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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 30, 1915)
DEDICATION OF NEW In establishing this Crem atorium and Columbarium the trustees of Mount Scott Park Cemetery say they were influenced by the opin ion that the cemetery is the proper and natural location for an institution of this kind; that the organization purposes and surroundings of a cemetery are alone com patible with its administra tion. A one-thousand crypt com munity Mausoleum, plans FEDERAL OFFICE IS ORDERED TO CLOSE Reclamation Service Here Is to Be Moved to Denver, Official Notice Says. E. G. HOPSON DISCHARGED .New Doiuocrjuic I'rogrumiiiu Now in tricot and Supervision of All AVork to Be Done in liibt. - 3J.r. Bristol Scores Step. - Confirmation of tho report that the office of the United States Reclama tion Service, in Tortland is to be abol ished. In line with the recent 'reor ganization policy" announced by Sec retary of the Interior Lane, and head quarters hero transferred to Denver, Is contained in an official letter received by Ernest U. llopaon. supervising engi neer at Portland. The letter, which also contains noti fication of Mr. Jlopson's dismissal, is signed by S. B. Williamson, who a short time ago was appointed chief of con struction or the Reclamation Service. Here Is the letter: "i. Jn carrying out the reorganiza tion of tho Secretary's order, dated Slay 8, and issued by the director and chief eivrlneer on May 12, it is proposed to abolish tho supervising engineer's office, and I regret to state that your ervices will no longer be required." . I.,eical Department to Hemalu. "2. The date that this will take place Hill bo covered shortly by a supple mental circular. Tho intention is to turn over the Oregon - co-operative work to Mr. Whistler, and tliat the lc'al department now located at Port land fhall remain, temporarily at least. "3. Will you kindly have prepared and sent to this office at the earliest practicable date a list of the office fur niture, equipment and supplies that will bo available for transfer to Den ver, after having made provision for Air. Whistler and the attorney." Tho Mr. Whistler referred to is J. T. Whistler, director and chief engineer of the Reclamation Service for Wash ington. "Punishment of Republican, Oregon for Democratic, loyalty has not ended," said W. C. Bristol, ex-United States At torney for Oregon, commenting on the abolishment of the Portland head quarters, yesterday. Work' Importance I snored, lie Saja. "It Is not enough to take of her sub stance $10,000. 000 in i ublio land pro ceeds and hand them over to other states; Oregon must be severed com pletely from direct touch with the work done within her borders. "The order abolishing the supervis ing engineer's offices in Portland has been made without concern for the works and plans under way, but with that view to importance of theory which is so genuinely efficient that it demands a list of the office furniture, equipment and supplies that will be available for transfer to Denver. "S. B. Williamson, recently appointed chief of construction of the Reclama tion Service, who signs the letter, suf fers from the obvious disadvantage of bei ng entirely inexperienced in irriga tion affairs. Formerly attached to the Army Engineers, afterward becoming a division engineer on the Panama Ca nal work, we find him placed at the bead of all Western irrigation work in the City of Denver and the State oi Colorado. t lianKe In Denounced. "Ilia qualifications are calculated to promote knowledge in local reclama tion conditions and increase the virtue of Democratic administration. "Present concern should not be with the question whether some employe of the Government loses his Job, for It makes no difference whether Mr. Hop ton was good, bad, indifferent or effi cient. The greater underlying question presented is the effect and consequence upon reclamation interests in Oregon, California and Nevada, heretofore un dcr the centralized administration and control of the Oregon otfice. "This whole reclamation business out here is now compelled to deal with Denver and with u man entirely out of touch and experience with the past per formances, the policies and the condi tions that it has taken years of effort and labor even to start in Oregon, much less to bring about permanent results. "The discontinuance of tho local of ficCB with their attendant purchase of CREMATORIUM AND COLUMBARIUM AT MOUNT reclamation supplies means that this business hereafter is to be centered t9 and through Denver and other Eastern points. It is a matter of experience, so far as the Pacific district is concerned, that outside of email requirements in little heavy equipment, more easy and advantageous practical purchases can be made in Portland than anywhere else. "With the central office in Denver, there will be little likelihood of Oregon business men receiving any share of the purchases to be made by the busi ness end of the Reclamation Service. "We need not