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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1915)
AT, SEPTEMBER CITY ORDERS SALE OF LAND WITH LIENS Exclusive Agents for the Famous Ostermoor Mattresses Built, Not Stuffed." Berkey & Gay Furniture the Product of Masters Here Ex . clusively in Portland. Bundhar Wilton Rugs "Dur able as Iron." Sole' Portland Agents 7th Floor, 5th-St. Bldg. ' The QliAj-rrY" STone Porj-i-amd Thc Quality Sto' Oe OP PORTLA Step Taken to Bring Issue Over Street Improvement Delinquency to Head. .; LENIENCY IS TO .BE RARE Drastic Action Decided on as Only Alternative to Protect Bond, Credit Advertising or Oldest Is Started. Vae to face with a delinquency of between $450,000 and $500,000 in inter est on liens granted by property owners for street improvements, the City Council at a meeting yesterday de cided to force the proposition to a head with property owners and par ticularly owners of large tracts, by advertising the land for sale at once. Auditor Barbur was instructed to -prepare the advertisements, starting with the oldest delinquencies first. If there are no private buyers when the property is offered for sale, the city plans to finance the purchase itself by appropriating money from the general fund. The drastic action was decided upon as the only alternative to protect the city's bond credit. The Council decided that the sale of the property is the only course open to relieve the financial stringency. The property owners can head off the sale only by- paying up their delinquent in terest and installments. 100,000 Lot In City Affected. About 100.000 lots in the city are effected by the plan, there being de linquency on that number. Much of this property is In the possession of real estate companies and large owners, although probably the great est amount is in the hands of individ ual owners, either by purchase out right or on contract. Some of the delinquency dates back s far as nine years. In these cases, ea in casrs of shorter delinquency, the interest, although due annually, has not been paid by the property owners and the city has advanced the amounts from the general fund raised by tax ation to meet the Interest it has to pay annually on the bonds sold with the property liens as security. The Council was of the opinion yes terday that it would have difficulty in selling large tracts because buy ers of delinquencies confine themselves largely to small individual parcels of property where there are improve ments. City Decides to Buy In Property. It was decided therefore that a loan will be made from the general fund whereby the city will buy in the delin quent property itself, getting the money back when the owners recover the property or by sale of the ground in three years' time, when the city will have a clear title by default. In the operation of tho system of celling property, an effort will be made to look out for some of the small owners who are absolutely unable to pay. In these cases, a thorough in vestigation will be made first and leniency will be shown only in ex ceptional cases. The purchas3 of property by indi viduals or the city in this way re ouires the amount of the delinquency only. The property owner may re deem his property at any time within three years by the payment of penal ties and interest at excessive interest to the purchaser. At the end of the third year the purchaser obtains a clear title, unless the original owner re deems. When a sale is made for de linquency it stands as a cloud on the title of the property. LA! SHOW PRIZES SET HASIFACTIBER WITH BEST DIS PLAY TO RECEIVE $1100. Feature Will Be Award of $tlOO for Moxt Harmonious Section of Booths. , Space Is In Demand. Frizes to be awarded in the indus trial division of the Manufacturers' and Land Products Show were announced yesterday alter u conference between A. J. Kingsley. president of the Fall exposition, and R. B. Bain, Jr., chair man of the manufacturers' exhibit com mittee of the exhibition. To the Oregon manufacturer