THE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1913.
NOTED PORTLAND ACTKESSATTIOMEAMONCr 7T HE ROSES," ANB PORTLA2TD WOMAN WHO" ONCE
TROTTED ON HER KNEE NOW FAMOUS PLAYER-
HT
HOWLING SUCCESS
DAILY SERVICE
TO
Oregon Woman Who Dandled
Blanche Bates as Infant
Visits With Star.
CENTRAL. O
BEGINNING SUNDAY, JUNE 22
VIA.
REUNION MOST HAPPY ONE
REGON
Mrs. Charlotte Zeiber Tells Famous
Player What a Pudding Droxnp-ltng-X.ike,
Black-Kyed Child,
Like Iter Mother, She Was.
BY LEONE CASS BAER.
Now if you read of this train of co
Incidences in a magazine story, where
everything just happens according to
the literary fancies of the recorder,
you'd say, ' and truly, that It couldn't
ever really happen that way in real
life. For coincidences are found usually
between the covers of books.
That is why this dne, that really oc
curred, needs a little space all Its own.
This particular coincidence is that
Blanche Bates and Mrs. Charlotte Zel
ber should be in Portland at the very
moment I needed both for an interview.
When you stop and remember that
Miss Bates sometimes visits us every
year and sometimes does not and
that she varies the day and hour ot
her visit according: to the vagaries of
the mind of the booking agent and
that Mrs. Zeiber hasn't been in Port
land for seven years and wouldn't
have come this time only that she
wanted to pioneer along with the
others when you consider these two
facts you begin to get a glimmer of
where the coincidence gets in its work.
New Idea Is Essential.
Then, too, I had to have a Blanche
Bates Interview. Of course there's the
regulation things to be interviewed
about "Why I like this play best of
all." "Should careering women wed?"
and "What shall we do to uplift the
drama," besides a thousand others from
art to autos. But Blanche Bates won't
fit into a regulation interview. She
never answers according to Hoyle, and
she simply will not play the interview
ing game as it is played in our best
newspaper circles. That's why my soul
rejoiced exceedingly when a kind little
voice on the telephone told me that
Mrs. Charlotte Zeiber, who dandled
Blanche Bates on her knee when she
was a baby, was in town for a few days
visiting with the Oregon pioneers.
Mrs. Zeiber is the widow of Al Zeiber,
who was one of the earliest hotel own
ers in Portland, conducting the Cos
mopolitan Hotel on First and Stark
streets. When I told Miss Bates she
said she'd be "powerful glad" to go
call on Mrs. Zeiber, "provided that dates
and references to passing of years
were omitted."
That Much In Settled.
Bo we crossed our hearts and swore
we'd make Mrs. Zeiber stick to the
text. Then we Journeyed out to a little
cottage nestled amongst the roses,
where Mrs. Zeiber was visiting for the
afternoon with Mrs. David Foulkes,
whose sister is married to Mrs. Zelber's
son. Dr. Thomas Zeiber, of Portland.
Mrs. Zeiber is, to use Miss Bates'
words, "a dainty little lavender and
old lace gentlewoman." She held thtt
great big, bouyant, smiling Bates girl
at arms' length and peered up with
happy eyes at her. "I'm looking for
traces of your dear little mother,
child," she said. "Ah, she was a little
beauty, with a petite baby face and
such snapping big black eyes."
"I have her eyes," said Miss Bates,
making them smile adorably with
shining lights all through them.
"Yes and her smile. Let's sit down
and talk of her." So they drew their
chairs close together and while their
hands touched in sympathetic under
Btanding and the two heads one
brown, one snowy white nodded side
by side, they spoke of the little mother
who passed out two years ago.
"I remember the very first time 1
saw you," said Mrs. Zeiber. "You were
exactly two weeks old."
Blanche Wan Reg'lar Dumpling.
"Was I awfully red and squally oh,
do tell me I was a nice pink baby
like the sort that are painted on cal
endars," cried Miss Bates.
"You were a little black-haired pud
ding, dumpling baby, and you howled
unmercirully whenever you had an au
dience," was her answer.
"And I've kept it up all through my
life," spoke up the actress. "Do tell
me that I was born with teeth and
could talk."
