Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, October 12, 1908, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, . MONDAY, OCTOBER 15. 1903. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF OREGOMAX TELEPHONES. Pae. FtmTr. C'wrt1nr-fm V-ln 7 70 C!Ty Clreulatvm ..........Mam Tr'O Vanities FMllor ........Main 7f70 furday Editor ...aH.....laln 7070 Composfnjr-Room ... ...... Main ?r"0 City Editor Main TO70 Bupt. BalMlRg Main 7070 A 095 A . A UWS A J A A A taut AMCSEMEXTS. TUP UVIT "T"IIC" 1 TTO VAflPtMAth aEd Washington atrtatat Tonlsnt at 8:13 rloclc the rev mualcal comedy, 'A Knight for a Day." BUNGALOW TH EATER TTw.'.fth ana Mor rlaon) Baker Stack Company in "The lin of tha Oo.-Jan ilatinta t.li; to night at 8. BAKEK THEATER (Third. er Tamhtll Tte mun -ai comedy. ' The la.a ol BKlos. lUUim 2.13; tonisnt at a IS ORPHBC3I THBATBB (Morrlaoa. between Sixth and Seventh) Advancl vaudevllla thla ailexnoon at 3:1S and tonight at 1:1a. GRAND TH EATfTR Washington, between Seventh and Park) Vaudavliia Ca luxa. 2:30. 7:30 and P. M. VANTAGES THEATER (Fourth and StarkV-- Cor.tlnuoua vaudenJa. 2:3u. and :30 P. M. TAR THEATER (Washington and Park) Comedy-drama. "Tie l"ur Corner! o( lHa Earth.' Matinee 2.15; tonight at 8:15. X.TRIC THEATER (Berenta and Alder ft.unkall iok Company In "My Jim. Eiery night at 8 15; matinee TuaaJay. Thursday and Saturday at 2:15. FI.vb C"hi-bch Nearlt Eiadt. The new edifice ol the Methodist Church South, now being completed at Union avenue and Multnomah street. Is the mt Imposing- church building being erncted In Portland. Work was started on the foundation in 19o6, which was com pleted six months before work was be gun on the superstructure. The stone work is completed and trusses for the roof are now In place. It is hoped to dedicate the building on or about No vember 10. The seating capacity, with the auxiliary rooms will be l&uO. Art glass will be u.vd In the windows of the building, each representing some Bible scene. A inagniricent pipe organ costing J'V will he built for Mils church, and a set of chimes will be Installed in the tower, operated by electric action connected with the organ. Electric lights will be used, but these will be concealed. The Interior finish will be in Kastern Quarter-sawed oak. TJie total cost of the ehurrh and furniture is estimated at Start Ro.e Campaign". J. H. Nolta, B. G. Brand and M. Klrkpatrick, com mittee of entertainment for the Peninsula Rose Association, wiil meet tomorrow morning to complete arrangements for a rose meeting to be held at Portsmouth either October 30 or 21. The object of this meeting is to acquaint the people with plans for future work. A full re port of what was accomplished during the Rose Festival will be submitted and an appeal will be made for every resi dent of the Peninsula to become a rose grower. It Is also desired to ascertain how many rose bushes will be ordered. It being the plan to purchase In one order fr'.onrt bushes and distribute them at cost to the people of the Peninsula. "We hope to Interest every resMent on the Penin sula." said W. J. Peddli-ord. president of the Peninsula Rose Association, yes terday, "whether he owns property or not. and more than double rose-production." Improvtno Peninsula Streets. K. G. Brand, president of the Meagley Junc tion Improvement Association, reports extensive street and other Improvements underway. Portsmouth avenue Is being Improved by grading and laying side walks between Columbia boulevard and two blocks west of Willamette boulevard. Tart of Portsmouth avenue has been widened from 40 to 80 feet. On Van llouten street a six-Inch water main has been laid to Columbia boulevard. Private contracts have been let for the Improve ment of Frederick street, between Col lege Place and Wall street. The street committee from the association has been kept busy pushing street Improvements In all directions. It Is announced thet steel bridges have been ordered built across the railroad cut at Northern Hill. Rkports Portland Rot Killed. A message w-as received by the Chief of Tollce. last tilgln. from County Judge G. W. Wonacott. of Roseburg. advising that a bov. 13 years of age. was killed at Oakland. Or, yesterday. The boy was presumed to ho a resident of Portland from the fact that in his