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. ... w Section Two Society, Churches: Better Homes images 1 to SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON,- SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1925 I t I 3 T I 2 if MIL5 m n Motoring in Northwest Col. E. -llofer Writes in His Usual Entertaining Manner or Trip , ) That Is Taking Him to Interesting Points in M Oregon and Washington ' (7 OOX E. HOIX&) - TACOMA, July 31.- We stopped here thlgt afternoon en route, for s.Anacorte$, and expect to attend -4ne ' annual Hardest House at Roche Harbor, San Juan island, August.lt 2 and 3,, returning next weekuliajSalnler national park C Shall' not say much about' the roads as pared highways are the rule. W? did not encounter speed officers after leaving Vancouver. Next f o paved roads and motor cars, good hotel service is of the greatest Interest to the traveling public. Well-kept hotels send the bellhop out to meet yon at the curb and, even across the street. July 0th we motored : from 'Agate Bfcach, Or., with its quiet beach hocuses and modern inn to Longvlew. Wash., 215 miles, stop ping at Ithe new Corvallls hotel sfor break rast, and at Salem, long , enough to clear a desk of a stack of mail. j. From Oregon City we cut across to Vancouver via 82nd street, Foster road and Grand ave- nue. From Vancouver, to Long- view is 46 miles.. The Long-Bell company! first made -heavy pur chases of standing timber in Clat sop and Columbia counties, plan ned a location on the Oregon side, but balked at state income and inheritance taxes and nronosed re- j moral taxes on standing timber and located on the Washington side. Behold the modern city with clerks, industries,; public service corporations, and claims 5,000 population and 65 miles of paved and graded streets. Longvlew shows the advantage of city plan nlng and wise use ' of capital In building-Tor effects. ; Two years ago a pasture to day a city" Is the slogan of Long- view, the most famous new In dustrial city, in the northwest Built byi the Long-Bell Lumber company of Kansas City out of the earnings of Its-hundreds of retail lumberyards in the great prairie states wet pf the Mississippi. The Monticello hotel here was IYHIISBID'5 01 planned to. fit the name,, with a colonnade of pillars designed by Thomas Jefterson for his country home; with a wing on each side. The grounds on which this six- story hotel stands comprise about 100 acres that . were once peace ful pasture lands where dairy cows rested under the shade of giant maples that have been preserved forever in the beautiful setting of the grounds. The hotel has an extension1 of one' story for tie targe dining room, with glass on two sides 1 looking! upon great lawns and ! exits on the tennis isourts built on concrete. A three- story wing holds the kitchen and help quarters. -There are acres of flowers,: a canopy porte-cochere in case of rain, and great, beds of pink tea roses on each side of the entranced ' -The foyer has displays of cut flowers - and vine maple. Ton look across this expanse of Velvety lawns, parkings and flow er borders at on esplanade of mod ern buildings. . 1 1 There is' a great dining room and a coffee shop with lunch coun- i ter, at which our party of six had a good breakfast. ; The service throughout- is on tiptoe, and ex pert travelers call it the best man aged in detail, next to the Penn sylvania hotel in New York. The elevator is noiseless, r with floor annunciators. ! . i I i A "sawmill town with one mill cutting a million feet a day, and a second . building, Longvlew ; Te quires all business buildings to be of brick, stone or concrete. All sites are sold with reserva tions as to - architecture and ma terial for construction. I ; In passing, wish! to compliment the new Benton hotel at Corval lls for excellent dining room ser vice. The coffee we had , was about me most aeucious ever tasted any where. ; The strawberries and muffins could not easily be better. The Benton has hinged windows opening outward from the -bed rooms; A Portland morning Ore- Adele Garrison's New ; Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE opyrght by Newspaper -Feature i - Service 1 : CHAPTER 74! WHY MADGE WAS , ABLE TO SAVE "AUNT TATTIE?- ; . ..." l : ; ; i. ; : . ' I With my small son In my lap, I considered and discarded a half- dozen plans for silencing his "lit tle pitcher" repetition of the com ments he had heard from Kather ine's lips and mine concerning his grandmother's abominable dis courtesy b Mrs. Bickett. ' : j Any iuother of small ; children who never has faced a similar problem has a blessed lot, indeed. In !ny first; panic I had agreed with Katherine's frantic comment that! thi was ho time for modern methods of child training. But sit down to breakfast. The dining room is large and cool, with high ceilings. Manager Al Pearce .for merly conducted the Marion at Salem. Going from Chehalis' to Cen tralla, and through the latter place winding among back streets should be marked "In red ink on the maps, instead of a part of the big black straight line indicating the Pacific highway. There are three miles of disgrace; old dirt road that was; once covered with gravel that is now a succession j with my little lad in my arms, looking cherubically up into my face, ' I could neither bribe nor threaten him, at least not until I had tried other methods. 