Monday, July 24, lQift
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Ashland Tidings
By
.THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO.
(Incorporated.)
i SEMI-WEEKLY.
ESTABLISHED 1876.
Bert R. Greer, Editor and Manager.
fjjnn Mowat, News Reporter
Issned Mondays and Thursdays
Ollictal Cily and Comity Paper
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In ordering changes of the pper
always give the old street address or
pontoffice as well as the new.
Entered at the Ashland, Oregon,
Postofflce as second-claBB mall matter.
picking"? Who docs not?
Why not niake it possible for visit
ors to enjoy a pleasure which clvlliza
tlon's advance has made almost ex
tinct?
I Heard and Overheard
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nt:it?;tt!?;ttiut.it;tintittttTtt?tt;t;ttt?t;i
Unc Rose says: "Doc Hall is so
kind hearted he would sympathize
with whipped cream."
A letter to the First National Bank
from a Portland bank says: "We
have not enough silver to supply our
correspondents." We suffer from the
same trouble the first of every month
but our shortage Is chronic, while
the bank's shortage is merely acute
Ashland, Ore., Monday, July 24, '16
THE SUMMER HOTEL BUSINESS.
It Is quite an eye-opener to travel
around to the summer resorts and
see the lavish and enormous palaces
built for the summer vacation busi
ness. When you consider that most
of these places can do a good business
sot over two to three months in a
year, it does seem as If many of them
must be run at a loss.
Not merely do they have as heavy
an operating expense as a fine city
hotel, but they must pay interest on
capital, depreciation, repairs and
taxes, out of the profits of a very
short season. The managements may
save something by transferrin their
force of employes from winter resort
houses run alternately with the sum
mer places, but at best there must be
long between season periods when
things go slow.
The modern wealthy American is
.a free spender, and he demands and
Is willing to pay for high standards
of service and luxuries. Probably
the servants In these places get their
pay legally out of the free tipping
prevalent, which must help a lot.
Smaller hotels run for people of
moderate means look like a less risky
proposition. There are very apt t8
depend for their service on school
teachers or college students living
near by, who can be hired at moder
ate rates and need be engaged only
for a short season. Their equipment
seems rather primitive to people
used to high-class hotels. There may
be no electric bells and the guests
may have to depend on oil lamps. But
at the present cost of living a great
many people are willing to put up
with the lack of modern conven
iences. There are thousands of these small
hotels In attractive scenes that get
Just about the same crowd of people
year after year. If they provide good
home cooking, comfortable beds, pure
water and good sanitation, a great
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many other lacKs are overiooneu.
People return year after year, and
the pleasure of meeting old friends
counts more than the niceties of service.
Monte Briggs says: "I know a
dozen fellows who spend three times
as much money buying smoking to
bacco as they do paying taxes, and
yet, whenever anyone says 'public im
provement' they go straight up In the
air and holler about waste and ex
travagance."
The speaker was a sixteen-year-old
boy, trousers torn, grimy with soot
and grease, who, to use his own
words, was "makin his foist trip
over de road," and who had been
"kicked off" a train at Frederick
while en route to his San Francisco
home and was hiking it into Ashland.
He was kneeling down on the bank
of the hot sulphur pool on the Jack
son place alongside the highway be
low town and removing some of the
traces of travel. Rising, he dried his
face on a bedraggled cap and re
marked: "Gee, won't de kids down
at school rise up when de teacher has
me read me composition on 'How I
spent me summer vacation.' I lived
In de city all me life and I never
dreamed of seeing anything like dls."
Junior team as well as a town team
that year,
Orchardlsts who "did not believe in
spraying," a variety almost extinct
today, were complaining because the
codlln moth was getting their trees
A clothespin social was given at the
D. L. Rice home.
Headers and harvesters were busy
all over the valley and a large grain
yield was predicted.
The Ashland
Celebration
Twenty-Five.'iYears
Agoyin'Ashland
(Taken from the Files of the Ash
land Tidings of July 24, 1891.)
