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OLD CENTRAL SCHOOL WAS LOCATED WHERE nnirn mn umri 10 rUIILMHU IIUILL 10 Many of City's Business Men Boast of Having, Been Pu- pils in This School, WAS 1N USE MANY YEARS Old XXlgh School os Fourteenth Strsst Built Witn Mousy It Was Bold Tot. Hy Henry E. Reed. Portland's- first free public cf;oo! to l built Willi money Jcrlved from taxation was opened May 17, 1818, anl ctood on th Bite now orruplr-d ly t!io Hotel Portland It was known as the Central school. Mainly becaime It was In the middle section of rn west side, whlrh was then about nil there was to Portland. In later yejrs this name served to distlriKulsh it from the Harrison street, or (Southern srhool, built In 1865, and the Nor n school built 1 SB 7. For 25 years, tho t'entral school whs a conspicuous land mark In the educational history of the Pnclflo northwest. Its great nlory de parted In 188.1, when the ground was soWJ for hotel purposes and thj build Inn lteelf divided Into sections :ni moved to the block north of Hotel Portland. The last traces of the ou school dlsapptated five of six yen.) frgo with the erection of the Selling and Maecly-Tlchner buildings. The Central school Is dear to :he memory of old Portlandera. It oc cupier, an eminent position in school annals, but was not the beginning of education here. It Is recorded that the first day school of any kind In Port land was opened In the fall of 1847. H was located at the northeast corner of First and Taylor Blreets In a builu InK owned by Job McNatnee. lr. Ralph Wilcox w,as the t-acher. He conducted a private school for about three months. People Build Own School. Free public education In Portland, saw Its dawn on lot 3. block 29. on ths West fclde of First street, fiO feel north of Oak street. On May 22. 18tD, wheji Portland was a straggling vil lage of 10 to 12 houses and perhaps 100 people, some public spirited ci:'. sens conceived (he Idea of erecting a school and meeting house. They Signed up $1!00, bought the lot fron Townsdale and Coffin for $S00 ?nd started the building. The structure was completed In the fall and Rev. Horace Lyman opened a private school in It In December. The building was known as the School House and was used for public meetings religious and secular and for schools. Among the teachers other than tr. Lyman, who held nchool in the building were Cyrus A. Heed, De'io . efferson and liev. N. Doane. Ail these condu ted private school and charged from $11.50 to J 10 per pu; l, per quarter. Free public education began will, the opening of school in the School House on December 15, 1851. John T. Outhouse was principal and ho began frith 20 pupils. What arrangements the school district made for the tie Of the School House, Is not knovn, but It is presumed that rent was puUl. Records Are Oone. Kven the date of the organisation f the school district cannot be prove I from any records now extant, and enly be approximated. The terrlt ir lah legislature In September, HI', .assed a law establishing a sytem of eommon schools In Oregon. It author ised the people of any "town or neigh borhood" to form school districts: directed the school commissioners, ks the county school superintendent; were then called, to divide tli -ir Counties into school districts betoro January 1, 1921; and provided for school district meetings on the l:it Friday of November, annually. Port tand, which was at that time in Wash ington county, was Incorporated in April. 1851. It is quite likely that (he organisa tion of the school district post-dnted the incorporation of the city and that school directors were elected for the first time In November, 1831. Then followed on December 6, the boar is notice of intention to open a "free school," and, a little later, the actual apenlng of the scbool under the charge of M r. Outhouse. ' Free schools were not established In Portland without opposition. Th-re. were people here who did not have chil dren and they were opposed to helna taxed for education. Then there was a considerable element which was t&iisueo. wun me private schools. A contemporary view of the experlmnt la noraea oy in following from a Portland paper of July 3, 18 apr Opposed rree School. "Out of the taxes levied by our city council, elected April 1. 1851 (when municipal government bexan in Port land), there was collected something Over $1000 for city purposes. There convened another council November 1. 1851, known as the common school FDR everyone, no matter what his faith or flag, I wish happiness and pros perity throughout the whole new year. For all the citizens of your Portland and my Portland I wish renewed devotion to the highest civic and business ideals, to the end that our city may abundantly sustain a cheerful ani a thriving people. council, but more familiarly as th ple-and-glnger-cake council. self called, self-elected, that voted $1000 additional to be paid for pedagoglng somo dozen or two children." On November 4. 