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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1915)
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, 3TAT 2:5, 1915... 19 PORTLAND IS HOST TODAY TO OFFICIALS CHARACTERS IN "EVERYWOMAN'S ROAD," WHICn IS TO BE PRODUCED BY REED COLLEGE TALENT AT HEILIG THEATER, JUNE 1 AND 2. HOMER DAVENPORT'S GENIUS SHOWN FIRST BY WORK FOR THE OREGONIAN Pictures of Shooting Rapids of Columbia Near Cascades With Harvest Queen Beginning of Notable Career; of 22 Years Four Columns of First Page Given to Heralding Auspicious Event. EVERY now and then events of the mity X'H.nt jn the lives and history of prominent men bob up to mingle with the glowing achievements of the present and near present. The recent uncovering In the filos of The Oreso nian of the first dra.wlngs of impor tance made by the late Homer C. Davenport, cartoonist, who In the 43 years of his life crowded his achieve ment into the Hist 23 years, is one of the "now and thens." Homer Calvin Pavenwrt. as almost everyone knows, war, horn down atSil verton. Or. The date was March 8, l"t7.'and he died May 2. 1912. In the sketch of his rather Interesting career which has been made In encyclopedia and particularly in "Who's Who," sev eral dates have been made to stand out, namely. JS92. when he was Riven em ployment in San Francisco: 1895, when he was sent to New York by W. K. Hearst: l?!'D. when he originated the now famous Mjirk. Hanna l-raark, suit of clothes, and 1006. when he received permission to eketch the Sultan and incidentally import some Arabian horse.. In all thoFe chronicles of his career there is little or no mention made of tlie first budding of the Renins which was to raise htm to fame and start him on the high road to success. This budding, like. the geniu of ef hers before and since, was fijst evi dent in -The Oregonian. in the Monday morning Issue of May 1!, 18!0. and there are mnny citizens of Portland at ill hale anil hearty -who remember with mingled emotions Mr. Pa venport's debut in his chosen profession. Whole Town N ItapldJt rkMlIni;. On Sunday. May IS, 1890, an event of some considerable importance to Portland took place. Hn event which Is most aptly linked with the. recent Ce lilo Canal completion celebration. That event was the shooting of the rapids In the Columbia River at the Cascades by the river steamer Harvest Queen, then a, worthy old vessel loner promi nent in Columbia and Willamette River traffic. The event was a. conspicu ously important occasion in the life of Portland. , The whole town went up the Colum bia by rail or water. In every availa ble rraft or vehicle, to witness the feat, and in proportion to the size of Portland and tributary country in those days it was as big an event rs the re cent Celllo Canal celebration. The func tion drew Us patrons from men promi nent in all wajks of life and The Ore gonian. arising to the occasion of mak ing the most of a Summer Sunday af ternoon's inversion, had two men on band to chronicle the passing events. Homer C. Davenport was one and ha had been "picked up'' literally front the newspaper highways and byways of Portland from out of the narrow con fines of a weekly publication, which has long stn'e passed from its then rather ambitious management. K. fj. Jones, of The Oregonian, fairly dragged Mr. Davenport better known as "Homer" along with him on the trip and bade him make a, few sketches of the spectacular happenings of the day. Moving pictures were unknown then and Davenport plied his pencil with rapidity and turned in his draw ings In time for them to be reproduced via the route of crude engraving- In vogue then in The Oregonian the fol lowing morning. lOlgbt IralnsH Made In Day. Kight individual drawings of the crowd, the water, the rapids and of the Harvest Queen as she plowed and tum bled through the rapids were the sum total of his day's labor. A modest Ml. C. D." was all he affixed to the drawings to identify them. And no doubt there were many who didn't even discover the "H. C. D." and, until a few years later, when he began to find himself, few realized that the admittedly ordinary drawings in The Oregonian that morning were the first budding of the genius of Mr. Daven port. But in those eight drawings there was the start; the human touch of the real artist; the beginning of Homer C. Davenport's career. The Oregonian had found him. and for two years nursed him along, until, like the bird of fancy and fame, he was swept by the rising tide of his achievement to San Francisco, where he took root and grew until he was transplanted to the metropolis. New York. That Homer Davenport's career should be so linked with an event of importance in the history of Portland' excitement in those days is merely in cidental except that it happened. The point is. the beginning of the career of a cartoonist destined to become fa mous, was an event more auspicious for him than was realized at the time. 1-rom that memorable May IS 1890 to the tragic May 2, 1912 a bare 22 years Davenport grew and prospered, and while Silverton. Or., aiwavs will be re membered as his birthplace, so will Portland be associated with his begin ning by those who knew. Three Columns til veil to Story. On the front page of The Oregonian Monday. May 19. 