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THE . OREGON SUNDAY; JOURNAU PORTLAND.1 SUNDAY : ! MORNING. AUGUST 4, 1907. PAS i, . . ' WHERE ROLLS THE OREGON i L' , , 1. 1, - i .. ' ' - , - In the cooling, the miu baa grouped tw- I "J U-w na. "W WW," ll l,l I II, II III H ll " r j STrag Into hexagonal crystals, and then. ggiFO frl 'aPT'""-ll.! ' 'mi"1'r''""f - ' I ifSrrHK Jagged, broken, tier upon tier, and each HrK)& I KTArfr'H , - W " Wi$ if i . "Ui,, , IWXJtJ successive lava flow has been poured CI JSTI I ', "Vis, fj4kW , T. , t KiT,- 1 y " V ' ISWhw 1 u' C08" laboratory, crowded efjJ I T-yS'L. ," ft - l l"4 J'r ' " t ' IkVlffi!' upon one another, crushed beneath tow- , mjTZl 4 ilC"" - i f ' w " - I , Bring miuiona or tone or weight, are , fclflT- ' V ...AV. ' t' . I'.!' 1 "llll piled here mountain high. Ell Hill! v S Si V , ' t q About the faces of the Miff. A.UHr III El Wr-r!. h,l If 'ki J lill UN ssg ... IN W " .trv.sa&t' - IKr d . ' v :wl !MawJ ccIsMrA J&-- VJ ITWWWSMWaiWXfWJSWB1;! I Tint I wwiiu JffJPS' i .... XTi rlM:- ; 8tins,v-vA'-u i ? : ' :! it, m nF. firaTtl Moat Magnificent Sccnjcry on tke Glotc Seen in a Day a 'Trip k Down tne Majestic River tke West Waterfalls Line tKe Banka Submerged Forests Underneath w i : - ' v : - .-w-. ... " 4" Ifc. 1 'jsA' HI.i'll.'l';' i JVQR.TH ABirrjVZJYT TO BMDOL Of THC AAfiP ' v. CJ&LJLO r?lLLG Photos by Benj. A. Olfford, The Dalles. By Katharine White. WHEN Bryant ao fitly and sonor ously paid tribute to the great river of the northwest, which In the far-off misty beginning of things cut for Itself from a primeval mountain range a channel to the sea, he had not seen Its rushing waters. Oregon was an unknown coun try and so remained for many years. Nor have we forgotten that Daniel Web ster In a speech before congress when the great boundary fight wan on be tween England and America, Implied that the country west of the Rocky mountains was a howling wilderness Rnd unfit for human occupancy, and that the Rocky mountains were a nat ural barrier forever set by the hand of God to prevent men from passing be yond. We have passed beyond. Some of lis have even dared to be born In this howl ing and unfit place; moreover we have not regretted It. and those who come from other lands and look upon tho wonders of this great northwest country find It In their hearts to say that It Is one of the treasure spots of the world In regard to natural beauty and re source. Incomparable Day's Trip. For a day's trip the ride up the Co lumbia to the Cascades Is Incomparable. "Can you recall," I asked Nolan Rice Best of Chicago, a recent guest In , Portland, "any short trip In the United States which combines so many divers features?" And he replied that he could not: that it seemed to him match less In the grandeur of Its sonic fea tures and of the greatest Interest geo logically. In the cool of the morning, with the sun gleaming on the river and turning the dancing ripples to gold, the pleasure boat swings about and starts down the Willamette. The city lies on either hand, half awake; bridges noiselessly swing open and soon the life of the town and the shipping is left behind and the green shores slip by as we glide along. "As one reaches the mouth of the river a wonderful picture ri.ses. It Is a glo rified picture of Mount Saint Helens: like a dream It emerges from the mist and overhangs the scene. Dim, shadowy and unreal, like a portent, the great white bulk of t tie mountatln appears. To the right the jagged pinnacle of Mount Hood pierces the sky and Mount Rainier, tallest of the three, but too for away to appear so, shows but a rugged cone above the blue of the foot hills. At Vancouver, one of the few places with a man-made- history In the north west, a stop is made. The great stone piers of the new north bank railroad are In place and work Is pushing along the whole line. Interest centers now, as the journey Is resumed, on the Impressive form of Mount Hood rising above the blue foot hills and towering over the rushing waters, which seem to flow directly from It. Mountains in Distance. As the boat ascends t lie river, for about two hours Mount Hood is directly ahead and Its rugged strength grows upon one with an earnest conviction. It Is a quiet sermon breathing of all great thoughts. Gray-green willows and cottonwoods fringe the banks, shimmering and vel vety, while above roll the softly undu lating hills, evergreen-covered and blued Willi a soft veil of distance. Orchards and occasional farms ap pear, and farther on men and machines are at work at the rock quarry, obtain. Ing material for the never-finished Jetty at the mouth of the Columbia; the great jaws of the derrick softly opening and depositing upon a scow enormous blocks of rock to l),e towed down the river and dumped into