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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1905)
PAGES 13 TO 24 PART TWO VOL. XXIV. 1POKTLAND, OHEGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MAECH 26, 1905. NO. 13. Urf pxrrv,Wolfe 5iCo. $239 Monday 10 A. M.-12 Noon Trimmed Hats Special at Our third Monday "Two-Hour Millinery Sale" offers very much greater rallies than its two predecessors. This third offering includes hats for everybody for women, for girls, for children. There is the broadest variety to choose from. Some made of plain and fancy straw braids, others of lace and chiffon, trimmed with flowers, foliage, ribbons, ornaments, etc The color range is wide, embracing black, brown, navy, cardinal, reseda, helio, light blue, pink, white and others. The assortment of shapes is complete the woman who can wear small hats will find Toques, Turbans arm Continentals; the woman whose fancy turns to the larger kind will find Pokes, Marine iilhott and similar flaring effects. A Hint We can give no better advice than say: Come on the stroke, of ten. We Open the Spring Season in the Waist Store Tomor row With a Magnificent Sale of New Spring Waists You know this store's past record in waist sales second to none. The sale event which is scheduled for tomorrow will I bring much added prestige to this waist store will give a new and strengthened emphasis to that one word so dear to all women BARGAIN I Mind you the garments which we offer tomorrow are fresh, crisp and new none in the store longer than a week or two. In a word the waists are the best the market affords the best that painstaking search in the best markets of the country could secure. Come here tomorrow prepared to save on your anticipated waist outlay you'll not be disappointed. Your money, will go farther than you dared hope. $1.50 Lawn Waists $1.12 $1.75 Lawn Waists $1.23 ft Women's Waists of fine quality -white lawn: the front is made with wide panel, consisting- of two rows of Hamburg: insertion and three clusters of six rows narrow tucking:, and three wide plaits on each -side: full new leg-o'-mutton sleeves with tucked cuffs, and tuck stock collar; the back is made with four bias plaits; tills waist tpens in front; prices regularly 51.50; tomorrow at $1.12 Women's .waists of fine quality white lawn; the front is made with four plaits on each side and has wide panel of buttonhole Hamburg: embroidery; the back has wide box plait made of two wideband two nar row plaits; fuli new leg-o'-mutton sleeves with plaited cuffs, fancy stock collar of buttonhole em broidery to match the front panel: this waist opens in front. Regularly J 1.75; tomosrow at 9123 $2.50 Linen Waists $1.49 $2.75 Lawn Waists $1.85 Xadles' Waists of flne quality union linen, the entire front is made with the new English eyelet em broidery, the back has four narrow tucks, full new leg-o'-mutton sleeves, with four plaits running from elbow to cuff, stock collar. Regular $2.50; tomor row $1.49 $2.75 ParkerSFinn Waists $1.98 $3.75 ParkerSFinn Waists $2.65 $5.00 ParkerSFinn Waists $2.95 White lawn Waist The front Is made with panel of fine Swiss embroidery and cluster of fine tucks, four side plaits on each side of panel. The back has four wide side plaits, full new' leg-o'-mutton sleeves, with three side plaits running from shoulder to cuffs. Regular $2.76 at $LS5 $3.00 Lawn Waists $1.98 White lawn Waists The front is made of flne Swiss embroidery, with clusters of narrow tucking and two side plaits on each side: full new leg-o'-mutton sleeves with two wide side plaits running from shoulder to cuffs. The back is made with four bias side plaits, tucked stock coUar and cuffs. Regular price $3.00 tomorrow, at $14S New Arrivals Covert Jackets at Special Prices Special at $5.00 Ladies' 22-inch strictly Tailor-Made Jacket, of all-wool tan covert cloth; made in the new fitted fly-front shape, with welted seams down the front and back; new full sleeves with turned cuffs, notch collar and all lined with good quality Romain silk; price $5.00 Special at $7.50 Ladies' 23-inch Tailor-Made Jacket of fine all-wool tan covert cloth; made in the new collarless effect; double-breasted, eight-button front and fancy fan-plaited coat back; full new sleeves with turned cuffs and all