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Meanwhile a nation-wide demand had found expression, that the law be amended - that clearly defined power be conferred on the interstate commerce commission to fix rates in cases where, upon proper hearing, it should appear that injustice was suffered by shipper or shippers. Congress heeded the demand, and enacted the Hepburn rate law in 1906. Spokane filed the first complaint under the new law. The fight was renewed, at exactly the point where it had started in 1889. The commission conducted hearings at Spokane. Chicago, Portland, and Washington.
The chamber of commerce put itself behind the new case, city and county lent their encouragement, a fund was raised to carry on the contest, and H. M. Stephens was employed to make the long and arduous legal fight before the commission. and if need be before the courts. Actively identified with the bringing of the new suit were F. E. Goodall. Charles Hebberd. A. W. Doland, B. L. Gordon, J. A. Schiller, J. M. Comstock. R. B. Paterson and O. C. Jensen.
After nearly three years more of waiting, the commission. March 2, 1909, ren- dered a tentative decision in favor of Spokane. Reduced rates were ordered on twenty-seven of the thirty-two commodity rates specifically set out in the complaint, and the decision intimated that if Spokane should institute supplemental proceed- ings, similar reductions would be granted throughout the entire commodity list. A reduction of about sixteen per cent was ordered on class rates from St. Paul and Chicago. In the preparation of its case Spokane had enumerated thirty-two com- modity rates as illustrative of the general unjust discrimination in the entire range of commodity rates, and the commission held that it could order reductions only on
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commodities actually enumerated in the complaint. The commission found that "the earnings of both the Great Northern and Northern Pacitie in recent years have been excessive."
"At this time when the people of Spokane are rejoicing over their victory, after years of struggling," said Chairman A. W. Doland of the committee, "the oldtimers should not forget that we owe a great deal to one who is no longer in our midst; I refer to our old friend, the late Robert Easson. I believe that more than to any other man is due to him the protest against unjust freight discriminaion."
But the battle was not yet ended. The decision was an entering wedge, and little more. The commission invited the railroads to submit revised rates in line with the principle of its decision. This the railroads did in May, and the commis- sion held a hearing June 9 for the consideration of the railroad scheme of rate revision. The rates proposed by the roads were not satisfactory to Spokane, and were disapproved by the interstate commerce committee of the chamber of com- merce-A. W. Doland, J. A. Schiller, J. M. Comstock, A. A. Kraft, O. C. Jensen, J. M. Fitzpatrick, B. L. Gordon, F. E. Goodall and J. D. Sherwood.
Traffic Manager J. G. Woodworth of the Northern Pacific, and Assistant Traffic Manager W. P. Kenney of the Great Northern came to Spokane to explain their proposed schedules, but it developed that neither had authority to treat with local interests, and a joint committee of the chamber of commerce and the Spokane Merchants' association insisted on the rates ordered by the commission, and to support this demand sent a delegation to Washington which included A. W. Doland, 1. A. Schiller, O. C. Jensen. H. D. Trunkey, W. H. Cowles, F. E. Goodall and R. B. Paterson.
At the hearing in Washington in June. H. M. Stephens filed a supplemental complaint asking for terminal rates on all commodities. The commission ordered in the new class rates July 1. and the railroads accepted that order; but further action on the commodity list was deferred until fall. In September Commissioner Prouty came to Spokane and conducted a hearing on Spokane's supplemental com- plaint. One by one Mr. Prouty went through the long commodity list, and the railroad representatives, who were present in force, were asked to explain their reasons for enforcing a higher rate to the interior than to the terminals. In numer- ous cases the railroad attorneys and traffic agents were forced to admit the unrea- sonableness of the higher rates, and in other commodities they knew of no reason, but expressed the belief that there must be one, and promised to make inquiries regarding it. In this detailed manner Commissioner Prouty covered 297 commodity rates the first day of the hearing. The hearing was concluded October 5.
