VOL. LI V. NO. 17.070. 1 "" a
CROPS IH PROSPECT
BREAK ALL RECORDS
Wheat Yield Greatest
Ever. Grown.
ALL EXCEED 1914 FIGURES
Three Billion Bushels of Corn
Is Nation's Output.
POTATO SUPPLY ENORMOUS
Oats. Tobacco, Rice. May, Has "
K) Abo fchow increased Pro
dactlon. Accord log to Gov
rnuiwnt Statistic.
-vTABHrNGTON. Aug. . Three billion
bushels of corn. 1. 500.000.000 bushels
of oats and 1.00.000.OO buahela of
wbttt ir. In proepect for this year's
Amor lean harvest.
Record crops of rye. whlto and sweet
potato, tobacco, rice and bay alao
art pradlcted for tb prosperous farm
era. who have planted JlO.S4.0oe acres
r 10.aoo.004 acres mors tban laat year,
to tbclr principal product.
WImI Cres Worth BUUa.
Tba wheat crop, th greatest ever
grown la any country, will b worth
mora than $1,000,000,000. while the
corn crop's value may roach 13.500.000
00. Estimates of tba principal crop, an
Bounced today by the Department of
Agriculture, based 00 condltlona of
August 1. abow that all cropa will be
greater tban laat year.
' Interest centered on wheat and
corn. Both showed Improvement over
July condltlona, though excessive rain
and cold weather In tba Central States
Interfered with threshing;. Oata also
suffered In tbasa states, but In other
sections tba Improvement more than
offsets this.
Cora lanesse Ci . '
. Corn proapects Incraaaed almoat
iaa.000.aas buahela. th principal vain
being Illinois.- 30.OOA.000 buaheta: Kan
as, J4.000.000; Oklahoma. J C. 000.000;
Nebraska. 1S.000.000: Iowa. 14.000.000.
and Ttmaa. 10.000.000.
Kanaas ahowed a loaa of 11.000.004)
bushele In Winter wheat: Oklahoma.
COOO.OOO: Nebraska. 4,000.000. and Mis
souri. 1.000.000. while Ohio and Indi
ana ahowed aa lncreaa of J.000.000
bushels each.
Paate Oat pet Cafasa.
Whit potato promt to exceed
their former record production by 101,
.eo bushels and awaet potatoes by
4.09O.0O0 bushel.
Other Incraaaea over record cropa
Indicated Include tobacco. Jl. 000.000
pounds: flaa. 4.J0O.00O bushels: bay.
y,4a.OOO tone, and rye. 1.100.000
bushels.
Corn prospects fell 30t.000.00 bush
els and oata lt.000.000 bushels below
th records
Otma 1 arid greater.
Th estlmatea give for Oregon aa
Increased production of 1K.000 bushel
of wheat and 140.000 buahela of barley
over that of 1)14. tba condition of tba
barley crop being reported aa some
what above the ten years average.
Washington estimate for Winter
wheat show an lncreaa of (.100.000
bushels over 1)11 production and an
Increase of 5.400.000 In Spring; wheat.
'Washington's barley crop la reported
la earellent condition, but the yield
will be somewhat slighter than In
1914. Idaho'a Winter wheat yield la
estimated aa 1.078.000 buahela more
than In 1)14. while the barley crop
estimate la for a yield of 170.004 more
bushels than laat year.
Details for states, showing acre yield
or condition, forecast and 114 produc
tion In thouaanda of bushels. L e.. with
thousands omitted, follow:
V) later Wheat.
Arr. 11S. ISM Pr-
State.
To .......
ruks ...
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T.aas ......
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Montana ...
Itfho
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Tt.14. Forecast. Suction.
..... :i 1 ll.4xt li.nia
.. is a
an -
at .
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IO.4.1O
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4.IT3
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.... 11 i
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II
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114.
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tooth Dakota.. 71 M.0o ao.auo
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CORN.
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7
73
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130.400
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7V0O0
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124. M0
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OATS.
