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THE MOBNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JALTTABY' 6, 1902.
A LIYELY CAGKLE
Mr. Gorham's Views on Poul
try Sharply Resented.
POULTRY EXPERTS SPEAK OUT
Secretarr of the State Pomltrr As
sociation States Conditions Un
der IVhicli the Chicken Bhs.1
bcbb ' Is Profitable.
, PORTLAND, Jan. 4. (To the Editor.)
I 'wish to make a few statements In an
swer to the article appearing in the Sat
urday morning issue of your paper, set
ting forth why poultry-raisins upon a
.wholesale basis does not pay.
.Mr. Gorham gives out some very mis
leading statements, calculated to injure
.the poultry business of this locality, es
pecially of the plant with -which ho was
.connected. While a great many people
aiot familiar with the facts of the case
jnight be impressed with what Mr. Gor
Jiam says, anybody with a reasonable
amount of good horse sense and some ex
perience In poultry-raising knows these
statements are misleading.
Mr. Gorham two years ago did not know
a. hen from a duck, but ho got the "chick
En fever," and wanted to Invest "any
amount" of capital in the venture,, and
iad. it figured out on paper that by In
vesting a few hundred dollars 4000 to 5000
broilers could be turned out monthly the
ilrst season; but disappointment awaited
ilm, as it will any one who Imagines such
results can be attained in 12 months' time
this being the actual length of time Mr.
Gorham was Interested In the poultry
iusineES and by the investment of a few
Hundred dollars.
ilr. Gorham's statement is calculated to
do the poultry industry an injury. Just
at the close of the most successful poul
try show ever held in the Northwest.
It 1b true a great many obstacles will
.be met Btartinff in the poultry business, for
It is a business that takes time and cap
ital to put on a paying basis. This Mr.
.Gorham expected to do the first season.
There are a great many large plants In
the East in, successful operation, but they
.were never put into such condition in
jona or two years' time, and they havo
invested in them from $GO00 to $100,000.
I want to say further that this plant Is
still in operation, and in a fair way to
make a success, notwithstanding Mr.
Gorham's statement that it has ended In
p. dismal failure. F. M. MOORE.
Chicken. Industry Slakes Happy
Homes.
PORTLAND, Or., Jan. 4. (To the Edi
tor.) Tour article of Saturday entitled
"Profit In Poultry," is rather amusing
when it Is taken into consideration that
the gentleman whose opinions are quoted
had only 12 months, experience in the
poultpy business.
In reading the article one realizes that,
while Mr. Gorham. is a fine railroad man,
and represents a magnificent road, yet
when he embarked in the poultry business
he evidently entered upon a line which
he absolutely knew nothing about.
I can name several breeders around
Portland who are making more money
breeding poultry than it is possible for
them to earn in any other avocation of
life in -which they may obtain positions.
However, I do not claim that it is possible
for them to draw from this soured Incomes
as munificent as the salary Mr. Gorham
enjoys from his railroading. Judging
from the manner In which he engaged
in the business he was one of tbope who
looked upon the boom side of the industry
and expected to see the golden shekels
come rolling In by the barrel; and when he
was disappointed in this respect he
evidently became discouraged, and at the
same time panicky, with the result that he
came out with a sad experience in the
poultry Industry.
It takes something besides a lead pen
cil and blank paper to make the poulary
industry profitable. It takes intelligent
study, and it takes Intelligent care. With
these an excellent competence may be
obtained. It is a living that will make
many happy homos, and at the same time
give occupation to thousands of people.
C. D. MINTON, Salem.
From the Secretary of the State
Ponltrr Association.
PORTTjAND, Jan. 4. (To the Editor.)
"Wholesale Chicken Breeding Doesn't
Pay," was interesting reading, but so very
apt to be misleading, that you will oblige
J the writer if you will publish a few facts
regarding the matter. I have never met
Mr. Gorham, but am personally well ac
quainted with his associate, who fur
nished the experience. In fact Mr. Moore
talked with me relative to establishing
said model plant beforo he left his occu
pation (driving a laundry wagon), asking
if it could be made to pay, etc I frankly
told him not as a business at first, but as
an accessory, it could be made a success.
