THE MORNING- OREGONIAN, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 14, 1906. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF THS OREGONIAN TELEPHONES. rotmtlnr-ftosm M1n T0T) Mtnaglnr ' Editor Main 7070 lunday Editor Main 7070 CompoKlng-Hoom Main 7070 City Editor.. Main 7070 Superintendent Bulldin Main 70T0 East Bid Office Eaat 61 AMUSEMENTS. TUB HEIMQ THEATER 14th and Wash ington sts. ) Tonight at 8:15 o'clock, the comedian.- William Collier. In Augustus Thomas' comedy. "On the Quiet." BAKER THEATER (Third, bet. Yamhill and Tavlor) Haker Theater Company In 'Because She Loved Him So"; tonight at 8:15. 1- "-F. THEATER (tlth and Morrison) Melodrama, "The World": tonight at 8:1D. BRAND THEATER (Washington, bet. Parle and 7th) Vaudeville. 2:30. 7:30 and - P. M. PANTAGES THEATER (4th and Stark) Continuous vaudeville. 2:.1d. 7:30. 8 P. M. STAR THEATER (Park and Washington) Allen Block Company, 2:30 and 8:13 P. M. LYRIC THEATER (Seventh and Alder) The Lyric Stock Company. 2:30. T:80. 9 P. M. THE OAKS Open from A. M. to 11 P. M.; Saturday and Sunday. 10 A. M. to 11 P. M. i BASEBALL TODAY 3:30 P. M., ATHLETIC Park. 24th and Vaughn, Portland v. Baa Francisco. Street May Become Impassable. The recefit rains Indicate that the Grand avenue fill between East Stark and Pine may soon become Impassable. A few days of rains has already softened the mirfare so that vehicles sink down. Un less the mirfare is planked or covered with crushed rock it is evident that it will soon become a quagmire. The fore man of Engine Company No. 7 examined the embankment yesterday, and said he doubted even now whether an engine could be gotten over the embankment, which Is in a serious condition. In case of lire .south of the embankmont, the heavy apparatus might have to be taken around by way of East Eight street, with great loss of time. There is some ap prehension about the condition of this fill, and It Is the general impression that It must be planked or covered with crushed rock. , Funeral Services are Held. The fu neral of Mrs. Adaline Le Roy, who died September 11, was held yesterday after noon from Dunning's undertaking chapel, East 8lxth and Alder. Rev. Snyder, of the Seventh Day .Adventlst Church, con ducted the services. The deceased was -64 years old. The funeral of Mrs. Clara Uoudy, mother of W, R. "SValpole, was held yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Interment was In Lone . Fir Cemetery. Rev. J. J. Staub conducted the services. The Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Lambert was buried yesterday morn ing at 10 o'clock and the interment was in Multnomah Cemetery. The body of Cecil Prettyman, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Pretty man, aged 15 years, who difd at his home at Rockwood. September 10. was cremated at the Portland Crematorium Wednesday. Funeral or Captain Kamm. Funeral services for the late Captain C. T. Kamm were held yesterday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the home of the deceased, 215 Fourteenth street. Dr.. Edgar P. Hill de livered the funeral oration after which the body was taken to the Rivervlew Cemetery for interment. The services at the grave were conducted by the Scottish Rite order of which the deceased was a prominent member. A large assemblage of frionds attended the services at the home. The floral offerings were many and beautiful and elaborate In design. Dr. Willett to Lecture Tonight. Dr. Herbert L. TVillctt, professor of Semitic Languages and Literature In the University of Chicago, Is engaged to de liver his address on "The Supreme Book" this evening at the First Christian Church, Park and-Columbia streets. Dr. Vlllett is Just returning to the East from a tour of the Coast, having spent a month In California under the auspices of the University of Chicago. He is. a personal friertd of Rev. K. S. Muckley and also of Mr. R. M. Hall, whose guest he will be during his etay In the city. Boy Shoots a Bear. Russell Band, the 15.year-bld son of Mrs. Gus Heltschmldt, of 5R7 Seventh street, who Is visiting his, uncle, George Ramsey, of Scappoose, had an exciting experience with a bear Tues day evening In a Scappoose prune or chard. He' got on shot at It as It was leaving the orchard and tracked It by the blood till it grew too dark to see dis