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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1906)
Pages 33 to 40 Section Four VOL. XXV. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVE3IBFR. 11, 1906. NO. 45. THE VALUES THIS STORE OFFERS ARE UNEQUALED ELSEWHERE IN THE CITY This is an absolute, indisputable fact recognized and acknowledged by the greatest number of Portland people and a fact that YOU can easily prove to your own satisfaction if you will look around and compare qualities and prices here and elsewhere. If you are intending to purchase Furni ture, Carpets, Stoves or other articles of Home Furnishings, YOU SHOULD FIND OUT where you can do the best for every dollar you spend. "We URGE your investigation and comparison, because we are confident of our position BECAUSE WE KNOW OUR PRICES ARE ALWAYS LOW EST and because the more thoroughly you are posted on furniture prices the quicker, you will appreciate the values we are offering. Cash or Credit. Si mi, j 3 All arc guaranteed for ten yenrs. LEADER RANGE, with high clos et and duplex prate, spring bal anced oven doors. This is a heavy, substantial and durable range, made of best quality cold rolled steel ; adapted for coal or wood ; oven thoroughly braced and bolted; asbestos lined throughout; elaborately nickel trimmed ; section plate top. Gads bys' special price $27.50 We Carry 50 Patterns of Heating Stoves. LIVE OAK. Mounted air-tights for wood or coal, with nickel top ring, urn, footrests, name plate and trimmings; single cast firepot. No. dam. Drum Height. Pric. 1212 in. 40 in.S 8.50 14 14 in. 43in.S10.00 16-16 in. 46 in. $12.50 WW Bookcase and Desk In golden oak polish.,. ... . .j18.0O SIDEBOARD 12rt- ML Special bargains in solid oak Side boards; Gadsbys' price.$20.00 We Own Our Building and Pay no Rent. That's Why We Sell For Less. Office Desks spy j jj 1 Largest stock in the city to choose from. This Office Desk; solid oak. roll top, 50 inches wide; price $27.00 Chamber Suits Good, substantial Chamber Suits, for e very-day use," durable and well finished; bevel-plate glass; Gadsbys' price $18.00 Iron Beds ''" tlv m Massive Iron Beds in Roman gold fin .ish, $13.50; sale price $11.25 Reduced prices on all iron beds. $7.00 Beds now :.$5.00 $.5.00 Beds now $3.50 H.iXm u mmm Chiffonier in white maple or mahogany finish ; regular price $20.00; Gadsbys' price, $15.00. Gadsbys' Folding Go-Carts This pretty Go-Cart is made of the best wil low reed, woven in artistic design. The back reclines, and the cart may be folded. Has excellent steel gear and springs and heavy rubber tires. Gadsbys' price. $10.00 ' Others as low as $2.75. Gadsbys' Special Extension Table This beautiful $25 Table top 46 ins. in diameter, 6 feet when extended; made entirely of hardwood, finished in golden oak, weathered or early English, oak. The large center pedes tal remains station ary when table is extended. Will be sold for the re markably low price this week $17.50 Easy Terms If So Desired Turkish Rocker, upholstered in genuine leather; full spring $35.00 ,i fit Ji mrnti Napoleon Beds - Napoleon Beds, in mahogany and quarter-sawed oak; beautiful ' creatioris at. . .$35.00 to $65.00 Majestic Range Malleable charcoal iron. In baking, water heating, saving of -fuel, lasting qualities, it excels all other ranges made. Will Not Crack, Rutt or CrTtallIe. In Constructing the Majestic The manufacturers now use Charcoal Iron in place of steel. This new fea ture alone adds 30J per cent to the life of the range, as it resists rust and crystallization in any climate, a fea ture not possessed in steel. All breakable parts are made of Mal leable Iron material that cannot crack or break. . By using Malleable Iron In construc tion with Charcoal Iron it enables the manufacturers to cold rivet all parts together airtight, allowing no heat to escape thus heating the oven and Tiolding the heat with a small amount of fuel. All economical housewives own a Majestic. . Kot cheapest hut least expeaslve. A gift for grandson or granddaughter and one that will appeal to the par ents as well as please the baby; in white, green, blue, pink enamels ; also in brass; from $30 as low as. $8.50 Gadsbys' Five-Piece Parlor Suit $35 This beautiful suit is superb both in quality and appearance. It consists of five massive pieces, upholstered in beautiful tapestry and velour. The frame is piano-polished mahoganized birch, and the filling and springs are unsur passed. The most attractive suit that you can put into your house for the price ; Gadsbys ' 1 $27.50 We have pretty three-piece suits as low as $17.50 i1 A 1 PETTQ BIg BarSain n our VHil L 1 O Carpet Department Bromley's Velvets, with borders.... J51.25 Burlington Brussels, with borders Jjsl.lO Tapestry Brussels, with borders ' $1.05 Dunlap's Tapestry Brussels 90 Reversible Pro-Brussels 95 Brusselette Carpets, yard wide 55 Granite Ingrain Carpets 45 Rug Specials Royal Brussels Rugs, 9x12 ; ..