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" . j THE aiORXiyG OREGOXIAN, JIOXDAY, AUGUST 24, . I90a. f f CITY NEWS IN BRIEF ORGOMi. TE1XPHOXES. Pae. St!. Horn Cemntlnr-Hoom . Main "'TO A City Circulation Ma:n ""TO A tv5 MliMgint Editor Main T"70 JL J Sunday Editor .Miln TOTO A Com poa!r,-Room ...Main ""TO A City Editor Main T"70 A 5 6upt- fiuildlnc MalJl "070 A ORECOMAX AT RESORTS. For quickest and most satisfactory aarylci vubeerfba for The rrrnlan at Summer resorL. thmufll th following agents. City rates. All aubscrtptlcns by mali aja paya&la In advance. CVaaa Park C. H. Hill Tha Breaker J. M. Arthor Lor.a- Baach M. VV. Rubin Feavlasr Strauhal Co. I;n Railway Cornpaay Naws Agnt Gearhart. ..................... .Drawer A Co. Fejalde I'nwer Co. Newport Go. Sylvester Carson Parlnira. ................. Mineral Hotel Coillna 8prtr. .Belcher Co. AMI'S F M F.XTS. OKPHEl'M THEATER (Morrison, between Sixth and Seventh I Advanced vaudeville. Matinee. 2:1.1; tonight at 8:13. GRAND THEATER (tVaahinirton. between Seventh and Park) Vaudeville At Luxe. 1:30. ?:30 and I". M. PINTtr.FR THEiTTR t FVinrth and Stark.) 4'ontlnuoua vaudeville, 2.30, 1:30 and 9:30 P. M. liTRtC THEATER (Seventh and Alder.) Blunkal Stork Company In "Conles.il'. ns of a Wife." Every nlgut at 8:13. Mati nees. Tuesday. Thursday. Saturday and Sunday at 2:15 TH B OAKS rvn Carlos dor. Donr and mm key (how. free, at S P. 31. : A'len Curtis Musical Comedy ComDanv In "The Teddy GlrL" In Alrdome. at 8:18 free. CbiiPLETixo Catholic Clubhouse. P. K Sullivan, president of the board of di rectors nf the Catholic loung ilen s Ulub, cf St. Mary's Parish, announces that the clubhouse, on .Morris street near Williams avenue will be completed by about Sep tember 1. Then it will be- furnished. The entire, cost will probably be not far from ' JlS.Oi"). The building will be equipped as an. up-to-date clubhouse. As sot forth In t'.:e club's constitution, its ''object shall be 1 the promotion of social Intercourse and mora!, educational tnd physical develop- j rr.eat of lis members." While the major ity of Its members are Catholics, there are a large number of non-Cathoilcs on the membership roll. The club was incor- I porated November 16, 1S06. and work on the clubhouse was started In 1S0T. It Is a twp-story structure, with a full base menc On the second floor Is a fine au- ditorium, and on the first floor are the library, billiard, reception and general ' rooms. The basement will contain the I athletic department. When the clubrooms j have been furnished they will be opened : with appropriate exercises. Oil, Helps Cointt Roads. County I roads entering Portland were more gen erally oiled this year tliRn ever before, 1 with excellent results. The Base Line road, one of the most traveled highways, ' vu thoroughly oiled out to Scott ave nue at Mount Tabor, with the result that ' the jople living along the road escaped all annoyance from dust. The Section X.ine road also was oiled for 4 consider able distance with good results. The Sandy road was oiled out to Rose City Park. Next year this oiling of the county ' highways will be more general than ever. People on the Powell Valley ann Foster roads will haw those thoroughfares oiled. East from Russllville schoolhouse the Base Line road, oiled for the auto mobile races, is today almost as smooth and solid as a hard-surface pavement. It Is rounded out to the center and is one of the finest pieces of roadway that can be found in the country. Bar Association Meeting. The local commimttee has obtained an extension of time In which members of the Oregon bar desiring to attend the American Bar Association meeting at Seattle, August 24 to August 2S. may purchase their trans portation. Tickets must be obtained at the office of the Northern Pacific Com pany at Third and Morrison streets on or before Monday, August H, In order to obtain an excursion rate of $7.50 round trip. Purchase regular one-way first class tkkets on going trips, taking re ceipts therefor, and such receipts show ing that going tickets were purchased on or before August 24, when signed by the secretary of the meeting or other author ized person, and presented within two rtays after close of meeting (not counting Sunday) to Northern Pacific ticket