On the fourth anniversary of the passage of the Hepburn law, June 29, 1910, and twenty-one years after Spokane first took up the fight, the commission handed down its decision in this famous case. It condemned the railroad system of rate- making for towns and cities in the Inland Empire. Spokane rates were held to be unjust and unreasonable in themselves, without regard to coast rates. The Mer- chants' Association calculated that the decision carried a twenty-five per cent re- duction. "The committee," said Chairman Doland, "feels great gratification at the outcome of this long fight. Spokane is the only city that has steadily and con- sistently followed every development. not only locally but in Washington."
But the new rates were not ordered into immediate effect. Out of a desire to
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show a spirit of fairness which the railroads could not in reason challenge before the courts, as a test of the new rates the commission directed the railroads to keep an account for three months of receipts and expenditures both under the old sched- ules and the new. If, by October 1 the new schedule should be found fair and reasonable, it would be made effective by order of the commission. This test was amended later to cover October, 1909. and January. April and July, 1910-one month in cach quarter of a fiscal year.
Congress amended the long and short haul clause this summer, but the amend- ment did not become effective-until February, 1911, and the commission deemed it desirable to consider the amended law in connection with its final decision of the Spokane case. This carried the case over to 1911, and at a hearing in March the carriers submitted a statement of their losses on the basis of the tentative rates of the commission, and also presented evidence in support of their applications for suspension of the amended fourth section, and presented arguments opposing the constitutionality of the amended long and short haut clause.
At last came the long heralded decision, July 21, 1911, a round five years after the inauguration of a case which had now become noted from ocean to ocean; and which was testing, as no other single case had ever tested, the nation's adopted principle of government regulation of the railroads. By unanimous decree of the commission. Spokane (and this practically applied the reductions to all commercial centers in the Inland Empire) was granted terminal rates on all freight originat- ing in Missouri river territory, including Duluth. St. Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha, Denver and Kansas City. Carriers might charge, the commission said, rates not exceeding seven per cent above terminal rates on shipments to Spokane originating in Chicago territory. Not exceeding fifteen per cent above terminal rates on ship- ments originating in Cincinnati territory. And not exceeding twenty-five per cent. above terminal rates from New York and Atlantic coast territory as far south as Virginia.
"It is a great benefit." commented A. W. Doland, chairman of Spokane's mili- tant committee; "the decision, as I gather it. means much cheaper rates and more territory. It admits boldly the justice of Spokane's stand. We are repaid for the long fight. It's our time to rejoice, and we must celebrate."
"The decision," said Attorney II. M. Stephens, who had fought the long fight over an arduous range of five years, "is better than the one rendered a year ago, which set forth a tentative tariff and tentative rates."
And Spokane celebrated. Tuesday, July 26, is a day that will long be remem- bered in the city's history. Pandemonium broke loose at 9:30 a. m., with a wild ringing of bells and screeching of factory whistles, a clangor which lasted for a quarter of an hour and notified the city's population that the celebration was started. At 10 o'clock the parade moved. the longest and most impressive industrial demonstration that had ever moved over the business streets of the town. The chamber of commerce signalized its gladness by holding a memorable noonday rally and a huge night celebration in front of Masonic temple aroused the public to a high pitch of enthusiasm. Red lights flared out their rosy illumination, auto horns contributed their quota of raucous sound, and dynamite blasts sent their deep reverberations through the city's encircling hills to an accompaniment of human shouts.
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"Out of the ruins of 1889 (spoke President E. T. Coman of the chamber of commerce), a greater Spokane arose, built by energy and money and the enthusi- asm of many staunch citizens. Out of the victory of a twenty year rate fight a greater Spokane yet is to grow. You who have read and understood the decision know the vast benefits. They are not for the business man alone, not for the mer- chant alone. They are for the people. the workingman as well as the banker." Mayor Hindley spoke next, and then the appearance of A. W. Doland and B. L. Gordon. the two surviving members of the original committee, brought a storm of applause. Another tumultuous demonstration greeted the appearance of Mr. Ste- phens. T. S. Griffith, another member of the committee. spoke on "Friendship With the Railways," and F. K. McBroom, chairman of the board of commissioners, spoke for the county.
