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VOLXXXI
HAPPY INTRODUCTION
TO MERRY ENGLAND
Extracts
47
NEWBERG, YAMHILL COUNTY# OREGON. THURSDAY# AUGUST 26# 1920
from
a
Letter
Received
from W . C. Woodward, who
has Arrived is England
( Continued from last w eek.)
About the time the Philadelphia
■ailed from New York, July 10, wire-
leea communication gave the warning
that icebergs were breaking up and
threatening the ocean lanes. The
course o f the ship was thus turned
southeast for three' or four days, on
a line straight for Spain. Every little
while the temperature of .the sea was
taken, it being possible to detect the
presence o f an iceberg thereby, at a
distance of five miles. The circuitous
bourse caused us to be some hours be
hind the sailing schedule.
On the second Sunday afternoon we
got our first view of England o ff
Lsuid’s End, Cornwall, and fo r the
greater\part of the afternoon sailed
along the coast o ff the well known
chalk cliffs. And what a delightful
hailing introduction it was!
A bril
liant day had so much to do with the
very favorable Impression fo ile d , set
ting o ff so effectively the greens of the
English landscape.
“ Oh Say, Can Yon See“
Heading its course toward Cher
bourg, France, the Philadelphia came
to mooring a little after midnight, tn-
tu c a o f In U m e lo a llo w P a risp os-
sengers. to disembark on Sunday. Some
o f us remained up until .midnight,
watching the flashing of the long
string of lighthouses off the French
roast as we steamed toward the Cher
bourg harbor. And so eager to catch
the first glimpse of France was one
o f our little party, usually of staid and
conservative ■ habits, that he debated
whether to go lo bed at all or not.
H e finally compromised with his
eagerness by sleeping In his clothes
and tearing out on deck at the dawn’s
early light, disdainful of the conven
tional morning shave. “ I can shave in
R----- ,” he declared, "when I can’t see
France.” Such is the rejuvenating en
thusiasm of the first trip abroad.
We lost nearly half of our Quaker
group at Cherbourg, several to spend
some time in Paris and northern
France, and some to travel in Swltzer-
land, prior to the London conference.
But even with the prospect of meeting
again so soon, the au revolt« were said
With evident reluctance, so close and
enjoyable had the friendly associations
been.
The delay in schedule was very
fortunate for those who remained
aboard for the six hours’ run due north
to Southampton for It gave us the
ride in the day time, favored with beau
tiful weather again. I f a more happy
approach to England than the one of
the previous day o ff Cornwall could
be Imagined, It was that now ours as
we made our way close along the Isle
o f Wight, as attractive to the view as
it is closely identified with English
Ilf® and history. For example, topping
the highest hill on the Isle as we
passed the southermost point, the
Tennyson monument was plainly vis
ible near where was the home o f the
Poet Laureate.
A Happy Home Coming and a Touch of
Romance
Standing with the w flter at the rail
was a little woman who could hardly
contain herself for Joy and enthusi
asm.
For she and her husband, a
Methodist pastor In Kansas, were re
turning on a visit to their old home
land, accompanied by an 11-year-old
son who had never seen England. A
fine combination they made, his seri
ousness lightened by her radiant and
spontaneous good cheer. Fairly bub
bling over she was with the zest of life
and we called her the "Parson’s Butter
fly.” She was going home to her aged
father and mother, who lived but a
few miles from Southampton, and as
the distance grew less and less she
pictured the mother busily engaged In
the old cottage preparing the home
coming meal and, after the manner of
her mothdr and her foremothers, roast
ing the meat In the old-fashioned oven.
But as we sailed along the Island, the
Parson's Butterfly gave it an atten
tion almost rapturous. Then presently,
half shyly—"You will wonder why I
am so foolish over the Isle of Wight.
My husband and I spent our honey
moon there, and the Tennyson monu
ment was a favorite place with us.”
Whereupon, under the spell of ro
mance we confided that . similarly,
though far frftm the yde of Wight, we
too— but It was about our approach to
England that we were speaking!
|son, and William E. Borah!"
A Stroll in Ancient Footprints
Arrived at Southampton, the same
Turning o ff High Street, which is
official formalities w ire undergone as
at Cherbourg— the coming aboard of the old Roman "Principle," and on
officials to examine and O. K. our pass which is the God Begot House, we walk
ports and vlaaes, and when ashore under the old arch o f the palace of
there was the gauntlet of the customs William the Conqueror. Here wo fell
officials to run.
