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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1915)
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX.' PORTLAND. AUGUST 15, 1915. COMMITTEE GOr.llNB TO STUDY STREAMS PICTURES SHOWING SCENIC COUNTRY NEW ROAD AROUND MOUNT HOOD WILL TRAVERSE TAKEN IJOTEO VISITOR TO BE HERE TOMORROW A Dollar Almost Does the Work of Two Now Combination of Three Great Music Stocks Creates Music Lovers' Opportunity. ON OFFICIAL TRIP LAST WEEK. Development of. Rivers and Harbors Depends on Re suit of Visit. . MEW JETTY TO BE VIEWED Xartj I'rom Lower House of Con ptM to Inspect Local Water- war Lock at Oregon City and Other Improvement. Portland's future barber and water war development will depend largely ea the forthcoming visit of the rivers ad harbor committee 01 me lower . . house of Conreea. who will be here . S0 3 ff CreSo on Wednesday of this week to study the needs of the navigable streams In tale territory. The committee came to the Coast primarily to inspect some of the pro posed improvement districts la -au fornta. but were prevailed open to come to Portland through the com blned efforts of the local Chamber of Commerce. Representative McArthur. of Portland, and Keprssentatlve Humphrey, of Seattle, a member of the committee. After completing their work la this vicinity tbey will go to Grays Harbor and probably from there to Meatus oa similar missions. Oreseet Ctr May ate Ptrat atoew Complete arrangements for the de tailed doty of inspection In the Port lead district will depend partially oa the pleasures of the committee. Tbey re due to arrive here oa the Southern Far 1.1c at 7:3 Wednesday morning. The train Is due at Oregon City at 7 o'clock and the local Chamber of Com snerce proposes to meet them at Ore gon City and ask them to leave the train there. This will glvs them aa opportunity then of Is pec ting the lochs at Oregon City, which recently were acquired by tiie Federal Gov eminent from the Portland Railway, Light Power Company. In that event they will come to Port land on a small steam vessel, so that tney ran Inspect the upper harbor be fore noon. After noon they will be taken an a trip through the lower bar. bor and to Vancouver. Wash., where some adeltloaal harbor Improvements are planned. The party probably will go to the mouth of tbe Colombia Wednesday afternoon. Representatives of tbe commercial In terests at Lavltton. Pasco. Kennewlck and other Interior points have been Invited to meet lbs committee In Portland. This will give aa oppor tunity for presentation of claims for tipper river Improvements. The com mittee's time la limited and a com plete inspection of the upper rivers Is Impossible. Coos Bay and ether ports ea the Oregoa coast also petitioned tbe com mtitee for official visits, but bad to be denied. Inasmuch as It was Impossible to Inspect all these harbors. Represent. attves of these Coast cities also have been asked to meet tbe committee. Social satertalasseat Plaaaed. Prom the month of tbe river tbe party wtll proceed on the torpedo-boat Fox to Greys llarbor In company wltn Representative Johnson, of that dis trict. Tbe Grays Harbor people are asking soma Improvements. The committee will travel from Ban Francisco along ths California coast to Crescent City and will Inspect the harbor there. Then the members will trsvel overland to Grants Paaa along the route of the proposed Grants Pass Crescent City Railroad. The full membership of tbe party Is aa follows: Stephen I Spark man. of Florida, who Is chairman: George F. Burgess, ef Texas: A. T. TreadwelL of Massa chusetts: C A. Kennedy, of Connecti cut; V. E. Humphrey, of Washington: Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Kdwarda, of Georgia: Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. Llb, ef Indiana: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gal lagher, of Illinois: Mr. and Mrs. Robert frontier, of Ohio: Mr. and Mrs. John H. Small, of North Carolina: W. C Booker, clerk: J. H. McUann. assistant clerk; J. H. Uhlan, senate clerk, and C 1 Eparkman. secretary to the chairman. r . VWrae . j " ' . -..,! .' ' ,. ..