THE ' OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 28, 1915.
ROCK ISLAND' HEAD
ON STAND
ES
HE EARNS SALARY
DECLAR
, j offices In the new Sommer building,
(was busy last evening. Is the only
Testifies' He Held JobS FrOmithIn lhat prevented Baker s latest
n j.' II J li IA l fand modern office building- from be-
' bection Hand up; Works ;ing & mass of rums today. Fir
Uarrlor Mnw Them FtPf I starting in the basement was discov
IICUUCI UUW I liail LVCh , ered by Dr Horton in time to prevent
. . ,, i Its gaining headway. He went from
' his office to accompany a friend to
tnft PAYQ 4ifin HOTi A YFAR the elevator. It Is an automatic af
JUD rrtlO $DU,UUU H I Cnii fair ftnd when u reached the fourtn
1 : J floor and the door was opened, a vol-
jume of smoked rushed Out.
President Muflsre Asserts Full Crew'j Without waiting to investigate. Dr.
laws Compel Railroads to Carry Horton turned in a fire alrm and the
Useless Men on Trains.
(R.T the International News Rervtee.)
Washington. D. C.f Feb. 27.- II. U. !
Mudge, prewident of the Rock Island
ige. present or the Kock island,
system, lesuiyiii
before the Inter-
state commereefommlfsion In Its In-
qulry into the finances of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Paclfi
railway, today
ceciarea mat ranroaa oruciais deserve
all the remuneration they receive. He
resented the reference by Chief Coun
sel Folk to lump sums voted officers
of the road is gifts and expressed the
opinion that the public should have no
say as to wnat should be done with
the moifey co. looted as fares provided
'patrons got their money's worth for
the fare paid.
Mr. Mudge was preceded on the
stand bv ociicn Mills ;nui James Snrv-1
er of New Vork.
.Mill, n director on the nook Island
who linhtu n millir.n rtniiaro wnrih nf
ti'lr nrti i-t.M-i't:(irita tl, V-i.il1 nf
opined thfit tho holding companies con-
nectod wltti the P.ock Island are not
detrimental to its Interests.
Banker la Irritated.
largo hlo.kx 'f sfi. k in tho hands of i "on was struck by a shell which land- j wmi-n it is entitled by its com-
relative, -aid ho did not have" time to ' ed on the dock and that three men ; '''"""'"f pIos,it'on;. -Many small manu
Ro into tho doail.s of tho affairs of i cre killed and five injured. There , buVnenSKlV1CLbe d!T,S
the mad. He a.lmittod that possibly i every reason to believe that Is the j house! are operating witnl?eICat?rt2
he had too many irons in the fire. He ! limit of the allies' casualties. . territory that is rldiciilnuilv arnaU
Mr. Speer termed as an "Insulting wounded Turkish soldiers having been j manufacturers have complained that
. question" the query of Consellor Folk ; taken from the ruined fortifications, i they were not receiving the aSsisU
lf Mr. Speyefs firm ever had agreed ! While the larger vessels of the al- a'f.suDch as a strong commercial body
to buy ft-ecnrlties from the Kock Is- lied navies were battering ,their way ! j,'15 t?"a nrsjLl( f,ndeJ- S. weak
land and later had "declined to keep towards Constantinople a French ; respects that industrial leadeVs have
the agreemont. The witness stated squadron of smaller warships cruised , been compelled to try to do alone
that his hanking house handled Rook . under what remained of the en- j what a chamber of commerce should
Island securities to the extent of $1 70,- entrenched works and completed the ', accomplish. Others have despaired of
400,500 and that the profits therefrom ' rums. Landing parties sent to inves- j ro'Islng any commercial body to ac
had been only $1,438,740, or less than ; tigata the results of the bombardment ' pro,,ns to frv? orme? into unofficial
one per cent. ; of the four fortB at the entrance to i would ' be fairly eMv for a sTronS
Commissioner Clements asked Snever th, ti ,',i v,r nr tl,Jnh,mi ?asy. IOP a Strong
If the person hvlio had been induced j
.to buy stock of the Rock Island com- ,
pany or .ew jersey, a noiaing qom- ,
except
commi
hoilsrht
proved practically worthless. Speyer '
" ' '
said:
u.c.cii L...it:n tn uir iiisiuij- ui I
country the people have been anxious i
to buy almost anything without In
ducement."
John J- Quinlari, president of the
Rock Island company of New Jersey,
testified that the purchase of the
of $35 000.000 to the Rock Island was 1
f riHcii tx' r 1 1 m riiu 1 1 i rail in o rf- ir inco .
mo ivun. jo.u
Asked why by Com- 1
nts, he said at . the j
A .u k r-,. I
missioner Cleme
time of the purchase rates were higher
and? expenses lower.
BeTtnei Cause Zoss.
Altered circumstances later reversed
this order, resulting in loss.
