THE MORNIXG OREGONIAX, WFDXKSDAT. DECEMBER 30, 191.
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OLD AIRS ARE SUNG
BK MIGHTY CHORUS
3000 Men, Women and Chil
dren Make Armory Ring
With Burst of Melody.
tension of the Bast Stark-street trunk
sewer is recommended by City Com
missioner Dieck in a report on bids for
the contract to be submitted to the
City Council this morning. William
Lind has submitted the lowest bid for
the work. His bid is $173,082.60, and it
is recommended that he be given the
contract.
Bids as submitted show a lower fig
ure for cement pipe, which has been
considered along with the monolithic.
The lowest bid for this type of con
struction is $167,199.30. The sewer
which city officials expect to start
within a short time, will be one of the
largest yet attempted by the city.
FAVORITES BRING TEARS
Community 'Sing' Under Auspices of
Monday Musical Club Is Huge
6uccesS""America' and "Tip
perary" Cheer All.
"Tipperary" vied with "America" and
"Dixie" for favor at the "community
eing" held at the Armory last night
under the auspices of the Monday Mu
sical Club, with William H. Boyer di
recting the chorus and Percy A. Camp
bell's American band providing spirited
music.
Everybody sang, and "everybody" was
more than 3000 persons, for every seat.
Including the benches in the gallery,
was filled.
Big heavy voices, shrill young voices,
sweet, soft voices, cracked, thin voices,
voices trained and voices untrained,
with the untrained in a great majority,
joined in the good old songs that made
up the programme, and sang them with
a will, filling the great room with joy
ful sound.
At first the audience was bashful,
but, urged by Director Boyer. it was
not long before the singing spirit
awoke and thrilled the assembly, so
that the roof trembled with surges of
melody.
Like a magic leaven, the singing of
the Boys' and Girls' Glee Clubs of Jef
ferson, Washington and Lincoln high
schools sweetened and strengthened
end sustained the entire programme, for
the young folk sang with contagious
confidence.
- They were stationed. 300 of them, in
the gallery above the orchestra plat
form. The girls were dressed in white,
with middy blouses. Lincoln, in the
center, was distinguished by flowing
crimson ties, and Jefferson and Wash
ington, on either hand, by ties of their
own school colors, blue and gold and
maroon and gold, respectively.
The programme was opened with the
march, "Triumph of True Tones." Then
came "America," sung standing, fol
lowed by "Love's Old Sweet Song," with
the chorus repeated.
"Annie Laurie" came next, and the
old eong, awaking memories of youth's
springtime in many breasts, so that
more than a few hands went to cheeks,
was sung ever so tenderly. It was
the same with "Silver Threads Among
the Gold," which was applauded and
repeated.
In the interlude before the boys and
girls sang "Keller's American Hymn"
the band played the march, "The Di
vision Commander."
The combined girlB" chorus of the
three schools sang "May Morning" so
delightfully ttiat they were warmly ap
plauded. They responded with "Tip
perary.' There was an enthusiastic
encore, the same as when the band
. played it early in the evening, and
when they sang it again everybody
Joined in the swinging chorus.
Then "My Old Kentucky Home" and
"Dixie" and "Old Folks at Home" were
"sung, and .while the audience was get
ting its breath back the band swung
Into a Sousa march and responded to
an encore.
By way of diversion. Director Boyd
divided the house into three sections
assigning one part of "Three Blind
Mice" to each, and "this beautiful
hymn," as he called it, was sung with
laughter.
"My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean,'
"Good-Night, Ladies" and "The Star
Spangled Banner," sung standing, com
pleted the programme, except for the
school songs and yells with which the
boys and girls gave vent to their spirits
as the happy crowd dispersed.
Piano accompaniments for the songs
rung by the audience were played by
Mrs. H. A. Heppner, honorary president
of the Monday Musical Club. Miss
Eraa Ewart accompanied the songs by
the Washington rrirls and the combined
choruses. Miss Jean Jacobs waa ao-
comnanist for the Lincoln girls.
Officers of the Monday Musical Club,
who had charge of the "sing." are: Mrs.
G. J. Frankel. president; Mrs. Hepp
ner, Mrs. W. A. Vigers. directors; Mrs.
