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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1908)
THE MORNING OREGON'IAX, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1908. Great Clearance Sale of Our Entire Stock of Women's, Men's and Children's Coats, Suits and R.eady-to-Wear Apparel of All Kinds The Meier Frank Store Last Week of the Clearance Sale 9x12 Feet Brussels Rugs $25 Values Reduced to $ 1 7.95 m wvmw Sale extraordinary of 100 room-size Brussels Rugs 9x12 feet full count Oriental and conventional designs in beautiful colorings and combi nations a great special purchase from a large well known Eastern mill enables us to offer the best bargain of the year in room-size rugs Regular $25 values your choice while they last at this low price, each $ 1 7.95 m Linoleum Remnants V2 Great special lot of remnants of Linoleums, lengths suitable for pantries, bathrooms, kitchens, etc.; best patterns, fo Ppisp all grades, half Teg. prices. I Printed Floor Oilcloths, at, the yard..40 Inlaid Linoleum, A quality, at, the yard.90 Inlaid Linoleum, B quality, on sale at this low price, yard take advantage. .80 Other qualities on sale at half regular prices Housekeepers should take advantage. Furnishings for Men At Great Reductions Men's natural wool Underwear, nicely made and fin ished; all sizes in shirts and drawers; the CO. best regular $1.00 values, on sale at, special. UC Men's medium-weight Derby-Ribbed Union Suits; blue, ecru, gray and salmon colors; the best AC regular $1.50 garment, on sale at, special. .P Dr. Wright's fleece-lined Underwear, all sizes CCr shirts and drawers; $1.00 values, at, garment. All our high-grade shirts on sale at greatly reduced prices "Manhattans," "Cluetts," "E. & W." and others this season's very best styles; best patterns and colorings in great variety; take advantage of sale. All fleece-lined and Wool Gloves at very low prices, 100 dozen men's fancy Golf Shirts in good patterns and best colorings, coat or regular styles, attached or detached cuffs; best $1.00 values, on sale at.. Men's fancy lisle Half -Hose, immense assortment of checks, figures and stripes; lisle, mercerized lisles, silk lisles and gauze lisles; the best regular OC 50c and 75c values, on sale at, special, pair. ""C Great special Clearance Sale of Men's Neckwear. 400 Ladies' Fine Waists Great Bargain Exceptionally Low Priced Great Special Clearance Sale of our entire stock of fine Silk and Lace Waists in taffetas, messalihes, chif fons, chiffon cloth, lace and nets fancy and novelty styles for dress and evening wear; also plain tailored effects yokes trimmed in fine or coarse laces, medallions, tucking, silk embroidery, shirring, pleating ap pliques, all new beautiful waists and very unusual bargains at the follow ing special low prices $16.00 w'sts $12.25 $18.00 w'sts $13.25 $ 7.50 waists $5.45 $ 8.50 waists $6.25 $10.00 waists $7.95 $12.50 waists $9.95 $20.00 w'sts $14.95 On the Second Floor. Great Clearance Sale of our entire stocks of Silk Petticoats, Lingerie Waists, Kimonos, Wrappers, Sweaters, etc., etc., at specially attractive prices. 2d Floor. Great Clearance Bargains in Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Laces, Embroideries, Shoes, Bed and Table Linens, Etc. Plaid Dress Goods at Half Price Silks 69c Our entire stock of Plaid Dress Goods on sale at half regular prices. An immense assortment of patterns and colorings in the very best styles and designs and all grades; very unusual values. Splendid materials for women's waists, shirtwaist suits, children's dresses, etc.; on sale at the following specially low prices, yard: 50c Plaid Dress Goods, the yard 25 $1.00 Plaid Dress Goods, the yard.. 50 75c Plaid Dress Goods, the yard.. 37 $1.50 Plaid Dress Goods, the yard. .75 1500 yards of fancy Silks to be cleaned up at a remarkably low price Dresden silks, plaid silks, checked silks, grenadines, stripes, etc.; values np to $1.50 yard, at.. 69$ Perrin's $3.50 Gloves at $2.45 a Pair Great special clearance sale Perrin's first quality real French Glace Kid Gloves, 3-button mousquetaire style ; full 12-button length ; black, white, cream, gray, navy, green, red, champagne, tans; all sizes; best $3.50 values, pair. $2.45 "Perrin's" best pique and extra quality overseam-sewn Glace Kid Gloves, two! and three-clasp styles, in a complete line of desirable I1 QCS shades and all sizes. The best regular $2.50 values, at,' pair. 1 'O GTeat reductions on all 12 and 16-button length tan Cape Gloves; best styles. Great reductions on wool knitted Cashmere Gloves; best styles, great values. Embroideries 49c Strip Flouncing 69c Yd. 5000 yards of fine Embroideries to be sold at a wonderfully low price, a strip Swiss and cambrics; small, neat patterns for women's and children's wear, XY2 to ACkf 4 inches wide; values up to $1.50 a strip, to be sold at this low price, a strip, "l 2000 yards Swiss Flouncing, 12 to 18 inches wide, for lingerie waists and gown's; English eyelet and imitation handwork