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14 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1917. PORTLAND WILL SEE TYPICAL SCENES WHEN RINGLING BROTHERS' CIRCUS ARRIVES OREGON POLICY 111 DRAFT UNCHANGED QSQLkn3d A Special Exhibition of . L. Crissey's Gladioli Beginning Tuesday at 2:30 P. M. and continuing all day .Wednesday. Everybody welcome. Admission free. Sixth Floor, Auditorium. MANY GOOD SHOWS C ason Will Open With "So Boards Will Exempt Heads of Families in First Call as Far as Possible. .ong, Letty," Musical Friv , olity, at the Heilig. w BIG OPERAS ARE BOOKED Orpheum and Baker Will Follow With Vaudeville and Stock, Re spectively Eleventh Street Slay Be Opened, Too. Winter theatricals are beginning to loom on the horizon, and next month will mark the opening of the play houses for what looks like a rather busy season. The conclusion seems to be warranted, from all advance Infor mation, that the coming- season is to be one of the best in local amusement circles in several years. First of the theaters to reopen for the Winter will be the Heilig-. which will present "So Long, Letty," a road show that is heralded as being a musi cal frivolity filled with cleverness. It will be a revel with plenty of feminine loveliness to enhance Its other at tractions. The Heilig will reopen about the middle of next month, probably Sep tember 13. The Initial attraction will be followed by Kolb and Dill, premier funmakers, who are well known here as rare comedians. Their vehicle is "The High Cost of Loving," and is said to be full of laughs and Jollity. Many Attractions Billed. Fdllowingr these two shows will come road attractions galore, and the Klaw & Erlanger stock productions will be s.een at the Heilig as they fit Into the booking scheme. It is likely they may also be shown at the Elev enth Street theater, but as yet no defi nite announcement is ready as respects that playhouse, although one Is likely to be made most any time now. The Klaw & Erlanger stock shows opened yesterday In California, and it Is said they will prove a sufficiently strong drawing card to be highly pop ular here. The fact that the Orpheum vaudeville circuit will use the Heilig but three rights each week, with four matinees, this season, gives the Heilig manage ment a better chance to book road shows, and it is expected this arrange ment will be satisfactory to those patrons of the theater who cannot seem to get enough of road shows. Several big operas are booked for the Heilig during the season. The first of these is the La Scala Grand Opera Company, of New York, which will be heard here in October. The Orpheum will reopen Its vaude ville season September 30, with a splen did line of variety, new acts and en tertainment of a highly diverting nature. The Orpheum, under the new arrangement made for this season, will play Sunday, Monday and Tuesday rights, with matinees Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. There will be no vaudeville performances Wednes day nights. linker to Open September 30. . The Baker Theater will reopen Sep tember 3D for the Winter. The Alcazar Flayers will present for an opener the comedy drama "Hit the Trail Holladay," which will be entirely new to Portland, although a big success in New York and at other places on this Coast, where it was presented on tour. Edward Everett Horton will be lead ing man of the Alcazar Players. He is said to have been highly popular as lead with the Poll stock companies in Washington, D. C, and Baltimore. The name of the leading woman has not yet been made public. Other well known people will complete the com pany and a number o. high-class and popular plays are scheduled for pro duction at the Baker the coming Win ter. Of Interest to Portland theatrical fans Is the project of the Western Produ cing Company, a local organization, to put "The Old Homestead," the favorite American drama, on the road for a tour of 42 weeks of the West. Portland men are behind the project. Walter Reed is president of the Western Pro ducing Company, Sidney Zetosch is sec retary, Milton W. Seaman manager and Lee Riley business manager. Louis Christ will be acting manager with the show. Rehearsals will start at once and William H. Dills will stage the production. The Western Producing Company has secured all rights to "The Old Home stead" in the territory west of the Mis sissippi, and the homespun drama of New England life Is expected to open either in Vancouver or Tacoma, Wash., after which it will be started on its way for 42 weeks. VACATIONS ABE AT END PROMISEJTT PASTORS RETURNING FROM LEISl'RE PERIODS. Majority of Leading Portland Clergy men Will Reanme Polplta by Next Sunday. Most of the prominent clergymen of the city have returned, or are expected to return, from their vacations in time to occupy their respective pulpits next Sunday. In