SECTION FIVE
Pages 1 to lO
Woman's and Books
VOL. XXIX.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY lO, 1910.
NO. 28
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Detention Home Saves 84 Per
Cent of Children Placed. There
Good Homes Pound for Marty by Portland Institution and Numerous Run
aways Are Cared For Parents Generally at Fault, Says Master.
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The sole object of this sale is to effect a quick and speedy clearing of all odd lots, broken
lines, odds and ends that have accumulated during the past few months. The prices are
such as to accomplish this result with celerity. We cannot too strongly urge you to
come to the store, even if you do 'not see anything advertised in this issue that you
want, for many a great many bargains do not find theirway into print, especially
those items of which there are only one or two of a sort. Our usual terms of cash or
credit, with terms to suit, hold good with all these sale goods.
Wood frame covering of brown duck,
cord lacing supports hammock. Ideal
for camping or sleeping porch.
Mattress extra.
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Folding Steel Couch Beds J 7El
Without Box $16.75, With Box P 1 O
By all odds one of the handiest and easiest to operate
"double purpose" pieces of furniture ever made. A single
motion converts what was a "perfect couch in daytime" into
a "perfect bed for night time." Equipped with fine cotton
mattress.
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$1.50 Bathroom Outfit 45c
The shelf is made of weathered oak and measures
6x18 inches. The towel rack, toothbrush rack, soap
dish and tumbler holder -are of nlckelplated metal.
$1.50 Canvas Cot for 98c
This cot is very well made; covering? of canvas of
good quality. The price is certainly low.
$8 Lawn Settee
$5.75
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Cash or Credit Terms to-Suit.
This Lawn Settee is made of natural
finished maple, has woven reed seat
and 10 slats in back, instead of five,
as shown in cut.
$40 Bed $28.25
Cash or Credit Terms to suit.
A Colonial design carried out in finely-figured
mahogany. Has French legs
terminating in carved claw feet.
This $14.50
Refrigerator
$9.95
Cash or Credit
Terms to Suit
Golden oak finish hardwood
case, galvanized mesh
shelves, which, with all else,
are removable; brass lock
and hinges; 50-lb. capacity.
P e r f e c t in construction.
"An ice saver."
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$27.50 Brass Beds $16,751
Cash or Credit
Terms to Suit
This is a high quality bed in
every way- made of heavy tub
ing, which will not become dent
ed under ordinary usage. The
posts are two inches in diameter
the filling rods are heavy
knobs are of the new flat design.
Choice of polish or satin finish.
Three Rug Specials
Positively the best rug values it is possible to find any
where. All of them come in floral, oriental and conventional
designs. Cash or. Credit Terms to Suit.
$50.00
9x12 feet
Wilton Rug
$35.75
$35.00
9x12 feet
Body Brussels
$27.50
$20.00
9x12 feet
Ruj Tapestry Brussels
Rug, $15.75
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PROFESSIONAL BONDSMEN WILL BE
PUT OUT OF BUSINESS IN NEW YORK
Mayor Gaynor Finds Graft in Arrests on Trivial Charges Sixty thousand Spend One Night in Jail Each. Year.
Automobiles Must Not Smoke on Gotham's streets.
BY LLOYD F. LONERGAN.
NEW YORK, July 9. (Special)
Mayor Gaynor believes he has dis
covered the way to put professional
bondsmen out of business, and that is
by reducing the number of trivial ar
rests. The Mayor has been studying this
matter with considerable interest, and
has found that last year, In Manhattan
and the Bronx alone, 60,000 persons,
who spent a night in police stations,
were discharged the next morning for
lack of a valid complaint. In a letter to
former Police Commissioner William
McAdoo. the newly appointed Chief
Police Magistrate, the Mayor says:
"I trust you will gradually do away
with trivial arrests, and the require
ment of bail in trivial cases. There is
no law compelling magistrates to re
quire bail in every case. They have the
widest discretion in the matter. Bail is
only to prevent people from running
away. Why, for instance, should a man
with a wife and children, or any
householder, be held in bail pending an
adjournment on a charge of a petty
battery or the like?
"The practice of requiring bail for
trivial offenses has brought into exist
ence here a large number of profes
sional bondsmen, who go bail for $5 and
upwards. Put these men out of busi
ness." Tills new ruling of the Mayor is in
line with the common-sense policy he
has followed ever since he took office.
It has always been the custom to exact
ball in every case, no matter how triv
ial it might be. and the average house
holder was forced to pay a bondsman
or else place himself under obligations
to some ward politician. For bondsmen
are not the easiest things to get in a
large city.
