The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, June 25, 1903, Page 3, Image 3

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CHILDREN. UNDER
THEIR HOLDING
FOURTEEN WORK
THE OttEGON DAILY JOiniNAL, rOliTLAyP TnTOSDAY EVENING JUNE 25 1003.
LOCATIONS
AND
It Is Claimed -Youths Under. 14 Years, of Age
Axt Working for Their Parents and : ;
Not fof the Corporation "
The Oregon statute which positively
ceaiares usat "no child under 14 yaara
of NT shall be employed la any factory,
tor, workshop, la or about any mine,
or la the telegraph, telephone or publio
BMiiiin serrlce," la tolas; openly vio
lated, at leaat la spirit, by Taral eon
ooraa of Portland, many children who
feaa not yet km tbalr 14th birthday
aotag workad at exactly the sane oocvl
patloaa girea parson of mature years
.aaa fully developed bodies.
Bat the letter of th lair. It la claimed.
la belar complied with, for tbtaa ohild
ra do aot directly oator tbo employ of
the eoaipaalaa aad ara aot numbered
apoa tha payrolls. Tb par seta of tbtaa
little eaaa hire oat to the Corporations
aad tb ehlldraa work With them with
out themaelvss receiving- ram una rati oa.
The eompanlaa ara glvaa tha fall bana
na of child labor aad tbo paroata fat tha
moaey tbalr ehlldraa a ara, bat at tha
aama tlma tha ahlldraa ara working for
tbalr father and mothers, aad ara aot
aatployad la tha factories , where tbty
work.
Whether th la point 1 covered" by
Section 8, of tha Oregon Child Labor
Law. 1 a problem that the Child Labor
Commission may be called upon to soiva.
This section governs the sanction of
parents or guardians to the unlawful
.; employment of children, and reads:
It "Any. parent or guardian, who ahall
I - permit a. child to be employed In vlola-
. I tlon of the provisions of this act shall,
I upon conviction, be fined not less than
I jSJf nor more than $26."
f f 1 Complaints Are Mad.
Labor unions and individuals kept
doing; the work which otherwise would
be theirs, have complained of this con
ditlon, chareIns; that no effort was being
made to observe the law.
This statement Is dented by S. E. Hoi
comb, local- manager for the Oregon
Packing Company, one of the concerns
against which complaints have been
made. At the present time the Oregon
Packing Company, in Its cleaning and
tanning factory at East Seventh and
Belmont streets, is working a force of
between 200 and 300 packers, fully half
of whom are under 21 years of age.
That many of them have not entered
their 14th year la attested by their
email sice and extremely youthful ap
pearance. However, no one appears on
the payroll of the company who 1s under
14 years of age.
"We do not employ children under 14
years of age," said 8. E. Holcomb. rest
dent manager of the company,' 'and
when youngsters appear and ask for
Work we always explain the law to them
before we assign them to work. If
they are under 14 we reject them. But
we eannot keep parents from bringing
their children here' with them, and it la
not .our business , If they allow those
children to help them in their work.
Turn Ho Oaa Away.
"Any statement made that we turn
women away front our factory that we
may- employ children is absolutely j
without truth. We would rather have'
grown persona In our factory. - Any on
ought to understand that mature labor
t more advantageous. Children waata
much of their time In play and eat a
great ,dea! more of ' the fruit .than do
aduita. - '
Tuesday we discharged a consider
able number of youtha above .14. yeara
who have been in our employ because
we could get grown persona 'to do the
work."
Mr. .Holcomb then explained how It
came that children under J 4 years of
age were working in the factory., .
"Grown people come here and ask for
work and we give It to them". he aald.
"We issue them carda and pay them at
the rata of H-cent a pound for all the
cherrlea they clean and pack. Thla
amount la registered on the carda and
on pay day we pay the person .for the
amount of work which shows on the
card. ' - -- -
Mothers Ar Beepoaalbl.
'Now, If a mother cornea to ua and
obtalna employment and we give her. a
card, we pay her for the amount of
work that Is shown uoon that card aa
having been done. - If ahe haa several
children assisting her with r the work.
that Is her business and not oura. We
dd not recognise those children and 'do
not know that they are . working. The
raaulta of their labor. If there are any
results, come to ua only as shown by
the mother's card, and we eannot ques
tion that ahe' did the work' herself when
she personally turna It In."
Several children ranging In age from
9 to 13 yeara were found In the factory.
although not one-tenth of the employee
re'Bpoken with. All said they were
working on their mothers' carda.
Johnny May, aged 11, who resides at
431 Belmont street, aald he .had been
working in the factory for three weeks,
but th,at he was not hired.
i wora on my motners eara," ne
aald, "but I make money. Tea, there
are lota of other little, boya and girl a
working here, but they don't work for
the company. They work for their own
folks.
Others made similar replies.
