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' 0 THE ''OREGON ..SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 5, 192b ON WITH DANCE REFINED? SAY. MASTERS PORTLAND'S FIRST AIRPLANE PARTY1 AIRPLANE PARTY Wiapfety.Ag'l'WI''' P n I. ehMM ii i i. ,i. - - ... ' . . ' 1 r V Virr r'r 1 r ' i ' i iviin-ri- i'hi .r-r1 ,i .rn niiil , ,il H IRE REFINED i Leading American Dancing Mas Mrs. Aronson Takes Members of Motor Corps for Air Ride and Drops Flowers to Sick Soldiers ters Open Two-Weeks' Course of Post-Instruction in Portland. WOULD LIFT BAN Oil DICING; MAKE FIRST PORTLAND ft Zrf , -v.. St "fc. IYW01N . ft I Dancing In Portland Is to be re fined, correct, artistic and all else .that 1 desirable. Thursday morning began the post convention normal school of the American National As sociation of Masters of Dancing at Chrlatenser.'s hall and a group of the leading Instructors of the tech- - nlque of terpstchore la here for a tw weeks' course, the first held In tn Went since the normal schools - sessions started in New York three years ago. . During the session of the school candi dates' for enrollment In the national or- sganlxatlon will be examined, require. . ments for wrlch demand that the appll . rant maintain a reputable school, that his teaching conform to the highest in , ':the 'art as outlined In the program of .the national organization, that he receive J proper recommendation from his ao clates In the profession and In his cum , imunity. '"r Kenton T. Bott of Dayton, Ohio, presl- .. 14.- .- -Mn.l ...wlatlnn fnr twn j 'years. Is In Portland with George F. . .Walters, secretary. They have eroased ' (he continent In company with Stephano Mascagno, premiere ballet master and vt chief Instructor for the normal school, )Mr. Mascagno, his American wife; Mose ' :Chrlstensen of Portland, head of the ! American national normal school, and his two brothers and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Kred Chrlstenten of Seattle, fgnd Peter Chrlstensen of Salt Lake, who ": hava been attending the convention in ' New York. A hew dance has been developed and christened In Portland which will be known as "The Ohio." the name sug gested by Mayor Baker who witnessed 'Its Initial performance at the school last . week. The dance was originated by Fen ton IT. Bott, and Is done' to fox-trot tempo with a waits step which Is pleas- nt t n w . r n M m mi I 1 1 ty f r r n I in lurrnrm . KOt ALL PLEASURE . The work of the normal school dele f i gates Is serious business. An established program of hard work has been out . llned for them during their fortnight's session In the city, and a list, which In ' eludes most of the prominent dancing ! teachers from the coast states, will be engaged in the work. ! The American national association of .masters of dancing has received valu able cooperation and recognition In the ' Kast by Paul B. Klugh. president and founder of the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, who advocates better , music for better dancing, censorship of suggestive lyrics and more dignified titles for musical selections used for , ' dance purposes. w f Mrs. John Yawjer, president of the 5 General Federation of Women's Clubs y , of New York, was a recent speaker at C' the iNew York convention, promising J ; support of her organization In the bet- terment of dancing standards. Francis L i Wllsfln nrsaldant nf thm Artnra' Wiiiitv IJ-j association, was. also one of the recent epeakers before the dancing masters m behalf of cleaner stage dancing. . S j lrOCLn UPLIFT DA5CIXO Fen ton T. Bott of Dayton. Ohio, who Is one of four of the sons of a Presby terian minister all in the dancing pro fession, offered for adoption at the New I.York; convention resolutions urging the lining of the ban placed by the Meth od lot church on dancing. As an organ ization dedicated to the uplifting and Improvement of dancing along artistic tend moral lines, they maintain that the Methodist and all other churches as well as state and municipal authorities should help; to improve dancing conditions rather than to continue the ban, which is obeyed by few church members. They resent emphatically the statement in the book, of discipline of the church that !"danclng, dancing parties and dancing (questionable moral tendency." 'The downward trend In dancing and In muslo used for the dancers may be due iln part to the freedom given the soldiers at various military camps and recreation centers during the war per iod,"! said Bott. 