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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1916)
20 TIIE arORXIXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, APRIIi 20. 1916. CHAMBER FINANCES TO BE EXPLAINED Year's Work Will Be Described at Annual Meeting Set for Tomorrow Night. FULL ATTENDANCE URGED 1'resitloiit Colt Says All Troubles Should Tic TiiroIied Out and New I'iscal Year Started ' .."With Progressie Drive. A considerable portion of the time will be allotted to consideration of th finances of the Chamber f Commerce at the annual meeting? of the member thip tomorrow night. It is said tha the story of the struggle that the or Ranization has gone through during its first year will prove very Interesting to the members, who are to get firs hand and authentic information as to Just how mucn money has been re oived by the Chamber and how it has been spent. With the plan of organization calling for a. maximum membership of 50j0 when it was created last April, the Chamber of Commerce could easily estimate a gross revenue of J250.0G0 for the year, based on annual dues o $50 for- each member. That estimate was given out to the public by J. Van Kensalaer Chase, the organizer, and it has been generally understood that such a sum of money bad been received and expended. It is understood, however, that the report by President Colt will show that the total revenues of the Cham ber will be found to be about 180,000 short of the estimates. FVatlval Kxpcnne S ho-v Mr. Colt will call attention to the xpen.se of the Rose Festival, which will account for $50,000 of the receipts, The carnival of 1915 was financed out of the revenues of the Chamber and cost $35,000. while the Chamber wi charge $15,000 as its share of the Rose festival expense In June of this year, These three items account for $13J. 000. leaving $120,000 as the actual op erating expenses of the Chamber. Out t this total comes the lease of the Oregon building, which is understood to be about $36,000 per year and leaves about $84,000 yet to be accounted for. This balance is said to be offset in about equal amounts by the cost of op erating the bureaus and divisions of the Chamber, and the remodeling and repairs which followed the consollda tion of the Commercial Club and the oid Chamber of Commerce and which were Incurred by order of Mr. Chase when he was in charge of affairs. City Tax Saggerd. Tt is understood that President Colt will ask the meeting of the members of the Chamber to consider a recom mendation and campaign to have the Rose Kestval supported by a small tax on city property. He will point out that it is a show for the pleasure of all the people of Portalnd, and that it has become their greatest amusement feature. If distributed by taxation the cost to each taxpayer would amount to about the amount paid for a cigar, said J. C. Ainsworth. "Every business man in the Chamber should be at the Friday night meet in?." said President Colt. "By busi ness men I mean every person who engaged in any line of trade and the property owner as well. "It is the meeting of the year when frank discussion of methods should be indulged, and when we should thresh out all our troubles, "so that the Cham ber may begin the new fiscal year with the decks cleared for a progressive drive toward the front and with the united support of all members. "Many things that have been not understood by the membership will be made clear, and if any Portlander can ad1 one single suggestion to the effec tiveness of the campaign the Chamber is making it will be- given a cordial reception and the careful consideration of the men who are to be charged with carrying the executive load for the coming year. cracked with a pop like a Christmas air gun. He had been arrested for taking sev eral small pieces of copper wire from the yards of the Spokane. Portland & tWe Railroad. There was doubt that he had intended the theft. Municipal Judge Langguth summoned his mother, who began life as a Polish peasant. The examination was conducted in Ger man, and the mother, her wrinkled face registering grief and vexation commingled, turned frequently to her son, whereat Judge Iangguth donned an expression of much satisfaction. This is the court's free translation of the mother's admonition: "Have I raised you this far. and tended you, that you should bring your mother to grief in the rolice Court? Shame upon you! Look at your two brothers, who work all the time. Why will you not work?" The case against the young man was dismissed on condition that he find em ployment and quit smoking cigarettes. GORVALLIS QUEEN