Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, November 23, 1911, Image 13

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Newspaper Page TextTin; aroRXTN'o oregoxian. tttuiisdat, yovirsrBEit 1911. N V V FARES ARE GUI FOR ELKS' CONVENTION Rose Festival, Livestock Ex change and W. C. T. U. Also Win Reductions. PASSENGER AGENTS ACT Slashed Hound-Trip Rates Embrace Convenient Periods and TourltU' Sliced ale Will Be on at the Time Dates Given. ReJaced renod-trlp rates to the Elks' f na lode convention In Portlan nest July and the iou Festival la June urt been granted by the Trim continental raaaenger Association, inaunnc Beavy travel from ""n points to Doth theee events. Tha ached ula of round-trip faraa fof th. Elka. aa well aa the Roee Featlval. will b. S from Chicago. $55 from Mlaaourl River gatewaye. Omaha to Kaneaa City Inclualva, I5S from Ft. Paul and Minneapolis. HI 60 from St. Louis. HQ from Colorado common points. Including Cheyenne. Denver, Colorado Fprtng-a and Pueblo, and 174 it from lletnphta. Tha rata from New Orleans has not been fixed. 61m liar rates to Portland will apply to tha National LJveatock Eichanae and to tho National convention of tha Wo man's Christian Temperance Union. dates for which have not been set. Sale dates for tha Roes Featlval at thess rates will be May 17 and II and Juns to June 4, Inclusive, and for tha Elka from June IT to July S. In clusive. Tha return limit on Rosa Festival tickets will bo July IT. while that on tha Elk tickets wUl ba August 17. Temrlat Rat re AIm Om, While tha farea for Portland's two bit; events of 111 are greatly reduced, the refular Summer tourlat rates will ba In effect at the same time and travelers can take advantage of theee. While tha tourist rates are somewhat In exceas of the convection rates, they offer a wider ranse of sale dates from Juns 1 to September SO. Inclusive and have a return limit to and Including: October II. The round-trip tourlat tick ets from Chicago will coat 171 SO. from Mlaaourl River gateways. $60; from Ft. Paul and Minneapolis, t0; from St. Ixu!a, 170; from Colorado common points. $54. and from Memphis. 17. 75. Harry C. McAlllater. secretary of tha Elks' convention commission; Oeorga I Hutchtn. general manager of tha Roaa Festival, and C. C. Chapman, manager of tha promotion bureau of tha Commercial Club, who appealed to tha Transcontinental Association for the reduced rates, were delighted yes terday when announcement came from Chicago that tho reductions had been granted. It waa reported bera a week ago that tha committee of the associa tion having In charge tha application for tha reduction waa conaldertng an Increase In convention rates over those of a year ago. Instantly telegrams ware sent to Jams Charlton, chairman of the association, urging him to use his Influence In granting tha lower schedule. Stepeveie May Be Granted. The committee baa not yet an nounced Its decision with reference to stopover privileges on either tha con ventton or tourist tickets, but It la un derstood that the usual conditions will govern. passengers will ba required to reach their destination within It daya after data of aala and will have anltmtted stopovers within the final return limit of tho tourist ticket, which has been fixed at October II. Tha privileges on tha westward trip of persons buying convention tickets will bo mora limited, as the sale dates are so near the time of tha meetings. However. In case of both tha Rosa Fes tlval and the Elks' reunion, travelers will have fully 4S daya following tha respective events to remain on th Coast and take side trips. Tha usual diverse routings have been granted. Under this provision travelers can come to Portland over any dlrert route from the East and return over any other direct route. Tha railroads apply a liberal Interpretation to tha word "direct" and passengers coma or go by way of Puget Sound or Canada, or by