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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-05
PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETI-
TION,

Charter Amendment Changing the
Method of Assessment of Property
for Street Improvements, Provid-
ing for Creation of Street Assess
ment Districts and Notice Thereof,
Providing for Hearings Before AS
sessments Are Made, and Providing
that the Cost Of Street Improve
ments Shall Be Assessed Against
Each Lot in Proportion to the
Benefits Thereto by Reason Of Such
improvements, and providing that
The Council May Make Street I'm
provements by Contract or by Pur-
chasing Materials and Hiring La
Dor. Vote YES or NO.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-05
PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETI-
TON. E.

Charter Amendment Exempting Bonds
from. Taxation and Providing
Amount, of Bonds Issued Shall Not
, Be Included in Computing the Au-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-05

PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETI-
st..y lH TON.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-05

The following is the form and
number in which the. measure will be
printed on the official ballot:
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-05

The following is the. form and
number In which the measure will be
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mixed with chocolate that they look ex-
actly like the chocolate cakes you buy in
the candy stores. Each ration is in the
form of three cakes of equal size. Each
cake is wrapped in tin foil, and all three
are Enclosed in an Theoretically sealed
round-cornered tin box Of the size I have
described.
I have talked with the army officers
about these rations. and they tell me Il ey
are satisfying. Mai. Gen. Wood has used
them when out camping, and many of
the other officers carry them with them
on their test rides and use no other food
at such times. Gen. Fred Grant on his
last ride Of ninety miles-or thirty miles
a day for thre- days-took three of these
emergency rations with him, intending to
use one for each day. He found, how
ever that one ration, or eight ounces Of
this concentrated food, was sufficient for
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to be is religious romance worthy OF
repetition at Christmas tide.
First is the story Of how a seed -
prayer was planted by a sanity Washing
tonian of the eighteenth century, how
that seed was nourished through the
years, until it blossomed into the great
National Cathedral of SIS. Peter and Paul.
These are skeptfcal days, and prayer is
perhaps the least used Of all the links
that bind us to the feet of Cod" but the
most scornful dare not scott at the ma
terial manifestation of an answered
prayer.
The first registrar Of the Treasury was
Joseph Nourse. a man of devout and
fervent disposition. the owner of a vast
tract Of land in Georgetown, principally
in what Is now known as TenleytoWn.
He was personal friend OF George
Washington and, like him, member OF
the Church of England His own resi-
dence was a spacious colonial mansion on
what is now the Cathedral Hill, or Mount
st. Alban as it is called. Near the house
was a secluded grove of tall OAKS, anu u
here in the splendor of the quiet Wooo
life. through the Gothic arches or whose
trees the sun shone in softened light, Jo-
seph Nourse, like a prophet of old. a
man of God, would pray and medltate Ior
hours.
AS he looked down from the heights OF
Mount ST. Alban on the infant Wasn.ng,,
possibilities of this latest child OF the
nations stirred within a desire to see
erected in the capital a fitting witness
of the Gospel of Christ. OF that hln g
which existed in the republic, the King
dom of the Babe Of Bethlehem. SO ne
constantly prayed that some day there
might be built on Alban Hill great
church as a witness for Christ. With IN
conscious prophecy he saw in this wood,
Landslide the ideal site for national
church The years passed by and Jo-
seph Nourse went to his rest without
seeing his loved plan for church ma
terialized. But the seed of prayer he
planted was not lost and 1t quickened
into life through the agency of his own
After the death of Joseph Nourse his
residence on Mount ST. Alban was fitted
up as a church school for boys. An
upper room" was reserved for a chapel.
