OIL TffiS NOT BUILT
fire at Portsmouth ; Reveals Fact That City
Ht- Ordinance Was :
When Tanks'Were Constructed
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"r Tha fir serty Sunday morning at the
' tank of th Union Oil company demon
strated Mrirtl thing. Om of the
"was, that In th construction of tb
om on rwti-toH ordlnano
granting th Union OU company pr
-mlloirto-1ootr -thlr-tak t Porta-
- mouth ha not bn foil o wad relative to
providing - an ambankmant around th
tank 'of aufflolant capaoltr to hold th
- contents. Anothar thing demonstrated
wa th necessity of anothar fir boat,
and one with a ataal hull, for in th ell
fir th Sreboat Oeerg H. William
: " caught fir ' and would have been da
trrd but for th heroic work of It
:v CTWW.,,- '.!.-..,-.
Prom th tlm th flr started until
It had burn ad itself out there waa con
atant danger ' to surrounding property
' beoauee U ambankmant aurroundlng
th tank wa not sufnelsntly larg to
hold th oil that flowed from th burn
Ing ressrvolr. ' Thl overflow not only
ran Into th slough leading to th larg
" ' plant of th Peninsula Lumbar . eon
' ; pany, but th rolum wa ao graat that
, it flowad ovaf th railroad track along
. th front of th ell work and want out
. on th rivr. It waa thl overflow go
, ' ing on th rtvar that aat Or to th
: firaboat Qaorg H. WUliama -. It waa.
Chief Holdan and five of hi man had
narrow escape and but for tha prompt
action of th chlaf th flrboat would
hT Man. destroyed. ' ,,.--
Special Ordlraaaa Pia. C .' M
' Whn- th Union Oil company-wa
' glvn permission to locate It tanks at
QETOUf.YOUR FURS
-Did you ever know auoh waalSaf iTAc
tha day that you war born?
Cold enough for skatingIt J froaaa
all th corn.
Icicla s-hsnglng from both man and
Woman' china, ,
SHppry atraat responsible for heap of
. numaa.sina 4
. QnlxJiappr
house.
pprgpplra th on of our
Snuggled up to hot maehlna all day
jvai hks a mcuM
Xaap aa Warm a pis. thy do. from
morning until night;
OK this laundry work delightful whan
r - tb marsury'a oat of sights
- .
; Our wagon fly around th town a fleet
- aa any Bird, - ,
Each drivar singing Ilka a lark hi gay
motion atlrrad;
Happy because happlnaa thy bring t
. every home. . ,
. Though frost and snow and ffllssards
f , '. . blow from Foduak up to Mom. .
THE Union LAUNDRY1
Not Com pi ied ; ith
Portamoath a special ordinance . waa
passed by th city council, on May,
104, and approved two days latar by
th mayor, providing under ; what eon
dltlntia -ha Ml . ta,nhj cauldha an lo
cated. The manner of construction pro
vided by. the ordlnanoa.waa aa. follows
"Bald tank or tanks shall be con
structed of steel of substantial work
manshlp and placed upon a firm, solid
foundation and shall b provided with a
ventilating . pipe of not leas than two
and on half Inches in diameter, Inside
measure! provided that no oil shall b
stored in tanka between - th railroad,
which crosses aaid alto, and th Wil
lamette river, and that on th portion
of aaid land where tanka are located
an earth embankment shall, on or be
fore on year from th pasaag of this
oratnanoe, be made and maintained
around aad tank of sufficient strength
ana mo insias or wnien snan ce or our
Solent capacity to hold th combined
content of all tanka located therein,
nd the top of which ambankmant ahall
be above th axtrem high water mark
ot saia nvr.- .. ..
ambaakmeat Hot Proper.
' Evidently all th provision of thl
ordinance waa followed In the eonatmo
tion of th oil tanka .ezoept that relat
ing to th building of the embankment.
That the banks surrounding th tanks
were not large enough to hold th oil
In th tanka was evident aeon after th
flr . etaxted. rtr Chief Holden also
points out this defect and sera that
much of th effort of th crew of tb
nreboat was devoted to fighting the oil
that flowed over the embankment. In
addition to thl th construction of th
banks waa a menace. They are held In
plaoa by a wooden bulkhead and hi waa
arlre almost from the start and became
so flimsy that the firemen could not
throw any water on It for fear of bor
ing through It and opening the sand em
bankment, which would hav 'let out
the oil that was confined. ,
"'"-:, OU Otertowed. -Tha
large tank detroyd had a ca
pacity of iT.Ooe barrels of ell. yet at
the time of the wror according -ta-tho
figures of th company' o 91 cars, only
MO barrels -waa la the tank, or about
on slith of its capacity, as th em
bankment waa notof sufficient eapaolty
to hold ,0 barrala It requires no vivid
Imagination to ptotur what would hav
been th consequence If th tank had
beea filled to It eapaolty or even one
hal& ' So small was tha embankment that
the burning ell earn over Ita highest
point, that along th waterfront, and
this was several hours after th flr
started and moon of th oil that had
been In th tank had gone' up la amok
and flame.
