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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1900)
12 THE MOHNING OHEGONTAN. FEIDAT, JUNE 29, 1900. : OLJDS St KING SHOW YOUR COLORS Every Tiome and public building should be decorated with Old Glory for the coming celebration. Our as sortments -were never better nor prices lower than now. Cotton Flags on Sticks 6 Inches to VA feet long. Cotton Bunting Flags Mounted on poles, 4 to 7 feet long. Woo! Bunting Flags 1 to 80 feet long. Silk Flags 2 inches to feet long, "mounted or unmounted. Fourth of July Sale Skirts and Shirt Waists Big Sale of Fancy Silks Every fold of their soft, lustrous beauty is a temptation. At our cut prices they're almost as cheap as cotton fab rics. Fancy Silks "Worth 75c, in innumerable styles and color blendlngs, AQq Vff Swell silks, regularly $1 "TQn VH and ?L25. now ' 7U In line with the silks we offer Point Venlse Laces specw The prettiest possible patterns, la cream and ecru, 2 to 14 Incnes wide. Laces to 12c at 6c; 20c at 10c; 25c at 12c; 40c at 17c; 50c at 24c yard. Laces to 65c at 2Sc; 75c at 33c; H at 57c; JLGO at 75c yard. Bare bargains, and the most popular, dainty and serviceable trimmings of the season for all kinds of fabrics. A little earlier than we usually reduce them, that visitors may enjoy them with the townspeople. Separate Skirts Of white duck, made plain or with cir cular flounce. Same styles of white corded pique. Also with embroidery trimmings. Skirts to JL40 at 55c each. Skirts to n.GQ at L40 each. Materials would cost as much, Ladles' Shirt Waists This season's latest of ma dras, zephyr, dimity, per-1 ) cale, Oxford and organdie, II frf worth to 51.K at ' "vu Light, medium or dark colors in neat stripes, checks and figures. Striking Reductions in Three Ltncs of Millinery Prices that are a revelation to the shrewdest buyers. Ready-to-Wear Hats Latest midsummer styles for street or outings. Plain or fancy trimmed. S1.75 to 12.75 hats at 97c each. $3.03 to tt.50 hats at -8S each. $4.75 to 56.00 hats at $2.19 each. Ladies' Sailor Hats Tou'd not know they were last season's If we didn't tell you. Eight standard styles to pick from. $1.10 to $2.00 sailors only 22c each. Sailors to $L00 only 12c each. Children's Sailor Hats The nobbiest possible shapes and trim mings. "White or colored: 25e to 35c sailors at .17c each 60c to SOc sailors at 25c each $1.00 to $1.75 sailors at 49c each $2.00 to $2.50 sailors at 97c each Don't swelter behind a thick, stiff-bosom shirt when you can be so cool and comfortable In a Mount Hood Negligee Shirt Tho kind that gives you the benefit of the cooling breezes. The correctly built kind, that fits right and don't gall your neck. Mount Hood FOR SUMMER Is the make that for style, workmanship and all other negligee-shirt virtues is Just a little ahead of all others. Our lines of Mount Hood shirts Include every kind wanted for outdoor or business wear, from the comfortable work shirts of sateen, Oxford or cheviot, at 60c each, to the daintiest light weight flannels and madras-ciotns at U, i-2&, fLeO ana up. No man's summer outfit is complete without a supply of Mount Hood Shirts. We are special Portland agents. FLAGS! FLAGS! FLAGS!- Lay In Your Supply Today, Printed Flags on Stick Lot i 4c dozen, 6c dozen,! I2c dozen, 30c dozen. Lot 2 Printed Flags on Sticks, 15c, 18c, 20c, 30c, 45c . each. Cotton Bunting Flags: On stick, i8c, 35c, 50c each; unmounted, 75c, $1.00 each. SAAAAANM BELT SALE-' '150 doxen ladles' belts, pulley, dog collar and buckle; all colors, black, patent, seal and morocco, regular price 35c to DOc, Special 25c 100 dozen ladies' belts, pulley, dog collar and cinch, all colors. In hand carved Mexican burnt leather, seal, patent leather: regular price 75c to &.E0. Special 30c Today only we offer 100 extra fine Crash, Denim and Khaki Separate Skirts Made in newest Summer style, with