Henry M. Sloan, assistant to the
president of the Rock Island Co., said
the sale of the Frisco by the Rock
Island at a book loss of $35,000,000
was a wise move and that he believed
the railroad company was justified in
carrying the losS as an asset. He said:
"If I have a good rent paying house
and a poor one which is a heavy ex
pense and it takes half of the Income
from the good house to keep the poor
one in repair, I gain if I sell the poor,
burdensome house at even half what
.1 paid for it."
This parable represented well the
Frisco deal, he declared.
Sloan testified he knew of a $5000
campaign contribution by the Rock ;
jsianu concerning wmcn f olk ques- l
tiofled him. President Mudge,
tioned relative to railroad officials
remuneration, said:
"I have been section hand, boss, sta
tion agent, railroad telegraph opera
tor, brakeman, conductor, division su-
perlntendent, general manager, oper- 1
ating vice president and president, and
I believe I come nearer earning my
present salary than I did in any other
capacity."
Salary Is $60,0OO.
. He testified he receives $60,000. Ha '
explained that the Rock Island pays !
no hlchor KnlftHen tVi;n nlhcr I
of" Its size and declared that salaries :
of Rood men are a matter of n,Mti. i
tion Good men have been won awav
. v wu i,u ''ve won away
from the Rock Island, he said, by j
orrers of higher salaries and bonuses
from other roads and from large in
dustrial concerns. ,
He himself had been offered an in-
- freAnerl Rfllorv 11 ri A tQA AAA . 1
. , . . lv.ica ,,!
kock island, he declared. Mr. Mudge
resented Counsel Folks' reference to
lump sums voted officers as gifts, i
He said the railroad gave no gifts to I
officials and that service were tpi, i
' a .1 . 1 BefYlces ere.
u" "cnange r every dollar
vfttAd Mo
lng. the present operating condition of I
the Rock Island, telling the condition
f the cars, tracks, buildings and gen-j
ral eauinment and cl mine- s trrafh.ai i
tmDfovement in th fn r,c 4r,7o.
'Mtr.nrHinarv r,CD x.r . , .u.
full crew laws operating in some
" j ... v. ,. HQ BOIU tllO
States through which the Rock Island !
Aonerated made it n!rv .
to carry i
ion to the term "induced." The i bi ar1fi Kum KaU truly representative of Portland's as-
ssionor aid they certainly had Furthcr up the straits the huge f or- Portland3' , nr? comm?rVe av.nd
men on trains and on wltrhi n.:c"uc,:'."ul w "e" P'aced on the stand
ines which were not only useless but !
a burden in cost. State and federal
aafety appliance acts culled for in- i
creased expenses, he said, but added
"e rcyrer61" I
Asked whether assets of doubtful
value should not have been written
down in the reports of the financial
"condition of the Rock Island, he said,
such assets should be so written but
added that on the other hand elements
'in- the system which had materially
enhanced in value should be revised
upward.
ruis ustvea aiuage ii ne did not
think, the' publie ought to have a say
as ' to what was done with the money
collected as fares and freight rates
and Mudge declared he thought the
public should have no say provided
value was received for the rate paid.
Commissioner Clements at this
point said the public had a right to
know of the railroad expenditures
when the roads of the country are
.asking increased rates and pleading
, that their revenues are insufficient.
Captain Polls Dies at Sea.
- New Tork, Febv. 27. Word was re
ceived that Captain Albert Polls, one
of the directors of the Hamburg
American steamship company, had
died on board the Vaterland in the At
lantic -
Baker Building
Has Fire Mystery)
I Department Responds t Quickly and
FlsaiM Arc Extinguished by tJe of
Chemicals.
Baker, Or., Feb. 27. The fact that
'Pr. IJL J. Horton, a dentist, who; has
J lire department successfully extln
j guished the Maze with chemicals. It
;.had burned through the first floor,
the smoke doing- considerable damage
In a millinery store and barber shop
on the s:round floor.
, h,,a , Q
although it started, in a wooden box
in front of the furnace,
tne names,
I blazing up high enough
to set fire
i lo lne wooawork ot tne jioor aoove.
ALLIED FLEETS
PUSH WAY UP
DARDANELLES
(Continued From Page One.)
was terrible. The reply"of the Turkish
gunners was generally wild and inef-
! fective. This is on a par with the
P'y made by the gunners in the
J outer forts during which action the
i allies wore scarcely touched
1 The admiralty announced tonigh
' that durinsr the attack the Aiamem-
j Defenders Buffer Serere Louts,
; On the other hand, a dispatch from
Sof ia .states that tfte defenders of the
outer torts suffered severely, bOU
forts were completely destroyed, while
th(, four WHS I)artiv in ruins. Th
TSLZe(i
forts are Sedd-El-Bahr, the
Trcat t, r i mriiiniic nra r t i, i t-r
anrt 8tron-eat of t'he entlr 8ch. f
i r i-i' . I. j
' I I I M I li iim m u 1 1 1 . t t Riiiiipi'run in 1
a lone- ranirn firA that has nil hut d-
Ktroved it t
Narrows to be Attacked Next.
