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OREGON NATIVE SON
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Second Year, May 1900 - April 1901
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WILDS OF OREGON.
Ye tinted hills above the wooded plain, Reflect the sunbeams o'er the breaking main ; Ye hoary peaks, august, in muteness stand, As watchful sentries, guard our noble land, O storm-bound cliffs and precipices bare, O verdant dales and flowering ridges fair, Re-tell thy river's ever-joyous theme, Thy sylvan wild in grandeur is supreme. When vernal spring thy rolling valley 'twines With fragrant blossoms and gentle creeping vines, As flees the greyness from the waking dawn All nature rises unto joyous song; The squirrels, chattering, play on branch and tree, The timid fawn glides its pathway free, And meadow lark's and robin's morning lay Unto their mates proclaim a welcome day: Then gleams the sunlight on the distant hills, Its glowing ray of bounteous woodland fills, And sparkling diamonds seem the glistening dew, And fairyland bursts on the raptured view. Thy lofty pines, and limpid fountains fair,
Thy sunny slopes and flowers without compare,
Thy waterfalls encrowned with sunlit spray, And plunging torrents, charm our lingering way; Across the waving fields of gray and green, And placid lakes enrobed with shade and sheen,
By vine-robed crag, through canyon, vale and glade,
We stray and rest within thy noonday shade; Yet, dearer are thy mountains high,
Thy snow-capped peaks which gleam in stainless sky; No passing shade their glory has defiled,
No shroud but night to mar their grandeur wild;
The rumbling glaciers on their ceaseless way
Defy the banks which bid their passing stay, And jewelled halls and lofty tinted spires Blend all the hues of many colored fires, While far above the sulphurous fumes arise, And tell of moulten heat which never dies. Wilds of Oregon, dear. blue-tinted hills. Blest is he who hears thy babbling rills, And breathes the fragrance of thy waving pines,
And in his heart remembrance fond enshrines.
VALENTINE BROWN.
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Photo by Brown.
SECOND OREGON DEAD, LYING IN STATE AT THE NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY.
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IN MEMORIAM.
(Soldiers of the Second Oregon who fell in the Philippines. )
Toll,
For the strong of soul;
In crowded ranks who gave
The inspiring shout
Of Liberty, from youth's full throat.
Contented death to dare,
That they might share
The "well done" Santiago heard,
When the world's deep heart stirred.
Toll,
For the pure of soul,
The fair head, and the boyish look,
That War's black wave o'ertook,
'Ere grief had touched the untroubled blue Of childhood's wondering gaze.
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Courtesy "The Oregonian." CANNON CAPTURED AT MANILA.
Toll, For the strong of soul.
Toll,
A mother sees beyond the wave.
Isidro's palms above his grave; She hears "reveille" call, But not for him, her darling: Orient day grows cold. though steeped in light, And all its torrid beauty fades in night.
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Toll,
For the proud soul;
The virgin State
That welcomes late,
These sons of iron make;
Here on her lillied breast pressed down,
They sleep, and dream not of renown,
Nor of these garlands, pine and rose-
Emblems of beauty and repose-
We weave to scatter o'er their rest,
Who honored duty's stainless crest.
Routledge, Photo. ON THE WAY TO RIVERVIEW CEMETERY.
Rejoice, O! State of ours! Spring's earliest flowers Speak from the dust, "Be pure, be just." To larger hopes our hearts are true,
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We seek the task that God will do,
In the grim path where honor led The feet of our beloved dead.
-Nellie Evans.
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JOHN J. VALENTINE, PRESIDENT OF WELLS-FARGO & CO., WRITES HIS FRIEND, AARON STEIN, OF SAN FRANCISCO, AN ACCOUNT OF HIS TRAVELS.
( Published by Special Permission of Mr. Valentine.)
New York, Sept. 29, 1899. DEAR UNCLE AARON:
Today the naval procession of the Dewey celebration took place. Not feel- ing willing to exert myself to the extent of decided inconvenience in order to witness it, I had concluded to spend the day at the hotel and at the office and vi- cinity. However, on alighting from a Broadway car at the Battery. I noticed a great throng to the right near the water's edge, and upon walking over there found them intently watching the naval parade, which had just begun to pass up the river. Stepping upon a box at a cost of 25 cents rental, I too, despite mv determination of the morning, became a looker-on, and saw the best of the pageant.
