The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, August 22, 1920, SECTION TWO, Image 40

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Newspaper Page Text2D " THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, AUGUST 23, 1920 STEAMERS AHLPOHTUND TRADE Local Firm Has Plan Prevent ing Foreign Registry. YANGSTE ROUTE IS PLIED Cargoes for This City Only Are Carried by Vessels Between Shanghai and Hankow. Carcoes carried from Portland by teamers of the Columbia-Pacific Shipping company are distributed 600 miles up the Yangtse river, and freight from the 'inland of China. is carried to the seaboard by two river steamera operated exclusively by the oriental agents of the local company. Commercial benefit to the Columbia Pacllic company and to this port is claimed by officials of the company through the operation of these steam ers because ocean-going vessels can navigate the waters of the Tangtse river only five months out of the year, while the river boats' operate regularly during the entire year. ' The regular route of the two river boats, which are named Tseang Tah Nc-s. 1 and 2, is between Shanghai and Hankow, phina. Hankow, be It known, is the Chicago of China. Inas much as it is the principal manu facturing and industrial center of the celest'lal republic. Shanghai is the seaport. Lumber, piece goods and machinery from this country are much iii demand at Hankow, while the products of the inland cityprin cipally tea, hides, cotton,, silk, rice and oils, from the principal items in cargo manifests of vessels plying between north China and Portland. Foreien IlORtfitry Prevented. Because the Portland company has these river boats, it obtains a large proportion of Hankow's products for shipment to Portland. But for these two boats, the products from Hankow would come down the river In feeders of foreign countries and would be carried from the Chinese coast In vessels of foreign registry. . The "feeders," as the Yangtse river steamers are known, are far different in character from the familiar river boats of the Willam ette and Columbia rivers. They are eteel steamers of 769 gross tons reg ister, driven by twin-screw propel lers. Both of the boats are 204.3 feet long, 35.1 feet wide and 11.3 feet deep. Portland CarKOeH Carried. Cargoes from or to Portland only are carried by these two river steam ers. Portland freight for the in terior of China is discharged by the ocean steamers at Shanghai, and re-loaued by coolies upon the river boats. On the return trip of 600 miles down the famous river, the boats carry Chinese freight, which is assembled at Shanghai for loading upon vessels of the Columbia-Pacific Shipping company's North China line. . Operation of the Tseang Tah steam ers is under the management of C. L. Seitz. general manager of the China Pacific company, which represents the Columbia-Pacific Shipping com pany in China. Mr. Seitz is recog nized aa one of the foremost Ameri can business men in the north China field. DEAN M GET NEW JOB ASSISTANT TO ADMIRAL BEX SOX IS OFFICE RUMORED. Former General Counsel of Ship- . ping Board Xow on Trip in ; 1 Oregon and Washington. OREGONIAK NEWS BUREAU, Washington. Aug. 21. (Special.) Jiobert A. Dean, for eome time gen eral counsel of the shipping board, and who is now in Washington and Oregon on business for the board, is to have a new position with the board upon his return In consolidating the legal work of the emergency fleet corporation and the shipping board. Colonel Guy D. ooit'has been made general counsel of both bodies, and Mr. Dean is to have some position close to the chair man of the board. Admiral Benson Just what office the general coun sel is to have upon his return is not stated by the chairman, but rumor has it that Mr. Dean becomes a spe cial assistant to the chairman. Mr. Dean really drafted the Jones merchant marine act, doing the legal work for the commerce committee of the senate, and representing the board as its spokesman in develop ing the various phases of the great measure which is calculated to start a new era for the merchant marine under the American riag. No one on the board has a more in timate knowledge of what the law is planned to accomplish than Mr. Dean Because of this thorough knowledge of the new measure, and the long ex perience of the Boston attorney in ooard worK, tne rumor of his promo tion to one of the most important positions on the board is accepted as a certainty, if he cares to continue with the board. Mr. Dean has been spoken of almos universally in the east as one of the members of the new board that is to be appointed by the president, unde the terms of tne new law. He would be the member from the north At lantic territory. COASTWISE HATES TO GO CP "V . . - -. L' . . t 1 . - 1 w f c . " oi-iii-umv jciicvuve nen city of Topeka Sails Again. A 20 per cent increase in coantwiA passenger rates will become effective wim tne next sailing of the freigh and passenger steamer City