The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, August 13, 1916, Section One, Image 14

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Newspaper Page Text14 LICENSE PROCURED; Siberian Youth in Toils on Complaint of 15-Year-OId Martha Barmatoff. LIFE DECLARED MISERABLE Girl Says Jack Shewcheck Arrived in Autompblle to Take Her to Movies but Drove to Vancouver and v , Swore She Was 18. message: from imprisoned russian to girl who has preferred charges. "Marfachek. I will go to work and you will take the money. I will buy for you whatever you ask for, and better you come to me and we will speak personally. I love you. I kiss your cheeks and your hands and your white feet. Tell me. please, how soon, they will let me go." From far Siberia, where marriage customs are strange, Martha Barmatoff came to Portland with her parents, to become an American girl. Today she is detained by sympathetic officers of the Women's Protective Bureau, while the crude matrimonial methods of Jack Ulason Shewcheck are under investiga tlon. Martha is plump and placid and slow of speech. But her gray eyes flash coldly when she speaks of her impor tunate suitor. She is 15 years of age. 6hewcheck is 22 years old. He is charged with a statutory crime. Yesterday morning, in his cell in the City Jail, the impromptu husband penciled a letter to the girl. The original was in Hussian. A transla tion was obtained by Mrs. Lola G. Baldwin, of the Women's Protective Bureau, as follows: "A. note from Yakoff Schewcheck to lovely and dear wife Marfachek. "My dear lovely Marfachek I don't know why we are -here suffering, my young and dear wife, Marfachek. I loved you with all my soul and also 1 love you now. Dear Marfachek, write me a note why you put me here and why do you injure my young life so that I must suffer and you suffer, too? It would be better for us to live together, my dear highly prized Mar fachek. Please write to me right away. "Written by your loved Yakoff Schewcheck." Postscript Poll of Ardor. Then followed a postscript. Into which the prisoner poured his ardor. "Marfachek, I will go to work and you will take the money. I will buy for you whatever you ask for and bet ter you come to me and we will speak personally. I love you. I kiss your cheeks and your hands and your white feet. Tell me, please, how soon they will let me go." The Barmatoffs came to Portland nine years ago. Their home had been at Yeinsiski, on the great Siberian rail road. The senior Barmatoff was a sol dier of the Czar. When his enlistment ended he turned with his brood toward America, having more than enough of soldiering. In the public schools of Portland the eldest child, Martha, became an ambi tious student. She worried with ' the odd English tongue until she became thu . - . . tf Ko. riai-enta d n H t Vi i, .malt. er children. The Siberian plain, the great-coated soldiers, and the huddled village became almost lost to memory. Ideals Are Established. She would be a stenographer some day, she told herself, or a cashier in a motion-picture palace ami most em phatically she would never have a Hussian husband. In the celebration of Christmas, when the families of the motherland met to perpetuate the customs of holy Russia, Martha came to know Jack Shewcheck, & logger. He had made money In the woods, and money meant admittance to picture shows. So Martha accepted him as an escort. One July day Schewcheck came to her home at 1705 East Eighth street, and asked Anastasia Barmatoff, the girl's mother. If he might take Martha to the movies." And they were to go In an automobile. But the chauffeur drove past picture ehow after picture show. They left the city, crossed the river, and came to Vancouver, Wash. It was then that Shewcheck told the girl that she was to be his wife. He applied for the license. Martha declares that she protested her age was but 15, and that Shewcheck told the license clerk that he knew she was IS. rne license was issued and the car turned homeward. Shewcheck told Martha they had been married, the girl pays, and she believed him. Yet stie went to her mother and complained that she did not love the logger. Sympathy Is Slight. I can do nothing for you. Go and live with him." said Anastasia. "You are married to him." For two weeks Martha and Shew check roomed at 28S North Nineteenth street, the girl says. Her dislike for the enforced mating grew intolerable. She Fhowed the marriage license to friends, and asked them if it was really true that sne naa taken a Husband. rney toia me mat license was bull,' " she related, smiling as she thought of the slang that meant escape from the slavery' of the rooming-house. "So 1 went again to my mother. She Raid that if it was so that I could have Shewcheck arrested; she would let me come home again. v nue i was wnn nim I did no housework. There was a gasplate in the room, but we did not use it much. He had no money. Sometimes he gave me food once a day, sometimes twice and sometimes not at alL He did not pay for the room, even. Martha, looked 'steadilv at hor ni.Q .Marina lOOKea sceaaily at her Quea- tioners. "Do I love him? Of course I don't. I never did. But I