The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, October 24, 1909, SECTION FIVE, Image 58

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Newspaper Page TextElegant $8.50 Solid Oak Rocker at $40 Waxed Oak Dresser, Special 17T. $22.50 T furnished that rlccant hotel. "The Euclid." and in the origi nal order these, waxed oak dresser were included, having been made esperiallv for us by cue of the foremost factories. When the dressers arrived it was found that they did not fit in with' the color scheme adopted in the finish ings oC this high-class house. Other dressers that did harmonize with the colors of the "Euclid" rd. and we took the discarded dress ers over at. a great reduction from original cost, and will close them out at this special low price. Ask for No. 72, or the Euclid Dresser; made nearly like the cut, ease being 44x20 inches and French bevel plate mirror 24x34 inches in size: cabinet work of the best, finish waxed golden, most beautifully flaked; drawers are finished within and all work smoothly and perfectly done. They are worth if 40, but being a special COO Cfl model, we close them out atO&iuU $10 Library Tables (?C CA In Quarter-Sawed Oak JU No. 220 Tbee Library Tables are .-hown in the solid oak. golden,' or favored was finish, or tuna mahogany; made nearly Tike the rut: size 'XixW inches, with lower shelf, as shown; a very attractive table, which we pur chased for a leader; worth $10. on special PT rrt sale this week at VVIwU High-Class Machines $25 The same machine that depart ment stores price at $35, and sew ing machine companies at $00. We have sold 5000 in Oregon. All sriving satisfaction today. PAY US $1 DOWN, 60c A WEEK Ten veaiV guarantee anil lessons free. Ball-bearing, drop-head, with automatic c hain lift: high - class, hlgii-arm sewing tiead. with all the latest improvements; automatic boh bin winder, tension release: double positive teed, improved t a k u p. , elf-threading shuttle and auto mata belt replacer; handsome gold en oak embossed ease, with five drawers and complete set of nlckel plated attachments. Kitchen Cabinet $6.00 Special Only This is the Mandard cabinet, full size, all the drawers, bins, shelves, cupboards, bread and cake boards of the popular .$10 cabinet, and in fact is the identical cabinet you will find priced at $10 in other scores. ' By (riving: our order for a large number to a local manufac turer, we secured, a low price that enables us to make this low price for this week. Regular CfC flfl $10.00 value for ODlUU Ranges Best Steel Range on the market, s-old on easy payments.- Prices from $40.00 to $55.00. Pay as you can $1.00 a week. -- I This ! 1- fill S Exactly I ,; III li I I'l intheE Like the Illustration arly English Finish No. 2282 This Genuine Quarter-Sawed Oak Parlor or Den Rocker, in the popu lar Early English finish; seat uphol stered with. oil-tempered spiral springs, Vt eel-tied and covered with the genuine Spanish leather; leather-covered taeks, box-braced corners, quaintly carved just as illustrated. A very unique model, extra strong and durable high back rocker. Worth the regular mar ket price. $8.50. Made a leader this week by the Gevurtz Bros. 0 J ft r at only UTlUU $37.50 Solid Brass Bed $25 No. 6472 The small cut cannot show the'beauty of this massive solid brass bed. Fosts are 2 inches, top and bottom rods and the filling rods are all one inch in diameter. Just like the cut a handsome Em pire model in satin finish; made by the celebrated Simmons Bed Company. Lacquered by electricity a process that guarantees the finish from tarnishing. N No other factory can make (JOE flfl such beds. See these great values at OUiUU Homes Furnished Complete on Easy Terms Open Evenings Till Eight o'Clock 7m BIG 5TORE AT EAST END BURNS IDE BRIDGE ,W5 SHIP IN LOTS- Cor. Union 'Avenue rrrniirmj THUS WHY WE SELL CHEAPES T- East; Burn side j $S.OO Vals. in Iron Beds, Special at No. 903. .These are all mal leable iron leds not cast iron and are given the best porcelain enameling. This particular number, is of a pea green, white and blue colors; has brass center spindle; is a simple, strong and durable bed, that is worth $8.00, on special sale at. . $4.75 S4.75 'in it i r 'rv; i 1 nv EDDIE FOY SAYS HE CAN RELY ON OWN FAMILY TO FORM THEATRICAL TROUPE Noted Comedian Has Nineteen Children, and Is Thinking of Organizing Company to Produce "Hamlet." ........ ...........1 ...ttFTTTTTTT-T-- - - -- -- -- -- -- - -- -- -- -- ...... t. ...................... , ............ 1 . V- ' " ' s 4 " " . - ' " - :-0f'-. -.V If -'-Vi jlrCrV. fj W&! oij 'J: i : :k wv- V' --if -Jb If: " ' r . t v?