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Conditions in . Central Zone
"'. Desperate; Men, Women
and .-Children Are Starving
to Death in Hordes.
(Special to Tba Journtl.) " ' '
Shanghai, China, Feb. 20. Conditions
In famine-stricken China are almost too
horrible to be imagined. Reports' from
All parts of the famine zone tell of suf
,. fering and hardships seemingly unen-
- durable.
The Central China Famine Relief com
mittee has sent agents over all of the
- stricken region. Earl A.."Cressy,' one
ot the agents, makes this report: irj: 1
"It was thought best to Investigate as
'closely as possible a limited area which
Airtight be taken as typical, and for this
.purpose the ' township of Lu Pl was
selected. It Is 65 11 north by east from
Tslrfe Kiang Pu in the northern part
of .tlw province of Klangsu.
BOO Persons to Square Mil si
"The township Of Lu PI extends It
11 from -north to south. Is IT 11 from
east to west, and thus contains roughly
15 English square miles. In it dwell
1700 families, aggregating 14,003 Indi
viduals, so that the population is oven
(00 to the square mile. This sample
famine district contains about one half
of one per cent of the total area and
population now . famine1' stricken In
China, v ' - .
"Several neighboring villages were ex
amined in each of two widely separated
- groups, taking every house large or
email, in all 65 homes, and there is no
reason to; believe that they are not
, representative of the township as a
whole. One of the local gentry, the
. head man of the township, accompanied
' me, and contributed much general .In
formation, He has been found thorough
ly reliable in previous famine relief
work, but all his statements ' were
checked up by conference with those
who had charge of the relief work In
this district last year. . - 1
' Houses Are Examined. ' , -
x "The method followed was to assemble
the family and count and question them,
and then thoroughly to examine every
part of thfe house looking Into the cook
ing vessels .on the stove to see what was
In preparation, and then using an elec
- trie flash-light to go through all baskets,
jars and boxes where food was likely
. to be kept These were all country peo-
- j)l wha seldom-have- raoneyon nana,
so that the supply of food- actually on
the-premises is a good indication Of
their condition. Under' other conditions
- such an examination would have been
an impertinence, but the head-tnan ex
.. plained, -and the people seemed to ap
predate the Interest t that was being
taken In them.
"A straw stack indicates that there
has been a crop. I found straw, in four
1 yards one In It. Grain was found In
only seven houses out of fj, and In no
place over a peck of it. The food In
process of preparation wis invariably
ireens -sweet potato leaves f carrot
tops, a thin, aorld smelling mess of the
appearance of stagnant water ana about
as appetizing, only once in a while con
talnlng a bit-of tKtable or grain.
About one-out of every ..three were eat
. Ing" elm bark, which they prepare by
reducing it to a fine sawdust and then
making It Into cakes. Whole rows of
. trees have been thus stripped of their
, bark. Of even such sorry food as this,
only a few have any great amount on
.hand., After it is gone, they will eat
the bark of the willow and mulberry,
which cause swelling and hasten death.
The
r ' t
I'swi t f.-r th' f e, the country e'.Je is ab
solutely tare.
Caly One Crop in rive Tea:. j
tTn considering the plight of these
people. It must be borne in mind that
they have had but one fair crop in the
last five years. Five years ago was a
big famine. A good year followed, but
this is the third year of famine since
then. Last year they eold their work
animals, so that except dogs, among the
65 homes visited, the only animals found
were two calves and one chicken.
"Household utensils hava also been
sold, and in some cases the timbers of
a part of the roof and rest of the
house is made of mud and thatjjk. I
round the average holding of lashd to
be ll mow (about two English acres).
the largest 60 mow and the smallest
three. Questioning ; showed that the
average crop this year among the fam
ilies visited was four Chinese bush
els per family. Last year's crop was
only double this The cause of famine
Is lack of drainage, so that the rain
fall, which is as great as 16 to 30 inches
In two weeks, simply stands and drowns
out the crops. I wnt over the ground
with C D. Jameson, the engineer sent
out by the American Red Cross eocie
lYi who gave his approval to a simple
plan' of drainage proposed by the local
committee, by which it will be possi
ble to prevent another" famine in this
township.
, Many Starved to Death.
."Last year, in spite of the fact that in
this township the famine relief com
mittee carried 650 families through the
season and the Chinese government gaye
ISpO families enough to last them about
a month,-100 persons, at a very con
servative estimate, died of starvation,
and 20 children and six or eight wives
were sold. Children brought from one
to three dollars Mexican and wives
about 10 times as much. The object in
such sales was as much to provide for
the one sold as to secure food for the
seller, and the sale was not always into
a life of vice. This year two persons
out of every three are' certain of death
unless help comes - from outside, while
the cost in suffering Is simply Incal
culable. In the 65. homes visited four
dead men were found, and marry more
who were In the last stages.
