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CONTEST BEGINS TO
THOUSANDS SPENT
Oil OAKS THIS YEAR
MAN ONCE PENNILESS
NOW THEATRICAL KING
Marcus Loew, Eight Years After Start, Becomes Most Powerful Factor in
Vaudeville World Through Purchase of Sullivan-Considino Circuit.
PICK QUEEN OF FETE
Rose Festival Directors Hold
Voting Competition to
Select Ruler and Suite.
Auditorium Now Will Seat Be
tween 4000 and 5000
Persons at Park.
TOUR OF WEST OFFERED
NO LIQUOR WILL BE SOLD
Eleven Maids of Honor to Share Re
wards Newspapers AVill Print
Ballots, Which Also Will Be
Sold Fire for Five Cents.
For the selection of the reigning
beauty of the Rose Festival, who shall
be known as Queen Rosa and preside
at the leading social and other public
functions during the festive season, a
voting contest will be conducted by
the . Festival management. Not only
win a queen be chosen in competition,
"but she will be surrounded by a court
of 11 maids-of-honor. to be picked
from the list of candidates receiving
the next highest popular vote.
As an inducement to get out a heavy
vote, the queen and her court will be
Kiven a 10-day tour at the expense of
the Rose Festival, the junket to be in
the nature of a boosting trip to in
vite other cities to come here for the
celebration in June.
Swing ThrouRh Vet la Planned.
This tour will start from Portland
the latter part of May and will include
a swing through the Northwest, around
to Salt Lake, to Southern California, to
San Francisco and back home. Ar
rangements are being made for special
entertainment and other boosting
Ktunts at Tacoma, Seattle, North Yaki
ma, Spokane, Salt Lake and a number
of California cities.
The election will be a double-barreled
affair, so as to give it wider lat
itude in the way of nominating candi
dates and swelling the vote for tha
favorites.
One portion of the contest will be
conducted through the daily papers,
each one of which will carry a coupon
rlaily. This coupon when cut out. filled
in with the candidate's name and de
posited, at Rose Festival headquarters.
428 Morgan building, will be good for
five votes. The same form of coupon,
good for five votes, will be sold at
the contest committee's headquarters at
the same place at the rate of five
votes for 1 cent.
Context Begins at Once.
Nominations of candidates may be
made by any club, store or other or
ganization by registering the name at
the Festival offices. Among those who
hae already signified their intention
r-t putting a candidate in the field are
the following:
The Telephone Club.
Harriman Club.
Lfpman. ''Wolfe & Co.
The Ad Club.
F.lectric Club.
Kast Side Business Men's Club.
Progressive Business Men's Club.
Sunnyside Parent-Teachers' Associa
tion. Ladies' Auxiliary of the North Port
land Commercial Club.
Ladles' Auxiliary A. O. H.
United Artisans.
Kniehts of Columbus.
Women of Woodcraft.
Loyal Order of Moose.
This list may be extended to any
longth. The campaign is to be brief
and spectacular. The contest manage
ment has closed arrangements for a
palatial Pullman car, which will be
the "home" of the queen and her
maids of honor during their tour.
All traveling expenses will he paid.
o that the trip will be absolutely free
to the 12 young women. A chaperone
will be provided for the party. The
contest will start immediately and will
continue till Saturday night. May 16.
SING LEE'S GAME NIPPED
Sergeant Ttobson Arrests Chinese
Gambler While Perfecting Den.
Police Sergeant Robson put an ef
fective quietus on a. proposed big
t'hlnese gambling game, at 287 Kverett
street, yesterday, when he arrested
Sing Lee. the alleged proprietor of the
game, for remodelling tha building
without a permit from the city building
Inspector.
Robson received word that Sing had
been sent from Seattle to open the
place. He found that the Chinese had
no permit to remodel the building. Sing
paid $25 fine in Municipal Court
The place at 285-287 Everett "street
has been vacant since three years ago
when the biggest gambling den in a
Pacific Coast Chinatown was closed
within a few days after opening by
an all-night raid of the police, who
arrested 9S Chinese.
