THE SUNDAY OREGOXrAX, PORTLAND, SEPTE3IBER 19, 1920 17, VAWDERBILT LAUDS CITY'S ADVANTAGES Portland Is Called Philadel phia of West. CLIMATE IS Columbia River Gateway Has Per Cent Advantage Over Ports Xorth, and South. through the pipes. In the bathrooms of the hotels there are faucets marked "Ice Water." Through this Bull Run fluid arrives at a temperature just above 34 degrees. There are more water mains pro rata in Portland than in Ne.w York. The total number is slightly more than 728 miles within the city limits. Furthermore, one of the finest elec tric lighting systems In the country exists in the city of Portland. In an estimate made by the Electrical World for January 1, 1920, it was stated that he potential water horse power for the states of Oregon. Washington and Idaho was 22,710.000. This is 38 per cent of the entire available horse power in this country. And but 698.- Ifin hm nnw. V, I .... r, HELD IDEALl tioned Possibility is under harness. nyaro-eiectnc installations at tne present time in Oregon exceed steam installations by three to one. There are in the city at present three differ ent power companies, so that there is an uninterrupted circuit constantly. In connection with the electrical de velopments there are 60.423 automatic telephones Installed, also a large num ber, running into the thousands, of the ordinary telephonic installments. An extensive electrical street rail way service, which enables a passen ger by means of universal transfers to travel all over- the city for one fare, is another of her municipal achievements There are 215.9 miles of track within the single-fare zone. In 1919 the street cars carried, 100. 301.493 passengers. Outside the city, within a comparatively small area, there are 276 miles Of track. 50 BT COR.NEL.lUS VANDERBTLT JR. The following article is reprinted from the New York. Times of Septem ber 6: There Is necessarily a commercial alue in good climatic conditions. Pud to its advantageous location and equable climate. Portland Or., is one e the most healthful cities in the United States. The United States census for 3915 showed an annual death rate of only 8.3 for each 1000 Inhabitants.' In many ways, although not gener ally conceded, the west coast has Semblance of parts of the east. It is a one-generation district and most of the inhabitants, with the exception of a few old timers, are one-generation people. A few days ago the dem ocratic vice-presidential nominee. Franklin, I. Roosevelt, paid a visit to the Columbia river watershed country. In a speech delivered at the Municipal auditorium Mr. Roosevelt confessed a great truth which had un auestlonably struck him after his short trip through the city of Port land. "I have often admired William H. Seward's declaration: 'The Pacific ocean, its shores, its Islands and the vast region beyond will become the chief theater of human activities and vents in the world's great hereafter,' but I confess I had never realized there was such a tremendous metro polls o'n this west coast as the city of Portland," said Mr. Roosevelt. The nominee's statement put ambition into the hearts of even the most skeptical residents and a new spirit into the mlndif of all local boosters. In many respects, drawing conclu sions from Mr. Roosevelt's Ideas, one might call Portland the Philadelphia of the west. Like Philadelphia, it is located at the Junction of two Im portant rivers. It is about 100 miles from the ocean. Besides that, it Is, first of all. a city of homes. The community is largely made up of a contented. home-owning working class. Wonderful agricultural re sources make living costs low by comparison with other points. This. In turn, makes labor efficiency high. The present labor "turnover," which is the big problem In every industrial community, is at the lowest possibl&J point in Portland. Employment, -both from the standpoint of the employer and employe. Is less of a national problem than elsewhere. reveloplnir Her Hinterland. The physical surroundings, aside from these two facts, are, however, quite different. Snow-capped peaks of the Cascade mountains and nearby Immense timbered areas place this city in a class by Itself. Besides this, the Columbia river flows through the only water grade opening in the Cas cade mountain, chain from Canada to Mexico.. Railroads on the north and south bank of the "river take ad vantage of this cut to eliminate one ) mountain haul in the transcontinental Journey. Although not as advanced in transpacific trade as its rival. Se attle, the Oriental trade of the future Is bound to flow through this Co lumbia river gateway. An ideal sea port Is a safe harbor. A good channel to this harbor, permitting free and economical