MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGOX, MOXDAY, JULY 2, 1M7.
PAGE Til HER
OCEAN JITNEYS
BEING REJECTED
SHIPS
Cheap, Quickly Built Vessels De
signed for U-Boat Emergency, Not
Ordered by Shipping Board, Altho
Sea-Worthiness is Demonstrated
Vessels Ordered Bigger, Slower Built.
BY HARRY B. HUNT.
(Staff Special.)
WASHINGTON, July 2. mint will
best serve Uncle Snra's need for boats
during the war on ocean jitney that
can be built quickly and by the bun
dred, or nn ncquatis tourinj car,
i?niucli better looking, somewhat seed
ier, and perhaps moro durable, but
which can be produced only by the
dozen and which will take three to
six months longer to buildt
Deadlock Over Question.
That is the question that has
mussed up all the plans of the federal
shipping board, bus brought President
Dcnman of the board and Gen. Coe
thals, his construction chief, to log
gerheads, and threatens as great in
jury to our shipping thru lack of
production, as do the German sub
marines by actual destruction.
So far, the.prefcrence has appeared
to be for an ocean-touring car, even
if wo have to wait considerably
longer for it.
The one boat offered that could
bo produced on a "quantity-production"
basis has been shunted aside in
favor for more beautiful models re
quiring much more time and expert
labor to construct.
Jitney's Seaworthy.
No question has been raised as to
this ocean jitney's seaworthiness, its
A cargo capacity or the increased speed
with which boats of this type could
' 'HSe built. But chief consideration
seems to have been given the matter
of appeartnee, and of usefulness five
or ten or twenty years from now, and
all contracts have been for vossels
of a type that, while undoubtedly
better boats for normal requirements,
may not be completed until Germany's
submarines have strangled England
and the "emergency" is over.
Edward S. Hough of San Francisco
has designed n boat directly to meet
emergency requirements. As far as
t possible her design has been kept to
straight lines. Ninety percent of the
work in building boats of this type
could be done by ordinary carpenters
and bridgebuilders, and the timbers
could be used almost as they romc
from the mills, very little additional
shaping being required.
Ordinary Itoat Curves.
The, ordinary wooden boat, how
ever, is all curves. Every timber in
her frame and every plank in her
sides has to be cut or fitted on the
job. E.ert ship carpenters are rc-
quired, not for 10 per cent of tin
work, but for 00 per cent.
C. T. Clayton of the department of
labor, who reported on the construc
tion features of the Hough design,
stated :
"Under like conditions of yards,
personnel and material supply, I be
lieve the Hough model can be con
structed in from one-third to one
half less time" than other mode-Is of
wood ships.
"The Hough plan," he says, is well
ndupted to the employment of in
tensive factory constiuction methods.
It is possible to employ n much larger
proportion of labor unskilled in ship
construction, than in Ihe conventional
models."
Deliver in Xovcmlier.
Contractors have offered to agree
to begin delivery of ships built on the
Hough model by November. All con
tracts let to dale, however, havo been
for a conventional model of wood
ship, requiring- months longer to
4 build, or for steel ships requiring
still more lime.
The Hough boat was approved hv
the American bureau of shipping for
the best rating for insurance. Her
seaworthiness and structural cor
rectness also was ciHified to by
Theodore K. Kcrrsi, consulting archi
tect for the United Stales fleet cor
poration. Almost iimnrdiutclv after
wards, however, Ferris qualified his
approval and another design, worked
, out by Ferris himself, for n much
more handsome boat requiring from
two to four months longer to build
was recommended. All wood boati
contracted for have been for the Fer
ris model, on which deliveries cannot
begin before next March.
Meanwhile submarine sinkings nre
ngnin on the increase.
MvricK.
Barber shops will be open Tuesday
Inly 3d. until 10 o'clock p. m. Closed
all dny Wednesday, the Fourth. 85
Mr. a4 Mrs. C. F KlmUU cf Rsd
dlr.g, C!lforoia, ora i pek cod
THIS IS 1 KIND OF
Citizen Soldiers to be Made as Com
fortable as Possible in Mammoth
Cantonment Cities, With Many of
the Things That Make Home Sweet
Houses Are Built in Orderly
Rows.
(By Gllson Gardner, Washington Corre
spondent) WASHINGTON, July 2. The
task of housing halt a million soldiers
while in training is now well started.
Preliminary contracts have been let
and the cantonments, as they are call
ed, should be ready by October.
A premium Is to be paid for speed
of construction. . The army must bo
trained and it cannot be trained until
it is boused. Therefore, the building
ot these cities before the snow flies is
more important than the having of a
few dollars.
Si-:tecn Cities Unlit.
Sixteen cities eacb of 40,000 popu
lation, are to be constructed in 90
days. This is some job. Each city
must have its wooden houses, its
streets, sewers, water systems, elec
tric lights, railroad yards, water
mains, garbage incinerators, amuse
ment hall, storage structures and
scores of other incidentals to the life
of a military city.
As much money will be spent in 90
days as the government spent on the
Panama canal in a year.
