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AS THE Christmas season approaches
fathers and mothers begin to
prepare for their family reun
ions and the homecoming1 of
their children who are In schools
is the. feature In many families. Those
who have sons and daughters in the
Oregon and California colleges take this
time to congratulate themselves that
their olive branches have not gone far
ther away; and it is at this time liat
other parents wish they had looked
more favorably upon their home insti
tutions. Portland Is well represented through
out the east in most of the larger col
leges by young men who will not be
able to return for the holidays. How
ever, their work is in all cases so satis
factory and of such high standard that
in spite of their absence from home at
the Chrlstmastlde there is cause for re
joicing in the hearts of their parents.
A list of the men who are in eastern
colleges comprises a wide range of am
bitions. Many different courses are be
ing followed.
Some of the Students.
Coe A. McKenna is studying interna
tional law and diplomacy at the George
Washington university in Washington,
D. C. Ills academic career was spent
in three different states, beginning at
the Columbia university here, then go
ing to Santa Clara college, San Jose,
then to Gonzaga college, Spokane, and
graduating at the Columbia university
as president of his class. After this he
spent two years at Notre Dame. Mr.
McKenna expects to study International
law and diplomacy in Europe after re
ceiving the degree of master of diplo
macy at the George Washington univer
sity. John C. Failing is a senior at Yale
this year and will comrlete his college
course at the big eastern college next
June. He graduated in 1904 from the
Portland academy and is taking the
regular course at Yale. John Failing
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James F.
Failing.
Fred Swigert, son of C. F. Swlgert,
began his career at Harvard last Sep
tember. He graduated from the Port
land academy last June after preparing
for a course in civil and mechanical en
gineering, in which he is specializing
now in the east.
Only One t Ann Arbor,
Ralph Hurlburt, aged 20, is the only
representative which a Pprtland school
has In Ann Arbor. Jle graduated with
the '08 class from the Portland academy
and is studying law at Ann Arbor.
After finishing his course there he will
probably finish at Columbia university.
New York. He is a member of th
Zeta Pst fraternity.
Dr. Lawrence Selling Is the son of
Ben Selling, a well known business
man. He is a graduate of the Portland
academy, and of Yale and Johns Hop
kins, and Is now interne at the Johns
Hopkins hospital at Baltimore. He has
also been admitted to the practice of
medicine in Oregon.
Richard E. Geary, son of Dr. E. P.
Geary, will graduate next June' from
the Colorado School of Mines, where he
has spent the last four years studying
mining-engineering. He' is a graduate
of the Portland academy, having com
pleted his preparatory course In 1904.
Hamilton Corbett graduated from
the Portland academy in a0 after a
full four year course spent there pre
paring for a course at Harvard. He is
now a junior in that college. He has
been a prominent fige in athletics
since entering Harvard. "He played half
back with the varsity football team
. I 1 ... MAMiUniul (n M.
York papers as a probable member of
Vne til American itoiii.
William Dolph is a sophomore-at
Williams, taking the literary course.
Ma ( a. member of the Chi Psi fra
ternity and was a member of. the fresh
man . debating team during his first
year In Williams. He graduated from
the Portland academy in 1906, taking
a place in class . oratory. , lie la a
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member of, the Dramatic club at Wil
liams' and is prominent in the casts.
Is Studying Forestry.
Prescott W. Cooklngham, aged 19, is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward C.
Cooklngham. He graduated from the
Portland academy with the class of
'07 and is at present a sophomore at
Princeton. He Is specializing in for
estry, taking a scientific course.
Herbert Barbur, son of City Auditor
A. L. Barbur, was one of the compar
atively small number of 49 out of a
body of 314 contestants who passed
the entrance examinations into West
Point last February. Several of the
49 were entered only on condition, but
the Portland boy went In with colors
flying. He is now a plebe in the mili
tary school and is 21 years of age. He
was a member of the 1907 class of the
Allen Preparatory school.