flr, said: . Tho embankment surround
Ing tha on tanks wa not Sufficiently
targe to bold th burning oil. If tnare
had been more ell In the tanks I do
not ee how th plant of tha Peninsula
Lumber company could have been
eaved. Not only would it have gone,
but tha burning fluid would bava: gone
on down to th drydock and ' other
nlacea alona the river. In addition to
thl th oil would hare gone out on th
rivr In a grLJrotemeandJBoatlna;;
around on top of the water as it ooea.
would nav menaced ahtppinr and Ttrer
front property for mllea. - ; -
' Then wo got tbero we put out three
line of hose. Tb oil at tnat xim waa
boiling all around th tank and It was
running over la vrai place It was
Impossible and would have been fool
hardy to nut any water instae uv em,
bankment. That would have only
raised the oil higher and caused a great
er vrflow. v
"My first thought was of the tank
ears. They were smoking hot when w
got the first stream on them and th
water biased as It fall on th bot
Iron sides. Ws cooled them off until
they were pulled out of the way. - All
the time I kept my eyo on th embankment.-
Every now and than a stream
ijliiIjI juiim twmv tlia Ttrvm. ihl.
TlU I V wTmWlW. w -
occurred I had my men cut It Off and
flrtv tt back. I -could not -bora-dlracu
ly Into these running paths of flames
for I feared that If I did tn stream
would bore through th bulkhead, make
an opening In the sand embankment and
scatter a burning trail everywnere.
oil man Into BOougk.
-That tha ambankmant waa too email
van to accommodate the oil even whan
not boiling wa evident, for despite
our efforts to cut off the streams of
fire the oil ran down into, m aiougn.
It cam down there In such quantities
that tha permanent boom the Peninsula
Lumber company has across us siougu
was not sufficient to confine It It
Jumped this boom and waa making to
ward th mill whan I advisea tne tnrow
tag across of another boom. A larger
one was hastily rigged and thrown
across and this held th burning oil
at th upper end of the slough. If
ths tanks had beea anywner near run
this boom would not hav been suffi
cient to confine the oil and It would
hav surely drifted down to th plant
of th Peninsula Lumber company.
"While we were busy at the w
end 1 looked aaound and eaw that oil
wa starting over th south embank
ment . Before I bad taken two steps It
waa coming over the bank and across
the railroad tracks like a river. Be
fore I had taken two more step it wa
down on th rtvar, Tb firaboat wa
my- only thought Z. ran out on ths
pier to tell the men to cut loose and back
out Into ths river.' Th oil beat, m in
reaching thg buat and suddenly-1 found
myself out on th pier surrounded by
flames.-- - . .... ...
. Xrireboa Backs Out.
T. yelled to th erew to cut loos and
without waiting alo unoouple hosa or
heave off llnea. but cutting both with
fcxaa, ; they backed out Into th river.
AthydWor could , . th
flames around ma parted, tne ooai anra.
Th men on board worked with a wilt
with the small hose and . drove the
flames back, otherwle tn -boat today
would 'hav- bean- wreck.- That one
fir shews tha neeeeslty of another fire
boat and one with hull constructed of
steel. .. ..v.: -.-...''. ".;.;
"After t aw th firaboat back out
th five or six men with me looked
around for a way to eacapa. On part
of tha gang had a line of hoee under
the treetle and they had been driven out
by 'the oil pouring over the' embank
ment I ' wee on the trestle and they
a sort pf peninsula along tbm front of
the slough. Jumping down from the
wharf to this, mtle strip ef land the
men all , gathered . together and
walked oat on' this strip and down to
safety at the. lumber mllL W had to
abandon everything. We loet between
fOO and ISO feetj of hosa and I lost my
flr aervlo eot but wo were thankful
w got out of tbatvplao aa w did..
"Th fir has taught swvaral lessons
but one of Jmpprtanca is that tha em
bankmanta around the oil tanks Should
b mad as large as th ordtnano pro
vMes ana even larger, zor when th on
boils it will run over a very high bank.
This waa demonstrated early tn - the
fir, long before any graat part of th
side of th tank had oavad In. The
tanks (should bo set well down In the
ground and the embankment built of
sand ao It Can readily ahaorb tha oil
and If any bulkheads are used tn bold
Ing th Band they ahould be of aton
ffr iM?nsyet fid yiftt
EASTERN EXCURSION RATES
fair I
, Angus t, s,
and 10.
On th above data tha Great North.
eta Railway win have on sale tickets ta
Chicago ana return ai rate of tTl.ta
liouia ana return .ou, hi. paol, Mln
weapella and Dulo Uv Superlot-e Won m
City and return. 110. Ticket first
class, good going via tha Great North
ern, returning same or any direct route.
stopover allowed. For tickets, sleeping-
car reeervairana or any aaaitlonal In
formation call on or addreea H. Diokaon.
a P. a T. A. 1U Third etreet Portland.
Th Dallas Will Celebrate.