remind ourselves that the local office In Portland has always been in close touch with our people, with fixed policies to start reclamation work in Oregon, and with the years of labor it has taken to accomplisn. through the variotfs changes of the Department of the Interior and against the opposition of l' II. Newell, its di rector, who has lately retired to an Illinois university, some real , result in irrigation matters in this state. Ia of Benefits Kx pee ted. "When Governor West formulated the policy of co-operation in the Deschutes Valley in 1912, and when he afterward prepared and delivered his addresses before the conference of Gov ernors in Salt Bake City in June, 1913. it was a matter of general publicity that the co-operative theory of recla mation of arid lands between states and the Nation as outlined by the Re clamation office in Portland was one of the most beneficent objects yet ob tained by that service. "All the benefits thus derived are to be disrupted or turned awry and placed in charge of a distant office, with a new head, out of touch with local con ditions, unfamiliar with irrigation mat ters, and out of experience with them, and necessarily out of sympathy with our business men. "Besides this, tho private landowner who was abused, slandered and libeled aa the cause of withholding depart mental approval of reclamation work In Oregon, has not only been compelled to sacrifice his lands to the fluctuating administrative policies of a theoretical government, but is thereby deprived of the small margin of benefit that might accruo to liim or them from a fixed policy in the reclamation of public lands. "It is perfectly patent to any free thinking citizen of Oregon that there is necessity for Oregon and for Port land, through her Chamber of Com merce, to demand and certainly obtain those things that have been promised her, and then to have further assur ance of their early fulfillment." MAN'S MIND YET CLOUDED I.. A. Porter Unconscious Si nee Hit by Automobile. L. A. Porter was still unconscious in St. Vincent's Hospital late last night. where he had been lying since about midnight Thursday. His skull is said to nave been frac tured when he was struck by an auto mobile driven by K. T. Walgren, of 634 Thtirman street. The accident occurred at Twelfth and Stark streets. At ' Intervals during the day he" re gained consciousness momentarily, but lapsed .again, .without making t any siaieiueni. tie seriousness oi nis con dition has not yet been determined. EUGENICS CONTEST WILL BE STRAWBERRY 1J L, James llenman Darby. Karla Smell. Rosemary O'Brien. ' ROSKBUKG, Or., May 29. (Special.) So successful was the eugenics con test, held In. connection with the seventh annual Strawberry Carnival, that arrangements already' are under way for another contest next year. A total , of 97 babies was entered, or nearly twice the number of the pre ceding year. The increase from year to year has satisfied the committee in chargre that this part of the programme must be nude a permanent feature. Mrs. Marlon Ober, of Eugene,, and Mrs. Mary Madigan. of Portland, judged tho babies. Uittle Rosemary O'Brien, who won the prize In the class ranging from 6 months to 1 year of age, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. O'Brien, of Roberts Creek. She scored ?9V out of a possible 100 points. James Penman Darby, the 13-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clay Darby, of Roseburg. won the prize in the elass ranging from 1 to 2 years. This child scored 99 out of a possible 100 points. Karla Snell. the 2S-months-old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. D. K. Snell. won the prize in the class ranging from 2 to y years of age. I.ike the winners in the otUer classes, sbe scored SS.ia. out, of a possible 100 points, THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, TOURIST TRAVEL IS ON IN FULL SWING Hotel and Railroad Accommo dations Contracted For by Hundreds of Parties. INDIAN KING DUE JULY 21 From North, Soutli and East Dele gations Are Heading to Pacirio Coast, With Portland In cluded in Itinerary. Kvery railroad and every" hotel in Portland now is securing additional contracts with tourist parties that will visit the city this Summer. Hundreds Cf organized parties, some of them traveling by special train and others coming in small groups, have arranged to visit Portland in the period between June 1 and September 1. Several score of such parties' already have arranged their schedules and the dates of their visits to Portland. In addition to those previously announced, the following have arranged for ac commodations here in the last few days: A special train, bearing Shrinera from Duluth. Minn., and Fargo, N. D., will arrive here on the morning of July 17 from the Shriners' convention at Seattle. They will go to Seaside for the day, returning to Portland for a brief stay before continuing their Jour ney to San Francisco. A special train, conducted by the Maynard Touring Agency, will arrive hero from San Francisco on