1S90. three columns were given to chronicling the story and a half column was of necessity carried over onto page 2. Headlines shrieked the event as follows: "She Shot the Rapids The Harvest Queen Makes the Perilous Run Safely Through the Polling Waters The Dangerous Pas-sage Is Made in Just Four Minutes It Is Witnessed by Thousands A Full Inscription of the Thrilling Scenes H he Oregonian's Knterprise in Fitting ly Illustrating the Event." . lih?v.las.t ,,ine in tne foregoing head and the following modest mention in the body of the story were the only di rect or indirect mention of Hornet Davenport, the cartoonist: .h1.1: E- G'..Jonea- of The Oregonian. nared a portion of the Texas with Mr Davenport, the artist" ...IV?" " ;ears tht followed a brief PHoJer8rn Wt of a century Homer Davenport made name and money, only to give it all up tn his un- yerr!,yo?da Vh'n Was ..J"Ut ,he hoolinS of the rapids by the Queen was an event which will live in history and memory also "This is the fourth time it has been my lot to do this.- said Captain James W. Troup, of The Dalles, yesterday morning as he pulled the whistle cord of the steamer Harvest Queen in an swer to the many farewell salutes from locomotives on the shore and small craft in the river." In this way The Oregonian reporter began his vivid account of the day's festivities and thrills, continuing: "The fine steamer D. S. Baker pulled away from her dock at 8:30, with about 400 jolly Dalles people, on board, and had disappeared around a rocky point away down the Columbia River by the time the Queen, with flying colors and tooting whistle, got under way about 20 minutes later. "While everything went off smoothly at The Dalles, the Jam for passenger accommodation on the Portland steam ers was great. It seemed that every boy in the city wanted to see the big toteamer shoot the perilous rapids." The reporter took time to tell how the R. R. Thompson took aboard some 100 persons, and the T. J. Potter took on her complement of aOo. leaving sev eral hundred on the dock. The crush, be recorded, almost proved serious. Of ficers and policemen could avail noth ing. Bven half a dozen men jumped from the dock to the narrow guards of tha eteamers after they had pulled away. - r DAVENPORT'S SKKTCHES ILLI Trains of first eight, then 13 and then six coaches left the Union Pacific Depct in order and were soon speeding to the Cascades, and Ticket Agent Taylor la mented that he had not room for some 500 more who fain would go. The crowd was good-natured and out for all the thrill there were to garner from the shooting of the rapids. ' The reporter for The Oregonian at ome detail gave a pictureful descrip tion of the arrival of the boats and trains at the edge of the rapids, which a short time after the Queen braved. Whereupon he launched into the fol lowing description of the day's events, which herewith is broken only by the omission of minor details: "Satisfying himself that the crowd had all arrived Captain Troup entered the pilot house, followed by Captain Miles Bell, of the steamer Modoc, who stood ready to render assistance if needed; Captain B. S. Edwards, of the United States local inspection service; P. Carsens, Captain Troup's chief draughtsman, and an, .Oregonian re porter. J. F. Montgomery, the well known Portlander, occupied a promi nent seat on the promenade deck and Captain W. A. Whitcomb, of the Gov ernment steamer Cascade, stood on the extreme point of the hurricane deck. E. G. Jones, of The Oregonian. shared a portion of the 'texas' with Mr. Daven port, tha artist, and Honorable T. A. Stevens, Republican candidate for Dis trict Attorney; Captain C. F. Jones, a well-known steamboat man of Port land; F. MeDermott, also of the United States steamer inspection service; Dr. W. Logan, of The Dalles; Captain J. M. Smith. Samuel Lotan, William H. Fiske. J wno was tne iirst purser tne Harvest Queen ever had; Mr. Cheerry, British Vice-Consul at Astoria; Harry