"No, you were just a dear, little,
cuddly baby and had no hallmarks to
indicate that you would ever be
great actress. vvnen I first saw you
.your mother held you snuggled close
' to her, while she sat up in bed ant
studied a role she was to play at the
Orofino Theater, as soon as she was
restored to health. I held you in my
arms for the whole hour I stayed visit
ing your mother. Oh you were a dear,
little black-eyed baby. You had a col
ored nurse
"Celia," Interrupted Miss Bates.
'Yes, that's her name. She bossed
your little mother around, but she cer
tainly 'tended and looked after you,
said Mrs. Zeiber.
fella Suddenly Disappears.
"Celia used to come and see me every
year i ve piayed hero until this time.
said Miss Bates. "I'm afraid something
has happened to her."
Then wo went out in the rose garden
ana iook pictures.
"My," said Mrs. Zeiber, "when my
son-in-iaw picks up the paper tomor
row ne 11 be so surprised and say, 'Why
mere s granamomer.
"And with one of those awful actress
persons." added Miss Bates laughing,
son-in-iaw, it may De added, is Presl
dent P. L. Campbell, of the University
of Oregon, with whom Mrs. Zeiber
makes her home. She has never seen
Miss Bates since the baby days, until
yesterday.
- SYDNEY B. VINCENT FETED
Newspaper Men Honor Retiring As
sociated Press Correspondent.
A farewell dinner was given in the
Tyrolean room of the Oregon Hotel
last night to Sydney B. Vincent, corre
spondent of the Associated Press at
Portland, who recently resigned his po
sltlon to become examiner, of corpora
tlons under the Oregon "blue sky" law.
John T. Dougall was toastmaster and
those about the table were nearly all
newspaper men or former newspape
men who had been associated with Mr.
Vincent In his work, or while he wa
president of the Portland Press Club.
Those who gathered to wish Mr. Vln
cent success In his new position were
John L. Travis, R. A. Watson, John T,
Dougall, Paul R. Kelty. Louis Sond
helm, L. K. Hodges. Edward S. Reyn
olds, Carl S. Kelty, Joseph Patterson
Edward A. Beals. P. E. Sullivan, E. H.
Eshleman. O. C. Merrick, O. C. Lelter,
Dean Collins, F. W. Bell. Melvin W
Boyle and a. J. Luera,
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CHARLOTTE ZEIBER PHBSESTISC ROSES TO BLANCHE! B
READY TO RETURN TO WORK AFT EK A BRIEF
WORK NOT DELAYED
Street Committee Orders Ex
tension of Broadway.
GRADE SEPARATION STARTS
Work In Southeast Part of City Post
poned Until Spring at Request of
Property-Owners and $75,
OO'O of Paving Is Ordered.
Despite the fact that there were
more than 100 remonstrances from
property owners, the street committee
of the City Council at its final meet-
ng yesterday instructed City Attorney
Grant to commence at once proceedings
for the cendemnation of a right-of-way
for the extension of Broadway from
Sandy boulevard to East Forty-fifth
street, a distance of approximately
1800 feet.
The proposed extension has been
contemplated for many years and is
said to be badly needed in the dis'
trict. Broadway . now ends at Sandy
boulevard where that thoroughfare
crosses East Thirty-eighth street.
The committee adopted by unanimous
vote a proposed ordinance authorizing
the commencement of proceedings on
the proposed elimination of the O.-W.
R. & N. crossings on Sandy boulevard.
The work is to be done under the new
charter amendment passed by the peo
pie at the last city election. The or
dlnance as passed authorizes the City
Engineer to proceed at once to make
arrangements for the work according
to a general plan to be worked out by
the City Engineer and engineers of the
railroad company.
Track May Be Lowered.
It Is expected that the railroad com
pany will lower its tracks. This, it is
said, would be least costly to the city
and present a better appearance than
would the lowering of the street grade
to permit of trains passing overhead.
This is the first proceeding to be in
stituted under the new law.