1852, the directors of school district No, 1 leased the schoolhouse for one year at 110 per month, and on December 6, reopened It as a free school, with Mr. Outhouse as principal. The primary pupils were taught by Miss A. M. Clarke in a building on the west side of First street. Just couth of Tavlor. A short time previously $1600 had been raised by taxation for the support of, the schools. It was calculated that this fund, together with the receipts from the county apportionment, would em ploy Mr. Outhou-e and Miss Clarke for 10 months. Just when sentiment in favor of a publicly owned free school began to form is hot known. After the close of school in the simmer of 1853, the public school question lagged and did not take on new life Until the two Portland districts were consolidated in April, ISofi. The need of a school building was apparent and tho new organization set about to provide It. In May, 1856, a committee of tax payers wag appointed to consider sites and make a recommendation. The I b 't y m si 't& 45cfirt I IMF' j x W: . ' & o ft i o IL 1 Era ZSZSZZm EOii I m 0WOT""" 111 "'-fit ' in iramnim WiiirummimC-iii i T"-'' cTT-nr f innr in y-" " " r Old Central seliuol, lucttted wliere small building at the left choice fell upon the Jamps Field block, bounded by Sixth, Broadway, Yamhill and Morrison. Mr. Field had indi cated his willingness to sell for $1000, and the taxpayers, by a vote of 63 to 45, authorized the purchase. On May 29. by a vote of 39 to 13. a tax of $4000 was levied to pay for the land and erect tho first unit cf the school. On Ajril 24. 1837, a further tax of $4000 was voted to complete the build lnjr. in 1872 and 1873, the building was enlarged and remodeled at a cost oC about $30,0u0. There was then nilde.l the large structure fronting on Sixth street, and the high towi-r. The ordinal building with a cupola sur mounted by a weather cock faced what is now ISroadway, and in later times housed the first public school library , in Portland. Central school was opened Monday. May 17. 1858, with I,. L. Terwilliger as principal and O. C. Connolly and Mrs. Hensell as assistants. In the first three days 170 pupils werr en rolled. Up to July 23, the enrollment was 2S0. Of the residences of tho pupils noted, but two were from the district west of Broadway, with H sprinkling from Couch addition. Most of the pupils cr mo from that part of town between th Willamette river I and T'ourth street. ncn I'ortland was in the throes ot its transcontinental railroad boom in the early '80s, Henry Villard projected a grand hotel for the city. No site but the one where the Central school stood would suit, and it was sold to the railroad interests for $75,000 in 18S3. With the money received from the sale the pchool district bought a block on upper Morrison street for $30,000, and erected a high school, which, in its younger years, was one of the wonders of the west Time's march has cast this onco stately build ing into the discard, along with the old Central school, which it succeeded. State Exhibits Are Desired in Capital "Washington, Iec. 30. (I. N. S.) The governors of California, Oregon and Washington have been asked by a committeo of Washington citizens to aid In the movement for a permanent exhibit of the various states of the union at Washington. The Idea for such an exhibit was fathered by Sen etor Works of California, who has of fered a bill In the senate providing"for the purchase of land by the federal government to be used as the site for the state exhibition buildings. SCHOOL ONCE Ly -f? he heard the boy's cries. He ran for- V " ssti v ,' wrd nJ shot the animal dead, but 0 t'-'-M y not until after his brother' had been 771 - f - M, terribly scratched. The wildcat was 'i-if- ' it three feet, 11 inches long and weighed Tl' " 65 Pund8' tne largest ever killed in L . m n " '9 If the east bay region. i'urtiaul iiutel now tsuuiu. .uJiy of i'oitiajwi lorvn.ost ciUze.i receivea trteir learning here, is t"'e Unitarian chapel and it was located where the First Unitarian church now stands. NEW HOMESTEAD LAW T Register Campbell Says Ap plications Can Be Entered as Soon as Classified, The United States commissioner of the general land office has telegraphed to N. Campbell, register, and George I. Smith, receiver of the land office in Portland, under date of December 29, as follows: "Receive and suspend .applications with petitions for desig nation under grazing homestead law approved yesterday. ' Clay Tallman, commissioner." "There are approximately 49.000 acres of public lands In the Portland district subject to entry urtder the new law," said Mr. Campbell. "I suppose much of It can be taken as grazing lands, and as soon as classified the applications be entered to run as homesteads. Many will be able to add to their holdings portions adjacent that can only be useed for grazing." Information Is Sought, Information as to whether a par ticular tract or plot of land is sub ject to entry may be obtained from the register or receiver of the land district In which it may be located. Plats and diagrams of any township can be secured for from $1 to $4 from such officers, showing the entered land, and if more information Is want ed a larpe amount of detail for the larger bum. In the Portland district are 49. 