pocket was found a ticket to a local theater, and N Ms shoes bore the name of a local shoe dealer. Two other boys, of about the same age. are being held. The Inquest will take place today. The boys were beating their way on trains. The mes sage falls to give the cause of the ac cident. No one answering the descrip tion of the boy in question has been re ported to the Police Department as missing. PKntcAT" Catholic Colleoe. Work la being ruslied on the college building of the Catholic Christian Brothers, on Grand avenue and Clackamas street, so It will be ready for the dedication on November . The outside walls of this large structure is covered with concrete, making It nearly tire-proof. Tlasterers are completing the Interior. The fine hall on the top floor will be completed for the entertainment by the Alumni As sociation, which will be held October 30, to raise funds with which to furnish the hall. The association has pledged itself to raise J10W toward the building fund. Clommx Business Propertt Bargain for Quick Sale. Fractional lot on First street between Stark and Washington streets, rent fcMl. price JlS.tWO. Two quarter blocks on Twenty-first street. Nob Hill. 1 1.01; the other with resi dence and lovely grounds. 113.500. Two waterfront properties. In heart of busi ness center. &M.4M nd JTjO.OCO respec tively. Also new modern house and lot Fst Seventh street, furnished. K&kX on terms. M. G. Griffin, Stark street. FVnkral or Mrs. Richardson. The funeral of Mrs. Ann Richardson, who died at Walla Walla last Thursday, will take place from the chapel of Holman's undertaking establishment, at 12:30 o'clock this afternoon. The deceased was a daughter of the late Joseph Petrain, a Vancouver, Wash., pioneer, and in ac cordance with the last wishes of the deceased, her remains will be Interred In the Petrain family plot at Vancouver. Services at the grave will be private. Death or Mrs- Mart Kellt. Word baa been received of the death of Mrs. Mary Kelly. t Wataonvllle. Cl. She as 7 years old. and formerly lived on the East Side, Her husband was a Civil War veteran. The funeral will be held at Watsonville. Mrs. Kelly is survived - three children: Mrs. Margaret Borchcrs. of Portland: Mrs. C. A. (Sourley. of Oreville. Cal.. and W. H. Kelly, of North Yakima. Wash. The Pacific Telphone Telegraph Company have moved into their new and commodious iarters In the Beck build ing, corner of Seventh and Oak streets. Ali of the city and business departments occupy the ground floor, and are equipped with all conveniences necessary to ac commodate the increasing demands of the public. Conversation booths for both local and long-distance service. Kast 3ipk Clvb to Mkfjt. The United Kast SIV Push Club will meet tomor row night at the Sjrgent Hotel. Grand nd Hawthorne avenues. A number of Important matters will be considered at this meeting, including discussion of charter revision. Pr Andrew C. Smith has removed his offices to rooms 49-413 Medical building. Park and Alder streets. Thomas B. Nkthai'sen Is located at No. Si Chamber of Commerce building. Phone Main For Rent. a few nleo efTlcea In The Oregonlan building. See Superintendent, room SO"- Independence Partt Rallt. Armort Halt. Monday night. 12tli lnsL pa.. rs:irr has moved his oftice to the Medical building. Dr. Mccracken, dentist. Rothchlld bid. pa. . c. Brown. E is. Ear; Marquasa. Investigation Is Completed. It Is the Judgment of the committee appointed by the Multnomah Improvement Association to Jnvestigste the sidewalks laid In Mult nomah Addition that they were put down according to the specifications supplied by the City Engineer, but that the cement is inferior. fne contractors agreed to guarantee the sidewalks for five years. In case of depreciation on account of bad material. M. J. Murnalne. J. Trueb. Jacob Bills. Dr. U M. Davis, M. E. Thompson and X. D. Beutgen. members of the committee, held a short session yesterday afternoon, at the home of R. B. Metcalfe, president of the club, to consider the situation. It was decided to confer with Mayor Lane this morning at 10 o'clock. State Board Meets. Fruit work of the State Board of Horticulture will be reviewed by the Board today at its regular semiannual meeting, for the next biennial report to the State Legislature which meets