OBERLIN MAN HERE SOON
AV. F. Bohn, Assistant to President
King, to Speak April 18.
TV. F. Bohn. assistant to President
Henry Churchill King, of Oberlln Col
lege, will be in Portland Saturday
evening, April 18. to address the Oregon
Oberlln Atnmnl lecn.uun -. .
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nual dinner and meeting to be held at
oaoti in me I. vv. u. A. In addi
tion to Mr. Bonn's address the pro
gramme contains other interesting fea
tures. The present officers of the associa
tion elected at the last annual meeting
are: President. E. C. Dve of Oregon
City; vice-president. C. H. Miller, of
Hood River: treasurer. Miss Alberta
L'orv: aecrctftrv. M(ca Va a .t- i i
and correspondent, G. E. Murphy. The
wicswii ABBycmiiun inciuaes in its large
membership not only alumni, but ex
students and other friends of the col
lege as well.
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MARCUS LOEW, WHO BKCOMES lillKATEST FIGI RK IV THEATItl
CAL, WOULD THHOt ;H PCHCHASR OF SI.1.I.IVAX
t'OXSlDIK CIRCVIT.
HOME GARDEN CULTIVATED
riots of Lents Pupils Said to Be Re-
celving Studions Attention.
Lents School has a club or 145 boys
and girls engaged in home garden
work, and it is found that more value
and more interest are attached to this
home work than the community gar
den. Principal Horshner thinks more
interest is taken by parents, better gar
den plots are chosen and that there Is
more reward for the individual pupil
wno appends on his own efforts.
Mrs. Iarnall is assisting and nlannin
the experimental work on the school
grounds. Miss Ziegler is directing the
sweet-pea growing.
Xew Plat Is Kiled.
M. tx Lee last week filed a plat of
-oiiins lew Tract. It embraces
acres in South Portland, just south of
Carson Heights. . The property will be
eold on in one and two-lot Darcels.
making provision for a large number
NEW YORK. April 4. (Special.)
As a result of his purchase of the
Sullivan-Considine circuit a short
time ago in Kansas City, Marcus Loew,
hitherto vaudeville - king of the East,
becomes the most powerful man in the
world in theatricals. A little more than
eight years ago Marcus Loew was ab
solutely penniless.
Marcus Loew was born on the East
Side in New York, at the corner of
Fifth street and Avenue JB. where a
$1,000,000 theater, a monument to his
skill, now stands. At the age of 6,
together with scores of other little
East Side boys, he started to fight the
world alone and unaided as a news
boy. He became successively a printer,
haberdasher's assistant, fur-trimmer
and dealer, and then invested a little
money in a penny arcade.
I'lunKf Ik Taken.
He made and lost money and flnallv
plunged all he had and could borrow
and bought a real theater, where he
first started a vaudeville and motion-
picture houe. That was eight years
ago. He now controls and owns more
tnan lli theaters. comprising the
argest vaudeville or theatrical circuit
n the world. He is many times a mil
lionaire. He is said to employ more
persons than any other one man and
his salary list exceeds that of most
corporations. His personal wealth Is
estimated at $37.000,000. His property
holdings and his business interests
mount up into hundreds of millions.
The wonderful part of it all is that
Mr. Loew is just beginning. He is con
stantly building new theaters and buy
ing others, while scores of owners of
theaters all over the country are asking
him to book their houses.
He is a small man, not yet 44 years
old, tho youngest of all the theatrical
magnates. He is modest and unassum
ing and a quiet dresser. He is devoted
to his wife and his twin sons.
He has shown genius in selecting
men for his assistants. As general
manager he has Nicholas M. Schenck.
His general treasurer Is David Bern
stein, who is said to know more about
motion pictures than any man In New
York. The manager of the gigantic
booking department of the Loew enter
prises in New York is Joseph M.