the Jetty to deepen the channel. Now the mountain peaks sink out of sight as the towering cliffs rise above our heads and shut out all else by their massive bulk. These great mountain masses of rock are worthy of the brush of a Michael Angelo. the pen of a Hrownlng, or the music of a Wapner. They are overwhelming. Upon their summits stand trees which have been growing for hundreds of years and their life is but as the ticking of a clock. Deer and bear roam their soli tude unharmed by man, for their castle is Impregnable. Country of Natural Wonders. Imagine a world grasped In the hand of a collosal giant and crumpled Into folds. Such is the mountain mass through which the Columbia has forced a passage. But this is not all of its his tory. Fire has been a chief force In this world making. This Is not only a mountain range crumpled Into shape, it has been molten In the primitive chaos of a world's interior and poured out, a seething, fervid mass, then to rrvstalltze. mosses and feathery five-finger ferns wave, and dainty harebells cling. Into the depths below we cannot peer, but wo know that far below us as above us stretch these sheer cliffs, and we, se renely sailing on the rushing waters which have won. by their Incontinent force through the mountain range a way to the ocean, glimpse but a por tion of their height. Erosion of wind and water, grinding of Ice and boulder have furrowed and scored and sculptured these mountains into shape. Queer Formations Along Route. isolated forms rise like (it sounds so inadequate) like a cigar, small end up, like a finger pointing skyward. Over the face of these cliffs and half hidden in the rocky gorges, gush the living waters as when Moses smote the rock In the wilderness. Crystal clear. In feathery waving mist, in rocket like points. In white foaming rushes, come down the life giving waters. For centuries the wild creatures came and drank at the misty pools, looked with grateful eyes and sped away. For many other centuries they shared the waters with their half wild companions as grateful, and nearly as dumb. For untold ages have they poured them selves out, for fern and bush and sap ling, for shy water-ouzel and dappled fawn, for bear and Indian. Still they pour down the rugged cliffs, the wind trailing their misty garments Into tat ters, the sun touching them with rain bow hues; pour on and swell the volume of the river. We say. so Inadequately, that these scenes must be seen to be appreciated. It Is not true. They must be lived with as humble earth dwellers should live, at first accepting, dumbly, unable to re spond; growing more and more to ap preciate, but through poverty of ex pression silent; at last rejoicing, with overwhelming gratitude, and lifted up to the great thoughts of God. or 1 list .v I ft? f v- rv ";-',''Js f iv x .fij -"5o$tf viK i fi - -v . I ti - r iff AS?x ?ifl c Ky One great scarred mountain mass on the Washington side lifts up Its giant head and upon its face is a t range dis figurement. One asks, could im n have done that? What object would tliev huve 1n breaking millions of tons of rock from the tallest of these towering mountains, and In such an In. accessible place? Where the Mountains Fought. On the summit anil upon the other sides of the mountain, great fir trees grow and verdure covers the roc k Here the bald, broken rock face shows tawny and red In the sun. hut no trees grow. Broken, bare, shattered. Wind mountain rears Its disfigured face, and as we ap proach the rapids at the, Cascades It looms ever higher and more predomin ating. Opposite, nn the Oregon side, stands Shell mountain, and between these two, so the ancient legend runs, onry stretched a massive stone bridge on which the Indians used to pass on their hunting forays. Pnfort unately, however, Mount Sal nt Helens and Mount Hood became overheated in argument (probably us to the geographical sur vey) and began hurling stones at each other. Such was the violence of their contro versy that the ground shook for many miles around, and so violent became the demonstration that the great stone bridge collapsed and tumbled Into the river, filling the bed of the stream with boulders. Vast as Is the figment, and stupen dous as we must consider the assertion of tho Indians (and there are some still living, so I am told I who insist that in their lifetime the bridge stood and that they have walked upon It, the possibility of the credibility of the story Is upheld by no less an authority than the late Professor Condon of the I'nlverslty of Oregon, who In his recent work con- cedes that something has occurred here to raise the Columbia within a century or two. for submerged trees occur along both sides of the river above, for a dis tance of 12 or li miles. Mystery of Submerged Forests. These submerged