- - v I i L , ; rpHC great public in general, and the I theatr-go;nK public in particular ou!rl nfver uitpect that a come dian rouH b- sepouft at any tim-. Par ticularly dot this apply to Kddle F"oy. who i generally known as a creator of fun. But thwe who know him closely Wrow that he haa many aerioaa moments and has Vad many daf na: hack for yeara. But there are. few in proportion to the large number of people in the world who can ret-all Eddfe ,Foy a a leadlna Hjcirtr in a atock company. He was lo 1 ated one year In Milwaukee and three yeara In San Francisco In the. old stock taya when the stock companies were made up of actors of higher standard thtn the average stock company today. In the old stock days the scsap-book In successfully played Romeo. C1aud Mel nott and t Prince In "Hamlet." thus proving that at some, time he must have gien serious thought to serious dramatic work. Fate, circumstance or the puMlr de mand caused Foy to be singled out tfr ' comedy parts, and the present th'ater ; goer knows him only as comedian. At ' present non but his closest friends can KUDIK FOY M HIS 19 CHIl.UKE.N, SKK. OK WHOM ARE ADOPTED. the draw him into a serious conversation. . stance is proven by fhe fact that last . Now iila,- 1 witother ir he a sllhicct ronnrrtpil with I Summer his neiehbor family, both lulS- I drco. whether it be a subject connected with the stage or matters of a public or a private nature. Ai an illustration a few weeks ago he was seen wandering through a cemetery, and when Questioned as to why he was there, said he was seeking the artistic atmosphere of the late Hsrr.lets buried there. Another in Summer his neighbor family, botli hus- bnnd and wife, died wlihin three weeks of each other, leaving seven children un provided for. All the neighbors decided to .send thu children to the orphan asy lum, except Eddie Foy and his good wife, who. notwithstanding- they have 12 chil dren of their own. adopted them all. Now the Foy family numbers 19 chil dren, and the only excuse Foy offers for his action is that hewlll have them all taught the various parts In "Harrrlet." and should the legitimate actors on the stage decline to support him In a produc tion of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet." he will produce the piece with his own family. CLEARING-HOUSE OF TRAFFIC IN WHITE SLAVES Chicago Revealing Enormities of Bartering of Girls Eckels' Fortune All Borrowed-Hill's Lament About Wheat Crop Contradicted Thirty Thousand Children Without Schools. BT JONATHAN PALMER. CHICAGO. Oct. ZL (Special.) Much as th sorry subject has. been exploited in the press, it is Just "beginning to be real ized that the revolting truth about the white slave traffic In Chicago haa hardly been more than hinted at. When the full light Is thrown on it. there will be re vealed a mass of Iniquity as hideous as the printed tales which sent William T. Stead to prieon In Ids London campaign yeara ago. aa diabolical as the. crimes against womanhood committed in the lumber stockades of the Northwest in later years. Developments are disclosing that Chi cago has not only been used aa a lure by beasts who prey upon innocent and confiding girlhood, but that It has been a clearing-honae and distributing point to trap victims In the snares of vice In other cities. The strongest single organ ization of merchants and manufacturers in the world is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to make Chi cago "the great central market." If the solemn 'assertion of expert investigators are to be credited at their face value. Chicago haa long been "the great central market" for a traffic that does violence to every sense of humanity and morality. Unwelcome as the InA may be, the in vestigators are making good on their statements. Concrete instances are coming to the surface demonstrating beyond a doubt that girls have been brought here under false pretenses and have ben bought and sold, body and soul, some of them into dena of vice in tills cftr, others Into re sorts elsewhere over the country. Pure girlhood In hundreds of cases it may be thousands has been made h. marketable commodity for barter, for bargaining, for competitive bidding.. As a matter of com mercialism, the one thing that has dis tinguished the traffic from that of slave days In the South is that, for obvious reasons, there has. been no public auc tioning off of victims. , Into the sorry business has been In jected a science in pandering, against which girls of sense, independent spirit and li'gh-mindedness have been power less. Once thoy are brought to certain stages in the process of procuring, their fate is just about as certain as that of the fly In the spider's meshes. So shrewd ly Is the work carried on that the victim is unaware of her danger until it Is too late. She becomes a prisoner without hope. The rest of the story cannot be told here, save that she is in the grasp of a' monster who laughs at honor and turns a deaf ear to pleadings. Iet tl?e cost be what it may tn shaming itself, Chicago is sternly set to the task of rid ding ilFelf of Its human vampires. It has made a. good start. Eckels Fortune All Borrowed. Newspaper reporters have a way of creating millionaires with a deft (Cash of the pencil or the typewriter, and th subsequent court records have a cold, proaalo way of taking them out of the list. It was the printed word of. the re porters generally believed by the read-, Ing public that the late James