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44.1n.-
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M.IMO
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. 74
BARLEY.
lnwa T
tioath Dakota ..1 7
Kansas 03 4
Ceiorada. ...... 4 M
1-lsho a
Washington.... S4
Orn t W
California. a as
lo.ooo
4.0
7.WO
0. 35A
1U.5XO
1. 0
T.O.IO
i. so
sou
42.000
STEAMER TALISMAN TAKEN
Xorxwtfmn Cm ft Eii Route From
New York to Sweden Held.
avva-r.xr In At Taal A A htt 4Pfl
x a Mnaajumavea W at ITllrla ttlltt
pnr. 1 AiniwMH'.v.i'-i.s
evening that th Norwegian steamer
Tallyman has been taken Into porL
Th ateamer Tallaman left New York
Jsly IT for Kirkwall. Scotland and
Gothenburg. Sweden. The delayed dis
patch, as given la th foregoing does
not nam th port Into which th steam
er was takes. .
. i i
BIG GERMAN FLEET
FAILS NEAR RIGA
PERSISTENT ATTACK OS EN
TRANCE TO GILP REPC1SKD.
CVnlmrr and Two Torpedo-Boat De
' Mrojera Damaged by Itusolana,
Says retrofrad.
PET BOO RAD. via London. Aug. I.
Tb following- official communication
was Issued tonight:
-A German fleet of nlns battleships
and 11 cruisers, with a large number of
torpedo-boat destroy era. persistently
attacked th entrance to th Gulf of
Riga Sunday, but verywhr vara re
pulsed. -a rmltrr and two torpedo-boat de
stroyers were damaged by our mine.
"Our sea planes, throwing bombs,
contributed to our aucceaa."
Riga Is th moot Important Russian
port on th Baltic Sea. with th xoep
tlon of Petrograd. and th palac of th
Governor-General of th Baltic prov
inces Is located there.
Th i-l t la altuated five miles from
th mouth of the River Durlna. which
mpUea Into th Gulf of Riga, its loca
tion Is regarded as Ideal for mining and
.. i.t.mm measures againat at
tack from th sea. Th river mouth
Is some (0 roilo from th entrance to
th gulf.
Recent dlapaUhaa from ratrograa
said th Ruaalan official had no bop
of defending Riga successfully and that
all public InaUtutlona bad bn re
moved with th appearance near of a
Urge German army.
Th Govrnor-Onral. Brltlab Conaul
and half of th population ware re
ported to hav ft th city for the
Interior.
GRIEVED OIUKING LONELY
Mr. Rockefeller Is Changed Man
Since Death of Wife.
CLEVELAND. 0 Aug. . (Special.)
There I a changed master at Forest
Hill, th big East Cleveland eatat of
John D. Rockefeller. That is what
Rockefeller's closeat friends were say
Ing today after visits to Forest Hill.
The oldeat Inhabitant who has cared
for the lawns and drlvea of Foreat
Hill for years knows why their master
haa changed. It Is because their mis
tress has gone, they say. For th first
time Mr. Rockefeller tramps and drives
about bis aetata without the compan
ionship of hie wife.
Th attendant tell, too, how th
changed master broke down and cried
.t hi. first breakfast at Foreat Hill
after hi return because of th vacant
chair. Rockefeller used to play gou
with a keen delight. H plays seldom
now, and without th old-tlm teal.
END OF DRINKING FORESEEN
Cathollo Total AbsUnence tnlon Of
ficers Report Progress.
TiTTTrTtrj r Aur. t. Reports of
th National officers held th ttn-
. r th dalea-ates to th 4jm
annual convention of the Cathollo Total
Abstinence Union, which opened ner
...o. Th Vrr Rev. P. J. O'CaJIa-
ghan. of Chicago, tb National provi
dent, told of tb wide growth of th
ui.nn movement, ana ociaru
-there Is a great dominant sentiment
that temperanc la about to oursi mw
triumph.
-Soma of the blrgest orewer in
America hav ceased to Inveat In
brewery stock." be added. -The re
serve of whisky is not aa gooa
uaed to be 'good as goia dodos.
BRITISH DEPORT MUSICIAN
Emperor William's Court PJanlste
Is Arrested in London.
TjONDOX. Aur. . Maria Cecilia
v.t.iia Jsnotha. court planiste to Em
peror William, was arrested In London
today and deported from xnoury.
r.ri. Jsnotha holda membership In
... uulamlei of art In Italy. Great
Britain and Auatrla. She received the
Victoria badge from Quean Ictorla.
and bold th hlgheat honorary diploma
r,n h. Bt Cecilia Rorsl Acaaemy in
Rem. 8h edited Lady Tennyson'
songs and translated Choplna greater
wnPk. she v.. th recipient of many
decoration. Including one from the
German Empress.
WILSON EXTENDS MERCY
President Commute) Term of Life
Imprisonment of Slayer.
