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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, ' SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 20. 1914.
; Sara. This was followed by an order '
! for 16.00 more and finaUyhey told
me they would ' take all the hospital
t tents I could turn out, so I put 400
I people to work, used up all my mate-
HELP DESTITUTE TO
AID SELVES WAS THE
GOSPEL OF WEMME
Patron Saint of Good Roads
BUT PHIL
1 rial and Instead of going broke. I came
out with a good sized fortune.
Mr.. Wemme concluded his Interview
by speakinr of his purchase of the
TOOK A WIDE
RANGE
Barlow road. "When I am gone and
the people realize what good roads
mean to Oregon, they will see that I
have not forgotten them. I want my
money to be used for the benefit of the
public who helped me to make It."
i'Larse Fortune Left but None
Had His Own Ideas About How He Defeated
' Knows How Great or How
( Disposed Of, :
Chanty; Good Work Done.; Three Railroads!
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THO.VIAS JEFFERSON : , r
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VEWiME UNOBTRUSIVE 1 doing good was wemmbs delight
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MOUNT HOOD ROAD HOBBY
tot Many Tcui One Aim In XUe to
& It Completed Humorous
Xocldtnts Tola. :
Jn the panning of K. Henry Wemme,
one of Tort land's most eccentric and
'. bent loved characters. the city has
lost a consistent,' but unobtrusive
' philanthropist. Among those who ara
mourning are poor' widows, men who
once were down and out, hundreds cf
.casual bKgrs and early recipients of
'benellts whose names are now promi
nent In civic, commercial d' rellg
ious life.
For Henry Wemme was a success-
' ful man. Thnt lie was self made arid
Knew the meaning of hard knocks
rather enhanced the spirit of con
. tructive pride In his home city that
he always cherished.
Mr. Wemme was rated better than
. a millionaire. None of his friends
. knows exactly what his fortune
amounted to, though they knew that
, evefii the Mount Hood road his llfe-
- long hobby and a costly one had not
- made great ruiI into his capital.
Owned City Property.
- Mr. Wemme owned the property at
i Broadway and Oak. occupied by Hal
loa & Wright, cNtim.iled to be worth
$300,000; the hair block at Broadwsy
and Burnslde, occupied by the H. j.
Keats Automobile company, worth
probably l.'iiiO.ooO; two corners at
First and Hiirnside streets, worth
probably S 150,000; the property occu
pled by tlie Mollne 1'low company, on
Orund avenue, worth $200,000; all the
unsold lots In overlook addition and
' several other bits "f real estate. All
of this Is located inside the city
,". limits.
Although hix life work was the de
,' velopment of the road to Mount Hood,
'.It is Mild that he did not own a font
t' Of land along t,lie highway save the
"highway itself. 'It was one of his fa
vorite boasts to his friends that all
his work on the road was for the
public anil that he never would profit
'. by it In the least.
Much speculation lias arisen as to
the disposition Mr. Wemme will make
of tlil.-j fortune. He never Would tell
, 'how his money was to be left, but
was fond of casting mysterious hints
that the people would be greatly sur-
' prised when they learned what was
In his will. But even to those most
' i Intimate, to whom he had revealed
"" part of the secret. speculation has
gone astray because two years ago,
when his Illness had become so firm
Jy rooted that physicians had practi
cally given him up, he went to Cali-
fornia.
Saw Will Drawn.
"I don't believe I'll ever come back,"
"', he told his friends.
But he did come, back, and while he
Was getting better in California, he
had a lawyer draw up a new testa-
' ment. No one not even hid Portland
attorney, George Joseph, knows what
Was in the second will. But even
after It was made, Mr. Wemme's ref
erences to its contents took on even
. more mysterious tones. Most people
believe that the '-public. ..through the
Mount Hood, road, will be chiefly re-
y inembered.- Others say he became in
terested in a plan to endow a home
lor crinpies. others look for legacies ' Funeral services for E. Henry Wem
to many smaller enterprises. But no- me, who died suddenly at Los Angeles,
body knows. Thursday-afternoon, will be held at
It was after a long hard automobile the English Lutheran church, Jeffer-
trip from 1'ortland to Astoria, when son and West Park streets, at 2
Mr. Wemme. Louis Itussell and W. J. o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Rev. A. J.
