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' ' THE MORNING OREfeONlAK, t. T&XJRSDAY,, DECEMBER .18," 1902. STORM IN COUNCIL Flood of Words Descends on Members. STREET COMMITTEE ON TOP Attempt to Withdraw Blanket Fran chise and Oil-Tank: Ordinances 'From. Piseon-Holea la De feated 1f Close Vote. Beveral members of the Common Council diverged from their usual cour teous way of dolne business yesterday Tjy demanding that the oil-tank ordi nance and the City & Suburban blanket railway franchise ordinance, which are now in the hands of the street commit tee, be withdrawn from that commit tee. Both motions were lost after a discussion that bore predictions of a storm. A substitute for the Albee anti-saloon-box ordinance was Introduced by Coun cilman Flegel, and it wan referred to a epeclal meeting of the liquor license committee, to be held this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. The ordinance increasing the license of billposters from $100 to ?200 a year, and reducing the fees of billdis tributers from $25 to $10 a quarter, was passed. The ordinance granting the Oregon "Water Power & Hallway Company a franchise on East "Water street, with the amendments proposed by the Board of Public "Works, was passed. Tho temperature of the Common Coun cil chamber was about as chilly as the atmosphere outside the City Hall yester day afternoon when Councilman Flegel moved that the application of the City & Suburban Railway Company 'for a blan ket franchise be withdrawn from the street committee, to which It had been duly referred, and considered in commit tee of the whole tomorrow afternoon. "The application," said Flegel, "has been before the committee two weeks, and it Is time that some action were taken. Last night the committee took it up, and two motions were made, and neither had a second. Finally an adjournment was taken, and there was no action on the ordinance. The ordinance was left over to us, and" as this Is the last regular meet ing we shall hold this year, we should make some disposition of the matter. Our next regular meeting will be on Janu ary 7. Between that day and the time the new charter will probably go into ef fect the Council will have only a short period to consider, and the Mayor and the Board of Public "Works to approve, the ordinance. The .blanket franchise granted to the Portland Railway Company is, I think, of vast importance to the city. The City & Suburban Company franchise will be of even greater Importance. It Is In the Council, and if we are going to do anything we should do it now, before the new charter goes into effect. The City & Suburban Company says It will not give up its present franchises for one having a life of 23 years, and under the new char ter we cannot give it a longer franchise. It Is absolutely Impossible for the com mittee, to do anything with the ordinance. Two motions were mado last night, and there was a second to neither, and the chairman declared aifl adjournment. We should take the ordinance from the com mittee and consider it In committee of the whole. Six members," said Mr. Flegel, getting excited, "told me that they would vote for a 30-year franchise, and yet two motions could not get a second in the committee. It is not right to let one or two men hold up the committee," glanc ing significantly -at Councilman Bentley. Bentley "Sot Holding Up. "I presume that I am one of the men who are engaged in this hold-up," said Mr. Bentley, slowly rising to his feet and speaking in a voice of suppressed anger. "I am not," he continued, "holding up the ordinance. I am doing only what I think is right. On the Portland Railway fran chise I insisted that the company come to our terms, and it did. I ask only the same of the City & Suburban Railway Com pany. I oppose the franchise of that company because the company wants everything and wants to give the city as little as possible. Manager Swigert has said that he does not care if the ordi nance is passed or not He does not want the franchise, and he can get along very well without it. But he will surrender his present franchises in exchange for a bet ter one. He does not consider the wants of the city, but the wants of his company. As he does not care for the blanket fran chise, we may as well lay it over. To my mind," glancing at Flegel, "there is un due haste on the part of some members of this Council. As for myself, I am willing to go slowly." "Mr. Swigert," interrupted Councilman Sharkey, "has said that he does not want the blanket franchise. The pnly reason he asked for it was because one or two Coun cilmen had been running after him about it. He did not wish to appear in the light of an obstructionist, and so he presented his application. Those are substantially his own