of To peka. it was announced yesterday by r. j. utonnor, local agent of th Admiral line. The City of Topeka is now on ner way irom Portland t San Franciscr via Coos Bay and Eu reka, and should depart from thi port on her next southward trip Au . gust 31. bimuar increases in passeng-er rate are expected to be made by othe coastwise liners, tnougn no definit information nas been received by local agents. According to Mr. O'Con nor. a 25 per cent increase in freight rates is expected to follow the In crease In passenger rates. , Japanese Steamers Sought. .Negotiations for the charter of tw and possibly three Japanese steamers are being conducted by E. L. Fair banks and W. W. Wall, president and general manager, respectively, of the Inter-Ocean Trading company, who were in the city yesterday conferring with the Oregon & Ocean corpora tion. The Inter-Ocean Trading com- PORTLAND BUSINESS MEN LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING OWN HOME IN WASHINGTON Chamber of Commerce Site Purchased at Cost of $750,000 and Remaining $2,000,000 of Fund Now Being Accumulated to Erect Sightly. Structure Opposite White House. -l t .ill t h. tf fc if.. v4 $ fc itr h',? ?m i I ThE$2,500,OOOBU1LDIN3- to -be- erected-in-washington; by-the- chamberof-commerce-of-the-United-States-as-a-workshop-for-american-bus1ness1n-the-s0lut10n0f-itsnat10nalpr0blems.itwill-be-buiit-onthe-site-of-Daniel-Webster'sold-home. Atthe-right-is-Daniel-Webstersdesr-onwhich-he-wr6te- many-of-his-speeches. president Joseph H. Defrees of-th e National-Cham ber-is-seated-at-tme-desk. PORTLAND business men are look ing forward to the time when they will have a home of their own in the national capital. Word has come to the Chamber of Commerce that the site upon which the national home for business is to be erected has just been completely paid for from i subscriptions so far received to the building fund of the Chamber of Com- i merce of the United States. The pro posed site, which originally belonged to Daniel Webster, faces Lafayette Square in. front of the White House an ideal location. It was purchased at a cost of ?750,000. The building itself will add to the architectural beauty of Washington. It was designed by Cass Gilbert, the designer of the Woolworth Building In New York and a number of fed- ral buildings in Washington. Work on the new structure is to be begun as soon as the remaining $2,000,000 necessary for the project is paid in. number of communities have al ready subscribed their allotment while thers are responding handsomely to the campaign. Portland's industrial and business Interests, as contribu tors to this fund, will have a part ownership in the project. National Membership 1300. Aside from its contribution to the uilding fund, Portland has a strong interest in. the activities of the Na- ional Chamber because of the city's importance as a commercial, Indus- rial and manufacturing center. The ecessity of a national business organ ization was long ago realized by Port- land business, so much so that in 1912 the Portland Chamber of Commerce joined forces with other trade and commercial organizations and took out membership in the National Cham- er. The organization members of the pany was connected with the Japan- se steamer Hakushika Maru, which was recently loaded here by the Ore gon & Ocean corporation. 6 WINDJAMMERS ON LIST SAILING VESSELS TO CARRY CARGOES FROM PORTLAND. Five Under American Flag Otlier Is Frencfi Bark Button to Car ry Wheat to England. i Six sailing vessels three barken- , tines,' two schooners and one bark are now booked to carry cargo from Portland to various world ports. With one exception, the windjammers are under the American Ilag ana win carry lumber from the Columbia river. The exception is the French bark, Buffon, chartered by E. A. Strauss & Co., to carry wheat to the united Kingdom. The French bark was last reported sailing irom tne ranama canal for Portland July 1 en route from St. Nazaire. The barkentine Lahalna ana tne schooner W. H. TalDot, Dotn oi wnicn are now at San Francisco, will carry lumber from the Columbia river to the west coast of South America. The barkentines Annie M. Rolph and Ed ward May and the schooner William Bowden will take lumber to Aus tralia. The Annie M. toipn sailed from Balboa June 27 for the Colum bia river. The barkentine Edward May arrived at Callao August 10 fdr tho nnlumbia river and Sydney. She Is on her way from Newcastle. The schooner William Bowden arrived at Seattle August 12 Irom j-evuKa ana has been chartered to carry lumber from the Columbia river to Sydney. Trial Set for Nov. 5. Trial for Sam Harris, under indict ment with Harry ftua.iman ana others on charge of stealing govern ment wool from a warehouse, was set Port Calendar. To Arrive at Portland. Vessel From Tate Str Daisy Putnam. .. San Fran Aug. 22 K.r" Col K. 1. Drake. San Pedro Auj. Str.'Wapama San Fran Aug. 24 Str W tl .sornenLum. China Au. 2, str' Weatwaid Ho baiuuiore ....un.Ji str Point 1-obos Colon . .