- 'j - - s : ; ; J - , - - - 11 xi&U II i ll I Col. George A. Pope, Head of . National Manufacturers' Association, Coming. J. A. EMERY ACCOMPANIES a-ssae-s-aaa. - 1 - ' 1 0 SURVEY IS TRAINING CLASS TO FORM Library Coarse to Be Given to Train Applicants tor Work. The Library Association will organise Its training class la library methods for this year on October 4. This coarse is given each year for the purpose of preparing applicants who are suited for the work to enter tbe Portland library system. The course for 1M-1( has been extended to Bine months In order more thoroughly to equip tbe students for future work and to bring the standing of the course more nearly on an equality with that of regularly established schools for li brary training. Instruction is free to all residents ef Multnomah County, with a charge of !.' tor other students. Applicants must have bad at Isast a high school educa tion and students between the age of and as will be preferred, other euaiirtcstions being equal. Mudents are selected partly by the results of a formal examination and partly on the basis of personal fitness Xor the work. Candidates for the examination most previously fill out a regular apclica tina blank, which niay be obtained at the central Library, and these blanks should be In the hands of tbe director r the class or September L Tbe examination la.hlstory and cur rent events, literature and general In formation wtll be held at tbe Central uonry sepiernoer is xrom A. M. to Tbe Library Is gathering together books, maps and other material as a special collection for the use of, the business men ef Portland. la addi tion to the directories already oa file 1a the reference department tbe fol lowing aave joat been added: Aetiarl. Palttmer. l'nntx, Ustte. Call, f'tenia. Iumci. vvaenmetoe. D. i .. en- !. Ile.ia. la-llanapuita, Lm JlifiM Hslavlll.. . Or. .ana. e:and. ('mini. OreStta-tVeaMnctoa. I'01.a4..pnia. rittapura. PrvvMaari Klmeai. st. luia. Ml Faoi. i.m. Di'si a Praaciaco. aeaiue. bosu aad Ta'onu. A collection of war cartoons laaaaJ in HoUaod. lent to tbe library by Miss De ursn. is on exBlblt ea tbe second floor ef the library. Over tbe popular travel table, which Is also en tbe second lobby, now hangs fine colored print of Crater Lake lent ts tbe library by F. H. Klser. Highway Around Mount Hood Is to Be Constructed. ACTION RESULT OF TRIP Franchise Alteration Urmiadnt. The exclusive freight franchise ever tbe Calted Railways' tracks from Portland to Olltoa will be granted If tbe county acquiesces In a small altera tion demanded yesterday by Carey Kerr, attorneys for tbe United Rail ways Company. They asked that tbe t per cent of the gross receipts, to pay fer the franchise, apply only after tbe common nser of the tracks U exercised by aome other company. Forester Announces Funds Avail able for Location and Appro priation Is to Be Sought to Complete Project. Tbe new road around the base of Mount Hood, from Mount Hood Lodge to a point In the old Barlow road about six tuUes from Government Camp, bas become a certainty. The party that made tbe trip .on horseback over tbs proposed route Isst week left one of Its members. J. T. Schuyler, of tbe en gineering department of tbe Forest Service, upon Its return to this city, and he Immediately gathered a crew and started the location survey. This much of tbe work was msde possible by the statement of Chief For ester Graves tbat the department would have the funds for tbe location of the road without relying on a Congres sional appropriation. The construction money will be secured through an ap proprlation that the Oregon delegation will endeavor to get through Congress at tbe coming: session. Road to Be MUea Long. Although tbe exact location of the road Is not yet determined and Its length not known, according to T. War ren Allen, chief of the National roads and foresta department, who was a member of tbe party that made tbe trip, the new road will be about 26 miles Ions. Twenty of the 26 miles will be through the national forests and will be absolutely new road. The other six miles will be improved road and will be tbat part of tbe old Barlow road, from where the new road will Intersect It. to Government Camp. Part of tbe road from Government Camp toward Portland also