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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1908)
DRAMATIC and SPORTING SECTION FOUR Pages 1 to 12 NO. 4: RAGE EIENIS DIE EMPIRE STATE 4 VOL. XXTIL PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOYE3IBER 22, 1908. urn Furniture Values That You'll Never Forget! It's Our Great Half-Price Sale- The week just past was the greatest this firm has ever known. We don't intend to stop, either. November iTadSTbanner month and it will be more so this year than ever. . We offer following inducements to make it so. Articles shown here, together with immense Suctions, cannot be equaled by the Big Price Boys Kitchen Treasure Bargain g $2.SO Couch Bargain, for $7.50 m 17 -:.-.'-- .yci . This fine couch, full roll edge, P- 1 DfllA (7 Cfl holstered in Ttronn; regularly 0 I II, H Jk f .rjll oM at S15.00 , mm m. m. "T " Parlor Suit Bargain Mahogany finish on birch, up holstered in green 2-tone verona, spring 6eats; sold by others at $25.00 SDIT HALF PRICE $12.50 $50.00 Parlor Suit $27.00 Parlor Suit, .five pieces, beautifully finished, rich dark mahogany, upholstered in $27.00 verona; regular price $50.00. Sale price Biggest Value Ever Offered! Rocker Bargains Beat These if You Can for the Money Three styles of Rockers take your choice ; oak or ma hogany finish; reg. price $4, Gadsbys Vz Price $2.50 Plate Rack $1.25 Solid oak, and -well finished; a hand- fljl Of? some Plate Rack; special J. $35 Range lor $27.50 r 1 All are guaranteed for ten years Leader Range, with high closet andJuplex grate, spring - balanced oven doors- This is s heavy, substantial and durable range, made of the best quality cold-rolled steeL Adapt ed for coal or wood. Oven thoroughly braced and bolted, asbestos-lined through out, nickel-trimmed, section plate top. Gadsbys' price, $27.50; Mattress Bargains COTTON-TOP MATTRESS Half - 01 Qf) price OliuU SILK FLOSS MATTRESS Regu- 07 0(1 lar $14.00, half price . 0 1 i U U RUG BARGAINS Xr t"YsJ Jsrf2 -Ml I Room-Size Rugs 9x12 Brussels Rugs, 12 patterns to select from .$7.85 9x12 all-wool Ingrain Rugs. '. .$7.85 9x12 Pro-Brussels all-wool Rugs. . . .$8.85 Small Velvet Rugs, 27x54 inches. . . .?1.15 $7.50 Center Table at A genuine quarter-sawed oak or ma hogany veneered Colonial PedestaT Center Table ; top measures 24 inches . in diameter; good value at $10.00 cheap at $10.00. Regular price is $7.50; this week you can tO 1ZZ tret them at pO.UiJ NOTICENo Mail or Phone Orders Filled Dresser Bargain $9.SO . J This Dresser, finished in a rich golden oak color, with French beveled plate mirror; regular retail value, $12.50; JJQ C Gadsby's price pi7.JV This Handsome $20 Princess Dresser $ 1 1 .SO Princess Dresser, with oval or shaped French bevel mirror, finished golden; regu lar $20 value, special this CI 1 rt week Gadsby's price V A Our Great Special Sale Fine Morris Chairs $1250 Morris Chairs reduced Ym7S $14.00 Morris . Chairs re- fc19 0() duced to ,yxvU $18.00 Morris Chairs re- 1 g QQ duced to. $20.00 Morris 'Chair, re- Q J Q QQ duced to $25.00 Morris Chairs re- 90 00 duced. to i i Meets This Year, Since Anti Gambling Law Became Ef- fective, Lost Money. FUTURE PROSPECTS DARK Followers of Track See Only Hostile Legislation From Hughes and Legislature Some Parka Xow Being Torn Up. BY LLOYD F. LONERGAN. NEW YORK, Nov. 17. (Special.) Horsemen admit there will be no raMno- in thn Rmnire State next year. The formal announcement has not yet been made, but. to Quote the average track follower, "the jig Is up." Every racetrack meeting? that has been held in the state since June 11, the date the anti-sambling bills .,.ni imn .ffect has been conducted at a loss. The Jamaica track closed the day after election, and the officers ana stockholders in the Metropolitan Jockey Club, which conducted the af fair, knew in advance that it would lose money. The Jamaica managers with full knowledge of the conditions, succeed ed in reducing the expenses to the minimum possible for the maintenance of racing, and their loss was about $2000 a day. The losses at the other tracks since June 11 made a much higher average, the maximum loss be ing at the Sheepshead Bay meet, where the top notch mark of J40;j00 in a day was made. As a matter of custom the great stakes for two and three-year-olds have closed two years and, in some cases even a longer time before the date scheduled for the running of the events. The Brooklyn and Coney Island Jockey Clubs and the Westchest er and Saratoga Racing Associations have already some such stakes closed for 190S and 1913.