the morn ing of August 19. The visitors will pass the day here and then continue direct to Spokane over the North Bank and Northern Pacific roads, via Pasco. A special train, bearing officials of the National F.lectric Bight Associa tion, will arrive here June 14 from Spokane, coming via Tasco. They will remain here a day and then go to San Francisco over the Southern Pacific. Connecticut Shrinera Comioic, Tho Bridgeport, Conn.. Shriners will be hero July 11. coming from San Francisco, and continuing, after a 12 hour stay . here, to Seattle for their annual conclave. A special car, carrying 20 persons, under direction of -the Taggart Tour ing Agency, will be here all day July 31.. A special car- will brine 25 delegates to the Restaurant Kmployes, Hotel and ANNUAL FEATURE OF ROSEBURG FESTIVAL. r k N't - Mr" SCOTT PARK CEMETERY Bartenders' convention, June 10. They will be here a day before going to San Francisco, where their meeting will be held. - Carl D. Chambers, of Montgomery, Ala., will be here with a party of 20 persons on August 7. They will arrive from San Francisco early in the morn ing, see the sights during the day and leave the same night at 11:30 for Puget Sound, via the Northern Pacific C. W? LaMont. a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co.,' of New York, and a director of the Northern Pacific, will be here late in August with a party of friends in a private car. A special car, under direction of the Servis Tours, will be here on July 6. rpoper Tourists Coming-. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Is operat ing a special train, carrying 125 people on a sight-seeing excursion across the Continent. They will be in Portland on July 3, arriving at 7 in the morning and leaving at 11:30 at night. They have contracted for various sight-seeing trips in and around the city. Three special cars bearing delegates to the annual convention of the Ameri can Iron, Steel and Heavy Hardware Dealers' Association to San, Francisco will be here tomorrow morning for a few -hours' stay. Two special cars bringing delegates to the Baptist Young People's conven tion at-tian Francisco will be here the morning of July 5. They will arrive from the Kast at 8:10 A. M. and leave at 9:30 for Flavel to take the steamer for San Francisco. , Rev. G. T. Lee. of Fergus Falls. Minn., has contracted for accommodations for a large party of delegates to a Swedish church convention. They will be here in July. A large party of teachers attending the annual convention of the National Education Association at Oakland, CaL, will be here August 23. An organization of New York busi ness men known as the "Fest Bumm lers" will be here on a special train on October 7. They will remain all day and see some of the points of interest in and around the city. Festival Visitors Billed. P. W. Rouse, of Philadelphia, is sending a party or tourists who will arrive here June 9 for the opening of the Rose Festival. They will come from San' Francisco at 7:20 in the morning and leave over the Great Northern at 12;30 the following morn ing. A personally conducted tour under direction of the Pennsylvania Railroad has been arranged by the "Gottfried Krueger" association of New York, which will arrive here over the South ern Pacific at 7:20 A, M., June 15. They will leave the same'night at 11:30 via the Northern Pacific. T. M. Ixingetreth, of New York, is bringing a special train party that will visit Portland from 7:20 A. M. to 11:30 P. M. Julv 7. A special car carrying 20 people of me jeita lours association will be here June 5. Most of them are from Philadelphia. Pa. The American Library Association will operate a special train through Portland June 11. The party will be nere to see me nose Festival parades. leaving tpe same night over the monnern i-acinc tor Puget Sound The Maharajah of Kaou suite will be here all day July 21. This chap is a native King of India. He ana nis party win be quartered me royai suite at the Benson. The Pennsylvania Railroad is handling this party. Besides this, tho McFarland touring agency of St. Paul has ar .p,u viteraie two special ear parties through Portland every month The schedule calls for a day In the POSTAL RECEIPTS GAINING Business Records Tor May Show Im provement jDnring Year. Although business records for May ao not snow up as strong as the rec ords for the same month last year, lm provement in conditions now as com pared with the conditions earlier in the year is noted. Heretofore there has been in 1915 an average decrease In postal receipts each month of about 9 per cent from those oi tne same months in 1914. The receipts for May. 1915 un-to ves terday were $84,860.91 and Assistant Postmaster Durand estimates that the total at the close of the month will be about $93,000. Last year the receipts for May: were $97,444. The decrease for May, 1915. in comparison with last year is. therefore, only about 4 per cent this month, which has been the best In the present year. Building permits for May of this year totaled 430,0fi&. A