run jronxrvfv ot?t:gonta?t. Tuesday. aprix 11, 1916. FIRE HAZARDS FOUND OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OO OOOOOOO OOOQ OOP OOP OOOOOOOOOooooooQ oooooo Moving Picture Film Plants Are Held Dangerous. OOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOI lO I I BYf O E RTR XJP E F.' C O RB &TT I T SAFETY COMMISSION VISITS Jlembers Consider More Kigid Reg ulation Necessary and Will Sleet to Formulate Xcw Ordinance on Subject. Tnat the moving-picture film plants In the downtown district of Portland, as they are now operated, are hazard ous to life and property and should be regulated more risidly, is the consensus of opinion of members of tho Public Safety Commission. This conclusion -was reached after an official inspec tion of the plants made yesterday aft ernoon. It was found that, while the man agers have been complying with most of the provisions of the present ordi nance governing the operation of film plants, they have not provided ade quate exits for their employes and patrons. In the event of explosions or fires at some of the plants it would be difficult for employes and patrons to escape, in the belief of the Commission. One of the most serious conditions found was in regard to the location and operation of the projecting rooms. Exits Held I nnafe. In two plants the projecting rooms are located in the basements and are accessible only by stairways located in the rear of the buildings. In case of a lire or explosion on the upper floor, it was pointed out that it would De ex tremely difficult for persons viewing films in the basement to make their escape. In other plans the projecting rooms are on the same floor as the -workshops, offices and stockrooms, and arn not freelv accessible. 1 he loca tion of these projecting rooms also is held to be hazardous by members of the Commission. The vaults in all the film plants in spected are not believed safe. In them are store! the finished films, which are highly combustible. Nearly all the vaults have tile wans ana concreio ceilings. The commission believes that the walls should be constructed of con crete and made as nearly proof as pos sible against the force of possible ex plosions. Xtw Ordinance Planned. As a result of the tour of inspection the commission will hold a special meeting soon and will work out details for a new ordinance for a more rigid regulation of film plants. Members of the commission who made the inspection yesterday were: r,uy V. Talbot, A. H. Averill, A. M. Churchill. J. P. Jaeger, Marshall Dana, Klre Marshal Stevens, Fire Chief Dow ell. Captain Gross and H. P. Coffin, chairman of the commission. The following film houses were in spected: General Film Company, 395 Oak street; Film Supply Company, Al der and West Park streets; United Film Corporation. 66 Broadway; Standard Feature Film Company and World Film Corporation. 10 West Park street; Metro Picture Corporation, 14 West Park street; Pathe Exchange, 302 Burn side street, and Mutual Film Corpora tion, 389 Oak street. DR. SARGENTICH RETURNS Portland Physician Home After 18 Months In European War Zone. After 18 months of most trying ex periences in the European war zone. Dr. Spire Sargentich has returned to Portland. Soon after the war began Dr. Sargentich left for Serbia, his na tive country, to offer his services In Red Cross work. He says that the in vasion of the central powers and Bul garians, together with the typhus scourge that followed, wrought devas tation among the people of Serbia. Dr. Sargentich was in charge of a hospital near Nish when the second invasion began, but he and his attend ants were forced to retreat across the Albanian Mountains. He finally reached fialoniki and later Naples. He took a steamer at Naples for New York, ar riving about two months ago. ENGINEERS TRAVEL SOUTH Eighty Men ol Company F, at Van couver, Go to California. VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Wash.. April 10. (Special. 