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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1914)
K V A K v PORTLAND TO GREET NEW YEAR HEARTILY Customs That Hark Back to Romans to Be Followed in Celebrating Day. CHURCHES TO HAIL 1915 Watch-Night Set-rices to Be Held by Several Congregations Revelry on Eve of Holiday Is" to Ring Farewell to 1914. POLICE RESTRICTIONS FOR SEW YEAR'S EVE FES TIVITIES. While no explicit orders have been issued to the police depart ment, a rein will be kept on the crowds in the streets and girlls New Tear's eve. No confetti throwing will be allowed unless by special permission of the Council. Two detectives and a uni formed patrolman- will be sta tioned In every grill. Dancinar on tables will be prohibited. In the streets all crowds will be kept on the move. Men who annoy women will be arrested. All saloons, the licenses of which have not been renewed, will be closed at midnight. Oth ers will be permitted to sell . liquor until 1 A. M., when the saloons and the grills must close. The police have made plans to have day and night forces on duty till midnight. Portland will observe New Tear's In accord with all the fine old customs of the day. "Watch-night services in the churches and elsewhere will wel come the new-born year, praise services of an appropriate nature will be held. New Tear calls will be paid by friends, as of old, gifts and greetings will be exchanged and good fellowship will prevail generally. Good resolutions will be made, only to be broken, conviviality will be marked on New Tear's eve. the water wagon will be loaaed temporarily, as always, and the element of hope for better things will enter Into most lives. Julius Caesar Is credited with having put New Tear's day on January 1 when he revised the calendar. The god Janus, with two faces, was patron of the first month of the year because he was sup posed to be looking back at the old year and forward at the new, with regard for both. Cuatomg Traced to Romans. The old Romans established many of our New Tear customs, too. They gave up the day to paying calls, feasting and distributing gifts. That they es tablished the custom of New Tear resolutions may be guessed from the fact that they regulated every act on the first day of the year so that it would be a happy augury for the future. France was the first country In Christendom to change its calendar so that the new year opened January 1 instead of March 25. This was in 1564, but not until two centuries later did England adopt the custom. - A curious thing i3 that "All Fools' day," April 1, is a survival of the change in the date of New Tear's day. As March 25 fell In Holy Week, April 1 generally was the day upon which New Tear's gifts were made and calls ex changed. When the holiday was ad vanced to January 1, mock visits were made and pretended presents were ex changed to trick those, who forgot the change in date and these pranks have been continued since. The convivial customs of the day were established by the Romans and were continued by the Britons. New Tear's eve in Scotland is known as Hogmany and the two days together are referred to commonly as the "Daft Days." Gifts Presented in France. In France and the Latin countries, rifts are more generally a feature of New Tear's than among English speaking reople, the explanation being that the day comes too soon after Christmas. Children of France put their shoes on the fireplace fender on New Year's eve, expecting to find them filled with presents the following morning, much as is our Christmas custom. At the European courts. New Tear's Is a "solemn occasion, the clay being marked by religious services, at which the ruling monarch! commence the year with appeals to the Almighty for strength and guidance. Lord Chesterfield, however, re marked: "It is a time when the kind est and warmest wishes are exchanged without the least meaning and the most lying day of the whole year." Portland to Celebrate. Portland's celebration will savor of all these old customs. In hotels, clubs and homes, merrymaking will prevail Special music will be provided at the leading hostelries