extra deep nem ana line linisn; regu lar price, $3 and J3.G0; . Special $2.19 each Today Only Silk Flags on Sticks: Lot i 5c, 8c, 12c, 15c, each. Lot 2 25c, 50c, $l'.oo, $1.95 each. Wool Bunting Flags: Lot ,1 $1.80 to $340 each. Lot 2 $3.95 to $5.75 each. At these prices they will nt last lens Lay In yeur supplys today. Bathing Suits For women and girls. Stylish and ef fective combinations and good fabrics, and reliable workmanship. Ladles' bathing suits, $1.50. J2.75, JS, I. Misses' and Children's bathing suits. NOTION DEP'T - ' OutlnQ Specials Paper Picnic Plates, Be doren. Paper Napkins, 15c, 35c per 100. Candles, 25c dozen. Alcohol Stoves. 15c, ISc each. Shelf Paper, 5c piece. Toothpicks. 4c box. Clauss Knife Sets, 15c set. Good quality white metal knives, forks and spoons. e$c. Tea Spoons, 30c dozen. Table Spoons, 50c dozen. Table Forks, 60c dozen. Table Knives, 91 dozen. Bathing Caps and Shoes. All Trimmed and R cady-to-Wear MILLINERY At Greatly Reduced Prices 579th Friday Surprise Sale! TODAY ONLY American Flags $1.37 EACH Shoe Specials ' " Ladies' Tan Bicycle Shoes; T) 'XfX per pair S",JJ Ladles' Tan Shoes, vicl kid. a r- vesting tops; coin toes; ) If- Regular $3; per pair p4JJ Ladles' Tan Oxford Ties, $1 A3 vesUng tops; per pair P " Ladies' Suits Exclusive Novelties in Den im, Burlap and Organdy, at Greatly Reduced Prices. Bee display in Fifth-street window. Basement Specials S-inch Tin Pie Plates; each.. 12c- 5-inch pellow Pudding Dish. Opal "Water Set, consisting of , Pitcher and six tumblers; ffC per set UUW UP TO THE NEXT COUNCIL QUESTION OF EXPENDING BICYCLE TAX MONEY. Commissioners Have 3fe Rlarkt to Construct Paths en tke Streets Wheelmen "Will Act. "Whether or not the wheelmen of Port land are to have the city paths they are clamoring for depends on the action of the next Council. The Commissioners have no power to build paths anywhere Inside the city limits. The money collect ed for taxes last year has been practically all expended. Ninety-eight miles of smooth cycle ways, leading to almost every quarter of the county, furnish proof to any one who cares to look for It that this money accomplished some thing. Now the wheelmen think there are paths enough in the country, for the present at least. They -want to be able to ride on the streets without being mired every other block, and they aro not dis posed to give up their money for taxes unless they feel assured that they will be able to do so. This assurance the Commissioners are unable to give them, so the whole question is up to the next City Council. As the present one has but two days more to serve, it is not prob able that It will consume any time in worry about bicycle paths. The Commissioners are disposed to do anything they can to accommodate the -wheelmen. The money is paid by the wheelmen, is of the wheelmen, and they think it should be expended for the wheelmen. If the bicycle riders can per suade the Council to grant the privilege of building paths through-the streets, the Commissioners will very gladly furnish iho money as long as it lasts, and the brains, as long as they are in office, requisite to the task. It is nothing to them whether they build paths on the streets or In the country. It is a good deal to the bicyclists, and more than likely every member of the incoming Council has heard something about their -lews on the subject before this. Tho Bicycle Taxpayers Association will elect a governing council tonight. Tho members of the council whom they choose will make it their business to secure the needed legislation. If such legislation can be secured. The United Wheelmen's As sociation, out of whose ashes the pres ent organization has sprung, succeeded In getting the bicycle tax law through an Indifferent Legislature, and their suc cessors feel that it Is Incumbent upon them to bring the Council to the wheel men's point of lew. As the citizens of Portland at large are about as anxious to have wheelmen provided with somo avenue of travel other than the side walks, as are the riders themselves, the task of persuasion ought not to be dif ficult. Meanwhile, there are mumblings and grumblings among the wheelmen them selves. Last year they paid the tax with apparent willingness.