One hundred and fifteen people
were killed by the Southern Pacific
railroad trains during the year, "ac
cording to the annual report of the
company. Forty-six of these were
employes. This was before the day
of "safety first."
An all-Jackson county baseball
team defeated a team from Josephine
cqunty by the score of 28 to 8.
W. P. Squire opened a real estate
office.
Eber Emery and Mrs. Sarah Ball
had passed away during the week
previous.
Lawn tennis had been raging at
the Wagner soda springs, which in
those days was the favorite resort of
the valley.
FLOWER PICKING.
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Pasadena, Cal., has originated a
plan which is working out so well
and would seem so aptly fitted to
Ashland's park that it should be giv
en serious consideration. A few years
ago a poppy field was planted in Pas
adena, a large amount of seed sown
and the public Invited to come and
pick all thg blossoms it liked.
According to the Los Angeles
Times of July 12:
"The success which attended this
effort was so great that it was decid
ed by the Pasadena city commission
ers to carry out the Idea on a large
' Bcale. There are to be 400 varieties
of wild flowers in this park. The
flowers will be planted in plots ar
ranged in an attractive color scheme
and they are such that there will al
ways be some In blossom. Every
where the visitor will be reminded
by signs that he may take some home
with him."
Might this not be a good plan for
Ashland? The acres upon acres of
virgin woods above the formal park
and camp ground, which with the ex
ception of the clearing out of the
poison oak and the building of trails
are Just as they always were, if plant
ed thickly to wild flowers should and
an attraction to the park, unique and
yet easy of contrivance. The instant
success which has followed the plant
ing of the various varieties of flow
ers in profusion in Lithia Park prop
er, and which now make the park a
kaleidoscope of beautiful colors, au
gurs well for a wholesale planting of
hardy wild flowers over the hills.
Remember the Joy of going flower
The Ashland woolen mills, which
burned down a few years later, had
shipped a record shipment of blan
kets and flannels to Portland.
S. F. MOrine was kicked In the
face bjr a horse and said it might
have put him out lor good if he bad
not been bo "hard twisted."
- wi--'-
The mud and vapor baths and the
mineral waters at Tolman springs at
tracted a number of health seekers.
Tolman springs was a public resort
In those days. A few years ago it
was closed and finally sold to M. G.
Lawrence, who made a beautiful
country estate out of it. The 'place
Is now closed, Mr. Lawrence being
obliged to remain in a lower altitude.
The White Sulphur Springs Hotel
had Just been leased by H. F. Cook.
Sulphur baths were a feature offered.
The hotel building, or rather what
remains of it,is used for a store
house at present. It stands at the
foot of Pioneer avenue.
The "baldheaded" and other spec
tators on the depot platform re
marked a company of 75, members
of the Lilliputian Opera Company, to
be "the homeliest and the rankest
crowd of stage artists . that have
passed tip to Portland for a long
time."
Many thousand gallons Of blackr
berrles were predicted by B. Beach as
the season's crop.
Early Alexander peaches dropped
to 35 cents a box In Portland owing
to an overcrowded market due to
lack of co-operation in marketing.
This evil remains until today, al
thought the government bureau of
markets is making an effort to estab
lish a needed system In the northwest.
Ashland baseball fans supported a
(By George E. Bradnack in the
Merrill Times.)
From July 4 to7, Ashland, Jackson
county, Oregon, celebrated the big
gest day In her history, and one that
will go down in the minds of the peo
ple of Ashland as the successful cul
mination of hard work, a hard-fought
bond issue, and the unselfish efforts
of one man, who subordinated per
sonal work and interests to the cul
mination of what will prove to be the
biggest asset and glory of Ashland
and make for her future and prosper
ity.
Extending from the beautiful Chau
tauqua Park In Ashland Is a ravine,
beautiful in its ruggedness and
through which a stream of sparkling
mountain water runs to the valley
below. Off in the mountains, nine
miles distant, were the famous lithia
springs, sulphur and sparkling min
eral waters, that needed only to be
brought to Ashland and Us beautiful
natural park to make It the play
ground and wonderland of a happy,
prosperous and contented people.
