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THE SUNDAY OREGOMAN, PORTLAND, MARCH 19, 1916.
SECRETARY DANIELS
ADMITS RIVER ERROR
Telegram to The Oregonian
Says 26-Foot Channel Re
port Was "Inexact."
NAVY RECORDS ARE CITED
Chamber of Commerce Sends Latest
Of ricial Survey Figures to Wash
ington and Ttcquests They
Be Placed on File.
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WASHINGTON". I. C. March
IS. 1916. The Oregonian. Port
land. Or.: Keplying to your tele
pram. Navy Department, in let
ter dated March 14 to Hon. W.
Ij. Jones, state's records of this
department indicate that 26 feet
of water is found on the bar of
the Columbia River.; This state
ment is inexact and should have
read: Records indicate channel
leading to Portland is not over
26 feet in depth at certain
places. The department's records
indicate the following depths In
the channel at mouth of Colum
bia River: North channel, 26 feet;
south channel, 35 feet.
JOSEPHUS DANIELS.
..
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan
iels has discovered there, is a governing
depth of 33 feet of water at the en
trance to the Columbia River, which he
admits in a telegram sent to The Ore
gonian yesterday.
This was in reply to a message from
The Oregonian, dispatched Friday, ask
ing if he had been correctly quoted in
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to the
effect there was only 26 feet of water,
and that was the reason the cruiser
Pittsburg would not he sent here to
load troops of the Twenty-first In
fantry, hound for San Diego.
He admits the statement as to 26 feet
and admits also that it was
Inexact. Then he gives that depth
as applying to the north channel. Just
why the Navy Department should have
cited the least depth, instead of the
greatest, Is puzzling here. The north
channel has not been tised in -the deep
water commerce of the Columbia River
for so long that the Government engi
neers have seriously considered not re
ferring to it.
At that, the depth of 26 feet he quotes
there, while it was shown on records of
surveys last year, has changed for the
better since. On the other hand, the
main channel or dredged cut has a
least depth of 35 feet, based on the sur
vey finished in January of this year,
has a width of 1500 feet, and it lies in
fin area stretching from the south jetty
to the northerly range, where 30 feet
is the governing depth.
Much Wnter Itegrlstercd.
As to the channel in the river from
the sea to Portland, there was a stage
of 10.2 feet of water on the guage yes
terday, which means that piucn more
water is available than at zero, and
even admitting that the records of the
department as to that are correct, there
is still no reason why the Pittsburg
should not have been sent to Portland.
In the first place she has. a mean
draft of 24.1 feet. That is, she has, if
the Navy Department records are to
be believed in giving the dimensions
and other data as to its ships. If load
ed like the Maryland, when here in
1912, which is the same sized ship and
having identical displacement, she
would yet have plenty of water to go
on. and probably more than was main
tained in the path of the cruiser fleet
in reaching Mare Island at times, where
they went without fear or fuss.
Senator Gels Trotest.
The Chamber of Commerce yesterday
entered strong protest against the er
roneous information having been sent
broadcast relative to the depth of
water, and forwarded the following
telegram to Senator Chamberlain:
"Secretary Daniels quoted in press
saying only 26 feet water at entrance
Columbia River and giving that as rea
son for not sending cruiser Pittsburg
here for tro6ps. If Navy Department
responsible for such statement, data
fully six years behind time. Cannot
Navy Department be compelled to ac
cept latest United States Government
Engineers' figures on depths of water
for Columbia River and cease publish
ing to world much injurious misstate
ments? Chamber requests you, in con
ference with Oregon delegation, to
make most earnest protest against such
statements and correct evils resulting
from the same. Last official data by
Government Engineers, 35 feet mean
lower low level at entrance of river,
or 42.5 average tide. Later soundings
indicate perhaps 37 feet low level, and
engineers confident 40 feet low-level
depth this year. Community resents
bitterly disregard by Navy Department
cf facts known to engineers."
Mr. Daniels Gets Appeal.
Another message was sent as well,
directed to Secretary Daniels, and
couched as follows:
"Press reports state you decline send
cruiser Pittsburg to Columbia River
because only 26 feet of water at mouth
of Columbia River. United States' en
gineers' survey Decemebr shows 35
feet mean lower low level or 42 and
five-tenths feet at average tide. Sound
ings made since indicate 37 feet low
level. No doubt in world felt by en
gineers of 40 feet low level depth this
Summer. If you are quoted correctly
Navy Department records of entrance
to this most important harbor fully six
years behind time. Can we not have
placed in navy bureaus handling these
questions United States engineers'
data that will prevent such grievous
wrong as statement quoted in refer
ring to Columbia River?"
Motive Is Puzzle.
Comment yesterday was general on
the harm resulting from Secretary
Daniel's misinformation, and even on
the receipt of his reply to The Ore
gonian, while admitting . the mistake,
it was not apparent why, in such a
case, the least desirable route was
criticised when certainly. In time of
trouble, a Navy ship off the Columbia
eeeking refuge or supplies, would be
navigated through the deepest water.
The north channel he picked out,
"Whether through oversight or seeking
to ignore Portland, is viewed in such
light by those responsible for mark
ing it with aids to navigation that it
was considered last year to be a Wise
move to shift a whistling buoy off the
north channel to the southerly part of
the bar, where it would be of con
tinual service. But it was argued that
the whistler served as a mark for ships
bound up and down the coast who
might shape a course inside of the Co
lumbia River lightship, or be carried
bhoieward by adverse conditions.
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Notice to Mariners.
