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:v".7:vHvy dayo'ijop o:::2. -ri:.:n--cc::cozrf today; but none. on., portlui:
id
GOOD EVEIIIIIG
Journal Cfrculntica
- :: , ' THS WEATHER. ; ; ..'
Rain tonight snd" Tuesday; strong
southerly winds., ''; ..v- . . ;.'
- Suaday "Jlj
mm
9 - 't .. : . - .
Many of the buildings In the City
; Insufficient to Accommodate
'v- Ruth of Students at Open '
; - Ing of Fall-Term Today.
''::' .. .i . ?S i ?'.'.: "- .:?v.i
LAST YEAR'S ENROLLMENT
. EXCEEDED BY THOUSAND
Greatest Increasa Shown on tha East
Sldey While Extra Rooms Provided
for High School .PupUa Will Not
; Take Cafetf the Overflow, Leaving
.""Difficult Problems to Be Solved.
; Portland's, pubjlc schools .. opsned for
r the fall term today. The enrollment of
' Buells In many of . the schools - was
' largsr ' than anticipated and teachers
' end school officials irs bavin a diffl
cult task arrana-tna- accommodations.
TTThe Increased attendance" as showiTby
comparison - with the number enrolled
on the opentns- day of last year will ex
..reed 1A0O. The greatest Increase la In
the rapidly (-rowing dlstrlctg of rthe
. eaat elde. -In1 eeversl - of -the school
i the enrollment hae nearly doubled end
In others the percentage ot Increase te
remarkable.. . . , ,, 'v
Hlghlsnd school shows til more pu
pils than on the opening dey last fall:
Holladay school, ill; ; Peninsula, :
' Portsmouth, 44; Shaver, HI: Woodlawn.
114; and other schools shew a like In-
The only schools which show a de
crease are the- Couch school, in which
' a large number of top Atkinson pupils
attended last year for the first month,
J, owing to the unfinished condition of
, thhtr-own building,' end the Marejuara
school, which la attended by only ela
fcuplleywV -T ' z'.-.ir - i.U. .
' The enrollment . of students at the
Mgla agshesl - Is-surprlalngly larger At
IS o'clock thle morning L019 students
""ttrgfted the roll for work, against 1(0
last year, ehowlng. an .Increase .of. If a.
slit Is doubtful If ths two rooms In the
Atkinson and ths two- In th'Ladd.-set'
aatde for recitation rooms Cor high
school pupils. wlU. be. sufficient and
. other accomodation max -hays. to. be JWi
' cured, - -,, -
;- City Superintendent Rtgtev wea' busy
all morning reviewing ths situation with
hie principals and sOihe' dnfibhR' prdb
: leme ' presented . them.selv.eg., . ht . eon
. dltlona will be. reported to the school
board. which meets tonight,, whea.ateps
will be teken to meet any exigency
which may have e risen.
-'r -"""'"g p"rn r f
of the city, children with' helr book's
under their arms marched with, happy
hearts for their respective schools. II
wae- a noisy bat merry throng- which
gathered in the buildings se the gong
struck the hour of . which elgntfled ths
time for the actual work of the school
year to begin. . ' v.- ' " . .- ,
Teachers llsterthe pupils and divided
ttla in ths nature of study or instruc
tion waa dons today but lessons were as
signed for tomorrow when the reel work
will begin. 1 . : t -.. , .
- Following 4s a comparison of the at-
tenaano at the schools en' the opening
dey last ysar with todsy. so far ae heard
from up to 1 p. m.1 , v . -
School. ..s,:.- . 1M4. ItOS.
Alnswortn . . ..........
Aialnson . ...... ..
Chspmsn . ...,.. . t 4f3
Couch . , ...... .....A... til
Dsvls . . ...J... . .'
Failing i v I9 '
' Fernwood .............. 1 1 -
Fulton Park 73
High . . I0
Highland
Holladay
Jdd . .
Marquam
Peninsula
roriampuin .
Shaver
Phsttuck . i . . . . V . . .
Thompson . ...........