tinctly in the timber. The next morning rain prevented him following the trail. The bear had done considerable damage breaking down the trees and eating the prunes. Y. W. C. A. Workers Here. Two well known workers In tho Christian Associa tion movement are the guests of the local organization. Miss Helen F. Barnes, a national secretary from Chicago, arrived yesterday to visit tho Y. W. C. A., and C. S. Barnes, of New York, an International secretary is here with the young men's organization. A reception for Miss Barnes and Miss Constance McCorkle, the local secretary of the Y. W. C. A., will be given this afternoon by Mrs. Helen Ladd Corbett. Teamster is Hurt. Ernest Eckerfe, a teamster, fell off the wagon he was driv ing yesterday afternoon at Front and Arthur streets and one of the wheels passed over his body. He was brought to the Police Station in the patrol wagon where the City Physician dressed his In juries, which were not serious. Eckers sustained several severe bruises but no bones were broken. The Injured man was taken to his home at Garden Home. Loses .Diamond Pin. D. h. Welch, a traveling man, reported to Captain Bruin yesterday afternoon, that he had been re lieved of a diamond pin while being shaved In the O. K. barber shop, on Washington street. Just how the pin dis appeared Welch does not know. He claims he left It In his tie on a hat rack while he was In the chair. When he looked for his tie It was missing, with the pin, worth . New Dwellings Projected. William Reldt will erect a JflOOO dwelling on East Stark Ftreet. between 9unnyslde and the county road. It will be a handsome structure. John A. Paterson has let the contract for some flats on East Second, between Clackamas and Wasco streets, to cost 36000. A. L. Gibson has started the erection of a $3500 residence on Schuyler, between East Thirty-fifth and Thirty sixth streets. Seek Flour Mill Location. Secretary Leber, of the Portland Board of Trade, Is endeavoring to find some Oregon town that offers a good, flour mill proposition. Parties In the East have written Mr. Laber for information about any city where conditions are favorable for' the location of a large flour mill. River Trip Sunday. -Go for a ride "up the Columbia" to Cascade lxcks and back. View the finest scenery In the world. A ride through the famous Cas cade Rapids. Steamer Bailey GaUsert. leaves Alder street dock at 9 A. M., re turns 6:30 P. M. Lunch 50 cents. Fare $1.00. Phone Main 914. Mb, II. B. Lauohlin, representing the Pillsbury-Washbun Flour Mills Co.. of Minneapolis, Minn., Is in the city with a crew of men sampling the city with Pllls bury's best breakfast food Vltos, putting a sample In every house. Mr. Laughlin says he will place 30.000 in Portland and suburban towns. Dr. Herbert L. Willett, professor of Semitic Language in the University of Chicago, will deliver his lecture on "The Supreme Book." at First Christian Church, Park and Columbia, 8 o'clock to night. Lecture Is free. - Temple) Beth Israel. Dr. Stephen S. Wise will preach this eveningon "Man, the Social Creator versus Man the, Un social Destroyer." Services begin at 8 o'clock and strangers are always wel come. Tickets for Dr. Hill's third illustrated lecture on Bible lands at Ewings book store, 335 Stark street, this morning. Wanted At the Pacific Iron Works, one pattern maker-s apprentice who has had experience. ' . Errand Bot Waxted; good wages. H. J.iebes & Co. 135 Fifth street. Connoisseurs Understand That There Is Nothing Better v Than YELLOWSTONE Whiskey. Old, mellow and delightfully palatable, it is the ideal stimulant ROTHCHILD BROS., PORTLAND, OR., Sole Agents ygHH We M LADD PRCS. "w Building Xja" Oregon corporation which lighten tb-j policy-holder's harden. guaranteed level premium rate than any other company. Reliable men desired a representatives. MANY MEN HAVE COLUMBIAN OPTICAL CO. Denver, Omaha, Kanans City, Salt Lake, Dallas, Texas; Portland, Oregon. 133 Sixth St. FLOYD F. BROWER, Mgr. ' Oregonian Bldg. J AT THE THEATERS "On the Quiet," Phoebe Rldgway Grace Hadsell Duke of Carbondale. . . .Grant Stewart Hyde Ogden George Christie Judge Rldgway.'