Six of us had de in with an elderly gentleman who takes
cided not to go on directly tef London, great pains to tell us the facts o f his
but to stop o ff at Winchester a few torical interest and to point out things
which we should see. English people
a lias out from Southampton.
are
most obliging that way, we Ob
Students in English sad, Math
serve.
Pointing down toward the
The customs Officials safely* passed,
wp next faced a barrage o f typical cathedral grounds he directs us to a
cabbies and Judging from their own grave stone on which we read this
appearance as well as that o f their epitaph in memory of a local grena
ancient looking cabs they could prop dier, "who died of a violent fever cen
erly be labeled “ old English.” Know tracted by drinking small beer when
ing neither the ways of cabbies nor hot the 12th day of May, 1764."
their language (Americans who Ima
gine they understand English should
have the privilege o f trying a. round
with the King’s English as variously
spoken and sputtered over here), and
viewing help4essly the assortment of
coins and wagon wheels for which we
had parted with sane and intelligible
United States money, we first trippers
gave the power of attorney to Stanley
Yarball, or perhaps we should say
made him our diplomatic agent
At
any rate he got us to the station where
upon we all went into executive ses
sion in an attempt to ascertain, first
how much each o f us owed him, he
having settled for all, and second to
“ reduce” the given amount to the terms
of coins o f the realm which we now
held. "F or the first time," said one
Friend, "M y wealth is such that f
don’t know how much T am worth."
-
I ntroducing Historic Winchester
It was certainty an inspiration that
led us to enter historic England by
Winchester, in many ways the cradle
o f English history.
"In
peaceful
cloistered seclusion, dreaming of'past
glories and stormy battle-scenes, W in
chester lies in the midst of country
whose every stone might tell some U le
of the chequered history o f our fore
fathers. Looking back to the dim and
dlsttnt years o f antiquity, Winchester
was the center of an old-time civilisa
tion while London was yet a village,
and each successive race of invaders
made the place their capittl.”
“ Y e Olde Hoetel o f Qodbegot”
But, even amid such surroundings,
there are some very present and very
practical matters to be considered—
the question of hotels for InsUnce.
Even here, however, the names of old
Inns were so suggestive as to relieve
the situation of much o f its usual ma
terialistic Implications. There was the
King George, the Black Swan, etc., but
all these faded from consideration
when we lighted upon the name of the
God Begot House. Where else should
a group of wandering Quaker pilgrims
go? Go there we did, turning in un
der the qtiaint sign of “ Ye olde Hoetel
of Godbegot.” And It has full right to
its quaintness dating back as it does
to 1052, when Emma, the "Gem of the
Normans,” widow of King Ethelred,
the Unready, atod then the wife of
King Canute, the Dane, gave the God-
hegot manor to the church. In late
Tudor times the house was rebuilt
(1558) and remains very much the
same house as then. W e enter and
find a woman as hostess who might
have stepped down out of a novel of
Jane Austen, whose old home, the one
in which she died in 1817, we passed
frequently in Winchester.
She was
a lady and a hostess first, and a hotel
proprietor second.
Had we had a
pleasant voyage; were we well and en
joying our visit, etc.? With all the fine
talk o f the American hotel magnates
about "service,” could we Imagine Mr.
Statler, for instance, coming round to
inquire of his guests concerning the
safety and pleasure of their Journey?
Turning to her assistant. Miss
Pamplin says, "Miss Rice, please show
these gentlemen Ethelwulf and Ethel-
wold and W illiam of Wykeham.” We
look at each other in uncertainty. Have
we by mistake wandered into a mu
seum sacred to modern restorations?
But as we go up the stairs and along
the hallways we read on the doors of
the guest rooms not matter-of-fact num
bers. oh, no, but such names as King
Alfred. Queen Emma, Queen Maud, St.
Cuthbert, Cedric, S t Swlthin, King
Stephen and Empress Matilda. Quaint
and romantic, Is It not? And yet the
Idea came from American friends of
Miss Pamplin!