H. Ec kel. Controller of the Currency under President Cleveland, was entitled to he called millionaire. Mr. Eckels lived In a. $100,000 house at a fashionable resi dence, suburb. He had furnishings to match the house. His club life was ex pensive and his social life was that of the wealthy. . If was a' surprise, therefore, when. Chi cago became aware through court pro ceedlng. that Mr. Kckeis not only was not a millionaire, but that his estate was so encumbered that a -negative row of figures best expresses it. Mr. Eckels, who had hardly reached the prime of life when he died, was looked upon as one of the most promising financiers In Chicago. Likewise he waj one of the most popular. And now It ts said lils geniality was not one of his best as sets. The fortune which seemed to be real was, in fact, a pretty sum of bor rowed money, which doubtless would have one day made him a millionaire in an entirely legitimate way, had he lived. Charles Counselman. who in his life time was one of the conspicuous men on the .Chicago Board of Trade and the Chi cago Stock Exchange, was rated as a millionaire two or three times over. As the settling up of the estate proceeds In the Frolate Court, it is found that, had it not been for a salvage of $050,000 on a boat which went down in Iake Michi gan in 190. the estate would have been virtually nil if not entirely Insolvent. Counsel for the estate said that after all debts were paid there was a residue of $80,000. Shortly before, hi death. It de veloped. Mr. Counselman had sustained n. loss of about $1,000,000 In the failure of the Pacific Navigation Fisheries Com pany. Wrath Among ' Crane's Friends. Chicago friends of Charles R. Crane, Minister designate to China, who lost his job before he had begun it. are wrathy over the treatment accorded him by Sec retary Knox, backed up by President Taft. A lot of good people here felt that they had a sort of proprietary In terest in this appointment. Mr, Crane was the honor guest at banquets and farewell meetings at which much laud atory oratory was let loosse. in the inter est of Mr. Crane and the town he repre sents. In the light of developments some, of The speeches then made take on the character of burlesque. That is the rea son why some of Mr. Crane's friends feel more chagrined' than he himself. Bandied about are such expressions aa "despicable Intrigue" and "cheap politi cal plot." One man makes the owl- wise, suggestion that Mr. Crane's down fall -was brought about by certain news papers which had been scooped" on the appointment originally, .nother expla nation is that he fell because the Japs resented his giving a tidy sum to a Rus sian war charity several years ngr. There are hints at other intrigues than the newspaper affairs, but If the real inwardness of the incident is known to Mr Crane's friends they are keeping It to themselves. It is Intimated thy are doing some sly detective work with the purpose of springing into print later on. Land Grow" More Productive. In view of the rather gloomy forecast of James J. Hill. that the United Slates Is in danger of los'mr its renown " world's granary and bread market, t.lil cai grain and produce men are much Interested In figures collated by the Manufacturer- Record combative of the Hill theorv. One striking exhibit made Is that, while from 1S0 to ISM there was an increase of less than $.V0.0.10.0IO In the value of farm products, there was a very rapid Increase in productiveness from IK to ?00. In the latter year the total productive value was t.717.O0ft.0O as com pared with $1!.46.0'10,000 in 1SW. Since 1WO there hes been a consistent and rapid gain and It Is represented a quite pos sible, based on present prospects, that the total value of farm products for the cur rent vear 13o9 will be t-V.lO.O0n in excess of that for 1908. or something like $S,300, 000.000. Other figures for 10-year periods are ad vanced allowing that the fertility of the soil is Increasing, especially under the more widely prevalent scientific methods of farming that are now In vogue. It Is shown, for Instance, that- In the last W vear period wheat production lias In creased six-tenths of a bushel to the acre, that corn has Increased 1.4 bushels and oats 3.5 bushels per acre. Ohio, Tn--diana and Illinois are producing more wheat-to the acre than they did 40 yerrs ago. Price or Meat Going l'l. f It Is suggested in th figures on live stock that there Is a process of nearer adjustment of supply of cattle, hogs and sheep to home consumption. High prices are having much to do with bringing about this readjustment. In the Chicago market the other day choice steers came i near mounting to the $0 mark, the top price being JS.S0, the best since 1902. These values In the livestock market centers help to explain why the University of Chicago students are charged more for steaks by recent decree of the university boarding-house authorities. His majesty, the American citizen. Is eating more and better meat than ever before. Because he is finicky regarding his roa-sts. steaks and chops, his meat bills are higher tlian they might otherwise be. Moreover. It is called to mind that owing to the in creasing number of persons who live In hotels In tho' large cities there is sn im mense wastage of choice meats. The as sertion is ventured that more meat is thrown away at these houses than is re quired to feed their patrons. Children Without Schools.