I warned him of rocks the "ship" might
wreck on. It looked fine on paper, and
Interesting men "with capital, they did
establish the best plant I have seen west
of the Missouri River, and in the hands of
a practical man it can undoubtedly be
made to pay dividends. Men of great
minds differ, and I certainly differ from
Mr. Gorham, while sympathising with
blm. for blindly jumping for a gold brick.
"Bad carpenters complain of their tools."
Bo in this case Incubators were blamed.
All the others were successfully using? the
same make. Not being able to produce
eggs enough on their own place, many
were bought from outside parties, and
more blame for unfertile eggs, etc., etc
Facts still show In spite of Mr. G.'s asser
tion that thousands of broilers are being
produced by experienced men and women,
out of season, and that they command
high prices.
Mr. G. states that eggs In quantities In
"Winter was one object. By actual count
not more than 50 females were in laying
condition during any Winter he was asso
ciated in the enterprise. Many of us
little fish have more than that, and with
out a first-class plant either. We sell
enough during the months of December,
January and February to pay the feed
bill for the whole flock for one year,
leaving the balance on the right side of
the ledger.
It Is unfortunate that this discussion
arises at this time. No one regrets it
more than I. I think at this" time of our
annual exhibition of thoroughbred poultry,
(no longer an experiment) all interested
will agree that poultry does- pay in Ore
gon. Thousands of dollars worth of busi
ness has been transacted, and It Is the
realization of those who go at it as a
common-sense business man would, that
not only does It pay, but far better than
any other industry wherein the same
jamount of capital invested and a fair
amount of brains employed. Such is my
-unqualified assertion. Tours for better
poultry and more of it. E. J. IjADD,
Sec Oregon State Poultry Association.
It is, we think, scarcely necessary to
defend Mr. Gorham against the suggestion
more or les Implied in two of the letters
printed above, of wishing to injure the
poultry business. The utterance which
bas brought out so much discussion we
had almost written "raised such a cackle"
was quite accidental on Mr. Gorham's
part. He did not seek opportunity to ex
ploit his views, but was asked to speak
by an Oregonlan writer who in some
chance way had learned of his connection
with the poultry Industry, and who fan
cied that a report of, his experience would
contribute to the general intelligence upon
this yery, interesting and important sub-
ject. We do not understand that Mr.
Gorham assumed to speak for anybody
but himself, or upon the basis of any ex
perience but his own: and certainly he
has not set himself up as a general poul
try expert. He has told of nothing more
than what he himself tried to do,
and how he failed to do It; and
it would be a hard heart truly
that would deny a man of such
experience the privilege of a definite
opinion on the general issue .of poultry
raising, or of speaking his mind when
asked to do It.
The chief significance of Mr. Gorham's
experience as it appears to us relates to
the aim which he declares to have been
the basis of his calculations, namely, to
breed broilers in large numbers during"
the oft season that Is the Winter months
when the regular or farm-yard output
Is limited, and when prices are high. The
venture had Its foundations In a plan
through artificial arrangements to turn
chicken-nature from Its ordinary course,
from Its fixed habit, to the end of getting
young chickens at unseasonable times.
The failure of this effort was the fact
especially wished to be brought out. for
BROKEN IN MIND AND BODY
ELIJAH SMITH, EX-PItESIDEXT OF
THE O. It. & X. CO.
Jforc in an Eastern Sanitarium, a
Pensioner of His Brother Ills
Tussle With VUlard.
Elijah Smith has been out of Wall street
for two months. There was a time when
he could not have been missing for two
days without a good deal of a sensation,
relates the New Tork Sun. Those were
the days when he sat in the presidencies
of railroads and was hailed as the con
queror and humlllator of Henry Vlllard.