Noting the countless pictorial repre- sentations of Dewey that meet the ob- server everywhere in the city, the droll idea has occurred to me what sort of a . resemblance to the original would a composite picture of all these produce- many of which are certainly sheer cari- catures.
As pertinent to the unusual and ex- travagant demonstration in honor of one of our naval heroes, growing, as it does, out of a .martial rather than' a civic spirit of adulation,
I turned my steps toward the older historic grounds near by. I may mention here, incidentally, that the site of the office I occupy-No. - 63 Broadway-is historic ground. But a few steps lower down that busy thor- oughfare, on the west side, stands the Washington building, occupying the ground of the old Kennedy House, once the headquarters of Washington and Lee, opposite which, in the colonial
days, stood the leaden statue of King George III, which was pulled down in the year 1776 and converted into bullets for the use of the American army. A little below this spot, where Broadway originally began-i. e., at the foot of the present street-looking northward over the little park called Bowling Green, stands a group of buildings now con- demned to be razed for the purpose of erecting on the site a modern structure intended for U. S. Customs purposes. Among these buildings is one bearing a bronze tablet that marks it as the site of old Fort Amsterdam, built in 1626, with- in the confines of which fortification was built the first substantial church edifice on the island of Manhattan. The tablet was put into the front wall of the build- ing by the Holland Society of New York, September, 1890. Near by anoth- er bronze tablet marks the spot where the first four huts were erected by Dutch voyagers, in 1613.
A few blocks distant-at the S. E. corner of Pearl and Broad streets- stands a most interesting relic of other days, viz: "Fraunces' Tavern" -- or, as originally called, "The Queen's Head Tavern." In this well-con- structed five-story building, erect- ed in 1753. now nearly a century and a half old, but nevertheless in an excellent state of preservation, Washington bade farewell to his officers, on the 4th of December, 1783. Here, too, in 1768, was instituted the first New York Chamber of Commerce, of which body John Cruger was President, and Anthony Van Dam, Secretary. On the walls of the "Long Room" (a dining room located on the second floor) hangs
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a framed copy of two resolutions adopt- ed by that body, bearing dates and read- ing in part as follows:
May 3d, 1763; Ordered, Resolved; that the members of the Chamber do meet at Bolton & Sigel's (the former proprietors ot Fraun- ces' Tavern) precisely at the usual hour (six o'clock).
Tuesday, 6th December, 1768-Resolved-a proper room for the meeting of the members of the Chamber of Commerce is to be pro- vided and the Treasurer is to have Bread and Cheese, Beer, Pipes and Tobacco, provid- ed at the expense of the members present, so that it doth not exceed one shilling each man.
tavern. The establishment, as already stated, was originally known as the "Queen's Head Tavern." To the an- nouncement aforesaid, "Boniface" Fraunces added the following savory postscript:
"N. B. Dinners and suppers dressed to send out for lodgers and others who live at a convenient distance; also Cakes, Tarts, Jel- lies, Whip Syllybubs, Blaumange. Sweet Meats &c in any quantity; cold meat in small quantities, Beef Stakes &c at any hour; Pickled Oysters for the West Indies or else- where."
THE DEWEY ARCH.
The first meeting of the Chamber was held April 5th. 1768, and its action on this occasion was confirmed and approv- ed at a subsequent meeting. heki in May.
In this same room, hanging against the wall is a framed copy of Samuel Fraunces' public announcement that on Sept. 20, 1770, he succeeded Messrs. Bolton and Sigel as proprietor of the
However, one of the quaintest things in this room, replete with odd memen- toes, is the copy of Resolution adopted by the Chamber of Commerce relative to what should constitute the repast provided for its members at their even- ing. as already given above .
To show that this ancient hostelry has been true to the principles of simplicity
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that prevailed when it first served the public, I quote the following from a sign now displayed on the Pearl street exter- ior of the building, which is still used as an hotel and restaurant:
FRAUNCES' TAVERN.
Newly Furnished All Light Rooms By the day or week For Gentlemen Only Restaurant ON THE FIRST FLOOR First Class Regular Dinners Home Cooking 25c.
Fraunces' Tavern-To this Building GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON came, evacuation day, Nov. 25th, 1783
1770 - 1883 and on Thursday, Dec. 4th
Erected by the following, here took leave
Sons of the of the principal officers of
Revolution. the Army yet in service.
