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- . , - : 1 : ! i -J i 5 ; HE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL,' PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1915. WARSAW, PROUD CITY OF GREAT AGE, HAS AWAITED EVENTS Varsovians Themselves Never Have "Accepted the Fate of Poland as a Part of Russia, ONCE BRILLIANT CENTER In XiMt Century She was at Height of Her Splendor; of Zat Tears She, Baa Been Neglected. From the New York Sun. IF CITIES had faces Warsaw woufd have the mask of a woman with laughing painted mouth and sombre tragic eyes. Varsaw has hand acme -trets and parks, and a gay life of the boulevards that, so it like to think, almost rivals Paris. But over it has lain for a hundred years the shadow ' of the Russian eagle's wings, and in its heart is the rancor of a pride that has for three genera tions had its every manifestation crushed. Of all the peoples concerned in the German advance on Warsaw it 'is prob able that the Varsovians themselves took the situation with the most equanimity. They had been waiting for a hundred years for something to happen. The rest of th-s world has accepted the fate of Poland afs history, tragic to be sure, but finished. War saw has never accepted it. She hai waited; And no a,t last something has happened. . When Russia turned Warsaw into a. great fortress, one of the greatest In the empire, the city of the Polish heart watched the proceeding wltn suspicion. fYom the beginning of the fortification of the city, when the great citadel of Alexander was built, the Poles have believed that Russia was less concerned in protecting War saw than she was in protecting her self against Warsaw. City Reflects Polish Spirit. Warsaw is a reflection of the spirit of the Polish people. It is brilliant , and melancholy, and its life is a life of sunshine and shadow. Its streets are a-rush with industrv and pleas ure. Yet withal it is sad. In the last century Warsaw was sec ond ofily to Paris in brilliancy. Now it is merely a Russian provincial city. Then, owing to the well known fond ness of the Poitah nobles for display, it had a character of piodigal gran deur, the 'decay of which is dismally evident at every turn. Other cities as important as War saw have be--n the object of the care and piide both of their rulers and of ' their people Liut the rulers of War saw have iiaj no prides -in her, and her people have not been permitted pride. sjince the revolution of I860 nothing at all has lu-en undertaken for the cleanliness or well being of the town. The paving pjgnes have fallen away from each cthCT in. ridges and holes, j and wuh the exception of the town hall not a quisle public building has been erected in all that time. The' -whole of the tivil and military admin-' lftration is canifl on in .confiscated private and public buildings. Noth ing is repaired, nothing is cleaned. Thorwaldsen's statue of Copeinicus, which is so popular that the common people call a statute a Copernicus, is covered with dirt and the pedestal is crumbling, but no "one repairs it. The only public memorials in good condi tion are the colossal monument to Pasklewicz, who finally subdued the city after the insurrection of lHil, and a great iron obelisk embellished with huge metal lions and heraldic eagles which commemorates the name of the-Poles who informed against their fellow countryman. History Beplete With Bloodshed. Warsaw's history, full of battle and bloodshed, -of capture and recapture, is sp dismal that it must of necessity have a reflection in the spirit of the people. Like most great European cities, the precise date of its founding is not knbvvn. The Duke of Alazovia built a castle on the present site 0:1 the Vistula as early as the ninth cen tury, but the city is not mentioned in annals until 1224. In 1026 the dynasty of the Dukes of Mazovia' was extinguished and War saw was- annexed t. Poland. Later, when Poland and Lithuania were united it became the capital. From the seventeenth century onward its possession was disputed by the fc"wedes, the Russians, the Llrandeburgs and the Austrians, each of whom took and re took and lost it .again. WThen It had its freedom, from time , to time, 'it was torn by civil strife. WarsaV was the pawn in frequent moves by Napoleon -and Prussia, and finally as the capital of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw fell to Saxony. On February 9, 1813, the Russians took the city and have held it ever since, nineteenth Century Revolution. On November 29, 1830, began the terrible revolution which lasted a year and which was conducted by the Poles with unexampled bravery, and put down by the Russians with unex ampled ,' severity. The rule of the Russians in War saw wsis so severe that not until 1862 and 1863 did the revolutionary spirit find any means of outward expres sion. The insurrections of those years were