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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 8, 1914.
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BY DEAN COLLINS.
HERE are ever so many more
business opportunities open to
women than one generally
supposes; and Jf a woman is willing to
Ao plenty of hard, steady work, consci
entiously, she can create for .herself a
(rood place In the busines world, with
out even ever stepping outside the
"woman's sphere.''
This is what Miss Harriet E. Moore
house, manager of the woman's depart
ment In the Northwestern National
Bank and Portland Trust & Savings
Bank, has to say about woman's op
portunities in the business world. And
Miss Moorehouse really ought to know,
lor she seized her own opportunity, and
created her work In just the manner
that she referred to.
Incidentally she stands in the posi
tion of a pioneer 'in the line of work
Bhe Is following out, and her sugges
tions have been followed in the estab
lishment of similar departments in
banks in many other cities of the
Vnited States. But, standing in the
position of a pioneer in the work
meant several years .of sustained ef
fort and hard study and application to
make the woman's department a thing
of permanent place in the economics of
the business world.
When one interviews Miss Moore
house on her work, one develops a sin
cere admiration for her executive abil
ity, and Incidentally gets an entirely
new angle to his view of woman in
the realm of business. Incidentally
also, one gets an improved opinion of
the men of the present day but of
that, more later. .
Bu'slncm Experience Liberal. .
Miss Moorehouse did not know a
treat deal about banks and banking j
excepting from the outside of the
wicket, when the opportunity to be
come a worker in the banking world
came knocking at her door.
She had, however, 14 years of active
and practical business experience to
help her out and also the interest of
being turned loose to work out a sys
tem for a department which was
something quite new In banking in the
Northwest and practicaly new In
banking elsewhere, for that' matter.
he came to Portland In 1905. Prior
to that she had been associated with
the National Biscuit Company, of Des
Moines, and the company which pre
ceded the National, for 14 years.
"In what capacity did. I serve?" she
cays. "Oh, I was, variously, assistant
to the manager, cashier, credit man,
and several others. It was really quite
r general and liberal business- educa
tion." Miss Moorehouse was not anxious to
leave her position in Des Moines to
come to the Northwest, and she had
not the slightest notion or expectation
of coming out here to go into bank
ing. Fate or fortune took charge of
that part of the game for her. In 1905
her parents health became so poor
that it was thought advisable to seek
a change of climate, and for this rea
son they decided to come out to Port
land and try the climate of the North
west. The bank that has since developed
into the Northwestern National was
then simply the Portland Trust Com
pany. Benjamin I. Cohen was presi
dent. Position Creates New Field.
In the Fall following her arrival In
Portland the bank offered her the po
sition of manager of the woman's de
partment, which at that time meant,
not to step into a department that was
already in operation, but to- establish
( and develop an entirely new depart
ment . .
Miss Moorehouse- said to the bank
officials that her previous business ex
perience in business had been . with
men and that she had no experience In
v transacting business with women.
"Go ahead and establish us a wom
an's department," said they, however,
and so she set about to work the new
department out, as best she could.
In the beginning her office was sim
ply a corner in the old Portland Trust
building down on Third and Oak,
toward which she gradually gathered
her clients, as the women who -came
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giving allowances to their wives more
than they used to, and the women, are
drawing the checks for household ex
penses, etc., that the 'head of the fam
ily' used to draw.
Many women also come through my
office whose husbands have died leav
ing them considerable means, which, for
lack of business training, they are
sometimes at a loss how to handle. It
is just such women as these that the
sharks in the business world are after.
and a woman's department in a bank
justifies its existence in protecting and
assisting such women as these, if for
nothing else.
"The woman's department in a bank
can also be a powerful factor in the
promotion of thrift. Someone has said
that extravagance is the National curse
and thrift a lost art, and one is inclined
to think at times that this Is true. In
my department, through advice and as
sistance, it is frequently possible to en
courage and assist a young woman to
begin saving and to develop the habit
of thrift who would ordinarily spend all
the money she earned as fast as she
earned it."
Business Woman Womanly.
Miss Moorehouse emphatically believes
that there is no especial need of a revo
lution in the race to make it possible
for a woman to go into business suc
cessfully, nor does she think that there
is very grave danger of the stress and
storm of business life making it im
possible for a business woman to be a.
womanly woman. All of this in spite
of and in defiance of the wails Innu
merable that have been wailed concern-
ncr the way the rough whirl of business
is supposed to play havoc with womanly
winsomeness.