Woodlawn r . . . s i.i ;. i
East Twenty-eighth st.,.- 7
Brooklyn . .-t ........... 210
Clinton Kelly ........... !10
.iswthorne . . MS
Midway .......... IS
Morin central , ... . . . . tvi
8ell wood . '.. tM9
Stephens . ,n. . . . . 41
nunnysias . . ............ ts
Terwllllger ,.. bO ',
Williams avenue ,...... 660
Total .t. ..'...
. .10.284 - . .12.761
; Xlkado . Ooaaidsre rroteete. ' ,
"' '' - fJnurMl SperUl SfHlre.) .
Tokicy Bept 26. Jhe emperor le giv
ing hie personal attention te memorials
presentsd the throne against the peace
terms. . . k, . . - "
Oeed-Boads ' Oeaventien. , '":" "
' -(Joenil Spertal Snrrlce.) .
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 15. The Na
tional Oood-RoadS association convened
in-1 nie t-try tods f. " ' " -
WATCH FOR THE NEXT -;
OFOTHE SHORT STORIES
e 4 4.4 4 4 4 4 4
X V ' 'Collector of the Port" by X
" Robert -W. Chambers, is next In
e Ths Journal's banner series of
short stories. " "The Csmbrlo 4
-Mssk.'r"-Ths Maid at Arms" 6r4
4 "Ashes of Empire" mey Identify 4
'Robert W. Chambers lor you.. He ,4
has written 'many other books 4
and many-short atorles. but none e
more entertaining then' that 4
which will be published next -
"Sunday" tn The Journal s color
magaslne eectlon. 4
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" ; ; : : ; r",i; john Alexander, dowie : 'h'-r ' '.
e -vrhb says that one of his workers has'wSn-king;Edward'VH.'!.tb'he . . ,
I 4XathoIit church.;". eaddmsing-Tiis:A'J
. .....followers. m Zion,.Ctty.' I. -: ,V;.,iXT,w.
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rUIHtlHtAIra
Text x of ..Norwegian
Swedish
, Treaty Provides Co
sory
'Arbitration' of Disputes:
' Joornl 8prial 8rrice.) '.'
Stockholm, Sept IS. The text of the
protocol signed at iCastad by the Nor
wegian-ana D weais n commissionsrs . is
announced today. , It shows that Norway
made nearly every concession demandsd
by. Sweden.- -- ,i!...ST.r.l,.ai
Article 1 deals with arbitration for all
difficulties between the two nations.
providing compulsory arbitration for ths
next 10 years before The Hague tribunal
of all disputes except those of the most
vital Interest.
t The second article provides aneu
tral sons shall vsxlst between the 4 wo
natlona and that all fortifications along
the boundary ehall be demolished.
Article three provides that Norway,
shall permit the pasturing in northern
Norway of reindeer owned by Swedish
Laplanders.' " :
Article four provldee that traffic be
tween the two nations shall be free and
without restriction. .,'"- '
Article five provides for a" common
waterway. .,..
Kmcti nation must give two years' no
tice of. Its Intention to abrogate-the
treaty.' r. """ .:".:"""' "'- -... ..
KANSAS STAtE.BANK
.FAILS BUKAN PAY
(Joarnal Special Snrvlce.) : ' " J "
Topeka, Kan., Bept. 26. The Kansas
State bank closed Its doors today, going
into voluntary-liquidation.' The Fidel
ity Trust company la nemed as as
slgnse. ' The deposits amount te $4,500,-
000. The capital stock or the bank was
6200,000. - 'v
. It Is announced -that - the" fall ure la
due to the failure of the Salmon bank
In' Clinton Missouri, which was closely
allied to the Topeka institution In busi
ness .relatione.-... '
The assignees, state that . depositors
Vlll be 'paid In full. - (
: Veer Sank
(Special tnepttch to The Journal.) "
Greshara. Or., Sept. 26. Work Is wetl
under way now for Oresham'a new bank
building ' at the corner of Main and
Powell.1 The structure will be of brick
and will be sn .ornament to the looallty.
- Tha bank will be a great convenience
to1 farmers In this section. , ' )
Captain odfrer a lulelde.
(Joaraal Special SfTtra. )
Atlanta, Oa., Sept. .26. CapUin O. M.
r. Godfrey, Unltd SUtes army, sta
tioned at FOrt MePherson. committed
ulclrte at midnight Saturday night by
shooting himself through the brain.
