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PORTLAND, OREGON,;- SUNDA Y i MORNING. AUGUST - 1. 1920. r s v la u si o I :v L-.J' 5 " i i s ' 4 V i AR BES Odor of Forest, Beauties of Scen ery, Make Motorist Forget Stony ; Path Which Must B Traveled. ; ' By Frank A. Clarvo : There's a' tans to the air and a bracing- taste to the water on the elopes of Mount Hood that cannot be duplicated", by any other high piece of real estate near Portland, and Government Camp1 with Us hotel and Mr. Primore as the genial host, is a Mecca for those who would give their lungs a taste of the real thing In ozone. This did a party of Jour nal scouts discover last week when a Chevrolet "490. piloted .fcy" the redoubtable hand of LeRoy Fields of the . Fields Motor company, made the run over the road, through Rhodo dendron, up the hairpin turn, and through the , sweet-smelling : woods to the 4000-foot elevation. How Is the road? Speak, gently antt tread softly In the presence of the dying. That road, regarding which much, has . been written and considerable been said, is about to be counted among the missing and sent to the limbo of oblivion along with, the Mosier hill and the Scappoose stretch. Why worry about rocks and bumps, and truth compels a notation of the fact that there are many of the former and some hundreds of the latter, when ere long a nice new highway will gird the slopes of the famous mountain and take most of the "do or die" feeling out of a trip7 to the camp? And who would worry about a little rough road when- there's pure air, cold water and a hot dinner in waiting- at the end of the .road . ; ... . HOW TO GET STARTED J Here's a . program for the partywith a yearning tot the out-of-doors: Take your car and go out the Base Line road to the Twelve Mile ho true and' tern right to Oresham. Turn left at the fountain and wateh Hthe stgna,tand before long. Mr, Motorist, you'll be on the road to .Sandy," at the town, and then on Into the open country beyond, heading for the mountains and the time of your life. Stick - to the road, make out like you don't feel the bumps.: and watch for the bite of scenerva-teng the way that will make you wait to slop and camp for a week. - Did you bring your lunch--' No? Well. after an appetiser at Whiskey creek- it's somewhere along the way turn off the road near the 45-mile mark and go down to Arra Wanna for (dinner. Chicken? Shades .of - Erastns ;Pinckley ! Take a given number of people staying ' at a place In the mountains, a tang of real air in the woods, a flock of chickens of a certain sise.- and it will be discov ered that the flock will be depleted with heartbreaking swiftness. The strange part ; of the - whole thing ! that Mra Spencer finds it necessary ring two bells, a larre one and a small one, In order to collect the folks who may be staying there. The "first note of the big bell had hardly found its way in among the echoes when the scouts had lined up at. the point from which an advance is made on the enemy. WOODS iBE WONDERFUL The woods about the hotel and along the Salmon river are wonderful strolling grounds. A path winds its way through the moss-covered trees along the river, and one can- rfind any number of shady spots to tarry, for a rest, or a score, of likely holes where perchance the fish are loafing about pining for a manufactured fly to play with. - ' -''S f : After dinner, take the car and get back on the main .road. There is just time to make it to the Camp and back to Port land for supper. Beyond Rhododendron the road is tn great shape, with a nice little scattering of gravel over the sur face and all the ruts taken out as with a hot iron. This Is a part of , the new highway, although there was still a de tour pear the old toll gate last week. As the car bowls along, Mr. Motorist, watch for the grade of the new road high, over your head and take a look at the eamp along the road, some inhabited by folks out there for tlie summer and others sheltering the crews working on the new road. SCORES PIC FLOWERS Scores of people were picking flowers in the wood. The rhododendron ' were out in all their glory, making colorful . spots among: the green ''trees or grouped in banks along the road, the blossoms high on their tough branches or nestling demurely among the green leaves. . Hide and seek flowers, these, flirting with others high out of reach on . the . slopes back from the road. One young man was engaged in fetching a spray he had risked his neck for, back to a car parked by the side of the way. certain that his trouble had won him a smile from girl ish face under a certain saucy hat. - Then the grade starts up. Not satis fied with having lifted your car up sev eral hundred feet already, the road gets busy and makes no bonesabout climbing. A dose of Intermediate may be the Ionic necessary to - produce , the required re sults, but at all events push ahead and dodge as many of the rocks as you can. - Like the-, chap in the poem, "Excelsior" Is