win have to be Improved before tbe trip will be an easy one. thinks C' N. JIcArthur, who wss another member of the party. According to Mr. McArtbur and other members of the party, the worst part of the road will be encountered In crossing the old bed of the White River glacier. The place where the members of the paVty crossed Is perhaps a mile and a half wide and is of sand and ash. The members of the party led by Mr. Allen were: Jscob Kanzler. represent ing the Chamber of Commerce: Forest Supervisor T. it. therrard. Jude M Automobile Manufacturer and At torney to Bo Entertained In Port land Both Have High Place In Public-Spirited Affairs. rnminir aa a-ueata of the Employers' Association of Oregon. Colonel George A. Pope, of Hartford. Conn, and James A. Emery, of Washington, D. C, will reach Portland tomorrow and will be shown many attentions while in the city. Colonel Pope Is president of the Na tional Manufacturers' Association . and Mr. Emery Is counsel for the same or ganization. Colonel rope is treasurer of the Pods Manufacturing: Company, of Hartford; chairman of the Manufac turers' National Automobile Show, In New York City, and president of the Connecticut State Association of Manu facturers. His larsre business Interests nave kept him In close touch with the auto mobile Interests, but his activities nave by no means been limited to any one industry. iror tne past n yeara " has been actively connected with Im portant commercial associations. Leadership Brings Beneflts. The, success of the National automo bile shows in Madison Square Garden. Mew York. has been largely due to Colonel Pope's management as chair man of the show committee of the As sociation of Licensed AutomoDiie aaan ufacturers and of Its successor, the Au tnmohlla Board of Trade. Colonel Pope has had charge of the New lorK snows since 1906 and his energetic leadership Is directly responsible for the lasting benefits which the automoDiie inuus trv h derived from them. At the present time Colonel Pope holds the important office of treasurer of the Automobile ChamDer oi com merce, a newly formed organization, which is a consolidation of tbe two larc-est National associations repre sentlng the automobile industry In this country. Colonel Pope is also promi nently connected with many local com mercial and business associations In the City of Hartford. In the presi dential campaign of 1896 he was elect ed a Presidential Elector-at-Large In Connecticut. Bicycle Boslaess Taken Over, Colonel Pope has been connected with the Pope Company in various ca pacities since 1890, when he became nresldent of the Hartford Cycle Com pany, a branch of the old Pope Bicycle Company, founded and then presided over by his cousin, tne iate uoionei Al bert A. Pope. In 1S99. when the bicy cle Interests of the country were con solidated and merged into the Amer ican Bicycle Company, Colonel George Pope became vice-president or tne con cern and In 1903, when the Pope Com pany repurchased its interests from the consolidated company. he became treasurer of the reorganised Pope Man. ufacturina- Company. Colonel Pope enlisted in -1862 as a private In a Massachusetts regiment, which was Immediately ordered into active service. He remained in the Armv until the close of the Civil War. going through tne various grades, ana in August. 18, was aiscnargea witn the rank of Lieutenant-colonel irom the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regi ment. Immediately after leaving the Armv Colonel Pope went Into the em ploy of a Boston lumber firm and in 1868 he" was sent to Montreal to take charge of a branch office. He re mained there most of the time until 1890. when he became an officer in the Pope Company at Hartiord. Indorsement ef President Typical. Thoroughly imbued with the spirit of Americanism. Colonel Pope holds an eminent place as an exponent of Na tional achievements and ambitions. A recent example of his Americanism is No Wonder Such Great Quantities of Music, and Studies, and Violins, Guitars, Ukeleles, as Well as Pianos, Player Pianos, Music Rolls for Same, and All Manner of Musical Merchandise Are Being Disposed Of Daily in the Three Different Houses, Where Buyers Find Reduction