Central Park to Be Playgroup. I.
The Board of Estimate has decided
to spend $200,000 in making Central
Park a real playground". The money
has been voted, and work will be com
menced before long. The only surpris
ing thing is that someone did not think
of the scheme long ago.
A large section of the park is taken
up by two reservoirs, which formerly
furnished the city water supply. Of
lata years they, have not been needed.
except for the remote necessity of a
reserve fund. It struck Mayor Gaynor
and Controller Prendergast at the
same time that it was foolish to let all
this land go to waste. So now the
reservoirs will be taken away, and the
space devoted to all sorts of outdoor
sports. There will be a half-mile run
ning track, places for cricket and base
ball, and best of all, wading pools for
the children. This will, give the park
features it never had before, and make
it really a people's playground.
Under former administrations there
were tennis grounds, but even Tam
many was not wicked enough to permit
the fields to be open on Sunday. The
present Park Commissioner, however,
got a tip from headquarters, and the
nets are up seven days a week. No ad
ditional crime has been noticed as a
result of this action.
Unlawful for Autos to Smoke.
Automobiles are now officially classed
with women they must not smoke in
public within the city limits. The new
state law has gone Into effect, and
Health Commissioner Lederle has ap
pointed 70 members of the sanitary
squad to see that the statute is obeyed.
The new ordinance provides that the
chaffeur of a smoking automobile may
be arrested and taken to the nearest
police court, where he will be charged
with a misdemeanor, and fined or im
prisoned as is provided in the code. A
similar law, affecting Central Park has
been in force for several months, much
to the discomfiture of careless chauf
feurs. In the opinion of more than 100 doc
tors, who signed a petition, urging this
legislation, the clouds of oil smoke
from motor cars and taxicabs are
"dangerous to the health of the citi
zens of New York." The trouble is
particularly marked on Fifth avenue,
where there is practically a continuous
procession of motor vehicles all day
long.
It is well known that "dense smoke,"
as specified in the code, is absolutely
unnecessary, no matter what brand of
automobile happens to be the offender.
It is due to two things inferior oil,
and carlessness on the part of the
chauffeur usually the latter.
There is great excitement among
Riverside Drive property owners, for
the city, iaa won. its 10-year fight to
"shave" a number of high-priced resi
dences there. The contention of the
authorities has been that certain houses
project over the building line. The
owners naturally objected, and as cash
is no object with them, they have had a
run for their money. But after long
battles in all sorts of courts, the final
decision is against them, and these
beautiful dwellings, many worth $75,
000 and $100,000 apiece, will lose an
average of four feet of frontage on the
drive. The owners, who are resigned
to the inevitable, have appealed to the
city to allow them "to do the work of
demolition themselves, or rather through
their architects, and Park Com
missioner Stover has consented, al
though he had a force of men ready to
go to work at once. But the owners
naturally think that they can make a
more tidy job of It.
Private Kicks Colonel's Auto.
Interesting new stories are often
hidden away In the more or less dry
army orders, particularly those rela
ting to courts martial. And for some
unexplained reason, they seldom get
into print.
General orders No. 46, issued from
headquarters of the Department of the
East (Governors Island), the other day,
beads elements of particular news in
terest. It refers to the exploits of one
Private Harry B. Poole, of the Third
Field Aartlllery, who went on a joyride
with Lieutenant-Colonel Charles G.
Treat's automobile. As the charges
state, "Poole did drive the automobile
improperly, unskillfully and recklessly,
so as to boil away all the water in the
cooling system, overheating the engine
and damaging the same."
But specification No. 2 is much more
horrible. Listen:
"In that Private Harry B. Poole,
Battery E, Third Field Artillery, did,
while in the uniform of a soldier, and
on the streets of Rosslyn, Va., curse
and kick the automobile of Lieutenant
Colonel Charles G. Treat, Fourth Field
Artillery, to the scandal and disgrace
of the military service."
Private Poole Is now serving four
months in the guardhouse, and is also
fined $50. What "Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles G. Treat, Fourth Field Artil
lery," did to him personally does not
appear in the records.
Police Commissioner Baker, like any
good executive, is learning something
new about his department every few
days. The latest thing brought to his
attention is that some of hi3 subordin
ates pawn their uniforms. In conse
quence, 18 detectives and patrolmen
were hastily summoned to trial.
There have been many complaints
concerning a "patrolman in full uni
form," who has been holding up men
and robbing stores. But the strictest
search has failed to locate him.