'The theatres and all All Day Store Closed Cabor I fa I fix places of amusement know thst this con dition Is only temporary and that It can't last. We hope by cooperatlon with song writers to bring' music back to a higher standard, for certainly suggestive words and music make for suggesttcve dancing. Aa soon as we dean up the music we can do better work at cleaning up the dancing. With the use of charts which It is hoped will be more widely used. Incorrect postures In dancing will be overcome." IN- THE CHURCHES Bishop K. I Kelly, formerly presid ing bishop of Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Is In Portland for a few days and will preach Sunday night at the Montavilla church. East Seventy-sixth and Irving streets. Singers are wanted by the Rev. A. A. Morrison for Trinity Episcopal church choir. Those who desire to Join the choir and receive the benefit of the In struction given by a competent director ere asked to be at Trinity parish house. Nineteenth and Davis streets, at o'clock Wednesday night At the Church of Our Father (Unitar ian) the Rev. William O. Eliot Jr. will nrairh at 11 a. m . SilnrtaV nn the theme, "Plymouth Revisited, With Some 1 Reflections on the Present Influence of the Pilgrim Fathers." The member of the choir have returned from vacation, excepting Mrs. Stiles, who will continue her studies in New York through Sep tember. The church school will be re sumed September 12. A Saturday Bible school for children will be conducted by the Rev. C. H. Bernhard, pastor of Orace English Lu theran church, each Saturday from 10 to 13 o'clock, beginning September 11. Religion will be the only subject taught. The pastor will occupy his pulpit twice Sunday. , A largely attended farewell reception was held last Monday evening at the Vancouver Avenue Norwegian-Danish Methodist Episcopal church for the Rev. A. Christensen, who resigned the pas torate to accept a Sunday school posi tion in Denmark. Bishop W. O. Shep ard has transferred the Rev. Mr. Chris tensen to the Danish conference. The local, church has had a pronounced growth under Chrlstensen's pastorate. . Dr. A. N. Hall, pastor of the Fffst Baptist church of Muskogee, Okla., will preach at the White Temple on Sunday. At the close of the morning eervlqe the Lord's supper will be administered. This Sunday also marks the ' flret Sunday that the church is officially without, a pastor. Dr. W, A. Waldo, former pavsv tor, began his work at the Corvallls Baptist church on September 1. The Rev. Hiram Gould, pastor of Montavilla Methodist church, will preach Sunday morning at the Mount Tabor Methodist church. In the evening the pastor, the Rev. E. G. Decker, will give an illustrated lecture on "The Loo Choo' islands. Rat Bites Child, In Crib Shenandoah, Pa., Sept 4. (U. &) Victor. 14-months-oid son of Professor and Mrs. A. Guimes, was attacked by a large rat as he lay asleep In his crib in a second-story flat at 1:30 o'clock one morning, and bitten a number of times on the arms and hands. The child's cries awoke the parents and as they approached the crib a large rat jumped out and '.sappeared In a hole near the radiator. Doctors treated lhe wounds and no serious results are feared. Tomorrow - , . " '"' 1 - , ' s mm. , r-.-ii If , . ' - , " 1 , , 1 V v ; - It n it 1 - t ; ' -1 N -lr' iKr i- - ts- i ill ; I . II hpA1" lit 3L "i- I'- ;vii It If tf . 1 li 'XfZ ' " , '," Above Stefano Mascagno, the Italian ballet master, and his assistant. Miss Kathryn Lewis, at post normal school of American National Association Masters of Dancing, in session at Portland. Below George F. Walters of Waltham, Mass., secretary, and Fenton T. Bott of Dayton, Ohio, president of the association. East Side Was City in 70 t r. Trees Down to River Side Unless one is a pioneer of many years' residence in Portland, he can not conceive of conditions as they existed on the east side of the Wil lamette river just 50 years ago this fall, when East Portland was incor. porated aa a city. Except for the vicinity of the Stark street ferry and a little distance to the north, the timber came down to the water's edge. Scattered through it were a few houses, or rather cabins. Most of the land was in the hands of a few men who bad taken donation land claims. The. whistle of the locomotive wu in the air for the first time, a novelty that caused whites and the not infrequent Indians alike to pause. The Oregon & California railroad was then being con structed south, but it was 18 years before me line connected with the road built north from Sacramento. FIRST RAILROAD TO COME It M the coming of the Oreron & California railroad that -really crys tallised sentiment for Incorporation of a town on tne east side of Willamette. Started In 186S. the first trains ran south towards Salem in September, 1870. By that tuna a small colony of houses had begun to cluster around the Stark street ferry slip, then the only connection with the city on the west banks. The ground there was a little higher and the timber was not quite so dense aa in other places along the east bank. The railroad passed nearby arid the rail road station, was built a, little, to the north, about' at the present intersection of East Flanders street. . ' Previously to Incorporation of East Portland, there had been no east side city government. It had been a precinct or the county. - The legislature of 1869 . JJ8 enabling incorporation h ivL - thta waj actually accom- V 1870 ' - oay vllg' - October EAST ORTlAJf p us ORPORATBD ina oid records of the ir of ' r.,t cny. JaaU. ana they rive no -!,, recorded that Gideon , Tibbltts?"! M eHaNwT- 8a,.& and J.. C- Hawthorne, desienated In the act K incorporate the city of Ea.t aa, trustees, met. and took the. neceary. tAM. Ttl film it "T!Tr' wiuu n careituiy wrten out in "B dusty volumes to be seen at the city hall. yjt A.,. Kewell '.' wa immediately ap- iiuiniea rvooraer, na iu te earlier writ ings, both in the minute books and the ordinance books, are in his scribe. .- . :-A..tM, .... Loryea waa named preaident. Barney Trainor, treasurer; Frank H. West, assessor, C. B, Bellinger, attorney : J. B. Lane, marshal and William Dalton, street commissioner. CITY OFFICIALS NAMED Who were these men. one aaks? A. M. Loryea was Dr. Loryea, who Was asso ciated ag a partner with Dr. J. C. Haw thorne in operation of the East Portland asylum, which was located near the pres ent Kast Twelfth and Hawthorne streets in what was known as Hawthorne park. Many remember, and there . are still traces of, the stream that was known as Asylum creek, rising from the springs near East Twelfth and Hawthorne, and meandering to the northwest to where it flowed into the Willamette near Stark street. In flood times visitors to the asy lum from Portland used to row, across the Willamette and up the creek to the institution, according to George A. Htmes, historian of the Oregon Historical society. This asylum had the contract to care for state Insane charges until the state institution at Salem was started. TIBBETTS PIONEER. OF OREGOJC Gideon Tibbetts was a farmer and predominenitly a pioneer, for he came to Oregon in 1847, and was one of the first to take up a donation land claim on the tana mat is now southeast Portland. Nat H. Lane was the oldest son of General Joseph Lane, and the fa thai- r he . late United States Senator Harry ""' oarney irainor wtt one of the early justices of the peace on the East Bias, noiatng orrice long before the city Was incorporated. Frank H. West, who was made as sessor, was; a civil engineer. C. B. Bel linger was the same who later was cir cuit judge and hen Judge of the United States circuit court, now known as the United States district court. On March IS, 1872. W. W. Thayer was named city attorney, supplanting Bel linger. Thayer also rose to fame In the state for he was later governor and an incumbent of the state supreme bench. FIRST ORDI3A3TCE EITACTEBr ; ' The first ordinance was one providing for revenues by license, and It slapped a license on about everything that ecu Id b made to turn a penny for the city's strong box. Oxen' and dogs, meat vend ors, umbrella repairmen and scores of other things were taxed. At the second meeting of the council the assessor was ordered to make a survey W the city for . Purposes. ' Thia first orrt innrw Init ially, was introduced by Iinea. The minute d ant mrnnl hnv miiM, discussion ever took -place on these measures. If. the sessions of the first unc" wfr fxcitinr or rancorous, it to not chronicled. wotk'JSr 8cera the rty city dads for J. hmrmonr for "while at least. tSm I T, !,Tn.0re th,n thr months toe lore a single Instance of, a disagreement 1 i-p- i - Portland has had its first airplane party. There have been parties who went on airplane Jaunts, oceans of them, of couike, but an official air plane party regained to be intro duced by a