THE MORNING OEEGONIAN. AVEDXESDAY, JUXE 4, 1913.
VON KLEIN'S WIFE
SIX STAGE STARS
BROTHERS WHO HAVE HAD LONG CAREER ON STAGE, TO
GETHER AND AS 'RIVALS," AT PANTAGES THIS WEEK.
IQ UEDlinilCU
GRANT INTERVIEWS
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True Spouse Lies in State of
Collapse at Minneapolis
Home.
Composite Confab With "Fine
Feathers" Luminaries Is
Double-Action Trick.
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CAREER IS MYSTERIOUS
COGHLAN STILL VIVACIOUS
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Son of Medical Bibliographer and
Egyptologist Seems to Have Rov
ing Disposition and Love for
Ilnery and JMsplay in lAte.
While Edmond E. C. Von Klein, al
leged swindler of Miss Ethel New
comb, who says he married her at San
Francisco, lies In the Counfy Jail await
ing: trial, his true wife, who was Miss
Louise Illstrup, lies in a state of col
lapse In her sumptuous home in Minne
apolis. She has been a nervous wreck
ever since the first news of her hus
band's arrest two months ago.
The Von Klein home is a $20,000 in
vestment and has as an adjunct a
garage containing: four automobiles. It
has been maintained by the handsome
prisoner for the past six years, out of
the proceeds of his diamond broker
age business, which the police be
lieve Is wholly or partly illicit. Be
fore settling In Minneapolis, the young
pair, following their sensational elope
ment in 1902. when Von Klein posed as
Or. Harry Kohler, a seer, maintained
an even more pretentious establish- ;
ment in Evanston, 111., where they had
a bungalow on the lake shore, a
stable of thoroughbred horses and a
kennel of pedigreed dogs. They enter
tained extensively.
Their arrival In Evanston was shortly
after the murder of Stanford White by
Harry Thaw, and two handsome block
steeds in the Von Klein stable wer
said to have been bought from the sale
of White's effects. At that time the
maintenance of the Von Klein estab
lishment was understood to come from
nn extensive estate in Australia.
Career Mont' Mysterious.
Dubbed a "man of mystery" at the
time of his arrest last April, when he
denied being Jack Lewis, the Portland
absconder, or Weaver B. Clark, swin
dler of a Little Rock" woman, or E. C.
Von Klein, the Minneapolis diamond
buyer, the prisoner's career still pre
sents lights and shades, with the um
brage of mystery still predominating.
The son of Dr. Carl H. Von Klein,
medical bibliographer and Egyptologist
with a universal reputation, he was
born to affluence and received a cul
tural education from the Jesuit fathers.
The scholar-father spent a fortune of
JiSO.OOO In researches which made his
name as a scholar, but reduced, his
worldly circumstances and the son
seems to have taken a roving career.
The police assert that, under the
name ot IS. C. Mantell. In 1898. when
19 years old, he was held for a burg
lary at Galesbure. 111., in which dia
monds were the loot, but the prosecu
tion was dropped. Four years later he
bobbed up in Minneapolis as Dr. Harry
Kohler. scion of an Austrialian mag
nate, and after a brief acquaintance,
eloped with Miss Louise Illstrup and
married her at Michigan City, Ind.
After the elopment the pair wrote
back that their true name was Von
Klein. They then established them
selves In Evanston and later went to
Minneapolis, where they continued to
live In pretentious style.
Von Klein Is Traveler.
During the years that followed. Von
Klein traveled far and wide, the pur
ported occasion being his business of
buying diamonds. He Is supposed to
have made many trips to South Africa
and to the Continent in this business,
but detective agencies which investi
vated this phase of his career assert
that there is no trace of his having
had legitimate dealings with known
diamond brokers.
AVhether the incident which began
in San Francisco and ended In Port
land, nearly three years ago. may
throw light upon the nature of these
mysterious trips, is matter for con
jecture. Miss Ethel Newcomb, orig
inally of Fort Wayne, Ind., met George
B. Lewis, a man with a winning smile,
and married him. They came to Port
land and soon afterward Lewis dis
appeared, taking the deluded woman's
diamonds, valued at 13500. A barber
in the Portland Hotel saw Lewis on
the morning of his disappearance with
a handkerchief full of Jewelry, and this
man will be sought that he may, if
possible. Identify Von Klein.
Six months ago Mrs. O. A. Temple
of Little Rock. Ark., suffered a like
experience, except for the marriage.