Clemens were mapping out what, later Leas, pastor of the church, will offici-
oecame me Columbia highway to the ate. The ceremonies will be held un
ROAD WORKERS EMPLOYED ,Cof d
Bebates in Eacn Case Are Finally
In Interview Shortly Before leaving1
for Southland, Wemme Related His
Interest In Highway Development.
-Secured.
Mr. Wemme used to tell with many
chuckles how he got ahead of three
railroads which were trying to hold
him up on the freight charges for his
liv rkior i first automobile. He had ordered a
iy rrea irfM-Kiej. , Stanley from Newton. Mass. He ar-
The late K. Henry Wemme was one , ran(?ed to 8hlp the engine by the O. R.
of Portland s most intersting charae-! & N- the running gear via the North
ters. Ten days ago I spent an hour ern pacmc and the body via the South
with Mr. Wemme at his office in the ern pacific.
Commercial club building. "I am go-' "The local agents, of the three roads
ing to Los Angeles in a couple of got together and decided to charge me
days," said Mr. Wemme, "so this will $150 apiece in freight," he said. "That,
be your last chance to get an inter- , was the tariff on a complete automo- '
view frfm me for sometime. No, I am ; bile. 1 decided that was a holdup and j
not going to talk about myself only; ! got pretty sore. Then I thought of a
I would rather talk about good roads, scheme.
There was a day when I was more ! "I ordered another engine and had i
than willing to talk about myself and 1 the manufacturers mark on It in big (
when I delighted to see my name in letters 'Automobile engine.' The rail-1
big type in the papers, but that day roads had a tariff prescribing $3 per
bas gone by.- I haven't much use for 100 as the rate on engines. But when
the man who gives $25 to charity and I it arrived, the O. R. & N. was going
wants a hundred dollars worth Wf pub-j to charge another $150. I tendered the
licity in the papers over his gener-1 $3 and they refused it.
osity. My idea of charity Is to help "Then I served notice that I needed
the man to help himself. You are hurt- 1 that engine and would bring suit for
ing the man more than helping him $25 per day for every day they held it.
when you destroy his self respect and In a little while they notified me they
that is what indiscriminate and would accept the $3. I made them give
promiscuous giving does.
"I have been keeping three crews of
men at work on the Mount Hood-Barlow
road all fall, and I am going to
keep them at work all winter. By do
ing this I am accomplishing two things
me a receipt, saying tne money naa
been paid as freight on an automobile
engine,
"Armed with this receipt I de
manded a rebate of $147 on the first
engine sent me. After consulting their
I am getting a road completed and . :A, t
m i 1 1 -7 . . . , x lit-11- Willi 11113 icuow lit iuy v-rvTT ct a
I am helping the men to support them- , h roada and demanUea
selves, so that the burden of their sup- 8imilar reDate8. r Rot them. The re
port will not fall upon society. 8uU was that freight bill on that
Aus wo a urgea.
"Most men want to work and I be
lieve that society should so arrange its
affairs that every man who wants work
can have it. If city and county would
nrrange to have their necessary work
done when work is scarce in place of
when there is plenty of work, it-would
tide these -men over, and we would not
have the problem of the unemployed.
For example, if Clackamas county
would spend $1500 now on the Mount
Hood road, which runs through Clack
amas county, filling up the holes and
1 n iWdtPA ;
car was not so very big- after all.'
Death Defeats
Banquet Plans
Strange Coincidence Marks Sudden
Demise of E. Henry Wemme, Which
Occurred at Xk Angeles.
A strange coincidence in . connection
PhotofjrnpU from narper'a Weekly.
Karl Bitters new -statue of Thomas Jefferson at University of .Virginia.
From Harper's Weekly.
The late E. Henry Wemme, retired Portland manufacturer and capitalist, whose death occurred near
Los Angeles Thursday. Arriving in America, a poor Immigrant boy, Mr. Wemme won his way
to success through industry and perseverance. Upon retiring from active business he devoted-"more
' time to the ause of good roads of which he was an ardent disciple.
WEMM
FUNERA
L TO
T
UESDAY
E
BE HELD
PALLBEARERS NAMED
All Members of Automobile
Club Are Requested to At
tend the Services Here,
, ea, that Mr. Wemme reveaJed one of
the , btfr schemes he had in mind for
Uregon.
"We Were Sittinir on the nanA .-.f
the beach watching the sea and the
der the joint auspices of the Portland
Automobile club and the Portland Au
tomobile Dealers' association.
