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THE SUNDAY OKEGONIAN, - PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 16, 1917. HOBBOR OF U-BOAT WAR VIVIDLY TOLD PORTLAND VISITOR WHO WAS UNITED STATES CONSUL AT QUEENSTOWN WHEN THE LUSITANIA SANK. Ex-Consu! Frost, of Queens town, Reveals How Lusi tania Met Fate. SLAUGHTER IS MERCILESS 18 rormer United States Official de clares "Coyotes of Ocean" De light to Kill Victims Who Are Unable to Escape. ATI spindrift and great sullen waves, with a chill wind driving over the vast immensity of ocean. The open boat, with its freigrht of perishing passen gers and sailors, is drenched with spray and tossed like a toy at the caprice of the eea. It is an hour since the unseen submarine launched its tor pedo and the ship went down. Land Is a hundred miles away in the murk, and death will tak; its toll again and again before the boat i beached. Such a picture is the mildest, the kindest in treatment and tone, that "Wesley Frost. ex-Consul of the United States at Queenstown, Ireland, has to offer in his ghastly gallery of German "kultur" at Bea. There are others, vivid word sketches from which the hearer shrinks as at unendurable hor rors. Yet none are overdrawn, for Wesley Frost was Consul when the boats brought the dead of the Lusi tania to Queens town, and when the highway of ocean traffic off the Irish coast was rife with daily enormities. ' Actual Conditions Recited. As a special representative of the committee on general information, of which George Creel is chief at Wash ington, D. C, Mr. Frost is touring the Northwest. He arrived in Portland yes terday and delivered an address at the noon luncheon of the Oregon Civic League. His mission is to present the submarine situation as it is, that Amer icans may realize, by the word of one who interrogated hundreds of surviv ors, the appalling horror of German frisrhtfulness at sea. Reft of all gallantry and romance of war at sea. to ex-Consul Frost the Ger man U-boats are "coyotes of the ocean," and the crude cruelty of their com manders is remindful of "the loath some tomfoolery of a troop of playful gorillas." Of the Lusitania's sinking and the scenes which subsequently transformed Queenstown to such a stage of dark drama as the world never had wit nessed, Mr. Frost told his auditors at the Civic League. Lantern slides of the survivors and the dead of the Lusi tania. of great ships going down at sea, the water dotted with struggling men. women and children, were flashed as he talked. 'The scenes in the improvised morgue at Queenstown were unendurable." said Mr. Frost, "when friends and relatives sought their dead. I saw one woman recognize her sister. And the sister, cold in death, clasped in her arms the bodies of her twin babies. I saw the face of Charles Frohman, with that emile yet upon it that he wore when he undertook the 'last great adventure. Upon the faces of many was a. curiously puzzled and aggrieved look, a-t though some friend had played a rude joke they did not understand. Corpseei Piled Illch. I saw the ghastly procession of rescue vessels as they landed the living and dead that night under the flaring gas torches along the Queenstown waterfront. Boat after boat came out of ' the darkness, discharging bruised and shuddering women, maimed and half naked men, and a few wide-eyed little children whose innocent minds were wrestling blankly with this strange new manifestation of life. Piles of corpses, like cordwood, grew higher and higher among the coils of ropes and ships' stores on the dark old quays." Three masterpieces of German sub marine f rightfulness, said Mr. Frost, were the sink in g of vessels without warning, the sinking after nightfall, and the refusal to give towage to boats of survivors, abandoned without re source hundreds of miles from land. The attitude of commanders, in their callous disregard for the lives of women and children was termed "a consum mate manifestation of savagery." He told of boatloads of survivors, seeking only to comply with the de mands of the submarine officers, and leave the vicinity of their sinking ship, who were shelled in lunatic sport by the gunners of "kultur"; of women and children who died in the dark and cold, and of the mutilated flotsam that the sea cast upon the coast as tribute to the efficacy of the submarine. Columbia Hishway Viewed. T have been telling you these revolt ing things, not idly, but because it is my earnest conviction that you have a right to have them brought vividly and unforgettably to your attention." said Mr. Frost, in conclusion. "The American flag today is streaming from our. warships on those horror-sick waters, and it is you who must main tain it there and see that it shall even tually brighten into triumph." Luring his stay in Portland Mr. Frost, who is a graduate of Oberlin College, met several former classmates as well as friends from his boyhood home at Berea, Ky., where his father is president of Berea University. At the conclusion of his address he was taken over the Columbia Highway as the guest of Mrs. Elliott Corbett on behalf of the Oregon Civic League. Mr. Frost left last night for San Francisco, where Monday night he will speak before a mass meeting. COLLEGE WORK ATTRACTS Inquiries at Agricultural Institution More Numerous Than Ever. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallis. Sept. lo. (Special.) Inter est in college attendance throughout Oregon is more general this year than ever before, as indicated by the corre spondence reaching the registrar's of fice to date. Many letters contain ere dentials of new entrants, more than 40 having arrived last Saturday. Many other letters make inquiries of some phase of Oregon Agricultural Col lege work, the average mail being about 50 to 60 letters daily. This phase of the work has grown so much that it has become necessary to detail two clerks Instead of one. as heretofore, to attend to this part of the correspond ence. Sweet Home Physician Is Officer. LEBANON, Or., Sept. 15. (Special.) Tr. Ivan Bellinger, who was a star football player at Willamette Univer sity some half dozen years ago, and who has been practicing medicine at Sweet Home. Or., for the last four years, has received a commission In the medical department of the Nattional Army and expects to be called Into the service at any time. f . """"""" . r ' ' - M"-llt"tfVl(f, Mint, ff -'-" -"infirt iiTrt.iiiirniii-nrfi"- ""'iL. !J''vi JUp : s-. . ; in ;glf DEATH IS FELT DUTY Lieutenant-Colonel Robert's Note Explains Suicide. MIND SHATTERED BY WORK Tender Message Left for Family Declaring That Inability to Go to Front With Troops De mands Sacrifice of Life. Lieutenant-Colonel H. H. Robert, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, who was found dead in bed on August 31, at - Vancouver Barracks, Wash., as a result of a gunshot wound. elf-inflicted, was an officer of wide experience and of high professional at tainments. Immediately after gradua tion from West Point in 1904 he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers, and assigned to duty in the Philippine Islands in re sponsible charge of engineer work. His close application to the difficult work in that unhealthy tropical climate un dermined his health to such an extent that he never entirely recovered from the effects of it. Upon the completion of his tour f tion as I have, but I must think of my country, my corps and my regiment TROOP A MAN AND HIS BRIDE, WHOSE WEDDING WAS SOLEMNIZED ON EVE OF DEPARTURE FOR CAMP GREEN. i- f , tx ' n ss ;-; ii'i';"::; s-j ':-!i:?:!;:js;:ii. iil-Sifpii iiliipltliii foreign service he was placed in charge of the construction of The Dalles-Celilo Canal, a work which it was his dream to carry to completion. While at Fort Riley his health com pelled him to be taken to the hospitaL He would not remain under the doc tor's care, but accepted a commission as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fourth Engineers, stationed at Vancouver Bar racks, Wash. He proceeded at onoe from the hospital and took command of the Fourth Regiment of Engineers on August 24. His death occurred one week later. He was a man with the highest sense of honor and duty, and no greater tribute to those sterling qualifications could be paid than his own interpreta tion of them, written in a letter left by him on the day before his death. "VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Aug. 31. Realizing, after consultation with the surgeon without my request, that 1 am in a state of .mental and nervous exhaustion, I believe that I am more of -a menace than a help to the regi ment. The doctor says that I am a nervous and mental wreck from inten sive work and worry for the past four years or more. 'Being unable to bring myself to as sume responsibility for the lives and welfare of so many others and the suc cess of military operations, I feel that I can best give my life for my country, my corps and my regiment by remov ing myself from a position where my condition, brought about by years of nerve-exhausting work for my country, may prove disastrous to our cause. God knows I hate to leave such a posi- even at the expense of my own life and my family's welfare. As I stand before my Creator. I believe I am doing the best thing for my country at the great est sacrifice in the world to me and my dear wife and boy. The surgeons have ordered a change for me, I am sure In my own interest, and I have tried to collect and muster together my nervous energy with a view to reach the goal of my ambition active serv ice at the front and, O God, how I re gret to lose it! But I cannot bear to give up and remain behind when others go to the front. "I want all my effects and my estate to go to my darling wife for herself and the boy. "My God, how I hate to leave this! God knows I am doing what I feel my duty to my country. - I am a nervous wreck, and have exhausted my energy in the service of our country before the time now making such demands that I'd dearly love to face. "God help m v precious family. (Signed) "HENRY H. ROBERT." PEAR CROP BELOW NORMAL Hood River Yield or Bartletts and Dairying Is Reduced. HOOD RIVER. Or., Sept. 15. fSpe cial. With the harvest of Bartletts winding" up, local growers