DRAMATIC
and SPORTING
SECTION FOUR
Pages 1 to 12
NO. 4:
RAGE EIENIS DIE
EMPIRE STATE
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VOL. XXTIL PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOYE3IBER 22, 1908.
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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
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$2.SO
Couch Bargain, for $7.50
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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
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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
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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
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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
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$20.00 Morris 'Chair, re- Q J Q QQ
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$25.00 Morris Chairs re- 90 00
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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. -