The following affects aids to naviga
tion in the 17th Lighthouse District:
Coiumlxia. Itiver entrance South Jetty tu
and whistling buoy 2-s. reported missing"
March IS, to be placed as soon as prac
ticable. Columbia River, Harrington point to
Walker Island Hunting Island's range front
light, reported carried away, was rebuilt
and relighted March 4.
Walker Island to Willamette River The
following spar buoys found missing were
replaced March 14: Hunter's Bar, buoy 1;
Warrior Rock Reef, buoy 'J; HenricI Cross
ing, buoy 1; Reeder Crossing, buoy 4.
ROBERT WAR RACK,
Lighthouse Inspector.
FAIK 'WEATHER IS PROMISED
Equinoctial Storms to Be Confined
to Rocky Jlountains.
Shipmasters have nothing to fear
from atmospheric disturbances of an
objectionable character along the Pa
cific Coast during the present week, if
the prognostications of the Washing
ton, D. C, headquarters of the United
States Weather Bureau are correct, for
storms forecasted are to be located in
the region of the Rocky Mountains and
to the eastward.
District Forecaster Beals received
the following telegram yesterday em
bodying the Washington forecast for
the week:
"The pressure distribution is such as
to indicate that the coming week will
be marked by a general reaction to
normal temperature east of the Missis
sippi Valley. In the Mississippi Val
ley and all districts west thereof, tem
peratures above the seasonal average
may be expected.
"The next disturbance to cross the
country will form west of the Rocky
Mountains Sunday, pass to the Plains
States and the ' Great Central Valley
Monday or Tuesday, and the Eastern
states about Wednesday. This disturb
ance will be preceded by a general rise
in temperature and will be attended
by' snows in northern and local rains
and probably thunder storms in south
ern states east of the Rocky Moun
tains. With the exception of the short
period of unsettled, weather attending
this disturbance and local snows at
the beginning of the week in the re
gion of the Great Lakes and the North
Atlantic States, the week will be one
of generally fair weather."
CLATSOP AT PUGET ISLAXI
Dredge Clears Road to 30 Feet From
Walker's Island to Estuary.
Channel improvement carried on at
Walker's Island by the Government
dredge Clatsop, In increasing the depth
there to at least -10. feet at extreme
low water, has been finished and the
vessel shifted to Puget Island. On
cutting there to the projected depth,
which in reality means 32 feet, so as
to guard against any oversight in gain
ing the 30 feet ordered, she will go
to Skamokawa, and that will end her
operations above the estuary of the
Columbia until after the June freshet,
if her services are required then.
The pipeline dredges Multnomah and
Wahkiakum, engaged at Slaughter's in
digging a new channel, are being oper
ated without loss of time with the hope
of cutting the last section of the bank
in advance of the June high water.
With that work out of the way and a
few lumps removed at other places,
which would demand comparatively
short work for one machine, the Gov
ernment will have the Columbia well
cleared from the mouth of the Wil
lamette to the Pacific.
FREIGHT CONGESTION HOLDS
Rear and Northern. Pacific Take
Record Cargoes.
Freight stacked on Ainsworth dock
when the steamer Bear sailed yester
day afternoon for California was suf
ficient to load another carrier of her
size. . There is little prospect that the
congestion -will be entirely reduced
soon. The vessel had about 95 travel
ers in the cabin, including Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley Stipe, bride and bride
groom, who received a rousing fare
well, also E. G. Titus and family, who
have made several trips on the "Big
Three" ships.
On the turbiner Northern Pacific,
which sailed from Flavel in the after
noon, were 126 passengers and in the
way of freight she handled the largest
lot yet routed between Flavel and the
Golden Gate, approximating 1984 tons.
There were two carloads of onions for
Honolulu and six tons of merchandise
for Australia, and for San Franciso
wheat, flour, box shooks, paper and
miscellaneous consignments.
FOREIGX SHIPS UNDER, LAW
Inspectors Prepared to Proceed With
Seamen's Act Requirements.
Having gotten their hands in through
passing on seamen and certificating
lifeboatmen on United States vessels.
Inspectors Edwards and Wynn now
face an added ordeal in being des
ignated to examine sailors of foreign
vessels, the seamen's act as it pertains
'to others than American ships leaving
ports of this country having become
effective March 4.
The law provides that the number
of lifeboatmen are to be determined by
the size of lifeboats carried and that
75 per cent of the crew shall under
stand the orders of officers and 40 per
cent of the deck force are rated able
seamen, the percentage increasing in
that regard until the fourth year after
the passage of the act, 55 per cent
must be able to comprehend orders, and
thereafter 65 per cent.
Ill VERM AN" NOW AFTER VILLA
Leo R. Smith Sends Picture to Steve
McDonald Before Crossing Border.
"We are chasing Villa," is the mes
sage Quartermaster-Sergeant Leo B.
Smith, Battery B, Fourth Field Artil
lery, sent to Steve McDonald, his half
brother, who is agent for the Regulator
line on Alder-street dock. Sergeant
Smith was numbered with the crew of
the steamer Bailey Gatzert for a short
time when on a furlough and re-enlisted
within the prescribed, time, so is
credited with continuous service since
the Philippine insurrection.
The message is on a postal card,
showing Sergeant Smith arrayed in
his fighting togs and whirling a lassoo
as he was assisting in rounding up
horses previous to the march across the
border. He saw his first service with
Company G. of the First Washington
Volunteer Infantry, in the Spanish
American War and following trouble
with the Filipinos, after which he "took
on" with the regulars.
YARD IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED
Aberdeen Spar-Making Plant Will
Double Its Capacity.