Baugh man and Russell C. Sewall, of Portland, were in prominent places on the decks. I. W . DeHnff Open Throttle. "P. W. DeHuff, an engineer known to every steamboat man. opened the throttle at the given signal. Z. A. Moody and Charles Dehm acted as as sistants and O. Osborn and Al Lafey fed the firebox. Fred Halfpape and a crew of four manned the decks. Captain Troup proved a man of nerve and took things cool, although some of his as sociates looked as it they would like to have gone back on their bargains. "When, with ar determined 'here-goes-to-the bottom-or-to-Portland' look on the face the captain began divesting himself of his coat, cuffs and vest, tha reporter prayerfully laid his hand on a life preserver and. wished he was on terra firma. A number of prominent men had provided themselves with floats in the shape of corilwood. "A few minutes after 2 o'clock the large steamer moved away from the dock toward the swift incline of dark, seething waves and at exactly 2:06 the Queen was abreast of the small island to the port side, and a short distance above the rapids. The boat swune gently and readily, head down, mind ful of the confident touch of her cool helmsman. Just below the foot of the island the boat received the first im pulse of the incline and struck the 'grand final' between the two danger ous rocks which lie treacherously close to the surface with the speed of a lo comotive. "The first plunge was over and the brave boat trembled and sank to her guards in the disturbed foam of waters, but the worst was over and Captain Bell, grasping the -wheel. Captain Troup pulled the whistle cord loud and long in answer to the deafening salute which came from boats and locomotives on the sides. The heavy chop was struck half a minute after the first groat fall and the noble steamer careened and groaned and quivered from the seeth ing, boiling and fierce waters of the cascades, while the port guard cracked STR.V TlXi HISTORIC EVKST. and twisted like the sound of small cannonading as it was lifted up and nearly torn away with the vessel's vio lent plunging. "When the Queen shot around the point of the island four miles below all was. plain sailing and every one breathed easier." It was 10 minutes after 2 when the finish was made, the account says, and four miles in four minutes was the record set. It was this thrilling experience and sight that inspired the first drawings by Mr. Davenport the drawings which went out to the world and eventually won him place. He had drawn a few things before but it was these draw ings the first that appeared in The Ore gonian and the subsequent ones of the two years in Portland which followed that put Davenport under way. The Harvest Queen, which made the perilous ride, is not the one which now runs on the Willamette and Columbia. The vessel which Davenport put into black and white was built in 1873, be ing 12 years old when she made the his toric shoot. Her launching was a holi day and many residents of Portland at this time recall the event. The name Harvest Queen was suggested by T. B. Terry, because the vessel was built to carry the grain from the abundant har vests in the Columbia and W.illamette valleys. She was the largest on the river at the time and queen of the river fleet. The Queen was 200 feet long and 40 feet wide and her passenger accommo dations were hard to excel. The Queen had been taken over the narrows above The Dalles in 18S0 by Captain Troup, being nearly lost in the perilous passage at that time. BANKERS TO GO TO MEET Portland Delegation to Attend Con ference at San Francisco. V A large party of Portland bankers is preparing to go to San Francisco this week to attend the annual convention of the Oregon State Bankers Associa tion. The meeting will be held there this year in connection with the con ventions of the California. Nevada and Idaho associations. A joint programme has been arranged for the four organi zations. Edgar H. Sensenicli, cashier for the Northwestern National Bank, of Portland, will be one of the princi pal speakers. Following is the complete pro gramme: Thursday. May 27. 10 A. M. Invocation. Rt. Rev. WllJlum Ford Nichols, bishop of Pan Franctsco; address of welcome by Mayor James Rolph, Jr.; address of welcome, Jamei K. l.ynch, president San Francisco clearing house; president's address. R. M. Welch, president California, Bankers' Association; address, "Resources of California," James I. Pheluu, United States Senator from Cali fornia; address, "ForeiKn Trade and Do mestic Possibilities," Dr. E. E. Pratt, chief of Bureau of Forellrn and vomeatic Commerce. Washington, D. C. Thursday. 