Morning Oregonian., April 27, 1916, Page 9, Image 9

TITE MORNING OREGONIAIf, THURSDAY,
APRIIi
27, 191&
TWO BIG REALTY
DEALS MADE PUBLIC
Elackstone Hotel Is Traded.
Old Esmond House Is to
Be Razed and Replaced. -
RECORD FOR YEAR IS SET
Jleior Itatc o Build Business
Structure When Front - Street
I'ropcrty Is Cleared of For
mer Famed IIoMelry.
The conclusion yesterday of a J255.
000 realty deal involving- two valuable
parcel." of inside Portland business
property, and the definite announce
ment by Julius L. Meier, of Meier &
Frank Company, that the A. Meier es
tate will replace the old Esmond Hotel
property on the northeast corner of
Kront and Morrison streets with a
new building, furnished the local real
ty market -with two of the most im
portant developments of the year.
Kxrr.pt for the purchase of a site for
the First National Bank building at
Sixth and Stark streets, which really
belongs to last year, when it was
inititiated and announced, yesterday's
double realty deal is the largest tran
saction of the year, and one of the
most significant in recent years.
R. P. Effinger. one of Portland's
most prominent business men. has sold
the four-story brick Blackstone Hotel
building that covers 96 by 121 feet of
l.-ind on the northeast corner of Klev
rnth and Stark streets to Frank
T'hillippi at a reported valuation of
155.000.
As $100,000 of the payment, Mr. Ef
finger accepted title to 75 by 100 feet
cf land located on the southwest cor
ner f.f Fifth and Burnside streets, the
balance, figurine: in cash and mort
gages. The naked land on Burnside
street is assessed at T72.000.
Improvement J Kxpevted.
At present old frame buildings stand
on the property, but it is understood
that Mr. Effinger will improve this
corner in the near future, although no
definite plans have as yet been formu
lated. This property, which has been
owned by the Phillippl family for
many years, has a frontage of 100 feet
on Burnside.
Mr. Phillippi was represented in the
double deal by F. E. Taylor, of the
realty firm bearing his name, and Mr.
Effinger by Philip V. TV. Fry, of the
Fieri A. Jacobs Company.
The first floor of the Blackstone
Hotel building Is divided into stores,
white the upper three floors are used
for hotel purposes. The structure,
-which w -s erected in December. 1910,
covers practically 8000 square feet of
ground space. having the 121-foot
frontage on Stark street and 96 feet
on Eleventh street.
The Blackstone is directly across
from the Nortonia Hotel in a rapidly
developing section where several fine
buildings. Including the Pittock block,
the Stevens. Piatt. TVoodard & Clark
and the Olds. Wortman & King build
ings have been erected within the past
five years.
Julius L. Meier announced yesterday
that the Esmond Hotel building, which
was condemned recently on account of
Its age and depreciation, will be razed
immediately to make way for the con
struction of a briek building that will
probably cover the entire 100x170 feet
holding owned by the A. Meier es
tate. To Storlea Now Planned.
"The foundation will be constructed
to carry a half dozen stories, but for
the present we may not erect more
than two stories." said Mr. Meier yes
terday. "I am not yet ready to an
nounce Just what the character of
the building will be nor how much it
will cost, but definite plans will be
formulated probably within the dfcurse
of the coming few days. We have
-everal propositions pending and choice
will soon be made."
Bids wiil be received until May 1
for the razing of the old Esmond,
which is a four-story brick structure
with approximately 100 feet frontage on
Front street and about the name di
mension extending along Morrison
street toward the river. The Meier
estate also owns the land intervening
between the hotel and the river, where
an old building was demolished about
a year ago.
It is understood the new building will
be designed especiallj' for marine in
terests and ship cjiandlery business.
A number of leases have already been
closed for space in the prospective
building.
In the -pioneer days the Esmond Ho
tel was Portland's most magnificent
hostelry and a long list of notables
written on its early registers. There
was a time when the old Esmond was
the pride of the entire Northwest and
the most brilliant social functions of
the year were held within its walls.