and elaborate din ner will be served. There will be dancing and extensive decorations. Big lists oi reservations are forming for tables at the grills on New Tear's eve. Many restaurants that close early evenings will remain open on that night for the convenience of cele brators. The Commercial Club will give a din ner and watch party New Tear's eve, the dinner starting at 9 o'clock. There will be dancing and special music and decorations. Ira F. Powers is head of the committee in charge of the event. Other clubs will have special attrac tions for members and their friends. Methodist churches of the city will unite in a big watch night service at FirBt Church, commencing at 7:30 o'clock Thursday night. Many other churches of the city are arranging sim ilar services. - 'The Second-Avenue Presbyterian Church of Sellwood will have a New Tear's reception this after, noon, the parlors of the church being open to welcome visitors from noon until night. At the Sellwood Y. M. C. A. there will be a watch night service and a dinner on New Tear's day. Although the holiday is outshone by Christmas, there will be a partial sus pension of business throughout the city on New Year's. Banks, city and county buildings and many business houses will be closed all day to give an oppor tunity to employes to celebrate the holiday. Schoolchildren of the city will enjoy the advent of the new year, as they do not resume school study until January 4. P. Zu Willis' Condition Improved. P. I Willis, a prominent citizen of the city, who has been ill for the past few days, was reported as much im proved last night. Mr. Willis' indls ' position was due, it was said, to over work, but hla condition, at no time re garded u serious, waa considerably better yesterday. CHILDREN SINGING CHRISTMAS CAROLS AT FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH YESTERDAY. SvVHHR'jM J -A-f 'F? U-&r rill UNDER DIRBCTiOV OF PROFESSOR J. II. COWEX, 350 FRESH YOUNG VOICES FROM PORTLAND COXGRE- GATIOMAL CHURCHES UNITE IN SONQ SERVICE. CHURCHES MAY JOIN Third and Hawthorne Park Presbyterian Plan Union. BULLETIN REVEALS INTENT Proposed Merger to Bo Discussed Tuesday at Congregational Meet ing Same East Side Dis trict Is Served. That the Hawthorne Park Presby terian Church, at East Twelfth and East Salmon streets, and the Third Presbyterian Church, at East Thirteenth and Kast Pine streets, are considering consolidation, is revealed in an an nouncement In a bulletin issued by the Third Presbyterian Church yesterday. The announcement Is: Tuesday. R P. M. A fcr tc-rpcm t Ion r 1 mMt. Ing la called to consider union with Haw thorne Church This la one of the most Im portant meetings that has ever been called tty the session of tbU church. The DOssible life and well being of Third Church may hinge on this meeting. Every member of the church ought to put forth every effort to attend, and express himself on this mo mentous question. You may regret It for years If you do not attend. Rev. Mr. Hutchison said In explana tion "of the call that the churches were merely considering the question of union, but that nothing definite had been done. i The Third Presbyterian and the Haw thorne Park Presbyterian Church are prosperous. The Third Church is one of the oldest on the Bast Side. The Hawthorne Park Church was organized as a Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and became a Presbyterian Church when the two branches consolidated. Since these churches were built on East Twelfth and East ' Thirteenth streets great changes have been made in the character of the district, aa resi dences have moved eastward. mere was talk oi uniting the churcnes several years ago, with the avowed ob ject to move eastward and build a mod ern Presbyterian Church on the East Side that would serve that section as the First Church serves the West Side. Each parcel of church property Is valued at about $25,000. Rev. A. L. Hutchison is pastor of the Third Church and Rev. L. K. Grimes is In charge of the Hawthorne Park Church. Sermon Thoughts From Portland Churches. it M AKING Life Over Again." or I "Spiritual Reconstruction," was the subject of