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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1905)
(Sfepttmtt mtimn PART FOUR PAGES 37 TO 48. VOL. XXIV. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUXDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1905. NO. 50. WILLIAM GADSBY & SONS Corner Washington and First Streets THE HOUSEFURNISHERS The Store That Does the Business New $30,000 Rose: The Queen Beatrice A TEA ROSE, PINK WITH A TOUCH OF CRIMSON, HAVING FRAGRANCE OF 'THE FINEST. If you want to "buy Holiday Gifts at reasonable prices and on an advantageous system of credit, now is the tiiee to do it. The conditions were never better furniture never was so good, prices never so law. The demand is greater than it ever has been, and the effect of this, in a tig house like ours, is to lower the cost to the consumer. Any man can "buy furniture here any small salaried man, and he doesn't have to mortgage his soul to do it. We have utterly revolutionized the credit system. We ave made it desirable, helpful and easy to everybody, and if yon-hare the slightest wish to make a ngw home, or improve your, present oae, there is absolutely no reason why you shoulda't come to this .store tomorrow and have anything you like sent to your home promptly. We have quantities of everything we advertise and we guarantee everything we salL Anyhow, see our stock. It's worth a good longvisit. YOUR . CREDIT ' IS GOOD You Can Always Find a Bargain at Gadsby's Solid Oat Extension Table, $12.50 Same square top, with heavy rim, $10.00 Iron and Brass Bedsteads, special, $9.50 Others as low as $3.50 Solid Oak Polished or Mahogany and Birch, top 20x24, $2.50 Brass feet, $3.00 White Maple, Golden Ash, . Imitation Mahogany Dresser, swell-top drawers. $15.00 Or in solid Oak. $16.00 Golden Oak or Birch, special large Rocker, $2.50 Credit for Everyone Make Your Own ' Terms BRIDGE WHIST TABLES. t Bridre Whist Tables, oolishod tops, reduced to $2.25 loth tops $2.75 Parlor Suit, this style, three different patterns, "in birch frames, finished a rich, dark rosewood, upholstered in velour and silk tap estry; regular $30.00, cut to $22.50 CARPETS BIG BARGAINS IN OUR CAR PET DEPARTMENT ' AMBER VELVETS; REGULAR $1.35, THIS WEEK $1.15 FIRTH TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, $1.10; THIS "WEEK 95 BRUSSELS RUGS, S:3xl0:6; REGULAR $20.00 --CLOSE OUT AT , $16.50 SAMPLE RUGS, 36 INCHES, WORTH 75; NOW 35 Chiffonier in white maple or ma hogany finish; regular price .$20, special this sale, at $15.00 Davenport Sofa Bed, exactly as shown in illustration, upholstered in A-l velours -with best quality of springs and guaranteed to keep its shape.; back is adjustable, making a perfect, full-sized bed. GadsBy's price this week $22.00 The largest and best assortment of Library Tables in Oregon. This one $12.50 Princess Dresser in genuine ma hogany veneer, birdseye maple or quarter-sawed oak; Gadsby's price .... $23.00 71 Parlor Cabinet in nahoean naeogany $35.00 Music Cabinet in golden oak and genuine- mahogany veneers; sale price $12.50 y Something a lady I always wants. She I & 1 can sit down to Iff f "We have a beautiful M line In all woods. Roman Seat, mahogany or gold en oak, Gadsby's price $6 No. 3 Go-Carts Here's a beauty adjustable, ve lour upholstery, $13.50; now $9.50 The handsome Morris Chair il lustrated above is of solid oak, or in birch, mahoganized, with choice velour cushions; spe cial one week, at.. $9.50 Lady's Desk $21.00 TOU CAN ALWAYS FIND A JABGAIH AT GADSBY'S This large full-roll Rattan Rocker $7.50 Parlor Chairs, in Ma hogany, richly up holstered, $7.50 THE ONLY STORE THAT OWNS THKIK OWN 2UILDDCG NO JLENTS TO PAY THAT'S WHY WE SELL OXSAPXK. r QUE EX BEATRICE. THE $3.0W KOSE. ANEW rose has been originated by a Washington gardener; a Wash ington florist has purchased It for $30,000. This flower, believed by expert florists to be the finest rose ever .grown, has been named by the purchaser "Queen Beatrice." A cross between the Liberty and Madame cbat enay, both hybrid teas. It Is classed by Its owner as a tea. The former Is one of the most popular crimson varieties, but it Is Uncertain in the production of perfect blooms. Queen Beatrice' has none of the faults of Its parents and combines all of theirtgood qualities: it is resistant to Insect and mildew attacks, and capable