For, since women are going more and
more into business, opportunities ror
women to develop fields of activity in
woman's business are growing, and in
the long run the fundamentals on which
the cosmos is balanced and by which it
s kept spinning seem to suffer no mate
rial alteration. -
I cannot see any reason why a
woman should not be able to create for
herself a place in the world of business
in which she can achieve success with
out losing a bit of her womanliness."
she says. . - .
As to the road by which one must
travel to success. Miss Moorehouse does
not recommend a royal one. Plenty of
patience. persistence, conscientious
work and courage under disappoint
ment these are the principal elements
In the formula that she gives; and. in
view of the . results, it seems to be a
pretty effective formula.
Economy and Convenience Urge You to Buy Pianos
at the Graves Music Go. Piano-Pricing System
It Offers You the Best and Most Dependable at Unprecedented Prices and Terms. Se
lect Your Thanksgiving and Christmas Pianos Now.
YOU CAN SUIT YOURSELF TO PERFECTION AMONG OUR MANY CASE DESIGNS, REPRESENTING THE
DESIGNERS ART OF MANY PERIODS.
MISS HARRIET E. MOOREHOISK
to the bank came to realize that an op
portunity was offered them to deal
with the bank through the . sympa
thetic assistance of a woman.
In the new Northwestern Bank
building. Miss Moorehouse's department
occupies a very pretentious office, and
thither aome in the course of the month
hundreds and hundreds of women, to
ask advice and assistance as to open
ing accounts, handling their business
with the bank, making investments,
etc Miss Moorehouse's work is large
ly Initiatory and advisory. Many of
her clients, after she has started them
out iri their business, deal directly with
the bank in the usual way, but there
are still hundreds of others who con
tinue to transact their business through
her office. And there are continually
new women coming, with new ques
tions to ask and new problems of busi
ness in which they need advice and assistance.
Women Lorn QnlckJy.
"I can notice a very, very great
change in the work since I began it in
1905," says Miss Moorehouse. "Women
a whole are becoming more busi
nesslike; they are learning more and
more the rules of the business game
as men play it, and I can notice less
and less difference between men and
women In business, as the years go by.
'Still there is and always will be a
difference between the way men and
women like to handle their business
affairs and ' It is "this difference that
produced the line of work I am in and
that has made it extend more and more
widely in the dozen years since it was
begun. ' r
Miss Moorehouse meets in her of
fice women of all types, from the small
wage-earner to the woman of consider
able means, and advises and assists
them in starting their business with
the bank and in investments and other
transactions after they have estab
lished the banking connection.
"There is among women a desire for
a more personal element in business re.
lations than there is among men. A
woman when she makes a business visit
to one's office doesn't drive directly at
the point she is after. She likes to
chat a bit before bringing up the busi
ness In hand, and she likes to feel a
sympathetic personal interest from the
person with whom she is dealing. it
this ' that created and this that has
made permanent the institution of the
woman's department in the large banks
of the country.
Portland Sets Precedent.
Since the establishment of the de
partment in the Northwestern National
there has grown up and Miss Moore
house's efforts were very instrumental
in bringing this about a system of
exchange between the banks that have
women's departments in all of the lead
ing cities, and a woman may carry i
letter of credit from the woman's de
partment in Portland to the woman's
department in a bank in Chicago if
she desires, without dealing through
any other department directly.
After the establishment of the de
partment in Portland just to show
how much the movement was pioneered
in this city inquiries as to the method
of conducting this department of the
bank s business were received from Chi
cago and many of the other large East
ern cities, from Germany, Australia,
Honolulu and cities in Great Britain.
Miss Moorehouse organized, by mail,
the department in the Continental
Commercial Trust & Savings Company,
of Chicago, and in the Union Trust
Company, of Chicago. The latter com
pany, in recognition of her services,
sent to her the first month's report of
the new department, saying that
she had established it it was only
proper that she should receive the first
report.
"Women are doing more banking now
than they were ten . years ago," says
Miss Moorehouse. .
Women Handling More Money.
(This is where the Interviewer devel
ops an improved opinion of mankind of
the present.)
"One very Important reason for this.
she continued, "Is that the men are in
trusting more and more money to worn
en to be administered.. Husbands are
DESCHUTES EDICT MADE
METOLIUS RIVER LAM) VALUABLE
FOR TIMBER MAI.VLY. -
A Piano to win and delight you. You
cannot judge a piano by the price. .The
piano your neighbor Dougnt lor uu
may not be as fine in quality.