The sites have been selected and
most of them surveyed and laid off
into their future streets, drill
grounds, ball fields, freight yards and
residence sections. In some Instances
the lumber and other materials are
on the way.
Each cantonment will require about
4000 carloads of material, and it is
estimated 150,000 cars will be divert
ed from their usual business to take
care of the cantonment work.
Material Needed.
Each of these wooden cities will re
quire 26,000,000 feet of lumber, or
1325 carloads, one carload of roofing
nails, 812 carloads ot crushed stone
for the roads, 28,000 squares of roof
ing, 20 Carloads of miscellaneous
hardware, 20 carloads of plumbing
material, 192 carloads of tanks, heat
ers, stoves, ranges, pipes, electrical
materials, refrigerators and the like;
30 carloads of ties and other timber;
20 carloads of railroad spikes, rails,
fish-plates; 114 carloads of ballast;
10 carloads ot electric light poles,
wires, insulators; 12,000 cubic yards
of concrete, and 175 carloads of sand.
The typical cantonment house is a
wooden affair set up on posts about
four foet from the ground; the peak
ed roof is about 25 feet high, and tho
floor of each house is about 255 feet
wide and 125 feet long.
In most of tho plans the men are to
sleep in double-tiered bonks.
Each house has its little book case,
wooden table and wooden dresser.
The window is screened with metal
lic screening.
What Each City TCecdfl.
Each city must have 37,000 sep
arate bunks and mattresses, which
will require 125 cars to move them.
Each city will require 150 carloads
of hospital equipment, three, carloads
of screens and 20 carloads of con
struction tools.
Each cantonment will contain
about 1000 buildings. Tho kitchen
and the mess hall are separate from
tho living buildings; each company
having its own kitchen and mess.
The government already has had
some experience in rushing up these
mushroom cities for the army. On
May 14 the quartermaster's depart
ment received orders to have quarters
ready on June 15 for 150,000 men
This meant the erection ot 17,000.000
worth of new buildings at nine differ
ent posts. That work has been com
pleted. A typical city of this sort is located
at Qunntlco, Virginia, where 8000 ma
rines are to mako tholr home.
At one end of the cantonment site
one sees the virgin forests, next he
sees where the forest has been burned
and felled; next to this are the scant
lings and posts stuck Into the ground
which are to be the foundations of
houses, and thon come the houses in
all stages of construction, with tho
completed product at tbd far end of
the camp.
Three weeks ago this land was as
Captain John Smith discovered It
Soon it will be a city with paved
streets, modern Improvements and a
teeming population.
LAND SCHEMES AGAIN
CAUSE THEIR INDICTMENT
PORTLAND. July 2. A gran
Jury In the federal court today re
turned Indictments against I-rank A1
ley of Itoseburg, Ore., and Cm In
P.yiO!i of Seatt'e. Wash., on charge of
using Ihe United States maila t.i pro
mote land fraud. They are accuser
of hiving manipulated a iocattot
schome affecting lands ia Ci'.irornl.
Twice trevloish- tte were IclltUA
but the cases against tcm lallf d lur
101 YOU'LL LIVE
Tho cantonment city of the V. 8. marine corps at Qunntlco, Virginia a typo of Uio 1 Oothcrs now being
rushed to completion. Above is shown a row of bouses on the fleshly cleared land wltti tho primeval forest in
tho background; lielon- is a typical street between the almost finished dwellings whero men selected for service
will livo while being trained. '
10
OF
WASHINGTON, July 2. Thruout
tile country, from the pulpits of
churches of all denominations, the
doctrlno of Citizenship Preparedness
was again proclaimed yesterday. Re
sponding a second time to the appeal
of the bureau of naturalization of the
U. S. department of labor, tho clorgy
of tho United States with remarkable
unanimity, delivered citizenship ser
mons on the date selected because, of
Its close proximity to Independence
Day.
The gospel of good citizenship was
enunciated in cities and hamlets to
largo and prosperous congregations
and to small and struggling bands of
worshipers alike. From tho pulpit
came the powerful plea that now,
with the nation fighting on the side or
righteousness and humanity, Ameri
can Ideals and patriotism should be
Instilled In tho mind of tho foreign
born residents of the country.
The second observance of Citizen
ship Sunday Indicates the continued
co-operation of tho church In the na-tlon-wldo
effort of the bureau of nat
uralization to have Increased facili
ties provided for alien Instruction.
Last year, the request of this progres
sive governmental agency that a Sun
day bo set aside for this patriotic pur
pose was universally compiled with
and tho suggestion that It become a
permanent, annual Institution was
cordially endorsed. It was with a
realization that the churches could
aid materially In forwarding the good
citizenship movement and inspiro Im
mediate and aggressive action in com
munities which had hitherto failed to
join this great educational campaign,
that the appeal was made.
The results show the wisdom of
that appeal, for now the public school
authorities of approximately 1S00
cities and towns, co-operating with
tho bureau of naluralf.utton, aro ex
tending night Fihool Instruction to
candidates for citizenship and In I hie
great work tho churches of the Uni
ted States havo been conspicuously
active.
Ther ! mora ratarrb In tliln WM-ttnn of tha.
