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Oregon Historical Society Comp 207 Second St Tidings Ashland Grows While Lithia Flows' City of Sunshine and flowers Ashland, Oregon, Lithla Springs ' "Oregon's Famous Spa' VOL. XLI ASHLAND. OREGON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1916 NUMBER 30 Auspicious Opening of Ashland Public Schools Ashland was astir early this morn ing. Good reason why, everybody had lmporatnt business on hand. The public school bells rang out lor the first time In three months. The mothers hustled around to wash Johnny's ears and braid Mary's tousled locks In time to land them at the school house steps by 8:43. All who paw the merry and expectant faces on their way to the various seats of learning with the enthusiasm and vigor of youth must be bound to declare that the old worn out tale about school days being hard days is all a myth. The Ashland public schools are open for the fall term. Superintend ent Briscoe, his stenographer and the ., . i ; . v. . ..I...-. t -if: k V, m- uJiy l .i Hili full complement of teachers, 33 In number, whose names appeared in the Tidings last Monday and of whom seven are new to the Ashland schools, are entering upon what promises to lie one of the most successful years In the educational history of Ash land. The schools are housed in three substantial and modern buildings, cuts of which appear on the first page of the Tidings today. High School. The high school building is located at the northwest corner of Mountain avenue and Iowa street on six acres of ground. There are 26 rooms in the build ing besides the audi torium, with a seating capacity of 300, and a gymnasium of the same size and well equipped with appa ratus of various sorts. This is the newest of the three buildings, completed in 1912, and In it is used the Ple num combined system o f ventilating and Tieatlng. The fresh cold air enters through i . .,.a - I windows in the base ment, being drawn in a strong draft by recolving fan perhaps or more in diameter. a swiftly five feet On the in- side of the circumference of the fan wheel are sixty blades projecting to ward the axle of the wheel which revolves the same as a vehicle wheel. This fan wheel forces the air through a large iron conveyor directly over the four oil-burning furnaces, where the air is heated and carried directly to the rooms through galvanized pipes. Each room is supplied with a thermostat which acts automatically and keeps the air at the desired tem perature. The air is forced in at one end of the room and finds sev eral exits. The system also provides for the use of cold air along with the air from over the furnaces and is so arranged and operated that every room is supplied with entirely fresh air every three minutes. A Standard electric time clock Is used to ring all class bells both in Bide and outside the building. It is get once In the fall for the entire school year and ,acts automatically. The recitation rooms are furnished with arm chairs and a teachers' library cabinet. The right wing of the building downstairs is used en tirely for the science department. It is equipped with the Bausch & Lomb projecting system for illustrating on the screen everything from maps to microscopic organisms. The opaque projection is used for post cards, maps and book illustrations. The microscopic and lantern slide projec tions are for bacteriological, biolog ical and botanical work. For illus trations of chemical reactions the Tertical projection Is provided. The Illustrations are thrown upon a acreen about ten feet square, thus showing some of , the subjects in wonderfully magnified proportions. Many of the slides used In the ma chine are made by the teachers and students and are retained by the school for repeated use. The main floor of the right wing of the build ing is used for commercial subjects, music and art. One floor or the left wing is used for manual training and mechanical drawing, and a portion of the upper floor for cooking and sewing classes. West School or Junior High. This building was erected In 1907 on the west side of North Main street and has for grounds from one and onet-half to two acres. There are fourteen rooms, auditorium and I CS S-' 1 ' : ., ; i' ." . -.. ' i A-r ;-- V- School. basement. A wood-burning furnace supplies steam heat to all the rooms. There is complete equipment for manual training, sewing and cooking. The Junior high school, including the seventh, eighth and ninth grades, is lust beine organized and will be ac- 1 comraodated in this building in addi tion to the first six grammar grades from the west side of the city. ; Kast Side School. This Is also a substantial brick building put up iri 1900. It fronts on Siskiyou Boulevard and has eight rooms and basement. Three acres of land provide ample playgrounds for f.v.fi-.i.