the year-end sermon of Dr. R. Elmer Smith, in the Sunnyside Methodist Church yesterday morning. Dr. smith said: ' "On the last days of the old year it is well for us to pause and take a backward look. In doing so we And that we have not made a perfect record. Our lives have been marred more or less. Sometimes we get discouraged because we do not achieve our ideals. It is comforting to know that God un derstands and cares. Unwise Is the man who, recognizing that his charac ter is marred, refuses to place it into the hands of the great divine potter for reconstruction. "Wise and happy Is the man who places the fragments of his life In God's hands and allows him to recon struct his life and remove the blem ishes. "Is your character marred by self ishness, insincerity, impatience, deceit, liiRt lnvn n f mnnAv iinVimil ttHnat or by anything else? If so, let me urge you for your own sake, for the sake of your home, the church and the world in which you move, to place yourself unreservedly Into the loving hands of our Heavenly Father and let him reconstruct your spiritual life and make it a thing of beauty and useful ness." , At . the evening service Dr. Smith spoke on "Things That Will Never End." The Veteran Quartet sang. r "If Christmas never came the world would have missed the real significance of life as interpreted to us by the ChrlsJ. It would also have missed the real meaning of good will and human brotherhood. The World would have missed the best expression of love as we know It in. the world today, as we know him." These thoughts were the theme around which Rev. Charles T. Hurd, assistant pastor of the First Presby terian Church, preached his Christmas sermon yesterday morning. . The "I-don't-care" spirit Is a bad one to have. It's a stamp of cheapness of the outcry of a pained conscience, ac cording to Rev. E. S. Bollinger, of the Highland Congregational Church; who took for his sermon subject yesterday "I Don't Care and 1915." I don't care" Is an expression of In difference and incapacity." ha said. "Our state of mind Is Intensified by a suggested expresssion. Therefore, how foolish and hurtful for us to continue to mark ourselves with these stamps of cheapness. " "I don't care is also an expression that may be the last effort of a higher good, that has been, surrendered. As TTTE arORXTXG such It is the outcry of a pained con science. The expression 'I don't care' nowadays marks a falling soul." "Make the best of life; be what God wants you to be," was the gist of the message delivered to his congregation yesterday by Rev. E. Olln Eldridge, pastor of Mount Tabor Methodist Epis copal Church. "Do not waste your time criticising those who have not had opportunities; be a big brother or big sister to them. Justify your existence. Live up to your possibilities. The best way to average up in life Is to be as near the God-ideal aa possible. "Our plans may fall, but God knows best. He will withhold no good thing from them that love him. He often makes it imposible for us to carry out our plans because he has something better for us to do.' Rev. Mr. Eldrldge's sermon toplo was "God as a Controlling Factor in Our Lives," and his text was "My Times Are In His Hands." He cited David's rise from sheepherder to the pinnacle of spiritual rapture as an application of his text. He continued: "There is a sense in which a man may be the architect of his own for tune, but it is God that gives the ma terial to make such success possible. God dislikes haughtiness and over-weaning pride pride that scorns the unfor tunate. God has created us for a definite purpose and we are differentiated ac cording to his plan and each person is put here for a mission." YOUNG SING OLD CAROLS CHILDISH VOICES RI2VG CLEAR WITH STORV OF CHRIST'S BIRTH. Congrreaational Sunday Schools Have Programme In Which SSO la Chorus Take Bis; Fart. - - "It came upon the midnight clear, that glorious song of old." From 260 childish throats the old song rang through its Joyful verses at the First Congregational Church yes terday afternoon. The children had been gathered from the Congregational Sunday schools of Portland