These possibilities, shadowed as
they were by a lot of unsightly build
ings covering the grounds, were ap
parent to the vision of one far sight
ed man, a stranger there, who said
that these natural .wonders, developed
and brought to the city to give to Us
people the life-giving waters and play
ground, would make it the mecca of
tourists and people looking for rest
and health.
Publicity was given the project;
the people were interested; a bond
issue for $175,000 was voted; and it
was determined that Ashland should
condemn the unsightly buildings in
the beautiful place; that the land
scape gardener should be brought In;
that the waters from the springs in
the mountains should be brought to
the city for the benefit of the people
and future generations. How well
this has been done in the face of all
the opposition and discouragements
that have arisen, is the fulfillment of
these ideas that the people now unite
In saying was the creation of a master
mind, that developed it after these
years of obscurity. " Ashland enter
tained In one day 30,000 people who
went away exultant over the fulfill
ment of this dream and the reality
that has been brought to pass.
Beautiful landscaping has made a
veritable paradise out of what was at
one time an undeveloped but beauti-
fful natural woodland. Flowers, ferns,
rustic bridges, paths through a won
derful grove and by the streams of
pure mountain waters, the beautiful
glass fountains spouting forth the
sulphur and mineral waters from the
far distant springs, have made this a
paradise that took the creative hand
of man and the wonders of nature to
perfect. ' '
Ashland has for years enjoyed the
benefits of her Chautauqua sessions
and her Chautauqua Park, where peo
ple have come from long distances to
camp and enjoy the advantages that
the Chautauqua programs have
brought to them.
Now through the creative genius of
Bert R. Greer, editor and manager of
the Ashland Tidings, the semi-invalid
and the tourist will stop for rest apd
recreation and Join the multitude
that will make their annual pilgrim
age to Ashland. The Ashland Chau
tauqua lasts two weeks and their pro
gram Is always of the highest order4
The beauties of the place, enhanced
as they are by the benefits to be re
ceived, will extend the time of this
pilgrimage and Ashland will become
famous for its Chautauqua, its min
eral and sulphur waters and a resort
for tourists.
After all the vicissitudes of the
conditions brought forth, Bert Rv
Greer stands honored, and the thanks
of the people of Ashland are gener
ously extended to him for the work
that he has done and the fulfillment
of his ideas. It is not given to all
men to see these things and to realize
them, but a monument has , been
erected that will be known and un
derstood In the years to come and
that will be an appreciation of the
people and the city for the fulfill
ment of the idgals and work that has
been realized.
The celebration was given in honor
of this great work that has been ac
complished and to fittingly commem
orate the nation's natal day. It had
been carefully planned and was suc
cessfully carried out in every detail
Most of the interest was centered
In the roundup, which furnished four
hours of entertainment each after
noon. This part of the celebration
was ably managed by the following
gentlemen who personally backed It
to the extent of $10,000: O. T. Berg
ner, Monte Briggs, C. Adams, A. C
Ninlnger and Doc Helms. One hun
dred contestants from California and
Oregon were entered In the events,
Each day's program was full of ex
citement and thrills, the riding be
ing all that could be desired by the
many spectators who craved excite
ment.
Africans Can
Really Sing
On Saturday evening C. A. Rex-
road, the platform manager for the
Ellison & White Lyceum Bureau,
gave his valedictory. He said he
had enjoyed himself very much dur
ing his stay and hated to leave. He
found things in good order when he
arrived, which made it much easier
for him than it was in many places.
He wished to thank the people for
their patronage and help. Mr. Rex
road has been here about a week and
has made more friends In that time
than an ordinary man does in two
or three months. Everyone was
sorry to see him leave.
