ll TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1912. If OFFICERS HAVE BUSY DAY Single Distribution of Mail Brings Total Contribu tions to $1750.50. LATE COMERS CARED FOR Many Call to Express Gratitude and Elderly Recipient of Aid Estab lishing Herself in Orflce Ministers to Staff. Althought it was Christmas day and nearly everybody else was celebrating in the approved fashion, several of the secretaries of the Associated Charities stayed in the office all day long to handle the flood of Christmas -contijibu-tlons. which, once started, seems in clined to pour In without diminishing, and to give out baskets to the unex pected "leftovers" that might .drop in or to new cases that might be brought to their notice. There was only one distribution of mail yesterday, but this brought dona tions to the relief fund which raised - its total from J1600 to 11750.50. Secre tary Manning expects more in the mails today, which will bring the total up to the prophesied $2000. Outside cities of Oregon have joined the people of Portland in making con tributions to the Associated Charities for its relief work, and many messages have been received from these. One anonymous gift of money was received from Astoria yesterday. In the overwhelming rush of givers that has besieged the doors of the As sociated Charities for the past week not money alone has been brought, but shoes and articles of clothing that will be available in the relief work for months to come. Newapapera Given Credit. - "It seems to have been chiefly due to the help the newspapers gave us In bringing the needs to the attention of the neoDle." gars Mrs. Margaret Thoro- maru "Personal solicitation on our part failed to bring in half enough offerings of shoes, but as soon as the accounts of the various cases of need began to appear in the papers along with all kinds of other contributions came shoes enough for almost every child that may need our help in that way." Those to whom the Associated Char ities transmitted the Christmas cheer and gifts that had been intrusted to It by charitable people of the city, spent a Joyful day yesterday. Frequent were the visits made to the office by pro teges of the Charities to express their gratitude. "Did you have a good Christmas?" the secretary asked an aged washer woman, who had been the recipient of gifts from the Charities. "You bet I did! It is the first real Christmas I have had in five years, and I wanted to come up and do something for you to Bhow how I appreciate it and how happy you have made me." Disregarding remonstrances, she es tablished herself in the offices of the Associated Charities and brewed tea for the secretaries, who were kept at the telephones all day long with scarce ly an opportunity to go to luncheon. Widow Telia of Joy. One of the women at the office was working at the desk this morning when the door opened and a woman, entering, walked Btraight toward'her and, throw ing her arms about her. burst into tears, amid broken ejaculations of grat itude and Joy. She was a widow with several children, unable to support her family, and arrangements were made with a business man in the city to re move the incumbrances from her prop erty and to assure sufficient pension to soften the rigor of the struggle for ex istence. The name of the Associated Charities was kept in the background in putting him in touch with this case, but the woman had found out the secret and, on Christmas morning, had walked into the city from the suburbs to bring Christmas greetings and thanks to her friends there. Nobody missed Christmas cheer who was on the list of the Associated Char ities, and this list included more than 1000 people. A few leftovers came into the head quarters yesterday morning, but pro vision for Just such a contingency had been made and baskets and supplies were in readiness. PIPE TOPS CHARITY MEAL (Continued From First Page. comers. No questions were asked. Then, when thatJUiets all had been given out and the men still kept coming tbey were admitted to the feast without further ceremony. Old Man Walts la Line. One old man waited in line from early morning . until the meal was ready at noon. He was shaking with rheumatism and could hardly stand from lack of nourishment. "I never have had good health," he complained. "Both my farther and my mother were drunkards and I was ashamed to marry. I am only 67 years old now. but any man of 80 can do more than I. What little property I was able to accumulate I lost In a fire a few months ago. Since then I have been most of the time in a hos pital. It I can get some place to stay on a farm I may be all right." His