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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND,' SUNDAY -MORNING, FEBRUARY 21,; 1915.
TASK OF CHECKING"
UP ON BALLOTS IN
TRADE EVENT LOOMS
Work Will Commence in The
Journal Contest in a Few
Days to Decide Winners.
CELILO CANAL MARKS PASSING OF PORTAGE RAILROAD
CONTEST TO END FEB. 24
Wo Further JVlst of Standing- of Can
didates Will Be PubUehcd In
Journal From Hot On.
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top, left to right Joseph T. Peters, chairman; Li. A. Lewis and Judge William J. Mariner, members
which has resigned because th
Bottom Section of canal while it
. The Celllo canal will put one rail
road out of business. There will be
no further use for the 10 mile portage
railway around the rapids. The port
age commission.ers have tendered their
resignations to the legislature whose
BPBsion lias just ended. The portage
railway equipment its two locomo
tive, Its freight cara, its track and its
terminal wharves and warehouses
will be formally turned over to the
state board of control.
And thus will pass out of existence
a railway, unique among the transpor
tatton systems of the country, yield
ing to the superior facilities of an open
Columbia river and uninterrupted boat
traffic to the Pacific northwest in
terior. There are men who believe that the
completion of the canal, which will be
celebrated May 5, and the adabdoninK
of the railway predict the return of
the halcyon days of water transporta
tion. Once upon a time river lines fostered
the country's Infant ; commerce. The
Mississippi and Ohlo.were busy with
boats. Steamboat lines had dignity
here.
Xtailxoads Gained Ascendancy.
Then railroads were built on the bor
ders of the rivers. They lave q.uicker
transit for freight. By low rates they
cut into water competition. If these
means aid not succeea uiey opera ieu
'their own boat lines until the independ
; ents were starved from the streams.
The rivers ceased to bear the burden
-of the business. They favored freight
- movement principally by furnishing
- water grade routes for railroads. Then
rates began to ascend.
Some 10or 12 years ago a -group of
men who tnet In The Dalles, coming
; from Lewftton, Pasco, Walla Walla,
Pendleton and elsewhere, Including a
Portland representation. They ex
pressed their disfavor for the situation
that had come to pass on the Columbia.
They said that the railroad rates to
: the Portland market should be lower.
They said that the Columbia, second
river of the nation, draining more than
a quarter million square miles of po-
tentially rich territory, ought to be
performing a greater development
Krvic than furnishine easv erades
for railroads. They formed an orani
1 nation to promote water transportation
on the Columbia.
Portage Road Authorised.
' Dr. N. Q. Blalock of revered memory
; was there. J.udge William Mariner at-
tended. Joseph N. Teal, who when ja.
youth saw the vision of commerce
borne by an open river and has striven
-ver since toward its realization, came.
-- Joseph T. Peters, prominent In busi-
ness In The Dalles, L. Allen Lewis,
Arthur H. Devers and Henry Hahn,
wholesale merchants of Portland, took
part in the deliberations. Dr. Blalock
' was elected president, Mr. Peters treas
: urer, and Jude Mariner, secretary of
'. the prganizatlon. They spoke of, an
Open River boat line on the Columbia.
They went to the legislature saying
that with a portage railroad boats
; could be operated with but the one
- Blight clear to Lewiston. The leglsla-
i ture passed the bill. A portage rail
way commission was appointed in 1907
, consisting of Mr. Peters, chairman, L.
A. i Lewis and Judge Mariner. They
have handled the portage railway busi
ness "as they would their own, giving
careful attention to every detail and
. Insisting upon economy and efficiency.
Portland people put their money into
Portland Grocers
Who Sell
20TH
CENTURY
BREAD
Sell the Best!
Twentieth Century Bread is rec
ognized as the "BEST bread. It is
sweet, crusty, and baked to such
a degree of perfection that it is
easily digestible. For your
health! sake eat 20th Century
Bread. Buy it at your grocer.
Twentieth Century Bakery,
ISO Vac St Portland. Bast 1353
ere is no more use for road.
was in course of construction; completed waterway will be formally
the open river line ns Fonn as the port
aye railway was completed. They op
erated a line of steamboats which was
liberally patronized by the merchants
and producers of the upper rivers. This
gave the railway a large amount of
merchandise and supplies to transfer
from Big Kddy, the original western
terminus, taking back from Celilo
trainloads of grain, wool a-nd other
products of the upper Columbia coun
try. The rates charged for this seryice
established a new record. The cost
was only about 60 cents a ton for the
10 miles. No rates in the United States
have ever been lower.