- This year they see that It has become an Institution, and will recur annually like a life insurance premium or the Fourth of July. They are beginning to be afraid of It. The ne cessity of seizing wheels for the non payment of the tax, and the numbers ot wheels that have found their way to the Sheriff's o'fflce shows that the tendency toward resistance is growing. Slany rid ers contend that now the county Is well supplied with paths no more will be built, and they fear the money they pay out for taxes will never Teturn again. "When a man becomes a taxpayer he takes an enduring interest in the expenditure of public money, and the protesters say they feel sure that they are wasting their one twenty-five when they pay it out In an exchange for an aluminum tag, which secures them immunity from mo lestation by the lynx-eyed special col lectors. It Is reported that several wheelmen have clubbed together for the purpose of contesting the law, a proceeding whose magnitude and expense they probably do no fully understand. Others say that they simply will not pay the tax, and that the collectors can seize their wheels and be blanked for all they care. The dis satisfaction is growing, beyond a doubt, and will not be quelled until It becomes apparent how the Commissioners are go ing to dispose of the money the Sheriff Is now collecting for them. As is usual, however, the klckirs are In the minority. The large" number of wheelmen are paying their tax, ami th fund in the Sheriffs hand is grow'ng Something over 6000 tags have been sold, and the untagged bicycle is ujunlly con spicuous on the streets by Its lontHne.ss. The Commissioners have nothing to say about their intention In the matter of the disposition of the money, which Is now coming In. They will explain at length what they have done with the money which has passed through their hands, and they assert that even in case the Council rules paths off the streets there are miles and miles of paths In the coun try suffering to be built enough to use up every cent of this year's money. In addition to this, the keeping up of those already laid Is no 'small Item of expense, and will Increase as the wear of many wheels, and the lashing of many rains erode their surface. But until they sound out the sentiment of the riders they will not commit themselves as to any course they Intend to pursue, and It will prob ably not be till workmen begin to break ground that any intimation will be given of the termini or direction of the new paths. ThoBe who know of the tendency of wheelmen to demand paths in every 'conceivable highway and byway in the country and even out of It. can under stand the method In this secrecy. - As has been stated, since the money from bicycle taxes began to. come In last year, 9S miles of paths have been con structed. The first one built was good, the second better, and the work has Im proved as experience taught the Com missioners better methods of construc tion. The paths which are. now laid, and. which, by the way, are used throughout their entire length by scores and per haps, hundreds of riders daily, are as follows: On Section Line road to Grcsham. 13 miles of double path. 26 miles. From Gresham to Pleasant Home, 6 miles. On Base Line road to Troutdale, 1V& miles of double path, 29 miles. On Grcsham and Falrview road, from Base Line to Gresham, 1 miles double path, three miles- Out Willamette, boulevard, 6 miles. eight-foot path road to Clackamas County line. VA .miles. From East Forty-first street and Haw thorne avenue to Section Line road, one half mile of eight-foot path. From Section Line road on Mllwaukie road to Clackamas County line, three miles of double path, 6 miles. On Macadam road to Rivera (the White House), six miles. On St. Helens boulevard to seven-mile post, seven miles of eight-foot path. On East Twenty-sixth street, from Sec tion Line road to Woodstock. 