One of the best showings made by a
Portland student in many years was
that of Isadore Brill. 19 years old, who
came to Portland from the southern
part of Russia during the recent acute
Internal disorders. He began the study
of English in the Shattuck school, be
ginning in the very first grade, but in
two years he graduated with first hon
NEW YORK NOT THE ONLY PLACE FOR "FLY COPS "-But the Retired Detective
Does Not Think Some Middle Wetern Towns Are Quite In It for " Bulls"
A RETIRED headquarters man who
ranked among the star sleuths
when Byrnes was at the head of
the detective bureau of New
York was reading something In a
newspaper at his home the other even
ing that caused his shoulders to shake.
"I never did belong to the push that
claimed that New York had the only as
sortment of fly cops on earth," said the
grizzled ex-detective, putting down the
newspaper, "and I wouldn't for money
be held i up as criticising or knocking
the sleuthing staff of another town.
But they sure must have a swell mob
of lumberjacks for plain clothes bulls
in a certain big town out west if this
one that I've just finished reading about
Is a fair sample
"This detective from the Dig middle
western city was conveying from San
Francisco to his home town a class A
gun who'd been corralled out in the
slope town. As the train slid through
Utah the bull began to feel like 40
winks or so for himself. So he pulled
his griddle forward to shade his lamps
and sprawled down in his seat along
side his gun captive for a few leagues
of slumber.
"It looked all right it seems, to the
bull, for didn't this man have the brace
lets oh? But this gun was a gay char
acter. He waited until the fly cop, had
saxophoned along to the fortissimo
stage and got to dreaming of real
money and then he frisked the sleutb
for his key ring and ornaments.
"The handcuff key was attached to
the key ring, which of course made it
soft for the gun. He unlocked himself,
and with a neat sense of humor snapped
the wristlets onto the sleuth, who still
slumbered on, being some weary may
be the dinner fn the dining ar had '
something to do with it. Not only that,
but the gun Cunningly chained his es
cort to a steam pipe, and still the man
with the badge slumbered on.
"Then the captive, continuing to ob
serve how good it all looked, separated
the Rip Van Winkle from his split sec
ond souper, his three karat blue head
light and his pocketbook, which con
tained some 300 and odd ace high coon
skins. "This came off, the paner says, in
the smoking compartment orfhe sleeper,
of which the badge man and his cap
tive were the only occupants. At Ogden
the gun raised the beat It banner for
himself, dropped of the train and van
ished In the jchaparral.
"Before the train mooched out of
Ogden the fly cop, oddly enough, awoke.
He was perturbed, I reckon, so that his'
tory sounded meshy. Anyhow, the new
conductor, who came aboa rd at , Ogden,
couldn't see the chained sleuth's' story.
He was certain that the hobbled detec
tive was really the prisoner, and ao he
unloosed him -and turned him over to
OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL', PORTLAND. SUNDAY
OF The. OREGON CHRISTMAS BRIGADE
Firesicle Eastern Colleges ::WLere Local Sons and Daogkters Are Receiving Educations Some Ambitions tne Rising Generation
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ors and began his academic course in
the Allen Preparatory school, teaching
the Hebrew language at night, earn
ing enough to support himself and pay
his tuition. In another two years lie
graduated, first in his class, and is
now in his freshman year in the med
ical department at Columbia univer
sity. New York. Through the help of
Rabbi Wise, formerly of Portland,
young Brill secured a position teaching
English to the Hebrew waifs In the
tenement districts of New York city,
and by this means earns enough to pay
his way through the university. Re
ports from that institution say that he
will complete his course there in an
other year.
Mechanical engineering was the course
chosen by Lloyd Bates, aged 21, son of
Georee W. Bates, when he began his
sophomore year at Amherst last Sep
tember. Lloyd Bates was a member
of the '07 class of the Allen Prepara
tory school and was manager of the
baseball team of that Institution dur
ing his last two years of academic
work.
One of Portland's boys who is mak
ing a big showing in the east is Simeon
Reed Winch, aged 20, now in his
"freshman vear at Princeton. During
his first semester he made the fresh
man debating team in the intercol
legiate debate between Princeton and
the Ogden constabulary. The fly cop
had to stick around until the Ogden
authorities got a wired description of
him from the police of the town where
he worked, and then he was turned
loose. The gun appears to be still
vamping through the brush.
