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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
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" " " 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
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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.
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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.
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Another Programme of Typical
. . - . "Columbia QuaUty."
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"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.
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"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:
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Only today, tomorrow
and Saturday
The talented, popular young favorites
Lonis3
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-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 ' '
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"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
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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
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THAT ROLLICKING COMEDY TRIUMPH
THE MAN -FROM
MEXICO
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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COMING SUNDAY:
"THE
ARGONAUTS
OF THE WEST
1849"
THE GIANT OP
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PLAYS.
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OPENS THIS MORNING
CLOSES SATURDAY NIGHT '
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FLORENC
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WHEN LOVE
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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
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