A street dance followed, with R. L. Rutter leading the grand march on River- side avenue. Twenty thousand people saw the parade in the forenoon, and 12.000 joined in the demonstration at night.
Mr. Doland sold his interest in the Spokane Drug company in July, and took an extended trip to the Orient. In his absence the chairmanship of the joint rate committee of the chamber of commerce and the Merchants' Association was con- ferred on Ex-Mayor J. M. Comstock. another veteran rate fighter.
Attention was now turned to the railroads. Would they accept the commission's decision. or would they appeal to the courts? They chose the latter course, and on their petition the United States court of commerce enjoined the commission from ordering the new rates into effect. From that decision Spokane has appealed to the United States supreme court, and there the long issue hangs in the balance as this history goes to press.
CHAPTER LXXVI
ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF NATIONAL APPLE SHOW
BIRTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN IDEA-FIRST SHOW IN 1908-DELIGHTED THOUSANDS VIEW THE BEAUTIFUL EXHIBITS-PRESIDENT TAFT PRESSES A GOLDEN KEY-SPLEN- DID ENTERPRISE IN PERIL-SAVED BY ENTHUIASTIC WORK-GREAT FUND OF $60,000 RAISED IN 1911-BRILLIANT CARNIVAL FEATURES-TWENTY-SEVEN VISIT- ING BANDS-NATIONAL COUNTRY LIFE CONGRESS-THIRTY-THREE PRINCESSES ROYALLY ENTERTAINED.
T HE National Apple Show has an interesting history. According to Ren II. Riee, for three years its sceretary and manager, David Brown and a few acquaintances diseussed a plan, early in the spring of 1908, to deter- mine the distriet in the United States growing the largest perfeet apple. They were confident that a thorough going test by acknowledged authorities would award that honor and distinetion to the Pacific northwest, and reasoned that the publieity grow- ing out of the investigation would foeus favorable attention on Spokane and the Inland Empire.
The idea was taken up by the Spokane Horticultural society at a meeting on April 4, 1908, and it was proposed to have a local apple show the following fall. The Washington State Horticultural association and the Spokane chamber of eom- merce fostered the project. Changes followed rapidly as the idea worked out, and from a county show it passed to an Inland Empire exhibit, and finally, by unani- mons agreement of the various interests, it was deeided to have an exposition of national scope and eharaeter.
Incorporation of the National Apple Show followed, with $100,000 eapital, and these officers: President, Louis W. Hill : first vice-president, L. F. Williams ; second vice-president, E. F. Cartier Van Dissel; treasurer, W. D. Vineent; seeretary and manager, Harry J. Neely ; trustees, E. F. Cartier Van Dissel, chairman; F. W. Gil- bert, St. Paul, general superintendent of the Northern Pacific (deceased) ; William McMurray, general passenger agent of the O. R. & N., Portland; D. C. Corbin, president Spokane International : J. P. Graves, president Spokane & Inland Empire elretrie system ; Henry M. Richards, president Washington Water Power company ; Nelson W. Durham, editor Spokesman-Review; L. F. Williams, eapitalist and or- chardist ; J. P. McGoldriek. president MeGoldrick Lumber company ; F. L. Daggett. president Arcadia Irrigation association ; W. D. Vineent, eashier Old National bank ; David Brown, president Hazelwood company : L. MaeLean, president Spokane Canal company : F. E. Goodall, president chamber of commerce ; Phil T. Beeher, of Beeher
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& Thompson : Gordon C. Corbaley, manager real estate department of A. D. Jones & Co. ; and II. J. Neely, secretary treasurer of Neely & Young.