to sing the hymns and carols of Christmas, and under the direction of Professor J. H. Cowen they sang them with a will. In perfect accord the clear young voices of the little boys and girls, sing, ing with all their might, chimed like Christmas bells, filling the big audi torium with a concord of sweet sound. First was "O Come, All Ye Faithful," carol of adoraticniifor the Christ-child. Then came the hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem," and as the children sang, those who had gathered to hear them could see the little town beneath the Bllent stars, where the hopes and fears of all the years were met so long ago. And with what tenderness they sang about "the little Lord Jesus, asleep on the hay." Clearly their 'hearts went out with their voices to the baby boy who was born "away in a manger, no crib for a bed." The other songs were "Holy Night, Peaceful Night," "I Think When I Read That Sweet Story of Old." "Hark, the Herald Angels 6ing" and "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night." George S. Beechwood played the pipe organ accompaniment, and Robert Mil lard played the flute. Elizabeth Eugenia Woodbury, dra matic reader, read an allegorical one act play. "Dust of the Road." whose theme is a Christmas vision that came to a man and his wife who were about to gain money and lose their souls, the vision saving them. A prayer was offered by Rev. J. H. Matthews, of Seattle, and an address to the children was made by Rev. Lu ther R. Dyott, pastor of the First Con gregational. The committee that arranged the song service was composed of Rev. J. J. Staub, of Sunnyside Congregational Church; Rev. D. T. Thomas, of St John's Congregational Church, and Rev. Frank W. Gorman, of the Atkin son Memorial Congregational Church. SHIP ENDS 132-DAY VOYAGE Calms and Head Winds Delay Song . vand. From Australia. ASTORIA. Or, Dec 27. (Special.) Continued calms and head winds were responsible for the slow run of the overdue Norwegian ship Songvand. which arrived this afternoon, 132 days from Rockhampton, Australia. Cap tain B. Fjedal, master of the vessel, says he sailed from Rockhampton August 17 and after passing clear of the reefs which line the shore, ran Into a succession of calms and head winds that kept the vessel within a few miles of the Australian coast for 45 days. Frequent calms were encountered In the South Pacific and the Songvand did not cross the equator until November 8. Even then the ship's hard luck con tinued and she ran Into a series of head winds and gales that held her al most In one position for nearly three weeks. The vessel arrived in good condition, although her bottom Is extremely foul. Everyone on board is well. The Songvand was picked up by the tng Oneonta this morning about 28 miles off shore. She will be taken to Portland tomorrow to load grain for EuroCA, OTTEGONTAN, MOXTAT, "KEEP ALIVE' ADVICE Dr. Loveland Urges Hearers to Continue Their Improvement. GLADSTONE CITED AS IDEAL Pastor Bemoans Time Lost in Friv olous Pursuits When There Is So Much to Be Done for Ourselves and Others. ' TERSE! SAYINGS OF DR. IiOVE LAND YESTERDAY. If you have quit reading and study ing you are beginning to die. Some of you have been dead 20 years without knowing It. Ignorance Is one of the meanest ins of the ace. A friend Is a sold mine. Many kill time playing bridge whist and reading- light novels when they should be studying. Years ar.d experience are valuable to the man who is yet alive. By ceasing to think many preach ers cross the deadline. "You begin to die when you stop learning and some of you have been dead for 20 yearn without knowing it," admonished Dr. Frank L. Loveland in his sermon at the First Methodist Epis copal Church yesterday morning on "If I Could Live Last Year Over Again." "Too many spend hours playing bridge whist, reading light novels, indulging In light, good-for-nothing frivolities, that are not necessarily bad In them selves. Just to kill time when they should be improving their minds. One of the meanest sins of the age is the sin of Ignorance. "My brother have 'you quit reading and quit studying? If you have you are