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1 1 I 1 it-' I SECTIONHVE 12 PAGES SOCIETY Clubs, Music, Markets SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1912. RIPLETS BRING PAIR'S 1 fietrai William Sooy Smith ofMedford, Will Be Restored to Army Retired List if Bill Introduced by Senator George E. Chamberlain Passes SCORE TO 7 IN 2 YEARS CUPID CORNERED IG EAT FORTUNE DURING YEAR '11 MI-TRUST UK APPLIED TO BMS Assistant Attorney General of Texas Says Agreement on Overdrafts Is Illegal. Pamona Fighter Is No Leas Distinguished for Great Engineering Feat and Innovations Than for His Prowess in the Civil Construction of Great Railroad Bridges Over the Missouri's Treacherous Sands, Preparation of Plans for Detroit Hirer Tunnel, Devising Rock-Bottom Founda- V- tlons for Chicago Skyscrapers, Construction Screw Plledrivers for Bridges Over Mobile River and Originating Triple Thoroughfare System for Chicago Hare Been Among Achievements of Notable Figure Now Spending His Declining Days on Fruitful Ground of Rogue River Valley. 1 sasIMsjaw SSSSSSBiaSIBBSeBnSw.

John J. AstorAWho Brought to Altar, at Head of Year's List of Rich Scranton, Jan. 27. Triplets cam to the heme of Mr. and Mrs.

George Bartofsky, of Priceburg, making a total of seven small strangers within the last two years. There are two girls and a boy In the latest arrivals, and they weigh 6. 7 and pounds, the boy being the lightest. A year ago, almost to a day, Mrs. Bartofsky gave birth to twins, duplicating her feat of a year previous.

One of the pair born last year has died. The Bartofskys have been married 12 years, and they have averaged a birth for each year. Ten of the 12 children are living. The triplets born today are strong and healthy, and the mother Is attending her household duties. From the Medford, Mall-Tribune.

Medford, Jan. 27. In General William, Sooy Smith, now living upon an orchard near the Medford po-sesses pne of the most picturesque heroes of the Civil war, who won fame a a dashing cavalry leader and chief of cavalry under Grant ln- hls i yicksburg campaign, and later under Sherman. Senator George E. Chamberlain has recently Introduced a bill to restore General Sooy Smith, now in hia J2nd year, to the retired list of the regular army New Tork, Jaa.

17. During the past fear Cupid letma to have (one Into the business of forming a money trust In olden time hia shafts were generally supposed to bring merely love In a cottage, much sighing, a lot Of Ings which carry their many peopled floors for 15 to 20 stories into tha air In Chicago, General Smith has been consulted "and has devised a system of resting their foundations upon piers and piling footed upon rocks which will give to them the permanence and stability of the solid He has likewise devised a triple system of thoroughfares through the already congested streets of his city which, though at present thought prematura, will be In the future indlspen-slble If Chicago attains the metropolitan magnitude to which Its fortunes seem to point Bis Three Marriages. Miss Haven of Buffalo who became the wife of Mr. Smtth In 1854, survived only six years, leaving on only son, Charles Sooy Smith, an eminent civil engineer and contractor, living In the city of New York. General Smith married.

In 1862, Miss Anna Durham, daughter of Honorable V. C. Durham, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, who died In 1882. without Issue. In 1884 he married Miss Josephine Hartwell of St.

Catherines, Ontario. An only son of this marriage Is Gerald Campbell Sooy Smith. hectlo to wine; and poettolslng, and than piaold 's 'i' But tha modern Cupid af least In the United States la apparently commer cialized creature. Dunns 1911 he man (Special to Tha Journal. San Antonio, Texas.

Jan. 27. In his efforts to effect an agreement among the state banks In Texas to abandon the practice of permitting overdrafts, State Bank Commissioner Gill has encountered an obstacle in an opinion written by John W. Brady, assistant attorney general of the state, who holds that an agreement of the character would be Illegal, being in violation of the Texas anti-trust statutes, and would Subject the parties thereto to the penalties of the act In a long and carefully written argument the assistant attorney general reaches the conclusion that overdrafts at the bank are not illegal or violative of sound banking principles, and, the practice being legal, any agreement or understanding by and between two or more banks of a city prohibiting absolutely the granting of such privileges, upon the part of all the parties to the agreement, would create arid tend to create and carry out restrictions in commerce and aids to commerce. The opinion further sets out: "There Is nothing in the law to prohibit any bank on Its own initiative from adopting a policy of prohibiting overdrafts.