'Ma-ma feel bad he announc ed at last with the air of one mak ing an Important discovery. "Does It hurt bad? Dooner tlss it, and make it all well." 7 I gave him an. ecstatic little hug and-seized the heaven-sent oppor tunity. - Yes, Mother does feel bad. Jun ior," I said impressively, wun a purposely sober face. "It makes Mother feel so bad for you to sing those words." "What words?" he demanded blackly. "Don't repeat them!" Katherine flashed the whisper frantically. and I smiled a bit derisively as I acknowledged the warning.: Re peating the words, even if I were to do bo silly a thing, would be a distinct superfluity In Junior's case. He aireaay naa mem urm ly fixed in his really remarkable memory, I was sure ol that. o, to create a diversion in Junior's mind, I placed him on the seat and started the car again. "Oh! I know!" he announced importantly, and then he threw back his head and broke into his chant again: , "Bomable old woman. Ought to be., spanked." "Madge!" Katherine's voice was mploring, and I knew that she fav ored summary and drastic meas ures, but Junior's chant abruptly ceased, and he turned an earnest, inquiring little face to mine. "Never! Never! Never!" lie considered a minute, his head absurdly on one side. Then he turned his eyes on Katherine. "Aunt Tattle said words first," he looked triumphantly at me. "I knew it!" Katherine whisper ed despairingly. "He has my num ber, all right. A might Just as well 1- rw i a - . ask Airs, titer lor room but way." ' "Yes, Junior, I know," I said promptly. -Aunt Tattle was naughty to say those words, but she s sorry she said them, now aren't you. Aunt Tattle?" "Oh, Junior! Aunt Tattle's so sorry, so sorry!" wailed Katherine sincerely. "Listen, Junior. Sup pose we promise Mother we'll nev er say those bad words again." twice. There's a couple of other men there. ' Maybe there's some thing wrong. You make ' tracks now. and then you can come back and see Junior." ' "Good afternoon, ladies." she turned to us. "What can I do for you?" (To be continued) A Promise Won. "You no like?" he inquired with so unconscious yet life-like an imi tation of Katie, that Katherine and I, tensely anxious as we were, had hard work to suppress our laughter. ' With a mental note that the German University Honors Retired English Teacher BERLIN The faculty of Bonn University recently gave a recep tion to Prof. Aloys Brandl. who retired April 1 as head of the de- partment of English partment of English. The occa sion was his seventieth birthday anniversary. Professor Brandl for many years was president of the German Shakespeare Society and is one of the best known authorities in Ger many on English philology and literature. The faculty of the "university presented Prof. Brandl with a portrait of himself by Hellemann. He also received an honor scroll from his former pupils on which was recorded tribute or his ser vices to the university In the dt- OBSERYE ANNIVERSARY BERLIN A special ldtlmC vesper service wa held recently in the Berlin Cathedral to cele brate the -400th anniversary of the wedding of Martin Luther, la addition to the cathedral service there was an outdoor celebration in the square fronting the Luther monument. A large crowd Joined ' In the "singing of old German, carols. - r ' The morning newspaper la the market place of the entire world. An advertisement In it will briar yon larger returns. of j ruts j that - give this stretch a I problem of Katie's influence upon blacq eye. 1 At Olympia, the hotel by that name, opened ihew five years ago, Is managed by-Tierce brothers and was entertaining about 100. Ro tarlans with as many more tourist guests in the regular dining room. The' lunch was. beyond criticism, and we were served by the mana- gonian is handed you .when yon ger in person- j Junior's speech must soon be tak en up, I spoke slowly, impressive ly, nevertheless, watching the road carefully and drove along. "No, Mother doesn't like those words and she doesn't want you to say them again, ever." " - V "Never?" he asked reluctantly. Evidently the chant had charms for him "Maybe Something's Wrong." He reflected again, soberly. Then, with a sigh be put away the fascinating possibilities of the new chant. ' "All right. Never say dose bad words again. Hi! Derry. I've come to see you." t We had turned into the Ticer dooryard, and Jerry was at the side of the car before we had stop-' ped. He never falls to answer Junior's hail, no matter how im portant the task, he leaves. As for Junior, Jerry is his childish Ideal of manhood, and he tags him about as an adoring terrier might do. "Hello, Junior!" He swung the child high in his arms as he lifted him out' of the car, and the boy chuckled gleefully. I guessed from Jerry's glowing face that "Lady", his decrepit but beloved old horse, must be better, and he confirmed the guess as soon as he deposited Junior on the ground, andsprang to help us out. "Lady's a hull lot better, Mis' Graham," he said excitedly. "The vet said give her enough stuff to kill her, but he's fixed her up all right, and he says with luck she'll be all right in a couple' of days, and then. Oh boy! Junior, you're going to be a regular circus rider. Your maw 'says I can teach you how to ride Lady " "Yo-ou, Jerry!" called his moth er's placid but firm voice from the doorway. "Don't you hear your father blowing down the road for you? He's blown that whistle i'W: ' The Things That Are Required td conduct a funeral according to the. modern standards, and that meet modern conditions are to be found only in the well-furnished, mortuarv 'establishment such as 1 vre have. The use 'jof the funeral parlors is every day becoming more a matter of course with those we serve. Their manifold advantages are be- -ing recognized. - i " WEBB'S FUNERAL PARLORS "Superior 3UncmJ Service" 205 Sa Church Street Phone 170 T 1 1 , j .