Bombardment of the Narrows for
tifications is expected to begin within ;
the next 24 hours. These fortifica ;
tions are the verv.backbone of the j
-
"tJre Plan of the Dardanelles work3.
me narrow passage is guarded by 12 :
cane Jlelles battery th Orkanleh Ta- "'sam aiong lines mat make it
ThB narrow 4 ,,c,rrl.rl l !9wm OG plain to the
i , P s guarded by 12 . a the business m
r" S tV"0?11 And tl,rea i to turn for he?p all
on tha Asiatic. The fortifications were
laid dut under the direction of Ger-j Such an organization, united, strong I electrical wiring in dwellings, apart
man army engineers and In addition , and virile, will be bigger than any one ment houses, shops and office build-
to i.iem meie is a long series or en- ,
trenchments and earthworks which
will have to be taken by landing par
ties. Onee through the Narrows the Turk-
Ish fleet of 34 vessel rpm.m. to n
. , - . unuci liiacil Willi visor.
disposed of. This fleet is believed to p.nmilt w.,.....
be watting in the Nagara roads. It is haTevrvbw'ruTes. Is
said to consist of one dreadnaugnt, , nobody's business applies with pe
two battle cruisers, five cruisers, nine culiar force to the divided situation
torpedo boat destroyers, 15 torpedo j that has prevailed in Portland. No
boats M.nd the two former German i Pne could put his finger on the right
cruisers, the Goeben and Breslau buJ;,t0n; to R.et Prompt action.
Aeroplanes with which tho alllprl , pastern cities are sending commer
vesselsreouied ..edeaK .hrllSpo?. oW.
part In the destruction of the forts sibillties. An opportunitv wa nresont.
buniuiu till- C11L1 tXUK-lf LO I HO
dandles. The airmen made
. u,. uu.i.uo nmuc uoserva-
made observa
"""" ,, fi , 7ni -" "arsnips ;
Z ri.. ,. , .
ques-l,"0 ,llu" were neipiess to protect i
c c',v" 1"J"1 uie airsnips, ror tney I
were without high angle guns
Miners Acquitted
Of Murder Charge j
!
Seven Men Had Been Accused of Am
busblng Three Mln Guards In Colo
rado Tragedy.
Pueblo, Col., Feb. 27. The first big
murder trial growing out of Colorado's
industrial war tonight resulted in the
acquittal of seven miners charged with
. Tv, , - i
The jury was out only 45 j
j y was out oniy 4s
Tho mn .. . ,
Jh,,o, I IT cllaT,sred Wl,th having
flmniiahPil a nnrt V nf t n rack tn I a i s i
k t ir . (ua,u, i
mo i:m ruaii. i nree guards i
were killed as well as the chauffeur ,
rtrltrltiu- their ra r
The state claimed t
,, ;..,V:,
':h"To .t , L-""-""i muroer. ;
wnelTaa , , Jense declared the i
g uards were killed in a pitched battle, j
Attorney II. N. Hawkins, in his Clos- i
ine srsrament eonten1 that t, ;, :
Eiw t ' " VU : ' 1 !
ienoi came irom tne automom:e am i
I"at drpPed behind !
I! JX a?2 fl.ed, "pon '
"ToAlA y ma Dee"
-"'. . .
J &e trlal lasted nine weeks
Wa were consumed in the
a , . .
y - 7 . weeKS m the in- ;
lruu"t-"n testimony, one of the j
men in me iinuers party turned state's
""-ZZ'lZl" "e ,
Jit" Z. COU,d nt saf Positively
"firS flr",tPan,ons or the
"'
, "
Harbors Committee
- Will Visit Coast
Home Committee on Bivers and Sar
tors Accepts California's Invitation
to Coma to Pacifio Next Summer.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 27. Mem
bers of the house committee on rivers
and harbors today accepted the invi
tation of the legislative and civic
bodies of California to visit that state
sometime next summer. Representa-
fore the committee todav
V fr VUI IV- (IT I H ITflfnin . -m .
theinvltation.
MURDERESS IS ACQUITTED
Toronto, Ont.. Feb. 27. Carrie Da
vies, who killed C. A. Massey. her em
ployer, because she feared he would as
sault her during his wife's absence
was acquitted today. She had testified
that Massey. who was a prominent
clubman, had kissed her the night h
fSre,Jtho kmilK- that ehe was
afraid to stay In the house With him
another night. n m
OBJECTS OF THE NEW
COMMERCE CHAMBER
CLEARLY SET FORTH
Merger of Present Chamber i
and Portland Commercial
Club to Solve Problem,
MISTAKES POINTED OUT
Unanimity of Action Urged as Way In
Waica to Build np City's Trade
la Oeneral.