This Is a matter wholly within the Judgment and discretion of aged to marry off perhaps 1100.000.000. a ruling recognition or a career at once eminent and successful. Qeneral Smith is an Ohloan by birth, Tarjton, Pickaway county, being the place of his nativity. Hia parents were Judge, Sooy and Ann Hedges) Smith, the father a native of the state of New Jersey; and the mother of Maryland. Although of Irish lineage," the first American ancestor of the paternal line of the family was one of the colonists who accompanied William Penn, and like him waa allied to the Society of FrienJs.

Notwithstanding the peaceful and non-resistant tenets of the Quaker sect, martial blood flowed in the veins of the It la a large sum of money, but the brides and bridegrooms of tha year from among the people' of vast wealth are not many to bring tha total of their fortunes to this sum. the officers and directors of the bank. If they see fit to adopt such a policy. The evil the law strikes at Is the combination between the banks to effect this end. The law does not undertake to direct, except in certain particulars, how a bank should be conducted or whether it should allow prohibit overdrafts, but It does prohlbt two or more banks from agreeing they will not do things which are not prohibited by law.

It is the combination the agreement to restrict each other's business, to prohibit each other from doing things which they, under the law. would have a right to do if they so desired, which la prohibited and denounced by the law." The young man who tells a girl during leap year that he could listen to her votre all the rest of hia days, takes desperate chances. Andrew Carnegia believe that no poor nan should be afraid of marrying an heiress, but whether be Is practical might be settled by la brief resume of tha among the rich during the ancestors of General Smith and warmed hia own heart, for his grandfather, while yet a lad, earned the commendation of General Washington tor his daring In year 1811. carrying dispatches through the enemy's lines in New Jersey, and his father or "No poor young" man should fear to marry a rloh girl," said the grizzled sage of Bklbo, who spends his time trying to ganised and equipped at his own ex When we encounter a man who Is long on words and short on works we wonder how much his wife earns by taking in washing. pense and commanded a company of vol young man who married an heiress In unteers in the war of 1312; University Penniless.

With a large family and only moderate means, the father could do no Fittsburg. The wedding was a grand affair, and when tha minister turned to tha bridegroom and asked htm If he did with all his possessions endow the girl he waa being married to some one among the guests whispered: There goes Jim's more for his children than nuture their Infancy and giveJlem the elements of instruction which The schools of the vi cinity afforded. In these William Sooy learned all that was taught, especially distinguishing himself by his ready mastery of arithmetic, many of whose Intricate problems he solved mentally, and became recognized as a mathematical prodigy. While these studies were going on he worked at the bench, having learned the cordwalner's trade of his father. At the age of li, thirsting for a better education than the local schools afforded, he accepted the offer of his time from his father all that he was able to give him and set out In a wagon for Athens, the seat of the Ohio General William Sooy Smith.

university, 60 miles distant, where he kind Read the Double Page Announcement of Powers' Great Remodeling Sale in Section 1 of Today's Paper railroad, and two of the name across Salt creek, in Nebraska. where he Joined the forces- organizing under General Buell aa the army of the valise Poor Carry Coronets. But It only comes out that way In the jest of the millionaire or the product of the professional jokesmlth. Take the weddings of rich girls during this waning and paling year of 1911 A. D.

The only poor young men who have been asked to endow a millionairess have carried coronets Instead of valises. And the wives of these poor young men are wearing the coronets. Perhaps, far back In the social underbids PlttBburg, the poor young man cited by Mr. Carnegie may be happy In an effort to lead cotillons and stuff a "full dress evening suit," but he seems to be the exception to the rule. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbllt reversing the proposition, on the well accepted theory that It Is a poor rule that doesn't work both ways did not pick out a poor girl to marry, and he waa the biggest, grandest of all tha-oatchei of the year.

Nor did Mrs. Smith Hollls 'McKlm. the woman he chose for a wife, pick out a poor man. She has oodles of money. Young Vanderbllt has over 150,000,000 handy.