"I'd sure have hated to report back
to Byrnes after having been treated in
that scandalous manner by a prisoner,"
went on the retired headquarters man.
"I can see the look In the Byrnes lamps
right now if anybody on his staff had
limped in with a sad tale like that to
unreel.
"It isn't all wine and song, nor hot
coffee and doughnuts either, this thing
.of fetching a prisoner In. The detective
who's got a man to fetch in, no matter
how long the railroad hike may be, has
got to have a certificate of membership
in the sleep flagging and bed hating as
sociation. "There was a time away back yonder
before the lags all got so foxy when at
the outset of a run home with a prisoner
you could ask him: 'Bill, are you going
to be good, or ain't you?' and take his
word for it if he gave you the up and
down nod. but that time flitted out even
before 1 backed out of active harness.
"Down In Mobile a few years before 1
quit I snagged one of the most scien
tific scratchers that ever kited big
money paper around this seaboard. He
consented to return to New York with
me without the extradition documents.
" 'I'm plumb tired of all this ducking
around,' he said to me, 'and I'm going
to plead guilty, hand the beak on the
bench the gazelle gaze and try to swing
him, say, for a three specker or some
thing about aa light and gauzy as that
And after I do my bit I'm sure going to
flag the scratching stuff. There's noth
ing in if
"Nice, lifting line of Epworth League
conversation, hey? Of course, though I
pretended to gulp It as he sifted it out;
why not?
" 4And what's more,' he went on hand
ing me the winsome peek out of the
corner of his eye, 'you'll be doing the
real chummy thing if you don't hobble
me on this run to the big town. The
chill of the wristlets gives me rheuma
tism in my forearms. I'll be good all
right I am sure going to be nice and
good. I'll stand watch and watch with
you over myself, so you needn't bother
about me.'
" 'Won't that be grand, says I to that
one, and I snapped the cuffs on him
real quick.
- "He sulked on me then of course, but
that didn't prevent me from fastening
one of the cuffs on my own wrist after
we boarded the northbound train at
Mobile. It was a day coach for the
start off, and I gave him the aisle side
while I took the window seat the win
dow had to be left partly open far air,
for It was warm veather, and I wasn't
taking" any chance on his making a dive
Cornell and headed hi team mates to
victory on the question of the initiative
and referendum, capturing the college
medal for bent oration. He is the son
of Martin Winch, and a graduate of the
Allen Preparatory school.
Sets a New Record. X
Lavelle MeAllen set a new record for
Oregon when he tool the college en
trance examinations in J 907. He passed
with an "A" earning a higher mark
than any pupil in Oregon hud ever re
ceived up to that time, lie is now In
his sophomore year In the Boston
School of Technology studying mining
enginee.rine. He Is 19 years old and
the son of Dan MeAllen of the firm of
MeAllen & McDonnell. Lavelle MeAl
len was a student at the Allen Prepar
atory school for four years where all
of his preparatory training was ob
tained. A creditable example of prac
tical work was shown when he spent the
summer this year working In the Bo
hemia district mine at Cottage Grove.
One of the very few graduates of the
Portland High school now attending an
eastern college Is Lome Manion, aged
22. now a junior in Jefferson college,
studying medicine. Young Manion was
born and raised in Portland, like most
of the Oregon boys now in eastern
out at a slow tip, even if I had made
htm my cuff twin.
"When wo were In the middle of Mis
sissippi a woman whose face 1 was
jerry to boarded the train at one of the
small stations. She was a penny
weighter and spark palmer of the first
class, for whom the circulars from New
York had been out for a year or so.
She had been a crook from girlhood and
she knew nearly the whole push, male
and female, In every branch of the
crook business.
"As soon as I piped her I pretended
to be staking myself to a doze, und
from the lightning exchange of glances
between her and my man as soon as
she located him I saw through the slits
of my eyes that she was there for bus
iness. She'd had a wire from the crook
or one of his pals as to the train he was
riding on.