-'.K 4' - a.v. -.1 Vit-iwJ i . Hi""' 3 West Side School. ' ' the children. The first six grammar grades from the east side of the city are taken care of in this building. It is heated by a hot air gravity system with a wood-burning furnace. General Conditions. On each school ground is a tennis court, a basket-ball court, a volley ball court and provision for indoor baseball games. The policy of the school board is against providing elaborate equipment for outdoor ex ercises, but organized games are en couraged and a physical director de votes a part of each day to the pupils at each building in teaching them the best games and helping them to play Intelligently. Instead of the old form of recess each class leaves the room some time during the day for callsthenlc work, and the last ten minutes of the per iod is for organized games. In bad weather the base . ments are used. The tendency all the time is toward lengthening the school day and the school year, i The high school has a Bix-hour day and the other grades, except the first and second, have five and three-quarter hours. The school hours are from 8:45 a. m. to 11:45 a. m., 2 p. m. to 3:45 for the third to sixth grades and to 4 for the higher grades. Af. ter the close of school each day one hour Is given over to a playtime un der the direction of a teacher. All pupils are gladly kept on the grounds Auto Camp Host To 1,500 Tourists Over 1,470 automobile tourists have registered in the free auto camp ground at Ashland during the period from May 10 to August 31. Many using the grounds have not registered, and it is conservatively estimated that not less than 2,000 persons from many parts of the United States have spent one or more nights at the camp grounds this summer, many staying several days This camp is believed to be the first one ever established in the United States for the free and exclu sive use of automobile tourists. Dur ing the summer it has proved to be one of the most attractive spots on the Pacific coast to travelers from many places, and from far and near have come praises for the great com fort it has brought to travel-stained sojourners. Among the localities from which the visitors have regis tered are Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado Idaho, Iowa, Illinois, In diana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Min nesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Okla homa, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washing ton, Manila, P. I., and Peking, China. These grounds are situated on the bank of Ashland creek among the trees and flowers in Lithla park. about ton minutes walk from the Ashland postoffice. Ample space is provided for the parking of automo biles, a fresh cold water spring gushes out of the rock encasement clase at hand, and a kitchen provided with gas plates and a locker for each plate stands among the trees at one side of the grounds. Through 25 cent slot meters the gas Is furnished to the plates, and there is no other charge of any sort to all automobile travelers who care to use the grounds, the waters (fresh and min eral) and all the privileges of the parks. Everybody Come To Club Meeting The Commercial Club will hold a meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in their rooms. All members are strongly urged to be present and help start things off with a good boost for the fall campaign. All men of the city are invited to attend. Your pres ence and your ideas will be valuable. The cattle industry of Oregon has declined 9 per cent since 1909 and the sheep industry 11 per cent In the same time, says the Department of Agriculture. during this hour if the parents wish it, otherwise the children are sent home as soon as school is out. At the end of the hour all school work for the day is over and the children are not wanted on the grounds. The school grounds of all three of the buildings have beautiful, well kept lawns, shade trees, vines and bushes of many varieties. The West school building stands on the approxr imate site of the old Ashland Acad emy, where school was first conduct ed fourty-four years ago. In the same old frame building the high school was housed for a number of years beginning in the early nineties. The present building is particularly beautiful with Its wealth of vines which have clambered rapidly to high places on the wals. . . ( Ill.T 'ir !if . East Side School. Ashland is rightly proud of her school system, which has a high standing among the public schools of the state. The children who now have the opportunity to enjoy the beauties of their surroundings and the thorough instruction from com petent teachers are fortunate Indeed. Their parents are equally fortunate and are no doubt able to place the true value upon the advantages of living In an enlightened, intellectual and progressive community. n. City Makes Money In Lithia Park How many people In Ashland real ize that $509.35 has been taken In by the cup-vending machines in pen nies and nickels in the last five mouths and four days ending August 31? This happens to be the case, and It has left the city handsome profit over the original cost of the vendors. For that matter, the net profit has paid for five months serv ices of a man at $39 per month for cleaning up and other work connect ed with the fountains. This is one of the many ideas of the springs water commission, which should be installed to make the park and water system self-sustaining, but the lack of funds for initial In vestments has hampered the commis sion to carry out their Ideas further than the installation of the cup vend ors. The following is an account of the receipts and expenditures of the cup vendors. The cups on hand have not been taken Into consideration, and, if they were, it would show a still greater profit- Receipt. March (four days) . .