The Oregon daily journal., September 21, 1919, Page 32, Image 32

FINAL CHAPTER IN
t Otti BARLOW ROAD
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Historic Thoroughfare. Deeded to State and Toil Books Closed
1 Forever Road Will Be Merged Into Loop, With Future Exist
f ; ehce as Part of Road Around Mt. Hood;
Polish government, which would, enable
4t-to make replies from Its standpoint:
Tho investigators mromltted to the gov
ernment 10 questions dealing exclusively
with Jewish claims regarding passports
and economical, educational, employ
ment and business relations.
repeated. , waa also asked whether
Joseph Conrad r other Britishers of
Polish blood were meant to be included
in the commission. - v
If the British commission cornea It Is
proposed to ask for two other commis
sions, one of prominent scientists and
writers of Polish blood and the other
of American citizens of Polish blood
holding high official posts in America.
It' is believed that the Morgenthau re
port will pour oil on the troubled waters.
Cordial Relations
Between Government
Of Italy an1 Vatican
By Mario Borta
Special Cable to The Journal and The Chic to
Daily Newt.
(Copyright, Itl9, by Chicago Daily Nw Co.)
Milan, Sept. 20. There has been a
persistent report recently of a possible
reconciliation between the Italian gov
ernment and the Vatican, but investiga
tion proves that it is without founda
tion. It originated through the fact
that the government and the Vatican
have lately been exchanging courtesies.
Thus for the first time since 1170 the
treat cross of the Mountain Order was
awarded to two cardinals and the gov
ernment offered ths war cross to Car
dinal Oulstlni. All that can be arrived
at is that the relations between the
Italian government and the Vatican are
now most cordial.
Those desiring a coalition between the
Catholics and conservatives are en
deavoring to mako use of the fact in
the coming elections, which will take
place in th first fortnight of November.
The, electoral campaign will be inaugu
rated with an Important speech by Pre
mier Nitti In his Basilica college. Keen
interest is shown in the speech which
Giovanni Gtolittl intends, to make Octo
ber 28 at Dronero, where a great dinner
will be given by his partisans.
v Foreign Minister Tlttonl'a return ' la
expected at the end of the coming ueete
when it is expected he will be able to
communicate to the chamber a definite
solution of the Adriatic problem.
Men Crow Shorter
Chicago. 111., Sept. 20. Men are get-'
ting shorter and lighter, according to
statistics, and the big, burly and large
footed policeman is soon to go: No
longer will candidates for places on tho
Chicago police force be required to be
taller, heavier or bulkier than, the aver
age. The civil service commission has
changed the regulations from 5 feet 8
Inches to 5 feet 7 Inches, and lowered
the minimum weight from 145 to 140
pounds.
The investigation --was Judicial. Wlt-
nesses were not under oath and were
not cross-examined on behalf of the
Polish government. Meanwhile it is an
nounced that the Jewish Zionists are
sending from England jl committee
headed by the leading Jewish organizer.
Samuels. The British government in
iralred whether . such a commission
would be received and was told by a
high Polish official that Poland wished
to settle her own internal problems and
that the exception made on behalf of
the American commission wonld not be
' - By Aathosy Ciaraeekl
Special Cabla to The Journal sad The Chicago
- Daily- New.
'Copyright. 1919 by Chicago Daily Nam Co.)
Warsaw, Sept. 17. (Va Paris, France,
Sept. 20.) The Morgenthau commission
lias finished its tour of the Polish cities
In hearing the complaints of the Jews
and has reached Paris to prepare its re
port. The member of the commission
uho announced this to me said that
Questions had been submitted to . the
Films Win Out
London. Sept. 20. (U. P.) A Middle
sex council by-e'.ection on the subject
of Sunday cinemas resulted in the vic
tory of their advocate. The winner was
aided by films and the "antis" had
strong pulpit support.
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Morgenthau Report
Will Pour Oil Upon
Sea of Discontent
The final chapter in the history of
the old Barlow road, the highway
Over which the early immigration of
Oregon passed, was closed a few
days ago, when this historic road
was deeded to the state of Oregon
and its toll books forever closed. Its
future life is to be merged with that
Of the Mt. Hood Loop highway.
