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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1915)
V THE SUXPAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 5. 1915. EVENTS OF INTEREST ARE FOUND BY NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER , - t Suffragists Carry Torch of Freedom" Through New York State Deep-Sea Hotel Is Closed Governors View Fleet Houston Storm Damage Is Big. -W t J ' 13&M JOt-R VM " ' - 7 S ' m lv.fcj A. or J" - v - .-55SJ M 4 i J-S53y- f ' -ill NEW IORK, Sept. 4. (Special.) One of the many picturesque featfl which the suffraee advoaates have been performing recently was the car rying of a "torch of freedom" through New York State, displaying it at meet ings where appeals for the cause were made. The torch is not to be lighted till women have the vote. Saturday the New York suffragists went out on n tug and met the suffragettes from New Jersey, also on a tug. and. with much ceremony, transferred the torch to Mrs. A. Vail AVinkle, representing the New Jersey followers of the cause, who will carry the emblem through hei tatc. Three years after the death of John Arbuckle his family gave notice of the closing of the "deep sea hotel" which he established. The hotel is on a boat, which is moored to one of the city's docks. It was planned at first to Iiuva the boat go out to sea on hot nights, but this plan was abandoned. The boat was the dwelling of girl clerks who receive small salaries, and one could live there for $2.S0 a week in a dor mitory, or for $4 a week in a private room. No one was accepted as a lodger who earned more than $6 a week. The botel has never paid expenses. The eighth annual conference of Gov ernors opened in the Senate chamber of tile Statehoue at Boston. About 30 Governors and 15 or more ex-CJovernors gathered there. One of the most im portant questions which came up for discussion was the policy of prepared ness and defense. The interest of the state executives in the military and naval defenses of the Union were in creased by several features of the con ference. One of these was a parade and review of the entire Massachusetts State Militia. Another was a cruise through Boston harbor aboard the Wy oming in company with Secretary Dan iels, and a naval review of part of the Atlantic fleet, which also went through a series of battle maneuvers. A picturesque scene was witnessed at the mosque at Woking, near London, when a large number of Mohammedans, pricinpally British Indian troops, as sembled for prayer. Each worshiper bows with his face to the east, the Mohammedan Mecca. The wreck of the Tiutler brick yards, the oldest in the State of Texas, was caused by the hurricane which swept Houston. The storm piled up millions of dollars in property wreckage before It had spent its fury on Houston and ought other Texas cities. A large force of soldiers Is kept at Kl Paso in readiness to be dispatched to any point on the Mexican border needing protection from bandits. In the plans now on foot to strengthen the defense of the United States, no other factor plays so important a part w the equipping of the military and naval division of the United States with machine guns. By comparison it Is in teresiing to note that one man and one of these machine guns, which fires with such rapidity that Its shots cannot be counted, can do more effective work tban l'JO men equipped with the regula tion Army rille of the present time. Though military authorities admit the destructive value of the machine gun. ..... J- t- 4 1 S f. -II y - yy: i AW IP C: - V , JO'-V? : - I i" H 9 j-TNf VL.. llV II ' f , r . ..2 1- --r' in b ; A III ... .. . :. . - Mill 1 1 ? is vrn . v at.... i 'i I till " -v15 'v- - v x t ii f''Tr ' tJ -rx. ill-" -9r2Z r-jr - 1; - -4 jx ; -r," r fife: IVY -f;.1 r y.". ll r.J $,-Jf ..v tf"- r jiiiiLA That was throe months ajro and the rhangre was put Into effect today under Clyde M. Rood, tlie present superin tendent. Captain Smith enlisted as a private in Company E. Sixth Rppftnetit, New Hampshire Volunteers, In 862. He was promoted to Sergeant. Second Lieuten ant. First Lieutenant and Adjutant in quick succession. Mustered out by ex piration of service March 2. 1865, he re enlisted and received the appointment of first LioutonMnt of Company B. Ninth Regiment United States Volun teer Infantry. He was made Captain of Company K of that regiment November 10. 1865, and was mustered out Jftne 15, 1&66. Michael J. AVoulfe. 1171 Tayton ave nue, formerly chief clerk in the railway mail service, succeeds CaptH.in Smith. Mr. Woulffe has been with the railway mail service In St. I'uul for 30 years. MMbV A. y t-mtefc"iu- t v zik&X&K W'-.x&rW-'Z i See. i, I tne equipment of the A rmv is ho shnrt of them that 1.000.000 ar almost nr absolute necessity It this country wishes 10 oe adequately prepared. Almost with the neatness of clock work the new 250-foot double-decked railroad craw span weighing 1400 tons slipped into place in the new Harlem River bridge of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company's Third-avenue line. ew lork, August 22. The span was built on piles near the Manhattan shore of the Harlem River, just above the First-avenue bridge. When it was fin ished it was lowered to four barges and floated to its position in the center of the bridge. , MOONLIGHT DIPS POPULAR Hazel Dawu Breaks Atlantic City Kecord With Swim at 2 A. M. ATUANTIC CITT. N. J.. Aug. 30. The population barometer of this gay city jumped airily to the 400.000 mark re cently, and the great Wooden Way was jammed with the holiday host. and. de spite the charred, block-long monument of the disastrous fire, it was a lane of oeauty. a ribbon of