A resolution was passed changing
tne name or jrora street. Twentieth
street and Terrace road to "Vista ave
nue. Twentieth street loses its pres
ent name between Carter lane and
Spring street; Terrace road between
Spring street and Patton avenue, and
Ford street between Washington and
Madison streets. The change was made
on petition of many of the property
owners and residents of the district.
Outside of the districts named the old
streets retain their present names.
Remonstrances resulted in the dis
continuance of proceedings for laying
sidewalks and grading streets in the
district between Seventy-second street
Southeast, Foster road and Sixtieth
avenue Southeast. Opposition was
based on the opinion that to tear up
the streets now would make it impos
sible for them to be improved before
the "Winter rains set in. It is the de
sire of the property owners to have
the work' start early next Spring, at
which time hardsurface petitions will
be circulated.
Paving Contracts Let.
uontracts ror street paving aggre
gating $75,000 'were awarded by the
committee. Among the principal con
tracts were the following: Commercial
street from Kllllngsworth avenue to
Alnsworth street, gravel bitulithlc
paving, awarded to the Barber Asphalt
Paving Company for $7247; Blandena
street from Vancouver avenue to Pat
ton avenue, gravel bltulithio paving,
awarded to the Barber Asphalt Paving
Company .for $23,176; Lamson avenue
district, concrete paving, let to Mon
tague, O'Reilly Company for $13,088;
East Seventeenth street from Division
street to Powell street, bitulithlc re-
dress paving to the Barber Asphalt
Paving Company for $12,610.
JAIL. SENTENCE IMPOSED
Prosecution Asks for Severity
Case of Sale of Firearms.
in
As an example to all dealers who
carry on an illicit trade In firearms.
sentence of 20 days in Jail was im
posed In Municipal Court yesterday
upon Alexander Goldstein, a second
hand dealer on lower Main street, for
selling to Oscar Nelson the revolver
with which he held up an automobile
on the Slavin road last week. Deputy
City Attorney Sullivan pressed the
court for severity, pointing out that
such sales had been productive of
many murders and murderous assaults
which presumably would not have oc
curred it the dealers had adhered to
the law.
Goldstein appealed and his bond Is
fixed at $260, pending action by the
circuit court. -Nelson is serving 200
days at the city rockplle. and is the
principal witness against Goldstein.
OAKLAND BOYS' BAND TO RE
CEIVE! TROPHY.
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Cop to Be Taken South by Hy
Eilers.
Hy Eilers, who is to leave to
morrow for a trip to Oakland, is
to act as a. special ambassador
from the Royal Rosarlans to bear
to the High School Band of Oak
land the Rosarlans' sliver cup,
which was awarded to them in
the Rose Festival for their dis
tinguished services.
"First prize best band. Portland
Rose Festival, June, 1913," is the
inscription engraved on the cup.
"Presented by the Royal Ro
sarlans to the Oakland School
Boys' Band."
The Oakland boys' band came
to Portland as the escort of the
Royal Oaks, of Oakland, to the
Rose Festival, but after its ar
rival here became, by courtesy,
the official escort band of the
Royal Rosarlans in every func
tion and reception which it' held
during the week.
The prize awarded to it is,
therefore, more than a. recog
nition of the real merit of -the
band in comparison with other
competing bands at the Festival.
It is. in addition, a token of the
thanks the Royal Rosarlans feel'
for the zealous assistance of the
boys of Oakland, which helped to"
make their part of the Festival
a success-.
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PLAY PERIOD.
BATES
Mayor-Elect Announces Tem
porary Retention.
FALSE RUMORS QUIETED
Albee Declares Reorganization
of
City's Machinery Will Be Slow,
as Time Will Be Xecessary
to Make Read justments.
Retention of the various boards and
commissions, at least temporarily, is
probable, according to Mayor-elect Al
bee, who said yesterday that, while no
action has been taken on this feature,
this probably will be the course to be
followed by the City Commission which
will take office July 1.
The same condition may be applied
to the various city departments, such as
the police, fire, health, etc., as It prob
ably will be the policy of the City Com1
mission to proceed slowly with reor
ganizatlon where reorganization is nec
essary, rather than to make wholesale
changes at the outset.