. Among the memorable occurrences in
crossing the plains, says Walter Bailey,
writing for the Oregon Historical soci
ety, the passage over the Cascade moun
tains by the Mt. Hood route atands "out
most vividly in the memory or a. large
number of Oregon pioneers. The dan
gers, toil and hardship, the beauties of
the mountains and the pleasant surprises
of the great dense forests, the laborious
Climb of the eastern slope and the steep
descent of Laurel hill on the west: all
combined to make, an impression on me
minds of the pioneers, which later served
for many a fireside 'fc reminiscence.
Autumn after autumn, from 1846
to 1861, witnessed long lines of expectant
homeseekers tolling through ths rocky
defiles and over the steep rjdges.
MENTION ED IX DIARIES
The diaries and letters written by the
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travelers express a. strange mixture of
happiness and Borrow, contentment and
dejection, hope and despair, ecstacy and
misery. Says one, ."Home men's hearts
died within them and Some of our wom
en sat down by the roadside and cried,
saying that they had abandoned all hope
of ever reaching the promised land." An
other writes: "We went down mountains
so steep that we had to let our wagons
down by ropes. My wi'fe and I carried
our children up muddy mountains half
,& mile high and then carried the loading
f our wagons up on our backs by piece
meal, as our cattle were so reduced that
they were hardly able to haul up our
empty wagon."
": Of the celebrated Laurel hill grade,
the diary of K. W. Conyers, an immi
grant of 1853, has this entry : "The road
on this hill is something terrible. It is
worn down into the soil from five to
seven feet, leaving steep banks on both
sides, and so narrow that it is impos
sible to walk alongside of the cattle for
any distance without leaning against
the oxen."
BEAUTY THRILLED PIONEKRS
: There were others who forgot the
hardships of the Journey In the contem
plation of the beauty of the mountains.
They were thrilled "by the spectacle of
Mount Hood's snowy pyramids standing
out, clearly defined against the pale
gray of dawn, not white as at noonday,
but pink, as the heart of a Sharon rose
from base to summit. A little later It
has faded and by the most lovely transi
tions of color and light, now looks gold
en, now pearly and finally glistens white
ly in the full glare of the risen sun."
Kven the prosale Palmer, continues
Bailey, found' room to exclaim among
his practical observations : "I had never
'before beheld a sight so nobly grand."
The impressions of George L. Curry
.-were that "the brenth of the forest was
laden with the scent of agreeable odors."
"Up, up. to an altitude fearfully as
tounding, the ascent is steep and diffi
cult, but there are many such ridges of
the mountains to be crossed before you
can descend into the flourishing valley
Of the Willamette. Down, down, into
the deep, dark and silent ravines, and
when you have reached the bottom of it
by precipitous descent you may be able
tp form an idea of the great elevation
which you had previously attained. The
crossing of the Rocky mountains, the
Bear River range and the big hill of
the Brutes was insignificant in com
parison to the Cascades. Here is no
natural pass, you breast the lofty hills
and climb them. There is no way around
them, no avoiding them aid each suc
. ceedlng one you fancy is the dividing
ridge of the range."
BARLOW TOOK CHANCE
, The first wagon train of Oregon pio
neers in 1843 did not attempt to cross
the mountain barrier, but descended the
Columbia from The Dalles on rafts and
m ooais. ine immigration or me next
year followed the same route, but as in
the preceding year the stock was driven
over the mountain trail.
;S In the latter days of September, In
i845, the third great company of immi
grants arrived at The Dalles. The old
mission station, Bays Bailey, became a
great frontier camp. Hundreds of
prairie wagons, large droves of stock
and crowds of way worn people lined the
bleak shores of the Columbia, Only two
boats were running down to the Cas
cade rapids and the price of - trans
portation was high.
' Among the last immigrants to arrive
.was a company headed 'by Samuel K.
Barlow, its captain. Captain Barlow
did not like the situation and the pros
pect of exhausting his provisions by a
.long delay and taking chances on the
dangers of passage down the river. A
man of great reliance and endowed with
the true spirit of the pioneer, he began
looking for another route to the Wil
lamette valley. He was told that there
was an old Indian trail south of Mt.
Hood but that it was steep and difficult.
He decided 'to take this route with his
wagons. If a trail already existed, he
reasoned, it could be widened into a
Wagon road. Old mountain men and
trailers of the " wilderness advised him
pot to attempt the way as the season
was growing late and the winter would
overtake him in the mountains.