followed by such teriu.e reoi-isals In the way of executions, confiscations. oamsnments, ana every other means known to a conscientious Russian official with imagination, ,that for an other 60 years the Varsovians were compelled to unprotectinsr acknowl- edgment of Russia's chekmate. in iMi'b Warsaw, always ready and willing, fell in line with the general revolutionary manifestations in Rus sfcu The resulting reign of terror left a blight on the city from which it has not yet recovered. Belgians Shelled by German Artillery Official Statement Announces Teutons Attacked Xiines Eouth of Dixmude Throughout Say. Havre. France, Aug. 7. (via Lon don) (T P.) "German artillery vio- lently cannonaded bur lines south of ;Dixmude throughout the day," said an 'Official statement from the Belgian war office tonight. ' " The farms of Roedesterkte, Berkelhof and Casskerfce and the positions east of St. Jacques church also were . shelled." Mrs. Harriman Visits Fair.' San Francisco, Cal. Aug; 7. (U P.) . -Mrs.. E.: H. Harriman, widow of the i-allroad wizard, arrived here thl af ternoon fora six- weeks' 'visit duitng ' which she will take in the exposition. LIGHT IN DARK PLACES IN ' Swo is. T2S I Map of southwestern Russia showing the relative Jocations of the several cities and towns frequently mentioned in the news dispatches concerning the military campaigns in this region and about which little is known in America. RIGA, the most ultra-western town in the whole Muscovite empire, a city of merchant princes, of bursting warehouses and miles of crowded docking, of vigorous Teutonic architec ture and cosmopolitan organization, with a hurrying and tense business life that finds its counterpart in New York and Hamburg, lies near the head of the Gulf of Riga. Riga is a great commercial city. It stands third among Russia's seaports, and second among all the ports upon the Baltic sea, where commercial cities have been growing and building for cen turies. The city, is 3''.:5 miles south west of Petrograd, an.l is filled with the spirit of modern business. It is a main gateway into vast Russian hinterlands, and is probably the most Hungry Deer Hound Bites Portland Man B. E. Kurd Attacked by Vicious Dogr; Game "Warden Seeks Animal and Two Men Who Were Leading Beast. Seaside. Or., Aug. 7. R. E. Hurd, an employe of the Ladd & Tilton bank. Portland, was attacked and senerely bitten by a deer hound near Canton this afternoon. The game warden and ru-puttes are looking for the dog. that It may be watched for symptoms of rabies, and for the two men who were leading it, that they may be prosecuted for trailing deer with a dog. tion at Cannon Beach, and Bert Alger.-j aisu 1 1 1 ''i I'l""-. " - - ' - - - n - - - l their automobile out of the mire, when the dog. apparently voraciously hun gry, broke away from the men who were loading it, and attacked Mr. Hurd. The doi Jumped for Hurd's throat and Hurd, throwing up his arm to ward off the brute, received the animal's teeth Just above the elbow. The arm was lacerated. Mr. Hurd wa3 brought to Seaside, where Dr. Van Boren dressed his in Jury. Twelve Shins Held By Gulebra Slide Cave-in Said to Be Worst Since Pan ama Canal Opened 560 Passengers on One Boat Delayed. Colon, Aug. 7. (U. P.) Twelve steamers, including the Pindland with 560 passengers from New York en route to the Panama-Pacific exposi tion, were held here tonight by an other slide in the Culebra cut. Dredges have been ordered to clear away the pile of rock and earth as rapidly as possible. Dispatches re ceived here tonight said the slide was the most serious since the Panama canal was opened. THIEF MAKES QUICK HAUL Mrs. Samuel Elmore, wife of the Astoria. ; canneryman, dropped a twenty-dollar bill on the sidewalk , in front of the Benson hotel last night while taking money from her purse to pay a taxicab driver wTio had Just brought her from the railroad station. .A' young man quickly picked up the currency.- and ran. : A newsboy 3 gave chase but the thief escaped.. HONIGSBtBcp gggggliylg . up-to-date city to be found Vladivostok to Libau. from T OVNO, the key to the railway sys tern of northwestern Russia, is the central fortress in the Russian northwestern chain of frontier strong holds. It stands at the confluence of the Xiemen and the Viliya rivers, east of central East Prussia. Petrograd lies 450 miles by railroad to the north west, while behind Kovno, and be tween this fortress and Petrograd, the Russian plain is strewn as thickly with- lakes as fallow meadow lands with August daisies. Mitau, Kovno, Grodno and Lemberg He nearly in the same line, north and south. The railway from Eydtkuhnen, East Officers Nab Men Who Broke Jail! Joe Valtini and Balph Harris Returned to Baker by Deputy Sheriffs Were on Way to Paclflo Coast. Baker, Or., Aug. 7. Deputy Sheriff Baird and Cooley arrived here late to night with Joe Valtini and