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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1904)
32 THE SUNDAY .QEEGONIAls, PORTLAM), .SEPTEMBER .18,, .1., , . Landscape Gardeners Busy Beautifying Lewis and Clark Fair Grounds WITH the rapidly approaching com pletion of many of the big ex hibit buildings at the Lewis and Clark Exposition the greatest amount of activity has passed on to the molding of the grounds and especially to the prepara tion of the lower portion of the site sur rounding Guild's Lake. A large force of men are at work here, some of them in the capacity of landscape gardeners and others with teams and scrapers. Fills are being made In some places and swales are being razed In others. Hundreds of tons of earth are taken each day to the low land to the north and west of the grounds flanking the lake in order that It may be reclaimed for the purposes of 'the Exposition. For, while there Is plenty of land, there Is none to be wasted and every Inch of the Fair area is to be util ized to good purpose. Buildings Near Completion. As to the completeness of the principal exhibit buildings on the higher ground above the lake, the accompanying photo graphs will give some Idea. At a glance at least four or five of the big buildings appear ready for occupancy at this time, and It is only after close scrutiny that the minor uncompleted details may be noted. Here and there is an area bare of Its coating of staff, a decoration Is missing or only partly in place, and there Is an absence of glass in the windows. ,This Is the present condition of the States fir Agricultural Palace, the Liberal Arts, building, the Foreign Exhibits, Admin is --tr&tlon. Fire Department buildings and the pumping-station. Roof Garden a Delightful Retreat. The roof garden on the top of the Llb leral Arts building bids well to be finished Simultaneously with the main building. This Is to be one of the most attractive 1 Imposing Entrance to Exhibit Building. 2 Driveway Through the Ground. S Pumping Station to Distribute Water Supply. 4 Circular End of Foreign Exhibit Building. 5 Tower on the Jtoof-Gardens over the I3beral Arts Building. 6 Termination of Grand Stairway Joining Upper and lower Por tions of the Groundsl lolling places about the Exposition Grounds. Foods and refreshments will be served here at moderate prices, and 'with the palms and plants and luxurious fappolntments of the gardens, they will orm a delightful retreat in which to spend le. few hours from the wearing pleasure of height-seeing. Four towers, one of which is shown In the photographs, are to be utilized In 'connection with the roof garden as dining-rooms for prlvato parties. These towers are located at the four corners of the gardens and Immediately adjoin it. The towers, as well as the gardens, com mand a view of" the lower portion of the Exposition and of the gorgeous land scape to the north and west and "north west. View From the Balustrades. The broad cement and staff stairway end balustrades connecting the upper and lower portions of the Exposition are now .so near. done as to be open to use and hundreds of visitors pass along them dally. They are surmounted by the Lake View Terrace and terminate at the St. Helens balustrade, which Is set off with an artistic watering trough and fountain, finished in staff. The white stairway -threads through the lawns and flowers trades a beautiful scenic picture Is pre sented. To the west are the foliage-covered terraces and carefully-groomed lawns and to the north Guild's Lake, the "Willamette Biver and the Incomparable landscape beyond. Waterfront to Be Attractive. At Guild's Lake great changes have been wrought. The Water line Is now clearly and evenly marked and has been thrown out several yards into the lake and the intervening space filled In. No amount of pains and labor Is being saved to make this portion of the Exposition attracting. The harbor will be on a line with the great stairway leading down from the Lake View Terrace. Here will be the landing place for gondolas and other craft that will ply the waters of the lake. Just now a great flotilla of monster logs are at anchor in the harbor. d-frcm-anytpolnt-on-.the stairs or balus-J They are the giant limbers for. the -For-.J rot0 J, jf 'gSer Si estry building and are taken from the water by derrick and transported to the Forestry building site on a log skldway. The Love Letter. McLandburgh Wilson. 