Declaring? his belief in the goodness
and wisdom, of the All Wise, Captain
Barlow said : "God never made a moun
tain without making a way for a man
lo get over it, if the lutter exercised
a proper amount of energy , and perse
verance. PEOPLE DISCOURAGED
When the start was made about Sep
tember . 25. th. party consisted of seven
ragons and about nineteen persons.
! It was overtaken later by a train of
twenty oddiwagons under the captaincy
f Joel Palmer,
When the steep mountain slopes were
reached seyeral families became dis
souraged and returned to The Dalles,
$ut Barlow and Palmer carried on. The
way was finally f onnd but as it was
to lit in tb&" season It was decided to
cache the wagons in the mountains and
proceed with the stock. William Berry,
young man, was left with the cache
and an inadequate amount bf food to
keep a lonely winter vigiL Packing a
few necessary articles upon the horses
and oxen.' only the weakest having sad
: die horses, the remainder of the "com
pany pushed on toward the Oregon set
tlements. Many were the hardships en
countered on the western slope of the
mountains. . There were treacherous
; swamps,''- grass fornhe stock, which
browsed on . the poison - laurel bushes.
provisions gave out and the woods
came so dense and the canyons so deep
that despair of ever getting through took
possession of the timid.
The dark cloud was finally lifted by
the arrival of a pack train which had
been sent from Oregon City with flour
and other supplies. All reached the
Oregon settlements on the Willamette.
Early in December of that year Cap
tain Barlow obtained from the terri
torial legislature a charter to open a
road across the mountains. As soon as
snow disappeared the following spring
he engaged a force of 40 men and opened
the road from Foster's farm In the
Clackamas valley to the camp where
the. wagons were left behind.
MAST FAILURES
A subscription list was circulated
among the settlers to help defray the
expense of Captain Barlow but it is said
that only 830 were subscribed. For the
next two years Captain Barlow person
ally collected toll on the road.
From 1848 to 1862 the road was leased
to various men who did not neglect to
collect loll but who did overlook keeping
the road In repair. It lapsed into an
almost impassable condition.
In 1862 the Mount Hood Wagon Road
company with a capital of 125,000 was
organized to take over and reconstruct
the road. The company failed and in
1864 a new company called the Cascade
Road & Bridge company was incor
porated. It made extensive improve
ments. KAD CHANGES HANDS
In 1882 the road again passed into
other hands, that of the Mount Hood
& Barlow Road company, which was
organized in March by Richard Gerdes,
S. D. Coalman, H. E. Vross, F. O. Mc
Cown and J. T. Apperson with a capital
stock of 824,000 divided into 240 shares
of $100 each.
While this company was in control of
the road its right to collect toll was
raised on the ground that the grant
of the territorial legislature to S. K.
Barlow given in 1845 was not valid. As
the road lies in the national forest the
matter was referred to United States
District Attorney Hall. He handed
down the opinion that the grantv was
legal and in full force.
The company continued to operate the
road until December, 1912, when it was
purchased by the late E. Henry Wemme
for the sum of J5400.
BOUGHT IT FOB PUBLIC
Wemme was one of the first good
roads advocates in Oregon, and among
the first to recognize the great "scenic
beauties of the state. In purchasing the
road it was his expressed aim to turn
it over to the public. He tendered it to
the county of Multnomah, to the state
of Oregon and to the federal govern
ment in turn, stipulating that it snould
be improved as a tourist road.
"This route," he said "really belongs
to Portland. The immense benefit de
rived from this route from the tourist
point of view wlfl be enormous, and our
tourist trade hereafter from what indi
cations I can see and learn will triple
every year.
Not being able to give tho road to
the public because of failure to receive
the assurance that it would be improved
Wemme retained ownership and spent
about $50,000 in improvement. Of this
about half was out of his private purse.
He often said that he would ultimately
Spend half a million on the road. But,
before he. could do this he died. In his
will the road was bequeathed to his
attorney, George W. 'Joseph.
