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24 TnE- SUNDAY. OREGOXIAX, 'PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 21, 1919. SCENES AT THE LAUNCHING OF THE STEAMER WEST SILETZ. TWO SHIPS OFF FOR FLOUR VESSELS MAY TAKE LUMBER CARGO CAREER OF SHIPYARD AT ALB! F J A FINISHED ORIENT N TOO DAKS Big Plant to Go Back to Its Pre-War Basis. 17 STEEL VESSELS BUILT Works of Which William Corn Toot Is Head Hereafter Will Engage in Repair Work Exclusively. CORXFOOT Marine The Albina Engine & Machine works will build no more ships. The plant, which constructed 17 steel vessels, is being dismantled and in a short time will be back on its pre-war basis, oc cupied with general machine and ship repair works. The decision of the com pany to dismantle the shipbuilding plant was announced some time ago by "William Corn foot, president of the Al bina Engine & Machine works, and the actual work of demolition began last week. When "William Cornfoot arrived in Portland in 1903 he decided to go into the marine repair work and built a Email machine shop on the present site of the Albina Engine & Machine works, at 2S Albina avenue, where he did' all kinds of general machine shop work. He started with two men in his shop and this number gradually increased until he employed about 100 men. At this time he was doing a great deal of marine repair work and often found it necessary to send men to Astoria for work on vessels which were not coming tip river. Rotable Achievement Made. In recent years the largest repair Job done by the Albina works was on the Kenkon ' Maru ir, which was wrecked in Puget sound. She was given up as a total loss by the under writers, but the Japanese owners brought some divers from Japan and got her off the rocks and patched her up so that she could be towed to Port land. It took two months to make the repairs and put this vessel in condi tion for the sea. In the fall of 1916 Mr. Cornfoot made a contract with A. O. Anderson & Co. to build two vessels of 3300 tons capa city. He leased the ground and se cured the vacation of streets between the two east side ferry slips and built a steel shipyard of five building ways. A complete fabricating shop was erected on the site, together with a machine shop capable of constructing the marine engines and deck machinery to be used in these vessels. In Decem ber, 1916, he took a contract to build four additional vessels of 3800 tons capacity for Norwegian interests. The first four vessels were being con structed when the United States gov ernment commandeered all ships un der contract on August 3, 1917. Other Contracts Follow. He was subsequently given contracts for 13 additional vessels of 3800 tons capacity by the United States shipping board. Eleven of these latter vessels were constructed and outfitted -by the yard, and the last one was launched during the recent Rose Festical. June 12. and delivered to the emergency fleet corporation August 19. The last -two vessels under contract with the emergency fleet corporation were can celled. For some time it was thought that the yard would continue the building of ships for private owners, but it was recently decided by the board of di rectors that the company would dis continue the building of ships and dis mantle the yard. This is now being done and the machinery is being placed on the market for sale. Mr. Cornfoot has decided to return to the repair business in his former chop at 28 Albina avenue, which has been rebuilt, and a number of large and up to date machines installed. He will do all kinds of machine repair work and will make a specialty of marine work on vessels calling at this port. "WHISKY CAUSE OF MUTINY Sailors at Mariska Drink Cargo and Trouble Results. A mutiny that reads like a page from a Robert Louis Stevenson tale recently occurred aboard the American steamer Mariska, bound from Baltimore to Brest, according to accounts of the af fair published in English papers. The Mariska, which is owned by the Pitts burg Steamship company, had thou sands of casks of liquor aboard, and the temptation proved too great for some of the firemen, who broke open the hatches and filled themselves with whisky. A mutiny followed in which the cap tain was overpowered and locked in his cabin; the other officers were knocked unconscious and tied and loyal mem bers of the crew were placed in irons by the mutineers. Before the wireless cabin was wrecked the operator managed to send out an S. O. S. call, which was picked up by the British Standard oilship War Kahn, then 