Pfttiutrj tbari nil (ithr (1U'-wb f.m ti.thr, tnfl
until thp taut fiw fira aa au.i (1 li h
llimrnhli.. l or a r,'t waiir J.-ara A'- t'rta
pri'ii'iiiut-M It a I'tm I (1lNa a'i'1 ,r avtll'M to-a1
rmiHlla. ami hy r..o.laritl frfllliiK l' cure MUD
N al tr"-atiu.iit, iindminifi-ti It lii'ura !,!. Mrlrura
baa .r'it.ll ( alanh to !, a cii.thuthitial rfu.aa,
ami tbrrf'ir tfi-ilrfa riiHttitl..iial treatment.
Haifa catarrh f tin-. riianiiruriiirM hy V J.
Chfti-7 A r.. T"1-K Oblo, la tit only IV-tiMlln-ilrmil
ftiro n t!a Binrkrt, It ! taan Inl'rnall.
In l'-'a from 1ft rfrf ro a ! r'mftil It a'ta
dlrt-t It fln th bl 'A and mur'-m irf'r f
the ajU'in. Thry 'IT'T ortr. bunlrM d,,llir for
any raar If fall 10 cure. Sod fvr circular! aod
t.llmoolali.
iddrcat: P. 1. CTlr.Nr.Y CO., Tolnld. Obi.
fv-ld br Prtigrlit. TV.
laaa iiaU'a 1 fr cUaOjO,
IN IF YOU'RE SELECTED FOR ARMY SERVICE
"
OF
WASHINGTON, July 2. Hcgistrii
tion of the country's housewives as
members of the food administration
was begun todayby state ilcfcnse
council and the women's defense com
mittee of the national council. Dr.
Hay L. Wilbur, head of the admin
istration conservation section said it
was hoped enrollment would be com
pleted within two weeks.
Every housewife will be asked to
sirn and mail to Hie food adminis
tration n pledge to follow the direc
tions of the food administration con
cerning food economy within the
home.
fa lg WITH 11
I vV oil y
ALL THE YEAR. ROIM)
Cooler cooking in summer better and more
economical cooking all the year 'round.
A good oil stove will cook anything that any
wood or coal range will cook, and do it better
because of the steady, evenly-distributed heat.
All the convenience of gas. Meals in a jiHy,
and a cool kitchen in summer.
The long blue chimneys prevent all smoke and
Smell. In 1, 7. 3 and 4 burner aliea, with
or without ovena. Alan cabinet
model. Atk your dealer loila?.
NEW PERFECTION
OIL COqi-STOVE
J-OK SALE 11Y
KOUXINB, Friday June 20 (T)u
laycd.) Joseph W. Origg, the New
York detective, who came hero in con
nection with the enso of Alfredo
Cocchi, the murderer of Ituth Cruger,
has been warned Unit he will meet the
fnlc of Lieutenant l'etrosino.
Lieutenant Joseph l'etrosino was
chief of Ihe Italian bureau of the
New York detectivo force. He was
THE MOTORIST
knows lli! convenience nnil
lilcnsiin: of liaviiiL' it store
where lie can tft't just, what
lie wants in the wav of auto
mobile accessories whenever
lie wants it. We aim to have
A-
everything to supply large
and small needi.
C. E. Gates Auto Co.
sent to Italy by the New York police
department in tli spring of WOO and
in March of that year was assassinat-
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This store will be closed all
day Wednesday, July 4th. Will
be open Tuesday, evening to
accommodate the public.
MARSH & BENNETT
Wild West Show
ASHLAND
July 3-4-5
Uiickiii'ff Contests, Maverick Kaccs, Steer Riding,
Steer l.iilldnggmK, Cowgirl Races, and many other
special events. Wild horses from Eastern Oregon
and Nevada.
SPECIAL TRAIN FROM GRANTS PASS
JULY 4th and 5th.
7:'J0 a. in. Lv. (iranis Pass, Ar.
7:'J0 n. m. Lv. (.rants Pass, Ar. 12::i0 a.m.
8:1.") a. in. Lv. Medl'ord, 11:10 p.m.
9:20 a. in. Ar. Ashland, Lv. 10::?0 p. m.
Train stops at, intermediate stations.
LOW ROUND TRIP FARES.
On sale July 2, 4 tNid .r.
liej urn Limit July 0,1017.
Ask any Soul hern Pacific agent for information.
John M. Scott, ( leu. Passr. Agt., Portland.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES
The Portland Hotel
PORTLAND, OREGON
Tho Rose City's world-famed hotel, occupying an
cntiro block. All outside rooms. Superior dining
and grill service. An atmosphere of refinement, with
a service of courtesy.
European Flan, $1.50 and Up
RICHARD W. CHILDS, Manager
cd at Palermo, Sicily. The murderers
of Petrosiuo wero never brought to
justice.
of COOLING SATISFACTION with
I ILII " popular home drink that t
M II provides hot-day comfort of. the
l'4 II rio-rit sort-.- ' ;
Directions: Poatum made in
tho usual way, chilled with ice.
and served with sugar, and either
a dash of lemon or cream to taste.
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guesu ia ibo city.
lack of evidence.