1 About 80 men of Company F, Engineers, of this post, in command of Lieutenant D. O. Elliott and Lieutenant E. R. Kimble, have been ordered to leave here Thursday, April 13, for San Francisco. They will take full field equipment, and from San Francisco will probably be sent out in small mapping detachments. The Engineers go out on similar de tails each year,-, having for the two years past gone to Gilroy, Cal., to make maps of the territory near there. They go away in the Spring and return in the Autumn. Captain Richard C. Moore is in com mand of the company here. This move ment has no bearing on the movement of troops to the Mexican border. Babies Entered Early. PENDLETON. Or., April 10. (Spe cial.) Although the Umatilla County baby show is two weeks distant, regis trations are coming in in large num bers both for the test and the parade Saturday, April 22. The finance com mittee of the club, which is handling the show, has completed its work and has ample money to defray all ex pen ses. FowneS L KID FITTING v Silk gloves Women acquainted with Fownes quality in ALL kinds of gloves, are demanding Fownes SILK gloves, with reason. Smartest, most satisfactory, but they cost no more. All lengths, sizes and shades. Double-tipped ? Of course I ! Ask your dealer HI MISS LESLEY SMITH, whose wed ding will be a simple event of Wednesday noon, was honoree for a charming dinner presided over last night by Mrs. Helen Ladd Corbett. The guests were the members of the bridal party, close relatives and a few intimate girl friends. At the same time, Charles E. Miller. Miss Smith's hus band-to-be. was host for his bachelor dinner at the University Club. Society flocked to the Ileilig Theater last night to attend the second per formance here of the New York Sym phony, with the noted Walter Dam rosch, conductor, anU. Josef Hofmann,' piano soloist. There was not a seat left in the entire house, box parties and line parties being the order of the evening. It was a gala-attired assem blage, and resembled a "night at grand opera." The grills were filled witn merry supper parties, some of whom indulged in the dance at one of the leading grills. At the Marshall-Street Presbyterian Church manse Miss Helen Mcintosh, of this city, and Donald James, of Os wego, were married by Rev. A. J. Han na. The young people will make their home in Oswego. Albert T. Martin and Mrs. Minnie May Harris were married at the manse Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. Mr. Hanna also officiating at the ceremony. m Tonight the members of Irvington Club will meet for their annual elec tion of officers and formal banquet. The event has created considerable en thusiasm among the large list of mem bers and their friends, as the latter part of the evening is to be devoted to frivolity, dancing, music and a general good time. Mrs. Albert Howard Cousins is in charge of the dinner and the social events, and the election of officers will take place during the dinner. About 32 young matrons, members of the club, will cat as "waitresses," and the even ing is brimful of promises for a gala event. At the Eleventh-street playhouse the Michigan University Glee and Mandolin clubs will give a concert which will be attended by a number of prominent society folk, many matrons and maids planning to entertain with line and box parties. Society is actively interested in the plays to be given at the Little Theater tonight and Wednesday night under the auspices of the Drama League. The fact that Miss Barbara Bartlett and Ford Tarpley are to appear in a little play written by the iatter is creating a great deal of interest and enthusiasm among society folk. As the Little The ater only seats approximately 300, the performances of the three plays will be given both evenings. v The girls who will sell tickets today at Sherman, Clay and Co.'s are Miss Elizabeth Jacobs. Miss Dorothy Strow bridge in the morning, and Misses Katherine Hoyt and V'Ona Guthrie in the afternoon. Among those who will give large par ties are Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ladd Cor bett and Rogers MacVeagh. Mrs. Vernon A. Smith, formerly of Minneapolis, and little daughter, Jean Perry, of Marshfield, Or., are passing a few weeks visiting Mrs. Smith's moth er, Mrs. Thomas H. Drew, in Minneapo lis. The Smiths are well known in Portland society and are frequent vis itors here. Mr. Smith is a son of C. A. Smith, lumberman, who now makes his home in California. Prominent folk of the Eastern city are entertaining Mrs. Smith, among whom are many of her old schoolgirl friends. The Monday Musical Club will give a card party and dance Thursday even ing at Rose City Park Club. This will be the last social event of this season. The committee includes Mrs. Lee Ar nett, Mrs. J. C. Hare and Mrs. Philip Blumauer. A group of young people gathered Saturday night at the home of Missl Audrey Collins, in the Wellesley Court. The affair was planned as a surprise to i. -ss Collins, and the evening was passed in dancing. Those present were Misses Collins, Yetive Wakefield. Ber nice Billings, Ruth Constantine. Stella Riggs, Beatrice Cather, Florence Ock ley, Helen Catren, Messers. Arthur Manning, Russell Kaufman. Raymond Douglass, Paul