Portland woman. It was Mrs. I. Aronson, herself an aviation enthusiast, who hopes to soon be the possessor of her iwn plane, and Via tor Vernon, aviator. f Mrs. Aronson was commandent of the atotor corps of Oregon during the war period, and with her company of smartly jnlformed drivers the work of- emer gency service, transportation and all kinds of automobile duty in the inter ests of the good cause was carried on moat efficiency. Friday Mrs. Aronson assembled the members of the motor corps and also the members of the Red Cross motor squad and their friends A- t. - r:.. ; .1 1 . in the city. Tlie euems arrived at the Lewis and Clark field about 3 :i0 o'clock. At S o'clock Mrs. Aronson and Victor Vernon flew over St. Vincents hospital, where a number of the con valescent soldiers who are under treat ment thfere were assembled on the bal cony. From the airplane came a deluge of summer blossoms and also a special floral piece carrying the greetings of the Oregon Motor corps and of Mrs. Aronson and Victor Vernon to Mrs. Owen Blaster Jr., who was a faithful worker during the war days with the motor corps and who is now a patient at the hospital. Others who went up in the planes were Mr. and Mrs. George Caldwell. Mrs. Ralph A. Watson, Miss B. Whitfield, Mrs. J. G. Fetty. Mrs. Mowrey, the Misses Deeds and Hughes. Following the flights, and after the baskets had been auctioned to various guests, a picnic luncheon was served to the company in one of the hangars. The first prize went to Mrs. M. R. White head and the second to. Mrs. - Theodore Osmund, the prises which were hand some sterling silver vases, being awarded for the most attractive baskets. The evening was spent in dancing in another hangar. The company included more than 150 guests. on an ordinance was shown by the ayes and nays vote In the minutes. At this first meeting. Police Marshal Lane moved for the appointment of a committee to see If the old "powder house" could not be procured as a jail. This committee was appointed. Appar ently this was the old powder house lo cated along- the Base Line road, some distance east of what was then the east side city's limits. At any rate, the com mittee deliberated and investigated and then the health and fire committee re ported back that tha building was un suitable for the purpose. WHERE THE COUNCIL MET At the second meeting a committee was appointed to get a suitable hall for the meetings of the council, and it Is record ed that a short time later the second story of N. H. Lane's bulkiing was rented at $ IS a month for council cham bers and the" office of the city recorder. Early in the game the city recorder's salary was fixed at $600 a year,, the treasurer $150 a year, the city marshal $30 a month and a few fees provided for in the license ordinance and the city at torney $300 a year. The city council also voted to "Im prove" . Second street from A to J streets by "grading the dirt up to the estab lished grade line" and soon afterwards the first remonstrance came from two property owners who owned cne whole block and didn't want to pay the bill for improvement. "The remonstrance was laid on the table," reads the minutes. BAND ALLOWED TO PRACTICE And along about this time, Wiltiam Dalton, erstwhile street commissioner, came along as preaident of the East Portland cornet band, and requested per mission of the council to use the coun cil chambers on "Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday evenings of each week for a practice room." The permission was granted. The council also began consideration of the request, by petition, from George W. Weidler, asking for the vacation of Willamette street, all of Oregon street west of Maple, and all of Pacific street west of Laurel, for construction of dbc"ks. Willamette street was that road running parallel to the river now occupied by the Southern Pacific tracks. The population of East Portland at that time was estimated to be about 1900 people. In 1884 the estimated popu lation was 6710. In 1883 the tax assess ment. had mounted to $2,4SS,843. In that same year there were three wards and in each ward was a volunteer fire com pany. CITT DIRECTORY ISSUED In 1884 the first and only east side city directory was published. E. C. Beard & Co. were the publishers and in the directory was contained much valu able information about the struggling east side municipality in addition to listing the names of the inhabitants. In the year 