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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND,
JUNE
1915.
LARCH MOUNTAIN BROUGHT MUCH
NEARER PORTLAND BY NEW ROAD
Trail Will Ee Completed in Few Weeks Route Is Through Beautiful Fern-Clad Country Trip Will Be Delightful
With Grand View in Store for Those Who Make It.
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LARCH MOUNTAIN is rapidly being
brought nearer to Portland as the
new trail, which reduces the dis
tance from the Columbia by about
one-third, is nearing completion. It will
only be a question oC weeks now when
the trail will have been completed and
the lookout on the summit of the
peak will be ready for the many who
are expected to make Larch Mountain
the objective point of their trips.
A party of Portland persons made
the trip over the trail last Sunday and
reported that it was rapidly nearing
completion. The lookout on the moun
tain, they said, was all completed with
the exception of a sort of crow's nest
platform which is to be put on top.
The party consisted of Mr. and Mrs.
George Jackson. Charles A. Benz,
Osmon Royal, V. L. Ketchum, J. C.
Sparks and Chester Hogue. Mr. Benz
secured a number of pictures of the
trail and the lookout and scenery
visible from the trail and the peak.
Ferns nnd Berrlea Abound.
Of tVe beauties of the trail Mr. Benz
says:
"All along; the trail we find a pro
fusion of the beautiful maidenhair fern,
while wild flowers and berries seem to
decorate every nook and open spot. As
the traveler nears the bench land he
grazes down into the canyon whose
walls are about a thousand feet high.
There he sees the Twoholaskie falls,
which has a drop of about a hundred
feet.
"The trail follows the canyon for
several miles, when it crosses one of
the forks and a little later the other
fork of the Multnomah Creek. Alter
crossing the streams It enters a dense
forest.
Forests Mass of Pink.
"A little further up the trail enters
the domain of the rhododendron, which
grows to a height of from 12 to 15
feet. .The lovely pink flowers fairly
cover the branches of these bushes.
"From the lookout on the summit
the view is wonderful. Mounts Hood,
Rainier, Adams, St. Helens and the
Three Sisters all are visible. Portland
also can be seen to the west, especial
ly Council Crest and Rocky Butte."
It is planned to build a lodge on
the crest of Larch Mountain for the
benefit of those who make the trip to
its summit. It will be provided with
huge fireplaces and other conveniences.
SCHOLARSHIP IS GIVEN
COLLEGIATE AllMXAE AWARD IS
WOX-BY MARJORIE STEARNS.
Principal of Washington High Willing
for School to Be Judged by the
Miowiiig Made by Graduate.
Nine years ago the women compris
ing the Portland branch of the Collegi
ate Alumnae Association instituted the
custom of giving each year a scholar
ship of J200, available for study in the
University of Oregon.
This scholarship is open to any girl
in the state who has been graduated
from a high school and the award" is
based on evidence showing good
health, good character, good scholar
ship, and the personality which shows
qualities of leadership.
The committee has awarded the
scholarship for 1915-16 to Miss Mar
jorie Stearns, a graduate of this year's
class from the Washington High School
of Portland. Miss Stearns' scholarship
record is unusually high and she has
also contributed a considerable share
to the various activities of the high
school.
Principal H. H. Herdman said of her:
"I am perfectly willing that Washing
ton High School shall be tested by
what she can do and judged by the
success which she is sure to attain."
The committee making the award be
lieves that the association will be ably
represented by Miss Stearns in the uni
versity. The work of the Collegiate Alumnae
during the year 1914-13 has been un
der the leadership of Mrs. Edward T.
Taggart. president. The most ambi
tious undertaking of the year was the
production of "Alice in Wonderland" at
Ihe Heilig Theater In May, with Miss
r rank 1 owsiee directing. The - pro
ceeds of this play are to be used for
the scholarship fund.
The membership of the Portland as
sociation includes about 135 women,
representing Stanford, Welleeley. Vas
far, Smith. Radcliffe. Barnard. Oberlin.
Urinnell, Cornell. Northwestern. Syra--use,
Chicago, Mount Holyoke. Bryn
Mawr. California, Minnesota. Michigan,
ivansas and ashlngton.
EX-SALEMITES TO GATHER
Second Annual Reunion to Be ut
the Oaks Next Saturday.
l'ormer residents of Salem, who or
ganized last year as the Ex-Salemites,
will hold their second annual reunion
at 2 o'clock next Saturday at the OakM.
Officers of the Ex-Salemites are: C.