Who knows, there
fore, that a thousand years from now,
tourists from the effete and opulent
land of some present League of Na
tions mandatory in visiting an historic
shrine In Missouri, New Jersey, or Chi
cago, will not wander into some Lodge
or Wilson Begot House, whose hostess
will say, "Please show these gentlemen
Boise Penrose, Hiram W. Johnson,
James *W. Reed, William Hale Thomp
son, Miles Poindexter, James E. Wat-
"Here
sleeps In peace a Hampshire
Grenadier,
,
Who caught hia death by drlnkiBg cold
Soldiers be wlae from hla untimely ffili
And w h en ^ere hot drink strong or Rot
An honest soldier never is forgot.
Whether he die by musket or by pot"
A fter a brief visit to the great cathe
dral, a mere preliminary call to pay
our respects, we discover behind tt the
picturesque and noble ruins of Wolvesey
CSastle, covered with ivy and intensely
suggestive o f feudal England, it play
ing an important part in the civil wars
o f Stephen's troubled reign.
Its be
ginnings, however, were In the satly
Saxon days, and most thrilling o f ffil,
it is said.in this old castle K in g A l
fred’s "Anglo-8axon Chronlcales” w « e
written, the basis o f English prose lit
erature. Here, too, came Queen Mary,
on the occasion of her ill-fated mar
riage to K ing Philip of Spain. All
about the ruins are turf tennis courts,
for some of which the ancient walls
serve as very substantial back nets.
And what wretched tennis is being
played with such inspiring back
ground?
Rambling on past Winchester Col
lege, corresponding in rank with our
high schools, we pause to see the boys
or “ men,” as even the 12 year olds
Insist on being called, playing at the
great English game o f cricket. As In
teresting as the game itself
players are the "men” looking on at
a little distance. On a good play they
applaud as decorously as one applauds
a commencement oration. But never
a rude shout do w e hear.
The Spirit o f Poesy Rudely Shocked
Dinner over at 8:30 or thereabouts
we started out again, since it is light
In England these days until 10:30, a
boon for energetic sightseeem
We
climbed St. Giles Hill, a public park
overlooking the city, and the surround
ing country. Just as we reached the
top the sun wsb sinking behind the
hills, bathing the Hampshire land
scape in golden glory.
Here, we
thought, is our Betting for a little
word painting. A ll we lacked was the
poetic and historic name of the hills
which framed the horizon. Accosting
a native, we asked with thrilled ex
pectancy, “ Can’t tell us the name of
yonder hills o’er which England's sun
Is slowly setting?” “ Oh, those? The
golf links. Sir.” Curtain! But not be
fore one of our party nearly hurt him
self with illy suppressed and very un-
poetlc mirth.
And- we g*r~u¿“ straightway down
the mount to the sympathetic and ap
preciative associations of Ye Olde
Hostel of God Begot, where we slum
bered in historic harmony under the
auspices of Ethelwulf.
W. C. W.
IEW MAN FOI
PACIFIE COLLEGE
SEEING ALASKA
BY STEAMER
Trots” he reeled ’em o ff with those
large feet of his #lth the abandon of
a happy-go-lucky Highlander.
The old-time patrons of the Jeffer
son will tell you of Cap. Norde, long
T
time master of ceremonies on this
ns September 27th,
College
Editor of tüe Graphic Tells Little steamer, and of his wonderful facilities
creased Attend
LWith an
of First Fart of Trip to
as an entertainer. And o f how he be
came
so
attached
to
her
that
it
was
ance
er Last Year.
the Forth.
with great reluctance that he gave her
up to take the place of captain on one
y, o f the class o f 1907
This is our third morning out fronrf
of the larger steamers.
addition to the teach-
Seattle and the hour is 6:30 o’clock.
Yesterday morning we had a very
Pacific College. E ffo rt*
While we are out to eat and sleep and
Interesting experience at the breakfast
ade to secure Mr. Macjr
take life easy for a few days it is dif
hour when we were hailed by a gaso
his acceptance o f a po-
ficult for those of ns who have been
line tng that was in distress in .a
faculty o f the C ollege
accustomed to get up with the birds
choppy sea from having loot her rud
cause for hearty congrat
of the morning to take on the ways of
der. The little craft was rolling al
ulation I t the present tim e when it
city folks and lay and snooze nntil
most like a barrel and the three men
is so difficult to secure men fo r such
the last call of the breakfast bell.
on board were banging on for dear
pot itions.
The teaching force o f
W e are aboard the Steamer Jeffer-
life.
Cap. Livingstone bellowed out
t h< college is now complete.