words. Now, there are many things in the ordinance that should not be granted, and as Swigert did not make the application of his own volition, but be cause two Councilmen had run after him. and he would take the ordinance If it proved satisfactory to him, I see no harm in laying the matter over. The city," ironically, "should not force its franchises on people who do not ask for them, nor should It be denrlvprt nf ita incr inc t the company wants to take a blanket irancnise, majce the limit 25 years." ' Franchise Would Benefit City. "I and others of the Council, and also some members of the "Board of Public TVoncs, went to see the officers of the City & Suburban Railway Company about this franchise," said Councilman Zim merman. "I believed then, and I believe yet, that the city would be benefited by a blanket franchise." A vote on the motion to withdraw the ordinance from the committee was made and on division Slgler, Sherrett, Albee and Flegel voted aye, and Bentley and Sharkey no. Councilman Merrill was ab sent, and the four other Councilmen pres ent did not leave their chairs. In explanation of his neglect to vote. Chairman Rumelln, of the street commit tee, made a brief statement. "When I adjourned the meeting last night," he said, "I understood, and so did the others present who were inter ested in the franchise, one way or the other, that we would take the matter up .again at our next regular meeting a week from next Friday. So far as the new charter is affected by the ordinance, I will say that people outside tell me that some of the actions of this Council will not help to pass the charter. There is no hurry about the franchise. 'We may pass it any time. We should certainly not act upon it Friday, as some of the interested parties will not be able to attend, and others will be out of the city." Ordinance Left "With Committee. As only six of the 10 Coimcllmen pres ent had voted on thevmotlon, the Mayor -ailed for the ayes and noes. Albee, Fle gel, Sherrett and Zimmerman voted- In the affirmative, and Bentley, Cardwell. Foel ter, Ruraelln, Sharkey and Sigler in the jwcatlve. That settled the matter, and the ordinance was left with the commit tee. Flegel made a second motion that the ordinance granting the" Standard OH Com pany the right to erect a storage tank for fuel oil at Bast First and .East Madison streets be withdrawn from the street com mittee and laid before the Council. "I object to that," said Sharkey, a mem ber of 'the street committee. "The com mittee has that and other ordinances un der consideration." "But It has done nothing with the ordi nance," said Zimmerman, another mem ber of the committee. ''The Standard Oil Company Is anxious to have something done, with it." "There has been no disposition to hold the matter up," said Rumelln. "We have simply delayed because we have also the Linthlcum ordinance before us, also, and we must have time for consideration. Here Is a" report on fuel oil," and Mri Rumelln read an account of oil as a fuel and as an explosive from an Insurance journal. "We have a remonstrance against the location of the tanks in the Ninth Ward." said Sharkey, ."and I wish to go on record as voting against the motion." ""It is only just to let the ordinance stay in the committee," said Albee. Just then the fire alarm sounded, and George C. Flanders, special agent of the Standard OIL Company, and pse of the few spectators present, looked out the window to see In what direction the engines were going. The Councilmen sat quietly. "Move wc adjourn," said Sharkey, sud denly. "Second the motion," said Bentley. OH Ordinance Stays, Too. The motion met instant death, for there were eight votes against It. The motion to withdraw was next up, and Cardwell, Slgler, Zimmerman, Sherrett and Flegel voted for it. Rumelln, Focller, Bentley, Sharkey and Albee were In the negative. "Tie vote," said the Mayor, "and the chair votes no." "Move we adjourn." said Sharkey again; but this time he lacked a second. "For voting with the negative side," said Mayor Williams, "I wish to offer an explanation. In the course of my parlia mentary experience, I have learned lliat It Is unusual to take a measure out of the hands of a committee unless there was a determined effort to smother it In the committee. In the United States Senate we considered It highly disrespectful - to take any act out of Its hands." "In this case," said Albee and Flegel jointly, "we were invited to be present at the session of the committee. We went there thinking that there would be a gen eral discussion. And," Flegel continued. with a look that evinced a desire to d!s- cover the man who hit Billy Patterson "when We got there we were gently but firmly told that it was a meeting of the street committee." "If there