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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
LISTEN! Mr.. SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
ALSO TRIES TO Be TALL TAX DODGER

But the thing did not work out ex-
actly as he had planned The fact
that Welles had not taken his salary
warrants was made known by parties
in the court house who had discovered
the trick. So the matter was placed
before the equalization board last
October Learning the facts in the
case the board very promptly gave
instruction that Welles personal as
sessment be increased by the sum of
$40, thus giving him a total assess
ment on personal property of s2163.
The tax on the additional $40 am
ounted to the sum of s11.76 and the
thrifty superintendent had it to pay.
Though he has been living in PEN
dleton for eight years Welles still
maintains his legal residence at Fern
dale. Though this course he avoids
paying any Pendleton tax. though he
regularly enjoys the blessings of life
in this progressive community.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
THRILLING PROGRAM OF FEATURES OF
WIDE VARIETY GIVEN At ROUNDUP PARK

Anyone who happened by chance
or design to stop at Roundup Park
yesterday afternoon saw a scene of
varied activity. They saw force
of men at work making improvements
on the grounds and grandstand, saw
a dozen or more aspirants for places
on the Pendleton baseball team work.
ing out, saw Glen Cannon, the buck
aroo, Choke the biscuit" to save him.
self from being propelled from the
back of bucking horse and saw
score of scantily clad high school ath-
letes limbering up their muscles for
the interclass meet which Is to be
held Friday.
Painters were just finishing their
job of putting a first coat of white
on the mammoth grandstand, greatly
enhancing the appearance of that
structure, and the south fence had
already been treated in like manner.
A steam roller was also putting away
at the labor of constructing driveways
about the park and when this part
of the work is done and the cinders
have been spread over the courses,
the improvement to the park will be
very noticeable. Along with the 9TH
er improvement work, is the task
of making baseball diamond. The
grass has been cut off of the infield,
leaving a fan-shaped diamond which,
when 1t is worked down and rolled,
will make one of the fastest fields In
the northwest.
The workout of the players yester-
day consisted principally in batting
practice, which Is very essential to
the developing of good stick work.
Manager Garrett will probably arrive
tonight from Portland after which
systematic practice Will be undetak-
en-. The general opinion Of the fans
who watched the men warming UP
yesterday is that there will be plenty
Of good material from which to Sc
lect a team
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
OWNERS GREED Is
CAUSE OF LOSS OF
LIFE ON VESSELS
Transatlantic Ships Are
All Dangerous
Admiral George Dewey Declares that
Every One Crossing Ocean
Is in Peril

Washington, April 17.-Admiral
Dewey says the transatlantic steam
ship companies arc SO greedy that
they don't care for human life. He
says it is simply appalling that enough
life boats were ON the Titanic for
only one sixth of the passengers. He
says no vessel should be permitted to
clear from any port unless it has
enough boats to carry great majority
of the passengers, should necessity
arise.
Let all good Americans exert every
energy to have the laws amended, re-
garding life saving apparatus on
every passenger carrying vessel" Ad-
miral Dewey said.
I'm my opinion every passenger
who crosses the north Atlantic takes
his life in his own hands. 1 would
rather go around the world in we'll
equipped man of war than make a
voyage on a north Atlantic liner.
THE most unfortunate part of the
Titanic disaster is that most of the
victims were Americans and we AM
orleans should have something to say
about it.
Il hope congress will attend to the
matter of caring for the lives of pas
sengers aboard transatlantic liners.
Or is more striking example of dan
ger to which they are subjected
needed
Admiral Dewey then told of an ex-
perience of his. to show that ice
bergs are sometimes found much
further south than they are supposed
to be, and not safe to lay in ships
course, according to books. He said
he lodged icebergs for hours in 1884
when making trip from New York
to France, carrying provisions to the
starving people of France. The bergs
were much farther south than they
were supposed to travel.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
Not Enough Life Boats.

