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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1919)
IS THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 14, 1019. "ITClTBEDOfE" CRY ALL CLOTHIERS Retail Price of $24.50 for . Suit Held Too Low. WHOLESALE COSTS ARE UP Verdict of Fair Price Committee at Chicago Is Held Absurd by Dealers in Portland. "Absurd'." "Preposterous:" "Impos sible!" "It can't be done'." These and similar exclamations of equal emphasis were voiced yester day by Portland clothiers after di gesting a news dispatch from Chi cago to the effect that the Chicago "fair price" committee had set $24.50 as the fair price for men's suits and overcoats. ' With but a few isolated exceptions there is not a clothing store in Port land selling men's suits and overcoats as low as J34.50, while those stores which have priced these articles at this figure franly admit it is only on old stocK where there are but a few suits left. "It is absurd to say that $24.50 is to be set as a fair price for suits or overcoats." said Ben Selling. ' "It simply cannot be done. For example, we have but recently purchased a supply of suits and light overcoats for eiirly spring delivery and the very cheapest wholesale price we were able to get was $30. Many of these suits we purchased for as high as $60 wholesale. Of course it would be possible for us to sell these suits for $4.50, but we most assuredly would not remain in business. Even a phi lanthropist couldn't remain solvent for any length of time if he attempted to sell merchandise from 25 to 100 per cent less than it cost wholesale." Average Cost 945 Wholesale. C. G. Mathis, clothier, was even more emphatic in his protest of the Ohicago "fair price" prices than were the other clothiers. Having returned less than two weeks ago from east ern jobbing and manufacturing cen ters, he said he personally knew that men's suits and overcoats cannot even be manufactured at the price named as a reasonable retail price by tlie Chicago commission. "While in the east, I purchased more than 2000 suits for early spring delivery and the average cost was more than $45 wholesale," he said. "But to say that men's serviceable suits can be purchased for $24.50 is a libel against clothing manufacturers and an insult to men the country over." Samuel Rosenblatt is another clothier who adds his protest against the findings of the Chicago commis sion, for, upon a recent trip to New York and Chicago, he found that clothing prices are not only advanc ing but the manufacturers unable to supply the unprecedented' demand. Baaemeat Bargains Held Junk. "It is true that in some of the base ment departments of the larger east ern department stores you can find men's clothing selling as low as $24.50 or even lower," he said. "But it is most assuredly not the sort of ap parel that could be called service able. "Those stores which are sell ing suite at that price are celling junk; the kind of stuff they peddle to Russians and other immigrants who still wear shawls over their heads." "It is true that the prices as named by the Chicago fair-price committee can be met in Portland and elsewhere, but it would give the consumer a very inferior quility of goods," eaid W. P. Olds, of Olds, Wortman & King. "If we attempted to sell goods of that in ferior grade in our store we would soon lose our patronage. Julius Lt Meier, of the Meier & Frank Department store, refused even to discuss the' Chicago ' news dis patch, dismissing the prices listed as an "absurdity" and all out of reason. Other ' Stores' Py 'Much.' ' ' Investigation yesterday showed that except for men's suits and over coats and women's shoes, the fair price list of the. .Cbleaso. .cqmmUtcq can be met in Portland. Shoe stores agree that women's shoes can be pur chased for as low as $4.95, the Chi cago "fair pri?e'" qubtatfon, but they are silent as to the quality. Likewise, in the department stores can be found women's hosiery, .fox. .25. . cents, and even less, women's suit3 for $25 and less, women's underwear for $1.25 and less, men's underwear for $1.35 and less, women's coats for $13.90 and less and boys' suits for $5.90 and less. In every instance, goods quoted in Portland at prices lower than set by the Chicago fair store committee are regular lines which are being offered t regular prices rather than at spe cial tales. But so far as men's suits are con cerned, the Portland clothiers peruse the Chicago dispatch and throw up their hands in despair. For, so far as selling a suit at $24.50 retail, they are all agreed that there "ain't, no tsuch animal." VINEGAR MAN CONVICTED St. Helens Cannery Manager la Charged With Violating Dry Law. ST. HELENS, Or.. rec. 13. (Spe cial.) Circuit court closed a two wceks' session today. The principal case tried this week was that of the plate versus L. Rosasco charged with the unlawful possession of intoxicat ing liquors. Rosasco, who is manager of the St. Helen's Cannery company. MOTEL PLAZA 5AN FRANCISCO f ? was arrested in a raid October 17. when the sheriff gathered in several Italians who had grape wine and fer menting juice in their possession. All except Rosasco pleaded guilty and were fined $25 each. Rosasco said he was making vine gar for commercial purposes and for use in his cannery. His counsel con tended that there was no law against making vinegar which contained more than one-half of 1 per cent alcoholic content by volume. Rosasco said that if the vinegar or wine had not been molested, that it would have soon turned into vinegar. The analysis of the state chemist showed that the liquors ranged from 3 per cent to 15 per cent In alcohol. After sev eral .hours' deliberation, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty, but found Rosasco not guilty of a viola tion of the prohibition law with sev eral barrels of wine taken from him and which he proved he had before the