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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
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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
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Mr
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The Daylight Store Entire Block in the Heart of the New Shopping District
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Sale
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Offers Remarkable Money-Saving Opportunities
Throughout All Departments of the Store
Below is a Partial List of the Many Bargains
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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
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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
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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
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JtLtSl liCUtJl uwui-xv fhe 4th Floor Premium Parlors
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the per
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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
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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.
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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
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dinning, Dec 23, 1011.
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Ous love for the de
parted ones prompts
us to investigate this
invention of modern
civilization, the
Portland
Concrete Burial
Vault
Replacing the rapidly
decaying wooden box,
it forms a permanent
receptacle for the
casket, insuring per
fect rest.
Portland Burial
Vault Company
441 Hawthorne Avenue
'Phone East 485
Portland Burial Vault Co.
441 Hawthorne Ave.,
Portland, Or.
Please send me' further informa
tion. Name
Address
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