Finally a "citizen" wrote to Baker,
suggesting that perhaps the criminal
had purchased the uniform from a
pawnbroker, add'ng that many police
men pawned their official suits. With
this as a tip. Baker soon found a
number of men who had violated the
department rule, and at once placed
them on trial. All admitted their guilt
and had many excuses to offer in de
fense. One man had grown so fat that he
pawned his suit until he could train
down again. Another's wife thought
It was an excellent way to keep the
months out. The great majority said
they always pawned their Winter uni
forms in Summer,' and their Summer
suits in Winter.
The men on trial were discharged
with a warning, but hereafter any
man whose uniform is found in pawn
will be dismissed from the depart
ment. The men privately declare that Mr.
Baker has not solved the problem. They
say that the trouble is not due to them,
but to men who have been "fired," or
who have resigned.
"In the cases of men who are on the
force." says one detective, "the pawn
brokers do not dare to try an funny
business. They never can tell when
we will want to take our suits out,
and we always redeem them. , Conse
quently a crook has no chance to bene
fit from us. But the men who have
quit the service do not care what be
comes of their uniforms. They will
never wear them again, and usually
they sell them outright. There should
be some provision of law whereby a
man who leaves the department is re
imbursed for his uniforms. It would
pay the city in the long run, I be
lieve." Noblemen Iangh Last.
New York's famous "$10,000,000
widow" is now the "$10,000,000 grass
widow," for Mrs. Philip Van Valken
burg, a bride of a few moths, has left
her husband "forever."
The woman first achieved fame a
year or two ago, when William H.
Chapman, an aged man with all kinds
of money, hastily wooed and won her.
Then he almost as hastily died, leaving
the widow with his $10,000,000 to con
sole her.
After the funeral Mrs. Chapman
went to-Europe, where . she cut a lot
of ice in society. At various times she
was reported engaged to General Spiri
dovitch, one of Russia's war heroes;
Count de Sonles, and a score or more
of other noblemen. But finally she
came back to New Tork and married
Van Valkenburg, who is much her
senior. At the same time she spoke at
length on the subject of "American
Husbands for American Wives." and
was interviewed excessively by the sob
sisters on Park Row. It was Just like
a George Cohan play, and made every
body feel proudly patriotic.
Now Mrs. Van Valkenburg has left
her husband, and will sue for a separa
tion. The charge that she makes is
that he is a "tightwad." The husband
has not expressed himself as yet, but
his friends say that a woman with $10.
000,000 of her own should be ashamed
to bring such an accusation, even if it
is true. But Mrs. Van Valkenburg is
most determined, and says she never
wants to see her husband again. Also
she demands that the courts grant her
alimony. She admits that she does not
need the money, but she figures that
the granting-of It will hurt her hus
band's feelings.
This is one of those cases where the
foreign noblemen seem to ' have the
final laugh.
SOCIALISTS HAVE CRISIS
Party In Italy Fails -to Keep In
Touch With Workingnien.
ROME, July 9. The Italian Socialist
party is passing through a severe
crisis, of which the outward sign is the
resignation- by Signor- Bissolati, the
ablest man in the party, of the editor
ship of the official organ, "Avantt."
The real cause of the failure of the
Italian Socialist party in Parliament is
a defect common to nearly all political
parties in Italy lack of direct touch
with the working classes. Of the 508
Italian Deputies there is only one bona
fide working man, and even the So
cialists, with that exception, are all
professional middleclas&men without
practical experience of . manual labor.
Thus their .Socialism is apt to be aca
demic and lifeless.
In Italy the bureaucracy is supreme,
and It centers in the Minister of the
Interior, who is invariably Prime Min
ister also. In order to. obtain favors
for the numerous co-operative socie
ties which the workmen have formed,
the Socialist Deputies, like their non
Catholic colleagues, have to haunt the
ante-chambers of the Home Office.
Hence the Socialist vote is usually cast
against a Ministry only when there lv
no fear of a. Ministerial defeat.
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OF the children who are placed in
in the Frazer Detention Home, of
Portland, only 16 per cent, are
later sent back to their homes or other
places, and no further trouble or annoy
ance is brought about by them. Under
the discipline and restrictions of the
home, the minds of the children are
imbued with good principles, it is ex
plained by officers of the institution,
who point with pride to the work ac
complished since - the opening of the
home in May, 190S.
When the school was first planned
it was intended only for boys, but it
has since been found necessary to in
clude girls., among the eliglbles.
Through the efforts of. the late Judge
Frazer, after whom the home Is named,
the Institution was constructed by the
county on' a site donated by Dr. C. E.