-'k, . ... ,.j.r.. li.:S-t i'UW: .j:-:Ht - I.' V. n wm. v . v - ----- . .J " Urn' ' 'mmr i .. -- A imJ. . , . . J ' . - -- - - - .w : . . . m : . ' - 1 J Some idea of the electrical development that has taken place in Salem ajid vicinity during the year3 ; 1,914 to 1924 may be had from our records of the investments we have made in that period for addil ,tions to our plants and equipment: i , ! !-' Transmission lines $ 39,973.00: Additions to buildings j.: 14,359.00 Electrical and -Steam machinery 180,222.00 ' Distribution poles and wires.,:... 242,960.00 Transformers 92,268.00 Meters . I . 68,895.00 Street Lighting equipment 11,010,00 Telephone Lines ..a..... .;. . . 1,553.00? Miscellaneous ......' i 1,811,00 Z , I I k. -f 7" iv'.:- il $653,051.0, Approximate proport ionate I , ! , . share of hydro-electric plant ' i I construction on Clackamas i r J River and steam electric i L f plants' in Portland 810.000.0Q- $1,463,051.00 The above statement shows that we have spent Over One Million Four .Hundred Thousand Dollars in the above stated period in the development and up building of Salem and Vicinity. " L j r j ,' '! ' In the same time i we spent in i: i ' the- operation and mainten- i ance of our property and equipment in I Salem and vicinity :..l...Ll.-.:.......$l,192,974.00 UThe following gives an idea of the increase in our personnel and payroll: A ; I '.'. 1 m m ...1 . jt- ' i i,- r- '-isiiiri tir T'-i " i Yi-'fi.' - - ' , ,f . i .... i I v T, w We have extended many miles of distribution lines into the rural districts during the last few years, and are now supplying nearly 800 farmers in this vicinity. . ; j j The following data shows the growth and devel opment from the standpoint of number of customers and quantity of electricity used: r . Number of Customers Kilowatt hours sold In the year of Increase 1914 1924 in , ,693 : 9,095 146 333,710 2,634,692 5577? Due to the increasing use of electricity in the home for cooking and other uses, a very interesting and marked reduction in the average rate per K.W.1L paid for service is shown in the following figures : ! i i i i No. of employes.. j Amount of payro I E. r. Co. Hydro-Electric Power Plant Near EsUcada, Oregon. t May May Increase,; 1915 1925 in j . 65 '. 128 - 977o 1 I $4,904 $14,728 198'o j 'I- mi i.Hi?.h; i Prior to 1917 we had but one transmission line supplying power to Salem from our hydro-electric plants This line extended from our Oregon City ,plant to Salem via the Oregon Electric Railway, I In 1917 we extended another transmission line from our hydro-electric plant at : Estacada to ; Mt. , Angel into Salem to provide duplicate and additional Capacity to increase the reliability of our service. . We are now building, at a cost of $150,000, a third transmission line from Salem to Newberg via Dayton, and rebuilding the line from Newberg to Portland to connect with the steam power plants there and the ten transmission lines that extend into Portland from our hydro-electric plants. . . ' ' When this new line is completed, 'Salem will have four sources of supply of electric power and is very fortunate in being so adequately supplied, as reliability of supply is even more important to man ufacturing plants and other users of electricity than its cost. 1 v - . . In addition to the above, we removed our old ... . steam -electric plant at Salem in 1922. and erected another; representing an investment of $175,000. We also have under construction in West Salem a high tension switching and transformer station, and a transmission line from that Station to our Salem station, at a cost of $55,000. , This, when added to the cost of the nW trans mission line, makes a total of over $200,000 in one major improvement for the year. : In the year of Decrease Average rate 1914 1924 in per K. W. H. paid by customers for residence service 8.6c 4.3c 50 Due to the tremendous quantity of electric power used by the Paper Mill, which was established in the period (under consideration, and the resulting very low rate earned by it and the low rates earned by other large power users at the present time, the average rate per K. W. IL paid by all customers shows a corresponding decrease: . In the year of Decrease I 1914 1924 ' in Average rate per K.W.H. paid by ALL Customers 2.6c , 1.7c 50 We feel that all of the foregoing figures Indicate that we have been doing our part in the development and upbuilding of Salem and vicinity by providing adequate electric power' facilities, .which is a Very important factor, and that our rates are low and of such a scale as to give the community the benefit of still lower electric power costs'as its use of power increases. ' " 1's. S - - J "