lined with Romain silk 57.50 Special at $10.00 Ladies' 22-inch Tailor-Made Jacket of fine all-wool tan covert cloth, made in the new flj'-front shape with notch collar; the front and back is trimmed with stitched cloth strapping; full sleeves with turned cuffs and lined throughout with satin; price $10.00 $1.25 Dress Goods at 89c Shepherd Plaids are in great demand. We are showing them in a full range of qualities. The prevailing and most popular color combinations are black and white, navy and white and brown and white. AT 50-Shepherd Plaids, 38 inches wide, all sizes of plaids and checks and full comple ment of colors. AT 91.00 Mohair Shepherd Plaids, 44 inches wide, all sizes of plaids and checks and full complement of colors. AT 89$ Black French Voilo 43 inches wide, wire finish; regular price $L25, on sale tomorrow 80 AT 75-Shepherd Plaids, 40 inches wide, all sizes of plaids and checks and full complement of colors. AT $1.25 Shepherd Checks, Panamas and twilled weaves; full variety of plaids and checks and full complement of colors. AT 97 Black Panama Cloth 54 inches wide, mohair finish; regular price $1.25, on sale tomorrow 98 . Special at $12.50 Several styles in 23 and 26-inch Tailor . Made Jackets of fine all-wool tan covert cloth; made in the new fly-front and notch collar style; the front and back . has wide strap of same cloth" with ten rows or sntcning; lull new sleeves shirred at top and turned cuffs, all lined with satin; price lis. 50 Special at $15.00 23-inch Jackets of fine all-wool covert cloth, the front an4 back is made with fine' strapping and cording; notch collar, half fitted back, full new leg-o'-mutton sleeves, and, all lined with satin; price $15.00 Special at $17.50 23-inch Covert Jackets in light and dark shades of tan, made in notch collar and collarless styles, full new leg-o'-mutton sleeves with half-fitting and coat back, cloth strapped, all-silk line'd, at if&lT.oO $1.35 Black Silk at 95c AT 95 We place on sale to morrow 500 yards 21-inch Black Peau de Soie, for short coats and shirtwaist suits; regular $1.35 quality at 95 AT $1.00 Cleo Messaline. Our fourth shipment of this popular silk arrived by ex press Saturday to meet your demands on display tomor row. $1.00 Laces 53c On sale tomorrow all our Oriental Xet Lace for waists and suits, 18 inches wide 27 de signs for your selection, white, cream or. ecru. Do not miss this opportunity to buy laces at one half price. AT $1.25 "We place on sale tomorrow Chiffon Faille, very popular for shirtwaist suits. Soft finish silk in all the new shades; special value $1.25 AT $1.75 Handspun Indian Silk Suitings, the newest, up-to-date silk fabric, 28 inches wide. All the leading shades on display tomorrow. Sheets Cases Torn from standard sheetings hemmed and ironed ready to use. 72x90-in. sheets, special... 4o 81x90-in. sheets, special... 50 45x36-in. cases, special 12Va 45s36-in. cases, hemst'h'd 17 Wednesday and Thursday, March 29th and 30th Opening days, Spring display imported novelties, Millinery, Cloaks, Suits and Wraps. Jewelry Store STERLING SILVER TABLEWARE. A collection of very choice pieces, Sugar Shells, Tongs, Sardine Forks, Pickle Forks, Bon-Bon Spoons, Sugar 'Sift ers, Cream Ladles, Butter Picks, etc VERY SPECIAL 95 All the Sterling Table Ware at special prices 5000 new souvenir cups with views, our own exclusive cup... 50 $1.00 Music 48c Music Btore. Announces a complete stock of the pub lications of Oliver Ditson and offers the same at our special prices Much. Less Than Music Stores. Tapper's Graded Piano Course, $LO0; our price - ...48 Tapper's Graded Piano Studies, $1.00; our price 48 Ditson 's Half-Dollar Series, 50c; our price 39 Music Store On Sale Tomorrow A New March Two Step A Great Hit. "The Cavalier" We offer 500 copies of this new composition, for introduction, special 15 "Yankee Doodle Boy" George Cohen's big hit in "Little Johhy Jones" you can't stop it; special lSd "Any Old Tree" The great hit in "What Happened in Nordland," sung by Marie Cahill 25 , vsroife Co. HAS BEEF THUS' Portland Suffers From High Prices? PACKERS ARE RESPONSIBLE Tables Plainly Show Where Profits Are. CONSUMER BEARS BURDEN Grower Forced to Sell at Combine's Figure, Retailer Makes a Fair Profit, and Wholesaler Clears , Big Percentage. 