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THE . OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1S20.
AHGEMEHTS TO
HANDLE SPEEDWAY;
CROWD PERFECTED
Tacoma Race Officials Provide for
Comfort and Convenience of
Visitors at Big Races July 5.
Improvements 'completed the last
.18 days ; make the Tacoma speed
way one of the most complete mo
tor car racing plants In the United
States. . The new grandstand will
seat 16,000 people- in comfort and
there will- be room for 10,0(0 auto
mobiles In the fields where parkins
"privileges are free. Only I0 park
ins' spaces have been reserved.
There are three automobile en
trances to the speedway this year
where cars may enter two abreast.
Two of the entrances will be closed at
1 :30 p. m.. since the oars entering these
must cross . the track. From the main
entrance gates to the field is an over
head bridge. This entrance will be used
by most of the cars from points outside
Tacoma and by Tacoma people living in
the north end of the city. Traffic of
ficers will be present to direct cars from
the southwest to the Lake View entrance.
GET TICKETS EARLY
The field has been entirely cleared of
fences and posts and will' present a fine
appearance this year. Automobile par
ties may purchase their general admis
sion tickets and enter in their cars to
the field; After parking their cars it
will be possible to reach the grandstand
by a tunnel from the field to the stand.
Three ticket windows at the tunnel en
trance will handle the crowds. There are
IS outside ticket windows.
From Seattle steamers will leave at
t. -10, II and 11 :ao a, m. for, Tacoma.
where the passengers will transfer to
trains, busses , or streetcars. Steam
trains will meet several of the boats
landing jpasaengers at the main entrance
gates. Auditors will be on the boats to
sell round trip tickets to avoid confusion
on I the trains ' during the trip to the
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PAGEANT BT LEGIOXEB3 .
) Patrons of the races are urged to be
at the track not later , than noon if pos
sible. The early arrivals not only have
' an opportunity to witness the drivers
at ' practice, but avoid the great rush
of the last hour. ,
Seats are already selling rapidly, ac
cording to President Baldwin, and in
dications are that the grandstand will
be sold out. before July 1. Boxes and
parking spaces are going- rapidly. Early
arrivals in Tacoma on Monday, July 5,
for the races, will not lack for amuse
ment since the American Legion will
stage a pageant during the morning.
The races will be the afternoon feature
and in the evening will be a program
in the famous Tacoma Stadium.
BE PALM A COMING v
Traffic arrangements to handle "' the
crowds July 6 are about complete. Every
roadway leading from Tacoma to the
track will be marked by signs and po
liced. The entrance gates to the speed
way for automobiles will be plainly
marked, as will all entrance gates. Three
entrances to the big stand will enable
the crowds to be handled in a .fast man
ner. New score boards have been erect
ed, since the stand is so long one board
will not serve to keep the grandstand
patrons advised as to the standing of
the drivers. ----- . , . i , ; :
New pita have been built and safety
sons fences constructed around the en
tire track. The track has been fenced
in and the whole plant has never pre
sented such an attractive appearance as
it does at this time.
The field ot -drvters win Include Gas
ton Chevrolet,: Ralph Mulford, Eddie
Hearne, Eddie O'Donnel. Cliff Durant.
.Koscoe Sarles, Joe Boyer, Joe Thomas,
.Jimmy Murphy, Ralph De Paltna and
Tommy. Milton. -
U. of 0. Students to
Serve in Airplanes
The lawn mower, long the symbol of
"working one's way through college,"
is being forced from its position by such
innovations as the airplane. This sum
mer. Jacob Jacobson of Junction City,
lXn P. Davis of Nyssa and John W.
Penefiel of Portland, students at ths
Vnversity of Oregon, will make their
attendance at the institution next year
possible by servin as observers in the
airplane forest- patrol. Earner Cook - of
Salem, a TJ. of O. freshman, who a year
ago was flying in France. v-lll spend the
summer piloting a commercial plane
with headquarters Jn his home city.
. MOTORCYCLE. NEGOTIATES STEEP INCLINE
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A BUSS and neglect wHI
give any battery the
"K. O." la short order;
but it takes care and
attention tokpit O. JC
'Charge must be kept up
at near as possible to 1.289
mark water must be put
m to snake up for loss
by evaporation -connections
must be kept tight
and dein. If you want
to keep your battery la
the O. X. class ai riia
timm be sure' to drive ia
every two weeks' for la
spectioa and test.
Tillard Service
- Ninth and Everett .