ABERDEEN, Wash.. March 18.
I (Special.) Improvements to be made
at the Endresen shipyards here within
the next 60 days will bore than dou
the next 60 days will more than dou
are devoted entirely to spar-making
and repair work.
The Endresens have been swamped
with spar orders since the shipbuilding
boom started and the number of these
orders is continuing to grow. Many
of the spars cut by Endresen are be
ing shipped to Eastern shipyards for
installation in vessels being built upon
the Atlantic.
Steamer Camosttn Is Floated.
PRINCE RUPERT. B. C. March 18.
The Canadian Pacific steamer Camosun
was refloated last night from her posi
tion on Dlgby Reef and under her own
steam proceeded to Vancouver for repairs.
SHIP DEAL IT MADE
Options for Building 7500-Ton
Steamer Lapse.
NEW NEGOTIATIONS PEND
Standard Oil Company Is In Market
for Tankers and Portland Is
in Line to Construct
Two of Them.
Options extended A. O. Andersen A
Co., representing Norwegian capital
and having headquarters at New Tork.
for the construction of a 7500-ton
steamer here, and possibly a second one
at a plant to oe established by the
Willamette Iron and Steel Works and
the Northwest Steel Company, were al-
CARRIER BEING GOTTEN IN READINESS TO WORK FULL
FLOUR CARGO FOR WAR REGIONS.
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It is intended to shift the Norwegian bark Olivebank from the
North Pacific mill to the flour mill tomorrow so she can work a full
flour cargo for the other side, some of which may find its way ulti
mately to the forces of the allies engaged in combat in France.
Walter Stirling, a diver, was engaged yesterday in assisting in re
placing rivets in some of the stern plates of the vessel and similar
work will probably be done in the forepeak, it being under the su
pervision of Captain L. Veysey, Lloyd's surveyor.
lowed to lapse, and a telegram received
yesterday was in effect that a contract
would not be signed.
A. G. Labbe. vice-president of the
Willamette Iron and Steel Works, said
yesterday that a telegram was received
from New York bearing on the matter,
and, while not quite clear as to all de
tails, was to the general effect that
negotiations had been dropped.
"We are negotiating for other ves
sels, and, in fact, have options out on
contracts, but nothing definite has been
closed," he said.
Differences Threshed Oat.
Frank Hitching, of San Francisco,
was here on two occasions on behalf
of the Andersen interests, and, while
there were some differences threshed
over, it was understood when he de
parted that the prospects for one
steamer being built at Portland were
most encouraging and that it would no
doubt be followed by others.
The Standard Oil Company is in the
market for tank steamers and Portland
is in line to construct two of them, ac
cording to negotiations that are now
on, while Japanese interests have
sought figures and prices on vessels
and are considering offers from here.
More Shipyards Expected Here.
The announcement of the establish
ment of a shipyard at Astoria by the
J. -A. McEachern Company, of Seattle,
which Portlanders learned of yesterday,
is viewed as the forerunner of others
of the same kind to seek locations on
the river. The success of the McCor
mick line in turning out wooden ships
at St. Helens has attracted wide at
tention and the fact a Puget Sound cor
poration has come to the Columbia
River is taken as ample proof of the
advantages here in the way of material
for such work.
Portlanders are in close touch on a.
similar proposition on a large scale.
The McEacJnern plant will build two
auxiliary schooners at first, equipped
as those of the McCormick line, with
twin screws driven, by Diesel engines
and with lumber capacity of 2.000,000
feet.
SHIP DEALS CLEAR $275,000
Big Profit Made on Sale, Repur
chase and Resale of Steamer.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 18. (Spe
cial.) The firm of Hind. Rolph & Co.,
of which Mayor Rolph is the head, ad
mitted today clearing a profit of $275.
000 on the sale, repurchase and resale
of a steamer under construction for
the firm by the Union Iron Works for
$750,000.
According to the firm, the vessel was
sold to'T. B. Wilcox, of Portland, for
$900,000. It was bought back Thursday
for $1,500,000. Twenty-four hours later
the firm closed a deal with an Eastern
syndicate for the sale of the vessel for
$1,625,000.
Mr. Wilcox left here a week ago to
day after having received a telegraphic
offer from Mayor Rolph for the vessel.
Several were negotiating, even Oriental
interests having sought to purchase.
Mr. Wilcox bought the vessel in Decem
ber and it was said he actually paid
$975,000 to Mayor Rolph. and that the
price to the Eastern syndicate, which
is composed of New Yorkers, was $1,
643,000 instead of $1,625,000.
FLEET IN WAR TRADE GROWS
Puget Sound Company Adds Two
Vessels to Carry Munitions.
SEATTLE. Wash., March 18. Indi
cations that the heavy shipments of
war munitions to Vladivostok from
Puget Sound will continue throughout
the Summer have caused the shipping
firm of Frank Waterhouse & Co. to
charter two more vessels, bringing the
fleet under charter for the Seattle
Vladivostok trade to 17 steamers.
Mr. Waterhouse announced today that
he had chartered the Norwegian
steamer Grena for delivery at Moji
March 21, and the Japanese steamer
Kiku Maru for delivery at JUojl late
in April. Each vessel will bring Orien
tal products to Seattle and. load Rus
sian war supplies for Vladivostok.
With the vessel under charter Water
house & Co. has arranged for 23 sail
ings from Seattle to Vladivostok be
tween now and the en of June.
Rare Birds Given to State.