.... J. G. Savllle Agnes Colt Jiabol Taliaferro Robert Rldgway. .William Collier Dr. Woleott A .Charles Poor Ethel, Duchess of Carbondale . , Florence Mackenzie Horace Colt John W. Dean Satsuma Frisco Matsuh Pearl Florence Wilson McOeachy George Nash Htx Howard Hull Gibson Thomas Garrick Quartermaster Thomas Martin Peterson John B. Adam Walter W. McCutcheon Lucille.., .'.Bessie Nelson Lottie Helena Collier BT ARTHUR A. GREENE. Doubtless there have been other men as funny as William Collier, but doubt less not many. He occasionally comes Into our midst for laughing purposes only and our midst hustle around for the price and goes to see him any old time and place. Then the blue devils take a sneak to the tall firs and cool their heels for a whole week. This does us good and helps Collier. All the regular first-nighters were at the Helllg last night to see him and his company In "On the Quiet," and al though the plecels not new, it consists largely of Collier and he's always new. Apparently he never has a tired moment. He has. played the Irrepressible "Bob Rldgway" so many times that he knows it forwards and backwards and down the center, but the delicious humor which he ruts into the lines Is as spontaneous as If the part were a novelty. It can be said for him that he always keeps faith with his public. He never loafs. For that reason his performance of "On the Quiet" is something that age cannot wither nor custom make stale. Iat night even those who had seen the Thomas comedy many times, found as many laughs In It as they did the year it was brought out. Personally I consider Collier our best light comedian, not barring Nat Good win, but the statement always starts an argument and arguments are not worth while. What one thinks of an actor doesn't make much difference, but what two or more think makes a mafirity. So far as the local situation Js concerned, Collier seems to have that." A supporting company that Includes Mable Taliaferro, J. O. Saville and Grant Stewart could not possibly be mediocre, although John Barrymore's absence leaves a thin spot. -Miss Taliaferro Is a dainty little actress, who Is well capi talized for ability and has been well schooled: Mr. Savllle's "Judge Rldgway" Is a rarely good creation. As' true a portrayal as one ever sees on a stage. Grant Stewart's English Duke Is carica tured so little that he would pass muster for the genuine. In the Strand. There is no fault to be found with Charles Poore as the perplexed dominie while Grace Hadsell and George Nash, as the viva clous sister and tough book-maker re spectively, contribute considerably to the enjoyment of the happy occasion. There were repeated curtain calls after each act and the star was fairly dared to make a speech but wag afraid, for a curtain speech is a fearsome matter. The performance was late In commene. Ing and the audience had much leisure to study the beautiful new advertising cur tain whereon Is told where to buy things In our town. Also someone, let us hope It wasn't Collier, who 1s responsible for having the star's name printed In poster type on the program should be careful lest this be taken for a Jay settlement. The present engagement opens the Helllg for the season which from tho starting point looks like a successful one. The up-town bouse Is a pretty and comfortable place of amusement which offers a fine line of attractions for the year. It certainly started off right last night. "On the Quiet" will be repeated to night and tomorrow matinee and night. HARD T0 BELIEVE Arythlng better than U. S. bonds! Can you buy them on the installment plan with all unpaid Installments canceled should you die? 0t particulars free. No Importunity. PENN MUTUAL. LIFE, Sherman & Harmon, General Agents. 'WHERETO DINE. ' All the delicacies of tho season at tha Portland Restaurant; fine private apart ments for parties. 306 Washington, or. 6th. James A. Garland, Xew York. HANOVER, Sept. 13. James A. Gar land, the New York financier and club member, died this morning of pneu monia. - BUSINESS ITEMS. If Baby Catting Teeth B mire and use that old and well-tried rem edy. Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup, for chil dren teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, curea wind cotla and diarrhoea. Hiun-Grada pianos tor Rent And sold on easy payments. Piano tuning and repairing. H. Slnsheimer. 