and here the, pupils and church folk OF
for prayer and praise A faithful attend
ant on the services was the grand
daughter Of Joseph Nourse, Miss Phoebe
Nourse. who labored steadfastly in the
illustrations of the little chapel until
her health, always delicate, failed. For
many years she was an invalid, and then
1t was that the tradition of her grand
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cooks are being brought in and given in
struction and new men are appointed
from the various divisions to come to
these schools to learn cooking, so that
within a short time the army will have
several thousand graduated cooks and
bakers. This education is being done In
three schools each of which has been
built and equipped for the purpose. One
of these is at the Preside, near San
Francisco; another at Fort Riley. KIN.
and a third here at Washington. The
cooks for the armies of the west; that at
Fort Riley for those troops which are To-
Gated in the central part of the United
States, and that here for the soldiers or
the east. All have been in operation for
some time and all are graduating num-
Der of cooks and bakers every year. The
Washington school was establlshed In
1906. 1t is now under the charge OF capt.
Elliott and It's chief is a sergeant who is
famous for his cooking. as was his father
before him.
Armed with a letter from the commits
sary general, 1 visited the school this
afternoon and saw about twenty bare
armed, white-capped husky young men,
with their sleeves rolled to the elbows,
kneading dough, putting bread in and out
of ovens, and presiding over large
number of ranges where food Of all kinds
was being cooked for the troops at the
Washington barracks In one room l
was shown chemical laboratory where
the student-cookS are taught how to test
not They ascertain the amount OF mois-
ture in the -four, and also its feeding
value. They learn something of arith-
metic and of the keeping Of accounts,
and each must know just what goes into
the dishes he prepares and how mucn
they cost when given to the soldiers.
The kitchen of the school is an inter-
estng place. 1t is about seventy-ffve feet
square with high roof, the whole cover
ing the most Of the one-story building
which has been. built for 1t. The walls
are of white tiles, and the floor Is cement.
There are long tables running through
the center. and near them a great dough
trough Of iron.
At the back are two huge bake ovens.
one which is permanent and is faced with
white tiles, and another made of iron
coated with porcelain. The latter can be-
taken down and moved at moments
notice.
A part Of the education Of the students
is connected with this oven. They are
made to take it apart and put it together
and upon graduation any one OF them
could go with 1t to the Philippines or
anywhere else and start a bakery there.
The oven is twelve feet wide and about
fifteen feet long and higher than a mans
head. 1t will cook 400 loaves at once and
can bake thousands of loaves in day.
In addition to this the students are
taught to bake in field ovens, which can
be put up and knocked down and car
ried from one place to another on wag-
ons. A full bakery of that kind and all
of it's equipment can be put in a two
horse wagon, and there are enough OF
them here to turn out 10000 loaves of
bread a day. Each Of the other baking
schools has a similar equipment, so that
Uncle Sam could put into the field baker,
les and the men to run them sufficient to
supply 10000 pounds Of bread day to
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ed with the sergeant In charge about the
cost of the bread and was told that II
was just about equal to the flour re-
quired to make it. Said the man:
I'VE are required to run this bakery at
over 80 per cent profit, and, to tell the
truth. we run 1t at about 40 per cent
We find we can do that, and sell loaf OF
bread at just the cost Of the pound OF
flour that is supposed to go into the
making Of that loaf. This seems strange
to you. but you must remember that there
is a great deal of water In bread. NOW
the water weighs, and this weight Is
taken into account when the pound loaI
Of bread is sold The man who knows
anything about baking need not lie ava ie
at night worrying about the profits of his
baker. They are very large"
And just here I want to tell you about
the emergency ration. This is a new food
by means OF which the soldier need never
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The GATHEDRA BUILT Or STONES
fROn GLASTONBURY ABBEY,

October of 1898. the stately peace cross
was raised in the presence of vast
concourse of people. including the General
Convention of the American Church. then
in session i'm the capital: the President
of the United States the beloved McKin-
ley. and thousands OF citizens. Soon
afterward Mrs Phoebe A Hearst founded
the Cathedral School for Girls. On AS
cension day. 1901, We're inaugurated the
first cathedral services in the open-air
evensongs held in the natural amphithea-
ter down the slope from the little
sanctuary"
Religious gifts have come to the Cathe-
dral Foundation, rich with the associa-
tons of the historic Church OF England
and the Holy Land. On Ascension day,
l@u2 a little sanctuary, memorial
gift, was erected on the site, together
with the All HallowS gate.
