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THE SUNDAY OREGOMAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 28, 1919.
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"Don 't Be Running Off With My Good-Looking
Cops!" Said the Police Commissioner, but
Pretty Katherine Hyde, Policewoman, Was
Captured, Just
the Same, and
Here's the True
Story.
"We Found Our Work a Great Source of Happiness.'
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Officers of the Women's Police Force of England.
You have your own way of thinking
about policemen. And in the newer per
sonage the policewoman what you may
think will be still more a matter of pec
ulation. So that there Is an element that
you must take into account, just because
there are policewomen. Our old friend
rroptnquity 1b on the Job. If the busi
ness man is to wed his stenographer, the
burgeon -to marry his favorite nurse, the
artist to marry his favorite model well,
nearness and acquaintance must have their
way, and you must begin to expect that
no policewoman is going to escape Cupid
Just because she has a stern responsi
bility that isn't supposed to be concerned
with love at all.
BY HELEN HOFFMAN.
J(T- ON'T be running: off with any
1 of my good-looking cops."
' This was the friendly warn
ing given by Commissioner of Police
Enright, as he smiled his good wishes
for the success of Miss Katherine B.
. Hyde, one of the first six women po
lice reserves to be appointed a year
ago.
Miss Hyde was the youngest of
the group, being only 23. She also
bore the distinction of being the pret
tiest. She Is tall and fair and gentle
in her speech and manner. And after
a year spent in meeting all kinds of
people, where her duties took her Into
the slum districts of New Tork, in
cluding that section of the Bowery
which takes in Chinatown, Miss Hyde
remains the high-bred feminine type
of woman, to whom any good man
was likely to be attracted.
The Police Commissioner's Warning.
When Commissioner Enright cau
tioned her against "running away
with one of his boys." as he calls
them. Mise Hyde replied, with a girl
ish blush: "Ridiculous."
But Cupid was even then smiling
at her retort.
Commissioner Enright is a friend
of Miss Hyde's father, so her romance,
which has just culminated in her
marriage to Henry Schneider of the
New York police detective bureau, is
regarded by Commissioner Enright
as a sort of family affair.
Miss Hyde is the first policewoman
to marry into the force.
"I should like.to continue my work,"
said the pretty young bride, "but
my husbanddoesn't want me to. He
prefers I should keep house, so we
are looking now for an apartment."-
But Mrs. Schneider, who "made
good" in her work, as her associates
say, is enthusiastic over police serv
ice for young women.
"It's wonderfully interesting work,"
she said, "and there is such an op
portunity to do good. It was this
that first attracted me to my husband.
We worked together on many cases,
and it was the great respect shown
him by the tougrhest boys of the dis
trict that also won my . respect for
him.
"Often we would pass one of hu
manity's wrecks, as it would seem,
dirty and ragged and somehow out of
tune with the world; but no matter
how low the man had fallen, his hat
always came off as he noticed the
young policeman 'with a lady,' " ex
plained the young womaji who had
exchanged her police badge for a
wedding ring.
"I met my husband shortly after 1
began my service. My work . was
largely welfare work, and my first
case was that of a missing girl from
Passaic, N. J. The family urged the
police department to locate her. It
Policeman Henry Schneider, Who
Captured the Policewoman Bride.
was believed she had run away with
a young Italian, so Deteotlva
Schneider was asked to try to trace
the girl through the boy, and I was
to use my woman's Ingenuity to find
the girl. We worked together on
the case a few days, then suddenly
one night, walking through the
streets of Chinatown, I noticed a girl
standing in the shadow of one of the
funny little buildings, and she was
crying.
The Girl In the Street.
"I went up and spoke to her. She
was hungry. The boy had deserted
her, and she had come to this quar
ter looking for him. After a while
she confessed to us that she was the
girl we were looking for.
"Of course. In this work one's illu
sions get plenty of Jolts. One of these
is about men. But although I learned
from my experience that men do make
a lot of trouble in the .world and that
many of them are very bad, yet my
experience did not shake my faith in
men.
