10 THE SUNDAY OREGONTAN, PORTLAND, JULY 3. 1910. WORLD FOR WEEK SEES ENTRANTS ANEW IN LIMELIGHT OF PUBLIC Aeronautics Now Especial Thought of Prominent Men, Whose Love for Something Novel and Exciting Leads One American-Born Officer to Become British Subject Brewer Adolphus Busch Is Public-Spirited Citizen. flEW YORK. July 1. (Special.) l3 Count Jacques de Lesseps, who recently won fame by flying: In a. Blerlot monoplane across the Eng illsh channel, arrived here recently on 'the Hamburg-American -liner Deutsch 'land. He Is to take part In the avia tion weelc at Montreal under the au spices of the Aeronautic Association of Canada.. Accompanying the aviator were his brother. Count Bertrand de Lesseps. and his sister. Countess de la Begattiere. The latter has never made a. flight with her brother, -but said that he had promised she should be the first to accompany him when he ob- ptains the two-seated Farman machine which he has ordered. The Count will have two machines to use. One ar- rived here a few days ago and the fother is on the way. . Captain F. S. Cody, who is employed y the British war department to Iteach its young- officers aeronautics. Jell from a height of 100 feet while making- a flight at Aldershot and was jjravely injured. His aeroplane was caught in a gust of wind and, becom ing unmanageable, plunged to the Srround. Cody was pinned beneath the .wreckage of his machine and rendered Insensible. He is an American by birth, but last Fall he took out natur alization papers and became a British ubject. m Adolphus Busch is at the head of a fclg brewery firm in St. Louis with a reputation known to the entire world. Mr. Busch is one of the wealthiest men in the "West, and one of the most public-spirited. He is liberal in his con tributions to all public enterprises and because of his liberality and his wealth lie is known among his personal friends tn St. Louis as "Prince Busch." Mr. Busch has been in bad health for some i years and has spent much of his time jat his beautiful home In Los Angeles and his castle on the Rhine. B t...mwm-Pl,'m" 1 - " :' . i- :: ... II I I ' ' ' ' f ' y "- ' " t II I I cX'" . A " " ! 1 V II ' . s f , v 1 U 8 " ' ,' I(U:W- nil ' lUjr , , 'ft U ,jV I J x ' vWs ' xx ir s a All. . 'y. 'L y-:- ' . v . ..... . .... r-v .-'77? William H. Moody, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, :lias signified a willingness to retire. He fears the impairment of his health .from rheumatism will become perma nent and is influenced by a desire to ee a full court consider the-many im portant matters that will come up for determination at the October term. These Include the Standard Oil and to bacco trust cases and the corporation tax. Mr. Moody will be 57 years old on S f - - l , I: I - 1 ' hMBMEIl,LllJH December 23. of this year. He has served as Secretary of the Navy and as Attorney-General of the United tSates. He has been on the Supreme Court bench since December 17, 1906. Victor Murdock, of Kansas, is one of the leading insurgent in the House of Representatives. He was born in Burlingame. Kan., on March 18, 1871. He moved to the then frontier town of Wichita early In 1872, and was educat ed in the common schools and in Lewis Academy, Wichita. He began the print er's trade during vacations at the age of 10 and became a newspaper reporter at 15. He is now managing editor of the Wichita Daily Eagle. Louis Waller Is the most remarkable matinee idol . in the theatrical world'. His portrait sells in the London shops much better than that of any woman on the stage and his admirers have or ganized a club in his honor. It is known as the K.. O. W., its full title being "The Keen on Waller Club." To be "keen on" anything in English slang is to admire it greatly. The- K. O. W.'s buy seats together for all of the actor's first performances and even make ex cursions into the provinces to see him act. Waller is now appearing in "The Rivals." He has made arrangements to come to America for there or four months this Autumn. DR. BROUGHER TAKES LARGE PART IN CIVIC AND RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS SOUTH Sermons on "How to Be Happy Though Married" Are Talk of Los Angeles-Don 0. McGarvin, Dead Politician, Mourned as Man With All Characteristic American Traits. LOS ANGELES, July 2. (Special.) What Portland lost, Los Angeles gained in the change of base f operations of Rev.' J. .'Whitcomb Brougher, and, as a churchman of an other denomination said recently, "if they can develop men like Brougher in Portland, we want to go up there for our candidates." But It is hardly fair to speak of Dr. Brougher and denomination in the same sentence. Dr. Brougher is so much bigger than any denomination, that he Is part of the city. He has found a niche in Los Angeles already and fills It to a nicety, although the niche keeps growing constantly. He has been called upon to serve on various civic boards, is a member and prominent speaker at the City Club (an organiza tion of business men), is called upon for baccalaureate sermons at schools and colleges in fact no movement that embraces concentrated civio action is complete without hira. His church, the Auditorium, the largest in the city, is packed morning and night on Sunday, and a recent series on "How to Be Happy Though Married" has proved the most popular series ever de livered In Los Angeles. Thls was a Sunday night series and hundreds were turned away each Sunday night because there was absolutely no more room. In the big