The Dalles, Oregon, will hold a am.
star Fourth of July celebration this
year. ., As aa Inducement for this and
other celebrations that day th O. R. dt
N. co. will sell one and on third fare
tickets Julr L S and 4 with final limit
July . . :..
The aeal Batata Ootomaa or ni
Joamal are tates-arttag to buyer and
eUar allka.
ENORMOUSi DIVIDENDS TO SHMEHOLDERS!
JLlmltod Allotmnt of Stock: Now Offrd U Pr Cnt auaranteed.' Will Pay Civr 30
";."y ;; . Pr Cent Whn Stores Are Btabllmhed n-nt. ' ' - ; f:;, '
' 1 . - v: OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
Col. T. B. Fuller, President (ExCalifornla Bank, Commi- Captain E. E. Csine, Director
sioner). .. ' ; VZ:''" .: '- ',-'-. -- Seattfe, Wash.).
.iHonTruiiiaa ReevevSeew andJ
of California). -t- , - - WDVam Crocker, Director (3an
Fifty Stores Now Being Established on . the 'Pacific Coast
,Wbo Can
PACIFIC SYNDICATE STOR2C 3., Irnr:
HEAD OFFICE: Union Savings Bank Ecililn;, Oilland, CaL , ) tzil '
SEES BIG FUTURE
FOR COAST
New-Yofk Banker Declarer Mi
nates Know,, What Northwest
Will Do Next Ten Years.
ARE PREPARING! FOR '
:;; IT TODAY. HE SAYS
den Are Looking Ahead and Rsal
iin( Padfio Northwest , Wm : B
Moat Productlv Sectloa Sootu!
ready, not for today or tomorrow, but
for 10. years fronv today on tha PaclOc
eoasV They see at th end of that time
a tonnag doable that iof th present la
and out of Pacific ookat porta, unless
soma world-wide oatastrophe oheok the
wonderful tide of commerce,' . said a
Now Tork banker after making a tour
of the Pacific coast cities.
He said that before ha earn west bs
waa .amaaed at th burst of transcon
tinental railroad building toward th Pa
lfl coast He oould not see how ths
Milwaukee, th Northwestern, th Cana
dian Northern, the Grand Trunk Paelflo,
th Western Padfio, ths-sTsnsas City,
Mexico A Orient, all more or less gea-
utns projects to reach, tha coast, had any
real Justification, Now he 'eon that
these big main arteries of transconti
nental traffic will be wonderful earners
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Influence Capital : Share of Profita tnd Cilery to
An Uncqadcd Offer
A set of our famous Ul False TEETH for $10.
Painless extracting free with thle offer. Exam
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work a specialty. Extracting, tt cents ....
VI3IL DI109.S Dentist
A CarUla Cur for Tlrta, Hot, keUn
DO MOT AOOtPT A SUBSTITUTE.
of money when th plan - ef thelr
bulldsra are completed. Be saidi
taatsjaao eT BofuXtAioMi
"In th past It years th population
of th coast eitlee baa Increased 108 per
ra ene can see what -wuna-ta
sis of them 1 yeara from now. -1 have
no doubt that Boa ton. Baltimore, and
Philadelphia will be behind tne
leader of the Paelflo eoest within tnat
time, measured by their eoonomlo Im
portaooa aa factors in our national com
mercial Ufa Oould, the Rockefellers,
Hafrtraan. Hill. Barling and Hughltt eee
th!evBlf Wilfred Laurler doubtless also
saw. It when he staked his political fu
ture on th Orand Trunk Padfio.
bar -changed my-aalad about faa
Paelflo coast I had known that the
Milwaukee bad to build to aave Itself.
and that th Oould road' natural an
tagonism toward Its neighbor would
lead tt to go through. But tha rest of
tha transcontinental projects seemed
foolish. I knew that the Canadian Pa
cific had worked It years to gat It
earnings np to I7.I0S per mile.
Cam Bee tha Beaeoa. -Only
sight year ago I had seen the
Santa Fa, Union Paolfla. and Northern
Paelflo bom ing out of ths bands of re
ceivers, and that only th Huntington
prid had saved th Southern Padfio
from the earn fate. I oould not sea,
and there are thousands of others who
aannot see, that the last six or awven
years' growth - Justified ' anyuung ilka
practical duplication of existing tranaw
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y-OV'aaet
portaUon facUltlea, .' Stnca looking a
tha ooaat cities. I can eee good res eon
for It all. and mora. Tha present ralta
road building ta only a beginning of ait
era that will gridiron tb Paolfla aorta
west witA tilroada. :. -
. Special Sleeper for Elks, ;
On Saturday morning. July 14, fhd
d R. 4 N. Co. will ran a peoIal atandi
ard aleeper, Portland to Denver, by the
way of Huntington ana union nemo
for the Kike, account th annual eoa-
ventloa of tb grand lodge at lks -a
Denver. July IT, IS and 11
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(Capitalist and Ship Owner,
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lire CJaf Holden, la peak-a U
war on UtU strip of land that makaa
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