K. Wolverton. United States District
Judge, president; T. T. Geer, ex-Governor
of Oregon, vice-president; Scott
Bozorth, treasurer, and Mrs. Mattie
Palmer, secretary. Officers to serve
until the 1916 reunion will be elected
at next Saturday's gathering.
Three hundred former residents of
the Capital City attended last year's
reunion, and even more are expected
for this one. Kvery person in Port
land, or elsewhere in Oregon or any
other state, for that matter, whose
home was ever in Salem, no matter
how long or how recently, is urged to
attend.
"There will be no formality of any
kind." said the ex-Governor. "Bring a
well-filled lunch basket and prepare to
stay the whole afternoon. Present res
idents of Salem are invited to attend
well as ex-Salemites. It has been
said, and I believe it to be true, that
there are more persons who lived in
Salem 20 years ago now living in
Portland than there are in Salem."
PIONEER SERVICE IS SET
Rev. John Flinn to Preach Before
Taylor-Street Church.
A Pioneer Sunday service will be
held in front of the old "Taylor-street"
Methodist Church this morning.
The sermon will be preached by Rev.
John Flinn, chaplain of the Oregon
State Historical Society, who officiated
in the dedication services in 1S50.
An address will be given by ex-Governor
Geer. ex-president of the Pioneer
Society and the son and grandson of
pioneers.
Many of the first religious and other
public meetings of Portland were held
on the site where the church now
stands closed.
All pioneers are invited, and are re
quested to wear their badges, and all
their friends will be welcome.
JUNIOR POLICE TO MEET
Organizing Band to Be Considered
at Gathering Wednesdaj.
Work will be planned for the Sum
mer at a meeting of the Junior Police
at the Public Library Wednesday
night. The boys are considering or
ganizing a Junior Police band, and it
is probable that the matter will be
settled at that meeting. The itineraries
of several hikes and camping trips
also will be decided upon.
"The Junior Police force now num
bers about 25 boys, besides four ser
geants and two captains," said For
rest Bennett. Junior Chief of Police,
yesterday. "Wo are now trying to raise
the force to 100 members, as we want
to do more work and can be of more
use to the public and give better serv
ice with a larger number."
PERSONALMENTION.
J. M. Clark, of Eugene, is at the
Perkins.
C- J. Buchanan, of Lebanon, is at the
Imperial.
M. E. DeLong. of Eugene, is at the
Nortonla.
J. M. Poorman, of Woodburn, is at
the Seward.
Dr. S. R. Walker, of Albany, is at
the Perkins.
F. J. Kraber. of Kennewick.. Is at
th Imperial.
Mrs. G. . L. Baker and . Miss . Ruth
Cooper, of McMlnnville, are registered
at the Eaton.
Dr. J. H. Thompson, of Salem, is at
the Imperial.
Perry Henderson, of Madras, is at
the Cornelius.
3. N. Pickerell, of Colfax. Wash., is
at the Perkins.
H. M. Rogers, of Salem, Is registered
at the Imperial.
M. E. Taylor, of Farmington, Mo is
at the Portland.
M. M. Winter, of Cottage Grove, is
at the Nortonla.
Mrs. B. J. Dudgeon, of Berkeley, CaU
and Mrs. J. C. Dudgeon, of Helena,
Mont., are registered, at ths Eaton.
N. S. Doumltt, of Stevenson. Wash.,
is at the Oregon.
G. R. Hale, of Spokane, is registered
at the Cornelius.
J. W. Hobbs is registered at the Ore
gon from Eugene.
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Wilson, of Salem,
are at the Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Neff, of Salem,
are at the Nortonia.
X. R. Cowden. of Silverton, is reg
istered at ' the Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hart, of Salem,
are at the Multnomah.
R. O. Bailey, of Pendleton, is reg
istered at the Perkins.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Wood, of Kansas
City, are at the Seward.
Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Smily.'of Warren
ton, are at the Multnomah.
Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Allen, of Rich
land, are at the Cornelius.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Boyd, of Dallas,
are registered at th'e Eaton.
J. R. Henderson, of Multnomah, la
registered at the Multnomah. .
Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hodgdon. of San
Francisco, are at the Nortonia.
Mr. and Mrs. . W. W. Burnett, of
Omaha,, are at the Multnomah.
Mr. and Mrs. R. 11. Burns. Jr., of
Pittsburg, are at the Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Giddings. of Cleve
land, Ohio, are at the Portland.