designs; vals. up to $1.75, yd. ROBES Great Clearance Sale bargains in lace, net and novelty Robes imported and domestic models, exquisite styles, at all prices. . Let us show them to you. $7.50 Curtains $4.85 Pair $20 Curtains $12.35 Pair $12.50 Curtains $7.38 Pr. $7.50 Cluny and Antique Lace Curtains, made on the best French nets, with linen edges and insertings; 50 inches wide, 2Vk and 3 yards long; white and ecru; our best regular $7.50 values, CA QIC on sale at this special price, the pair. .P:0J Ten patterns, best grade of Irish point and Duchess Lace Curtains, in the newest designs for Spring; magnificent patterns, heavy Swiss Renaissance pat terns and allover figures; regular $20.00 values to be sold for a few days only at this J1 O OC marvelously low price, the pair. ... .P Six patterns of Irish Point Lace Curtains in heavy allover designs; white, ivory and ecru; beautiful designs; the best regular $12.50 val- dJ'T OO ues, on sale at this low price, pair. . . .r " Couch Covers$ 7.85 Great special lot of high-grade Couch Covers; plain centers with tapestry borders, with or without fringe; blue, green and red; 60 inches wide and 3 yards long; regular $12.50 values, at, ea.$7.85 Custom Shade and Drapery Work our specialty. Groat Clearance Sale Bargains in Carpets and Bugs; Best styles and grades. See them, on Third Floor. $2.50-3.50 Drawers $ 1 .49 $3.50-$5 Petticoats $2.98 Our $1.25 Corset Covers 59c Each Extra special lot of women's fine cambric and nain sook Drawers, trimmed in embroidery and lace edg ings, insertions and tucks, beading and ribbons; values ranging from $2.50 to $3.50 a ACk pair, on sale at this low price, the pair. ,P Extra special lot women's white Underskirts, made with wide flounces of lace and embroidery tucks and insertion ; new, handsome styles, great values : Regular $2.50-$3.00 White Petticoats,' each. .$1.69 Regular $3.50-$5.00 White Petticoats, each.. $2.98 Extra special lot of women's cambric and nainsook Corset Covers, made with full blouse front and rrimmfl in flnint.v Val. laces. pmhmiilpnAd. moAa 1- lions, insertion, tucks, beading and ribbon; CQp jjf-Sj the best $1.25 values, on sale at, special, ea. "CfS. Extra special lot of women s cambric and nainsook Srf&x gowns, trimmed in lace embroidery, beading andtwJM short sleeves; best $1.25 values, on sale at '7Qf this special low price, ea. take advantage. C Our entire stock of French Undermuslins on. sale at exceptionally low prices. See them, on 2d Floor. 'mwmm Tailored Suits Greatly Reduced Sweeping redactions on our entire stock of women's high-grade Tailored Suits; this season's most attractive garments, many of which are desirable for Spring wear The assortment includes plain colors, mixtures, checks, and plaids Tight-fitting and semi-fitting garments, in chev iots, serges. Tweeds, broad cloths Plain or fancy tailored, velvet and braid trimmed; also vest-effects, coat three-quarter and medium lengths, skirts fall pleated and gored The best styles and the best suit values that can be found any where about town 2d Floor $18 Tailored Suits at $ 9.85 $28 Tailored Suits at $ 1 1.45 $35 Tailored Suits at $16.45 $40 Tailored Suits at $18.45 $45 Tailored Suits at $27.50 $58 Tailored Suits at $3 1 .50 Our entire stock of Women's Suits, values np to $ 1 50 all on sale at low clearance prices Allover Costumes and Wraps at Clearance prices 2d Floor INFLUX OF HOBOS Portland May Be Flooded With Vagrants. BELIEVE CITY IS "EASY" Chief Gritzmacher Declares Element Must Be Dealt With Firmly and KcpHes to Those AVho Criticise Department. That Portland is In danger of becom ing the rendezvous of t all the criminal "hobo" vagabonds and itinerant riff-raff of tlio underworld of the raoifle North west Is the purport of statements made to the police yesterday by K. U. K. Sey mour and William Burke, hobos who beat their way Into Portland on a freight train and were recently' arrested as vaprants. Word has been passed all along the line up to Tacoma. Seattle and Vancou ver, B. C. on the north and out to Spo kane, Bmt and Salt Lake City on the cast, and as far down as San Francisco on the south, they told the chief, that things are "easy" in Portland since the recent complaint of several suburban towns against the action of the Portland police in driving y, hobos out of the city limits. The announcement which fol lowed by the Board of Charities that all men would be fed and no questions asked and work provided for those who wanted It. is now widely known, they said. They even beard of it more than a week ago in St. Paul. "The gang is congregating over the line in Washington and has. already es tablished two big camps near Kalama. where there are at least 150 of them now collected, and new recruits being added to the bunch daily. Some of them are lust r.oor fellows that are a little down on their luck like wo are. but for the most part they are pretty tough guys. who wouldn't stop at sticking a man tip or doing a second-story trick, said Seymour. In