making the best exhibit a cash prize of $100 will be given. The best working ex hibit will receive $75. A second prize of $50 and n third prize of $30 will also be awarded In this class. To the best exhibit occupying three or more booths there will be a firs prize of $60 and second and third prizes of $40 and $20. To the best exhibit occupying less than three booths will be a first 'prize of $50, a second prize of $30 and a third prize of $15. One of the features will be a first prize of $100 for the most harmonious eection of booths, the money to be di vided pro rata among the exhibitors in the winning section. There will also be a second prize of $75 in this class. The most attractively decorated con cession booth will receive $25, and a prize of $10 goes to the best "Mad-in-Oregon" slogan displayed in a boofh. The demonstrator popularity contest w ill be decided by ballot. Many appli cations for space are being received at the Chamber of Commerce, and Presi dent Kingsley says business houses in tending to exhibit should make appli cations for space at once. JITNEY SLIGHTLY DAMAGED AIh- Goldstein Irlves Into Hydrant to Avoid Collision. To avoid a collision with an auto mobile driven by A. Pruas. Abe Gold stein, a jitney driver, drove his ma chine on the sidewalk and into a hy drant at the southeast corner of Tli?' :nd Oik streets yesterday morning at 7:30 o'clock. No one was injured and the machine was not badly damaged. Pruss was said to have been going north on Third street at a high rate of fr'peed and was arrested by Patrolman Burke on a charge of reckless driving. CLANSMAN SALE RECALLED Tt.. 1j. Hardin Impresed by Popular ity of Birth of Nation" Film. Tt. L Hardin, of the Henry building, who was in New York some years ago when Rev. Thomas Dixon. Jr., sold his first book. "The Clansman," at the Academy of Music, was strangely im- Meier & Frank's The Store for Homefurnishers! Qolumbia A merica's Great High way Through the Cas cades to the Sea." The splendid new book that should be in every home in Oregon. By spe cial arrangement, the au thor Samuel Christopher Lancaster will autograph all copies purchased in our book de partment. Again today, at 2, 3 and 4 P. M., Mr., Lancaster will deliver a lecture on the Columbia Highway, illustrated with stereo pti con views. Admission free. You are invited. Music Ball, Sixth Floor Fall and Winter at once suggest the days when home means MOST to us all! With the vast new stocks of Homefurnishing goods that will be soon housed in the New Store, surely Meier & Frank's is the Homefurnishing headquarters of Portland. Credit terms may be arranged -to suit for those who. prefer to pay. in. this manner. ' 3000 Pairs of New r.urtains at Qavings! bought at the loom-side and how our big quantities and ready cash fairly "Talked" when it came to making prices! As the result of his Eastern trip, our Lace Curtain Manager has 3000 pairs of the daintiest, newest Curtains to offer today at savings like these N ottinghams, $1.65 and Cable Nets white, and $1.85 for $2.75 and and ecru you $3 Nottinehams $1.98 Large Qheets 75c Tambours, $1.39 Fine white Tambour Net Curtains you know how dainty they are. " These are $2.75 to $3.25 grades. Scrims, $1.85 Pretty new patterns in Scrims, lace trimmed. . Splendid . $2.25 . curtains. cream would pay all of $2.50. for $3.25 Nottinghams. Irish Laces -"Inside" prices from an importer who bought before the war. New patterns in white, cream and ecru $2.65 to $4.50. Madrases, 25c -R e a 1 Scotch cream madras every yard fresh and new. The regular 35c quality. Scrims, 19c -New printed Scrims, in dozens of prettiest pat terns regular 20c, 25c, 30c and 35c grades. Cretonnes, 15c -A big table of these Cretonnes, in many colors, and designs odd lengths of 25c to 40c grades 15c a yd. Sev Table Scarfs Silk Table and Piano Scarfs rich new shades of mulberry, gold and blue $1.40 for the $1.75 scarfs $2.60 for the $3.25 ones. Kimono Silk -Many colors. Regular 65c quality, yard 33c. Make early selection! enth