'BY JOHNSTON' JTCUI.L.ET'. Portland need n6t take a back seat for any city In the -East, even In the matter of a beef trust. While a Federal grand Jury- in the East Is Investigating- the methods of the beef trust, Portland peo ple are paying prices to retail butchers that reveal a trust in this city, a trust within a trust, a trust that combines, the branch houses of the great trust and the independents -who exist in Portland. Figures do not lie, and figures show that packers and 'wholesalers In Portland make a princely profit, that the prices of beef to retailers is uniform among the several wholesalers, which means that there Is an understanding. Retailers charge consumers accordingly, and when the consumer objects the retailer tells him that the packers are to blame; In turn the packers say the railroads, the stockyards management and the growers .are the cause of the trouble. The figures simmered down, show that the grower makes little or no nrofit. the railroad transports stock reasonably, the stock yards merely exist, the retailer gets no more than an average profit and hardly enough to live. The figures also show that In the evolution of a beef from grower to consumer a large profit Is made, Since this profit does not go to the grow er, the railroad or the retailer. It follows that It must enrich the coders of tne packers. Number of Beeves Slaughtered. Manager O'Shea, of the Union Meat Company, stated yesterday that there were about 25,000 beeves slaughtered and sold to retailers In Portland during the year 1W. The average weight of local beef Is between 1000 and 1100 pounds. Mr. O'Shea states that a 1000-pound beef will dress on an average the year around about 53 per cent. This means 530 pounds of clear meat. Prime beef was selling yesterday, according to the statement of Mr. O Shea, at $6.73 per hundred. Ac cording to the statement of Thomas Duf fy, one of the more prominent retailers. it was selling at J7.Z5. Taking $7.25 as the base of statistics, and following out the statement of Mr. O'Shea that beef dresses an average of 53 per cent, the packer in Portland gets for his 1000-pound carcass J3S.425. This, of course. Is for the clear meat. What the Packer Gets. Added to this is the sum the packer gets for other portions of the beef, for not an atom of the beef is lost. The fol lowing table shows. the value of the beef of 1000 pounds, aside from clear meat: Tongue meat. 5 .020S0 Sweetbreads . .06310 Tripe 06900 Tails 02540 Brains 02000 Tongue 40000 Knuckles 025S0iCaslngs 30300 Skins .O5o60j are compelled to ask from the consumer the prices they do In order to run ineir business without loss. Packers Have Understanding. That there Is an understanding among the packers Is not denied. Retailers state that the same prices are asked by the' several wholesale .concerns, that the same conditions are Imposed by all. The packers pay on an average 4 cents a pound on the hoof, giving the grower lit tle. ro8m for profit. They refuse to pay more and the grow.er must either sell for tha figure or not at all. The cost of transportation to Portland and the charges of the yards amounts to an. aver age of 53 a head. The retailer pays his $7.25 a hundred and must ask of the con sumer the prices he does in order to live. The 1000-pound beef costs the packer. plus expenses, about $45.55; he sells the meat for $33.43 and the remainder of the beef for 517.529. He gets for the beef. after expenses have been extracted, the sum sof $55,954. His profit, in the light of the fact that It is turned over every two weeks. Is therefore enormous, and his contention that the small dealer gets 100 per cent profit and is responsible for the high prices to the consumer is without foundation. Consumer the One Who Pays. Here is where the buyer gets off. He Is compelled to pay the small profit of , the grower the grasping profit of the trust and the additional small profit of the retailer. The retailer, in an effort to make a little money, does not forget to weigh the bone and cut it out afterward, to weigh the mutton hoof and cut it off at later time. He explains-, however, that this he must do la order to meet the de mands of the packer and wholesaler. The packer Is holding him up. Not content witn aoing tnis, tne pacicer. is aiso noioing