beginning to die. Yesterday we were looking for boys to do the work but wise men have come to realize that years and experience are worth some thing if men are alive. The trouble with this age is that Just about the time we begin to understand things we have to die. "When does the preacher cross the deadline? Just when he turns his bar rel over, or stops thinking. You can discover this everywhere In the pulpit and. Great God. I wonder sometimes if you can discover It In me. It Is up to us to cultivate our brains Just as we do our hearts." Dr. Loveland then drew a dramatic picture of the late William B. Glad stone, the Grand Old Man of England spending his eightieth year In a pro found study of Oriental rug-making, dyes, porcelain and coal tar products. "When Job said 'My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle' he voiced your sentiment of mind as well as your own. The question is what sort of web are we weaving? It was only yesterday that we said Merry Christmas and only the day before that we said It the time before. "If I were to live last year over again I would seek to realize more clearly the presence of God. I would try to have that presence lead me into all knowledge and truth, I would try to enlarge my circle of friends and I would try to make my life more ser viceable. "The tragedy of old age Is that so often it carries us away from our friends at a time when we are not mak ing more friends because we don't know how. A friend Is a gold mine; don't stop mining. A friend Is a treasure-house, don't lose the key to It. "Some resign from the active ser vices of life because they say their strength is gone. They drop aside ask ing that others carry on the work al most in the same spirit the man shows when he says the world owes him' a living. If you are such a man, havo you money? If you are, let your money work for you after you are dead." PASTOR BIDS FAREWELL Rev. J. 11. X. Bell Leaves Rose City Park Church to New Leader. The Rer. X R. N. Bell, of Corvallis, who has been supplying the pulpit of the Rose City Park Presbyterian Church for the past few weeks, preached his last sermon there last night, and the Rev. J. M. Skinner, of Detroit, who has been elected to fill the pulpit, will reach Portland this week in time to take up the charge next Sunday. A reception to the Rev. Mr. Skinner will be held at the church on New Year's eve. Afterwards an old fashioned New Year's eve "watch party" will be held, which ylll be pre sided over by the Rev. w. W. Young eon, pastor of the Rose City Park Methodist Church, who will be one of the speakers also at the reception earlier in the evening. The coal required for one Journey be tween New York and Liverpool by a mod ern liner would fill 22 trains each made up at &Q 10-toa ears. DECEJrBEK 28, 1014. Red Letter Day" You Are Not Required to Make Any Purchases Bring Book With You Charge Purchases Made Today Will Go on January Bill, Payable Feb. 1 01ds9Wortman Reliable Merchandise Reliable PaciSic Phone Marshall 4800 Our Today Marks the Beginning of Our 37th Annual Clearance Sale An Event Eagerly Awaited by Thrifty Buyers. Extraordinary .Preparations Have Been Made to Make Thi3 the Most Successful Clearance We Have Ever Had Today's Clearance Sale Offerings Great 1-2 Price Sale "Women's Suits, Second Floor "Women's $25.00 Coats, clearance price $13.49 "Women's $37.50 Dresses, clearance price $15.98 Women's $18.00 Dress Skirts, clearance price $59.98 Women's Silk Petticoats, clearance price $2.69 Dress Skirts worth to $12.50, clearance price $6.49 Clearance of Waists at $1.19, $2.39 and $3.49 $1.50 and $1.75 Wool Dress Goods at, a yard $1.19 $2.00 and $2.50 Wool Dress Goods, at, a yard $1.69 $1.25 Fancy Plaid Silks, clearance price, yard 89d Clearance 29c Embroideries, at, a yard 19 Embroideries worth to $1.25, clearance, yard 98 Embroideries worth up to $5, clearance, yard $1.98 Corsets worth up to $22.00, clearance price $6.98 Corsets worth up to $10.00, clearance, price $3.98 Women's $1.00 Vests and Pants, clearance price 65 Women's $1.25 Extra Size Union Suits at $1.00 75c Viyella Flannels, all colors, clearance a yard 