next January. One of the important topics will be progress In ex terminating fruit pests. Members of the Board are W. K. Newell. Dilley; A. H. Carson, Grants Pass; Judd Geer, Cove; R. H. Weber. Dallas; J. H. Reid. Mil waukle. and C. A. Park, Salem. Will Hold Taft Rallt. A Taft rally will be held in the hall on Mississippi avenue and STiaver street. Wednesday night, under the auspices of the Multno mah Addition Republican Club. W. P. Olds will be one of the speakers. Thrilling New Bill at Star This Week DID you ever see a "thriller" thrill? If you never did you Just ought to go to the Star this week and watch the crowds that watch the performance of "The Rocky Mountain Express." What with shrieks of delight at the triumphs of the hero and his associate good peo ple and hisses for the villain and his side partners In crime, the theater Is a pandemonium most of the time land melodramatically sneaittng that consti tutes success. Taking the enthusiasm of the audience as a criterion then. "The Rocky Mountain Express" is away up toward the head of the hit class. With no one particular role which requires a star, the play consequently has a cast In which honors are pretty equally di vided, all the members of the company contributing in their various capacities to the aggregate virtue of the perform ance. The play opens In the office of a wild Western hotel In Colorado, a few blocks from Elitche's Garden, where a cattle king with a beautiful and accomplished daughter is killed by a hired Mexican assassin in the empoy of the villain, who seeks the papers and the daughter, as usual. Then the scene shifts to a ranged mountain pass, for rugged con stitutions, where the villain plots the destruction of the- hero by causing a snowsHlde. This Is one of the thrllllng est moments. The slide occurs and the hero starts to slide to his destruction at the foot of a precipice, when he Is saved In the nick of time by a rope and a rescuing party. The second act shows the Interior of a little mountain railway station and the flight of the Rocky Mountain express. Then there Is a practical construction camp, an other bit of Interesting mountain scenery and finally a return to the frontier hotel, where all ends as It should. Harrison Taffee plays the principal role, while Ollle Minell Is the leading ladv. Bary Cleveland, who plays the good-natured Irish landlady, was former ly In comic opera appearing here some 20 years ago, and Is still remembered. The rest of the cast Is equal to all emergencies. HUNT CLUBCHOCOLATES u.t Club chocolates is but a new name for the popular Haxelwood choc olates. Tastefully packed In the offi cial souvenir Hunt Club Horse Show box. The Cream Store, JS8-390 w"n" lngton street. BLACK DRESS GOODS. t -& r.ri in the nellinir of fln black dres goods and eilks. Our tlon. McAll-n & McDonnell, Third and Morrison. FORJSALE. Call and see us about that 200-acre Willamette Valley farm; all tillable land. Vi mile from the Salem Electrlo station. Will sell under price. McKln lev Mitchell. i03H Stark st. Lock rihe Oooe0 A. L. MILLS, President. We Home Office: Corbett Building. Cor. 5th and Morrison Sts Portland, Oregon THIS IS THE ONLY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Which Confines its Business ' aa m jar 1 "Healthy Oregon," iviaKes an or 11s invest ments in "Purely Oregon" Securities, Obtains its Business at a Reasonable Cost. Chief Rea sons why Results to QregOnTjfe Policyholders are Better than in any other Company. Rates no Higher. Give Us Your Business. A Knight for a Day! at the Heilig J CAST. j Mma. Woodbury ...Isabelle Wlnlock J Elaine Eleanors Irving A Emlle Sheldon James McCormlck Marcellne Eugene Moulan T Sir Anthony Oliver. .William Garrett J a Murlal Oliver J Gertrude Hutcheson i Jonathan Joy Bobby Barry t Jl.reo IH- Brennan J TUlle Day Elsie Herbert Adam George Stevens J r BT ARTHUR A. GREENE. ITS a safe bet you'll whistle when you walk out. That Is if you're alone and aren't too much of a perfect gentleman. That's the effect "A Knight For a Day", had on the frivolous minded who saw thla delightfully frivolous show at the Heilig last night. It has been my fortune, perhaps oftener my misfortune, to have sat through at least fragments of prac tically all the musical comedies that have ventured so far