Washington, d. c., April l7.-That
the great loss of life on the Titanic
was due to inadequate life boat pro-
lection and could not have happened
under the United States navigation
laws, was declared by George Uhler,
supervisor of the federal steamboat
inspection service.
If the Titanic had sailed under an
American register she would have
been required to carry forty-eight life
boats. When collision occurred it was
easy to save those who got into the
lifeboats but the remainder were left
to sink with the ship.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
MAD RACE FOR MARINE
SUPREMACY MAY END
Britons Demand Punishment for
Ship Owners and Revision of
Sea Going Rules

London, April IA concerted de-
mand for punishment of those respon-
sible for the appalling loss of life iE
the titanic disaster is made in all Lon
don morning newspapers.
In addition to demanding the
abandonment of the dangerous north
ern route and the adoption of south
ern route which would be safer, the
papers insist that thorough inyesti-
cation be made of the speed compe-
tition between transatlantic liners. A
revision of the regulations, with re-
lation to life saving facilities of liners
is also demanded.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
SOCIALISTS WOULD
PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT

Sacramento, April 17.-With view
of thinning the ranks of the unem-
ployed in California the socialists
party here Is preparing to send
throughout the state as an initiative
measuse a fright of employment bill
which provides for the establishment
by the state legislature of labor
agencies throughout the state and the
inauguration of state industries so
there will be work for all citizens able
and willing to earn living.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
STEAMER CALIFORNIA
FINDS TITANIC VICTIMS
(By Roy w. Howard. Copyright 1912


(By Roy w. Howard. Copyright 1912
by United Press ASSN
Z Aboard Steamer Olympic, via Wire
less, April 1.-THE bodies of at least
some of the victims of the Titanic
disaster will be brought to the United
States, probably to Boston, by the
Leyland liner. California.
Wireless telegraphic advices reach
ing US, aboard the Olympic. show that
scme of the bodies have already been
recovered.
The Olympic, when word was re-
ceived on board of the wreck, rushed
for the scene, but was too late to
render any assistance.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
Cruiser Nears Carpatbia

Newport, r. l., April IA wire
less message received here from the
United States scout cruiser Salem,
says that the vessel is approaching
the steamer Carpathia. The Salem's
wireless apparatus carries great
distance and it is believed an accur-
ate list of the survivors can be OBJ
tanned before the Carpathia arrives
at New York.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
Names Children Chief.

Washington, D. c., April 17.-Miss
Julia Lathrop, of Chicago. today was
appointed by President Taft to be
chief of the new children's bureau
at salary of $4,000 yearly. She is
a graduate of Vassar and is an as
sociate member of Hull house. Chi
cago, and the state board of charities.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
PitifulIy Beg for News.

New York, April 17.-Asking for
news. which is consistently denied, a
large crowd of foreigners has sur
rounded the third class offices of the
White Star company and heartrend-
ing scenes are enacted as they beg
for information, men, women and
children giving way to the widest
emotion.
Friends of Isador Strauss have CIV
Ell up hope that the New York mer-
chant prince and his wife are alive.
Mrs. Strauss is said to have refused
to leave her husband and take to the
small boats.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
Bodies Enroute TO Boston.

Boston, Mass, April 17.-Announce-
ment that the steamer California, one
of the first vessels to reach the scene
of the Titanic wreck, had started for
this port. was made here today by
officials of the Leyland line. They
would not say if the vessel carried
any bodies of wreck victims.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
WORLD IS SHOCKED BY DISASTER
Hope Is Abandoned.

, Washington, April 17.-Cap-
tain Decker of the scout cruis-
er Chester, sent a wireless mes
sage to the navy department as
follows: "Carpathia says list
of first and class passengers saw
ed has been sent. Chester will
relay names of third class pas
sengers as soon as it Is conven-
lent" This is taken to mean
that for the noted persons miss
ing, there Is no hope. Those on
the Carpathia whose names were
not sent, are steerage passen-
gers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
HJLLMAN TO ENTER
PRISON SATURDAY

Seattle, April 17.-C. D. Hillman,
millionaire real estate man convicted
of misuse of the mails in a fraudu-
lent scheme, will be taken to the fed
eral prison at McNeils Island Sat
urday to begin serving his term.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
To Vote Mt Bridge.