couldn't go to my home, and I did not know. I will not be married to him." Shewcheck has employed an attorney snd will be given a hearing before the Municipal Court tomorrow. He is held under $1000 bail. HARBOR PUPILS TOTALED School Head at lioqulam Reports County Has 9101 School Children. HOQTTIAM. Wash., Aug. 12. (Spe cial.) Grays Harbor County has 9101 persons of school age 4663 boys and 4438 girls and during the past year had 7126 pupilts enrolled in its schools, according to the annual report of Su perintendent J. W. HoUge. The aver age daily attendance was only 5681. One notable feature shown by the report is that there are only 15 child ren between the ages of 8 and 15 years in the county who were not going to school rhe past Winter. The report also shows that 880 pupils are enrolled in the hitU ticiioold of the .county. MARRIAGE OMITTED CROWDS AT Predictions of Failure in Second Year SAN DIEGO, Cal., Aug. 12. (Spe cial.) Attendance at the Panama California International Exposi tion, at San Diego during the first few months of the second year, is showing the wisdom of the directors in enlarg ing he bjautiful 1915 Exposition and making it international. In a state ment issued by President G. A. David son, he makes the following compari PLAN 13 ADVANCED Lumbermen Offer Way to Set tle Wage Disputes. RAILROADS SEEM IN FAVOR Some Officials Consider Scheme Logical Oregon Delegation Urged to Try and Secure Necessary legislation. To give the Interstate Commerce Commission complete Jurisdiction over the wage disputes between the railroads and their employes. Is the plan pro posed In a set of resolutions adopted last week by the trustees of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and approved yesterday by mill operators and lumber dealers in various parts of Oregon and Washington. The plan has been submitted by tele graph to members of the Oregon and Washington delegations in tonsreis. The Congressmen will be urged to in troduce and attempt to secure the pas sage of legislation that will secure the end desired. Some response already has been had from railroad officials who seem to re gard the proposal as the logical se auence of the recent enactment giving the commission Jurisdiction in the regu lation of railroad revenues, bo tar as has been learned the railroads them selves are not opposed to the lumber men's suggestion. The plan was proposed to the asso ciation directors by F. B. Hubbard, president of the Eastern Railway & Lumber Company, of Centralia, Wash., and a trustee of the West Coast Lum bermen's Association. The resolutions, which were unanimously approved by the directors, are as follows: Whereas. In recent efforts the man Mo ment of American railroads and the train service brotherhoods tailed to agree In the matter of wage controversy, and even Fed eral mediation has not been altogether suc cessful; and. Whereas, Upon the result of present nego tiations depends whether or not the trans portation systems of this country shall be seriously impaired. Industry paralyzed and public welfare tnenaced; and. Whereas. The stability of transportation is vital to the pub!ic interest and should not be placed in Jeopardy when contro versies arise between tha carrier and their employes; and. Whereas. The Interstate Commerce Cora mission was created for the specific pur- nAt nf rfsYlinr with controversies arising J between the shippers and the railroads, and nroven its ability to deal fairly and efficiently with ail questions submitted. lor arbitration; therefore, be it Resolved, That the West Coast Lumber men's Association urges the enactment of legislation which will empower the Inter state Commerce Commission to institute in vestigations where controversies arise be tween the carriers and their employ ea to the end that public Interest be protected and an equitable and stable basis of adjudicating such wage controversies be created; be it further Resolved, That the West Coast Lumber men's Association, representing the lumber industry of the Pacific Northwest, pledges Its support to this movement, and Invites the co-operation of the commercial and in dustrial interests of the country to the at taining of such legislation as Is herein pro posed. MAIL LIMIT INCREASED First-class Matter May Weigh as Much as Parcel Post. Word was received at the Portland Postoffice yesterday of a limitation on first class mail matter, made effective with the passage of the Postofice ap propriation bill by Congress. 1'ot .what la said to be tai first time lB$WWS:X: Lit "A'"-' - J THE SUNDAY OREGOyiA', TOKTLAND, AUGUST 13, 1016. SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION GREATER THAN Are Set at Naught by Heavy Attendance, Which Shows Wisdom of Making Beautiful Fair International in Character Pass, While Turnstiles Buzz More and More Every Day. son of the 1915 and 1916 attendance figures to date, beginning with the formal opening on March 18, 1016. "Dedication day attendance. March 18, was 33 per cent greater than the greatest day of the entire period of 1915. Dedication day's total was 45,000 against 30.000 for the biggest day of 1915. The mo 3th of April, which was the first full month that the Panama- since the establishment of the postal service the four-pound limit on first class mail has been increased. Under the new law, the weight limit for first class mail will be the same as that for parcel post mail. That is. 50 pounds within a 150-mile zone, and 20 pounds for greater distances than 150 miles. One advantage of sending mat ter first class is that it can be sealed , and registered. 