Camp at Klamath. "The idea is that they will work the railroads and Portland and establish a fence in this -city and dispose of all the , stuff they can steal. They can come into Portland for a few days, pull off a trick and if the police get warm on their trail, they can duck out Into Washington, where it is comparatively safe for them. You can go over to Kalama any time and see their camps in the woods along the railroad track, and no doubt .find a lot of stolen stuff cached. You see this stunt on the part of the charities guys here gives them an excuse for dusting into town without fear of the rockpile or being bounced out on a train that would take them down to Frisco or somewhere else they didn't want to go." This statement was made after the po lice had questioned the men rigorously as to why they came to Portland with out money or prospects of work and the warning that the penalty of vagrancy might be a substantial sentence to the rockpile at Kelly's Butte, and reflects the opinion long held by the department that one of the most serious questions with which it has to deal is the genus "hobo." Chief Gritzmacher points out that owing to its constant change of scene of opera tions, this class of criminals more than any other eludes the efforts of the po lice and that the only way of regulating the public safety from their depredations is to adopt the general plan now In vogue In all cities of the country, that of keep ing them on the move. While this may seem to be a shifting of responsibility, they declare It is the only means of pro tecting the local communities under the present laws relating to vagrancy. Problem for the Police. "Although the average citizen does not realize it. the "hobo" presents a very serious question to the dopartment." said Chief Gritzmacher. "Whle the sympathy of the average citizen is with the man who is down and out. unless there is some regulating influence on this lower class- of society. It becomes more than a mere menace to the welfare of the city. "The police are not waging a war against the unemployed. If those who are offering criticism against us would only take the trouble to look into af fairs before they express themselves, they would see that we are directing our attention solely to the vicious criminal who hides behind the plea that he can't find work. We have many years of ex perience with this class of people and think we are competent to Judge between an honest working man and the hobo. "Both In this department and in the Municipal Court many cases have oc curred, recently where help has been ex tended to the unemployed to secure work, but the bad ones must be weeded out. Our records show that on an average about 20 hobos come into this city every 24 hours, and It can be readily seen that even with the majority of these .men being honest, the question Is one of serious Import." ROSE-PLANTING DAY HENEY LECTURES TONIGHT Government Prosecutor Will Speak at first Congregational Church.. . Portland people tonight will have an opportunity to hear Francis J. Heney, the Government's vigorous prosecutor of evildoers. In the role of lecturer. Under the auspices of the Municipal Association, Mr. Keney will deliver a lecture on "Graft vs. Good Citizenship" at the First Congregational Church at 8 o'clock tonight. The lecture will be free and Mr. Heney has announced that he will give others who may dif fer from him an opportunity to be heard. Aside from the interest that natural ly centers in the lecture because of the prominence of Mr. Heney as a prosecutor of land-grabbers and muni cipal spoilsmen, there is added signifi cance to the public appearance of Mr. Heney on the lecture platform at this time from the" fact that he has inti mated repeatedly that before leaving the state he would "make good" his implied charges again Bt Senator Ful ton of acts inconsistent with a public official pledged to serve the best in terests of the people. -The freedom of the lecture platform will give him an opportunity to discuss less restrlcted ly his views of public men than the rules of court practice regarding the relevancy and competency of evidence will permit him to present in the trial lie is conducting in the Federal Court. Primarily, Mr. Heney will give the history of the operations of Ruef and Schmitz. - But he will not ignore the operations of the land-fraud boodlers in Oregon. The trusts and the rail roads, also, are expected to receive a rap and the promised exposure of Sen ator Fulton's alleged relations and associations politically will only add spice to the discussion. Portland to Have Unusual Mid Winter Ceremony. PARK BLOCKS SET ASIDE Five Thousand .Bashes Will Be . Planted in Three Squares and -Win Be Bearing by Time of the Festival Next J tine. As the result of the Park Board's de cision to set aside three park blocks for the planting of roses and .mainte nance as permanent rose gardens, Port land will hold one of the most unique civic celebrations ever planned in the United