Way Station No. 3 Cast Sev
enteenth and Burnside
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Looks steep, doesn't it? And It was. Ted Gilbert had tbe time of bis life getting up the side of Rocky
Butte, but he made it, aiid the Harley-Davidson, handled here by the Motorcycle & Supply company,
came out ot. the struggle unscathed. The grade was estimated to be 85 per cent In some places and
the Harley, equipped' with rear tractor wheel, bad a tendency to die itself In like an ostrich. A three
speed Harley was used for the feat. . . ,
INVISIBLE SCENERY OF
COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY
DEPICTED BY WESTERNER
(Continued From Fsev One. This Section)
tween Rocky butte and what ' Is
now the f suburb j. of . Milwaukle. in
which the nlmrod's - of Portland vil
lage found, a remarkable number of
deer, .. cougar - and native pheasants.
Rocky Butts is the first big landmark
on the right as the Portland autoist.
with his tourist guests, speeds eastward
on the smooth pavement of the Colum
bia river highway, .
An the smoothly tilled fields - which
are to be seen, between the highway
and the river were in earlier times
covered with a growth f cottonwood,
ash and a few fir trees. In these bot
tom lands, not far from Fair view, In
dian. John lived long years. His promlt
nenee was not due to- the fact that be
waS the lone survivor of a vanished
race whose ' braves once : roamed free
up and down the river and built their
Signal fires on ! Council J- Crest. He
owned a skillet that be had . gotten In
trade from Lewis and Clark.
'As far back as 1S47 the highway
which, leads to Troutdale and over the
first foothill of the Cascade range was
known as a . settlers' road. All the
bumps, the twists and turns and dust
are gone from this road " now.- The au
tomobile bowls smoothly over jthe pave
ment at SO : miles an hour where the
pioneers urged their slow-moving teams
and counted 30 miles a long day's jour
ney."; '.;;-:r:--3
The moving : pictures, of the past
gather as the cinema of memory un
rolls the . life of , other 'days before the
eyes of a fascinated imagination.
The invisible scenery of the Colum
bia's titanic gorge becomes real again.
lffl sees, as uie -startled Indians saw.
those heroic - personages that led the
winding : processional of civilisation
treading : strongly along the trail , of
time down the first pathway to the
Pacific. . -.'"'';- ; ; - -: '
Thus nature's great "book of creation,
whose covers were forced asunderyby
the riving rush of the Columbia's cease
less ages, is made to bear a human
Imprint the Inscribed names of those
who won and held the ' last West "
i Let us go more slowly. There is so
much L to see. .Let reverence t mingie
with delight. Here is beauty, and here,
too, are the scenic masterpieces of God.
Are there not ashes of dead camp
fires that will again glow Into heat
and flame ard mast their ruddy light
upon the bronzed cheeks of Meriwether
Lewis, gWUliam Clark.- and upon V the
less rugged contours of the girl' guide,
Sacajawea. who led the explorers sent
by Jefferson over "the shining . moun
tains to everywhere-salt-water"?
PAST AND PKESEST LINKED
We, too, need a guide. At ths wish
we have, him. George H. Hlmes Is a
link between the past and the present.
With, patient hands and : devoted pur
pose he has spent many of .his nearly
four-score years building monuments to
mark the affairs of the past. So he
went with us. i Where once ;Jt ; was
enough for him to trudge his way over
the silent road or ride horseback, he
leaned., comfortably back in the swift
moving 7 car." His pointing 'finger
showed -.; our "Journal family" group
scenery in" the gorge of the Columbia
that in half a hundred preceding trips
we had never seen, i Q '
We swept up the sylvan stretch that
borders the Sandy river, . whose never
failing waters draw . from the glaciers
of towering Mount Hood.. We climbed
without strain of motor on the gentle
grade to ths . elevation that reaches
nearly . a thousand feet above the river
before one realises that any consider
able' ascent has been made. , We Came
out ' upon tbe point where Vista - House
is built as a memorial to the pioneers
of Oregon. To. the east the mountains
close ' in. : The river, seems lost .among
them. One would think the rmlghty
stream a great artery Issuing from
their heart. To the west the river
broadens. It becomes in very truth the
majestic River of Kings sought by the
explorers - of many nations when even
its existence : was deemed by the ' in
credulous . to : be . mere -- legend, v . Far
away, uplifted against the western
horison. Is a flnai gieam where the
Columbia . makes its last visible turn
in stately course toward the ; Pacific
The trees - and ithe islands and the
crags seem to applaud and to garland
the- river as victorious warriors once
were honored. - Its . struggle and its
dashings against the resistant moun
tains are over. The only transverse
cleft in more than a 'thousand ' miles
of Cascade-Sierra ranges is carved com
plete. -.