245 acres classed as subject to entry. Much of it is mountain and hill tops of little value. List of Vacant Lands. The following is the official list of vacant lands subject to entry in the Portland district: Counties Acres Benton 2,7 lu Clackamas 9. 20:; Clatsop 1.1 IS Linn 1,27a 1-incoln 12,459 Multnomah 8S0 Marion 626 Polk 600 Tillamook 19,698 Washington 320 Yamhill 410 All the lands In this district are surveyed. In the Burns district, com prising Crook, Grant. Harney and Wheeler counties, there are 3,914,629 acre, most of it surveyed. In the La Grande district, comprising Baker. Grant. Morrow, Umatilla, Union and Wallowa counties, there are 699,968 acres, all but 10,000 of which has been Burveyed. The Iakeview district has 3.911.624 acres, with all but 360.286 acres surveyed in Crook, Klamath and Lake counties. Hay Be Bushing" Bugiats. The new law allows homesteads of as much as 640 acres of grazing lands. It is expected that some entries will b made under it for Clackamas coun ty, where there are lands that could not be utilized except by adjoining homesteaders. The largest body of land unfiled upon in Clackamas coun ty Is 4751 acres, and the smallest is 4C acres. Should the O. & C. grant be thrown open to entry there would be a rush ing business done at the land office In the Worcester building. The graz ing homestead law Is not expected to swell receipts at the I'ortland office very much and most of what Is en tered upon will be sold for $1.25 tin acre. Congress Heroes Remembered. Seattle. Wash.. Dee. 30. The Pacific Coast company today forwarded, as a present In recognition of their heroic services in rescuing the paasengers and crew of the, burning steamship Congress, a $259 talking machine to the officers and members of the "ere w of the government dredge, CoL 8,-p. MIchie. .-,,. . NS 0 GRAZING HOUSANDS OF ACRES CITY'S PRIDE mms Young Church Folks Have Evening Club Plans are being made by the First Presbyterian church of this city for the organization of a Monday evening club, with the idea of providing some educational opportunities for the young people of the church and others of the congregation who are interest ed. The plan, so far as it is formulat ed, will be to use the church houso every Monday evening during January, February and March for the study of history, literature and current events. The management of the , courses will be under James P. Ewlng, educational director of the church. There will be a variety of courses offered, with com petent leadership each Mondav even iing from 7:45 to 9 o'clock. w:lth the following subjects: "Shakespeare's Tragedies." "The Historical Roots of the Great War," "Present Dav Poetry," "Current Events Week by Week," and such other topics as : may be added fiom time to time. At 9 o'clock all classes will gather in a central room for the enjoment of travel talks by Dr. Boyd. These talks for the present will follow the general subject "Cap itals of the Great War," and will ie illustrated with the stereopticon. The first meeting will be held on Monday evening, January 8. This in itial meeting is for the purpose of ex plaining the plan of the Monday evening- club, and of hearing the leaders of the different courses give a state ment of the ground to be covered. An hour of special entertainment is also being planned for thia first meeting, the details of which are not yet. com pleted. Announcement will he made l a later date of the nature of this part of the evening's program. A!l young people interested In registering for ri.. mXfi yktlr1 NEW Marguerite Clark pictures in Portland only at the Peoples here is her greatest. No advance in prices. Boy Attacked by Wildcat Recovering Oakland. Cal.. Dec. 30. (P. N. S.) Neil McElwaln, a 11-year-old school toy, is slowly recovering from the ef lects of a narrow escape from death he experienced the other day when he was attacked by a wildcat. That he was not clawed to death was due to the presence of mind of Jus brother, H years old, who was hunting a short distance away when he heard the boy's cries. He ran for ward and shot the animal dead, but not until after his brother had been terribly scratched. The wildcat was three feet, 11 inches long and weighed 55 pounds, the largest ever killed in the east bay region. Hie regular study along any of the lines suggested will be welcome to become members of the Monday Kvenlng club and enjoy the good things which are being provided by the First Presby terian church. Harley Will Give" Inaugural Ball Aetoria, Or., Dec 30. Mayor-elect F. C. Harley has mailed invitations to all mayors in Oregon and some mayors in "Washington towns to at tend the