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Americans In Panama
FOREST GROVE PRESS
oi me cnnAi tbevost or sanitation will
be approximately *2.500.000. or $17.-
500.000 in all by Jan. I. 1914. which
amount is nearly $3.000.000 less than
the cost estimated for the department
in 1008.
When the ordinary cleanliness to
which the American or the Knropean
is accustomed is observed In the trop­
ics ami If Intoxicants are not permit­
ted to dominate the individual life
there will not be the slightest diffl
culty In living near the equator.
(Continued Next Week.)
tract of country without a shrub or
tree of any kind the whole way until |
we get to Portland, but they tell us I
(Continued from Page Three.)
that upon the tableland there, north of
was In such common use that the em
the river, is one of the finest wheat j
ployeea naturally became cureless. At
countries
in the world, making enormous
Instance is afforded by two employees
crops.
who knocked an Iron pipe against a
The Dalles, Oregon, laying about 80 J
railroad track to dislodge some dvua-
niles
above Portland, on the Columbia I
uiite. They were angels in less than
River,
presents as beautiful scenery as
two seconds after the first blow. The
>ne’s eyes can behold, the cars going
worst accident, at Bas Obispo, has not
through, upon the banks, short tunnels
been explained.
and then out again, for several miles j
Most of the accidents bave occurred
since the working force has been in
djwn the river. There are many curi-.
excess rtf 20,000 men. When the num­
ous formations of rock projecting out j
ber killed outside the line of duty is
of the water, with bases appearing no [
subtracted from the total deaths by
or wider than ten or twelve feet, j
violence it will be found that the ac­ Following is the experience of W. F. larger
ranging
in height from fifty to sixty j
tual building of the canal bas been at­
Another curious thing we saw
tended by a normal percentage of such Lilly, on a trip from Linn County, Mis- feet.
upon the opposite side of the river
fatalities—certainly no larger than in I souri, to Oregon, written by him back were
spouts of water aoout midway up j
any private construction of the same to his home paper:
character or approximating the same i We boarded the train at Wheeling, on the mountain, appearing to come j
magnitude. The largest number of Missouri, at 8:30 A. M., September 13, through a faucet something like 500 j
deaths by violence uniong employees In arriving
Portland Si ptember 18 at 7 feet high. These scenes are not all we
one year was in 1909, when 178 were P. M. In at going
Missouri we can imagine of the river, the water |
killed, and this was equaled agaiu in crossed some of the through
fertile and beauti­ power of which is almost untold, part [
ful plains and corn fields of that great of which is now in use running vast i
state. Though the fields looked burnt, machinery in the great city of Portland.
we conld see every evidence of thrift Portland we believe to be one of the [
and prosperity in that lovely region. most beautiful cities in the world, and i
Now we come to Kansas City, and stay her possibilities are great, indeed. We |
there a Jew days and look over that look mit from the Heights at Portland \
beautiful city. Then we start on our into the far distance and see three
way to the Northwest, making our way snow-capped peaks, Mt. Hood, Mt. St. j
to the Pacific, going up the Missouri Helens and Mt. Adams, of which Mt. J
River by way of St. Joseph, the coun­ Hood is the highest, being 11,226 feet1
try still being parched by reason of the above the sea level. Words fail to de­
d'y weather. It showed to us that that scribe the emotion we felt as we looked
| r.-gion will also be on the short order upon them with their silent and amazing
for feed the coming Winter. Nd one grandeur, This city has a fine harbor
we met, however, seemed discouraged. whicli presents a dock of five miles up
Now we take the railroad running via and down the Willamette River. Some
Lincoln, Nebraska, all along the line of of the largest vessels in the world come
P hoto @ by A m erican P ress A ssociation. which was also affected by the tremen- to this city. We shall visit one of them, j
djus drouth that prevailed all over the Most of the wool is manufactured in !
Colonel W. C. Gorgas.
country. We found Lincoln a beautiful Portland that is raised in Oregon, j
progressive big city, and the Washington, Montana and Idaho, also1
1911. The following table shows the and
quantities from Australia. Enor- J
number of American employees, the country around is one of the most beau­ large
total death rate and the relation of tiful that one could imagine. Alfalfa mous lumber mills are also running full i
deaths from disease to deaths by vio­ fields as green as could be, and lots of blast day and night, sawing up the ]
lence from 190U to 1911, inclusive:
them, are to be seen for many miles huge fir logs of this part of the world. !