auditorium. It isn't often these days that any preachers' sermons are talked .bout half an hour after they are delivered, but Dr. Brougher'a have liter ally been the "talk of the town." They Jiave been discussed at clubs and in busi ness houses, at dinners and in offices it Is Indisputable that he has hit the peo ple's heart in an unusual manner. Don C. McGarvin died last week and his death marked the end of an American. He was all the term implies in an Ideal ized sense. In a tribute to him it was said: "He had every American charac teristic. He looked American; he thought as an American. He had the true Ameri can's faculty of doing, intense, accurate, tremendous work in an easy, careless way. He had an American way of being shrewd and keen without being sharp or hard. He had the American's way of meeting his most stunning successes and his1 hardest bumps with, the same whim sical, humorous philosophy. He could have received the news that he had been made a king or pauper ' without letting his cigar go out. He was a good loser, but he yas also what is much finer and much rarer, a good winner, because a generous, modest one. . This picture of a true American type would have been marred if McGarvin had not been a poli tician. McGarvin played politics unsel fishly. With him it was a kind of "ag grandized sport." Five years ago McGarvin was made chairman of the Republican City Cen tral Committee, a fierce, fighting Job. He enjoyed every minute of it. His oppo nents, whipped or victorious, always said "Don wa square," he "said It to your face." He was also a member of the Republican State Central Committee which managed the Gillett campaign. McGarvin was stricken with scarlet fever and died after two days' illness. His-, wife arrived from San Francisco, not knowing he was ill. She broke the physicians' orders and comforted his last hours. Three days later their little girl, Marjorie. 10 months old, died of menin gitis. The double bereavement was al most more than Mrs. McGarvin could stand, and she is prostrated. Labor Situation Unchanged. The union labor situation in Los An geles has changed little. The strikers are still striking and the factories. fdundrles and breweries are still run ning with full .capacity. But two or three incidents have kept the people of Los Angeles aware that a strike is on. .The first was Judge Bordwell's stanch support of open-shop prin ciples in the Superior Court when he granted injunctions against picketing. Every . manufacturer whose employes were troubled by the crowds of union pickets about their places appealed for an injunction and got it. The lan guage of ' the court was so forceful that a large number of the imported union agents left the city for their homes in the North and East. They have already given up what was in tended to be a National battle for union labor in Los vngeles,. - Another feature was the discovery of a plan, outside of Los Angeles, but affecting this city. as well as Portland and every other city on the Coast. It was hatched In San Francisco, the only city on the Coast that is controlled absolutely by union labor. Three years ago the San Francisco employers, as a result of one of their struggles ,against the union labor trust, made an agreement with .their workmen by which the hours were to be gradually shortened to eight. The agreement culminated June 1, of this year, when the shops in that city started on an eight-hour basis. But the agreement also contained a provision Inserted by the employers to the effect that a sim ilar short day should be secured in other Pacific Coast cities. This is one reason for the strenuous efforts on the part of San Francisco labor leaders to unionize the foundries and machine shops in Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego and Seattle. The union leaders admit that unless they succeed in unionizing all the shops in the cities named the San Francisco employers will be entitled under the agreement to lengthen the day on August 1. Busi ness men who ' discovered the agree ment succeeded in. getting a similar admission from the 'San Francisco em ployers. The publication of the facts as here set forth made the business men of Los Angeles pull up their belts another hole and stick all the tighter for the open-shop principles so dear to the heart of this city's residents. Physician Alleged Brutal. Dr. J. L. Martin, of Fresno, whose alleged brutal treatment of his wife following her double attempt at sui cide during her illness last month aroused the indignation of the Valley City, has been held for trial on a charge of failing to provide proper medical at tendance. There was hardly a dry eye in the packed courtroom during the telling of the story of the death of the doctor's wife. For eight days, said her sister and the nurse, Mrs. Martin had suffered continual tortures, and at the last could hardly breathe, yet her hus band Insisted that she was getting well. At the last the nurse Insisted that she was dying and called Mrs. Martin's sister from the adjoining room. "Kiss me, Jack," pleaded the dying wife. The physician said nothing. "If 'you' will kiss her, doctor," said the nurse, "it will make her last mo ments easier." Still he said nothing, and turned away. Then the nurse held a glass of water to the tortured woman's lips and at the same time kissed her on the cheek and forehead. "Her eyes were already glazed," said the nurse on the witness stand, "and I thought that she might think that it was her husband