up the grower. He holds up the railroads in most Instances', and Indirectly holds up the public. The sum of money he de mands for profits must come from some quarter and It comes from the consumer. The consumer pays on an average 13.8 cents a pound for his beef. The retailer gets an average profit of 4.14 cent a pound, and the packer makes a profit of 3.45 cents a pound. But It Is a fact that the packer turns his profit over every two weeks and allows the money to compound that forces the consumer to pay. By doing this the packer makes nearly 100 per cent profit In the year. By selling the clear meat to the retailer so that he would make an average profit of 4 per cent on each beef, the packer could still multiply his profits and make his annual profits foot up to more than 23 per cent, giving a good percentage on the invest ment. The following table- shows what the 1000- pound beef costs each party to the trans action, what he receives for It before the deduction of operating expenses, what his gross profit Is, and thcaraount of the net profit: ret profit . Gross esti- Recelves. Cost, nrofit. mated. Retailer $51.46 $38.43; $23.03 $12,525 Packer 55.934 45.95 12.554 10.004 Grower 40.00 Railroads, yards " and operating expenses 5.93 ... Consumer ..r. 61.15 ....'.I FIND FOR HUNI That Will Be Verdict of Committee.' WHAT S!G SICHEL SAYS No Evidence Against the Chief of Police, BEEBE IS 'MORE -RETICENT Ha.. BATTERY DEFEATS COMPAHY H. Blood 5 .16250 Neatsfoot oil. J2000 Switches 04005 Hoofs .00700 Bkulls .OS740 Taws .01200 Glue 30000! Bladder 01600 Heart 03S20 Liver .03800 Cheekmeat .. .13200 Weasand 047SO Ox lips OOSSO The packer, then, gets meat at the rate of $7.: Total $ 2.00295 Hide 7.32000 Fats 5.70600 Offal 2.50000 Grand total. $17.62323 for the clear the sum of $33,425. and to this he adds what he gets from other sources, shown in the total above, $17,529. making a grand total for the carcass of $oo.9j4. The packer is compelled to pay for the beef on the hoof an. average price of 4 cents a pound, $4 a hundred and $40 for the beef. The average charge of rail road 'transportation and stockyards fees is $3. It costs on an average 50 cents to kill the beef, making the beef actually cost $43.50, and giving the packer a profit of $12,454 on each beef. Allowing the sum of $2.45 for plant expenses, which is very UDerai estimate oy tne nead. it brings the packer's net profit to $10. This gives the packer a dear profit of 25 per cent, the profit accrues every two weeks. the money Is turned over a number of times yearly and the compound profits from each beef will aggregate In the neighborhood of $43 in the year, giving the packer more than 100 per cent profit. The Small Dealer's Profit. Now for the small dealer. He pays for the clear meat of a 1000-pound beef, which gives 530 pounds of clear meat, $33,425. The following table shows what the re- taller gets on an average for the different cuts, and what the 530 pounds of 'clear meat -from the 1000-pound beef nets him Percentage Price. Cut whole beef, pound. Value. Loin 18 $0.18 $17.17 Rib 9 .15 7J6 Chuck 27 .10 14.31 Round 23 J2 15J4 Suet 3 .05 .SO Shank , . 3 .03 .43 Plate 13 .07 4J2 Flank 4 .07 1.4S Total $61.43 The retailer, therefore, gets $81.45 for the meat from a 1000-pound beef, for It Wins the Military Championship at Indoor Baseball. Amid cheers mingled with tooting horns and ringing bells First Battery, Oregon National Guard, defeated Company H, Third Infantry. O. N. G.. in the most sensational game of indoor baseball that has been played I nthe Armory this year. last night, by a score of 9 to 4, winning- the military championship for the sea son of 1904-03. Both teams went into the game with determination to -win, and the artillery men succeeded in their determination by hard, careful playing at all stages of the game. Company H has played in rather bard luck during the last two games. their team being badly crippled by the recent changes in its line-up. Consider ing their crippled condition, the infantry boys did remarkably well last night. Lyman, for the battery, pitched steady game of balL and Austin, of H, ap peared In his usual trim, pitching a pretty game, but failed to- get the necessary support from his field men. Doble and Jameson each caught In fine shape. Do- ble's throwing to second base was a fea ture In the exhibition. Neor,- of tne bat tery, did surprisingly good playing and made three of his team s runs. Austin, of H, made two runs out of the four that H succeeded, in tallying. The attendance was much larger than usual, owing to the fact that H won the championship last winter, defeating the battery twice, on account of the two teams being tied for first place. The line-up: Company H. Position. Battery. Doble C Jameson Austin P Lyman Bain IB Randall Duncan 2B Ollerstedt Peterson - .