during recent years. Having staid for all of the one last night, I'm prepared to make deposition that It Is one of the most refreshing things In the airy, fairy, "8 and airy line the managers have been decent enough to send us. It's a Fraxee & Wade show and they're generally good but this Is better. Not that it Is altogether love ly for the book is too insignificant for words. Never positively bad. understand, but Inane and so far as the significance of the title Is concerned It might Just as well have been called "Will Taft Beat Bryan, or Who Is Hisgen?" But people do not go to musical shows to acquire headaches nor to ruminate on the cussed ness or the blessedness of the world. So forget the story of "A Knight For a Day.' The reason why you will like it is that it's a peach In a garden of musical come dy lemons. It Is done by a capital cast, the songs almost without exception are the kind you want to take home with . tin .Hnrn nf ASKnrted y iPU. a veij oiuaviM. ..w. Sizes helps much. Everybody wearB pretty clothes, not excepting me men. management has not overlooked the fact that scene painters have to make a liv ing. It's a tricky piece and Is full of spectacular surprises. Someone who is blessed with originality has devised enough novel effects to remove it from the old familiar things that are so pre valently being turned out by the same old doughnut cutter. Anyone who doesn't like "I'd Like An other Situation Just Like That" has stomach trouble and If you aren't Just a little bit "gleed up" over "Life Is a See-Saw' 'and the effects that go with It, you are far from strong. Also there re main the two most positive delights of the piece, "My Little Girl In Blue" and "Whistle When You Walk Out." The only reason I dislike these latter is that I'm dreadfully afraid. In fact, quite fussed up over the fear, that elementary piano performers and phonographs will be trying them on us for the next few weeks. The company is rather above the aver age In point of numbers and consistently well balanced clear down the line. Bobby Barry, the comedian. Is a highly amus ing young man still in the twenties who brushes by a lot of the string-halted old timers In his line so rapidly that they are likely to choke with dust. He's a keen boy and will certainly extract a laugh or two unless you keep constantly moisten ing your lips. I'm especially enthusiastic over him this year because he no longer imitates George Cohen. Then there is a prima donna of the present generation who looks the Ingenue she pretends to be and has a delightful singing voice. Her solo. "My Very Own." is a gem. Also the tenor is kept prop erly browbeaten and we are given an al most tenorless musical show. The "look pretty" lad has a baritone voice which one tan listen to without the slightest degree of pain. That's not exactly the way to put it because he deserves some thing much better for good work. A commedienne who never gets ' on one's nerves and Is funny without struggling is also much In evidence, greatly to the general satisfaction. There are others who ought to be men tioned but to say that in the order I have Individualised them, besides Bobby Barry, those mentioned are named, Ger trude Hutcheson, J. H. Brennan and El sie Herbert and that's all I'm going to name. A grey haired mlddleaged gentle- Between Your Family and Trouble self and THE POLICYHOLDERS' COMPANY L. SAMUEL, General Manager. man who sat opposite me seemed quite crasy about the chorus and his wife was almost equally as "fooxley" so that's why I would commend the girls for thelr honest and highly enlivening efforts. Grease, paints and professional supplies at Woodard. Clarke A Co.'e- Play Starts on Third Week at Bungalow STILL playing to capacity houses, the Baker Stock Company opened Its third week in Belasco's great play, "The Girl of the Golden West," yester day afternoon. There was apparently not the slightest diminution of Interest In the play, performance and production from the first time It was given and na turally the performance was the most finished and Impressive yet given. The members of the company have had sufficient time to develop their roles to a point where they may court compari son with the best road companies. Miss Jewel continues to 'delight her audiences with her consummate