"She plumped herself into the vacant
seat right in front of us we were in
the last seat in the car and then, cur
ious to see what she thought she was
going to do, I started Into snore real
hard; The train was hardly a mile out
of the station where she got on, before,
without turning In her seat, she passed
my scratcher, over the back of her seat
a unch of handcuff keys, which he
nailed quickly with his loose hand.
"Giving mo a good look over and
doping it that I was as good as tempor
arily dead he began to try the keys that
she had slipped hinv on his own cuff,
of course. Well, I let him pick it loose.
I wanted that chance to use both my
hands.
"He was just rising to his feet when
I put him to the bad with the best I
had in stock, smack dab on the point
of the jaw. He fell back limp Juto the
seat, and then I grabbed the woman
and snapped the flapping bracelet, one
cuff of which I still was wearing my
self, on her wrist. She tried to punc
ture me with a hatpin which was made
for other uses than keeping a hat on,
but I twisted this tool out of ber hand,
loosed the cuff from my wrist and then
braceleted the two of them together.
"The result of the woman's butting
in was that I brought two of them in
stead of the one to New York, and inci
dentally copped out something easy, the
$1000 reward which the jewelers' Pro
tective., association hatf been offering
for a year for the woman's apprehen
sion. The woman had the nerve to set
up the wail that I had kidnapped her,
as she called it. out of the state of Mis
sissippi, but she had to do her little
five spacer all the same.
All of which Isn't saying that I
haven't, along withr the rest of them,
done boneheaded things in fetching in
prisoners.
' "About -the sappiest thing that I ever
did in that line was when I allowed a
frisoner to treat me for the faceache.
Ie was a young New York doctor who
MORNING,' DECEMBER 20,
Kfihools. He spent two years at the
University of Oregon before going to
Jefferson. He is the son of Dr. Knth
erlne C. Manion.
Wins Oratory Medal.
Ignatius K. McNamee, who graduated
from Columbia university with the class
of '05 is now 22 years of age, and a
senior at Notre Dame. He was presi
dent of his graduating class at the local
university and Is president of his pres
ent class at the noted Catholic college.
Recently speaking on "Child Labor'' he
won the Notre Damu varsity oratorical
contest. He received the Breen gold
medal and will represent Notre Damo In
the state contest. Next year he is
going to Washington, P. C ., to study
diplomacy, after which he will return
to Portland. Ignatius K. McNamee Is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W.
McNamee.
Philip Hart, aged 21. in a junior in
the Boston School of Technology. He is
a graduate of the Portland academy,
having completed his course there in
1905. He is taking a regular mechan
ical course In the "Tech" school, and
will graduate from that institution In
June, '10. He Is the son of J. D. Hart,
a prominent real estate dealer of this
city.
had allowed drugs of different kinds to
get the bulge on him. When he found
himself losing out on account of his
habits he'd scratched a lot of punk
paper and then ducked.
"I nailed him In Colorado Springs,
and h-i consented to drill back with me
without the signature of the governor
of Colorado. He was a slender chap,
atid weak as a kitten from monkeying
with the dope, and so I didn't Iron him
any in starting back to New York. He
wasn't In shape to run twenty yards,
even tf he broke loose, and I knew that
all I had to do was to keep half awake.
" "There wasn't any trouble about that
end of it my keeping awake. It was
measly damp December weather, and
sailing through Illinois I picked up a
thundering vicious attack of neuralgia
of the chops. The train wasn't prop
erly heated, and I was almost a bug
from the pain of the thing.
"My dope eating doctor prisoner saw
the shape I was In and he asked me
if I wanted him to fix me up.
"'I've got the whole works in the
medicine chest In my bag.' he told tne.
'and I can stop those twinges of yours
all right.'
"I don't doubt that, bud.' I told him.
with a grouch, both mitts clapped to ray
face, 'and I gtien you could come pretty
nigh to stopping me altogether with the
junk vou've got In that medicine chest
of yours. What's your treatment for
this kind of an ache normal solution of
powdered glass and prussic acid?'