States. A day within the next few weeks will be selected for the set ting out of rose bushes, 6000 of them, and In mid-Winter, when howling blasts are sweeping through the Middle West and East. While the event will be similar In purpose to that of Arbor day, no public occasion of this charac ter has ever been observed at such time of year, but the assurance of ex perienced Portland rosarians has been had that it is Just as safe to plant roses In Portland in the middle of February as it is almost any other season of the year. The Park Commissioners, at their regular meeting yesterday, selected the following blocks for this purpose: Block B, between Burnside and Couch; block 7,' between Salmon and Main; block 15. between Montgomery and Harrison, all bounded on the east and west by Park and West Park streets. Estimates submitted to the Board in dicate that the Rose Festival Associa tion, under whose auspices the rose planting will be done, will have to pro vide 5000 bushes, and these are to be divided among the following varieties: 2500 Caroline Testouts, 2000 Ulrlch Brunners and 500 Folkstones. Plans for setting out 60 Red Ramblers are also embraced in these estimates. No time will be lost in preparing the blocks named for the reception of the rose sets, and men will be set to work within a few days spading and working up the ground into shape, and mean time the Festival people will arrange for gathering the rose sets at these blocks and will also be ready , to an nounce the rose-planting day before the week is over. While officers of the Festival Asso ciation are sorely disappointed that the Park Board has offered only three plaza blocks for this use, they are glad to accept them, believing that half a loaf is betteV than none. They expect to show by the advertising results gained from this first venture that it is one of the best "boosting" schemes that has ever been undertaken in the Northwest, and are confident that many more of the plaza blocks will be added to these three during the next year. Setting out of, 5000 rose bushes on the three blocks will mean that these spaces will be perfect seas of bloom by June 1, when the Festival opens. RESTAURANTSAND HOTELS Special reduced prices on table linens, napkins, hemmed sheets, pillow-cases, bedspreads, blankets, comforters; linens and napkins hemmed free. McAUen & McDonnell. Spectacles $1.00 at Metzger's. There are mar kets on both sides of the Smith Meat Co. that have no connection ' whatever with that firm. All people looking for Smith's must avoid those other markets. All good Americans trade with Smith, the man courageous enough to fight the Chicago Beef Trust. SMITH WILL Old Horse Found, Owner Dies in Peace C. K. Bnllftrrt. Potmatrr of MII vraokle, Disturbed on Deathbed by Thought Aired Steed Im Starv ing Animal Provided For. ONE) of the thing which worried the late Postmaster Cyrus K. Ballard, of Milwaukie, during his last illness was the disappearance of his old horse named Prince, and 'he was only relieved when he knew the horse had been found and put where he would be cared for. Just how old Prince Is nobody knows, but be Is one of the horses with which Mr. Ballard drove across the plains from Illf- nols 25 years ago. It 4a estimated that the horse is fully 35 years old and may be older. The Postmaster took the tender est care of the old horse, and never worked him. The horse wandered away when Mr. Ballard was taken sick, and the owner feared he might be starving, but the horse was finally found In the Portland pound, was returned to Milwaukto and was taken to the farm of V. Dix. A great load was taken off the mind of the dying man when he was told that his faithful old horse had been recovered and would be cared for the rest of his life. During the funeral of Postmaster Ballard, which was held under the auspices of the Oddfellows lodge, business houses In, Milwaukie were closed, and the flags of the City Hall and schoolhouse were placed at half-mast. RISER CAT.FVDAKS HALF PRICK Original photos. 48 Alder at. EAT PORK, SMITH'S PORK, OREGDfJ PORK The Beef Trust is bringing' in Eastern Pork by the trainload. Bead this: Daily Market Report. Sunday, January 26: "Packers are purchasing practically all of their supplies in the Middle West and are, for a time, ignoring this market altogether." If you go to a Beef Trust market and get Eastern Pork, you have no one but yourself to blame. Come to Smith's for Oregon Pork. Fine Sh'lder Pork Rsts 10 Center Cut of Shoulder Roast Pork 12 Shoulder Pork Chops 12y2 Pure Pork Sausage. .12 Hams 12Y2 Half a Hani 12 Picnic Hams ll Cottage Hams .12!2 Breakfast Bacon. .16-17 Smith's Pure Lard in 5-lb. pails 60 Boiling and Stew'g Beef 5 Fine Roasts of Beef. ... 8 Fine, Juicy Tenderloin Steaks 11? Small Porterhouse and "T"-Bone Steaks ..12'j Center Cuts Round St'k 10 Shoulder "Steaks ...... 8p Smith '8 Meats Are Weighed on Honest Scales. Frank L. Smith Meat Co. 226 Alder Street, Between First and Second Streets. "FIGHTING THE BEEF TRUST." i