DESIRE! WILL BE GRATIFIED
Since the succession of Joseph to the
property the highway commission and
the federal government have entered
Into a cooperative agreement to build
the Mount Hood loop highway. This
gives assurance of ,the improved road
to Mount Hood, which Wemme looked
forward to and In conformity with his
expressed desire Joseph has deeded his
interest in the Barlow road to the state
of Oregon fof a consideration of $1 "to
have and hold unto the said state of
Oregon, with all its mountains and hills,
its forests and vines, its flowers and
shrubs, its valleys and dells, its crags
and rocks, its gorges and canyons. Us
glaciers and snow fields, its rivers and
streams, fts lakes and springs, its ani
mals and birds, its tempests and storms.
Its lights and shadows, its trials and
paths and the beauties and grandeur of
Mount Hood, for the use, benefit and
pleasure of all forever" as it is expressed
in the deed.
SERVICE VALUABLE
To immigrants and settlers the Barlow
road rendered a valuable service. Be
sides being a help to immigration it
aided settlers as a means of communi
cation between Eastern and Western
"Oregon. During the mining days many
thousands of cattle and sheep were
driven from the Willamette valley over
it to be slaughtered for the miners of
Eastern Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
Until the building of the railroad It con
tributed more than any other agency
to state transportation.
Although its identity is now to be
lost. Its life of usefulness is to continue
in its successor, which is to open up
the beauties of the Mount Hood region
as a tourist attraction and a place for
recreation.
The story of the Barlow road .is the
story of the Oregon pioneer.
Bolshevist Mission
Has Interview With
Germans in4 Berlin
By William E. Nash
8pecial Cable to The Journal and The Chicago
(Copyrisht, 1810, by Chicago Daily Newt Co.)
Paris, Sept. 20. The supreme council
of the peace conference learned that a
new commission from the Russian Bol
Bheviats, headed by Bogdanleff, has ar
rived in Berlin and has had an inter
view with Phillip Scheinemann. This
has opened the way to all sorts of con
jectures in Paris, for although Scheide
mano is not a member j the cabinet,
there can be no doubt that he exercises
great Influence over the government in
BerlliU It Is said moreover that under
William H he acted aa negotiator with
Lenin and Trotsky, and consequently
known something of Bolshevist psychol
ogy. -
The possibilities of further commercial
and political relations between the Ger
mans and the BOlsheviki are being
weighed in Paris, where it Is felt that
it would be ruinous for the commercial
blockade of the allies against soviet
Russia Jf Germany, began- sending . her
wares to Moscow in large Quantities,
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7 Motidaya Sale of All-Wool
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STVT the collections will be found the smartest frocks in sizes for women and misses and the
selection is of such a remarkable nature that even in a large announcement such as this, it is
mighty difficult to know just where to begin to tell the wonderful story of this sale.
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Costly Dresses
All at the One Price
At the sale price quoted it is but natural
that every woman will want two or three of
these dresses. But we3 must caution against
allowing your enthusiasm to get the better
of you.
Because
None of these dresses will be
accepted for credit or exchange.
Nor will it be possible or ad
visable for them to be sent
C.O.D.
Every transaction must be
final. ,
. Choose any one of these 125
dresses, no matter what price the
garment should sell for, and pay
19.85.
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ON DAY morning, September 122, promptly at
9 o'clock, we shall place on sale 125 of the most
beautiful dresses that we have ever offered in an
underprice event of this character.
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THIS STORE USES
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Expensive Trimmings
Lavish braiding, embroidery, fur and other costly de
tails are a distinguishing feature of these distinctively
styled dresses.
The new fancy braids, military and narrow braids are
much used in black.
-Natural kit coney, angora wool in beige and gray, a
tricolette vestee'in oyster and touches of red and gold in
the trimming are charming color notes.
These dresses are one of the most fortunate special pur
chases we have ever made or offered even in the Economy
Basement Store.
Placed on sale for the first time Monday.
Lipman, Wolfe & Co., Economy Basement
NO COMPARATIVE PRICESTHEY ARE MISLEADING AND OFTEN UNTRUE
About
the Styles
Just picture in your mind's eye the most
wearable modes of the Fall season the very
models that you have seen at high prices
and in most instances priced high because of
the exclusive styles. This is the character
of dresses that will be found in this magnifi
cent sale collection.
The Materials
In these dresses are fine
French and heavier serges.
In the wanted navy (and one
model in tan for those who re
quire a lighter color) .
There are eight new styles as
sketched.
All lined to waist and several
made with the cool and comfort
able opening at armhole.
Everything for Less
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