Telling how in the past Portland has
let commercial opportunity after op
portunity slip through Its fingers be-
j anf the commercial club and th eCham-
her of Cntnm, nia,.i .
the other's Alohonse. H V nhsK -arhn
. . . . . J ' ' ' ' ' uaaiuu L J
is now In Portland to effect the'mer-
ger of these two bodies into one, as- J
serts that the new Chamber of Com- ;
nierce will be so organized as to make I
it truly representative of Portland's;
aspirations for work! commerce and of :
her determination to help her citizens ;
expand their trade territory.
In a statement made yesterday he
said:
Portland has manv K i it mo.,
who have wrought mightily in the up-j
hmlrlinry ' f I . . . I
-..v....s ...j. nCr uuiniiierce ana manu
facturers. Most of what these men
have accomplished is due to their In
dividual effort nan nf it io
j ,he community and the cooperation It
I has given through its business organ
t I izations.
t . 1 , . Tl ,1. . 3 ,
ruuiaiia nas not made th prog
compared with
the area Portland
able to serte.
division among Portland's leadin
uufcine.s organizations h.ia n-e5tr,,i
their efforts. Leading merohant nnrt
chamber of commerce to secure.
Trouble Pointed Out.
The new Chamber of Commerce, in-
eluding the two old bodies, is being
ith - ii' .iow. il-.TA"11?!""
, , - . ' - r- ' , 1 1
N iciuwij, innieau or me
. .niiimprnia I -,,, i-.
to the;
Lnamoer of Cnmmeroo llk
to Gaston, and savinir "Tnn fii-ct !
please," when work Is to be done, there !
will be one organization that win i,a i
responsible before. th mihiii fnr on !
work which a business organization '
should do. There will be no confusion '
as to whether this or that body should '
, ... - - 1
m ms or that duty. The duty I
" .V1- t.r, ",B u"e yenirat opuy,
en will know where
iYV -r 'T1' P lo ame ir
.n or group or business friends In
rSJpt Tn'VonffJen1 otvtllnTs
biggest captains of industry, because
they can turn to it with tnnwiuio !
that onr . . .
,V '.li'"V'J'' aciiviiy win De .
lJpr" ! f d toave a representative of Port- j first 50 cent permit fee paid the elec
daily l land Join oiie , of 'these tours of In- trical Inspectors will make two lnpee
snemy lesti?atlor i. but neither the Chamber : tar,t o.
.u :.! .
icii lesuoriKiuie lor nroau trade ex- '
tension work, and the opportunity was '
mom. neverai ousiness men offered to
subscribe towards the cost of sending
a competent trade representative, but
there was no ore-anization rpa.lv tn
head up the movement. No private
business house felt justified in carry
ing the expense alone, so the project
drifted and nothing was done.
a1
initiating
Seattle maintains the closest touch
Alaskan affairs through Its
of Commerce, and is always
e activities that. heir, develnn
Alaska. Portland will be on the job
when its New Chamber of Commerce
is unaer way.
Mast Keep Informed.
Nothing ever happens in Washington
directly affecting Seattle business but
what the Seattle Chamberof Com
merce is promptly informed. For a
considerable part of the year the Se-
attle Chamber maintains a business
renraaentat ve at Wosliin.inn
representative at Washington to keep
jn touch wlth tfte departments and as-
sist the state's senators and repre- i
eentatives to insist on Seattle's claims I
. :ii t -l i .
u. KuSuniifli uj aii government ac-
n vines. rui nana nas rejected tnis
Srpat possibility, except to complain
"nel oeale oenems rrom aiscnmtna-
tion by some bureau chief
The New Chamber of Commerce will
be held responsible , tor maintaining
Portland's position before the federal
officers whose activities are so closely
related to Portland s business affairs
There is no reason whv Porti-nd
.v.; .,,r:, .. ''."i"-."" r ru,u.'"lu
for oriental. South American. European i
&nd AJaka trade, and the New Cham-
it - ' ' .f as .ne i i
, .SeveJt5pff;n llanTa'nlifarnl-e completed by the bureau of
" feeven merchants find markets to which they i surveys and drafting of the depart
seiection i are entjtiert from Portland's pre-em- ! ment of public works and Will be sub-
, . w,c "ulJr
inence as a manufacturing city and i
seaport.
. .
Garrison Has No
Faith in Airships
Tt', ir, tp k o- mv. t- I East Tenth, cost $1797; district fm
tr JlS' ,T .TThe 3U1"" Pavement of Moore street from Emer-
pean vvar has shown that aeroplanes j SOn street to Killings worth avenue and
are absolutely essential for scouting, ! Emerson street from Vancouver
Secretary Garrison says in a state- avenue to Williams avenue ' cost
ment made public by the house appro- ! $36i'4; East Fiftieth street from East
priations committee. The secretary I Stark to north line of Wallace addi
points out. however, that armored air ; tion, cost $6164; district improvement
machines have not played any valuable i covering Rodney avenue and San Ra
part in war. He dwells on the import-! fael street' in Alblna, cost $14,S&$;
ance of automobiles in war transpor-i Russell street from Gantenbein avenue
tation. The secretary, reporting on i to Williams avenue, cost $9273; Bast
the progress of modernization of the-kAlder street from East Water to
eeaeoasi aetenses, says:
We should place as soon as we can
do so guns where we do not now feel
we hav.e fUns of. sufficient range and !