Gratton. Louis Frieberg, Paul Steffens. George Wolfe. Earl Lar imore, Don McClellan and Henry Ste vens. o Clan Macleay. Order of Scottish Clans, will give a smoking concert after the business meeting on Friday evening in the meeting room on the third floor of Masonic Temple. An excellent pro gramme and refreshments have been prepared. All Clansmen and their friends are asked to attend. On Thursday evening the cadet girls of. Assembly No. 1, of Artisans, will give a dance in W. O. W. Hall. The committee is Irene Raicy. Anna Hoff man, Georgina Johes, Edna Beck, Bes sie Kraiger, Lena Esch, Cassie Lane and Lilly Lipkey. Floor committee Harold Ryel, Charles Blinco. Blyn Kirk- patrick and David Huntley. Tables will be provided for card players. W. F. Hummell will be in charge. All Artisans and friends invited. On Tuesday Auxiliary of Scout Young Camp, Spanish War veterans. will entertain the patronesses for the cotton anniversary ball, which will be given April 27 at Christensen s Hall. The patronesses for the event are Mrs. Diana McDonell. Mrs. R. E. JJenison, Mrs. Percy W. Lewis, Mrs, W. M. Davis, Mrs. Claude Simpson, Mrs. James Mc Carran, Mrs. George N. Davis. Mrs. Royal W. Kesl. Mrs. Gecrge L. Baker, Mrs. I. Aronson. Congratulations are being showered upon Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Miller, 365 Franklin street, upon the arrival of a baby boy Sunday morning. The lit tle fellow will be known as Robert Warwick. Complimenting Miss Ellen English, Mrs. Clyde Raabe entertained a group of maids and young matrons with a din ner party Friday night at her home at 76-i East Taylor. The rooms were artistically decorated with clusters of calla lilies, pussy -willow and other Spring blossoms, and the dinner table was adorned with baskets cf lavender hyacinths and lilacs. Dancing and mu sic were the diversions of the even ing. Mrs. Raabe was assisted by Misses Veda Flynn, Anna Reich, Lillian E. Hobkirk, Mary Schwarzman, Margaret A. Mann and Lanetta Morrell. The guests included Misses Winetta Marr, Lenna Sherrett. Daisy Thomas, Alice Foster, Anna Gills. Ethel Caw thorne, Dorothy Bliss. Emma Kehwalt, Emma Soderstorm, Nina Rizor, May Reamy, Vera Dahl, Valera Peters. Vina Clark, Eva Anderson, Jane Davis. May Gubbush, Lauretta Morrell, Veda Flynn, Lillian E. Hobkirk, Mary Schwarz man, Anna Reich. Margaret F. Mann, Ellen English, Mrs. O. Hickox, Mrs. Uussell Baird and Mrs. Raabe. Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Cutter, well known in social circles in Spokane, the for mer also r 'being a prominent architect. visited in Portland for a few days ATTRACTIVE AND ENERGETIC MEMBER OF IRVINGTOX CLUB WHO IS CHAIRMAN OF THE BANQUET TONIGHT. Mr ' - IMt r i fej ' j p . V ' , I i if V s - -f h If ' - L.-' - -- X 11 A-' -.-:-TT , ' , , rii.-' Huber. Mr. Cutter returned to Spokane the latter part of last -week and Mrs. Cutter left yesterday morning to join him. Invitations are out for the wedding of Miss Marion Atwater, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Atwater, to Dr. Frank Everett McNett, which will be solemnized Wednesday. April 26, in St. David's Episcopal Church. The home of Judge and Mrs. W. B. Gilbert, 490 Twenty-first street, Port land Heights, - will be opened tonight to the Portland Heights circles of the First Presbyterian i-nurch. Dr. Boyd and, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Randall will be the guests of honor. The leaders of the circles are Mrs. A. W. Kutsche and Mrs. F. I. Ball. An informal re ception will be held. Miss Marjorie Read is passing a few months in the East visiting friends in Boston, New York, Washington and the Middle West, Ihe Smemin Story, Br Mrs F.AMalkrr. Johnnie Moune. ' J5HNNIE MOUSE wanted to be a sailor. But Johnnie Mouse's mother did not want him to be a sailor. She told him he would be very sick in the first place, and then if there happened to be a cat aboard the ship he would not have a chance to get away as he could on land. But Johnnie Mouse would not listen to his mother's advice. So one night when his mother and father were out hunting cheese and other good things to eat, Johnnie Mouse tied up his best clothes in a bandanna handkerchief and tied it on the end or a stick and put the stick over his shoulder just as he had seen pictures of boys who ran away to sea. But it took him a long time to find a ship and he had very little to eat on the way, so that when he came to the place where there was a big ship ready to sail Johnnie Mouse was tired and hungry, and he bad grown pretty thin, too. Johnnie Mouse was climbing