72 Third eU Tmeo B Wilcox V R, Has lower Pauperized themselves and others have become insane in vain efforts to create a Solid Invisible Bifocal. But the VKryptok" is still the only one in existence. We make and sell them. Everett; J. F. Tldemai. at the Breslln; F. W. Wimans- and wife, at the Albe marle; T. A. Fenton. C. J. Iverson. at the York; H. Ltghton, at the Grand Union. PHONETIC SPELLING. One Man Who Has Small Respect for Devotion to the Classics. (At the request of the writer, his ortho graphy Is followed, but Vithout approval.) PORTLAND, Sept. 13. (To the Editor.) It Is an interesting fact that the Nation leading the world in the direction of ad vanced civilization through the broad channels of human liberty should be a world-wide distance behind the darkest of "Christian" peoples in the improve ment of its vehicle for conveying ideas, the language and its orthography. The Spanish Academy, which ' has charge of the language of Spain', bas made It the only absolutely fonetlo modern .language. But, when a body of learned men, organized and originally appointed by the most learned of our Presidents the late Benjamin Harrison undertake a work to' protect language against popular Illiteracy they are made the butt, of critics, who know little of fllology, save the very incomplete varnish of a college' eourse in Greek and Latin, for which in their native stupidity they assume to be "educated." not under standing that a collegiate training Is but the Introduction to an education, and not its end. Our National Board of Geografic name3 had, twelve years ago, properly printed the name of a neigh boring Spanish island of the Atlantic Coast as Puerto Rico, and when we ac quired the land an Ignorant Congress stepped In and conferred on the island a Portugues name as Porto Rico. The man who does The Oregonian news business In Washington presumes to write con temptuously of the board and bravely Informs the reading public that the Por tuguese name is "the ordinary spelling," the Jruth being that it is the pronuncia tion of the most illiterate class of any nation, the sailors, tho no ship- master ever so wrote It. The Portuguese have never had any interest or made any pre tension to any right of interest In Puerto Rico, the true name, by which It will always be known among educated men, who have geografical knowledge enougn to know what they are writing about. , We are told that some literary men of culture disapprove President Roosevelt's order to improve the official orthografy on the ground that it "destroys the his toric association" of words. Well! Well! Let us get ripht back to the ox-team for crossing the continent. These conti nental railroads and electric lines, these telegrafs and vtelef ones are Infamous as saults on tho "historic associations" of our Nation and the last century. The Spanish Academy long ago knocked out the abomination of ph for f, and some of our best presses of today give us thru and tho, for which let us be duly grateful. Consider the miserable con fusion In pronunciations of ough. In through it Is oo; in dough, o; in cough, off; in bough, ow; in lough, ock; in fought, aw; in rough, uf. Ah! but It Is so historic! I am reminded of a new verb lately Introduced into the French and Spanish' languages, borrowed from the English invitation. "Will you five o'clock with me?" And now the French say, as I heard It on my; last visit to South America, "Faive oclokerez voua avec mol," and the Spanish, "Faif oclo kara vo conmigo." The French making it of the second person, plural, as ad dressing "you" directly, while the Span ish put it In the third person singular, addressing "your grace." "Devotion to the classics" has held the world back In science and religion. But the nineteenth century in the embraces of American liberty is producing won derful offspring. An American Academy might do with some authority among educated men the work atvompted by the Publishers' Association, with some what of' success. At present, there does not exist on the Pacific Coast a period ical of any class or nature. In the English language, that can with existing arrange ments for composition, print those words of any foreign language . that require characteristic signs. A few are able to accent certain vowels. But in the Inter est of cheapness they have adopted the limited font of the common linotype. For instance, the very common word "senior" of