"In addition to all this, it is war time.
Five thousand soldiers mutinied and
looted Tslng Kiang Pu so thoroughly
that many shops have not reopened, al
though .that was three months ago. The
whole district was for a while in a con
dition of anarchy,, and at the present
time robbery Is frequent, so that we
made our investigation accompanied by
retainers of - the head man with rifles
at their backs. --' '
"To look back upon It, the whola
seems like a bad dream. The gloom of
the wretched homes, the Whirling snow,
without, driven by the bitter wind, the
hungry garrulousness of the old women,
the modest shyness of young matrons
at sudddenly finding themselves in the
presence of a foreign man,, little chll
dren crying over their pitiful food, the
dumb' agony on the face of the woman
whom be bad to tell that her husband
had Just breathed his last, the dead with
mummy faces and claw-lllctt feet all
this is only a small part of the grim
tragedy of the famine in Chirm where
2,600,000 are facing conditions .like
these." , - - .
The central China famine relief com
mittee la making every effort to save
life in this township and the adjoining
regions. Rice is being shipped in, bean
cake purchased locally, and men are on
the ground ready to start the work the
moment that the government is able to
guarantee the maintenance of order and
glva protection. v
Contributions may be sent to the In
temational . Banking corporation. New
York or San Francisco, which will cable
the money to the treasurer of the cen-
Itral China Famine Relief committee In
China.
Warehouse and .Manufacturing
Floors.
Low rental. In new brick building,
85x100, just being completed at Hood
and Baker streets. This is the best
proposition in South Portland from a
rental standpoint A. L. Flah, care The
Journal. . .
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PLATES 10 m
OREGON APPLES
Senator Chamberlain Would
Get Appropriation in Aid of
'm Standardizing Fruit of the
" Northwest. -
(W.ihington Burcan of .The Journl.
Washington, Feb. 20.--Senator. Chanv
berlain is trying to get kth appropria-"
tlons committee to provide in the agri
cultural appropriation bill for making
a number of colored plates of Oregon
fruit, from originals in, the possession
of the department of agriculture, which
will serve as guides in standardizing
fruit. v The Oregon State Horticultural
society, the Northwestern Fruit ex
change, the "Chamber of Commerce of
Portland, and in fact many other or.
ganlzations. are much Interested In this
matter, and some of them . have been
carrying on a correspondence with the
senator regarding It It Is reported that
the Lafean bill, amended, is to be
pushed at this session. Its provisions
for the standardising of fruit are not
wholly acceptable to the horticulturists
at large, and the senator from Oregon
is giving his attention to this Mnatter
to the end that no injustice shall be
worked on. his constituents. - --"
J Oregon rrnit leads. ',
Talking about fruit, there is no ap
ple in this market that for general fla
vor,' luclness. firmness and all-round ex
cellence, can be compared with the Ore
gon apple,. The writer has tested all
of the vaunted Virginia apples, from the
valley of the Shenandoah and from be
yond in West Virginia, and he has found
none that can excel, and few that can
compare, with the delicious fruit from
Oregon.
JPurhaps-apples-fTom--WashiBgtenT
Idaho, Montana, and a few sections of
California may be as good, but one sel
dom sees them here, while the Oregon
beauties are on sale In almost - every
fruit stand and grocery store. They
bring better prices side by side with
the Virginia and New York apples; and
they bring more because they are con
sldered better. In its apple lands Ore
gon1 has a vein of wealth which will
never be overworked and which - will
yield mora yellow gold than everwas
taken from the mother lode.
'" . Registering by Mall.
Hot a few of the Oregon lan s here
seem to contemplate going home to cast
their ballot. If one may judge by the
number that are registering by mall.
Thla Js AnQVfil ldeac-tO-mang- personal
but Oregon voters are not slow to avail
themselves of It. - .. . . .
, There is a flourishing society here
which, bears the name "Society of the
Oregon Country, " which includes per
sons who have resided in Oregon, Idaho,
Washington and part of Montaha. This
society recently held a meeting and ap
pointed a committee to make arrange
ments for- a banquet in commerhora
tlon of some historical event in the his
tory of the Oregon country, J, V. Rob
inson was appointed chairman, and with
W, P. Borland and'Max Pracht will fix
the time and place. WHlam Steele, -of
'Medford, Or., gave an interesting talk
about the Crater 'Lake National park.
The officers of the society are A..W.
; Prescott. president; J. V, Robinson, vice
president; Mrs. E. R. Williams, second
vice president; Mrs. Sue Fits Ramsey,
secretary; J. B, Ofner, treasurer.
Mr. -Prescott has, been doing' nicely
since his operation and it , is thought
he will be able to be out f
The Case of General Smith.