prohibition law went into effect. That portion of the wine, 76 gallons, was ordered returned to him. The trial of the case and the de fense brought up a new question in the prohibition law and it is intimated that a new trial will be asked or an appeal taken. George Corll was also charged with violating the prohibition law. It was proved that he had sold apple cider containing 7 per cent alcohol. A light fine was imposed. Health First for Oregon Buy Red Cross Christmas Seals SURGEONS CLOSE SESSION SPOKANE CHOSEN' AS PLACE FOR NEXT MEETING. North Pacific Association Dele gates Make Addresses on Meth ods of Treatment. After a two days' session, during which a dozen papers of technical value were given by delegates, the eighth annual meeting of the North Pacific Surgical association closed here yesterday. The conference opened Friday morning in the Portland hotel, and sessions were held Friday morn ing and afternoon and yesterday morning and afternoon, with a ban quet Friday night at the Arlington club. Spokane yesterday was chosen as the meeting place of the ninth an nual session to be held next year. Six addresses featured the confer ence yesterday, all of a highly tech nical character and dealing with the surgical treatment of various types of diseases and ailments. The ad dresses were as follows: Morning session "Surgery vs. Ra dium or X-Ray in Treatment of Uter ine Fibroids," by Dr. A. A. Matthews: "The Treatment of Prolapsus Uteri." by Dr. H. P. Marshall; "Modern Views on Bone Regeneration, With Special Considerations on the Effects of Sep sis on Osteo-Genesis," by Dr. E. A. Rice; "Fracture of the Os-Calcis and Astragalus." by Dr. J. F. O'Shea. Afternoon session "Injuries of the Acromio-Clavicular Articulation," by Dr. Otis B. Wight; "Prostatic Ambu lant Post-Operative Management," by Ir. A, E. Rockey. No paper was presented Friday night, as Dr. Alfred Raymond of Se attle, who was on the programme to talk upon the subject, "The Life and Work of Ambrois Pare," died sudden ly about ten days ago. CARS OF APPLES FROZEN Freeze Causes Serious Losses In Hood River District. HOOD RIVER, Or.. Dec. 13. CSne- clal.) The unprecedented cold weath er here has undoubtedly caused a fur ther loss from frozen apples. Thou sands of boxes remain stored at val ley points. Growers who had base ments or well protected packing houses will experience no loss, but fruit in insecure sheds will be nipped. In instances city residents report vegetables frozen in basements where there are furnacee. The freeze has seriously hampered the Hood River Vinegar company's plant, where apples are received from cars in a large concrete flume. The flume is frozen solidly, and several cars of apples on sidings are as hard as rocks. Apples stored in bins have their top layers frozen. S. & H. Green stamps for cash. Holman Fuel Co. Main 353. 660-2L Adv. AMD 'MLTM MO A We're Making This Christmas Diamond Christmas! Open Evenings Till Christmas V Km i a A RONSON'S is playing Santa Claus to a host this Christmas. There's lively selling at the diamond counters as well as throughout the whole cheerful, sparkling store! There's so much to see, one can give only a hint of it here. Suppose you come and look around. Take all the time you like well serve you when you are ready to be served. These are some of the lovely, much-to-be-desired things you'll see at Aronson's: Diamond Rings unusual values at $25, $50, $75, $100, $125, $150 Lovely Diamond Cluster Rings from $50 to $1000 Diamond-and-Platinum Bracelet Watches $100 to $1200 Diamond Bar Pins $50 to $1000 Exclusive Platinum Mountings for Diamonds Delightful Christmas Gifts Howard, Hamilton, Waltham, and Elgin Watches Bracelet Watches in Solid Gold, or Gold-filled Cases . Strings of Richelieu, La Tausca, and Orienta Pearls Fitted Traveling Bags $20 to $175 Parisian Ivory Toilet Sets and Individual Pieces Toilet Ware in Sterling Silver Beaded and Velvet Bags Exclusive Umbrellas $5 to $35 JEWELERS- 6 flusvtytanSYreetafBivadhhy pti i t i i i urtnrznrj i i i 1 SEW L I- Vi'V RATE HEARINGS ARE SET Oregon Public Service. Commission to Consider Applications. SALEM, Or., Dec. 13. (Special.) Members of the Oregon public service commission will pass December 22 at Philomath, where they will hear the application of the Philomath Tele phone company for an increase In rates. On December 29 the commis sion will consider the application of the Sumpter Valley railroad for an increase in passenger and freight charges and the complaint filed by the Baker White Pine Lumber company against the Sumpter Valley Railroad company. The Baker White Pine Lumber com pany charges that the railroad cor poration has insufficient motive pow er to handle its products and that alleged discriminatory methods on the part of the railroad have caused financial loss to the plaintiffs. terman of this ci'.y. The purchaser plans to erect stores and flats along the Killingsworth frontage and to re- model the ten-room dwelling on the property into flats. The considera tion was given as $7000. Vale Woman Sells City Property. Samuel Baker, realty dealer, yes terday announced the sale of property at the corner of Killingsworth ave nue and Albina street by Barbara Mc Gilllvray of Vale, Or., to S. B. Wes- - f j jliiiiiir' AT UNION SQUARE The Plaza gives the best values in the three impor tant things in hotel ac commodations LOCATION . SERVICE RATES European, from $1.50 up. With bath $2.00 CARL SWORD, Manager A Name To Remember HOVENDEN When You Want a High-Grade Piano at a Reasonable Price fegEfrt A true home is a musical home, and the Ivers & Pond player piano enables you, yourself, to play your own kind of music, class ical, folk-songs or jazz. The money that would otherwise be spent in seeking pleasure, will soon pay for it. And it will always be yours. Hovenden Piano Co. 146 PARK STREET, Bet. 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