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f I 1 1 I 4 10 TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY- SEPTEMBER 6, 1917. PRICES AT PUBLIC MARKET PROTESTED Mayor Conducts Investigation Which Shows Costs Are on Par With Grocers. . BIGELOW ORDERS PROBE Commissioner GItcs Mr.- Baker'a Data to Marketmastcr Eastman and Declares He Will liem dy Any Wrong Condition. ' The public market on Tamhill street offers better prices on tome lines of produce than do grocery stores, while the stores have the best of it on other lines. Facts to this effect were brought to the attention of City Commissioner .Higelow yesterday by Mayor Baker. Numerous complaints have been made to the Mayor to the effect that the producers oh the public market sell for the same price as stores and other places. Complaints also have been made that public market prices are higher than the prices In. some of the etores. Mayor Baker had women busy yes terday making purchases in the mar ket and in various stores for the pur pose of making: comparisons. Comparative Prices Shown. The purchases were made without the dealers knowing the purpose of the plan. The stuff was all taken to the Mayor's office and comparisons made. On the whole they showed that prices on the market and in stores are very nearly the same on the majority of commodities. Of the samples gathered yesterday the stores showed better prices on cab bage, lettuce and one or two other lines of food. The market showed an advantage on potatoes, tomatoes, tur nips, corn, beets, beans and eggplant. In some cases the public quality was better and sometimes it was inferior. On the whole Mayor Baker was of the opinion that th'e market and the stores apparently are on a par as far as prices are concerned. Complaints have been numerous about the public market people being permitted to sell at the same prices as the stores. The market booths are rented for 15 cents a day, which in cludes water, light and other service, while the grocers' overhead expense Is much greater. They have com plained bitterly against the market people charging the same or better prices under these conditions. Sir. Blgelovr Promises to Act. Mayor Baker called Commissioner Bigelow In to make the comparative tests of the produce bought on the two markets, and after the tests had been made gave him the figures for his Information and guidance. The city i-efculates the price of prod ucts in the market. Each day Market master Eastman notifies the producers the maximum price they may charge for commodities during the day. They may charge, less but not more than the maximum price. The result of this system is that the maximum or "ton" price as so fixed generally is the price adopted by all the patrons. Mr. Bige Jow says there is no other way of han dling the proposition. Mr. Bjgelow had a conference with Marketmaster Eastman after seeing the Mayor's experiment, and the fig ures as complied will be gone Into, Mr. Bigelow says, with the idea, in - mind of correcting- anything wrong In the market. MUSICAL FROLIC IS HELD Atl Club .Hears Patriotic Numbers at Its Weekly liunclicon. A musical frr1i waa n-h. a .-i Club had at its luncheon yesterday at the Benson Hotel to break the mo'not- ui-.v in i up s-umnier season. Campbell's American Band furnished vi iirt koioisih ana gave a patri otic programme, while the Filipino !-inriE oann nom the strand Theater divided honors in insthim Ptltal mucin Frank Hennessv nanir - gai. Troops of the U. S. A.," composed by 1. ; 1 i ttr r . . . " " " 1 " niiu v. j. .arKeeK, nis accom panist, and the new Ad Club quartet introaiicen for the first time, gave umt? new BPiRCIlons. The following committee was an pounced to keep in touch with J. 'W' Sanger, the Government expert In ad -rt iacin cr vafen I n " . - c ..... i. . . - - B, ' -J J fB,J I yJ OVUllI .fl 1 1 I I lea and who addressed the club last week: T. J. Muliin, A. C. Jackson and Tk T A T- a WAIF'S BOARD TO BE- PAID Boys' and Girls Aid Society Adopts New Plan. As an innovation tiie Boys ajid Girls Aid t-'ociety will make a list of all homes that are willing to receive? chil ;dren as boarders and will investigate ana earn index tliese and when neoes sity arises the society will send its wards to these homes and pay their board instead of placing? them all In homes wi. ere. .they are kept free of charge. This decision was reached yes terday at the