of forc ing on the hothouse bench. It will produce, according to the originator, four blooms to one Bridesmaid a thrifty bloomer so that the cut flower dealers will have a valuable asset in the Queen Beatrice. Its color Is a peculiar shade of pink with a touch of crimson when In the bud. None of the beauty of Its coloring Is destroyed cither in natural or artificial light. Added to this. Its fragrance Is believed to be equal to. If not superior to that of the American Beauty. Its habit, is something- like the American Beauty, as It grows on long, straight and sturdy stems from two to three feet long, well filled out with leaves up to within six Inches of the flower. Its Origin. . The Queen Beatrice was originated by Peter BIssett, the head gardener of Mrs. Gardiner Hubbard. Mrs. Hub bard Is widow of the late Gardiner Hubbard, at one time president of the National Geographic Society. She Is also the mother-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell, the Inventor of the tele phone. The new rose was originated about a year ago at her suburban residence known as Twin Oaks, just outside the National capital on the Wood ley Lane road, close to Admiral Dewey's Summer home. Representa tives of the leading florists of the country have made pilgrimages to Washington for il early a year in an en deavor to procure this flower and many tempting offers were made for it, but It remained for Florist F. H. Kramer to obtain the prize for 130,000. No plants of the Queen Beatrice rose will be ready for distribution before the Spring of 1907. during which time Mr. Kramer will spend a large sum of money in erecting hothouses and. cultivating and growing young plants by the hundreds or. thousands. It Is believed that probably $150,003 to" $200,000 will be made from this flower. Circumventing Thieves. Mr. Kramer has had .quite a lot ot trouble with clever but unscrupulous persons who have adopted various ar tifices in an endeavor to obtain speci mens of the Queen Beatrice rose.- Sows have come Into his retail establlsttmeKt desiring to purcbase-a. single cat Sower for a boutonniere and awkinga" de mand for one of the new reses. instst lag on that or none. Others have or dered .large bouiiaet er lateral deJgs CQ&sUag..wheUy ot this wer" &d the &tUr-JYlgwttHMi Cmkls a purchase when refused. These were only dodges to obtain the healthy wood for slipping and growing, for, as the rosegrower knows the best time to make rose cuttings is either just be fore or immediately after the plant comes lntobloom. The Washington Rose Company sev eral years ago originated the hand some white rose, "Ivory," which i3 a sport of "Golden Gate," but it seems that cut flowers were, sold and it was not long before the same rose was on sale In all sections of the cquntry at cut prices. Several Successes. Mr. Kramer Isr a Washington florist with wide experience In the flower line. He has originated many new and In teresting plants at his greenhouses lo cated at Anacostla, D. C "Climbing Meteor. a climbing variety with large red blooms and with all the excellence and fragrance of "Meteor"; "Champion of the World" a clear deep pink flower; "General Robert E. Lee," a magnificent yellow sort; "F. H. Kra mer, a deep red beauty, and many other roses which have been sold to catalogue 'houses and named by them, were first introduced in his hothouses. His latest production, the "Climbing American Beauty," In all probability will bs listed In the catalogues next Spring. At the recent flower show in Washington he exhibited a seedling carnation, .deep- pink in color, and named by him "F. H. Kramer," which ! many 'well-known florists of the coun-l try have declared to be the equal of either Mrs. Lawson or Fiancee. , Such a large sum as $30,000, paid for! a roso seems small, however, wnere there is still fresh In the minds of the people the transaction, of Thomas W. Lawaon of "Frenzied Finance" fame by which he paid $30,000 for a single car nation, merely, as was stated, for the honor of naming It after his wife. However, It Is hinted that he cleaned up -over- 5100,000 out of his pink. The "Finance" carnation cost Its produc ers $125,000, but the statement has been made that twice that. sum was cleared on . the transaction. .But the lovely "American Beauty," believed to be first in the selection of American flower lovers and