-3B Buckler Cheney RS Neor Smith : LS Doan Glesy .....KF Krupke Cramer IF .... Zannello SCORE BT INNINGS. Battery O 0 2 2 2 0 2 1 -0- Company H o o u v o 3 u u A i Struct out uy Austin, ts: oy uyman, jj. Umpires Babbitt and Johnson. SHOW WASHINGTON WOODS. State University Will Make Interest ing Exhibit at the Fair. SEATTLE, "Wash., lurch 23. Special.) The Regents of the State University this afternoon authorized the president to make a thorough display of university work at the Lewis and Clark Exposition. Particular attention is to be given to the development of the department of engi neering and exhibits of tne work, accora pllshed In the woodworking and metal handling departments will be shown. Other denartments of the school will re celve attention. The university's display will be shown in connection with the state's educational exhibit, but special authority was required. The sum of 56500 wa3 set aside ny tne Regents to establish a structural material testing station, making, tho available sum $47,500. Special attention, will be given Washington woods. A Government ex pert will be asked. This Is the sixth sta tion of its kind In the united states. More Evidence Against Doyle. which he pays tne packer $33.43, giving Adjournment until Monday was taken at investigations?" the General was asked With Few Policemen to Patrol th City It Is Held That Saloon-, keepers Cannot Be CotiV tinually Watched. There will bo no whitewash" and .there will be no delay in the ending of the Chief Hunt investigation. Such are. the words of General Beebe and of Slg SIchel, the two members of the police committee who have been composing the tribunal before which the bead of the Portland Police, Department has been arraigned by Councilman Flegel for alleged violation of duty In knowingly permitting North End saloons to remain open after the chilly mornlpg hour of 1. There Is no disposition on the part of the committees to delay the report or ver dict due as the result of the Investigation conducted by Mr. Flegel; on the other hand, it is anxious to have the matter over with and done, so say the Commis sioners. But it Is the transcription of the testimony, which. is voluminous, that 13 holding back the final decree of the Gen eral and the Senator. That work will have been completed by the middle of the week, and It will take but a very short time- thereafter for the decision to bo an nounced. Beebe Is Reticent. General Beebe is very reticent regarding the future action of the committee and does not "want to express what may be the restrtt but the Senator, though he does not want to speak officially, has his mind made up, and his part of the verdict Is as- good as given. The Investigation has been finished. said Mr. SIchel yesterday afternoon, "but the evidence is being transcribed, and un til that Is before the committee and has" been examined, there will be ho. report. The work on the evidence will be finished In two or three days, however, and-the re port will be made as soon as the evidence, has been gone over." "I suppose you do not want to state what the decision will be?" the Senator was asked. "I would not like to make any state ment without 'conference with General Beebe." was the answer, "but I have made up my mind from the evidence as I remember it." It was intimated that inasmuch as the public of Portland was somewhat inter ested in the result of the Investigation, it would be kind of the Senator to tell what his opinion was. The Senator, adopting the tactics of the Yankee, came back with- a" question. "what would you think if you had been a member of the committee and had heard the evidence?" he asked. It was admitted that part of the evi dence at least would point to an acquittal of the Chief. No Evidence Against Chief. We are all human beings, and great minds run In the same channel," declared Mr. SIchel oracularly. Then he continued in like vein only more plainly. The committee has gone Into the mat ter fully and I cannot see .any evidence against Chief Hunt. Neither the commit tee nor the Chief contend-that there have been no violations of the' law, but with 14 or 15 policemen to watch 400 saloons it Is- hard to prevent violations of tne law. These people are quick to sneak behind a policeman's back and break the provi sions of the ordinances. 