no case has the church been closed, visiting ministers and clergymen taking over the pulpits in the absence of the regular pastors. Rev. W. E. Brinkman, of St. James' Lutheran,, took a "between-Sundays" vacation at Gearhart, leaving a week ago today and returning last Friday. Rev. Thomas Jenkins, of St. David's Episcopal, did not miss a Sunday either. He accomplished this by the simple ex pedient of not taking a vacation. Rev. Joshua Stansfield, of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, enjoyed a two week's vacation this year. Rev. Mr. Stansfield motored to Seaside with his family on August 9. returning August 23. He did not occupy the pulpit at the First Methodist yesterday, however, Walter Lee Airheart, assistant pastor, preaching both sermons. Rev. W. C. Kantner. of the pilgrim Congregational, intends to pass his va cation at Newport during the early part of September. Rev. Frank Dyer, of the First Con gregational Church of Tacoma and widely known in Portland, has occu pied the pulpit at the First Congrega tional in the absence of Rev. Luther R. Dyott, who is at present on his vaca tion. Dr. Dyott will return this com ing week, however, and occupy his pulpit next Sunday. Dr. D. D. Hutchison, of the Piedmont Presbyterian Church, returned from his vacation during the past week and con ducted the services at his church yes terday. Rev. W. B. Hinson returned from a somewhat extended trip through Mon tana in time to preach yesterday's ser motts at the East Side Baptist Church. PRESIDENT THUS SUGGESTS ' i : iir-f-' BIG CIRCUS ARRIVES Ringling Brothers to Give Two Performances Here. 1376 PERSONS WITH SHOW Many Nationalities Are Represented and Nearly 2 000 Animals Are Carried Thousands of Sight seers Present Sunday. SCHEDULE FOR RINGLING CIR CUS TODAY. Show grounds Usual location at Twenty-fifth and Raleigh streets. Route of parade Leaving show grounds about 9:30 A. M.. it will proceed along Twenty-third to Everett, to Ella, to Washing ton, to Chapman, to Alder, to Third, to Burnside, to Sixth, to Everett, to Eighteenth, to Flan ders, to Twentieth, to Raleigh, thence back to show grounds. Performances Begin promptly at 2 and 8 P. M., the doors open ing at 1 and 7 P. M.. to allow time for a visit to the menagerie. A truly remarkable family of nomads came to Portland early yesterday morning and pitched its tents at Twenty-fifth and Raleigh streets. Gay wagons lumbered and creaked, strange ungle voices came from mysterious vans, dogs barked, colored roustabouts shot craps" in the enticing shadow of the commissary canvas and every small boy in Portland who could es cape Sunday school flocked to that rendezvous of babel. After an absence of four years. Ring- ling Bros, and their attendant host of horsemen, footmen, clowns, gymnasts. menagerie and miscellaneous retainers were once more in Portland, where the famous circus will give two perform ances today, beginning at 2 and 8 P. M. Swiftly the canvas city took sem blance, and when breakfast was an nounced the circus commissary catered to precisely 1200 persons a light at tendance, according to the chief of the culinary division, owing to the fact that many of the family are guests of friends and relatives in this city during their stay. Animals Star Performers. There are 735 horses, 1008 wild ani mals, 41 elephants, not counting "Big Bingo," the two-story pachyderm, and herds of giraffes, camels, zebras and ostriches, many of them distinguished from the menagerial hoi polloi by tal ents that place them in the billing as star performers. Among the performers the blend of nationalities is uncommonly cosmopol itan. There are Spaniards. Japanese, Russians, Cossacks and Indians. With other employes of the circus they com plete a census roll of 1370. More than 4000 meals are served daily on the showgrounds and 90 cooks and waiters minister to the multitude of appetites. Yesterday morning, despite the market quotations, employes were trundling wheelbarrows of beef kitchenward. Ringling Brothers maintains a se cret service department. Red Cross de partment, two physicians, three nurses, three veterinary surgeons and 23 ad vance agents. Three advance cars, which herald the coming of the big tent3, employ 115 men. Poatoffiee Is Maintained. The circus has Its own attorney, postmaster, postman and poatoffiee. It has carried efficiency to the point where it declines to rely upon the local brand of weather and calls upon its own official forecaster for a fair day. Its blacksmith shop, paint shop and wagon shop employ scores of crafts men, while three men have the life calling of greasing wagon wheels. Visitors at the circus grounds yester day, and there were thousands who couldn't wait for the performance to day, were frankly curious about the circus folk themselves. For the most part they found them writing letters In the shady lee of the dressing-tents. This circumstance never failed to sur prise, for the people of the sawdust ring are still, to most conceptions, en dowed with childhood's mystery. To find them quite ordinary In private life did not seem in accord with the mixed career of spangles and blithe daring. Sixty clowns accompany the circus, a fact which should be noted as of outstanding importance, for a clown less circus, or one insufficiently sup plied, would be a sour apple at best. ROAD WILL BE SURFACED Work Will Start Today on Highway From Washougal. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Aug. 26. (Spe cial.) Six miles of state road No. 8. leading from Washougal up the Wash ougal River to the Skamania County line, will be surraced with crushed rock Immediately, work beginning Monday, according to announcement made by County Commissioner Miller, in whose district the road lies. The work will be done by the Clarke Coun ty auto trucks, and owing to the nar rowness of the road and rough country through which it passes, portions of it may be closed during the two months that the work will require. The road is a scenic one, following the picturesque Washougal River, a noted trout stream, with Its rapids, rocks and waterfalls. CHILDREN'S FAIR PLANNED Products to Be Displayed at Battle Ground, Wash. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Aug. 26. (Spe cial.) A children's industrial and agri cultural fair, at which the products of school gardens In Clarke County will b; shown, Is to be held at Battle Ground September 28. There will also be exhi bitions by fruit and vegetable canning clubs organized among the girls of various schools. Domestic science work will also be displayed. A large list of premiums Is being worked out. W. F. Hollenbeck. of Battle Ground, is president of the committee handling the fair; W. H. Dickson, secretary, and H. C. Cornell, treasurer. Adjutant-General White Holds Con ference With Railway Official Regarding Blovement of New Army to Camp Lewis. The policy " of Oregon exemption boards with regard to men of military age who have dependents, as heretofore carried out. coincides with the declara tion of President Wilson on that phase of the draft, according to Adjutant General George A. White, and will re main unchanged. "At a recent meeting of the district boards a similar policy was adopted for Oregon," the Adjutant-General com mented, "and the instructions received today from the Provost Marshal-General will not materially affect the pol icy already In force. "The President's ideas on the sub ject, however, serve to clear up any confusion as to the intent of the law, and will serve to facilitate the work of the district boards. Copies of the telegram of instruction have been for warded to the district boards at Port land, Eugene and La Grande." President Givea Vievra. The substance of President Wilson's recommendation Is summed up in one paragraph of his communication to the Provost Marshal-General: "We ought, as far as practicable, to raise this Na tional Army without creating the hard ships necessarily entailed when the head of a family Is taken, and I hope that for the most part those accepted in the first call will be found to be men who have not yet assumed such rela tions." Adjutant-General White held a con ference yesterday afternoon with Carl Taylor, of the O.-W. R. & N., represent ing the American Railway Association, with reference to the routing entailed in assembling the National Army quota. A complete change in the schedule for September 5, which was counter manded by orders received Saturday, rendered new instructions and provis ions necessary for the movement of troops on September 5 to American Lake, but the previous schedule will be in force for September 19, when 40 per cent will be mobilized, and for the third mobilization of 40 per cent on October 3. Fifteen per cent will remain to be called when practicable. Delay la Not Anticipated. Provisions for the moving of the first five per cent of Oregon's quota on Sep tember 5 are complete, and no delay Is anticipated. The ruling of the War Department in this matter is held to be of great assistance to state authori ties, as they are empowered to make any adjustment of the regulations that may be -found necessary in assembling the men. The responsibility for delivering the quota on the day specified, as recruits to the National Army, is placed wholly upon Oregon authorities by this ruling. It is officially recognized that the pre scribed regulations might not be ap plicable in all communities and cases. DEATH CALLS PIONEER Mrs. Isabel J. McLees Succumbs to Pneumonia at Bend. BEND, Or, Aug. 26. (Special.) After suffering from pneumonia for the past month. Mrs. Isabel J. McLees, one of the oldest white women born in the state, died here Friday night, aged 58 years. The funeral