Ralph Har ris, who broke Jail here last Wednes day morning. The two men were caught near Granite. They had been traced to the head cf Pine creek by Deputy Sheriffs Nelson and Herbert, who telephoned other officers the di rection the men were taking. The men said they were heading for the John Day river to work their way out through the interior to the coast. Lansing to Confer With Sec. McAdoo New York, Aug. 7. (I. N. S.) The New Tork Sun this morning prints the following: Washington Secretary of State Lansing left Washington for New York where he will have a conference tomorrow with Secretary of the Treas ury McAdoo. This conference may have an important bearing on the plans of the administration and the six Latin American representatives with whom it is cooperating in dealing with the Mexican situation. She Aimed at Hawk But Shot 'Neighbor Colusa, Cal.. Aug. 7. (U. P.); Noting that hawks were about to swoop down and pick . tip a young turkey. Mrs. Bessie Elwell seized a gun and fired, and as she did Mrs. May Chapman ran across the field and was shot in the left hip. Although the bullet passed turough the body of Mrs. Chapman, it is believed she will recover'. TURKS SCATTER RUSSIANS Constantinople, Aug., 7. Via Berlin) The Turkish right .Mltig has scattered Russian forces In the Muradichi Val ley and' Is pursuing the fleeing forces of the enemy, eaid an official state meat dealing with the Caucasus fight ing issued tonight. -si SOUTHWESTERN RUSSIA Prussia, to Vilna runs through Kovno, and, at its terminus, joins the trunk line between Warsaw and Petrograd. Kovno is a fortress of the first class, and has been considerably strength ened in recent years, and is 55 miles from the East Prussian border. AMONG the great fortresses that are opposing the march of Ger man armies into Russian lands is that of Grodno, a stronghold on tha main railway to Petrograd from the west, and one of the more powerful links guarding the line of the Muscovite frontier. Grodno is on the line of advance from the lake region in East Prussia, and lies about 50 miles from the Ger man border. It is 540 miles south Kentucky Scene of Fatal Election Fight Two Killed When Mountain Factions in Breathitt County Divide at Polls Over Selection of County Judge. Lexington. Ky., Aug. 7. (U. P.) Breathitt county was the scene of one of its famous feud fights today, two men losing their lives. Grover Blan ton shot and killed; Martin Clemens. Elihu Allen shot and killed Blanton. Blanton, after being mortally wounded, shot Allen, and the latter is in a serious- condition. Mountain fac tions divided at the polls over the election of a county judge, Blanton siding with one faction and Clemens with the other. Prefers ' Defeat to ArmQd Intervention General Villa Says Ei Would Rather Have General Carranza Snle Than See Foreign Troops Invade Country. i El Paso, Texas, Aug. 7. (t. N. S.)- "Rather than see armed intervention in Mexico, I would surrender to Car ranza and say to him, 'You can rulel the country,' " said General Francisco Villa tonight In Juarez, in discussing recent developments of the Mexican situation. ' j He said the United States govern ment's conception of the situation was accurate and thorough. New Westminster Wins at La Crosse Vancouver, B. C. Aug. 7. New Westminster defeated Vancouver in the professional La Crosee series today. and finally .captured the' cnampionsiiip. The score was 8-2. The match was played at New Westminster before a handful of spectators. It was New Westminster's eighteenth champion- I ship in 25 years of organized La' Crosse. " ! ' ? Germans Have JNew Dirigible. ' Paris, Aug. 7. (I. N. S.) The Zep pelin factory at Friederlcshafen! has been greatly enlarged to accommodate a new. type' of ; dirigible ., now:, being built and intended . for an 'invasion of England. . " ', " ' T ZJ2 west of Petrograd, 98 miles southwest of Vilna. and 160 miles northeast of Warsaw. T EFORE the Austro-German ad vance, south of Warsaw, the pow erful Russian fortress Ivangorod in terposes itself. Just about midway be tween the great rnanufacturine metro polis of the Poles and the north Gali- c:an frontier. This city is a strong hold of the first class and stands upon the junction of railways from Warsaw south, one of which runs southeast to Iublin, and the other southwest to Kelze. Ivangorod Is 143 miles north-northwest of Przemysl, and -more than 60 miles from the Austrian border. It is about 60 miles southeast of Warsaw. Thief Has Blackberry Appetite. Portland police have been asked to hunt for a person who has a well developed appetite for canned black berries. Last night the residence of Mrs. C. E. Stimpson, 29 East Twenty fourth street north, was robbed of 24 quarts of the fruit. Last year a simi lar robbery occurred. n fr "Know most of the rooma of thy na tive eountry before thou coeit over the threshold, thereof." it if A ' I ' THE Portland Hotel is most delightfully situated in the heart of Portland, the Rose City the Summer capital of the great Northwest. In every direction, Nature's wonders invite you forest, valley, lake aDd river snow-clad peak and foaming surf. Make The Portland a home toward which you fare nightly, after a day of delight. The Portland Hotel Geo. C. Ober, Manager Broadway, Sixth, Morrison, Yamhill 11 pi, 1 ' II pre tail H "tli'l! h'iH I f ILiiiljittuajia.i(tiiaJj)rtlla 'ADVENTURES INTO THE 1 NIGHTLY FLIRTATIONS WITH FIRE OF ENEMY Darkness Invites Sorties Into "No Man's Land," Where Ears Are One's Reliance, EVERY CAUTION IS USED Even Whispers Are Avoided Tbay Might Attract a rusillad Trom Enemy's Xtins Hear at Band. By Frederick Palmer. Of the International News Service. British Headquarters, France, Aug. 7. (I. N. S.) Night is always the time In the trenches when life grows more interesting and death more likely. "it's t'ark enough, now," said the young officer who was my host. "We'll go out with the patrol." By day the slightest movement of ti e enemy Is easily ana instantly de tected. The light keeps the com batants to the .warrens which protect them from shefl and bullet fire.. At night there is no telling what mis chief the enemy may be up to. At night you must depend upon the ear rather than tUe eye for watching. Then the human soldier fox comes out of his warren and sneaks forth on thJ lookout for prey. At night both sides are on the prowl. "Trained owls would be the most valuable scouts we could have," said the young officer. "They would be more useful than aeroplanes in locat ing the enemy's gun positions. A properly reliable owl would com back and say a German patrol was out in the wheat field at such a point, and we would. wipe out that German patrol with a machine gun." . These young officers who fill the gaps left by the old do not leave their fancy behind when they enter the trenches. On Scouting Duty. We turned Into a Bide trench an alley off the main street leading out of the front trench toward the Ger mans. "Anybody out?" he asked a soldier who was on guard at the end of it. "Yes, two." Of course, there were ' two, anyhow. All prowling is done in pairs at leaBt. One man. can help his comrade if he is wounded or bring back the news if ho is 'dead. It Is the business of every man on guard to know' here the patrol goes, bo as not to .fire in ;that direction. Sometimes a. patrol hears a fusillade from both sides sweeping past him. "Follow me." We climbed out of the ditch and stooped low. We were in the midst of a tangle of barbed wire protecting the trench front, which was faintly visible in the starlight. There was a break in the tangle, a narrow cut in the hedges, as it were, kept open for just such purposes as this. When the patrol- returned it closed the gate again. "Look out for that wire Just there. Do you see it?" "Everything to keep the Bosches off our front lawn except 'Keep Off the Grass' signs." It was utterly still a warm sum mer's right, without a catspuw of breeze stirring. Through the dark curtain of the sky in a parabola ris king from the German trenches swept a brilliant sputter of red light one of the flares which the Germans used by the millions to assist them in their night watches. Machine guns, mortars, bombs, flares and guns of all calibers the Germans keep everything Jn their locker in mechanical appliances which wl economize human force. This was coming straight toward us. as if it had been aimed at us. It cast a searching, uncanny red glare over the tall wheat in head between the trenches. "Get Down," He Ordered. "Get down!" whispered the officer. It seemed sort of foolish to grovel before a piece of.- fireworks. There was no firing in our neighborhood, nothing to indicate a state, of war between the British empire and Ger many, no visual evidence of any Ger man army, anywhere rn France except that flare. However, if a guide who knows as much about war as this one knew says to get down when you are out between two lines of machine guns and rifles between the fighting pow IS! T 1 1 " I jr ii jjf M.M,Kn...I.it.l ill... II... ,fu.)in..i,. , ' , ers cf England and Germany you take the bint. The flare sank into the earth a few yards away, after a last insulting, ugly fling t: red light in our faces. "What If we had been seen?" "They'd have combed the wheat in this neighborhood - thoroughly and they might have got us." "It's hard to believe," I suggested. So.it was, he agreed. That was the exasperating thing about it. 