There has been considerable unrest
in the various departments, owing to
fear of sweeping changes that were
rumored. There is no foundation for
these rumors, according to authority,
as It undoubtedly will require time in
which to adjust the new charter to con
ditions or the conditions to the charter.
A complete revolutionary change in the
form of government, such as has been
ordered by -the people by their adop
tlon of the new charter, will necessarily
require considerable time.
In the majority of the departments
there undoubtedly will be new heads
and these men will be looked to for re
suits under the new regime. A de
partment head will be in fact head of
his department and to him the Commis
sioner of that particular branch of the
municipal government will look for re
suits. There will be no interference
from outsiders, such as there has been
in the past, it is said, the idea being to
require discipline and strict attention
to duty ty all employes of the city and
to keep efficiency records. On these
records promotions or increases in sal
ary or the reverse order will be based.
according to .the plans being worked
out.
Owing to the fact that all of the
business of the city has been done by
boards and commissions, such as the
Health, "Water and Park Boards and
the various commissions, it may not be
possible to dispense with all of these
for awhile. The Civil Service Commis
sion is excepted from the others and
will be retained by order of the people
and will be called the Civil Service
Board; the Dock Commission has also
been ordered continued by a vote of the
people. It is within the province of the
City Commission to decide the fate of
any or ell of the other boards and com
missions, including the Auditorium
Commission.
The Executive Board, which consists
of 10 members appointed by the Mayor,
will be abolished automatically July 1
when the City Commission will take
charge of the municipal government.
BOYS GO TO CAMP JUNE 30
Y. M. C. A. Vacations to Be at Spirit
Lake July and August.
In order to put the Summer camp of
the Portland Young Men's Christian
Association in shape to receive the first
party of vacationists, J. C. Meehan, as
slstant boys' secretary, left yesterday
for Spirit Lake. The camp will be
opened about July 1, and will be oocu
pled for two months. About 20 boys
have already signed up to go out with
the initial party which will leave Port
land June 84.
Five parties will go out to Spirit
BOARDS TO Ul
A BUSINESS DAY SAVED
Effective Sunday, June 22. Night trains in both directions will be run between
Portland and Central Oregon points instead of on the present daj- schedules.
Tourist Sleeping Cars and First-Class Coaches
TO CENTRAL OREGON
Leave Portland 7:00 P. M.
Arrive Madras 6:00 A. M.
Arrive Metolius 6:15 A. M.
Arrive Culver 6:28 A. M.
Arrive Terrebonne 7 :0S A. M.
Arrive Redmond 7:23 A. M.
Arrive Deschutes 7:43 A. M.
Arrive Bend .8:00 A. M.
For sleeping car accommodations, schedules and other
at offices.
CITY TICKET OFFICE, FIFTH AND STARK STS. NORTH
AND HOYT STS.
Lake, leaving Portland on June 80, July
14, July 21, August 11 and August If.
The boys will make their own rules
of government. There will be side trips
every day, including several ascents to
the top of Mount St. Helens.
BATES PARTY ENCOURAGED
Philadelphia Council Asked to Send
Liberty Bell to Coast in 1015.
'Mayor BLankenburg received our
party this morning and assured his
personal aid," says a telegram to the
Portland Commercial Club, which was
dated June 19, and received yesterday
morning from Phil S. Bates and his
party of young women who went to
Philadelphia to ask that the liberty
bell be sent to the Pacific Coast in
1915.
"He called a Council meeting in
special session," continues the tele
gram, "and I addressed more than 600
members and citizens. The Council al
most mobbed the girls trying to extend
congratulations and promises."
ALBEE AND AIDES INVITED
STirvivor of Chanrpoeg Convention
Also Asked to Rotarians' Picnic.
Mayor-elect Albee and the four Com
missioners-elect and y. X. Matthieu, the
sole survivor of the Champoeg conven
tion, have been invited to be among the
guests who will sail this morning on
the steamer Grahamona for the flrBt
annual picnic of the Rotary Club.
Members of the Rotary Club, thvfc-
families and friends will make up the
party. The greater part of the day will
be passed on the picnic grounds at
Champoeg, and the committee in charge
of entertainment has outlined a lively
programme of sports. A basket dinner
will be Berved at noon. The steamer
sails from the Taylor-street dock at
COMMERCIAL TRAVELER. WITH
LONG RECORD. PASSES AWAY.