LEADS IISS WHITE LEAPS FROM FOlUin TO FIRST PLACE IX RACE. :meni come in and sample our inviting menu for easter week ninth floor: BUSINESS BOYS TO MEET Club Organizations to Kntertain With Athletics and Music. The business boys' club of the "5T. jr. C. A. will entertain tonight and to morrow night in their div ulon lobby, nearly 150 lads being invited to the programmes. Athletics will ho the fea ture tonight, while tomorrow the en tertainment will be of a literary jtnd musical nature. Four new olubs have been organized in the division recently, thice among the juniors and one for thu business l'f vm, Prizes have been awar-Jd Tom JlcMul'en. Iel Oherteuffer. I-.ee B. Jlcn r'er.. Jr, and David "Wright, winncxu in che rftnt membership con "t-.-i in t'n f'.v.tion. EMPRESS TO CLOSE SUNDAY IJi'pairs lo Ho Made I'ending Kcop. oiling as Ackcrinan . Harris. Arkerman & Harris, the theatrical firm that has purchased the interests f Sul!ivan A: Oonsidine in Portland, will take over the Empress Theater rxt Sunday. The Kmpress will close for improve ments and reriirs to the interior for a limned time before it is reopened under t.ie auspices of the new owners, who will operate it as a link in the Hip podrome circuit, now controlled by Arkerman & Harris. "The Follies of N'o w." a miniature musical comedy, will play the reft of the week at the Empress. Louise Taylor Also Change Place? for One Xearer Top and Vancouver licta Into Field. STAMJIXO OF FESTIVAL ftl'EEX CANDIDATES IX LAST MGIIT-S COITXT. Oeorgie White. Corvallis 43,022 Louise Taylor, Western Union Telegraph Company 39,689 Jewell Carroll, Knights and Ladies of Security 36,437 Waive Jacobs, Klamath Falls, Or 30.694 Marian Anderson. Albany, Or.21, 166 Muriel Saling. Pendleton. Or. 19.625 Lillian Hendrickson, Forest ers of America 16,834 Anna Allen, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 13,999 Rose Uptegrove. Oregon City. Or 10,525 Eleanor Jackson. M o d e r n Foresters. McMinnvllle. Or. 7,919 Maud Gilman, Grand Army of the Republic and Relief Corps 6,054 Edel Fraasch. Eugene. Or. . 5,381 Myrtle McClarkln. Rose City Park 209 jrildred Pegg. Vancouver, Wash l Miss Oeorgie White, of Corvallis. who had dropped to fo'irtli place in the contest for queen of the Rose Fes tival, leaped to first yesteiday when a large block of votes was cast by her supporters, and held the lead through both the counts of the day Louise Taylor, of the Western l.nlon Telegraph Company, made a corre sponding gain, reaching seor.d place from fifth, while Jewell Oat roll, can didate of the Knights an 1 La. lies of Security, dropped from first to third, with Waive Jacobs, of KlamaUi Falls, and JIarlan Anderson, of Aioany, fol lowing her in order. Muriel Saling, the PendlcvoT candi date, gained a notch in her position in the list, and Miss Lillian Hendrick son, candidate of the Foresters of America, dropped a place. The other candidates nod aoout the same relative position that they have held for several days, although most of them increased their total of votes considerably. Mildred Pegg. of Vancouver, v. ash.. made her first appearance in the Held resterdav with 41 votes to her cied.t. Heavy votins from Vancouver is ex pected today, to bring her well up in the race. Salem is expected to name a candi date soon and it is reported that For est Crove contemplates putting a can didate in the field before the end of the ween. The purchase of ballots Is becoming heavier each day. and is supj ement ing strongly the coupon votes that are fiied. Ballots may be pur?l.soi at th) headquarters at 337 Northwestern Bank building. OVER HALF OF TAXES IN SHERIFF HIRLBIRT COLLECTS 54.8 PER CEXT IX FIRST PERIOD. More than $2,000,000 Paid Into County on April 3. 4 and 5 "When Law's Penalty Begins to Run. Despite slow payments during Feb ruary and JIarch. in which scarce ly one-sixth of the total tax assess ment for Multnomah County was col lected. Sheriff Hurlburt ended the first nstallment period on April 5 with 54.8 per cent of the total taxes collected. This was done only by record-breaking returns in the last few days of col- ection. It is estimated that more than $2,000,000 were taken in for the three days of AprH 3. 