The new river business, linked by
the portage railway, speedily accom
plished one expected result. The O. It.
& N. (now O-W. R. & N) company re
duced its rates. The result was a sav
ing of thousands of dollars to shippers
and through them to consumers who
profited by the transportation savings
on heavy commodities and supplies, in
cluding builders' materials.
Operated at Night.
The portage was an "operate-by-night"
railway. The boats usually ar
rived toward evening and to prevent de
lays the railroad crews worked through
the night and slept during the day.
Seeks Legal Way
To End Own Life
Despondent Man In Chicago Asks Dep
uty Sheriff How to Kill Himself, Ac
cording' to Law.
Chicago, -Feb. 20. A young man, hat
less, his clothing dripping wet from
the rain, wmt to the sheriffs office
in the criminal court building. He sat
in a. corner for pome time unnoticed,
until Chief Deputy John Ryan entered
and saw him.
"Did you v ant to see some one?" Mr
Ryan asked.
"Yes." said the young man; "I want
to see the man in charge."
"I'm your man, what do you want?"
Ryan asked.
"I want to find out if there is a legal
way to commit suicide," the youni
man said. "I don't want to violate any
law. and I want to know how it can be
done. I'm out of work, despondent,
have no home, am hungry and have
nothing whatever to live for."
The stranger said he was a college
graduate, that he spoke several lan
guages, was u member of a good fam
ily, but he. emphatically refused to
give his address.
Assistant City Physician Lewy ex
amined the young man today and found
him sane
The man was about 5 feet 9 inches
in height, and weighed about 155
pounds. He wore a neat blue suit,
dark overcoat of good quality and
black shoes with cloth tops.
Methodist Divines
May Have Pensions
Plan to Raise a $10,000,000 Pund Will
Be discussed at National Conference
in Chicago.
Chicago, Feb. 20. A broad, compre
hensive plan for the establishment of
old age pensions and widows' and or
phans' endowments will be under con
sideration here during the last week in
April at a national conference of Meth
odist clergymen. It Is desired to raise
a fund of $10,000,000 to maintain these
benefits.
It is held by advocates of the plan
that at the end of 35 years' service
every Methodist minister Is entitled to
A pension amounting to one half of the
average salary paid In his conference.
This would mean in Chicago a pension
of $665 annually, inasmuch as the av
erage salary here is $1330. For men
who have occupied the pulpit for less
than 35 years a proportionate scale is
proposed. The caring for widows and
orphans ig also considered an import
ant function of the fund.
Pension experts from many fields
will be invited to explain various
plans. Among those who will speak
before the ministers will be men in
charge of the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad, Pennsylvania and First Na
tional bank of Chicago pension systems.
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Except for those times when boats
were laid up by ice of occassional high
water the portage railway has been in
constant service. It was found neces
sary to add an additional locomotive
and more freight cars to the lone loco
motive and equipment originally pro
vided. Both of these engines are still
in use and in first class condition and
repair.
After the O. R. & X. company had
cut its rates, the freight and passenger
rates of the portage railway were still
further reduced to a minimum of 25
cents a ton. WlijBFSiowever, the open
river Una suspended operations fur
ther use was found for the portage
railway.
Barton Opposed improvement.
Government appropriation was sought
for river Improvement even before
state aid was asked. There was diffi
culty in the beginning because Senator
T. B. Burton, then chairman of the
house committee on rivers and har
bors, could not believe that the Colum
bia had a great transportation future.
After tiie business men had demon
strated their confidence by work and
investment h's view changed.
In the building of the Celllo canal
the transportation of great quantities
of materials was required. The United
Cincinnati May Be
An Inland Seaport
Commercial and Shipping Interests
Behind Project to Connect ake
Erie and the Ohio Kiver.
Cleveland, O., Feb. .20. Commercial
and shipping Interests In Cleveland,
Toledo and Cincinnati are In co-operation
in a $27,000,000 plan to construct
a lakes to the gulf deep waterway that
will make Cincinnati an inland seaport
and enables Great Lakes vessels to
cruise to New Orleans and the Pacific
via the Panama canal.