. .Great Interest is being shown in the
case of General William Sooy Smith, of
Medford, Or., and many appeals are be-
: r . ..n .
in made tr corrr.-ss to j-us ft nator
Chamberlain's - bill inak!:.g Genera
Smith a briradier reneral on the re
tired! list of the United States army.
One-of the recent appeals of this char
acter is from the Chicago commondery
of the Military Ord.r of the LoyaJ Le
gion or the Lnited States, Captain Ros
well H. Mason, recorder. This organi
zation recently passed resolutions urg
ing the passage of the Chamberlain bill
and forwarded the same to congress.
General Smith is the oldest llvlne
alumnus 6f the Ohio university and the
alumni are rallying to his support
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TO EAST MT. TABOR
Residents of the East Mount Tabor
district are, rejoicing-over the success
ful efforts br the committee headed by
Kev i rather James B. Fitspatrlck to
secure a carllne extension for the popu
lous section between. the, end of the
present Mount Tabor line at East Six
ty-ninth street out to East Eighty-
eighth street,
The street committee yesterday reo-
ommended that, the franchise for the
extension sought be granted. Father
Fltxpatrlck and other members of the
committee announced that they had set
tled the details of financing the line.
The property owners of .the district will
have to bear half the expense of pro
curing the right of wayand of con
true Hon. ' ' ,
It will be necessary for the route of
tbe extension to pass through a corner
of Mount Tabor nark and ever a portion
cf the water board's reservoir tract but
tne city attorney has ruled that the
council can grant the franchise without
waiting for the park and water boards
to give their permission for the right
of way. under the agreement made be
tween the. company and the property
owners he new carllne down the east
slope or Mount Tabor must be com
pleted by December 81. . ' ; ; '
Members' of the committee of prop
erty owners were? W. E. Allen. Rev,
Father James B Fibtpatrlck, E. Gould,
w. w. Amburn and T. S. Gaylor.
CHINESE IS ARRESTED;
PACKED CONCEALED GUN
Patrolman Bunn yesterday arrest
ed Ah Wey at Park and Flanders streets
for carrying concealed weapons, follow
ing the discovery of a huge revolver In
his belt Several Other cases against
uninese lor carrying concealed weapons
were set ror today, but all were contln
ued until next Saturday.
Martin Zlramer was arrested at' 7
o'clock this morning by Patrolman Frey
at Forty-first and Holgate . streets for
carrying concealed weapons. He is em
ployed in trje Southern Pacific shops,
and is said to have claimed that F. W.
lM?gerneQfthe supe
the shops, advised him to carry the gun.
It was on his belt in a holster, but a
flap: over the holster concealed the gun,
thereby , constituting an offense. The
case will be tried by a jury next Wed
nesday. - i .
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. New Use for Horseshoes.
(Sneclsl to Th Journal
Stevenson, Wash., Feb. 20.wH. P, Ash,
one of the leading general merchants of
this city, in making improvements on
his building required eight conoreta
foundations 2x6 feet each. Not being
able to get spiral Iron In time to" finish
the; work he purchased B00 pounds of
old horseshoes which war used for re
en forcing. Expert cement men , jvro
nounce this plan eveAi better than spiral
iron. Old horseshoes sell for less than
a quarter of a cent a pound.
Archdeacon Asked to Resign.
London, Feb. 20. The eccentrlo Arch
deacon Colley, rector of Stockton, has
resigned by request Eight years ago
theiarchdeacon had his coffin made and
stored 1ST tha: factory;--; ----- - -
VOTE 10 EXTEND
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Oregon Members to , Meet at
Arlington Club Night
. of February 22.
Oregon .alumni of the University of
Pennsylvania will meet In annual ban
quet the night of February '22 at the
Arlington club. Colonel C. K S. Wood
will deliver an address and a program
of college songs and yells will be given.
i ne .meeung or tne alumnL In Port
land will be one of many similar gather
ings of University of Pennsylvania
graduates, which will be hekl at the
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the custom for many "old l'enrrty" men
to get together on February 22,at the
Academy of Music, Philadelphia. A
banquet Is served and some nationally
prominent speaker has given an address
on a timely topic of interest to the uni
versity and the nation at large.
In the past these . annual sessions
have been attended by all alumni who
have been able to go, still a small per
centage of. the total number of gradu
ates It is to make these reunions more
general In scope that the university
trustees have urged- alumni the world
over to arrange for general gatherings
at points nearer their homes which will
make It possible for those within a con
siderable radius to attend, but still at
less expense and loss of time than
would be required, to attend the meet
ing at Philadelphia!
It is planned that at each of these
banquets at 10 o'clock at night a toast
to alma mater shall be drunk, accom
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hymn. It is believed .the movement
will tend to strengthen old college ties.
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