forests, as he points out. are not petrified, as sometimes stated, but trees In a slow process of decay, in positions to which landslides could not have brought them, and In a depth of water in which they could not grow. They are now. at tho lowest stage of the water, standing In a depth of 10 to 20 feet. It Is. therefore, almost certain that when these trees were growing the Co lumbia river, from the Cascades to The 1 miles, was more than 20 feet lower than It Is today. Another authority, Dr. Newbury, In the I'nlted States railroad survey says "The vicinity of the falls" (speaking or the Cascades) "has been the scene of recent volcanic action. A consequence or this action has been the precipitation of a portion of this wall bordering the stream. Into Its bed." So whether we accept the old Indian legend or look above us, as we stand on the bank of the river, at the great scarred top of Wind mountain we may and Indeed must admit that there Is a shadow of truth In the suggestion of a recent Titanic battle of the Gods. However It occurred, this phenomenon has caused the United States govern ment no end of trouble and some mil lions of dollars. It is no small engineering feat to build these locks with their massive retaining walls and their huge gtttes Already three and a half millions of dollars have been spent on the worki and it is not all done yet. The great gates open and the boat glides Into the lock, when the gates close behind. Then bubbling up from below, the water flows in to raise the boat to the desired level. When the boat is high enough the gangplank is laid and the passengers landed. Then the great gate opens in front of the boat, and she proceeds on her way. Town Nestles Between Mountains. The town of Cascades Is a scattering village of one sAwmlll. two churches, some modest homes and Innumerable beer signs. The great rocky mass of Shell mountain looms behind the town, the rushing, boiling, tumbling waters and the locks are In front. Across fh stream stands Wind mountain, with the little town of Stevenson nestling at the water's edge. The sawmill la the industry which supports the town of Cascade Locks, em ploying from 80 to 100 men. In a side street I followed a little running stream and plucked malden-halr fern, mlmulue and musk from Its border. The Journey home was by train, past the- face of the great basaltic cliffs, glimpsing the tumbling waterfalls, the woodsey glens, the sweet waving wild flowers, while on the opposite side of the car the lordly Columbia runs on to the sea and the snowy mountains re appear, serene and majestic, with th sunset glow upon them. Such Is a day spent along the Colum bia river gorge, in the midst of natural grandeur and of scenic loveliness. A. trip which each one of us may have each summer. If we will. DR. LONG CALLS BURROUGHS WOODCHUCK Notable Nature Fakers Fight "War of Words Over Which One of Them Has Committed Greatest Numher of Errors F 'HE Rev. Dr. William J. .1 ml in Tls It Long It. He says that neither he nor the John Ttiirrnurhs wondchuck president, has any quarrel wtin Mr. John Burroughs a woodenucK. J ,g interpretation of facts that a nature fake? course, he might have used a shorter and uglier word, and still have been well within his province as a naturalist, but as this is a recital of that the flshhawks that circle above him while he is fishing on their pre serves recognize him as a fellow fisher- they merely dispute his statement of man, snd that they are Interested in his fact. "Mr. Long sins in taking steps which Maeterlinck and Thortau never take." says Mr. Burroughs, "in letting inven tion take the place of observation. He methods and success, as he says he be- I have. He tells of shooting and wounding a weasel, and of other weasels coming to the aid of the injured one and bearing him to a place of safety. "When Mr. Buroughs tells of an in cident like this. It is a fact. But when some younger and more successful nat uralist relates an unusual Incident, it is a He. That suggests Mr. Burroughs's very peculiar definition of a fact. Any thing that he has seen is a fact, but something that another fellow has seen. Is a lie. "John Burroughs, like the man whom he wishes to support, depends alto- MORGAN USED AS A POSTER Strik ing Likeness of American Financier Posted in London to Advertise Businei s L fact, with no wish to provoke criticism makes his animals do impossible things; lleves they are- He is now Interpreting gether on a dogmatic statement that a nature; but when he says that the fish- thing Is or Is not a fact, and expects hawks repair their nests in the fall and people to accept his statement without make them secure against the winter, question. The animals that he Is most he Is In the region of fact. Is it true, dogmatic about, the wolf and