movement of traffic to and from tidewater, was a means whereby nature favored Portland. The recent improvements on the Barge canal in New York cost ap proximately 1150,000.000. The present development between Portland and the interior totals but little more than $14,000,000. Thus it will be seen that in all that goes to make a highly desirable hinterland for a port this city has few equals. Fog as an interference to naviga tion is a most important considera tion. In a record kept by the United States lighthouse service at each of the light vessels off the harbor en trance at Puget sound, Columbia river and San Francisco for the average of ten previous years the Columbia river gateway has more than 50 per cent advantage over the ports north and south. In actual figures com piled on June SO. 1918. there were 1691 hours of fog off the Golden Oate on the average per year for ten years. The Swift' Sure light vessel, at the mouth of Puget sound, showed 1306 hours of fog for the same length of time, while at the Columbia river the average had dropped to 696. Fog causes delays which increase operat ing expenses and result in a high per centage of the marine disasters off any coast. Few harbors of the world have such a perfect entrance. For the last 20 years the ablest engineers of the United States army have been work ing, aided by advisers ranking the greatest harbor engineers in the world, to overcome perpetually the bar at the entrance of the Columbia gateway. A little less than $16,000,000 was expended in construction of channel, two great stone jetties and a discharge area of from two and i half to seven miles. This has pro duced one of the most revolutionary changes in entrance conditions found In the history of world harbors. Portland spent $7,000,000 in making the Chanel alone. From 19 to 20 feet was the best low tide depth prior to the improvement work. At present 42 feet exist at mean low level. This further means that from the 100 mile reach between Portland and the sea wheat can be sent abroad at the rate of about 5 cents a ton instead of an eastern rate for the same distance of 90 cents a ton. 27 Miles of Harbor Front. In the city of Portland there Is a harbor frontage of 27 miles and a water area of five miles. It Is prac tically the only fresh-water harbor between Canada and Mexico. Since the beginning of the war more ships have been produced than in any other district in the country, accord ing to the shipping board's latest fig ures. One hundred and fifty-two wooden and 9s steel ships were launched from here. This means that the actual output was about 3.5 ships per way per annum. Mare Island qual ifled next with 2.9 per annum. There are four modern municipal docks as well as municipal drydocks and other facilities. Yet with all these commod ities Portland has never, until this year, had a trans-oceanic freight or passenger service from her piers. Portland is one of the few cities v which has a complete municipally- owned water system. The main source of supply Is from Bull Run lake. This is located in the government reserve by the same name, in the midst of 222 square miles of almost impenetrable forest and mountain wilderness. One of its biggest assets is an unlimited supply of absolutely pure water. This water Is so cold that one would be lieve it had been iced before coming A Mountain Boulevard. If FranWlin D. Roosevelt had had a few more hours within the city limits of Portland he would have been still more impressed by the picturesque Co lumbia river highway. This is con ceded by authorities in world travel to be the most Interesting mountain boulevard in America or Europe. Its beautiful waterfalls, wonderful rock formations, tunnels, cliffs, retaining walls and artistic bridges all tend to make this delightful thoroughfare America's most noted example of man's intelligent development of- na ture's creation. Within the city proper there are 397 miles of paved streets, built at a cost of $32,783,923. Portland offers exceptional advan tages for manufacturing, plants of all natures. At present there are 1000 manufacturing establishments, with I yearly output of more than. $110,000, 000. It is the fourth largest agricul tural implement center in the United States. It is the third largest furni ture manufacturing city in the world. For the last ten years this latter growth has been phenomenal. During the year 1919 $5,400,000 worth of fur niture was sold from the factories. As regards the lumber possibilities, Portland Is the largest lumber-producing city in the world: The region, as classed together with the Columbia river gateway, has standing timber amounting to 560,000,000,000 feet board measure. There are 78 large sawmills within a