Commission Will Aot.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, member of the
Child Labor Commission, made the fol
lowing statement this morning.
"The Child Labor Commission Is
hardly yet in-full working order, and
has been organized but a ahort time.
The chairman, Mr. Kundret, haa pre
pared notices containing the provisions
or the law, and these are ahortly to be
posted in factories, stores and other
places where children are likely to be
employed. The commission Is glad at
ny time to have Ita attention called to
violations of the law and will take the
proper atepa to sap that, the statutes are
observed." -
The Child Labor Commission, ap
pointed by Governor Chamberlain for the
enforcement of the child labor law en
acted at the last session of the Legls
lature, is made up of H. O. Kundret,
Dr. B. a. Wise. Mrs. B. H. Trumbull,
11 of Portland; Mrs. Sarah Evans of
Oswego and Mr. Belle Wright of Union.
PRETTY YOUNG GIRL
SHORN OF TRESSES
Mysterious Stranger Cut Off
Miss I ayiors Hair With
a Knife or Scissors.
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Gertrude Taylor, a pretty young
woman about 18 years old, was assaulted
and had her hair cut oft In a mysterious
manner by an unknown man In the back
yard of her residence. 829 Sttllman
street. Saturday night, says the Phila
delphia Inquirer. No clue can be
learned as to the man, ' but it is be
lieved by the police he Is the same who
did a similar act in another section of
the city a short time ago.
Shortly after supper Saturday night a
message was sent to Mrs. Taylor stat
ing that her son. Harry Taylor, was
badly hurt in a ateel works. John, an
other son. - immediately left for the
works to find out about his brother.
About o'clock he returned and aald
Harry was all right. Later Gertrude
went out In the back yard and acreams
for help were heard by her brother. She
aaya that when she entered the yard a
tall, thin man grabbed her and hit her
on the head and body, and then with
either a knife or a pair of scissors cut
of her back hair. - .
When she screamed he made hla es
cape over the fence. Gertrude haa an
acquaintance who resides in West Phil
adelphia who. met - with the same expe
rience about a year ago. Special offi
cers are working on the case.
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XiSTTEK-OASBISKS EXOTTBSIOV.
On Sunday, June 28. to Seaside. Round
trip $1.00. This ia the last 11.00 excur
sion' of the season. Tickets on sale at
Woodard. Clarke & Co. All street car
lines will run early cars.. Patrons will
have no trouble In getting to depot , en
time.
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Prospectors Work Under Im
!.pressIon' 'that Labor Per
formed on Discovery Will
Coynt as, Assessment,
Notes from the Mineral Section
of the State Showing Activity
in All the.Dlstrlcts Where the
Leads Exist,
New that the anow has gone from the
foothills and the white line la receding
toward tha higher peaka. the prospector
la scratching the mountalna In search
of the yellow metal that rules the world.
This year the man with his pick ana
glass la out In force. From present In
dications he will stay till he finds some
thing, for "atrlkea" are made period
ically, and they are due.
Borne of thoae which may be made
will be heralded far and wide, only to
fall back Into that atage termed "now
being developed." It has been a com
mon praetlre throughout Oregon, par
ticularly in the Bouthern portion of the
stats, to locate a good lead and in mak
ing the location perform the so-called
neceaaary amount of work on the dis
covery. In doing that many proapectora
have conaldered that they have been
performing asaessment work. That la
a mistaken Idea. Frequently they nave
presumed that becauso they put down a
30 or 40-foot shaft or drifted Into the
mountain an equal distance at the time
of discovery thst they had done suffi
cient work to cover the required assess
ment That is another mlatake.
No handsomer design could be con
ceived and no more beautiful workman
ship wrought by the hand of man than
la displayed in the engraved gold tablet
which proclaims President Theodore
Roosevelt a member of the City Press
Club of Portland. This valuable token
of regard, remembrance and apprecia
tion haa been completed by the gold
smith who, had Its making In charge,
and will soon be forwarded to Washing
ton, D. C, addressed to the President of
the United States.
The tablet is made from Oregon gold.
mined at Gallce Creek. As a gift from
the newspapermen of Portland to the
chief executive of the American Nation
Its worth cannot be estimated.
The tablet Is in the form of two cards,
hinged together, on the outer face of
which Is carved the shield of Oregon.
On the Inner faces are the words which
made Theodore Roosevelt a member of
the Portland Press Club, bearing the
signatures of Max M. Shlllock, Presi
dent, and I.ouln McArthur. Secretary.
The reverse side shows the hydraulic
mine where the gold was gathered.
The tablet is contained in a handsome
plush case and will be sent to Mr.
Roosevelt within the next few days.