Deepening of the Erie-Miami canal
from Lake Erie to the Ohio river is the
project. This, it is pointed out by the
backers, will also afford drainage pro
tection for those sections of Ohio en
dangered annually by spring floods,
and serve the double purpose of pro
viding an all water outlet southward
for the vast commercial products of
the central west. The ship canal
project wHll be put before the Ohio
legislature as a substitute for several
flood prevention measures now pend
ing before that body.
. State, and eventually national, funds
will be asked to make the inland wa
terway possible within the next three
years. Advocates of the plan say it
will prove an economical solution of
Ohio's flood situation, and at the same
time throw to Great Lakes ports the
Panama canal business that Pittsburg
and other cities are seeking. Esti
mates for adequate flood protection are
in excess of the amount necessary for
the ship canal, it is claimed.
Build Railroad to
Avoid Water Route
London. Feb. 20. The Daily Tele
graph's Petrograd correspondent sends
a report that the Turks, under the su
pervision of German engineers, are
hurriedly constructing a branch rail
way from Angora to Sivas, Asia Minor,
which Is intended to replace the Tre
blzond water route as a feeder for the
Ottoman troops on the Caucasian
front.
The German consul at Tabriz, Per
sia, has placed himself under the pro
tection of the American consul, accord
ing to the correspondent.
IT'S OBEAT ?OB BALXT
BOWZLS AJTD STOMACHS
We want all people who have chronic
stomach trouble or constipation, no
matter of how lonjr standing, to try
one dose of Mayr's Wonderful Remedy
one dose will convince you. This la
the medicine so many of our local peo
ple have been taking with surprising
results. The most thorough system
cleanser ever sold. Mayr's Wonderful
Remedy is sold by leading druggists
everywhere with the positive under
standing that your money will be re
funded without question or quibble if
ONE bottle fails to give you absolute
satisfaction. (Adv.)
Portage Railway Commission
opened May 5
States engineers not only pajd the pre
vailing rate for the transportation but
enough more to cover any deficit
Thus the portage railway, before yield
ing to the Celilo canal, performed an
important service In connection with
the building of the canal.
Arrangement Was Economy.
The arrangement made by the port
ago railway commission was an econ
omy to the state. Of the last biennial
appropriation of $25,000 the sum of
$22,840 remained unspent. In submit
ting their resignations the portage
commission recommended that $5000
be retained for contingencies and that
the remainder of approximately $18,000
be returned to the general fund.
The portage railway in the beginning
linked upper and lower river boat
transportation. It helped secure the
lowering of railroad rates. Its service
was a factor In convincing congress of
the merit of Columbia river Improve
ments. It has expedited the construc
tion of the Celilo canal. It has meant
much in state and Columbia basin de
velopment. It reaches the end of Its
usefulness with honorable record.
Jenning Offers Many Attractive Specials
The greatest assortments and the lowest prices are found at Jenning's two great
stores! Nowhere else can you buy Furniture and House Furnishings so cheaply as here.
Two Great Rug Specials
$40 Bigelow Axminster Rugs $29.45
Handsome 9x12 Axminster Floor Rugs of superior
quality. A large number of lovely designs. No not
fail to see them. Special $29.4$
$20 Brussels Rugs $14.25
Beautiful Oriental and floral designs in 9x12 Victoria
Brussels Floor Rugs, reduced for this week to $14.25
Maish Comforters
These celebrated Comfort
ers on sale this week; light
and soft as down; handsome
coverings:
Reg. $ 5.00 Comforters $3.75
Reg. $ 7.50 Comforters $5.25
Reg. $12.50 Comforters $8.75
Full Lines of Emmerich
Feather Pillows
We Undersell on Brass Beds
and Dressers
Regular $20 Brass Beds as
illustrated, with acid-proof
satin, or dull finish; 2-inch
continuous posts with Jj
inch fillers. Special $11.25
to.
Only three days more and then The
Journal's Trade and Circulation con
test ends und the judges will begn
their arduous task of. checking the
millions of voles that decide to whom
SSijOO worth of prizes will be awarded.
There are many prizes and several
hundred candidates and great care was
taken in selecting the judges who will
linally pass on the vote. The judges
are Kev. E. V. O'Hara, George L. Bak
er, pie.sident of the Ad club and the
Baker Stock ompanv, and R. D. Carp
enter, of the Meier & Frank depart-
i j i. r i m ui e .