2 P. M. Address. "Frederick the Great and the German I.andschaften," Professor Henry Morso Stephens, of the t'nt. versity of California; address. "The Federal Reserve System." Carter Glass.' of l.ynch burp, Va., chairman of the banking and cur rency committee in the Houfo of Repre sentatives; address. "The Federal Reserve System," John Perrin, Federal reserve affent. Twelfth Federal District, San Francisco. Friday, 10 A. M. "Well-Founded Princi ples of Banklnft." Kdgar H. Sensentch, cashier Northwestern National Bank. Port land. Or.; address. "Short Cuts to Closer Re lations. " Ttoracio Anasasrasti, Commissioner General for Argentina. Orcnon, Idaho. Nevada and California bankers will hold their respective business sessions Friday afternoon. The Oregon bank ers will meet in Yoaemite Hail of the Native Sons' Duildinc at S o'clock. Governor of Maryland and Mayor Mitchel, of New York, Will Be Guests. ENTERTAINMENT IS FIXED Distinguished folk. Traveling North and South Wilt Be Shown More or Less Formal Reception, With Trips Over Highways, Portland will act as host today to two separate and distinct parties of distinguished travelers from the dis tant Atlanttc Coast, and is preparing to do the honors with characteristic Western hospitality. One party will be headed by Phillips Lee Goldsborough. Governor of Mary land, and the other by John Purroy Mitchel. Mayor of New York City. Governor Golds.borough has 31 persons with him, and Mayor Mitchel about 16. The Maryland party is traveling from the so'Qh and the New York party from tue north. Both are on the Coast for the prime . purpose of seeing the California expositions. Both will pass the greater part of the day in Portland. While none of the distinguished vis itors is traveling in an official capacity, both parties will be given attentions today that will be more or less formal. Military Staff Centra. Maryland's Governor has his military staff with him, which gives a little touch of pomp and glory to his trip, and evidently in not objecting to pub licity, for he has four newspaper men in the party. Mr. Goldsborough and his party will arrive this morning at 7:20 o'clock and will be the guests of the Chamber of Commerce of Portland throughout the day. The reception committee consists of J. A. Currey. A. King Wilson. Chester Oeering. W. C. Lloyd. F. S. Myers. Judge R. U. Morrow, James McL Wood. John Hartinan. Dr. Alan Welch Smith and Mayor Alhee, who will meet the visit ing party at the depot and escort them to the Benson Hotel, where they will be entertained at breakfast. Governor to Pay lUsectB. General George A. White and staff, representing Governor Withycombe, will make an official call upon the visiting Governor at :20 o'clock, and at 10 o'clock Miss Mayo Methot will present the Governor with Oregon roses. At 11 o'clock the party will be taken for an automobile trip about the city, and after lunch the women will be guests of Mrs. K. T. Allen at the University Club, while the men will drive out to the Automobile Club. The evening will be devoted to recep tion of personal friends of the visiting party at the Benson. The personnel of Governor Golds borough's party follows: Governor Phillips Lee Goldsborough and Mrs. Goldsborough, P. L Golds borough, Jr., Master Brice Goldsbor ough, Miss Clara H. Murray. Miss Anne Franklin Keyser. Miss Rosamond Ran dall, Miss Marv Camilla McKim. MaJo- and Mrs. G. W. Hyde. Colonel G. L Bartlett. General Edward M. Allen. Colonel William Whltridge, Colonel J. G. Harvey. Colonel Marlon A. Humphries, Colonel William B. Tllg ham. General Herbert Harlan and Mrs. Harlan, Miss Margaret Harlan, Miss Louise Cator, Mrs. K. O. Bowman, Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Baker, R. Conway Taylor, Auvllle Eager, Harvey J. Speicher, William B. Dudv, J. W.' Mc Pherson, H. I. Harman, C. A. Mullinlx, Mrs. Mary Tllgham, Mr. and Mrs. Harre Robbins. Mrs. C. Wilbur Miller, Mrs. Harry 'Hartman Davis and Miss L. G. Mas. Mayor Mitchel is accompanied by a cumber of. New York City officials. They are traveling in the special car Daypond over , the Great Northern, They will arrive at 6 o'clock this morn ing at the North Bank station and leave at 8:15 tonight over the South ern Pacific for California. The Chamber of Commerce, judging from Its experience of the last few weeks, is looking for an active Sum mer in the way of entertaining prom inent and near-prominent visitors. It started a few weets ago with Sir Thomas Shaughnessy. president of the Canadian Pacific. There then came in quick succession Senator Weeks, of Massachusetts; the group of Governors and Senators who attended the Celllo Canal opening: James A. Farrell, pres ident of the United States Steel Cor poration: Charles M. Schwab, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation; Governor Spry, of Utah; Governor Carlson, of Colorado; ex-Governor Hawley, of Idaho, and General Nelson A.' Miles. Gateway Man Speaks at Madras. GATEWAY. Or.. May 21. (Special.) A. P. Clark, of the Gateway Com mercial Club, addressed a big street meeting at Madras Friday. His sub ject was irrigation, and much enthu siasm was shown. DRtMATIC RKAD1.R TO BE PRKSKTEX IX RKCITAL AT ST. JOHNS FRIDAY MGIIT. v . -3? '.