The law of Oregon requires, in its
strict letter, a shaft or drift showing
ten feet of a vein or ledge In place, "and
such work shall not count as assess
ment work." The law does not say that
shaft or drift shall be ten feet but
an exposure or ten rest or the lead
must be shown In order to make a bona
flde location, no matter how deep a
shaft or how long a drift It may take to
do It.
It Is true that the true letter of the
aw Is not lived up to In the matter of
locations, nor Is the question of the le
gality of the assessment work brought
forward with any particular force ex
cept In rare cases.
When tBe county paper tells lis read
ers that so and so is expecting to be
gin development work on such and such
(i claim. It Is usually nuggets to py
raties that the lead has pinched and it
will be a long tlma before anything Is
done unless some capitalist receives a
favorable roport from a reliable expert.
The claim lies Idle. No further work Is
done until the last of December of the
following year , rolls around, and then
the prospector drifts back and adds a
few more feet to his 40-foot drift and
goes away with the Idea that his claim
Is ssfe from the jumper.
To a great extent the mining inter
ests of Oregon have suffered from such
tactics, for many men are willing to
take a chance of making a hit after a
lead has pinched by going ahead from
whera the original locators have quit
and working for themselves. They are
barred from doing so by the common
recognition of the so-called assessment.
And that Is wrong.
OHIO CHRISTIAN
ENDcAVORERS
Are Now in Session at Elyria,
Where Important Business
Is Before Annual Meeting,
(Journal Special Service.)
ELYRIA, O., June 25. Hundreds of
enthusiastic Christian Endeavorers have
taken possession of Elyria for their an
nual state convention, which will be in
session here during the next three days.
Large delegations have arrived from
Toledo, Cleveland, Marietta, Columbus,
Dayton, Springfield, Flndlay and other
cities of the state, and the outlook Is
bright for a highly . successful conven
tion. Many prominent speakers will
be heard, among them Dr. Francis E.
Clark, founder of the society; Rev. J.
Wilbur Chapman, the noted evangelist,
and President H. C. King of Oberlln
College. The" reports prepared by the
officers for presentation to the conven
tion show the society In Ohio to be in a
highly flourishing condition.
TO VISIT EASTERN CITIES
Charles Ooopay Leavaa Today for a Six
Weeks' Trip to Atlaatlo
Ooaat State.
Charles Coopey, the well-known mili
tary tailor of this city, leaves today for
a somewhat extended visit to many of
the leading cities of this country. He
expects to be gone six weeks, during
which time he will visit with friends in
St. Louis. Chicago, Philadelphia, New
York City, and perhaps Boston and
Washington, 1). C, returning by way of
San Francisco.
Mr. Coopey stated that he expected
not only to have an enjoyable vacation,
but that he would also attend to many
business matters while in the East.
R. M. Lewis of Lebanun, who re
cently sold his interest in placer mines
located in Steamboat district, haa be
come involved in two promising quart
ledges in the same section with J. M.
Toms, the pioneer miner.
Considerable work, is being done on
the north slope of the Slsklyoua. A. F.
Lundgren has a crew drifting on three
feet of copper ore in the Green district.
The Blue Lead has just been bonded by
frank Asniey to John Harvey.
Frank Blevins, one of the successful
pocket hunters of Southern Oregon
found a 3400 pocket on Wagner Creek
last week. Blevins, who was mlr)
near Gold Hill, recently returned Ovm
Alaska and told his friends Southern
Oregon was as good a mining country
as Alaska.
Eastern Oregon men have been ex
amining the Yellow Jewel and Little
Chieftain, In Myrtle Creek district, with
a view to buying. A deal for the prop
erty is said to De under way.
Two shifts are being worked on the
Cracker Summit ledge. In Sumpter dls-
SOTHERNS DRAMATIC STUDY OF FRANCOIS VILLON.
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It is that strange character, of the
fifteenth century, sometimes called
France's vagabond poet and again Omar
Khayyam of France, ahd again the first
erreat poet f 'the people,' Francois Vil
lon, E. H.; Sothern will embody in bis
production ' or tne medieval r romance,
, "If I Were King,", ; at the Marqua
! Grand Theatre tomorrow (Friday)
Batnrday afternoon and night Vlllo
lived and loved and sang hla songs when
Louis XI., was proving to the World tne
' - 'Perhapa no Stronger, " more contrast
ing, , contradictory or unique character
haa come fo ua through th ache of his
tory. , ' Buch - a ' study y of poetry plc-
turesqueness and perverseness has sel
dom been met with In the record of the
vagaries of mankind, and It Is strange
that , this .Vllton, has .not' been .before
brought to the prominent attention that
he receives at. the hand of Mr. Sothern-
and Mr. Mcc&rthy. the author. . During
the. last few. year scores of tha moat
brilliant wntere of France and' England
have been fasclnatei". , by ' the ' strange
history of this 'man whom Bothern' la
to present to ua with the undoubted fin
ish of portrayal ,!for.whlch .he W- ao
noted; "Vllloa literature' Is bnly a recent
tfad, f or until 1873 hla real name had not
(been fully ascertained. ri -;v
Francola V4Uon lived ia the aluma of J
Paris, .yet ' .he 0 wrote , Ideal verse that
touched the Alpine peaks of thought.