Genuine and Exactly as Advertised. As announced heretofore, plans have been perfected whereby three great stocks of musical merchan How to Order and Hew to Pay. The low sale prices are the net cash ! k, U "i" J1S0Jidate(1,,.1,LtO tlmo wlu Day simple Interest, not on establishment. The deal will be con- tna entlre amount "bat on the deferred summated just as soon as a sufficient- payment, at 8 per cent per annum, y large portion of the stock on hand To effect tne moat speedy reduc- in each of the houses can be closed tlons of 8tocks on nand thero will be out, so that the remainder can be ac- manv instrument. nhtinahi nr commodated under one roof. In order to put this plan Into opera tion in the quickest possible time, a closing out sale at most drastic re ductions Is now in progress in the UDject to examination a little as $1. a week; many others for 85, 86 or 88 a month payments which any home can readily make. Any Instrument may be ordered nd trial, but purpose must not be kept for this longer than 48 hours' trial. All deposits cheerfully refunded in 25 case the instrument after delivery does not prove exactly satisfactory or as represented. fitlr.lv n n tr th.p. tav i Via n .. Ail the great and world-renowned for a musicless home anywhere in this makes of pianos in stock at Graves city and ln tnls preat Northwest. Music Co, 1S1 Fourth street (near h v.v .ir,,n.nt corner of Morrison), at Holt Piano Co- matter where sold, will be covered bv PIANOS Actually SO Per Cent Off, Some Per Cent aad m Few Reduced 1 2-3 Per cent. 883 Morrison street, and at Eilers the most liberal and dependable J. Schuyler, of the United States For estry . Department; Marshall N. Dana. official photographer; Judge William S'ven in his letter to President Wilson B. Gilbert, of the United States Circuit expressing to the latter his apprecla- Courtof Appeals, Portland; E. O. Blan- tion of the prompt action and firm at- char and Truman Butler, of Hood River, titude of the President with respect to and Homer Rogers, proprietor of Mount the various orders by the belligerent Hood Lodge STEER IS 3000. POUNDS O aiBSaaaaaawaeaam. Animal S Feet 7 Inches High Will Be Exhibited at Exposition. VALE. Or, Aug. 14. (Special.) Riley Horn, a farmer, some three miles from Valo, hopes be will exhibit the .arges. steer in the world at Ban T.. .1 T IT AIT--.. -n., .U animal Into Vale Thursday and it will malevolent labor leaders can be governments which affect all neutral commerce, and particularly that of the United States. In this letter he as sured President Wilson of the .steady support of the National Association of Manufacturers. Colonel Pope is an earnest advocate of co-operation between employers and employes. The closer the relation be tween them, as he has expressed it. the less Intervening space there will be for discordant elements to creep in. If, by new unionized sentiment existing exclusively between employers and their associated employes, mercenary te shipped by the county authorities. kt rl) of and the decks also cleared The teer is not a thoroughbred, but ul pml..i Is a range steer probably half-blood nolsv demagoguery and blatant claims. Hereford. Ha las never been fed anv there will be a new era of industrial ... r .... H...ir.n. x ....!.! peace. It Is in his opinion, the em five feet seven Inches at the shoulders and weighs ln the neighborhood of 3000 pounds. Four-Boy School Opens. plovers' time and opportunity to dem onstrate beyond all cavil, that the best friend and wisest protector of em ployes. Is the American employer. As to the place of the manufacturers of the Nation, Colonel Pope interprets the spirit of the chartered purposes of the organization of which he is the Music House, Eilers building. Broad- &uarantee. making positively sure that way and Alder, are placed on sale at every purchase will result In a satis such greatly reduced prices as wlli fied customer. While the sale is in dispose ot them without delay. oroaress stores will be onen until .Portland has become famous for the b- in tv. ..nu itvih.., .. low prices and great assortments of Saturday nights and during regular musical instruments carried. These buneSs hours on other week days. have