James C. Murray.
James C. Murray, who died yes
terday at 'his lata home at 084 Couch
street, was one ot the most widely
known commercial travelers in this
locality. For IT years prior to his
death ha represented a Ban Fran
cisco hardware firm, with headquar
ters in Portland. Previous to that
time he represented Goldsmith &
Loewenberc for 20 years.
He was one ot the older members
of the Elks' lodse, of Portland, which
he Joined In 1S9T. He belonged also
to the United Commercial Travelers'
Association, the Oregon and Wash
ington Beneficial League and Oregon
Assembly. No. I, of the United Arti
sans. Mr. Murray was born at Mill Plain,
Wash., August 4, 1S32, and spent
his early boyhood there. He is sur
vived y his wife and three daugh
ters. Mrs. Lias Abrams, Mrs. B. F.
Greene and Mrs. William Branacj.
Funeral services will be held tomor
row under the auspices of the Port
land Lodge of Elks.
8:45, and
at 6:30.
will return this evening
TJvestock Men Incorporate.
LEWISTON, Idaho, June 20. (Spe
clal.) Articles of Incorporation of the
Northwest Livestock Association were
filed today with the County Recorder
of Nez Perce County. The incorpora
tors are: Dr. S. B. Nelson and E. E.
Flood." Spokane; R. C. Beach, M. A.
Means and D. S. Wallace, Lewlston. The
association is to extend over a period
of 50 years and is to have its place of
business at Lewlston. The association
Is incorporated without capital stock
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Leave Metolius
Leave Madras .
BANKERS VIEW BILL
Portland Men Believe Presi-
dent Has Begun Rightly.
EARLY LEGISLATION HOPE
Students of Finance Agree, "With
Brief Facts at Hand, Thut Plan
(or Central and Regional
Institutions Is Good.
It is gratifying to Portland bankers
to know that President Wilson has de
termined to have a currency measure
enacted at the present special session
of Congress.
Although the general outline of the
measure drafted by the President and
the House currency and banking com
mittee Is not sufficiently enlightening
to allow the formation of positive
opinions on the subject, bank officials
believe that the bill furnishes a posi
slble solution for the currency problem
that has been perplexing the financial
interests of the country since the panic
of 1907.
The Administration measure, as de
scribed In newspaper lisptaches.
evidently provides some of the reforms
for which the bankers and the gen
eral public have been clamoring for
the last six years.
President's Start Indorsed.
Edward Cookingham, vice-president
of the Ladd & Tllton Bank, who has
given, this subject much thought and
study, believes that the president has
started In the right way to remedy
existing currency evils.
"The plan to establish regional
banks," said Mr. Cookingham yester
day, "Is similar to that of other cur
rency bills. Until I learn lust how
these regional banks are to be con
ducted, how they are to be organized
and what relations they will bear to
the Tegular commercial banks I can
not determine what effect this will
have upon the banking business. The
general plan of a central reserve bank.
or a system of such banks, is one that
bankers will Indorse.
"If the bill can provide a method
for redlscounting commercial paper,
under reasonable regulations. It will do
much to give relief in times of
stringency and will give our commer
cial system some of the elasticity that
it needs."
"I always have been an advocate ot
a central bank with branches estab
lished In different parts of the country.
The reports that we have on the pro
posed measure are too indefinite as to
details. We won't be able to form
opinions on the subject until we have
read and digested the bill and all its
provisions."
R. Lea Barnes, vice-president of the
United. States National Bank, likewise
favors a central bank and a system of
branch banks.
"We can't get along in this country.''"
said Mr. Barnes, "with only one reserve
bank. That is all right In England,
but England is a small, country, geo
graphically, and the great Bank of
England is In comparatively close
touch with all the banks of England.
"I see that the bill proposed by
President Wilson contemplates estab
lishing a set of branch banks, but the
information we have at hand now is
too indefinite to permit of serious dis
cussion." Objection Not Expected.
R. I Durham, president of the Mer
chants National Bank, likewise agreed
that the country needs a central bank
of issue, and that the size of the
country makes it necessary to have
branches of this central bank.