So far as any of Mr. Smith's friends
know now, the only shred of his former
power left to him Is that given to him
by his brother and some other sympa
thetic friends a year or so ago, when he
was made receiver of the Eel River Rail
road, an Indiana leased line of the Penn
sylvania system, 132 miles long.
Elijah Smith is now in Boston under the
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POPLAR TREE -ROOTS THAT CHOKED SEVERS.
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The employes of the street department of Portland are freQuently notified
that sewers are stopped or drains choked in various parts or the city, causln?
sewage to flow the wrong way. In very many cases it Is found that the trouble
Is caused by roots from a poplar tree having gained entrance to the sewer
through some crevice or defect. Once having secured an entrance, tho root
branches and Increases Jn length until the sewer or drain Is choked, and then
trouble arises, and the City Engineer Is called upon to put the sewer to
rights, which Is often an expensive operation. The sections of such
roots shown In the accompanying illustration were taken from a sewer
In Rodney avenue. It was necessary to dig up and replace SO feet of
this sewer, which these roots had choked and finally split open. The poplar
trees from which the roots extended are not large about a foot In diameter at
the base and stand about 50 feet from the damaged sewer. The sections rep
resented are only specimens brought to the City Engineer's office by Ieputy
William Breeden. The city has been at considerable expense on account of
sewers damaged by poplar roots, and there is now a law requiring poplar trees,
which have caused such damage, to be girdled This is on the principle of locking
. the stable door after the horse Is stolen, and the city will bo" put to expense In
this way from time to toe until the rule of girdling poplar trees before they
have choked the sewers is adopted. The same state of affairs prevails In many
cities, aa Is seen from articles and Illustrations in those municipal reports re
ceived by City Engineer Chase, v
there are Involved in it Interests far
wider than Its mere relation to the profit
or the loss of a venture In the poultry
business of personal profit. Here is the
nub of tho matter, but it appears to have
been overlooked by two at least of those
who undertake to read Mr. Gorham a
lecture
It is with truer instinct of the real in
terests of this discussion that Mr. Ladd
the secretary of the Oregon State Poultry
Association, directly controverts Mr.
Gorham's main point. "Facts will show,"
he says, "that thousands of broilers are
produced by experienced men and women
out of season." This is a most Interesting
statement, and we can only regret that
Mr. Ladd did not proceed from the asser
tion to Its demonstration; and we trust
that he will not permit the matter to drop
without such exposition of his theory
and experience as will establish the prin
ciple. If It be true that by artificial ar
rangements man can turn the reproductive
powers of the chicken Into 'regulated lines
out of the order of nature and of
habit the faot is of first Importance, both
to the scientific student and to the prac
tical worker in the poultry industry.
We cannot agree with Mr. Ladd that
the raising of this or of any other Issue
in regard to the poultry Industry at this
time or any other time is unfortunate.
These really important matters have suf
fered from neglect In times past, and
whatever will stir up interest in.and direct
public consideration toward them can
hardly fall to be profitable to the industry
in the end. Statements of experience,
general discussion and the bringing out of
new facts must result In greater Intelli
gence all around; and in doing this it will
directly and surely promote the Interests
for which the Oregon State Poultry As
sociation exists.
Another word remains to be said in
justice to Mr. Gorham. Those who in the
articles printed above have undertaken to
speak In criticism of his opinions appear
not to have read his talk very closely or
to have misunderstood what was very
plainly stated in it. Mr. Gorham distinct
ly limited the application of his remarks
to the commercial or wholesale aspects of
the poultry industry, saying specifically
that In his judgment the business was
suited by all its conditions to domestic
methods of exploitation. The whole effect
of his talk was to promote the poultry In
dustry as an adjunct of some other busi
ness, particularly that of general farm
ing, and In this he appears to be in en
tire accord with at least one of the three
who have written in answer to him views
as expressed in the original Interview. It
is to be noted, tee, that in this opinion
he is in accord with the poultry dealers,
whose views were giyen a few days back I
X cDccurrenUy wita big own, J
care of his brother, Prosper W. Smith.
