SECTION FIVE
Pages 1 to 12
Woman's Section
Special Features
VOL. XXXIV.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1915.
NO. 38.
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ICE CAVES IN LAVA REGION OF
SOUTHERN OREGON INTERESTING
Huge Natural Refrigerators One of Greatest Wonders of Country Roads From Main Route Being Improved.
Cause of Formation May Be Chemical, Volcanic or B)th Ice Is Pure and Is Obtainable in Great Quantities.
BY DENNIS H. STOVALL.
AN interesting side trip on our re
cent tour to California was that
made to the Ice Caves, from Mer
rill, Klamath County. These huge natu
ral refreigerators, filled with pure ice,
are the greatest wonders of their kind
In this country; in truth, it is doubtful if
the world contains anything of the
Burt more remarkable. Though the
caves are located in northeastern Siski
you County, Cel.. the only road le'ading
to them is from Merrill, on the Oregon
fide of the boundary. This road has
been much improved during recent
months, making it easy going for a
motorcar. It is to be continued before
another year, thug making a shorter
and more direct route through the lava
beds to Lookout and Kail River Mills,
on the main route to California.
Our car was one of the first to go
over the improved road. The way
leads south from Merrill, between
Lower Klamath and Tule Lake, past
Lairds and on south into the lava beds.
It takes one directly into a vast, deso
late region an area covered with few
arrowing things save stunted juniper
and hardy sage. Yet it is a riot of
color, for the painted rocks of the
desert present all shades of red and
brown; the desert sands are yellow,
while the lakes are an emerald green.
Out near the caves the country be
comes more rough and rugged, with
bigger volcanic rocks, buttes and
cragrs. It is here the ranchers and in
habitants of the region have come for
years to get ice. Truly, no district
needs Ice more than this, especially
during the hot months. The ther
mometer must have been well above
100 when we reached the caves.
There is no royal or magnificent en
trance to these" desert caves. The
opening to them is more like the mouth
of an old well, or the collar of an in
clined shaft. It is just a hole in the
ground, or a hole in the lava rock
that leads back into the ice labyrinths.
When we peered dcwn into the open
ing a cold draft came up Into our faces,
as if blown from an electric fan down
in the earth.
"Say! But doesn't that feel good!"
we exclaimed in chorus, for at that
moment Uie desert sun beat down upon
our backs unmercifully. '
Armed with a saw and a pick we
started down. A crude ladder, made
of digger-pine poles, has been placed
in the inclined opening as a conveni
ence for those who come and go. A
lighted candle helped us find our way.
"Whew!" the women of the party
shivered. "It must be close to zero
down here!"
In the yellow glare of the candle we
followed an irregular, rock-walled
passage back into the depths. From
overhead, water dripped, ' ice cold.
Water, also ice cold, trickled down the
sides of the passage.
At length we came to a vault or
cavern at the end of the crooked course.
This vault is as large as a large room,
and cold as a refrigerator; in truth, it
is a refrigerator. Its walls and its floor
are of ice, and down there the tempera
ture remains close to the freezing point
at all times, even in Summer. No
doubt It gets considerably below the
freezing point in Winter, or at those
times when the new supply is made by
Nature to replace that removed.
We heard all sorts of explanations
from various persons as to how the ice
of these caves is formed. Since the
entire region is volcanic, many ascribe
the phenomena to volcanic action.
Others declare it to be a natural ice
factory, and that It operates on the
same plan as any ice factory the ice
being made by chemical changes in the
earth and water.
One thing is certain the Ice Is there
In great quantity pure, crystal ic.
It Is Ice made from spring: water, and
it is therefore good, very good. It
seems plausible that both volcanic and
chemical action are the causes of the
ice formation. In other sections of that
volcanic area, not a grtat distance
away, we found springs of mineral
water, hot. In these the chemical ac
tion tended toward heating rather than
freezing.
Anyhow the ice is there, and in great
quantity. We took out all we could
carry. Just as does everybody else who
visits the caves. We hod ice in plenty
for alt that day, and enjoyed it im
mensely. Because of the unfinished
condition of the road we had to return
as far as Merrill by the same route
we entered. When this new desert
route is finished it will be 15 miles
shorter to Lookout, and will lead
through a more interesting region than
the present road across Dry Lake, by
Malin and Cornell Ranch.
SEA PASSENGERS TAGGED
Identification in Case of Death Krom
U-Boat Attack Is Idea.
NEW YORK. Sept. 13. Passengers
arriving- on the steamship Espagne
from Bordeaux wore identification tags
issued to them before sailing, so they
might be identified in case German sub
marines should sink their ship.
To escape submarines, the Espagne
sailed at 2 o'clock in the morning. The
trip was without special incident.