care fully up the side of the ship when he chanced to look up, and there right over him were two big green eyes looking steadily at him. Johnnie Mouse was frightened, for he knew those eyes belonged to none other than a cat, so he did not wait to walk or run; he jumped and fell right into the water. But he was lucky enough to land on a piece of wood not very large, but it held Johnnie Mouse, and away it sailed just like any boat, with Johnnie Mouse sitting on it. "Ho, ho," thought Johnnie Mouse, "this is much finer than going on that big ship. I have one of my own now, and I can be captain and sail it just as I like." But Just then the boat stopped, and try as he would Johnnie Mouse could not make it sail. He soon discovered the trouble; a bit of straw had caught his boat and held it close to a big post, and if John nie had been wise he would have crawled up that post and run back home. , But Johnnie Mouse wanted to be a sailor, and so he did not run up the post. Instead he untied the bundle he still had with him and put the ban danna handkerchief on the stick he had carried over his shoulder, and this he stuck into a hole in piece of wood he called a ship, and then he had a sail. Before Johnnie Mouse could think what had happened the wind caught the bandanna sail and drew it away from the post, and away went the ship and Johnnie Mouse so fast he almost lost his breath. Holding on as tightly as he could, Johnnie Mouse wondered what -was the matter with him, his head felt so ueer and he wanted to lie down and never get up, but he knew if he did let go of the mast he would go Into the water. Johnnie Mouse lost his best clothes. He saw them sailing away from him without a regret. All he wanted was that the water should not be so bubbly and he would like to rest, but that ia h que a ueetj of Air, and ilxs. pakar seemi something tb&t wou!4 aovex happen against to Johnnie Mouse, and ne sailed on and on. By and by it grew dark, and Johnnie was so tired that he let go the mast and fell on the deck of his ship and slept. When he awoke the ship w quite still, and Johnnie tried to get up, but he was so weak from hunger he could not stand. His sail was gone, and Johnnie won dered what happened to the ship. His nose touched something cold and Johnnie Mouse found it was a stone that his ship had run against and stuck in the sand. Johnnie Mouse had just strength enough to crawl off the boat. He had no more longing to be come a sailor; so he curled up warm and close under the side of the rock and went to sleep. ' When he awoke Johnnie felt better, and he began poking his nose under the rock. Could it be that he smelled cheese in this strange countryhe had sailed to ; Yes, it was, and more, too, for John nie's nose went Tight through a paper, and there he found such a feast as he had dreamed of but never had. When he had finished eating John nie stood up; his legs were stronger ana ne reit much better all over. "This is not such a bad place to live." thought Johnnie Mouse. "11 take a run around this country, and if I like it I will settle here, but shall travel by land and not by water ii i aeciae to travel farther." By and by Johnnie came to a large house, and seeing a hole he ran in and found himself in a pantry. Johnnie Mouse looked around and there were all his brothers looking at mm from Denind a dish of cheese. "Why, Johnnie Mouse, where have you been? We thought you were dead and gone." said his mother, running toward him. Johnnie thought it was a good time to mention his lost best clothes and so he told her how sick he had been and how he had lost his clothes in a terri ble shipwreck and that he no longer wanted to be a sailor. His mother was so glad to hear that that she forgave him for losing his Dest clothes and put her arms around him and took him home, where she fed him on all the nice bits she had in the pantry for Winter. (Copyright, 1!)16. by the McClure Newspaper syndicate, e w jorK uny.j Petitions Ask Doctor's Pardon. CENTRALIA. Wash., April 10. (Spe cial.) Asking Governor Lister to par don Dr. A. C. A. Uaul, petitions are being circulated in Centralia and will be forwarded to the executive as soon as they are filled. The petitions are being generously signed. Dr. Gaul, former Centralia physician, was found guilty in the Lewi3 County superior court on a statutory charge-and was sentenced to the state penitentiary. Ha appealed to the Supreme Court, but the lower court whs affirmed. AD ollar- M e al For Five Cents. The most expensive foods ar quite often entirely lacking in food vahie. They do not build . muscle