Floor, Sixth-St. Bids. Just in by jxpress ShM $2450 One Model Illustrated We're just unpacking them as this is written one of the cleverest lots of suits we've ever shown at this price! Every new style and material included. Among them are Gabardines Mixtures Whipcords - Broadcloths Some made in Russian Blouse effect, others on plain tailored lines. Many are Norf oiks. -Good material good workmanship moder ately priced at $24.50. l'oiirth Floor, Klrth-St. Bide. Sheets, 81x108 inches, 75 Sheets, 81x 99 inches, 65c Sheets, 81x 90 inches, 59e PILLOW CASES of a quality and finish to match the sheets Slips, 45x38io inches, 15 Slips, 42x3812 inches, 12V2 Honeycomb Bed Spreads full double size, plain edges, well hemmed S1.50. Honeycomb Bed Spreads double size ; fringed with cut corners S2.25. Second Floor, Flfth-St. Bids. Was here Ever gucha Furniture gale? You would surely say NO, if you saw the crowds here Monday and yesterday! . Desirable Furniture was probably never so overwhelmingly reduced before ! Read some of the prices now sec the savings they're the most convincing reasons of all ! This sale precedes our removal to permanent quarters in the New Store! Take advantage today, before it is too late' Mahogany Upholstered Furniture ' M a h o b a n y Upholstered Settee, IpoS. a' Mahogany Upholstered Chair, -$235 Mahogany-Davenport, $69. -tai.aO Mahogany Rocker. 817.50. -14 Mahogany Rocker. S7.50. -$32 Mahogany Rocker, S9.50.' -$70 Mahogany Chair, 835. -$70 Mahoprany'Rocker. $33. -$72.50 Mahogany Rocker. S.J8. -$72.50 Mahogany Chair, 838. Bedroom Furniture $15 Imitation Mahogany Commode, 84. SO. 13a Circassian Walnut Chiffonier walnut interior!. S35. $H'2.50 Circassian Walnut Chiffonier. 837.50. $.".J Circassian Walnut Chiffonier, 815 $60 Oak Wardrobe. $25. $18 Solid Mahoganv Table, 9. $22.50 Oak Toilet Table. l2.oO. $35.75 White Enamel Oresser, $15. $20 Oak Chiffonier. 99. SO. $16 Oak Chiffonier. $7.75. $20 Oak Chiffonier, $9. SO. Living-Room Furniture -$12 Fumed Oak Arm Chair, $5. -$. Oak Chair, early English. S2.50. -$-,.75 Oak Chair, waxed. SS2.50. -$3.50 Oak Chair, waxed, gl.50. -$5 Oak Chair, waxed. $2. -$120 Mahogany Leather Davenport. $55. Dining Furniture -$S "Lifetime" Knmed Oak I I i n Chairs, leather seat. $-4. -$S 75 Fumed Oak Arm Diner at $4. -$4.75 Fumed Oak Arm Diner. $2.50. -$11 Fumed Oak Arm Diner, $4.75. grY! Jt's tove Weather "Jack Frost" is making himself mighty apparent these September mornings! An economical heater will solve the problem till you start the furnace they're a saving, even then! Stove Department, Fifth Floor, Temporary "Annex, Fifth and Aider. jew Afilton Rugs Jnderpriced! My, if you could just have been with us, when our floor covering chief lifted up one rug after another showed us the beautiful new patterns in small allovers and v medallion centers. See the world's largest circular Rug! A beautiful chenille, woven especially for the palatial Biltmore Hotel in New York. Greatest achieve ment known in rug making. On display till Saturday Rug Store. Lovely light colors for parlors darker shades for offices and every thing between. You'd know WHY these fine new Wilton Rugs are underpriced if you heard him tell of his early trip to market how thousands of rugs were bought at prices which have contin ually been advancing since because of scarcity of dyes and raw materials here are the savings $33 for 9x12 Wiltons Standard $40 Grades! $29.50 for 9x2 Wiltons Standard $35 Grades! -Splendid Airtight Heater, like cut -above heats up in a minute at Meier & Frank's today this Heater priced at $3. -Another Dandy A 1 r tight Heater, like cut above, in side pipe draft, sheet-steel linina:'. An excellent val ue at $2.25.- " S unset Wo Heaters. solid castiron trier 1 xa f 0. a ,1 , ... ., .1 pieces of wood $11. 