George W. Stapleton, a warm per
sonal friend of Mr. Wemme's, will
tars, when Henry suddenly turned to deliver a eulogy covering his work in
me and sprung his scheme." said W. the advancement of automobiling and
J. Clemens, now president of 'the Port- the good road movement, Mrs. Fred
land Automobile club. "The scheme "VV; Olson' will sing.
was to raise $500,000. of which h The honorary pallbearers will h. r
Volunteered to furnish half in cold F. Wright. .Julius U Meier. Frank
cash. With this money he would hnrtl Lltherland. W. J. Clemens. J R tinv.
surface a road between 'Portland antl ers. Henry Scheuffler. J. B Venn mid
Mount Hood. He said he had fieure.l Harry L. Keats. The active nallbeJir-
ui "u muc me S00.000 would ers wui oe Alax Hirsch. Dan-Rniwn
do it. feld, K. T. Ames. W. J.
U4 It Was Hot Hbrht. Monner and Ivan . Humason.
"JJoth of ua discouraged him. w Auto Ken Invited.
told him it would never do not that I It is reauested that nil mmh.PO
we disputed his, intentions or his abil- the Portland Automobile club attend
i i.aiiuio ins pari or tne rinanC-J the services and accompany the body
lng,. but because we said It Was-not I to Riverview cemeterv. Th M(nm.
right for one man to put the people bile dealers have promised to have
In such debt to him. . plenty of automobile t th nhri,
'And . so we talked him out of thn I sa that anvone who wlahoa tt m
project, but I don't believe he ever the cemetery will be accommodated
gave It up. We had no fear that with All the salesrooms will be closed dur
uch a proportion of the sum miued lng the services.
the rest would not be forthcomimr Imt I The bodv will arrive frnm t
Wo JuBt wouldn't let him take such a I geles Monday evening nnrt win h
big financial load." I taken In charge bv J. I. Tr-inlov
But Air. Wemme Went riehr ohurl The following rAnintUn. ' '
and for months has kept gangs of men adopted yesterday by a committee of
at work on the highway, paying their the Automobile Dealers' association:
""" ut 01 nis own pocket.. Thev I vvcereas. the announcement f tv
in ui cs. nenry wemme brinsjw
great sorrow and naln in th. heart. t
all who knew him. reminding us that
the spirit must return to its mir.,-
and the strongest must answer the
eternal cau, and.
Whereas, he was a friend n-hn
forgot a Iriend. and while he .vi
a. kindly disposition, yet no man could
uuiue Jiioie vaiianiiv ror nia rri.n. a
and tor what he considered to be just
and right, and
wrnereas, he was the pioneer auto
are working now under contracts made
during the summer. Friends estimate
. that be lias spent $25,000 on the road
111 is j ear uionc.
-I don't know how I'm going to pav
the men." suld Wemme one day, "be
cause its' hard to get ready money
now. Kut 111 get it. because those
men nave to worx or they will starve
Offer Hot Taken Up.
It was the Mount Hood road that
'Mr. Wemme devoted his energies to- jpobile owner of the Pacific coast, the',
vward almost exclusively, although he ftller of the good roads movement in I
helped in every road venture tVLt "! Oregon, and ever, a staunch and en-
,bauched. When
l.c iii nuivey 01 me Columbia high- I mobile Dealers' association of Port-
. .;wbjvi 01 aDout $1000, be I ana. uregon, tnat we cannot express
sked Wemme to helD bear th 1 too strongly our high aODreciatinn an i
pense. That was before the organized ?8teem uPon tnls occasion for htm. and
movement was launched to put . the iSfrriJJj e ot HeniX We"1:"'
road through Portland and the entire nortbwest has
e " , , , . suffered an Irreparable loss,
"Sure, said Mr.. Wemme. "I ll pay Be it resolved that the members
. ., for half on your road if you will pay of this association attend the last
, half of mine." J rites and ceremonies In a body as -a
. Hut in as. much as the Wemmii " 'snl. ? ne nign regard and
. venture had proved the nvt n.t. aPPMahon In which we hold Ids
went into the road. In the payment of
laborers and the purchase of material.
Got What He Wanted.
To one prominent citizen who once
had taken a ljttle spill In his automo
bile over a steep place in the road, he
declared his need for money.
"Remember the time you and your
family tipped over on Such-and-Such a
hill? How much have you contrib
uted to the Mount Hood road?"
"Oh, about $50."
I need money now how much
more are you going to give?"