It Is understood that his brother has put
him In a sanitarium of some sort In the
hope that quiet and constant care will
restore the former promoter's shattered
health.
For several months before he went to
Boston Mr. Smith was in miserable con
dition physically, though his mental pow
ers were as vigorous and as aggressive
as ever. He lived at the old Stevens
House, on Bowling Green, and his room
there Is still held for him. But there was
no comfort in that old relic of Lower
Broadway for a man as sick and weary
as Elijah Smith. He sadly acquiesced in
the opinion of his friends that If recovery
was to come to him at all It must come
through an entire change of scene and
air.
Rise of Elijnlt Smith.
Elijah Smith was born about 60 years
ago in New Bedford, Mass. He went
out from New England with the crowd
that went West about E0 years ago to
manage the Chicago. Burlington & Qulncy
as a clerk at a small salary. He had
inuustry and was honest in his personal
dealings with others. He had unbounded
faith in the future of any enterprise with
which he was connected, and was as
obstinate as a mule in backing up such
opinions. He was promoted rapidly in
the railroad offices, and extended the field
of his activity to the railroad field of
the Middle West ,
With James F. Joy, of Detroit, ho was
concerned In the organization of the
Wabash system. In one way and another
be had lo do with almost all of the small
roads now Included In the Wabash lines.
It was probably out of regard for these
former services that In the days of his
decline a place was found for him as re
ceiver of the Eel River Railroad, when
the court decided that the Wabash must
give up Its lease of the little road and it
h irnid.?Jer to the pennsylvania.
-k'Uan Smith, in the process of buildinc
and financing these railroads, big and lit"
tie now figured as a contractor, and
again as financial agent, and yet again
? ? "eHve officer. When the panic
or 1573 came along It found Smith still a
very young man, sun-eying Wall street
from the top of a very considerable pile;
he had enough, just before the panic, to
have lived -upon in comfort all these 30
years which have gone by since When
the panic was over Elijah Smith began at
the bottom, along with lots of other men
and began to work his way up again. He
was down, but not out.
.5e 2ocaxn.! Interested In the resources
and the railroads of the Pacific Slope.
He was one of those who organized the
Oregon Improvement Company, now the
Pacific Coast Company, which operates
many small lines along the north Blope.
He was a stockholder in lumber com
panies operating in 'Southern Oregon near
Coos Bay. He also embarked In Texas
railroad enterprises.
Boasts of Railway Stoclc
Mr. Smith was most conspicuous 20
yeara ago as the opponent of Henry VU
lard. The Oregon & Transcontinental
Company had been organized to control
railroad companies under the Ylllard
reghne in the Northwest. Its principal as
sets were large blocks of the stock of
the Oregon Railway &. Navigation Com
pany and of the Northern Pacific Rail
road. When the famous smash of the
J30.000.000 blind pool of Mr. Vlllard came
In 1SS3, the value of Oregon & Transcon
tinental Company fell away to nearly
nothing. Elijah Smith stepped In when
Mr. Vlllard went abroad. Most of the
O. & T. stockholders lived In Boston,
and they had a great opinion of Elijah
Smith as revivifier.
The company was at that time about
$8,000,000 in tho hole, and there was no ap
parent help in sight. Elijah Smith
schemed and adjusted, and went to law
and calmed things down and the stock
rose to about 35 in 1SS6, and stayed in that
neighborhood for several years. Brayton
lyes, in Mr. Villard's absence, tried to
oust Elijah Smith, but was beaten off.
Henry Vlllard came back from. Europe
in 1SS6, and began -to re-establish his con
trol ever Northwestern affairs. Mr.