50. o H with lin-feed swing big -Firefly Heater, burns- coal or wood, hot- blast attachment that burns all the gas, gets every " parti cle of heat out of the fuel, 817. "Cheerful" Wood Heater, like cut above, mica front, large swing top. h o t blast attach ment, $12.85. Seamless Axminsters $22.85 Another wonderful Rug offering today splendid new heavy quality Axminsters in handsome designs and patterns medallions and allovers for living or dining-rooms. A Kug never sold regularly under $28.50. Seventh Kloor, Klfth-St. Bids. Winter Rlankets and Qomforts Reduced An advantageous purchase of splendid Wool Blankets and fine Comforters that brings them to you now at the very beginning of the season at big savings! $4.50 White Wool Blankets, full size-. S3 IK $5.00 White Wool Blankets, full size 841 "$6.00 White Wool Blankets, full size S5.15 $5.00 Fancy Plaid Blankets blue, brown. . .415 ' $5.00 Light Gray Bankets, fancy border S415 $2.00 Silkoline Covered Comforters, at Sl,69 ..'' Emmerich Feather Pillows from $1.00 to $5.00 Less 10 Per Cent. Third Kloor, Klfth-St. Bid! JVfciil Qrders ' Filled from this and all our ads if received within three days of date of publication. Telephone us where quantities are limited or you are in a hurry. Established Tri& QualitV Store of Portland Fifths. Sijcth, "Morrison Alder St-,. falf price for geautiful hina Thousands of pieces of exquisite, high-grade Haviland, Royal Dresden, Royal Doulton and Royal Nippon China at exactly half price ! Beautiful single pieces and sets Plates Salad Sets Salad Bowls Chocolate Sets Cups and Saucers Nut Bowls Tea Sets Jelly Sets Fruit Dishes Celery Trays Cheese and'Cracker Dishes Compotes Sugar and Creamers Mayonnaise Sets Foresighted women will take advantage of this sale for Christmas Shopping. Gifts for your friends and yourself. The finest imported china at just half price ! bale last lour days only i Temporary Annex, Fourth Floor pressed several days ago when he saw a long: line at the box office of the Hei lia clamoring to get Into the theater to witness "The Birth of a Nation," the lhoto-pLay founded on Mr. Dixon's now famous book. 9 "When walking past the Heilig- the other day and seeing 'The Clansman billed. I recalled being at the Academy of Music when Mr. Dixon, or "Tragedy Tom, as the audience called him, of fered the first copy of 'The Clansman for sale. X believe the theater seated about 3300 and it was packed. In all that vast audience, however, he sold only three copies. . - Centra I ia to Entertain Teachers.: CENTRA LI A, Wash., Sept. 14. (Spe cial.) The annual reception tendered by the local Commercial Club for the Centralia school teachers will be held in the clubrooms Thursday night, ac cording to an announcement made by President .t. Campbell : yesterday. The entertainment committee has arranged a programme for the event. CHAPLIN IN NATIONAL FILM Comedy Star to Appear Today lit v"Tlie M!xiip"' at Theater. Charlie Chaplin. Tvhose celluloid an tKs .have made him famous the world around, will provide cause for laugh ter .today in a-four-reel feature film. "The Mlxup," which has been added to Jhe musical comedy programme at the National theater as a special fea ture. The Chaplin film will run until Saturday nisht. Continuous programmes will be the order from 2 o'clock until 5 o'clock in the afternoon and from 7 o'clock until 11:45 at niarht. There will be three complete performances of "On the Great White Way,"., the - musical com edy, and five showings of the Chaplin film, each musical comedy show be ing preceded and followed by "The Mixup." "The Mixup" is heralded as being: the craziest and most ridiculous, of Chaplin's many crazy and ridiculous films. Publishers' Trial on Ikcket. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Sept. 14. fSpe- cial.). 1. K. Cue, a Centralia. publisher, women. charged with first degree assault for the alleged throwing of a piece of lino type metal at Joe Lucas, manager of a local theater, will be tried on October 18 in the Pierce County Superior Court, where the case was taken on a change of venue from the Lewis County Court. A demurrer entered by Cue's attorneys was overruled Saturday and the case set for trial. Men have a stronger sens of taste than j