Bon, which is a freight boat with very
to them through the megaphone above
I fr. Macy made a splendid record
fair accommodations for 125 passengers.
the roar of the wind and waves that
e in the college not only in th e
It is not sw ift going but it has s good
, . ,
,
.
i he would thrown them a line, which
room hut in the extra ctzrr*-
record having been on th e rmr fo r x
done. u wa8 made fast but when
activlties as* well.
He baa
long time, and for those o f us who are
we began to make the pull the fasten
three years in graduate study,
not In a harry it is quite satisfactory.
ing was torn loese and another throw
for several years superintes-
Alaskans are not satisfied, however,
o f the line was necessary. This time
o
f N ew England Y ea rly Meet-
with the service the Alaska Steamship
the line was passed entirely around
Friends and fo r a number o f
Co. is giving them for they think they
the pilot house and made fast, both
he has been a pastor in th e
are entitled to faster mail service than
fore and aft and we towed the craft
ngland states. In all these
freighters can give.
away to a cove and a smooth sea. The
he has made an en viable
On boarding the Jefferson at Seattle
most interesting feature of the whole
and
his coming w ill • add
I got into conversation with a gentle
thing was the tenacity displayed by
much strength to the Pacific C ollege
man from Petersburg who has spent
the small, lean, w iry red headed young
facult [.
H e is a son o f Mr. and
I I years In Alaska and his remark on
fellow, hatless and costless, who was
Macy o f Sprlngbrook.
looking the passengers over was that
on the job every minpte on the reeling,
F or a number o f years it has bean
most of them were tourists. Said it
rolling tug and all the while holding
found necessary to postpone th e
w a f easy enough to distinguish them
in his teeth a little old cob pipe,,
date t ( opening the College on ee-
from those who have “ done time” in
though some one in our crowd yelled
coufit of the prune harvest.
The
the northland.
In our list we have
to him to lighten his ship by throwing
'schedt^B under which the C ollege
the various types you meet In getting
the pipe overboard.
A second man
w orking was adopted sev-
about thé world. Thoee who are ont
gave little red head the best assistance
ago before the prune he-
for a good time and who only need a
he was able to rendsr, whila the third
\large a factor as It is now»
nod of the head for an introduction
man. evidently a land lubber, and help
en found necessary fo r
and yon and they are friends for the
less from sea sickness and fright, had
all description to d ela y
whole trip, and then there are others
hla arms wound around a mast with a
bpening to the la ter p a rt
who appear to want to keep all their
death-like grip. The life boat, gaso
of Septet er and the college s o
troubles to themselves, wjth s far
line cans and everything that was
lve accordingly decided
tboritles
away look. Pity them, for it seems too
loose was washed overboard and no ef
to postpone the opening o f the col-
bad to spend one’s good money for a
fort was made to pick anything up, all
eptember 13th, to Sept-
lege from
pleasure outing and then not be able
interest being centered on saving the
ember 27tt
to break away from the old shell, be
tug and her crew from loss.
The
proApècts
fo r
attendance
a mixer and g e t . the worth o f the
Tuesday Evening— Have Just been
w ere n e v e rsWetter a f tW® tira* o f
ey inveeted.
listening to the stories o f a patriarchal
year.
The mens dorm itory fir., re
An apology was offered by our table
appearing Episcopal minister >who
ceiving complete interior decora
waiter for the first meal.
Said the
graduated when a young man from
tion and will^ be ready fo r use by-
steamer only got into Seattle the eve
West Point.
Besides being a good
ning before, and that while the help
opening day.
story-teller he is an inverate cigarette
usually got two or three days off after
smoker and does his part in keeping
getting in they were hurried o ff the
the smoking room blue all day long.
ITEM BR ID GE.
FIRES
following morning and consequently
One of the most interesting passen
were not in good form. Out on deck, a
gers we have# is a baby boy of 18
Fires at the W illa m ette riv e r
Portland lady remarked that the peas
months from 'whom never a whimper
bridge are becoming alarm ingly fre
were not well cooked and consequently
is heard. The young mother is an ex
quent, the N ew berg fire department
were hard, when our Petersburg friend
cellent singer and while she entertains
having been- called ’"to extinguish
said “ Weil the Captain’s name is L iv
us at the piano and with her voice the
fires at the bridge several tim e »
ing-stone," and said he, “ when you see
baby is passed about with a smile for
within the past three weeks.
the than On board who has the largest
everyone.
feet you may address him as Cap.
