THE MORNING OKEGONIAN. FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1302.
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF
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v A3IUSEMENTS TOXIGHT.
MARQUAM GRAND THEATER Ferris Hart
man cand tse famous 'rivoll Opera Company
In "The Toymaker."
CORDRAY'S THEATER The sensational mel
odrama. "The Tide of Life."
SHIELDS' PARK. 13TH AND "WASHINGTON
Vaudeville.
HOMESEEKEItS WANT TO KNOW. "The
O. R. & N. Company gets from 20 to 30
letters a day asking: for Information
about Oregon, and requesting: that we
send some of our advertising literature
about the state and its resources," said B.
M. Hall, of the advertising department of
that railroad, to an Oregonlan reporter
yesterday. "We send most of them a
copy of 'Oregon, Washington and Idaho,'
or 'Oregon and the Homeseeker.' They
write from everywhere, and here Is a pile
of CO or 70 letters that have come in the
mall yesterday and today. Here is a let
ter from Cuba, and another from Lancas
ter, England. These people must want to
Know something about the country, or
they wouldn't write to us for nothing.
This department of the company is doing
all it can to get people to come to this
state, and we will soon be in a room to
ourselves, where we can do a great deal
more work than we are now doing. Wo
have been notified that the people of
Walla Walla, Pendleton, Baker City. La
Grand and all the cities of the Inland
Empire are collecting their share of the
literature to be distributed by the agents
of the Harriman lines in the East. These
will be shipped East, and the work of dis
tribution will commence as soon as pos
sible." His FmsT Elevator Ride. James
Wheeler, a pioneer of '4C .and a well-known
farmer from Suver, Polk County, made
his first trip in an elevator Wednesday.
He called on Lawyer B. M. Smith, to at
tend to a business deal, and it became
necessary to ascend in one of the elevat
ors in the Chamber of Commerce build
ing. Nothing was said when the Suver
man stepped Into the elevator it was
taken for granted that he knew all about
It but when the machine started he gave
a quick gasp and hung on his nearest
neighbor. When the elevator cage
stopped at the floor where Parmer Wheel
er wished to alight, there was again a
catching of breath and much suppressed
laughter. "That beats everything," ex
claimed the visitor fromuver, when he
was on dry land again. "I've heard about
Indian fights and so on, but this beats
all. So this is what you call an elevator?
I've never been in one before. Well,
well!"
East Side Citizen Roars. Some of the
good people of the East Side are getting
red-eyed about the dilapidated condition
of their elevated roadways, and they do
not see what to do about it except "to
raise a big roar," as one of them said
yesterday. Almost all the bridges are in
more or less of a "teetery" condition, and
the good citizens do not see any move
ment under way for relief. "What are
the city officials doing?" asked Dan Kel
laher yesterday. "They say no money is
available for repairs, but what are they
doing with the money? They have grant
ed Fire Chief Campbell $250 to go back
East to attend a meeting of fire chiefs.
I trust that other cities that will send
chiefs to the convention are not so hard
up for money as is Portland. Perhaps if
we threw less money away, wo should
have more for our actual needs."
Buffalo Bill's Show License. The
Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, which Just
gave four performances in Portland to
crowded houses, paid a total license into
the city treasury of $270. Ringling Bros',
circus, for the same number of perform
ances, paid $500 license. The Wild West
Show apparently took in more money
than the circus, but paid a less license
because it is not classed as a circus. The
license fee for a circus is $125 for each
exhibition, which Ringling Bros. paid.
The Wild West aggregation might have
demanded a license under the head of un
classified shows, which Is only $5 per day,
but the managers agreed to call it a second-class
circus, and pay a license of $125
per day and $10 per day for the side
shows, which made a total of $270.
Soldier's Brief Lapse. H. S. Roberts,
a soldier in uniform, stood at "attention"
when he entered the Municipal Court yes
terday, charged with drunkenness at the
Union Terminal Depot, Wednesday, and
stated that he was on his way to report
for duty at Fort Keogh. Mont. "Have
you been long in the Army?" inquired
Municipal Judge Hogue. "I served with
the Ninth United States Infantry in the
Philippines and Cuba, and I have newly
re-enllsted at the Presidio, San Fran
cisco," replied Roberts. "I got drunk in
tliis city, and did not know what I was
doing." With this explanation, he was
allowed to proceed on his journey.
May Name Five Delegates. Judge
Webster is In receipt of a letter from J.