Temporary mental aberration la said te
be the cause. , f, ,
ORTEAND. OREGON MONDAY rKVENlNG;i; SEPTEMBER 25
nounced; by- Restorer to the
Christian .Catholic-Church.
GOSPEL WAS PROCLAIMED ; I '
BY, FEMALE MISSIONARY
. - Vi f
. '. ... . . ''".' 1 " !'
Woman- Called 7t Palaceand De
manded tSw the Klnf Through
His Influence All Royal Heads' Are
Reading Tracts. . ". V
(Joaraal Special Serrtoa.) .'
Wankeegan. 111., Sept. 26. At Shlloh
tabernacle,- Zlon City; yesterday after
noon. John Alexander Dowie made the
startling statement that King -Edward
of England hdd been converted to- thi
belief of the Christian Cathoflo church.
According to Dowie' s story, a woman
member or. the ixmaon .restoration host.
In ths course of her duties in visiting
houses and distributing Zlon literature.
came' to King Edward'a palace and de
manded to see ths king. Thle wee
granted her' and. after several .visits
Dowie claims the king was converted. 1
After this, through ths kinge influ
ence, Dowie stated, his literature Is now
being read in. svery royal household in
Europew..;. ,. .. .... j ,,:
It is. not long ago that Dowie was
mobbed In Australia for denouncing the
king. Dowie stated that ths restoration
host had now 7,200 members, who vlsi'
the-homesiof people all over the -.world
and distribute .Zlon, literature.-. Heeays
they have covered Chicago eight times
and have dlswlbuted 4,000,000 copies cf
hie papers.- '' , . - t
CZAR'S CALL FOR PEACE
FROWNED ON IN JAPAN
. (Soiirspecisi-sississX-. '
Toklo, Sept 16. It is consldsredheTjrt
that the csar's proposal for a peace con
ference to meet at The Hague is not
likely to attract much attention.' JIJI
Bhlmpo,' which haa hitherto been the
only paper to notice the matter edito
rially, admts the advisability of such a
conference, but regrets that'-the sug
gestion came from the rsar. who so
provoked wsr with Japan. t when
his army and "navy had frequently vio
lated ths rules of civilised warfare..' '
The peper suggests the proposal would
ha better received If It came from 'Pres
ident' Roosevelt, whose personality as
well as efforts, for the restoration of
peace point him out as the fittest, ruler
to play the role. . . r :... -
' 1 "The .' Price of - Xsroism. .
(Snerlal ntaeatrk te TSe Joornal.l "
OreshsmrOr.. SeptrH.--Three monlTis
of agony-arid lose of timsls the' reward
that BL P. Smith, a nurseryman of. thle
town, received for hie herolo reeciie of
Miss Tnung at Beaslds. June 17. .Whlls
saving the young: woman from drown
ing he scratched - his hand on a' buckle
on ..hsr ..clothing...' Blood , poisoning "set
in and hs .haa been practically; Incapaoi-
RS; SCHWAB IS
-illPPLICilfll-
Wife of Pittsburg Millionaire D
sirous "of Becoming " K "
Good Catholic.
i-
llvmnaX Bneclal lUrvW.l "'
Pittsburg, Sept. 26. According to the
most authentic re porta circulated In the
highest social circles, tha wire of the
Pittsburg millionaire who asked Pope
Plus X to pray that she might be
come a good Catholic la none other
than Mrs. Charles M. Schwab, wife ' of
ths . former president ' of ths United
States Steel corporation.
A report from Rome le to the effect
that the Pittsburg woman presented te
the holy father a card upon which waa
written the sentence:
"Pray, holy fsther, that I may obtain
ths grece of becoming a good Catholic.
Mrs. Schwab la abroad at present and
waa In Rome at the ' time the alleged
supplication took place.' Charles M.
Schwab Is and haa alwaye been a Cath
olic, although not what Is considered a
Strict one- ' Mrs. - Schwsb ' haa - always
been an Episcopalian. While religious
differences hsve never caused any fam
ily disagreements. It Is a well, known
fact that Mr. .Schwab would be very
happy to have hie wife embrace Cath1
lclsm. - . ' '.''-.:. ,!. .V
PALOUSE FARMERS OPEN
STATE BANK-AT COLFAX
't -
(Special TMasatch te The Joarnal.)