was any discourtesy to you gen tlemen it was not Intentional," said Rumelln. "As chairman of the committee I was chagrined because no action was taken, and so I declared the meeting-adjourned. In the first place, we did in tend to have a general discussion, and we did permit it, but the opinion of the" ma jority of the committee was that-pthcr Councilmen participating in the discussion should not be allowed to vote. It was the sentiment bf the majority, and tho' com mittee should not be censured.". Bentley Answers Hot Shots. "It seems that all the hot shots are being aimed at me. today," said Bentley. "At the meeting last night I tried to do right. I said nothing that would-prevent any person from voicing his opinion, but I did object and do object to promiscuous voting. I did not intend any discourtesy, but I thought that Councilmen not mem bers of the committee should not be al lowed to vote In it." "Well." said Flegel, "reversing to the franchise. It Is Impossible for the street committee and the City & Suburban Rail way Company to agree upon any terms. They will defeat that ordinance, and they know it" "If the company." said Bentley, "will draft an ordinance along the linos of the one granted to the Portland Hallway Company, it will have no Trouble In se curing a franchise. It must take such a franchise. When it asks more than the other company got, I refuse it; same treat ment for one and all." "But," said Zimmerman, "you refuse to grant to the City & Suburban the corre sponding increase granted to the Port land?" "The City & Suburban asks more than it should get," said Bentley. "They are trying to work a bluff on you on that franchise. Only a few days ago they wanted 35 years. Now they seem willing to accept 30. I believe that if they were offered 25 years In a properly drawn ordi nance they would accept it, and the ordi nance would go through." "Has such an ordinance been prepared?" asked Zimmerman. ' "I have one drafted." answered Bentley The answer threw a chill over the Council, which was dispelled by a motion of Rumelln that the regular order of busi ness be returned . to. Like the previous question, that closed the discussion. In the regular order was a remonstrance against the granting of a franchise to the City & SuburDan on Twenty-fourth street from Lovejoy to Gllsan. It was referred to the street committee. PEACE FOR BOARD OF TRADE Expert Bernard at Work on Ac counts of Secretary Moore. y The war cloud which has been hovering over the Board of Trade was apparently scattered Into thin mist yesterday, and there was peace for all the belligerents. Ex-Secretary Moore has shut up shop and turned over his affairs to an expert, and Secretary Shlllock is now In full charge. X.. J. Bernard has been secured tp ex pert the books and accounts of tho re tired secretary; has gone over the work, and it is generally thought that it wijl take but a few days to settle the point as to whera any Indebtedness stand3. It Is also understood that Mr. Moore will go ahead with his new organization, the Oregon Board of Trade, though just when he will Incorporate - Is not definitely known. PRESS BENEFIT TONIGHT Notable Andlence "Will Greet the Xclll Stoelc Coinpany. When the curtain rises this evening on the performance of "We-uns of Tennes see," at Baker's Theater, a notable audi ence will face the Nelll Stock Company. In the boxes will be Governor T. T. Geer, Governor-elect George Chamberlain, May or George H. Williams and numerous other well known state officials as weH as prominent citizens assembled to show their friendship to the Mty Press Club, of Portland. The advance sale has been phenomenal, and every seat in the house will be occupied. The theater will be tastefully decorated in the club colors, blue and gold. A few choice seats have been reserved for the regular patrons of the theater who have not yet made their purchases. "FRAMED PICTURES." Pictures framed, 25 cents, to $75, in oil, water-colors, etchings, engravings, plati num, photos, etc., at SANBORN, VAIIT& CO., 170 First St If Yon Go East for the Holidays Tou will enjoy a trip over The North western Line. C, St. P., M. & O. Ry. The shortest and best line, Minneapolis and St. Paul to Chicago. For informa tion as to rates, etc., rrlte to or call on H. L. Sislcr, general agent North-Western Line. 248 Alder street, Portland, Or. Portland-Sti-LoHis. Do you Know about the new tourist service between, Portland and St. Louis and Memphis? Call up O. JR. & N. ticket office. Third and Washington. NEW ORDINANCE SPRUNG SAX.OOXS WITH BOXES TO PAY $200, MUSIC HALLS ? 