inaugural ball to be given In the east wing or the port docks Mon I day night. January 1. Mr. Harley distinctly wants It' undstood that the affair will be informal. A special decorator from Seattle j has been secured to decorate the in I terior of the dock for the big balL Klamath Postoffice Experiences Rush K'.amath Falls, Or.. Dee. 30. More than SI tons of Incoming mall were re ceived in Klamath Falls from Decem ber 17 to 21 according to a report of Postmaster W. A. Delzell. This amount of ma'l, 1300 sacks at an average of 50 pounds per sack did not all remain in the city, as a considerable part was distributed through the five star routes which head here. These are l.akeview, 110 miles; Merrill and Tule Lake. 40 miles; Fort Klamath, 40 miles; Swan Lake, 12 miles and Odessa, 28 miles. When wr!tlns or railing on tdrertUera. please mention TTie Journal. ( Act. ) - Clark yv Show White-" AAMOUS PLAYCK3-PAMAM0UK7 It ;i x Marg EIGHT HOUR DAY FOR IS DEMONSTRATED EO Five States Now in Line and Supreme Court Decision Adds Momentum. CONFERENCES ARE HELD Hationai Woman's Trade Union Xf-aa rosters' Series of Meetings to Promote tne Idea, By Florence I. SRnvllle. C"iiyrialit. 1'JlO. hy Florput-e 1- Sauville.) Within the last few months more recently even than the enactment of that still unfinished piece of federal legislation, the Adamson law a force Tor a wholly different application of the eight-hour working day has been quietly gathering momentum. The working women of the ration are con centrating efforts to secure an eight hour day through legislation for them selves. This movement Is based on nothing less sound than a decision of the su preme court of the United States, which in February, 1915. upheld the California statute limiting the hours of work for women In virtually all in dustries and occupations to eight in a day and 48 in a week. Its latest man ifestation has been the series of inter state coh Terences of working women, held by the National Women's Trada Union league, the latest of which took place recently in NewYork city. Hew Chaptar Is Beg-ua. Here begins a new chapter in the history of industrial conditions for women. Through the chapters JuBt closed the dominant theme was the demonstration of the need and Justi fication of legally limiting women's working hours. In state after state where these hours were virtually un restricted by law, the various legisla tures were slow to be convinced that they were allowing unregulated indus try to sap the very sources of vitality in their commonwealths. It needed the historic decision in 1907 of the United States supreme court in uphold ing the Oregon 10-hour law to set the seal, of the nation's approval upon the conservation of its womanhood. Then one after another the states fell into line, until there are only 10 states at this time which do not recognize at least a 10-hour limit for the dally labor of its girls and women. Thus in each case the much revered hand of the federal supreme court points the way. Shall we as a nation he as prompt to follow to the eight hour goal as we were to the 10, and is there an equal need? One must indeed be encased in an impenetrable armor of self-interest or skepticism If, after studying the facts of industry today, or hearing spon taneous testimony such as filled the sessions of the Women's Trade Union league conferences, he can doubt that each hour in some cases each minute over the eight hours of work a day robs a woman of her heritage of well being and a nation of its strength. Pertinent Questions. The Woman's Trade Union league has just issued a leaflet which asks the following questions: DO YOU KNOW That a telephone operator answers about 225 calls'per hour (In some ex changes 2S7 per hour), and that each call requires six different operations? DO YOU KNOW That many girls in the sewing trades sit for long hours In a room roaring with machinery, watching a machine that carries 12 needles or one that sets 4000 stitches a minute? DO YOU KNOW That lir mills where women formerly tended two looms they now are ex pected to look out for 12 to 16? DO YOU KNOW That in canneries the women sort ers must work steadily with their eyes and attention fixed on moving con veyors, and the "cappers" are expected to cap from 54 to 80 cans per minute? Must we combine the strain of speed, monotony, piecework with that of long hou rs ? It has been, moreover, estimated that One week WOMEN WDRKERS Daniel Frohman Presents the Magnetic, Captivating Favorite In an entrancing six-act miow In which she appeared tre, New York. No need to use superlatives in nig 1 l ; unc iiuutaiva jjci cent puraoiiig. Daily from 1 1 a. m. to at 11:30 o'clock lomght. at Portland s favorite, r Alder Street 4 ft even in an occupation so apparently free from overstrain as typewriting, the energy expended Is equivalent to . lifting 14-tons In a 10-hour day, each j pressure of the keys requiring three ounces of energy. A textile worker at the Middle oDantlc