2& miles. .On) East Twelfth street, from Haw thorne avenue to Mllwaukie road, one half "mile. MAY BE SENT TO CHINA. Transport Lennox Has Not Received v w Final Sailing; Orders. The transport Lennox Is being loaded with hay and oats at the AlasTca dock, and she is expected 'to take on a live cargo of 3S7 horses and 100 mules so as to be ready to sal) neact Tuesday, but for what port Captain Williamson does not yet know. Orders may come at the last minute, to steer for Taku, China, where Uncle Sam thinks he has use for a few cavalrymen in protecting American life and property from the Boxers; or the Lennox may be ordered to steam for-Manila. The vessel has taken two cargoes of horses to the Philippines already, and she Is such a success In transporting stock across the Pacific that Cantata gnwoot pain. - : stocK across tne Pacific that Captain From Base Line to Section Line at I Williamson fears she may be kept in thaJ pwer reservoir.-1 miles. - I business, though he would much preferl lower From Section Line road of Oregon City to transport "dead" cargo. writh uve- Size 5 by 8 "feet, made of extra heavy cotton bunting, fast colors, war ranted not to fade or run. See Display in 5th-Strect Window Six-piece White Toilet Set Toilet Soap Cardinal Rose, a highly per fumed Soap, 3 cakes In box; per box ... $1.39 Specials for Men SUITS All-Wool Cassdmeres, to small checks, very neat; regular price. $12.60; a suit. Fine All-WOol Fancy Wors ted Suits In the latest Sum mer patterns; regular price, $20; a suit Men's Gray Alpaca Coats and Vests; special thJs week for coat and vest..... Men's Wash "Vests, plain or fancy patterns; each Men's Summer weight Merino "Unterwear; natural graj and camel' s-hair colors; per garment........................ New Goods New Neclcwear, a large and rffi choice assortment of Eng- jlIL llsh squares; each An extensive line of Men's Laundered Percale Shirts, $10.37, $16.68 $3.05 $1.29 65c Men's Straw Hats, rough braids, latest siyiea, Men's Yacht Caps, duck and crash, large variety. Shelf Paper Lace Edge Shelf Paper, as sorted colors; iC yards for. ' At Book Counter "Near the Throne," by W. J. Thorold. an exciting story of love, intrigue and ad venture. Publishers' price, $1.25 10c 3c 95c $1, $1.50 and $2 ea .w Hats, rough braids $1 to $2.50 ea :ht Caps, duck and c r. 25c to $1.25 ea Young Men's Suits In all-wool cheviots, black, blue, me dium gray and light gray; sizes, 14 "to 20 years. $8, $10 and $12.50 a suit Boys' Suits Boys' Double-breasted Suits, all-wool checks and mixtures; sizes. 8 to 15 years. $3 and $3.50 a suit Vestee Suits ' Boys' All-Wool Vestee Suits, in dark blue and neat mixtures; sizes, 3 to S years. $3.50 and $4 a suit MEIER 5t FRHNK CO. stock aboard, he is compelled to keep open hatches for ventilation during a storm, but with other freight they can be battened down. If the Lennox is ordered to Manila di rect she can make the trip in 30 days, but if the authorities decide to land the horses for rest and recuperation at some of the islands, 45 days will be required. Tho vessel was fitted up In Portland last year for transporting livestock, and Is well supplied with individual stalls to keep the animals from being injured by the rolling of the ship In a rough sea. The hay and oats taken aboard amounts to 500 tons. The horses and mules sent this time have been purchased In the East. ON THE BANKS OF THE COLUM BIA. The O. R. & N. has adopted a round trip rate of 50 cents for Sunday excur sions, Portland to Bonneville and return. Special train leaves Union Depot Sunday, at 9:30 A. M., and returns same evening. All the delightful picnic and fishing places at your disposal; train stops at option of passengers. 