300. Common Council Refers Measure, to License Committee Billposters to Pay $200 Annually. Instead of the Albee anti-saloon box or dinance, which was expected to cause an uproar at the meeting of the Common Council yesterday, the city fathers were fed upon a resurrected measure which was brought before them a few weeks ago and which they then refused to pass'. This ordinance follows the one now in force, excepting that saloons maintaining boxes must pay an additional license of $200 a year, and those conducting music halls or theaters 5300. The ordinance bore no signature, and.' surprised many of the Councilmen. "Who introduced it?" asked Bentley, when the reading was concluded. "I did," said Flegel, "at the request, of the majority of the liquor Hccnae com mittee." "Then It Is to be considered as the Fle gel ordinance?" Inquired Bentley, who is a member or the committee. The other members are- Slgler, Zimmerman, Card well and Flegel. Flegel answered the question with a nod and then moved that the ordinance be re ferred to the special meeting of the liquor license committee" to be held thl3 after noon. "I am ready to vote on It now," said Bentley, curtly. "Vote now," urged Sherrett. "We can't, except by ainanlmous con sent," protested Flegel. "And I object," said Sharkey. "I am willing to have It read the third time, but I will vote against it," said Bentley. Referred to License Committee. Tlie ordinance was referred to the spe cial meeting of the committee, and then Flegel movedt that when the Council ad journ it adjourn until 2 P. M. tomor row, so that the report of the commit tee may be acted upon. The motion was carried by a vote of 6 to 4, only Bentley, Foeller. Rumelln and Sharkey voting against it. t The proposed ordinance, which is the same as uie one wnicn was umeaieu a short time ago, was in the nature of a surprise. When tho liquor license com mittee of the Council met Monday, it was decided to approve the Albee measure, and so that no .charge of discrimination could be- made by the saloon men, it voted to include restaurants. Bentley and Flegel were appointed a special committee to re vise the ordinance, and by their revision It was expected that saloons and restau rants would either have to give up the box business or maintain boxes which were not encumbered with either doors or curtains. The only report of the com mittee was the Flegel ordinance, of which Bentley, from his statement, knew noth ing. The four other members apparently knew something about It, and now the box question Is In exactly the same posi tion as. It was two months ago It Is again before the liquor license committee. Blllpontcr Ordlnnnce Passed. The ordinance regulating billposters, which was framed by the license com mittee, was passed. Under it billposting companies must pay a license of $200 a year Instead of $100 as at present, and they may engage men to do their work. The license of blils distributers Is reduced from $25 to $10 a quarter, but they may em ploy no assistants. The distribution of obscene pictures, patent medicine cards or bills is prohibited. "The officers of the Civic Improvement Association," said Bentley, "have asked that they be given a hearing before the ordinance Is passed." "The ordinance," said Sharkey, "has been before the committee for months, and although any amount of publicity was given to It, tho association never even sent a communication to us or made a pretense of coming to see us. It Is time for us to get it out of our way so that the city may get the additional revenue next year." "If we re-refer it," said Rumelln. "the city will lose the additional license the first quarter. As to the association, I do not know who are in It, but I do know that some cities grant the billboard privi lege, free of charge," "Chicago." said Sharkey, "charges only $100 a year; Augusta, Ga., $25; Los Angeles, $140; Kansas City, $50, and Philadelphia Boston. Cleveland and Toledo, from re ports I have received, nothing. And To ledo. I believe, is the" birthplace of the Civic Improvement Association." "The chief objection to the' ordinance," said Rumelln, "Is that the license of the distributers is reduced to $10 a quarter People think that through the distributers the quack doctors will be flooding the city with trash that children should not read. If there is any objection the asso ciation may make It after the passage of the ordinance." "Personally," said Bentley, "I have no objection. The committee drew up the ordinance, but I believe in' the rights of others. A hearing has been asked and should bo given." . "The ordinance may be amended at any time," said Sharkey. The rules were sus pended and the ordinance was passed, all but Bentley voting aye. Other. Ordinances Panned. Sharkey's ordinance granting the Ore gon Water Power & Railway Company a franchise on Bast Water street from Haw thorne avenue to East Oak, as amended by the Board of Public Works; was passed. Other