-. Aijg. in Sir "fc-asteru Belle New York ...Aw. au Sir Auercos Orient Aug. HO to Depart From I'ortuuia. Vessel For Date. Str Multnomah ....San Fran Aug. 24 Str'. Klamath San Fran Aug. 2fl Str. Wipa'na -'San Fran Aug. 28 Vessels In Port. Vestel ' Berth M s. Astoria Wauna jj. S. Challamba. . . lnman-Poulsen mill. jjt'r. Davenport Prescott. , totr. Depere Crown mills. ; M. S. culburra Eastern & West. mill. Str. Klamath St. Helens. ttKt. jonterev Inmwi-i oulsen mill. Str. Multnomah St. Helens fctr. uien Peninsula mllL Str. Phyllis Rainier. Str. Sleel Trader Westport. 6tr. Trellsslck Albina dock. Sir. Westboro ......... Terminal No. 1. National Chamber now number more than 1300. - . In addition to this manifestation of belief in the necessity of a strong- na tional business organization . there are 69 indivfduals and firms in Port land having qualified through mem bership in the local Chamber of Com merce, holding direct memberships themselves in the National Chamber. O.utside of Portland the same inter est on the part of business men in all parts of Oregon is in evidence. Throughout the state there are twelve trade and commercial organizations connected with the National Chamber. They are; Chamber - of Commerce. Astoria; Bend Commercial club. Dallas Commercial club, Marshfield Chamber of Commerce, Pendleton Commercial association, Portland Insurance Fed eration of Oregon, Portland Western Pine Manufacturers' association, Port land Chamber- of Commerce, Oregon State Chamber of Commerce, Port land; Roseburg Chamber of Commerce, Salem Commercial club and The Dalles Chamber of Commerce. Like thousands of other progres sive business men - throughout the country, Portland members of the ChanUier of Commerce have a keen in terest in the fact that at last Ameri can business is to have a permanent home at the nation's capital. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States, a body founded eight years ago under the handicap of discourag ing past attempts to organize busi ness men nationally, has been un usually successful. But the. leading business men of the country interested in the Chamber of Commerce have re alized that not until they have a Washington nome or their, own, a "G. H. Q." of American business, to give the. aspect of material solidity to their organization, will they be able to exercise a proper constructive in fluence in national affairs. It was with this purpose in view yesterday by Federal Judge Bean for November 5. Harris pleaded not guilty. Steamer Depcre Loads Wheat. The steamer Depere, which arrived yesterday morning, cleared later through the customs house, declaring 150 long tons of wheat and 175 long tons of flour laden at Portland. This vessel, which is the first in the regu lar service of the General Steamship corporation to-, the west coast "of South America, will carry a total of 3375 long tons of cargo, the re mainder of which was loaded at San Francisco. She will sail early next week. The wheat loaded here is bound for Callao. Peru, and the flour for Guayaquil, Ecuador. Nehalem Bar Is Sounded. WHEELER, Ct . Aug. 21. (Special.) Thomas Watt. Harry Bell, D. R. RIVER STEAMERS CARRYING PORTLAND CARGOES IN' t- ' - . i "-:'''"'": . .- . lw . " H7 - - ' V The upper picture ihow the mnnner of norklng carjro on the Chlnewe river. A pontoon brldpre of hnrVre In thrown ontto the Kteamer and freight Im carried to and from the boat on the b acks of coollea. The lower view ahowa the atenmer 'lurcDc Tah proceeding downatream with a full cargo of C hlneae ffrooda from Hankow for trans ahlpment at Shanghai into a venae! of the C'olombia-l'acific Shipping; co rapany's North China liner bound for Fort land . . . " " that the Chamber of Commerce began plans in-1914 for the erection of a building in Washington, but the war I caused postponement. Committees are now fast accumulating the money to pay for this project. One milion four hundred thousand dollars was prom ised by small communities outside of New York and Chicago before the business men "of thosa cities gave a cent. '.. The idea is to- create a nerve cen ter for all business, big or little, that is affected by national affairs. It is something that has been badly needed in. the past, when the men whose in dustries were being adversely affected by ill-advised legislation had merely a sporadic representation at Washing ton. The United States was one of the last countries to organize its busi ness nationally. A little more than eight years ago this country and Tur key were virtually the only countries in the world which had no national business organization. Today the Uni ted State's Chamber of Commerce is the most powerful of them all. In the last five years it has grown ,from an association 'of 655 industrial firms and individuals to 1379 organizations with a combined membership of 91,358. Be sides these organizations there are more . than 13,000 firms and individ uals holding