His wife is the favorite daughter of a multi-millionaire, Isaac Emerson. Just la One Family. Incidental to this case of riches marrying riches and fortunes marrying fortunes, Emerson, after his divorce from the mother of the now Mrs. A. G.

Vanderbllt, looked around for a new wife and failed to pick out a lowly handmaiden. Although the Emerson arrived absolutely penniless. He was introduced to the teacher of a private Bchool, afterwards Professor James M. Saf ford, the eminent geologist, by his brother. "This is my brother Bill, a piece of raw material.

See what you can make of htm." He was received His great engineering worlc was the Ohio. Brigadier General After Shiloh. preparation of plans for a tunnel un der the Detroit river. For boldness, or At the battle of Shiloh he commanded a brigade, captured Standlford'a Mis lglnallty and thorough provision for every difficulty that the work can pre Into he family, doing chores as compensation for his board. After six months his instructor was appointed to sent these designs are acknowledged to be unsurpassed; they have been ap slsslppl battery, and by his gallantry won his promotion to the rank of brigadier general.

After the battle of Stone river, he was transferred to a professorship in the university and his pupil remained in his service and un proved by a board of engineers assem der his instruction. Including his pre Grant's army In the rear of VIcksburg. He participated In she movement against paratory studies, he spent five years In the institution. Joseph E. Johnston army at Jackson.

bled to consider them, and indorsed by distinguished members of the profession In this country and Europe. He also partly excavated a tunnel under the river at Port Huron, which was only He was made chief of cavalry of the "Bust and Ashes Professor." Later in the course he became a mem military division of the Mississippi, attached to General Grant's staff, and was also on staff duty with General Sherman In the same capacity. His en ber In the family of Professor Williams of the university, where ho was treated with kindness and consideration. To pay his tuition and board and to defray discontinued when the railroad company party to the contract failed to comply with its agreements. He was mainly Instrumental In getting: a board aDDotnt- gineering qualities were called Into re quisition.

ed by the government to make tests of A correspondent wrote from the front: hia other expanses he acted as janitor of the college buildings, doing the laborious work with his own hands, being constantly engaged with his work the fortune towers almost to the toppling "On the advance of General Buell's col properties of American iron and umn from Bowling Green, the railroad destroyed by the retreating rebels was rebuilt under the superintendence of i Colenel W. S. Smith. Three bridges and studies from in the morning until 9 at night, while he occupied the time in vacations in caring for the college campus. For his labor he received a fixed compensation at eight cents per hour, and earned the sobriquet of "Professor of Dust and Ashes." But he studied as well as worked, keeping up with his classes, and graduated with distinction as a scholar in 1819, having were rebuilt; two of 90 feet span each, and a mile of track built In one day.

General Buell was so pleased with the energetic performance of this work that steel, and was a member of this board during its entire existence. His study and observation convinced him of the very great advantages possessed by steel over all other kinds of material for bridge building. He designed and constructed the great steel bridge at Glasgow for the Chicago Alton railroad company, the first all steel bridge ever built This magnificent structure commands the admiration of all who see It, not only by Its symmetry and strength but also by the architectural beauty of Its design. ha placed Colonel Smith in charge of all the roads leading into Nashville. Officers Give Him Pine Sword.

That he was highly appreciated by paid all. his bills, and with an accum ulated capital at graduation of $50. Gets West Point Vacancy. in the planning of the great build The train of circumstances which led to his receiving an appointment as ca det at the West Point military acad emy would be deemed by some an ac cldent; but by others recognized as providence. A young companion of his youth, who was a cadet, returned to die.

He urged his friend William 8ooy to apply for the vacancy. Perceiving his opportunity to continue his mathe OLD RELIABLE point. Be managed to gather up a rich wdlow Mrs. Anna Preston MeCormock, of Jrvlngton-on-Hudson. The Mrs.

Emerson has alimony of $28,000 a yar, but la still unmarried or, aa one might slam It down In type, demarrled. Should Mrs. Emerson No. .1 engage In matrimony again after having been the wife of a multimillionaire it la hardly probable that she will hunt for one of Mr. Carnegie's poor young men carrying valises.