"Well, I'll give $50 more."
Then, in picturesque language, Mr.
Wemme told him how the place of the
accident had been made safe.
' 1 want $500 or nothing." he con
cluded. - ;
He got the $500.
Aeroplane Flight in
Oregon Is Recalled
Machine Introduced by Mr. Wemme
and Made night in 1910; Bet TJp In
Armory.
It was Mr. Wemme's aeroplane,
about which many stories are told, that
made the first flight In Oregon In
March, 1910, just as it was bis automo
bile, the "Old Scout," that first appeared
on Portland's streets in 1900.
M. C. "Dickinson claims the credit
for inducing Wemme to bring this
flier to the state. It looked as if the
1910 automobile show was going to be
a failure and so Dickinson suggested
that if an aeroplane could be injected
into the show, the attendance might be
stimulated.
So the machine was purchased and
set up in the Armory, where an extra
dime was exacted of the visitors to
see it. Afterward, Charles K. Hamil
ton was secured to fly It.
Mr. Wemme was at the Hot Springs
In Arkansas when Dickinson tele
graphed him that if he wanted to be
one of five to finance it he could have
the honor of backing the first aero
plane flight in Oregon. He was prom
ised an equal partnership in any losses
that might accrue, but no share in any
profits.
Wemme wired back that he should
be counted in. The loss to each of the
participants in the venture was $248.?i
and Wemme sent a check for his share
Wemme afterward sold the machine
to Eugene Ely and other aviators, get
ting but a small part of what he paid
for it. The proceeds of this sale went
into the Mount Hood road.
UPS, DOWNS
El
WERE
Nil
US
BEFOR
E
WEMM
E
SUCCEEDED
ard Work and Poor Pay
Were Lot; Klondike Rush
Gave First Real Start.
THAT a statue of Thomas Jefferson, sympathetically iconceived and
ably executed y a leading American sculptor, should be placrd on
the grounds of the Universitv of Vireinia. is sincularlv atinrnririate.
Jefferson was one of the few men to distinguish clearly 1 between what i
was personal to himself and what . was part of his public lfe. J
There is in American history nothing more remarkable than the!
epitaph which he wrote himself, not mentioning the fact that. he had been '
secretary of state, orice president, or for eight years president of his r
country. He did mention, however, his authorship of the Declaration of .;
Independence and of Ihc Virginia, Bill of Rights. Those were expressions
of his own personality. Also he mentioned that he was the founder of -
i the University of Virginia, thus snowing how closely he felt that act to
j be part of his own ideals. It was not only in conception biitt even in exe
cution, for Jefferson was himself the only architect of orie,of the most
beautiful (if not the most beautiful) architectural groups 'in our country,
i l or many of the smaller details of carrying out the work he also made
the sketches. . ' H ; '
President Wilsnn. a few honr after liic iiiaticriiratw-tn u.-aa' tallrincr uriih
correcting the drainage, we would have wth K. Henry wemme s oeain is me. a fnentj abotlt this Side of Jefferson. The historian and the rilh of thought
a splendid road. I have already spent fact that on last Thursday evening a ! jn Wilson were, uppermost, and he expressed a certain regreuand a certain I
$15,000 on this section of road and it i,la. ,..MS hel.t nt 5 r. m. In the wistfnlneso as he commented on the rrowdinar claims of minifern life that
nnlir noMla a little U'nrlf the r-nnnti' . . . 1 l . . r. : .
... ., green room or tne commercial ciu
iu pui il ui i.i.r bmuj.. j.ic imuh some event in his honor.
...1 i 1 . 1. . . . . 1. . . 1 1 . 1
wuuju ue umi me jutii n uu uci-u wits
work would be earning money and i sa,j
1 Chapman, In speaking of the matte
Clackamas county would get a good rc
I wrote notes to W.
" i so oiten Keep a man irom aoing tnorougniy a lew. big things. lie ex-
c- c- i Dressed a determination to be himself as little as nossible aistracterl bv
r' ' trifles, in order that he might eive to the neonle the best that is in him.
r. Bur- I . r r r 1 . 1 t ti ' t . 11 r i ' : ( ,
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( J Itl IV 1 .I'll "-"" J u. V. , . . u ' Sinv. A ILJIUVIIt . 'I3lilt j ,1 ) lias IIC
. carron, a. i. ri.n, D. "".,-. l a I:. ' .i..."u. ....L
Frank B. Riley and Guy Talbot, in -" it)ii.miiis u'iuiiuj ui uwukih inj cuuic latin
: which I said, 'A few admirers of Henry
Wemme will meet Thursday at 5 p. m
in the green room of the Commercial
club to plan an event in his honor.