200 miles off the south Irish coast. An armed party from the Wax Kahn boarded the Mariska, which was drifting with her fires out, and found most of the mutineers in such a complete state of intoxication that they offered little resistance. The of ficers and loyal members of the crew were released, and the tables turned on the mutineers, six of whom were placed in irons. The Mariska then continued on her way to Brest. Marine Notes. The steamer Moosabee started loading yesterday at Municipal dock No. 1. The steamer Lassen shifted yesterday from Rainier to Prescott. Captain L. O. Hosford, manager of the Harkins Transportation company, will leave early this week for Seattle on a pleasure trip with his family. The American destroyers Tarbell. "Wool ley, Wickes. Lea and Warnell, left Van couver yesieraay morning. A. C. Stubbe. general manager of the Colu..ibia-Pacific shipping company, left for San Francisco last night on a business trip. All work in the plant of the Xorthwest Steel company was stopped at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning, an hour earlier than usual, by the breaking of the eight-lncb compressea air mam. Movements of Vessels. PORTLAND. Sept. 20. Sailed at 8 A. M. from Vancouver. U. S. destroyers Tarbeli", wuuitoey. v ici&es. jjea ana warnell. ASTORIA, Sept. 20. Arrived at 6:45 o'clock last niRht. schooner Else, from Tonga jsianas via vvemnslon and Honolulu: ir rived at 10 last night, schooner Muriel, from San Francisco. Sailed at 0:30 last night, steamer Rose City, for San Francisco: sailed at 7:30 last night, steamer W. F. Herriru for Gaviota. Arrived ax 6:30 A. M. from trial trip and. sailed at noon, steamer "West Segovia, for China. SAN PEDRO, Sept. 19. Arrived Steamer Mayfair, from Portland. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 20. Sailed at 11 A. M-. steamer Johan Poulsen, for Columbia t river; sailed at 11 A. M., steamer City of Topeka. for Portland via Eureka and Coos ny: sailed at 6 o'clock last night, steamer Wapama, for San Pedro. PORT ANGELES, Sept. 20. Sailed at 7 A. M. Norwegian motor schooner H. C. fffi' . ,. hs f i - ? I r : ' "' v it"'. ? 7 '-l" ' TOW-" .;'jritr,,w' W STEAMER WEST SILETZ TAKING THE SPONSOR FOR THE VESSEL. The 8800-ton steel steamer West Siletz was launched Thursday by the Co lumbia River Shipbuilding corporation. The vessel, which is the 29th hull launched at this plant, was named in honor of Lincoln county. Or., which surpassed all others in subscriptions to the Victory loan. Mrs. Mort H. Abbey, of Newport, Or., who christened the West Siletz, was chosen for the honor of sponsoring the vessel by her brother-in-law, E. J. Abbey, who was chairman of the Lincoln county Victory loan committee. Hansen, for Kingdom. Columbia river and United BALBOA, Sept. 17. Arrived Steamer Corvallis, from .Portland for United King dom. AVAXCE'S TRIAli TRIP SUCCESS Motorsliip Attains Average Speed of Xine Knots. The motorship Avance, built by the Columbia Engineering Works at Linn ton, made her river trial trip Wednes day and performed to the complete sat isfaction of her builders. The Avance, which is a 1000 deadweight ton craft, is the first vessel built on this coast to be equipped with. Avance surface ignition engines. These engines are a semi-Diesel type and were imported from Sweden. They proved their worth by driving the vessel at an average speed of nine knots, which was one knot more than was expected. The Avance is 172 feet in length and 30 feet in breadth, with a moulded depth of 17.4 feet. She has two holds 15 feet deep. The engines are amid- ships. TACOMA PLANT BREAKS RECORD Macliinists Complete Boring on Stern Frame in 2 1 Hours. TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 20. (Spe cial.) Machinists at the Todd Drydock & Construction corporation's plant in Tacoma set a new record in shipbuild ing when they completed the boring on a stern frame and bulkhead on hull 9 in 21 hours. An eastern shipyard had the record heretofore of 37 hours on boring alone. The eastern record was eclipsed by the Todd workmen on hull 10 when they completed the job in 23 hours and then went out and bested their own record. Now the waterfront division of the plant is keeping pace with the con struction department. Japanese Start Xew Ocean Line. NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 20. Es tablishment of a new line of Japanese steamers soon to begin service to New Orleans, via Cape Horn and South American ports, was announced here today by a representative of Nakamura & Co., of