57 45-inch Pillow Casing, clearance price, yard 15 Clearance of Linen Sheets at Just One-half Price $10.00 Iron Beds priced for Clearance, at $5.98 Clearance of Silverware, Cut Glass, Dinnerware PLEA FOR PEACE fi REV. X. W. LANK THINKS AMERICA SHOULD DISARM F"OR EXASU'LE. Belief In Fulfillment of Biblical Propb. eciea la Affirmed and Reign of s Christ Predicted. "If America at thl critical moment would take a position favoring; disarm ament she could set the pace that would disarm the world," said Rev. T. W. Lane in his Christmas sermon at Centenary Methodist Church yesterday. "A heroic Christian Nation la needed today," he declared, "to lead the em pires of the world up the way to the rule of the Prince of Peace. "When a nation crowded with altars and churches, owing its existence, and its civilization to the religion of the Prince of Peace, a nation that haa highly exalted the Cross, shall, in the spirit of that Cross, say to its soldiery, 'Put up thy sword into its sheath; for all they that take the sword shall per ish with the sword,' it will go far toward completing the disarmament of the world. "How we could hasten the coming of that rule if Christian men would resign positions of honor, even the highest In the Nation, rather than show sympathy with unnecessary war." Mr. Lane closed his sermon with an earnest affirmation of faith in the prophecy of Christ's second coming. "Righteousness outlasts sin and ulti mately will triumph over It." he said. "Not one word of prophecy shall fail until all be fulfilled, and the 'child born,' the 'son given' shall become the reigning Prince oi Peace, and the gov ernment shall be upon his shoulder. Of the Increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end and bis dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the rivers to the end of the earth." BIG CARGO ON MONGOLIA Captain Klrkwood Leaves Asuncion for Atlas in Rockefeller Fleet. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 27. One of the largest cargoes of Oriental mer chandise that ever crossed the Pacific is in the holds of the Pacific Mall liner Mongolia, due here Tuesday from China and Japan by way of Honolulu. Cable advices announce that the Mongolia is laden with a cargo measuring 13,500 tons, 6200 tons of which are for over land shipment. On board are 141 cabin and 400 Asiatic steerage passengers. The Standard OH Company has shifted several skippers in the" tank fleet. Cap tain Alexander Kirkwood, of the Asun cion, goes to the Atlas, while Captain J. V. Spencer, formerly of the A. F. Lucas, takes his place. Captain J. S. Smith takes the Lucas, which has cleared for Balboa. The Lucas will make the trip with the barge No. 93 in tow. Captain O. Lindqulst has re lieved Captain B. W. Olsen on the Ade line Smith. News From Oregon Ports. - ASTORIA, Or., Dec 27. (Special) The Russian bark Pprt Caledonia, - 63 days from Iquique, and the Norwegian bark Llndfield, 69 days from Valpa raiso, arrived late last evening. Both report uneventful trips and will load grain at Portland. ' The steamer Roanoke, from San Francisco, and the steamer Break water, from Coos Bay, arrived this morning en route to Portland. The tank steamer William F. Herrln arrived about midnight from Califor nia with a cargo of fuel oil for Port land. , The steam schooner Klamath ar rived during the night from San Fran cisco, and went to St. Helens to load lumber. The steamer Paralso arrived this morning from, San Francisco via Coos IADE Next Wednesday IP iS 1 twi Bay with freight for Astoria and Port land. G. H. Bowker, of Portland, has been appointed Astoria agent for the Puget Sound Tugboat Company. General Manager Plummer is expected here early this week to open an office and arrange for pilots. The company has made arrangements to have the steamer F. B. Jones tow ships to and from Portland. Thus far honors are even between the rival tugboat companies in the race for sailing vessels off the mouth of the Columbia. Yesterday the Wallula picked up the British bark Klnross-shlre, while the Tatoosh hooked on to the Russian bark Port Caledonia and the Goliah secured the Norwegian bark Lindfield. This morn ing the Oneonta put a hawser on the Norwegian ship Songvand. The Norwegian ship Songvand ar rived this afternoon, 132 days from Rockhampton. Australia, and will load grain at Portland. The Russian bark Port Caledonia and the Norwegian bark Llndfield left today for Portland In tow of the tug Tatoosh, which will turn them over to the steamer F. B. Jones. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. - Steamer Schedule. DUB TO ARRIVE. Name From Data. Breakwater Coos Bay In port Roanoke San Diego In port Bear Los Angeles .Dec. 28 Geo. W. Elder .Eureka Jan. 1 Beaver. .......... .Los Angeles. .... .Jan. 2 Yucatan .......... iian Diego. ...... .Jan. 3 Rose City ...tiOS Angeles. .... - Jan. 7 DUB TO DEPART, Name For Date. Yale S. F. to L. A. Jan. 28 Breakwater Coos Bay Dec. 29 Harvard.... & F. tp L. A. Deo. 80 Celllo ..Ean Diego Dec. 8 J Roanoke. ......... J.os Angeles. .... .Deo. to Klamath..... San Francisco. .... Deo. 0 Bear Han Diego... Jan. 1 Geo. W. Elder .Eureka Jan 8 Willamette San Diego Jan. & Beaver .Los Angeles .Jan. ti Yucatan. ......... .San Diego. . . ... .Jan. t Northland. ...... ..San Francisco. Jan. 7 Yosemlte. ........ .ban Diego. ...... .Jan. 7 Multnomah. ...... .San Franctscc .... Jan. 7 J. B. Stetson San Dlcgo Jan. 10 Rose City .. Xo8 Angeles. .... .Jan. 1a San Ramon. . ..... .San Francisco. . . . Jan. 15 EUROPEAN AND ORIENTAL SERVICE. -N a;..e. From Data Glenroy. .......... London. ........ .Jan. 23 Glengyle. London. ....... . .Feb. 20 Glenlochy. ...... ..'London ..Mar. 20 Name. For Data Glenroy London .Jan. SO Glengyle London .Feb. 28 Glenlochy. ........ London. ......... Mar. 23 Marine Notes. The British steamer Onwen, sailing from MoJU Japan, is due off San Fran cisco today, where she will receive or ders to proceed to Portland .to load wheat for Strauss & Co. The arrivals In port here yesterday were all steamers in the coastwise serv ice. The Roanoke, from San Pedro, arrived at night and the Klamath, from San Francisco, which will take out a cargo of lumber, also reaclfed port. The Paraiso, from San Francisco, via Coos Bay, and the Breakwater, from Coos Bay, brought in passengers and cargo. Outbound were the steamer Elder, for Coos Bay and Eureka, and the Big Three steamer. Rose City, Captain O. P. Rankin, for San Francisco and San Pedro. The Rose City was in Port land over Christmas and when she sailed yesterday afternoon carried her holiday decorations of evergreen. Movements of Vessels. PORTLAND, Deo. 27. Arrived Steamers Roanoke, from San Pedro; Klamath, Paralso and W. F. Herrln, from San Francisco; Breakwater, from Coos Bay. Sailed Steam ers Elder, for Coos Bay; Rose City, for can Francisco. Astoria, Or., Dec 27. Arrived last night and left up at 7:30 A. M., steamers Klamath and W. F. Berrin, from San Francisco. Ar rived at 10 last night, Russian bark Port Caledonia, from Iquique. Arrived at 7 A M . and left up at 11 A. M.. steamer Roan oke, from San Francisco. Arrived at 8 and left up at 8:30 A. M., steamer Breakwater, from Coos Bay. Arrived and left un at a-:u steamer Paralso, from San Francisco, via L'ooi )ay. L.ert up at ll A. M.t Norwegian bark Llnfleld (arrived yesteraay from Val paraiso. Arrived down at ft:SO J t . steamer G. ,W. Eider, .Arrived, at 2 P, Stamps Free King Methods Home Phone A 6231 Clearance Girls' $2.50 Dresses At 89c Second Floor Girls dainty white lawn dreses with Dutch necks and short sleeves, trimmed with pretty laces and embroideries. Ages 6 to 14. Dresses npQQ. to $2.50 Clearance SaleOJC Girls' $1Q Dresses At $448 Second Floor Special line of girls woolen dreses in plain serges, checks and plaids. Many attractive styles. Ages 6 to 14. Drebses priced for- a O merly up to $10, at Girls' Dresses Vz Price Second Floor Our entire stock of girls' woolen dreses ranging in price from I, -rr-t $9.50 up $21.00 3 TICC Girls' Middies slightly soiled, worth up to . $2.00 onOQ sale in Clearance Sale-5i' Girls Woolen Middies at $1.9S Norwegian ship Songvand, from Rockhamp ton. Left up at 0 V. it.. Russian bark Port Caledonia. Aberdeen, Dec. 27. Arrived Steamer Ed gar H. Vance, from San Francisco San FTancisco. Dec. 