N um ber D eath
along the Platt River and the wide ex­ From Portland wegoto ForestGrove,
of em- ra te per By Vlo- pansive
plains on every side. We leave a beautiful town about thirty miles
ployeea. l.ooo. disease. lene«.
Year.
8.14
5.36
3 'JU6 .........
that
part
of the state of Nebraska and west of Portland, lying in the heart of |
8.14
6.36
1507 .........
e
iter
one
of the most desolate places the Willamette Valley, one of the rich­
4.49
8.19
3.70
1?08 ........
1909 .........
5.56
3.23
2.33 that we could imagine our eyes to behold. est valley in the world. In this part we
2.92 But even in this desolate looking country shall visit relatives whom we have not |
5.36
2.43
3910 .........
2.82
2.32 here
3511 .........
5.14
and there will be seen some of as seen for twenty-nine years. Let us j
Colonel Gorgas found In the early beautiful
little towns, well laid off, add that this country is also the home
years of canal work that the Ameri­ with substantial
houses, as are of fine looking men and women, mostly
cans and Europeans were three times seen in most parts looking
of the better appear­ women.
as healthy as the natives of the tropics,
who. as Chief Engineer Stevens noted ing countries, Missouri, or any place And now I extend my arm over the |
in 1905, "are supposed to be immune else, without any visible means of Rocky Mountains into that wonderful
from everything, but who as a matter support. Men told me that this was country which we call the Mississippi
of fact are subject to almost every­ the region where men individually own Valley, and grasp the warm hands of
thing.” This somewhat upsets the
and thousands of acres, the the good people of Linn County, Mis­
theory that northern races cauuot live hundreds
capacity
of
which it takes ten acres to souri. I shall greet you again in a
readily In tropical climates.
each
cow
brute
to support. This con­ short time with a letter from Tillamook,
Several of the annual reports of the
big trees.
sauitary department have noted the dition appears for four or five hundred Oregon, the land of the
W m . H. L illy .
remarkably few diseases peculiar to miles.
After we have come within two or
men. such as alcoholism, etc.
Allowance must be made In consider­ three hundred miies of Billings, Mon­ Big M achine Does W ork
ing the favorable health showing on tana, the country improves rapidly until
the Isthmus to the fact that the em­ we get to Billings. Fine farms, well The excavation of the ditch for
ployees in one sense are picked men. cultivated,
with fine little towns and the water mains in this city was
They must be In sound condition when rasidence buildings
be seen on done with a steam ditching ma­
employed and usually In the prime of every hand. After we are left to Billings
the chine. It is a modern wonder
life. Another thing that has kept the
mech nical skill. It does the
death rate down among the Americans country still improved in richness and of
has been the practice of returning to fertility of soil, which is cultivated work of fifty or more men in a
the United States many patients who with great neatness, which showed day. A series of miniature
apparently bad not long to live. Thus thrift and an industrious people. Now steam shovels rotating over an
their deaths were not a charge against as we pass Billings we are rolling along immense wheel dig the excava­
the canal zone.
over the road through a somewhat tion to any depth desired, merely
It cannot be assumed that all the miuntainous
country, the farming part by manipulating a lever in the
tiir canal
x uimi ¿>uuc
deaths from disease In i the
zone i
of the engineer, and de­
causes
that
originated
of
whlch
13
between mountain ranges hands the
were from
earth at one side in a
there. The diseases peculiar to the that lay on either s'de of our travel. ! posits
tropics have not claimed as many vic­ Sometimes we will be in narrow-like neat pile, by means of an ele­
tims among the Americans us the dis­ valleys, then expanding and broaden­ vator. The engine moves stead­
eases peculiar to the northern climates. ing out into great valleys large enough ily along at the rate of a foot or
But there has l»een a steady improve­ m ike a whole county. This land, so a minute, tearing up and de­
ment. as may be noted in a fall In the to
tell us, is now selling for from fiC vouring everything in its way,
death rate among the Americans from they
to
$100
per acre. The inhabitants of leaving a smooth, even trench of
8.14 per 1.900 in 1907 to 5.14 per 1.000 this country
seem to be a well contented the desired depth in its wake.
in 1911.
and
thrifty
people.
This is one of the About three men are all that are
An incident in the sanitary govern­
ment of the isthmus was an executive newest countries in the ifnited States needed to man the machine.
order by President Taft, effective on that is now inhabitated by white people, Connections will be made in
Pec. 12. 1911. which prohibited the only being from three to six years old South Forest Grove and other
practice of any system of therapeutics a3 a place of habitation for the white j points, so that plenty of good
or healing that the sanitary depart­ man. They are building well and j water will soon be available.
ment. tile allopathic school, should rule putting up good houses everywhere, I The ditch extends from Sain
against The president upon Its possi­ and
towns ail along the railway are j Creek to Hillsboro, and from
ble application to create a monopoly of to be fine
seen.