Tokio, Japan, the operating company. Vessels In Port. West Munham, Pacific Steamship company, St. Johns municipal terminal. West Hartland, Pacific Steamship com pany, St. Johns terminal. Alum ma, A. F. Tfcu.e & Co., Inman-Poul-sen mill. Berlin, Alasa-Portland Packers' associa tion, municipal dock No. 1. Dertona, Columbia-Pacific Shipping com- Danv. Victoria dolphins. Brentwood. Columbia - Pacific Shipping company. Victoria dolphins. Oakland, . Albers - O'Ncil, Inman - Poulsen mill. West Cheswald, Pacific Steamship com' pany, municipal dock No. 1. Moosabee. Columbia-Pacific Shipping com pany, municipal dock No. 1. Aspenhill. Coiumbla-Pacific Shipping com Deny, Astoria. El Segundo, Standard Oil company, Wil- bridge. Colindo. Pacific Steamship company, P. M. I. dock. Lassen, Dant & Russell, Prescott. La Merced, Standard OH company, St. Helens. Halco. Hammond Lumber company. Tongue Point. Harvard. Chas. Nelson A Co., North Pa cific Lumber company. Klamath, Chas. R. McCormick & Co., St. Helens. Else, A. O. Anderson & Co., municipal dock No. 1. Columbia River Bar Report. NORTH HEAD. Sept. 20. Condition of the oar at o ir. -M. sea smooth; wind north west, 18 miles. Photos by Angelus Commercial Studio. WATER, AND MRS. MORT II. ADBEV, FUNERAL IS INEXPENSIVE Latest Word in Burials Ordered by London Officer. LONDON. The latest word in neat but expensive funerals is that of Wil liam Henry Syrett of Nightingale road, Clapton. He was notice server to the Hackney borough council, who left an estate of 983 ($4915) and who desired his body cremated "and the resultant ashes placed in a large old Jam jar which belonged to my mother, that Portland cement and sand mixed with water may be poured therein until a solid block of concrete is formed, and such block buried in some place unlikely to be disturbed or alternately thrown ito deep sea water." Tides at Astoria Sunday. High. Low. 0:07 A. M 7.7 feet!:0H A. M 0.0 feet 0:10 P. M 7.8 feet6::iO P. M 1.2 feel The age of 90 is known to have been reached by a gray parrot, and there are many statements of birds of the parrot family having lived for. over oentury. NEW PENINSULA V. f t V Photo by Angelua Commercial Studio. STEAMER BRK.VrWOOD. The new wooden steamer Brentwood was originally allocated to carry a cargo of lumber from Grays Har bor to Cuba, but defects discovered in the hull of the steamer Dertona on her loaded sea trial made it neces sary for her cargo to be. unloaded eo that she could go into drydock for repairs, and the steamer Brentwood was selected by C. D. Kennedy to take the Dertona's cargo. Considerable interest was aroused in shipping circles by the feat of the stevedores in loading 1.551.716 feet of ties aboard the Dertona, as this is the largest lumber cargo ever loaded on a wooden shipping-board vessel. Because of the difference in the tonnage of the two vessels, only a portion of this record cargo can be placed on the Brentwood. The Dertona is a Ballin type vessel of 4500 tons, while the Brentwood, of the Peninsula type, has a tonnage of only 4000. The Dertona arrived in Portland harbor yesterday from Astoria, and the transfer of cargo will be made here by Brown & McCabe, stevedores. A vessel from Puget sound. Mr. Kennedy said yesterday, will probably be designated to carry the lumber cargo from Grays Harbor to Cuba, as no other ship is available here at present. Both Steel Carriers and Both Go Heavily Loaded. BIG LUMBER CARGO SENT West Segovia Has 4,500,000 Feet of Timber Aboard West Hartland Takes General Cargo. Two steel ships dispatched to the Orient in two days will be Portland's record upon the departure this after noon of the steamer West Hartland from the St. Johns municipal terminal. The steamer West Segovia, loaded with 4,500.000 feet of lumber, sailed from Astoria, where she has been coaling, at noon yesterday. The departure of the "West Hartland was set for 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The West Segovia, with her Plimsoll mark flush with , the. water, was loaded with as large . a lumber cargo, accord- ng to her operators, as will ever be loaded on a' vessel of her type, and the largest ever . placed on a -shipping board vessel leaving this port. She is being operated to China by tKe Columbia-Pacific Shipping company, with a cargo supplied by Dant & Kussell, local lumber . exporters. . She will dis charge part of her cargo at Teing Tau and the j-est at Shanghai. It is re ported t At ' sue will be turned over to the Robert .Dollar company in Chi nese waters. to carry a return