Twenty carved stones from the ruins OF
old Glastonbury Abbey were sent from
the churchman of Glastonbury to the
churchmen of America" The Gaston-
bury Cathedral or Bishops Chair has
been made from those stones. Another
gift-this time from churchmen of Ameri-
ca-Was the Jerusalem altar, the gift or
the diocesan and missionary jurisdictions
or the American church. IL consisted OF
twelve large blocks of marble taken from
the ''quarrieS of Solomon at Jerusalem,
whence the stones of the temple were
hewn." Here the Master lived and acted
the great drama of redemption. Drag
SinS Ills heaVy cross, He passed over the
places whence came these stones in tho
altar.
The Jordan font within the baptistry,
is the work Of William Ordway Par
fridge the famous sculptor. and is lined
with mosaic of stones taken from the
river Jordan. The panels of this font
are executed with exquisite nicely and
portray the life Of Christ. Other gifts
make the close well worth while to q
lover of religious history. Some years
ago Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston left
money to found the splendid Choir School
for Boys.
Thanksgiving day, 1893. saw the cathe-
dral property freed from debt, and now
the Bethlehem Chapel, the first building
Of the cathedral, is being built as a me-
mortal to Bishop Satterlee and is nearing
completion. Thus under the wise d.
rection Of the new bishop, Rt. Rev. Alfred
Harding, the national cathedral project
is going steadily forward. and dioceses all
over the country. under the committees.
are taking deep interest in this national
church undertaking. And the thorn Is
blooming in the grounds at Christmas.
time.
Copyright. 1911, by W. A. Du Puy)
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the whole three days, and he was not
hungry at the close.
/ am nibbling at one OF these rations as
I write 1t tastes just like chocolate, and
! am told that it can be made by any
chocolate factory. We have such fac
tories in nearly every large city, and Gen.
Sharpe tells me that an order for them
might be placed at any time in thirty OF
our chief cities. and that each factory
would turn out fifteen to twenty thousand
a day. In this way we could have 300
go such rations almost upon call. These
rations keep a long time. The one l am
nbbling at is three years old, and not
stale
At the cooking and baking schools the
students taught how to do all sorts
of work without any machinery to speak
Of They are taught TO make bake ovens,
which consist of little more than a hole
in the ground or Of trenches covered with
clay. One of these rude makeshifts is Q
kind of barrel oven. A -four barrel or
any other old round thing is half sunken
in the earth and clay put over il in such
way that when the fire is started this
barrel burns out and the clay is formed
into an oven. They also have semi
cylinders OF iron which are used some
times. This was the form of oven that
was employed largely during the Spanish
American war. 1t is, as Gen. Sharpe
says. a man-killer. and Is only put up In
cases of emergency.
The army cooks are taught to do their
work under all conditions. although the
army will have the best of meals while
on the march and in camp. These will
be prepared upon what are known as
iron field ranges. They are OF different
sizes. one Of which is so small that it
could easily be carried on the back Of a
mule, and another twice as big, which
can be transported by wagon.
The small range is sufficient TO do all
the cooking for a company of fifty-five
men, and nevertheless il is not as big
As womans hat box of the present
time.
The other range, which is intended for
Ill men, is perhaps twice as big. IL IS
made of sheet steel. but il is to be made
in the future Of pure iron, which will
not rust I am told that the commissary
department now has enough of these two
kinds of ranges on hand to supply an
army Of 100000 men with food in the
field, so that if an army of that size
should be called into being We could sup
ply them all with bread and food upon
very short notice.