'Twas back In laSt April I met you And tasted of exquisite bliss; Ah. who would havo thought that our parting Had proven as lengthy as this? Then blossoms were over the meadow. The robin was piping his call, But now It Is golden September And leaves are beginning to fall. Yet ever since then l'v endeavored To send just one letter to your It took four whole months to compose it And bring back our happiness true. You got It? You're oomlng? My darling, The sweetest of meetings by far! All nail to the succulent oysterl HOW GOOD HOTELS LOSE PLATE Women Guests Take Almost Any Article for Souvenir. Seattle Times. r HEN a maiden In fluffy, ethereal garments that seem the only ap propriate setting for her soulful eyes and general appearance of angelic Innocence floats from a hotel dining-room or res taurant followed by a matron of stately and Imposing mien. It requires a case hardened cynic to believe that they may be harboring guilty secrets in their hearts and Inwardly chortling with glee over nothing less than theft. Yet the number of boudoirs and iemi- inine writing dena jthat Include among. their, Jhumo: ornaments spoons, forks, knives and even plates and napkins that bear the mono grams or names of well-known hotels and restaurants and the size, of the Items in hotel accounts under the head of "silver missing" would seem to have a close and sinister connection. Seattle bonlfaces have not. as a rule, suffered so severely from the craze for "acquiring" to be polite souvenirs as some of their Eastern brethren, but the ruses by which they have secured their comparative Immunity are not without Manager Harbaugh, of the Washington, actually boasts of the .meanest trick on record as having been adopted to foil the fair criminals In their cherished pursuit of loot. Knowing through long and sad experience the peccancy of the angels in shirtwaists in this direction, and know ing further that a plated spoon or butter dieh Is not "lifted" because of Its Intrin sic value, but because it contains the ho tel's name or monogram, and therefore is to be craved as a souvenir, he had every article of plated ware used In the Wash ington made absolutely plain, without even a mark to suggest that It did not como from a quick lunch restaurant in Puyallup. Name Is the Attraction. Thus rendered unattractive, the small accessories no longer are translated to the bliss of nestling In the mysterious recesses of the corsage of a vision pf de light, but are swept prosaically away to be scoured by a most unromantic scul lion. But the Washington did not get off scot free. No sooner had this brutal but heartless method of protecting the table ware proved successful than a new craze swept over the daughters and matrons of Columbia. This was the collection of plates from hotels, not butter plates or after dinner coffee saucers, but big meat or even soup plates. Now a plate Is not so built as to be easy to slip within the folds of any ordi nary gown, and it would be embarrassing as one was sweeping down the dlnlng-hall, the center of a hundred admiring or criti cal eyes, to have a piece of crockery slip from its hiding place and explode like a miniature bomb upon the floor. So the visions of loveliness discover that their consciences object to the "lift ing" of plates and they humbly approach the manager and timidly request to be allowed to purchase one at any price that he may set upon It. What is the poor man to do? Obviously he . must smile graciously, send a waiter for a plate and hand It over with his courtliest bow and "the compliments of the hotel." You can't get ahead of the better half of creation! Perhaps Manager King, of the Butler Hotel, has hit upon as effective a scheme as any. When the remodeled hotel was first opened the plated ware began to disappear so fast that it serried as if it might be necepearyyto -chain each, article to a table leg. Much as It must pain every chivalrous nature it must be stat ed that the articles In the men's cafe remained undisturbed and the ravages were confined to those tables from which tobacco is tabooed. How He Protects Himself. Finally Mr. King hit upon the plan of ordering some thousands of handsome plated souvenir after-dinner coffee spoons with a picture of the Butler engraved In the bowl. As soon as a woman enters the hotel as a guest she Is presented with one of these spoons, and Is thereby con strained out of the merest decency to re frain from pereformlng sleight-of-hand tricks with the tableware. Stokes' refreshment parlors probably has suffered more severely than any place in the city from the souvenir hunt ers. Being frequented principally by crowds of girls and younger women, this Is not surprising. According to Mr. Stokes, when he first opened the restaurant he supplied it wfth china of an unusually expensive sort, some of the plates costing as much as $25 a dozen. Those plates disappeared as if they had wings, and today not a single specimen of the original sets re mains In possession of the restaurant. Since the passing of these sets, losses have been less numerous, but are fre quent enough to test the philosophy of the proprietor. Only a few days ago a girl of the typical matinee age came In and blushlngly produced a baker's dozen of the Stokes spoons which her father had discovered in her "den" and sternly com pelled her to return. The Lincoln professes entire immunity from depredations of this sort, and Mr Perry, of the Rainier-Grand, professes a disbelief In the general prevalence of the custom, but the general verdict of those In charge of restaurants above the lowest grade Is that If plated ware Is to be saved, strategy must be called Into play. Boston Woman Witherlngly Retorts. Boston Record. A woman wishing to get off a trolley this morning pulled the strap to stop the car. The bell rang both ends. "What did you ring both ends for?" asked the conductor. "I want both ends to stop," .was the. witherlnretort