- Colfax, Waah.. Sept. 25. The new
Farmers' - Bute bank haa been fairly
launched and will open .for business
October 2. Llllls F. Smith, the wheat
king of . ETidlcott, . has been elected
presldentt Burdlck of Spoksne,
cashier. Tha bank haa T Capital stock
ef 6100,000, of which 60 per cent was
paid In today. ' One farmer wanted to
tke 630.000 worth of stock, and the en
tire subscriptions; amounted to more
than dquble the actual-capital of tha
banlu " ' . J - -
CENTRALIA ANNEXES ;
- SURROUNDING COUNTRY
(Special PlapaMi to Tte Joarsal.) .
Centralis, Wash., Sept. 26. The spe
cial election for the extension :pf ths
city limits waa ' held here Saturday,
September 12 end was carried by tha
small margin of two votes. There were
only 7 votes cast..- There was not a
dissenting vote Inside of thacitir llmtts.4
This makes the; fourth time this elec
tion haa been brought before the voters
but elwsys hse been defeated hereto
fore partially en' account of not being
thoroughly: canvassed and ' explained.
Thla makes Centralis between 6.000 and
7.000 Inhabitants and by far the larg
est lty-between TAcotna" and "Portland
snd ths largset Inland city In western
Washington.
t
-Wear, Crepe When Hill Weds;
i WhitrrtanlCQlleee.lWalla
sation' was created at the- reception to new students in the
X "gymnasium by'rthe most: prQJninent girls in college wearing X
W "rati. n . t a v m m tts t tU. v "l m wa . V . a' W
Dorsey M. Hill; county clerk of Walla Walla county.' '
' Mr. Hill has been a prominent figure about Whitman -for;,
severalyears." havine..coacbcdseveraLfcKtalLtearns-)or--
sey." as they call him, has. always been a great ladies' man t
having gone at sometime with
11- "v.. 1... t- l.
touege, uui never naving uccn .auic iu tuinciuuic mis auc
tions until he met his presentAvife the last year.. ' '. ..: .
t .The idea of the girls wearing" crepe to. mourn' the loss of : J
ineir cnance was greaiiy enjoyea Dy me oia iuucnis. wno
had a ereat time wondering "what Dorsey would say . : :
. ; Mr. and Mrs. Hill are now
ing their honeymoon..'
FREDERICK E;- CARLTON PLEADS
GUILTY TO BIGAMY
Suspected Slayer of Wife by Placing Needle Poisoned With Teta-
nus Germ In Her. Shoe, Admit too Frequent Mar- .
' -j- riages and Will Co to Penitentiary -- . i
(Joorssl Sperial Strrire.) '
York. Sept. 26 Frederick
New
earUon.. Brooklyn's mogerTr-lnBtarCtShe'feTT'victim .to his blandishments
men of dark mysteries, msny aliases
snd groom at msny weddings, was
brought Into court today to make his
plea. Hit. face was pallid but hie man
ner composed and deliberate."" The in
dictments charged him with bigamy and
grand ', larceny, and - without a elgn of
emotion. Carlton pleaded guilty to each.
His ' trial -on-charges of grand lar
ceny began after he bad pleaded to big
amy. Wllletta Bird of Wexford.- New
Jersey, who was called as a witness
when tha bigamy trial opened, testified
that ahe had marrlsd the defendant in
1S94, under the name of Charles Parker.
A month later aha found that he had as
sumed the name end Insisted ' upon a
second marriage In his Tight name and
tha ceremony,, wss performed. , . ,
i The mother of Mary Gorman,, whom
Carlton married In August, last, and who
la dead, testified. . No defsnss was mads
and the verdlst .of . guilty . for the de
fendant was rendered. He then pleaded
tflillty to the- other charge- of bigamy.' '
By. this plea Carlton hopes to escape
other end more serious charges' hanging
over him -and on.' which 100 Setactlvee
for. months past have been at work,
for 'he la euspeCted of deliberately get
ting rid of, hie 'wives to secure their
Insurance money by the most1 fiendish
method , of poisoning. - ' . -
Carlton's -last- two wlvsa died of
tetanus.- In the latter case he is ac
cused of placing tetanus virus on a
needle, putting the needle In a slipper
so- that it pierced tha woman's toe, in
fecting her with the bacillus and caus
ing her death In agony.-.-' - 1
To obtain the bacillus he Is accused
cat, . which died later In convulsions,
snd ' from the spinal column of ths
tsbby to have secured the vlrue used to
Infect hie wife.