and not I who was kissing her. And In a moment she was dead." The telling of this story created an even more angry sentiment in the lit tle city, and Dr. Martin's presence for he was out on bail was not wanted. He left town as quickly as possible after the hearing. News of another awful death on the desert In San Bernardino County was re ceived this week. The victim, was Charles ' 9. Davidson, a prominent elec trical engineer, a graduate of Berkeley, and a young man with a host of friends throughout the state. The tragedy oc curred in Searles Lake, a large body of mud in the vicinity of Death Valley. Davidson and a party of friends from Berkeley and San Francisco, young men like himself, were in that section on business, surveying some property. They wanted to get to the other side of the "lake," and Davidson and one other de cided to cut straight across. The others went around. The walking was very bad and the heat was terrific. "After having progressed some distance the two men began to flounder. Every step sent them into the mud to their knees. Davidson was ahead. The strug gle was too great and his heart stopped under the strain. He toppled over in the mud. His friend was alarmed and hast ened as fast as he couTd through the mud to his side. He found his comrade dead. Then he tried to carry the body to the shore of the "lake;" but the task wos too great and he was forced to abandon it. Making his way to shore he signalled the rest of the party. One of the men was sent to Barstow, the nearest town on the desert, to notify the authorities. The others spent two whole days under the ravaging sun try ing to get the body to the shore. At last they succeeded and then word came from Barstow that the Coroner could not hold an inquest. With the return of- the mes senger the party of young men decided to bury their friend on the desert. It was a mournful party of young men that finally emerged from the desert. They were all of them prostrated for a day in Barstow, and when they left for their re spective homes they swore . never to ven ture on the desert again. Outlaw Gang Broken Up. With the capture 'of Gregorio Gusman at Peralta this week, another step was taken In the breaking up of the most daring and most thoroughly organized gang of smugglers of Chinese and opium that ever infested the Pacific Coast. Three months ago the gang conducted a thriving business over the Mexican bor der In the South and the Canadian bor der in the Northwest. Through the death and capture of a number of suc cessive leaders Gusman had risen to have 'charge of the southern branch of the gang. On April 20, Chinese Inspectors Conklln and Chad-ney waylaid four Chinese and their Mexican guide, Gregorio Esplnoza, at EI Toro. In the darkness a running battle between Elspinoza and Conklin took 'place, and Esplnoza fell mortally wounded. The gang of smugglers had received Its first serious blow. Ten days afterward Conklin and Chadney sprang out upon another band, consisting of Jose Garcia and Gregorio- Gusman. and a string of contraband Chinese, near San Onofore, a short distance south of the Orange County line. Gusman and Chad ney fought a duel with revolvers, at close range, and although Chadney's face was powder burned so close were the two men, Gusman escaped in the darkness. Garcia and the Chinese were caught and Garcia is awaiting trial in jail. Rosario Sainz, outlawed in Mexico and three times a murderer . in California, was the next to be taken. He was cap tured at Ensenada, In Lower California, and extradited to be tried for murder. Thin left Gusman -In charge - of the Southern branch of the gang. Learning that he was at Anaheim. Leo Young worth, United States Marshal for this dis trict, notified Santa Ana. City Marshal Edwards and Special Officer Cervantes, of Anaheim. The three men, with dep uties, closed in on Gusman in Santa Ana Canyon and captured him before he could fire a shot. The officers are certain now that within a short time they will have wiped out this gang. So near complete is their work that several of the special Federal sleuths have already gone North to Join the officials there in wiping out the Northern branch. FINALE OF BAKER THEATER (Continued From Page 2.) weeks, presenting the old and favorite operas, even - then with disastrous box office receipts. This was followed by Ben Hendricks in "Ole Olson." On New Year's eve and continuing throughout the week Mazie , Trumbull presented "The Irish Pawnbrokers." Miss Trumbull is now the wife of Joseph Spears, a well known New York manager. She is also a sister of. Ollle Mack. Vaudeville Venture Fails. Following this the" Baker tackled' vau deville, in the face of the fact that acts were difficult to secure. However, some very excellent performers, some from Chicago, others from San Francisco, were engaged. It was via this house that the big cycling whirl act was first intro duced to Portlanders, Mr. Baker having secured the attraction from the Orpheum circuit in San Francisco. ' While the managerement procured good material, still the business of getting them here was an expensive - and losing one. Just when things looked darkest to Mr. Baker, he heard that Ralph Stuart and his company had stranded in Seattle. 