direct membership in the chamber. The departments of the National Chamber .re as follows: Finance, In surance, Foreign Commerce, Civic De velopment, Domestic, Distribution, Fabricated Production, National 'Re sources Production, Transportation and Communication. The departments of Insurance, Fabricated Production and Foreign Commerce have already been inaugurated. Adequate provi sions have been made to house these various departments in the new bulld- i various departmen ing which will be shop for America a veritable work- rican Business. Groves and Frank. A. Rowe sounded the Nehalem bar Wednesday and found a minimum depth of 13 feet at low water, which is equivalent to 20 feet or more at high water. The channel is wide and straight. Ar rangements are being made to char ter the gas schooner Oregon of San Francisco to load a cargo of 450,000 feet of lumber in the near future. Norton, Lilly Officials Here. W. J. Edwards. Pacific coast man ager for Norton, Lilly & Co., and J. S. Ford, manager of the Seattle office of the company. arrived in Portland yesterday to confer with C. D. Ken nedy, resident agent. All three went to Westport and Astoria to see their two steamers, the Steel Trader and Mount Etna, which are loading, re spectively, at Westport and Astoria. Read the Oregonian classified ads. t 4 - r v 4.ylv 1 LOSS OF .VALUABLE SHIPPING IS FEARED Section of Marine Bill Held Dangerous to West. OLD FABLE IS APPLIED Seattle Port Man Says Enforcement AVouId Kill Goose That Lays Golden Eggs, ? Enforcement of section 28 of the irew merchant marina law will be like killing the gooso that lays the golden eggs, according to. a reply of C. J. France, executive secretary of the port of Seattle, to Admiral W. S. Benson, chairman of the shipping board, made public yesterday. The letter from Admiral Benson, to which Mr. Franc ie replying, was in turn an answer to a protest made by the port of Seattle against the enforce ment of section 28 of the merchant marine law, and inferred" that Seat tle's opposition to this clause was in spired bjf foreign Interests which will be discriminated against if this sec tion of the law, which is now in suspension. Is made effective. Section 28 of the merchant marine law, which is the subject of the en tire controversy, prohibits the grant ing of preferential export rail rates on transcontinental freight moving to the coast for shipment, unless this freight is carried in American bot toms. Fable Held Applicable. "There is a world-wide philosophy," says Mr. France in his letter, "in the fable of the man who killed the goose that laid the golden eggs. That fable is applicable to the present sit uation. A great commerce is grow ing on the Pacific. The Pacific coast ports of the United States are on natural .trade routes, to which much of this shipping would nat urally flow. Build at these ports a tariff wall which does not exist at Atlantic ports and you create an artificial barrier that will divert thie trade from it natural course. I am satisfied therefore that when section 28 is put into operation thoe com panies who have enjoyed a large shipping to the far east in the ves sels allocated to them by the chipping board will find that the great bulk of the 'business has gone to Atlantic ports. There will be, then, an in creasing dificulty to fill the space in the 113 shipping board vessels now operating out of Pacific ports, and finally, the shipping board will have to put those vessels at the ports to which the business has been diverted. That this is inevitable should be clear to any student of political economy who knows that trade always fol lows the line of least resistance. Inference la Challenged. "In conclusion, I touch upon one phase of your letter which I would prefer not to mention. It is that portion of the letter in which you infer that our opposition to this bill is a result of foreign influence and that we are not standing whole heartedly to support the American merchant marine "I cannot pass this inference with out challenging it both on behalf of myself and the fine .body of loyal American citizens who join with me in their opposition to section 28. ' "We yield to no one in our loyalty to the United States or in our de termination to back without stint any project to upbuild our country or anv of its great undertamngs "To us in the Pacific northwest the merchant marine has meant the dawn of a new day in American commercial development. No man or set of men in the country will go further than the citizens of the north west in supporting . the American merchant marine." Pacific Coast Shipping Notes. MATS HARBOR Wash., Aug. 21. (Special.) The Hartwood arrived this morning from San Francisco and began loading at the Hulburt mill. Thi Anne Hanify arrived this morning from San Pedro and is loading at the T.ittln mill. The Eastern Glade, big shipping board t-e! Kteamer. arrived this afternoon after standing outside the bar for a couple of days waiting for the