$20.00 Imperial Pro-Brussels, 9x12 . $12.00 Ingrain Rugs,. 9x12 $ 7.20 Smaller Rugs in Proportion. m. Gads-by Sons THE HOUSEFURNISHERS COR. WASHINGTON AND FIRST cAt the Police Station Over Night BUSY HOURS WHEN THE POLICE DRAGNET COMES UP WRIGGLING WITH THE RIFF-RAFF OF CREATION NEXT to enjoying that particular brand of nightmare whicn Is super induced by an overdose of mine pie. the most unpleasant way for an optimist .to put in a night is to spend it at the Police Station. . Of course, if you were around there very long, you'd get used to the thing, just the same as those do whose duties keep them there. It would not be long before a daring robbery or a gory brawl would fail to arouse more than a sug geniori of interest, or before contact with thieves, drunkards, rowdies, low-browed vagrants and the like would excite no emotion more pronounced than .. that of dropping the receiving line at an even ing funetion. It's i part of the business and routine, whether slow or swift, will pall on the most sensitive in time. To old- timers around the station nothing short the first policeman and in he goes, for none is allowed to pass who cannot give an account of himself, after 1 o'clock. If the man is staggering a charge of drunk enness is lodged against him. If soDer he is charged with being out late, xie will possibly fare a little better if drunk for the fine in that case will amount to but $2. Should he be proved a vagrant the result may be a rockpile term of from five to 30 days. Here is a night at the local Police Station, not a particularly active one. but one that is characteristic: Nothing had happened since the day shift reported off at 4 o'clock. The station cat was holding down the guard rail near the door, the patrol-driver was upstairs playing sol taire. the captain was wondering when something would break loose. Excepting the half-hour signals from the policemen. Indicating that none of them was alsleep on his beat, there had not been a sound comes over him that he drops in some alleyway and lies there, lacking ambi tion to move. Sometimes an enterpris ing Chinaman finds him thus, doses him up with alcohol and sets the dormant functions to work. Other times the po lice pick him up and then follows days of torture on the rockpile. The longer he Is kept in jail the drunker he gets when his term of sentence expires. And there is a regiment of the same ilk who live the same way in Portland sober only when they are in jail. Kelley on this occasion had been picked up in an alleyway. He had drunk him self into insensibility and had to be car ried bodily into the station and thence on into the jail, where he was cast on the hard floor of' a big iron cage to sober up. To put him to bed another dozing toper had to be thrust to one side. His ap pearance aroused many of the denizens of the hole. They crowded against the 1 11" I 4 1" if li ' i li it II si i ' BEHIND THE BASS AT THE CITT JATX. of a . murder will occasion general com ment and even this grewsome subject will shortly cease to occupy attention except to those assigned to . look after some phase of the case such as may need In vestigation. For the most part the Police Station bears very much the same relation to the city that a barrel does to the rear of a restaurant. It is a storage place for refuse humanity; a place of detention for those who are unfit to exercise man's prerogative as a free moral agent. Hardly a night, passes but what the municipal net comes up wriggling with the riff-raft of creation shabby, unkept vagabonds, professional topers, odorous morphine and opium fiends, and. the human vultures that live by theft. Mixed In with this chaff, of course, are many who have wandered away from the bounds of legal propriety only for the time being, and now and then there is a really worthy victim of circumstances. Drunkards and vagrants make up the major portion of the night's catch, but the bigger fry is frequently In evidence. Take a monthly police report and usually the whole category of crime can be com piled therefrom. The busiest hours of the 24 come be tween darkness and 10 o'clock and again from 3 A. M. until 4. Holdups and the larger crimes are usually in the earlier period and the minor ones in the latter. The reason for tnls is readily explained. Big crooks, excepting burglars, jnust work while there are