Jean Wheeler Speie'r. daughter of
Harbormaster and Mrs. Speier, has pre
sented to the Oregon State Fish and
Game Commission two handsome Bra
zilian cardinals, birds that are scarce
in northern latitudes. They were pre
sented to her by the master of the
British steamer Erroll, but the tender
hearted owner concluded to turn them
over to the state authorities with the
hope that they would be liberated, and
help swell the bird colony in Oregon.
The cardinals are on exhibition in the
Fif th-street window of the commis
sion's headquarters in the Commercial
Club building.
Marine Notes.
that the south Jetty gas buoy, reported
mUsing. was located in position yesterday
was information conveyed to Lighthouse
Inspector Warrack last night.
Captain Harry Baughman. who has been
with the O.-W. R. & N". fleet on the Snake
River, is in the city. He usually goes
to Alaska during the season" and expects
to leave this year if improved in health.
"Lime Juice" corner, as Third and Ash
streets has been known among the ma
rine fraternity for years. Is no more, for
the well-known building that formerly
housed Frank Botefuhr's thirst emporium
has been rased to make room for a mod
ern structure. It is said .to have been
about 1S84 when the resort became the
rendezvous of the deep-sea fraternity and
in it many tales have been narrated of
life on the briny and it was a general
meeting place on the "beach."
With about 820.000 feet of lumber, the
schooner K. B. Jackson finished loading
yesterday 'at the Clark oi Wilson mill. She
leaves this week for. Bombay.
Formal transfer of the affairs of the
First Portland District will be made to
morrow from Colonel Potter . to Major Ar
thur Williams, the latter having returned
last week after an extended leave to re
sume his work.
Ships bringing general cargo in the
Parry-McComnick service, all of which will
work lumber for the return to California,
are due as follows: Coquille River, to
morrow; Wapama, Tuesday; Yesemlte,
Wednesday; Davenport, Thursday; North
land, Friday, and Celilo, Saturday.
Bound for Bandon, the gasoline schooner
Ahwenada was cleared yesterday with 75
tons of cargo.
Repairs to the steamer Lurline being
carried on are expected to be completed
so she can leave for Astoria Tuesday, re
placing the steamer Undine.
Kent W. Clark, formerly purser on the
"Big Three" liner Beaver and who re
turned to the Pacific Mall service, being
on the steamer China of late, has re
signed to accept a shore billet.
News From Northwest Ports.
ABERDEEN, Wash.. March 18. (Special.)
The steamer I.indauer arrived late last
night, and by working two night shifts and
one day shift will be able to clear by to
morrow morning. She is ' loading at the
Wilson mill here.
The steamer Coronado cleared from the
Bay City mill here this morning for San
Francisco.
The steamer San Pedro is due from San
Francisco tomorrow.
HOQUIAM. Wash.. March 18. (Special.)
The steam schooner Carmel completed cargo
last nlgh,t at Lytle's mill and sailed for
San Pedro.
The steam schooner San Jacinto completed
cargo today and sailed for San Francisco
from the E. K. Wood mill.
ASTORIA. Or.. March 18. (Special.)
Bringing fuel oil for Astoria and Portland,
the tank steamer Atlas arrived from Cali
fornia. After discharging freight at Astoria and
Portland, the steam schooner Wasp sailed
for Puget Sound to load lumber.
The American-Hawaiian line steamer
Honolulan sailed during the night for
Seattle to take on cargo for Vladivostok.
Carrying about 800 tons of freight and a
small list of passengers, the steamer North
ern Pacific sailed today for San Francisco.
The steam schooner Daisy arrived from
San Francisco and went to Knappton to
load' lumber.
COOS BAY. Or., March 18. (Special.)
The steamer Adeline Smith sailed for San
Francisco with lumber and passengers to
day. The Kllburn sailed this sfternoon for Eu
reka and other California points from
Marshfield
The steamer Xatin Smith arrived from
San Francisoo with freight and passengers.
The steam schoner Hardy will sail for
San Francisco tomorrow with lumber from
North Bend.
The Elmore Company announced today
the gasoline schooner Tillamook would be
placed on the Coos Bay-Portland run start
ing from Portland March 25.
Columbia Itiver Bar Report.
NORTH HEAD, March IS. Condition of
the bar at 5 p. M. : Sea, smooth; wind,
southeast, 8 mile.
MARSHFIELD WIRES OPEN
New Line to Eugene Is Put Into
Service and Works Well.
MARSHFIELD. Or., March 18. (Spe
cial.) The new Western Union tele
graph wires between Eugene and
Marshfield were connected up this aft
ernoon, and messages were sent over
the wires at 4 o'clock. The two wires
worked clearly, and it is believed there
will be no further trouble from this
direction in getting messages to the
interior points.
The line between here and Eugene
goes through three submarine cables,
at Coos Bay, the Umpqua and Siuslaw
rivers. The wires follow the Willamette-Pacific
Railway between here
and Eugene.
EXPORTS OF FRUIT DROP
Eugene Growers Unable to Get Ships
for Europe.
EUGENE, Or., March IS. (Special.)
Lane County fruit growers for sev
eral months have found it almost im
possible to get ships in which to send
their products to Europe, declares J.
O. Holt, manager of the Eugene Grow
ers' Cannery.
"The great demand for ships to carry
munitions has been a blow to the ship
pers of fruit. Exports of fruit have
not been heavy for three or four
months. I understand that the Brit
ish embargo is to be lifted, partially
at least, in October."
8682 Register In Lane County.
EUGENE. Or.. March 18. (Special.)