Lillian Conser, corresponding secre
tary; Mrs. Nettle Green Taylor, chair
man press' committee; Mrs. Rodney Her
rick, director; Mrs. Frank M. Kupper,
chairman membership committee; Mrs.
Herbert Garr Reed, federation secre
tarv. and Mrs. Chester Deering, flnan
clal secretary, who was chairman of
Via 'Miner rnmmittKA.
The "sing" was the second annual
event of the kind and was even more
successful than that of last year. It is
planned to make it more than an an
nual event- The next "sing" probably
will be held in the Rose Festival next
June.
TABERNACLE TO GO UP
CHURCH WORKERS MAT COMPLETE
UNION BUILDING IN DAY.
LYRIC MANAGER FREED
Judge Stevenson Says Hypnotic Ex
hibitions at Theater Legal.
Holding that the act of the Legisla
ture in 1905 prohibiting, the public ex
hibition of mesmerized subjects did not
affect the quasi-private theatrical per
formances in which hypnotism has a
More Than 50 Volunteer to Be on
Hand Today to Construct Place
to Hold Meetings.
Work will begin this morning on the
tabernacle at East Eleventh and Belr
mont streets, in which will be held the
unioiL meetings during January. The
meetings will begin next Sunday night.
The ground has been graded prepara
tory to the erection of the building.
About 60 members or the churches
have volunteered their services and
will be on hand with saws and ham
mers and it is expected practically to
comolete the tabernacle in one day.
A foreman will be on hand to direct
the work. Thomas Muir has the con
tract.
The women's societies will serve
hot lunch at noon in the basement of
Centenary Church, East Ninth and
East Pine streets, which is a short
distance from the tabernacle.
The ushers, under the charge of R.
" H. Steele, head usher, and his assis
tants. J. B. Long and E. -T. Harlow,
organized at a meeting Monday night
In Centenary Church. All workers and
singers will meet tonight at the Third
Presbyterian Church. Rev. E. J. Bui
gin. who will conduct the union meet
lngs. and George L. Rose, the choir
director, will be present- The churches
taking part are the Centenary Metho
dist, East Side Baptist. First United
Brethren, First United Evangelical,
Hawthorne Park Presbyterian. Central
Christian, Third Presbyterian, First
English Evangelical, Calvary Baptist,
Trinity Methodist ana Mizpah Presby
terian.
Sewer Bid Is $173,082.
Use of monolithic type of construe'
tlos In the proposed Willow-street ex
COMEDIAN AT ORPHEITM TO
SING IN NEW COMIC OPERA
BY GEORGE ADE.
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Kredericlc V. Bowers.
Frederick V. Bowers, the sing
ing cfinedian at the Orphcum this
week, yesterday contracted with
George Ade the role of "The City
Chap" in Ade's now comic opera,
"The Girl and the City Chap,"
which is to be produced at the
LaSalle Theater, Chicago, the
first of next September.
By the terms of the agreement,
Mr. Bowers must write a number
of songs which are acceptable to
Ade and which Bowers will sing
at each performance. Mr. Bow
ers has made a number of trip's
to Portland In vaudeville, as well
as a member of musical comedy
shows. . He was featured with
Mclntyre and Heath in "The Ham
Tree."
part. Municipal Judge Stevenson yes
terday discharged Daniel W. Flood,
manager of the Lyric, who had been
arrested for allowing hypnotic exhibi
tions in his theater.
Had it been the intention of the Leg
islature to prevent theatrical exhibi
tions of mesmerism it would have been
more specific on this point, the court
said. .
Professor Lorenz and a subject test!
fled that the subjects were not rend
ered unconscious or put in a trance.
Kansas State Agricultural Colletce has
campaign on for -enlisting 20,000 Kansas
ooys ana gins in agriculture ana nome-
maktng contests this year.
LOTTERY SCHEME 15
LAID TO EX-PASTOR
B. F. Rowland Is Arrested on
Charge of Selling Weekly
Installments of Story.
WOMEN ALLEGED BUYERS
Defendant Accused of Distributing
Literature Redeemable for Fur
niture Also Sued for $ 50,0 00
by Mining Company.