Frank Watson, stating that the County
Commissioners have authority to appoint
five delegates to the International Mining
Congress, and the Judge says the court
will name that number of competent per
sons who desire to go. A copy of the let
ter is as follows: "Chairman Board of
County Commissioners Dear Sir: Irwin
Mahon, secretary of the International
Mining Congress, Butte. Mont., requests
me to call your attention to the fact that
your board is entitled to a representation
of five delegates. Yours truly, J. Frank
Watson."
Special Summer schedule of A. & C.
R. R. between Portland and the beaches
to be continued until September 14. To
meet the urgent demands of its patrons
and traveling public in general, the A. &
C. R. R. has decided to continue its pres
ent unexecelled train service between
Portland and all beach points to Septem
ber 14. and until that date the Portland
Seaside Express will leave Union Depot
every Saturday at 2:30 P. M., as at pres
ent, and the morning train leaving Port
land at 8 A. M. daily will run through
direct to all beach points, and returning,
leave Seaside at 5 P. M. dally.
No Place to DUmp Refuse. S. Aber, a
driver employed at Weinhard's brewery,
was arrested yesterday by Special Officer
Llllis, charged with dumping broken bot
tles, cans and general refuse -into Alder
street gulch, near Fifteenth and Alder
streets. This makes the third occasion on
which Aber has recently been arrested on
the same charge. He was released by de
positing $10 bail for his appearance at the
Municipal Court
Dalles Dailt Excursions by boats of
White Collar Line, leaving 7 A. M., land
ing at Moffat's Hot Springs, Cascade
Locks. St. Martin's Hot Springs, Collins
Hot Springs. White Salmon. Hood River,
Lyle, and all other points between Port
land and The Dalles. Tickets sold going
by boat to Cascade Locks and return by
O. R. & N. train. Landing, foot Alder
street. See "Dalles" electric sign. Both
phones, Main 351.
For Dalli, ' '
Ltle,
Hood River,
Hot Springs, ' ,
Cascade Locks,
Take Regulator Line,-Oak-Street
Dock,
7 A SL , '
If You Are Building, remember Kroch
man & Hartman, 1S3 First street, are go
ing to move September L and will sell
their entire stock of mantels, grates and
tile below cost.
Wanted. Twenty laborers; wages $2 00.
per day. Apply T. W. Sullivan, Oregon
City.
Dn. Kikkpatrick has returned. Office
511 Dekum. Hours 9 to 12; 2 to 5.
Hill Military Academy, September 17.
One More Last Warning. Further In
timation was mwrfe in the Municipal Court
yesterday that in future all persons who
are arrested charged with having failed
to pay their city license fees will be
brought into court and fined. The point
was raised by Deputy City Attorney Fitz
gerald, who stated: "I want to protest
against the use of the City Attorney's of
fice as a collection agency. Certain mer
chants and professional men seem to
think that all they have to do when a
warrant Is Issued for their arrest charged
with failure to pay license fees is to go
to the City Auditor's offioe .and settle up
their indebtedness, and that the cases will
be dismissed. This has been done In the
past, but there will be no more of it. I
do not wish my time and the time of this
court wasted. Hereafter offenders will be
arrested like other law-breakers, and they
will be required to give bonds for their
appearance at court when wanted.
Enough publicity haseen given this mat
ter in tho newspapers, and those who
ought to pay their license fees are well
aware of their duty in the matter' "I
am heartily In favor of what has been
stated," remarked Municipal Judge
Hogue. "Hereafter these persons who
are arrested, charged with not paying
their license fees, will be brought Into
court, and if found guilty, will be fined
in the usual way."
Tiibown Under a Car. A dangerous
experiment was tried yesterday by Ern
est W. Foster, at East Fifteenth street,
and he was thrown under a Woodstock
car and narrowly escaped being killed.
His head was badly cut, and he sustained
Beveral bruises, but It is not thought that
any of his injuries will Drove serious.
Hq was resting well at the Good Samar
itan Hospital last night Foster lives at
633 Hood street. He was waiting for a
car at East Fifteenth street, and as it
approached attempted to Jump on the
front platform before it stopped. He
slipped and was thrown under the"car.
The motorman threw on the brake and
stopped as soon as he could, expecting to
find the man's body mangled by the acci
dent. In some miraculous way however,
he had escaped serious injury, and, aside
from a bad. scalp wound and a few
bruises, was unhurt The doctors say he
will be able to bo about in a few days.