radius of 60 miles. Portland Is rapidly becoming the most import ant center of the pulp and paper man ufacting industry. The city Itself is one big park. Res idential streets are lined with attrac tive homes. These houses are sur rounded by magnificent trees and beautiful lawns. Artistic hedges and numbers of flowers and varl-colored plants are in bloom most of the year. There are two rose blooms per year. Every June a Rose Festival is held, which draws hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the world. Some of the finest hotels on the Pa cific coast are among the 160 in the city. They can accommodate with comfort and every convenience 30.000 guests. A large auditorium lies in the center of the city. It has a seating capacity of 6500 people and was built at a cost of a little less than isoo.uuu. Six large meetings can be held In the main building at the same time. In many respects it resembles New York's new Town Meeting halL Northwesterly winds from the pa cific temper the season throughout the entire region west of the Cascades. Tornadoes, thunder storms ana otner extremes are unknown. Snow is rare. The average annual rainfall is 45 inches, exactly the same as New York city. With a population Just under 308,000 people, Portland is becoming one of the major cities of the United States Pacific coast. Perhaps when Mr. Roosevelt visits this city the next time he will say he is sure that lormer Secretary of State Seward was right when he made that most important statement At any rate, Mr. Roose velt takes back east with him a re membrance of a city built chiefly by the prairie schooners of the early '30a which followed the Oregon trail, ana have left behind them the western metropolis of Brotherly Love. STORM DAMAGES APPLES i UMPQTJA VALLEY LOSS PUT AT $50,000 TO $65,000. Several Orchards Reported Stripped of Product by Wind Pears Also Affected. ROSEBURO. Or.. Sept. 18. (Spe cial.) Damage to the extent of be tween $50,000 and $65,000 was done to the apple crop of the Umpqua valley late yesterday afternoon when a se vere wind storm struck this section. From 4 o'clock in the afternoon until 7 in the evening the wind reached a velocity at times of 27 miles an hour, and in many sections of the valley apple orchards were literally stripped of the product. While the apple crop suffered main ly. late pears were also damaged and there will be ' a minor loss to prune growers owing to their Inability to gather and dry their crop, thousands of boxes of the fruit dropping to the ground, during the three hours' wind storm. In prune orchards where plenty of help. can be commanded little Iobs will result, but in some sections it wtll be lmrossible to save all the fruit that slder the feasibility of repairing Burn-I has dropped, owing to shortage of oirin hrlrlra at a cost not to exceea i labor and tne congested condition of ui nan that It would be made ab- I many prune dryers. " i,,;.' .-f. for a period of five I In the -Umpqua valley, north of . win h held with Multnomah I Roseburg. including the Sutherlin dis count'v commissioners at (P.M. Mon- trict. and what. Is known as Garden j i found that repairs can be vplley and Looking Ulass valley, a ,v, - ..mmiuloncn will arrange 1 hurried inspection made today by the ... .'ho reconstruction out of tax I county fruit inspector shows a loss of furds or submit a $500, oiru Dono. pru-iiunjr tg poi m ui in enure crop ,'.i . the voters at the November in this section. Here the main apple ",,,,, I producing section of the county i: John Lyle Harrington of the bridge located. engineering firm of Harrington, rew ard & Ash, of Kansas uny. wnitu will be held In La Grande next Wednesday. The programme prepared by the La Grande organization in cludes discussions by physicians and surgeons of national prominence, and will 'be given in the .Elks' temple of that city. The discussion will be opened by Dr. C. L. Blakely of Baker. The election of officers will be held at the conference. ENGINEERS WILL CONFER Repairing of Burnstde Bridge to Be Considered. conference of engineers to con structed the interstate bridge, sieei hriilire and Hawthorne bridge, arriveu In Portland yesterday, ne win mcei with Samuel Murray, ohlel engineer rn. tha llnlcn Pacific:. Charles Mc- dnniirlp a local engineer, and C. B. Mnfuiionirh. bridge engineer of the it hlehwav commission. C. H. Pur- cell, former highway engineer, oui now connected with the United States huroaii of roads, has made a written report of his recommendations to be one n erf at this meeting, as he will be out of the city. roctors to Meet at La Grande. BAKER, Or., Sept. 1 ?. (Special.) A large number of physicians and surgeons of Baker are planning to attend the annual