'Flegel has said that all he wanted to do was to place the conditions before the people, though he knew there would be a whitewash," continued the speaker. "I am willing to state, and the evidence of Judge Hogue bears me our, that the po lice under the present administration have rendered the most effective service that has been given In the past six years. There have been more arrests, more con victions and more fines. I think the po lice are doing their best to uphold the laws under existing conditions and are succeeding remarkably well. George H. Howell," continued Mr. SI chel. "testified that he had made com plaints to me. I admit it, and he also admits that I stated to nim eacn time that if he would bring the complaints to me in writing I would see to, it that they were Investigated. I don't want to make any, official an nouncement' concluded Mr. SIchel, "un til the committee is ready to report, but you know my opinion on the subject." Not Ready to Announce Verdict. General Beebe would not talk, or at least would make no definite statement. "The evidence has pot even all been transcribed." he said. "There were three sittings of the committee and the testi mony will not be typewritten until tne middle of the week. After that it will be gone over and a report will be prepared and published. Until then I do not-wjsh to express any personal opinions on tho subject" "I will say. however."" continued the General, "that all of the details will be .carefully considered and nothing will be slighted." v "Provided the committee decides jo-find for Chief Hunt, will It make any recom mendations as to the outcropping of the him a profit of $23.03 on the beef, or about noQp today In the Portland mining suit. his profit of 25 per cent from the beet within a few days and allows It to mul tiply through use of the money so that It nets a profit of nearly 100 per cent at the end of the year, the retailer loses a large part of his profit In the wages of employes, the waste In cutting, running after a half day's session in reading; old testimony. J. J. ODriscolI, one of Burns' old partners, testified that Doyle was not a partner in the contested claims, but had an agreement witn nimseii and Burns to exchange work -on the mines. O'Drtscoll said that Doyle in 183S pur chased an Interest in suits of himself and expenses of his establishment and other John Q'Hare against Burns in Colorado, expenses, vvnereas, tee net profit on beet is 25 per cent to the packer, the profit of GO per cent quoted as that of the dealer is not net vront, and when expenses are deducted, allowing for shrinkage In cold storage and "waste In addition to expenses, the retailer's profit drops down to about 40 per cent and In some cases less than this. The retailers ara. therefore, rint getting rich, and they and that Doyle promised to get the as sistance of Governor' Adams in securing favorable decision from the Supreme Court In those cases. 'T do not want to Intimate that any recommendations or instructions will be given the Chief, for I do not yet know what the finding of the committee will be," answered General Beebe- "All I want to say Ls that the report win De made during the week and then perhapa the oDlnlons of the committee will be given, together with the findings as to .tne charges. Vancferbilt's Azar Wins at Paris. PARIS. March X. W. K. VandefbiUis Axur won the Prix Andrea at AuteuilHo- day, with Woodland up. Arrested for Stealing Clothes. -Oscar Larsen, was, arrested by Detec tives Carpenter and Reslngt last nighty and booked at police headquarters on a 'charge of larceny. He la alleged to nave stolen a suit of clothing from Herman. Lundh, of the Idaho Hotel. 631 Hood street ,