We are told that this land j there on to Beaverton.
healing in the eanal zone being point­
ed out to him revoked the order on will produce as much as sixty bushels |
of wheat to the acre and one hundred
Jan. 1. 1912.
Employees are not permitted to re- bushels of oats. That of course would
main In their homes and quarters perhaps be the best possible yield for
when sick, but must go to the Colon the country. They also teli us that
or Ancon hospital unless the distrlcf j oats
oaU will
w;,l weigh
w; j h as
M mi
much as forty.eighl
physician expressly rules otherwise. 1 J pounds
to
the
bushel
and wheat sixty-1
The hospital grounds at Ancon are „ ur pounds,
.
beautiful, and convalescent patients fo“r P^nda, struck measure.
«re sent to Taboga island, ten miles Now the mountains are beginning to
out lu Panama bay. for final treat- grow in evidence. We are excited and
ment. A dairy with 125 cows supplies every one wants a peep at the far-off
fresh milk to the Ancon hospital.
! beauties of the scenery. This condi-
At first Colonel Gorgas was not a tion of landscape holds good alljthe way
member of the isthmian canal commis- Spokane, Washington. We did not
sion But the extraordinary ability be . mention Great Falu MonUnaf iyinR
displayed
In the separation of » to . the east . about
, . three
.. . hundred
, ,
iu ,v resulted
the ,.n
sanitary
department from the Ju­ loff
risdiction of the governor of the canal miles from Spokane, on the Missouri
zone, and on Feb. 28. 1907. Colonel River. It is one of the most beautiful
Gorgas was made a member of the towns in this country and has a popula­
commission, with the department of tion of 20,000.
sanitation having equal dignity wltb We now begin rolling down the west­
other grand divisions of the work. He ern slope to the Pacific. Spokane is on
TH EPHO GR APH ER
is the only official of the highest rank the Spokane River, which empties into
who has been with the canal project the Columbia River. All down this
from Its earliest days to the present rivar
the mountains seem to shut in on ,
The cost of tbe sanitary conquest of
Writes of Trip to Oregon
fm iisr-
DON'T
Have Your
Photos Made
Before
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1913
C ^ l t i . N - f ^ pu r e fo o d m a r k et
^ U IU IU
AND GROCERY
Extends to the patrons of the Wash­
ington County Fair their heist wishes
for future years of prosperity like
1913
SCHULTZ
OUR MEATS
O W N C U R ED H A M S A N D BACO N HYGENIC REFRIGERATION
PROCESS
From W ashington C ounty’s w ell-fed Is used to keep all our m eats cool and
pigs are the best w ith our sugar cure sanitary. Care should be taken in se­
and best grown oakw ood sm oke.
lecting properly p re p ared and handled m eats.
Hills Bros. Coffee
White Mountain Flour
is par excellence for the home is better than the best.
The Home of all Good Things to Eat
SCHULTZ’ PURE FOOD MARKET Î GROCERY
Largest and Most Sanitary Market and Grocery in the Willamette Valley
Forest Grove Phone 061
Oregon j
________ I
exhibit and
want
To every lady who comes to our
Booth We ivill give a ticket on a
$50.00 Range; which we shall give
away. Every lady in Washington
County is entitled to a ticket and
the drawing will take place at our
store on Saturday Night, October
11th, at 8 o’clock P. M.
BRYANT
the Isthmus to July 1. 1913. « i t the
somewhat impressive total of *16.000.
000. Here, as in the pay and treat
ment of employees, the government
has sought results without regard to
the expense. Fw the remaining 4ar»
• ides °* *** rai*ro^ * " * • which
faI*3 down raPldl>’ untl1 we come
the
Columbia River. The Columbia River
i* not timbered as we supposed it to be,
, but a barren and desolate bottom or
Opens His Studio
Over the Book store
LOST—Hand dag on the Newell Mra. Mary House and her help- Mrs. Wilbur McEldowney wil
road, contents: bible, pair of er are now ready fo. fall dress- receiye vocal pupils after Oct.
J gloves, Mrs. 0. G. Carnahan, I ¡ng. Phone 022. 4th Ave. So. 1st. at her home 232 A street
north.
Gaston Ore.
12t2 p * nd 3rd. street.
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