Right Number, but Wrong Color.
One of Portland's well-known citizens
took his family to the Coast recently, and
left his house in charge of a coloned girl
during his absence. Tho colored girl had
several beaux among the porters and the
barbers of the city, and frequently en
gaged In conversation over the phone
with one of them. As there was no one
else in the bouse, they were sure of get
ting her when they called for the phone
number, so they never asked who was at
the other end of the line, but simply went
ahead when an answer came. The owner
of the house arrived home unexpectedly
one morning, and just as he stepped Inside
the door he heard the call bell ring. He
went to the phone and heard these words
muttered in. the receiver: "Honey, I Jubs
wish you was hear; I'd Jus hug and kiss
yu!" "Not by a damn-sight!" said tho
house-owner, and he hung up the phone.
Children Well- Remembered. Tho
Children's Home yesterday received from
Mark Levy and other Front-street com
mission merchants a donation of fruit and
vegetables, generous in quantity and
choice in quality. The gift was all the
more appreciated because it was unsolic
ited. The lady managers of the Home
desire that an expression of their appre
ciation be made to the donors.
Astoria Daily Excursions by White
Collar Line boats from foot of Alder
street 7 A. M., except Sunday. The ride
down the Columbia River and the scenery
is grand. High hills covered with forests,
large logging camps, immense canneries.
Tourists should make this trip before re
turning East For all information, both
phones. Main 35L
Slab wood
Short Slabwood,
Full loads, graen or dry.
Telephone order to Main 556. ,
Western mill. !
ROBBED OF THEIR YOUTH
Child. Labor Is One of the Crying
Evil of This Country.
Boston Transcript
The subject of child labor In the South
ern cotton mills still continues to furnish
texts for editorial comment A special
correspondent who has been investigating
the conditions in eome of the mills finds
that the actual situation is shamefully
bad. The responsibility he places upon the
millowners and tho parents. One typical
parent' of the "poor white" variety, who
was living in idleness off the proceeds of
the labor of his wife and children, told the
reporter that he had $35 coming in every
fortnight Two children got 40 cents a
day, two got GO cents and the wife $l a
day. "I asked him," says the reporter,
"why he didn't turn in himself and allow
the wife at least to remain at home."
"That's my business, sah," was the re
ply, accompanied by a look and gestures
which boded little good to the questioner.
Undaunted by this ebullition of temper,
the reporter further inquired what he
would do should his children slip their ca
bles and make for parts unknown. "I'd
get them back, sah, don't you forget It,
and when I did they'd be taught a lesson
they'd never forget The boys are mine
till they're 21, and the girls till IS, and
the law will uphold me in my rights."
Such a condition as this is nothing less
than industrial slavery of the worst sort
The number of children employed in
the Southern factories cannot be stated
exactly, but it can be estimated roughly
from certain figures given in the last re
port of the North Carolina Bureau of La
bor. According to this report, 7G00 children
under 14 years of age are employed in 261
mills in that state. As the total number
of operatives m the cotton mills of North
Carolina is 30.273, it appears that about
one-fourth of the employes are children.
Doubtless this proportion holds for the
four other cotton manufacturing states
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi. The total number of cotton
mill employes in all tho five states is SS,
829. The number of child workers, there
fore, probably exceeds 22,000. Whatever
may be said in extenuation of the evils
of child labor, tho fact of Its widespread
extent cannot be denied.
PRIZE SALE STILL- CON
TINUES. We are still giving away a pair of
fine stockings with each pair of shoes
sold and many are taking advantage of
this exceptional opportunity. M. BILL
INGS, 229 Morrison street
WHERE TO DINE.
Current street comment: "The Portland
Restaurant excels." 205 Washington.
JAMESON HAT
Fall opening. M. Sichel, sole agent, 2SS
Washington street
Spre'eltels in Canada.
OTTAWA, Ont, Aug. 28. Claus A.
Spreckels, the San Francisco sugar re
finer. William D. Cook, S. D. Mcuibbon,
T. Chaee Casgrain and Surveyor Favbre,
of Montreal, have applied to- the State
Department for Incorporation papers 'for
the purpose of establishing refineries and
doing business in Canada,
LOST Raft to Start Saturday.