way of Salt Lake City, tha Rocky Mountains or Denver on any of these tickets. Kates from points east of Chicago have not yet been determined, as tha Tranacontlnental Passenger Assocla tlon has no Jurisdiction over that ter rltory. It Is understood that correa- pondlngly low fares will prevail In connection rV' tne rates just a nounced. connected with tha Boll Telephone Company at San Francisco, aa an elec trical engineer of tha central dlatrlct of tha Bell Telephone Company, em bracing tha tier of states from Pennsyl vania to Nebraska. He served In a sim ilar rapacity with tho Western Elec tric Company and at varloua tlmea has had charge of Important projects In scattered portions of America, his ac tivity extendlnar from tho City of ilex Ico to polnta In Canada. Ha la a grad uate of Purdue University, being a classmate of George Ada. His knowl edge of affairs baa been rained mostly through many yeara of practical expo rlence. Mr. McMeea will-have offices In tha Lewla building. The firm of Smith, Kerry Chace. of Toronto, which has had charge of construction, will remain with the company at leaat until tho work now under way la completed. " Mr. McMeen was acoompanled to Port- Monarch Gloves, Derby, Trefcmsse, Dents, Alexandre, Bocmo, EsKay New Xmas Lines Picture Framing by Experts, 4tH Floor Manicuring and Hairdressing, Second Floor BOARD-BILL LAW TESTED Attorney Contend Roomlntr-botuMv Are Xot Protected by Ordinance. Whether a rooming-house Is Included In tha law which makes It a misde meanor for patrons to remove their baggage without first paying their bill will be decided by Judge Taswell this morning. The point was raised yesterday by the attorney for Morris Burch and Dan Ralney. waiters, who bsd been rooming at the Breslln Hotel, at :! Washington street, and left with their baggage, the proprietor al lers. before paying their rent. According to the wording of tha stat ute. It la a misdemeanor for patrona to remove their baggage from a "hotel. Inn or boardlng-houae." The attorney for tha defense contended that a place where rooms are rented and no meale are aerved. aa at the Breslln. la not a hotel. Inn or boardlng-houae. and there fore la not Included In the law. Tho attorney also contended that In rooming-houses where agreement Is made to pay rent in advance, and the patron la then permitted to pay after service has been received, tbero exists merely a debt which offers no grounds for criminal procedure. RAILWAY HEAD INSPECTS President-elect McMeen, of Mount Hood line, 6cans Field. S. O! McMeen. president-elect of tha Mount Hood Railway Power Com pany, arrived In Portland Tueeday and prepared to familiarise himself with the work here before taking ac tive charge of the read. Although Mr. McMeen la a technical man,.hls experi ence having been largely along con struction and operating lines, he will have executive direction of all the com pany's property and will carry out tho programme of development already out lined. Mr. McMeen has spent much of bis time on the Paclflo Coast, but this Is bis first visit to Portland. Ha formerly HOOD RIVER CLAIMS IT HAS BEST APPLK-PACKER OF NORTHWEST. ft t . i -. ... .. ' i -. ( v- S Walter If. Weber. "Champion apple-pscker of tha Northwest." Is tha title that tha friends of Wslter N. Weber, of Hood River, confer on him. Mr. Weber Is acknowledged as tha champion of tha Hood River Valley, and those who know Mm defy any other community In Ore gon. Washington or Idsho to pro duce a man who can excel him. Last year ho won first prise a gold watch for tha bast packed five boxea at tha Hood River Apple Show. His pack took seven flret and two second prises at tha Portland (how In If 10. Many boxes packed by him were on ex hibition in the Toon building. Mr. Weber also excela In speed. Hie record pack la 146 boxes In 10H hours. The average man does well if ha packs (0 boxes In the same length of time. Mr. Weber Is a native