Mr. and- Mrs. J. H. Richards, of Boise,
are registered at the Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. D. Schiffer, of Toppen
ish. Wash., are at the- Cornelius.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Adams, of Idaso
Falls, Idaho, are at the Seward.
Mrs. W. Mandevllle and daughters,
of Rochester, N. Y., are t the Seward.
F. W. Morrison, vice-president of the
American Central Life Insurance Com
pany, of Indianapolis, lnd., visited
Portland two days last week. Mr. Mor
rison, accompanied by his wife and
daughter, visited the exposition cities
on his way to Portland and will return
East by way of Seattle.
"CHICAGO. June 26. (Special.) The
following from Portland, Or., are regis
tered at Chicago hotels: Great -North
ern. L. Larson; La Salle, O. H. Fithian,
Frank W. Camp.
THETAS ARRIVE BY SPECIAL TODAY
AND OPEN CONVENTION TOMORROW
Three Hundred Young Women Will Participate in Anual Conclave With Northwestern College Girls as
Hostesses Portlanders Take Active Part.
COIN DEVICE CASE flEAR
BITTER FIGHT EXPECTED IX TRIAL
OF CASHIER. COMPANY AGE-NTS.
Government Alleges Fraud In Sales of
Stock and One Indicted StUI
Eludes Officers.
Preparations are actively under way
by both the Government and attorneys
representing the i defendants for the
trial of officials and salesmen of the
defunct United States Cashier Com
pany, of Oregon, which is to begin be
fore Judge Bean, of the United States
District Court, July 6.
The defendants are Frank Menefee,
of Portland and Minneapolis, president
of the company; Thomas Bilyeu, di
rector in the concern and Inventor of
various coin machine devices, for the
exploitation of which the company was
organized; F. M. LeMonn, ex-sales man
ager; Oscar Campbell, of Eugene, di
rector; O. E. Gernert, R. E. Bonnewell,
H. M. Todd. Joseph Hunter and P. E.
Muraine, salesmen. They are under in
dictment for alleged conspiracy to vio
late the postal fraud statute in selling
stock of the company.
O. L. Hopson, another salesman under
Indictment, is a fugitive from justice,
having successfully eluded the Federal
authorities since his indictment. F. M.
LeMonn, the ex-sales manager in the
stock-selling operations of the com
pany, was also a fugitive for several
months, but was caught in the East
several weeks ago and brought to Port
land. He is now out on bail. All the
other defendants voluntarily appeared
before the United States authorities
after their indictment.
The Government expects to examine
at least 100 witnesses, and probably
as many more will be called by the de
fendants. From all present Indications
the trial will last a month, and per
haps a month and a half.
Clarence Reames, United States At
torney, will conduct the case for the
Government. Among the attorneys for
the defendants are W. M. Cake, Dan J.
Malarkey and Martin L. Pipes.
Exposition Lcture Scheduled.
Under the auspices of the Irvlngton
Club, Miss Anne Shelby will lecture at
the clubhouse Wednesday on the archi
tecture and statuary of the Panama
Pacific Exposition. The women of the
Irvington Club are taking considerable
interest in this lecture. The patronesses
for the affair are: Mrs. W. F. Wood
ward. Mrs. R. L. Sabln and Mrs. E. G.
Titus. From present indications it.
looks as if the clubhouse will be filled.
The heart of an average man makes about
one three-thousandth of a volt of electricity
at every beat, and an instrument sensi
tive enough to measure it has been invented.
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HREE HUNDRED young women,
members of the Kappa Alpha
Theta college fraternity, will ar
rive in Portland this morning on their
way to Gearhart, where they will hold
their biennial National convention
this week. They come from almost
every state in the Union, and will make
the beaches at Gearhart and Seaside
gay this week, for they will be in ses
sion until Friday, transacting the busi
ness of their organization and elect
ing officers for the next biennium, as
well as enjoying a most delightful re
union and outing.
Kappa Alpha Theta is the oldest of
women's fraternities. It was organ
ized in 1870, at DePauw, then called
Asbury, University in Greencastle, InU.
The founders were four young women,
the first co-eds of DePauw, Bettie
Locke, Alice Allen, Bettie Tipton and
Hannah Fitch. Bettie Locke, now Mrs.
E. A. Hamilton, who was the moving
spirit of the organization, and Hannah
Fitch, now Mrs. A. Shaw, are still liv
ing; the former at Lawrenceburg, lnd.,
and the latter still at Greencastle.
where her comfortable home is not two
blocks from the college halls in which
these ambitious girls trod the diffi
cult path of pioneers in the field ot
college education for women. One of
the treasured relics which will be
shown at the convention this week is a
photograph of this first, chapter of
Theta.