WASHINGTON, Aug. . President
Wilson commuted, to expire today, the
life sentence of Jamea Brumfleld. con
victed In March, 1905, by the Federal
Court In the then Indian Territory, for
th murder of bis slater-in-law. Brum
fleld Is C5 years old and would not be
eligible for parole until 1920. "
His belief that he will not live until
then and extenuating circumstances
surrounding the murder led to a rec
ommendation for clemency by the Attorney-General.
'
CANAL S00NJ0 BE CLEAR
Latest Slide Will Have Been Re
- moved in Three Days. ,
WASHINGTON. Aug. 9. Half a mil
of earth which slid Into the Panama
Canal last week, reducing the depth
through Galllard cut to 1 feet, will
have been dredged away within the
next three days. Canal officials report
ed today. Ten ateamers are awaiting
passage through the cut.
Tb slide. has been slowly progress
ing for months, but did not gain on th
dredgers until last Saturday.
w,nr .via Tr TlTfgnAA A ITflTTST in. 1915.- ' PRICE FIVE CENTS.
NORTH AND SOUTH
Plan for Dealing With
Mexico Definite.
BELIEF IS PEOPLE WILL AID
Armed Intervention Regarded
as Likely if Necessary.
FORMAL RATIFICATION DUE
Powers of Two Continents to Hold
Final Meeting Tomorrow Sec
retary Lansing Decidedly En
couraged Over Prospects.
WASHINGTON. Aug. (.Powers of
North and South America already have
agreed upon a definite plan for deal
ing with th Mexican problem, and
when th Pan-American conference la
resumed in New York Wednesday, the
programme will be formally ratified. -This
Information cam today from
Secretary Lansing, who though he
would not discuss details, aaid he was
decidedly encoursged over the pros
pect.
The confidence expressed by of
ficials generally here, that th con
ferees who are representing the United
States, Braxll, Argentina, Bolivia, Gua
temala and Uruguay will be able to
shape a courae likely to bring peace
and restore constitutional government
In Mexico, Is duo to th fact that all
are agreed that most of th people of
th revolution-torn republio are thor
oughly sick of war and with encour
agement from friendly powers will
promptly Join in the movement to
clean house.
Majority Long for Peace.
A large section of the country and
a vast majority of th people have not
bean Involved in th fighting which
followed th overthrow of Hureta.
Moreover, It has bean reported to
President Wilson and Secretary Lan
sing that" only the fear of reprlaala by
the military chieftains haa kept the
people In subjection while the country
baa been impoverished by the battles
of relatively small forces of armed
men.
Reaching their conclusion on these
reports, the Pan-American conferees
are underatood to have determined to
present the situation to all of the
various element In Mexico, addressing
directly not only General Carransa,
Villa and Zapata, but the Governors of
states, all military leaders with any
considerable following and other influ
ential men, urging tbem to com to
gether for a caucus at which a sub
stantial provisional government might
be framed.
Sapper ef CltJaea Expert e.
A government so set up would have
the support of. the United States and
other American republics. Officials
here believe It would be able to sup-
roncluded on Pace 2. Column 6.)
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Tb Weather.
TESTE RDATS Maximum temperature. It
decrees; minimum. H degrees.
TODAY'S Pair; northwesterly wlnda.
War.
Turkish medical staff doing much good at
Gall I poll and Dardanelles. Page 2.
British recaln lost ground In Belgium, page 2.
Oennan reveals so-called Belgian diplomatic
secrets. Pas 8.
Big German fleet' repulsed at entrance to
Gulf of Riga. Page 1.
Mexico.
Povera of North and South America agree
to take definite action in Mexico. Page 1.
Koreura.
James CDonnell Bennett write of peaceful
National.
Government wport shows racord-breaklng
crops. Page 1.
United States declines Sweden's offer to
Id In settling controversy with Great
Britain. Page 1.
Domestic
Secretary MeAdoo believes United States
could finance new government In Mexico;
Pas
General Ooethala resigns as Governor of
e. ...... . r,n,l V.nne. Pue 5.
Oreron week Is officially opened at Panama
faciuo - -
bVorta.
Vernon makes debut under new leader In
Portland today. Page 10.
Chester Fee doing well In decathlon at San
Francisco Fair. Page 10.
Cincinnati beats Phillies In uphill 12-lnnlng
battle. Page 10.
Pacific Northwest.