"One reason, too. I suppose, for
this is that I have five brothers and
an excellent father. My husband
doesn't dance, while I love dancing,
but I realize, from what my work has
taught me, that dancing men do not
necessarily furnish any guarantee for
tne making of good husbands. The
truth of the matter is that many of
them do not.
"I believe, from the knowledge of
life that I gained in my year of police
work, that men who know life; that
is to say, men who know humanity
and are interested in human beings,
knowing full well their frailties and
their virtues, make the best husbands.
"Such men, when they marry and
settle down, know exactly what they
are settling down to," said this young
philosopher. "A man who has seen
both sides of life and knows that he
wants only the one kind, that of
truth and honor and self-respect, will
make a woman the best husband. She
is sure of him. She knows that he is
the kind that doesn't care to wan
der from the fireside, because the life
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tha lies beyond the family hearth does
not appeal to him.
"If it did he wouldn't marry.
"My husband and I were tre
mendously interested in working to
gether. We found our work a great
source of happiness, because oppor
tunities are constantly arising to help
poor, struggling humanity.
"I believe two people interested in
the same line of work are always
certain to be happy. They have so
much in common.
"Mr. Schneider says he has feared
that a woman who sees too much of
the darker side of life will be apt to
become cynical and lose faith in hu
man nature.
"Of course, my experience in the
dark walks of life, where vice and
poverty walk hand In hand, was a
short one. But even In a year of
such work one sees and learns a great
deal. I just felt sorry for wrong
doers. They suffer so much from
their misdeeds.
"And of course." confessed the
young bride, "I didn't lose faith in
men. After knowing that there are
many unworthy. It Is all the finer to
meet and know the worthy type of
men. I think a woman who becomes
cynical and sneers at the world and
its men and women must be very un
happy. At any rate she loses the
greatest happiness that human beings
can possess the high friendship of
congenial people people who can
carry on. the world's work side by side
and enjoy the blessing of human com
panionship. "Before I became interested In po
lice woik," said Mrs. Schneider. "I did
some welfare work in connection with
my church. I wish every young
woman, whether she marries or not.
could have my experience, for knowl
edge makes for happiness; half
knowledge for misery, and in meet
ing various types of men a woman
learns to distinguish the true from
the untrue. She observes In their ac
tions the qualities that count in the
making of character, and after all it
depends on a man's character, not the
color of his hair or neckties, or how
well he dances? what sort of a hus
band he will make."
COLUMBIA LACKS ITS MARK TWAIN TO
SING SONGS OF FASCINATING ADVENTURE
Pioneer History of Hardy Pioneers Makes Breathless Reading for Future Generations Who Learn
of Doughty Deeds on Long Expare of Inland Waterways.
iCVmtlnued From First Page.')
fares, freight, meals and drinks at the
bars. The passenger fare from Port
land to The Dalles, 121 miles, was
then Jo, from Portland to Umatilla, 217
miles, $10, and to Lewiston, $20.
Freight ton rates to The Dalles were
$10, to Umatilla $20, to Wallula $25
and to Lewiston $40, and the boats
had all the traffic offered that they
could care for, and often paid for
themselves in one or two trips. Their
earning power was enormous and
could not help but attract outsiders
for this reason.
Enormous Fortunes Made.
The first real rival of the Oregon
Btate Navigation company and its
most formidable, was the Peoples
Transportation company that ran for
12 years and was then sold to Ben
Holliday. But the tale of the Oregon
Steamboat Navigation company i3 the
one on which the eyes of envious
financial eyes focused, and the North
ern Pacific, through Villard, made
overtures for its purchase, with the
result that R. R. Thompson and' J. C.
Alnsworth were empowered by the
board of directors to accept an invita
tion to attend a conference at New
York with the authority for closing
the deal. This they did, selling a
three-quarters' interest in their flour
ishing business to the Northern Pa
cific through Jay Cooke & Co. on a
basis of a $2,000,000 valuation. The
payment was made one-half cash and
the balance in Northern Pacific bonds,
the cash payments to extend over a
period of years, the Oregon interests
retaining the management.