Brown. The grounds cover four acres,
and the building, which cost in the
neighborhood of $12,000, is located on
the highest point of the area. Besides
the rooms occupied by those in charge,
the bathrooms, etc., there are three
dormitories, one for the girls and two
for the boys, reading and school rooms,
diningroom, kitchen and reception room
and office. One-half of the building
Is an exact duplicate of the other half,
the west side being for the boys and
the east half for the girls.
At present there are in the home 26
children, eight of whom are girls, and
the others boys.
Only children under eighteen years
of age who come under the Jurisdiction
of the Juvenile Court are eligible to the
home, and' may be classified as follows:
Children who are considered incorrigi
ble but not ferocious, and whose
wrongdoing does not Justify sending
them to the reform school; those
whose home environments are a detri
ment to their proper development, and
the children whose mothers are widows
and who have to work for a livelihood,
leaving them to run the streets. For a
child to be placed in the detention home
does not imply that he or she is in
corrigible or a detriment to society.
It is a place where cniiaren are nem
temporarily until they can be properly
otherwise placed.
. One of the purposes or tne home,
of which the general public is not
aware, is to ascertain the whereabouts
of children who have run away from
home and return them to their parents
or guardians. Runaway boys from
Wisconsin, Minnesota, tne Dakotas,
Washington, Arizona and California
have been apprehended and taken caxe
of until the parents could be notified. -
There is a general routine to be fol
lowed in the home, to which the chil
dren are made to ladhere strictly. At
6:30 in the morning they are called to
prepare for breakfast, which is served
at 7. After breakfast each child does
the work assigned to him. Lunch Is
served at 11:45, and the afternoon is
devoted to some work and some play.
Dinner is called at 5. From 6 to 7 is
allowed for recreation, and the hour
between 7 and 8 is spent in the read
ing room. Preparations are made for
bed at 8, and at 8:30 o'clock the lights
are all out and no conversation is al- -lowed
after that time. During the
winter months the children are made
to attend the . school at the home.
which is taught by teachers furnished
by the city, and Is conducted along the
same lines as any city school.
Each child takes care of his or her
own bed, each dormitory being in
charge of a monitor, who Is one of
the trusty boys of the Institution.
There is also a monitor in charge of
each table in the diningroom. The
duties of the monitors often Include
making trips to town on errands:
sometimes to bring In other children,
who have been committed to the home.
The yard is cared for entirely by the
boys, who take great pride in their
work. Interest is also manifested in
the garden, which Is on the place and
in which is raised the supplies of veg
etables for the greater portion used in
the home, enough potatoes being raised
to fill the requirements for ten months
out of the year.
In speaking of his work and the
children who have been in the homo
since it was opened, L. H. Baker, master-
of the Institution, said: "In nine
cases out of ten parents are at fault for
the wrongdoing of the children. . One
case of this nature was that of a boy
who had been absent from his home in
Wisconsin for eight months when he
was brought to the' home. After per
suading the boy to tell where his
father lived, I communicated with the
parent, whereupon he immediately
came after him. The boy would not
censent to return with his father until
it was promised him that he should go
to college. When they were : taking
their leave I remarked that Arthur had
learned a lesson. 'No,' said the father,
'It is I who have learned a lesson. I
have never before been in close touch
with' my son. but hereafter I shall make
his interests mine.' "
Excavation is being made about 100
feet from the detention home . for a
gymnasium building, the basement of
which 'will be used as a school of man
ual training. The structure will cost
about $2500 or $3000, of which $800 has
been given by the county, and $800 sub
scribed by individuals. The balance is
yet to be raised.
GERMANY NOW FEELS SAFE
Army and Navy in Condition to Block
British Invasion.
BERLIN, July 9. (Special.) The Grenz
boten, the well-known periodical in which
Bismarck used to take great interest,
publishes an article on Bismarck and
England. It summarizes Bismarck's
well-known views on England, and , says
that if he were alive today the great
chancellor would probably place the fol
lowing alternative clearly before "nerv
ous Britons": " "Either they submit to the
inevitable and treat ub Germans au pair
by recognizing that the rapid Increase of
our armaments is absolutely necessary
for the maintenance of the German Em
pire and its healthy development, or they
must risk war, which, in spite of Bertha
von Suttner, is stlU the ultima ratio."
"Five years ago," continues the Grenz
boten, "the English might have checked
Germany's development; today things are
different. Germany has had time to arm,
and with the fleet she now poseesses she
will be able not only to defend her
coasts, but to prevent, to a certain ex
tent, the British piracies that are to be
expected in case of war."