work In the Blanche Bates role; Sidney Ayers Is still satisfactory as the highwayman, while Donald Bowles, as the gambler-sheriff. Is doing some of the most finished work of his career, and William Gleason has built up a comparatively small part Into a characterization which is a gem. "The Girl of the Golden West" has broken all records for long, stock runs and Manager Baker should be delighted with the success which has attended his most ambitious effort. Young Mrs. Winthrop" at the Lyric 0NB of the plays by which the late Bronson Howard, who was, at the time of his death last month, dean of the American playwrights, will be longest remembered In "Young Mrs. Winthrop." a domestic comedy-drama, containing many bright lines, a world of pathos and a sweet, clean atmosphere. The story of it Is simple and direct and homely enough to bring It home to the average theatergoer in a most forcible manner. It concerne the gradual es trangement of a young masried couple, owing to mutual misunderstanding, and although neither the husband nor the wife have any real cause for their feeling against each other, the chasm has widened until at the opening of the first act it has brought them to the point of antagonism. , M , The wife Is young, attractive and fond of society. The husband is absorbed in extensive business interests and bends all his attention to amassing a larger for tune. They have a child which is seized with a fatal illness while the mother is away from home at a fashionable ball, and its subsequent death rather widens the breach than serves to draw the two together, as should have been the case. In spite of the kindly efforts of one of the few thoroughly admirable mothers-in-law on the stage and the efforts of the benevolent old family lawyer, the pair agree upon a divorce and a division of the property. In arranging the details the old lawyer comes upon a deed to the lot in the cemetery where the child is buried and Inquires which of them will have It. This brings the unhappy couple to their senses and in a most effective bit of emotional acting, they are reconciled. The play appeals to the very hest In stincts and should please all right minded people. Warda Howard has the role of the friv olous young wife, while Ervin Blunkall plays the husband. Both of them do great creait lu i in 1 1 1 .Tn irn a.uu Mia . . i . .. j 1 ..HmIw nnl.nl (a t Vl O I T rtortn UIIU I1UVD CI11I1CIJ .w " !'" . except that Miss Howard is a bit too theatrical at times and should reserve more or ner intensity lur mo uuhbaco. Lillian lirimms gives a spienaia pcr.u.u ance as the mother, while Carl Berch is 1 II . U nml1v onlii.itve 111 tAteiirill Jin ill n3 luc xciiii" . The Lyric offers thte attraction for the entire, week, witn tne usual matinees. SPLENDID FLAT LOCATION We have for sale a lot. 50x100, only two blocks from the east approach of the Steel bridge, on Laxrabee street. This is an ideal location for flats or an apartment-house. For particulars apply to Charles K. Henry & Son, 2o0 Stark street. Portland, Oregon. Formic acid is coming Into vogue In Ger many 'and England as a remedy for tuber culosis and kidney troubles. Your Trouble XT S. .asm. CLARENCE S. SAMUEL, Assistant Manager. exclusively to 1 f T Minstrels Entertain at Baker Theater BY JOHN JAT HARBISON. UST as the old songs are enjoyed most 3 by the greater number of people, and the old books, old plays and old associa tions, so a circus never loses Its attract ing power nor a minstrel show palls on the public. Along about the close of the Civil War the negro character, as portrayed by rep resentatives of the race themselves, first was seen on the American and foreign stage. The old Georgia Minstrels caught the North especially, and for years, with the Tennessee Jubilee Singers, charmed audiences with their rendition of the Southern plantation melodies, which have grown into the folksong of the country. White people cannot bring out the beauties of a Stephen C. Foster ballad, for Instance, with the same degree of ten derness and pathos the blacks can, and when it comes to the modernized rag time, with Its syncopated measures, only Indifferent Imitations are possible by white singers. For these, and some other, reasons Richards & Prlngle's minstrels, appearing at the Baker theater