case was typical of many others. A. man much younger in years was crippled in a mine accident In Idaho a few months ago and has been unable to work since then. While waiting" for the doors to open he applied to one of the railroad men for a Job. - He was referred to the superintendent and probably will go to work today. Extreme good nature and cheerful ness prevailed. More than 200 men were In line before 12 o'clock. '. They came fast after that. Deeoratloaa Add Cheer. "Come on. boys, follow me, single file." announced Harbor Officer Gris slm when the word was given that the tables were ready. Officer Brothers placed them In line and the men filed slowly into the great engine-room of the boat, which had been converted into a bright, cheery dining-room. Holly, Oregon grape and cedar boughs adorned the walls. The salons and cabins also were used to seat the hun gry crowd. As soon as they entered the room the men instinctively removed their hats. Most of them displayed good table manners. They needed no in structions to "dig in" and help them selves. It was a feast fit for the pro verbial king. The food was placed on the tables In great dishes and passed around by the men themselves. A corps of uniformed waiters assisted them. There was everything that the regulation Christmas dinner specifies roast beef, roast pork, baked pota toes, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes. Dork and beans. creamed turnips, creamed onions, creamed carrots, cel ery, olives. Dickies, lettuce, radishes, onions, cheese, bread, cookies, ginger snaDs. rilum nuddinir and brandy sauce, tea, coffee and milk and plenty of it. Real Meal, Says Sillier. "It was a meal," as R. B. Miller, traf fic manager of the O.-W. R. & N. Company, expressed it, "to take the wrinkles out of the belly and put hair on the breast." - Kver since Tuesday morning W. H. Fnhrman. the chef . In charge, had worked at his ta-k of preparing thi mnntpr red. He and his force of men did not go to bed Tuesday night. They used 950 pounds of meat. 1000 pounds of potatoes, five sacks of car rots, three sacks of turnips, 300 heads nf mlihacn. 1200 loaves of bread, 350 pies. 50 gallons of milk, 10 gallons of cream (real cream) and corresponding quantities of other commodities. George May, a veteran in the com pany service, had charge of the waiters. Although Mt, Farrell had arranged to pay the regulation scale of wages, many waiters enlisted at the agencies maintained for that pur pose refused to work when they learned the nature of the "service. Others, less particular, accepted and explained that those who had refused were scornful because the task offered them no opportunity of collecting "tips." J. C. Morrison, superintendent of the O.-W. R. & N. Company's -commissary department, directed the work. R. B. Miller and H. C Oliver, traveling freight agent, gave It additional per sonal attention. Mra. Farrell la Joyoim. I Many of her guests expressed their rersonal gratitude to Mrs. Farrell for the generous provision she had made for them. . "I have been a sailor all my life," said one old man, , "and it Is seldom that I have been able to observe Christmas at all. On behalf of the thousands of sailors who are homeless this Christmas I want to thank you." A 15-year-old boy attracted the at tention of Mrs. Farrell by his excel lent table manners. He is a youth who has lost his parents and is seek ing a place In the world alone. All lie needs, le says. Is work and he will be all right. "It's the best Christmas I ever had," was the expression of man after man. "It makes my heart glad to hear them say that," said Mrs. Farrell, her face beaming with Joy. "It makes me feel that it has been one of the best Christmas days I ever have had, too." EUGENE HONORS R0SARIANS Silk Banner to Be Presented Mem bers; Travel Chairman Xamed. In token of the esteem In which they hold the Royal Rosarians cltissens of Eugene will present them with a hand some silk banner. The presentation is to be made Saturday at a special meet ing of the Rosarians at the Commer cial Club at noon by J. S. Magladry, of the Royal Rosarians of Eugene. Six city chairmen have been selected to preside in different cities to. be visited during the excursion and are making elaborate preparations for the Rosarians' part in the entertainments. Frank McCrillis will be chairman of the day in Sacramento on the morning of December 30 and C. C. Craig at Oakland. Ralph W. Hoyt, president of the Rose Festival Association, and prince regent of the Rosarians. will preside at San Francisco. In Pasadena, at the Tournament of Roses, George I Hutchin, manager of the