The Sunday Oregonian., December 18, 1910, SECTION TWO, Page 5, Image 21

THE SUNDAY OREGOMAX, PORTLAND. DECEMBER 18. 1910.
"GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST" GIVEN
TO NEW YORKERS IN PUCCINI OPERA
Lon-A.Yitd Finrt Perfonnajic. Attended by Brilliant Audiences Who Gire Heartiest Applause to Masterpiece
Adapted from Belasco's Play.
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NF7W TORK. Dee. 17. The lone
availed flrX perform an oe of Puc
cini nsr op-ra Th Girl of the
t;UJ-n Wesf iFsnvlui:a del West) or-
carr1 al the Metropolitan Opera-HouM
lnCht before aa enormous audtenre.
That It as a brilliant atvllrtic (hould
o vttiiotit aaylnjr. for the aubarrlbera to
the Metropolitan rpra-lloive are amone
the rirheec people In rich Nec Tork and
lie pro-JiM-tlon of the Puct Inl opera a
recanted aa one of the great aortal eventa
of the aeaeon.
It the Prat lime that the flrat pro-
lu"t?n of the opera of one of the world'
JT"-t-Ft romprvere haa bven irlvca to
mrlfi. What added Interest to the oc
casion was the fart that Purrirtl'a opera
iM rrm'Xy te first aeiioua operatic produc
tion having a tjplral American subject
and tartrc all Its -enee laid In this conn
try. Verdi transferred the scene of on
art of an opera to Hoe ton to escape the
f"celn censors: but he d'd not translate
at the rarne time the chararlera or the
rortlltttmsk So there a aholtit'ly nothlre
AirTlrn ahout his work. Fnccinl hlrn
stf ha gtven us In the last scene of
"Xjhwi Ureraut" a vtesr of part of
I.mrts:ana hen that state was a penal
colony. But the srene le so vacua that
It nilcht reprrnent any local and the two
charat-trrs nhlch appear In It axe Frcnclu
13 there Is no real flavor of Americanism
In ihl opera.
The new opera ' Is baaed on Belaao'a
play -The filrl of the tlolden st.
whlch was Klvm for so many months In
New Tor and commanded extraordinary
praise and admiration. To those who
saw the plar and there are few pUy
lorers In the Vntted States) who did not
It will be Interesting; to know that the
opera Is almost exactly the play aet to
music. There have been some saisrlit trans
pontine but. for the most part the srenes
and t:.e characters are exactly what
RMasro made them and the music is In
s;ral measure Incidental to the develop
ment of tl.e dramatic plot. In point of
fact It could be ewld of few operas as
It can be sa'd of Inls that to dramatic
Me dominates (he musical.
rerrsne that te the rearon that Puccini
has made the musical side Ires Interesting
than- his admirers co-.ild have expected.
And lo speak of hta admirers le to speak
of almost ail lovers of mimic In the
I'nlled f;ales for there Is no part of
the world, even In Italv. where he has
met with such sppreclatlon. That the full
value of t:te music u developed ks be
yord doubt, hers use not cn!y has the
composr himself been In New Tork su
perintending the retaarsala. but the
principal parts are In the hands of
-treat artists and the orchestra has
been drilled and conducted by one of
the arrest's t conductors In the world
Toacanlnl.
ROADS GAIN MUCH PROFIT
Uncli Xcw Srftlrr Is Worth $300 a
Tear in Business.
Every settler who come Into Oregon
Is worth a year to the railroads.
Ills worth to the state In citizenship.
In the valu of his producl and the per
manency thnt the commonwealth galna
by his rrenrnce and Industry cannot be
estimated.
It Is understood generally that the con
stant rivnlry between railroads operating
to the Pacific Coast for tourist and col
on(st business Is not for the mere pur
pose of securing the Initial haul from the
h'ast. The rate of KS from the Rocky
Mountains and S3S from points further
st docs not permit much profit. Some
pssarnger traffic men say they even los
money on tills business. Yet they are
estrer to get It. WhyT Because every
sttler they bring lo Oregon to remain
permanently means a continual source
of revenue.
It la In this way that the railroads
the Northwest thrive. It is from this
class of business that their future pros
perity depends. It ia from their success
in bringing people into the country that
the future prosperity of the cities of Ore
gon depends.
R. M. Calkins, traffic manager of She
Chicago. Milwaukee Puget Sound
Railway, when he was here a few day
ago. esttmatrJ the annual return from
every new settler on the route of that
road at VHS- This includes the produce
that he scnos out. the supplies that he
will need from the Kast and the passen
ger business accruing from bimsrlf and
hi family.
"We have made a study of this feature
of our business." rs!d Jfr. Calkins, "and
from figures which we liave compiled w
are safe in estimating that every man
who take up a piece of land in Oregon
or Washington along th line of our
road will give u an annual return of
. Some of the big lan owners will
give. u more business than this, while
some of tbe homesteaders will not do so
well, but the aversgs Is very near the
estimate I have given. From this busi
ness th railroad must obtain their
profits."
William McMurrsy, general passenger
agent of the O. R. N. and Southern
Pacific line, said yesterday that be
wonld place the flrure above 300.