cargo to the Pacific coast Trade. With Orient Grows. The West Hartland. due to leave this afternoon, will be the third sailing to the Orient in the service recently es tablished by the Admiral Line, Pacific Steamship company. She will carry a general cargo, consisting principally of steel, machinery, paper, lumber and chemicals. This sailing was scheduled to take place in August, and was to have been, taken by the 9500-ton steamer Waban. The sailing was postponed because of delays in the con struction of the Waban at the Van couver yard of the G. M. Staodif er construction corporation. v hen It became evident that the Waban would not be available for the August sailing, the West Hartland, an 8800-ton vessel, was assigned in her place by C. D. Kennedy, agent of the division of operations of the shipping board. The Waban, now nearly com plete, will be turned over by the build ers this week, and is expected to sail about October 4. Beginning with the sailing of the Waban. according to the promise of the operations division of the shipping board to the Pacific Steamship com pany, the regular 28-day sailing sched ule of the company will be ne-estab-lished, and as fast as the vessels are available, will be made to include four 9500-ton steamers, the largest built in this district. Weekly SaMlnga Planned. It was recently reported that the Pa cific Steamship company has asked the shipping board for a fifth steamer for the oriental run, but this request has not as yet been acted upon. Accord ing to A. F. Haines, general manager of the company, it is planned to estab lish a schedule of weekly sailings from Portland to the orient within the next six months if the vessels can be ob tained from the shipping board- Pacific Coast Shipping Notes. ASTORIA, Or., Sept. 20. (Special.) Five destroyers arrived from Vancouver, Wash. and sailed for San Llt-KO. The pteamer Aponhill, lumber laden from Grays Harbor for Kurope, lout more of her crew today. "William Marseh, first assis tant engineer, was requested by the chief to resign, and says that no reason was given for this step. On learning thi Marseh had been discharged nine oth members of the engrineroom crew quit. The Aspenhill wiil sail on her trial trip to morrow. . Carrying: freight and passengers from Port land and Astoria, the steamer Hose City sailed tor ban rancijro. After discharging fuel oil In Portland the tank steamer Wm. F. Herrin Balled for California. The schooner Klse arrived last nlpht. 20 days from Honolulu, after a tempestuous trip from Tonga islands, with a cargo of copra for fortiand. The vessel came here In command of Captain Wall, who took charge of her at Honolulu, where Captain Zoning, muster oi tne era it, let t on ac count of sickness. The Else put into Well InKton In distress and made repairs there. but before reaching Honolulu she em:oun tered severe storms, sprang a leak and lost most of her sails. Accordingly she put Into the Island port and wa.s there three weeks VESSEL WHICH WILL CARRY I s: v J ft . . . - . -, ' - - ' - ' . . ' ..-.: " -" iii sr'-r sur ----- :. - T,'rT.r"l-:?-::- .?:1T"- ' ' ' v while repairs were In progreaa. The Els left for Portland tontirht. The schooner Muriel arrived from San Francisco and will load lumber at Wt- port. The tank steamer Oleum arrived from Cal ifornia with fuel oil for Astoria and Port land.. The. steam schooner Halco sailed for San Pedro with lumber from the Hammond mill. SEATTLE. Wash.. Sept. SO. Speclal. The Booth fisheries steamer Chlcas". which arrived In port Friday after spending sev eral days off the Alaska coast on the hali but grounds, experienced quite a storm off Cape St. Ellas, say members of her crem-. who declared that for two days a lively blow rocked the vessel, tearing away a top mast and wireless equipment. Captain Johansen, however, weathered the gale in fine shape. Captain M. M. Walk, who piloted the Seat tle steamer West Helix on her eventful maiden voyane from Seattle and return to pan Francisco, is expected to arrive in Seat tle Sunday from California, where the West Helix is now being loaded by Ktruthers Dixon for her next trans-Pacific voyane. Captain Walk has been assigned to com mand the West Ison. Augmenting their steamship Queen City service between Blubber Bay and Seattle, tho - Pacific Lime, company, a British Co lumbia firm, has launched the 1 son-ton steamer E. D. Klngsley, which will operate to California points. ABERDEEN. "Wash.. Sept. 20. (PpeclaO A total of 14H whales have been taken to date by the three whalers of the