'Always hard to believe, perhaps, until after all the cries wolf, the wolf came- until, after 1 . harmless flares, the twentieth revealed to ' the. watchful enemy the figure 'of a man above to wheat, when a dozen : rifles - and per haps a machine gun suddenly broke the silence of night by concentrating on a target. Then there might !b -another name on the British casualty list, which meant an able bodied officer or soldier whom his country had trained was transferred from the asset to tile lia bility column of the ledger. Keeping cover from German flares is a part of the minute, painstaking economy of war. We crawled on slowly through the wheat, taking care 16 make no noise, till we brought up behind two soldiers lying flat on the earth with their rifles in hand ready to fire instantly. it was their business not only ro seel .lie enemy UIBI, dui id inooi Iirsi and to capture or kill " any German patrol. The officer spoke to them; they answered. It was unnecessary for them to aay that they had not . seen anything. If. they had, we should have known it. He was out there less to scout him self than to make sure that they were on the job. that they- knew how Ao watch. The visit was a part of his routine. As we were on business,-we did not even whisper. Preferably, all the whispering would be done by any Oer man patrol out to have a look t our barbed wire and that would give the Germans away . Silence and the starlight and the dew moist wheat; but yes, there was war. You heard gun fire' half .t mile, perhaps a mile "away, and raising your head, you saw the auroras of light from bursting shells. At 'intervals, as if set by clock 'work with- Teutonic system, flares rose from the German trenches. Voices Prom Both Trenohes. We heard at pur backs faintly snatches of talk from our , trenches, and faintly in front the talk from the German trenches-which soimded rath er Inviting and friendly from both sides, like that around some cumpfjj-e on the plains. It seemed quite within the bounds of probability that you might have crawled on over and said "Howdy" to the Germans; but before you could present your visiting card, and by the time you reached the edge of their barbed wire. If not sooner you would have been shot into a pulp. Early Fall . ft I AM showing, at special prices, some of the new Fall models for men. You are especially invited to inspect some very clever suits now on display in the Morrison-street windows at $14.85 and $19.85 Additional models shown on main floor BEN SELLING --""- - Morrison at Fourth Hotel Multnomah Endorsed by the traveling public as hay ing the very best cuisine and-service in the Northwest. Largest and best sample rooms for the commercial man. Charges lower than any other f irs t-cl a ss hoteh Watch for Our Ad About Fall9 and Winter Rates . For Permanent Guests U Enjoy a Good Table d'Hote Dinner Sunday, 31-00 5:30 until 8:00 p. m. You Are Cordially Invited to Attend Grand Concert in Hotel Lobby, Sunday ' 8:30 until 10 p. m. ' H. C. BOWERS, Manager. . L. P. REYNOLDS, Assistant Manager. PICNIC AT ONE LARGE JOYFEST , . - ' . v ;-jr" ... Affair Given to Arouse Inter est in the Park and Play ground, ij . Screams of delight such as probabfy never have waken e,d echoes' In Sell wood Park yesterday gave toketl that the many hapfy, healthy youngsters gathered at the plenlo held undr the auspices of the Sellwood Park associa tion was a grand success. The plcni: was given for the purpose of arousing interest in the park and the play ground connected with It. a Babies :frem six months td five years . old were scored by physician a under the auspices of .tKe Educational Bureau of the Oregon Congress of Mothers. Two tents were seti osid for this purpose and the crowds of children kept . the physicians ibusy throughout the day.. 1 j Many races and contests j were staged and, ice cream in various forms and candy were given as prizes.. Ap paratus drills opened the contests and in" these the boy winners were Wen ley Saunderleaf, Jack Capell. George Poole, Willard Lyon and William Reed, while the girl winners '. were Marlon Davidson, Geraldine Arnos, and Elisabeth Davidson, under lo years, and Mary Scott. Letltla Capell and Henrietta Warkientlne, over 10. Mrs. A. W. . Shanklan'd and son, Glenn, won the mother and child race. Johnnie Creuse walked away from 40 other tots under flye yearw of age in, a race for tiny youngsters. J EHa Davidson and Glen Shankland won the races for the girls and boys re spectively under eight years of age Louise Hatfield- was champion sprint er for girls under 4 feet 10 inches A youngster named Blanchard won a similar race for boys. f ' - Blondlne Yabs proved most expert Jn the jshoe and stocking race, i; Clif ford Amos was the. most accornpllahed somersaulter among boys under four -feet. Gladys-Boylee outdistanced aH others in the whirlwind race for alrl under four feet 10-Inches. The boy' chicken race was taken by AVlllaril Lyon.' t ' : '! i Much credit for the success of Hm day was due to Mrs. E. M. McNlckle and John Hatz, directors of the play- ' grounds. At noon a picnic lunch un der the trees added to, the day's 1 pleas ures. - :" ;! 1 YOUNGSTER'S SELLWOOD PARK - - ! I .:. . .. :; :- Arrivals JBi vi a -