Federal Trade Commission at Seattle learns
of business burdens. Page L.
Commercial and Marine.
Slusla-v Jetty $17a,RTO contract la awarded
Miami Quarry Company. Page 12.
Wheat sells In local market at further ad
vance. Page 13.
Active trading at North Portland Stock
Tarda. Pace 15.
Large war orders stimulate 'Wall Street stock
market. Page IS.
Chicago tradera sell, anticipating bearish
crjp report. Page 19.
Vessels now In Alsskan waters rated aa ua
eeaworthy. Face 12.
rertland sad Vicinity.
Register kept bv chamber of commerce for
visiting buyers. Page .
Buyers from as far east aa Wyoming wel
comed to city. Page 1.
Victorious naval mllltla cheered on way up
river. Page 11.
M. H. Black, heir to millions, accused of
entering women's suite. Page 19.
Rivera snd Harbors Committee to be here
August 18. Page 12.
Cheap excursion up Columbia Highway ar
ranged by Ad Club. Pag 11.
Cashier accountant faces cross-fire 'by de
fense. Page S.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page la.
PEARS BOUGHT AT $17 TON
Independent Buyer Meets Competi
tion of Growers at Xorth Yakima,
NORTH YAKIMA. Wash.. Aug. 9.
(Special.) Seven shipping firms affil
iated with the Growers' Council today
started buying pears at I1T.50 a ton, In
accordance with plans formed Saturday
at conference with W. H. Paulhamus.
executive head of the organisation.
,One Independent buyer, who ha been
paying $15. met the price, but little
fruit was hatlled' Monday. ' Tomorrow
will afford a better test Of Mie effort- to
boost the price. A guaranty fund of
SS000 has been raised to back the move
ment. 10 INDICTMENTS EXPECTED
Number of Persons May Be Blamed
for Eastland Disaster.
CHICAGO. Aug. 9. Indictments
sgalnst 10 persons, possibly IS. are ex
pected to be returned by the Federal
grand Jury tomorrow, when it resumes
consideration of the cause and respon
sibility for the capsizing of the East
land In the Chicago River. July 24.
United States District Attorney
Charles F. Clyne, who is said to have
been In conference with Attorney
General Gregory on the subject of the
Investigation, wlU 'return to Chicago
early tomorrow morning.
THORN IH SIDE OF
TRADE IS EXPOSED
Federal Commission in
Seattle Hears Ills.
GREATER MARINE DEMANDED
Fishermen Complain of Duty
That Hampers Business.
PRICE-CUTTING IS CHARGED
Canadian Line Plants Said to Be
Attempting to Ruin American
Manufacturers Inquiry on Sal
mon Extermination Asked.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Aug. 9. Repre
sentatives of business chosen by the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce enlight
nri fh Federal Trade Commission to-
H.v concerning: the burdens that handi
cap commerce in the Pacific Kortnweii.
The commission gave the business
m.n free field for presentation of
their views, and the shipping, shipbuild
ing, flour milling:, fish and conaensea
milk. Interests told of the loads they
carry. Thomas Burke, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, said beatuo naa
spent millions on dock facilities.
"We have seven different trans
continental railroads serving Seattle,"
he said, "and now we need ships. The
Government, which generally came to
the aid of the railroads, turns its back
nn the shipowners.
Judge 'Burke asked for Government
aid for American ships.
Seamen' Law Attacked.
J. C Ford, president of the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company, attacnea
the La Follette seamen's law, and said
that while not in favor of ship suo
sidy, he advocated changing the laws
so as to place American snips on tne
same competitive plane as foreign
ships.
Charles J. Smith, ice-presldent of
the- Chamber.-. Commerce., said .com
binations In the fish, lumber and fruit
Industries could utilize waste by-products
now thrown away.
T. J. Gorman, Miller Freeman and
Robert E. Small, representing the sal
mon industry, told of the difficulties
encountered because of lack of ships to
carry canned fish abroad.
Fishermen Lay Complaint.
William Calvert and Edward Cun
ningham, for the halibut . fishermen,
pointed out how the new railroad port
of Prince Rupert. B. C, is threatening
the business of American halibut ship
pers because the port is near to the
halibut banks and offers facilities of
entry that are denied on Puget Sound
because of customs regulations.
W. F. Robinson, for the cod fisher
men, complained that Gloucester fish
ermen enter their boned fish free, while
Pacific Coast fishermen are asked to
pay a duty. The Pacific Coast codfish
Is quite as good as that shipped from
(Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.)