CITY MAKES ROAD OFFER
If All I-innton Bonlevard Levy Is
raid, S5O.O0O More Will Be Spent.
Provided the property owners along
Llnnton boulevard are willing to agree
to pay the full amount of the assess
ment imposed against them for con
struction of the boulevard, the city
will agree to spend about $50,001 In
completing and improving the boule
vard. This was decided by the City
Council yesterday at an -informal meei
ing. The property owners are contesting
the right of the city to collect the
full amount of the assessment. City
Attorney I-aRoche admits that the city
cannot collect the full amount. City
Attorney LaRoche was authorized to
negotiate.
Judge Langguth Raises Fine
and Denies Appeal.
Jurist Hrromr Slightly Nettled
hen Original Light Imposition
Im ."Not Appreciated.
"We like to have you come to the
city." said Municipal Judge Langguth
to A. C. Hunt, charged with speeding
when homeward bound from .a visit
with friends. '.'We like to have you
use our streets and we like to use your
roads. I believe that you testified truly
when you said that you did not think
you were exceeding the speed limit. For
these reasons your fine will be lighter
than usual. It will be $15."
The defendant wax represented by
Attorney W. K. Farrell, with whom he
now consulted.
"We ask your honor for permission
to appeal this case." said the attorney.
"If you do not recognize a good thing
when you have it." said the court, with
sudden heat, "it is time you learned.
The fine is now $20. and the case will
not b- appealed."
"But. your honor " stammered At
torney Farrell. his face crimsoning-.
"Call the next case!" Judge Lang
guth commanded.
Frequent requests for the granting
of appeals from moderate judgments
have nettled the court.
Mr. Hunt i a prosperous rancher,
living near Lamascus.. With his wife
and a neighbor family he was hurry
ing back to the farm when Motorcycle
Patrolman Frank Ervin swooped down
upon the car.
In another case four men and two
women, slightly hilarious, were return
ing from a convivial session at the
Hotel Belle, In Milwaukle. With the
gay abandon of all roadhouse parties,
they insisted on "burning the pave
ment." Louis Sherman, their chauffeur.
Is said to have a police court record
as a violator of the traffic ordinances.
Motorcycle Patrolman Ervin halted
the car on Milwaukie etreet, after a
test had shown its speed to be 38 miles
an hour.
The driver. Sherman, was fined $25
by Municipal Judge Langguth. Two
of his patrons. Otto Finley and Joe L.
Farley, were each fined $15 for drunk
enness. Henry Ivey and C. J. Low-
PORTLAND W'OMAV IS LAID
TO REST.
4
Mrs. Jacob A. Ha
The funeral of Mrs.
ak.
Jacob A.
Haak, who died at her home. 1513
East Morrison street, Saturday
morning, was held at 2 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon from the
residence of her son. John H.
Haak. 126 East Fifty-eighth
street. lie v. William O. Moore
conducted the last rites.
Mrs. Haak was born near Head -ing.
Pa., almost 80 years ago. In
1879 the family removed to Michi
gan, where they resided until
they came to Portland, eight
years ago.
Her husband and five children
survive her Luther K., at Eagle
Point, Or.; Harry K-. John H.
Charles E. Haak and Mrs. B. li.
Lutcn, all of Portland.
:
paugh paid $10 fines for disorderly con
duct. Fines of $5 each were assessed
against Alice Wilson and Ethel Hopper.
O. TV. Walker and C. R. Thorpe, ar
rested bv Patrolman Ervin, were fined
$20. while H. V. Hale was fined ITS.
L. B. Mctzger, arrested- by Patrolman
Young for speeding, paid a $25 fine.
G. A. R. ENTRY IN LEAD
MIlS. Mil I) .ll,IA AliV.CI5S
FROM sil.XTH ' LI ST.
Mi Lillian . If endrlrknon Morn
From Fourth to Second In Fes
tival Qirrii Count.