conference de scribed her workn-i Jute mill where he ran two high pVwer machines, lift- I Ing to a height above her head an ag-! gregate weight each day of SC00 ! pounds, A waitress explained the ef fect upon herself and her sister work ers of the constant strain of carrying heavy trays, "We'feel it the worst on our backs and necks," she said. "Vari cose veina and flat-foot is what we suffer most from. I am wearing a teel arch now which cost me $2o." 7 actors to Be Considered. "The number of hours of work should depend on two factors." said Dr. Frederic Lee, professor of physi ology at Columbia university, in a ses. alon of this same conference, "the characteristics of the work and the ca pacity of the worker." He maintained that the simplification of motion, bet ter ventilation, sanitation, - etc., char acteristic of modern history, is not sufficient to offset the poisons of fa tigue -generated by the rapid repeti tion ot motion or other strains Inher ent in modern processes. "The Met Is that the eight-hour limit has been actually proved to be beneficial and should 'be adopted." In the face of this- testimony, re peated in kind at the various confer ences held in Boston, in Wilmington, Del., and in Chicago, the fact remains that only five states and the District of Columbia have established a legal eight-hour day for women, viz.; Wash ington, California, Colorado, Arizona and 'yVyoming. Falling Limb Kills Crabtree Workman Crabtree, Or., Dec. SO. D. W. Beougher, who with his two sons has been getting out logs for the Crabtree Lumber company mill, on the C. V. Sargent place six miles from town, was Instantly killed Thursday, when a limb which broke from a tree being felled, struck him on the head. It waa thought Beougher was enly Wishing One and All a Happy, Prosperous New Year The whole-hearted interest our employes take in their daily tasks floods the store with light and color and encourages us the Climbers -to strive up and up. It foreshadows the way to a realization of purposes and ideals sug gests more practical ways and means of attain ment and makes our business life wider and more enthusiastically interesting. It stimu lates ambition and urges us to greater and more earnest effort to please. For 1917-Jhe New Year We face our task in good heart and courage, believing that the reward of a thing well done is to have done it. Knowing that if we work to fulfill our obligations thoroughly we shall reap as we sow. Trusting that every move we make will contribute something to the customers' wider satisfaction. starting this morning urate picturization of her greatest stage success Wmfe for two years at Winthrop Ames' Little Thea-, 1 1 p. m., with special Midnight "High .Jink" j P at West Park Eev. T, S. Anderson u) V To Leave Atkinson v - : y ',v-v)?Jj. Ztnal Sermos After roll Tsr"". , torate to Be Delivered Tolkt WtH i . Beside U rortlaad. '" , . -v' ' Vg'S Today will complete one year Of as v'V'v' toral services of the Rev. Thomas -Anderson In the Atkinson MtnorUl t Congregational church, and be Will, " give his last sermon in the even1nV This will also complete 28 years of Mi v , , Anderson's ministerial life, during", " w hich period he has never been Without ." actual charge of a church, not for ) .'':, slnirle Snbb::h. passing direetly through five pastorates. He served ;'N ;J two churches In Chicago presbyteryt 111., for nine years. Was pastor f. Marinette, Wis.. Presbyterian chlifW1 V; , fr seven years and in tne First Pros -j hyterlan church of Bay City, Mich- ; for 11 years. f v-.' A year ago last summer Mr. Anflor.' t' son suffered a nervous breakdown. At .i the earnest solicitation of friends Strtl seeking a complete recovery of health, he came to Portland the first of tho . year and took chaise of the Atkinson ' -church. " It was the hope and expeetatln' : that this church might be devslo$djV - ; into a strong community church, boV -f"; because of financial depression 0nJ rtrong denominational rivalry thlo, seems to be impossible at the presontj t -time. Mr. Anderson says that the .ofip. U :. tarlan spirit seems to be even stronfOf , In I'ortland than in the east and ho bo- -j :" lleves the city to be over-churchsd not over-religious. S t Mr. Anderson Is a graduate of Woo jV f ter college, Ohio, having tho degroo of '' M. A., and is a member Of Phi poltaVtY-. Theta fraterriltv. Tie Is also a full' graduate of Mccormick TheolofficsT ' : : seminary of Chicago, 111. He U thirty-second uKr Mason, a Knight ' . Templar and a member of El KurophS)'",5 Shrine of Saginaw, Mich. ' "tt?f;:K Mr. Anderson will retain his homtrj -' In Laurelhurst. ' stunned, until the arrival of Dr, A. CL Prill from Sclo, who found ho was -, dead, dren. He leaves a wife and 12 chll- - w . i J';.- t ; ;"f A':' Vl':2 1 1 Clark 1 describing this ' offer-j mi The m Marshall 880 A-2087 1 . ' v-;. . ti v ff . ' n . . .at".. "'"' St " ' ' " . Vii.;-!' i -I A': ; ,r '-'- . .." - "f ' i ' :. ft 4 - - - . ' -"'1 i i ,