agents at Seattle, will be honored for return trip at one-third fare. Return Krom Crater Lake. The party of Portland T. M. C. A. men, which ! left Portland August 7. for an outing at Crater Lake, is expected to arrive home this morning. The members of the party, ; after being hospitably entertained by the Medford Commercial Club, walked to the camp at Crater Lake. After remaining several days at that point, the men walked to Klamath Falls, where they were the guests of the Klamath Falls Commercial Club. Later the party left for Weed, a small town just over the state line. From this point the party started home by train. The members of the party are Physical Director A. M. Grllley, W. J. Blumenscheln. Charles H. Marias. William W. Belcher, J. G. Ar buthnot, A. Pfander. E. B. Harley, H. Johannsen. George Sibben and F. W. Nelson. Death op Irving R. Larimore Irving R. Larimore, 10-year-old son of Q. W. Larimore. physical director of the T. M. C A.. diei Saturday night at the family , residence, 467 East Grant street, after an illness of nearly six months. Young Lar imore was born in Dubuque, la., and came to Portland with his parents last September. He was presented with a membership card In the Dubuque T. M. C. A. when he was but one day old. He had always shown marked interest In the athletic work of the association and in variably participated In "the boys' depart ment gymnasium events. The funeral will be held this morning at 10 o'clock from Holman's Chapel, under the direc tion of Dr. Benjamin Young of the Taylor-Street Methodist Church. The Inter ment will be in Rivervlew Cemetery. W. IT. Ladd, administrator of the A. H. Johnson estate, has sold the Yamhill County property under order of the County Court, but will continue to receive bids for the properties in Multnomah and Washington Counties until August 26, 1S08. MrNiSTER Accepts Cali Rev. Harry Leeds, of Payette. Idaho, who has ac cepted a call to become pastor of the iilrpah Presbyterian Church, Powell street, will enter on his work at that or.urch September 6. He is recommended as an able minister. Clifford's Orchestra, of Portland, wkll close a very successful season of ten weeks at Newport on September 1. Mr. Clifford will resume teaching on September 8. 375 Alder St. Sargent at Seaside House. Open till Oct. 1. $2.60 per day. Make reservation ' for September now. Few good rooms left.' For Rent. A few nlea offices In The) Oregonlan building. Sea Superintendent, room JOL Spbciax. Todat at Dresser's. Choco late eclalres filled with whipped cream, 35 cents dosen. Establishment Max, 415 Washington, closing-out sale will continue a few days. Dr. J. H. McArthcr, A. B., office 1121 Union ave. N.. Woodlawn 372. C 2159. Btsseix's Pharmact, moved to 2S9 Mor rison st, between 4th and 5th. Da. E. C. Brown, Etb, Ear; Marquam. Dr. Fred Gitxette has returned. ORPHEUM'S PLAYERS DINE John Considine Entertains Actors and Actresse at Hotel. Twenty-four persons assembled In the . private supper-room at the Oregon Ho tel ycaxsrday afternoon as the guests of John W. Considine, The occasion marked the end of the opening week of the Orpheum circuit shows in Port land. C. N. Sutton, resident manager James H. Errlckson. of the Grand the' ater: Frank Cofflnberry, press agent and George L. Baker, chairman of the Portland Theater Managers Association, greeted the members of the profession who had taken part in the first week's Orpheum programme. There was an elaborate dinner, be ginning at 5 o'clock, and when coffee was served Frank Cofflnberry thanked the members of the vaudeville profes sion present on behalf of the host. Mr. Considine. who was unable to be in Portland to meet them personally. He said the success attending the opening week was due to the excellent work done by the artists under a regrettable handicap work that was deeply appre ciated by the public, by Mr. considine. by M. Sutton and by every one else connected with the Orpheum enterprise. Councilman Baker remarked, when called upon for a speech, that for years he had made a practice of attending an Orpheum show whenever possible and when he could get a night off from his own shows, and was never disappointed with the entertainment. . The "show people" spent a couple of hours most happily and entered Into the spirit of the occasion with great en- thus'asn:. Jlerry quips. goodnaturen badinage and bright, witty conversation made the gathering resemble a big ram lly dinner party' rather than anything formal. When the callboy appeared on the scene there was regret that the cur tain had been rang down on the little entracte. Those present at the dinner were: Mr. and Mrs. James H. Errlckson, Janet Melville. Evle Stetson, Argyle Gilbert, Frank Denlthorne, Nella Walker, Wil bur Mack. Al Cunningham. Mr. and Mrs. Zeno, Sadie Sherman. Harry Clifford, C. N. Sutton. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cof flnberry. G. Grais. Wallis Burke. Frances Zcno, Mr. and Mrs. Guj Jordan, AY . P. Strandborg. George L. Baker. FUNNY MEN WITH CIRCUS CLOWN' ACTS FEATURE OF SHOW THAT COMES TOMORROW. Silty Merry Mummers With Barnnm & Bailey Are Carefully Irrilled In Their Parts. Speaking of the clown, Victor Hugo said: "He could make them laugh, and. as we have said before, to make people laugh Is to make them forget what a benefactor to humanity is he who can bestow forgetfulness." Realizing the potency of humor as a factor in entertaining the public, the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth management is making a feature of pan tomimic clown work this season, and to that end will introduce a regiment of funmakers In the arenic performances to be Klven here tomorrow and Wednesday. Slxtv morrv mummers constitute the clown quota, giving promise that tnere will be something doing all the while in the wav of joyous merriment. No longer can the clown depend on song and sally, for he can't be heard, but the lmanac and the funny man in vF.uievuie keen his jokes in circulation while he cudgels his brains for things to take their place. The three rings and a piatiorm have made clowning a complicated busi ness for him. Now that he can no longer talk, he has to be everything except a talker. He has to be an artist in makeup, an acrobat. an equestrian. & pantomimlst, a musician, a gymnast, a lightning change artist. Now that funmaklng appeals almost en tirely to the eye, each of the 60 clowns with the Barnum & Bailey circus has to work fifty times as hard, at the very least as the old-timer of the one-ring circus and the one makeup. The clown "act" Is the feature of the new estate. The clown must make up in character. A coating of bismuth, a dab of bright red here and there, a Pierrot cap over his ears and a ruffle around his neck won t do now. He has to make up as the dude, as the countryman, as the confidence man, as the organ-grinder, as the fat police man, as the lean yokel, as Mary Ann on her afternoon out and when he has made ud he has to act his part. The clown act Is carefully planned in detail as the vaudeville turn; each turn has its cast of from two to three dozen people, and it is rehearsed with all the Rerlousness of an act from Hamlet. The way It "goes" is watched with as much anxiety as if a dramatist s fame depended on it, and it Is trimmed Into shape by the approval or disapproval of the public after the fashion, if not with the same delicate art. as a comic opera. FANTAN PLAYERS CAUGHT Fourteen Chinese Gamblers Arrested in House Near Police Station. Fifteen almond-eyed gamblers gath ered at SO Second street last night, and sentries were posted at points nearby. One lookout stood directly in front of the entrance to police headquarters, for No. 80 is diagonally across the street from the Second and Oak cor ner. Other sentries were stationed at various places, but the one near the station aroused the suspicions of Patrolman Wanless. He looked nerv ously at the door of his place so often that the officer also began to look in that direction and saw various Celes tials congregating. From every street car that passed Chinese alighted and entered. Wanless called Detectives Kay and Kienlan .and the three swooped No. 0. There they found a fantan game in full operation. Four teen alleged players were arrested and one escaped. The prisoners were held in the sum of $20 each, and bail was provided quickly by one of the leaders of the tong of which they were mem bers. PERSOIIALMENTION. Mrs. Henry Hall Johnson, with her two little sons, arrived in Portland to day. She will spend a few