- Brighton also has a number of races closed, but Brighton is already out of the question, as the property is being sold for building lots and the work of dismantling the track has begun. . None of the clubs which conducted racing through the past season have announced renewal of stakes for the future, however, although the time has long since passed for the closing of some of the great events of the turf. Philip J. Uwyer is president of the Brooklyn and the Queens County Jockey Clubs, and the chief stockhold er in both organizations. He has prac tically sole control of the two tracks, ana is about the only big racing man in Greater New York who is willing to discuss present conditions. Others, while not willing to talk for publication, remarked that the outlook for racing was the worst In the history of the state, and refused to even sug gest a method whereby racing as a public sport might be continued under the anti-betting law. Kven Mr. Dwyer frankly said that he had no idea as to what might be ex pected for next season, but expressed a hope and belief that racing would be continued. "In the present condition of racing affairs It Is impossible to know what to expect," he frankly admitted. "But, for myself, I shall not give up until the last effort has been made. "The only thing that I can see for the racing associations to do now is for them to stick together, and, in com bination, try to find what rights are left to them under the law. iiii.hAi hnn Rfiirl that he i i v i i w i - n - . was not opposed to racing, and it may be that the Jaw ne nas cuo u passed is not so bad for the racing associations as it has seemed to be through the biggest part of the season. "As the law has been interpreted by some state and county officials, it amounts to practical confiscation of our property. We want to know more about what the law really means, and what are our rights, and the racing associa tions ought to hold together until the courts have Interpreted the law. I am not yet ready to believe that the anti-race-track gambling law was construed properly in the attacks that were made on racing last Summer." Mr. Dwyer believes that even as th anti-betting law is enforced, racing on a limited scale is practicable, and he expresses a desire to try it either at Aqueduct or Gravesend, or at both traoks next season. He has not decided on any definite plan as yet, but suggests that racing might be conducted three days a week, for moderate purses, and the sport thua be kept alive and permitted to have a chance to shape itself to conditions a they might arise. Other racing men, however, are less hopeful, and believe that even Mr. Dwyer will drop out of the game before the Springtime arrives. The expecta tions of next year, on the part of about all the men identified with the manage ment of the race tracks, have been based on the hope that Governor Hughes would not be re-elected. The managers of the race tracks and the stewards of the Jockey Club have been advised that the anti-betting, law, in Its present form, will not stand a test in the courts A. number of lawyers of great repu tation have said that the law might be set aside as unconstitutional, on grounds concerning the legality of the acts of the last State Assembly, the validity of the election of a State Sena tor to fill a vacancy caused by a death, and the legality of the special session which enacted the anti-betting law. No action for a suit on any of these points has been taken as yet. Even In the matter of a definition of the of fenses prohibited by the new law, there has been no clear ruling, although de cisions by the court have differentiated between "book-making and oral bet ting," and while scores of arrests have been made on charges of violating the anti-betting laws, the authorities, up to date, have failed to bring about a single conviction. It has been said that the Jockey Club will cause suits to be brought to test the- constitutionality of the antl bettlng law. but the re-election of Gov ernor Hughes has made that a most forlorn hop. -