She met Weaver B. Clark, accompanied
him to Milwaukee to marry him, and
entrusted her jewels to him while he
went out to get the marriage license.
He did not return.
Four months after this occurrence
Miss Newcomb. In a hotel grill, saw
Von Klein and Identified him as her
absconding husband. She flirted with
him and held him In play while her
sister summoned detectives and he was
arrested. A few days later officers
caused a meeting between the prisoner
and Mrs. Temple and she identified him
as Clark, her deceiver.
That Von Klein's many trips abroad
to buy diamonds really were for the
purpose of committing such acts as
those with which he now stands
charged, is a theory the police are
working upon. If it is correct, and
his pretentious establishments were
maintained out of such exploits, his
field of operations may have been ex
tensive. In Munii l;iat Court yesterday Von
Klein waive.! all preliminary proceed
ings and repeated his refusal to ac
cept the services of an attorney, though
the court prtssed him to have one ap
pointed. He asked for access to a few
fundamental law books and Deputy
IMstrlct Attorney Deich promised that
they would be provided. The bond
was reduced from J7000 to (3000 and
it is believed that the prisoner will
be able to furnish this before long.
FREE LUNCH OPINION GIVEN
City Attorney Grant Advises What
Would Be Side-Stepping Law.
That the anti-free lunch ordinance,
which went into effect recently, will
not admit of its circumvention by sa
loon men In any manner, is the opinion
given Chief or Police slover by City At
torr.ey Grant. Some of the saloon men
wanted to know if tt would be legal
to sell a sandwich or other food with a
rink, and others were reported to b
veiling a sandwich and giving a drink
;ree with It.
However, the opinion of the City At
torney Is against both these Dracttres.
' If an attempt is made to sell lunch, he
says, it win be in violation of the or
dinance regulating restaurants.
Even If 1 am mistaken In this con-
intion. snys city Attorney Grant, "th
'Bsuano.- of a license for the sale of in -'.oxlcating
lnjuors at retail prohibits the
carrying on of any other business, and
certainly the sale of food is not in any
manner construed to be part of the re-
luu liquor Dusmess.
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-ARMSTRONG TO LEFT A9iD ED AKMSTROSG TO
KBOJI OLD DAGUERREOTYPE TAKEN IN 187S.
BROTHERS ON STAGE
Armstrong Boys at Pantages
Recall Peoria Childhood.
EACH IS OTHER'S "RIVAL'
Thespians at Vaudeville Theater Tel
of Visiting Home Town and Find
ing Daguerreotype Over Quar
ter Century Old.
Two brothers, who are co-starring In
vaudeville after retaining a Damon and
Pythias-like affection for each other
throughout the years that have elapsed
since both left their parents' home in
Peoria, HU, for a stage career, are at
Pantages this week with their own
company.
Will and Ed Armstrong are the thes-
pians and their long record as rivals
and associate players is one of the most
Interesting bits of inside theatrical his
tory. Will assumes the older brother
role only to have Ed check his boast
with the declaration that even if he is
younger, he is the cleverer player and
between acts, the two can be caught in
a dispute over their relative rights and
abilities until their fellow players chase
them away.
The brothers were entertaining some
friends behind the scenes last night.
"Do you remember when I carried
you out to see the Centennial parade,"
said Will to Ed, "and you hadn't lived
year?"
"Certainly I don't remember that.,"
retorted Ed, "but I do remember how
you told everybody on Broadway that
you were a brother of mine when you
sneaked into New York."
A. few years ago the brothers were
playing in their old home town when
one of the natives stopped them.
Yew be th Armstrong boys, ben't
yew?" asked the aforesaid native. The
Armstrongs admitted their identity.
Wal, yew cum daown tew my haouse
' I'll git yew some pichers of yew
when yew was kids."
A search through family albums
brought to light a daguerreotype that
was taken in the late '70s when the
friendship that held true In later years
was commencing to develop.
Amy Leslie, the Chicago dramatic
critic, called Will Armstrong "Foylike"
when the latter was with George Co
han some years ago in vaudeville.
Ed played in musical comedy under the
management of Al Woods and Cohan &
Harris until he combined with hl
brother.
With the Armstrong boys at Pan
tages is Miss Ethel Davis, who starred
In the earLy casts of "The Prince of
Pllsen" and "The Wizard of Oz" and
who, off stage, is Mrs. Ed Armstrong.
PHOTOGRAPHER
KOllKRT EDESO, ROSE COGHLAA, LEOXG CASS BAER, WILTOX LACKAVt, AMELIA SlMtBS, LOLITA
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Many friends were on hand to greet
the company Monday, for nearly all the
members have played here before.