the order of the day, either as a ' watchword or as a cushion. Tls equally useful In either role. As the grade be comes steeper the woods grow thinner, the pampered trees of the tower levels Blving. way to their hardier brethren able to stand the "wear asH tear of cold weather and hard winters. - The car may give a gasp of relief' as the plateau is attained, and so may the driver, for Government Camp la near. If you miea juncn on the road up, it awaits you here. Devour the sights with your food and swallow tales of the mountain with your coffee, and don't ' forget to notice the new road that comes -. by the door of the hotel, a section of the loop road, now fast approaching comple- V.. tiff, . i.iMMfr-J 1 1 aJ r-iiim " i tr - ' tlon. Prldemore optimism-: has - it that the road' will be paved in a few years, and having just come over the old road the traveler may well hope that this is true, , j , The hotel Is at an elevation -of -4000 feet, while high above, the timber line on the mountain registers 6000 feet from sealevel. ' The crest of Mount Hood - is at an elevation ; of 11,225 feet, and ' the ranger in- the cabin there says' that as far as he can see there's ' some reason in his. case for.. the high cost, of living. The ' scout3 did. not , tackle the mountain, for enough- of a- good thing is enough, and besides it was too late in the day. In returning to the city, ' the motorist may go on -over the loop-to The Dalles, or may return the same way by which he came. This last is what the Chevrolet did." and the , run was made' from Gov ernment Camp in about three hours and a half, f The down 2 suope,- dueto the force of-gravity, is somewhat easier than the upward run. This last is somewhat obvious and scarcely needs explanation. ! A short log may be useful: 1; tOO' -O iTBIP'-ii-'Ai'-liv; ! 0.0 Journal building. Over the Mor rison street bridge, out", East Belmont, left at Thirty-third street- and right on Sast Stark. : ' Continue - on Base Line f 13.2 Turn rlghU A." ' -"Jt V ? 14.2 Left. Out Powell Valley road, -; 17.4 Straight ahead- Avoid road to left. - . : . . - 18.4--Left. iV-f -'-" t 'iyiX.TX-::'::- V19.S Straight ahead. . - J7.S Left, i . - . ' . - " , 28.0 Turn right. , J0.J Turn left. - - -. 30.65 Watch, downhill grade.. Sharp curve. . . .---. f . 0.7R--Bad bridge." Corduroy.- , i . Cherry ville. : 35.5 Bad downgrade. , S5.7 Cross Whiskey creek. (Tears, idle tears.) , 39 J -Pass Salmon - Creek.; Lumber - $ y : a J. - - Stolen Autos 1 Following : is a list of automobiles stolen in this city and not recovered to date: : Buick. 1920, touring, Oregon license 85323. Motor No. 648435. , j ' . ii Chevrolet, 1019, touring. M Oregon license No. 25120. Motor No. C2318. 1 i Xodge 1920, touring. ' Washington license No. 111582. Motor- No. '504021x15. i Dodge, 1920, touring.1 Oregon license No. 87453. Motor No. C21139. : - ii Dodge; 1918, tourings Oregon license No. 81678. Motor number 89905.1 ' Dodgei 1920, touring. Oregon license No. 82998. ; Motor No.! S0948C.. ! ' - Ford, i 1919. roadster. Oregon license No. 15737. Motor number 3215614. " Ford, i 1919'. touring. ? - Oregon license No. 20146. - Motor JCo.l 3042796. il Maxwell. 1918. ' License tags i missing. Motor No. 227941. I e , I ii Overland.. 1918. touring. Oregon license No. 47765. Motor Nod 31670. ' ( Tulsa. 192. roadotr. Or?gor 1aler's license No. 799 A. Motor No. 36856. i Cleveland, 1918,,. motorcycle, k Oregon license No. E 33. Motor No. 10115. t Harley-DvidKon, f19.-' motorcycle. Oregon license Nov H .65. " Motor No. XJ.9 A2240L ' - 1 - j ; !-:';'..; company's camp. ''Marmot, road come In at this point. In . returning many . tour ists take this road back to the city. Cross river to get on this road. 5 f 41:3 Salmon. ; j - is 41.6 Brightwood. " I 1 ' . Ii 45.7 Straight ahead i 47. 1 Enter -Oregon 1 national fonest. ;. 11 49.3 Rhododendron tavern. ' -f 50.9 Left- over detounf) around con struction. 1 ' " 62.0 From this' point on to Govern ment 'camp the driver will have -plenty to do,' v Watch the road.- - ....., :' 68.8 lovenimwt camp. - Hotf !, to.- - - i ' ' "I ''" ,v ; 4-'. 1 ISs S K- "T or-N. T if 4 Ww- if s r,w-..:.:.r,;T-'S.'X': Your Battery Facts Told in . r :By It. R." Graham - (Mote:- In thi article- no attempt . has baee made to b technical; id fact, everr effort has bern made to clearly- atata conditions without beia technical.) . - . -'What' is 'a storage battery,-'and what does it do?' In answering 'this question we 'will only ; consider the pasted ' plate storage battery ' in gen eral use as a starting and 'lighting battery v - on up-to-date . motor cars and -..trucks. ;. - - That ! .type battery ; Is an''.,, , 1 electro-chem-. lcalj apparatus. It does not store electricity, but is capabje of creating ox - producing . electrical - energy, by chemical action;, under certain con ditions; ' and vunder other - conditions when ' electrical 1 energy i Is , properly applied' through the- terminals of the' battery to its plates, .chemical changes . are produced ' within - the cells of the' battery which-liestore It to its original chemical condition. ' Roughly- speaking,- your storage bat tery is an arrangement of positive and negative- plates in a chemical solution, each' positive plate, being Insulated ' from its negative plateg. Bach plate la a grid or framework, , for illustration. - diet's say, four Inches -. wide by five inches i6l?ESrVkM 4 3 " 4 ...1....