The Kaffir Boy Choir of Africa
furnished the evening's ventertain
ment. Mr. Balmer, who is in charge
of the boys, told something of his
work in Africa. He has lived there
almost all of his life and for thirty
years has made a study of the negro
boy. He is not a missionary, but
lives in Africa because he likes it
there. However, he does missionary
work on the Bide. There are many
white people In Africa who live there-,
not because they have to, but because
they can make a good living there.
He .also said that a great many lived
there because they liked it there.
The scenery is just as good In Africa
as in America. In fact, a great deal
of it, he thought, was better. (Of
course we have to excuse that remark
from him he lives there.) The
country, as we all know,. Is not all
developed. There are many savages
In those dark forests, and many wild
animals.
Miss Clarke, who Is also with the
boys, said that she was raised there
with no playmates except the little
Africans, and yet she was not sorry
for it. She seemed to think that she
had as good a time with them as she
would have had with white children.
She also told something of the dress
of the uncivilized African. She had
on the dresses of several savage prin
cessesshe had to wear several or
she would not have been allowed to
appear in public.
The boys were a very intelligent
looking lot. All of them had grins
reaching from "year to year." They
were dressed in the native costumes,
composed chiefly of skins. There
were five of them, representing sev;
eral tri c 3. The terrible Zulu was
repress t;d by the smallest the one
with the broadest grin. He was
called at different 'times the prima
donna, "Stick-in-the-Mud," and the
great professor from South Africa.
The Hottentots, the Fungos, and pos
sibly two other tribes were there.
The first number on the program
was a song, in the native language
with a name that for some reason
we do not remember. When trans
lated it was "O That Great God."
The harmony was queer, for it must
have been real Kaffir music, but it
was pretty. Most of their selections
were, original. The oldest boy sang
a solo in very good English. He was
the only one who came to America
before with Mr. Balmer. He was
only five years old then. He waB
with them when they sang before
some, of the crowned heads of Eu
rope. Miv Balmer Bald that he was
afraid of kings before he saw 'them,
but he lost his fear the first time he
saw one. He felt sorry for them.
One of the favorite songs with the
audience was a banjo song in which
one of the boys took the lead and
the others joined In on the "ping
pang."
The boys are good orators as well
as singers. They depicted a scene in
the jungle. The chief was trying to
persuade his tribe to make war on a
neighboring tribe, which was rich, in
order to get their cattle. Some of
the members of the tribe did not want
to go for fear they would get killed.
Vlnh STATEMENT OF THE SPRINGS WATER COMMISSION
FINANCIAL MMh Kn IjnK July 21( J916
Date.
7-15
Vr No. Name of Party Issued To and Items. Amount.
2 '40 Frank Crowson, 48 hrs. labor cementing pipe Joints at
$2 50 per day less 6 cents state insurance $14.94
F E Rosencrans, 48 nrs. luuur lejjumuf, u
' $3 per day less 6 cents state insurance 17.94
Tnim VolDe. repairing motor at lithia spring.... 2.00
Wells-Fargo & Co., express on valve returned to Crane
& Co., Portland ;
Ashland Bookbindery, to binding one volume of vouch
ers ' '
Provost Bros
2241
2242
2243
2244
2245
6-21
C-24
.$
2.05
2.00
.41
1.50
14.30
17 ft. galv pipe
1 intp vnlve
Padlock' 35c, hasp 15c, strap hinges
25c, faucet $l.r0 '. 2.25
Flag pole rope $1.00, hook 10c, pully
X.lit
5c
6-26
6-27
6-28
6-29
6-30
6-3
6-10
6-30
Bushing 25c, hacksaw blade and frame
a 0c, S extra blades 30c 1-05
1x2 union 90c, 45 degree elbow 20c 1.10
1 6 in. sewer cap 25c. st. elbow 20c,,
2 1 in. elbows 40c, 2 nipples 20c,
batts 5c ... 1.10
1 in. tee 25c, lx4 in. bush. 15c, 1 In.
elbow 20c -60
Hose bib 85c, in. elbow 10c, in.