the Spanish is invariably printed senor, as being the word spelled in tha Spanish orthografy that is not true. The word In Spanish is spelled Senior. But the Spanish uses an abreviation of nl In a letter colled "n con tllda," It is, as I have said, an abbreviation. , We" have been Invaded by Spanish OffMiiii iff THE POLICY-HOLDERS' COMPANY. . Clean, Economical, Well Managed. A most desirable company to insure in. Home Office, Commonwealth Bldg., Sixth and Ankeny Sts., Portland, Or. A. L. MILLS, President. L. SAMUEL, General Manager. CLARENCE S. SAMUEL, Asst. Mgr. SPECIAL names tor districts In the suburbs of Portland. i-'Thus, of Estacada, a pretty name, "meaning a stockade. I was told by. a 'resident of the place that it is named Esther Cady for a girl! But the name, printed "Moritavilla," is a monu ment, of the 'Illiteracy of the men whp rule. publics opinion In that villa, and of the people, who submit to it. The word is either Spanish or Italian. In either case the name Montevllla would be a pretty and correct word, .meaning hilly, with foliage, the meaning of Monte, pro nounced Alon-teh; but when it is "Monta" it is grossly vulgar, and in one case worse.- Monta In Spanish means a sum of added figures i or an accounting; in Italian, if I wrete here the meaning, you would ' not print it. It Is indeed only suited to the redllghts district or a stock yard. And all that Is needed to make a decent word of it is to change the- one letter a to e. It is now the laughing stock of every Italian in Portland. ALFRED F. SEARS-. C. E. ' CARD OF THANKS. We wish at "this time to expres our heartfelt thanks to the many friends who so klndlv assisted us during the recent illness and death of our only son. Roy. MR. AND MRS. H. A. MILLS. Hood's Sarsaparllla cures scrofula, salt rheum and all other troubles caused) by Impure blood. PIANOS In thinking of pianos, it Is also well to think from whom you are purchas ing. Ve are practical piano men, hav ing been engaged in making and tun ing pianos for many years before we opened up our piano store, and this experience has been of great value to us in selecting our present line of pianos and "Interior piano players." We have chosen instruments that we know from experience will stand the climatic conditions existing here and will be in good playing condition for your children's children. And our prices and terms are right. No need to say more.. Come and see for your selves. . We have more different makes of "Interior piano players'' than any other house In the city and lit have The only one in the world which has a range of the entire keyboard of the piano, or 88 notes (23 notea more than nny other player made). This truly wonderful instrument Is deserving of your atten tion and we cordially Invite you to call. Half a block of fine upright and grand pianos and "interior player plnos." ' SouleBros. Piano Co. Cor. Morrison and W. Park Sts. For dress parade or aoor each or its kind the best GORDON inn GLOVES $1- Strength where they need it comfort all over VALUES Strictly all-wool suits with double seat and knees, lining arid interlining of the very best quality. Double-breasted, Norfolks and sailors in handsome patterns. Sizes 7 to 17. Phenomenal values also in our $2.15 and $3.35 Suits. These lines are made up of Russian blouse suits, Norfolks and double breasted styles. $2.15 and $3.35 j nrT y J' ' 1 I 1 t PROPERTY TRANSFERS Those concerned erty transfers will company a great in prop-( find our conven We make a special of trustee matters, agreements, taking of estates as title pending an adjust ience. feature escrow charge holder ment, effect .collections, etc. We also do a general bank ing and trust business, pay 4 per cent on time deposits, current rates on savings ac counts and . receive deposits subject to check. : Merchants Investment : : & Trust Company : 247 Washington Street : CAPITAL $150,000.00 f. FRANK WATSON President R. L. DURHAM Vice-President W. H. FEAR Secretary, S. C. CATCHING.. .Assistant Seo'y IF YOU WANT Pure Ice Cream TRY REBE'S 'Phone Main 1701. 310 Washington Street. TIIXMAV BEN'DEt., San Fraoclaea. Faclflo Mom DlatMbnters. TEETH A 111.00 Fall el (or ss.es. FKED FKEHX Boom os Iekaaa Bull dla. $chwab Printing Co, ttST tVOKIC. 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