Vp
STAVUING OF CANDIDATES FOR
FESTIVAL, a I F.K.N- IN LAST
MUHT'S CO V.N T.
Mrs. Maud Gilman. G. A. Ii. J
and Relief Corps 72.894 J
Lillian C. Hendricksen, For-
esters of America 71,802
Jewell Carroll. Knights and
Ladies of Security 70,255
Ijuibc lay ivi, VGBt-caia a
Union 65.133
Edel Fraasch, Eugene 64,824 4
Muriel Saling. Pendleton 61,494
Itose Uptegrove, Oregon City 61,484
Waive Jacobs, Klamath T
Falls 56.554 I
Georgie White. Corvallis. 55,553
Eleanor Jackson. Modern
Foresters. McMinnville. . . 39.756
Marion Anderson. Albany... 30,219 J
Anna Allen. Metropolitan I
Life Insurance Co 20.976 4
Mildred Pegg. Vancouver... 18,380 i
Mvrtle McClarkin, Rose City
Park 309 J
Mrs. Maud Gilman, candidate of the
Relief Corps and the Grand Army of
the Republic for queen of the Rose
Festival, took the lead in the contest
yesterday and held it through all the
counts. On the count two days ago
she was sixth in the list, and her rise
to first place represented a jump of
about 30.000 votes.
A similarly sensational rise was
made by Miss Lillian llendrickson, can
didate of the Foresters of America, who
went from fourth to second, crowding
the two leaders of the previous day
down to third and fourth.
Edel Fraasch. of Eugene, rose from
seventh to.Jifth place . and Muriel
Saling. who was in 10th place two days
ago. has now taken a place In the
first section.
Rose Uptegrove. of Oregon City;
Waive Jacobs, of Klamath Falls, and
Georgie White, of Corvallis, who for
many days held places in the lead,
have dropped into the second section.
Miss Mildred Pegg. of Vancouver,
while still far down on the list, made
a great gain in votes yesterday, and
probably will rise well . up in the list
in the coming counts.
Miss Jewell Carroll, candidate of the
Knights and Ladles of Security, will
appear at the, Columbia Theater to
night, and votes will be given with
each admission ticket.
Th.-. sale of Festival buttons will
continue until Saturday night, 200 votes
being given with each button sold.
SALVAGING CONTRACT LET
Junior League of Postal Banks Gets
Concession From Council.
The Junior League of Postal Barks
yesterday won the concession from the
City Council of salvaging saleable
materials from the street sweepings
and from the garbage supply of. the
resident districts.
The organization will be given the
sweepings from the carts of the white
wings. provided suitable- dumping
places close to the business district
are provided and kept in sanitary con
dition. Also the organization will b
permitted to gather cans. Junk, bottles,
rubber and other saleable materials
from the residence districts.
Permanent Survey Planned.
ALBANY. Or.. April 26. (Special.)
Plans are being discussed for a perma
nent survey of the Pacific Highway
through Linn County. John H. Lewis.
State Highway Engineer, has arranged
to make the survey without expense
to the county, providing transportation
for the surveyors is furnished.
ENGAGEMENT
LIMITED
S SSSS APRIL 30
MAT.
2:15
Elliott & Sherman Present
D. W. GRIFFITH'S
EVE.
S:15
EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD!
it
in
'A &
w
i, 1.
it
i
i f
1
u
" "
WITH
40
SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
40
EVE. 25c, 50c, 75c, $1, Few $1.50, Boxes $2
700 SEATS SOc SOO SEATS 75c
MATINEES 25c, 50c, 75c and $1
lOOO SEATS 50c 500 SEATS 75c
SEATS NOW SELLING
PRICES
RARE PERSONALITY IS
FOUND IN FRITZI SCHEFF
AVoman With Adorable Ways Has Room in Her Heart for All Who Are
Unloved, Declares Leone Cass Baer.
BY LEpNE CASS BAER.
SOMEONE said once that personality
is the persuasive quality that takes
the audience to the player, which,
I reckon, is good as far as it goes.