$ 1.SG April H4.T3 May (10.20 June 99.19 July IKS. 94 August 124.43 $569.35 Kvpenditiires. 35,00" cups at $C.50 per 1,000 $227.50 Freight and cartage - on cups 10.50 23S.00 Gross profit $331.35 Original cost of eight vend ing machines less cash dis count and including freight and cartage 132.6S Net profit $198.67 Distinguished Party At Hotel Austin Stephen T. Mather, assistant to the secretary of the interior of the Unit ed States; E. O. McCormick of San Francisco, vice-president of the Southern Pacific; John M. Scott of Portland, general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific for Oregon; Mr. and Mrs. F. Harold White and Roger and Ferris White of Chicago made up a party registered at the Hotel Austin last Friday. Secretary Math er Is in Oregon making an inspection of Crater Lake national park. During the stay of the party in Ashland Mr. E. O. McCormick is showing the secretary over the Ash land parks. Friday afternoon B. R. Greer took the party by atuomoblle to Long's cabin in Ashland Creek canyon to give the distinguished vis itor an opportunity to see what the government has here. Secretary Mather was delighted and expressed himself with almost unbounded en thusiasm regarding the beauty and utility of Ashland's parks and the Ashland creek watershed. He ex claimed: "Why, I expect to see a city of 25,000 population here with in five years. You have laid the foundation for it and will surely see the realization of your hopes if the proper publicity, is given to the en terprise and the work is constantly followed up in an energetic way and with intelligent planning. The en vironment is wonderful and the op portunity exceptional to build a beautiful city which will attract the best people from all over the counr try." Last fall Secretary Mather sent to Ashland for a diagram of the parks here. These were sent him, and at a speech In Yellowstone park recent ly he told of the Ashland automobile camp grounds. In this speech Ash land was the only city west of the Rocky 'mountains which was men tioned. . Before the senate commit tee Secretary Mather argued the na tional park and aid bill which was signed by President Wilson on Fri day, August 25. The largest hotel in Portland the Multnomah is reported to have been sold to eastern people for some thing like one million dollars. It is said to have cost two million when built In 1912. About February 1, last, the hotel failed and closed its doors and has not been open to the public since. It is an Immense struc ture, covering a whole block. As soon as arrangements can be made the hotel will be reopened. Railroad Strike Averted By Congressional Enactment The great railroad strike threat ening to tie up the roads all over the United States and stop car- wheels to an extent never before known in this country has very happily been averted. The passage of the eight-hour day by congress solved the tmmedlate difficulties, and three hours after the bill was through the upper house the heads of the employes' brother hoods of four great railroads throughout the country notified their general chairmen to cancel the order to strike, Vhlch otherwise would have gone into effect at 7 o'clock this morning. The vote in the senate on the leg islative enactment to prevent the strike was 43 to 28, practically on strict party lines, and was taken during exciting moments. Many representatives of both the leading political parties fought hard to in sert amendments to the 'bill, which were framed to prevent future indus trial disturbances, but these efforts were unsuccessful. But a few min utes elapsed in both houses, follow ing passage by the senate, before en actment was signed and it went at once to the White House. The measure that was successful In averting the strike provides that after January 1. next, eight hours shall be the basis upon which a day's pay shall be calculated for em ployes of railroad trains engaged in interstate commerce, except roads Lake of the Woods Lots for Campers Will Dodge, wljo has just returned from a trip to Lake of the Woods and beyond, states that at the south ern end of the lake, adjoining the old camping grounds, the govern ment has completed the survey of ten lots, each 75 by 205 feet, to-be leased to campers. The lots are I leased from year to year at an an nual rental of $5 each, and each oc cupant has the first chance to release for each succeeding year. About half of the lots are already taken. It Is understood that when these are all spoken for additional lots will be j surveyed. Coleman and Reams of I Phoenix have a special concession lot 1 150 by 265 feet on which they will ' put up tents with" floors