people about to work upon. People with money do not make a practice of carrying it about at unseemly hours of the night. Salpon rows and fights usually occur, too, before the hour is late. But the unhappy hour 'for the vaga bond, the toper and the slave of opium begins atl o'clock. It is at this hour that the- saloons close up for the night in ac cordance with law. The loafer who has spent his lodging money for beer and has settled down for a comfortable night's sleep behind the stove is ruthlessly thrust out on the street. He wanders as far as in the station for three hours. Such a lull invariably preceeds a. veritable shower of trouble, and this was no exception. A woman broke the calm. She came falteringly in the Oak-street entrance at 9 o'clock and tiung around the door. She was a portly, well-dressed woman of 35. and the only unusual thing about her was her face, which was beaten nearly out of human semblance. She had just partici pated in a little dispute with her husband concerning the propriety of his remaining out late nights. Now she wanted the law to reply to his savage logic. The fellow should have been arrested, stripped and horsewhipped before he was an hour older. But the police had not witnessed the offense and the only chan nel through which the brute could be reached was the City Attorney's office. The woman was told to drop around next day and get out a warrant. The war rant has never yet materalized. Prob ably she forgave him before the office in question opened the next morning. At 9:30 o'clock a querulous, nerve wracked little dyspeptic, who is quite well known in Portland, came In with a fresh lot of trouble. The boys had been calling him names. He wanted them arrested, cut and quartered, put out of existence. The same thing has happened before to him. Every time it happens the little man works himself into a frenzy and seeks the aid of the law, whereas should he jest with the boys or pay no attention to them the annoyance would cease. The practice will bring a fit of apoplexy some day and kill him. or else he will burst a blood vessel. In his rage. Will the. boys be guilty of manslaughter? The next case occurred at 10:15. It was "Rockpile" Kelley, vagabond and slave to Chinese gin. Liquor has hold of Kel ley like a vise. It has become one of the parts of his physical makeup and his body refuses to perform its func tions without this stimulant. He works only that he may drink. Sometimes he eats and sometimes he doesn't. But he must drink by all means or else such a fit of mental and physical depression bars of their cells, animals that are kept in cages because they are not fit to be at large. The putting away of the new arrival was watched with eager in terest, for , diversion is mighty scarce therein. . A few minutes before midnight two young girls, hysterical with shame and fear, were brought in for going into a saloon and taking beer. They were given a severe talking to by Mr. Kay. who arrested them, and were allowed to go home after having been instructed to appear as witnesses against the keeper of the rum-shop. There were no further results until after 1 o'clock. A burglary call was sent In from up on Everett street and the driver nearly ran his horses to death getting there. But the burglar turned out to be of feline ex traction and .no arrests were mad. Supersensitive people give ' the police many a run of this kind. At 1:30 o'clock the riff-raff from the second-class saloons began showing up. Four half-drunken wanderers were picked up within an hour and three sober way farers, who were without . money or des tination, found lodgement, none of them making the slightest protest. Possibly the 6ober ones realized the change from the chilly air to. the warm. If odorous, jail. They seemed to accept the situa tion aS a matter of course. They were of the fate-buffeted class that is sur- prised at nothing, that accepts with' stoical lack of emotion every new mis fortune as It befalls them. At 3 o'clock a respectable pair, father and son, walked in of their own accord. They hung near the door for some time, the older man finally calling Captain Bai ley to one side and explaining his case. They were Germans, named Kuhn, and had come recently from Michigan. Reg istering at a local employment agency, they . had paid their last three dollars aa a fee for employment in a neighboring lumbering camp. Arriving there they . found no jobs awaiting them. The em ployment agent refused to refund the 1 a; ; r '., 1 s T - gL'lKMf ' . . ... :-.yyHw.-.v.TT.'7vvni C , y.'ji ( .v.-.;,-, f.:lrt::i??f-MwAta-yMw.-JWiKy T j - ' THE CITY'S "CT.KAKrXG-HOPSE" FOR LAWBREAKERS. j