-1 Carlton waa born at Moberly, - Mis
souri, IS years a,g4. Hla tight name Is
James B. MoCandless. The first trace
of him found outside of Moberly le at
Clsyton, Missouri, where he waa ar
rested in 1168 after behaving suspicious
ly In the railroad yards. Hs went to
jail. After that hie aliases began to
grow and the most authentic history ef
them obtainable gives them ee Kdward
J. Martlnetv army deserterr alleged blgai
mist and newspaper faker; C. R, Farley,
check raleer; Edward Josa De Rodrlguex,
wtfs desertsr; James E. Carver, self
accused accomplice in the killing of
Governor. William Goebel of Kentucky;
J. E. Cartler, Impostor: L. L. Landon
and George Relschlngsr, blackmailer,
and J. E. Carter., Impostor.
' Carlton made a systematic circuit of
tha country, getting Into frequent trou
ble. In hie category- of nervy exploits
nons wss more brssen than his court
ship, in 1101, of Ross Circle, an heiress
PACKERS FORCED
CUT RATES
President Stlckney of the Chi
cago A. Great Western Male's
' Adrnisslons In Court. .
(Joaraal Special SrTlr ) - -Chicago,
Sept. 25. President A. B.
Stlckney of ths Chicago St Great West
ern was tha principal -witness today for
ths defense hi ths suit brought In the
federal court by the Interstate ' com-
m arcs commission agalnet H rallroads
to compel tnem to make lower rates on
western traffic ....
He was preceded' by a number of un
important witnesses, from,. whom not!
much was learned. According to Btlek
ney's statements, the beef barons vir
tually dictats what rates thsy will pay
the railroads, who are completely, at
the mercy of the packers.
"Packers practically dictate to the
railroads whst rates they shall pay,"
said' President Stlckney. . "The railroads
are unsble to refuse their demands but
must comply or els be boycottsd. - The
packers ask for a certsln rate, the rail
roade quota the regular rates; the pack
ers demand a lower rats, which Is grant-1
e. as soon us-tnisconceaalon is 00-
tslned, ths packers again . demand a
lower rate which le also granted. Ths
pscksrs will then make a demand fot
still - another - reduction, saying that
some other re 11 read will make It.
The railroads are ell distrustful of
each other and although they are. ht a
traffic agreement do not stsnd by this
agreement, so the packers never fail to
get the rata they demand. ' - .
.PRICE TWO
"" not
Walla, Vash.' Sept. 25.-A sen
nearly every girl who came to
-vi- u: tt
in Portland at the fair, spend
',.') '' :.
e
v.' I
of St. Louie,' whom he was enxlnua to
msrry. Her moneywaiautto alluring.
and he led her to the altar.
.-' Carlton found no' trouble.' soon 'after
ward. In winning the .heart of Mrs,
Wlllete Sherwood Bird, a wealthy widow
of Westwood, New jersey, and very
quickly, married her in New York. When
her . money gave out hs 1 deserted her.
Later but not much later he. wedded
Mrs. .Lulu Rlts Kltterlng, another dash
ing widow, of Rochester, New York,, and
she has , recently been corresponding
with the Brooklyn police to see If she
could rscover the money snd Jewelry
Carlton took whsn he suddenly disap
peared. " '
Mrs. Etta Kin grey of Gordon. Ala
bama, seeks revenge for similar reasons,
Carlton having politely dpserted her s
few. days after, their .wedding, taking
all hsr possessions, v-'1 (.. ;
In all these' marriages, as' tn those.