of Ohio, and has been employed on tho Law rence A Smith ran eta at Hood River for the last four yeara. Ha aJao baa a 110-acre ranch of his own at Roosevelt. Wash. land yesterday by ble wife. They are at Hotel Portland. Their son Is com mercial editor of tha San Franolaoo Post, 'GO WEST' SAYS (UNLET OREGOXIAX TALKS CTIARACTER- ISTICAIXT AT ST. PACT. Beaver State la Called AgrlcnltnraJ Department S tore" Bade to Farm" la Slogan. "Bill" Hauler, of Harney County, Is In St. Paul, wbera ho has Just given out one of his oharaotertstlo Inter views. Mr. Hanley Is attending tha Land Show and will bo one of the three Oregonlana on tha Governors Speolal, Oovernor West and Tom Richardson being tha other two. An extract from the Hanley Inter view follows: I Just tnoutht rd take a run down this war. Too see my cow, keep me at bome moat of the tune, bat every oouple of yeexa like to take a ewlng aowa la the dlreo- tloa of the eanrtae. I thought, aa this waa the eocaaloa of one of the beat land abowa aver held. It would be a rood time to eome. Any middle Initial T Well, to be candid. yea: but I never use It. Middle InlUaJa have about gone out of see down where X ball from. Oregon la what I call aa agricultural de partment atore. We grow everything la the catesory. and X expect to see Oregon eome rlsnt to the front among tha ataiee reore- eentea at me coming snow. Of MurM-nr aeisnbornood la a little out or tne orates pain. 129 mllee from a rail road la fact, at preaant. but we are look ing for a road to eome down that war rrom preeeni developments. Mr. Hill prom' leae u, T No. air. Mr. Hill never promisee anrtning. His first promise la a Derforra- anca. I don't really think Lwle and Clark would rind thlnsa much changed rlrht In my netshborhood. but In the valleys to the north they might think Ponoe de Leoa'e dream had seen realised and they bad found tne fountain of perpetual youth. I think tha Wast la today tha loeteal goal of every ambllloue youag fellow who a willing to put aim shoulder to tne wheel. The trouble U. too many merely vtslt our coast cities ana return nomeelck sad die- eouraged. without ever venturtng Into the rural parte, "Hack to the f arm ' la ay ale gaa and it can l ae emphasised toe macb- Already we are abandoning the Idea of utilising good lands for range pumoeee and the young man of pluck baa a better chaaoe sow than a generation ago In that oountry. I is accessary tnat a fallow have the atlok- to-the-ftnian spirit sad not pull out Just as the aua la about to ealne. There are too many college arraduatae running around helpleee nowedare. Ton eee. they are ao polished It la unpoeelble for anyone to fasten s book en them and make use of them. Thla I think, la due to a popular belief axletiag some few yeara agot "Give your boy something nobody oan take away from him. Inatead. their parents gave them aomethlng nobody else bad any particular use for. I believe in eduratton ay all means but lt tt be more gradual, with eome bard kaooks thrown In. and then there won't be many leaa running around look In a for ba filling fountala pens for ex-Senators and like. I do think, though, that agriculture the beet thing a young man caa atudv If be wants a comfortable future. WIDER STREET ADVOCATED Esjt Gllaan Work to Be Bernn. Cost Stay Be fit a Ix. No objection has been made to tbo widening of East Gllsan street between East Forty-seventh and East Sixtieth treats to 10 feet, and tho viewers will assess tha property for four blocks on acb aide of the atreet to pay dam- gee. At tha meeting of the Center Addition Improvement Aaaoclatlon 1-..A-taw .l-ht A A V.AA., 1 .