WEST'S CAPTIVES FREED
Grand Jury at The Dalles Charges
Minor Offenses Only.
THE DALLES. Or.. June 3. (Spe
ciai.) Governor West's vice crusade
at The Dalles exploded tonight when
the grand jury refused to indict May
Sullivan and Gladys Desmond, whose
places were raided Saturday night, on
anything more than police court
charges. Charles Carroll, who was
charged with being a hanger-on at a
disorderly resort, was indicted on
simple vagrancy charge. Governor
wests agents charged the women with
conducting Immoral resorts, selling
liquor without license and with white
slavery.
The 13 women arrested as witnesses
in tne raid nave been released, Car
roil is out on 100 bond and the two
alleged proprietors of the resorts are
iree on S30u bond.
xne otate militiamen, set to guard
me places, returnea to Portland to
night with Governor West's agents.
anenir crisman says he will comply
with the Governor's orders and keep
me reauns ciosea. .
Baseball Statistics
STANDING OF THE TEAMS.
National League.
W. L.- PC.I
W. L. PC.
21 20 .512
19 24 .442
PhlladelD'a
23 11 .eTBjPlttsburg. .
sew YoriC. .22 18 .371 St
Brooklyn. .
ctucaeo. . .
2117 .SSl'Rnittnn
I.OUII. .
14 22 .3X9
21 20 .tin. Cincinnati.
IS 27 .372
American League.
Phlladelp'a.
Cleveland . .
Washlngt'n
Chicago. . . .
31 10 .7.r,6 Boston 10 22.483
oi m .ivo Detroit. ... IS 28 .391
2i 19 .548;St. Louis... 19 30.38s
.ooojsew tone. . 0 SI .225
American Association.
Columbus.. 23 17 .575ISt. Paul 22 22.500
nimKUKea. iB at .o i ljaainneapolls. 22 24.478
uoulsvllle.. 2o 20 .3oS;lndlanapolls 19 23.452
viiy. . .o .a .OdXjloleao. . . . . la 3U .333
Western Trl-Mtate.
Wa.uaWa.lla 28 11 .703 Pendleton. . . 17 19.472
Boise 21 1,6 .583 La Grande. . 14 21 .400
NortH Yak. .18 18 .SOO.Baker 13 25. .342
Yesterday's Results.
American Association St. Paul 10, Mil
waukee 9; Indianapolis 10 Columbus a
Minneapolis 5, Kansas City 0; Louisville
Toledo game postponed, rain.
Western League Des Moines 7, St. Jos 1;
Lincoln 5, Wichita 0; Omaha 7, Sioux City
3; Denver 7, Topeka 0.
Southern League Mobile 10, Memphis 4;
gomery 4. New Orleans 3 (11 lnnings; At
lanta 8, Nashville 3.
Portland Batting Averages.
Pacific Coast I Northwestern
Ab. H. Av.f Ab. H. AT,
Lindsay... 121 40 .3JO!Eastley. .r. . 24 8.333
Higglnb'm 34 10 .294Speas 14S 48 .34
Korei 156 45 .288'Heilman 88 27.303
Wisher. . . . 102 2J .285iMelchoir. . 18 49 .2U1
Sonne.... 1'J 41 .2i4l iuignl . 130 34 .281
Kr&pp . its 4 .zoo nancrott, . 105 27 .25:
lames. 32 8 .250jMonIer. . . . 142 36.234
.nanoou ne 24v av .4a;vvuiiazns. . 115 29.252
Rodgers. .. 216 53 .245. Mays 28 7 .2oO
Derrick... 209 01 .244 Murray. . .. 64 14.250
Krause... 34 8 .285 Callahan. .. 44 11.250
Berry 78 17 .21 SMahoney. . . 95 23.242
M'Corrnlck 151 31 .205 Fries 128 81 .242
Fitseerald 87 17 .154ro!trln. . . . lis 23 .18
Hagerman 24 3 J45 Hynes 13 2 .154
Carson.... 7 1 .142 Stanley. .. . 1 2.095
West 37 5 .13.VMartinc.nl. . 17 1.058
Shields 1 0 .OOOignew.... 6 1 .Oou
McCredle.. 1 O.OO0 '
Coulson . 4 0 .000
CATCHES OREG0NIAN DRAMATIC
Wilton Lackaye,, Dubbed Mouologlst
of Galaxy, Is Real Human When
Playing With. Baby Figman,
but Max Is Most Serious.