total of 373 permits were issued. For May. 1914, the total waH $643,880. In May of this year the total was $41,032,319. while for a year-ago the total was $47,663,567. Wheat shipments still stand out bet ter than for last year. So far during 1915 Portland is ahead of last year in wheat by 138.060 bushels. Last year the total shipment up to June 1 was 14,081.396 bushels. For the present year to d,ate tu total is 14,213,ti6, MAY 30, 1915. DECORATION DAY, MONDAY, MAY 3 1ST. SERVICES BEGIN AT 11 A. M. "SAFETY" TO BE URGED CHAMBKR TO UEMOXSTRATE RIGHT WAY TO SHIP EXPLOSIVES. Employes In Various Industries Who Are !ot Familiar With Laws Are to Be Instructed. With the idea in mind of "safety first," as applied by express companies, railway companies and others engaged in the shipment of explosives, a meet ing will be held by the Chamber of Com merce in the Commercial Club building, Wednesday night. - Notices were sent out yesterday to auto supply houses handling metal polishes, rubber cement, prestolites, gas and storage batteries; dental supply houses handling dental gas; wholesale dealers in drugs and chemicals; dealers in matches, extracts, ammunition, paints and varnishes; shippers of alcohol; shippers of com pressed gas, leather cement, shoe dyes; photo supply houses; dealers in fire works, perfumeries, and to creamery supply houses, asking them to have their employes meet the employes of the express companies and railway companies for a lecture byll. F. Kstes. A Federal law enacted on March 4. 1909, provides a maximum penalty of $2000 or imprisonment from 18 months to 10 years for violation of the regula tions concerning the packing and ship ping of the foregoing materials, and Is a law of which the average employe LIFE OF SAVIOR TO BE . REPRODUCED IN PLAY Five Young Women Will Be Graduated at St. Joseph's Academy, Pendle ton, June 8, and Bishop O'Reilly Will Present Diplomas. I . ;., I - Aft.. " - 4 J ' v. '-J PENDLETON, Or.. May 2D. (Spe cial.) In the Oregon Theater here June 8, Bishop O'Reilly, of the East Oregon diocese. will present diplomas to the five young women who constitute the graduating class of St. Joseph's Academy. Two of the five, previously graduated from the academy upon . completion of the High School course, returned this year to take the teachers' training course, and diplomas in this course will be granted also to their three companions. Miss Myrtle Branstetter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. II. C. Branstetter, of this city, will re ceive also a diploma in music. The commencement exercises will mark the close of the academy's most successful year. The exercises W'ill be gin at 2:30 o'clock, and a splendid pro gramme' has been arranged, in which practically every member of the class will have some part. The principal feature will be the presentation of a sacred drama, "Pontia," by the Very Rev. F. Felix, in four acts. Rehearsals have been held for some, and a finished production la promised. The drama is one of great poten tiality, forcefully presenting in dra matic form the story of Christ's crucifixion, ret tuning much of Uis aUs- of any of the concerns enumerated knows little. Mr. Estes is sent out by the American Railway Association to advise the proper manner to pack, handle and ship all explosives which may be dangerous to life. Stereopticon views will illus trate packing and shipping as well as some of the baneful results of using improper methods. TESTS TO BE CADET SET Sir. McArthur to Selet-t Youth to Attend West Point Academy. C. N". McArthur. Representative in Congress from this district, lias an nounced that he will make an ap pointment of a cadet to the United States Military Academy at West Point on June 14. and that he will ap point the candidate who makes the best showing at a competitive exam ination, which will ba held In this city Saturday, June 12. Candidates who present themselves for this examination must have been born between the dates of June 11, 1894, and June 14. 1899, and must have been residents of Multnomah County for at least one year. Th-jy must make a satisfactory showing as to their physical condition and must be prepared to pass an examination on the subjects of algebra, plane geometry, Knglish grammar, geography and his tory. The examination will probably be held at one of the local high schools. Candidates for appointment are re quested to call at Mr. McArthur's of fices In the Yeon building for further particulars. 