So there you are In just one rich American family. Rich Mr. Emerson has for a son-in-law, the richest member of tha Vanderbllt family. If the rich Mr. Emerson becomes a grandfather the grandson or granddaughter will have a plethora of money from both sides.

He or she' will be distressingly rich. The coronet test in marriage does not fully apply, as may be seen In this case. It may be seen also In the case' of the Gould girls. There Is perhapa no more popular American heiress than the young Mrs. Anthony J.

Drexel, who was Marjorle Gould. She does not belong In the class of heiresses married this year to men Of great wealth but and this brlnga into the story she became the mother of aa pretty a little baby girl and. prospectively, as rich a little girl this year as we might car to boast about. The Gould fortune running well up toward 1100,000,000 was united with tha Drexel fortune with this marriage and this resultant baby. Still there Is hope for Mr, Carnegie' theory; for, the little lady In the Drexel-home may grow up and marry man with valise.

Her mother did not stipulate a coronet. Then there -was Vivien Gould, now Lady Decles. They say this waa a marriage of the heart. She married a matical and scientific studies, he oh TEETH TALK talned recommendations of college faculty and friends, made application to Honorable Samuel F. Vinton, the member of congress with whom the appoint ment lay, and among a list of numerous If you are holding conversation with a lady or gentleman and they display a set of teeth well cared for.

and you cannot, you are not comfortable, are you? That's your business. But to and formidable competitors, backed by influential friends and political lnflu make your teeth' serviceable and to look well cared for is OUR business. SEE US AND ENJOY COMFORT. ences, he, a friendless and an unknown youth, was gratified' with receiving the PAINLESS AND HIGH-CLASS DENTISTRY CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK A SPECIALTY appointment After' careful considers the officers associated with him is attested by their presenting him a magnificent gold mounted sword. Jeweled with precious gems, xipon which is engraved the words: "Presented to Gen.

Wm. Sooy Smith by the officers of tha 13 O. V. and the -memorial words "Shiloh" and "Carnifex." In September. 1864.

General Smith having been prostrated by a severe attack of Inflammatory rheumatism and disabled from active service, deeming It Inconsistent with duty to his country to occupy a position of big importance whll unable to perform Its duties, thus keeping from active service others qualified to render It, resigned his; commission. Engineer oa Great Caissons. With returning health, General Smith resumed professional life with headquarters in the city Of Chicago, though often called in execution of important engineering works to distant parts of the country. He has been entrusted with gigantic engineering works, both by the government and by corporations and by private Individuals, and brought to their plans and execution boldness, a safe and accurate Judgment great ingenuity of invention, and careful scrutiny, of details, so that not a single failure is found among his great undertakings. The class of work In which he has had the greatest employment is that of bridge piers and caissons of ponderous structures, rendering necessary subaqueous and subterranean excavations.

First Pneumatlo Caisson Sunk. His first engineering work after the war was the" protection built about the Waugoshance lighthouse, at the western entrance of the Straits of Mackinac. Thia is In some respects the most won tion, Mr. Vinton said: "I will give you the appointment; now make a man of yourself." Graduates Sixth Among 53. OUT-OF-TOWN PEOPLE should remember that otw force is so organized that we can do their entire Crown, Bridge and Plate Work in a day if necessary.

Positively painless extracting free when plates or bridges are ordered. We remove the most sensitive teeth and roots without the least pain. No students, no uncertainty, but specialists who do the most scientific and careful work. i He entered the military academy In June, 1849, and In due course of four years graduated the sixth in a class of 62. He was the moBt expert horseman of his fellows and second to none in the small sword exercise.

Among his classmates who became distinguished 15 Years' Guarantee With AU Work poor young man, but a pretty husky in subsequent years, were Generals MO' ana intelligent one, it is said by those who loll about In circles where they term men "lords" and such. She la as Pherson, Sohofleld and Sheridan of -the Union army, and General Hood of the Confederate service. He was comml popular aa her sister. Again classified In the multi-million sloned as second lieutenant by brevet Full Set of Teeth 5.00 Bridge Work or Teeth without Plates f3.50 to f5.0O Gold Crowns 3.50 to 5.00. Porcelain 3.50 to 5.0O GoM or Porcelain Fillings, 1 up Silver Fillings ......50 to fl.00 Whalebone or Gold-Dust Rubber Plates flO.OO No charges for Painless Extracting when other work is done.