Smith came In conflict with him more
than once. Mr. Smith was Increasing in
importance all the time. He became presi
dent of the Iowa Central Railroad, and
newspapers began to talk about him, es
pecially up about Boston, as the "great
est railroad genius of the age." He was
counted a millionaire, and a "king of
finance." In 15S9 Mr. VUlard was in po
sition to go out after him.
The control of the Oregon & Transcon
tinental was necessary to the plans of Mr.
Vlllard in developing the Northern Pa
cific Tho O. & T. owned enough North
ern Pacific stock to embarass Mr. Vlllard
seriously in his movements in the North
west. Mr. Smith was the president of the
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company,
and did not want to have Mr. Vlllard
own .the proprietary company over his
head. There was a fight for the control
of tho Oregon & -ranscontinental in the
street, and it developed a corner which
was not unlike the recent Northern Pacific
corner.
Mr. Smith had back of him Mr. Ames
and others of tho Union Pacific people,
and James J. Hill, who was then working
out his preliminaries to the Great North
ern consolidation, and wanted to get the
Oregon & Transcontinental roads In Ore
gon and Washington to save himself con
siderable construction at that end of the
line. In tho fight for control .Mr. Vlllard
won.
His War on Vlllard.
Elijah Smith, In June, 1SS9, went out to
the Pacific Slope in a special car to carry
the battle into the nominal home of tho
companies, for the posseslson of which
the war was being waged. He threatened
to get from the Oregon courts a decision
that Mr. Vlllard, as controller of the
proprietary company, could not vote its
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company
stock. If such a decision could have been
obtained, Mr. Villard's right to vote tho
Northern Pacific stock under the same
ownership would have been made ques
tionable. He dodged the Issue and left
the settlement of tho Oregon Railway &
Navigation Company's troubles to Mr.
Smith and those back of him.
The Union Pacific took a lease In per
petuity of the Oregon Railway & Navi
gation Company and Mr. Smith's brother.
Prosper W. Smith, of Boston, was made
the president of It, while Mr. Smith be
came president of the Oregon Improve
ment Company. Mr. Smith, though on
the surface of things he seemed to divide
the honors with Mr. Vlllard, came out of
the fight broken in body and pocket. He
was very quiet for four or five years.
HORSES CHEW UP HIS SOD.
Citizen Complains of Carelessness of
Delivery-Wagon Drivers.
A citizen who a short time ago pur
chased a lot and built himself a rather
fine house ou.t.in one of the newly built-up
districVs, on tee; East,SIde, jwhere the
premises of each pfopertyowner form an
open lawn, cement sidewalks are laid by
everybody, and tho land on each side of
them is carefully prepared and seeded to
grass, in order to add to the beauty and
neatness of the premises, feels sore, and
says ho has just cause for complaint. He
says that all the drivers of delivery wag
ons, butcher boys, baker boys and grocer
boys, leave the check-reins loose oo their
horses. When they stop In front of his
house to deliver, goods, their horses pro
ceed to crop his young and tender grass.
When they have cropped all within reach
they climb on the sidewalk and make
great holes in the soil with their feet, the
sight of which makes him wild.
This Is not all he complains of. He
says in wet weather the newly seed,
ed soil is so soft that when the
horses grab a mouthful of his grass
they just naturally pull It out by
the roots, and that Is tho end of It. He
has discharged several butchers, bakers
and grocers on this account, but this has
not helped matters much, for the trades
men who supply his neighbors allow their
drivers to leave the check-reins loose and
their horses come along to prey on hi3
grass, which is the most flourishing on the
street.
He asks what he Is to do to pro
tect his graEs, which Is necessary to the
perfect adornment of his premises. Cer
tainly tradesmen would not take the
chances of losing a customer, if they knew
It, for the Jake of what little grass their
horses may secure In the way of disfig
uring any one's premises, and If their at
tention Is called to tho matter they will
probably at once direct their drivers to
keep the check-reins on their horses, so
that they cannot reach the grass. They
certainly do not desire that their custom
ers should help provide fodder for their
horses, especially at the cost of so much
annoyance.