Educational Pathwny Biased.
These four young women who estab
lished the first woman's fraternity
played a brave part in the early days
of higher learning for women. They
not only studied by tallow candle light,
and recited to grim old half-disapproving
professors, but they faced the in
tolerance of their generation toward
immodest girls who craved the un
seemly privileges of book learning.
And when they had the effrontery to
invade the young men's field of college
clubs and fraternities by establishing
one of their very own, they were more
than ever frowned upon. However,
Kappa Alpha Theta lived, and in time
spread to other institutions where am
bitious girls were studying. There are
now 37 active chapters of the fra
ternity, in as many colleges and uni
versities throughout the United States.
The latest of these was established
only last month at Purdue University
In LaFayette, lnd. Charters for three
additional new chapters, located re
spectively in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania
and Virginia, are pending the action of
CARRIERS OF THE OREGONIAN WHO WON TRIPS TO SAN FRANCISCO EXPOSITION IN RECENT
CONTEST.
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Twelve live-wire carriers will be given trips to the Panama-Pacific Exposition as guests of The Ore
gonian as a result of the recent carriers' contest which was held from March 1 until May 15. The contest
was Judged on a point system, in which efficiency, new subscriptions and renewals to The Oregonian were
important factors. In order to give each carrier an equal opportunity, the districts were made into four di
visions and only routes of equal size competed against each other.
The winners of trips in the first division are Augustus Hixson. Harold Yoe. and Albert Albrecht.
Jonas Folen. James Jordan and Morgan Saxon are victors in the second division; Paul Humphrey, Jack
Montgomery and Joe Towbridare, in the third; Allen Rice, Oscar Helntz and Waldo Buckler, in the fourth.
. The boys will leave in early July and will go by train to Flavel, where they will board the Great
Northern for San Francisco. At the exposition reservations have been made for the boys at the Inside
Inn. a fine, big modern hotel within the exposition grounds, where under the personal supervision of C.
S. Barton, assistant circulation manager of The Oregonian, an opportunity will be given to see everything
of value. The return trip will be made by the same route.
The trips are . transferable, so that the winners may let any member of their family use the tickets
or even sell them. To each of the non-winning candidates BO cents in cash was paid for each average in
crease of one. The contest closed with better results than ever before.
this convention. There are also 30
alumnae chapters, principally in the
larger cities where graduated Thetas
are gathered.
Sisters Entertain Delegation.
The special train ot banner-bright
coaches, 12 in number and overflowing
with exuberant young women, left Chi
cago Sunday morning, June 21, arriving
the next morning at Minneapolis, where
the Thetas of the University of Minne
sota entertained their Eastern sisters.
At this point the party was joined by
the Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado con
tingents. By the Great Northern to
Glacier Park in Montana, with a stop
at Grand Forks, where the Dakota
Thetas joined the party, the special
traversed, the most beautiful mountain
region in America. A day was spent in
the park. A -day each was spent in
Spokane and Seattle, where resident
Thetas furnished sight-seeing trips and
Western welcomes, and where parties
of enthusiastic girls added their
presence to the special. They will en
joy the day in Portland, and here
some 40 or -more Oregon sisters have
provided for their pleasure, and will
leave with them this afternoon for
Gearhart. The California Thetas will
also join the others here.
The hostesses of the convention are
Thetas of the Northwest, of whom
there are eight organized chapters. Ore
gon University has one of the largest
of these, and the Portland alumnae
chapter is also a live and well-organized
group. It has had charge of all
the details of arranging for the con
vention, and has for several months
been most busily preparing for the oc
casion. Mrs. W. H. Thomas, of Irving
ton, is the president of the Portland
chapter. Chairman of the convention
executive committee is Mrs. Charles R.
Hart, also of Irvington. Other mem
bers of the committee are Mrs. A. H.
McCurtain, Mrs. Horace Fenton, Mrs.
George Woodley and Mrs. Carl On
thank, until recently Miss Ruth Mac
Laren. of Hillsdale. Miss Inez Cross, of
Mallory, has charge of all the conven
tion music.
A day of delights for the fraternity
girls is arranged for them in Port
land. On the arrival of the special in
Vancouver early this morning it will be
boarded by a committee of Portland
Thetas bearing roses for all those on
the train. Arriving at Portland a sight
seeing trip over tne city oy niuwi wm
be tendered by friends in the city. This
will end at the Waverley Club, where a
luncheon will be served at 1:30, after
which the party will be convoyed by
launch from the Waverley dock to the
Weidler dock, and meet its special train
again for the run to Astoria and Gear-hart-Sessions
of the convention will be
held in the rustic auditorium at
Gearhart. located in the heart of the
pine woods not far from the hotel.