-V v ''!ft : - MImm Margaret elnon. Mrs. Adeline vM. Alvord pre sents Miss . Margaret Nelson, reader, in a dramatic recital Friday night, at 8 o'clock, at James John High School audi torium, St. Johns. There will also appear on the programme little Merrium Schellen in the "RoserMtd Dance' and Master Gordon Soule, the boy pianist. Miss Nelson is preparing for her studies at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, of New York. . ml f ill ,- f Mi, " M - 5 - - - i ' -J ' -7, k.t,... PLAY RICH IN FEATURES "EVERVWOMAS'S HOAD- TIOACHKS HK.H MORAL I.KSSONS. Production hy Reed College Glrla June 1 and 2 Presents .Noted Char, srters of HlHtorT. "BCvery woman's Hoad," the morality play written by Miss Josephine Ham mond and to be produced by the women of Reed College at the Heilig Theater June 1 and 2. has an almost endless wealth of detail, every part of which serves to brinsr out the main theme of the play. The morality Is highly significant in its teaching of the essential sisterhood of women of all countries and of all ages. The play being in pageant form, the women pass across the stage costumed to show the women of the world they represent. The famous women of his tory have been called the Flame Keepers because to them and their achievements women the world over have looked for inspiration. Jeptha's daughter has a name sacred in history because of her love. for her father. Ruth Is remembered because of her love for her mother. Then we go to another land in an other age and find Antigone, who dared the wrath of the King and died be cause she loved her brother. Alcestis is on the roll of honor because she loved her husband, and Brunhild be cause she loved her sweetheart. St. Agnea loved her faith and Jeanne d'Arc died because she loved her state. Beatrice loved her friend and last comes Pompflia who loved her child. Thene 10 are the Flame Keepers. "Every woman's Road" shows In simple- but effective form the part played by women in the development of the race and the part women may play in society if they live up to their high possibilities. E. E. PRATTET0 VISIT HERE Chamber Plans Kntertainment for Commerce Department Official. K. E. Pratte. chief of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce of the Department of Commerce, will be in Portland June and will be the guest of the Chamber of Commerce and rep resentatives of the school of co.-pmerce of the University of Oregon during his visit here. The Chamber of Commerce yesterday, on advices received from Mr. Pratte aa to the length of time he will be here, compiled the general programme for the entertainment of the distinguished visitor. He will be received at the Union Depot by a special committee of H. B. Miller. F. C. Knapp and Frank E. Smith. A conference will be held In the morn ing, between the special committee of the trade and commerce bureau and Dr. Pratte. At 12:30 he will appear before the members' council to speak on "How the Department of Commerce Is Endeavoring to Reach Business Men." In the evening & dinner will be tendered the guest by the board of gov ernors and the managing committee of the trade and commerce bureau at the Commercial Club. CHARLES TAYLOR IS DEAD Veteran or Civil War Survived hy 3 Brothers and Stepdaughter. Charles M. Taylor, who died in this city May IS. was born at Fort Ann, X. Y.. on April 26. 184 t. He moved with his parents to Monroe County, Wiscon ain, where he enlisted in the Sixth Wis consin Regulars. Company K. at the opening of the Civil War. He wa married October 16. 1870. to Mrs. Florence Taylor, who died March 31. Mr. Taylor moved to Portland about four years ago. H leaves one stepdaughter. Mrs. Flora SerrurUr. of this city: five grandchildren. P. M. and T. A. Ser rurier. of Lynden, Wash.: Mrs. Alice Walker, of Albany. Or.; Charles M. Serrurier, of Kstaline, S. D.. and Law rence and Florence Serrurier. of Port land. Three brothers also survive him Frank Taylor. of Toniah. Wis.; George A. Taylor, of Oakdale. Wis., and Daniel A. Taylor, of Raymond. Wash. Auto Crushed Between Car and Pole. In a collision between a streetcar and an automobile at Fourteeth and Glisan streets yesterday, the machine was damaged badly and windows were broken in the ear. The automobile which was driven by H. F. Clark, ojf 214 Nineteenth street North, waa golirg north on Fourteenth street and the ear east on Glisan. and was pinned be tween the car and a telephone post. No one was hurt. 