THIS WEEK'S PIANO SPECIALS.
Brewster Oak. 9375 now $21
Stroaber Oak 4r, now
Preseott Mahogany. . . 425 now
Bennett MahoKany . ... 47. now
Fischer Colonial 475 now
smith & Barnes Mahoar.. 4r4 now
Sodnrd Clrcan'n Walnut 37. now
lone s Sonn Walnut. .. . 375 now
Murlbnuier Piano Co 300 now
Fischer Roitewood. .... 44K now
Hodard Ctrcas'ii Walnnt 875 now
Knifmi Rosewood . . . 44o now
schnbcrt A Co. Hosewo'd 44H) now
Kimnrll iSt Lane Walnut.. 400 now
Kimball Mahogany.... 375 now
Hardman. k pirn did model tiOO now
Everett Ml union Upright 550 now
Hallett Davla Old Model 4Ht now
Binmeliter Mahog. U pr' 350 now
Knabe Old Model 40U now
Decker Broa. So. Grand 4AO now
Terms Cash or J Monthly Upwards.
SS-XOTE PLAYER riAXO.
Secretary of Agriculture Announces
Classification After Reports
Blade by Foresters.
The Secretary of Agriculture classi
fies lands in the Deschutes National
forest as chiefly valuable for timber
and forestry purposes.
Forest Supervisor Merrltt, at Bend,
Or., has just received word of the final
decision, by the Secretary of Agricul
ture, on an area of 28,500 acres in the
Deschutes National forest, along the
Metolius River. The Secretary bases
his decision on detailed reports and
cruises by forest officers, which show
that the area Includes a uniformly
heavy stand of merchantable yellow
pine timber, aggregating one-half
billion feet on the little more than i
township of land involved. This tlm
berland is in the center of one of th
largest bodies of yellow pine timber
on any National forest in the state.
The closest estimate so far made
shows that the Deschutes National for
est contains, a stand of merchantable
yellow pine, extending from the Warm
Springs Indian reservation to the south
line of Crook County, amounting to ap
proximately 2.500.000,000 feet.
Reports show that the timber valu
of the land involved in this project
unquestionably superior to any agri
cultural use to which it could be put,
It is probable that a small area alon
the banks of the Metolius River could
be irrigated Xrom that stream with
water which could not be used for ir
rigation on the desert lands east o
the National forest boundary line. With
this exception, it is probable that th
need of water for irrigation on land
OUR' IDEAL.
Our ideal in this department is to
use expert discrimination in what
we xffer for your selection, so as to
deserve and earn your confidence.
After we have sold to you we will
sell to your friends. You will praise
us and your piano will please them.
Even at only 215 our least ex
pensive new piano is an instrument
of merit. Except for the Graves '
Pricing System it would cost you
1325. as similar quality would else
where. .'
BRADBURV.
$495
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215
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$385
30. OUR PRICE S435
Think of the iov of Dlavlnc thou
sands of the best compositions whether
you nave or nave not a musical education.
The Graves Music Co.'s Pricing
System Is as generous as can be
made. You may - want to buy a
Grand Piano or a Grand Player for
$1600 or $1375, or a $650 Player
Piano for $385, or a new model Piano
for $215. In either case you may
come to us in the faith that we have
applied relatively high standards to
all grades, each has been judged by
our piano expert, accepted, bought
and will be sold to serve as a satis
factory musical instrument.
Pianos Delivered Free to Your
Home Now or For Christmas.
Special Note It is not necessary
that you already have a charge ac
count in the store anybody may
have the benefit of the Graves Music
Co. Prices and Terms.
$25 or More Cash
$6 Monthly and Upwards
This is an artistic upright $115 more
paid elsewhere would not buy o fine a
piano. It is first grade, and. at this
price, it is the best value on the piano
market today.
THIS WEEK'S PLATER PIAXO
SPECIALS
Smith .t Barnea Rich
Mahogany 9750 now 4:t5
Lejater Upright Grand
Mahogany SoO now 445
K n n Ich A. Ilarh I.n t-
Model 1OO0 now ttt)5
Dreher Bros. Fine Ma
hogany 750 now 435
Universal HH.ote. Man.. 6 SO now 415
A ii t o - Player Large,
Mahogany 830 now 445
Haloen Bros. Splendid,
Mahogany 050 now 605
Prl matone Bungalow,
Mahogany 03O now 415
A r m s t ronjr Sheraton
Model, Mahogany 750 now 4H5
Weller 8X-ote, Mahog'y 650 now 305
Terms Cash or $10 or More Monthly.