Among: the passengers was Dr. C. Burns
Craig, of. the New York Neurological
Institute, who had been studying the
effect of constant firing on the nerves
of Boldiero-
HEN Joseph Brooks planned
is revival of Bronson How
ard's "The Henrietta," revised
and modernized by Winchell Smith, and
Victor Mapes under the title of "The
New Henrietta." which made theatrical
history last season in New York and
Chicago, he made a most fortuitous
combination. Ferhaps no more unlike
group of players could be found than
the five stars who are heading the
cast of "The New Henrietta." They are
William H. Crane, Thomas W, Ross,
Maclyn Arbuckle, Laura Hope Crews
and Mabel Taliaferro, and each in his
particular line has achieved distinc
tion. William H. Crane, the veteran of the
group, has a long and distinguished
career behind him, not only as a star,
which position for many years he has
occupied, but as an actor of parts even
before his association with Stuart Rob
son In the early '80s.
Other Playn Great Successes.
It was not until the pair produced
"The Henrietta" that they really reach
ed the height of their ambitions. They
had before that date made an extremely
successful Shakespearean production,
"The Comedy of Errors," in which they
impersonated the Dromios: and they
made "Our Boarding House" a name
to conjure with; but. it was in "The
Henrietta" that they reached the zen
ith of their carreer as co-stars.
Thomas W. Ross, the second of the
five-star combination, began his career
during the last days of the Boston
Museum Stock Company. He had quite
a good deal of experience in Summer
stocks and in touring companies, and
for a short time starred in "On the
Quiet." His first great success, how
ever, was in the creation of the central
figure in Henry Blossom's "Checkers."
in which he played for three' or four
seasons.
Arbuckle Stars In Shakespeare Play.
Following this biff hit, Mr. Ross ap
peared In a number of plays as the
central figure. His engagement for
"Bertie the Lamb," and his imperson
ation of the eccentric character, has
given new impetus to his reputation
and career.
Maclyn Arbuckle. the third of the
excelle-it male element in the quintet
of stars, began his active stage career
as a roaring Roman in a company
headed by It. D. McLean and Marie
Prescott, He went through the Shake
spearean repertoire with those stars
and emerged to gather further ex
perience and laurels as the doughty
Colonel in Boucicaulfs "Arrah-na-Pogue,"
when that charming Irjsh ro
mance was revived by William Harris
for the use of Andrew Mack.
Then came Arbuckle's 'great oppor
tunity when George Ade's "The County
Chairman" was produced and he selec
ted the protagonist of the comedy.
He had been a lawyer and a poli
tician in Texas, and the character of
"The County Chairman" appealed
strongly to him and his success -was
immediate. His latest role is entirely
different from anything Mr. Arbuckle
has ever played and his enormous suc
cess in the part of the worldly-wise
churchmen, who has an eye to the main
chance, is one of the delightful features
of the revival.
Laura Hope Crews, handsome, bril
liant, and mistress of the art of dress
as well as acting, began to climb the
theatrical ladder as ingenue of the
Alcazar Theater Stock Company of San
Francisco. David Belasro on one of
his visits to San Fraiiclsfo, was so Im
pressed with her performance in "The
Heart of Maryland" that he arranged
for her appearance with Henry Miller
and Margaret Angrlin in "The Great
Divide."
Place as Star Attained.
This was the jrolden opportunity for,
later on. when Miss Anglin withdrew
from the company. Miss Crews shared
stellar honors with Mr. Miller and re
mained as co-star with Mr. Miller in
the production of "The Havoc." Last
season Miss Crews starred with Leo
Dietrichstein in "The Phantom Rival."
under the direction of Mr. Belasco. In
playina: the Widow Opdyke in "The
New Henrietta," Miss Crews achieves
one of the ambitions of her youth.
Mabel Taliaferro, the younprest mem
ber of the group of stars, made a great
success in a play called "The Lost
River," one of the early productions of
Liebler & Co.. in which she imperson
ated a saucy little Indiana girl in love
with one of the bumpkins of the
countrys-de. Later she created the
role of Lorna Doone in Harry Hamlin's
production of a dramatization of
Blarkmore's great romance.
Miss Taliaferro made another per
sonal surcess in the groat cast which
presented Israel Zangwill's play, "The
Children of the Ghetto."
DAMAGE WROUGHT BY TREE PESTS
AT WORK IN CITY IS EXPLAINED
Elm-Beetle Campaign, Carried on by City, Emphasizes Need of. Precautions Against Ultimate Destruction of
Valuable Woods and Shrubbery, Now Hindered by Lack of Natural Surroundings.
IN view of the recent attack of the elm
leaf beetle in Portland, It is of per
haps universal interest to learn of
the various insecticides and their effect
upon trees. In certain instances the
seriousness of this damage is brought
home to us with special force. Fifteen
or 20 years ago, to cite a familiar case,
the black locust was hailed as the great
post and tie producer. Today in most
parts of the country hardly a sound
stick of it can be found. The locust
borer has made the growing of locust
timber unprofitable and almost im
possible. The damage done to shade trees by
these insects is greater in proportion
than that suffered by forest trees. One
may gain some conception of the dam
age done to forest trees by insects
when he realizes that the most con
servative authorities place the annual
loss at $100,000,000. The reason shade
trees suffer to a greater extent than
forest trees is that almost all of these
insects prefer to attack weak trees, and
changing conditions have so unfor
tunately affected city streets that a
large part of them are to a greater or
less extent influenced.