-tee 15c , i-10
Globe valve Sue, plug oc, nippie ivv,
red. 10c
2 couplings 20c, elbow 10c
Stanlps r
Electric tape 10
1 in. tee 15c, lxV B 10c, 1 in. elbow. . .35
1.10
.30
.05
-15 2246
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$14.30
Joe Kerr, six half days' work on fountains cleaning up
6.94
Total 57-3
Special '
Physical Plant.
Fund.
Balance last reported $11,977.21
Received from the sale of cups
Total $11,977.21
Disbursed as per statement 33.83
Balance this date '.. $11,943. 38
Physical
Plant Operating
Fund.
J2.S66.33
17.85
$2,884.18
23.20
$2,860.98
J. P. DODGE, Secretary.
BERT R. GREER, Chairman.
It was worth the price of admission
to hear them talk it out. If the
neighboring tribe had been wise it
would have crept up on them while
they were wrangling and killed thera
all. It would have been easy enough.
They were making so much noise that
they could have walked out on them
"before they knew anyone was around.
It was all In the Zulu language. The
chief finally talked them out of their
fears. The fact was that he talked
such a stream and used so muck
that the others could not get enouga
to make a sound.
The boys made a real hit and the
people want them to come back some
day.
One thing the matter with Mexico
Is its leaders, and another thing Is
its people. Otherwise It is all right.
More cooks are needed for the
army. And, by the same token, more
cooks are needed for the homes.
totes?
When Christy's dead a hundred years, the fans will still
discuss- his play, and sigh, while shedding briny tears,
"There are no men like him today! He used the brains
behind his brow, and gave the foe a grievous jar; tht
chroniclers have told us how he
was for years and years a star.
Great pitchers came and cut some
grass, and died, and then forgotten
were; he saw them come, and saw
them pass, and still kicked up a
mighty stir." The chroniclers will
also tell how Christy, when a game
was played, filled up the pipe he
loved so well, to soothe his nerves,
all tired and frayed. He smoked
Tuxedo every time, the critic's
smoke, the mild and rare, Tuxedo
fragrant and sublime, the cool,
sweet smoke beyond compare.
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CHRISTY MATHEWSON
PitthrNtw York Cioate
"TwceJo gtU to mi In
natural, pltatant way. '
what I call good, honest, torn
panionablt tobacco tht kjt
tottickto."
100. ' '
INTERURBAN AUTOCAR CO.
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Leave Ashland for Medford, Talent
and Phoenix dally except Sunday at
9:00 a. m. and 1:00, 2:00, 4:00
and 6:16 p. m. Also on Saturday
night at 6:30 and 12:20. Sundays
leave at 9:00 and 1:00, 4:30, 6:30
and 10:30 p. m.
Leave Medford for Ashland dally ex
cept Sunday at 8:00 a. m., 1:00,
2:00, 4:00 and 6:15 p. m. Also on
Saturday at 11:15 p. m. On Sun
days at 8:00 and 10:30 a. m., and
1:00, 2:00, 6:30 and 9:30 p. m.
Fare between Medford and Ash
land, 20 cents. Round trip,. 35 cents.
it's cool
.down thete at
OREGON
When vacation trips are being planned
remember many people are enjoying
- the cool sea breezes at Newport beach
You don't have to swim or fish; the camp, the tent,
the big rim of the ocean horizon, the trees, the cool
breezes, the roaring of the breakers that's all you
want.
A vacation at Newport costs littje. Tents or bungalows
to rent. Low summer fares are on sale daily. The re
turn limit is October 31st. Go down this summer, Mr.
Business man, and take your family, too.
Write for booklets "Oregon Outdoors" and "Newport
Beaches'' and other information. v
Coos Bay Railroad Celebration, Marshfleld and North
Bend, August 24th, 25th and 26th.
Low round trip fares.
JOHN M. SCOTT, GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT,
PORTLAND, OREGON.
Southern Pacifig
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