ordinances Introduced were as fol lows: By the ways and means committee, transferring $5000 from the general' fund to the Improvement bond Interest fund, and $23,795 from, the general fund to the bonded Indebtedness Interest fund; passed. For the improvement of East Gllsan street from East Twenty-fourth to Bro naugh's Addition, and appropriating $250 45; passed. For the Improvement of Russell street, and appropriating $1722; passed. For the Improvement of Falling street from Union avenue to East Fourteenth, and appropriating $7969; passed. For the improvement of Kelly street, and appropriating $1143; passed. For the construction of a sewer in Up shur street, and appropriating $796; passed. For the construction of a sewer In East Thirteenth street, and appropriating $260; parsed. Providing for the time and manner of improving Monroe street from Williams avenue to Gantenbeln; East Washington, East Morrison and East Alder from the east line of Sunnyslde Addition to the east line of Sunnyslde Third Addition, and East Thirty-seventh street from Yamhill to the Base Line road; passed. Licensing vehicles at $3 per quarter for one horse, and $2 per quarter for each ad ditlohal horse; passed. Granting the Chinese the right to cele brate their New Year with the usual dis play; granted. By Rumelln (by request), permitting the storage of oil on 'the East Side north of Killingsworth avenue; referred to the street committee. For the Improvement of Second and Third streets from Glisan to Jefferson with concrete walks, exempting places requir ing fills of more than two feet; passed. Revising the building ordinance so that court walls may be constructed of other material than the street walls; passed. Action on Petitions. Petitions for the improvement of Mal lory avenue from Beech to Fremont, and for the grading of East Couch street, were referred to the street committee. Peti tions for sewers In East Taylor, East Yamhill, East Alder, East Morrison and East Washington streets, in Sunnyslde Third Addition, were granted.' A petition- for, a, sewer In East Twenty-fourth street was referred to the sewer committee., A remonstrance was received from Mrs. X.' J. Falling, who owns the property at the southeast corner of Fifth and Wash ington streets, against the tearing up of the plank sidewalk, and the laying of con crete pavement. Mrs'. Falling said that, as the proceeding was Irregular, she would refuse to pay lor the new, walk. Bentley said it looked as if -an injustice had been done, and at his suggestion the street committee decided to make. an investiga tion, i Resolutions were -adopted for the im provement of Savier street from Four teenth to Front and Denver avenue, and for the extension of Fifth street, and for a sewer ,ln Factory street HOW PLAYS GET A HEARING Edward Milton Royle Tells of the Trials of an Author. "Practically but two ways are open for a playwright at the present time, to ac complish the success of a new play," said .Mr. Edwin Milton Royle, the actor and. author of "Friends," at the Portland yes terday. , "One of these Is to make It 'go' as well asapos3lble outside of New York, demon strating that It can make money, and gradually approach near enough to New York to enable one of the big managers to view It. In this' way a New York booking may be secured. "The other of the two ways mentioned Is for the author to interest sufficient cap ital to ro to the New York manager and say: 'We want your theater for six weeks here's $12,000 for it,' or $15,000, as the ce may b'e. You can't secure, one of the big theaters for less than $2000 to $2500 a week. Mark you, these sums are ex clusive of all other expenses, as adver tising, salaries, etc. I paid $2000 a week for just the four walls of the Standard, In that city. "A third way to get a play on the boards nucccssfully la sometimes secured, when the author can interest or satisfy some popular star. Nat Goodwin, W. H. Crane and several others can take even a weak play and do fairly prosperous business. It Is a different matter to write a play for a star hard to strike just the right bal ance In the subordination of the other characters in the piece to that designed for the leading one. Stars will usually say that they like to have other members of their company have strong parts, but experience shows that they are not satis fied with much less than the meat and the milk, too, of the cocoanut" "It was suggested that, as "Friends" had been such a successful comedy, Mr. Royle had been tempted to do other work In that line. "I have," said Mr. Royle. " 'My Wife's Husband' Is my latest work, and It will be produced next year. I may be in Port land with It then. It Is a comedy, which will prove entertaining, I think." "It has a very suggestive title." "Yes; It