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That same Summer of 1902. the now fa mous Baker Stock Company, was organ ized and on August 31 it gave its first performance, presenting "A Social High wayman." The original company con sisted of Catherine Countiss and- Charles Wytigate in the leading roles, Elspeth Graham McNeil and William Bernard in the heavies, WTilliam H. Dills as come dian, Mina Crollus Gleason, character woman, Elsie Esmond ingenue; the other members being Lillian Rhodts, Roy Ber nard, Fred Mower, Robert Siddle, Robert Morris and Howard Russell. . Of these Mr. Morris was stage director. Within a few weeks after the opening the late William Gleason Joined the Baker com pany. Of this list of players, Mina Gleason is at present appearing successfully in Oakland at Te Liberty Playhouse, in stock productions. William Dills is stage director of the present Baker. Company and is an excellent actor, as well as fisherman and writer, and will be one of the old guard present at the last obsequies of the building. Wil liam Bernard is stage director for the James Nell Stock Company in St. Paul, and pretty Elsie Esmond is in Wilming ton, Del.. In stock. The Baker theater than ran stock productions right along until the open ing of the Columbia 1 neater, the pres ent Portland Theater, in 1904. During this interim the season of 1903 found Edna Archer Crawford and George Alison heading the company, followed by Estha Lyon, who played a brief Beason. In the Summer of 1904, Guy Standing and Grace Reals were en gaged for the leading roles. In their company was Mary Boland, who has since become a New York favorite, and is considered one of the loveliest women on the stage. Two seasons ago she was John Drew's leading woman. Also in this company was Dallas Tyler and Scott Copper, the latter a char acter man. With Miss Lyon's engage ment Oza Waldrop made her first ap pearance . in Portland, and became an Instantaneous success. Last season she appeared with Frank Sheridan In "Paid in Full." Guy Standing, too, is a big actor, who has appeared in support of various stars, Including Mrs. Pat Camp bell. Portlanders saw him two seasons ago with' Theodore Roberts in "The Right of Way." Charles Mackey, too, was a member. Later he married the daughter of Al bert Ross, the novelist. Two years later, after securing a divorce from Charles, Mrs. Mackey became the wife of Robert Edeson, the star, and visited Portland with her husband last season, when he produced a "A Man's a Man" at the Bungalow. For two short seasons in 1903-1904 the Neil-Morosco Company played at the Baker playhouse, presenting Charles Wyngate and iillian Kemble as leading people during the first en gagement, and Howard Gould and Amelie Gardner in the following year. Both of these last-named folk have since . became well known, Amelie Gardner starring last season in a Metropolitan success. Other members of the Neil-Morosco Companies in those days were Thomas Oberle, now de ceased, who was considered one of the greatest heavy men. on the American stage; Frank MacVicars, who was killed in an accident several years ago; Phosa MacAlister, a character woman, who passed away in California only last year; Harry Duffield and Harry Mes layer, the latter of whom is at present In Los Angeles, and starred three sea sons ago in Ibsen's "Ghosts." After the year of 1904 the Baker house presented Melbourne McDowell and Charlotte Dean in Sardou repertoire. Miss Dean died the following year, and Mr. Mc Dowell is now appearing in vaudeville with his wife, Virginia Drew Trescott. Then the Baker Stock Company moved up to the Columbia ia 1904, where Catharine Countiss and Edgar Baumo played the leading roles, and pretty little Louise Brandt was the Ingenue, with a train of admirers as long as the moral law. The old Baker house was during this time leased to Keating & Flood to be used as a 10-cent vaudeville house. This held forth with popularity during the season of the Lewis and Clark Fair, followed by a season of burlesque road shows, when the Baker folk, in May, 1906, opened for a brief season with Lillian Lawrence and John Sainpolis in leading roles. In July this company closed, opening again in September with the same leads, playing the entire season until June. Of this company mention has already been made of Miss Lawrence, John Sainpolis has since appeared in New York productions and was this past year with Mary Manner ing. The next season, the Fall of 1907, opened with Marion Barney and Austin Webb as leading folk. In January both these players left the company and Blanche Stoddard was engaged for a few weeks, until Izetta Jewel was secured to fill out the season, with George Allison as leading man. Miss Barney has since then reduced her avoirdupois, of which she had over plenty, and is delighting audiences in stock work in sleepy old Philadelphia. Next season the Baker Company moved up to the Bungalow Theater, with the charming Miss Jewel as leading woman and Sidney Ayers as leading man. Here they remained for two seasons, the old Baker in the meantime housing th Klaw .& Erlanger dollar attractions; the ones for which, it is rumored, John Cort is to build a new theater here next season. Then, on the eighth of last May, Mr. Baker again opened his house with a stock company, of whom Izetta Jewel has been star and leading woman, and Franklyn Underwood an excellent leading man. With the closing of the portals of this famous old playhouse it is particularly fitting that Miss Jewel, who has been its best-beloved inmate, should be' the last to tread its boards, and smile her radiant, cheery good-bye, when the advertising curtain goes down for the last time, tomorrow night, on the stage of the famous old Baker playhouse.