Bav City station. The catch Is but 10 under that of the same date last year, although four whalers were In use last season as againsc three this ear. The vessels are still going out regularly over the bar and a few whales are being added weekly to the catch. Only a few sperms have been taken this year. The motorship Belen Quezada now here for a cargo of lumber for Cuba has had a check ered career In the 30 or more years of her existence. She originally was the British ship Zafiro. and happened In Manila harbor with a cargo of coal at a time when Dewey needed coal for his fleet, and she and her coal were promptly taken over by the Amer ican commander. Later she m-as known as the naval ship Bowler. Following her career as a collier fhe was sent to the boneyard at Victoria. B. C and when the war came on she was resurrected and rebuilt and placed In commission and ran the submarine block ade for many months, coming through un scathed. The emergency fleet steamer Fassett ar rived today from Seattle and will load cargo at the American mill. Aberdeen. The steamers Carmel and Tamalpais sailed today for San Francisco. The Carmel loaded at the Hulbert mill at Aberdeen and the Tamalpais at the E. K. Wood. Hon. u am. Ships in port tonight are Daisy Freeman. Svea, Fassett and Belen Quezada. The Free man and Svea expect to clear tomorrow. SHARE IN MILLS PROPOSED PRESIDENT EMERITUS OP HAR VARD OFFERS LABOR PLAN'. Laws to Prohibit Strikes on Public Utilities or in United States Service Also Suggested. a BOSTON. Dr. Charles W. Eliot, pres ident emeritus of Harvard university, is in favor of universal adoption of co operative management of industries, with employer and employes having equal representation on managing? com mittees. He further favors tho passage of legislation to bar strikes 1 nail gov ernment service and in public utilities that have to do with the necessities of life. "But," he says, "I doubt very much if either of the political parties will pass effective legislation of this character. I have advocated a slow-working treat ment for the strife between capital and labor, requiring no new treatment whatever. My plan require, first, on the part of the employers: "Abandonment of despotic govern ment of industries dealing with neces sities. "Adoption of means to promote the health and education of employes and their families. "Universal adoption of co-operative management and discipline throughout the plant, employer and employes to have equal representation in managing committees. Careful provision for dealing with complaints of employes. "General adoption of a genuine part nership system between capital and la bor whereby the returns after wages are paid shall vary with the profits. Employes should have full knowledge of the accounts. "Universal acceptance of collective bargaining through elected representa tives on each side. On the part of the employes the plan calls for the following: Abandonment of the doctrine of Urn ited output. Abandonment of the idea of working as few hours as possible and without interest or zeal during those fevb Absolute rejection of the idea that leisure rather than work should be the object of life. Abandonment of 'the, idea that capi tal is the natural enemy of labor, and that unorganized laborers are traitors to their class. Abandonment of all violence toward persons and property in industrial dis putes. Read The Orefronian cla-Hsified ads. TIES TO ATLANTIC 5 4 Cereal Workers and Long shoremen Continue Strike. TWO VESSELS LIE IDLE Grain Handlers on Docks Seem Un decided Whether to Join In Walkout. Further efforts at a reconciliation between the striking cereal workers and longshoremen and the dock op erators were unavailing yesterday and the situation on the water front re mains unchanged with two shipping board vessels, the West Munham and the West Cheswald, lying idle and now awaiting cargoes of Hour. The West Munham was shifted Fri day night from the Portland Flouring Mills dock to municipal dock No. 1 where a small quantity of "fair" flour was lying. which the longshoremen were willing to load. It developed, how ever, that the quantity of flour there was insufficient to complete the ves sel's carco, so after longshoremen had been ordered to work there yesterday morning they were called off before the loading was started. The operators deemed it inadvisable to add to the West Munhara'e cargo without complet ing it on the ground that it may be come necessary to remove what cargo has already been slowed ami loail tne vessel with