"Just" below you. ' there, do you see
that green point?" : asked Historian
Himes. rrhat is the point where Lieu
tenant w. R. Broughton camped. It
is called Point Vancouver. Captain
Robert Gray had sailed into the mouth
of the Columbia in the Columbia Re
diviva. but Broughton of Vancouver's
command ascended ; the ; river . to this
higher point, : and thus created ' the
question as to whether this territory
belonged to England or ths United
States."
. Larch mountain was to the right, and
Silver Star, still snow -covered, -on the
left, across the Columbia, as we de
scended by the "figure eight," where
licorice fern grows in the moss that at
taches to the ancient fir trees, and a
perpendicular descent of some 600 feet
within an area of 40 : acres is rendered
possible by remarkable engineering. -,
"Speelei ' waa the . head god of this
country, according -to - the Indians."
mused ) Ilr. Himes, "but he had . sub
gods tor salmon and hunting. Once the
salmon 'god became a little too greedy
and Speelei blew upon him from Wind
mountain, which you see deeper in tbe
gorge and to the - east- .The breath of
Speelei is still felt by those .who pass
this mountain. :
G&EATKK THAJ1 PALISADES
"Across the river la Cape Horn. X
once came up the river In a steamer with
a party from the East and .one of the
women was constantly referring to tbe
Palisades of the Hudson. " There was
nothing else so grand, if one would be
lieve her. When she saw the palisades
of the Columbia she was sure the walls
of columnar basalt were not so high. "It
was when she climbed up a trail part
way,' that she changed her mind. Those
columns of perpendicular basalt crystals
are 1500 feet high ; the Palisades of the
Hudson are 700 feet high." ?
When we saw Lone Rock standing in
the current of the Columbia it was a re
minder of the legend concerning ths
giants that one day hurled rocks across
tbe river between Fort Rock on the Ore
gon side and Cape Horn in Washington.
This massive boulder was burled by the
greatest of the giants at the close of'
the day's battle. Hut be was tired and
the. missile fell short of Its mark. V ;
The pinnacles or needles near Benson
park and Mist, falls, completely trans
formed Into feathery spray by its tre
mendous descent of a thousand feet, ware
the suggestion of another legend. Speelei
came to catch ths Chinook salmon from
over In the Yakima country. Ie brought
with him his wife and sons. She was
enamoured-'of the beauty of the gorge
and she refused to return. Speelei turned
her into rock and what seems to be Mist
falls are in reality her streaming tressea
The sons, too, rebelled and Speelei with a
wave of the hand, left them standing as
pinnacles of rock.' -
HAS TRAGIC BISTOKT '
Rooster rock, directly below Crown
Point, was Once an object of Indian wor
ship. Beacon rock; farther east on. the
Washington side, is nearly a thousand
feet high. Before the Biddle trail was
built up its precipitous sides it had been
surmounted by whites only twice- But a
more or less authentic Indian legend Is
that the daughter of an Indian chief,
with her baby, climbed to its summit and
disappeared, never to be seen again, after
her father had slaughtered the brave to
whom she had given her love. There Is,
however, a more certain interest attach
ing tp this splendid monolith. Lewie
and Clark made one of their camping
grounds at its base. ;
Wahkeenah fails, just within, Benson
park, in the Indian tongue means "Most
beautiful." Fifteen hundred feet or more
above the highway it bursts full born
from the side of the mountain. - Multno
mah falls, queen of the cascades of the
Columbia's gorge, is 'half a mile farther
on. The cliff from which it leaps has a
sheer descent of more than 600 feet. In
dian legend gives it quaint charm. A
maiden besieged by suitors climbed to
tbe crest of the falls and. vowed she
would leap to her death. Then sha-chose
the brave who said that he would give
her up if she would desist from her mad
purpose. ;- .;-;;:.-'r i s t- i
What must have been the sensations
of Lewis and Clark and their party of
explorers as they descended the river
more than a century ago, when -they
looked upon Multnomah. Wahkeenah asMh
other of the almost unnumbered water
falls that are flung from the diary
heights of the mountains to the depths of -the
gorge? Yet they saw no more of
inspiring beauty than we who today fol
low their, trail. i .