deals with the story of a woman who has had thrco husbands and three divorces previous to her present marriage. It has a lively series of complications like a French farce, without the unpleasant or unwholesome aspects of the latter." The Royles opened In Duluth for the present season and are now progressing Eastward again. Their next booking Is at Salt Lake, " the city where "Friends" was first produced some 10 years ago. "I wrote the play," said Mr. Royle, "during an interval of Idleness, and a local stock company, made up of well-known people of the Utah metropolis, first played it. Governor Wells made a hit In the part of John "Padden, Sr." WELL-FED BEEVES SOLD. - Seven Cnrlonds Brings Owners 4 1-2 Cents a Pound.. . Seven carloads of well-fed beeves ar rived here yesterday from Payette, Idaho. Erwin & Short, the owners, received 4& cents a pound on foot f6r their cattle, which would have been considered an ex tremely high price a few years ago. One lot of the steers were 3-year-olds, and averaged 13"0b pounds. They had been fed with grain for four months and were in prime condition, and about $58 was paid for each. The others had been fed on grass and weighed 'about 1200 pounds. The cattlemen say that Idaho 13 short of cattle for the market at present, though there are numbers in the state not yet ready for shipment. They also declare that the Government free ranges In Idaho are now useless to stockmen as they are overrun by sheep. TWO BOYS RUN AWAY. Ben Gulnn nnd Francis Grnlinra Leave- Aid Society Home.. Two boys took "French leave" from the receiving Home of the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society yesterday morning. As the Home Is quarantined just now on ac count of several cases of scarlet fever, the superintendent, W. T." Gardner, Is espec ially -anxious to hear of their whereabouts. The older boy, Ben Gulnn. 13 years' of age, has blue eyes and brown hair and wore a soft black hat. blue overalls, blue sweater and hlghtop boots. The other missing boy Is Francis Graham, aged 12 years, has blue eyes and brown hair, and wore blue overalls, red sweater and checked coat and cap. Any Information regarding these boys will be thankfully received by the superintendent, who can be notified by calling up East 5. Aroused Over Imaginary Error. A citizen and business man of 30,years; standing, and of late years a capitalist as well, was met by a reporter yesterday on his way to the Courthouse In a tower ing rage, determined to give the Sheriff and Assessor an unhappy half-hour, be cause his name appeared In the delinquent tax list, 'published in connection with pieces of property on which he had al ways paid the taxes, and which he had sold two and three years ago; In proof of his statement, he produced a handful of tax receipts, and asked the reporter to do him the Justice to clear him of the Im putation of being a delinquent, which he said was an injury to his reputation. He was told that the injustice done him would be explained, and that he might rest easy. Later in the day he hunted up the reporter to say that he had been mis taken, and that the Sheriff and Assessor had explained everything to his entire satisfaction, and he asked that they be spared any scarification intended. It is well in such cases to have Imaginary mis takes Investigated before getting excited about them. Flris Pari From Alaska. A man with a remarkably fine speci men of the skin of an Alaska sable, very dark In color and the fur very thick, was going around town yesterday exhibiting It to fur-buyers. Just to let them feast their gaze on It. When asked by a re porter how much this skin was worth, he said It was Impossible to fix a price on it. It might bring $20 or $50, or even more, as It was a rare and fancy article, and some wealthy person who wanted it to match others like it would pay a fancy price for it A lot of some 70 sable skins, from Alaska was sold here a short time ago for about $7 each, but none of 'them were like this one. The sable and the marten are the same, but not the pine marten found in this, region, the fur of which is lighter and yellowish, and the skins of which are spoken of .by dealers as canary birds. It might be a money making scheme to go to Alaska and start a sable farm. Hollr In Great Demand. "The holly, the holly, the evergreen, bright-berried holly," Is In great demand at present for Christmas decorations. There is ready sale for sprays with plenty of berries on them at . a high price. There are but few such sprays for sale in the markets. Persons who have holly trees loaded with berries have to guard them if they desire to preserve, them, for per sons who would not think of stealing any thing else cannot resist the temptation to take a temptingr spray x?f, holly which Is Meier & Frank One of our "Willamette" Sewing Machines makes a pleasing gift to the housewife. 