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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1924)
-1 . C i , Prominent among the musical organizations of Salem is the Orioles, an orchestra which has just completed a successful season in this city and is now filling engagements in various towns in this part of the valley. If demand may he taken as an indication of musical excellence the Orioles Beem fairly entitled to be termed Salem's leading orchestra. The personnel of ,thd organization includes: Thelma Blessing Andreasen,-W. H. Mills, I. A. Wroten, Fred Mills and David H. Talmadge. MEMORIES OF OLD SALEM THAT.WfLL EVOKE SMILES (Continued from page 1) we now stand by Col.' 2. D. Baker, who was once pronounced by ex - Attorney General George H. Wil liams to be the most eloquent or ' ator to . whom, he had ever lis ' tened. ',. f -: ' How many of you remember the flood of 186t, when water four feet deep surrounded Salem's course' house, when a V steamboat could have made Its way up Ferry street, and when Captain Geo. A. Pease made his .perilous trip up the; Willamette on the Steamer Onward from Oregon City to Sa lem, rescuing the people from the tree tops and from" floating flot sam of every description? How many of you' ever in t the old days manned' the brakes of Capital No.' 1 and Tiger No. 2 when we" pumped water .from the city 1 cisterns at , the" junctions of State and Commercial and Liberty and 'State streets? " : r How .many' of you ever, manned the rope of these two engines as we responded, time after time, to the fire alarms coming in1 from the outer districts of the town? : " How many of you made the rec- ord-tripi of. 53 minutes on a flat car to Portland In 1873, with Cap j Ital engine, and how many of you . ere on thw roof of the St. Charles hotel and there ' successfully bat tled to stem the progress of that . disastrous fire that' swept out of existence so many block from the northern business end of Port land? V- ' - Among the most interesting and V dunsest Generation Takes v s m SflV. --H4-tK: rif!J .ilfi Artbts, Liar ried," Evolve ta I Cut-outs That Tie ally Dance; the1 r::-ht cfChildreri? . .;' '. ; Everywhere, - - :The. veryyoxmest of that active younger . generation ' has liken to syncopation," says Berta Ilader, who, in partnershrp with her husband, Elmer Hader, evolves cut-outs that American youngsters all over the country adore."' " :- - -- , . The latest Hader creation : is c'.r.:rj Toot:Ie,"th" paper doll THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OUEGCrrl . . , - - - - f .- ! ...... ' V exciting memories of the days that are gone were - the hard-fought senatorial battles' that seldom ended until after midnight of the day set for final adjournment of the legislative session. A refer ence to but one of them will suf fice, and it is selected because one of the contestants has received but minor mention in the annals of the state, due to the fact that he left Oregon permanently just at the close of the civil war in 1865. ' ThU contest I witnessed as' a boy in 1864, as I sat in the gal ery of the convention hall by the side of Henry H. Gilfrey, who has been - an attache of , the United States senate in ; Washington for the last ! 46 years. It was a con test in which the two leading con testants -: were Rev. Thomas H.' Pearne and George -H. .Williams, United States. Williams, who was elected, led on the first ballot by the narrow margin of only seven votes. It was a race between two of the greatest etalwats of our pioneer dars. ! Pearne was a fear less, virile; aggressive, and most ambitious man. He was the first editor bf the Pacific Christian Advocate then published in Salem. He was at one time presiding elder of a district extending from Puget sound to southern Oregon. He be longed to the church militant and was an uncompromising foe of human slavery. He was chair man of the Oregon delegation in the national Republican conven tion that nominated Lincoln for re-election at Baltimore in 1864. At the; close of the civil war he located permanently in the . east, and at a time when the animosit- To Syncopation 15. v.wwv j I i i bound foitUtf. t -y i that to keep tip -with the modern trend, really " dances. :lt took several months o.ex-; periment to music to brinfir Toot sie to life," explains Mrs. Hader. "We finally turned the trick to the tune of , 'Don't : Mind -the Rain, a fox-trot ; dance ' with a spring-time lilt that reminds you of babies frolicking:, . r ? "Tootsie does all the new dances' by means - of her small wner fingers, which serve as her legs. The' doll fits .on the hands and the fingers go Into , her little shoes . . i The Hader cut-outs are appear ing f in Good Housekeeping, - Ho- Call s and other magazines lies of the war were at a white beat he was named to fill a ; pul pit in Knovxille, Tenn.; So bitter was the feeling that he- was way laid, shot at, beaten by. roughs and notified ' that he would be killed if he held any any services fn his churchy He replied that he was ready to maintain his