BY LEONE CASS BAER.
It's a delicate business interview
ing one star under normal conditions.
But interviewing six stars at once and
the same time is not only a delicate
business but assumes the proportions
of damphool hardiness. Why, to In
terview Wilton Lackaye alone is quite
as much as I'd want to pick out for
one hard day'a work.
The rest of the aggregation of lum
inaries call him the monologist.
"You should worry and get an at
tack of liter-ary cramp," chirped Rose
Coghlan, as I wailed a protest about
a composite interview. "Why. after
we've all had our pictures taken you
watch cleverly and you'll see five of
us gently evaporating into a speechless
nothingness. When we have served
our humble mission as a background
for Mr. Lackaye's picture, we will serve
them as background for his merry
prattle."
Miss Coghlanwas doing very well at
a little monologue herself.
The object of her fine and mighty
scorn affixed her with calm superiority.
"Rose," he reminded, "they are get
ting ready for the picture. Please pose
as if you were talking without effort."
Miss Coghlan wrinkled her nose at him
and he warned her that the photograph
er might think she was trying to look
pleasant and take us all before we were
ready.
Cogklnn Still Look Young.
Let's see, there were six of them.
Wilton Lackaye with a black mus
tache that Elinor Glyn might call un
sanitary, but which Laura Jean Lib bey
could write a dozen heart thrillers
around. There was Rose Coglilan,
running to Sarah Bernhardt effect in
hat and dress architecture, and looking
so ridiculously young in spite of her
64 years on the stage that, I believe,
she was still acting when she confided
that she hates flashlight photographs
because they don't make her beautiful.
Then there was Robert Bdeson, who
was celebrating a birthday and a sore
leg. He beamed when .telling of the
first event and gave a correct imitation
for the every-move-tells-a-story-plc-ture
when the econd subject came up.
"You're 40, aren't you?" queried Ame
lia Sumers, who is stingy with her talk
aivd generous with her smiles.
"No, I'm 46," amended Mr. Edeson.
"Yes," It was the irrepressible Miss
Coghlan again "better confess to it
all. Bobble, dear, for its all in the an
nals, you know."
Then there was Max Figman and
Lolita Robertson or vice versa which
ever way you want to read it. for they
are one. Like all stage comedians.
Mr. Figman is serious and apparently
without a sense of comedv off stage.
His wife, the lovely Lolita, has enough
for both.
Out in the hall we were in the royal
suite at the Multnomah Hotel Lolita
Maxine Figman cooed and crowed airy
fairy nothings to the group posing for
the picture. She s the loveliest baby
I know of except one little 3-year-old
in Billings, Mont.
Bsby Plgmu Like Rove.
Baby Maxine was 1 year old on May
38 and is just like a glowing big pink
rose. She Is the idol of the company
and it would do your soul good, even
If it smashed some of your matinee
hero ideals to see her father holding
her aloft on his broad shoulders while
the dignified Wilton Lackaye capered
ana nopped about, whistling and mak
lng queer throaty noises calculated to
attract the fancy of a very young and
winsome lady.
Rose Coghlan remarked that two old
men. doddering and toothless, came to
see her at the. theater and said they
saw her when they were young men
These stars are all heart and soul
interested In their present play, "Fjne
r eatliers, and Incidentally Wilton
Lackaye gave me an interview that I'll
write on asbestos paper when he's
gone.
Electrical Strike Ends.
The electrical workers have settled
their difficulties with the Portland.
Eugene & Eastern Railroad Company
and will return to work today, having
been granted an increase of 25 cents
per day, bringing their wages up to
$4.50 per day. An increase was granted
on the Oregon Electric of SO cents, ad
vancing the wages of electrical work
ers to S4.50 per day. There has been
no strike on the Oregon Electric, but
72 men had struck on the Portland,
Eugene & Eastern.
CRITIC AS SHE INTERVIEWS SIX
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ROSE SHOW TODAY
Exhibition Given by North Port
land Women.
PENINSULA PARK CHOSEN
Gymnasium, Open to Visitors All
Day, Is Attractively Decorated
and Shelves and Tables Are
Installed for Exhibits.
3The second annual Peninsula Rose
Show will open today in the west gym
nasium of the Peninsula Park, under
the auspices of the North Portland
Women's Auxiliary. A committee of
women will be at the building this
morning at 7 o'clock to receive and
assist in placing the rose exhibits.