ASTORIA, Aug, 2S. (Special.) The
larger of the two log rafts built at Stella
Dy the Robertson Raft Company will be
taken in tow for San Francisco by the
steam schooner Arctic, and a start wfll
be made Saturday.
Klamath Hot Springs,
Most noted Summer resort In Northern Cali
fornia. Near South. Pac Convenient for Oregon
people. Address Edson Bros., Beswlck. Cat.
HlKh-Grade Pianos for Rent.
Sold on easy Installments. Pianos tuned
and repaired. H, Sinshelmer, 72 Third st
SWITCH TAMPERED WITH?
CITY & SUBURBAN COMPANY IN
VESTIGATES ACCIDENT.
Street-Car Men Are Convinced That
3IalIclous Meddling: Caused. Peter
C. Guild's Death.
The City & Suburban Railway Is
quietly investigating the death of Peter
Claude Guild. This . young man was
struck by car No. 6 on switch No. 3,
near Rohse's Park, on the Fulton line, late
Sunday evening, and died the same night
at the hospital. At the Inquest a verdict
was returned exonerating the motorman
and conductor, but branded tho switch as
r unsafe and dangerous. Tho officials of
the railway company are convinced that
the. switch, so far as their watchfulness
could forsee, was properly set and me
chanically in good order.
Mr. George Lumsden when asked about
it last night was very reticent, but ad
mitted that the company did not believe
that the switch was out of order. "That
switch," said Mr. Lumsden, "was in good
order. The siding is very rarely used,
and as a consequence tho point Is not
kept oiled, but otherwise it is sound.
This is shown by the fact that though
the car struck the switch at a faster gait
than usual, and in spite of the fact that
it was not oiled, the car stayed on the
track. If the car had Jumped then It
might be said that the switch was out
of repair. Further, tho report handed in
to me shows a rate of not over five miles
an hour. The whole trouble Is with the
people who tamper with it The night
before a motorman reported that it had
been thrown open. Timo and again I
have put rubbers in that switch, but
somebody always removes them. Now
on Sunday night the last southbound car
went through a little before No. GS came
down. There Is no spring on that switch
and the mere fact of the oar going through
it to the south is bound to set it for the
main line, even if it. had been thrown
open before."
Further than this Mr. Lumsden would
roako no statement, but from inquiry
among tho men it seems that they think
that there was foul play in this matter.
All said it was mechanically Impossible
for the switch to be thrown for the siding
except by the effort of a man using both
hands. That the switch had been found
thrown open before is not denied, but
there is no hesitancy in stating that it
was dpne by malicious persons. A great
deal of trouble has fallen upon tho City
& Suburban, owing to tho lawless ele
ment around Rohse's Park and evidently
it is now felt- that something must bo
done to safeguard human life. Mr.
Campbell and Mr. Swigert aro out of
the city at present and until their return
no definite actjon will be taken.
SLAIN BY MILLIONS,
Oyster's Most Destructive Enemy Is
the Starfish.
Brooklyn Eagle.
This season of the year, when oyster
men have completed planting their seed
for next season's market, much concern
is manifested in relation to starfish, the
dreaded enemy of the oystermen, and one
which destroys millions of young bivalves
every year. To persons unacquainted
with the oyster Industry tho starfish is
merely an object of curiosity. By the
oystermen, however, the odd-looking sea
denizen, with its numerous "suckers," is
regarded with fear, for there is no living
enemy of the oyster that is so destruc
tive and ruinous.
Constant watching is necessary on the
part of the planters that the starfish do
not get a foothold on the beds, particu
larly when seed is young, and when there
is any sign of them in bays constant
dredging is necessary to save the ii
valves. Frequently the oystermen pro
tect the beds from tho ravages of the
stars by planting a wide border of mus
sels about the beds, as the starfish are
fond of mussels, and will not pass over
them to reach the oysters, but eat their
way through. While thus engaged the
oystermen get a chance to dredge them
up before they reach the beds. In va
rious sections of the Great South Bay
and other parts of the Atlantic Coast a
number of natural oyster beds have dis
appeared in recent years, as a result it
is believed, of the ravages of the star
fish. Not only do oysters and mussels
fall a prey to the starfish, but clams
as well. Tho clam starts to throw its
6et about the same time as tho starfish,
and tho latter show a liking for the young
shell fish before they are a week old.
The stars have a wonderful devastating
capacity among clams. Experiments made
by Professor Mead showed that In a week
one star devoured more than 50 clams;
At this rate 500 stars would, devour 25,000
clams in a week.