Conference of the Oregon District Medlral society which 600 HEAR G0RD0N TALK Second) Series or Meetings to Begin Tomorrow Morning. Satan and selfishness are synony mous, declared S. D. Gordon at yes terday's noon meeting, which con cluded the week's series of talks at the Helllg theater. Six hundred per sons heard yesterday's talk. After explaining that at first Satan was God's closest companion. Mr. Gor don told of the way in which Satan lost his sense of proportion and put himself in place of God. "He forgot that everything he had was given him simply In trust. His moral center of gravity shifted. He fell by the sheer weight of bad choice downwards. "The devil preferred himself to God That's alL But the difference be tween heaven and hell la Just there That sort of thing isn't so strange to you and me. There are two ways of spelling Satan. Satan is selfishness Incarnate. Wherever there Is selfish ness. Satan has a pretty good hold.1 Mr. Gordon will start his second series of meetings Monday noon at the Heillg theater. The meetings close promptly at 1 o clock.. . . HAWLEY GIVES ITINERARY Southern Oregon Towns to Be Vis Ited by Representative This Week. As has been the custom when con gress is not in session. Representa tive W. C. Hawley Is now engaged in making a tour of the 1st congression al district of Oregon, investigating the needs of the various localities, -and conferring with his constltutents concerning matters of public Interest. During the past week he has been in various sections of Linn and. Lane counties, returning in time to be present at the exercises In the Salem armory Friday night, held In com memoration of the adoption of the federal constitution. His engage ments for the next few days are: September 10. 4:S P. M., leave Ealem; 10 P. M., arrive Roeeburg-. September 'JO. 5:20 P. M-. leave Rose- burg; JO P.'M., arrive Grants Paaa. September 21, 2:10 P. M leave Grants Pass; 8:40 P M., arrive Medford. September 22, 12:03 P. M.. leave Med ford: 12:45 P. M., arrive Ashland; :45 P. M., leave Ashland. September 23, 4:45 A, M., arrive EuKene. September 4, 7:30 A. M. leave Eugene: 10 A. M., arrive-CorvaDis. DR. PARS0NSJS COMING Eastern Educator to -Go With Uni versity- of Oregon. Dr. Philip A. Parsons, professor of sociology and head of the sociology department of Syracuse university, .New York, has been appointed pro fessor of sociology of the University of Oregon and director of the Port land school of social work. He will arrive In Portland this week. Dr. Parsons Is a graduate of Union seminary and Columbia university, re ceiving his doctor's degree in 1909 from Columbia. He was also a stu dent and fellow in the New Tork School of Philanthropy and the Bu reau of Social Research, and since 1909 he has been head of the sociology department at Syracuse university. During this period his department grew from 75 to over 600 students. Dr. Parsons founded and directed the university settlement, run in connec tion with the department of sociology of the university. He is an able speaker on economic, political arid social topics, and has traveled exten sively In Europe and the orient to study social conditions. LIBRARY AIDS HIED VACANCIES ARE FILLED CENTRAL- INSTITUTION'. AT Rouinanla Ratifies Treaty. WASHINGTOX, Sept. 18. The state department was advised today that Roumanla had deposited Its ratifica tion of the peace treaty, bringing the number ur to 26. Many Former Assistant Plan to Enter School, While Others Will Go Elsewhere. The appointment of 11 assistant and branch librarians to fill vacan cies was announced yesterday at cen tral library. Many of those who resigned did so to enter schools of various sorts. Among them are Miss Blanche Ross, who enters the University of Oregon; Rosella Knox. University of Wash ington: Margaret Caldwell. Western Reserve library school: Helen Day, business college, and Amanda Daugh erty. library training course. Three are going to other libraries. Miss Marie Hanson has accep.ted a position with the Detroit public li brary, Alice Rows the Bridgeport, Conn., library, and Elizabeth Davis will go to Kansas Agricultural col lege, "where she was formerly em ployed. Miss Esther Fleming, former librarian at Lenta, la leaving library work and returning to her home at Yakima. Appointments announced yesterday included: - Miss May Bergh, X'niverstty of Washington library, to East Portland branch as general assistant: Mrs. Ethel B. McGlnnis, Western Reserve library, Cleveland library and Call fornia libraries, to be general assist ant ir. the catalogue department; Amelia Robie, whose experience was gained In Pittsburg. Cleveland. At lanta and Pratt Institute, to be as sistant in the children's department Ruth