Rose Festival and president of the Pacific Coast Fes tivals Association, will hold command of the Rosarians, to be succeeded by Hy Ellers in Los Angeles.' At San Diego, January 2, W. J. Hofmann will be ch irman of the day. The local end of the programme in San Diego will be attended to by the Order of Panama. STREETS ARE QUIET Calm Following Christmas Rush Is Uncanny. . BUSINESS IS FORGOTTEN People Remain, at Home, While Few Pitch Pennies to Newsboys Excitement. on Streets Create Newport Travel Light. NEWPORT, Or., Dee. 25. (Special.) Holiday travel to Newport has been exceedingly light, this year and tpe citizens believe that this is due to poor transportation accommodations. Trade Records Broken. There was a calm that was almost uncanny on the streets in the business section of the city yesterday. Day by day as the pace of the late shopping became the more furious and the masses of Deoole upon the . streets greater and more zealously active, everyone gradually keyed his nerves ud to the same pitch as that of the holiday rush. Then the rush vanished in a night and, with nerves tuned to respond to .pvpral million vibrations a second, the Dubllc found a great peace brooding over the- city.. The rush had been carried elsewhere. It had been broken up into little in dividual riots in thousands of homes, where children made their stockings to disgorge their treasures and spent the remainder of the day trying out the various implements, of. amusement and noise that they found therein. It had moved out from the shopping center to the headquarters of the char ities of the city, where thousands of men assembled, as at the Commons din ner, or the feast given on board the Harvest Queen by J. D. Farrell, presi dent of the O.-W. R. & N. Company, or made merry over a banquet table filled with all the - traditional dainties of the Tuletide. ' Money Tossed for Amusement. . In the main business center of the city even the noise of the newsboys took on a sabbathlcal quality,' in keep ing with the quiet that brooded over the Btreets. Even the cigar store crowds were missing for the men who had made them up were scattered to their homes or lodgings for Christmas dinner. On the corner of Sixth and Washing ton streets a small crowd gathered and amused itself for a time tossing pen nies for the newsboys to scramble after, but this sport finally palled and the street became quiet once more. Forenoon in the florists shops was a period of temporary rush, but aft ernoon brought also to them the same holy calm that presided over the rest of the business houses. "Just as the day before Christams Is the day for everyone to be out on the streets," said one merchant, "so Christ mas is the day for them to be at home In their families. There is Just as much Christmas spirit afloat today as there was earlier in the week prob ably more but it has flown away from the stores after the packages- we have sent out and has settled into the homes of the city." Shoppers Break Record. Managers of the stores of the city were unable to give estimates- as to what the total Christmas expenditures of Portland citizens might be. They agreed,, however, In declaring the past month of holiday shopping to have been tua greatest In the history of the city and believed that the amount of money that has ' gone into Christmas remembrances thlsf year Is many per-, cent greater than ever before. "Way up Into the millions," was tha estimate of one store superintendent. "Probably between $4,000,000 and $5, 000,000. If the estimate were based upon the' per capita expenditure an nounced from some other cities It would reach these figures. As a matter of fact I believe Portland leads the most of the cities in the country In J Charge Purchases Today and Remainder of This Month Will Go on Your January VMt the Premium Parlors on the mix tloor KJ Ul f- M 14(Uiri.e. m cs --" - - - Red Letter Day" Today -10 Stamps Free! Mr toil- fill The Daylight Store Entire Block in the Heart of the New Shopping District tlti Glearance Sale M 111 Offers Remarkable Money-Saving Opportunities Throughout All Departments of the Store Below is a Partial List of the Many Bargains ill p: Women's $25 Suits special at $13.98 Women's $25 Coats special at $12.98 Women's $15 Bath Robes only $7.98 Women's $25 Dresses special $12.50 Women's $15 Dresses special $7.50 Women's $15 Waists special $11.25 Women's $25 Waists special $18.75 $7 Trimmed Hats Reduced to $3.00 $10 Trimmed Hats Reduced to $5.00 $15 Trimmed Hats Reduced to $7.50 $17.50 Trimmed Hats Special $12.50 All "Knox" Hats at HALF PRICE rjntrimmed Shapes at HALF PRICE Girls' $7.50 Dresses, Special