Mr. Bitter's statue pictures the real Jefferson. A friendof humanity.
through whose generosity the statue was procured for the (University of
Virginia, showed a fine sense of fitness, since he gave to -that institution
I was of the opinion that Mr. Wemme: a touch that makes it more complete and. since he placed the image oi
I was sun in j-ui uauu. kvuin.v leffercnn in the snot wnerr lettersnn liitnse II wrmm iav .hn-n mn.t
irip out vu ine naa toia me mai "5 i Tvleatpd to have It rest i '
road gangs ars pone his departure for Los Angeles a , '
A year or two ago E. Henry Wemme
when in a reminiscent mood told of
h worV,i .t th. i w.... ! and fill up the holes w6rn in the road
until he was 19 years oWi With an . FTmlhf-r to Salmon river bridge
Idea of picking up new processes in his ! ?8 , boyt ,mile,s- SJ?lmt?n Z
chosen vocation he traveled through bride 's ,38'3 miles f r0 Portla-n3'
Austria. Italy, Prance and then took . tween' SaUnon river bridge and Wells
ship for America to visit the flouring cr?tss roa!?s' a aista"c ,of t four
mills here an wnrk- f.. I miles. I have spent a lot of money.
tarn for the money spent. In other
words, they would get the road, they
would furnish work for men who need
help and the money they paid to these
men would be spent in the county and
kept there."
Weekly Inspection Trip.
"Every Thursday for a long time I
have been making a
road to see how my road gangs ars pone his depart
getting along. I keep a regular log of few days, so we decided to give him a
my trips. Here you can see in these banquet on January 5. Ten minutes
books the notes of each of my trips. after we had decided to give a banquet
From Portland to Pleasant Home the : in his honon the word came to us that
road is good. The distance from Port- Mr. Wemme was dead. I believe the
land to Sandy is 25.7 miles. . Between Commercial club should give- Mr. Wem
I'leasant Home, and Sandy, a distance me a public funeral. He I has often
of about seven miles, it would take told me that he made his money in
about $5000 to complete the road. Be- Portland and that he proposed to leave
tween Sandy and the Salmon river ( his money in Portland."
bridge, the road would be good if t
Clackamas county would spend not to
exceed $1500 to correct the drainags
reil. J. Ainswoiui. w. j. v.ieiiie. , , . ,.an:n Americana in creneral f ever cren.v,.;
A. T u vish. J. B. Yeon. . . r""-' " fv "t"-
I i
in democracy.
Navt Yards Show
Substantial Saving!
to learn American methods.
I and the road is in good shape. I spent
Admiral Griffin In SOa Annual
port Says United States Makes
Money by Building' Own Battleships.
Washington, Dec. 19. Old Ideas as
to the excessive cost of navy yard
work, compared with that done by
private firms, are dissipated by Ad-
"At Chicago," said Mr. Wemme, "I
went broke. I could not get work at
my trade, so I landed a job in a beer
garden carrying out empty beer
glasses. I worked 16 to 18 hours a day
and lived on the free lunch 'In the beer
garden.: ' .
After several weeks'
. 1. V, . . . .
iuo ib w iien watt pay uay, ne said. T . , k. i- nnft r- .v.- . j.,t K.. Vnrlrl
H. It. KEATS. Chairman..
H. M. COVEY,
CHARLES MENZIES.
tlous proJert to confront the Deonlel r 4, 'f.,K- . .v.
vp to that time, the offer was not of these rel. tinn- he iei ?. .Vii
..i, i , , .. I z- .n iu..
. urai ui aim i, nusseii uore tne ex- I upon tne minutes.
pense alone.
An Instance of his quiet Philanthro-
py is related by Will t. Llpman. who
was secretary of the Automobile club
when Wemme was president.
!- "Petitions were being circulated for
tne nara auriactng. or Pant street.'
aid Mr. Lipinan. "A woman of small
means whose all consisted of the lit
tle home she had, protested that the
cost of the work would be too great
for her to bear, fc'he told Mr. Wemme!
Dow the payments would break her.