A total of 8682 electors had been regis
tered in Lane County at the close of
the week ending March 11. according to
a statement issued by County Clerk
Stacy M. Ruesell. Only 2133 are wom
en. By parties they are enrolled as
follows. Republicans, 5343: Democrats,
22S5: Socialists. 355; independent, 214;
Progressives, 43; Prohibitionists, 201.
COOS BAY GETS BOAT
Tillamook to Be Added to Serv
ice on Weekly Schedule.
MERCHANTS' AID IS URGED
S. Elmore & Co. Promise to Continue
' Service if Patronage Warrants,
but With Demand for Boats
Profit Must Be Returned.
S. Elmore & Co., of Astoria, who have
operated for years a fleet in the coast
wise trade between Portland and Ore
gon coast ports, have announced that
they will put on the Portland-Coos Bay
run the gasoline sdhooner Tillamook.
The first sailing of the vessel under
this schedule will be next Saturday
from Albers dock No. 2, and thereafter
the Tillamook will sail on a weekly
schedule.
The Elmore interests have been
studying the matter of an improved
service to Oregon coast ports for some
time. The company appointed N. F.
Titus as Portland agent and engaged
dock space at Albers No. 3. A canvass
has been made among jobbers of Port
land who are interested, and also the
trade of the Coos Bay territory. Assur
ances of support were given, provid
ing a service is established that would
take care of the freight offering and
which has been delayed somewhat in
delivery the past few months.
Portland Loses Orders.
-A large number of orders placed by
the Coos Bay interests in Portland in
the past few months have been can
celed because of the inability of the
dealers to get delivery within the time
they needed the goods. This has been
due to a congestion on vessels operat
ing, and the fact the service formerly
maintained to Coos Bay had been cur
tailed for a time because of demands
made for tonnage at other points.
Coos Bay and Portland merchants
struggled to work out an improvement
in the situation without success. When
it was learned that the Elmore Com
pany might consider placing the Tilla
mook on this exclusive run, business
houses took the qtrestion up with them
and urged the action. A general in
vestigation of the situation has been
made by representatives of the com
pany and a decision reached to es
tablish a service.
Service Is Provisional.
"In putting on the service the man
agement states that ' it will not be
maintained without proper support,"
says W. D. B. Dodson, of the Chamber
of Commerce. The necessary support
depends on selling and buying goods so
as to compel their movement between
Portland and Coos Bay in each direc
tion. The jobbing interests that have
been suffering in the past from in
ability to make delivery within the
time specified by their purchasers are
being called upon to develop and main
tain such business as will warrant the
new service and keep. the vessel profit
ably employed.
There is such a demand for steam
ships of all classes now in other fields
that no company .will undertake to
maintain a service of . this character
unless the business fully warrants it.
Efforts were made to take the Tilla
mook Into other fields, but the Elmore
interests that have operated for years
On the Oregon coast preferred to keep
her here if the .employmnt could be
made remunerative."
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Steamer Schedule.
DUE TO ARRIVE.
Name. From Date.
Breakwater -Pan Diego .Mar. :
Heaver Los Angeles Mar. :
Northern Pacific. San Francisco Mar. :
F. A. Kllburn. . . . Kan Diego Mar. :
Bear Los Angeles Mar. :
DCE to depart.
Name.
Yale
Wapama . . .
Harvard
Breakwater
For
. S. F toL. A
. San DJegb
. .S. F. to la. A
. IS an Dlepo
Date.
, . Mar.
. .Mar.
. .Mar.
, Mar.
Braver Los Aneelos Mar.
Northern Pacific. San Francisco Mar. li.
Northland San Diego Mar. 25
F. A. Kilburn. . .. San Diego Mar. 01
Bear Los Angeles Apr. 1
Portland-Atlantic Service.
DUE TO ARRIVE.
Name. From Date..
Georgian New York April 1
DUE TO DEPART.
Name. For Date.
Georgian Honolulu April 4
Marconi AVireJess lie ports.
(All positions reported at 8 P. M-, ?.Iarch
18, unless therwine designated.)
Manoa, San Francisco for Honolulu. 1021
mi les from San Francisco, March 1.
Enterprise, San FrancLsco for Honolulu,
1:: miles from San Franrisco, March 17. .
Great Northern, Honolulu for San Fran
cisco, 4K miles from Honolulu, March 17.
Lurline, Honolulu for San Francisco, J.JI6
miles from San Francisoo, March 17.
China, San Francisco for Orient, 366 miles
from San Francisco, March 17.
Willamette. Grays Haroor for San Fran
cisco, off Duxbury Reef.
Herrin, Gavlota tor Linnton. 313 miles
north of Gavlota.
Bradford. Antofagasta for' San Francisco,
104 miles south of San Franciaoo.
Speedwell, San Peuro for San Francisco,
110 miles south of San Francisco.
President, San Francisco for Seattle, 115
miles from San Francisco.
Newport, San Francisco for ' Balboa, at
Mazatlan, March 17.
Roanoke. San Pedro for Corlnto, at Maz
atlan, March 1 7.
Celilo. Sau Diego for San Pedro, off Point
Loma.
Geo. W. Elder. Balboa for San Francisco,
12o miles south of San Pedro.
Beaver. San Pedro for San Francisco. 38
miles east of Point Concepcion.
Porter, Seattle for Port San Luis, 80S
miles from Seattle.
Lucas, towing barge 01, Seattle for Rich
mond, 212 miles from Richmond.
Adeline Smith, Coos Bay for San Fran
cisco. 279 miles north of San Francisco-
Governor, Victoria for San Francisco, off
Blanco.