The county court has ordered that
the election booth for the newly ere
ated asylum precinct shall be sta
toned Friday at the north approach
to the Lee street bridge just out
side the city limits. A cook house
will be used for the voting booth.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
Cruisers Go To Scene.

Washington, April 1.-THE White
House received information this af-
ternoon that the scout cruisers Ches-
ter and Salem are rushing northwarG
to the scene of the disaster. The
wireless aboard the Salem has a
range of one thousand miles.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
News Suppression Indicated.

Montreal, April 17.-Wireless mes
sages received here indicated that the
officials of the White Star line, when
they gave out reassuring messages re-
garding the Titanic, knew the ship
had sunk
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
STRONG MARINE LAW DEMANDED
World Should Profit.

San Francisco, cal, April II. Z
IF the world is to profit by =
the terrible Titanic disaster" 4
says Waiter Masarthur, a mem 4
Der of the executive legislative I
committee of the International I
Seamen's Union of America, I
/ 'the lawmaking bodies must be 4
compelled by an aroused public 4
to declare to ship owners that Z
human life is more valuable Z
than profits and physical prop
critics. More stringent laws
should be passed at once.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
HOURS BETWEEN WHICH
BALLOTS MAY BE CAST.

The polling booths over the
county will be opened next Fri
day morning for the primary
election at o'clock and will
close at Z o'clock in the evening.
This is the official declaration
made over the signature of
County Clerk Frank Sailing in
the notifications which he sent
out to judges of the election.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
LIST OF SURVIVORS
IS CUT TO 755 BY
WIRELESS MESSAGE
Due to Reach N. Y. TOmOr-
row Night
Meager Reports Show Extraordinary
Heroism Displayed by Vast
Army of Lost Souls

New York, April 17.--Only 755 sur
yiyors of the Titanic are on the liner
Carpathia, according to a wireless
message received here this afternoon
from Winfield Thompson, Boston
newspaper man on board the liner
Franconia. The White Star officials
earlier I'M the day said the Carpathia
carried SGS survivors. The message
says the Carpathia this morning was
4S9 miles from Ambrose channel and
probably will arrive at New York at
s o'clock Thursday night.
From the meager reports that have
been received it is believed that moth
ing could show more plainly the he
roism of the crew and the men pas
sengers who stood by the doomed ship
facing inevitable death and who sent
the women and children away in the
lifeboats. Some would have to be left,
that was a certainty. Hundreds, in
fact. were left But to all appear
ances the men who were left stayed
deliberately, calmly stepping aside to
let weaker ones, those whom they
owed protection, take their way to
safety.
Final Message To World.
Sinking by the head; have cleared
boats and filled them with women
and children"
This was the final message these
brave men sent the world, for it was
directly afterward that their signals
sputtered and then stopped altogeth-
er The picture that inevitably pre-
sents itself, in view of what is known,
is of men like John Jacob Astor
master of millions; Benjamin Gug-
genhem of the famous family oi
bankers; Isador Strauss, a merchant
prince; William 7. stead veteran
journalist: Major Archibald w. Butts
soldier; Washington. Roebling, noted
engineer-of any or all of these men
stepping aside and bravely, gallantly
remaining to die that the place he
otherwise might have filled could
perhaps, be taken by some sabot-shod
Do
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
Victims Brother Collapscs.

Rome, N. Y, April 17.-Nathan
Strauss suffered complete collapse
when informed that his brother, Is
ador Strauss. the New York million
aire merchant and philanthropist,
had probably perished in the Titanic
disaster. His condition is reported
serious.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
senate May Probe Wreck.

