Tillamook headlight., December 29, 1921, Page 8, Image 8

EARLY N.Y. HISTORY SQM HUS
That part of Manhattan known as
tbe Battery was originally what Its
name Implied.
It extended from
Whitehall and Water streets to Green­
wich street and bristled with gun*
Where the elevated ntnuture now is
was water. Three hundred feet off
shore stood the building now used for
the Aquarium. It was a fort, and be­
came known as Castle CMnton. With
Fort Lafayette and Castle Williams It
constituted a part of the defense of
New York.
It had been reded to the Federal
government by the state, and in 1822
was reded back. Here It was General
Lafayette landed when be visited the
country more than 40 years after the
close of the Revolution. The fort had
then been roofed over, and it had been
rechristened Castle garden and was a
place <>t amusement. Jenny Lind, the
“Cwedish Nightingale," made her New
York debut in it.
The work in filling in tbe ground
from the ojd Battery to what is now
the sea wall, and tbe making of the
park, continued and In 1855 it be­
came the Immigrant station for tbo
reception of future Americans.
NEW YEAR PARTIES OLD OBSERVANCES OUAJNT
KW YE a R'8 day isn't what
it used to be.
This to in
a small way attributable to
tbe addition to the Consti­
tution of some dry reading
matter.
In still greater
part it to because the international ub-
seaalon for celebrating whenever Fa­
ther Time takes a fresh start In pilot­
ing the earth around the our Is thou­
sands of yeprs old.
Tbe manner of
observing the day has changed greatly
through tbe centuries.
The urge to give presents at least
once a year was felt even before
Christmas and Sama Claus came Into
the scheme of things, and the an-
cient Greeks, Chinese, Egyptians and
Romans tendered their gifts to one
another on the first day of the year.
Kings got into tbe habit ot receiving
extra gifts from their subjects on
these days and liked it so well they
began extorting larger and larger
This practice got so bad in
sums.
Rome under the Caesars that Clau-
dius called a halt.
It spread to other countries, how­
ever, and the English had their New
Year's celebration spoiled annually
by rapacious sovereigns until Queen
Elizabeth’s modest demands of her
subjects cut gifts down te a mini­
mum. In those days tbe celebration
of New Year's day had become world­
wide. With variations to suit all na­
tionalities, it consisted everywhere
of eating, drinking and motley merri­
ment.
Christopher Columbus, so far as
Is known, was the first white man
.to jubilate on New Tear’s day in the
western hemisphere. While his ships
were undergoing repairs on January
1, 1493, he enjoyed a sumptuous din­
ner with two savage monarchs on
tbe island of Haiti. After this meal,
history says, tbe discoverer of Amer­
ica had his first smoke of tobacco.
Whether he enjoyed it is not recorded,
but he left it to a later generation—
Sir Walter Raleigh is generally cred­
ited with the function—to Introduce
tobacco to Europe,
The Pilgrim Fathers and the first
families of tbe older states of the
Union enjoyed a quiet holiday as each
year came around,
They feasted,
but not until they had attendati re-
llgious services.
For 25 years up to the dawn of
1920 and the era of war-thue pro-
hlbitlon, the celebration in large cit­
ies became noisier and more expen­
sive each year.
Thousands used to
crowd into piaces of merriment, while
principal thoroughfares were packed
with throngs of merrymaker* with
squawkers, clappers, bells and oanfetti.
Every hotel and meat of tbe res­
taurants were jammed with pay
diners. Ia 1908 It was estimated that
81,000,900 was spent in the New York
wbits-Ught district on New Year’seve.
After that statisticians gave up try-
tag to figure out tbe sum.
Here't to the old year, drink boye,
drink.
Herat to the daye that have fled,
Old frxend», old wiete, old memories;
Drink to the J eye that are dead.