0.-W. R. & rjLJSETS DELAY Astoria Hate Order to Be Made Ef fective November 1. Traffic officials of the O.-W. K. R. & N. Company were advised yesterday that the Interstate Commerce Com mission has extended the effective date of their order in the Astoria rate case, so far as it applies to the O.-W. R. R. & N. territory north of Pendle ton, from September 15 to November 1. This, It is presumed, is for the pur pose of giving the Commission a chance to hear the O.-W. R. R. & N. Com pany's petition for relief from the Astoria rate order. The order for an extension of fhe date, however, applies only to the O.-W. R. R. & N. territory and not to the territory of the North Bank or other roads. The territory referred to as "north of Pendleton" means Walla Walla and all the O.-W. R. R. & N. territory in Eastern Washington. Express Rates to Be Irobed. SALEM, Or., Aug. 12. (Special.) Intrastate rates of the American Ex press Company on milk, cream and dairy products will be probed by the Oregon Public Service Commission at a hearing set today for September 15 at Portland. Following the hearing a schedule of rates to be charged in Ore gon will be fixed by the Commission. PORTLAND IS HEADQUARTERS : . . LIGHTHOUSE TENDER ROSE. During this week the new lighthouse tender Rose, built at Seattle for the Seventeenth Lighthouse District, the headquarters of which is maintained here,-with Robert Warrack inspector In charge, will perform her first duties under the Government, having been accepted last week. She is commanded by Captain Charles Modeer, who was first officer on the tender Manxanita, and is in tended for service in making harbors In Oregon and Washington that are not always accessible for the tenders Manzanita and Heather, which are much larger. The vessel is of steel. She is 127.6 feet over all. and 119 feet Jong on the normal load line, hav ing a beam 24.6 feet and depth of hold of 11 feet. Her draft will be between seven and eight feet. Two vertical triple-expansion engines drive twin screws, and in all equipment and furnishings she Is de cidedly natty and modern. California International Exposition had been operated, showed an attendance of 10.000 greater than April, 1915. Dur ing May the dally average attendance wan practically the same, and except fay several special events held during May 1915, not observed during 1916. the total admissions were greater for May. Five big special attractions were given during May 1915, as against one HUNDREDS WILL GO One Special Train to Coos Is Provided For. R0SARIANS TO TAKE BAND San Francisco Merchants Planning Junket to Railway Celebration in Hopes of Retaining Trade In Rich Oregon Section. One trainload of Coos Bay excursion ists already is assured. Another la in prospect. . The Chamber of Commerce commit tee in charge of the excursion was certain, when the office closed last night, that the big special will have at least 141 passengers. That many reser vations already have been made. A score or more of inquiries are pending. Included in this number is the Royal Rosarian Band of 35 pieces and the Ad Club Quartet. These two organiza tions win furnish some of the enter tainment for the Portland invaders. The Southern Pacifie has given assurance that the best equipment available will be sent to Portland to make up the big special. Of one thing the committee is doubly sure. There will be plenty of dining-car accommo OF MOST RECENT ACQUISITION HAS TO DO WITH NAVIGATION. . v - ., ... . -'V ' 1 big feature for May 1916. The first 11 days of June showed an attendance 8090 greater than the first 11 days of June, 91B. The July figures are ex pected to show even greater Improve ment. "In face of the predictions of fail ure fir iris and statements that no exposition could ever operate success fully a second year, we are proud cf dations. The first special will carry two diners. It is possible now that a second train will be necessary and ample dining car service also will be provided for that. The Portland people are arrang ing to take all their meals while at Coos Bay on the diners. They realtze that the crowds will be great and that it will be difficult to get meals at the regular hotels and restaurants. California!) Are Expected. The trains will leave the Portland Union Depot late in the evening of Wednesday, August 23. arriving in North Bend the following morning. The first day's celebration will take place at North Bend. The remaining two days will be divided between Marsh field and some of the other Coos Bay towns. The San Francisco Chamber of Com merce has arranged for a special train to visit North Bend on the first day of the celebration. The California visi tors then will leave Coos Bay and proceed to Eugene and other