The same condition of affairs pre.
vails all over the city, for there are
some on every street who try to keep
their sidewalks in order. Probably if &
large number o persons who are annoyed
In this way by the horseB of tradesmen
would join in a request to them to direct
their deliyery-wagon drivers to keep the
check-reins on their horses in m-ODer con
dition, it might have the effect of stop-
i""s me auisunce complained or.
FIRE CHIEF'S INNOVATIONS
Register of All Stations Prepared
and Call Board Introdaced.
Chief Campbell", of the Fire Department,
has just prepared- a valuable register of
the locations of all fire stations in the
city, alphabetically arranged In book
form, with a numerical index. It Is so
designed that one can quickly open the
clasp and turn to the number of the box
struck, with very little delay. On the op
posite page are the exact number of en
gines, trucks,, hose wagons, chemical
wagons, etc., called out to a particular
fire.
Another innovation at fire headquarters
is a call board, arranged with movable
pegs showing the numbers of engines,
etc, responding to a particular alarm of
fire. The wooden pegs are kept In stock
on the lowest row of the board and they
are placed In proper positions by the fore
men of the fjre company. In this manner
It can be seen at a glance the number of
fire apparatus in use at any fire Spaces
are also left to register whether the Chief
and the three assistant chiefs are on
duty are at fire stations or not-
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Crockery and Kithen Goods Entire stock gTeatly reduced.
Shoes for man, woman or child at Clearance Sale prices.
The Great
Clearance Sale
s
Second Week
Opens with the usual great array of bargains in
staple and seasonable merchandise The profit
on every article in the entire establishment has
been completely wiped off the price ticket It's
your opportunity to practice economy.
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HCSBAIOJ AJfD "WIFE TEUL, TROU
BLES TO A POLICEMAN.
Sirs. S. Seeks Refuge With. Her
DaHffhter in a. Saloon, and Is
Taken to the Station.
The Sunday stillness of the City Jail
was broken yesterday by the enactment
of a domestic drama from real life, in
which were rehearsed the marital woes of
a couple who called themselves Mr. and
Mrs. J. Smith, of Oregon City. They had
separated several times, but always came
together again, but yesterday, Mrs. Smith
says, was a cimener and she vowed that
she would never live with her husband
again.
Smith is a longshoreman employed
along the river front, and yesterday af
ternoon he rushed Into the police station
and said In excited tones to Police Cap
tain Moore: "Say, mister.. My wife has
taken my little girl, aged six years, to a
notorious saloon, and I want you to
make her stop tailing the child to such
a place. It will lead to her ruin." He
then named a well-known saloon In
Whltechapcl. A police officer was sent
to the resort to make an Investigation,
and he returned with Mrs Smith And her
little glrL Mrs. Smith was very Indig
nant, and she Bald: "This is an outrage.
Can't I visit any place I wish without
asking liberty from anyone?" Then she
caught sight of her husband, and her
Up curled contemptuously, and she went
on: "Now I know who Is responsible for
this. It's that good for nothing, drunk
en "
"Madam. This Is no place for airing
your private affairs. Why did you take
your child to "that saloon?" asked Cap
tain Moore.
"I saw that my husband was following
me, and I ran to the place with my child,
to escape from him." replied the woman,
with her eyes flashing.
"No child should be taken Into such
a place," protested the captain, vehe
mently. 'If she Is allowed to frequent
Buch places, .you know what sort of a
woman she will be. It will ruin her life.
If you do not promise to abstain from
such conduct in the future, madam, tho
court will probably take the child from
you."
- "Take my child from me?" screamed
the mother. "No court would do that.
Don't tell me, young man. I know where
to go to get smart lawyers, who will fix
things for me."
Smith then took a hand in the discus
sion, and before he had one dozen words,
Mrs. Smith began to give her opinion of
him as a husband and as a man and her
opinion was not flattering. She accused
him of gambling and having failed to
support her and her family.