- 1 I CX3 How It's Made Plain English high, and one eighth of an Inch -thick1, upon which ls pasted the active material. This framework serves the ' same pur pose as a honeycomb. It is a retainer aad support for the active - material, which when pasted en this " grid gives the. plate its life. .As far as these grids are concerned, thepositive and negative grids are generally exactly - alike. - But the materials pasted or pressed into them are- different Just as the red .lead or white .lead used, in paints are different compounds of lead, - so ' the active ma terials pasted into the grids . are differ ent kinds of . lead compounds ; - one kind being used entirely In pasting the posi tive plates, and anothe kind being used ln pasting the negative plates.9 i s HOW THE CHID IS WASTED f 'j What do we , mean, pasted into the plates? Well, suppose you imagine tak ing a piece of plain, ordinary wire fly screen such as you have on .your win dows at-home, and cut It four inches wide . and five , Inches high.'.. That will serve our; purpose -as a grid or framework-" Now then, let's get some peanut butter, and spread it on both sides of our pfece . of screen, "-until r finally we have spread, and pressed in. and? pasted this peanut butter on the screen until Iti is an eighth of an Inch l thick. s That 1st a crude and homely way of illustrat ing how . active ' material in pasted into the grid to make the so caded plate. 41 would hate to have to depend upon stor- tCoooluded on Thraav CoUuaa Oar I 490 il B12KSHTWOOD iRMOOO M -4 T '-v:-A::.:-x.'.Li:w ::-: -r. 1 i ,-1 Don't Don't fail . to. give all other vehicles their share of the road under 1 aQ condi tions. . ' . - Don't 'fall to give the proper; signals when you are stopping, turning or chang ing the -course of your machine.- . : Don't, drive at night without lights, j . .."Don't pass any vehicle at an intersec tion unless the road ahead is clear for at least 100 yards ;; . Don't pass streetcars at a ceeding 10 miles per hour. speed ex- ' f . V.1 s Don't exceed speed limits. ' Don't ever operate a car r unle the registration certificate, properly signed, Is displayed in the driver's compartment. jjon-t ever operate a car unless you have a driver's license in your possession. Don't carry luggage so that itfextends more than 12 inches to the left side. , js Don't V fall ; to have "your headlights properly adjusted according to the law. Don't fall to have a tail light lamp .at night. - , . .' : U ..(.-.. Don't use a spotlight that violates the Don't fait to give aid t. caieV of accident.- --v ''.-;- ? .- - j.-. j .... j,., ; Don't violate the law ind mi wori't get into' trouble. v : ' i s -.J To Extend Air MaU f Seryic&lCouBtry ' Large aetisicns of the aerial mail service Vve been decided upon by the postoff.ce department, it is announced, and Won airplane companies throughout the 'untry will be asked to submit bids faC the establishment and operation Of 1 New York and San Francisco, however. TAVERM If GcMfEMHtZtfT, ;- 4 tt CZtOP Hi:. S. 1 gy n :. X sO:W J' . XSS 5 will be operated by the i government. It was stated. The present plans 'contem plate extension of the New York-Washington air route to -the leading cities of the South. "t ' ' Have You a little Ferry in iYpiir Town? . , . SawaaWaiaaaeJ ., , . . . ' , Wllsonville, x July 8li With a new cable pressed into service, the: Wilson ville ferry is again operating," much to the satisfaction of hundred' who use It. The few days It was out of commission, becaUse of ' the breaking of the cable, those - desiring to j get across the .river, MLbiiir if fuvciuuiry for manv txtorila to either drive around by Oregon City or Newberg to- accompusn tnis, aistance of some 14 miles, f Wllsonville people are anxious' that the county court should see the advisability of having, the ferry in such condition that it can be operated every day of ihet year, j Gravel Work i Starts ; On Pacific Highway nr..vv.i. . av Uall f lhanmi. Or wYln were recently awarded the contract for graveling tne t-aciui; hikwjt- winrni and - Aurora. 'have started ueon the work, which f will take about two weeks - to 'complete.'