Your Old,-Silent Piano Taken In Part
Payment for Player Pianos.
CHIPPENDALE MODEL
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S215
Why pay $325 elsewhere, when you
can, through our pricing system, have
this handsome model for but $215?
Graves Music Co. Pioneer Music Store 151 Fourth Stree1
outside the forest will consume all the
water available from the Metolius
River and other streams and lakes, in
cluding Suttles Lake.
Eighty-nine persons have applied xor
lands on this, project. They will all be
advised of the Secretary's decision. It j
is believed that a large number of the
applications were made in the hopes of
obtaining preference rights in case the
lands were classified as agricultural
after the timber was removed, as it is
well known that the Forest Service
would be glad to place any part of this
large body of timber on the market.
posited a cash bond of $53 to appear
before Justice of the Peace Berry.
Several other cases will be taken up
in the near future for the alleged vio
lation of the fish law.
Fisli Law Violation Alleged.
TOLEDO, Or.. Nov. 7. (Special.)
Murbet Churchill, who was arrested on
October 29 by J. J. Gaitens, Deputy
Game Warden, of Newport, on a charge
of using a set net across the rlver.de-
STARVING GIRL RESCUED)
Mrs. R. E. Bondarant Aids Children
Whose Parents Are Destitute.
Mrs. R. E. Bondurant, chairman of
the committee in charge of the charity
card party given last Wednesday aft
ernoon in the Hotel Benson, has had
two calls already for assistance. One
came from the mother of a little girl
of 11 years of age, who is in need of
food and care. The child weighs but
68 pounds and was starving when
found by a social worker. The com
mittee immediately ordered a quart of
milk daily for her until she is stronger
and the family Is in better circum
stances. Another case that came to the. at
tention of the committee is that of a
small boy who had trouble with his
eyes. An occulist was found who of
fered to treat the child free of cost,
and. as he was barefoot, the women
bought him a pair of shoes.
In working for the success of the
card party, Mrs. Bondurant was as
sisted by Mrs. Frank Menefee, Mrs.
B. F. Weaver and several others. La
Boheme quartet contributed music,
Swiss Floral Company decorations.
Pacific Coast Biscuit Company wafers.
Pacific' Stationery Company score
cards, Meier & Frank punch. Benson
Hotel the use of the room.
GATHERING ELECTION RETURNS FOR PRESS IS GREAT TASK
Readers of The Oregonian Get Available Figures and Accurate F orecasts Hours Before Count Is Completed Only by Gigantic Effort.
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FLASHLIGHT PHOTOGRAPH OF" MOTOHCKLli SdlAU ISKO IX (iATHERlXti ELECTION BETIRSS IJf MILTS OMAH COUNTY. i
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T O keep accurate tab on the count I
of votes as the count progresses
throughout the state Is the task
cf a metropoliton newspaper during a
state election. It was the- task of The
Oregonian in Tuesday's general elec
tion. The success of The Oregonian in
extending its comprehensive system of
leathering returns into the 1467 pre
cincts of Oregon was shown by the
early figures presented to the public in
the form of street bulletins and print
ed tables.
Hours before the counting of votes
was finished in any precinct. The Ore
gonian was on the-street with all fig
ures available and forecasts upon the
election. The predictions, as given af
ter careful study of the tables compiled
by The Oregonian election department,
were practically all fulfilled to the let
ter by the complete returns.
In addition to gathering and compil
ing the returns for publication In the
early and regular editions of The Ore
. sonian Tuesday night, and, Wednesday
morning, the election department pre
pared totals every few minutes for
flashing on the screen on the building
at the northeast corner of Sixth and
Alder streets.
Many Send In Figures.
While 60 motorcycle riders were
speeding about Multnomah County vis
iting the polling places regularly each
half hour, and a corps of 25 adding ma
chine . operators and the regular-staff
of The Oregonian were busy getting
the figures into printable shape, the
long-distance telephone lines and the
telegraph wires were busy sending re
turns in from outside Multnomah Coun
ty and the election centers in other
states, where elections were held.
Until one has studied the system The
Oregonian uses In handling an election it
is impossible to get an idea of the ex
tent of the work and the accuracy
which can be maintained in following
the vote as it is counted. The average
person who sat at the breakfast table
Wednesday morning and read the fig
ures as presented In The Oregonian, did
not realize what a gigantic struggle
had been going on In the election da
partment to get the figures and fore
casts together and in type.