4 and 5. Figures completed yesterday by Dep uty Tax Collector Huckabay show hat up to and including April 5, $4,- 372.915.68 was collected of the 1915 as sessment. This figure is close to the estimate made by The Oregonian at hat time. The total assessment is $7,981,937. and ther-i remains to -be collected $3,609,021.32. Though Sheriff Hurlburt is well sat- sfied with the showing made this year. It Is slightlS' below that for 915, when 57 per cent of the total as sessment had been collected by March 1. The heavy collections last year were duo to pending legislation, which made interest assessments uncertain and frightened taxpayers into getting taxes paid before the law was changed. All taxpayers who have not paid heir first installments are now charged per cent a month interest for the delay, beginning with April 5. The econd installments become delinquent ' in October, and in November the entire amount is delinquent K not paid, and 5 per cent penalty is attached. THE DALLES SHIVERS AT 30 lro-t Damajes Vegetable Garden?, but Km it Is Spared. m THE DALLES. Or.. April 19. espe cial.) The frost nipped some vegeta bles In the section south of The Dalles last night, when the mercury dropped to 30 above zero, but ranchers believe that no damage was done to any of the fruit trees. A light frost was experienced here. MOTHER SAVES HER SON Jnde Dismisses Case Against Boy Aceused of "Wire Theft. The witness pressed one hand within the other as the judge questioned him. Knu' kleby knuckle he shifted the pres sure, and at each shifting the Joint j IW I N - S I X 5 ill $2900.-$3300 Fact. No. 38 Your family is safest in the Packard. The bridge builder's factor of safety is built into every part. FRANK C. RIGGS COMPANY Corneu Boad, 1S1 and Washington tits. MAIL ORDERS Are Filled the Same Day They Are Received Fresh Spring stocks of up-to-date, ready-to-wear ap parel, shoes, gloves, millinery, underwear, etc, to draw on. JtiEr Q.uality' Store of Portland fituv -SijctVMorrisoiy Alder St. PERRIN'S GLOVES For Women Sold Here Exclusively Perrin's, the world-famous Gloves, with a dash and style all their own. Best French skins, perfect workmanship, up-to-date styles in Perrin's Short Gloves $1.50, $1.75, $2, $2.25, $2.50. Perrin's Long Gloves $3.50, $4.00, $5.00 and $5.50. Glove Shop, Main Floor. 2 Big Easter Sales in Our 1 MEN'S HAT SHOP A Tremendous Purchase and Sale 1200 Men's New HATS For Easter and Everyday Wear ' ALL smart, new, soft felt hats right up-to-the-minute styles regular Alpine shape and "Trooper" flat brim.' It was a master stroke of busi ness to secure such a quantity to sell at such a price. T" i 11 i -l n t """ Li win oe a sale or. sucn magnitude as to make hat history in Portland. As Good as Any $2 Hat in Town We might truthfully go fur ther and say "better than most $2 hats." This big purchase was contracted for before the shortage of good hatting materials became acute. Our specifications rigidly called for fast dyes and workmanship as good as we would look for in $2 hats. We're satisfied and so will you be. The colors are pearl gray, dark gray in several shades, blue, black and green. " Come" in today and look over this greatest assortment of hats at $1.50 ever offered by this or any other store. Main Floor. Morrison IsLens Shops! MEN'S FURNISHINGS SHOP Men's $1.00 and $1.50 Fine SILK HOSIERY 6 9c Mostly "Onyx" Make. Some Are "Mill Run: JUST unpacked and placed on sale to day for the first time. We couldn't have better timed the arrival of this great spe cial purchase hundreds of Portland men will snap them up for Easter wear. All full-fashioned silk hose, with double sole, toe and high - spliced silk heel. They will look and wear quite as well as if you paid $1 and $1.50 for them. All desirable colors, navy, tan, gray, suede, champagne, Palm Beach, green, white and black. Here's a chance not to be missed wonderful opportun ity to buy nationally known "Onyx" silk sox and others equally dependable, 69c. Main Floor. Morrison Street. Some Interesting Eas ter Arrivals in Veils and Veiling fell That "peachy" plum shade that is so becoming, and love ly new taupe veils are among the newcomers. Soft hairline meshes with ramage design and delicate applique or hand-run borders. New fan cy turban veils with daintily spangled edge. In black and all new shades. From $1 to $2.50. Veiling in black, white, rose, green, magpie, plum yard 35c-$1.25. " Main Floor, Fifth Street. " APPAREL SHOP m For Easter Parties and House Wear We Have Frilly New Net Dresses TP I $10.00 to $39.50 Two Styles Illustrated THE dress at the left is a charming combination of ecru net and lace with pastel green taffeta. Little bits of frilled net on underskirt, at wrist and around collar, add to its fluffiness. The outstand ing green knee-deep flounce is picot edged, $39.50. The little dress at right is delight fully simple and would be especially pretty for a slight, immature figure. The three outstanding flounces of the skirt are satin ribbon edged and trimmed and the waist is quite