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1 0 THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1916. f, I "i - Ir, f J f OnlY E E FOR NEV P0ST0FF1CE FIRM OREGON IN $fc Dinwiddie Construction Com- pany bccond Lowest bid der on Sandstone. fc WIDE MARGIN FOUND "t -Grant Tee of San Francisco Submits XaOwirt riguxe on Limestone, "With Ho 'Alternative As to Material. WldRtortnn inn 1 1 HVlQIII Vfl. 4.io:r TON BUREAU OF THE JOnrXAL) '4'" between the highest and lowest bids 5'' on Portland's new postofflce, using var the figures on Indiana llrncKtone as ' the basis. About the am difference appeared on other varieties of ma- ,S terlal. r '' After' the bids have been fully '. checked up and duly pondered an KJ award will be announced. In which . ..a the character of the material and the :,lt comparative prices of the different ' " n"" etones for the purpose In view will 'V be considered. All but one of the 17 bidders sub ",'"' mltted offer on, Indiana limestone. ij.,. Several of them failed to submit es ? tlmates on one or more varieties of i: . sandstone for which proposals were ; , ' Invited. Grant Fee of San Francisco, : Who submitted the lowest bid on In :! dlana limestone, was also distln i gulshed by the fact that he made no 1 t alternative bids on other kinds of . ! stone. - .?- There was also a wide difference In the proposals on mechanical equip- ment for the building, which ranged . ' fiom 176,138 to $110,000, both from Portland bidders, with 13 other cora- petltors in between. Following are the bids In detail as . ' submitted at the office of the super vising architect of the treasury: ' On construction of building: V George Baker Long, Worcester. Mass. Bedford limestone $h39,200; .. . Tenino sandstone, 9HH6.200; Boise , i, sandstone, f37,30U; Wilkinson sanJ-i-' - ' wlone. $886,300. ; r " Puget Hound Bridge A Dredging " Co., Seattle. On three different quarries of Indiana limestone, JS5I. 200, $856,900 and $S58,90; Boise snnd ' .- stone. $h51 200; Tenino sandstone, 1828,200; Wilkinson sandstone, $303. " 100- I'ioti"er Or., sandstone, $ K4 ."J t ; t " Fhoenlx. Or., sandstone. $851,200; Che Jan, Wash., sandstone $941.40i. (This was the only firm ubtniltiiiK bids on Oregon si one). National Fireproof Ing Co., Los An- reles. On three, quarries Indiana Imestnne, $37,400; $844. &00 and (,' $848,000; Boise sandstone. $838,700; ' Tenino, JSJ2.7O0; Wilkinson. $S5H,300. Wirilnni Hahl Co. Cleveland. Ohio. Indiana llmcs'one. $795,000; Boise V .sandstone, $795,000. .: , William S. Maxwell. Lakeside, Wash. Bedford limestone. $8:,1.00 : and $R4,t!00; Boise sandstone $852.- ' 600; Tenlno, $863,600. This bid o,uall ' fled by provision as to workability of stone. Grant Fee. San Francisco. Bedford llmestor.e, $762,200. O. II. Olsen and Olson Johnson d.. Missoula. Mont. Bedford. $856,- 720: Holse. $St7.20. Found Construction & Engineering company. tji tt le-Hedf ord, $sl,22S; Boise, $825,77;; Tenino $821,777; Wil kinson, $859,944. Lloyajohn-Arnold company, Portland On three UHrrieH Indiana limestone. $846,160, $St7.'J'JU and Jsil.oO", Boise, $841,000; Tenino. $840, 00U, Wilkinson. $887,750. J. II. Wise, Omaha. Neb. Indiana '" limestone, $27,700: Uolse, $8;!2,000; Tenino, $8.00"; Wtlktnson. $ssu.0i0. m - ilarrlnslon-Peters coiuiany, Seattle r Boise, $818,000; Tenino, $816,000; weWllklnson, $863,000. 1 McLeren'& Peterson, San Francisco I -Ori two quarries Indiana limestone, I $807,742 and $800,742; Boise, $74,742 ; I Tenino, $7i)3,7 4 2. Pearson Construction cotnpnny, Se attle On three quarries Indiana lime Stone. $34,370, $338,706 and $330,311; Bolee, $317,241; Tenino. $S22.921 ; Wil kinson. $352,351. Noiman-Kerr company. New York City Bedford. $783,807; Boise or Te tiino. $783,807, Wilkinson, $813,307; Hercules, $777,807. Dinwiddie Construction company, Portland Two quarries, Indiana lime stone, $732,800 alid $737,600; Boise, $792,800; Tenino, $791,700; Wilkinson, $810,300. Howard S. Williams. San Francisco Bedford, $836,968; Boise. $831,968; Tenino, $830,900. Campbell Building company, Pt. IiOUls Bedford, $47,000; Boise, $R43, 000; Tenino, $843,000; Wilkinson, $891, 000. Bids on mechanical equipment: J. F. Shea, Portland. $76,138. Appllng-Griiigs company, Portland, $82,200. Fox & Co.. l"ortiand, $79,782. Rushlight & llastorf. Cortland. $88, 070. W. O. Mcpherson company, Portland. $no.ooo. a Kendall Heating company, Portland, 4)14.590. Robert Daliiel Jr., San Francisco, $9:, 424. Irving riumblng & Heating company, Denver, $88,937. SJodermajin Heat & Power company, 8t Louls $91. 