But how do you describe personality"
when the audience isn't an audience,
but just a lone woman interviewer and
the player has ceased for the afternoon
to be a player and is Just a fascinating
hostess?
What is this peculiar power of ap
peal, this fascinating physical and
mental action delivered with clarity of
purpose this to employ an expressive
viiearism "getting it across"? More
than any artist I have ever met and
the line is lengthy, with big names
adorning it Madame Fritzi Scheff
possesses this mysterious and remark
able quality. She came, into the room
and the other folk about turned into
mere objects of furniture, while she
seemed a gay, little, golden humming
bird darting about. She perched on
the arm of a chair and chatted delight
fully of her rabbit, a new acquisition.
Pet Rabbit Intercuts Actress.
"I loathe and detest the custom some
actresses have of traveling with a dog
on a chain. I have dogs, yes, and
horses, and Persian kittens, but they
are home where they belong. This rab
bit is quite a novelty. I go marketing
every day to find him nice lettuce and
carrots. Come and see him obey me."
The lithe and spirited little Viennese
lijmncd from her chair and ran to
where a diminutive rabbit munched at
a lettuce heart as large as himself.
"I wonder how does one call rabbits
to come. I whistle, but he only eats
on. Sometimes he comes if I snap my
fingers." Madame Scheff made a coax
ing, adorable croon and snapped her lit
tle fingers. But the rabbit stolidly
stuffed.
"I am showing you off. Bunny,
coaxed the little imp of the opera.
"Come to me instantly, bad boy!" She
smiled and waggled her hand tempt
ingly, turning her pretty head sidewise,
employing wiles.
The rabbit finished his dinner and
washed -his face and hands the while
Kritzi Scheff and I sat on the floor by
his crate and watched the process.
Then he scurried into his bed, a comfy
one of cotton. Around him in his cor
ner of Fritzi Scheft's grand suite was
scattered enough vegetables to feed a
regiment.
"I like to mother him." sighed Fritzi,
tucking the temperamental rabbit un
der his coverlet. "I could mother all
the little lonely ones and the old folks
in ,the world."
Love for Babies Expressed.
And that is the lovely thing I found
out about Fritzi Scherr. fene let me
see beneath the surface and showed
me a deep-rooted love for home, for
babies and for the simple, homey things
of everyday living. She can cook and
she can sew. and she is domestic to
her pink fingertips.
"I used to carry bits of my home life
on my tours, but I lost so many articles
of value, and so much got broken, and
my excess baggage was a fearful item,
so now I carry only a few best
beloved books and pictures."
Madame Scheff reads fiction, romance
history, plays and politics and is well
informed on topics of the day. She is
a - bundle of nervous energy well di
rected. She is genuine and generous, a
delicious bit of splendUl explosive, the
only child of an Hungarian mother and
an Austrian father, and foreign to the
core of her in one essential quality
her distinction of person, passions and
mental outlook.
Death of Father Cants Shadow.
Of her father she' spoke sadly. He
was a distinguished doctor, in Vienna
and. his recent passing has cast a sha'J-
s i
i 1 "-
: mmmmmmwm t
! : . : i
Fritzi Scheff. Prima Donna, at
Orpheunu
ow in the life of his merry little daugh
ter. "He was my best friend. He under
stood me perfectly and wa my ideal
of men." Madame Scheff's mother is
one of rhe beauties and opera singers
of Europe, and when the war ends she
plans to visit Madame Fritzi in
America.
The little Viennese prima donna's
conversation is eprinkled with spon
taneous epigrams. "I do not change my
style of hair dress no! Up to now my
face has not changed my nose is still
retrousse so why should I do my hair
on my neck because eome others with
pointed noses do?" she asks naively.
"Americans live a quick-lunch life,"
says Fritzi. Yes, she's married nearly
three .years now. She is Airs. George
Anderson and husband George is
handsome, a strapping six-footer, ami
you've seen him in the movies and in
comic opera kwith Madame Scheff.