fog to lift. She will take a big tie cargo from the JStireka mm Hoaulam. The steamer Lassen arrived . from San Francisco and-loaded at the National mill Hotiulam. The steamer Oregon cleared this after. noon with cargo from the Wilson Broth ers mill. Aberdeen. Ships In port tonight are the schooner Dauntless ana steamers eastern uiaae, Svea, Willamette, Hartford and Anne Han ify COOS BAT, Or., Aug. 21. (Special.) THE YANGTSE RIVER. i : it J. jv : The gasoline schooner Osprey arrived from Rogue river this morning at 8:35, bring ing a cargo of salmon. The steamship City of TopeUa arrived this forenoon from Portland at 11:45. Cement, much needed on the county highway . paving, began arriving yester day. The i team schooner Fort Bragg is chartered for a trip to arrive here next Thursday with 16,000 sacks, but the work is delayed a week or ten days at best. SAN PEDRO, Cal., Aog. 2X. (Special.) B. D. Vincent was appointed harbor en gineer to succeed J. W. Ludlow at - to day's meeting of the harbor commission. Plans for completing improvements in the outer harbor were ordered prepared. A new association known as th Los An gls Harbor association has been or ganized -for the. purpose of watching har bor improvements more closely. . It will hold its first luncheon Monday when City Kngineer Griffin and former Harbor En gineer Jubb will be the principal speakers. The steamer MazatJan sailed today for Mexican ports with a full cargo. J. Mc Millan, former manager of- the Pacific Klectrlc, is now local manager for the California Mexican Steamship company and also agent for S.wayne & Hoyt. They dispatched the steamer West Notus to Bueno Avrs. She touched today en route from Puget sound. The United States battleship Tennessee is reported n route here to make this rrer permanent home po-t- The Mississip pi is duA in a short time and both wii: jvinain until tha return of the fleet from Honolulu. SEATTLE. "Wash.. Aug. 21. (Special.) ElBh' Japane, J,towSwar w "i0 escaped .SSnm'h -'."-"Jl1'. t"n. -I'lKi.- ' shipping board vessel, when the ship ar- I ,,vcu nL-re JUIT JU last. and Wno wer rived hire July au last, and who wer later arrested by customs and Immigra- now in tion inspectors, wnre deported to Japan i . . this morning on the steamahip Arabian!13. ln Pu laru. Delayed bv enirlne trnnhln. th steam- hip Maauam. nf Fmnli Wa t.rhniiM & Co.'s shipping board flgot in the trans Pacific trade, is In Vancouver, B. C, late . . w ... O-LIl UlllfS . I V, K .1 tit, message received from the. vessel. W The packing in the high-pressure cyl inder went to pieces, with the result that her condenser is able to supply the boiler with only 30 tons of fresh water a day. She requires 33 tons. The ship had Bailed from Japan. .Beginning har service as a merchant marine cargo training ship, the tSSOO-ton steel steamship Hollywood, of the United States shipping board, is expected to leave San Francisco for Seattle next Thursday. The vessel is to be ODer&tpd on refruliir schedule on the triangular route between oeame, Hawaii and San Francisco by the sea training bureau of the shipping board. Cargo for the vessel will be furnished by mo didtBoa .Navigation company. ASTORIA Or.. Aue. 21 (Snorl.l 1 The steam schooner Uaisv Putnam arrived at midnight from San Francisco and after aiscnarglng a shipment here and at West port will load lumber at Knappton. The tank steamer William Herrin sailed at 3:10 o'clock this afternoon for Cali- orhla after dlscharEluir fuel .,,1 m port- land. The steamer West Cavot. with nart cargo, from Portland, called at 11 o'clock last nignt ior Seattle to take on freight for Europe. The tank steamer Pearl Shell mailed ve- terday from California for Portland. The steam schooner Ernest H Mevers sailed yesterday from San Francisco en route to Portland. The tank steamer Colonel E. T.. Drake arrived at 6 o'clock this morning from California w;th oil for Astoria and Port land. While coming Into the harbnr dur ing the dense fog and smoke she ran onto tne sands at the 30Uth side of the channel just below the Fort Stevens dock, but was iioated this forenoon uninjured. The steam schooner DaiKV Freeman with lumber and boilers from Portland, sailed at 2:30 o'clock this forenoon for San Francisco. She Was delayed in the lower iiaroor oy tog. TACOM A. Wash . Aur. "I fSn.rll The La Primera is expected from South America soon with nitrates for Dupont. rwe planus ,iaru oi tne Jaka snosen Kaisha line is due to arrive here Tuesday or Wednesday. The Bordern line steamer Wake-no. ar rived here this morning with a cargo of paper from British Columbia. ine Koaal le Mahoney is here unloading general cargo from California. The Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company will return September 1 to Its own depot and station after two years of service from the union station. It was announced today. New ticket offices, new platforms and tracks have been con structed at the A-street station and the buildings have been completely repaired. .MitwauKee trains will come direct to the Tacoma station over, an electrified route and the- fajniliar coal smoke and cinders win De entirely lacking. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Aug. 21. (Special.) Bringing a cargo of creosote, the steamer. City of Reno arrived this morning from Grangemouth, Ens. She was detained here several hours on ac count of fog and smoke, proceeding to Seattle at 3 P.. M.. where she will dis charge port cargo. The remainder of her cieosote cargo will be discharged at Portland. Coming from Manila and way ports In the orient, the Waterhouse steamer. Ma. quan, passed in at Cape Flattery this aft ernoon and will arrive here during the night for quarantine inspection. Coming from the Atlantic to Puget sound to take bunker coal and also some cargo, the Japanese steamer. Kaikyn Maru. arrived this morning, proceeding to Seattle. She is en route to the orient. With all passenger accommodations taken and hold filled, with general cargo, the Toyo Yusen Kaisha liner, Katorl Maru, sailed for the orient today. Included among her 300 pasnengers are a number of business men of the northwest who are interested in the lumber industry and who are going to the orient to enlarge the lum ber trade in the far east. Movements of Vessels. PORTLAND. Aug. 21. Arrived at 4 A. M., steamer Depere, from San Francisco. ASTORIA. Aug. 21. Arrived at 9 last night, steamer Daisy Putnam, from "fean Francisco; sailed at 10:30 last night, I steamer West Cavote. for Hull via Seatt'e. 1 San Francisco and San Pedro; sailed at 6:30 A. SI., steamer Daisy Freeman, for San Francisco; sailed at 6:30 A. M.. steam- er W. F. Herrin, for San Francisco. SAN PEDRO, Aug. 20. Arrived Steam- er Hawarden, from New York for Port- land. SEATTLE, Wash.. Aug. 21. Arrived Steamers Kaikyj Maru. from Baltimore: AiaeKa, irom soumeastern - Alaska; City of Seattle, from southeastern Alaska; City of Reno, from Grangemouth. Sailed Steamer Victoria. for Nome; Governor, for tinn Podro; Arabia Maru, for Yokohama; Katori Maru, for Hons Kong. TACOMA, Wash.. Auc 21. Arrived Rosalie Mahoney, for San Francisco; Quadra, from Britannia Beach; Wakena. fiom British Columbia. Sailed Kosalfe -Mahoney, for British Co lumbia and Hawaii; Wakena, for British Columbia; Quadra, for Britannia Beach. SAX PEDRO, Cal., Aug. . (Special ) Arrived Steamers Whit tier. from Port San Luis. 3 P. M. : Richmond, towing barge from Puget sound, 1 A. M ; West Notus, from Puget sound, 6 A. M ;Phoe nix, from Albion. 6 A. M. : An guard, from San Diego, 6 A. M.: Santa Monica from Kureka. 1 P. M. ; President, trom San Francisco, 3 P. M. Sailed Steamers Trinidad, for Astoria 4 P. M. ; Frank D. St.ut. for Brookings O P. M.; aneuard. for San Francisco j P. M. ; I-abrea. for Port San L-uis 2 P M West Notus. for Buenos Ayrcs; Alazatlan. for Mexican ports, 5 P. M. SAX FRAXCISCoTAog.. 21. Departed Celilo, for Seattle; . Korea Maru. for Hong- tvuu , viuim, w. xiuiijnong; ftatanto. for Shanghai; West Kedro, for United King dom; Colombia, for Hongkong. TOKOHAMA, Aug. 16 Arrived: Keats, -from Portland. wt SINGAPORE, Aug. 17. Arrived: City cm spunaiie, iium oca me, YOKOHAMA, for Seattle. Aug. 15 Sailed: Kldridge, Tides u( Astoria Sunday. High. Low. 7:38 A. M 5.5 feetll :31 A. M l.n foot 7:20 P. M 7.1 feetjl:3u P. M....3.2 feet Columbia River Rar Report. NORTH HEAD. Aug. 21. Condition of the sea at 5 P. M., smooth; wind north west, 18 miles. Lookout Station. Planned. SALEM, Or., Aug:. 21. (Special.) F. A. Elliott, state forester", left last night for Astoria. From there he will proceed to Saddle mountain, where he will inspect the proposed site for a new lookout station and trail routes. At Portland he was joined by representatives of the dis trict forestry office. Read the Orcsronian' classified ads. 100 B Q SHIPS SQQN TD-BE SOLD BY U. S Event One of Far-Reaching Importance. ALL RIGHTS SAFEGUARDED Companies Xow Developing Busi ness AVith Government Car riers Xot to Be Disturbed. OREGOXIAX NEWS BUREAU. "Washington. Aug. Zl. Under the pro visions of the Jones merchant marine act the shipping board will soon offer frr flnlA mO nh na a lie r. whih preparation. This offering rsuance of the requirements of the law, which contemplates sale as well as establishment of trade routes. No information Is given out ln ad vance as to the ships that will be offered. Assurance is given that this primary offering will not conflict with the work of companies that are operating vessels on essential trade routes. This has had the effect of comforting those companies that are busy developing business with the ships provided by the government Some of them have a lot of prelimi nary work to do before they get on a sound basis. The ships to be offered will be under the terms of the recent sales policy announced by Chairman Ben son. Circulars are beings issued by the sales department of the board giving terms and other details of pur chase and providing a blank