The means of locomotion which the
etarfish employ, and the only one they
have been provided with, is by means of
the "suckers" that protrude from the
furrows on the under side of tho arms.
Small stars, half an inch or less In length,
frequently navigate, ventral side upper
most with their suckers extending to
ward the surface of the water. The
buoyancy of the water and the great
number of "suckers" enable the stars
to crawl over the softest silt and the
smoothest hard surface with each, while
the suppleness of the body enables it to
get through incredibly small crevices. Be
sides the regular mode of locomotion. It
Is stated by many Daymen that tho stars
havo a peculiar method of traveling by
clinging together in clusters and rolling
along the bay bottom with the tide. A
tradition exists that hundreds of the stars
cling together sometimes and form a com
pact ball several feet in diameter, which
floats along the bottom with the tide un
til it strikes an oyster bed, then It goes
to pieces and the stars begin their work
of devasatioa at once..
The principal variety of bivalves upon
which starfish prey are mollusks pro
tected by hard shells, sea snails, museels,
quahogs and oysters. The question as
to how the starfish get at the meat of
the mollusks has caused considerable con
jecture, especially concerning the clam
and oyster. It Is said that the star
catches tho bivalves napping, as -t were,
and gets Its arm Into the gaping shell
before It can be closed. Then a fight for
supremacy ensues. Sometimes the clams
and oysters are victors in tho struggle,
and in such cases the star fish Tetreats
minus an arm; but generally the oyster
or the clam succumbs to the enemy,
since either cannot survive long with Its
shell open, and the star fish deours its
prey at leisure.
Other theories are that the star se
cretes an acid that forces the shellfish to
open, and again it was asserted that a
hole was bored Into tho shell. Experi
ments disclosed that none of these theo
ries was correct The actual method re
mained a mystery until a German scient
ist found that the starfish so covered Its
victim that the suckers on the under
side of the arms were distributed part
to one valve, part to another and the
remainder to some surrounding object.
The suckers are very numerous and stick
fast By attaching them to the opening
in the shell and a tendency to straighten
the arms results In a constant pull on
tho shell In opposite directions, which, if
strong enough, opens the shells. The
mollusks can overcome a strong pull for
a short time, but the starfish is a tena
cious creature, and soon has its prey
weakened so that the oyster or clam pres
ently gapes open. It has been disclosed
by experiment that the starfish can ex
ert a pull of over 1CO0 grammes, and that
a force of 900 grammes will open a good
sized oyster or clam if continued for half
an hour.
Frequently more than one star attack
an oyster, and when opened others share
in the feast It is the young oysters that
are In greatest danger from ravages of
the starfish, and as many thousand dol
lars' worth havo Just been spread by
planters, constant watch Is now being
kept to prevent the seed from being killed
by the stars. Oysters from two to three
years old are" seldom molested by the
starfish.
The removal of starfish from the oys
ter beds Is a novel yet simple process.
A mop or tangle, as It is called. Is the
weapon used. The tangle consists of a
number of knots made of cotton waste or
similar material attached to a heavy wood
or Iron pole. By dragging these mops
over the oyster beds the stars become
entangled and are drawn up with the
mops. The mops are usually detached
from the iron bar and thrown with the
stars in a tub of hot water. Other mops
arc attached to the poles and thrown
overboard. After the stars arc killed
they can be more easily picked off the
mops than when alive.
There is one enemy .of the starfish
which helps the oystermen considerably
In extermination. They are the menha
den, which feed exclusively on the minute
organisms whlcfy swim or float free in
the water. The menhaden swims with
its mouth open and travels in schools.
They attack the starfish larvae during the
season when they are swimming at the
surface, and destroy them, by thousands
of millions.
The starfish has great regenerative
powers. If a number of arms are pulled
off its body the portions dislodged be
come productive and create anew the re
generation power being stronger in the
arms than in the dish or main part of
the body.
COMING ATTRACTIONS.
"The Toymnker" Tonight.
The Tivoll Opera Company and Ferris
Hartman will present the ever-popular
"Toymaker" tonight at the Marquam;
also tomorrow afternoon and evening.