In the second-story long room already mentioned is this (suitably framed)-the impressive parting scene having doubt- less taken place there:
WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL TO HIS OFFICERS, Dec. 4th, 1783.
With an heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave
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This is not misleading. The writer lunched there today while making these notes, and for 25c was served with ten- derloin-steak, mushroom sauce, stewed carrots and green peas, bread, butter and tea. This very low price-less than one- quarter of what the same things would have cost on Broadway or 5th Avenue, or above 14th Street-is because of the moderate but sufficient portions furnish- ed. the simple but adequate service. and the absence of all ostentatious surround- ings.
On the Bread street front of the house, just south of the main entrance. is the following :
of you; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honourable.
In the language of the poet, "these were beginnings of the best we are." How wide and far we have strayed from the true principles of Democratic Re- publican simplicity may be judged from the happenings of the past year and a half. Only nine years ago, the present executive of this nation said:
Human rights and constitutional privileges must not be forgotten in the race for wealth and commercial supremacy. The Government of the people must be by the people and not
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Tollman, Photo. EDWARD J. NORTHRUP. A Pioneer of 1:52.
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Tollman, Photo. MRS. FRANCES C. NORTHRUP. A Pioneer of 1845.
McAlpin, Fhoto. CAPT. JACOB KAMM. A Pioneer of 14).
Aune, Photo. MRS. CAROLINE A. KAMM. Born at Lapwai, 1840 .
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by a few of the people; it must rest upon the free consent of the governed and all of the governed. Power, it must be remembered, which is secured by oppression or usurpation or by any form of injustice, is soon de- throned. We have no right in law or morals to usurp that which belongs to another, whether it is property or power.
Now he is employing the power of the United States to subjugate an alien people who never owed allegi- ance to our country. As to what the Fil- ipinos think of "Benevolent Assimila- tion," let one of their own countrymen, Mr. Sixto Lopez, answer:
The Filipinos regard liberty and honor as things which cannot be exchanged for any other condition or thing, however good, how- ever benign, however prosperous. Take from us our liberty and your philanthropy will become valueless. Nor will it help matters to contend that we shall have liberty under American rule. Would American citizens care to have liberty under, say, English rule? rule ?
Personal liberty we should no doubt have, but it is national liberty that we crave. Per- sonal liberty is by comparison a small thing. All civilized people are prepared to give up personal liberty-even ilfe itself-in defense of national liberty. What would che Amer- ican people accept in exchange for national liberty? Need the question be answered? Very well, then; it is universally admitted that the duty which man owes to man and nation to nation is expressed in the simple formula: Do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you.
The issue, then, is quite clear. If the American people prize liberty more than the sordid advantages which prosperity may give-if they refuse to have their liberty taken from them in exchange for any condition or thing whatsoever- then how could they look a righteous God in the face if they take from the Filipinos that which they themselves re- fuse to part with?
New York City, Oct. 7th, 1899.
While the "sporting world" is away at the international yacht race today, I will indite you a brief abstract and chronicle of the times:
And first as to in-door amusements- the theatres. We have attended three. The Fifth Avenue-to witness "Becky Sharp," in which all the indictments of
Thackeray against it for cynicism find color. 'Tis about as disagreeable a play as I have ever witnessed. Geo. Osborn is a smirking prig; Jo Sedley a boister- ous buffoon; Pitt Crawley a grotesque, repulsive reptile; and old Steyne even more revolting in the realism of his pro- fligacy than Thackeray critically de- picted him. As for Becky Sharp, she is as bad as the law allows-and you will remember the Kentucky judge's dic- tum: "A man no better than the law will make him is just as bad as the devil would have him." In short, the play of "Becky Sharp" leaves a bad taste in one's mouth. Tlie second even- ing we attended the Empire, where John Drew's Company played "The Tyranny of Tears," by Haddon Chambers; and the third time saw us at the Lyceum, where "Miss Hobbs," by Jerome K. Jerome, was presented, with Annie Rus- sell in the title roll. "The Tyranny of Tears," which has a flavor of Anthony Hope's "Dolly Dialogues," though bright and pleasing, is less satisfactory than "Miss Hobbs," in which Miss Rus- sell's acting was most charming. I have never seen her to better advantage.