meeting of the board held in Judge W. B. Gilbert's office. The great increase in the number of children -cared for and the high cost of living that reduces the 'number of tree homes made the new plan heces sary. Meantime the society is in need 01 lunas. . - . CITY TO ACCEPT BUILDING Auditorium .Will Be Transferred Formally Friday. The public Auditorium will be c cepterl formally by the city Friday. The City Council went through the build ing yesterday and arranged for Its acceptance as finally completed. The Jommissionera were taken by Mayor Baker into every" room in the building ..nd full information regard ing the structure and the contracts was given them. City Attorney LaRoche will prepare the required acceptance forms which will be signed, by all members of the Council. Fair Attracts Much livestock. GRESHAM, Or., Sept. 5. (Special.) Entries for livestock exhibits .at the coming Multnomah Countv Fair closed Sunday night, with all stockbarn stalls filled and a large number of the sheep and swine pens taken. One full barn and' half of another will be occupied by A. C. Ruby's imported horses, and It will also be the largest entry ever made by any single exhibitor. Phone your want ads to The Orego gonian. main (inn, a eoss. f 1,1 ilitM'M' 'VMItfe!ii2! 'I'll i SI, f . 1 1 . VXi. J 4 ' " 4 ' $ Vr '7 y t X o K 5 X. X .x i t V V 4 rni as''- v TODAY'S FILM FEATtRES. t Liberty "Mother o' Mine." I Peoples D o u g 1 a s Fairbanks, i "lJown to Karth." Star Florence La Badie, "When Love Was Blind." Columbia Jack Pickford and t T miiaA Huff Vi q , ILfftnAV T Can't Buy." Majestic - Bryant Washburn, "Skinner's Baby." . Sunset John Barrymore and Harold Lockwood, "The Man From Mexico." Circle "The Railroad Raiders." Uuerty. t6 A TOther " MINE." a pictured m story or motner love and a photoplay which has been re ceiving some of the most flattering re Views of the Season, will be tffered to the public at the Liberty Theater to day. Paramount Pi4ographs and comedy are other numbers on the programme. Rupert Julian and Ruth Clifford are featured in "Mother o' Mine," a pic ture said to possess a deltghtful com bination of human interest, appeal. pathos and comedy. The story has to do with a young country chap, who goes to the city, makes good, wins a fortune and is engaged to a society girl. His old mother, longing for a glimpse of her boy, finally invades the city and enters, his home at the height of a very formal reception. His ac tions, followed by a sudden change 'of attitude, furnish material for the most compelling parts of the five-reeler. Sunset. John Barrymore, Harold Lockwood and Pauline Neff are the principal players in the screen revival of the fa mous comedy success, 'The Mati From Mexico," which opens at the Sunset Theater today. Comedy and Sunset Tours will also be screened. 'The Man From Mexico" is a play that has long been listed among the stand-bys of the stage. It Scored a hit when first presented to filmdom, and so Insistent was the demand for another showing that Paramount made a new print" of the production. The story has to do with Kit shew, a young married man. who still longs for the cabarets and other delights of his bach elor flHT. end thereby gets himself into dreadful dilemmas," from which he extricates himself only by the most wonderful inventions possible even to an untruthful man. Columbia. . I: J :;-r - r:: ?'Ns ' ,tp - u.f!r vr-J iff''' n n Another Programme of Typical . . - . "Columbia QuaUty." . 1 - ' - m - i . . r-.i 4 "What Money Can't Buy," a plcturlza tion of the George Broadhurst play, to be presented at the Columbia Thea ter today, co-stars Jack Pickford and Louise Jrluff, but has a cast of unusual excellence. The supporting players in clude Hobart Bosworth, Theodore Rob erts, Raymond Hatton, James Cruze and James Neill, several of whom have been starred in pictures. The story has to do with the trials and tribulations of a mythical kingdom, and Is said to offer unusual entertain ment for the fans. Pickford plays the part of the young American, while Miss Hff has the role of the Princess, who-falls in love with him. Cartoon comedy and Animated Week ly comprise the other subjects on the programme. Star. "When -Love Was Blind," a Than- j houser-Pathe five-reeler, starring the popular Florence La Badie, and a -Columbia River Highway scenic included in the Ford Weekly, will be exhibited at the Star