Kilburn, Coos Bay for Eureka, 20 miles
south of Coos Bay.
Wapama. San Francisco for Portland, 18
miles north of Blunts Reef.
Drake. Richmond for Seattle, 3SS miles
irom Kichmona.
Buck, Linnton for San Francisco, 433
miles from Linnton.
Coronado, Aberdeen for San Francisco, 40
miles soul h of the Columbia River.
Mills, Seattle for Martinez. 200 miles
south of Seattle.
Northern Pacific, " Flavel for San Fran
cisco. 118 miles south of the Columbia
River.
Arollne. San Francisco for Seattle, 60
miles soutn oi tne Columbia iiver.
Movements of Vessels.
PORTLAND, March 18. Sailed Steamers
Temple E. Dorr, for San Pedro; Bear, for
San pearo via ban r rancisco.
Astoria. March 18. Sailed at 8 A. M.
steamer Wasp, for Mukil teo. Arrived at 8
A. M., steamer DaiHy. from San Francisco.
Sailed at '2 P. M., steamer Northern Pacific,
for San Francisco. Arrived at 2:40 and left
up at 4:40 P. M., steamer Atlas, from San
Francisco.
San Francisco. March 18. Arrived at 8
A. M.. steamer Breakwater, from San Diego
and way ports, tor portiann via way ports.
Coon Rav March 18. Arrived at 7 A. M..
steamer F. A. Kilburn, from Portland for
San Diego via way ports.
Tatoosh, March 18. Passed tn at 7:10
A M. steamer Honolulan, from Portland for
Seattle.
San Pedro. March 17. Sailed Steamer Ed-g-ar
H. Vance, for Columbia River.
Astoria. March 17. Sailed at 8 P. M.,
steamer Honolulan, for Puget Sound; at 9
p. M-, steamers Daisy Gadsby. for San Pedro;
naisv Putnam, for San Francisco.
San Francisco, March 18. Arrived
Steamers Seiyo Maru (Japanese) from
Coronel; Alaskan, from Honolulu; ucatan.
from Shanghai. Sailed Steamers Westerner,
for Aberdeen; LT. S. S. Raleigh, for Mexico;
Helen e. Necanlcum. Wapama. for Portland ;
President, for Seattle; A. M. Simpson, for
Coos Bay: ship Indiana, for Blaine,
Antofagasta, March 1. Arrived
Steamer Nissei Maru, from Portland. Or.
Seattle. March 18.- Arrived Steamers
Honolulan from New York; J. A. Chansior,
Admiral Farragut, San Francisco: Alaska,
from Southeastern Alaska. Sailed Steam
ers Dolphin, for Southeastern A laska ; Vuki
Maru (.Japanese), for Vladivostok.
Tides at Astoria. Sunday. .
High. Low.
0:SS A. M....8.3 feet J 7:08 A. M 1.1 feet
0:51 P. M 8.0 feat 7:13 P. M 1.0 foot
Vessels Cleared Yesterday.
Gasoline schooner Ahawanda, general
cargo, for Bandon and way.
American steamer Bear, general cargo, for
San Pedro via Pan Francisco.
BANDON BONDS ARE SOLD
Seattle Firm Takes $25,000 Series
Issued by Port.
MARSHFIELD. Or.. March 18.
(Special.) The purchase of the . Port
of Bandon series B, $25,000 bonds, by
the F. E. Conway Mortgage Company,
for Carstens & Earls, of Seattle, is
looked upon in this vicinity as an in
dication of returning financial stabil
ity and confidence on the Pacific Coast,
and the general comment is favorable
to the purchase by a Coast firm.
It is held here that port bonds are
the best securities being issued in Ore
gon, and should therefore bring hoard
ed money out of the banks. Hereto
fore, Eastern firms, mainly Toledo and
Cleveland concerns, have taken all the
municipal and port bonds offered here.
A Denver firm took the Coquille mu
nicipal issue of $32,000.
SCIENCE LECTURE IS TODAY
,
C. II. Ohrenstein, of First Church,
to Talk at Vancouver Today.
VANCOUVER. .Wash.. March 18.
(Special.) A free lecture on Christian
Science will be given Sunday afternoon
at 3 o'clock in the auditorium of tne
Vancouver High School, by Charles H.
Ohrenstein. of the board of lectureship
of the mother church.' the First Church
of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass. The
public is cordially invited to attend.
When a lecture is given by the
Christian Scientists there are always
hundreds coming from Portland, and
it is expected that tomorrow will be
no exception.
DAILY CITY STATISTICS
.Marriajce Licenses.
KE.VP-D1EDP.ICH Claude Wright Kemp,
legal. Empress Hotel and Viola K. liledrich,
legal. Buona Vista apartments.
HUL.DKN-SMITH V.llliam V. Holden. le
gal, Tvtr East Kihteenth street, and Mabel
H. Smith. lcRal, same address.
VVHlTKIELD-HrGHES William Whit
fleldi. legal. Commercial Club building, and
Isabella Hughes, legal, 474 Tillamook street.
CHlVERb-RKEN Harold Thomas Oli
vers, legal. I"7u Kast Twentieth street
North, and Mao Reen, legal, l'J4'2 Wilbur
street.
TK1NE-MOORE Charles I, Trine, Third
and Salmon streets, and Carrie Mae Mooru,
legal, llo Minnesota street.
Vancouver . Marriage Licenses.
CHII.COTE-PERRY Raymond K. Chil
coto. 111, of Molalla. Or., and Miss Opal
Perry. 17. of Molalla. Or.