Edgar Sensenich, cashier of the
Northwestern National Bank, expressed
the belief that President Wilson's bill
has the possibilities of providing a
more elastic currency.
"Some of the features of the bill,"
he said, "seem to be especially favor
able. I mean the provision for redls
counting and the plan for a series of
reserve banks. If the bankers are
started on the practice of rediscounting
their paper without it reflecting on
their credit it will provide us much of
the elasticity that we need.
"I don't think the bankers will offer
much objection to the plan of with
drawing the United States 2's and the
consequent withdrawal of bank notes
if the value of the bonds is not allowed
to shrink."
Aberdeen Pioneer Dies In California.
ABERDEEN, Wash., June 20. (Spe
cial.) A. R. Dabney, owner of much
Aberdeen business property and an ex
pensive Investor In California oil com
panies, is dead at his home In Oakland,
CaL. according to information received
here. Mr. Dabney is one of the city's
CENTRAL OREGON
8:30 P. M.
8:48 P. M.
9:10 P. M.
9:24 P. M.
10:02 P. M.
10:20 P. M.
10:30 P. M.
8:10 A. M.
details will be furnished
BANK STATION TENTH
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pioneers and. with his brothers, had
much to do with the building of Aber
deen. BANNERS MAY BE BANISHED
Ad Club's Attitude Against Cloth
Signs on Buildings Indorsed.
If an ordinance recommended by the
health and police committee yesterday
is approved by the Council at Its last
meeting next Wednesday, large cloth
signs on buildings will be prohibited
after the end of next month. The
measure has been drafted by the Ad
Club and other organizations. It
prohibits cloth or other combustible
material being used to cover the front
or sides of a building.
After many months of consideration
the committee yesterday ordered pro
ceedings commenced on the proposed
new Rhine-street trunk sewer. ..This Is
to be one of the largest mains in the
city and will cost about $126,210.
The committee recommended an ordi
nance providing for the clearing oi
weeds and grass from vacant property.
This measure was drafted recently bj
City Attorney Grant as a substitute for
the present ordinance, which Is de
f ectl ve.
NEW SUMMER SCHEDULE
to
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Effective June Slst
O.-W. .R. & N. Steamer
Harvest Queen
will leave Portland for Astoria and way
landings on the following schedule:
Lv. Portland.. .8:00 P. M. Dally ex. Suri.
Ar. Astoria. .
8:00 A. M. taily ex. Moo,
7:00 A. M. nailv ex. Sun.
6:00 P. M.- -Daily ex. Mon.
Lv. Astoria. .
Ar. Portland.
Steamer "Hassalo
99
Will
Lv. Portland.. .9:30 P. M. Daily ex. Sun.
Ar. Astoria.. . .6:00 A. M. Dally ex. Mon.
Lv. Astoria.. . .7:00 A. M. Daily ex. Mon.
Ar Megler 7:30 A. M. Daily ex. Mon.
Lv. Megler 9:15 A. M. 1 Dally exc'pt
Ar. Portland.. .4:30 P. M. J Sun. & Mon.
Lv. Megler. . . .9:00 P. M. Sunday.
Ar. Portland.. .5:30 A. M. Monday.
The steamer "HASSALO" will stop
on flag on up trip to take on and let
off passengers at Brookfleld, Cathlamet,
Oak Point. Rainier and Kalama.
Make renervationa Ash-street Dock
or City Ticket Office, Third and W'tali.
lngton streets. . Phones Marshall 30O
or . 011.
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The Longest
Day of the
Whole Year.
This is it June 21st.
More suiilisrht today than in
any other 24 hours of the 3l5o
days.
You oan read a newspaper
earlier this morning and later
this evening without any artifi
cial light than at any other time.
Perhaps the news is not extra
heav-. Warm weather seems to
lessen the activities of the news
world; things "don't happen."
But in the advertising columns
there is "something doing"
every day.
You can count dozens of hot
weather opportunities that are
bound to interest you.
Don't waste your activities
wandering from shop to shop
hunting for what yon want.
Take counsel with the advertise
ments first, and then go to the
place that is handiest and most
reliable.
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