0. R. & N. TRAIN FOR BONNE VILLE Picnic grounds leaves Union Depot, 9:30 A. M., Sunday. Special rate, 50 cents round trip. "View the magnificent Colum bia Biver scenery. Fine music. The Store of the Town Notes Today.... Negligee Shirts Here you'll find- the largest and best assortment in Portland. We have all kinds that are" good and stylish in so many different patterns that to describe them would be impossible. Scotch Cheviot, Scotch Madras, French Percale and Silk are the best materials. We bought only a few shirts of each pattern, for a man doesn't want to see the same kind of shirt he is wearing ten times in a square's walk. The prices range from 50c to $2.50. Summer Underwear We have all kinds that are good. All the reliable makes. Our reputation for "quality" will not permit us to keep the shoddy. Sizes are here to fit you properly, for there is nothing so uncomfortable in warm weather as ill-fitting underwear. There is price range enough to suit anv size purse; $500, $i.oo, $1.25, $1.50, $2.00 to 5.00 a garment. Straw Hats Ev- Here is the most complete stock you have ever seen. All new. Not an old hat in it. erytning fashionable in rough and smooth braids, soft and stiff brims. Dignified and quiet styles, swell and swagger effects. Literally all that's wanted, and ' the most satisfying low prices; 50c to $3.00 for Men's Straw Hats. lYI ell S iCQO ra li a IS Black, brown and all the new light shades, $i. 50 to $3.00; lYieil S tjiannel OllltS single- or double-breasted; new patterns; $7.50 to $10.50. !"' (Vien s oiimmer otiits $10.00, $12.00, $15.00, $18.00 and $20. Including all the latest light-weight fabrics. All-wool Homespuns, Fancy Tweeds and Worsteds, and a large variety of strictly unfadable Blue Serges. . 7f" :-y WHEN YOU SEE IT IN OUR AD IPS SO MOYER CLOTHING CO POPULAR-PRICE CLOTHIERS BFN SELLING, Manager COR. THIRD AND OAK STREETS NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY THEM. GREAT SALE Or Mi Sit Waists FOR FRIDAY AND SATUR DAY ONLY Extra Fine "White or Colored Cotton Shirt "Waists, made of the finest materials manufactured, in the most up-to-date styles: the fit and finish of these waists are guaranteed to be the best. They sell regularly for 51 33, $1.50 and $1.75, Special $1.15 THE SILVERFIELD FUR MANUFACTURING CO. LEADING FUIUtlEKS OF THE AVEST. Highest Price Paid for Itmv Furs. Send For Price 1.1st. 283-285 Morrison St. PORTLAND, OR. 38 YEARS THE STANDARD 1 1 B",,I T-$A ill I IL, J& 1 1 " .s'8 ""t SIG. SICHEL & CO. 92 THIRD STREET, PORTLAND DISTRIBUTERS Special Inducements to Dealers. Yrite for Price and S.amples. Library Association of Portland STAM STREET tehreta ScvtaU mi Tut 24,000 volumes and over 200 periodicals $5.00 a year or S150 a quarter Two books allowed on all subscriptions KOUR5 From 9tf0 A, M. to ftOO P. M. dally, except Sundays and hofidaw. Xon-Commlttal Jargon. "Sounding phrases, glittering general ities, and non-committal Jargon fill this platform of Republicanism, and make it absurd as a plea for the support of the Nation." comments the Boston Traveler, (Ind. Hep.). "As a panegyric of self-esteem, it Is to be commended for Its cour age. As an enunciation of principles to secure the confidence of the American people, it is specious and disappointing." WMMSOMEES THE MORROW COASTER BME fits Any Cycle. For Sole By All Dealers. ict "Well Enough Alone. Springfield (111.) Journal. "The American people want no change noTT." says the New York Times, an Independent Journal. 'Eyerybody who takes observations of their present tem per can see that." When the country Is mnra Virnrwrm than wpr Vwfnri It is the part of wisdom to let well enough j " r eo.ice BicrctTco ELstiA.rr7. 1 alone. DISTRIBUTORS FRED T. MERRILL CYCLE CO.