" 'Oh, well. If that's the way you look
at It, all right.' said my little doctor
man. looking a heap hurt, and that end
ed tha talk for a time.
"When the train, was about half an
hour from Chicago, though, the face
ache had me clomping up and down the
aisle of the car like a patient In the
bug ward. The pain was so fierce that
it warped my judgment and I couldn't
see anything else In life but a chance
to get rid of it.
" 'Say, break out that kit of yours and
dope me along,' I said to my doctor
prisoner. 'The way I feel about It right
now I'd as lief take a chance on losing
you If I could lose this infernar'misery
at thesamo time.'
"He got. out his dope cabinet, un
shipped his vial that contained some
watery-looking stuff and gave me r
dose of it in the glass of water I got
from the tee coolest
"Then I sat down alongside of him,
and about a quarter of an hour later a
a few minutes before the rain was due
to haul into Chicago--I felt my eyes
beginning to droop. It came on all of
a sudden' and left me powerless, al
though I was perfectly conscious.
"I felt as if I hadn't seen -the top side
of a bunk for five years, and with that
was a pleasant, numbed sensation that
caused me to reflect idlv that it didn't
make a -particle of, difference to me
whether my prisoner lost me. or noC
1908.
William LadaVthe son of William M.
I .add, is a student at Amherst and is
now in his junior year. He Is 31 years
of age, is studying the general course
and Is a member of the Alpha Delta
Phi fraternity there. He graduated
from the Portland academy In 1906.
Clifford IS. Nichols, son of Dr. A. S.
Nichols. Is another of the graduates
of the Portland ax-ademy who has gone
to Amherst to college. Young Nichols
is a member of the Chi Psi fraternity.
He Is a sophomore and is taking the
regular classical course.
Takes Engineering Course.
Henry Wessinger, aged 21, Is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wessinger of this
city. He Is a junior at Cornell and a
member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
He is studying mechanical engineering.
Before entering Cornell he was a stu
dent at the Portland academy, spend
ing 12 years in that institution and
graduating with the class of '06.
James Howard Huddleson Jr., aged 21.
son of the former manager of the Union
Pacific railroad at Portland, is now in
his senior year nt Princeton. Reports
from that Institution say that he will
graduate with first honors next June,
after which he will take up the Btudy
But I fought that and struggled to my
props and began to grope up and down
the aisle in an effort to keep awake.
"It was a good thing for me that the
train was Just slowing up at the Chi
cago station. I got a feeble clutch on
the prisoner who had staked me to the
dose. He tried to break away, but I
was onto him, and I pulled him out to
the platform and down the steps to the
car.
"I was right on the -erge of giving
in to the uncontrollable desire to sleep
when I saw the station detective, a man
1 knew, hiking toward me. I could see
that his first thought was that I was
drunk, but as he swung alongside of me
he blew that notion.
" 'Take this dope, chum," I said to
him, handing over the prisoner to the
station detective, 'and keep the hatch
down on him for me for a bit. I fell
for a dose that he rigged up for me
for neuralgia.'
"That's all I could unreel, for I was
all In. The station detective hiked the
man over to the nearest precinct lockup,
to be kept there over night, first having
me lugged to the station master's office
and phoning for a doctor.
"The doctor, it seems I didn't know
anything about it at the time got a
couple of station porters to. dance me
up and down for a couple of hours.
When I finally swung around he told
me that I must have gulped enough
morphine to 've sent a battalion of
Hassan Ben Alls to the happy hasheesh
f rounds, and that It was the big over
ose alone that saved me.
"I had my share of amusing experi
ences fetching prisoners back at that.
The most ingenious reprobate I ever
ran back here with was a fellow that
held' pretty near the world's record In
his day as a bigamist. He'd been
hitched up with a large percentage of
the femininity of New York and Penn
sylvania at the time I was sent after
him and when I nailed him In St.
Louis he was stopping at the main tav
ern of that town and -making love to
a wealthy hoyden of 75, a guest at the
same inn. .