MKELVEY-KAl.VE I'. A. MrKflvey, 2.
of llwaco. Wash., and Mia L'nicc M. Kaine,
111. of llwaco. Wash.
GABEL1CH-S.MITH G. Gabelir-h. 2, of
Portland, and Miss Louise Smith, -0, of Port
land. SCHOELLER-MTLARY Dr. Carl F.
Kchoeller. 27, of Newberg, Or., and Miss
Minnie K. Mo-Clary, 20, of Newbrrg, Or.
TOOLE Y-MAK Charles Tooley. -J4, of
Portland, and Miss lrma Mae, HU, of Port
land. Births.
SMART To Mr and Mrs. Bert Smart, 414
Eleventh street. March 11. a daughter.
M CSC HA LI K To Mr. and Mrs. Richard
P. Muschalik, 12o Willamette boulevard,
March 1, a son.
SCHMIDT To Mr. and Mrs. John
Schmidt, 448 Skidniore street. March 7, a
daughter.
E1..STEAD To Mr. and Mrs. Oliff N. B.
Klstead, 3V!9 East Morgan street, March 1-.
a sQn.
BEW1.EY To Mr. and Mrs. Edear Bew
ley. ."tOlr. EiRhty-flrsl street Southeast,
March a daughter.
BATES To Mr. and Mrs. William H.
Bates. 742 Vaughn street. March 11, a son.
BLAND To Mr. and Mrs. John I Bland,
704 l.'pshur street. March 2. a son.
WOOD To Mr. and Mrs. Horatio F.
Wood, 1051 Commercial street, March 16,
a daughter.
A.MSBLRY To Mr. and Mrs. Bert Ams
bury. 464 Miller street, March 8, a son.
DCNAWAV To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas K.
Dunaway. March 14. a son.
BRACER Tlfo Mr. and Mrs. August G.
Brauer. ison East Twenty-eighth street
North. March l'j, a son.
HII.E To Mr. and Mrs. Rov O. Hile, 314
Umatilla street, March S. a son.
Building; Permits.
raAMBl.ES & SMITH Repair two-story
ordinary store, 47oS Sixty-fifth avenue
Southeast, between Foster road and Fortv
eighth avenue: builder. Hugh Huffman: $!0.
UNION LAUNDRY roll PAN Y. Repair
three-story frame laundry. Second St., be
tween Columbia and Clay streets: builder,
Litherland & Abrev Company; $75.
JOSEPH PAQUET Erect one-story frame
garage. r,.Vi East Aider street, between
Kast Twelfth and East Thirteenth streets:
builder, same;
PROVIDENT TRUST COMPANY Repair
four-story ordinary garage. Alder street, be
tween Chapman and Seventeenth stree-s;
builder, O. L. Arthur; 150.
SARAH COY Repair two-story frame
dwelling, lion Detroit street, between Kll
llngsworth and .Tessup streets; builder, Wes
ley Cooper; $ino.
R. MCALI, Repair one-and-one-half-story
frame dwelling. R01 East Twenty
eighth street, between Tlbbetts and -.ast
Kelly streets: builder. C. H. Beard: T45.
.1. DAVENPORT Repair one-and-one-half
story frame dwelling, 1073 Cleveland ave
nue, between Sumner and Alberta streets;
builder, day work:
EMILR MAZKTIER Repair one-story
frame dwelling. 411 Sacramento street, be
tween Union and East Seventh streets;
builder. A. F. Velguth; $LT.O.
CHARLES FOX Erect one-story frame
garage, 7"t2 Wefdler street, between Kast
Twenty-second and East Twenty-fourth
streets; builder, A. W. Horn; .".on.
CHARLES FOX Erect one-and-one-half-Story
frame dwelling. 7."J Weldler street,
between East Twenty-second and East
Twenty-fourth streets; builder, A. W. Horn;
?noo.
IRA A. MARTIN Repair one-and-one-half-story
frame dwelling. 1VJ East
Eighteenth street North, between Sumner
and Emerson streets; builder, same; $loO.
R. R. HILL Erect one-story frame gar
age. M47 Rex avenue, between East Eleventh
and Kast Thirteenth streets: builder, same:
7.-l.
PENIVI SILVIO Erect one-story frame
garage. 111!. Maiden avenue, between East
Fortieth and East Forty-first streets;
builder, same: $250.
NORTHWESTERN FIDELITY COMPANY
Repair 15-story fireproof steel frame bank
and offices, .1.13 Morrison street, between
Sixth and Broadway: builder, Portland
Photo- Supply Company: $90.
J. T. BRUMFIELD Repair , one-and-one-half-story
frame dwelling, 746 Pettygrove
street, between Twenty-second and Twenty
third streets; builder, Muir & McClelland
Construction Company: $50.
MRS. M. DE PEEL Erect one-story
frame! dwelling. 601 East Sixtieth street
North, between Sandy and Alameda; builder,
same : $2500. '
WILLIAM ALBRIGHT Repair one-and-one-half-story
frame dwelling. 70S Rodney
avenue, between Failing- and Shaver streets;
builder, same: $25.
GEORGE BABESH Repair three-story
frame rooming-house, 37.1 North Sixteenth
street, between Savier and Thurman streets;
builder, O. Nelson;
CECIL BAUER AND IONE LEWIS Re
pair two-story frame stores and rooms, 540
to 554 Washington street, between Seven
teenth and Eighteenth streets; builder, J.
C. Bayer: $400.
F. V. HOLM AN Repair two-story frame
store, 675 Washington street, betw-een Ella
and Twenty-first streets; builder. R. J.