In addition to this arrangements have
been made for large number OF kitchen
nection with the Pullman Company,
which at the suggestion of the commits
sary general has remodeled some OF its
tourist cars for the purpose The cars
NAV be used for the tourist travel while
thew are not employed by the War De.
be employed to carry the soldiers and
each would supply hot meals for 800 men
at one time.
These are among some Of the things
that Uncle Sam. Patriarch. is doing to
make of his army a live, active and al
WAYS ready-to-move fighting machine, in
order that IL war should unexpectedly
come from any source he may not be
found mapping:
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Tor all the soldiers and the cost is so cal
culated that the cooks have to market
and serve out the rations at SO much
meal.
The average price now paid is less than
) cents 1t is % 1-3 cents per ration. and
a ration means three meals Last year
the soldiers in the Philippines averaged
less than nickel a meal. and the yearly
cost of subsistence per man per day, the
cents.
These are the figures for these days OF
high prices, and they lead one to think
that the food must be skinny and poor
1t is not. 1t is the best than can lie
bought in the markets. and the variety
is greater than that of the average family
the United States over. / have before me
the bills of fare for one month as sug-
gested by the commissary to the army
cooks They consist of thirty-one typical
breakfasts, thirty-one dinners and thirty
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family. They are practically the same as
those supplied to the soldiers at the
Washington barracks, the meals for
which are prepared by the students of
Uncle Sans School for Army Bakers and
Cooks. This school 1 describe farther on
in this letter. In 1t each student has,
from time to time. to plan out, prepare
and be responsible for one days rations
for the sixty men at the barracks. He
has to keep the cost of each item OF food,
and on the average the days rations
must not run over % ID cents per man.
This means little more than cents
per meal, which is close to the average
cost that Uncle Sam pays the whole army
through.
The bills Of fare I choose are those Of
one day last week. as selected and pre-
pared by one Of the student cooks. The
penmanship Is crude and the man Is
probably uneducated.
His breakfast consisted Of pork chops,
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all mighty hungry. Now that the army
has become a great fighting machine their
labor in times of peace is quite as hard as
IL would be in war. None of them lacks
appetite. and they all want the best The
man who has charge of feeding them is
the commissary general. HIS name is
Henry g. Sharpe. and he graduated at
West Point th!rty-one years ago. He
started his military career with this
branch Of the service. and he has served
IN every department OF II and in every
onezOf the United States possessions. He
has had charge Of emergency work in
var Gus parts of the Union. has been in
Porto R!eo. Cuba and the Philippines. and
for some years has been commissary gen.
eral of the United States Army II is
from him and his department that the
information 1 nov give you comes.
And now as TO the Christmas dinner.
II viii be varied according to the loca-
tion of the troops. There are fat turkeys
I'm Porto Rico and the Chinese raise them
by the hundreds on the east coast OF
Asia There is plenty of wild game I'm
Alaska. and each army post. and es-
pecially those in the west. has its peculiar
supplies In the main, however. the
Christmas dinner Will be made up from
the same markets as yours or mine, and
the government has written its menu to
suit. Here is a Christmas dinner sug-
gested by the commissary general. 1t
comes from a manual which has been
recently prepared for the cooks of the
army.
Oyster soup and crackers.
Roast turkey and dressing, cranberry
sauce.
Cold boiled ham.
Mashed potatoes Candied sweet potatoes.
Dreamed corn. Dreamed peas
Brown gravy.
Bread and butter.
Shrimp salad. Celery. Olives.
Loaf cake.
Chocolate layer cake Fruit cake.
Jelly roll.
Mince pie. Lemon meringue pie.
Cheese ard crackers.
Mixed nuts. Assorted candies.
Apples. Oranges. Bananas.
Grapes.
Chocolate. Coffee.
.i " Cigars.
How do you like 1t? 1t Is At for a king,
and il seems a costly feast for Uncle Sam
to supply to eighty thousand of his chill
dren- Upon investigation. however, l find
that dinner like this can be served for
less than SO cents That is the price the
commissary general allows for the SOL
diers on transports. where the meals cost
more than on land.