This organization was continued in 1909 with but two changes in the executive board. H. J. Neely became first vice-president, and Ren H. Riee succeeded Mr. Neely as secretary and manager.
From the beginning the enterprise captivated the people of the Inland Empire, and was cordially encouraged by property owners and business men of Spokane, by high officials of the transcontinental railroads, and by orchardists in all sections of the Pacific northwest. The armory was utilized as nueleus of the site, and va- cant ground and publie streets adjoining were put under a huge frame and canvas structure to house the extensive exhibits and provide space for amusement and other features. The formal opening, December 7, 1908. was attended by President Louis W. Hill of the Great Northern, Governor Albert E. Mead, Lieutenant Governor- Eleet M. E. Hay, and many prominent officials and horticulturists from all parts of the Inland Empire. People came by thousands to marvel at the magnitude and beauty of the displays, and went home to impart their enthusiasm to neighbors and friends. Paid attendance for the six days ran respectively, 11,352. 14.070, 18,000, 20,070, 19,270, 17.000-a grand total of nearly 103,000.
With Iloward Elliott, president of the Northern Pacific, at its head in 1909, the National Apple show repeated the success of 1908. On the opening day, Novem- ber 15, President Taft pressed the golden key at Washington which signalized the beginning of King Apple's reign, and the presence of President Elliott, Governor Ilay, Congressman Poindexter and Mayor Pratt imparted additional official ap- proval and interest.
The people of the Inland Empire had now come to regard the apple show as a fixed institution, and preparations in 1910 for the third great exhibition were carried forward with enthusiastic interest. Three and a half acres of space were needed for the twenty-one earload exhibits, thirty-six district collections and hun- dreds of smaller displays. Monday, November 14, was the opening day, and in the evening Miss Mary Idell Ide of Colville was crowned queen with appropriate exercises.
Nineteen hundred and eleven was a year of comparative industrial and commer- cial lassitude throughont the United States, and the seeming difficulty of raising the necessary fund led many to believe that it would not be prudent to hold the fourth national show. At one time in early summer the trustees thought that the splendid enterprise would have to be abandoned. The difficulties confronting these zealous and publie-spirited workers came to the attention of W. H. Cowles and a number of other progressive citizens, and they promptly came to the assistance of the trustees with an offer to go out and raise the needed funds. A quick and enthusiastic re- sponse from property owners and business men prompted these energetie spirits to carry out a greatly broadened scheme of popular entertainment, and it was determined to supplement the apple show with a week of brilliant carnival attractions, com- memorative of the completion of the $500.000 Monroe street bridge, and to take under their cordial patronage the first National Country Life congress which David Brown, Editor E. A. Smith of the Twice-a-Week Spokesman-Review and Dan Mor- gan had already fostered into an event of national interest.
The official board of the apple show was enlarged and strengthened. and com-
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Secretary of the Interstate Fair
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Manager of the old Spokane Fruit Fair
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For many years president of the Chamber of Commerce
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First minager of the National Apple Show
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Manager of the National Apple Shows
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prised the following well known citizens: E. F. Cartier Van Dissel, W. D. Vincent, J. P. McGoldrick, Julius Zittel, Gordon C. Corbaley, Harry J. Neely, P. D. Tull, Joseph A. Borden, Waldo G. Paine, W. H. Cowles, H. A. Flood, R. L. Rutter, Samuel Galland, R. O. MeClintoek and F. E. Goodall.
R. I .. Rutter, W. D. Vincent and Samuel Galland were appointed a committee on finance and a brisk solicitation quickly brought the handsome fund of $60,000, of which $33,000 were assigned the apple show and the remainder to the carnival features and the country life congress.
November 23 to 30 were the dates chosen for the triple attraction, and for the apple show a new site was selected, on the north side of Front avenue, between Bernard and Browne streets, and a vast structure creeted of lumber and canvas. Under the efficient and enthusiastic direction of. Ren Rice everything was ready on opening day. and the arrangement of the exhibits, with an attractive array of auxili- ary attractions and careful provision for the comfort of the throngs, combined to form an ensemble which made the fourth national apple show the most pleasing of all. Total paid attendance, 50,607, as compared with 49,554 in 1910.