967. Thomas J. Sheehan company, St. Louis, $101,077. Wenxler & Ward. Seattle. $79,366. Keys Domestic Engineering com pany. St Paul, $76,869. Healy Plumbing & Heating company, TSt Paul. $81,977. Journal Hotel A Ventilating com pany, Milwaukee, $99,128. The Turner company, San Francisco. $100,650. Dreamer Fire Five Shota. tHielbyvllle, Ind.. Aug. 12. William McClure was asleep in his room in the business part of the city, and dreamed Of ghosts. In his dream he saw a phy sician who had ended his own life com 4nc toward him with the Intention of choking him. In his sleep McClure pulled a revolver from beneath his pil low and fired five shots. By that time he was fully awake, and the police con were on the seene. I ASTORIA AND COLUMBIA ry , t ..-"-u-a...... ,..n-WB.,, -''f . - , 4. Vl t. . ' Bf v, - - t v, V , ; -x - i A - Kfefc .ff f At left All that Is left of Tunnel now looks up to the open sky. Ijrainid; below, loading dump PROMINENT CITIZENS TO Funeral of Pioneer and Up builder of Portland Held Dr, Staub Officiates, A large number of prominent citi zens, pioneers, members of the fire de- GATHER TO PAY HO NO R JOSEPH BUCHTEL partment and other friends, assembled promised by going to the mountain, yesterday afternoon at tho FlnleyiBut that waa many years ago before chapel to pay their laat rerpects to Joseph Buchtel. the Ttran fireman, pioneer of 1852 and upbullder of Port land. Rev. J. 3. Staub conducted the serv ices. 12. J. Werlein made remarks con cerning the character, life and devo tion to ideals of his life-long friend. Flowers were piled about the altar and throughout the chapel in great pro fusion. The body wa later taken to the Portland Crematorium. The fol lowing were honorary pallbearers: Joseph M, Healy, A. R. Stringer. C. B. Moores, Whitney I. Boise, W. H. Mall. Will Kindorf. T. T. Geer. and Captain I. B. Banburn. The active pallbearers were the following mem bers of the Portland fire department: Captain Charles Neal, Captain Klliott, Captain Leslie Riley, Captain Thomas Mountain, Captain William Kerrlcan and Captain William Heath. An escort of about 65 firemen composed of mem bers from each company of the fire de partment attended. Joseph Huchtel was born In Ohio In 1830, and came to Oregon In 1852. He was sheriff of Multnomah county and twice chief of the volunteer fire de partmefit. In the agitation for the building of the first bridge across the Willamette he took a leading part and was deeply Interested in various pub lic enterprises and developments In this city for many years. For over 15 years he was manager or captain of the Pioneer Baseball club and took great interest in sports and athletics. Joseph Buchtel was active in public enterprises until two years ago when blindness compelled his retire ments. Mr. Buchtel was a Mason and an Odd Follow and was honored with high positions In both orders. A widow and four children survive him. F. G. Buchtel, A. L. Buchtel, Mrs. N. Lw Currey and Mra. W. G. Kerns. Starts Tabernacle for Billy Sunday Boston. Aug. 12. (I. N. R.) Joe Bplece. the Billy Sunday tabernacle builder, arrived In Boston this week and will begin oonstiuctlon of the edi fice In which the revivalist will work. Chairman William F. Blodgctt of the Biliy Sunday campaign said today that the material Is all ready and can be produced for use in a day. The work will require 160 laborers and will con tinue for about 10 weeks. 