All our work is PAINLESS and GUARANTEED. SPECIALISTS IN PAINLESS DENTISTRY We keep in our employ only dentists of practical experience, who have spent years of study in preparing themselves in all branches of dentistry. When people visit Portland from out of they must take advantage of the opportunity and have their dental work attended to. The Union Dentists 'have a full corps of old, time-tried crown and bridge workers and painless extractors. And don't forget our prosthetic dentist in making up your mind where to go.

and assigned to duty in the Third rear aire class was the wedding of Colonel John Jacob Astor to Miss Madeline Force. Miss Force did not bring great iment of the United States artillery, at Governor's Island, New York, and after- wealth to the altar. She Is from Brook' lyn, you know. But the Colonel did. waTd was promoted as second lleuten ant and assigned to the Second artll lery, stationed In New Mexico.

derful engineering work in America. and It is said that hia riches pile in such a glistening heap that they even overtop the Gould riches. Only last month there waa a casual in the "piping times of peace" life In a military post on the frontier, to an officer whose mind haa been quickened Into Intense activity by years of This caisson, designed In 1867, was the first pneumatic caisson sunk in this million dollar bride started on her siuay, becomes almost lnsupportably country, and it Is thought to be the first sunk- In the world. Its design was entirely original with General Smith, and for It he received an award at the Cen monotonous. Ambitions to become tennial exposition (one of the two honeymoon, but million-dollar brides are rather frequent In this case Miss Rebecca Kruttschnltt was taken to the altar; by Henry Clifford Woodhouse, a young Canadian.

And still he was not In the claaa with Mr. Carnegie's "Jim." He bad more than a valise. They are taking a little jaunt around the world aowi awards given to American engineers) and conferred by a Jury composed of some of the foremost engineers of the world. About the same time he was engaged In opening the approach to th something, more, than a martinet and to lead a life more stirring than that of a polyp. Lieutenant Smith threw up his commission and resigned from the army and entered engineering work.

Zvades rort KumpUr Guards. While engaged upon the Savannah bridge, the guns trained upon Fort Sumter had been fired from southern batteries, and the engineer, deoldlng that the flag of the union was entitled to his services as a soldier in the rtivad harbor of Green Bay by cutting a straight channel through a grassy Island, Instead of deepening the old tor tuous channel around It Tor tha benefit of the people who are employed daring the day the tnrxoir FAIHXESS SEKTISTSJ will keep Its offloe opea evenings until 8. Bnadays from 9 to 13. What Our Guarantee Means The Union Painless Dentists is incorporated under the laws of the State of Oregon, and the company not tho operator is responsible for the guarantee that goes with all the work that leaves this office. This affords the public absolute protection against inferior workmanship and materials.

UNION-. PAINLESS DENTISTS, fe 2212 MORRISON STREET Main 5936 Open Evenings CORNER FIRST STREET ENTIRE Boms Bridges Be Has BnQt. The construction of great railroad arbitrament of war, mad good his escape through the well guarded lines. Ha at once tendered his services to the au bridges over the shifting current and treacherous sands of the Missouri river has oceupled much of his time and Ingenuity. The first of these was the Emperor William's Birthday.

Berlin, Jan. 27. Emperor William today received the congratulations of kings, princes and presidents upon the occasion of his fifty-third birthday. From the head of practically avery nation in the world, and from -many other personages, telegrams ware-received during tha day by the kaiser wishing him continued good health and long life. The emperor -was 1n fine spirits.

Among those 'who Vailed wars the imperial ahanoellor and' soma of tha generals his army. thorities or his native state, and was commissioned colonel of the Thirteenth regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He commanded this. In the bridge at Omaha, then at Leavenworth, and later he built, or helped to build, the bridges at Boonevllle, Glasgow, Flattsmouth, Sibley and Kansas City. West Virginia campaigns under McClelland and Rosecrans, twice winning mr.

ltorloua mention for gallant conduct He' constructed the screw pile Piers for and then proceeded with It to Kentucky, brldjcas of tha AXoblls and Montgomery.