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bread. Not at all bad for cents. The
supper included beef-loaf with gravy,
baked beans, German fried potatoes.
sliced cheese, plain cake and doughnuts
and coffee and bread Another good
seven-cent meal. I would say, however.
little more for breakfast, provided he
cuts down on the supper or the dinner.
Or he can add to the dinner and supper
as he pleases; the only requirement is
more than 81 2-3 cents per man., Such
meals are served by every student-cook
and student-baker. He has to keep all
inside the allowance of % cents for three
meals.
And this brings me to Uncle Sans new
schools for army cooks and bakers. These
have been established in the last two or
three years. and they have already grad
uated about fifteen hundred cooks and
over seven hundred bakers. The old
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This famous thorn is but an added touch
to the remarkable religious history Of the
National Cathedral of SIS. Peter and
Paul, which is being built by the Episco-
pal Church at the National Capital at an
estimated cost of over $1O,OoO,OOO. The
beginnings of this national cathedral, for
such it is through the gifts and interests
exhibited in 1t throughout the country. go
back to the days of the great Washington
and the colonial period.
When Washington planned the future
capital of his country with his French
architect, l. Enfant among the buildings
planned was great church to be used
for services of public thanksgivings and
prayer 1t was to be Valhalla for the
illustrious dead. where the nations great
and good might go to their graves sung
by a mighty paean OF patriotic love. IN
short, it was to be "A House of Prayer
for All People," in the capital of the
country. But the feeling against any
quasi union of church and state was SO
great that Washington was forced to
strike out his plan for the state Church.
His ideals are the ideals Of the Washing
ton cathedral builders, and with the help
of interested ones all over the country a
great national house of prayer is a thing
of the immediate future. How 1t came
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root in America and this Christmas is
blooming despite the cold, thus per-
forming the miracle that is reputed to
bear evidence of divinity back of it. IL
is at the National Cathedral Of 81
Peter and Paul in Washington that
this plant is thus strangely blooming as
Is has bloomed nowhere else, except at
the church of these same two SAINTS at
Glastonbury. In its new-found clolster
it forms the nucleus around which has
been collected a wonderful series OF re-
ligious relics. And it's story is one OF
romance unsurpassed in the annals OF
time.
The story of the Glastonbury thorn,
made new by its finding new home In
America, is almost as old as Christianity
itself. 1t is one of those remarkable
paradoxes of nature that seem to witness
to the truth of Christianity. 1t is argued
that the striking fact in connection with
the religion of Christ has been the con-
slant testimony of its truth given by
natural things. No other religion in the
history of the world has so teemed with
honest natural miracles as Christianity
and il is an event of historic and sentl-
mental value that the United States
should thus possess one Of these natural
witnesses of the divinity OF Christ.
For centuries the bards Of England sang
of the Glastonbury thorn. This mystic
tree had more to do with the conversion
OF its Druid people to Christianity than
the missionaries themselves, for the Brit
ish people were nature lovers and in their
own barbaric religion they had been &C
Gus. Omed TO drawing religious truths from
material things When written language
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his soldiers. He has in addition. SO the
commissary general tells me, a sufficient
equipment for ten other divisions, so
that upon occasion he can now supply
enough bread for 5000 men, giving each
pound loaf per day.
During my stay at the bakery / looked
at some of the bread. The loaves are
larger than those sold in the private
bakeries. They are white and crisp and
the crust is delicious. They come out in
great sheets of six loaves each. all baked
to turn. While looking at them / talk
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go hungry. 1t has been invented by the
commissary general in connection with
other officers of the army, and il consists
of a little package not bigger than deck
of playing cards. or, when incased in tin,
not larger than a half-pint flask OF
whisky. It can be easily carried in ones
breast pocket. This little package weighs
only eight ounces, but il contains three
full meals. and its nature is such that
man could live upon it for a long time Il
he had TO. 1t is made of the component
parts of milk and eggs, so treated and