Washington, April ia resolu
ton, calling for an investigation of
the causes of the Atanic disaster, was
introduced in the senate by Senator
Smith of Michigan.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
Ships Officers Go Down.

New York, April IA dispatch
received here by Frederick Ridge
way, of the International Merchant
Marine, says that all officers COM
manding the Titanic went down ex-
cept the third, fourth and fifth Of
ficers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
National League Results.

New York 4; Boston 1.
Rest of major league games post
poned on account of rain.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17

Men who SOW wild oats never COM
plain If the crop is a failure.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-17
SEA GIVING UP FEW BODIES Of 1872 TITANIC VICTIMS

by the
all rem were saved.
1t is believed
members OF
ing to New York and reports that they
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10 had paid about 3, 500 in entrance

he had paid about 81 500 in entrance
fees and he'd to pay yearly subscriptions
of. say. $500 more. besides the Christmas
boxes" for club servants. And in addition
to those ten clubs. situated in the hes vt
of the fashionable West End. he probably
belonged 20 suburban clubs. 10 Hurting
ham for polo. to q golf club-for the an
cient and royal gone was just beginning
to take hold on the Southrons. He
WIS likely also to join some country club
for tennis.
Radical legislation in the British Par
lament has cut down incomes. and SO
one man one club has become the rule
in London Then the automobile has
worked vast change in social life there.
ss il has here. The country club has
proved strong rival to the city club.
The change affects the London club
much more seriously than it does the
New York club. for the London club
depends so much on its members who are
men of lcisure-a class of small impor-
tance herc-who all day long are con-
tnually in and ont Of the clubs and so
adding to the financial resources of the
organizations Nowadays these men get
away from the stuny streets. run out 10
| some nearby country club. where they
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and quarrelsomc. They made their
clubs comfortable without ostentation
10 remind them of their home life. and
there is no place SO eminently adapted
70 the indulgence Of bad temper as a
mans club.
Every club had its complaint book
and the quarrelsont Englishman loved
to help TO fiji il with line upon line of fault
finding with the chef. abuse of the club
servants or unfavorable criticism of the
sherry. II acted as vent to his
III temper, was as good n blow OF as
an indignant letter TO the Times on the
enormties committed by the Ministry
or the thieving propensi,ies of the London
tradesman
From the very day of their origin the
great clubs Of London were designed
to be unsocial. Whites and Brook +
were originally coffee houses. the one
frequented by the Tories. the other by
the Wings OF the early part of the
eighteenth century. In those days the
English rarely associated with any but
members Of their own political party
White and Brooks We're induced 10 admi,
to their coffee houses only men approved
by committee formed of the most in.
1 huential Of their customers. Such was
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condition and have multiplied. but not
so far beyond the demand.
Country clubbing has been mentioned ns
one reason for the London crisis; another
may be found in the lack Of sociability
in it's clubs. For centuries reserve had
been the Englishman's boast. but the
younger generation Of Britons are drop
ping that. and no doubt the increased
intercourse with the New World has
much to do with this charge.
The cold stare directed at stranger
is no longer good form. The Englishman
began dropping that when dealing with
foreigners. He is now even treating those
fellow countrymen who are strangers
to him to more Of the mill, Of human kind
ness. He even wants 10 drop that mantle
OF reserve in his club. Sociabiity is what
gave the breath Of life TO the New York
club: lack Of il has been sitting the Lon
don club.
The London clubs that are passing g away
wcrc thoroughly characteristic of the
EnClishmen who founded them. Tho
English were then proud people who
had horror Of indiscriminate asso-
citation. They still have that pride and
that horror. but in a less marked degree
Then the English are both domestic
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LONDON CLUBS
FACE A CRISIS
Englishmen Of Good Social
Position Seek Only One
Membership.
CITY Is OvERSrPPLIED
From tho start These Organ.
izatiOns Were Meant to Be
tnSOcial.