'In his blustering way, he told her
to sign the petition. He wouldn't let I amount might be.
unytning stop tne paving of that
street. Fearfully, but dominated by
Ids manner, she signed it. Later she
learned tbat Mr. Wemme himself had
paid the paving assessments. . Nobody!
else knew that I learned it only' be
cause I knew the woman."
Many stories are told of Mr. Wem
me s odd way of doing things. One
relates his 'method of raising funds
to push the road work he loved, do
ing to the telephone, he would call op
someone who had means sufficient to
Justify a contribution, and say:
I need $100, or $500," whatever the
"What forr" would be the natural
query. , ,
"It doesn't make any' difference
what for. Wemme wants it." -
But when he got the money. It all
Tribute Paid to
Hungry Seven'
Music Tarnished at Park Good Because
Flayers Were Germans, It Was
Declared.
While .Mr. . Wemme was president of
the Automobile club in 1909, be con
celved the idea of entertaining the
Sunday picnickers who frequented the
grounds of the . club on the Sandy
river. '
So he built a bandstand, 29 feet high
set in the branches of some trees that
stood near together. -
Every Sunday during the summer he
installed the famous "Hungry Seven'
in this bandstand and the musicians
blared forth varied strains all day.
. "They can play the best music In
Portland," Mr. Wemme would say.
"They came from Germany."
SIENKIEWICZ IS HONORED
$5500 on one hill on this stretch of
road. For the past four months I have
been working crews on the road be
yond Wells Crossing and the Toll Gate,
and now It is almost a boulevard. From
Portland to the Toll Gate is 45.7 miles. ' miral R. S. Griffin, chief of the bu
From the Toll Gate to the Five Mile ; reau of engineers of the navy de-
J i t i j Post my road crews are at work. They t partment. in his annual report. He j
work I asked; v. ..... r- . . . . - . v, I
Will W liJAUUB" . u i .ii H"vui uv vi.I . - ; MJlll.n .VJ I lit . cv. v ' . i-. 1
There ain't going to be no pay day
' 1 1 inve tn Btoir hf. ,in 11 ..., lnnvn :
j Ju : f l ... .., (ICAA -..n., ;
the business.' I decided that I learned : ""- """" 1
all there was to be learned about car. eometning over ouuy. e spring i
rying out dirty beer mugs, so I threw ' am Klng. 10 nave
up my Job and landed a better one In I ul nis oig steam snove.-uuwora oe
a soda water factory washing bottles, j tween ,the F1ve MU Post and Govern-
uieiu .miip.
Value of Good Boadi.
"Some day Oregon will appreciate
what good roads mean to the state.
People sometimes laugh at me because
they think good roads are my hobby,
but it is a hobby that I wish more
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f r n rK' I
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southern California! !
to the world 1 1
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if
If .1
1)1 I
"From Chicago I went to Minneapolis
where I landed a Job unloading cord-
wood. I had no money so I rustled
an occasional meal at free lunch count
ers In the saloons waiting for pay day,
and when pay day came : the boss
skipped out, bo I retired from the wood
business. ' i
Bosses Went Broke.
"The next Job 1 landed was string
ing wires for a tefegraph company. It
did not take the boss long to find out
I did not know anything about it, but
he was pretty good natured and taught
me. Then I got a Job winding dynamos.
He was an inventor and used to work
48 hours at a stretch and I helped him
until I was so sleepy I could hardly
Just as you blow out
The j were oulckly constructed at the New
York navy yard at a tost slightly
less than that at which they could
have been procured by contract, and
the workmanship was unexcelled.
Even more satisfactory results were
obtained on the Pacific coast, for the
Mare Island navy yard completed the
machinery for the gunboats Monocacy
and Palos well within, the estimate
and the final cost was little more
than two-thirds of the amount . de
manded by private firms. At Norfolk
people would get. for it means more to , "e nma U' ,th Z ti
the development of the state than most 5" J""!, ?tn? TrW'.
imponani iiiiutctuciiLs
anything else I know of.
"I am going down to Los Angeles,
but as soon as I come back I will go
into details with you very fully, or if
you want to, use the story sooner, my
secretary will give you any additional
facts you need."
One of the last things Mr. Wemme
did before leaving for Los Angeles was
see. Just as you diow out a candle to make out a check for the Winter i
so his mind went out. They took him j Relief Bureau in the Journal buildins
to an asylum, and I had to hunt an-1 and Bay. "It isn't much. I would
other Job. t I like to do more. Put it down as cash.