this wieek, drew good houses yesterday. Some of the old standbys Clarence Powell, Pete Woods and Charles Wilson among them are still capable of raising a laugh at will, and the singers for the most part are up to the standard Bet years ago for minstrels. Powell In his monologue hits the local "moral" situation and the presidential campaign quite effectively. "See heah. yo' Bryan men: ma 'vice is git up early 'an vote fo Mistah Bryan on 'lection day an' mo'n once ef yo' can; but ma 'vice also Is, bet yo' money on Taft." Pete Woods' cavernlike mouth seems to grow wider and deeper wirh the years, and his comment on the old songs Is ludicrous in the extreme. His song "Someone's Been 'Round Here," makes a great hit, and he avoids broadness, though the opportunity is aggressively Klrkpatrick is the Interlocutor In the first part, and he also sings a baritone solo. He nils the first assign ment better than the latter, though it may be that his choice of songs rather overtops his vocal abilities. Herbert La She is a versatile member of the company, for he sings a ballad in a fairly good contra-tenor voice, and walks the tightrope with more grace than most people promenade the sidewalk. Dur ing the tightrope act, the trombone player In the orchestra Is entirely too much In evidence. The trombone soloist, however, Fred Simpson, brings out everything pos sible from this most obstreprous Instru ment, and his double and triple tonguing are admirable. Alonzo Moore does some old and new tricks in palming and Jugglery, including the trunk trick, which is cleverly done. The show ends with a tumbling act by a troupe of Arabs. WHEREJTO DINE. Ail the delicacies of the season at ths Portland Restaurant: fine private apart ments for ladies, 305 Wash., near Fifth. A handsome after-theater souvenir menu for the ladles, at the Perkins Grill this week. CARLTON ARROW COLLAR, that tries neither thumb, tie nor temper aJlZt It Cents Each for 2ft Cents Cloett, Peabody A Co., Maker, Troy, 9. T LARGEST RETAIL STOCK OF UMBRELLAS IN AMERICA Call and Se Them. W Are making a discount of 10 per cent and 23 per cent on good ones. Rant proof Umbrellas). Repairing- and Re-covering:. We have the only complete electrical ly operated umbrella shop in Portland. Best work at lowest prices. Personal attention. MEREDITH'S ITmbrellas Exclusively. 812 Washington St., Bet. 5th and 8th. HUNTERS ARE DANGEROUS! Why let others set the same that yoa re entitled to? Put up a stsm like this: NOTICE! Anyone found hunting or trespassing' on these premises will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. OWNER W print the above tisn on cloth, with your name underneath, paatage prepaid, for $1.75 per dozen. A. E. KERN & CO., Printers Second and Salmon St., Portland. Ore. FredPrehn,DJ)i ltt.0 Fall Bet Teetn, aa.w. Crown, and Bridge- WOTK, S3.VW. Beont 405. Dekiun. Oven Jfvanlnss XU1 7. jgebwab Printing Co. tESTirOKK. KZjtSONjtMLE TMCES J41'i S T A R. K STREETl Pianos for Rent and sold on easy payments. H. fl lit S HJ1HKH 73 TU1EL.D f& Oregon City Trains PORTLAND RAILWAY, LIGHT AND POWER CO. Beginning Saturday, October 10th, 1908, Oregon City trains will leave First and Alder streets as here tofore. Cazadero trains will leave East Morrison and Water streets. Passengers can take any car operat ing over East Morrison or Madison-street bridges. Mors Show Second Annual Horse Show Reserved Seats, $1.50 Also Tickets for Woman's Wednesday, October COOKING MADE EASY NO DIRT ELECTRIC COOKING UTENSILS OF AIL KINDS When not in use. all expense avoided by simply turning off the switch . COFFEE PERCOLATORS, TOASTERS, CHAFING DISHES, OVENS and Many Other Devices SEE EXHIBIT AND DEMONSTRATION At Seventh and Alder Street Store, Daily Portland Railway. Light and . Power Company PORTLAND, OREGON MAIN 668S PHONES A 6131 PORTLAND HELPFUL BUSINESS RELATIONS The policy of this bank is to cultivate helpful business relations with its depositors and to render at all times the service which their needs demand and which our equipment insures. "We invite accounts. of the Portland Hunt Club Oriental Building October 15, 16, 17, 1908 Reierved Seats now on ' Sale at R.we & Martin's Drugstore. Sixth and Washington Streets. General Admission, 50c Exchange "1860" Dance, 14th. Tickets $1.50 OR FIRE OREGON