-
power, but there is no occasion to rush t
into that now and scatter 14 or 15 inch j
guns all over our continent. As to de- I
stroying fortifications of enemies, I j
do not know how you would transport I
a 32-centimeter or a 42-centimeter gun j
uu ui una country unless you DUilt a
special ship fdr it.
Guns for present coast defense pro
jects have been 91 per cent provided
for and under the latest- revision the
estimated cost to complete the fortifi
cations is approximately $40,000,000,
which probably will be increased by
further contemplated changes in soma
of tbe gun a to be Installed.
FREAK PLAYED BY BULLET
':' " k: -' 'A - 7'AA 'W'-'-J
! , : ' " 0 - fl " j j- 'ft rj I : II , trj
l --' A- ''- rl ri r. y
'-741 i ( f Pi il iTv-
INT NtsWS
A clip of British cartridges, trensfixed by a German bullet while in
the Cartridge belt of a British soldier.
.LIVELY ARGUMENTS
ARE EXPECTED UPON
ELECTRICAL MEASURE
New Proposed Ordinance Is
Scheduled to Come Before
Council Next Wednesday.
Lively arguments are expected on
the new proposed electrical ordinance
when It comes before th city council
"
Wednesday for final action. The meas
ure
has tbeen pending for several
months
and although Commissioner
Dleck sponser for the measure has
measure, nas
rnaa'e several attempts to get th ordl-
nanco adopted with
an emergency
""7; T"1"r?
Rpsidps eiviner Rtrinpnt - T-iila fnf
lna th ordinanon Mn no on to
in the wirin buslness
a contractor's fee of $25 a year is
Paid. It also reauires that all wiring
, . . . . . , . , . .
biiau oe none unaer tne airection or a
supervising electrician who has ' had
at least four years' experience In that
line of work.
An exception Is made In the case of
building owners who wish to do their
own wiring, however.
Owner May Hire Man.
The ordinance allows the owner or
his son to do the work, but prohibits
other relatives from helping. For the
and one inspecUon for eaph ad-
j.snnr,i rn t
v icm viiia na
the inspectors may keep careful watch
of the work
In case the owner of a house wishes
to hire a man to do the work he must
first engage a licensed contractor who
may do the work himself if he has
had four years' experience or employ
a contractor who will have the work
done under the direction of a super
vising electrician.
The ordinance will also bar so
called maintenance men in the large
office buildings from doing electrical
wiring in these structures unless a
$25 contractor's license is paid either
by the owner or the electricians and
the work is done under the direction
of one who has had at least four
years' experience.
I . . "if, U"JW.""S tu :
j"that the provision relative to contrac
Those objecting to the measure say
lors and supervising electricians are
too stringent, and that it favors few
contractors.
Those advocating the adoption of
the measure in its present form say
that under present conditions it is dif
ficult to control wiring work.
STREET WORK PLANNED
Hans ana estimates
Have
Been
Compiled.
plans and estimates for the improve
ment of a large number of streets
m - itted to the council soon for consid
eratlon. Following are the streets and
(the estimated cost of the work
Beech -street from Fourteenth
to
connect with pavement in Dixon Place,
cost $945; district improvement of
Fast Madison street from Forty-first
to Fast Forty-third street, cost $3710;
Karl street from Milwaukie street to
l?mon avenue, cost $19,111.
3IARRIED JIEN AT WORK
citv. rommisiIonpr Pnt. tn
y ,uomn"ss,onep WO NeeUy
Ones on Job.
Under the direction of Will H.
"faly. commissioner of public utilities,
8 married men, many of whom had
uoi wumeu lur iiiuhlus, were given
employment yesieraay cleaning up
gulches in various parts of the city.
All of the men received $3 a day
each and in many c-iic.t -ras the first
wages secured In months.
One group was placed at work in
Marquam'a gulch removing tin cans
and rubbish which have been dumped
in the gulch for years. These are to
SERVICE
be removed, buried and covered with
fresh earth. Another crew was given
work along the Base Line road in the
Mount Tabor and Montavilla districts
removing rubbish.
It is proposed to have these men
work three ""das and then place a
new crowd at work. These gangs will
work until the $2500 appropriated by
the coun.nl Is exhausted.
Has Narrow Escape.
City Plumbing Inspector William
Hey had a narrow escape from ser
ious injury or possibly death a few
days ago when examining some plumb
ing, under a building at Fifteenth and
Washington streets. As it was he
suffered only a bad scare. When
crawling around in the dark under
neath the building he did not notice
an open manhole of the Tanner Creek
sewer and he nearly fell Into it before
he discovered what it was. Had he
not made the discovery In time he
would have probably fallen 25 or 30
feet inside of the big pipe.
To Name Public Defender.
