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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.