thst followed, Carlton,, who wedded the
women under N various aliases,, ever
looked the formality of a divorce, at
leaat-oa far a a aha polle have-dlaeov
area. . Between marriages Carlton, found
time to folfct on a : New Tork- paper a
lurid fake .In .which HO' placidly con
fessed that he waa the man whd blew
ub th Maine.' Tentamount fo thla wag
hie effort to sell te a Cincinnati paper a
story -in . which he accused himself of
bslng-vn aocessory to-ths assassination
of : Kentucky 'a governor, and swore that
the actual shooting waa done by an entirely-
innocent man, who had commit
ted suicide' in a remote JCanaas town:
His failure to place thlssrn on the
market drove him to the Brooklyn navy
yard, where, he enlisted In December,
160, for'.four years. .- .
cruisers, .and betwsen tlmes-Tnsds des
perate. love to Miss Jennie Smyth of
Brooklyn.- Rapid-fire love had become
second nature to him by this time. They
were married, and Mrs. Carlton' dlsd of
tetanus poisoning In Washington - In
June, 1004. six months after their wed
die. Whsn Carlton went to collect the
62,000 life Insurance it wss hsld up be
cause toe coroner, who had become sus
picious, was Investigating tha death,
batsr the coroner decided that death
waa regular and Carlton got the In-
surance. . . 1 1 ....
Scarcely had his . wife been burled
when- ha-waa -making fervent protssta
tlons of love to Miss Mamie Gorman of
Bridge street, and three months from
the day his first wife dlsd he married
Miss qorman. A fsw daya later he In
sured her for $1,000, and on March 10
last . shs died of tstanuaw Carlton's
explanation of hla Arst wlfs'a death was
that a rusty needle had been-run . Into
her foot, and hla second wife, hs said,
wss scratched by a cat. These stories
he contradicted at various times, seem
ing to. have some difficulty , in remem
bering whst he had said.
JQHHD.6ETSFIRST
Delegation of Citizens Call and
Express Faith in His' :
Honesty, ,
. ' (J.wriul Special Vt-t1c.) ' '
Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. ZS John D.
Rockefeller is not without honor; In his
home city, dssplte .the many attacks
upon Standard OH snd the methods pur-auedV-by-tha
orporatlon' of Which he Is
the acknowledged head. .
At tha home of Mr. Rockefeller in
this city tomorrow will gather a delega.
tloacomposedof . promioent-elilsens -of
Cleveland, who go as a deputation to
convey to the Standard Oil king the In
formation that the business ' men-and
cltlsens generally of hla home city hsve
fslth tn . his -honesty snd' well doing
toward his fellow-men and' to express to
ths aged millionaire their sympathy In
the recent attacks by church leaders re
garding the question of tstnted money.
rnis is ins nrsi lime during all the
1st, years thet he haa been ansa I led
both from pulpit and In the press, thst
ths friends. f-h -man whs has during
this time grimly held his peace and
calmly pHed up ths dollars, have ex
tended the hand uf sympathy, "snd
which ' In hla sdvancihg years Rocke
feller Is said to have hungered f or "
auainar eo..,.....-... .J
FRIENDLY WORD
- wrt. S-r.l.- J .
Paris, 1 . f -Hi f red Cavslgnse,
ex-mtnl alnent ta the
Dreyfus
CENTS. ' iZ&2iritl
StAlLa. 1T CkatS.
; ' -
This Number of Passengers Has
Been Handled Every Seven '.
3 ' Days by Portlanti Coni :, ,
- .. - -' . - . . '
.i .. . anlmstarl Dailwaw . . "
'-. , .., t.
. ' . . i ' -t, . ... ... ' '' ' ' S ; ' . : : . -
FOR TWO MONTHS Ttts
RECORD HAS KEPT UP.