B. F. Rowland, formerly a district
superintendent of the Methodist Epis
copal Church,, later a mining promoter
and well known in Portland, was ar
rested yesterday on charges preferred
by Deputy District Attorney Deich for
promoting an alleged lottery by sell
ing weekly installments of "The Or
phan s Marriage," or the "Mystery of
the Forest," by Marie Corelli. He was
released last night on $500 bonds.
The defendant was formerly pastor
of the Methodist churches at Eugene
and at Astoria and at other times was
superintendent, or presiding elder, of
districts comprising Salem and part of
Portland. Six years ago he severed
his official connection with the church
and went into the mining business.
He promoted a mining company in
Southern Oregon. For some time he
was president of this company, of
which Franklin T. Griffith, now presi
dent of the Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company, was secretary. Then
the mining company sued him to ac
count for $50,000. which was said In
the complaint to be due from funds he
had received. The suit is pending in
Circuit Judge Morrow's court hi this
city. Attorney-General Crawford is
counsel for the mining company and
Mr. Griffith is defending Its ex-president.
In the complaint on which the arrest
was made it is alleged that he passed
out booklets supposed to carry each
week an installment of "The Orphan's
Marriage." He represented himself to
be manager - of the Rowland House
Furnishing Company, 81 East Sixteenth
street.
Housewives paid 10 cents for each
installment of the novel and when they
bought the reading matter, it is said,
they were allowed to record their pay
ment with a punch at a card such as
was used for cigar store raffles before
a state law did away with such things.
When the card was filled the custom
ers, by returning the weekly Install
ments of the novel, could redeem their
dimes in trade at the furniture store.
Numerous complaints of a scheme
similar to this, where the promoter
disappeared before his cards were
filled, have been received, says Dep
uty District Attorney Deich. Twice, he
says, warrants nave been issued, but
the police have never been able to serve
them.
TILLAMOOK RECALL WINS
81. J. Gersonl, District Attorney,
Ousted hy Tvo-to-One Vote.
TIIxLAMOOK. Or.. Dee. 29. CKnor-tal
M. J. Gersoni, District Attorney, was
recalled today by an almost two-to-one
vote at the special recall election. Two
thirds of the registered vote waa cast.
H. L. Goyen was elected to succeed Ger
soni. Fourteen precincts give 740 for and
416 against the recall. Attorney H. T.
Goyen received 667 votes, J. V. A.
Farull, 13; John R. Callahan, 158. and
M. J. Gersonl, 859.
FIRE BLIGHT FIGHT IS DUE
Washington Horticultural Head An
nounces Work Planned.
OLTMPIA. Wash.. Dec 29. (Special.)
A new campaign to rid Washington
orchards of fire blight, which has be
come a serious menace. Is announced
by T. O. Morrison, head of the horti
cultural division of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture. Shortly after Jan
uary 1 the department, using the field
notes of state. inspectors as a basis, will
prepare notices which will be served
upon owners of all orchards reported
infected with blight, requiring them
within a reasonable time to clean the
orchards and eliminate diseased trees.
The legislative committee of the
Washington Horticultural Society met
here tonight, preliminary to a session
with the advisory board of the State
Department of Agriculture tomorrow.
at which proposed changes in the horti
cultural law, designed to give the state
more authority to deal with fire blight
and other epidemics, will be discussed.
HUNGER PLEA IS MADE
Attempted Theft of Overcoat Lands
John Wroble In Jail.
Acting on' advice which he said a
member of the Industrial Workers of
the World gave him. John Wroble
walked into the Courthouse Monday
night, picked up the overcoat of R.
S. Leabo, a. night watchman outside
the registration department, and started
away. Leabo caught him and Wroble
passed the night in the County JaiL
In District Judge Jones' court yes
terday Wroble said he waa hungry and
acted on the advice that he steal some
thing to get food. Judge Jones con
tinued sentence on Wroble and said
he wanted more time to look into the
man's record.
BRIDGE TRAFFIC DELAYED
Vancouver Men Desire Hay den
Island Work Done at Night.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 29. (Spe
cial.) Vehicle traffic between Port
land and Vancouver is being seriously
interfered with by the repairing of the
trestle across Hayden Island. A doctor
was held up more than an hour yester
day while on his way to attend an ur
gent case, and many have been held
up for some time.
A number of business men have sug
gested that the work be done at night,
light to be obtained by tapping the
trolley wire.
Man, Hurt by Ax, Carried 3 Miles.
Carried through three miles of mud on
a stretcher, C. C. Herrick, a laborer at
the city wood camp, west of Portland,
was transferred to an ambulance seven
miles down the Linnton road last night
and taken to St. Vincent's Hospital,
where an ax gash in his knee will be
treated. The man injured himself while
cutting wood yesterday. The roads
were bo bad that the Ambulance Serv
ice Company's machine was unable to
reach the camp.
Manufacturers Plan Banquet.'
The regular business meeting of the
Manufacturers' Association was held
last night in the rooms of the organiza
tion in the Commercial rMnh ullHl-no
at which plans were made -for the an
nual election and banquet a the Com
merclal Club on January 12. It is ex-
Great Annual Clearance Sale
of Hart Schaffner & IsLarx
Suits and Overcoats
This sale includes the entire stock of our Fall and "Winter-weight Hart Schaff
ner & Marx Clothes. No reserve, no last season's stock, no bought for special
sale goods; but the best of everything at the following prices:
Prices Quoted in This Ad Are Absolutely Genuine Price Concessions
Act Quick, the Opportunity Is Yours
$20.00 Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes $15.00
$25.00 Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes $18.75
$30.00 Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes $22.50
$35.00 Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes $26.25
FURNISHING GOODS REDUCED
A GREAT SALE OF NEW ARROW SHIRTS
All $2.00 Arrow Shirts, plain (t- QpT I All $1.50 Arrow Shirts, plain (U-t -j J
and pleated effects, special tpJL.OO and pleated effects, epecial pJL.JLO
White Excepted.
GREAT REDUCTIONS IN MEN'S FINE UNDERWEAR
EXTRA SPECIAL $2.50 Cooner Silk II EXTRA SPECIAL $5 and $7 Shaker
(t-J Qff Knit Wool Ruff -Neck Sweat- Q
)L.Z-iO ers, cardinal and gray, each cpO.O
and Wool and Athletic Neck
Silk and "Wool Underwear at
TWO-PIECE UNDERWEAR
$1.50 Cooper and Win- (1 -J pr $3 G. & M. Silk Lisle and
stead Underwear, garm't pJ--Li-) German Wool Undr., gar.
Dependable, Well-Known Union Suits Underpriced
$1.50 Globe, White Cat
and Superior Unions....
$2.00 Globe, White Cat
and Superior Unions .
$2.50 Globe, White Cat
and Superior Unions .
$3.00 Globe, White Cat
and Superior Unions ....
$1.30
$1.70
$2.15
$2.55
$4.00 Globe, White Cat
and Superior Unions .
$4.50 Globe, White Cat
and Superior Unions ....
$5.00 Globe, White Cat
and Superior Unions .
$6.00 Globe, White Cat
and Superior Unions
$2.25
$3.40
$3.80
$4.25
$5.10
SAM'L ROSENBLATT & CO.
Sweaters at a
Great Sacrifice
NORTHWEST CORNER
THIRD and MORRISON
House Coats at
Half Price
pected 200 covers will be laid and the
reports of the work of the association
during the past year will be received.
Alaskan Nomination Is Made.
WASHINGTON, Iec. 29. President
Wilson today nominated Charles E.
Bunnell, of Valdez, Alaska. Judg-e of
the District Court of Alaska, Division
No. 4. .
Kniglit Packing Employes Banquet.
Officers and salesmen of the Knight
Packing- Company gathered around the
banquet table at the Hotel Multnomah
last nlffht, the officers being- the hosts.
A theater party at the Orpheum fol
lowed. Those present were: F. I
Knight, president: W. J. Mitchell. II.
W. Bushnell, A. E. Brown, F. L. Holmes,
T. F. Mosch, Tj. F. Fuller. T. W. Sheri
dan, ft. J. Sihler. T. F. Marshall. C. A.
Matt, A. J. Taylor, C. F. Keller. Qecrge
Schnelrtermnn and Adam Krelger.
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