I had gotten tired of having myTon't put my name in the paper tas
bosses go broke or go crazy, so I de
cided ' to be my own boss. ) I started
in the business of hanging signs, but
after I fell off a six story building and
escaped being killed by a mere scratch.
I decided I bad better take up some
other business, so I became a steam
fitter. When the boss asked me to
bring bim a monkey wrench, I having
no idea what & monkey wrench was,
brought him the first thing bandy,
which'-happened to be a small crowbar.'
Bid Borne Carpentering-.
"He soon found out that I wasn't
giving it."
being able to land a job I went around
with a bg needle and a few spools of
thread mending awnings. Then I got
a Job from W. S. Ladd in the Albina
Flour Mills.
Started to Build Auto.
"A year later I started in business
for myself mending awnings. This
was in 1886. 1888 I decided to build a
steam automobile, but before I had It
Petrograd, Dec. 19. Henryk Sienkie
wicz, author of "Quo Vadls" and holder
of the 1905 Nobel prise for literature,
lias been elected honorary member of
the Russian academy, of sciences. The
Poles are gratified over the honor thus
conferred on the writer, which Is con
sidered a unique one for a Pole, '
In radio
telegraphy have Involved the substi
tution of a large amount of new ap
paratus for the older Installations on
shipboard. Substantial reductions
have been effected in the cost of tbH
apparatus, although its efficiency has
been greatly increased.
Manitoba Saloons
Are to Be Curbed
Premier Boblin Will Ask Xieg-bilature 1
to Close All Bars at 7 Instead of 11
o'clock During- War.
Winnipeg. Man., Dec. ,19. Premier
Sir Rodmond Roblin announces in a
long statement that the Manitoba
government has decided to take dras
tic action for curtailing the liquor
traffic during the European war. The
forthcoming session of the legisla
ture will be asked to, pass a govern
ment -bill giving municipalities the
Some years later I bought an auto-! riSht to limit by a majority vote
lUf liuiuimi j . uncn ami n lau ne
will be inserted giving the. govern
ment special powers o curtail the
hours at which liquor .Siay be sold In j
times of public stress. , j
Although the government ' has not j
these powers now. It proposes to in- .
vite all retail liquor dealers In the
. . . - , , . . 1, , . , . province, bh wtru an bwwi viutm. l'
a contract to aecoraie some or me uuiu . n.i u jukiw, . hr nd tn(i of iinuor .
large buildings here and also to help and contortionist to sit In that car and ' m Instead of at n. a, s
a 1 j a n m waI --m o aha . - wm at Tnw ruin III III 111 I I sss an n ri 1 - I r- -
UU11U sMVMD v. mtvv wm cat. , v - -
the corner of First and Washington "The Alaska rush Is what gave me ;
streets and the other at the corner of my real start. I was selling tents,
First and Ash streets. S i ; .as fast as I could make them; sud-
From Portland I went t San Fran-, denly the rush topped and I had a bars' wl berome Ren;ral thlToulshout
Cisco, wnero mreu uui 04 pen v t, j the province immediately
cook, in aooui nan an riour iney iouna " e f J .vec
again. '
Parcnase of Barlow Boad.
"Then the Maine was blown up, war
was declared and I landed an order
for 16,000 shelter tents from Uncle
finished I went broke, so I used the
a steam fitter, so I decided to change ! steam engine of the automobile to run
my jod again, ana went 10 tieiena, 1
Mont. T took a contract there to lav t "Some years later I boug
a floor, and I had to learn how ' mobile 01 Niamey tiros., or lvewton,
to do it before I could go ahead with Mass. Stanley Bros, had sold out to
my contract, but I finally, succeeded the Locomobile company. It was a
in getting it down all rightj I started good little car, but it was so light
from Helena for Tacoma by way of and the roads were so bad that one
Portland. At Portland theyf were mak- moment you would be sitting in ths
ing plans to welcome Heriry Villard. car and the next moment you would
so I decided to stop a few days. I took De sitting oy me iae 01 me roaa. it
i ent, and the wholesalers to c!os at
6 o'clock. AS the government con
trols the licenses, it la thus praeti-
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out I didn't know anything about cook
ing, so they put me to work peeling
vegetables and serving them and be-,
fore long I became assistant cook.
"I came back .to Portland and not
In making this announcement Sir
Rodmond refers specially, to the Targe
number of citizen soldiers in Winni
peg and all parts of this military di
vision, training for service with the
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