weeks with her mother, Mrs. Julia La Barre, at 1169 Tapgart street. Miss Judith Joy, daughter of Allan R. Joy, of Portland, who has been spending the Summer with friends in Seattle, will return home today. Mrs. Ross T. Hickeox, of Los Angeles, who is spending the Summer visiting friends in Portland, will return to her home in September. DRESS GOODS SALE. A great sale of high-grade black and colored dress goods today at McAllen & McDonnell's. Buy your new Fall dress materials now and save money. All sales for cash only. FIR C0RDW00D. First-class four-foot wood at a saving price. Immediate .delivery. Oregon Fuel Company, 332 Alder St. Main 65, A 1665. WHEREJTO DINE. All tha delicacies of the season at tha Portland Restaurant; fine private apart ment lor ladies, 306 Wash., near filth. HARMONY III LAWS Important Work of American Bar at Seattle. CAREY TO ACT FOR OREGON Other Delegates From This State Will Participate in General Ses sions and Consider Reforms In Judicial Procedure. Judge Charles H. Carey, of Portland, Is the Oregon member of the committee on uniform state laws, of the American Bar Association, , which will meet at Se attle in annual convention tomorrow. The work of this committee is exceed ingly Important from the fact that it will devolve upon Its members to sug- Judge Charles H. Carey. gest such changes In the statute of the different commonwealths represented as will result In closer uniformity. While this committee Is clothed with no greater authority than to offer recommendations to the National organization it is a fore gone conclusion that whatever sugges tions of reform are made by this com mittee will be laid before the next ses sions of the Legislatures of the states where particular reforms are needed. May Simplify Divorce Laws. One of the greatest problems with which this committee will have to wrestle will be the hopelessly entangled and intricate divorce laws of the dif ferent states. It is a notorious fact that the divorce laws In this country are of more colors than "Joseph's Coat," that they are wholly inconsistent, that they are In almost every case . entirely too lax, that loop-holes which exist In the codes of one commonwealth will allow mlrmated couples of another state to sunder galling bonds which would hold them together interminably in the state where the marriage was performed. Radical reforms In Insurance laws and also Government stock certificates will also be considered by this committee during the four days' session at Seat tle, and from opinions expressed by a number of delegates of the Oregon State Bar Association and the Multnomah County Bar Association, who will leave for Seattle this afternoon at 2 o'clock or tonight at midnight, many other There Is Only One QrCgOllIifc and That Is A. L. MILLS, President. Home Office: Corbett jff iir Oregon! Than the Insuring of Lives on Terms Most Favorable to the Policyholder. IT IS THE ONLY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Which Confines its Business Exclusively to "Healthy Oregon" and Makes all of its In vestments in "Purely Oregon" Securities. THATS WHY Results to THAT'S WHY Orcgonlifc changes in state codes are hoped for as a result of this year's convention. The most important business before the convention will be the discussion of re forms in "Judicial procedure, having for their object the simplification and ex pediting of the trial of criminal cases and the advancing of appeal cases. It Is generally admitted' that the states of the Union are under an extravagant expense because of the complicated sys tem, or lack of system, of procedure in adjudicating matters of the kind men tioned, and it appears, that the delegates from every state to be represented at the convention are unanimous In the f pinion that sqmethlng must be done to lirevent further cluttering of the crim inal calendars of the state courts, and it is, announced that an endless array of salutary reforms will be proposed to the National Commission on Uniform Laws which has been in session for several days at Seattle already, and will continue In session until the final day or so of the gathering. Thlp National commission has no au thority further than to make sugges tions to the association, which in turn will recommend the