color, flashing, yet subdued. Fashion's strangest whims manifested themselves as always, but most distinc tive and newest of all was the Mexican influx, for in .the make-up of many a fetching maid's bonnet some were out right Mexican, and those who did go so far as to wear conical hats, of rough straw, without a single bit of adorn ment, got all the attention, they strove to get. But moonlight cavorting in the briny is the only real "craze" of the resort. In fact, since the custom started, its devotees have grown so many that one bathhouse proprietor. noted for his astuteness, has decided to keep his place open all night. Poke fun at him you may. but how could Miss Hazel Dawn, the musical comedy star, who made the "Pink Lady's'" fame synonymous with her own. have taken a dip at 2 A. M. the other morning, if this purveyor of costumes hadn't-been on the job? Miss Dawn and others, whose names sear the sky along Broadway, often drop down to acquire tips on the trend of clothes. This particular night, or morning, she startled the sleepy. clerk of her hotel by slamming a bag on ttie counter and saying on the run: "Take care of my jewels, please, un til I get back. I'm going to take a bath at 2 o'clock in the morning and give Broadway something to talk about." HOME DEATHBED IS PLEA Aged AVoman, Accident Victim. Goes Out of Hospital Dying. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 30. "Please take me home and let ne die there." pleaded Mrs. Mary Ginsburg. 75 years old. 2979 Richmond street, in the Epis copal Hospital a few days ago, after be ing; taken to that institution suffering: from fatal injuries, the result of being struck by a trolley. Isaac Ginsburg-. a son, who accom panied his mother to the hospital in a. patrol wagon, was In tears as he heard his parent's request. The phy sicians told htm Mrs. Ginsburg's. in juries were of such a nature that death was only a few minutes off. Only, her unusual vitality had kept her alive after tVtA a iHonf "I'll (olra Hav Vtnm.. I said the son. Her wounds were quickly dressed, and Ginsburg signed a paper releasing the hospital from further re sponsibility. A few minutes after reaching home the aged woman died. Mrs, Ginsburg was struck by Gir- ard avenue car while returning from a bakery near her home. She evidently failed to see the car. and before the motor-man, Edward Olsen, 313U Rich mond street, could apply the brakes she was under the wheels. At a hearing before Magistrate Beat on at City Hall, Olsen was held to await the action of the coroner. LINKED FAMILY FIGHTS Relatives and Poliee Comrades Go to Jail Together. NEW YORK, Aug. 30. Walter Mc Ivor and John W. Jones, son-in-law and father-in-law to each other, as well as brothers in arms as special policemen with private beats on opposite sides of Park atenue. got their relationship further complicated a, few days ago when they - became brother prisoners, held without bail in the Yorkville Po lice Court,' pending an investigation by 'Magistrate Ivrotel's. probation officer. Mclvor, who is 25 years old and lives at One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street and Eighth avenue, is married to Jones' daughter. Recently in the Domestic-Relations' Court he was ordered to pay $5 a week for the support of his wife and child. The son-in-law patrols east and the father-in-law west and the twain meet every night at the tangent of their posts at Park avenue and Thirty seventh street. The other night there was a collision between the two and the police had to untangle them from the liveliest sort of a mixup. Both were found guilty of disorderly conduct and remanded for sentence. VETERAN ASKS DEMOTION Mail Service for 4 6 Years Gets Clerkship Requested. ST. PAUL, Sept. 1. Fifty years of service for Uncle Sam, four as an officer In the Civil War. and 46 in the railway mail service is the record of J. Stearns Smith, assistant superintendent of railway mail service for the tenth division, who was given a clerkship in the superintendent's office recently at his own request. Captain Smith had served as assist ant superintendent for 26 years, and being 77 years old, he requited C. A. Cisler. the former superintendent of the service, for relief by demotion. LINER'S CAPTAIN HONORED President Gives AYalch to Rescuer of Wrfcoked Sailors. N'EW YORK. Aug. 30. Captain WU1 'am Trow Aspinall. of Ihe Booth liner Gregory, received recently through the British Consul in this city a gold watch with a gold cable chain and gold compas from th: Pr.--Ftd"iit of the United. States. The waU-h is properly en graved, and has on the putside the arms of the American Government. The watch and chain were presented to Captain Aspinwal! in recognition of the services of himself and several members of his crew in rescuing five sailors of the wrecked steamship Okla homa, January 4, 1914. Second Officer John Sydney Williams and Third OfTicer Frederick D. Roberts, who Jumped into a raging sea and res cued the sailors, have since been killed in France and the English trenches. Just before they went to the front thfy received binoculars from the President. The watch is engraved: "From the President of the United States to William Trow Aspinall. master of the British steamship Gregory, in recogni tion of his humane services in effecting the rescue at sea of the members of the American steamship Oklahoma." The captain was delighted with Ihe gift. He showed on his right arm the tatooed marks of the American coat of arms. "That was the first tattooing I ever had done," said he. "and naturally. I am delighted with this presen.t." Curions Pair Matched. Philadelphia Press. 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