Of first importance, of course, was
the polling places. To do this work 60
motorcycle riders and several automo
biles were engaged to visit the polling
places. Arrangements were made for
a messenger to get the count from each
precinct in Multnomah County every
half hour from 9 P. M. until about 2
o'clock Wednesday morning. "
Motorcyclists Work In. Groups.
The - motorcycle men worked In
groups, each group having a headquar
ters. In one section of the county there
were, for instance, 16 motorcycle men
working out of one headquarters situ
ated in a store. The headquarters was
in charge of a man and was equipped
with telephones connecting with The
Oregonian. As the motorcycle men got
the returns they hurried with them to
headquarters, where the man In charge
telephoned them directly to The Ore
gonian election department.
The figures were taken down on sam
ple ballots by special telephone ope
rators. To handle the service the Home
and Pacific Telephone Companies in
stalled 16 extra direct-line telephones
in The Oregonian election department.
On one telephone was a man taking
the count on the returns for the can
didates for Sheriff. Another took the
returns for Governor. Each telephone
had its work and each separate office or
amendment was recorded on a separate
slip.
Slips Are Assembled.
The slips were all assembled so that
those containing the vote In -the vari
ous precincts for Sheriff were all to
gether. Those for the other offices and
the amendments were. likewise kept to
gether. Tlr set of slips for the office
of Sheriff was given to one adding ma
chine operator, those for Governor to
another and so on, each office or amend
ment being received by a different add
ing machine operator. The operator
running through the figures made to
tals for the various offices and amend
ments. Burrough's adding machines
were used, because of their depend
ability. As the count progressed and the to
tals were completed, the figures were
placed on sheets and hurried to the
office of William Goldman, of the Man
hattan Life Insurance Company, on the
second floor of The Oregonian building.
where a stereopticon was used to flash
the returns on a screen on the oppo
site side of Sixth street. Thousands of
persons blocked the streets' and cheered
intermittently as the returns . were
flashed.
About midnight the motorcycle rid
ers visited each polling place and got
the complete count up to that time on
all the offices and all the amendments
and measures on the ballot. These were
rushed to the election department,
where they were compiled rapidly into
totals. From these and from returns
received from points throughout the
state the forecasts of the outcome of
the election were made, i
Comnoslng-Room Also Busy.
As the adding, machine - operators
rushed through their work, members of
the editorial and reportorial staff were
busy getting the figudes and reports
Into shape for publication in compre
hensive style. The last, but not the
least move In the task was converting
these figures and the "tory,l" Into type
In the composing-room, where trained-
to-the minute linotype operators
worked at top speed. The stereotypers
and pressroom workmen were conspic
uous figures in the rush. Owing to the
necessity of getting the matter into
type ready for the presses and for the
distribution throughout the state long
before the average person is out of
bed, the early morning rush was in
tense. Every man of the 100 or so as
sembled in the election, editorial and
mechanical departments had his part
to perform. By careful arranging be
forehand, everything went off without
a hitch and the accurate figures were
in the papsr and on the front porches
of the readers without a minute's de
lay. The second night the work was as
strenuous. The motorcycle riders were
out the saire as the first night gather
ing completed and incompleted pre
cincts, in addition to this. 10 men
were assembled at the Courthouse and
made copies of the official count as the
election boards reported in. These cop
ies were rushed to The Oregonian elec
tion department, where they were com
piled into totals. The motorcycle rid
ers gathered up the vote up to midnight
in the precincts where the count was
not yet complete.
Complete Klarures Obtained. ,
These operations were kept up until
the complete official count in every pre
cinct in the county had been, procured
and compiled with the totals made by
The Oregonian.
While the struggle in Multnomah
County was under way, there were
regular and special correspondents in
every part of the state gathering the
returns and sending them to The Ore
gonian by telegraph or long-distance
telephone. There was not a section
where The Oregonian Iid not have a
man or woman gathering the returns
as the vote progressed.
Out of Oregon, the returns were
gathered by the Associated Press. In
some of the outside states special re
ports were procured by The Oregonian.
To the reader who sf tViA nr..
and election stories set forth In cold J
type, it mignt seem an easy task. To
a big newspaper which Is looked to by
its patrons for complete and accurate
reports and figures, there is no more
strenuous or costly task than that ot
I handling an election.