3 " A. i torical data of the time of tlie Savior's death and resurrection, as well as tell ing the tragic life story of a devoted Christian. The title role will be played by Miss Nadyne Blakely. The full cast is as follows: Pontia. Pilate's daughter. Miss Nadyne Blakely: f'orlna. younger sister of Pontia. Miss Reta 'iardner; Claudia, mother of Pontia. Miss Violet Call; Agrippina, Lmpvess of Koine. Miss Agnes Mettie: i'lavia, a nohle Roman lady. Miss Laura Cahill; Petronilla. a Jewish maid. Miss Jonsie Kivitt; Tullia, a daughter of .falrus, .1 ic Oaphne Belts; Dttnonn.li. daughter of lierodias. Miss Esther. Mark; Miriam and Ruth, Jewish girls. Edith Brnsfield and Rose Kilkenny; Cornelia, wife of a Roman. Miss Stella Morisette: Tabitlia. a Smyrnia slave. Miss Helen Whitmore; Roxanna, a Persian slave. Miss Phyllis McLeod; Kthelinda. an Knglish slave. Miss Anna Carty: Flamentia, a vestal virgin. Miss Doris Fee; Pamphilia. a keeper of Palestine prison, Ionore Swaggai-t. The members of the graduating class are: Miss Mamie K. Mark. Misd Clare Mark. Miss Francis M. Poheity, Miss Myrtle E. Branstetter and Miss Jonsie -niviii. 1 -1 at i' :;-.-: i JS a , $V for which are about com pleted, when constructed will make Mount Scott Park the best equipped and most modern cemetery in Amer ica. Automobilists will find the roads to the Cemetery in fine condition, Foster Iload having been newly macad amized. The management says four 30-passenger buses will operate between the station at Lents and the Cemetery free of charge. CITY JAIL FOUHO BEST IIOOI.ll.U OFFICIAL- !TlnilU TYPES FOR FEMTK.NTI.tRY. Charles Forbes, Formerly of Portland, In vett lasting Harbor lanproie mrili, In Search of Ideas. With the expenditure of tonic $-)00,-000 left mainly to his discretion, Charles R. Forbes, of Honolulu, form erly of Portland, Is in this city to view the city and county Jails, gather ing Ideas for the new penitentiary planned for Honolulu. He arrived on the Shasta Limited from San Francisco yesterday, after a trip to r'olsom and Han Quentin and is leaving tonight for Seattle and the Kast- Thus far, the Portland City Jail Is the best Jail Mr. Forbes hua viewed, he declared yesterday: Three years ago Mr. Forbes, who Is now Territorial Superintendent of Pub lic Works and chairman of the Board of Harbor Commissioners of Honolulu, lived in Portland and was a next-door neighbor of City Detective Jack Ati bott, who was host at the City Jail yesterday, Mr. Forbes lived In Port land two ars, while employed as superintendent of construction for the Hurley-Mason Company. "We're going to spend a quartet' of a million on our new penitentiary in Honolulu." said Mr. Forbes ehterda, "and it will bo the best, we call con struct for the money. lncidintally our plan is to erect the building al most wholly by convict la.ljor. Imasitie convicts building their future home'" Penal Institutions are not tho only tilings which interest Mr. Forbes. Har bor Improvements come into a large degree of consideration. As chairman of the Board of Harbor Comirilxtion ers, .Mr. Forbes will bavo his hnnd;i full in the expenditure of the million dollars recently voted for the Honolulu waterfront. The war doesn't affect Honolulu a great deal hh yet. asserts Mr. Forbes, declaring that those in lianil are mainly concerned with the actions of the Japanese. "We are afraid tlxr tariff will he taken from sugar," said Mr. Forbes. "That is our great industry. There were J3,0UO,uu0 pounds of sugar shipped from the Islands last year." "We grow lots of pineapplc5, too." he declared. "We shipped COO. null canes last year." PASTORATE IS RESIGNED HKV . B. PARSONS IS TO M; A K I OK INDIANA. Tratre of l nlted Brrlhiro harrh Fmj ir.Kh Tribute mod Rrsrrt De parture ef Mlaiftter. Kev. J. B. J'HrKonn, pa-tor of the United Brethren Churrh of Portland, located at Sixty -seventh street nd Thirty-second avenue .Southeast, has tendered his reMprnation to the churrh trustees, to take effect May 31, the cloa of the church year. Rev. M r. Persons ex prenncs his dcrp "rftprt at eeveriiiK' th- pteaMunt con nection he ha established in the lat 12 months, lie has explained that he leaves only because of the pU'a. of hid atrd parents in Indiana. In accepting the resignation the trus tees give credit in the highest terras for the ureal prood resulting from tho work Kev. Mr. Pardons haw done for the church and its con.icretsation. The following tr( hut wa paid the retiring pastor bythe trustee: "During the year the membership in the church has been prnticaly doubled, the space in the building available for Sunday Kchoo and social Rath-rins:s has been preatly augmented and, for the hKt time fnce its organization, tho church body has become one harmo nious uplifting force. Being an excep tionally earnest and forceful speaJcer and endowed with a persona lily not often met with, his success in interest ing the ind iff erent and casual churr hr poT has been nothing short of mar-vt-Ious. Having been greatly benelltei by the 4ntpiration drawn from associa tion with him during the fast year, tfe member of his congregation feel tint, they should congratulate such nthv church in the Kast an he may become connected with." Rev. Mr. Parsons and his family were the guests of honor at a farewell iirJ gathering of ineinbers of his frT)or congregation given at the Ur.1t-1 Brethren Church Friday night. Man ho ppy sentiments and h at ty go -1 wijhen were expressed upon that, oc casion, which had its sorrowful side. The Kev, Mr. Pardons and family will leave tomorrow for Indiana via tU Canadian Pacific P.ailMay.