rights as a - Methodist minister and an American citizen. He went to his church, he knelt in prayer, he laid his trusty pistol on his pulpit and he delivered his message to bis pastorate, and during all his remaining years continued to fight as a faithful soldier of the church militant until he passed away at the ripe old age of 81 years: t ' Fond Memories ' r Two . full generations have .gone over the long trail since the little kid from Uncle Joe ' Can non's town stepped off at the steamboat landing at the foot of Trade street in Salem in March, 1853, and trudging up that street turned north for the first time at the junction of Trade and Com mercial. The field of reminis cence is too great and the time is too limited to review all of the in terc3ting experiences of the inter vening days. Thirty days Instead of thirty' minutes would hardly suffice. For more than the scrip tural limit of time I have been a witness of all 'the various phases of Salem's development, i I hate seen her expand from, only a few hundred to more than 20,000. On July 24, 1864, I stood on the top of an adjacent and uncomfortably warm brick kiln listeningto-the address of Governor A. C. Gibbs at the laying of the corner stone of "Waller hall." On October 21st. 1867, I marched in procession1 "to the sound of martial music" from Oregon Institute to the taking of formal and permanent possession of "Waller hall." In October. 1871; I attended the laying of the corner stone of the new First M E. church, ' and : on October 8th, 1S73, the laying . of the corner stone of the state capitol, and in November, 1900, the dedication of the Odd Fellows' temple, and on May 30th, 1901, the laying of the corner stone of Salem's govern ment post off ice, and on December 16th, 1908, the laying of the cor ner stone of Eaton hall, and last, but not least, the unveiling of the equestrian" statue of The Circuit Rider," on the 19th, Inst, on the state capitol grounds, directly op posite "Waller hall" on the , not versity campus. This Is a crown in gtrlbute to an element that was dominant in the pioneer days, and it will,' more than any other out standing - sign, perpetuate the memories of Salem," for many generations yet to come. ; It any old time Salem Rip Van Winkle, who went to sleep 50;or 60; yeara ago, . should now reap pear hia first Inquiries, would not be about the pioneer statesmen and ministers, and . actors and journalists of the early days. Con cerning' them he could refresh his memory, and review their accom plishments, in the standard histor ies of the state. He would be in terested in hearing of the men and women' whom he had met in the every-day walks of life," and who had shared with him in the daily tasks and - daily pleasures of 5 a common conipanlonship. Their station or their occupation In life and their morals or lack of mor als would' not 'greatly concern him, but he would display a con suming Interest in a discussion of their social qualities, their es capades,- their eccentricities, and their outstanding relationships to the interesting local happenings of 'Auld Lrfiug Syne." What, he would ask, has become of the old time local political bosses? How did the Jones boys "come but," and whom did' the Smith girls marry? What has become of Bill Chambers and Eph Olinger and "Frosty" Price and the rest of the drivers of horse-propelled taxicabs of the past. Only Eph Olinger of Hood River now remains. How are our old friends of the colored contingent? , What has become of Painter Johnson, and Dan Jones, the barber, and Old Man Bay less, and "Nigger Jack," and Johnny Jones, and Jack Bonter and Sam Brooks and those two old stal warts, Tom Davis and HI Gorman, who used to constitute the motive power that made the 'wheels go around in the old printing press of The Oregon Statesman! All of them, except Tom Davis, who, at 86, is now a resident of .Van couver, and Johnny Jones, who, as of old, still ranks as the leading caterer of Salem. And where are the old-time dispensers of the bev erages warranted to both'; cbeer and inebriate P. ? D. Palmer, "Patch Eye Byrne,1; E. M. Plam pndon. Wash Stimpson,. Bud Wa terman.' Sandy Burns, and Bill An derson? All gone over the road. their business properly under the ban of the law, but still being ex ploited by a school of criminals compared with whom the old-time barkeeper was a Christian gentle man of the finest type. ; Salem's city directory for 1874 furnishes the evidence that there were 300 men. engaged in busi ness here 50 years ago. Only an even dozen ot -them survive and they are scattered to the four winds. At least three of these are still with us. One is our afflicted friend, A. T. Yeaten. The other two are Joseph A Baker, 85, and George P. Litchfield, 84. both still cheery and optimistic and almost as active as -when in their prime. To pay even a passing reference to all of the old boys of the '60s and '70s In Willamette university would require a smair volume. As I visit the old campus-from time to time, there is a strong tempta tion to call