The contect wi'l close promptly at
midnight Wednesday. February 24, and
eveiy vote received up to that time or
in tne ia.su ii r out of town contestants,
mailed lielore tuat time, will be count
ed
The Journal will remain onen on
Wednesday evening up to the time the
ballot boxes are officially sealed and
candidates or their friends will have
the fullest opportunity to work up to
the last minute.
Iieaders Well Bunched.
No further lists showing the stand
ing of candidates will b published.
From now on it is a case of every
body "going It blind." No on will
Know how the. candidates atand until
the final vote is totaled by the Judges.
In short the candldate-s must simply
do their best and turn in every avail
able vote because that is the only safe
way to do.
At the present time the leaders are
vit-11 bunched and there is. a possibility
that some of those who apparently are
fiii behind, in reality have hundreds
of thousands of votes in reserve. These
may now be cast in perfect safety be
cause no candidate can possibly learn
the standing of any rival now.
vvitn sucti wonderful prizes as the
grand prize auto 'Reo the Fifth" and
.Maxwell la, pianos, grafonolas and
trips t(5 the Panama Pacific Kxnosi
tion, just a few days removed from
possession of a score of hard workers
it is anticipated that the coming threa
cays will be one of intense activity
on the part of contestants.
All or them ieal:ze that a single
vote may mean success or failure and
the interest already displayed indi
cates that it Is mounting rapidly now
that tne end Is so near.
Much Interest Shown.
Not only in Portland but throughout
the northwest where candidates re
side friends are being importuned not
to pass by a single vote getting label.
Moreover they are being advised to
double and quadruple the voting value
of their money by making the pur
chases .it grocery stores which have
joined with The Journal In the con
test. These stores are scattered all
over the city and In addition several
are out of town, so no trouble is ex
perienced in finding one of them.
And so the next few days promises
to be real interesting. Those on whose
shoulders devolves the big Job of
Drapery Specials
A big line of Lace Cur
tains in one and two-pair
lots. Battcnbury;, cluny
and Irish point effects,
Half Price!
Regular $5 to $8 Portieres
in beautiful reds and
greens, reduced to Half
Price!
$35 Mahogany Dressers
with large oval mirror
and 44-inch case. Half
price ;.. $17.50
$25.00 Quartered Oak
Dresses with 24x30 mir
ror and 45-inch case.
Special $18.00
$29 Golden Oak Dress
ers with 24x30 mirror and
42-in. case. Sp'l. $19.50
$25.50 Brass Beds with
2-inch posts and 1-inch fillers;
heavy ornamental corner!
special $16.50
$27.50 Brass Beds with
2-inch posts and 1-inch fancy
fillers; special ...... $18.50
$12.50 Brass Beds with
2-inch posts and H-inch fill
ers; special .- . .$7.50
University Club to Be Scene
of Large Gathering To
morrow Evening,
The Oregon Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution will celebrate
Washington's birthday, February; 22,
with a banquet at the University club,
Jefferson and Sixth streets. Ths offi
cers of the society are Wallace Mo
Camant, president; D. W. Wakefield,
vice president: B. A. Thaxton, secre
tary: A. A. Llndsley, treasurer; Alfred
F. Parker, registrar; J. F. Ewlng, P. P.
Dabncy, J. R. Rogers, W. G. Oberteuf
fer, trustees.
At the banquet the president will
be toastmaster, and the first speaker
will be J. F. Ewlnff on "Washington
as a Public Servant." Herbert H.
Ward will speak on "Replacing the
Old," and Dr. H. W. Coe, who has con
sented to speak, has not announced his
subject
The officers of the society cordially
invite any citizen interested, whether
a member or not, of any patriotic so
ciety, to a place with them at the
keeping le ballots for the various
candidates, straight, are preparing to
put in overtime and as for the con
testants well. they are going to
double their speed and they are now
going "some."
Boys Given Chance;
They Prove Honest
-
Denver. Colo., Feb. 20. Out of 700.
boys Judge Ben B. Llndsey, of the
Juvenile court, has sentenced to re
formatories and sent them unaccompa
nied to the lntsitution where they were
to serve out their sentences, only five
have run away. This covers a period
of 14 years. And of the five who did
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The Combination Stewart two complete ranges in one.
Burns wood .or coal for winter heating and cooking
quickly changed to gas for comfortable summer cooking.