serious crisis he's been reached In
the afeirs Of London clubs of those
clubs that are the legitimate descendants
Of the coffee houses OF tho eighteenth
century described by Addison and Steele
In the pages of the Spectator. It has
been impending for several years. In
the last ten years at least London
clubs Of more or less good standing
In their day have closed their doors.
and now rumor has it that the same fate
threatens several other clubs. some Of
which had gained In the century and more
OF their existence n reputation for sta
bility.
As the New York clubs are founded on
the same principles % those Of London
and a change Of fashion there usually
finds response hero il might he sup
posed that the same troubles which affect
London clubs might be duplicated in New
York. But that is not the case All the
principal New York clubs are in e .'ourish-
ing condition financially and have long
waiting lists. The conditions differ in
the two countries.
One reason given for tho unsat istactory
condition Of Affairs in London ia that
whereas quarter of a century ago Eng
lishmen Of good social post ion belonged
to several clubs. now they are satisfied
with one. Consequently London finds
itself oversupplied with clubs There
were men in those days who would boast
that they could not walk from Apsley
House along Piccadilly down St james
street through Pail Mall and into Ira
falgar Square without rassing club to
which they belonged every two or three
hundred yards. Consider for instance
what may have been an extreme but not
by any means an impossible case few
years ago.
A son was born to man OF wealth and
social position who belonged to Whites.
Arthur's. Brooke's or Boodle's. as had his
father. grandfather and maybe great
grandfather before him. As it took many
years to get into these clubs he put up
his sons name for one Of them while the
boy was wrestling with ..tin and Greek
syntax at Eton or Harrow. The youth
went to Oxford for short time and then
entered the Guards. He had been elected
member Of. sav. Whites. and of course
also OF the Guards. but as there is no mess
IT the Guards he also joined one of the
many service clubs where there are dining
rooms. the United Service or perhaps the
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Army and Navy. more generally known as
sThe Rag"

Army and Navy. more generally known ms
The Rag"
Having been to Oxford he naturally
joined one OF the university clubs, His
father. entertaining hoIes thet when
he wes tired Of soldering he might stsnd
for his county or some other county
in the Tory interests. had induced him TO
become q member OF The Csrlton. The
young man. having inherited a taste for
gambling. was elected TO the Turf Club,
end he had no trouble in getting into the
rather rowdy Raleigh. the scene Of that
famous story of club servant returning
q pocket book full of Bank Of England
notes to the owner and saying:
How lucky. sir. one OF the members
did not find it
The reputation OF the Beefsteak for
good dinners and delightful companion
ship induced him to join that exclusive
body, but he found some difficulty in get
ting into it. Then he was asked to join
the Bachelors. a queer fashionable gath
ering place Of men with undoubted social
position, and lastly was honored with an
invitation to become o member of the
Marlborough. the club Of his future SOW
ereign. who was elso honorary colonel
of his regiment,
There he was with ten clubs for which
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can get not only fresh air but their favorte
out OF door sport and enjoy feminine So
ciety, which is denied them in most Of the
town clubs. New York. that is Manhat
tan. he's comparatively fewer clubs than
London. allowing for the difference IN
population. This is easily accounted for,
London clubland has "a larger clientele
than any other city in the world. 1t Is not
MY the capital of the United Kingdom but
also its metropolis. Every member of
Parliament belongs to c. club there. one
of his party's clubs. and most NJ. P.s 70
at least one more. The great ma jority
Of landed proprietors throughout Eng
land, Scotland and Ireland have their
London clubs, even though they may
visit the town only for a few days each
year. Every army and navy officer be-
longs to one OF the service clubs. every
barrister has his club. all the Judges and
most of the solicitors too have theirs,
Then there are the rich manufacturers
from the provinces and their Sons to fur
nish other recruits to the clubs
But in spite Of this enormous supply
of club material London clubdom finds
itself in distress; while in New York,
where not further back than the '70s
of the last century clubs were anything
but strong, they are now in fiourishng