27. Sailed at 7 last night, steamer Yucatan, from Portland for San Pedro. Sailed today, steamer St. H'ins, steamer Chatham, for West Coast Marshfleld. Dee, 26. Arrived Fteamer Daisy Putnam, from Portland rm. az.n Pp.n. franciseo. Seattle. Dec. 2S. Arrived Steamer Santa Clara, from Portland. Now York. Dec. 27. Sailed Steamer Harry Luckenbach. for San Francisco Seattle. Wash.. Dec 27. Arrived Steam ers Santa Clara, from New York; Alameda, from Southwestern Alaska; Alki, from South eastern Alaska; Prince George (British), from Prince Rupert. Sailed Steamers Ad miral Dewey. Argyl, Colonel E. L. Drake, towing bar?e il, for San Francisco; Prince George (British), for Prince Rupert. Balboa, Dec. 27. Arrived steamers Caro lyn, from San Francisco for New York (and Froceeded), Santa Crua, from Portland, Or, or New York (and proceeded). Cristobal, Dec. 27. Arrived Steamer Wlndber. from New York for San Francisco. Tides at Astoria Monriav. HiSh. Low. 9:38 A. M 8.2 feet!3M8 A. M 8.S feet 11:19 P. M 6.0 feet;.1:OQ P. M 0.3 foot Columbia River Bar Report. NORTH HEAD, Dec 27. Condition of the bar at 5 p. M. Sea, smooth; wind. we3t, 13 miles; cloudy. Marconi Wireless Reports. (All positions reported at S P. ST., Decem ber 27. unless otherwise designated.) Geo. W. Elder, Portland for Cooa Bay, entering Columbia River. Buck, Everett for Monterey, 810 miles from Everett. Atlas, Richmond for Seattle, 25 mllea south of Destruction Island. Governor, San Francisco for Seattle, via Victoria, 100 miles north of Cape Blanco. Bear, San Francisco for Portland, 120 miles south of Columbia River. Admiral Dewey, southbound, off Point Wilson. Colonel Drake, Seattle for Vancouver, five miles north of Discovery Island. Lansing, Newport, B. C, for San Luis, 725 miles north of 8an. Francisco. Lucas, towing barge 83, Richmond for Panama, 410 miles south of San Francisco. Northland, San Francisco for San Pedro, ten miles east of Santa Barbara. Yucatan, Ban Francisco for San .Pedro, lO mile's east of Santa Barbara. Arollne, San Francisco for San Pedro, miles east of Point Concepclon. Yacht Venetla, San Francisco for San Diego, 17 miles west of Point Vincent. Dakotan, Honolulu for New York, 2045 miles east of Honolulu. San Jose, San Francisco for Balboa. 1200 miles south of San Francisco. San Juan, Balboa for San Francisco, 1174 miles south of San Francisco. Admiral Schley, San Francisco for Seattle, 30 miles north of Cape Blanco. Asuncion, Richmond for Portland. 205 miles south of Columbia River. Redondo. Coos Bay for San Francisco, 22 miles south of Northwest Seal Rock. Washtenaw, Portland for San Dula, 225 miles north of San Francisco. Manao, San Francisco tor Honolulu. 1410 miles out, Dec. 26. Sonoma, San Francisco for Sydney. 1S25 miles out, Dec. 26. Chanslor, Monterey for Honolulu, 10S miles out, Dec. 26. Hyades, Honolulu for Seattle, 950 miles from Cape Flattery. Dec. 26. Mongolia. Orient for San Francisco, 950 miles out, Dec. 26. Lurline, Honolulu for San Francisco, 802 miles out. Dec. 26. Centralis. San Fralclsco for Eureka, S8 miles north of Reyes. Speedwell, Sen Francisco for Bandon, 85 miles from San Francisco. St. Helens. San Francisco for Balboa and way ports. 180 miles south of San Francisco. Chatham, San Francisco for Acapulca, 177 miles from San Francisco. Beaver, San Francisco for Ean Pedro, 18 miles south of Point Sur. Coronado, Aberdeen for San Francisco, 54 miles south of Blunts Reef. Multnomah, Astoria for San Francisco, 30 miles north of Arena. Kilburn, Eureka for San Francisco, 130 miles north of San Francisco. President, Seattle for San Francisco, eight miles north of Arena. Grace Dollar, 123 miles from San Fran cisco. Lewis Luckenbach. New York for Ban Francisco, B5 miles south of San Francisco Evelyn, Seattle for Saa Francisco, off Point Reyes. Temperance Workers to Meet. Brooklyn "Women's Christian Tem perance Union will meet on tomorrow at 2:30, at the home of Mrs. Hanna. 609 Gideon street- It will be a mothers' meeting In charge of Mrs. Eby. Mrs. Luke will make a report of the mis sionary work done in Trinity Metho dist Episcopal Church. The meeting will bo. open to the public i