for firm offers to purchase from the board. In this circular it is said that the consummation of sales will have to be with the approval of the operating division of the board, which gives the board a loophole through which it can proceed to protect vital interests in the event developments following bid suggest such a necessity. In announcing that the fleet is for sale, the board has . -cepted from this class oil tankers, of which the gov ernment owns above 60; refrigerator ships and the big combined freight and passenger ships. There will be nearly 40 of the latter l.en all now building are finished; and between 12 and 15 of them have been tentatively promised for Pacific operations. The future of the big high-grade combined freight and passenger ships which have speed of from 14 to" 17 knots, and which were built as the most -modern, economic-! liners that th nation could produce, is yet to he determined. Their construction cost is very high. Any company investing in them will have to go into large capital. Any company receiving them to--operate on any other than a pur chase basis would have a powerful advantage in business competition with other companies in the same ter ritory which are compelled to pur chase the slower, straight cargo ships. All these factors are to come be fore the board as rapidly as they can be taken up. as many companies will be driving for specific information. A privately owned company can"- -om-pete against the government, o.- a company backed by the government. on an indefinite allocation basis with-. out the compulsion of purchase being faced. A large number of calls are Viing made upon the sales department for the circulars issued outlining the sales conditions for the first 100 ships to be offered. This will prove a most interesting event in the history ofthe new board, as it really marks the 'be ginning of the permanent policy which is destined to have a far-reaching influence upon the American mer chant marina. Col. E. Ij. Drake Goes Agronnd. The tank steamer Col. E. L. Drake of the Standard Oil company ran out of the channel in the lower Columbia river early yesterday morning and grounded between Fort 'Stevens and thetmouth of the river. She was re floated on last night's high tide at 6 o'clock and proceeded to Astoria. She was reported to be undamaged. The tanker, under command of her mas ter. Captain J. C. Dart, was en route from San Pedro to Astoria and Port land with a full cargo of fuel oil. The channel at the mouth of the river, which has a minimum depth of 45 feet, was obscured by smoke and fog. V. S. Naval Radio Reports. ( All position reported yesterday, at 8 P. M. unless otherwise indicated.) f , j 7i lan , " ml , 'b, WEST NOMEXTUM, Kobe, for Fort es Irom Columbia river, au- WEST JESTER. Seattle for Tokohama. 480 miles from Seattle August -0. , MANOA, San Francisco for Honolulu. 740 miles west of San Francisco August 20. J COLORADO SPRINGS. Kelung for San Francisco, t0 miles from San Francisco. BROOKDALE, Seattle lor Honolulu, old miles from Seattle. LYMAN STEWART.' Port San Luis for Vancouver, BV C, -S3 miles from Van couver. CLAREMONT, Willapa harbor for San Pedro. 13 miles from Willapa harbor. ARGYLL, Port San Luis for Seattle, 173 mites from Seattle. HORACE X. BAXTER. San Francisco for Seattle. miles from Seattle. CORDOVA, towing Santa Ana, Ketchi kankan for Seattle. 400 miles from Seattle. JOHAANA SMITH, Coos Bay for San Francisco, 3G0 miles north of San Fran cisco. WAHKENA. Gravs Harbor for San Pe dro. 215 miles pouch of Grays Harbor. W. S. HERRIN, Llnnton for Avan, Cal., 155 miles from Linn ton. WESTERN CROSS. San Francisco for Seattle, off Point Reyes, August 20, 8 P. M. WILHELMTNA, Honolulu for San Fran cisco. 1 407 miles from San Francisco. EASTERN GALE, Hilo for San Francis co. !70 miles from San Francisco, QUEEN. San Francisco for Seattle. 62 miles from San Francisco HUMBOLDT. San Francisco for San Pedro. 22 miles south of San Francisco. ROSE CITY, San Francisco for Port land, 30 miles north of San Francisco. WEST HOLBROOK. San Francisco for Eureka, off Point Reyes. WEST KEDRON, 20 mites south of San Francisco. FRANK H. BUCK, Monterey for Port land, 106 miles from Moterey. EASTERN TRADER. San Francisco for I Yokohama, TiOB miles from San Francisco. Columbia river, 170 miles south of Colum bia river. BARGE 01 In tow tug Tatoosh. Eureka for Richmond, 14ft miles from Richmond. ADMIRAL DEWEY. Seattle for San Francisco. 1 1 R miles from San Francisco. WEST KADER. Portland for San Pedro, 00 miles- from San Pedro. TUG HERCULES, towing log raft. As toria for San Diego. 