They no longer make the vigorous
growth they made before streets were
paved and fields were drained and be
fore factories poisoned the air. but as
they are more susceptible they are also
more valuable than they were, and
every effort must be made to save
them. It is neither possible nor de
sirable in an article of this kind to
enumerate and describe the many spe
cies of insects which in one way or
another do physical damage to the
trunks and limbs of trees.
Grub Form Most Damaging.
The number of injurious insects found
in a single locality may be small, but
the number of species injurious to one
place or another throughout the coun
try is so large that a complete account
of them would be more confusing than
helpful to the average reader. Almost
all damage done by insects to the bark
and wood of trees is done by them
while they are In the larva or grub
form. During the first part of their
existence they are highly specialized
for the consumption of food In large
quantities and have rapid growth.
That growth completed, after a longer
or shorter period of dormant transfor
mation (pupal) stage, they come forth
in the adult, usually winged form, espe
cially adapted of the species. It is a
voracious grub which damages the
trees.
Broadly speaking, the insect pests at
present can be divided into two classes,
according to the part of a tree in which
the larva feeds and lives. They are
bark borers and wood borers. Bark
borers are the most dangerous, and the
wood borers are most widely distributed.
The insects which do harm to the
inner bark and outer sapwood belong,
as do most of the hard-wood borers, to
the order Coleoptra. or beetles, distin
guished by their hard sheath wings
covering the pair which are used in
flight. First among the beetles come
the weevils or snouted beetle specie
that devotes its attention' most largely
to fruits and stored nuts and grains.
The cypress weevil mines in the bark
of the injured bald cypress and the
walnut weevil is at home in the inner
bark of the dying walnut tree. Much
more distinguished are the bark bee
tles, or the shot-hole borers, as they
are often called in reference to the
little round black-edged holes which
they make as exits from the tree. Most
of them make beautiful seaweed-like
markings upon the surface of the wood
Just beneath the bark.
The most dangerous member of the
family is a hickory bark beetle, a
stumpy shining black or red-brown in
sect, hardly more than one-eighth of
an inch long. The adults are common
during the Summer, feeding on hickory
twigs. The eggs are laid in the limbs
or upper trunk of a tree. The insect
excavates a vertical tunnel an Inch or
two long Just under the bark and along
the sides of it rather close together.
Smaller Beetles Infest Oak.
To dispose of its eggs, the young
grub strikes out and excavates nar
row but widening galleries at right
angles to the primary burrow, or radi
ating from it, .They hibernate in their
galleries, pupate in Spring and come
forth as beetles in May. Obviously,
then, the bark-effected trees should be
burned and all endangered trees should
be given protecting dressing by May
day. A much smaller beetle of this race
infests the oak, but in iU case the pri
mary gallery is horizontal, so the broad
galleries are vertical. Still another In
fests the wild cherry trees, another the
elms. The next family, though it
signs itself the Cerambycidae, is more
often spoken of as the round-headed
borer. Almost all of them are borers.
One is the common elm-tree borer,
the adult of which is a flat brown beetle,
half an inch long with red bored wing
covers. The grub is flat and wide and
makes a long. Irregular burrow. It
hibernates as a grub in the tree, emerg
ing about the middle of April, or later.
Better known is its relative, the locust
borer, which works in the wood as
well as the bark.
The adult is a black or brown beetle
marked with bands of gold and yellow.
It is commonly seen munching pollen
or goldenrod tops in September, at
which time it lays its eggs. Infested
locust wood cut during the Fall or
Winter must be burned before Septem
ber. The Bureau of Entomology has
found that the hibernated grubs can
be killed by spraying the trunks with
a kerosene emulsion containing 22 per
cent of kerosene. If the grubs are to
be dug out. the work should be done
in the Fall before they enter the wood.
ROBBERS AWAIT FAMILY
Woman's Screams Arouse Neighbors,
but They Persist.
CHICAGO, Sept. 14. Look out for
the "home-coming" robbers.
There are five of them one gunma-r
and four helpers. Early the other
morning they approached R. W.
Schmidt, superintendent of the William
C. Schmidt Roofing Comtmny. as Beat
rice Lewin, of 1512 South Sawyer ave
nue, was alighting from his automohile
in front of the latter's residence. Miss
Lewin's screams attracted neighbor
nnl the would-be robbers ran. one of
them firing a shot at Schmidt as ho
turned a corner.
Half an hour later a gang whoie
description tallies with that of the men
who tried to rob Schmidt held up R.
E. Wolf, of 1830 Turner avenue. Just
as he was entering his home. One of
them covered him with a revolver and
the other took f 1.15 and his bouse key.