The carnival features elicited universal expressions of admiration. They in- cluded a number of bewildering and beautiful parades, by day and by night; the bringing in of twenty-seven bands from all parts of the Inland Empire, including the famous mounted cowboy band from Pendleton, Oregon, and the elaborate social entertainment of thirty-three prineesses from as many towns in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana.
The identity of King Apple IV was maintained a profound secret until the elos- ing night of the carnival. It was then revealed that Judge George Turner had been endowed with the royal prerogatives.
The list of princesses, their hostesses and the knights follows :
HOSTESSES
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Mrs. Harry Wraight
Bertha Leverich
H. L. Barrett
Kennewick
Mrs. W. G. Ramage
Edna Conlee
Clarence IJammerlund
Davenport
Mrs. Slater
Carrie Hanson
Mac Rae Stevenson
Wilbur
Mrs. Chas. Larkin
Margery Paton
II. D. Zimmerman
Cashmere
Mrs. E. F. C. Van Dissel Mrs. W. H. Ude
Effie Finrow
Jos. Acheson
Reardan
Mrs. J. H. Johnson
Eliza Gannon
Dr. Harrington
Pasco
Mrs. Walter P. Edris
Sadie Sellards
11. . I. Soessell
Prosser
Mrs. Harry Neely
Ethel Rogers
Arthur Hammerlund
Asotin
Mrs. R. Insinger
Edith Nibbler
Henri Crommelin
Uniontown
Mrs. R. Insinger
Emma Cornwell
Harry Whitehouse
Sunnyside
Mrs. Daniel Morgan
Beryl Crabtree Gano
J. W. Boyd
Kamiah
Mrs. Daniel Morgan
Beatrice.Volkel
Gordon Lamey
Post Falls
Mrs. W. D. Vincent
Rose Mills
W. Lenthold
Krupp
Mrs. R. L. Ford
Margery Monteith
E. G. Pyle
Republic
Mrs. Cyrus Happy
Minnie Spangler
Russell Millard
Lewiston
Mrs. H. W. Newton
Winnie Strain
Murray Davenport Pomeroy
Mrs. Frank Tebbets
Anna Cameron
Jack Richards
Moscow
Mrs. Charles Hebberd
Mabel Meuli
George Mohr
Rosalia
Mrs. Harry Hooper
Alberta Perry
Guy Amsden
MnHan
Mrs. W. P. Edris
Stella Scott
Chester Coulter Tekoa
Mrs. R. L. Rutter
Virginia Sparks
.John Doran
Soap Lake
Effie Parks
M. F. Middleburg
Pendleton
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HOSTESSES
PRINCESSES
KNIGHTS
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Mrs. G. C. Corbaley
Essie Chichester
Charles Tierney
Ephrata
Mrs. G. C. Corbaley
Edna Featherstone
Mr. Lefferty
Leavenworth
Mrs. T. S. Lane
Eliza Grathwohl
Richard Oakley
Oroville
Mrs. T. S. Lane
Zoe Kent
R. H. Demott
Bonners Ferry
Mrs. R. C. Dillingham
Eunice Krech
Ray Wilson
Spirit Lake
Mrs. C. W. Winters
Rinda Salisbury
Wallace Faweett
Chewelah
Mrs Chas. Larkin
Marion Wylie
W'm. P. Birney
Waterville
Mrs Chas. Larkin
Anna Hopkins
H. C. Sootheran
Deer Park
Mrs. M. W. Weeks
Lelia Lavin
W. M. Baker
Pullman
Miss R. Sieklespell
Anna Rhuby
Walter May
Odessa
Mrs. Chas. Hebberd
Loretta McCarthy
George Sieler
Kalispell
Credit for the brilliant success of the carnival was awarded to Charles Hebberd, Roy Slater. W. S. Yearsley. Gordon C. Corbaley, W. P. Edris, Seabury Merritt, Earl Constantine, C. H. Moore, A. C. Ware, Alex. Green, R. C. Sweatt, R. Insinger and C. B. Stuht.