Schenck. a specialist in his line. Sam
uel H. Meinhold Is the detail man. who
hires all the employes in all Loews
theaters and routes and advertises the
big picture features. Jack Ooldberg
assists Joseph M. Schenck with the
booking of acts.
The result of the big deal will be
better shows for the same money. Loew
will- Introduce his own policy. The
fact that lie is in a position to offer
an art two years of continuous work
will bring to him some of the greatest
acts, which will appear for less than
they have ever worked for because of
the continuous booking.
of residences. Mr. Lee recently placed
a similar addition on the market known
as "Kirkpatrick Tract."
CAMPAIGN MEETING SET
Thomas B. Kay and P. If. D'Arcy to
Speak Before "Women's Club.
The first of a series of campaign
eetings will be held in the neutral
Library on Saturday. April 11. under
the auspices of the State Woman's Re
publican Club. Thomas B. Kay. State
Treasurer, and P. H. D'Arcy, candidate
for Republican nomination for Justice
in the Supreme Court, will be among
the speakers. Two other speakers will
be secured.
The club's publicity committee has
announced that they probably will hold
iwo meetings a week till election. The
motto of the meetings will be. "Few
speakers, with plenty of time for each."
Mrs. Laura B. Bartlett, president of
the club, will preside.
Permit Issued for $7000 Dwelling.
A permit was issued Friday to O. TV.
Olsen for the erection of a $7000 two
story frame dwelling at 631 Heights
Terrace, between Sixteenth and Sev
enteenth streets. The builder is Earl
Roberts.
LIFE SENTENCE IS PASSED
Dzokor Biduff to Pay Penalty for
Murder of Jessie Wilson.
Sentence of imprisonment in the
penitentiary for life was passed on
Dzokor Biduff. convicted murderer of
Jessie Wilson, yesterday by Circuit
Judge Kavanaugb. before whom Biduff
was tried. George Hohoff. indicted
jointly with Biduff for the murder of
the woman January 3, pleaded guilty
several weeks ago to second-degree
murder, and is serving a life sentence.
Jessie Wilson was found dead in her
room at 327 Front street. January 3.
with her throat cut from ear to ear.
Biduff and Hohoff were arrested that
night, and charged with the crime.
Both confessed they were in the build
ing at the time the woman was killed,
each saying that the other was guilty.
Hohoff admitted that he had held the
girl while Biduff used the knife. Biduff
denies thia saying that he was in an
adjoining room when Hohoff killed
her.
SACRAMENTO CRITIC PRAISES MUSICAL ORGANIZATION.
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"The distillation of music in Its highest form" is the phrase a
Sacramento critic used to express his admiration for the playing of
the Flonialey String Quartet, which comes to Portland Monday, April
27, direction of Lois Steers-Wynn Coman. The concert Is to be given
in the Helllg.
"The quartet's work is the perfection of art wrapped In a cloak of
simplicity, and modesty," continues the Sacramento Bee. "No pyro
technics to catch the fancy and imagination, bat an entire evening of
serious music thought out by a master mind so understood in all Its
wonderful meaning, and so convincingly given that it could not fall
to reach the hearts and minds of the audience.
"Perfection of art embraces all the material completeness of the
workih? absolute unity of the whole. But. satisfying as was the
finished detail to the ear, there was still something deeper that went
beyond and formed a resting-place in one's inner consciousness. It
was rare, and for all its beauty, left one breathless and wordless."
Bigsest Electric Stove In Portland to
Be Placed for Benefit of Tliose
Who Would Enjoy Picnics In
Riverside Beauty Spot.
When the gates of the Oaks Amuse
ment Park are thrown open late in
May visitors will find a greater trans
formation than has been seen at the
Oaks any year since the Lewis and
Clark Fair.