The character impersonated by Miss Russell is that of the "New Woman," bit- terly opposed to the autocracy of man. Miss Hobbs, who lost her parents during infancy, developed her idiosyncrasies under the teachings of an aunt by whom she was reared. This strong-minded relative's ideas were the outcome of un- fortunate matrimonial experiences, and she instilled into the mind of the young ward her own peculiar views of the tyrant man. Because of her theories and their dissemination Miss Hobbs had been described to her future conquerer presumably, as a lean, gray-haired old spinster, but on finding her, to his sur- prise, a young and beautiful woman, the hero falls in love at sight. In undertak- ing her conquest he relentlessly attacks her pet notions, and it is quite apparent at the very outset that she is going to capitulate to his dominant personality. In his love-making he chiefly tutors her. and points out the unwisdom and injus-
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tice of her views. He frankly tells her that the "New Woman" wastes too much time in idleness and bootless think- ing-or what she deems thinking-the outcome of which is sophistical deduc- tions and discontent. The play is de- lightful throughout, and I have never seen Miss Russell look sweeter, or act better and more becomingly in any char- acter. The contretemps, out of which much confusion and fun arises, is natural enough, and the performance keeps the audience in smiles of interest or irrepres- sible laughter to the very end. Old Mrs. Gilbert, who figures as an ancient
We pass now from the customary hab- itat of the "Upper Ten," in their pursuit of enjoyment, and will pay our respects to the "lower millions."
A few blocks west of Broadway, on Bleecker Street, bounded by Sullivan and Thompson Streets, stands a massive modern structure of grey pressed brick, with becoming stone trimmings. A slightly pitched corrugated iron roof with wide eaves supported by handsome brackets gives the top finish a Moresque appearance. This ten-story fire-proof building is known as the Mills Hotel No. 1. This roomy vestibule is finished in
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maiden aunt and general peacemaker. was manifestly just as dear to the hearts of the audience as she was to the young people on the stage whose difficulties she was setting right.
I do not know that this company will go to San Francisco, but if it should, and Miss Russell play, by all means attend the performance. The stage settings and the costumes are pretty, though not out of the ordinary, and the play is not profound, but the lesson and the pre- sentation are simple, natural and very wholesome.
white marble and a handsome central stairway of the same material leads to the office floor. Both to left and to right of the office is a spacious well-lighted glass-covered court, upon which open some of the inside of the 1554 bed rooms of the hotel.
Desirous of thoroughly inspecting this hostelry which is famous from a socio- logical point of view. we paid it a visit, entering first the dining-room, which is located in the basement. This large room is finished in white, with clean, ce- ment floors and tiled wainscotting. On
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the walls hang neatly-framed pictures, appropriate to a dining-room ,and the tables are covered with clean table cloths and supplied with tidy napkins. Here a meal may be had, table d'hote, for 15 cents; or, for the more luxurious a special-to order-dish may be added for ten cents more.
We partook of dinner here, and the 15 cent meal entitled the diner to one choice of each course as indicated on the Bill of Fare, the substance of which is here given: (Of vegetables two selections are allowed.)
BILL OF FARE MILLS HOTEL RESTAURANT Bleecker, Thompson and Sullivan Streets. October 5th, 1899.
Regular Dinner. 15 cents.
Soups.
Consomme Jardiniere;
Ox Joint with Barley. Meats.
Roast Lamb, Mint Sauce; Roast Fresh Pork, Apple Sauce; Fillet of Beef Saute a' la Bordelaise; Stewed Honey-Comb Tripe a l' Espagnole. Cold Meat. Roast Beef. Vegetables.
Green Corn: Mashed Yellow Squash; Boiled Sweet Potatoes; Mashed Potatoes;
Sliced Tomatoes.
Dessert.
Farina Pudding; Baked Apples, Concord Grapes; Indian Pudding. Tea, Coffee or Milk.
Thus for the modest price of 15 cents a nieal consisting of soup, meat, vege- tables, and dessert, with either tea, coffee or milk, is to be had. I may add that liberal portions are served. and the food -of good and wholesome quality-is well-cooked. On the floor above is a cafe, wliere meals can be obtained a la carte. This, however, as an eating place is open only in the night, it being used as a reading and general sitting room during the day. A person can at this ho- tel get five cents worth of something to eat; and Mr. Mills informed me that the price received for meals averages but 13 cents each ; breakfasts and suppers about 8 cents each. The waitresses are paid $4.50 per week, and are given their meals. After our dinner we patronized the dining-room cigar stand, where a
diminutive cigar, called "Nieman's Ba- bies," is to be had at a rate of three for two cents. I have had worse smokes at higher prices. There are other brands on sale, the most expensive of which is 5 cents apiece.