The appointment of the n;an to
serve as public defender in the muni
cipal court is to be made by the en
tire council, says Mayor Albee. He
has sent a list of the applicants to
the various commissioners and will
discuss the applicants with them at a
meeting to be held early in the week.
The ordinance providing for the posi
tion take? effect next week, A large
number of applications have been re
ceived. Would Repeal Measure,
Will H. Daly, commissioner of pub
lie utilities, is to introduce an ordl-
nance berore the city council Wednes
day repealing the present efficiency
system for city employes. He an
nounced some time ago that he would
take this action but was delayed with
other matters. The measure, if
adopted, will abolish only the effi
ciency code. The standardization of
salaries arrangement will be left as at
present.
City Elevator Docks.
The city council has been asked by
the public dock commission to submit
a measure before the people at the
June election . authorizing the Issue of
$100,000 in dock bonds for the con
struction of elevator docks. A tenta
tive draft of the measure has been pre-
Baseball Grounds Asked.
The city is asked to establish more
municipal baseball grounds for ama-
teur baseball nlavers in netitinns filed
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mo -nj vuuiii.ii j esici ua-. i ne
petitions contain several hundred sig
natures and the movement Is being
backed by the local branch of the Na
tional Association of Amateur Base
ball Leagues.
French Gain in
Bayonet Attacks
Germans Driven From Series of
Trenches, and Machine tjnns and
Men Are Captured.
Paris, Feb. 27. By a series of bril
liant bayonet charges, the French
gained new victories in the Cham
pagne region, it was announced in the
official communique from the war
office tonight.
North of. Mesnil 1'Hurlus, the Ger
mans were driven from a series of
trenches, the French advancing nearly j
600 yards. Two machine guns, a can- i
non and 100 prisoners were taken by
the French.
Aitchison Named
On Commission
Des MoineS, Iowa.- Feb. 27.- CUf- i
ford Thorne, president of the National i
Association of Railway Commissioners,
taking in the state boards of nearly
every state, today named the standing 1
committee or mat ootiy for the en- i
suing year, included in the important ,
chairmanships were: Railroad taxes.
Max Thelan of California; Statistics, !
B. H. Meyer of the interstate com- !
merce commission; shippers' claims, C !
a. Aitcnison oi uregon; leiepnone and
telegraph rates, c. A. Reynolds of
Washington.
Hold Services for Mrs, Smith.
Funeral services of Mrs. Charles
Smith were held from her Overlook
home and from the church of the
Blessed Sacrament Monday, Rev. Fath
er Kelly officiating. Mrs. Smith Is
survived by her husband, a daughter
and a son, and her only sister, Mrs.
Bert Drake, the latter the only one
remaining of a large family. .
Tn rn.l an wtll V, 3 V . V. ! . j
ztrr,y, T13 iissue 'i..'?
$100 000 if adopted will place more Fling. Otto Samson read "The Bugle
funds at the disposal of the dock com- j the club paper, which he published this
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WHIRLWIND RNISH
PLANNED FOR Y. M. C.
' A. CONM TUESDAY
Result Yesterday Brings
Portland Total Up to 309
Men and 45 Boys.
SEATTLE SLIGHTLY AHEAD
X,ocai Booster Confident of Ability
of Being Able to Outstrip
Sound City In End.
When the score In the T. M. C
membership contest was checked
A.
up
yesterday afternoon, it was found
that 309 men and 45 boys had been
added to the roster, for the five days
since the competition was inaugurated.
&eventy-one members was the day's
gain, totaling 86,300 points.
Seattle secured 123 new members
yesterday, counting 114,533 points.
This record puts the Sound city ahead
of Portland for the second time during
the contest, with a total of 401 mem
bers and 376.145 Points Seoretarv
Stone of the local association took the
grain of comfort, however, that the
Seattle figures were reported last
night, while the Portland returns
were reported at noon.
Two days yet remain for the gath
ering in of the rest of tbe 1000 mem
bers which was the goal. AVith or
ganized teams scouring the citv to
morrow and Tuesday the hope is that
the mark may very nearly be reached.
Tuesday Is "Clean-Up Day."
Inspiring talks were given at yes
terday's daily luncheon by C. C. Chap
man and Rev. J. M. Boyd, the latter
discussing the practical phases of
Christianity for the business man. Mr.
Chapman lauded the objects of the
association, pointing to the uplifting
influences of the association upon the
young men who seek its shelter, al
luring to boys who are ambitious
enough to forge ahead" through their
own efforts.
Tuesday has been designated
as
ciean-up day," when every prospect
will be gathered in if possible. Spe
cial arrangements "have been made for
employed team workers to leave their
business for the day and thus be free
to prosecute the crusade.
"Clean-up day's" activities will be
given a substantia! start at a ham
and egg breakfast at the T. M. C. A.,
I to whirh tv. rioi ,,.. v..
been invited. These same pastors were
asked yesterday to make special ap
peals for the association lri their pul
pits this morning, so their business
men members could be prepared for
the visit of the association workers
the following: two days.