The first o f these fires, was sup
We are Just getting out of British
posed to have orlnated from brush
Livingstone.” The captain is a jolly
Columbia territory and into Alaska
fires burning in adjacent fields, but
Scotchman o f the Harry Lauder type
this evening and tomorrow morning at
who walks the deck with a long swing
the fire o f last Thursday was be
four o’clock we are to arrive at Ket-
o f his long, lank limbs and body and
lieved to have been caused by some
chican for a stop of three hours.
he has a jolly good morning for every
person carelessly throw ing aw ay a
Must turn in and be up early to see
body.
cigar stub w hile crossing the bridge.
things.
Yesterday afternoon in our two and
The origin of the Friday evening
a half hours’ run across Qtieen Char
fire is unknown, but is presumed to
lotte Sound where we got the sweep of
have
been caused through the care
C ITY M AIL D ELIVE R Y.
the ocean, he spent much of the time
lessness o f some chance passer.
;
on deck with the limited number of
The fire department boys deserve
F o r some time past a considerable great credit for their good work in
passengers who had not taken to _their_
bunks. He said tha-more exercise in number o f N ew berg citizens have subduing these fires, as they ail oc
the open air the better, and he led us been agitatin g the question of mall curred beyond the city jurisdiction,
in a trot back and forth, giving -us an delivery in the city and expressing being on the opposite side o f th e
example o f the proper swing to get the hope that it might soon become river in Marion County.
W h ile
in order to keep on our sea legs. And an accomplished fact.
none of these fires have damaged
Postmaster Larkin, having dpe re
again in the evening when, the floor
the bridge to any appreciable ex
was cleared below, and the piano and gard for the wishes of our citizens tent beyond scorching some o f th£
the victrola were tingling with "Fox and for anything that w ill promote piling, serious damage would h a ve
the interest o f Newberg. look the
resulted but for the timely discov
matter up with the department at
ery of the fire and the prompt w ork
Washington, with the result that
of the fire laddies. The fire o f F r i
an agent was sent here to investi
day evening was discouvered in
gate the situation.
The agent re
some trash under the bridge but
ported favorably on the proposition
was extinguished before it had com
and Postmaster Larkin has been
municated to the piling. A fte r the
notified that mail delivery in this fire was put out, the fire boys se
city would be Inaugurated October
cured a large tank from the Oil Com
1st. Provided, boxes are put up at
pany. filled it with water and left it
the homes o f citizens for the recep
at the bridge with three of the boys
tion of mail. It is now up to the
who remained on guard all night.
citizens to secure this great benefit;
W hile our fire department may al
X Titr IvouTcf u rge ffiem fo “jnTt — trp-
ways be depended upon to do their
boxes without delay.
Don’t wait
duly and even more, yet the applian
until October 1st. or there won’ t
—
— — z?
ces with which they are supplied
be any mail delivery. « « the boxes
• .
I
are inferior and by no means equal
must be up before that. date.
No
to the requirements of a city o f the
special type o f box is required and
size and importance of Newberg,
a slit in the door w ill answer the
and our city council should not wait
purpose.
Mail carriers cannot dc
. until we are visited by a destructive
l * e r mail where no provisions a r e j flrp b,,fore p r i d i n g against an ex-
made for receiving it. and they will ip„ ncy whlch
ltabl(, t0 occur „
not push mail under doors, or toss Bny time. , t is an oId old
,
It over in the yard.
The expense I , ha, it la ^
t0 lock (hp Ptable
o f providing a box is triflin g w h . l w , ^ after thc gtMd hft8 been BtoIen
the benefit derived from free deliv and „ is to bc hoped tbat the ..
ery is great and easily secured. Or- „ rB (bat be » w|, not ^
„.fm k m
der a box t o ^ y and put it up at j to W a l l tbe old Mylnf; at # t|me
,
“ How Can I Win With
This Chained to My Leg ? 99
once: it w ill be a reminder to your when
conscience
is
reproaching
neighbor to do his duty.-
I them fOr neglect of duty.
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Grant E
Hamilton of Jude«.
The Y ou ng People’s Union Society,
of Newberg. w ill hold a devotional
service in the park. Sunday, evening
August 29.
Everyone Invited
i
The eity. council did not take up
the street improvement problem at
, their Monday night meeting as
there was no quorum present.