1, six miles west of Rainier. It At riiht Above, tunnel near cars after hhtst. TUNNELS ARE BEING CUTOOTOFASTORIAS Line Is Being Reconstructed to Make Roadbed Ready for Heavy Traffic, When the mountain refused to come to Mahomet, Mahomet obligingly com the artistlo dynamiter had achieved the technique of cutting the mountain asunder for its Impertinence. Nowadays your really up-to-date , , j. . . civil engineer ha learned to go lo the mountain, all right ; but. Instead of kow-towing to it afterward and in gratiating himself Into Us good graces sufficiently to send a tunnel througn Its fool, he calmly lifts the top off and uses the rock to raise the moral plane of the low places. Work on Astoria Division. Who knows but that the time may come when the railroads of the United States shall be tunnel-less? Tha North liank is trying to make Its line so, starting with the Atoria division. Two tunnels are now being unroofed, making the hole in the mountain an open cut instead of a dark and danger ous gopher-burrow. The first has Just been completed, save for some final touches. Tnia Is known as "Tunnel 1," six miles west of Rainier. The work waa done by Guthrie, McDougall & Co., who re moved 46,000 cubic yards of earth and rock from the tunnel roof and made it open to the sky. With this material three long trestle bridges were 'filled up, making a solid roadbed. Tunnel 1 Is Longest. Tunnel 1 was the longest of the four between Portland and Astoria. It waa 2 73 feet long and was the passageway through one of the most attractive j scenic portions of the railroad. Porter Brojs. are handling the work on tunnel 2, which la half a mile west of tunnel 1. It Is 165 feet long, the work being now about half done. The contractors and engineers have to use great care in this work for two reasons: First, because the charges of dynamite must not be so heavy as to break in the roof entirely .and thus precipitate tons of rock upon the tun nel floor; second, traffio must not be interfered with and travel on some dayia Is exceedingly heavy on the As toria run. So the experienced dynamiter puts In Just enough blasting powder to loosen enough rock to fill the dump cars that aj-e spotted on the track Just below. ' He touches it off and the broken mass slides dowrt a funnel-like hopper Into the cars. The next blast moves out more and gradually the whole superincumbent stratum is torn away and hauled In the dump trains to the trestlas where they axe tipped into the abyss. XTo Accidents So Par. So far no accidents have occurred and but small delay to travel. Track maintenance is much simplified by the elimination of the tunnels, experience has taught, and It Is probable that the other two tunnels on the Astoria line will be "daylighted" as soon as the ef fects of the Jobs now under way are definitely known. The tunnel work Is part of the North Bank's contemplated development . of the Clatcsop beach resorts and of the Astoria situation, the first considera tion being a roadbed capable of han dling the heaviest traffic at all times. Ring Recovered From Fish. Lexington, Ky Aug. 12. -From the stomach of a bass caught by Louis Fiber of Lexington, Ky, at Lake El lerslie was taken a gold ring lost by Thoma CDay in the pond at Walnut Hills farm, eight miles distant, an hour before Fiber made his catch. O'Dar identified tha ring by initials engravtd on tb Inner aid. COLUMBIA RAILROAD LINE IS TO BE MADE A DAYLIGHT ROUTE GOVERNMENT EXPERT 0F- George M. Darrow of Ver mont Is Also Taking Some Side Glances at Cranberry George M. Darrow of Vermont Is studying the habits and social ln RTincts of the Oregon loganberry. "i v 8 , .Buucy 1 Many people of Vermont and Texas and yNebraska and mmols are doing as I t he same thi ut wU tne alffer" I ence that "Mr. Darrow Is doing It j officially as berry expert of the l nlted States department of agri culture. He has been in Oregon sev eral days and was entertained atJ luncheon yesterday by J. A. Currey, who Is more than casually interested in the agricultural Industries- the state. Mr. Darrow's department Is espec ially the study of the technic of growing berries. He came west to study first the strawberry In its various climes and cisiumstances. Now he Is looking into the loganberry with some eide glances at the cran berry of the Ilwaco marshes. Cranberry Next Summer. "I expect to preparesome bulletins on the Oregon berries . this winter after I have Mnished my field inves tigations," said Mr. Darrow yesterday. "Bulletins already have been prepared on blackberries and dewberries and the strawbery and loganberry