considered by the young swain a key to the mai den's heart, has a most sad history, so far as Its American connections are known. A Washington gardener. Ready by name, a number of years ago procured a largo ''collection of garden roses from abroad. Among this lot was a "mongrel" Who grew It In Eu rope has never been ascertained, but the fact remains that when planted by Ready It 'produced very large and fragrant blooms. Thomas Fields, a Washington florist, saw It. and was .at tracted by Its color and general ap pearance. To satisfy his fancy, one afternoon while. Ready was absent, he offered his wife- $5 for the single bush. This was a higher price than they had ever obtained, for' a single plant and shejusaped at the chance. Ready when he returned home and foand out about his. wife's business transaction be lieved that she had cheated. Fields, who was their steady customer. Fields, however, experimented with the plant and found that Ic yielded to forcing aad realized" all that ceulii be desired la a. feretag rose. He .samed it the ".Amerteaii.- .Beauty aad prehelIy cleared tftffrtoa-.th'e deal. Ke&dy.'aoday, -still plies his humble trade as a gardener, weeding grass plots, spading gardens and furnishing rich earth for people around town. When Mr. Kramer exhibited the Queen Beatrice at a recent show of the Washington Florists' Club he was awarded a certificate of merit for this rose the first of the kind ever given by that club. The new flower, with Its striking beauty Induced every member to consent to the award. PORTLAND. (These verses were -written by a man -who visited Portland last Summer, after viewing the city from the City Park. Mr. Llndly Is 60 years old. and has lived on a farm all his life.) On Portland Heights T. wond'rlng- stood. And viewed the shimmering sides of Hood; I saw St. Helens crest arise In snowy beauty to the skies: And Adams, with symmetric grace. The northern horizon efface. .How awed. O Mountains, wan my soul I You've seen Pacific's billows roll. Through age on age. and vied Rainier. And Shasta In the expanse drear. Lords ot the scene which with amaze Enthralled my transitory gazec Tireless. In long dread, watch you stood. While the Imprisoned Inland 'flood Wore mile-deep channels In the rocks. Throws up by earth's primeval Hhbcka. And let Columbia flow free. In matchless grandeur to the sea. The farthest backward view ot man Through history la but a span A finger's breadth of that vast time Since, from your 'lonely heights subllms, You've calmly towered midst chaos rude. A wild. Insentient solitude. But now aspirins', eager man Invades your ancient. lone domain. No power has ho earth's crust to rend. And upward lofty mountains send; But skill to spread mild beauties o'er The scene where Titans wrought before. He lifts your wasting- waters, and Feeds them to the thirsty land: They laugh and bless his genlar toil. -. With richest products of the soli. And make the sterile, desert place ' l A blooming- eden in the waste. ' With fruit and grain your fertile hills He decks, and all your valleys fills With gracious homes. By fortune led. To where her gifts are thickest spread. In happy hour he chose the ground Whereon he grandly builds his town. Portland! even now my bosom thrills With fancies, which my memory builds. Of flower-decked lawns. green-spreading;. trteSt And o'er the perfume-laden breeze i From gardens such as Ullton'.i eyes. In vision, saw In Paradise. Again I see, spread at my feet. The city's squares and busy street; Her parks by primal forests' towered, ' Her cots and mansions, rose-embowered; And stately palaces of trade. The commerce of a world has made. ' - Upon Willamette He at ease., '' Rich freighted voyagers of the seas.. O'er her broad breast by bridges - spanned. Steam-quickened coursers of the land; . -Pass, to their goal, their Journey, spent. Over a girded continent. Can I 'forget that Summer day. How fair the favored city lay: ' The scent of nearby fragrant flrsw " The far-off mountain rifts aad' sours. The scenes where Tabor's charms 'lla.iweet Or great, remdte-born- rivers meet. Fair city of my own fair land. Serene amid thy mountains . stand. Thy beauteous home forever -keeo. And "harvests of "thy rivers' reap. Fair art thou, hut alert and stress:. The batlar iwart ot Orwrea. . " . .' LUCIEN' B. IONDX.T. Tratm. MiaseseUt. 4 if