Perhaps no opera in the Tivoll- reper
tolro has given so much pleasure, espe
cially to the younger generation, as 'The
Toymaker," and the reasons are easy to
find. It Is bright tuneful and decidedly
original in conception. One Guggenheimer,
a toy manufacturer, of tho little German
village of Nuremberg, has constructed a
doll in the Image of his daughter, which
is so lifelike and natural In action, that
the toymaker himself cannot tell the one
from the other without a close inspec
tion. Frederick, who is the nephew of
the rich Count Dallenburg, has becomo a
novice in a monastery, being devoted to
a monastic life, arid his uncle Is set on
his getting married. He hears of this
wonderful doll, and conceives the idea of
palming her off on his uncle as a woman,
and thus secure the money he has been
promised at his marriage. Elsa, the tby
maker's daughter, accidentally breaks
the doll, and has to take Its place. Fred
erick arrives and purchases the daughter,
who has fallen In love with him, for the
manufactured article. Of course, the fun
of the piece hinges on this complication,
which Is kept np through the entire, piece.
Frederick in the end discovers that the
doll is flesh and blood, and in his turn
falls In love, to his own and his uncle's
happiness.
The cast will be nearly the same as
that which appeared in the opera for
merly. Annie Myers best part Is that
of the daughter, who Is forced to take the
place of the doll, and Ferris Hartman is
never happier placed than when acting
tho part of tho toymaker. He has two
new songs, one of which Is of his own
composition. It is called "How I Make
a Doll," and Is clever. The-other Is the
latest Eastern topical hit "He Ought to
Have a Tablet in the Hall of Fame."
Frances Graham will figure as Peter the
Workman. She Introduces two fine songs,
"Past and Future," by De Koven, and
"The Heart of tho Sea." Arthur Cun
ningham mado a great impression last
year as Brother Mathew, and Is again to
be heard In tho role. Edward Webb is
again the monkish lover, one of the best
things this clever actor has done in this
city. Karl Formes. Jr., is the old fop,
Schwartzenbach, and Joseph Fogarty has
his original part of tho Count Guise,
Kavanagh and Lee have the smaller
male parts, and Almee Leicester and
Bertha Davis aro down for good bits.
There will be a profusion of new scenery,
and a lot of up-to-date mechanical
figures for the great toyshop scene. A
toy souvenir matinee will be the order on
Saturday afternoon, every child attend
ing sharing in the toymaker's liberality.
Juvenile Specialties at Cordray's.
Commencing 1 next Sunday night the
Blasco-George Juvenile Specialty Com
pany and uniformed band open a week's
engagement at Cordray's. Of a recent
performance at the Bay City, a San Fran
cisco exchange says:
"The show is clean and bright through
out, the absenco of warmed-over Jokes
being conspicuous. The actors aro all
bright, clean-faced children, whose music,
songs and dances were just tho Jhing to
please little children and grown-up ones,
as well, as evidenced by the continuous
and uproarious applause they receive
throughout each performance. Special
artists are Master Hobart Cavanaugh,
balladlst; Katherinc, the queen of con
tortion; Marlon George, violin soloist,
and Montague Barton, the smallest drum
major In tho world, whose singing of I
Want to Be a Soldier in the Army Is
great Master Montague Is a wonder
and a bom comedian. The Juvenile octet,
Oh, Tell Me, Pretty Maiden. Are There
Any More at Home Like Your is very
pretty. 'Hello! Central; Give Me Heaven
Is touchingly and pathetically sung by
Agnes George. The performance Is con
cluded by the farclal conceit, 'Our Pros
pective Stepfather.' "
Nelll Stock Company at Baker's. .
Interest is increasing as tho time ap
proaches for the opening of the Nelll
Stock Company. Yesterday was another
busy day at the Baker Theater box-office
and indications point to very large houses
next week. "A. Social Highwayman,"
the play selected for the first week, will
start Sunday afternoon. It Is a high
class society drama in four acts, drama
tized by Mary F. Stone from the story,
by Elizabeth Phlpps Train, which was
first published In LIppIncotfs Magazine.
There is a wonderful comparison between
Courtice Jaffray. the leading character
In "A Social Highwayman," which is
played by Charles Wyngate, and Clarence
Adams, of Chester. Vt, who was
a very Influential citizen and society
leader of that place. As Jaffray steals
in the play, Adams has been stealing for
tho past 16 years In reality and he has
confessed to 51 burglaries. As this shows
there Is hardly a play produced that does
not In some case, depict real life.
Return of the Pollard Juveniles.