are just be ginning to pick and haul to sales agrency warehouses D'Anjou pears. The yield of both varieties has been far less than last year. While the Apple Growers' Association " shipped 20 car loads of Bartletts last season, this year's crop will be less than 15. Forty cars of D'Anjous, sent chiefly to the Sr.uth American market, where fancy prices were received, were shipped last year. Not over 20 cars are expected by the association this season. Miss Helen Axelson and Clay Elwood Walborn surprised their many relatives and friends by their marriage on Mon day, September 3, which was solem nized in St. Helens. Private Walborn, of Troop A, was on duty in St. Helens, owing to the L W. W. troubles, and his fiancee joined him there. They were married in the Courthouse by the presiding judge. Mr. Walborn is a son of Mrs. Edna R. Dobbins, ma tron of the County Jail, in Portland, and he is now in training at Camp Green, Charlotte, N'. C. As soon as he learns where he is to be stationed his bride will join h.m. M r --.1ti.Miititt-ltjJHlllliltlWiwiWillitHllrtHtt,ftitt't1H--t-lt'iri ii.ti';--tittt"-1- " iilt...t..i..,..ii.iLi:.illUii.:.l..Li.i,7U.Jiiitl.i,iti .in ..ii!..i..: iL.;.i.Liliil..ili,L.liiu,hi, 'mli... ,ni i..i.;..,,.l.,u,nm. ill. i.U. lnimai,...;.n i.-i.i. Lil,.;, )'i.'iliinilliiinil iM.i'llill liiilliii i in ihni lllmiiil ill rilllnii. i lllili. Mill :tl4iiilU.lUl. -It U...i.. -lTLzfz B ff if The United States National Bank H fH II I HAVE COMBINED FORCES " U . gg ijjg If Henceforth all stockholders of both institutions will be back of "" :, : B II 1 The United States National Bank u u H HU I II . At Sixth and Stark Sts. ll I ; , EbB I ; 3 1 an ojfficers f both will be active in the management. A uniform It iap , i ll welcome and courtesy are promised all patrons, whether accounts be large It I a or small. ; . If ; ; Bg I J. ll To extend its field of usefulness and to take a more active part in the 11 p ga I vll upbuilding of Portland and the Northwest will be the constant aim of its llftlii l3l : , i VPJ5l undersigned officers: - It f III KM pEl ..VW J. C. Ainsworth, President rMJil K3 Wm Vt trtJ E. G. Crawford, 1st Vice-President P MM R. Lea Barnes, Vice-President llg.i Bi WSL-si H. B. Ainsworth, Vice-President If 1 msM V,n-' V R. W. Schmeer, Vice-Pres. and Cashier fs Wl ggp Yv '"rV ' A. M. Wright, Vice-President HPS tfl X'-siS. A. L. Tucker, Vice-President Jtjr mfI . Mm Hi XVWV W. A. Holt, Asst. Cashier rW M mm V.t" VV p- s- Dick Asst- Cashier tH x VF VV - G. Dukehart, Asst. Cashier Jf j Pfl tsm vi C. M. Dyrlund, Asst. Cashier Jr rfmnittf!(7t!fiifj'!j;!!!f''vmjl!!? gltiiiliiili.lliilliiiiiiilii.il.! iuiliiiit.llimlliill.lliiilililillliliiUii;illiiiliiiiiiliithiiUiittiillliiliiliu CITY URGED TO HELP Support Held Necessary if Livestock Show Continues. PRIME NEED IS MONEY Emery Olmstead Points Out That Portland Allows Exhibition of Great Value Practically to Shift for Itself. "If Portland cares to have the Pa cific International Livestock Show con tinued here the community will have to support the Institution better than ast year, said Emery oimsieaa. chairman of the Oregon development Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, yesterday. "A great livestock industry has been brought to the city,' continued Mr. Olmstead. "With a packing industry, as established elsewhere, there has al ways gone a large, successful livestock show. These shows are pronounced by experts the most useful single effort made to develop production of more and better stock. They prove a powerlui incentive to the breeders, standards of the highest type are developed and in formation about the same given wide distribution, and the public as a whole is led through the workings or the shows to come into close contact with the industry and lend the' hand need ed in making a great mausiry. ; "Portland received her large pack ing industry without bonus or aid from local sources. The industry nas result ed in clearing through tne DanKs oi this community tens of millions oi dol lars a year. Since this initial step by heavy capital, this has become the chief center of the entire Northwest for the livestock industry. "Since the industry came unaided we are prone to let it fight out all devel opment problems alone. This is a mis take, especially when we consider the future. "Last year we left the Pacific Inter national to fight its battles practically alene. The livestock interests nave de cided that they will suspend the show until Portland shows ita active inter est in Its maintenance. This year we must begin manifesting such interest. The first step in such procedure is to srn out and secure the needed funds f riT- the show.." . a meeting of the finance committee named by Mr. dlmstead is to be held Monday noon in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce, Oregon build ing. Fifth and Oak streets, to start the campaign for funds. At 2 o'clock following this meeting, there is to be a meeting of the stockmen, breeders and local business men to perfect roorranization of the Pacific Interna- tir.r.ai and to lay all plans for the great work of the future. TEACHER HAS HIGH RECORD I. K. Tressler. Chemistry Instructor o . C. Comes From TJ. S. Bureau. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallis, Sept. 13. (Special.) D. K. Tressler, newly appointed instructor in agricultural chemistry at Oregon Agri cultural College, holds the record as the vountrest graduate of the Michigan Agricultural College, where he took his bachelor degree at me ago oi 10. ne then was made chemist of the Pennsyl vania Salt Company, or wyandotte. Mich., and later teacher of chemistry in the Flint High Schools. He was next assistant chemist at the Ohio experi ment station, which position he gave up to take three years of graduate work in agricultural chemistry in the Graduate School of CornelL During this time he taught chemistry at Cor nell. He went from Cornell to the '"1T'irTrT7T,tTTj'iT,Trjr"rTl!TTT,I?r"TI""1Tr ''"''"''"H'ji!''!!1!!1!'!!'" !!;!!;Si!;t'i,i!jll':li'!!N United States Bureau of Soils, as chem ist, which position he resigned to come to Oregon. He has considerable repu tation as a writer for popular and sci entific periodicals, such as Country Gentleman, Kimball's Dairy Farmer and the Ohio Farmer. He will succeed Pro fessor R. A. Dutcher, resigned. Johnny Wilhelm Objects to ''German Thrusts." "Kaiser" Hopes Some Yankee Soon Will Take a Shot at Other Kaliter ' So Portland Soldier Boy Will Have Some Chance nt Happinena. TACOMA, Wash.. Sept. 15. (Special.) There are hosts of Bill Joneses and George Smiths at Camp Lewis, but merely one "Kaiser" "Wilhelm, and he is from Portland as a member of pro visional Field Hospital, Company B. 'Kaiser" Wilhelm objects to the name given to him. He, too, is a big man and believes that he should be entitled to fame, but he does not "care to have it confused with that of his enemy, the ruler of all the Teutons. Kaiser" Wilhelm is in training at Camp Lewis, just so that he can get back at the old German who mars his happiness, although as yet their laun dry and grocery bills have not become confused. He, with his company, ex pects to leave this week for Allentown, Pa., where he will get further training before going overseas, to get a crack at the man who has stolen his trade mark. Im not a German, anyhow, and, doggone it, everyone kind of sniffs and says: 'Are your sympathies really with the allies, Mr. Wilhelm? complains Kaiser." "My rather was Swiss and I'm proud of my Swiss blood, but I don't want to be called a German. Now, really don't object to being called Kaiser Wilhelm, because I have had the nickname ever since I was a little chap. The fellows out here know how stand on the war proposition, and I get aiona all right, but, hang it all. I would be happier if some Yankee would get a shot at the other Kaiser." 'Kaiser Wilhelm s real name is John Wilhelm and his home is in Portland. He is known throughout the West as the champion golf player of the Uni versity of Oregon and a brother of Rudolph Wilhelm, holder of Northwest champion gold records. TWO CHINESE AT 0. A. C. Both ' Students Are Registered Forestry Department. In OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Corvallis, Sept. 15. (Special.) Among the foreign students arriving here are two Chinese indemnity selections. These students are educated in American in stitutions on scholarships provided out of the remitted Boxer indemnity, and last year was the first time that any of them stopped at 'a Western institu tion, having preferred Harvard, Yale and other leading Eastern universities. : One man registered in forestry here last year and this year returns, bring ing with him another forestry student. Many of the foreign and territorial rep resentatives had not learned of the postponement of the opening to Octo ber 8 and made hurried Journey to be on time for registration next Monday. CHROME ORE BEING MINED War Prices Slakes Concentrating of Iron More Profitable. GRANTS PASS. Or, Sept. 15. (Spe cial.) The Dorothea mine, owned by Mrs. J. K. Pteddy. of Medford. and oper ated under lease by S. S. Wolf son. is successfully concentrating chrome ore. believed to be the first such process in this state. The strong demand for this metal for war purposes has stimulated its pro duction during the last year. The Dorothea has been worked as a gold property and was fully equipped with concentration plant for that purpose, but the chrome market has made it more profitable to turn attention to the iron capping, which is now being mined iiiiiiiiiiiiiitiuiiuuiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiJiiiiiiuiiiiiiiijiijiitiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiU exclusively. The market is Niagara Falls and Pittsburg, Pa. Sales are made on the basis of $105 per ton for a 50 per cent ore. STUDENTS ATTEND COURT Law Class of High School Witness Municipal Judge's Methods. A much larger audience than usual attended the proceedings In Judge George Rossman's court " yesterday morning:. Among: others, a class of elementary law students from a local SCHOOLS AND Vocational College Preparatory School Accredited by all colleges and universities. 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