(Continued from Page Seven.)
waters, but goes into some of the
British Columbia rivers, and is
quite common in the streams of Al­
aska. I expect to be back here
some time next May, when 1 shall
free about 1,000 young ’’Sock-eye’’
bulls taken from the
Alaskan
streams for the purpose. They will
minge with the Chinooks which i
understand will begin to run up
your rivers about that time. When I
return I shall be pleased to further
explain, and give you any informa­
tion in my power, concerning my
special work. By this crossing I
expect that the sturdiness of the
"Sock-eye” will show in its prog­
eny, and that you will see goggle-
’ eyed Chinooks and Steelheads. The
• "Sock-eye” feature will be practi­
cally eliminated by the crossing of
tne two species and the result I an­
ticipate will be a goggle-eyed salmon
I with a flavor vastly improved,
1
A BRLLIANT YOUTH
i trust I have made myself plain to
In 1852 or thereabouts, a vessel your understanding?”
The reporter whose brain was in
stranded on the Tillamook coast. i
The cargo consisted largely of groc­ something of a whir}, nodded wise­
eries, among which was a large ly.
“I am indeed pleased to hav* been
quantity of coffee. The vessel was
consigned to the Hudson Bay Com­ so lucid,” smiled the Professor with
pany at Vancouver, but the Capt. a twinkle of his grey eyes. “I am
mistook the moth of Tillamook bay Indeed glad to have met with one
for th* mouth of the Columbia, just who has not offered some ridiculous
Just re­
as Capt. Gray did 80 odd years be­ objection to my plans.
cently, as I cam* through Portland
fore and his ship was wrecked.
John McLaughlin, who was head I talked with a supposed authority
of the Hudson Bay Company, sent on fish propagation, who well nigh
word all over the Willamette valley iBsulted me with hie stupid and ab­
that he would give the residnts, or surd objections. In fact, all hto ar­
anyone who cared to make the trip, guments were In th natur of ridi­
one-half of all the groceries they cule, and I allowed my dignity to
could carry out to a designated assert Itself, and »9 arose and walked
t away from him.1
«! p . .
"Served him right," mumbled the
1853 there was nothing but a
.. ,o like Indian trail that wound reporter sympathetically.
"Another pet scheme, which I
In. > and across canyons, over mouta- I
tains, through rivers and jungles have harbored for some time 1* to
cross the California lobster with the
to our now famous ciam
I believe such
is those days one could grease Tillamook shrimp.
his moccasins, catch up his glass­ a thing co be humanly possible ana
eyed cayUbe, put on the saddle blan- the product of such cross propaga­
ket without the saddle, and mak* tion would be something that would
a trip without the expense of gaso- attract hundreds—yea thousands—
line and goggles.
At that
time of Eastern epicurean tourists to
there was no warder standing at your grandly scenic beaches. The
the portcullis of a toll-road to hold food value —the gastronomic pleas
one up for a dollar for the privl- I ure afforded by eating one of my
ege of paeeing over a road "not , ncw species, the "Shrtmpolob,” a*
as
made with hands,” but eternal as 1 »hall name it—cannot be conceiv-
1 ed until actually tasted.
I shall
to »oil.
'
As groceries were very scarce ) erect a building near Bay City next
and high in the valley at the time year for my experiments in the
•f the wreck, many men of that latter case, and hope I may have the
section took advantage of the Hud- pleasure of showing you the sclen-
soa Bay factor’s offer a nd came ov- • title side of my labors, in produc­
er her* and loaded up with coffee, ing a new and valuable type of
te* and sugar and the like, on a shell fish.”
Just then a bullet-headed, stout-
50-80 basts, anf came home well I
laden with the »hinge they so much , built man came pu, and smiled at
• me, and jocularly nudged the Pro-
needed.
On^ s*ttl«r wLe greatly desired j lessor in the ribs with his thumb.
a supply of coffee above all else, ■
“Come, Prof.,” said the new-
sent his son, a great hulking, doub- , comer, "it is time for us to take tbe
to-fisted fellow over here, with an stage for Portland.’’
"Very well, Mr. Johnon,” quiet-
oft-repeated
statement
that he I
wanted "nothing but coffee, and I ly anwered the Professor. "I will
go up stairs and prepare my lug­
plenty of it.”
The youth, mounted his horsd gage. Have you placed the salmon
eggs in the receptacle 1 gave you?”
and rode away, whistling merrily,
I
"Sure thigig," answered the bul­
—a big horse pistol stuck in his
belt, and a butcher-knife In his let-headed man.
As the Professor started up, the
boot top. He was prepared for “In­
stairway, the reporter stepped close
, juns."
