th.
French Minister of War, for none other
was this young Lieutenant. Bullets
struck him in both thighs, not danger
ous wounds, but enough to disable him.
Young Delcaese took his fate and
surrendered with the bearing of a gen
tleman. He showed great aoDreciation
for the excellent care tendered him by
the German sanitary corps. He is 20
years of age, speaks German excellent
ly and likes to converse in our lan
guage. Soon after his capture he was
full of confidence of the victory of
France and especially had great hope
from the Russian army, which in his
opinion had hardly begun its real
fighting. But when young Delcasse,
on his Journey, sighted the many trains
with new German troops and heard of
the Russian defeats an uncomfortable
feeling of depression downed his hopes
for victory and hopes vanished more
and more.
"They took him to Merserburg, to the
lazaretto there, where he shows. In
contrast to the other French officers
who have been brought there, a very
depressed mood. He hardly speaks to
his comrades."
Two Motorboat Men Pined.
Having pleaded guilty to a charge
of violating the Federal law requiring
some kind of fire extinguisher on
board motorboats, S. M. and T. M. Fos
ter, of Cascade Locks, were fined $5
In United States District Court by
Judge Bean yesterday. They were rep
resented, by their attorney, Fred De
Neffe, and did not appear personally.
They were arrested at Cascade Locks
several weeks ago by Deputy Collector
of Customs H. F. McGrath.
Westminster Abbey, London, li now the
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Eye Trouble
Miss M found that her letters
were filled with typogfraphical er
rors resulting from striking the
wrong key on her typewriter. Her
eyes seemed incapable of directing
her hands to the right letter. Our
examination showed that the eyes
didn't see the right letter. Glasses
relieved the condition and elimi
nated the mistakes.
Glasses are not always needed;
therefore, we do not always ad
vise glasses.
THOMPSON
Optical Institute
209-10-11 Corbett BIdg., 2d Floor
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