Mondays War Moves
WHILE the Austro-German armies
made fresh progress Monday in
their carapaigrn against the Russians,
the conflict on the western front took
on new Impetus, Sir John French, com
mander of the British expeditionary
force, reporting a fierce artillery en
gagement in which British and French
forces captured trenches at Hooge,
along a front of 1200 yards.
The occupation of Praga, .reported
by Berlin, brings to a "atlc climax
the first phased"" .V . ve at the
Polish caP,-I0tfP'' J N t of East
ern 1".'S - -nvc.. -isa'w is the
. -.':' .,tt " ,
,u - raga Is essential-
re" .ne capital with great
r sr stations on the roads running
tail etrograd and Moscow. Few details
have been received of Grand Duke
Nicholas final stand at Praga, but
the indications are that the withdrawal
of the Russians became Imperative to
escape from the German lines grad
ually drawing together in their rear.
Warsaw now is the apex of a vast
letter V, the arms of which are the
River Narew on the north, and the
Vistula on the south. The German
lines spread along these rivers are
contracting gradually as the armies in
the north and those in the south ap
proach each other. The strip of ter
ritory across which the Russians may
withdraw to safer positions now is
hardly more than 30 miles across.
Besides this enveloping movement
Immediately to the east of Warsaw,
Berlin reports a steady hammering at
the great Russian fortresses of Kovno
and Lomza, the chief significance of
which Is their proximity to the lines
of railway communications to Petro-g-rad.
Novogeorgrievsk is the only
place west of Warsaw at which a Rus
sian garrison remains, and its fall
seems imminent.
The attitude of the Poles towards
the new German regime is arousing
deep interest, as the occupation of
Warsaw unites for the first time three
branches of the Poles heretofore di
vided among Russia, - Germany and
Austria. Under the Russian regime.
Poland has been a hot bed of dis
cord and it' remains to be seen
whether control of this occupied ter
ritory will be a difficult programme
for Germany, as It has been for Rus
sia. The official report from Berlin
characterized the operations around
Hooge as a. "battle," but Sir John
French's report shows them to have
been another trench fight, preceded by
a severe artillery exchange and re
sulting In the recovery by the British
of nearly a mile of trenches previously
taken by the Germans. This has
termed to divert public attention tem
porarily from tha magnitude' of the
German sweep in the eastern field, but
operations in the West still lack gen
eral significance.
The commander of another British
submarine, whise name has not been
disclosed, was reported Monday to
have dlstingulshel himself by- sink
ing the Turkish battleship Kheyr-Ed-Dln
Barbarossa.
CROP FOUND IN ARMY WAKE
Berlin Reports Harvest Unharmed
by Retreating Russians.
' r r TV tw wireless to Savvllle.
N. T., Aug. 9. .Among the news Items
prepared by the Overseas News Agency
for transmission abroad is the follow
ing:
"Reports from the front li Folami
mav th Russian announcement that
farm crops were devastated and that
the Russians left a desert behind tnem
i. n-rutiv axae-K-erated. The farmers
disobeyed orders to destroy their crops.
and a full harvest of rye, wiieat ana
oats is being brought In with the as
sistance of German soldiers, uniy tne
villages were burned."
LONDON MEAT PRICES SOAR
Fresh Beef Increases 4 3 Per Cent
and Frozen Beef 71 Per Cent.
LONDON. Aug. 9. Great increases in
the price of meat are disclosed in the
nnrt nf the superintendent of the Lon
don central market iBued tonight. He
announces that the supply of meats or
all kinds for July, 1915, at the market
totaled 24,702 tons, as compared with
36,833 tons in July, 191.
The price of fresh beef Increased 43
r cent, while that of frozen beef
increased 74 per cent. Fresh mutton
Increased 13 per cent and frozen mut
ton 50 per cent..
POPE AIDS EAST PRUSSIANS
Funds and Sympathy Sent Catholics
Because of Russian Invasions.
BERLIN, by wireless to Sayville,
v v Aue 8. Pooe Benedict has ad
dressed a letter to the Catholics of East
Prussia, according to the Overseas
News Agency, expressing his fatherly
sympathy for the terrible war horrors
brought upon them by the Russian in
vasions. The letter, the news agency says, was
accompanied by a large sum of money
for the relief of the victims.