will add to the series. Next summer I hope to finish my Investigation of the cranberry and may come west again." Other branches of the department of agriculture look after the packing and f.hlppins, and still others, the market ing of fruits. So Mr. Darrow's studies of the actual growth and ripeninc conditions, cultivation, soils, moisture and the thousand and one elements that make for success or failure of growing berry fruits are In a depart ment of their own. The bulletins will show the best methods of securing profitable results, citing experiences of successful grow ers and showing the effects of Im proper methods. Farm Valuable Crop. Mr. Darrow spent most of ths week around the cranberry bogs, along the coast, ut did not attempt any inten sive studies. He expects to be back in Portland about mid-September, when he will make a m'ore thorough Inspection when the crop is more rearly matured. One comment Mr. Darrow did make on the boga he saw was that the cranberry responds more than al most any other fruit to cultivation. By Increasing the Investment In the bogs, in the- form of labor done to make them level and free from weeds and insect pests, the yield Is In creased many times the Increased cost of cultivation. Cranberries are now quoted from JS to 812 per barrel and the yield In barrels from an acre varies all the way from three or four, to 200. depending upon the age of the plants and the care taken In tending them. Mr. Darrow left yesterday for Salem and expects to continue his Journey through Southern Oregon and Northern California in the study of the loganberry and blackberry. H will continue through California to Los Angeles), starting north again about September 12. 41 Widows in Little Town. Corydon, Ind., Aug. U. Georgetown, a place of about S00 Inhabitants, near the Harrison-Floyd county line, has for some time been noted for tha num ber of its widows. A census was taken recently by soma curious person, who said tha town now has 41 widows. Most of then) are comparatively young and lira In eofeforta&U home. TU METHOD RAISING LOGANBERRY FAMILY ON A LONG TRIP WITH BURROS &jf P A .lidfess 'a ll "We should worry about inter state commerce rates." Having traveled about 2000 miles with a pack train of six burros, H. W. Yager, accompanied by his wife and two small daughters. Kmma and Florence, pitched camp at Multnomah falls yesterday afternoon, where he In tends to take up permanent residence providing certain plans mature favor ably. On their Journey westward many beautiful sights of grandeur, which could not have been viewed other than by means of travel adopted by Mr. Ya ger, were beheld. Mr. Yager first started out with a wagon, which he soon abandoned because of slow pro- Kress. "With fr o burros w eonii take short cuts and go many places that we could not have visited with the wagon," stated Mr. Yager. "I grew tired of seeing nothing but sage brush and deserts, eo my wife and I and children started for the coast." . Mr. Yager had been prospecting In Nevada for about 11 years. The Jour ney was begun In August. 1916, but only four months have been spent In actual travel. With the burros the party averaged about 20 miles per day. Leaving Nevada, the party traveled on the Lincoln highway and downt the Snake river valley. In the Box can yon there were many beautiful eghts. Mr. Yager struck the Columbia river highway at The Dalles, which he fol lowed to Multnomah falls. Vacation for Soldiers in Macedonia Plan iltn in Blocks of Tea Will Be Allowed to Xaock Off for Tea Says Just as la Peace Xdfe. Salonika, Aug. 12. (I. N. S.) A rather novel idea of-a summer holiday for troops in the field Is being realized by the French during the prevailing heat, wnicn in treeless Macedonia is very severely felt. The officers com manding the units which are away from the frontier are ordered to ar range for ten men to have a ten days' suspension of work so that while re maining, of course, with tha regiment, all In turn will be allowed to knock off for that length of time and live under conditions of agreeable repose reading novels, smoking cigarettes, and playing cards, as if they were staying at a holiday camp In