Theater, commencing to day. A comedy will also be screened. "When Love Is Blind" tells the story of a girl who recovers her sight in time to see her sweetheart In what she thinks Is a compromising position with another woman. Miss La Badie, an actress, who hails from the old Biograph-Uriff ith days, and star of "The Million-Dollar Mystery," is sup ported by Boyd Marshall, Harris Gor don, Gladys Leslie and other capable players. iThe story Vi-as written by Agnes C. Johnston, author of a number of pho toplay successes. Peoples, x "Down to Earth," the Douglas Fair banks picture, in which this famous comedian expounds his doctrine of health and happiness, is playing to cspacity crowds at the Peoples Theater. While the production is not so full of the usual Fairbanks acrobatic stunts, its comedy is so funny that, the pic ture is being greeted with hilarious approval.' "Down to Earth," In which Fairbanks Is supported by a cast including Eileen Percy, his "baby doll" leading woman: I: Only today, tomorrow and Saturday The talented, popular young favorites Lonis3 Huff -Just Count the Stars. Jack Pickfor In a delightful, romantic drama that tells of a plucky, uphill fight made by a rich young American to win the love Of a Princess. It's by George Broadhurst and it's called .bat Money C Truly a lavish offering with an extraordinary cast, which includes THEODORE ROBERTS, HOBART BOSWORTH, RAYMOND HATTON, JAMES NEILL and JAMES CRUZE. You'll enjoy it. 1 ' ' am t Buy K "THE THEATER BEAUTIFUL' ON SIXTH, NEAR WASHINGTON Russell Bassett and Bull Montana, is a photostory written by "Doug." It deals with a wide-awake young Amer ican, deeply In love with a life-long friend and pal, who buys a sanitarium, kidnaps its Inmates ami maroons them on a supposed desert Island to cure her o her infatuation for the night llfe.- Majcstlc. inaugurates the new policy Of the Jit jestio In offering Its features for one week, commencing' each Saturday. The story deals with a pago of life fa miliar to the RVerage heads of families, and is a splendid follow-up to that rirst Skinner picture, "Skinners Dress Suit." Iiearst-Pathe News and Scenic com plete tbe bill. "Skinner's Baby," the Bryant Wash-burn-Hazcl Daly picturization of the popular Henry Irving Dodge story of the same name, which has been playing to hilarious crowds at the Majestic Theater, completes Its engagement to morroiv night, giving way to the sen sational 10-reel production, "The Honor System." "Skinner's Bshv" is the picttir which TODAY TOMORROW SATURDAY John Barrymore and Harold Lockwood in THAT ROLLICKING COMEDY TRIUMPH THE MAN -FROM MEXICO The Play Was Funny the Photoplay Is Funnier' i j mill I 'mn a laiaJI ma I " 1 Waahlngtoa St. at Broadway, lo A. M. ta 11 P. JL -CsaUaaoua Screen Gossip. Thomas .nldine' will bA rlara TClm- ball Younc'fl leadinsr man in "Marda." her first independent production. Val- kyrian. the Danish beauty, will be an other member of the cast. . . "The Marionettes," "The Savage Woman" and "The Japanese Night ingale" are names of some of the t'lara Kimball Young pictures. "The Savage Woman" will be filmed in I'orto Kico. Before going back on the stage, Alice Brady is to appear In a number of In dependent productions. may play on the stage and in pictures at the same time, following the example of more famous players. a - James ri. Tarver, the giant in "Jack and th Beanstalk," the tremendous William Kox spectacle, who measures just 8 feet 6 inches in his stockings, complains that, in jumping from the Kast to the West, to join 'he Vox play ers, he caught a severe cold. He got his feet wet in Kansas City, but the cold had Such a long way to go to reach his head that he only felt the. effects three weeks later. - a a To provide recreation for the troops in camp, the National War Work Coun cil of the Young Men's Christian Asso ciations in the United States has made provision for the presentation of 8,000, 000 feet of film per week. In 84J can tonments, camps and posts, 1126 pro grammes will be rendered weekly. WASHING TON AT PARK 4 COMING SUNDAY: "THE ARGONAUTS OF THE WEST 1849" THE GIANT OP ALL PICTURE PLAYS. 1 OPENS THIS MORNING CLOSES SATURDAY NIGHT ' BEAUTIFUL ' FLORENC LA BADIE E IN ft WHEN LOVE WAS BLIND 99 A heart-throb story of the price a sightless girl pays for eyes to see with.- ON THE SAME PROGRAMME: OUR OWN BEAUTIFUL COLUMBIA HIGHWAY IN PICTURES AND A CLEVER COMEDY, - 1