For some days, the coffee hungry to the smiling attendant:
"Are you valet to the Professor?”
settler paced between the house
"In a sens*, yes. 1 look after him;,
and barn, occasionally sweeping the
limited horizon with his eyes, look­ steer him so to speak, from persons
ing for the returning son and th* who are apt to get too inquisitive,
coffee. But as a rule, people never and who may rile him up.”
"Is he—”
come when you most expect them,
"Yep, balmy on Darwinism, that
and thc prodigal, who was having
the time of hiB life "seeing things” is all. I am paid for taking him re­
and
humoring
new and peculiar, wan’ in no haste boot the country
to turn his borne's head homeward, him. His folks liv* ta N’Yawk
Hc could go home when he bad I
So he tarried
nothing else to do.
for nearly a week. in the vicinity
•f the wreck, idly watching others
retrieve goods from the wreaked Vc*-
eel, until hypnotized by the glamor
of his new Hurroundings, he forgot
the special instructions ot his par-
«git an if he had never heard them.
One night, however, when the
father's patience had become well
nigh exhausted, and when he was
being urged by the fearful mother
t* go In search of the prodigal, th*
door violently opened and the big
niunakuil stood fully dlseosed in the
lamplight.
HI*
garmnt*
were
soaked with the aqueous fluid, and
water puddles gathered hzstlly o*
th* puncheon floor, and, would you
believe It—the countenance of th*
sen wore a broad smile of triumph.
For a moment he tugged at a
huge linked object that was wound
several
times about
hi* ample
shoulders, and thon there fell, with
much clanking—not the sack
coveted coffee for which th*
man's mouth
watered—but
sturdy, well forged links of an en-
oamotis log-chain worth about four
dollars in the coin of the realm.
Nooided by his mother, derided
by hl* sister* end bent here. fe«rml
and Jawed by hie angry father, the
poor youth scooted for the bar.i
tnence through the dark and drear'
night to the home ot au uncle over
on Soap creek, where he stayed for
many moons recounting with much
boosting, his exploits over in the
Tillamook country, but avoiding,
with mastery retlconc* any men­
tion of the heavy log ehaiu that
wore sore paces on his I shoulders
alongh
the
as b* wound
thj
dreary
«rail t* a* unhospltable nome.
I
ni
fierce to the New Year tlretching
ahead.
To the dayt that are bktheeome
and gay.
May the joye of the old he the joye
of the new,
Ite eorrowe fade gently away.
INOTHER New Tear comes
to us with a volume all pure
and unspotted, on which we
«rill soon begin to write a
history that «rill go on to
be bound with »he tbou-
sands of other records we call years.
May 1922 bring us counterparts of the
happiest days of the year just closing,
and a heart for “any fate,” and may
we all learn the lesson of how "to
labor and to wait**
Now for a jolly New Year's eve
party that you may like to get up.
Send out invitations for a “watch
night”
party
or
“remembrance"
party, as one girl to going to call tbe
intimate little affair she to arranging
for New Year’s eve. If you can sketch,
draw an hour-glaaa, a “Father Time"
or clock face with the hands at mid­
night or the last leaf on the calendar
with “December 31" done In scarlet
Ask each one to tell of their happiest
day In tbe year that to past and in
what month it happened.
You may play cards, dance or “rem­
iniscences," just as suits you beat
Have a cake with 12 candles sur­
rounded by a wreath of holly and mis­
tletoe and ths favors symbolic of the
year's special days; for In. ->ee, a
calendar for January, a Cupid or
heart for February, a kite for March,
a tiny umbrella for April, a posy or
bouquet of artificial flowers for May,
or a wee May pole; a dell bride or a
basket of roses for June, a firecracker
for July, a golf set or picnic basket
for August bunch of grapes or a tiny
washtub for September, the latter sig­
nifying "Labor day."
Represent October with a wee jack-
o'-lantern cut from an orange, a
pumpkin or football for November, or
a turkey, and for December a minia­
ture Christmas tree.
These articles
eeuM be procured ta duplicate and be
used to find partners, er they may be
placed ia a Jack Horner pie made to
represent the face of a clock, red rib­
bons going to each place.