peace time. With proper organization the work of the various units .will be carried on just the same, end there is no doubt that this measure wlU greatly benefit the health of the men. GREATEST FINANCIER JAPAN RETIRES AT AGE OF 86 YEARS Baron Shibusawa Will Devote His Life to Bettering Inter national Relations, By ITufrh Bras. Tokyo. Aug. 12. (I. N. S.I Baron Shibusawa, president of the First Na tional Bank of Japan, resipned his po sition at the annual m-etlng of the bank and retired into private life. Ha Is -6 years of age. He proposes to de vote the remaining years of his life to the promotion of charitable works and the betterment of international rela tions, particularly between Japan and the United States. The baron Is well known 1n Amer ica, to which he made his last visit early this year. When In New York he had long consultations with leadlns American financiers, his object being to interest them In the propositions which Japan intends to exploit in China. "Japan has tho brains, Amer ica has the money," was in effect what he said in trying to prsuade Wall Street moneyed m3i to uJse an Inter est In the business. Proposition Turned Down. The proposal was turned down. New York business men thought if they were going to find tho money they would provide the brairLs aa well. The suggestion was a sort of second edi tion of one which Count Okuina made to England a year before when he threw out the Idea tha the Anglo-Japanese alliance should become an eco nomic as well as a military pact, n, made practically the Fame proposition "Japan has the experience. Kngland has the cash" but the Britishers ! came to the conclusion without any I special delay, mat tney naa enougn grains to exploit China with their own money If they wanted. The baron's disappointment may be read In an ar ticle which he wrote for the Century in February or March of the present year. Like every old man in Japan Baron Shlubusawa has lived in two worlds world of feudalism and two-sworded samurai and the present world of, among other things, banks and limited companies. He entered the government eesrvlce under the old regime while the emperor who died three years ago was till virtually a recluse In Kyoto and the empire was ruled by the Tokugawa Shoguns. Visited America in 1867. Shibusawa's first mission out of Japan was an educational trip to Eu rope with one of the Sl.ogun's sons who did not dream that his family's tenure of the sovereignty of Japan was over. This was In 1867-68 when An drew Johnson was pres. dent of the United States In the interval between Lincoln's assassination and Grant's election. He returned and went Into the government after the upset of the Shogunate and was an official until 1873 when he resigned over a differ ence with the finance minister of the day and never entered pontics again. Instead, he founded the First Bank, so called because it was the first mK in Japan on modern llnea. That was 43 years ago and In that long time Baron Shibusawa moved on from one financial success to another until In 1909 be was president of 70 concerns). When he started the First Bank its capital was $1,250,000 borrowed money now It Is 110,750,000, or If re serve fund 1 counted in $16,000,030. Em metlred Before. This 1 not the first time that the baron has thought of retiring. In 1801 he was ill and not knowing whether he would live, made a will In which he mam a. A mm mn rnmMMfw In thtt nrHMfit v of the First Bank, Yunoshbie 8asek1. the manager who now actually suc ceeds hl Id chief. Then In 1905 he was again ill and he resigned from many of his poaitloms, but picked them all tip again when he recuperated. His last resignation was In 1909 when he quitted all his presidential chairs ex cept that of the bank. Interviewed as to his reasons for retirement, the baron said, "The child Is grown and able to walk by himself," meaning that Japnnese finance was now so advanced that his influence is no loniger needed. But even now it doea not seem quite clear that the veteran intends really to cut himself adrift from the world where his long life has been pent. for he added that he would still contribute to the com mercial and Industrial interests