up the departed shade of Tom Nicklin, an old boyhood chum, who long since passed away, and to repeat the lines: "But none are left to - greet me, 'Tom, and few are left to know v: Who played with us upon the t green some 60 years ago." One of them,' ex-Governor Geer, who I first met In Septem ber, 1861, passed away but two short months ago; Another, who has been In the grave for 30 years, Frederick G. Schwatka, was " my partner In the setting of "figure four"- traps in the brush In a lo cation later known as Peppermint Flat, and ' for" years was my com panion as we made from day to day. In the strawberry season, our round trip of ten miles to the Red Hills of the Pringlej district, east of Rosedale. He became a gradu ate of West Point and in later years made a world-wide reputa tion as an Arctic explorer. One who still lingers on the shores of timo is my old classmate, Judge Henry H. Hewitt, of Albany. One of my most cherished memories is that of the eating of a midnight Claim td By providing; every desired facility for banking convenience, keeping in touch with both outside and local business conditions, lending the hand of encouragement to worthy enterprises, and taking a great interest and pleasure in giving service has our growth been steady and rapid. And we believe that in selecting your bankr that you'll want the kind of service we base our growth upon. Join hands with us in the development of Salem' and Marion county. dinner of, chicken, smothered in gravy, in Henry's Stringtown cabin, just after the chicken had been purloined from the coop of T Elder Koyai, who uvea "just over the way." Most of the survivors of the old school - are scattered r.bout In distant fields, but. Oliver I.eers aifd Dick Carey and Abner Lewis and Ed Croisan and Taylor IMgdon - and Enos O'Flyng are still' sticking around. vThe girls' dormitory in ' Ileers hah,4 and ' the bachelor quarters in the third story of the Oregon Institute, and in the cabins of Stringtown and HangtOwn, furnished in later years a galaxy of men and women who made their mark in the his tory of the state, but a recital of their names and exploits would be a revelation of no special Interest to this strange, community of more recent growth. Along in the early '60s there appeared on the cam pus an erratic character whose later life record was not spotless. He was known as the Huckleberry Finn of Salem's pioneer days. He has since developed into one of the leading Hibernian barristers of the northwest;' and he has demon fctrated his affection for his ' old home town by a continuous reel dence of about 75 years on lot 1, block 1, ward 1 and precinct 1 of Fulem.' In his boyhood he was the central figure in a scandalous at fair that has discredited him ever since. He was caught red-handed one . Sunday ' afternoon ' in the melon patch of Elder Adair oh the Garden road. He assumed the name of a highly respected young man named . Billy Wicks, and claimed that he was a poor orphan boy who had been misled by Pate and Ed Hatch. The credulous and unsuspecting , Elder Adair could only exclaim with uplifted hands, "Payson and Edward ! Hatch, two sons. of a Congregational deacon, stealing' melons on a Sunday aft ernoon!" The next day he spent in a fruitless search for Billy Wicks and in rounding up the real culprits for" a prayer meeting at the home of Rev. O. Dickinson George Washington could not tell a lie; Mark Twain could but wouldn't. Neither - of them had anything in common, with Ananias or Peter H. . D'Arcy. In marked contrast with the conduct of the leading culprit in this scandalous affair was the upright character of other, youngmen in Salem, con spicuous among whom were Chas. B. Moores, John W.i Minto, ex- chief of police and ex-postmaster of Portland, and ex-Senator Ed M. Croisan of Salem. These three, when Elder Adair's melon patch was being raided on that Sunday afternoon, were, as was their continuous habit, attending Sunday school in the First M. E. church, the old" pioneer church first organized on "Mission Bot tom" in 1 8 4 1: Happily this can be verified by our old superintend ent, J. K. Gill, now in his 83rd year, and still one of the most ac tive, reputable and prosperous ot the business men of Portland That old Sunday school is still an inspiration and. a precious memory for all who attended it in early days, but it Inspires no tender thoughts in the heart of Peter H D'Arcy or of any other forager In the melon patches, or midnight in vader of the chicken coops of the honest yeomanry of your subur ban districts. . . 