cities in Southwestern Oregon. But the San Francisco crowd will arrive on the bay Monday evening. Au gust 21. and will pass Monday and Tuesday in visiting Marshfield. Co qullle. Myrtle Point and other towns in the district. A steam vessel has been chartered to carry them up the Coquille River. The San Franciscans are coming to Oregon on a trade-extension mission purely, and will partic ipate in only one day's festivities. The advice of the Calif ornians' plans- has spurred the Portland merchants to new action, and it Is probable that the excursion crowd will be measurably greater by reason thereof. Portland Haa Comretltlom. The San Francisco people somehow imagine that the Coos BaV country Is their legitimate trade territory. This probably is due to the fact that here tofore freight shipments to and from Coos Bay have been made solely by water. It was about as easy to ship TO GOVERNMENT FLEET THAT ..N ... LAST YEAR Expense Grows Less as Months this record. The months that have passed are known as slack months and we have not yet entered on the big period for the exposition. Our gates were practically closed until March IS and our expenses, up to that time and lor several weeks following that peri od, were far greater than now. be cause of tlie reconstruction work neces sary in perparalion for thenew Inter national features." between Coos Bay and San Francisco as between Coos Bay and Portland. Now that the railroad line has been completed. Portland has a decided ad vantage over its southern competitor in both time and distance, and it Is presumed that the rates will be similarly advantageous. However, tne San Francisco jobbers do not propose to give up this choice bit of trading district without more or less of a struggle. That is the rea son they are chartering a special train. A second special will run from San Francisco. carrying officials nf tho Southern Pacific. It Is probable that President Sprouie will be a member of the party. G. W. Luce, freight traffic manager, and C. S. Fee. passenger traf fic manager, as well as other officials of both the traffic and operating de partments, will be in the party. Vir tually all Southern Pacific officials in Portland will go. The celebration marks the formal opening of the Southern Pacific's new line from Eugene to the Coos Bay cities. PORTLAND MEN WIN J. WALTER JOHNSO.-V NAMED BEST WIDOW DISPLAY ARTIST. . J. B. Tenaent Also Awardea Big Honors at International Display Men's Convention. J. Walter Johnson, whose - striking noveau art display windows during the Spring Style Show attracted much at tention here, was the winner of a grand prize at the International As sociation of Display Men's convention In Chicago, according to a telegram re ceived here from E- J. Edgell, president or tne association, by Ira F. Powers. Mr. Johnson is the display manager for Powers' furniture store. Besides the grand prize for window display work, he received also a grand prize for the best decorated automo bile. It is probable that the automo bile decoration on which he won the prize was the one which he prepared and which was entered in the Hose Festival pageant In June by Mrs. Powers, where it won the sweepstakes in the floral parade. Portland has received double honors in the Chicago convention, for M. J. B. Tennent, of Meier & Frank, also won several prizes there. The competition is between the dis play men from the beat establishments in the world and It is international in its scope. Portland people may con gratulate themselves, therefore, on hav ing two of the best window display men In the world serving In great stores In this city and putting out quality of window display that equal j Ilia, .11 U& . W OWI M , II ern and European leading cities. OIL RESERVOIR DESTROYED Italian Air Raiders Inflict Great Damage Near Trieste. PARIS. Aug. 12. The great damage inflicted by the recent Italian aerial raid near Trieste is related in a semi official note from Rome, as forwarded bv the Havas Agency. It says 20 ma chines dropped four tone of explosives, blowing up a great petroleum reservoir on the Gulf of Trieste and destroying all nearby buildings. Three buildings of a torpedo factory, containing a large amount of machin ery, were wrecked. Scandinavian Picnic Arranged. Under the joint auspices of the Sons of Norway, the Daughters of Norway and the Swedish Singing Society a pic nic will be held at Bonneville on Sun day, August 20. A special train will leave the Union Depot at 8:50 A. M. carrying the excursionists. An excel lent programme of singing, races, base ball games, tug-of-war and other enter tainment has been provided. Dancing will be an additional attraction. TRAINMEN PRESENT CASE TO PUBLIC Men Are Declared to Be Doing More Work, but at No Advance in Pay. HOME IS SELDOM SEEjJ Crews Can Move More Tonnage ii Shorter Day, They Say, Than Did Those of Decade Ago, Be cause Equipment Better. "Why we want an eight-hour day" is the caption that might aptly be ap plied to a series of interesting pamph- lete and circulars now being distributed among the people of Portland and other parts of the Northwest by representa tives of the four railroad brotherhoods -that now are negotiating with repre sentatives of their employers In New Tork for a readjustment of their work ing conditions. Increased efficiency of motive power and equipment has resulted In a cor responding Increase in the perform ances of a train crew, is one of the ar guments, but the wagee of the crew have not been Increased in like pro portion. A few significant paragraphs In sup port of this contention follow: Tractive power ot locomotives nas increased 33 per cent. capacity of freight cars 30 per cent, tons carried in loaded cars 19 per cent and tons car ried by the average freight train 47 per cent. Increased Worst Asserted. Railroad revenues per freight train per mile have increased from 31.65 in 1890 to 33.31 in 1914 and If tne figures for 1915 and 1916 were available, they would show a tremendous increase over these figures. 'Uven with a shorter work, day ot eight hours, the freight train crew of today can move a rar greater tonnage than the same crew moved in ten hours a decade ago. "One crew is now doing the work that was formerly done by three or four crews. "Freight train employes must work days, nights, holidays and Sundays In rain. snow, sleet, fog, heat and cold and have no regular hours and little time at home." High Pay Is Denied. In refutation of the oft-repeated and much emphasised declaration of the railroad managers that the trainmen and enginemen now are the highest paid mechanics in America, the bul letins quote tne loiiowing usuica iui porting to give the rate of hourly wages paid train emp.oyes and men engaged in other skilled occupations; Locomotlce engineers .$-48 S Bricklayers, plasterers, tic ..... I.ocomo?lva firemen Carpenters, painters, etc .. Freight conductors ............. Laborers in tunnels, wells, etc . Freight brakemen Excavating laborers To point out the hazards 31 70 40 ITS 2T 40 of their work the trainmen make bold the fol lowing assertions dealing on this sub ject: "The last annual report of the Inter state Commerce Commission, shows that a train man is killed on an aver age of every four hours and 40 minutes, and a man crippled every three min utes and SO seconds. And this does not tell all the story, because if a man does not die from his injuries within 24 hours, he is not reported to the com mission as killed and unless the In Jury disables him for three days he is not counted as Injured. "Out of every 100 men who start nrni-v firemen, only 17 ever become out of every iuu men who engineers. do become engineers. only 6 become passenger engineers. Trainmen Pans Sever Teats. "The average length of service Is 11 H years. . "Train service employes are picked men in every sense of the word. "Few realize the rigid physical ex amination they are required to pass and which is more severe than the United States Government requires for enlistment in the Army or Navy. Physi cal examinations are repeated every two or three years. "Eyesight, hearing, color perception, heart action and blood pressure are all scrutinized closely. Although the United States Gov- rnment Drohibits by law the continu-. ous employment of a train employe more than 16 hours. It Is worthy of note that In 1915 there were h.mu vio lations reported by the railroads them selves. Under the rates of pay now receiver by the men. they must work from 13 to 20 hours in order to earn enuuKu i be on a par with the wage-earners In other trades." HOQUIAM TRAFFIC GROWS Railroad Has to Have Yardmastcr to Handle Freight Increase. HOQUIAM. Wash.. Aug. 12. (Spe cial.) Traffic in the Hoquiam railroad yards has increased to such an extent during the past few months that It has been necessary to name a yardmaster. William Nalty, for the past three yeare local switching foreman, was promoted. Hoquiam is one of the heaviest freight developing points In the west ern part of the state. One mill alone Is shipping an average of 22 cars of lumber a day. In addition to heavy outgoing shipments an average of nearly 100 cars of logs are coming Into the city per day. A. C. Jackson on Vacation. A. C. Jackson, advertising agent for the O.-W. R. & N. Company, accom panied by Mrs. Jackson, left last night for California, where they will pass a fortnight's vacation. Mr. Jackson will take occasion while away to in quire Into advertising methods In Cal ifornia and expects to have inspiration, on his return, for some new and effec tive publicity work in Oregon and W ashington. First White Girl Visits Oregon Clt fiprr.n CITY. Or.. Aug. 12. (Spe cial ) Mrs. Waley Edwards, aged 76. the first white person born in Oregon, is in Oregon City today visiting her granddaughter. Mrs. Clarence John son Her home is in Orenco, Washing ton County. Mrs. Edwards remembers coming to Oregon City in 1847 and eat ing dinner with Dr. John McLoughlin. at his historic home on the river bank near the falls of the Willamette, y , Emma Goldman Is Coming. Emma Goldman, high priestess of anarchy.' will return to Portland next Thursday to deliver a series of four lectures on topics closely related to anarchism. She will epeak at Turn Hall, Fourth and Yamhill streets. Thursday. Friday. Saturday and Sun day nights at o'clock.