GARDENS WILL BE OPENED
Father Sclioencr to Explain Methods
to Tnblic on Visiting Days.
The Schoener Scientific Gardens on
the Peninsula", in which Father George
Schoener is following out horticul
tural researches similar to those of
Burbank in California, are well estab
lished and will be thrown open to pub
lic Inspection on Wednesday and Sun
day afternoon of each week. Father
Schoener will explain his methods of
work to visitors.
In the gardens now there are 1500
roses, representing 2300 varieties; 2000
fruit trees, 150 varieties of apples, 100
of pears, 50 of peaches, 40 of plums, 20
of prunes, 20 of nectarines, 140 of ber
ries, 140 varieties of corn, 150 of wheat,
which is this year planted at Mount
Angel; 4000 bulbs of gladioli, dahlias,
and 1000 ornamental plants and medi
cinal herbs.
Father Schoener has discovered a
native Oregon tulip, which he has
pollenizcd with many tulips in the city
parks, through co-operation of Com
missioner Baker and Superintendent
Conville.
CITY TO ADD AUTO FLUSHER
Mr. Daly Is Authorized to Buy New
Type of Street Cleaner.
The city will have another automo
bile street flushing machine. The City
Council yesterday authorized Commis
sioner Paly to close a contract with
the Tiffin Wagon Company for a
flusher to cost $5398. This company
submitted the lowest bid for the ma
chine. The city has two machines of a dif
erent type from the one now to be in
stalled. While Mr. Daly says he is con
vinced that they are giving good serv
ice it is the advice of the men in the
street cleaning hureau that they are
neither economical nor good for street
cleaning purposes. Also the city is
being sued now by a local concern be
cause it is alleged the two machines
purchased, involve infringements on
patents held by another company.
LODGEMEN TO CELEBRATE
Oddfellows Hold Dance and Plan
Kxercises at School.
About 700 persons attended the Odd
fellows' dance at Chrlstensen's Hall
Tuesday night. ' The affair was in com
memoration of the 97th anniversary of
the founding of the lodge in the United
States. The hall was elaborately
decked with flowers, ferns, palms, ban
ners and colors.
Friday night the anniversary will be
celebrated with speeches and a pro
gramme at Lincoln High School. A
number of prominent local lodgemen
will speak, and the meeting will be
presided over by Henry F. Westbrook,
deputy district - grand marshal. Musi
cal numbers and songs will be given.
MAJESTIC
THEATER
Now Playing;
WILLIAM
FARNUM
In His Latest Triumph
"The Man
of Sorrow"
A play of love and hate.
Based on the famous
stage success "Hood
man Blind."
St Jiv ft ?A ' . ' J : :r ' t:J ;7. I
IT
s-TJ tS . 7 ' A
vvnat rms
TRADE MARK
means to YOU
it stands for worth
while photoplays fea
turing celebrated stars
it is a guarantee of
consistently high qual-.
ity fifty -two weeks in
the year.
it stands for
THE PRODUCTIONS OF
Famous Players Film Company
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company
The Oliver Morosco Photoplay Company
and Pallas Pictures
Every Theatre Manager
showing this trade-mark in
animated form, on the screen,
on the billboards, the lobby, or
in advertisements is doing his
best to give his patrons the best
obtainable.
He has discarded the nickel-
odeon type of pictures for real
photoplays therefore he de
serves your support
If your neighborhood theatre
does not show Paramount
Pictures ask the manager to
get them.
ypaj-amoiintfictiircA (orporatlofi-
pour eighty five fifth avmuf. V, Ati.itijt
NEW.YDRK.N.Y.
LOCAL. IMSTItlBU'l'ORS,
Irogreisivc Motion IMcture Co., Centra! illt!w. Seattle.
cViish.
PARAMOUNT SSS1-- PICTURES
ARE SHOWN
EXCLUSIVELY
AT THE
WEST PARK AND ALDER STS.
I
Phone Your Want A. ds to
The Oregoraia.n
Main 7070 A 6095
am