. The distance is about- two miles and -It' will be necee- arv to move about 10,000 yards of gravel to cover the'roadbed. which is to be 20 feet wide. The : gravel is being takenrora the , Puddin i river With two or three trucks. The work, is under the direction of A. H. Knight of Can by- I00D RIVER ALL FiSIIE r Great Road Is? Culmination of Eight Years j of : Actual Work and Outlay of $3,500,000. The completion last week of a paved road between Portland' and Hood River Is the culmination of eight years of effort, preceded by several years of agitation. Front ' a cost standpoint there? is reprsent ed approximately an expenditure of f3.500.000. j ' j ' . -In the early history of Oregon travel through the Columbia river gorge was over fhe Dalles military road. Judged by modern standards it waa nothing but a trail, but in a measure it scrvedj the traffic of thone days. When'thej railroad down the river came a great portion of the road twaa appropriated and as a through highway it ceased to exist, the right of wa being taken over f or the railroad. Along about' 1910 when the subject of highway Improvement began' to be dlai cussed In Oregon, the - late 2. Henry Wemme was the leader of a movement to restore the road between Portland and Hood River. After the surmounting of many diffi culties and considerable prejudice a sur vey was made andjlt was estimated that a road would cost in the neighborhood' of $40,000. Some work was done in Multnomah county as far east as Bridal Veil, but through j lack of support the Wemme -plan fell through and Wemnv fumed his attention to the reconntruc. tlon of a road from Portland to Mount Hood, -on which he was engaged at th time of his death, i a few years aiio. In estimating that the road from Portland to Hood River would cost only J-Ki.f- there was taken Into consideration on;., a road built on the same lines as tbA old military highway, one narrow in width, steep in grade and sharp ln curvea 1 Getting around Shell Rock mountain one of the discouraging features in building the road. Many contended that the feat was lmpoaible of achievement. This was probably one of the principal causes' which led to the abandonment of the plan. . ' I ' BEKSOX ENTEE8 GAME - Jt was about this time that Plmon Benson, the -present chairman of the state hlghwsy commission, began to-be Interested In road j development. In the fall of ,1911 Benson went to California to spend the winter. He shipped his au tomobile to The Dalles- from Portland. 'While going up the river on the boat," he Said, "I made an observation of the shore line and became Impressed with the idea that it, was possible to build a highway along the river. I thought that If Shell Rock mountain was the only obstruction there ' was nothing in the way,".. ' . Benson Instructed his attorneyf the late - E. E. Coovert. to make an an nouncement that he would donate $10.0o towards the expense of grading around the mountain. "Out of this situation came an arree ment. In March. 1912, between Benon and Governor West to have the work done by state convicts, Benson defraying the cbst.- Some 40 or BO convicts were placed an the work and a grade was made around Shell Rock mountain which In a mea sure forms the base of the present prade. ..When the $10,000 donated by .Benson had been , spent the work came to an end. i ' ROAD ' SEHTtXEirT. CHOWS By this time there had grown up In Oregon a strong good roads sentiment, fostered principally by Samuel Hill who brought the first, vision of a highway along the Columbia river built on broa 1 and comprehensive lines with low gradi ent and safe curvature, one that wouM not only attract the tourists of the world, by its scenic setting but would alo serve a an artery of commerce In the devplop ment of the Northwest. State highway legislation was enacted and a highway commission was created. There was als organised the Columbia River Hiphway association. In the fall of 1913 Multnomah- county began the construction of the Multnomah county unit of the highway, completing the work ln 191S. In 1914 the state ban construction of the Hood River county unit, the coun ty cooperating to the extent of 75.0no raised by a bond Issue. The firt work In Hood River county was the gradlnar from the Multnomah county line to Cas cade Locks and (between Wyeth and SheU Rock mountain. This completed grade Joined to stretches of existing road permitted through travel and in IMS the highway was formally d-dlato bv an official tour made by - rtowrnor Wltbycombe and others In automobile The next Important construction in Ilw t, River county was the cutting kof the Mitchell point tunnel at an approximate cost of $50,000. It was completed ln 1915.- V,: - ! - . ORE TO BE DOSE In 1917 when the present highway 1iw was enacted provision as made to ro!.i-' pleta the hlKhway through Hood Iiiv county at state expense. There was yt to be graded the section between Cas cade Locks and Wyeth and the fo' t.on between, Lindsey creek and Hood Uvf r City, This work inn hen done, n . f entire grade paved from Vr n i-.v,;-- i county boundary. Appro i '' has been expended In Hood- l.ivfcr f -by . the. state $1,100,000, est t-f ys I River city. . --. ' , . ' With the completion of the I there comes a new problem. Jt. ia a question of provi more !r cilltles and possibly in a few yeixs t: r Idenuig oi uxs nigawaj. 0