The spirit of friendship between Spokane and its neighbors was made still more cordial by the fourth national apple show and its accompanying carnival; and the inspirational influence on the citizens of Spokane, coming at a time when publie enterprise seemed at a low ebb in many other eities, east and west, was of incalculable benefit. Confidence was keyed anew in the country and its resources, and conviction deepened in the minds of thousands that close cooperation between Spokane and its neighbors will always contribute greatly to their mutual prosperity and well- being.
CHAPTER LXXVII
GENESIS, GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE 150,000 CLUB-EXTRAORDINARY FUND- RAISING CAMPAIGN FOR THE Y. M. C. A. AND THE CHILDREN'S HOME-FIRST PIANOS . IN SPOKANE-V. H. BROWN CALLED HERE IN 1883 TO TUNE TEN INSTRUMENTS- SPOKANE'S FIRST MUSIC STORE AND FIRST MUSIC TEACHER-HISTORY OF THE SPOKES- MAN-REVIEW-HOW THE RIVAL MORNING JOURNALS WERE CONSOLIDATED-WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN TERRITORIAL DAYS-WOMEN SERVE ON JURIES.
T IIE 150,000 Club of Spokane, possibly the pioncer organization of its kind on the continent, was organized in 1905 for the purpose primarily of inter- esting the general public in organized effort for the benefit of the com- munity. A report by one of its officers says:
The first year the Club had sixteen hundred members, and second year twenty- two hundred.
Among the big things attempted by the Club was first the preservation of Fort George Wright to the city, by the fight waged to prevent the railroads crossing the reserve and destroying its usefulness and beauty.
It brought about the passage of a charter amendment creating a non-partisan park commission.
In 1907 the Club raised a fund of $60.000 to complete the Y. M. C. A. build- ing. The Club has always conducted an aggressive campaign for home industry and has done much to bring about a liberal patronage of home manufacturers, which has resulted in great benefit to the city.
For several years a eity beautiful or general cleaning and planting campaign was conducted with the result that over 80,000 trees were planted in four years. The Playgrounds association was an incorporated branch of the Club and its pi- oneer work in securing playgrounds and equipment for the boys and girls is much appreciated by the citizens.
The officers the first year were: F. W. King, president; W. D. Vincent, treasurer ; Ben HI. Rice, secretary ; and all were reelected for a second term. Upon the resig- nation of Secretary Rice, Fred H. Gaston was elected treasurer. The third year G. C. Corbaley was elected president, M. H. Eggleston treasurer and A. W. Jones, secretary.
H. J. Neely was president in 1909, W. D. Vincent, treasurer; A. W. Jones, secretary, and the following board of managers: J. F. Meagher. A. C. Ware. F. W. King, J. A. Tormey, C. H. Moore, W. H. Wilcox, C. H. Larkin, J. L. Paine, P. D. Tull, J. C. Cunningham, Phil T. Becher, S. A. Mann and H. E. Oswald.
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for funds. Late in 1907 it became apparent to some of our citizens that the old home was inadequate as well as dangerous, it being termed a veritable firetrap, and at a meeting of the 150.000 Club, the question of raising funds for a new building was proposed by A. V. Bradrick. A committee headed by Mr. Bradrick was appointed by the club and the subject given mueh favorable publicity by the newspapers. On March 20, 1908. a committee of two hundred men of all walks of life met in the hotel Spokane and after luncheon were divided into subcommittees of five and each given a territory to work. $10.000 was the amount decided upon to be raised that day. At two p. m. the committees went out and at six p. m. they reported back the entire amount raised in subscriptions ranging from $1.00 to $2,500.
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