of the nation. Reside taking an active part In work for a better understanding be tween Japan and other countries. When the Kokusai Nenvs Agency was founded three yen. ago in order to disseminate the "true truth" about Japan by cables and news, the baron became president of the company, a rost he still holds. This company owns the Japan Times and Japan Pally Mall, two newspapers printed In English in Tokyo, nnd con trols the Reuter cable service, both Inwards and outwards from Japan. Suocessor Is Uncertain. His retirement gives rise to the question of who will be his successor as leader of the financial world of Japan. There is no single man In fight who is big enough to fill his chair. The candidates with the best chance are thought to be R. Nnkano, president of the Tokyo Chamber of Comnierci ; R. Fujuyama, vice prrsldent of the same body, and P. Ohashl, who vice president until last year. Vsed Wife's False Teeth. Bellefontalne. Or., Aug. 12. A Belle forrtalne man and his wife both wear store teeth." The w ife missed herjinK style her e in hosiery for git Is Is lower plate the other day--couldn't find It high or low and when her hus band appeared she eald, Just for fun, "Say, I believe you are wearing my teeth." Hobby was Indignant, but when he removed the teeth the trou bled wife's missing teeth were found. But the husband ha not located his teeth. 1 1 ii . jll The venirda i like an old southern m.in cn whem miiu'lcs tho color of :i hundred flowers. : W vcars we deal ii' w (iai)iiiimeni. cifk'd betterment was possible in funeral methods. 'e sought out the most ad vanced ideas put forth everywhere. To all appearances, outward and inward, this is a beautifully appointed home. Yet it possesses the most modern facilities, of any establishment in the country. You are admitted into our bi, restful entrance, room, from which opens the chapel and the parlors for relatives. ( )ur private drive is another iminue feature, further carrying out the theme of privacy for those who so desire. MONTGOMERY XI H H H oly Cross Institute A Boarding School for Boys under twelve years of age, OPEN ALL YEAR ) The number of boarders is limited to thirty, thereby facilitating individual attention to children. Conducted by the Sis tern of St. Mary For particulars address: Sister Superior, 779 Obcrlin St.. Portland, Oregon. Phone Col. 651, or Col. 624. if Oemfuuju: Family Washing Family Style 25 Pieces 50 Cents Union Laundry Co. Main 398 A-l 123 Man Worked Long Without Vacation Joseph T. Bean Employed by Hew Tor Central for Half Centnry Will Be Retired on Pension. Chlcsgo, Aug. 12 (I. N. S.) Forty nine years without a working day off. That Ls the , record of Joseph T. Bean, who has Just ret lnd on a pension by the New York Central lines. For the greater part of thai time, he had his hand on a throttle as a locomotive en gineer and was retired becuuso he had reached the age of 70. It was on May 1, 1867. that he first went to work for the company as a locomotive fireman oti the Lake Shore A Michigan Central In the suburban service. It was only a few weeks later he was promoted to tin- post of engineer, and during all these pars he ran locomotives of all types with out ever having been In an accident. "tJood health, the result of clean ha bits, made me a good man physically." was li!s only explanation. "1 never did any drinking, so my nerves were al ways in good shape, and 1 icwr needed a vacation. That's thu reason I never took one. Safely first was my molto long before it became : slogan of the public, and It applied to my physical well-beln as well as my wrk." Half Hose for Girls Fad in Eastern Town Choir Singers Who Bad Brothers In vaded Supply of Mais Socks, Other Soiled Their Stockings Sown. Charlerol, Pa.. Aug 12. The prcvatl- socks. This startling fact became known when the news spread that girl choir singers of one of the leading churches had appeared wearing vari colored half-hose that peeped from beneath skirts not too long. Girls who have no brothers to borrow from are doing the next best thing, which Is to roll their own full lengths half down from the top. have clierishcd the fulfilled in the Fiiiley l o otir ininci. a ic-