We passed St. Peters dome. Cathedral
rock and the five other monoliths, tower
ing 2000 feet or more above the highway,
and wondered if the. failure to name the
unchristened pinnacles was not due to
sheer human incapacity to find appella
tions worthy such splendid monuments. '
There." aid the historian, pointing,
"is the first fish- wheel built on the Co
lumbia." It was built by W. R. McCord
in 1875.. - - - ,
We came to a much protected frag
ment of 'petrified log. "One of the set
tlers was looking for. firewood one day
and drove his ax at one of these logs,"
said Mr. Hlmes. "He never did get over
his surprise,-for it shivered his ax. When
the first cuts were made in this vicinity,
many petrified logs were found,' and no
doubt many will yet come to tight."
We looked upon ths pathway used by
Ross Cox and his men In carrying ex
press from Fort Vancouver, to near the
present site of Spokane. Hostile Indians
were accustomed to gather in . the narrow
portions of the gorge and ambush small
parties. But Ross Cox organized parties
Of 70 men. and to the Indians discretion
became the better part of valor, j
We came down upon Bonneville, named
for a pioneer soldier of fortune,-and now
site of the . big and always interesting
state salmon and . trout hatchery. After
we had passed beautiful Eagle creek and
baSv crossed the line from Multnomah
into Hood River county, the pointing
finger of the pioneer disclosed to us on
the Washington shore ths beginnings of
the Ruckle portage railroad. - .Higher
George" Sammis New
General Manager of
Sunset Company Here
" George Sammis, formerly - with the
Seattle branch of ths Sunset Klectric
company, has been appointed manager of
the electrical department of the local
Sunset company, according - to an an
nouncement ' recently mads by W. J.
AlbriUon, manager of the company. :
c,mi(, liu W anm IS veara experi
ence with electrical work, and has. de
veloped an intimate knowledge, or ine
myriad parts that go to make up the
electrical appliances now considered es
sential to the proper functioning of. the
modern automobile. .
Coincident with the announcement re
garding Sammis. AlbriUon mads it pub
lie that D. Wl Welch would assume the
management of the battery department
and -Carl Zenger of the electrical serv
ice. Both are men with considerable
experience along- these' lines. ; i; -
n, HamllfAn and Table
mountains, legendary north abutments of
tne snage ox. inc vuua.
' He called attention to Bradford island,
opposite the mouth of Eagle .creek, and
the smashing rapids of the Columbia
where Cascade locks have been built to
render navigation possible, then he mads
us forget that this is the twentieth cen
tury. He told us the story of the In
dians last stand against the invading
whites in the abysmal gorge .of ths Co
lumbia. ,
On a night In March, 1852, the. Hamil
ton family slept in a boat which-was
tied to the shore in such s a way that
MnlH h cut and the craft in
let antly set adrift in the swift current
i nere naa ubbh mmwipi v
tonfihi ThA vpir before a block
house bad been built on Cascade rocks.
and at tms time tt was oeienoeo oy a.
corporal and seven-men.
THE PHIL SHEBIDAW
v The Indians gathered In overpower
ing numbers.' They opened attack upon
the devote little group. Not one tribe
but many were represented amonr- the
combatants. They had determined to
seal the gateway- to the Pacific forever
against whits men. Perhaps it wss a
messenger from the Hamilton family,
escaping in the boat, that brought the
news; perhaps soma other runner. But
Phil Sheridan yes, the Phil Sheridan
came hurrying from Fort Vancouver
with 40 men. Colonel Steptoe- hastened
down from The Dalles with reinforce
ments and a howitzer. Bits of the shells
from that howitser may still be picked
up in the vicinity of the historic battle,
nhe Indians were out-maneuvered. The
American soldiers closed in on them from
easT and west. They were forced to sur
renderr They promised to be "good In
diana" Sheridan and Steptoe evidently
took, them at their word. Nine Indians
were hanged on Bradford island. And
one of them was Tumalth, who was ex
ecuted unjustly. Hs had not joined in
the battle, and he had been a friend to
the white , man.
There is an . art gallery In the Gorge
ef the Columbia, Its plctnres were
painted and hung by the, Master Artist.
Tbe sun, the clouds, the waterfalls, the
magld colors of rocks and trees, the light
of moon and stars, -are all parts of its
composition, and.no view ever looks
twice the same. -
- But It is when one has seen .this gal
lery of grandeur in the softened light of
Other days, as other eyes, long since
closed, looked upon it, that the real fas
cination of the Gorge of the Columbia
lays Its eternal spell upon a silenced
spirit.
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. Captain 3. B. Kirkaldle, wltn the other
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new route for the road between Elma
and McCleary. TheworW on the new
route will not be done at present. Cap
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$80,000 available for tne road work be
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ysar If the new road were to be
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the public would still be compelled to
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Koch's hill would soon be let and that
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