Then came the momentous year of
1873, and the great financial crash
of Jay Cooke & Co. and the Northern
Pacific liquidation. Oregon steam
boat navigation bonds. Held by the
wrecked interests, could have been
sold, prior to the crash for 90 cent
but were afterwards freely offered
for 10. Oregon Steamboat Navigation
stock, in common with all other
securities In the Unite! States went
down with a crash and in the subse
quent adjustment of the affairs of the
responsible financial house the cred
itors of the firm were issued about
40 per cent of their indebtedness,
much of it in Oregon bonds, which the
new and ignorant owners freely of
fered at from 13 to 20 cents in the
open market with the result that,
within some ffve years, the original
owners had managed to regain most
of it at about half what they had
flret paid, truly a remarkable gift
for the Oregon men.
This did not daunt Villard and he
yet had faith In his- scheme, and
finally in 1879, he managed to put
the deal through and consolidated
the Oregon Steamboat Navigation
company, the Walla Walla Railroad
company and the Willamette Lock A
Transportation company as the Ore
gon Railroad & Navigation company,
but by this time Alnsworth and bis
associates were enabled to obtain
$5,000,000 for their Interests.
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will continue his intensely interesting par.
ratlve of the early steamboat days on tbe
Columbia. Willamette and Snake rivers and
their tributaries.
Not All in Life Lost.
Sydney Bulletin.
Flor You can't believe everything
you hear.
Gertie. No, but you can repeat it.
PANORAMIC CAMERA ADOPTED
FOR USE IN MAKING SURVEYS
Instrument Found Time and Labor Saver, Especially in Rugged Districts.
Greater Accuracy Possible Than Under Transit and Tape Method.
GEORGE WASHINGTON'S theodo
lite and chain, or the transit
and tape of later surveyors,
were adequate for boundaries or
for simple mapping. But conquering
the bewildering array of peaks,
gorges and spurs of the Rockies In
volved hardship and tlmo and heavy
expense.
So in recent topographical surveys
made "by ' Uncle Sam In Alaska and
other remote and inaccessible sec
ttons of the United States, the sur
veyor has turned to something new
In hli line, photography has, in fact,
made the panoramic camera his field
Instrument, and taken readings on a
roll of film at less expense. In short
er time, and with equal If not even
greater accuracy.
It was not until the experts pt
the geological survey began the map
ping of the mountains of Alaska that
they felt the positive need of a new
metnod for topographic surveying to
keep pace with the general demand
for k better quality of maps. It was
then that the panoramic camera was
called into use.
In surveys of mountainous regions
the factor which ordinarily has the
greatest Influence upon the progress
of the survey Is the time required
for travel between stations. The
most striking feature of the pano
ramic camera is that It greatly re
duces this. Only about one-fourth of
the time required at stations by the
plane-table method Is necessary with
the panoramic camera.
In most mountains the average
radius of work from a station fs the
same or the camera as for the plan
table, for this limit is determined by
the amount of detail necessary for
the scale of the map and the pano
ramic camera's supply photographs
which have the necessary range.
Therefore, In surveys of this kind the
advantage which is gained from the
use of the panoramic camera comes
from an Increase in the number of
stations, the result of this Increase
being an improvement in the map.
In surveys of relatively small areas
on a larger scale the time required
for traveling between stations,
though of considerable amount, does
not have so great Importance as It
does In reconnaissance surveys, be
cause the stations are placed closer
together, and consequently a large
number can be occupied In a work
ing day. In surveys of this class
the value of the panoramic camera
depends more on the value of the con
tents of the photographs.
The panoramic camera now used
for surveying Is a wonderfully ac
curate and Interesting Instrument; in
fact, a new triumph of photography.
It Is mads of aluminum and Is in
closed In a protecting frame of ma
hogany that is lined with felt.
The lens la revolved by a spring,
and the rate of revolution Is regu
lated by detachable fans connected
bjf gearing Vith, the lens shaft .