Secretary Xa Optimistic
Besides the 71 members in yester
day's record many applications were
filled out in the T. M. C. A. office,
more probably than during any day of
the campaign.
J. W. Day, who conferred with the
Seattle workers last night. Is expected
home tomorrow with a report on the
situation on the Sound. He went pri
marily to Imbibe some Ideas on how
the Seattle boosters do things and to
show the northern boosters how Port
land goes at a membership tourney.
General Secretary Stone was optt
mistic last night over the prospect.
Interest has been keen, he declared,
and whether the 1000 mark is reached
j or not. he felt that the effect in ton-
ing up the association would be well
worth the efforts made.
MINSTRELS LAUGH MAKERS
Merry minstrels made much fun
Friday night at the third monthly en
tertainment held by the Glenhaven Im
provement club. The minstrels kept
the audience laughing with quips,
skits and jokes of local meaning, hit
ting without reservation people pres
ent. The entertainments are free and
are serving the good purpose of bring
ing residents of the Glenhaven section
together. The program was: Vocal
solo, Miss Daisy Cooper, with zither
accompainment by her father; reading.
v nwiitra mup; minstrels, ri. A. Clark
Bennett's Villa Robbed.
Nice, Feb. 27. Jewels valued ut
! $8000 were stolen from Breslieu Villa,
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New York Herald
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Celebrate this new addition to Portland's True Shopping Zone,
and visit our modern DRUG EMPORIUM The Mecca for.
careful buyers.
WOODARD,
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Public Baseball
I Grounds Donated
Montgomery Tract at X.arrbM and
Goldsmith Will B oat TJp Into Dia
monds and Athletic Field.
By the Phoenix Land company do-'
nating the use of tho Montgomery
tract of 26 acres at Larrabee and."
Ltoiasrnith streets the city Is to be
able to establish the long-sought-for
municipal baseball diamonds and ath-'
ietic neld. Negotiations for the use
of the property are to be closed to
morrow by George Brown; president
of the company, and W. L. Brewster,
commissioner of public affairs.
The tract will allow the establish
ment of about six baseball diamond.
Petitions asking that munlclp al base
ball grounds be established were filed
with the council yesterday and now it
is hoped, through using this tract, to
comply with the requests immediately.
It is proposed to erect small grand
stands and temporary quarters for
players and put the grounds in shape
so that they can be used when, the
baseball season opens.
THRE GERMAN DRIVES
Von Hindenburg Outwits the
Czar's Troops and Expects
to Control Poland Soon.
IT'iiilp,! TroM laiu?(l TVlr.)
Berlin, via Amsterdam. Feb. 17.
Von Illudenburg has again outwitted
the czar's advisers. Less than a week
after his great victories east of the
Ma2urlan lakes, the German war idol
has executed two sudden strokes that
may sweep the Russians out of Po
land. The new strategic moves of "the
old man of th0 lakes" were revealed
in dispatches relayed here from Fast
Prussia tonight. The grand duke's
army protecting Warsaw from iHa
t north has been snilt
PcJish rapttal may be in the kaiser's
hands before early spring.
Von Hindenburg struck first along
a line leading Bouth from a point east
of Augustof to the Russian fortress
of Ossowetz. A German army fliat
fought Itself .through Lyck under the
eye of the kaiser moved In a south
easterly direction until Us left wing
was in contact with the right wing
of the army that inflicted disastrous
losses on the fleeing Russians In the
swamps east of Augustof.
.The two armies pressed forward
threatening the important railway
leading from Warsaw' to Petrograd,
over which the Ruswian armies in
Poland maintained their communica
tion with the czar's capital. The grand
duke saw hH great peril. First from
Grodno to the north and then from
the region north of Warsaw he pushed
large bodies of Russians to check the
German advance.
Sight Wing- Advances.
With the forces dt fending" Warsaw
thus depleted, von Hindenburg threw
the extreme right wing of his Mazurian
lake conquerors against the Russians
at Przasnysz, 60 miles north of War
saw. The fortified positions at Przas
nysz were etormed and fighting of
violent nature is now In progress near
Vielodroz to the south.
It was officially admitted today that
heavy Russian reinforcements havo
temporarily halted the German ad
vance south of Ptzasnysz. War offi
cials pointed out, however, that this
was Just what von Hindenburg had
anticipated. The grand duke's armies
defending Warsaw on the right bank
of the Vistula have been drawn on so
heavily that a serious resistance to the
Germans moving eastward through
Plock and Plonsk cannot be main
tained at this time. Already the Rus
sian fortified position at Vysogrod, on
tne ngnt bank of the Vistula and les.i
than 40 miles from Warsaw has been
shelled by German long range artil
lery. Three Drives Threaten.