will be held in La fayette, her old home, Monday. Mrs. McLees is survived by her widower, two brothers, two sisters and her father, Isaac Alderman, one of the early Oregon pioneers. The deceased came to Bend last November from Portland. Better Optical Service! R W . ifriiV ? " i - i it I ' v .Ki Thompson'a Ophthalmoscope Deteeta Every Error of Vision Instantly J Treating eye strain by means of suitable glasses is not by any means so simple as it appears. The necessary skill can only be acquired by years of close study and experience. J There are eo many opticians in the world and so many people selling glasses that you are in a position to demand something better than the average, and we are in a position to give it to you. J The necessary knowledge covers a wide field and in cludes eye physiology and anatomy, physical and visual optics in their advanced stages; also a practical knowledge of lens grinding. J Our 26 years' experience in scientific eyesight testing is at your disposal. Thompson Optical Institute Portland's Oldest and Largest Exclusive Optical Place. Established 1901. 209-10-11 Corbett Building, Fifth and Morrison. Kodak Service Bring in the films that you exposed yesterday, let our ex perts develop and print them. One trial will convince you of our superiority in this work. Prompt service. Kodak Shop, Main Floor. r EUk&i)4 -9 1607 THe Quality" Store oi Portland Sporting Goods In moving: our complete sporting goods store many odds and ends of high-grade sport ing goods were brought to light. We have marked these at great reductions. Sporting Goods. Sixth Floor. We Expect at Least 25,000 People to iiop Here Today! TWO PAGES hi Each of Sundays Papers Tell Why Here's Additional Good News for Monday Men's and Young Men's New Fall Suits $20 All Fabrics, Styles Patterns and Sizes When you buy one of our $20 suits you can rest assured that you are get ting; the utmost in value-giving at the price. We have a fine new assortment of men's and young men's new Fall suits. Models for the extreme dresser as well as the more conservative. Suits of splendid quality cassimere, worsted, cheviot and velour in brown, gray, green and fancy mixtures, plaids, checks and stripes. Belt all around style with patch or vertical pockets. Two and three-button double and single-breasted coats. Me-" dium and snug-fitting styles. All suits are strictly hand tailored and guaran teed to fit. Men's Clothing Shop, Third Floor. Boys' School Suits at $6.50 Each Suit Has Two Pairs Pants Now is a good time to secure a new suit for school wear at little outlay. We have classy new mod els that are sure to please any boy, fabrics and colors that will please the parents, too. Of cassi mere, fancy cheviot and worsted in brown, gray, green and plum. Each suit has two pairs full cut pants. Seams all taped. Every size from 6 to 18. Priced at $6.50. Boys' Clothing Shop, Third Floor. Bakery News! Whole Wheat Bread Help conserve the Nation's wheat by eating more bread made from the whole wheat berry. We are now making a bread from this alone which is de licious and appetizing. Large loaf 15c. Rye, French, Poppy Seed Twist and Small Home Made Bread 10c. Pound Cake English Plain Pound Cake, lb. 40c. English Cherry and Citron Cake, lb. 50c. English Fruit Cake, lb. 50c. Three-Layer Cakes Filled with a variety of toothsome fillings, fresh every morning, 40c Gold Cake, 60c. Devil's Food, 50c. Spice Cake, 50c Angel Food, 40c Homemade Ginger Bread, 15c. Nut Loaf, 20c. Coffee Cakes, 40c, 30c and 10c Cinnamon Rolls, dozen 20c Tea Sticks, dozen 20c Pies Cream and Fresh Fruit, 25c. Rolls, Parker House, Vienna, French and Buns, dozen 15c. Wedding and Birthday Cakes to order. Cake ornaments and decorations in great variety. Ninth Floor, Fifth Street. Madame Coates' CLASSES IN Dressmaking and Designing BEGIN AT THIS STORE SEPT. 10 Tickets for Complete Course of 15 Lessons $1 REGISTER AT NOTION SHOP, MAIN FLOOR All those who intend to take this course of in struction in dressmaking and designing under America's foremost authority on this work should lose no time in registering for these classes. Madame Coates will give a free preliminary lecture on Monday, September 10 at 2:30 P. M. Also one Tuesday, Sept. 11, at 2:30 P. M. Tickets for complete course of 15 lessons $1. Register now at our Notion Shop, Main Floor. Celebrating With a Feast of Bargains THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF f ViJ aVl' r'r""U'"" "" " ""MM" J ' ii. Mill Jjaj- iu.w '..Ji-iaiH.iaa Savings for Men, Women and Children Coats, Skirts, Hats, Waists, House Dresses, Gloves, Hose, Corsets, Muslinwear, Shoes, Silks, Dress Goods, Domestics, Laces and Embroideries, Men's Shirts, Pants, Underwear, Boys' Suits, Caps, "Etc. Savings That Are Nothing Short of Phenomenal Sale Begins Today Promptly at 9 A. M. Extra Salespeople Extra Selling Space