-...ii n - . . i . . . ran oeivs. viewers, uiauueeea me lu d ject with residents. One property owner objected to the widening of tbo street, but he withdrew his objections when the viewers explained tha situa tion. The viewers said aa far as they could tell at present It would cost on an average of til a lot, the property near the street paying the moat, It waa uiuiv,u w, tuv wviuus uu j I14o95 Three Great Specials Dresses Worth rcf $40 iuit s WbrthUpto $35 Coats WorthUp to $85 $40 Dress $14-95 Garment Dept. Second Floor. Thanksgiving sale of beautiful Dresses for street wear, afternoon and evening wears the popular one piece styles, all fashioned right, up to the minute. The materials are chiffon broadcloth, imported pru nellas, French serges, etc Some are fashioned with the Empire waist and peasant sleeves. Some are trimmed in laces, braids, etc Others are the rich plain tailored effects. "Worth nP t C 1 I Q C $40.00, bargainized for this Bale at I) J. .$35 Suits $14-95 Garment Dept. Second Floor. This Thanksgiving sale of Suits will eclipse all former efforts. In all our experience we were never so well equipped to serve you in ready-to-wear needs. These Suits come in serges, tweeds, cheviots and novelties, neat, plain tailored effects and Norfolks. Coats are lined with Skinner's satin. Skirts are gored and plaited, or with loose panels. Extraordinary values to $35.00. Priced for this great rt A Q C Thanksgiving sale at this low price !) inrt7J $35 Coats $14.95 Garment Dept. Second Floor. Reinforcements arrive just in time to make this the best sale of alL Our buyer, who is now in New York, caring for your holiday needs, sends on an other lot of Coats which she bought way under price. The materials are cheviots, and novelty mixtures of many kinds, styled right up to the minute ; well tail ored and the most extraordinary values at $25.00 and up to $35.00. Specially priced rf - m r j""4 for this Thanksgiving sale at only iDllriyO at Specials for 3 Days Men's $40 Suits $27.50 A three-days' sale of men's high-grade Suits, in all the new shades of brown, in diagonals and fancy weaves, brown and gray mixtures and the new blue-grays; 2 and 3-button sack coats, with hand-felled collars, hand made buttonholes and coat fronts; will not break and roll; with the excep tion of solid blues and blacks you mav choose any suit in CO7 Cn our stock marked to sell at $30.00, $32.50 or $40.00, for, suit Men's $27.50 Suits 18.45 The best suit for the business man or the professional man ; suits which will give good wear and perfect satisfaction; will fit as perfectly as any made-to-measure suits; modeled to fit the 4 ' hard-to-f its ; " sizes 34 to 44; with the exceptions of blue and black, you may choose any suit CI Q Re marked $20.00, $22.50, $25.00, $27.60 for price of only, suit V Men's $15.00 Suits $10.85 Our entire stock of men's and young men's high-grade $15.00 Suits will go in this disposal; the lines eomnrise the eeason's best styles and colors; there's suits in our $15.00 lines that will average up with many $20.00 suits shown elsewhere; sizes 32 wiUfl fit! if it's marked $15.00 you get it for the very low price today of, the suit H A v. JJ I 3Gj 3 Great Specials for 3 Days ffl Boys' $5 Suits at $3.45 In the juvenile department, on the main floor, we specialize for these three days the neatest lot of Juvenile Suits you have ever had the opportunity to choose from; sizes are for the little fellows from 2y2 to 6 years of age; all the popular styles and good materials; black and white checks, blue, tan, brown, gray and red colors; the seams 11 taped and reinforced tO ACZ where the strain comes; good $5 suits specialized for this sale at PJe1"J Boys $10 Suits $6.85 This price comprises the broadest and most liberal offering of all; right be fore the holidays when you need suits for the boys; we give you your choice of our entire stock of Juvenile Suits, made up of Scotch cheviots, and all wool mixtures; browns, tans and grays no blues or blacks OC sizes 8" to 17 years; $7.50, $8.50 and $10.00 grades for only VuOv Boys' $12.50 Suits $6.95 Boys' Blouse Suits, in the wanted colors for Fall; blues, browns, tans, grays, blacks and white checks, silk mixtures, etc.; suits