drawing of bills for presentation to the Congress of the United States at its next 'regular ses sion. . The Oregon State Bar Association will be represented by three delegates, Thomas O'Day. C. E. Wolverton and C. E. S. Wood, appointed by the presi dent, while a large number of Informal delegates are planning to go. The same is true of the Multnomah County Bar Association. So far as can be ascer tained, there will be about 35 or 40 members of the "association attending from this state," the list Including: Attorney-General A. M. Crawford, Judge C. H. Carey. D. Soils Cohen, John M. Gearln, Thomas G. Greene, W. D. Fen ton, W. C. Bristol, R. R. Duniway, W. W. Cotton. F. W. Mulkey. H. H. Em mons. C. M. Idleman. A. Ei Clark. G. C. Moser, J. F. Logan, J. Couch Flan ders, F. V. Holman, S. B. Linthlcum, Harrison Allen, C. J. Schnabel. L. R. Webster, Alexander Bernstein, T. Clee ton, A. P. Tifft, R. W. Montague. Dan J. Malarkey. Hilton Schwartz, W. Minor, E. T. Taggart, John K. Kollock. James Gleason, Martin L. Pipes, Jerry Bro naugh, Phil Herz, C. W. Petrain, Arthur Langguth, Seneca Fouts. George Single ton, H. B. Adams, C. A. Bell, Bert E. Haney, A. W. Lafferty and a number of others. Portland is going over in full strength and will issue an invitation on the floor of the convention to the Eastern dele gates to return home by way of this city with the promise of special enter tainment if they do so. LyRIC OPENS FOR SEASON XEW BLUXKAMi STOCK COM PANY WELTj RECEIVED. Theater Is Packed Matinee and Xight at Performances of "Confessions of a Wife." "Welcome, thrice welcome," was the greeting given the Ervin Blunkall Stock Company at the Lyric yesterday. Two performances of "The Confessions of a Wife." matinee and evening, signaled the opening of the cosy little playhouse at Seventh and Alder for the season of 1908-09. There was scarcely breathing room at the afternoon show, and hardly an empty seat last night, and the manage ment announced that each was a recoia- breaklng crowd. For a considerable portion of the greatly strengthened and enlarged com pany of talented players. It was more of a reception than the sordid witnessing of a hair-raising melodrama. The personal element, the camaraderie, pivoted on the row of footlights between actors and au dience, was plainly manifested through out the performances. . But at the same time old faces and new shared almost equally in the warmth of the spontaneous and energetic popular acclaim. Ervin Blunkall. director-manager and THE POUCYHOLDERS' COMPANY L. SAMUEL, General Manager. Building, Cor. Sth and Morrison Sts., Portland. Or. Has No Other Name Has No Other Business fteonf is best for ir . Wl w 'Taenia ear It's not so much what you pay as where you buy that tells the story. Today here's the op portunity to get a suit with style, quality and durability, in the new Fall shades at $15.00. See our big window display. 166-170 Third Street. interpreter of heroic parts, blushed, per force, like a village schoolboy at the greeting accorded him. for his good works of the past were remembered. His ap preciation was best displayed in the vigor and intelligence with which he carried his role, a "father" part of the "Shore Acres 'Way Down East" sort. Warda Howard, a leading woman of exceptional talent, and a prime favorite of the Lyric audiences of days gone by, deserved her cordial reception, for she displayed marked ability In her emotional scenes and sustained with fine consistency the melodramatic climaxes with which "The Confessions of a Wife" is replete. Dorothy Davis, caet for the "heavy" feminine role, needs no Introduction. Her splendid talent as exhibited during the long run of the R. E. French' company at, the Star last year is fresh in the minds of the patrons of that playhouse, of whom there seemed to be a goodly representa tion at the Lyric yesterday. Though her talent follows entirely different lines. Miss Davis suggests Eugenie Blair, whom Eastern showgoers recognize as one of the most resourceful and versatile emo tional stock actresses of recent years. Another storm of applause broke loose when Mamie Haslem. that wonderfully gifted little sprite, whom every patron of the Baker Theater loves, made her first entrance, and the same can be said of that mothely