made Portland the greatest Re art or. nt Th. Oretrnninn lifno- nn musical instrument shipping center in of town ghould write or telephone for the United States. But now, no mat- photographic illustrations and cata ter how low prices have been here- jogues, or, what is better, take a trip tofore, they will be found still lower on to Portland and make selections per- . Mwuoca. gonaliy. The selling will continue at these low Requests to hold certain styles of In prices until sufficient have been sold gtruments will be honored only long to make consolidation ln one place enough for letter to arrive, possible. Thlm unquestionably will prove the Numerous concert-used and studio- greatest opportunity for advantageous used t bickerings, also Kranich & ly buying musical Instruments and all Bach, Behning and Kimball and other sorts of musical merchandise that will grands and numerous uprights and ever be presented in Portland. Not latest player-pianos and all instru- one, but two, great stocks and an enor ments returned from wholesaling to mous residue stock of the E. H. Holt consignment dealers will share in this Piano Company are included. Uuques great reduction, but to a still greater tlonably the Nation's finest makes of extent than new ones, because every- pianos, player-pianos and baby grands, thing must be sold in the shortest pos- It will be well to bear la mind that sible time none of these stocks will be replen- Player-slauoa reduced like pianos, lshed until after consolidation has been and some even snore. All player- effected. Thus first comers will secure pianos except two factory-price-con- the benefit of the most extensive as trolled makes and one model of the sortment. Player-Piano de Luxe are reduced We also state in all candor that exactly 20 per cent. Numerous others prices will not be made any lower as 26 per cent, and a few 22 per cent, the sale prosresses than they are now, Free music roils included. because the management has realized Musi Rolls for .iI..r..i...u that for the purpose of this sale every Owners of player-pianos, no matter possible inducement for quick buying what makes, now have "opportunity to w- """ra at m uuisei, ana mis lay in a stock of music rolls, which nas Deen done. are now priced at a reduction of 30 per 14 w111 be found that in these three cent, and some lines at still greater simultaneous sales everything is ob- discounts. Three rolls for the former tainable at wholesale and less than price of one. wholesale, and a great many instru- Sheet music, classical and popular, menis ana articles are actually ODiain- stndies, etc, etc, all reduced for Dle r?r le" lnan tno actual manurac quick cash buying during this month, turer's cost. Mandolins, guitars. violins and or mo nri inns in msiorj a grear. eases and bowa, banjos, ukeleles, etc- Dona nuo unaerpricea selling campaign etc, all prices reduced a uniform 20 of everything known in music is of per cent till sale closes. - fered in three places at one and the Band and orchestra Instruments! V "" ' not benefit materially by this oppor- per cent off. Some styles as much as t". AV..n u KUOU n, , . , has not been had. all are reduced for quick sale at 20 33 1-3 per cent off. Special canccaalona In the Phono graph Department, wherever such Whether a 15-cent sheet of popular music or a $1600 art grand, or a $1200 harp, or any other, big or little, mu- conceaaiona ao uoi coumi un cer- slcal want is to De suppiied in years tain legal price-maintenance rules of to come now is tn tlmo to caI1 and several of the manufacturers. Numer ous talking-machine records will be almost given away for quick clearance. Church aad parlor organs at con solidation sale reduction of a uniform 20 per cent. Used organs for next to nothing. We want all of them out of By C. W. Houseman, Trustee for Tre' the way. f erred Stockholders. attend to it. while tbe consolidation sales are in progress. (Signed) For filers Music House, By Hy Eilers, President. (Signed) For Graves Muslo Co, By F. W. Graves, President. (Signed) For K. H. Holt Piano Co, living near Grandview, was accidently shot Friday while hunting rabbits with a neighbor boy. The gun the boy was carrying was accidentally