'V f A A ifi-v n if' ni-f - -t't " 'i iKi.IIisiV 4 . .3 MRS. KELLEY HERE SOON NATIONAL, CO.XSIMERS- Ll'.AlilK SECRETARV TO BK G L KMT, Talka Will Be Given at Reed College Wednesday Morning and at Library at Night. Mrs. Florence Kelley, general secre tary of the National Consumer"' League, will be in Portland Wednes day for only one day. She will be en tertained by the Portland branch of the Consumers' League, and will be the personal guest of Mrs. Winslow Ay re. In the morning at 8:40 o'clock Mrs. Kelley will speak at Reed College and at noon she will be- entertained by the Professional Business Women'a League at luncheon. At night Mrs. Kelley will speak at the Library. Mrs. Kelley was born In Philadel phia September 12. 18u, the daughter of a member of Congress, in 1883 she was graduated from Cornell Univer sity and in 1894 was conferred with the degree1 of bachelor of laws by the Northwestern University. Chicago. Mrs. Kelley became a resident of Hull House in 1892 and was associated with Jane Addams. She also waa agent in charge of the Chicago division of the Investigation of the slums of the great cities for the Department of Labor at Washington and waa chief inspector of factories of Illinois from 1893 to 1897. Since 1899 Mrs. Kelley has served "i ". . 4 t tmnr riiiiliiii lrii ii lift isfia 'mmf i Mrs. Vlorenee tv el le y . of New orlc, Onersl Seerelary of the National Conaumer lriROf, Who Mill Be In Portland Soon. t - Jn:-.' - T vJS .v-" ' i , ..'.,.' 1 t - : I t ' ' .v . v ;' - ; i - 9 & W1W W "', V Jf 3 i I 1 J w 1 -'J,. both city and Nation, in her capacity as general secretary of the National Consumers' League and as a resident of the Henry Street (Nurses') settlement. New York City. She was on of the original advo cates for a children's bureau at Wash ington and waa one of the prime mov ers in a movement against congestion of population In New York. She was a colleague in the work of the Pitts burg survey and her Ideas have been' set forth in her books. "Some Ethical Gains Through Legislation" and "Modern Industry In Relation to the Family, Health, Education and Morality." Mrs. Kelley has 12 different lecture on her subject of young laborers. The National Consumers' League has a label which guarantees that the gar ments which bear it were not made bv children under 16 years of age or in sweatshops. MOVIE MEN FACE TRIAL Sunset Theater Orfirinls to A-k That Jury See film at Issue Officials of the Sunset Theater will appear before Judce Stevencon, of t ! Mun.ripal Court, next Tuesday after noon to answer to the complaint of Mrs. E. B. Colwell. chairman of the local censorship board, that they continued to run a film after she hiid raised objection. They will demand a Jury trial, and will ask that the Jurors be permitted to ot the film in question. The film is a Keystone comedy, en titled "GuskIc Rlvalu Jonah," and M the story of a young man who goes into the ocean, almost drowns and comes out filled with water. M.iny funny situation are introduced, but the climax cornea at the end. when the younsr man Is revived. A constant stream of brine seems to Issue from his mouth. It is here that the film gets ita title of a rival to Jonah. It was to this scene of water insuinx from the man's mouth that Mrs. Col well took objection. She pronounced It "revolting and disgusting." The theater owners didn't a tree with her. and. following her decision, continued to run the picture. It is 'Hid. J. K. Murphy, the manager, and Milton McGuire. tb operator, were arrested. C. J. Kerr, the local manager of th Mutual Film Exchange, and Walter S. Rand, of Salt Lake City, epeclal rep resentative of the Mutual company, are planning to support the defendant at the forthcoming trial. They have en gaged Teal, Minor & Winfree aa their attorney. Frank Alexander, a Portland bo. takes a prominent part in th film play and many of hla friends here are circulating petitions asking that th pictures be shown. Hoad Place $2,000,000 Car Order. PHILADELPHIA May S2. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company an nounced today that it bad placed or ders for 18? all-st"e passenger and baggage cars, to cott approximately I2.0ft0.000. Th cars are to replace wooden equipment.