soul, Lillian Griffith, whose feet have often trod the Lyric boards before. ' . Of the new people, Allen Lewis, as th.e country bumpkin, and Ella Heazllt, as "de tough goll," were instantaneous hits. Their team work was a revelation to pa trons of the house. Ermin Seavey, cast for the Juvenile parts, has an indifferent role, this week, and there Is little op portunity for judging his histrionic ability. It must be said that for a premier and for a season "opener" things went much better than could have been reasonably expected. Grease paints and professionals' nrpplleai t Woodard. Clarke & Co. CLARENCE S. SAMUEL, Assistant Manager. Hi CLOTHIERS if a Policyholders are Mir so Satisfactory oregonians POR TLAND RAIL WA Y, Incandescent Lamps Their Use and Abuse "The value of electrical energy, as furnished to a consumer, ia not proportional alone to the amount of energy as measured by an electric meter, but is dependent upon various other factors, includ ing the efficiency vnth which the electrical energy can be trans formed or translated into other useful forms. The consumer uses e'ectrical energy for securing light, heat and mechanical power; and for the transformation into these more directly useful forms various translating devices are employed. The adequacy of the service is dependent in large measure upon the efficiency of these translating devices. '"For the production of illumination, translating devices in clude various forms of lamps, such as the carbon filament incan descent lamps, the tantalum and tungsten incandescent lamps, Nernst lamps, mercury vapor lamps, and the numerous types of arc lamps. For the production of mechanical ' power, motors of various kinds are employed, and for electrical heating, the trans lating devices comprise various forms of resistances. "The amount of illumination which can be secured from a given amount of electrical energy consumed in the ordinary type of in candescent lamp depends upon the design of the lamp and the materials and processes used in its manufacture, upon the voltage at which it is designed to operate, the voltage at which current is supplied to it, ITS PERIOD OF SERVICE, the CLEANLINESS OF THE OUTER SURFACE OF THE GLASS BULB, as -well as upon various other factors. "The ultimate life of an incandescent lamp may be expressed as the number of hours during which it will continue to give illumi nation, this period being usually terminated by a burning away or rupture of the filament. It is recognized as exceedingly bad practice to allow lamps to remain on circuit until this point has been reached, since the deterioration in efficiency will have become such as to make it uneconomical of operation. It is better practice, and one more commonly prevailing, to express the life of a lamp as the number of hours at which it will operate at normal voltage before its efficiency falls to a value below 80 per cent of the efficiency of the lamp when new. This length of life, as commonly attained in the better grades of carbon filament lamps now manufactured, is in the neighborhood of 600 hours, and to allow a lamp to burn longer than that period usually results in what might be termed inadequate or uneconomical service, due to excessive deterioration. "One of the most common causes of poor service is due to the operation of incandescent lamps after they have depreciated below. 80 per cent of their original efficiency. "It is a fact not sufficiently recognized that the accumulation of dust, oil and dirt on the outer surface of an incandescent, lamp will materially reduce its efficiency, and many instances exist where the illumination may be increased from 5 to 10 per cent by clean ing the globes. "One of the most serious causes of inadequate service is insuf ficient size of the wires installed in buildings, causing a reduction of the voltage. This may result from poor design or false economy in the original installation, but in many instances is due to the growing demand for more current than the origina'l installation of wiring was intended to provide for. Poor electric service may result from such inadequate wiring, even though the company may sup ply a satisfactory voltage to the inlet of the building. 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