A few steps below, and off the dining- room, is the trunk-room, where all kinds of baggage (including bicycles) is stored in quantities. No storage is charged for this accommodation, but there are sev- eral tiers of private lockers, measuring about 3x2x2 feet, with good locks, that may be hired for 25 cents per month. In the basement are located a well-equipped steam laundry, and engines for furnish- ing power to run the three modern, fast elevators; also plants for ventilating the building and lighting it throughout with incandescent lamps.
. Before going further I will say that this is a house for men-as the circulars state "A Hotel for Respectable Men." The only women about the premises are the waitresses and chambermaids. The former begin work at 6:00 A. M. and continue until 2:00 P. M., when they leave for three and a half hours, and re- turning at 5:30 P. M., work until about 7:30 P. M .- i. e., ten hours a day. The chamber maids are all out of the building by 5:00 P. M. Each of these maids at- tends to ninety rooms, and as the guests are not permitted to remain in their rooms after 9:30 A. M., the chamber work is facilitated by their not being obliged to wait on the convenience of laggards. After 5:00 P. M. the bed rooms are thrown open to incoming guests.
These sleeping apartments are not large, being but 51x73 feet; although there are seventy corner rooms which measure 8x8 feet. For these larger. ones 30 cents per night is charged, while for the others but 20 cents each. These rooms are supplied with good enamelled iron beds and wire mattresses and the bed linen is clean and inviting. There is also electric light available all night, al- thoughi after midnight the current is somewhat reduced. Every room is pro- vided with a little medicine-chest or cup-
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board fastened to the wall above the foot of the bed. There is no water in the rooms. All the lavatory facilities, which are ample, being massed in the halls of each story; the shower baths, hot and cold water, also conveniently located on each floor-there are no tub baths. On the office floor are numerous hot and cold shower baths, about seventy-five stationary wash stands; and laundry tubs, for the use of the guests to wash their own small articles of clothing.
I, but smaller-there being in this less than 700 rooms. The two hotels can ac- commodate an aggregate of 2,200 per- sons over night, yet they are obliged to turn away from 50 to 250 people every night. Yesterday I went to the Riving- ton Street Mills Hotel (No. 2) and got a ten-cent breakfast-two boiled eggs, two rolls, with butter, and a cup of coffee -all good in quality and quite sufficient in quantity. The bill of fare was as follows:
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There is also a drying machine near by in same room. All these accommoda- tions are open to access and furnished without charge.
The entire second story, Bleecker street front, is made into a light, com- fortable reading roon1, and here is a free library of one thousand volumes; and writing tables, at which paper and en- velopes are furnished free. Games of various kinds are also on liand. In the courts are tables and chairs, and here the men sit and read, or smoke and chiat.
On Rivington Street, east side of the Bowery, just off 3rd Avenue, stands the other "Mills Hotel." (No. 2). It is a building in the same general style as No.
BILL OF FARE MILLS HOTEL RESTAURANT Rivington Street. Regular Breakfast-15 cents. Consisting of one 5 and one 10 cent dish, with Bread, Butter, Coffee, Tea or Milk. Five Cent Dishes.
French Rolls, Stewed Prunes, Oatmeal and Milk. Boiled Rice and Milk, Shredded Wheat Biscuit, Cracked Wheat and Milk, Buckwheat Cakes, Wheat Cakes. Ten Cent Dishes. Fried Ham, Veal Cutlets, Hamburger Steak, Corn Beef Hash, Salt Mackerel, Fried Liver and Bacon, Pork Chops. Codfish Cakes. Special.
Two eggs boiled, fried or scrambled with two Rolls, and one cup of Coffee, 10 cents. Oct. 6, 1899.
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The general constructive plan of these remarkable and commendable establish- ments is an effective combination of ap- plied science to attain the ends in view- viz: Utility, comfort and benevolence, on a self-suporting basis. The larger hotel has been open two years, the other being of more recent construction, and thus far the two establishments, while
pelled to refrain from doing anything. The following from the "Saturday Re- view," on "The Fancied Joys of Idle- ness," is so good that I reproduce it:
The illusion that in idleness under some form or other happiness is to be found is easier to be understood than most illusions. There is a charming and naive simplicity about it, and hence it is a popular creed.
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