He, wrote of noble warriors, of lofty
deeds, and minds, yet he himself moved
among the - gutter, .creature of Paris.
Hla Intense longing to accomplish great
tnings to , Ilv beyond his surround
ing la shown ln avery- verse? he has
Written. He haa been called a cutpurse,
a' swordsman, ;a brawler, . yet always a
poet and a dreamer. Swtnbbu'rne haa
named him , "The sweetest singer of us
all," and again.;, "Our sad, bad, glad, mad
brother." - Stevenson has written of blm
unkindly "In bis "Lodgings for a Night,"
which th great .novelist afterwards re-
j-inted.- Soma' historians tell :us taat
Francois Villon died upon the gallows,
others again that he was banished from
Paris - and died in England, and still
others admit that his end, like much of
his life, is shrouded in impenetrable
mystery.
In one of his verses Villon teljs what
he would do of the. great things he
would accomplish if the opportunity
were given him. McCarthy aelxed thla
theme for his play and gave to Villon of
the drama the opportunity that Viilon,
the poet, had sighed for. He trans
planted him from his companionship of
vice In which he is pictured in the first
act of "If 1 WerevKing" to aurrounotnga
and authority second, only to tha King
of France himself., Through courage and
.honor, which Is born to him- through
these new environments, he lifts himself
rrom , the mire in which he. had lived.
Sothern's portrayal of this marvelous
role has made the .study of Villon a
moral uplift of a man through success
ive stages which, while it entertains and
fascinates, strikes to the heart a deep,
floral lesson. The role affords Bothern
he widest range Of dramatic expression,
for It plays upon all the chords of hu
man emotion that may' effect a, strong
manly nature, and Bothern Jias made it
a dramatic portraiture that avlll be re
f erred to la the drama for many years
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iakobst oxiorams nr m voTaTWMT.
ronrth aaA Morrison Btreeta.
THE MAN WITH A
Comfortable
SHIRT
Is pretty sure to be com
fortable all Over, even in
hot weather. It doean't
take an expert to tell
when a man's shirt is
comfortable, but it takes
an expert to make one
comfortable. It has to be
roomy, well-shaped, well
sewed; the alaevee daren't
be too long, the collars
cut too low or too high.
Where can yoa find a better
shirt than the Monarch at $1?
Clactt's fl.SO and ap to $3.00
Stir Shim fl.SO to $3.00
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trlct, to tap the main schute. The tun
nel is in 600 feet and progressing dally.
A rich strike Is reported on the Red
Lion, where a body of ore was encoun
tered while running a cross-cut.
A ledge of coal three feet wide has
been discovered on property belonging
to George, Ward, at Hoodoo Springs.
about 36 miles from Ontario. The vein
Is being opened and shows consjderable
Improvement witn every iooi or aa
vance. The Intention Is to supply On
tario with Its winter fuel.
The Gem mine, near Baker City, has
been bonded to Eastern parties through
H. T. Hendryx for $90,000. The bond
covers all tne property, inciuaing tne
10-stamp mill.
The Gold Bug Grizzly has been
pumped out and work Is now going on
In the way of sinking an additional 200
feet.
The Black Eagle, In Malheur County,
Is milling 120 tons per day, with a 20
stamp mill, at an average cost of 70
cents per ton. The ore Is soft, enabling
the mlllmen to speed the stamps to 110
strikes per minute, with a 4 H -Inch drop,
HOT LAKE,
People contemplating a visit to Hot
Lake should notify the management at
least one day in advance. The new bath
house is completed. Ratea $11.60 to
tiRrt lnr!nrinr baths.
MONUMENT TO DEAD :
HEROES DEDICATED
Great erowds Witness an Inter-.
esting Ceremony Design .'
of Rudolf Schwartz. ;
(Journal Special Service.) - ,.
SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 26. South
Bend'a $25,000 soldiers' monument was
dedicated today with intereatlng exer- .
claee and in the presence of a great .
crowd of spectators. In addition to the
veterans of South Bend and . vicinity,
large delegations were on hand from
Grand Rapids, Mich.; Elkhart, Logana
port. Frankfort and other polnta.
With the exception of the magnifi
cent memorial at Indianapolis, the mon-
ument Is the finest of its kind in the .
State of Indiana. It consists of a mas- -slve
column of granite, aurmounted by
a bronse figure representing a' color, ,
sergeant. The figure ia nlna feet high, -Four
llfe-alse bronxe figures represent
lng the army and navy surround the
column. The monument was designed
by Rudolf Schwarts of Indianapolis.
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