Stewart: $350.
Brownsville Class Gives Play.
BROWNSVILLE. Or.. March 18.
(Special.) The' North Brownsville
senior class presented its class play,
"A Poor Married Man," Friday night.
A large and enthusiastic audience at
tended. Members of the class in the
cast were: Genie Howe, Ruth Mallow,
Ibby Green, Edith Walker, - Chester
Roche, Arthur Goulard, Lee Eggleston
and Emil Nelson. The Junior girls sold
candy for funds to erect tennis courts.
State Gets $80 00 for Fire Patrol.
SALEM, Or., March 18. (Special.)
Contract was signed today by State
Forester Elliott with the United States
Government whereby the state will re
ceive $8000. its portion of the Weeks
fund, for use in fire patrol work. The
money, is to be expended under the
supervision of the state forestry de
3 STEAMERS BOUGHT
Pacific Mail Takes Over New
Dutch Vessels.
ONE STARTS TO COAST
Venezuela,' Colombia and Ketiatlor,
Built Only Last Year, Replace
Some of Those Sold When
Seaman's Act Took Kffcct.
AMSTERDAM, via London. March 18.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
of San Francisco has bought three,
it. i !..-.. .i t a . . i . . i. At".,, i i .
dian Mail Steamship Company.
The steamer Venezuela, which had .
previously been sold to a Norwegian
firm, was resold to the Pacific Mail
Company, and has sailed to San Fran-
cisco under the American flag with a i
Dutch crew. On the way the Venezuela '
will call at Cardiff. Santos and Rio i
Janeiro.
The other two steamers are the
Ecuador and Colombia. They will leave
shortly for San Francisco after being
refitted.
The Dutch vessels bought by the Pa - !
cific Mail Steamship Company were !
constructed last year. The Venezuela ;
and Colombia arc of 5500 gross tons
each and 380 feet long and were built '
in Amsterdam. The Ecuador is of 5000
tons and was built in Flushing.
The Pacific Mail Company last An- 1
gust sold the five largest vessels of its)
Oriental fleet to a subsidiary corpora- ',
'tion of the International Mercantile !
marine. i ne vessels were Lne; man- i
churia. Mongolia. Corea. Siberia and
China.
Austria Calls Out Youths of 18.
VIENNA. March 15. via London, March
18. (Delayed in transmission.) An
imperial decree published today calls
into service all youths 18 years old. who 1
r : . n,ii;,.. .J .... . TV..... ...ill ka 1
added to the landaturm category. The
decree applies to Austria and Hungary.
nAIl.Y MKTEOROIXKilCAL REPORT.
PORTLAND. March IS. Maximum tem
perature. 57 dem-ees: minimum, 4:S degrees.
River reading at S A. M ., 12.2 f et : change
In last 24 hours. 0.4 foot fall. Total rainf:iH
5 T-'. M. to 5 P M . none: total ralnfail
since September 1. 1015, 40.17 inches; nor- 1
mai raintaii since September l, :;i.i4 incne;
excess of rainfall since September 1, 1015.
5.4:1 inches. Total snnshino March IS. I
hour, 50 minutes; possible sunshine. 12
hours. 2 minutes. Barometer (reduced to
sea level) at 5 P. M.. 2!.tHi inches.
THE WEATHER.
Slala of
Weather
STATIONS!.
Baker
Boise
Boston
Calgary
Chicago
Colfax
Denver
Pes Moines
Duluth
Eureka
Galveston
Helena
Jacksonville ...
Kansas City. . .
Los Angeles....
Marshfield . . . .
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M innea polls ...
Montreal
New Orleans . . .
New York
North Head ....
North Yakima.
Omaha .......
Pendleton
Phoenix
Pocatello
Portland
Roseburg
Sacramento ....
St. Louis
Salt Lake
San Francisco..
Seattle
Spokane
Tacoma
Tatoosh Island.
Walla Walla. . .
Washington ....
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WEATHER CONDITIONS.
A laree high-pressure area overlies the
Upper Mississippi and Missouri Valleys and
Central Canada: high pressure obtains also
over the Gulf and South Atlantic Coasts.
Unsettled weather concTitions, with baromet
ric pressure below normal, obtains on most
of the Pacific Slope and from Central Texas
and Oklahoma eastward to the Atlantic
Coast. Light precipitation has occurred in
Northern California, interior Southwestern
Oregon and New York. TTie weather i
warmer in Western Wasrineton, Central
California, most of Montana. Western North
Dakota, from tile Mississippi Valley to the
Atlantic Coast. In Alberta and Northern
British Columbia; it is colder in most other
sections of the country.
The conditions are favorable for partly
clondv and occasionally threatening weather
in this district Sunday, with slight tempera
ture changes and light variable winds.
FORECASTS:
Portland and vicinity Partly cloudy and
occasionally threatening weather; light,
variable winds.
Oregon, Washington and Idaho Partly
cloudy and occasionally threatening
weather, slight temperature changes; light,
variable winds.
T. FRANHS DRAKE.
Assistant Forecaster.
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lens
KRYPTOKS
made by us cost no more
than Kryptok made by
other opticians, but the
Kryptoks supplied by us
are better, being finished
on specially made ma
chines and in the finest,
most completely equipped
retail optical factory in
Portland.
CJ Besides, we do all the
work under one roof, from
the examination of your
eyes to the accurate fit
ting of the finished glasses.
THOMPSON
OPTICAL INSTITUTE
209-10-11 Corbett Bldg.,
Fifth and Morrison
in
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