- Thirty thousand school children In Chi cago who would like to go to school un der favorable conditions are handicapped In their childish ambitions because there are no seats for them.. It i the same story over again, only worse and more of it. For years Chicago schools have been inadequate to accommodate the pupils. There is no hope of catching up with the army of children within a year. Temporary buildings are used In some cases and there are serious suggestions that school basements be turned into schoolrooms. Against this plan a quick protest on hygienic and sanitary grounds was made and there the matter rests. The problem always will be a more or less perplexing one in a populous center where there is such a shifting of resi dents. New transportation facilities, new flats and the encroachment of business on residence districts are causing migrations to and from various quarters every year. The school that Is ample for Its com munity this year may be totally Inafe- nuate next year, n.ins for new school buildings originally estimated to cost tin wards (if a million dollars have been torn up and new plans are called for the bet ter to meet the needs of the seat less children. The changes probably will give lcs prominence and spacy to gym nasia and audience halls and more to schoolrooms. Can't Find I'nlon Clothes. There was a large crowd of Chicago "union-made women" absent from the meeting of the Illinois State Federa tion of libnr this week at Belleville, because they hadn't anything to wear. By "anything" is meant the things that bear the label of organized labor. Mrs. Raymond Robins, more fortunate than her sisters, had a chance to slip down to New York and May In" a. full trous seau of orthodox wearing apparel war ranted to stand the close srrutiny of the sleuths at the convention. News from Belleville Is that she passed muster without a hitch, but it Is pot detailed how exhaustive was the search for contraband goods. Mrs. Robins announced that she had been abl? to find In Chicago collars, gloves, shoes and stocklnes bearing the union Imprint. The other necessary things, of which specific category was not made, had to be foraged for In tiotham. "f had an awful time trying to buy a union-made corset and a few other things I reeded," said Miss Mary Mr Inerney. business agent of the Blnderv Women's Union, on the eve. of her de parture for Belleville. "It is next to impossible to complete one a wardrobe on -acceptable lines In Chicago. I thought I might find a way out of the difficulty by being appointed on the committer of investigation." "1 couldn't find anything I wanted but shoes, stockings and gloves." pined Miss Steghagen. secretary of the Women's Trad" Union League. "For the rest I was obliged to go up into Wisconsin. " The flurry was caused by the an nouncement that anybody who ap peared with "scab" clothing would be thrown out of the convention as per sona non grata. No bar, of course, was to be lirted against any article of wearing apparel the women made for themselves. The fit or the fashion cut nu fisrure. Anything within the bounds of public propriety would do so long ds the profane hands of a non union person had not made it. "Down with the drama that depends for its favor on risque lines and sna gestive situations:" is the slogan of a league or women which purposes to ex ercise In Chicago the function which Anthony Comstock fills In New York. In the classic college town of Evanston. where Shakespeare and Ibsen plays are more to th liking of the townspeople than Bernard Shaw's or Florence Zie feld's, the movement has started. V band of brave women out thre will seek to enlist the aid of the 13.000 mem bers of women's clubs of Cook Counl" in the work of uplifting the stag locally. Already they have many as surances of Influential assistance. Where Trouble May Com". It Is apprehended there may be con siderable controversy over the num ber of members or the committees of Investigation of shows, and perhaps a great deal of striving to be named as scouts. If the committees are required to specify their objections to shows, there Is likely to be some interesting reading. There are pictures In the Art Institute of Chicagowhich some people think ought not to be there. Other critics defend them with their artistic lives as the work of inspired genius. The pictures generally remain where he who comes may see. There may be shows that appear different as they are viewed from this or that moral angle. It will be -worth while waiting; to know. And it is not at all probRble the theat rical managers are "viewing with alarm" this prospective new method ot exploiting their stage wares.