simply made with round frill at neck and el bow puff sleeves. Very new and youthful and only $10. There are nets and voiles and or gandies .made in scores of smart styles, some trimmed with touches of satin ribbon or flowers, others with lace and embroidery, while many are practically untrimmed. Sizes 16 to 44. to -Apparel Shop, Fourth Floor. For Little Men From 2 to 10 Easter Wash Togs The $2.50 suit illustrated at comes in all season able fabrics Palmer Cloth, Galatea, Devonshire, Linens and Repps. Tans, grays, blues and white in striking blazer stripes, many with colored belt, collar and cuffs. Others $1 to $7.50. Sole Agents "S a m p e c k" Suits and "Kaynee" Wash Togs. Third Floor, Fifth Street. For Your Easter Table A Large Showing of Easter Silverware Rogers "18J7" "Community" and Other -Famous Brands 'Choose your Easter silver from our com plete assortments of finest quality silverware. Buy by the half dozen, dozen or complete sets in handsome cabinets. Rogers 1847 Medium Knives, hollow han dle, dozen $12.oO. Medium Forks, hollow han dle, dozen .$12.50. Dessert Knives, hollow han dle, dozen $12.00. Dessert Forks, hollow handle, dozen $12.00. Medium Knives, solid handle, dozen $5.40. Medium Forks, solid handle, dozen $8.00. Table and Soup Spooni, solid haicle, dozen $8.00. Dessert Spoons, solid handle, dozen $7.oO. Teaspoons, solid handle, the dozen $4.00. Salad Forks, solid handle, dozen $8.50. "Community" Medium Knives, hollow han dle, dozen $12.00. Medium Forks, hollow handle, dozen $12.00. Dessert Knives, hollow han dle, dozen $1 J .0. Dessert Forks, hollow handle, dozen $11.60. Medium Knives, solid handle, dozen $5.50. Medium Forks, solid handle, dozen $8.60. Table and Round-bowl Spoons, dozen $8.60. Dessert Spoons, solid handle, dozen $8.00. Teaspoons, priced at, the doz en $4.30. Salad Forks, solid handle, the dozen $8.50. Easter Gift Suggestions Handsome 26 - piece Set Community Silver in mahogany case $24.95. Beautiful 42-piece Set "World Brand" Silver in case $35.75 Silverware Shop. Main Floor. " M E N'S CLOTHING SHQp 'Easter Special" for Young Men High School Suits $15 English style, with patch pockets, one-button coats and new "Belter" models. Sizes 32 to 36. -Third Floor Blue Serge Suits for Con firmation, $15. New Easter FICTION 50c New arrivals in good, popular-priced reading: "The Laughing Cavalier," by Baroness Orczy. "The League of the Leop ard," by Harold Bind loss. "The Intriguers," by Har old Bindloss. "The People's Man," by E. Phillips Oppenheim. "Ariadne of Allen Water," by Sidney McCall, auth or of "Truth Dexter." "The Story of Marco," by Eleanor H. Porter. "The Girl Who Lived in the Woods," by Marjorie Benton Cooke. "The Rocks of Valpre," by Ethel M. Dell. Bookstore. Easement, Balcony. On Sale Today Another Carload U 99 BmcnoH SALEM. ORE. Perfection Flour $1.15 Another opportunity is offered Portland housewives to buy this high-grade family patent flour at this wonderfully low price. Milled from carefully selected wheat, tested by our own bakers and found excellent. No Phone nor C.O.D. Orders Taken Ninth Floor; Fifth Street. Sale of Spring and Summer Weight Underwear for Women and Children Children's, Misses' Munsing Union Suits 65c 2 to 10-yr. sizes 50c; 75c 11 to 13, 60c Soft-finish cotton, light weight. All styles, drop seat. Children's Rubens Union Suits 2 to 12-year sizes at 75c Medium-weight cotton, regulation Rubens style cut. Women's Union Suits 65c Regular Sizes, .",") 75c Extra Sizes for 600 "Munsing" garments, fine light-weight cotton, shell finish. Low neck, no sleeves, tight and loose shell-trimmed knees. Women's Union Suits $1 Regular Sizes, 790 $1.25 Extra Sizes, 87p "Munsing" make. Light weight lisle, an excellent Sum mer garment. All styles, shell finished yokes and knees. Women's Union Suits v $1.25 Regular Sizes, 980 $1.50 Extra Sizes, $1.15 "Harvard Mills" brand, high grade, elastic tuck-stitched lisle. Perfect fitting garments, in all desired Summer styles. Women's Union Suits $1.25 Regular Sizes, 950. $1.50 Extra Sizes, $1.20 "Athena" the well - liked make. Extra fine knit cotton, light Summer weight. Comes in all the Summer styles. : Women's Separate Garments 63c Regular Sizes, 550 75c Extra Sizes at 050 Fine lisle Summer-weight un dergarments. Vests' in variety Summer styles, pants knee or ankle lengths. Women's Union Suits $1.50 Regular Sizes, $1.29 $1.75 Extra Sizes at $1.55 "Athena" make. Extra fine light-weight lisle. Mercerized taped yokes, low neck, sleeveless and tight knee. Main Floor. Sixth Street. IT BEGAN YESTERDAY OUR ANNUAL SALE OF PAINTS, BRUSHES, ETC. BUY NOW BASEMENT;