Thousands of dollars have been ex
pended bringing the park thoroughly
up io date, perhaps the most notable
change Is the work done on the audi
torium which was built originally at a.
cost of $30,000.
With the exception of the stage, the
auditorium is now open on all aides.
The whole building has been lowered
10 feet. Up to a height of 20 feet the
sides have been taken out and the
building now will seat between 4000
and 5000 persons.
Stage SU1I Enclosed.
The stage and stage boxes are still
enclosed completely, so that audiences
and productions will be sheltered both
from chill river breezes and from the
elements. One Interesting feature ia
that the acoustics of the old building,
which have been described as the fin
est on the Pacific Coast, are preserved.
Gordon Kennedy, an acoustics en
gineer, whom John F. Cordray. man
ager of the Oaks, engaged from New
York to supervise the work, left last
night with the assurance that the audi
torium in its new form Is almost unequalled.
There is said to be but one buildina:
like It In the country. The floor, packed
hard, has a regular pitch towards the
stage and will neat 3500 persons under
the roof. The balcony, which will be
entered by 20-foot staircases on both
of the outer sides of the building, will
accommodate 120 more. Wings of cir
cus awning will be thrown out from
the sides and rear of the building so
that an additional 1000 or 1500 more
seats can be provided in case of emer
gency on big days.
All band performances will be given
in this building; vaudeville perform
ances and other attractions will be
staged there. No admission will be
charged at any time and Mr. Cordray
believes he has found the solution of
making the Oaks attractive in fair
weather or foul. The old bandstand
has been lowered and turned Into a
picnic placa Masked with shrubbery
It furnishes a retreat where meals may
be served.
A forester from the Tale School of
Forestry has had charge of the arbo
real work and tree surgery has been
In progress for over a month. The sev
ered branches and smaller trees have
been used to construct a score of rus
tic Summer-houses.
No liquor will be sold at the Oaks
and the former tavern is being con
verted into an old English inn where
meals will be served by the Oaks under
direct supervision. Those who desire
to prepare their own lunches may have
the service free in a retired part of the
grounds of an electric stove, said to
bo the biggest electric stove in Port
land. This Is a new feature.
A novel gardening attempt will be
made to grow orchids In the open, the
beds being warmed by electric coils.
Soil for these beds is now crossing the
continent, coming originally from Co
lombia. Central America.
"I think the Oaks is about to see
its greatest season," said Mr. Cordray.
"I hope roon to be able to announce
some of tho attractions 1 have obtained."
DODGING RULES BARRED
CIVIL SERVICE BOARD PUTS BAN
OX TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS.
Members Think Plan la Overworked
and Adopt Method to Prevent All Ex.
cent Recnlar Employe Getting Pay.
Excepting In cases where no civil
service eligible lists are available, tem
porary appointments of city employes
are to be placed under the ban in the
city service. This was decided yester
day by the Municipal Civil Service
Board, when drastic action along this
line was decided upon because it is be
lieved the temporary appointment plan
is being practiced too frequently and
is proving a detriment to civil service.
It was decided to have the chairman
of the Board. George W. Caldwell, re
fuse to certify to the payroll contain
ing names of persons serving on tern
poraxy appointment when civil service
lists are available. By doing this, the
temporary employes cannot receive
their pay.
The plan of the city service is to
have all employes excepting those In
the Health Bureau and the City Attor
neys office under civil servlco. Com
petitive examinations are held to ob
tain eligible lists.
Complaint was made by John F. Lo
gan, a member of the Civil Servico
Board, that there are many employes
serving temporarily, while persons who
have taken civil service examinations
are waiting for appointment- This is
true, it la said, of the water depart
ment, the police department, the fire
department and the department of pub
lic works.
BROOKLYN CIRCLE MEETS
Address Given in Siamese Costume
by Miss CaruUiers.
The Brooklyn Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation held a meeting Friday in the
assembly hall of that school. Mrs.