All exhibits of roses from the 12 dis
tricts on the Peninsula and individual
displays should be in place by 10 A.
M. so that the judges may complete
their work and make awards by noon.
, The formal opening of the show will
take place at 2 o'clock in the open
space in front of the auditorium. Mrs.
C. F. Nichols, president, will be in
charge. J. H. Nolta will make a few
introductory remarks. The Mayor
elect will be asked to formally open
the show. Then will follow the musi
cal programme,- in charge of Mrs.
Ethel Meade.
Rose Exhibit In Gymnasium.
The gymnasium will be open to visi
tors throughout the day. It has been
attractively decorated. Shelves and
tables have been placed so that the
rose exhibits may be seen to the best
advantage.
The following prizes have been of
fered: For the best four roses of
any named variety in red. white, pink
and yellow colors; for the best single
roses; for the best five Maman Cochet
roses: for the best five Kaiserln Aug
usta Victoria roses; for the best five
Marechal Neil roses; for the best five
J. B. Clark roses; for the best 12 Caro
lina Testout roses; for the best 50
Caroline Testout roses: for the best
12 roses of La France, Frau Karl
Donschke, Ulrich Brunner and any
named variety.
These are for the individual ex
hibits. There will be prizes for the
first and second best displays from
the 12 Peninsula districts. .
Object to Bring Ont Best Flower.
The district exhibits will be judged
according to appearance, arrange
ment, perfection of roses, without re
gard for variety, the object being to
bring out the best roses grown on the
Peninsula.
Every district is requested by the
STARS AT ONCE.
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We carry these Norfolk suits for
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Straw Hats of Distinction
"Multnomah" the talk of the town.
Every shape in every braid gQ
unequaled for quality at . . .
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Sam'l Rosenblatt & Co.
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Northwest Corner Third and Morrison
committee to have displays in place
today by 10 o'clock. Mrs. James
Church, chairman of the rose com
mittee, will be assisted by a large
committee of women besides the dis
trict captain. Mrs. Hattie McGuire Is
chairman of the entry committee, and
she will be assisted by Mrs. Joseph
Brook and Mrs. W. C Kerron.
The auxiliary announced that it
was necessary to change the place for
holding the eugenic contest to the
Multnomah Hotel. where Manager
Bower has made every arrangement
for its success.
WORK OX FILIj COMMENCED
Deep Ravine to Be 3Iado Valuable as
Building Property.
The Pacific Bridge Company has
started filling the deep ravine between
East Salmon, Bast Ninth. East Tenth
and Belmont streets, covering several
blocks. Material is being taken from
the river and transported by dump cars
over a temporary track to the depres
sion. The fill will bring the property
up to the grade of the street and make
available for buildings the land now
covered with water.
A sewer has been laid to the Sunn v-
slde sewer ditch which will take care of
the water from Hawthorne springs. The
Pacific Bridge Company acquired about
30 lots from the Hawthorne estate. It
was announced that the Asylum Creek
from East Salmon street to Hawthorne
avenue, belonging to the Hawthorne
estate, will also be filled with ma
You can get
lots of clothes
c 4 made - to - meas
ure" at the -price
of good
ready clothes; or even at
less; there are plenty of so
called "custom tailors" who
will "make to measure" a
suit at $15, $18, $20, $25.
If you know anything
about making clothes you
know it can't be done, if
you are to get anything
like respectable quality.
If your clothes are
bought solely on the basis
of price, without reference
to intrinsic values in fabrics,
linings, tailoring, we're not
"in it" with these "custom
tailors;" go your way in
peace.
We find, however, a
growing sense among in
telligent men, of the fact
that there's no magic in
clothes-making that will
put quality-value into poor
materials and cheap work
manship. They're coming
to see that good materials
and high-class tailoring are
best for them; and that the
only way to get them is to
pay the price.
That's why we tzj so
much about $2$ for a
suit; it's price enough to
get really good clothes.
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Good Clothes Makers
SAM'L ROSENBLATT & CO.
Exclusive Ageucy.
Northwest Corner 3d and Morrison.
terial taken from the higher ground.
It is estimated that enough material
can be had from this source to make
the fill. This improvement will result
In the complete disappearance of this
long stretch of water and dormant
property.
Millard Church Being Knlarged.
The Millard avenue Presbyterian
Church, in the Southeast Side, is be
ing enlarged by the addition of a com
plete new basement for the general
purposes of the church. Recently the
auditorium was enlarged. The Rev.
Levi Johnson is the pnstor in chsrse.
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