1872 the first east side newspaper was published. Its life con tinued for a year. Known first as the East Portland Era. it was later the Democratic Era. with S. W. Ravely, editor, although U. E. Hicks was orig inally, associated with Ravely. Both these men were old-time printers, having worked once for George Hlmes in his print shop. -Sand they used to bring the forms for their newspaper across the river to Himes for publication. HAD TERRIFIC WI5DSTOR3I ' In these early daya there- was a beau tiful 10 acre grove on the east side of the river, running from Taylor street south to about the present location of Hawthorne avenue, then a county road, and from the river three or four blocks east. It was a most popular picnic ren dezvous. This grove was practically de stroyed in the terrific wind storm of January 9, 1880, which old-timers point ta as the most serious storm ever visit ing this section, and the nearest ap proach to a tornado- that Portland ever saw. At the time of Incorporation the bounds of East Portland extended only to Twelfth street, and that was con sidered to be very remote. The city paid $20 for Its first seal, which was the figure of a railroad en gine and train superimposed on a land scape with three high mountains in the distance. . East Portland became a' part of the city of Portland on July 8. 1891. Al btna was also voted Into the greater city at the same time. St. Johns at that time was a part of Albina. but In 189$ St. Johns was rejected because of its remoteness and it remained out Of the city until July 8, 1315- lit :rr 'a tV--S?SL fl rkvy - . r;x. V v f ;v EivO-V , t i l i: 1 ?i -- ; f f . - r- - - ' ii. '; " f -4jJr ' .'X i fc,-,s ..in u ? v t - ' -1 ' - - : - ' V V ; v -; , . . , v Mi rfA AX ' , Win Z y 'j -W I k' ' " iji v-.w ... M. . r i in Above Victor Vernon and Mrs. I. Aronson starting; for a flight over Portland to . distribute flowers to wounded veterans under treatment at St. Vincents hospital. Several members of the' Oregon. Motor Corps and tbc lied Cross Motor squad also went up In the ulrplaue. Below Three' of tho decorated lunch baskets which were awarded prizes at the auction after the Replanted Forest ; Areas Prospering Forest service planting areas -in the Breitenbush and Battle Ax regions of the Santlam national forest are in ex cellent shape, says Waltier Love,-; forest examiner, who has Just returned from inspecting the plantations. i On the old Breitenbujsh burn.) three miles northwest of Mount Jefferson and eight miles from Breitenbush hot springs, 66 acres were in 1919 planted to western pine and noble fir, and 400 acres In 1920 r J J u i M I u r L-J - L-J . x L-J ; VJ I , : V t l WW 23. 21 Wild end IVcndcrful Ponj Ei?rtss Ricts, Broncho 1 Bcstinr, Inditn. Cowboys, , Outlaw Horses hold yon speH .bevnd with their nerre txA AuMt - j For fares and particulars, call L. K. OMJSR, City Passenger! Agent 701Wells Kargo Buitdlng; Broadway- 500 : COXIiOLlDATKD T1CKKT OK KICE, Third and Washington, Main $530 ; UNION STATION, Broadway $02. r TM. MeSftTBBAT, Geaeral Pavseager .tirest. Porlland, Oregon a,. , "r . 4 . s s. a nm . yamx, I r: l were planted to Douglas fir, western white pine and noble fir, with, a small quantity of silver fir. The reproduction of thisi old burn is of especial importance from a scenic as well as a commercial standpoint, because, of Its nearness to Mount Jefferson and the fact that the new t -ail leading Into Jefferson park will pass through It. On the Battle Ax area the first trees were plnnted in 1803. These at the end of their seventh season are five feet high and growing vigorously.' About SOU acres were planted in 918 of Doug-j las fir and western white pine, which! are also, doing splendjdly. ! Leve noted an unusually large num-i PENDLETON, OREGON ulrplano flight. ber of jwrsonr taking Vacations In the mountains this year and reported from 4tXJ to 300 viBltors at Breitenbush hot springs during the season. Canada's Trade) Boom Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 4.-I. . S. tr Henry Drayton, minister of finance. In Ms budget npeeeli In t house of com mons, gave some Illuminating figures on Canada's development. He said Canada's total trade amounted to $149,489,111 In 1879 and t$Z.8SU?4,R8S 'in the flaal year ended March 81, 120. This repre sents a growth In irada from $33.60 to $2Cl per capita In 4i years. 25. 1920 fl Furious end Excib'ng BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER '