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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1915)
14 2. ' THE MORNING OEEGONIAJf. WEDNESDAY. GAY CROWDS OUT DECORATIONS WHICH ARE AMONG FEATURES IN ROSE FESTIVAL ATTRACTIONS GREAT THRONG OF VISITORS EXPECTED Winner of the First Prize THE $400 THOMPSON PIANO IX OCR CONTEST FOR IDEAS. ON FESTIVAL EVE Joy Pervades Light-Hearted Preparations Being Made for Record Attendance at This Year's Festival. Throngs Lured to Street by Myriad of Bulbs. .-7 BUILDINGS ARE DECORATED MANY TOURISTS ARRIVING Constant Stream or Autos Passes Along Broadway and Walks Lead in to Park Blocks Jammed With Happy Humanity. Special Train ProTi&ion Arranged by all Lines Entering Portland. Organizations From Seattle and Elsewhere Will Come. t 1 1 - - I . ' " ' ... - i v. The "Festival spirit" got into Port land away ahead of the official begin ning of the Rose Festival, and if you stayed at home last night instead of coming down town, you missed a whole evening of fun. which was thrown in, impromptu, just to whet up the popu lar appetite for the big show that will be on today. Broadway from Stark street to Main, which is the official approach to the Festival Center, was congested with thousands and thousands of persons pouring in steady streams along the eidewalks, while the middle of the street was filled by a continuous pro cession of automobiles. The auto own ers apparently realized that the prom enade will be closed to them from now on. and were determined to get all the enjoyment possible out of it last night. The air fairly trembled with the purr of thousands of machines, and the Ftream seemed to flow on endlessly, hour after hour, with no apparent diminution. Light Canopy Spans Street. The great electric curtain, blazing in three colors, draped across Broadway at Stark street, marked the entrance into the avenue of light that led to the Festival Center. Crossing and re crossing overhead in chains of red and yellow fire, ran the network of incan descent lights, twined with evergreens, ana, looKing tar up the street, one teemed to see a veritable canopy of light spanning Broadway from side to side. In addition to the chain of lights, the central globe In each of the cluster lights along the curbs was changed to a skiddoo light that varied color con tinuously like a huge Iridescent soap .bubble. Over and among the jewellike f ncandescents one could behold these 'trig electric bubbles winking from red to blue and blue to green and purple . and yellow and white again, as far as the eye could see. Buildings Ablaze With Color.' Portland Hotel, edged with green and -red lights, and the Electric building were other cores of color in the deco ration scheme. The Elks' building was bright with bunting and with the pur ple colors of the Elks' Lodge, and prac tically every other building along the street was decked brilliantly with bunt ing. . Broadway was not alone a light cen ter in the city. Third street, appre ciative of the fact that it it to be a part of most of the parade route.:, had all its new arches decked, out and blazing with incandescent lights. The Chamber of Commerce building was edged in in candescents, and the Corbett building, lined with lights, stood out strikingly. Between the lights its sides were cov ered with bunting and great rose tap estries. Sherman-Clay building and others were lighted and decked in bunt ing for the Festival. Festival Center Is Fairyland. Passing up Broadway to Main, one turned west to the Festival Center. For a block the great trees on either side form an arch of green across the street, through which the incandescent bulbs twinkled like fireflies. and Ihrough this vista one caught the first glimpse of the Festival Center, like a distant glimpse of Fairyland. ? . The trees in the park blocks, between Salmon and Madison streets, were spun with a web of red and green and white (incandescent lights, and the park squares below were lighted bright as day. . Here the florists of the city were .putting the finishing touches upon the miracle flower garden that they have created since Monday night. Where there were once plain green expanses of lawn, there was a flame f,l flower beds. Great blocks of ecarlet cage bloomed in one place. : Klowrr5i of Varied Colors Shown. Pink hydrangeas massed in another. surrounded by stately maroon leaves of the King Humbert canna. Snap dragons filled another bed. and in the northernmost strip was a olid mass of 'beautiful darjc pink petunias. ' The exhibition booths of the profes sional florists were already almost ompleted in their decoration, and the 36 booths in which the community ex hibits are to be set this morning were .already dressed and ready to receive their blossoms. ' While the crowd filled all of the walks of the park gardeners moved ' here and there, creating new flower beds "while you wait." Potted flowers were grouped thickly in beds or saw- vdust, and then a layer of sand strewn over the sawdust completed the flower garden and made it appear as though ,it had grown there forever. Crowds Stream by Till Ijitc. ' F. A. Van Kirk, president of the Florists' Society, and Julifls Dosche. designer of the gardens of the Festival Center, were superintending the final ' touches, which consisted of the crea- : tion of a 50-foot rose garden in the 'street between the two blocks. More than 50,000 potted flowers have gone into this Festival garden. -J Until late at night the crowd on 'Broadway and in the Festival Center did not diminish, and there was a stir and an enthusiasm in ,the air that would have led a stranger to think that .' the Rose Festival was already here instead of just sending out a prelim inary supply of "Festival Spirit" to fill in the time until the great entertain ment should be ready actually to open. t A f&&" J ' h i .fv I fc -v X-. - i 1l'l'-r'l.'.',,.'"r"0"r.l:f '--vnl Center. 3 Cms of Bo.r. lu Front of Fostoff ii-e. Left to KlKht. Mrs. W. , . . -ei-y vuuina ana . jnyers. Taken at Ceremony Turning uv I m . to ck. -A retunla Bed In the Festival Center. Yesterday. Hopkins, Mrs. J. M. Olson and Mrs. C. jo. jjuugiaa. Florence Votes $13,000 Bonds. FLORENCE. Or., June 8 (Special.) -Monday's special election of bond is sues of $3000 for street intersections and $10,000 for a water system carried. The issues for the city hall and jail were defeated. HEALTH CODE IS DRAFTED Dr. Marcellus to Offer Complete Xew Measure to Council. A complete new health code, com bining into one condensed ordinance all. the city's present health laws, has been prepared by City Health Officer Marcellus and will be submitted to the City Council at its regular meeting this morning. The new measure has all the "dead wood" cut out, leaving only the pro visions of the law actually in effect. These have been trimmed down as much as possible so that the entire city health code as proposed is not much longer than a few sections of the present code. COMPLETE PROGRAMME FOR THE ROSE FESTIVAL TODAY AbUNRlSE salute will boom from the guns of the cruiser Boston at sunrise and usher in the com mencement of Portland's eleventh an nual Rose Festival, REST ROOMS ARRANGED Congress of Mothers to Help Make - Festival Visitors Comfortable. .-"Realizing that sufficient rest rooms for the visitors to the Rose Festival ;will go a long way in making them comfortable, the Oregon Congress of .Mothers yesterday announced that rest -rooms would be maintained - at the headquarters of the Congress, room 651 Courthouse, and at Ladd School. Those who will be in charge from time to time at the Courthouse will be Mrs. H. R. Albee, Mrs. Green, Mrs! tiihort, Mrs. Hambo, Mrs. McMath, Mrs s&rmandy. Mrs. Kitzpatrick. Mrs. W. H; Wells. Mrs. J. L. Sullivan, Miss -Collier and Miss Olive Kincaid. v At the Ladd School. Jefferson and "West Park, those in charge will be Mrs. George Selig, Mrs. Carl Church, Mrs. Chittenden, Mrs. Albert Hoover. Mrs. 'Jfi. P. Jordan. Mrs. Edgar Allen. Mrs. Robert McBride. Mrs. C. - R. Hellyer, Irs. C. J. Level an, Mrs. Walter PROGRAMME FOR TODAY. 8:30 to 9:30 A. M. Concert. Broadwav jtnri Tamhill street. Campbell's American Band. to w:ji a. ji. concert, sixth and Oak streets. . Brown's Band. 8:30 to 9:30 A. M. Concert. Kant Sixth and Alder streets, Portland Ladles' Band. &:30 to 9:30 A. M. At rjrineirml hnl.li Caldwell's Perrydale Band. 8:13 A. M. Concert, East Sixth and Alder streets. wasmngton High School Girls' Glee Club in a varied programme of songs, part songs and choruses. William H. Boyer. conductor. 9:30 A. M. Gun Club special Rose Festival event, under auspices of Sportsmen's Asso ciation of the Xorthwest. at Jenne Station on Estacada carllne. Purse floO. 10:30 A. M. Kast Side, Grand avenue. Children's parade, with Queen and her court. O. M. Plummer, director of school parti cipation. In charge of Robert Krohn, Brand marshal. Itoute of parade, north on Grand avenue from East Madison street to Holladay avenue. 10:30 A. M. All bands In service at Hu man Rosebud Parade. 12 noon to 1 P. M. At principal hotels. Ad Club Male Quartet. - 1 P. M. Judging floral exhibits at Fes tival Center. 1 to 5 P. M. Cruiser Boston open to gen eral public. 2 P. M. Opening of Festival Center un der direction of John F. Carroll, director of Festival Center. The ceremony of the official crowning of the Queen and her ret inue under the auspices of tls Royal Ro sarlans. Dean Vincent, prime minister, offi ciating. Campbell's American Band 2 P. M. Opening of the Portland Rose Society exhibition at the Meier & Frank store. Free to the public. S P. M. Festival Center, under direction of S. C. Pier. Mrs. Grace Wilton-Peterson's School of Music presents lOO children. 3 to 14 years old. iu Tom Thumb's Wedding and other features, including piano, dance and vocil solos and chorus of 75 voices. 3 to 4 P. M. Concert. Broadway and Yamhill street, Portland Ladles' Band. 3 to 4 P. M. Concert, Sixth and Oak streets, McElroy's Band. 3 to 4 P. M. Concert, First and Alder streets, Perrydale Band. 3 to 4 P. M. Concert. East Sixth and Alder streets. Campbell's American Band. .-r. ..i . concert, at principals hotels. Brown's Band. 4:30 P. M. Festival Center. Grand .chorus of children. 270O voices, and children's or chestra of 100 pieces composed of children f Portland public schools, rendering "Old Folks at Home," "The Star-Spangled Ban ner." "A Merry Life. "The Flower of Lib erty." "Massa's In the Cold. Cold Ground," "Old Black Joe." "Old Kentucky Home," 'Dixie Land." "Anvil Chorus." "Golden blumbers." "Psalm of Labor," Bendemeer's oiream. "Merrymakers," "Santa Lucia" and "America." G to 7 P. M. At principal hotels. Ad Club Male Quartet. 7 to 8 P. M. Festival Center, concert. Group of talented children in a varied pro gramme, Mrs. Leverett Thompson Newton in charge; the Ladd School Orchestra. Mrs Lou Gray, conductor: Franklin High and Trade School Chorus. F. E. Chapman di rector. T to 8 P. M. Concert. Broadway and Tamhill streets. Brown's Band. 7 to 8 P, M. Concert. Sixth and Oak streets. Campbell's American Band. . 7 J ?. ?4 M Concert. First and Alder streets. McElroy's Band. 7 to 8 P. M. Concert. East Sixth and Alder streets. Perrydale Band. 7 to 8 P. M. At principal hotels, Port land Ladies' Band. , -8;,3 ,P-M Festival Center. The Rose Festival Chorus, accompanied by the Rose festival Orchestra. J. H. Cowan, conductor assisted by Dudley H. McCosh. conductor of orchestra selections. Jane Burns Albert soprano: Virginia Spencer Hutchinson, con tralto; Norman A. Hoose. tenor; Hartridge G. Whipp. baritone; A. E. Davidson, bass: Florence Foster Knnimn , , - ..v-, ni.uniuttUjfil. Grand concert programme. to -j-.au f. m. united Spanish War Veterans reunion on park block south of Jefferson street. lO to 11 F Xf-C!tA I ... . mitcL ua lining OH I I sL I Columbia and West Park streets under direc- 1 tion of Professor Mose Christensen. Camp bell's and Brown's hands 10 to 11 p. M. Concert. Broadway and Yamhill street. PATTvdau TianH 10 to 11 P. M. Concert. Sixth and Oak oli crl3, rurimnn iaaies liana. 10 to 11 P. M. Concert. East Sixth and Alder streets. McElroy's Band. 9:30 to 11 (A i m pii.. i - .- . dancing by Blackfoot Indians from Glacier L.kl.lOI 1 Al I. CONDENSED PROGRAMME FOR THCRS DAY. 1 P. M. Pacific University Glee Club, Broadway and Yamhill trt 2 P. M. Floral parade, under supervision . i a. . p owers. v 4:30 P. M. Roller Skating Marathon, starting from The Oregonian building. - -t. Soat race between crews of fiose, ny. touth Dakota and Boston, on ;ur octween Harrlmao and Broadway bridges. 8:30 P. M. Community Sing at Festival v-cmer unaer auspices of Monday Musical Club. CONDENSED PROGRAMME FOR FRIDAY. 10:30 A. M. Fraternal, Industrial and civic parade, under direction of George L. Baker, headed bv Gove 2 to 3 P. M. Reception to Governor "imjLumuo on cruiser j30ston. 2 P. M. Northwest amateur champion ship track meet on Multnomah Field, C. F. Berg, director. 3 P. M. Five-mile Marathon through streets starting at Multnomah Field. 9 P- M. Electrical parade. F. W. Hlld, director. Members of Jovian League par ticipating with special electrical features. FEAT V R EH All. THREE DAYS. 8:30 to 9:30 A. M.. 3 to 4 P. M. and lO to 11 P. M. Band concerts at Festival Center and points about the city. Morning, afternoon and evening concerts by various school and church glee clubs and choirs at Festival Center. 9:30 to 11:30 P. M. Indians from Gla cier National Park in tribal dances and ceremonies at Festival Center. 10 to 11 P. M. Dancing in the streets at the Festival Center under direction of Mose Christensen. Rose Festival attendance will go up a few notches this year, according to the railroad and the steamship esti mates, and they are making prepara tions to accommodate the Increasing throngs. As in former years the great body of people that come to the Festival will be recruited from the close-in radius within 50 miles of Portland. The Fes tival never has attracted great parties of Bastern people, and the Festival managers don't hold to the illusion that it does. This year, though, on account of the Panama-Pacific fair, the percentage of far-away strangers will be greater. Several parties from various Eastern points, in arranging their itineraries to the fair, provided for a brief stay in Portland for the Festival period. J ne railroads have established an open rate of one-and-one-third fare for the round trip. The rate went into effect Sunday. Tickets will be good returning until next Monday. A noticeable movement already has set in, but the great volume of travel not expected until today the first day of the big celebration. Electric Lines to Ran Specials. The railroads figure they can handle the traffic on their regular trains by carrying extra equipment. The subur ban electric lines are preparing, how ever, to place special trains into com mission to handle the people to and from the big parades. A speical train will come In over the Southern Pacific on Friday morning bringing members of the Oregon Na tional Uuard from Corvallis, Salem Dallas and Woodburn. The Guard mem bers will participate In the big indus trial, fraternal, civic and military pa rade. The Southern Pacific also will handle a special to accommodate the Radiators of Eugene and their friends on Friday morning. The special will leave Eugene at 6:10 in the morning, arriving here at u:ui. The liosanans will meet them at the Union depot and escort them to their place in line. Another special will come over the Southern Pacific from Salem to handle the Cherrianfl. It will leave Salem at 8. o clock, arriving here at 9:55. The llosarlans will meet this delegation. loo. The Oregon City Marching Club will come on the electric line of the Port- and Railway. Light & Power Company. Seattle Delegstes to Come. The Tillicums, of Seattle, are due to leave- that city on a special train over the O.-W. R. & N. line at midnight to night. They will march in the big tloral parade this afternoon. The Southern Pacific will run special trains each day of the festival over its electric lines from McMinnville and from Forest Grove. The special will eave McMinnville at 5:20 P. M. and run la ftewberg, arriving here at- 7:03 P. M. Returning, it will leave Portland at 10:45 P. M., arriving at McMinnville at 12:35 A. M. The Forest Grove train will leave t 8:05 in the morning, stopping at Hillsboro at 8:22. Stops will be made at all intermediate points, arriving in Portland at 9:15. The returning train will leave Portland at 11:15 P. M., ar riving at Forest Grove at 12:35 A. M. Kight Train Promised. On Friday evening, after the electrlo arade. the Southern Pacific will run steam train to Corvallis. leaving the Union Depot at 11 P. M., stopping at all ntermediate points and making coll ection at isalem for Dallas, and arriv- ng at Corvallis at 2:10 A. M. After the electric parade on Friday ight the Southern Pacific will have 50 electric cars on its line on Fourth treet to accommodate passengers going to McMinnville "and intermediate poirts, via either the Oswego-Newberg oute or via the Jltllsboro-Forest Grove route. The Oregon Electric has arranged special car service and also has planned to operate its regular trains from Sec ond and Salmon streets instead of from tho Hbyt-street station, at those eriods when parades are in progress. The parades will block the Hoyt-street route. A special train will leave the Jeffer- on-street station of the Oregon Klec- ric at 10:50 each evening for Oarden Home and intermediate points: another pecial will leave the same station each evening at 11:10 for Forest Grove and ntermediate points, and another snecial will leave at 11:45 for Woodburn and ntermediate points south of Garden Home. The regular train will leave at mid night for Eugene and intermediate points, and will carry Festival passen- ers. The North Bank road will run a spe cial each evening for Rainier and inter mediate points, leaving the North Bank station at 11:45 P. M. Many Tourists Kxpected. In addition to the special movements from the nearby territory, a large num ber of tourist parties will be here for the festival. While most of them will come individually and unannounced, many others will be here in organized force. A special train carrying delegates to the annual convention of the National Library Association at San Francisco will be here on Friday. A special car carrying W. S. Hark ness and party, of New York, also will be here on Friday. A large party of delegates to the Hotel Employes' convention at San Francisco will be here today for the Festival activities. Coincident with the festival, a num ber of conventions are to be held here this week, principal among them being the postmasters of Oregon and the Northwestern bakers who are now in session. , I - J .Jt Miss Leodocla Haacke, of the Jefferson Hisrh fichool. the Art jut PORTLAND'S NEW PIANO STORE'S POLICY AND PI4NO SERVICE vi t?ke ,you behind th mercantile scene to tell you that a crest sale a Bres t rf,7B 1 TrTn bc mnaKed and maintained on a much smaller percentage of profitwhen all the grades of pianos direct from the distributors to the buyer are merchandised on a correct on an equally low percentage of profit by advertising; these lower prices by mowdins many sales into a month wholesale and retaila small margin will compensate, particularly since oar overhead expenses remain the same, and owing; to contingencies of the times our reduced rents reduced overhead expenses are now about one-half of the usual sclline expenses elsewhere. We thus produce the following (treat savins to piano purchasers : ON EASIEST OF EASY TERMS, 5 CASH 3 "MONTHLY. Teual Market Price. Brand New Pianos. No interest Saving Total as in Sav- Elsewnere, Price ing .Savins- to to to You Yon. You. .'S0.3R S. 85.00 I35.:I8 .. 67.27 8.00 1-12.27 S5.25 85.00 150.25 .. 61.60 85.00 ' 146.60 .. 68.40 85.00 lfiH.40 . . 75.68 1I0.0O 185.68 .. 77.40 115.0O 192.40 . . 91.12 . 105.0O 196.12 .. 85.85 II5.00 210.85 75.68 85.00 160.68 . . 73.21 85.00 158.21 .. 80.37 90.00 170.37 .. 115.15 155.00 270.15 .. 77.40 85.00 163.40 .. 81.13 110.00 201.12 .. ioo.:;2 125.00 225.33 .. 135.00 ' 250.15 .. 118.01 1I0.0O 228. el .. 122.50 180.00 802.50 .. 130.64 140.00 270.64 .. 123.;:0 135.00 258.30 .. 123.30 155.00 278.30 .. 151.91 155.00 306.91 . . 157.39 125.0O 282.39 3SO Thompson I priirhta 375 Thompson Uprijrhta. . . . . . 400 Thompson I prijt hto 425 Thompson lprights . . . . . . 450 Thompson I prishts 475 Thompson Vprightg 550 Thompson L'prifrhts 60O Singer-Player 1'iuno 650 Singer-Player Piano...... 475 lteed Jt Sons Upright. ... . 600 Keed A tsons Upright 625 Keed 4i Sons Cpright 750 Reed Player-Piano 550 Steg-er ft Sods Upright... 600 Steger & Sons Upri.ht 70O Steger & Sons Upright 750 St-eger & Sods Upright... 80O Steger i- Mons Upright.. 775 Steger Player-Piano 875 Steger Player-Piano 850 Steg-er Player-Piano 850 Steger Miniature t.rand.. 950 Steger Baby tirand 100O Steger Player-Piano v. iv 1 ivil l.r J .! 1.1. JNKW METHODS 'EW PATRONS ..iffvT''' "'y falr Price the lowest factory price-the right price first and always based upon a manufacturer's coast distributors, and not the usual piano dealer s larger percentage of profit. . noun viuu Beginning with our opening sale, the new pricing system the factory prices on entire line of new pianos went into effect thus the coast distributor's T piano serv ice will render Immeasurable value because It eneages our entire stock and business, every instrument being inspected and subjected to the unsparins schedule of price re vision and reduction to our present factory prices. . i, V.. " 1. " 1nlt sa'e to buy by mall. We agree to take " r"7" " oewirea, allowing run amount paid. piano, organ or talking machine taken iu part payment new. Total ott to Yoa Else where. $400.38 432.27 465.25 486.60 518.40 550.68 627.40 691.12 745.85 550.68 573.21 605.37 865.15 627.40 691.12 800.32 885.15 9IK.91 897.50 1005.64 873.30 973.30 1101.91 1157.39 Oar Fnetory Price to You. S265.00 200.00 315.00 340.00 355.00 365.00 435.00 495. OO 535.00 390.00 4 IS.OO 435.00 505.00 . 465.00 4 90.00 575.00 6 1 5.00 690.00 595.00 735.00 715.00 695.00 795.U0 875.0O pianos Your old Open Evenings During Sale. Manufacturers Coast Distributors. Schwan Piano Co. Wholesale and Retail. "THE STORE THAT CHARGES Oar Warrantee Backed by $12,000,000 111 FOURTH ST. Near Washington St. NO INTEREST." Mount Hood Division depot at Monta villa for Ruby Junction, Fairview, Troutdale and all intermediate points. at 11:40. To accommodate Festival visitors living along the line of the Willamette Valley Southern System, a special train will leave Oregon City for all points on that line at midnight. The Oregon City train leaving Portland at 11:15 will connect at the Fourteenth-Street Station in Oregon City with the Wil lamette Valley Southern special. The shark holds the record for long-dis tance swimming. A shark has been known to cover Mln mile in three days. Isaac Adler, 73, Iies Suddenly. Isaac Adler, 73 years old, died last night at 9:30 o'clock from sudden heart affliction at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Rubenstein, 928 Kast Couch street. Mr. Adler had been a resident of Portland for 24 years, having come here from Odessa, Russia. Two sons, Joseph Adler,. of Portland, and II. I. Adler, of Seattle, and two daughters, Mrs. S. Chaimov, 606 Fifth street. Port land, and Mrs. Rubenstein, survive. The funeral probably will be held to day from the residence of Mrs. Chaimov, to which the body will be re moved earlv today. f It da 7 CARS TO KUX IyATE FRIDAY Special Electric Trains Arranged for Iast Niglit of Festival. For the benefit of the residents of the interurban districts, reached by the Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany, the company will give an addi tional "homeward bound" service on Friday night following the closing of the Rose Festival activities. A special train will leave First and Alder streets at 11:35 for Linnemann Junction, Ruby Junction. Gresham, Pleasant Home. Cottrell, Bull Run Boring. Eagle Creek. Estacada apd Cazade.ro and all intermediate points. Anotner special train will leave tho Festival Thirst-Chaser "FIRST FOR THIRST" 5c at all fountains Note Tou can order it in bottles, by the case, for fam ily use at Pioneer Soda Works. Main 6091. or at Celre Kola Co.. Main 211, A 6004. Bottling companies wanted for riistrismtora la outside to was. A si