"I work hard, and I have given you
510 and sometimes $12 every Saturday,"
broke in Smith.
"You have not," replied his wife, hotly.
Brimstone remarks followed. Ultimately
Mrs. Smith and her child were allowed to
go. on Mrs. Smith promising to cease
making visits to saloons, accompanied by
her little daughter. Smith was the last
to leave, and he looked reckless. A man
who had heard the angry discussion, said
to Smith: "I suppose a divorce will fol
low?" , .
"My dear sir," replied the husband,
"this will blow over. This 13 marriage."
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A. 0. U. W. LIBRARY.
Annnal Report Shovr Increase ia
Volnines and Patrons.
The A. O. U. "W. Library was organized
In 1S95, and has been successful from
esery point of view. It is maintained by
a per capita tax of 3 cents per member
per month by those lodges which con
tribute, which Includes nearly every lodge
In the city. There are In round numbers
2500 members In the city. The manage
ment Is conducted by a representative
elected by each contributing lodge, which
constitutes a board of directors, who meet
once each month and serve without sal
ary. The books and periodicals are free to
every member of a contributing lodge.
The library undertakes to keep a sufficient
number of new and popular books to sup
ply the demand. Sei'eral copies of the
same book are purchased and put on the
shelves, so that no one need be kept wait
ing too long.
The number of volumes has been In
creased 23 per cent In 1901, and the num
ber of families using the. library has In
creased over 30 per cent within" the year.
The reference books have been In use by
students of the various schools to a larger,
extent than ever before, and this feature
has been found to be a very great help
to the scholars. The library is doing a
good educational work, without cost to
the city or state, and it does not employ
solicitors for donations of f und3 or books,
although gifts of books or periodicals are-acceptable.
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that this library Is not behind any one in
this or Eastern States. It is a practical
working library, and the order hopes
make it second to none in size.
A delightful ocean voyage of two days.
The steamship Columbia will sail for San
Francl&co Tuesday, January 7, at 8 P. M
First-class cabin fare. 515, Including meals
and berth. Secure accommodations at O.
R. & N. city ticket office, Third and
'WMbington,
UB.W
FIRST MONDAY OF OUR
24m Annual Clearance Sale
ONE of the best days of the week for satisfactory
purchasing. Bring a list of all your needsit
will save time. The money you'll save on every
purchase will give you a good start for the week. Our
stock is so large that satisfactory selecting is a cer
tainty, while REDUCED PRICES THROUGH
OUT THE STORE give your dollars long pur
chasing power.
TODAY AND TOMORROW
Will be red-letter days for women who visit our '
corset section. Miss Heintzelman, expert designer
for the "Royal Worcester" Corset Co., and who
makes high-grade corsets a specialty, will be here
to explain the merits of
ROYAL WORCESTER CORSETS
And fit women with styles best suited to their needs.
The "Royal Worcester" manufactory, the largest and
best equipped in the whole world, leads all others in
progressive ideas and economical making of high
class corsets. The FAMOUS STRAIGHT-FRONT
MODELS, now imitated by every corset concern,
WERE ORIGINATED ?N THE "ROYAL WOR
CESTER" FACTORY, and every improvement
known to thecorset world is shown first in this fam
ous make. Models to fit all figures from the slimmest
to the stoutest are here, in prices ranging from 50c to
$18.00, and all at clearance prices.
A delayed shipment of CREAM CORDUROY
VELVETS just received and at clearance prices.
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I EXCLUSIVE STYLES I
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New 1902 js?
Foulard SilKs
JUST RECEIVED.
Of? SJILE TODJiY JIT SPECIAL
CLEARANCE SALE
PRICES
A Special Purckase of
$L50 56-inch
iny-day Skirting's
In Leading Shades at
95c
IVEllY DEPARTMENT
In ThisStore Offers Most Attractive
BARGAINS
Every Article Reduced
All Past Qualities, Quantities nnd Prices
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WHEATINE
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