Outwitted and outfought the Rus
sians are now menaced by three separ
ate drives that threaten to force the
evacuation of Poland. Berlin papers
today adopted the view that only has
the Rusisan threat against East Prus
sia disappeared lor all time, but that
von Hindenburg will soon hold alUPo
land. The war department tonight again
characterized the fighting in France
in the past week as of little import
ance. The French have battered vain
ly at the German entrenchments In
THREATEN RUSSIANS
POLAND
NEAR WARSAV
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TOMORROW!
The Evening' Telegram opens wide
the doors of its new home across the
street. Good neighbors they will be
knd we note the day with
CLARKE & 03.
WOODLARK BUILDING
3ZCANDDATF.sk
HOT SANDS ON ONE OF
GREATEST PILGRIMAGES
Al Kader Temple Seen of
Ceremorrial Session With
Many Shriners Present.
BUFFET LUNCH SERVED
Visiting Nobles From Various Parts
of State Amu fed by Stunts for
Their Edification.
At a special ceremonial session of
Al Kader temple. Ancient Arabic Or
der Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, hold
in the Masonic temple laBt night 82
candidates crossed the hot.sands on on
of the greatest pilgrimages ever held
by the temple.
Nearly 1000 nobles from all parts of
the state were present, and it was
"large" evening from first to last,
many stunts being put on for tbe edl-
ncanon or tne visitors and the em
barrassment of the candidates.
The Shrine patrol and the Al Kader
band were there, and each of th
nobles was resplendent in glittering new
fez. Tables groaned under the weight
of delicacies and beverages of tha
desert, the usual banouet tlvintr wvr
to an elaborate buffet lunch. The size
of the membership made a banquet
out of the question In tho limited quar
ters at hand.
The commissary did Itself proud,
however, n did the entertainment com
mittee, 'and it was an old-fashioned
time from start to finish.
run Xasta X.ong-.
The session of the tempi, began at
8 o'clock wd the fun lasted until mid
night. A business session was held
in the afternoon.
Here are those who made tha pil
grimage: Charles B. Archer, - James M. Bil
brcy, Charlesi K. Canada, Frederick 1.
Carlton. Ralph C. 1 lorcftR, Frank C.
Griffin, James I,. Judy, John It. Kase
berg, Edwin U. l'hipps, Linnaeus 1..
ReiKt, August Robertson, Raleigh R.
Runyon, Michael II. Temmer, Ray
mond W. Turnlrull. Hanne B. Tuthlll,
Edward N. Wheeler, J,' E. E. Buck
ingham, A. St. Clair flay, Charles W.
Swanson. all of Portland; Robert It.
Brown, Burns; Brninard G. Cochran,
and Alfred G. llinkle. Hoover; Charles
A. I laliies, Narrows; Owen W. Jones,
Forest Grove; Alfred P. Oliver, New
berg; Asa B. Robinson Jr., Dallas;'
Edgar L. Pmith, Pendleton; George A.
Smyth and Prestley Kinyth, Jlurney
William U. Sanderson, Ontario; Ed
ward Sears, Beavcrton, and Louis O.
Scuddcr, F.ugene.
George W. Stapleton, illustrious po
tentate Of the temple, presided -over tlia
whole affair, arid llunh J. Boyd, re
corder, greeted the nobles as thoy en
tered the building.
Shriner Policeman Thera. Tan.
Other officers making up the offi
cial divan for the year who played Im
portant roles were W. E. Grace,' chief
rabban; James I. Moffet,. nisfii.nt
rabbnn; Thomiis MeCusker, high priest
and prophet; VV. .1. Hofmanu, oriental
guide; A. M. Brown, treasurer; A. H.
Lea, first ceremonial master; Frank
8. Grant, second ceremonial aiantfr;
A. L. Tetu, director: H. T. Hutchin
son, marshal; F. H. Iiarnmasch, captain,
of the guard, and A. G. Uachrodt,
outer guard.
A special committee of Shriner po
licemen, headed by Captain C. A. ItlS
keep and ceremonial committee of L'0,
had charge of stuntn. This committee
was composed of A. L. Tetu. ceremonial
'master; E. J. Jaeger, chairman; J. S.
Heal, C. A. Heal, Clyde Evans, Ir. J.
F. Irake, A. L. IjuihIii.s, Fred Iteynolds,
C. N. Menzles, Alex Riddell, X. E.
Beckard, Roy F. Fiko, J. B. ifavt
land, E. P. Maliaffy, John Mann, J. A,
Dilge, E. A. Robison, Alexander Oliver,"
L. H. Freeland. Roy Quackenbush,
Lewis Carpenter, F. L. Lithcrland and
3. I). Perrv
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the Champagne region all week, it wns"
declared without making perceptible
gains.
Turks operating against the Suez
canal have brought tip a, number of
i . ,1.-. .p, i ...... . . . . i . . t
pun" in nits r - I ivuiiLaiti l esion, to llto
north, according to dispatches from ,
Italian sources received here tonight.
Milton Postmaster.
Washington Bureau of The Journal.)
Washington. Feb. 27. S. M. Shan
gle was nominated to the position of
postmaster at Milton by President
Wilson today.
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