They will last for a generation. 18-inch ovens; double
warming closets or high shelf; nickel tri minings, porce
lain faced panels and closet. Absolutely non-explosive.
We are exclusive agents for Portland. Prices range from
$63 to $80.
TT
lnlemry Jemmmg
The Home of Good Furniture
Top, left to right Wallace McCamant, president; D. W. Wakefield,
vice president; A. F. Parker, registrar.
Bottom, left to right Professor B, A. Thaxter, secretary; A. A.
Lindsley, treasurer.
table. Reservations can be made
through P. P. Dabney, In the Yeon
building.
The objects of the Sons of the
American Revolution are to perpetuate
the memories of the men who by their
services and sacrifices during the war
of the Revolution achieved the lnde
pendence of the United States of
America; to inspire patriotism for the
country founded by the Revolutionary
heroes; to make historical research; to
carry out the purposes expressec in
the preamble of the Constitution and
the farewell address of Washington.
break their word three later apologized
to the Judge. The other two were cap
tured within a short time.
Judge Llndsey celebrated the four
teenth anniversary of his system of
putting convicted" boys upon their
honor a few days ago. The day wss
marked by the receipt of word that
Robert Gregg, 17, sentenced to the re
formatory at Buena Vista, had arrived
there. Judge Llndsey sent young
Gregg unaccompanied to the institu
tion. Gregg was convicted of contri
buting to Juvenile delinquency by go
ing through a falsa marriage ceremony
with a grl. He was sentenced to serve
from one to four years in the reform
atory, and Warden Capp declares that,
after delivering himself up, the boy
proved so earnest and capable that he
i Is certain he will be an ideal prisoner.
I Only 5 per cent of the youths sen
o
r
The Oregon society has about 180
members, and the national organiza
tion about 13,000. Those descended
from soldiers of the Revolution, or
from those ' w-ho rendered services
thereto, ore asked to Join. The society fT
will hold its annual national congrcHU
here during the week beginning next
July 18, and the Oregon members are
anxious to Justify the pledges and
Jl J III iCTn luaut. j ii nun' vj
to the last annual congress. To lo
this will require some strenuous ex
ertions, but the members think they '
can make good.
tenced from Judge Llndsry's court are
Bnt to the reformatories under guard."
Aside from the .ood influence tho es
tablishment of the honor system hBS
upon the boys, the Judge estimate!
that he has saved the stile IOOO in
traveling expenses and fees by doing
away with the guard who formerly
delivered the prisoners to the reform
atory wardens.
Xo Cigarette in Heliool.
Madison. Wis.. Feb. L'- No educa
tional Institution of any kind which
Is supported in whole or in part by.
public money hhftll cpiploy a tMU'lirfV
or proressor wno nnioKtu cipfureiiea, r
nn .V..II .. .. I.... !... .1. ...-.... A ll i T. 1 1 1 -
ma or certificate of edueullon T to any
one who smokes cigarettes, according
to a bill introduced In -tli-e ufsembly by
aKuuniiiivn nil tii .iivuii
This Week
Extraordinary
hrpdds and Ends Sale
at :econd and Morrison More
After inventory finds lis with
hundreds of single pieces of Fur
niture which we propose' to sell
at a fraction of their worth to
make room for new goods now
being bought by our eastern
buyer. W'e quote here but a few
taken at random from the floors.
A visit will repay you come
and inspect at your leisure.
$9 set of five Dining Chairs.;
quartered oak, leather seats
and backs $3.75
$45 Peninsular Range; 14
inch oven with thermometer;
polished top . . $29.85
$5.50 Iron Frame Springs,
with patent steel fabric; 10
year guaranty $3.30
$8.50 Limbert's Quartered
Oak Rocker, with , Spanish
leather seat . .$4.25
$18 Quartered Oak Morris
Chair, with handsome velour
cushions . .$8.50
$14 high-back Quartered Oak
Easy Rocker, with genuine
leather spring seat ..... $6.95
$45 Genuine Leather Turkish
Rocker, comfortable and rest
ful $21.25
FOR TWO DAYS ONLY!
AH Sectional Bookcases with
leaded glass fronts
HALF PRICE!
Liberal Credit to All.
Hur Portland peopls hr rUd
tbmslTss of our liberal crsdlt;
you r lnrlttd to open n ac
eonat wttk as. Bsst azul largest
stocks at lowsst prloss.
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Washington and Fifth Streets.
Second and Morrison Streets.