at $3.98 Girls' White Dresses for Only $1.29 Men's $2.89 Sweaters Special $1.98 p Men's $3.50 Sweaters Special $2.48 $1.50 Flannel Gowns Special at 9S 25c Wool Socks, Three Pairs for 50' 50c Wool Socks, Three Pairs $1.00 $1 "Cooper" Underwear Only 59 $2.50 "Bradford" Union Suits $1.59 All Toys now at just HALF PRICE $1.50 "G. & M." Underwear at 98 $2 "G. & M." Underwear at $1.49 $3 "G. & M." Underwear at $1.98 $1.50 Flannel Shirts Reduced to 98 Women's $1.25 Underwear Only 59 $2.25 "Merode" Underwear at $1.29 Women's $1.50 Black Tights at 98 $1.50 "Merode" Union Suits at 75 All Women's Furs ' Now Reduced All Children's Furs Now Reduced Women's $3 Handbags Special $1.89 Women's $5 Handbags Special $2.89 Women's 50c 'Neckwear Special 12 Women's $1.25 Neckwear Only 37 $1.25 Allover Embroideries at 59 $2.25 Allover Embroideries at 98 50c Laces Special Now, a Yard 19 $1.00 Laces Special Now, a Yard 37 $1.50 Laces Special Now, a Yard 59 $2.25 Laces Special Now, a Yard 89 $2.50 Laces Special Now, Yard $1.49 $4.50 Laces Special Now, Yard $1.98 12c Embroideries Reduced, Yard 5 30c Embroideries Reduced, Yard 176 50c Embroideries Reduced, Yard 35? $1.00 Embroideries Reduced, Yd. 37 $7.50 Linen Table Cloths Now $5.00 $8.50 Linen Table Cloths Now $5.67 $9.00 Linen Table Cloths Now $6.00 $10.00 Linen Table Cloths Now $6.67 $6.00 Linen Napkins at, Doz. $4.50 $8.00 Linen Napkins at, Doz. $5.95 $6.00 Linen Tea Napkins, Doz. $4.75 $10.00 Linen Tea Napkins, Dz. $7.75 $12.00 Linen Tea Napkins, Dz. $9.25 $3.50 Lace Curtains, Pair Only $2.50 $4.00 Lace Curtains, Pair Only $2.95 $7.50 Lace Curtains, Pair Only $5.00 $17.50 Lace Curtains, Pair at $12.00 Ui Dresden China at ONE-THIRD OFF German China at ONE-HALF PRICE Libbey Cut Glass 20 PER CENT OFF Rogers' Silverware Now REDUCED Electric Lamps 20 PER CENT OFF All Gas Lamps 20 PER CENT OFF Fancy Eng. China Jugs A Fourth Off g tm m m. m it. x ancy Jung, unina riaxes a x ourcn un Dress Goods Now Greatly Reduced Fancy Silks Reduced for This Sale 35c Art Cretonnes, Yard Now 22 $1 Curtain Corners Special Only 69 60c Col. Cotton Repp Special at 35 $1.25 Bungalow Nets, now, Yard, 85d $1.25 Filet Lace Nets Now, Yard 856 $6.50 Velour Table Scarfs Now $4.45 $1.50 Colored Madras Now Yd. $1.10 35c Colored Scrims Special, Yd. 22c 50c Curtain Scrims Special Now 276 $3 Velour Sofa Pillows Special $1.45 65c Imported Cheviots Reduced 386 Heavy Outing Flannels Special 116 1T4an mtli Snowl of o Vord 1 9.1. $3 Bear Cloth, Special at, Yard $1.50 W$ Riws' SI Union Suits Reduced to Kf fe5. Boys' 50c Underwear at Only 336 Boys $1.50 Wool Underwear at 96 50c Jersey Rib Shirts Special at 356 Boys' $1.98 Sweaters Special at 856 Boys' $1 School Pants Reduced to 796 M TA W r&sm" T.1Mf..in Stamps Free to All Who Visit JtLtSl liCUtJl uwui-xv fhe 4th Floor Premium Parlors 11 Pi the per gifts." capita outlay for Christmas Centralis Masons Organize. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Dec. 2& (Spe clal.) At a meeting held In Centralla Monday and Bon Accord Lodge or the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry was organized. Plans are on foot for the erection of a temple in this city. MEN WILL BE HOST PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING PART OF CROWD OF 1000 MEN, WHO WERE GUESTS OF J. D. FARRELL, PRESIDENT OF O.-W. R. & N.- COMPANY AT CHRISTMAS DINNER ON STAMiiJi nAftVLOi - -- - - - ' c -sorry riK-------0 "" I'PPEn, SECTION OF ENGIXEROOM CONVERTED INTO DINING HALL t. TOBACCO AFTER DINNER. OWEB, MEN RECKIVINU PIPES AND Y. M. C. A. to Keep Open House on New Year's Day. WORK'S SCOPE TO BE SEEN Continuous Programme Arranged for Main Hall, While Variety of Games and Exhibitions Will Be Held Elsewhere. Elaborate arrangements for the public reception that it is to hold on New Tear's day have been completed by the Portland Young Men's Chris tian Association. From 3 o'clock until 9:80 P. M. there will he a continuous programme of entertainment. Indeed there will be several programmes, for different attractions are to be con ducted slmlltaneously in different parts of the building. The reception Is to be open to every one in Portland, and the association officers desire that all who are inter ested in the activities of the Y. M. C. A. attend. The physical, religious, educa tional and boys' departments will each have a share in the celebration. Manjf interesting things have been planned In the hope that no one who attends will spend a dull minute and that all will gain a clear Impression of what the Y. M. C. A. Is accomplishing. There will bs a ' continuous pro gramme in the main lobby. From 3 to 4 o'clock there will be