the carl- , . . . .. . . , . nr (b If not (run' Or a-hfln lie anva of Im 1 1 v. Viaa rr narsnnu 1 linnalnrto-o rtf from a very high source, the plain state- "e P.:e;il i ,,,,",, the young hawk's that they must be whatever, and that In substance is the By a Special Correspondent. DNDON Twentieth century Kng- lish business men are almost as conservative us the Chinese. Their love and reverence for the old and their suspicion of the new are oriental In their Intensity. They trans act their business pretty much as their fathers and grandfathers did before them. They are essentially plodders of the slow-but-sure type, and in this age of hustle, with their American and Ger man competitors using the "quick step in OlIRlIipss mutters thev Hpni i')n ment Is made that Dr. Long did call taught by their parents to catch fish reason for this dogmatic attack upon me more so man their forefathers . n . . . . , . , i ' i . , . i i Trom the fimt Hnv thv leave (he nest , , . (ha nr-ofonriara tir li r. x,--1 1 i ahrtilt nn- ' r ...... 1 . . . .,,. ... , v. . . t . . 1 jonn uurrougns a wooacnucK, ana raisea imuramary upon us in a way mm i- ,1 k i, , .i, V. hi, V V i .. J. Vi. T , ,. a new Question or nature fakln? In the tenges our credulity. with nts so- v '"."' "T "i wuku hi-j iwmw latest and most Interesting chapter of called interpretation of natural history hunting in tne woods, ne makes a aer the Roosevelt-Long controversy on the facts, I say. I have no quarrel. 1'dte statement of fact, and the state- subject or natural history writing. John Burroughs, good friend of Presi dent Roosevelt, who hit the back trail "For Instance, he Is at liberty to think m':nJtt ft-fEln.! of W natural his- during the memorable hunting trip In Yellowstone park, when President Roosevelt whooped It up among the peaceful animals of the reservation, has taken up the cudgels on behalf of the president, and In a letter given out yes terday quite bitterly attacks Mr. Long. Roaring Lion Is Called Woodchuck. In. a quiet campaign among natural ists, Mr. Long has heard the president has more than suggested that they sec ond him In. his attack on the "nature , fakers," but John Burroughs Is the only man so far who has been beaten from cover. Ho comes Into the open like a roaring Hon and is called a woodchuck for his pains AS a pari ui me uiiwrmon nisiory or the Roosevelt-Long controversy It may he stnted here that Mr. Long believes that John Burroughs (who has had con troversies with the younger naturalists before) stimulated Mr. Roosevelt to ac tion, and staked his maturer knowledge of the habits of beasts and birds to back the president In his dogmatic ar raignment. Mr. Long also believes that Mr. Burroughs has come Into the open to draw his (Long's) fire from the bigger game for which he Is now gunning. He said yesterday at his home In Stam ford that he hated to waste ammuni tion on a woodchuck, but as he had It to spare, he might as well take a shot or two. Botk Need Imagination. ohn Burroughs wrote the letter criticising Mr. Long to the Rev. Dr. says that both he and the president be lieve that the use of Imagination is in dispensable In nature; writing, and that 'here can be no good literature without I, -'--4 torv that President Roosevelt objects to being put In the hands of school child ren or Into the hands of children by the fireside. It Is vicious, because It is not true." H Long Cannot Escape. Mr. Burroughs winds up by saying that Mr. Long cannot escape Into the "region beyond the world of fact and law," which ha Is said -to have men tioned, "when the sticklers for the truth of observation, like, the president, get hot upon his trail." Mr. Long read the letter of Mr. Bur roughs at his home in Stamford yester day, and, alter reflecting a moment, said: "When one Is out for big game, one doesn't usually wafste ammunition on a woodchuck. You can say that for me. However, he has said something about 'stickling for fact' on the part of him self and another, and I will recite some facts for the benefit of both There be mose in the Kngllsli busi ness world who see a danger to Bri tain's ooasted supremacy in this con servatism of her business men and the clarion voice of a commercial Paul Re vere is often heard announcing the In roads, past and to come, of England's competitors. But there are no commer cial "minute men" in the English busi ness world, or if there are they are hard to locate and Englishmen sleep on in supreme self-confidence while Yankee "hustle" and German push" rob them of tho commercial plum s of the world's market. Signs of an awakening to come, how ever, are not wanting and bill boards note in a bottle, with her address and -7 t.n'oSV.oS omo" a request that the finder notify her by nf.8S methods and appliances will be held writing, giving