lumber or some other prod uct which the longshoremen are will ing to handle without reservation. The West Cheswald, lined and ready for flour loading, lay idle at her pier yesterday and it is reported that this vessel also may be loadod with lumber if a ettlement is not reached within a few days by which her cargo of flour can be supplied. t-irain handlers on the various docks, after a special meeting called Friday night to consider tho strike, con tinued work yesterday. Another spe cial meeting of this union wiil be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The grain handlers are apparently in a taie of unrest and are believed to be wavering between striking and remaining at their work. NEW FOOD SOURCES FOUND Important Discoveries Mude by Chemical Researchers. P1I1L.ADKLI'HIA. New food sources nd recently discovered methods at adapting familiar substances to a palat- aoie and cheaper diet have been dis covered, according to a bulletin issued by tho American Chemical society. In these days when fruits and veg etables are soaring in price beyond the reach of many persons, sprouted grains, beans and peas are excellent substi tutes. They develop the much needed vitamines. the invisible power of which adds to the nourishing qualities of foods, and is so often destroyed by improper methods of preserving can ning or cooking. The sprouting, as it does in the case of malted barley, de velops the starch into a more digestible form, which is quickly assimilated and is especially valuable for the feeding of children and invalids. The Chinese hundreds of years ago recognized the worth of foods of this class, and employ them in savory stews, adding a little meat to give flavor. Thus chop suey. containing as it does sprouts of rice or beans, ir not drenched with oriental sauces, fur nishes a far better food than is com monly believed. Modern industrial chemistry is con verting many plants- formerly used for breweries and sometimes for munition and other war work into food factories. Some of the new industries are con cerned with the putting of milw into more portable forms. As a large part of the expense of milk is due to trans portation charges, much freight is saved by gathering it in remote regions where it is plentiful and making it into powders. dried milks. malted milks and condensed and evaporated brands. As shown by recent researrho nf ih. food chemists, milk, even at what is regard-ed by many as an excessive price as sold by some dealers, is still an economic rood. Dr. William Grelck. of St. Paul, a member of the American Chemical so ciety, who has for years made a tpe. cial study of the milk problem, declared a few days ago that there is a wide field of nutritive values in buttermilk. A method has-been discovered for con densing it into a semi-solid smooth substance of a consistency of ice cream. Kight to ten pounds of this material when added to a barrel of flour produce a loaf of far greater food value than that of the bread of the ordinary baker shops. The vitamines of tho buttermilk define the structure of the bread and produce an agreeable milk flavor. The sugar of milk which still re mains in the buttermilk is not only an excellent food but also combined with the dextrim in the flour makes a de licious brown crust which appears at a comparatively loss of moisture. It w'l cause economy not only in the bak ing -by the housewife, but also it will make a considerable difference when loaves of bread are prepared by the thousand. Dr. Charles La Wall of Philadelphia, chemist to the food bureau of the Pennsylvania department of agricul ture, member of the American Chemi cal society, draws attention to the in creasing knowledge regarding food values and their digestibility. The most important contribution to science along these lines is the recognition of the existence of those food accessory principles known as the "vitamines." without which life and growth can not continue no matter how pure the food r how well balanced the ration other wise. "To the .research chemist." he said, "we are indebted for improvements in the quality and nutritive value of many staple foods such as bread, as well as many prepared and manufactured foods. To him also we owe many new foods lige glucose, oleomargarine, the hydrogenated fats, which include lard substitutes or cooking compounds, and many similar articles now of wide spread economic and nutritional im portance. Through the efforts of the chemist has come our knowledge which prevents- the spoilage of much food which