This is aa occasionPwhea the for­
tune ante may be used, taking perfect
English walnut* and removing the
meats, inserting a narrow strip of
paper bearing a pleasant prophecy for
the coming season, and then gfutng
the shells cleeely together.
These
may be gilded and passed at the
table. A «rise bootees who knows her
guests wen will be clever in making
these forecanjs right.
Much merriment ensues w^n the
girls ask the beys to dance, invite
them to supper, dnd tn general reverse
the asual order of social conventions.
City, and it takes a professional
wrestler to cool Mm down, some­
times, whan somebody gets him too
badly rttod.”
"Say, young feffer. you don’t
know where I could get a tolera­
ble good shot of ’’’lnoonabine" a
round this burg, do you? "I'd like
to smel] the cork in a bottle of any­
thing that would remind of N’-
Tawk.”
The reporter happened tir think
of Sheriff John Ajschlm's samples
over In the tourhouBe—the bottled
evidence against booilbggers but
before he could direct the athletic
nurse of the mild lunatic, th twain
Good Bye
/
NEW YEAR
AGRICULTURIST
MAKES PLEA
Continued from Pt^e 1
New Year’s night quiet and clear
indicates a prosperous year.
On New Year’s we while the clock
is striking IS repeat three times:
"Good St. Anne, good St. Anne, send
me a man as fam as you can,’’ and
you will be engaged within the year.
Spend on New Year, spend all the
year. •
The Chinese say that if a man sits
up for ten years in succession and
sees the new year come in he will
have a long life.
It is unlucky to refuse a beggar
anything on New Year’s day. or to
refuse a reqest of any kind.
It Is lucky to riae early on New
Year’s morning.
If the first carol singer who comes
to the door on New Year’s morning
is brought in at the front door, tak­
en all through the house, and let out
at the back door, it will bring luck
to the house for a year.
New
When the wind blows on
Year’s night, it is a sign of pesti-
lence.
If your first caller on New Year’s
day is a male, you will have good
luck and many friends; if a female,
bad luck and few friends.
The Chinese think New Year’s day
is the luckiest of the year.
If you wash clothes on New
Tear’s day.
You’ll be sure to wash a friend
away.
Turn your pillow at mitttiight of
the 31st of December and yo will
dream of the one you are to marry.
It brings good luck to place a
piece ot money on the window on
New Year's eve.
If the first man you speak to on
New Year’s morning has his hands
in his pockets, you will have a
hard time getting what money you
want during the year
It is an old Dutch superstition
that if you want to marry he girl
you love, yor voice must be the first
one sine hears and your face the
first she sees on New Year’s morn-
in*.
Supperstitious folk consider it
important to notice whom you
meet the first thing on New Year’s
day. If U is a man you will have
good luck, if a woman, bad luck; if
a priest, you will die within a year,
if a policeman, you will have llta-
gation.
The first person of the opposite
sex you me«t on New Year’s day
will bear the Christian name or
your futuie partner.
If ice melts on January 1 it wHl
freeze on April 1.
Feed the birds well on New
Year’s morning by placing a sheaf
of wheat or barley t>r some bread
outside your house, then good luck
will attend you and good crops and
prosperity come to you during the
whole year.
,
On New Year's eve tak* your
hymn book to your bedroom, blow
out th* lamp, open your book, and
mark a hymn (in the dark), pot it
under your pilllaw, and sleep on it.
Next morning read the hymn, and
» HER RESOLUTION.
It will indicate the «vents of the
“Nave you made any good reeolu- year.
tions- tor the new yean»“
slothes
It is unucky to have
“M***ir, I'm goin* to quit buntin' I hanging on the line when the New
men’», hearts”
Year is born.
Cook cabbage an New Year’s day
HE KNOWS. Elihu Mink of Long and you will have good luck all the
Island, learned to make it from an . year.
Decorated apples stuck on three
advertised recipe and will not have
any trouble making it any more. The skewers are exchanged for uck on
funeral) was held from the house.— Ne wYear’s day in Great Briton.
Burn all the visiting cards that
New York Evening Mail.
have been received throughout the
year on January 1.
If you keep
Roseburg—Southern Pacific shop­
them from year to year you will
force reduced to a 5-daty week.
have bad luck.