" 'I sure am sorry you showed up so
previous like,' he said to me In an
abused sort of tone when I rested my
mitt on his shoulder in the hotel lobby
and told him he was mine. "I've got
that old haybag all but copped, and
she's got more duff than' Ireland's got
peat.' 1
, No Difference.
"Aren't you pretty reckless with your
gas these nights?" asked the bachelor
girl, "burning lights In all the rooms?"
"Yes."' said the woman. , "Just as soon
as the nights ret longer my gas bill
gets longer, so. I might as well. Doesn't
make a bit of difference, so toe nights
are longer." 1
of medicine and surgery at Johns Hop
kins university. ,
Alfred H. Clarke, aged 21 is a junior
at Amherst and is taking the civil-engineering
course. Alfred Clarke is the
son of D. D. Clarke of the engineering
department of the city water depart
ment. He is a graduate of the Allen
Preparatory school, having completed
his course there two years ago, graduat
es with the class of '06.
Mechanical and electrical engineer
ing is the course that Leonard Fuller,
aged 18, son of F. I. Fuller, is studying
at Cornell. Young Fuller was one of
the first to install a wireless telegraph
station in Portland and Is known to
have communicated from his father's
home on Portland Heights by means of
his wireless instrument as far away as
with the navy yard at Mare Island, Cal
ifornia. He graduated from the Port
land academy last year after a fous
year course.
Agriculture His Study.
Berwick Wood, aged 21. Is a believe
in Oregon soli and he has gone to col
lege to study how to cultivate it, Hft
is now in his sophomore year at Cornell
fuPlnJl agriculture. He is the son of
c. h s Wood and an alumnus of the
P,?,ritliin.d "cadeny. having graduated
with the June class of 1906.
Graham Glass Jr., who- is now tn his
sophomore year at Harvard, is a gradu
ate of the Portland academy, having
completed his course there in 1907. Be
fore going to college he showed ability
as a sprinter and Is considered a
promising material by the trainers at
Harvard. He is 20 years of age and is
the son of Graham Glass of the firm of
Glass & Prudhomme.
Harry Raffety, the son of Dr. Dav
Raffety. was a Portland academy graduv
ate and is now studying at Columbia
university. Mr. Raffety attended th
University of Oregon and was gradu
R 'tf there two years ago with high
standing. He is a member of the Kappa
Sigma fraternity.
Is Student of Art.
Stockton Mulford. the son of Mrs. U.
A. Mulford, is a Portland academy
graduate who is making headway in art.
Here he was editor of the Portland
academy paper and his drawings at
tracted much attention. He was most
active in all student affairs. He is
now In his second year at the Students'
Art league in New York and has won
marked recognition. In the spring he
was one of the sevrn whose pictures
were hung in the exhibit, and though
he was the only one with less than two
years' study ho had seven pictures
hung.
Horace Fenton. son of Judge an Mrs.
Fenton, is another University of Oregon
graduate who is studying in the east.
Portland academy was his Portland
alma mater. He has won signal honor
at Johns Hopkins, where he has been
studying medicine for two years and in
recognition of his acceptable work he
has been granted a fellowship.
James and Arthur Hosenfeld. sons of
Mr. and Mrs. Sol Rosenfeld, are other
Portland representatives at Johns. Hop--kins
who are graduates of the Portland
High school. Both are graduates of
Stanford university am are following
their medical course In Maryland, James
in his third year and Arthur in Ills sec
ond year.
George Clifford Coe. son of Dr. an'J
Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe, finished at Stan- .
ford last spring and is now studying t
Harvard Medical school. A late report
states that he Is doing research work
under Dr. C" F. Mlnot, the famoiiN
embryologist. This is a distinct honor
to receive research- work in the first
year, but Mr. Coe followed this sanni
work at Stanford and won some rsooit
nltlon there. He was a.Portluml c ,4..
emy student. - -. ,
.Another academy student eust is Ken
neth Fenton. the youngsst son of Judife
W. D. Fenton. He has had three years,
of work at Stanford, where lie w.n
prominent in athletics and in fraternity
circles. Ho-1 Bow completing bin wmlc
at Yale. - ''
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this time of )ar? '