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
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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. .-,,. .
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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-
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