1S1 miles south of San Francisco. ADMIRAL SCHLEY. San Francisco for Los Angeles, 110 miles from San Fran cisco. ADMIRAL NICHOLSON. Santa Barbara for Monterey, 70 miles from Santa Bar bara. DILLWYX, San Pedro for Seattle, 212 miles from San Pedro. RICHCONCAL, San Francisco for Tam plco, 2S5 miles south of San Francisco. FALL OFF TRAIN SURVIVED Brakeman Jerked From Car on Trestle Near Jefferson. ALBANY, Or.. Aug. 21. (Special.) Though he fell from the top of a box car as the train was cross'.nr a high trestle. C. rl. Parkin of Tort land. Southern Facltie brakeman. was not seriously hurt. The accident oc curred on the trestle on the south side of the Santiam river bridge at Jefferson at 1 o'cIock this morning. Mr. Parkin was thrown off when tho train Jerked through an applica tion of the brakes as it was going down grade. He was on a car near the rear of the long freight train pud the conductor, looking out of the ca boose, saw him fall. He was taken to his home in Portland today. GRESHAM BUILDERS BUSY Municipal Auto Camp Grounds Being Improved. GRESHAM, Or., Aug. 21. (Special.) Considerable building is under way in Gresham. At the municipal auto camp grounds, the new building for comfort of tourists and campers i.j Hearing completion. " At the grade school on Powell street a large enclosed playshed Is being constructed. At the county fair grounds, tho grandstand and bleachers on the race ract are b,eing enlarged and other William Thompson and Albert Metzger are building itomes on South Roberts avenue. Three bungalows are.nearing completion ln the Clar.a han tract, recently incorporated in Gresham. Several other properties are being enlarged and .Improved. COMPANY SEEKS ' ENTRY Delaware Power Company Wants to Operate In Oregon. SALf? Or., Aug. 21. (Special.) The Columbia Valley Power company, organized under the laws of Dela ware, has filed application for per mission to operate in Oregon. The corporation 'is divided Into 50,000 shares of stock and N. D. Slmnn of Portland has been named as the Ore gon representative of the concern. The Ross Building company, with headquarters in Portland, has been organized by George A. Ross, Erma Ross and L,. W. Mathews. The capi tal stock- Is $10,000 and Portland will be the headquarters. The North Grand Auto company, with headquarters in Portland, has dissolved. DAILY 3IETEOROLOCICAL REPORT. PORTLAND. Aug. 21. Maximum tem perature, 0O.O., degrees; minimum.. C4 degrees. River reading. . 8 A. M . r,. feet: change in la.st -4 hours, n. 2-foot fall. Total rainfall 13 P. M. to 5 P. M. . none; total since September 1. lltllt. 3."...M Inches: normal. -a-l-M: deficiencv. 9.33. Sun rise. 5:18 A. M. ; sunset. 7:10 P. M. ; total sunshine. 1:1 hours and 52 minutef. possi ble sunshine. 13 hours and 52 mluutes. Moonrise. 1 :40 P. M.; moonsft. 11:13 P. M. Barometer (reduced to Fea levell, 5 p. M., -. inches. Relative humidity: 5 A. !.. IiO per cent; noon. 41 per cent; 5 P. M.. 27 per cent. THE WEATHER. Wind STATIONS. Baker Boise Boston .... Calsary Chicago . . . Dt-nvcr .... Des Molnus., Eureka . . . . Galveston Helena Kansas City Los Angeles. Marshfield .. Medford . . . Minneapolis 4S an o.od'. .in ic;r .".( !.J .oii. J v Clear 5i. O.m).. . SE Cle 84'll.lMf . .!B IClearJ liX.l.L'l 14 V C! 0.' O.lMl 14 SE ICl-car ".111 IO V ICIear 5t; o.oo . .w loioudy SSO.IW ..ISE Clear St; O.OllI . . W Clear 7 0.00 10 X Clear 7t O.oth. .jsV IClear R4 O.tMlj. .IN'W Cloudy SIS O.OO lJ.NW, Clear OS O.oo: ll'lM lei-ear SS 0.O0. .!W ICloudy New Orleans N ew xork . . North Head. Phoenix Pocatello . . . Portland . . . Roseburg . . . Sacramento . St. Louis ... Salt Lake . . 31 5 0.00 IS XH'iClear ti;;i02 O.0o. .iV K-'lear 54' SI! 0.00. .IN IClear 64 110 O.oo;. .iN'WIClear 54 .14 "O K4 lili 84 O.OII. .!N WIClear O.OO 10 S IClear 74 0.4S 10 N ICloudy Sli 0 .OOi . . N W, Clear 74 0.oo;i-- N"W Clear Oil l).oo;lIs vTTClear San Diego San v ran. Seattle , . - ..S! K4.4.01:! N Clear 5oiij'o.40i. .1 w Pt. cloudy 5 On O.oo . . W Clear 30 S4 0.IM1I..I.N Pt. clouJy Sitkat , Spokane Tacoma . . . . ; Tatoosh . Valdezf Waila Walla Washington . Winnipeg .. . tin o.otriois (Clear 4ll .VJ G.0-2 NE iRaln 94 0.00 . . jj Clear Pt. cloudy Clear SI 0.M1. .IB 3'i in o.oo . . s i akun Ul' O.oo!. .rSE tClear tA. M. today. P. M. report preceding day. FORECASTS. Portland and vicinity Sunday fair and warm; westerly wintls. Orepon and Washington Sunday fair and continued warm; moderate westerly winds. Montana r"arr today and probably Mon day; warmer in southeast portion: some what cooler Monday or Monday night. Wyoming (jenerally fair today and Monday; warmer Sunday. Idaho Kair; continued warm. REASONS WHY you should have your eyes tested by me. There Is No Pain in My Sight Testing For I use no drugs or drops, but employ the latest sci entific methods of sight testing. My rooms are private and the actual Sight Testing is most interesting to the patient, and not in any way inconvenient. Many know this, but those who imagine a visit to my office is as much to be feared as a visit to the dentist, are quite mistaken, for your EYES are not touched in . any way by my method. I will test your sight and advise you as to the needs of your case. My Perfect - Fitting Glasses will please and satisfy you. Dr. Wheat Eyesight Specialist Second Floor Morgan BIdg. Entrance on Washington Street