otherwise would go ta waste." The experiments now in progress for obtaining edible oils from tomato seed and even from that despised roadside pest, the cocklebur. are significant In dices of the widespread efforts of scientists to solve the food problems o fthe day. WHITE HOUSE EXPENSIVE More Than $1,000,000 Spent Since Beginnig on Refurnishing. KANSAS CITY. Just 100 years ago President Monroe indulged ina little extravagance. He "blew himself to a bathtub. It cost $20. and for a long time thereafter was the only bathtub in the White House. - The historic mansion has been pretty t .. m :'-nisi i nrf't. Various Methods of Examination Odd to tell, the large fact that the eye is alive and not a rigid, inanimate box is only too often forgotten by both opticans and oculists. They think in terms of lenses and anatomy, and too often forget muscular tension, tissue strain and the other vital activities. THE LIVING EYE is not a dead device or a scientific instrument of precision. It is a pulsating, adaptable, living thing subject to changes of humor, health, tone, fatigue, vitality, foods eaten and drugs taken. Years of study, much practical experience and keen judgment must, be used to determine the exact lens to prescribe to assure Perfect Fitting Glasses. Here you receive the benefit of more than 20 years experience and the best equipped and rnosb modern sight-testing establishment in Portland. This unexcelled service costs no more than for the ordinary kind. Dr. Wheat Eyesight Specialist 2D FLOOR, MORGAN BLDG. Entrance on Washington Street expensive from first to last. Vp to date considerably more than $3,000,00(1 has been spent on it, including Repairs and refurnishing. Its cornerstone was laid by George Washington in a. bare field Octboer 1, 1 7 J . Since then it has been twice re built after the British burned it and again during the Roosevelt administra tion. It was commonly called in early days the Great House, or the Presi dent's Palace. Kcenetly Mr. Tumulty again gave out the announcement that the White House would be closed to visitors for some time to come, "because of neces sary repairs." It seems forever to be needing repairs and refurnishing and for the latter purpose much more than 51.000.000 has been expended since the beginning. Inevitably there will be a third re building some day. Plans and a model of the White House as it ought to be, with added wings, have already oeen made. DARING LEAP SAVES CHILD Telegrapher From Pilot Pulls Girl From Railroad Track. VALPARAISO. Ind. Clinging to the pilot of a Cheapeake A Ohio passenger train engine. Frank J. Long, telegraph operator at Maiden, Ind., reached for ward and pulled a 4-year-old child to safety from the track as the train sped down upon her. Long saw the little girl playing with cinders in the middle of the track as the train whistled into his station. There was scant time to act, and as the train passed Long leaped upon the pilot of the engine, held on with his left hand, while he reached out with his right to save the child. The train rushed a bundred yards past the place where the child had been playing be fore it could he stopped. TRAVELERS' CITOR, S. S. CITY OK TOPEKA Sll! t P. M. .Sept. 24. for Coos Bar, Eureka'. Krsocisco. connecting: nith eteaniers to Log Anireles and San Dirs;o. Tii kels soM to all these points and bg gaice eh eked through. Hound trip summer excursion tickets on sle to September 30th only. Three Menmt-rs each wek from Seattle, to Cal ifornia porfH. Maite reservations tlirve tfteek in aftvanee. Ticket effice. 101 Third street. Slain 116; A Local KreiKht Office- IS. 4331. TAt'IEIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY. SAN FRANCISCO S. S. Rose City Depart 12 Noon SEPTEMBER 28 From Ainsworth Dock Fare includes Berth and Aleais. Gty Ticket Office, 3d and Washinstoa Fhone Main 3530 Freight Gt.ice. Ainsworth Dck Phone Broadway 263 SAN FUANfJlSCO & POKTLNU S. S. LIN liS STEAMER for SAN FRANCISCO. LOS ANGELES AND SAN DIEGO SAILING JIOMIAV, Si.tO P. M. M. liollam. Agent, t22 Tt&rd St. l'hone .Mai. J6. STEAMERS The Dalles and Way Points. Sailings, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, 7 A. AL DALLES COLUMBIA LINE Taylor St. Dock. Main AUSTRALIA Honolulu. Snra, Nrw Zrland. The pHlmtial Fr nicer Mritnfn R. M. S. "MAdAKA" K. M. S. "MAhCBA 20.000 Ton. I3.MM Toh fail front Vancouver. li. 4. For (arm. und ailiiic apply Can. I'ac. Rail na, ." 1 lirl t.. Port land, or (anadiaa Auatralanian Koyal Mail i-iae. 410 btjiuiiu bU Vancouver to. C . , il UTEAKSTilPl 4