or , supply energy. Measured by the cost of most foods, a breakfast or luncheon of Shredded Wheat with milk and cream is worth a dollar and the cost is not over five cents. Two Biscuits will supply all the strength needed for a half day's work or play. Jflada at Niagara, falls. N, Y.j yr" II ' Ti Royal Coffee Cake Makes Healthy Children It Is a Delicious and Healthful Breakfast Food Have Your Grocer Deliver You Any One of the Several Varieties Price 10c to 40c Enough for a Large Family only the most healthful and nourish ing cereals enter into the making: of ROYAL COFFEE CAKE. appetizing; and far more nutritive breakfast than many so-called break fast foods. combining' the ingredients in the pro portions necessary to secure the utmost in flavor and food value is an art in which the ROYAL pastry baker excels. more care is exercised in making ROYAL COFFEE CAKE than is pos sible with the housewife just the right amount of flour every ingredient intro- , duced in proper rotation and in accurate amounts, and the whole baked with just the right kind of heat for the right length of time all these are factors that make for the GENERAL SUPE RIORITY AND WHOLESOMENESS of ROYAL COFFEE CAKE, order ROYAL COFFEE CAKE FOR THE CHILDREN it makes a more the "grown-ups," too, like ROYAL COFFEE CAKE, and it affords a whole some variation from the conventional breakfast. your grocer will deliver a ROYAL COFFEE CAKE if you ask him to he'll also deliver you any of the Roval Cakes and Pastries, and ROYAL BREAD THE BREAD THAT STAYS FRESH THE LONGEST THAT MAKES THE BEST TOAST AND THE BEST SAND WICHES. Ask YOUR grocer! Royal Bakery arid Confectionery Makers of Royal Bread. WAGE SESSION TONIGHT HOURS FOR WOJIES ALSO WILL BE DISCUSSED BY COMMITTEE. Snrvry of Working Conditions la Au thorized by Welfare Commission. Public Represented In Probe. Wages and hours of service govern ing the employment of women In the factories of Oregon will be the subject of consideration by the investigating committee of the Industrial Welfare Commission in the Courthouse at S o'clock tonight. This committee has been authorized by the Welfare Commission to conduct a survey of the present working con ditions of women, with a view to de termining whether or not the mini mum wage is to be increased and it the time limit affecting their service is to be changed. These subjects have received more or les abstract study in the last few weeks, but. beginning tonight, the com mittee expects to collect some concrete evidence bearing directly on the situa tion. A subcommittee consisting of W. L. Brewster, representing the public; Mrs. L. Geo, representing the employes, and Everett Ames, representing the em ployers, has arranged the procedure for tonight's meeting. It is planned to confine the investigations exclusively to the hours and the wages governing women workers in the factories. The Industrial Welfare Commission has arranged to conduct a special in vestigation into the cannery situation. The first hearing on the subject will be on Friday night. The cannery operators have asked the Commission to extend the maximum hour limit for women workers during the rush seasons. At present they are not permitted to work more than 10 hours a day or 54 hours a week. An additional six hours per week is per mitted in emergency cases. The wage rate is 16 cents an hour for straight time and 25 cents an hour for over time. It has been suggested that the pro visions of the California Commission's (rulings be enforced for cannery work here. In California the maximum is 60 hours, with an emergency provision al lowing 72 hours. The wage rate is 16 cents an hour for 60 hours and 20 cents an hour for the overtime. Inasmuch as activities in some of the canneries are about to start, the Com mission has undertaken to make a direct investigation of the subject so that a ruling may be forthcoming in time to meet this year's business. Further Klamath Case Hearing: Set. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. April 10. (Special.) Another meeting of the Pub lic Service Commission of the state of Oregon is to be held in connection with the complaint of the city of Klamath Falls against the California-Oregon Power Company, which furnishes water and electricity for this city. This will be held in Salem and will pertain to power development cost. Other technical ques tions will be considered. The hearing of local complaints was completed here Saturday. Man Holds Money and Foils Thieves CENTRALIA, Wash., April -0. (Spe cial.) C. H. 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