which are tailored as well as the highest-priced suits for men, and styled to please the most exacting parent or fastidious C? QC boy; regular $12.50 suits specialized for today at the very low price of f Men's Water-Proof $4.00 Shoes S3.19 In the shoe store, on the main floor, a sale of men's water-tight Shoes; made of heavy chrome leather, full weight, rock oak soles; extra channel nailed. ffO 1 ti tsn and black, blucher "style, with tip; reg. $4 Women's Heavy Calf $4.00 Shoes $3.48 Not often will you find shoes like these at reduced prices; they eome in the tan and dull gunmetal calf; button style, with the Goodyear welt sole; the new, short. CO A Q raised toe last, with half wing tip; reg. $4 PJ0 argaira Circle Men,s$2Slippers$1.69 diild's75cSlipp'rs 49c On the Bargain Circle, between the elevators, a sale of Men's Slippers of good quality vioi kid, in Everett, Opera or Romeo styles; all hand-trimmed soles, chamois or kid- v 1 Q lined; blacks in Jumbo lasts; reg. $3 and $2.50 PleO7 Misses' and Children's Felt Slippers, made with extra kid tip, in red or black, with wool insoles; child's sizes 5 A Q to 10; misses 'a sizes 11 to 12; reg. 75e grades; special C 60c Lace Curt'ns 30c $3.75 Curtains $2.50 In the big Drapery Store, third floor, a sale of 500 pairs of Lace Curtains, in Nottinghams, eable nets, Scotch lace, etc, including all the new designs in rich floral borders, simple cluny effects, all-over lace and artistio bungalow patterns, Arabian, ivory or white at the following prices: 60c Curtains, pair, 30 $2.25 Curtains, pr., $1.50 $1.25 Curtains, pair, S5 $2.75 Curtains, pr., $1.95 f2 Curtains, pair, $1.25 $3.75 Curtains, pr., $2.50 S1.50 Bobbinet Curtains 79c White Bobbinet Curtains, trimmed with neat Battenberg edge and insertion; curtains are 40 inches wide, 2Vj yards long; a splendid bedroom curtain; this is our reg- 7Q ular $1.60 seller; special for this week only at $7.50 Portieres $4-35 A sale of new Art Crash Portieres, with stenciled borders, 5 inches wide; colors are brown, green, blue and crimson; very attractive and excellent values at $7.50: A 9C these are placed on special sale at low price of P Boys' $2 fiats 98c $1.50 Hats 83c In the juvenile hat Etore, main floor, a sale of boys' Felt Hats, in all the late styles; grays, browns and tan shades; reg. $2QQ. vnlnM' tmprinl fit'CJV ----- 7 -1 Hats for the little tots; the latest shapes, in red, gray, blue and black; our regular $1.50 grades for 83 J; another lot, of $1 hats, 69S $2.50 hats $1.59 Men's "Savoy" SHirts ASK TO SEE THEM Truly a handsome line of high-grade Shirts. The materials, the tailoring, the laundering are the best that skill can produce; sizes run from 14 to 18. The Christ- Io (f mas lines are priced at only, ea. piJJ Sale of Sheets Bedspreads Pillow Slips 600 dozen Sheets, made from strong, durable sheeting; size 54x00; special at, each, only 45 Sheets size, 72x90; special at, each, only 60 Sheets size, 81x90; special at each, only 65? Pillow Cases; extra heavy, size 45x36 1 O fo inches; special for this sale, each ' Bed Spreads Large size, extra (1 ACL weight, crochet, $1.75 values for V 1 Bed Spreads Crochet, in Marseilles Pa-Qf)f terns for single beds; special at only7'' Boys' $1.00 Union Suits, on sale at only 69c Boys' 75c Union Suits, on sale at only 59c Kazoo Suspenders, on sale, low price, 50c Boys' 50c Waists, special low price of 25c Boys' 50c Night Gowns, low price, only 25c Boys' $1.50 Pajamas, low price of $1.29 Boys' $1.00 Pajamas, low price, only 69c Boys' Toys An exclusive department, our fourth floor, for Boys'. Wagons, Velocipedes, Coasters, Automobiles, Fire En gines, Hook and Ladder Trucks, etc. Take elevator. Sale Aprons 85c Grade 69c At the Apron Booth, second floor, a sale of Over-all Aprons; made of good quality gingham and peroales, in light and dark blues; made in the box style, with sleeves or fitted styles, without sleeves; 