Reserved scats for 'the Pollard Juvenile
Opera Company will be placed on sale
this morning at 10 o'clock. Manager
Heillg, of the Marquam, has secured
these talented Australian children for the
first week of the coming Carnival. Next
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights
"Paul Jones," the beautiful nautical
opera of Planquette's. will be the offering;
also at the matinee Saturday. Thursday,
Friday and Saturday nights the company
will present their former success, "A
Gaiety Girl," which will he remembered
as one of the gems of their repertoire in
which little Daphne Pollard simply cap
tured the audience at every performance.
"Paul Jones" will certainly be a surprise
to their many friends in this city, on their
return. This opera would be a big under
taking for a company of grown operatic
performers, and the way each one of the
children handles his or her part is cer
tainly marvelous. They sing and act like
veterans.
Amateurs Tonight, Shields Park.
Seven new amateurs will have a chance
to show whether they can lay claim to
Thespian honors tonight at Shields' Park.
Julius Caesar still holds the position of
top-liner, and he promises to add a cake
walk to his new Shakespearean act to
gether with a song and an extemporaneous
talk on things in general. He was the hit
of the show last Friday night and he
was so elated over his success that he
wanted to go back on the stage and tell
how Damon and Pythias umpired a game
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of ball, but Mr. Shields told him it was
unprofessional to appear twice on the
same programme, and Caesar was perfect
ly satisfied, because he wants It distinctly
understood that he Is no amateur. An
other big feature will be a ple-eatlng
contest by six boys. To make it more
ludicrous all will be blindfolded and have
their hands tied behind their backs. An
exceptionally strong bill has been secured
for Carnival weeks. Tho famous Matsuda
Royal Japanese acrobats, who made such
a sensational hit the opening week of the
park, return in time for a short engage
ment next week. Several new features
will be added to the daring feats they
performed the last time. Six more star
features will bo Included In tho pro
gramme. One of tho big features will be
Seppel and Franz, a famous duo of Tyro
lean singers. This will be their first and
only appearance In Portland. With all the
counter attraction the attendance so far
this week has equaled that of any prevf
ous week. Captain Holtum. the cannon
ball king, and Atlantis, with her fire and
globe dance, are strong features, and the
McKlnley pictures on the polyscope and
the Illustrated songs aro all highly appre
ciated. Cordray's Matinee.
Tomorrow a special, matinee perform
ance of "Tho Tide of Life" will bo given
at Cordray's. This melodrama, despite
strong counter attractions, has drawn
good houses. Tho specialty features in
tho second act arc laughable and enter
taining. Another American Invasion.
London Mall.
A new fashion in political abuse has
been started by an American poliUcian.
who calls President Roosevelt an "Irides
cent incubator of war ideas."
If the fashion spreads wo shall have Mr.
Chamberlain stigmatized as an azure
tinted hatcher of imperial federation, or
Lord Rosebery styled an opalescent omni
bus of harmonious leagues, or "C.-B." a
radiant refrigerator of liberal enthusi
asms. Austria's Great Harvest.
London Leader.
Austria-Hungary has been blessed with
an abundant harvest this year, so abun
dant, Indeed, that it is necessary to go
back 20 years to find its like.
Official estimates appraise the value of
this year's crop at about 7,000,000 in ex
cess of that of last year. This means
that over 5,000.000 worth of cereals and
farinaceous food will bo available for ex
port An Appropriate Choice.
Catholic Standard.
"Edward Goodley," the Sunday school
superintendent announced, "has passed
the best examination in Bible study. As
a reward, I will give him for a prize any
book he may name. Now, Edward, what
shall it be?"
"Why," said Edward, promptly, "I'd
like to have 'Captain FIretooth. of tho
Bloody Avengers, or Flash o' Lightning's
Feud.' " X
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Phone Main 27.
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Patients from distance cared for. Ob
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PORTLAND ACADEMY
The fourteenth year -will open Monday,
September 15.
The academy proper fits boys and girls
Tor collese.
A primary and grammar school receives
boys and girls as early as the age of 6 and
fits them for the academy.
A gymnasium will be opened at the be
ginning of the school year on the academy
grounds. It -will be In charge of a skilled
director. Physical training will be a part
of tho -work required of all students.
The academy will open in September a
boarding hall for girls. The hall will be
at 191 Eleventh street, and will b tender
the immediate supervision of Miss Collna
Campbell. Its supervision, appointment
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opportunities of a refined home.
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