music, read ings and stories. Between the hours of 4 and S there' will be an address on "The Story of the Portland Y. M. C. A.," either by W. M. Ladd, president. or H. W. Stone, general secretary, rne Y. M. C. A. quartet will sing during this hour, and in the following hour there will be readings and vocal solos. Between 7:30 and 8:30 "The Story of the Portland Y. M. C. A. will be repeated, and there will be more readings and music up to 9:30 o'clock. "The Bovs and Men of Oregon" will be the subject of an address by I. D. Rhodes, state secretary, in the associa tion auditorium between 4 and 6 o'clock, and again between 8:30 and 9:30 o'clock. This address will be Illustrated with views of the Y. M. C. A. work In different parts of the state. At other hours the auditorium will be open and will be used as a social hall. In the bovs' lobby open house will be the order and there will be games throughout the reception hours. All boys are invited to attend and Join in the good times. ' ' The athletic events will he one oi the chief features of the day. There will not be an idle minute in the large gymnasium - for a series of contests has been arranged that promises te keep the gallery crowded with specta tors. There will be four games of basketball between S o'clock and ( o'clock. The t Tigers will meet the Spartans.- the 'Comets will play the Amicltians. the Progressives and Beavers will clash, and the series will end with a match between the. Boosters and Athens. An even more exciting game Is expected at 7:30 o'clock when matched teams from the business men's gymnasium classes will play. Indoor baseball. This contest will be followed, at 8:30 o'clock, by an elaborate gym nasium exhibition. Games will be in progress on the handball court from S o'clock through out the evening, and there will be something doing In the swimming pool all the time. There will be practice swimming during the day, but at night there will be an exhibition, followed by a game of water polo. . Not the least interesting part of the programme will be supplied bv the educational department. The features of this will be exhibitions by the au tomobile school and class In wireless. The wireless dlspliy will Include send ing and receiving and high tension ex periments. This will be the first New Year's cele bration that the Y. M. C. A. has held since leaving its old building at Fourth and Yamhill streets. It will mark the close of the most successful year In its history. "WILD BILL" IS CHEF NOW Newport Character Exchanges Slx- Shooter for Ladle. NEWPORT, Or., Dec. 25. (Special.) William Smith, known to Newport visitors as "Wild Bill," hero of John Fleming Wilson's stories, ex-sailor, ex- hunter, ex-timberman, ex-llfesaver and ex-master of the schooner Nenamosha, Is now chef in the Case Restaurant in Newport. "Bill" made his appearance in white the other day, carrying a large ladle where his six-shooter used to be, and nis old friends hastened to taste his pressed duck and pate de fol gras. ECZE1 ON SCALP .E BS Itched So Could Not Sleep. Mass of Sores. Eyes so Could Not See Out of Them. Got Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Sure Cure. 4400 TJtica St.. Denver. Colo. "Ml eczema came first with pimple and a rash on my face, then on my scalp, ears and neck. It ltcnea so Daa ina I could not sleep. I was mass of sores and my eye were so I could not see out of them. It broke my heart to look at my face. Every bit of skin came off where the disease was. I suffered awful between the burning and itching, and whatever part of my body It was on would be swollen. I treated for three months and would get better for a week and then I would be as bad as ever. I saw In the paper about Cuticura. so I sent and got some Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I had the eczema for live months before I began to use Cuticura Soap and Ointment but I got well in a short time after I started to use them. It Is a sure cure as I have not been troubled with it since. You ought to see my face now, I have such a nice complexion as soft as a baby's." (Signed) Mrs. Mary Glen dinning, Dec 23, 1011. Cuticura Soap and Ointment do.so much for' pimples, blackheads, red, rough skins. Itching, scaly scalps, dandruff, dry, thin and falling hair, chapped, hands and shapelest calls with painful llnger-ends. that ! Is almost criminal not to use them. Sold throughout the world. Liberal sample oi each mailed free, with 33-p. Skin Book. Ad dress post-card "Cuticura. Dept. T. Boston.' r-Tender-faced men should. use Cuticua Soap Shaving Stick. 25c Sample free. 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