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He had been promising sprays of berries to friends, and -says he will now have to strip the tree to protect it from thieves. The owner of a place on Fifth street, with his wife and daughter, were seen yesterday morning circling around a pretty little holly tree, trying to- And where berry-hearing sprays might be." removed without; Injuring' th3 -loved tree, but determined to. secure,''sbmebe fore a thief took them all. Holly trees -which bear no berries are not In favor. Chi Store Open Evenings Until Company Meier stocks are complete will fee very accei lug this week are tore Open Evenings Until Scarfs, Boas, Muffs and Sets in very Are to be found here in very pleasing variety Our men's furnishing section is filled to overflowing with new, desirable merchandise suitable for the holidays -We gathered with a lavish hand stocks so large and complete that there's not a fancy but what we can please As Christmas draws near your generosity begins to assert itself, and the hundreds of useful articles here will be found to be of the highest grade. If a gentleman has a dress suit and not a dress suit-protector there will be no gift that would be more acceptable Our stock is very large and prices low. Your husband, friend or brother would appreci ate as much as anything you could give him a stylish 11CLR.UC. Ul tWU Ul llitOC Villus-1 1 Willi omi io. Men's Umbrellas Men's Fancy Hose Men's Mufflers Men's Canes An order for a ing Robes in every S the rest. en's Slippers 11 Plenty here to please everyone. Patent leather, vici, alligator, monkey and a Petticoats $1.50 3UC to $3.uu rair Decided reductions on the entire stock All new this season's styles in peau de cygne, crepe de chine and all-over lace effects Evening shades, assorted colors and blacks All sizes. $10.75 $12.55 $14.20 $22.85 $25.00 . $4.95 ..$5.85 . $6.85 $7.90 $9.25 S14 values, ea $18 values, ea. $22 values, ea $30 values, ea $10.85 ..$13.85 . $16.85 . $22.85 and rancy colors, low prices. Eiderdown Bath Robes and Kimonas Ages 2 to 14 years Best Monte Carlo Coats, $14.00 values $9.45 All Novelty Garments at special low prices. jj Meier & Frank Company I B. Pape, on the East Side, has cut down : a fine large one he has wrestled with and grafted for 15 years without being. ' able to make it produce berries. There . are .many kinds of holly trees, but some of the trees will bear berries and some V will not Sprays of Oregon grape are a, very good substitute for holly, and a well- known Boclety woman says she has deco- rated her rooms and table at Christmas for years with such sprays, to which ber- rles of sealing wax were wired without any one discovering the fraud, Those who cannot afford to- pay the .prices: asked for holly can trynhis scheme, and - thus save money, and exercise their artl3- I tic skill at the same time. Those who Christmas. Frank Company ChristmaSc large variety. Men's Gloves Men's Handkerchiefs Men's Silk Night Shirts E. &. W. Collars, Etc. 'Hawes" Hat. On the second floor you find our immense variety of men's Smoking Jackets and Loung grade and good style. Many a foot wonders if good old Santa Claus'will bring a pair of nice, warms slippers on Christ mas, morning. Some are little feet, some big feet, but all feet look alike to Santa Claus. He will bring them if you but give him the hint. Put 4tslippers" on your gift list, Santa Claus will do dozen other A hundred styles, Toy Land Is bubbling over with euthusi asm these days. Merry crowds, young and old The largest and best display ever shown in the West Dolls, Doll Furn iture, Tin Toys, Iron Toys, Wooden Toys, Woolly Toys, Fur Toys, Mechanical Toys, Coasters,Wagons, Sleds, etc. Six times the variety, three times more space given to toys, games, etc., than by any other store Holi4ay goods pur chased now will be delivered at any time you desire. Can supply all your book wants at the very lowest prices All kinds, of reading for all kinds of people. 1903 Calendars in immense variety. Xmas Cards from lc up. . Meier & Frank Company , J i i : ' . . ; 1 tions HBaHHBsnsnHaEHnMMMnH Christmas - pur1 and at their best Book Store have holly trees with berries on them wIUj do well to watch them closely till after Christmas. Article of Incorporation. Articles of incorporation of 'B. B. JElIch" were filed In the County Clerk's office yes terday by B. B. Rich, D. D. Rich an? a. s. Kicn. xne capital stoclc is jso The objects announced are to coi5dnof cigar arid tobacco stores, sell newspapers; -5 magazines, etc. rPrintIncr. Lithograph In. JSmhosKlnjr. Anderson & Duniway Co.. 20S Alder street Blank boobs to order; Both phones. A