If you have not provided yourself
with a calendar before the New
Year comes in you will be behind
hand in all your undertakings dur­
ing the year.
In Japan oranges are hung up on
New Year’s day as a charm to In­
sure the long life of the family.
The Chinese believe it bad uck to
pay all of outstanding accounts on
the last of the year and begin fresh
and straight on New Year’s Day.
Just before midnight on New
Year’s eve tbe Chinese put oa new
or clean garments, so as to «citer
the new year purely, and thus gain
good fortune to themseves.
Your conduct on New Year’s day
is a forerunner of your condct all
the year.
good blood lines and traces in th
nearest generation to a good dam
and a proven •*!•*. This bull shouta
never leave Tillamook County.
Mr. Dantels is not the only own­
er of a good bull in Tillamook
County. There are lots of other»
and will be more as dairymen real­
ise th» importance of having them
There also has been good bulls in
Tillamook County. Take the "Com­
pany bull,” owned by the dairymen
of this county, which dieu seveni
weeis ago.
This was a valuable
bull and has produced some valu*.
ble stock. Another Instance is the
bull who aired the F. R. Realg
herd for several years. Right now
its worth is being leaiized by ths
quality of his producing beeter»
Then there' is the bull Lavina’s Lad
who sired Penine belonging to L a .
McCormack, who produced lgpg
pounds milk and 115.8 pounds of
fat in one month and for a final 11-
lustration take the Wm. William«
herd of cattle nearly all siied by a
pure bred bull Golden Glows Camp
era Chief now owped by Paul Fitz-
Patrick.
Thia herd never came a-
bout by the introduction of a poor
aire.
You probably would ask how ts
choose a pure bred sire,
The on-
ly real way of selecting a bull
buying a proven sire but this is
practically impossible to do. Pro»"
en sites are generally dead and
gone beforg the real worth of them
is ascertained and if they weren’t
there would never be enough to g«
around. If one can find a bull with
daughters
that are capable of
throwing type and the dam show
production then you have a bull
that is worth putttag at the head
of your herd. You can raise youag
stock from this sire and eventually
breed up y*ur herd to higher pro-
detion.
u
The writer believe* there are
place for lots more pur* bred bn»,
in Tillamook County but it is not
th» idea of this article to convey t*
the reader that hi proposes that
a poor bull eats just as much food1
and as costly to keep as a good one
and can create a loss to the herd te
tlte amount of a good bull has pro-
du«e<L in other herds as mentioned.
After the bull has gone his good or
bad work goes on just the same.
Now the question is caa the
dairyman even If he only raises *
few calves each year afford to be
without a pure herd sire. He cm -
not. How much *an the Tillamook
dairymen afford to pay? This is en­
tirely up to th* separate individ­
uals but remember that a 81080
bull doe* not necessarily mean that
he is a good one nor that one la
give* to you or you pay 850 is «
cheap one because in the long run
he mty be far more higher in prie»
than the higher priced one.
J
Now is tbe time if there ever wu
one for the introduction of good
blood into some of the herds. Far­
mers are asking for the cost ot
production plus a fair profit. But
have we a right to this If we milk
what some of the dairymen her«
call female steers whose natural in-
stinct to give milk at all time«
seems lost. There are many cows in
Tillamook that do not pay for their
keep. Can we ask the public to pay
these prices if we work with took
that land to lessen production’
One can change the entire char­
acter of his herd in a few yean
but one must realize first th« need
of a change. Having done that ths
next step is the selection of a sir»
from a high producing dam. If *»•
en that is beyond your pocket book
there aie organized bull assoc)*-
tions where the cost is not a*J
gteater than ths present system of
letting things slide.
In conclusion I might sag tint
any dairyman desiring to purchaNj
a pure bred bull does not have t* I
look furher than Tillamook. If •u*’
eiders purchase sires from Tilla-
nuxfit to head their hards aad PW
transportation charges why «»a’t
any looai dairyman purchase a «th
locally to start this change in bh
herd.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Webber H
nerth of town went out to Portia»!
Monday to spend the holidag« Mt»
relatives and friend*.
The Satisfaction Store
Wishes its Bri ends and
Patrons a Happy and
Prosperous New Year
E. G. Anderson
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