1
Manager Fuller Sayg the- Army of ,
' Passengers Has Kept ' Constantly
: Increasing Since the Opening of -the
Fair and No Diminution Is Yet ;
. . iri Sight. '--syjS:. '
. ituerr 1 'inn AAA . ubXr.1'
, v ' r 1 -i a'nHwlesaw u me
Ing ithe past two months .have beam
handled by the street railways of Port
land. , The record, haa never been ap
KrvvBVUu in Kum niaivrj vt nm city.. -...The
enormoua-ateeetear traflla-wf "ths
summer haa . grown continually slnca '
nm opening 01 ine iair ana Dusiness ror
the mAnlh nf nff.twiKt. 4nillMt...lh.t
this month's- record . will . perhaps -sx-ceed
that of 'July and August. , t
"With', transfers, our company v haa
handled , more than 1.000,000 people per
week during . tha . past' -two months."
ssid General Manager- Fuller -t- the '
Portland Consolidated t Railway . com
pany. "The-remarkable ; feature of the'.
enormous amount of traffle la that' it .
hae been ateady during the- summer. ':
with. less, variation than would be sup '
posed..- .,,' ; , ; "
"During the rsV month of the fair
there were a .great many people In tha :
city -and streetcartravel waa corre
spondingly heavy. It, haa grown con- -stantly.
since .that time, apd'- with the "
exception of a few special daya. there
haa been little fluctuation In. the num
ber of people that- have been handled
during the past two months. , - .
- "I could not say on what lines Ira vet
War ha VlemIKit- tha number1 that at--
tends the fair Is, I think, larger than
that in any other part ot th lty.- There .
are four lines to the exposition grounds
which are- sols to handle he trlffio.ln
that d ir1on i. . .. .... .. .. .. . . .
jriviu .lie .iiiuHin v. vwuipi. w
thle time it looks ss Ifnha volume .of
business during September will be as
great as that of the. two preceding '
months. : There are s great many people
from tha rural districts of Oregon and
wsaningxon viamng me , ciiy ai mis
time and the fair, will likaly draw
heavily from thoae sections , until the '
Trsvel on the lines of the Orernw
Ter Power-A-Railway company t
been correspondingly heavy. The open-"
Ing of ths Oaks early in the, season
started the crowds In that direction and
traffic to that resort haa been enormous
up to thle time.. , .' , . ;
l:odjeska co:.:es TO BUILD
ppinnr nvpo nmii"
UltlUUL UILI. UUe.Umis.fi
Son of Famous Actress Will Se-
lect Sites ; for Portland's '
; New Railway Trestles. ' .
(Special Mapetch te The' Jmtraal.) -
Tacoma, Wash., Sept. !. Vice-President
Levey of the Northern Pacific ar
rived here yesterday, accompanied "by
Ralph Modjeaka. the civil engineer and
brldgebullder, . en route to Portland,
where they , will look over tha route by
which tha new fteattle Portland rati- '
road will enter Portland" and decide upon ;'
the beat route for bridging the Colum- -
bia at 'Vancouver and the WHamettw at
Portland.;- , . . '.' f . ;
Modjeeka la a eon of Helen Modjeska.
the tragedienne. Among the bridges he ,
hss built are .the Union Pacific railroad
bridge et Omaha, tha new government ..
bridge, at. Rock, taland. Illinois, and the
bridge serosa the Miasisslppi at Thebea. .
Illinois; -7- - .
Mr. Levey etatea that , the new Use ,
will be built within II months. It will
shorten ths dtstsnci to Portlsnd and .
will provide a water-grade haul to tide -
water. Instead of over the mountains,
aa at present. - : ? -t -.
Mr. Levey etetea that the Cul de Sae
extension has been decided upon ss the
routs . by which Qraneevllle will be
reached. .The contract for. the- Use will
be let by Novernber and much of the
preliminary work will be done thla win-
ter. Actual construction-win begin in
the eprtng. The heavy rock work wllr-
be begun in November. : : f . -tt:-"
Mr.. Levey will reach Portland .w
night . - -
0REG0N:THREATENED
WITH. HEAVY STORM
:
e
Storm wsrnlngs were die-,
played all along the eoaat thla
4 morning by the weather bureau.
By night' It la Kpecfaf thst a
e 70-mHs gale win be, raging orr
e the moutn 01 me loiumoia river.
eItlvcomlngfrom tha eouth-0
4 west 'and will be the strangest
a of the season.
4, Dletrtct Forecaater Reals says
g a strong, breesa will be ( 'I In '
4. the Interior. A w' t r '
g, schooners snd Bia - '
4, route tip the roast
e the : full senet t '
4
e- The precipitation
a fcesrs amour'
. Inch.
: : c' in 11 r - VT- trrlr-
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