85o ?Q grades selling now at only"'' 45cApron29c S3.50Apron2.98 White Lawn Tea Aprons, of dotted swiss or plain white lawn, crossbar and nainsook Bretelle styles; long and short tO QO styles; 45o grades, 29, and good $3.50 grades at pfsO llll ORDER BT MAXU iisii XJ5CKEKa' All Limes of Faracy China at Vz Off Haviland H Company Decorated China One-Third Off All Fancy China Plates placed on sale One-Third Off All Fancy Cups and Saucers on sale One-Third Off Aluminum Cooh'g Utensils at Reduced Prices 75c Sauce Pans, 59c $1.10 Covered Kettles, 87c $2.20 Coffee Pots, reduced for this sale at only $1.75 Sugar and Cream and Tea Pots, at One-Third Off CaKe Plates and Salad Bowls, this sale, One-Third Off Olive, Celery and Spoon Trays, Special One-Third Off NicKel Kitchen Furnish'g's at Reduced Prices $2.40 Coffee Percolators, reduced this sale to $1.92 $16.50 Chafing Dishes, reduced this sale to $12.50 Great TKaoLKsiviiig Sale of Table Linens Our Entire StocK at Reduced Prices objections to the widening- will ba made and tha Improvement will ba be-gun. It waa voted to aend two delerates to th. United Improvement Cluba Aa aoclatlon and three delegate, to th. Montavilla Llbrarr Aaaoclatlon. It waa announced that Center Addition real den te will want to na. th. library to b. eetabllahed In Mentavllla. The oroaalntra of atreeta over th. main Una of th. 0.-W. R. N. Co. war referred to a epeclai committee. Th. club perfected ita organization br adopting; a conatltutlon. B. J. Roark la president. Plpe Explodes, Burning Man. Xrench.d with burning gasoline when tha pip. oa aa engine he waa operating; at East Sixteenth street and Holladar avenue exploded laat night, Loula Lange, aged 45 years, was se verely burned abont th. faoe, shoul ders and body. Th. skin waa burned from both forearma, but In spits of his Injuries h. Is believed to have a good ohane. to live. H. was taken to St. Vlnoenfa Hoapltal In tha Red Cross ambulance. CHRISTMAS JXCURSI0NS. Th. Canadian Pacific Is now making reservations for passengers desiring to reach th. old country before Christmas. C. P. R. service Is the beat. Ticket of fice 141 Third street. V Coal users ask Sdlafsan Fael Co. 'FILM'S progress great HT. W. HarVinaxm, of Tfew York, Foreaeea Us In School. "The movlnr-piotur. business la just passing lta Infantile career,' said Wil liam W. Hodklnson, special representa tive of the General Film Company, of Now York, who arrived In Portland yes terday. "It Is beginning: to get along lines entirely different and catering to classes and conditions formerly not af fected. Objectionable subjects are don. away with and th. average magazine is not aa free from the ultra-sensational aa the moving plctur. film and those that border on th. sensational are clean In tone. "In a recent interview Thomas A. Edison said he could teach more ac curate geography in an hour and a, half to a class by moving pictures than a pedagogue could In a month. "Thousands of educational pictures already exist, more are being made dally and there la no limit to the num ber that may be made. Neither Is there a limit to the possibilities of the moving picture, as it Is bound to be applied to the education of our children In the future." Dr. Moe's Orthopedic Gymnaetum for Infantile paralysis and all nervous disorders, rheumatism, gout, bladder and kidney troubles. Most modern methods. No drugs, 91 E. 14th at. SINS OF SALOONS LISTED Violations) of Liquor Ordinance to Be) Investigated by Committee. A oomplete list of violations of the saloon ordinances by holders of licenses since April was filed yesterday with the City Council and referred to the liquor license committee for consider ation when license renewals are dis cussed at the next meeting- of the com mittee. In the list as compiled by the Chief of Police and the Municipal Judge are many violations, which will demand ex planations on the part of ealoonkeep ers, it la said.