the date, place and in Olympla In July. The show will be name of the person finding the bottle. yf iires She corked the bottle tightly and threw n Madison Square Uarden, New York, It into the waters of White river, near and tne coliseum. Chicago. Palestine. The incident had been forgotten till a day or two ago, when she received a letter from Fort Screven. Georgia, bearing date of May 27, 190", which stated that the writer. Ernest McFad- den, artilleryman, I'nlted States army INDIANA TOTHK OCEAN Took Bottle Four Months to Make Journey by Water, Bedford Corr. Indianapolis News. On tho seventeenth of last January, at the time of the flood. Miss Nellie Castella, daughter of John Castella, at Crosslands, near this city placed a Now comes tne stranirest nnrt of the whole matter. In casting about for a man whoe head might tvplfy modern methods of push snd hustle the spirit and the personification of success one would Imagine our British cousins wouia nave chosen one of their com- nt nun Lilian, iiiicu uinim a i ,.,, ill, , - stationed at that point. 16 miles from menial giants sucu as Llpton or Dewar Snvflnnnh hud found the hottle on the In the first place. John Burroughs Is beach, where it had stranded, and that a Jealous old man. who In the past four his letter was In response to the re years has made 11 nasty attacks upon quest of the writer, her note being en m that I personally know of. besides closed. several others whlrh I did not read. In The time between throwing the bot- the second place, my nature books have tie Into the river at New Palestine and had a verv unusual success among edu- the flndine by the artilleryman was catlonallsts, and have In large degree re- 129 days, and It is not known hrtw long I"" "'V?i-"-," l? ,hV in,.," l??Ka!CX placed the books of Mr. Burroughs, it may have been stranded on the Ilfn Pomhlne which i Til cretior or Cassel. Such Is not the case, how- ever, for all over London on everv prominent fence and wall appears an excellent likeness of our own J Pier pont Morgan, advertising the English business show. One can Imagine J. Pierpont who is over here now. between his calls upon the king and his visits to the magni.i- the first attack on me was printed by beach before being picked up by the ,'" of h '"Z.J 7v tnTf ,l,,Vs ina n uanuuBrmw unBMBS M J, Pierpont Morgan, his own publisher in the magazine to soldier. Investigation of the map in- Burprlsp before this latest '''of v nJlisli is now being Used la LondOtt to dvrtlsn th first Pne-ll.h which he contributes. and when I dlcates that the bottle had a remark- "butes to tho inerioritl of of W aaveruse tne Wat fcnglJJB: nj i .fc n..Mi.k. t hl vmM n,.Minr rtnwn iho White "joules. lo lno superiority of one or ness show. M-nf.:-.s. .iiir. .. t , called the attention of the publisher to able voyage, floating down the White, America's ereatest fin, n dm k nir r-n. (, ...,i u tht ottor.1, and Whh Ohm nnd At i Ksisminni river. Amenra 8 greatest financial king remarkably characteristic likeness of J. Pierpont Morgan, wnlc bust ness show. gross Inaccuracies In that attack and offered to furnish proof of anything which I had written he refused to even consider my reply. Or. William J. Long. Burroughs as Bad as Others. "Another fact call attention to has related aulte eidenta coaoernlnf bird ad ftalmsi aa pcean. Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the gulf. Dassing around to the east off the coast of Florida, thence north ward along the Atlantic coast of Florida and Georgia till it reached the point named. beginner's luck, and all the money each other until the Other three men 8m Vh mm..u (iw ' rne most direct route ny tne map seemea to now into his pockets. ttis put their elbows on the tshl an u... rfi.Mru Ifll ovli d river nlle of china creuu In lnii,. nronort Ions , talr .lr,o; nnli.Uu. w " pi j i A Consecutive Hush. the other players thrw eacju . t "Yours I've onlr ' flush." replcf He was a beginner at poker. He had MZsVv JSfi &1h3& " the money each other until the . other three men gZon t he "m. T- was ev.- that I would like to from the mouth of the Mississippi river pile of chips grew to huge proportion to take slow noiseless breaths m mirfceJ!" Is that Mr Burroughs to Fort Tlbee is about 1.300 miles, and Then there came a clash. -. Finally . whw there wai ahuV You know ' is that Mr. Burroughs nn dollbt tnp bottIp traveIe(1 much fur, n was a Jackpot. The dealer opened 22 In the pot, the betfnner called thi ehout thil as many unusua in- ther than that In Us wanderings in the and everybody stayed In. The .laler Full house." aim'S thfLw m( Thi mMi ,. w a ctr!"i,s thit flush I hold on 1 '" b' unn.n,.AA( . v. . irl,. run r vht la. m IWWwni 4nt ixa parjis, jaa. beginiier w and hsw bit wis mm a toaMssmUxM AmX i M I H j H A ' . ( d 1 v-