SWEDISH STEAMER SUNK
Survivors of Germar . Submarine At
tack Land at Cv hagen.
COPENHAGEN, via London, ug. 9.
The Swedish steamer Mai has been
sunk by a German submarine. One
boat containing seven men and a
woman has been picked up and landed
here. A second boat carrying the
captain and nine men is missing.
Available shipping records do not
contain the name of a Swedish steamer
Mai or of a vessel .of any other na
tionality py. that name. (
BUYERS FROM AFAR
WELCOMED TO CITY
Trade Field Reaches in
. East to Wyoming.
REGISTRATION IS NOW DOUBLE
$1,000,000 Is Expected to Be
Spent Here During Week.
FAMILIAR FACES REAPPEAR
Reports of Prosperity Brought From
All Districts Represented Good
Crops Heralded 9-3ronths-Old
"Merchant" Visits.
programme: of entertaix-
SlESiT FOR BUYERS TODAY.
Registration continuing- at the
Chamber of Commerce through
out the day, and forenoon and
afternoon given over to business.
Smoker at Chamber of Com
merce for the men at 8 o'clock.
O. H. Fithian. chairman. Ad
dress of welcome by A. H. Revers.
Theater party to tho Heilig for
the women guests of the Buyers'
Association. Party will leave
the Chamber of Commerce at 8
P. M., escorted by women's re
ception committee.
Portland's trade territory reaches as
far east as Wyoming, north to the
Canada line, and is pushing further
south every hour this week, and whole
salers of this city have the registra
tion books of the first day of the third
annual Buyers' week to prove It.
Especially noteworthy in the list of
visiting buyers registering at the head
quarters at the Chamber of Commerce
was the large proportion coming from
Idaho and Northeastern Washington,
In comparison to "the representation
from these sections last year. Early
arrivals announced that before the
close of tha week the representation
from those districts will be increased
greatly.
While the registration of the visiting
merchants had begun on Saturday, the
big rush did not begin until yesterday
morning. It is expected to continue and
reach its height about Thursday. Not
only men, but scores of women, are
taking advantage of the opportunities
of Buyers' week.
- Registration Percrntnfre Double.
"More than a million dollars will be
expended in Portland this week as a
result of the Buyers' week excursions,"
is the prediction of the members of tho
general committee. These figures are
based upon the records of last year
and the apparent tendency of the pres
ent year.
All day yesterday the percentage of
registration ran 50 per cent higher
than it had last year, and more than
100 per cent higher than in 1912, which
was the first year that the Portland
wholesalers held a Buyers' week. .
"One of the Important points I have
noticed," said M. E. Smead. in charge
of the registration yesterday, "Is the
fact that we seo so many familiar faces
among those who have come to regis
ter. Not only are scores of merchants
attending Portland Buyers' week for
the first time this year, but those who
attended it before are proving their
satisfaction and their intention to
maintain their business relations with
Portland wholesalers by coming back
again with more enthusiasm than th'y
manifested at their first visit."
Increased Business Activity IVoted.
Representatives of the big wholesale
houses of the city who are members
of tho reception committee were on
duty all day long at the Chamber of
Commerce to see that the visiting buy
ers received every attention and as
sistance. The reception committee of
tho women, with Mrs. C. C. Chapman,
chairman, greeted the visiting women,
coming either as buyers or accompany
ing their husbands.
It would have been a difficult thing
to have estimated the size of the crowd
of visitors at any one time yesterday,
for they flowed continuous! past the
registration desk and were scattered
broadly over the city among the va
rious wholesale houses. There was a
bustlo of Increased activity in all of
thi big wholesale houses, however, that
indicated that the effect ' " the Buyers
week was already beginning to be felt
in every place.
Daya to Be Free of Entertainment.
Tho entire day was frankly devoted
to business visits between the out-of-town
buyers and Portland's whole
salers, and the social programme did
not begin until tho opening of the
reception at the Chamber of Commerce
in the evening. The pl-n of the entire
week is to arrange the entertainment
features so that the visitors may have
their days free for visits to their whole
salers about the city.
All manner of interesting sidelights
bobbed up around the registration desk
yesterday.
in tho registration of E. S. Johnson,
of Cheyenne, Wyo., who is up to date
the "farthest East" buyer who is par
ticipating, it was brought to light that
the Portland Buyers' week had at
tracted a former patron of the annual
Buyers' week held in Omaha, Neb.
Mr. Johnson said that he had come
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