Here also, on Tuesday evening, will be
conducted the model initiation serv
ice, led by the Eugene chapter, which
will be one or the pleasing features of
the convention, for the Theta ritual
is very beautiful.
Officers of the convention are: Mrs.
L. F. Carpenter, of Minneapolis, grand
president; Miss Hop Davis, of In
dianapolis, grand vice-president; Miss
L. . Pearle Green, of Ithaca. N. Y-,
grand secretary, and Mrs. Y. B. Huff
man, of Merna, Neb., grand treasurer.
Miss Norma Hendricks, of Eugene, is
the president of the ninth district,
which includes all the Northwest
chapters.
Among the social activities planned
for the week are the chapter lunch
eons of Monday afternoon, where the
scattered sisters of various colleges
will reunite under the banners of their
respective chapters. That evening
there will be a huge beach party,
given by the Seattle alumnae, at
which three immense beach fires of
driftwood will be kindled, and where
fraternity songs and speeches will
warm the hearts of the college girls.
Tuesday evening, after the ritual,
there will be a moonlight song-fest in
the woods about the auditorium. ,
Wednesday evening a stunt' party
will be given in the auditorium by the
Seattle active girls, at which an orig
inal play will be presented by the
young women of that chapter. On
Thursday the newly elected officers
will be invested and the convention
formal sessions will end with a big
banquet that evening. Friday will be
spent picnicking, the Thetas of Sil
vertoni and Albany. Oregon, being
hostesses for the day. Saturday the
Thetas will be guests of Astoria,
where they will view the annual re
gatta. Many of the conventionites
will leave that afternoon for San
P'rancisco by the Great Northern
steamer.
One of the interesting features of
the convention will be a daily paper,
full of the news of the sessions,
which will appear eacn morning at
breakfast. This will be published
from the office of the Seaside Pub
lishing Co., by Mrs. C. C. Dodge, of
Ontario, Or., assisted by Misses Mar
jorie McGuire. of Berkeley, Cal.: Helen
Hamilton. of Roseburg; Welletta
Wright and Laura Taylor, cf Albany:
Bernlce Lucas and Alice Gram, of
Portland. The six sub-editors are all
students at Oregon University.
Kappa Alpha Theta stands high
among college fraternities. One of
the characteristics for which the
organization has always been known
is its insistence on "Scholarship First.
Fun Afterward"; which has made it
popular among college authorities as
well as among students. In nearly
every college where this fraternity has
chapters its members have maintained
higher scholarship averages than stu
dents not members of the fraternity.
Besides this, it fosters ideals which
make for a high type of womanhood.
It is one of the conservative fra
ternities and has riot established
chapters without mature consideration
of each field it entered. Only colleges
of the highest scholarship require
ments and the most thorough equip
ment and establishment are entered
by this organization. So that al
though scores of applications for
charters are received every year by
groups of girls desirous of becoming
Kappa Alpha Theta chapters, only a
small proportion of these are granted.
Yet the fraternity is spreading and is
becoming a large force in college and
after-college life. More than 7000
alumnae wear the black and gold
kite which is the emblem of mem
bership. One of the alumnae activities which
make Kappa Alpha Theta a strong in
fluence is the Scholarship Fund which
is maintained for the purpose of as
sisting deserving girls to acquire col
lege educations. This fund was es
tablished some ten years ago, and has
grown to large proportions, so that it
now assists many girls each year.
Another channel through which the
fraternity affords much usefulness is
its service board, which is occupied
in compiling data concerning vocations
for women and which furnishes infor
mation to girls wishing to secure ef
ficient training along occupational
lines. This is a newer department of
Theta's work.
Among women of prominence who
will be in attendance at the conven
tion are: Mrs. George Fitch, of Pe
oria, 111., whose husband is the well
known writer, and who is herself a
writer of ability and charm. Mrs.
Fitch is chairman of the fraternity's
service board, mentioned above. Miss
Clara Fanning, of White Plains, N. Y.,
a well-known writer, will also be
present, as will Mrs. Eleanor G. Kar
sten, secretary to President Thomas,
of Bryn Mawr. Mrs. Karsten's lec
tures at the University of Chicago last
Fall were one of the big features of
the secretarial course.
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