Robert Luke presided. "The Life and
Customs of the Siamese" was the sub
ject of an address by Miss Elizabeth
Caruthers, given in Siamese costume-
Miss Alpha IMmick, principal, gave
an informal talk on "The Ungraded
Class and Rotation." She spoke of the
aohool garden work.
An appropriation of $2 was made for
the child welfare work, and $3 for the
Women's Club.
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easily the most widely used and most
successful commercial motor vehicles for
passenger transportation. This supremacy
is the result of intelligent study of the
requirements of Motor Bus and Taxicab
service and of wide experience in build
ing vehicles to meet these requirements.
567 Motor Buses and Taxicabs
Now in Service
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lectured in Salem, en route to Eugene
and other Southern cities; extension
Secretary Blower lectured before the
school or journalism. I'niversity of
Oregon; Professor Proctor delivered a
special illustrated address at Rainier;
Professor Harrington lectured on
"Kipling." in the East Side Library.
Portland: Professor Learnard lectured
on the "Use and Misuse of Dniss." be
fore the United I'arent-Teacher As
sociations, of Forest Grove and vicinity.
Next week more than 20 audiences
will be entertained by Pacific Uni
versity men in extension work.
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Bungalow Land I'urclmscd.
The Metropolitan Investment Com
pany last week bought six lota In Er
rol Heights from the Joseph H. Strow
brldge Estate Company. The purchas
ing company will Improve each lot with
a bungalow.
Alveolar
Dentistry
ETJMrNATEH PLATES AND BKIDtiKS
WE DO NOT QUOTE
CUT RATE PRICES
O.N ALVEOI.AR. DENTISTRY
becaua we do not cut-rate the quality of
our work; the profit of our business Is
equalized and Inflexible, as Is the satisfac
tion and service it renders you. There Is no
fluctuation In the market or Alveolar Teeth.
The merit of our system of dentistry has
been scrutinized by the most Incredulous and
not found wanting; In any particular. Many
years of experience have attested Its super
iority and eatlsfaction. In brief It la this:
If you have only three or four good teeth or
pood roots in either Jaw. we will replace all
that are misting, whether In front or back,
by teeth which are strong and natural, with
out bridRework or plates. This would be
Impossible In ordinary dentistry, even if you
had eight or ten teeth to anchor to. Even
In those cartes where no brldgework fa pos
sible, there la no comparison between the
two. in brldgework the strain that la forced
upon the pier teeth hold Ing the bridge la
terrific and must, by Ils construction. In
time loosen those teeth to which it is at
tached and out comes the bridge. This will
happen with a second and third bridge until
all the teeth are destroyed, and finally a
plate is the last reaort. Our method of den
tistry does not onlv iuddIv rou with miMinr
teeth but tenda to preserve those natural
teetn wmcn are atui icit in your mouth. It
would be Impossible to enumerate In this
small space the advantages of our work.
Kor this reason we Invite all of you who
need teeth to call at our offices to Investi
gate the work for yourself, and there will be
no delusions. We aim only to be plain, ex
plicit and honest In our demonstration and
explanation, and to the moat unreasonable
and prejudiced mfnd to carry a tone of con
viction. We will be especially glad to see
those "doirbtlng Thomases," ho have been
unduly prejudiced by the criticisms of other
dentists. We believe In ourselves and in
our ability. we have the courage of our
convictions, which rarely fails to win suc
cess. Remember, that In addition to our spe
cialty. Alveolar dentistry and treating Pyor
rhea loose teeth we are experts Id every
branch of dentistry from the simple filling
up. Examination free.
ALVEOLAR DENTAL CO., DenttMa.
Lot Angeles 336 8. Broadway.
Portland Ahtngton Bid;.. 10V4. 3d.
frceutle Haigrbt Bldg., 2d and Pine.
PACIFIC FACULTY BUSY
Educators From University Address
Several Audiences.
The faculty of Pacific University
much in demand in extension work
Fridajr, President C. J. Bushnell
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