discharged. the bullet striking Mr. Selle In the abdomen. The wounded man is now in the Sunnyslde Sanitarium in a critical condition. $250,000 BOND ISSUE PLAN Petitions Out at Roseburg for City Water and Light System. ROSEBURG, Or, Aug. 14. (Special.) -Petitions are being' circulated here asking the City Council to Issue bonds ln the sum of $250,000 with which to Install a municipal water and light system. It is understood that few persons are signing the petition for the rea son that Roseburg only recently voted bonds id the sura of $300,000 with which to aid in the construction of a railroad. WE.VATCHEE. Wash, Aug. 14. Th. - jllallnrln. f K.l.w the firt school in Chelan County to nd-, to. ba ummarized in the word open for the school year 1915-16 be- "Service" service first to the country i ... n-.r i. .,-hi k.. .. and secondly, to the perpetuation of C George. T. Warren Allen, chief of, session last Mondav with Miss Theresa ur magnificent manufacturing Indus- National narks and forest roada de- Cunningham as teacher. However. It ,rv in unicn ire tmprai mo . ' partment: Representative C N. McAr-l will close in January. ' Fonr small boys "000,000 human beings and to whom thor, George H. Cecil. R. J. Finch, T. (constitute Its enrollment. PRESIDENT AND COUNSEL OF AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION WHO WIXL VISIT PORTLAND TOMORROW. the American manufacturers pay each year over $6,000,000,000 In wages. James A. Kmery noted Orator. James A. Emery Is also counsel for the National Council for Industrial Defense, headquarters of which are at Washington City. He Is a man of Na tlonal reputation as an orator and lo gician. Those who have heard him speak unite in describing him as a forceful, magnetic orator. For the past 12 years he has special ized in Industrial matters and ln tbe economic, legal and legislative ques tions related to them. He has partici pated ln the legal discussions of nearly every Industrial question of Importance raised ln the courts or the legislatures during the past ten years, either by oral argument before appropriate com mittees of Congress or the legislatures of the leading industrial states, or as counsel in one proceeding or another Intended to test these various ques tions. Tomorrow night at " o'clock they will be given an Informal dinner at the Chamber of Commerce by the Employ ers' Association and tbe Portland Metal Trades Association. At this dinner both men will speak on industrial topics. HUNTER IS HIT BY BULLET Grandview Rancher Is Shot When Gun Is Discharged by Accident. Xegrocs Arrested on Drug Charges. Charlie A. Scott and his wife, Ida N. Scott, are in jail on a Federal charge of having opium in their possession, and Annie Williams, charged with hav ing yeng shee in her possession. Is out on $a00 bonds pending a hearing Mon day before Frederick H. Drake. United States Comml.-Bioner. All are negroes. HAIR IS GRAY; YOU LOOK OLD Look Young by Darkening Gray Hair With Q-Ban. No Dye Harmless. If your hair Is gray, faded, wispy, thin, prematurely gray, or streaked with gray, you will look twelve or fif teen years younger If you darken your gray hair by shampooing your hair and scalp a few times with Q-Ba:i Hair Color Restorer. It is harmless and not a dye, but acts on the roots, makes gray hair healthy, turning all your gray hair to a beautiful, lustrous, soft, natural dark shade, darkening your gray hair and entire head of hair so evenly and naturally that no one need suspect you use Q-Ban. Besides, Q-Ban stops dandruff, itching scalp and fall ing hair, promotes its growth. Guaran teed to give satisfaction or money re funded. Only 60c for a big 7-oz. bottle at Huntley's Drug Store. Fourth and Washington sts, Portland, Or. Out-of-town folks supplied by parcel post. ON AUGUST 1 7 1540 Bookstores will have a Nature window signify ing the publication of MICHAEL 0'HALLORAN By Gene Stratton-Porter, Author of "Freckles," "The Harvester," "A Girl of the Limberlost." 225,000 copies printed before publication. A new record for Doubleday, Page & Company. Place your order now with your bookseller. Net $ 1 .35 COLOXBX GEORGE A. FOP JAUKS A. EMERY. GRANDVIEW, Wash.. (Special.) Au-ut Selle, Aug. 14. a rancher