Hayes, Western Reserve library and Cleveland, to be general assist ant In the school department: Claire Shadall of Milwaukee and Waukesha, Wis., libraries, and Davenport, la., to be in charge of station work In the branch office of central library: Flor ence 5oild. Hoorl River nnrl Twcoma libraries, to be children's librarian at St. Johns branch: Helen McRaith. University of Iowa and New York and Iowa City libraries, to ha li brarian at Arleta: Florence Pettit. University of Washington and branch libraries at Seattle, to be general as sistant at Albina branch: Maude Covington, Western Reserve. Spokane public library and University of Idaho liDrary at Moscow, to be librarian at Lents branch; Luetic Snaldinsr. from Oakland. Cal.. library, to be ceneral assistant In the circulation depart ment, and Lucile Allen, teacher, to be general assistant In the neriodlcal department. Miss Dorothea Smith, librarian al University Park, will have general supervision of the Peninsula branch. With this change Mrs. Mary Veazie has charse of the desk at Peninsula and Miss Carrie Meussdorffer will have charge of the Woodstock branch. CONCERT SEASON PLANNED Rosariani Band to Be Feature at Anditorinm Opening. Plans for the opening of the winter season of municipal popular concerts at the public auditorium were com pleted yesterday by Hal M. White, manager. The season will open Octo ber 10. it was announced, with a con cert In which the Rosarlan band will be featured. In addition, several other special attractions will be of fered. The concerts planned for the 1920- 21 season, according to Mr. White, will be more elaborate than In the past, although the usual admission price of 10 cents to cover Incidental expenses will continue in vogue. For a time there was some talk of Increasing the admission price, but city authorities favor the staging of the concerts for the benefit of the people without profit, hence the low admission price will prevail. According to Manager White about 20 concerts are planned for the sea son. Virtually every musical organ!- zation In Portland will participate in, these concerts, and a successful sea son 1s anticipated. SCHOOL WORK APPROVED Institute of Technology Reports 17 00 Students During Year. Members of the executive commit tee of the Oregon Institute ot iecn- nology held a meeting Friday in the committee room of the Hazelwood. It was reported to the committee that 25 per cent more work was accom plished by the Institute during the year over any other record. The school conducted by tne X. At. j. a. naa imu students during the last fiscal year. The executive committee, consisting! of Henry L. Corbett, chairman; C, H. Farrlngton. R. R. Robley, L. R. Wheel er. Fred C. Knapp. B. S. Huntington. Fred Dundee, F. M. Leeston-Smlth. William Whitfield. F. H. Barstow and E. B. MacNaughton, approved the re ports of school heads. Ex-service men. -to the number of 384, were aided during the year by the school. A number of resolutions I were referred to the board of direc- tors of the Y. M. C. A. for final I action. - 1 X f -" Advertising Points the Way!" Even Conservative Dental Magazines Favor Honest Dental CU Ientlitry Only, at Prices A UVfTtlSinCT " Everyone Can Afford. nulClUSlllg My Practice I Limited to HI ah "Dentistry is fitted to cope with any dental ills that may crop up. What it could and would do for the benefit of the people at large has HERETOFORE BEEN A SEALED BOOK TO THE GREAT MAJORITY. The need is great for the gen eral dissemination of real information on the subject of the teeth. ADVERTISING IS THE GREATEST FORCE IN MOD ERN AFFAIRS. Why should its great powers not be utilized for the benefit of the public in their dire need?" That paragraph, taken from a full page advertisement in the one Dental Magazine which has always "stood so straight it leaned backward," showi that the great truth is slowly sinking in. a A few years ago a statement such as that would have been deemed unpardonable, and a magazine that dared to champion dental advertising would have lost most of its subscribers. It is good to have lived to see the things f or vhich I have been condemned adopted, or at least approved, by my erstwhile critics. . - - Many years ago, in public announcements, I advocated: (1) Sanitary. Dental Offices and complete sterilization of all instruments. . . (2) - The abandonment of a fixed "fee bfllw and an honest charge for all dental work. . (3) Crowning and bridging teeth, whenever possible, WITHOUT killing the nerve (devitalization) or removing all enamel from the tooth. (4) Elimination of needless pain in all dental operations. (5) The right to advertise honestly, without fear or favor. 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