for campers next year. They expect also' to have boats on the lake for rent to camp ers next year. There have been fine rainbow trout caught in the lake this year. The Lane or tne woods prom ises to become one of tho most popi ular summer resorts for campers in southern Oregon. Professional Artist In Lithia Park Messrs. M. D. and C. H. Lelsser of Pittsburg, Pa , are in Ashland for an indefinite, stay. The former is a professional artist and was found in Lithla park by a Tidings reporter. He was comfortably seated In front of his easel with many colors spread out up his palette. A picture of the creek was taking form and gave test imony that Mr. Leisser is, indeed, a professional and understands his business. The gentlemen are broth ers. Mr. C. H. Lelsser is a mu sician and paints as a diversion, call ing himself an amateur. In January, 1915, the brothers started west, Intending to make a tour of the world, but the great war upset their plans, so they are spend ing a year or two on and near the western hemisphere In studying and having a , delightful time. They came west via New Orleans to San Diego, thence to San Francisco, visit ing the exposition. From here they embarked for Honolulu and spent six months on the Hawaiian Islands. Next they came by a Canadian line to Victoria, B. C, and are now work ing south along the coast. Mr. M D. Lelsser lived and studied for ten years in France and Germany, and says that upon seeing the Olympian mountain range in Washington it re minded him much of the scenery In the Swiss and Bavarian Alps. The atmospheric effects are much the same, also, but of course the moun tain proportions are much larger. The McCla'len hotel at Roseburg is to be remodeled into a sanitarium. less than 100 miles long and electric lines. Pay for work over eight hours) shall be on a pro rata basis, and the rate of pay shall not be changed tot, from six to nine months, during an investigation of the effect of thai eight-hour day upon the railroads. The effects of a strike of these! proportions were dwelt upon at length in papers throughout the! land. Many Instances were cited to show the far-reaching effects of so) stupendous a labor disturbance, and no doubt numerous results which would soon be apparent were over looked in the prognostications of those attempting to forecast the dif ficulties which might arise. Many passenger trains were crowd ed during the last hours preceding the hour for the strike to take ef fect, and shipping bills Issued by tha railroads were marked "subject to indefinite" delay, or words to tli Is effect. The railroad offices along the line had also issued warnings to travelers that all not reaching their destinations by Sunday night would be subject to delay. The happy endign of so great a matter is cause for universal con gratulation throughout the land. Probably the greatest suffering which would be caused by such a. strike would bo among the people of the cities, who are most quickly af fected by disturbances In transporta tion. However, those of the small towns are thankful for the outcome, as well. Ashland Night at Medford Concert The usual weekly concert whicli will be given by the Medford City band at the City park in Medford has been designated "ABUland night" and a large crowd of Ashland musi cal enthusiasts is expected to invade our neighbor city. Bandmaster Row land has arranged an excellent pro gram, which will include several numbers by "special request." Tho following is the program, which will commence at the usual hour, 8 p. m., Tuesday evening: The Star Spangled Banner March, "United Emblem" Brown Concert Waltz, "La Serenata". . . Jerome) Overture, "La Burlesque". .. .Suppa Cornet solo, "The Little drey Home in the West" Novell - ' Bandmaster Rowland. Descriptive, "Hunting Scene".... : BucallossI Selection; "Mikado"; Sullivan Novelty, "Egyptla" parson March, "Red Diamond". . .Moreland America Dunsmuir Band Gives Fine Concert Yesterday afternoon the Dunsmuir band of twenty, five pieces gave a splendid concert at the main band stand In Lithla park. Fourteen se lections were well rendered by tho band, and Miss Charlotte Slmlngton sang a delightful solo. The applause was so hearty that she gracefully re sponded to the encore. There are) four Slmlngton boys among the play ers, the youngest, Freddie, being but nine years old. He plays second alto. Mr. H. D. Hill Is the director and Is to be congratulated upon the) efficiency shown by the players, many of whom are young boys. The) band returned to Dunsmuir on No 15 Sunday. Charter Committee Before Council A committee from the Commercial Club lias been appointed by the trus tees to take up with the members of the city council at their meeting Tuesday evening the matter of tha proposed charter revision relative to the consolidation of the park board and the springs water commission. The members of this committee are) W. J. Moore, J. W. McCoy and F. D. Wagner. They will have a draft of the revision amendment to present to the council. A furniture factory is being reju venated and fixed op at Albany to begin work making furniture.