1 ? But the suggested garrulous propensity of the antiquarian has already been fully' demonstrated. and we must hasten to an end. It has been unpleasant, in closing, to WE PAY CASH FOS YOUR i ? FURNITURE ANDTOOLS Capital Hardware j & Furniture Co. 1 ' Best Prices PaM 85 N. Oom'l St Phone Mf Growth United States National Bank Salem. Oregon SUNDAY MORNING, Travels from Vienna When customs inspectors opened a suit-case among the fiaggage of Dr. and Mrs. Charles H- Lewis of Los Angeles, CaU on their arrival in New York, they found a happy, smiling' baby. The parents ex plained that Charles Herman. Jr., Was born four months ago in refer to Incidents relating to the unseemly side of pioneer life in Salem, and to detail the short comings of a gifted citizen, who should have been an exemplar of the highest ideals, and who might have been a substantial pillar in the political structure of the state. Let it pass. Memories and reminiscenses are substantial food only for those who have - crossed the meridian and are walking in the afternoon and sundown shadows of life. The : :-. . ,VWW. "JA Jill r . :,:: . .'.r.v . . .. ... : : ' I .v.;... : ? ;..-... A Eroaideir- ini -1 -'..."-. i - OF To us the home furnishing business is something more than' buying and' ;!!.' "7 furniture, something more than good storekeeping. It means the giving of our best to the people who come to us. We lock teycr.J the formality oT the business transaction . to the days when Uhe hen es srs furnished and the goods in' use. By doing more than you would expect, in ths vr-y of individual attention, by having the best that American manufacturers can r re duce at moderate prices, that every thing you look at here is better the prices cr: reasonable. To show you this service would be considered by us a privilege. ' LIVING : RG 3-Piece Tapestry Suite Davenport, Chair and Rocker to match . $112.30 2-Piece Wool Mohair Set Davenport and Fireside Chair to match, now .....:. ....... . $183X3 2-Piece Silk Tapestry Davenport and Chair to match, extra special $lS5.Ca All odd Davenports' at close out prices. 6-f t. Oak Table and six Oak Chairs upholstered in genuine leather for only $C:.7: Beautiful 54-inch top 8-ft. extension Queen Anne Dining Table with 6 leather cr Chairs and Buffet to match, now ". . . 11? 9f Ualian Peri0d Dinin Suite consisting of large Buff et; Dinin- Table, Servir Table, five straight chairs and one serving chair, with blue leather seats. TLb I one of the very fine sets in Salem and a revelation to the furniture lovers cf tl . vicinity. , '. ' ': Just Received An extra good lot of used furniturd. . Lamp Shades We have just received a large' shipment of beau tiful floor lamp shades. . Use Our Easy" Payment Plan. We charge no -Interest. . Trade in your used goods. Visit our exchange . department. ( MAY 4, 102 1 lo New Ofork in Suit-Cwa ' r: Vienna where his daddy was tak ing a' post graduate, course. .It waa the best, way We could think.' of to carry the little fellow about." said Mrs. Lewis. "Before we in vented the suit-case cradle We had" all kinds of trouble getting about in trains and taxis. great majority, of those who would enjoy a discussion of the primeval days are sleeping', oh the hillsides the other side of Falrmount. There is a community to whom pioneer memories would appeal. That sleeping city, made up, as It is, of our old-time community and state builders, once ' constituted the pioneer city of Salem." Their surviving friends hold them in precious j and ' undying . memory. They were the friends of the wholesome days of simpler, tastes SEEIE L ... j f ir J I in -m J i . . : 50-inch. - Madras ' in many colors that sells regularly at $2.50. To clean up . the ; odds and ends we have priced it at $1.00 Yard ' ' MXJ and habits when the Intlmack.i personal relationships ki.. them together in closer bo: than do the widespread relat! i ships of modern days. It has U i well said that "human 'fallows!.! i3 more precious than all the pom; and circumstance of power." A time goes on generation will fo; low generation, and each in tur: will be called upon to pay tribu te its predecessors. There will 1 a continuous succession of pione groups, but none of them c: more sincerely utter their tribuU of love and of praise than we wl ere Immediate successors or i: pioneer builders of Oregon. Whi keeping our eyes constantly to tl front, let us cast an occasion backward ; glance, and continual nourish the iafluences that w; perpetuate the past and mc closely knit the bonds of our pi neer friendships. The living ci that has obliterated the old lar marks, and grown up on the fo: da t ions of the Salera of 70 ye ago, has fallen heir to a splen; heritage. When the Almighty 1 out the landscapes of the Will, ette valley he laid out one of t loveliest of all his creations, j the prescience and the taste Salem's earlier builders who 1 here her . wide streets and c' center, added to her scenic v tage points, have made her i crowning diadem-of the Will ette valley and the most beaut of, all the beautiful cities of -whole Pacific slope. Surely, who are the inheritors of her mantle history and who ba the light of - her varied be;, are so blessed as to warrant v the most extravagant expre? of pur satisfaction. Another thing that puzzle is how a very fat man rnanai keep up appearances without penders. ST'AT ES T.2 A W A NT AD; The shbrtest distance fcett buyer and seller. Mattress, Sprincr arid Bed 2-inch continuous pest ; steel bed with all metal spring and 40-lb. mat tress $24.75 mm mm