"I never have figured it to an exact
amount." eaidS Mr. McMurray. "but we
have kept a careful account of all this
kind of business. I believe that the
average settler we bring Into the state
gives us more than ttvx) in annual busi
ness. The revenue from this source will
be even greater In time. It may double.
"But while the railroads are earning
their profits from an annual income of
J.V0 from each settler, the state i bene
fitting even more. The value that comes
from the Influx of the tourist end the col
onist cannot be estimated in dollars and
cents. It gives the state a permanency
that becomes the very heart and founda
tion of Its future progress."
All of the advice of James J. "H'll dur
ing the past few years has not been
without this Idee of return to the rail
roads in mind. While Mr. Hill has been
rated as a philosopher and a benefactor,
he is primarily a business . man. He
knows that when he encourages people
to ewttle on the lands it will benefit both
the state and the railroads. He ha
never figured the return in actual money
values, but he has reached the conchwlon
that settlers on the large araa of farm
land In the undcvelo-xd statea will be of
mutual advantage. However, his aage
advice ia now considered- by many as an
axiom and the people of the Northwest
are learning that Ms invitations, to the
dwellers In the cities to fill up he farms
Is meant for their own good as well aa
bis own.
While the disinterested person may
draw the conclusion that the efforts oi
rompeting line to draw travel over their
respective routes for colonization pur
pose has no further motive than the
mere profit that may be derived from
tills clasa of business, the railroad men
know that the real profit comes many
years afterwards from the freight and
passenger patronage mostly freight
that these people give.
It ha only been recently, though, that
this profit has been reduced to figures.
COST OF LIVING RAISED
BY SINGLE TAX MEASURE
Embargo Placed Not Only on Capital by Visionary Revenue Plan, but Also
on Agriculture and Consumers.
PORTLAND GASOLINE ENGINE EXPERT BUILDS UNIQUE
FLYING MACHINE OF OREGON SPRUCE AND FIR
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.ain sj , i 1 1 bii a ... w,,nri I t . i
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iOL'KLAJ-.D after th Curtlaa craft.
built almost exclusively of Ore-
ton material In Oregon by aa
Oregon man. a biplane constructed by
J. W. D Pries, of 1I Chores, street,
rortland. has mad many successful
tlgMa. In building his aeroplane Mr.
re Pries, who was formerly a gaso
Ine engine expert, held almost exclu
sively to the Curtlss plan of structure.
After working for three months on
th flying craft. Mr. r Pries made Ma
Initial flight last June. This was sue.
reseful and slnr tlen h bas had hi
rraft la the air more than 10 times.
covering distances of a mile and mora
and has ascended Zoo feet and more.
He built the craft In rortland. but
It bas never been In the air here, all
the flights having been made at Suther
land. Or. At that point there ia an Ideal
aviation field, where long runs along
the ground to obtain momentum
enough to rive from ttie ground and
where safe descents may b made.
Despite the fart that he bas mad
so many flights and It is the cus
tomary experience of amateuf aviators.
Mr. l Pries has only had one acci
dent. The. foaln or aoooortlnr elanea are
it rcet long. From the box-tn.-e appa
ratus In front, which regulates the ris
ing and lowering of the craft, to the
steering planea In the rear, the machine
is 31. feet long. It Is probable that
thla craft Is one of the lightest hcavler-than-alr
machines ever built.
The craft Is equipped with an eight
cylinder lo-horsepower Curtias engine,
weighing IIS pounds. Incidentally the
lightest engine of that power built.
With the exception of the bamboo rod
for th planes, all tbe woodwork about
the craft Is either compos-I of Oregon
spruce or fir.
PORTLAND. Dec. 12. (To the Edi
tor.) From the earliest auth'cntlc his
tory of the human race an equitable ad
justment of taxation has been a vexed
and trying question. In all the statea
of our Union a Just and fair apportion
ment of the burdens of taxation has
been attempted by legal enactments.,
and euch enactments have been amend
ed times without number tvlth the hope
of arriving at equitable distribution of
responsibility In the premise,. The ex
pensea of maintenance and support are
universally conceded necessity, and ex
perience has taught that the ultimatum
of all human approach to Justice ex
ists In the one word uniformity. Perfect
uniformity gives little hope of realiza
tion. Human genius cannot devise laws
which human genius cannot, with more
or less success, circumvent. Hence It
must become evident thst Justice can
not be expected to result so much from
a multiplicity of laws, as from securing
the enforcement of such laws as we
have. The perpetual blind appeal for
more laws only adds to the already ex
isting confusion, because of the Im
possibility of their Interpretation and
enforcement, and only gives encourage
ment to the multitudinous phases of
tag dodging. As the current cannot be
made to rise higher than Its source, no
more can absolutely perfect lawa Issue
from Imperfect human eources; hence
the inconsistency of captious criticism
as to legal Imperfections. The best
brains of all ages, have failed of a per
fect adjustment of this vexed question,
and all we have as a result. Is to strive
for the nearest approach to uniformity.
And however much we may fa I', in the
full enforcement of uniformity. It atill
remains the crystallxation of the wis
dom of the ages, and even If Impossible
of full enforcement. "Is It not better to
bear the ills we have, than to fly to
those we know not of?"
Kvery person who can conslstenly lay
claim to the patriotic Impulse of true
American citizenship ia not only will
ing but desirous to meet his responsi
bilities in support of our government,
but he very Justly insists that tax levies
for such purposes shaJI be uniform.
Socialistic and fanatical progogand
Ists. however. In the face of their cham
pionship of the poor and downtrodden.
have presented for the consideration of
the American public their so-called
"single or land tax," aa a cure-all for
all lnequalhtiea of assessments, and
their presentation of their remedial
prescription, la accompanied by as
much falae logic and sophistical mis
representation as Is thought necessary
to convince the superficial and unthink
ing mind.
Their pertinacity and genius in mis
representation of facta is almost -worthy
of admiration, were It not self-evtdent-ly
subversive of almost every human
material Interest. Jiome years since
they openly advocated government own
ership of all land. When this was re
pudiated. It waa made to assume the
guiae of "slnEle tax." When this nom
desciipt brat waa again repudiated, the
same batch of Impossible heresies were
trotted out for public acceptance under
the deceptive nom-de-plume of "county
local option. and repeal of poll tax.
single or land tax." prompted by the
fart that Multnomah County having a
large transient and non-property-owning
population, it might be made to
carry a county and then be made an
entering wedgo for a further spread of
Its heresies, and to aid the deception
and deceive the voters, made prominent
the propoaitlon of repeal of the "poll
tax." knowing this tax waa especially
repugnant and offensive to a numerous
body of voters and that they would
vote for the initiative measure thinking
that repeal of the "poll tax" was all
that was embodied In the measure.
When we remember that the above
duplicity and deceit is all in the in
terest of single land tax. it Is proper
to ask what It offers the land owner
In- return for lta asumption of thia
stupendous burden. We are told that
the measure ia aimed at the large or
higher up land owner. The fact must
be kept in mind, however, that where
there is one "higher up there are
thousands of tbe "lower downs" who
are financially injured in a tenfold
greater radon, because they are at
best barely able to make a living and
these added burdens give absolute cer
tainty of confiscation of their small land
holdings and their certain bankruptcy.
Does it never occur to these visionary
and purely theoretical reformers that
the ruin above portrayed would also
double and treble the cost of the very
necessities of life. Indispensable to the
millions of salaried laboring men all
over the Nation bo that no wages
could furnish them with a sufficient
income to live? If the cost of living ia
greviously high now. what will it be
hen the farmer (the source of all pro
duction) Is taxed out of house and home
under the single land tax "revelation,"
and the land lies fallow and unproduc
tive? It at best offers you only a
change of landlords, the government
vith its circumlocution and red tape
nslead of the Individual, with the per
fect certainty of a turning back of the
wheels of progress, paralyzing- of all
agricultural enterprise, deprivation of
the necessities of 1'fe. because of the
embargo on agriculture, and an ab
solute famine amongst the millions of
aborers. whose food must come from
the soil, and universal paralysis of every
human Interest of our continent. And
by this sinuous hypocritical dispen
sation of deceit, we are to get In return
government landlordism, with theuin
of the millions of farmers and laborers
which must Inevitably result. ' Could
anyxning more insane, man more at
variance wuii ine piiunc wensre, more
universally and certainly destructive
of human happiness and progress have
an origin outside of Hades or Clacka
mas? Tax "nothing above the ground."
Every burden of taxation must be
placed on farms and city lots, making
taxes so high that every Interested
party would disclaim ownership and all
the Government, and by this method.
Government ownership of aJl land
would become an accomplished fact.
All this is proposed by these apostles
of equal rights, the self-assumed guar
dians of the poor for whose interest
they have such soul-consuming solici
tude. Their proposed reform (?) means
that every skyscraper though it cost
millions and bring immense Incomes,
shall pay no tax whatever. It means
that the wealthy banker, even though
he Is worth millions, with his right to
appeal to the law for protection of his
Interests, pays no taxes udIcss he own
the lot on which he does business It
means that all railroads with their
millions In "above 'ground" property,
would pay no taxes except on the nar
row strip of land occupied and owned
by them as a roadbed. It means that
every" owner of a city lot, who is too
poor to improve it, would by confisca
tory taxation be forced to sell to the
"higher up" at such price as he could
get. or abandon It. All the .money,
notes, accounts, bonds and other such
sources of income would pay no taxes.
The numerous millions Inverted in tim
ber would pay no taxes, because It is
abox'e ground and not laari and could
not be reached, because if the rocky
mountain sides were assessed too high
to suit him. he could surrender the land
to the Government and his timber
would remain untouched, not being as
sessable there could be no claim against
it. although It Is the only real value in
the case. The farmers and grangers i
whose products constlt-te the basla of j
National wealth and without their I
products every railroad freight train j
would stop and business stagnation and i
bankruptcy result, are beginning to as- j
sume a sju-l-erect position and take ob- '
servation. Kvery laboring man should
do likewlst, for the wanton curie of
the "single land tax" if accepted by the
people would prove to be without a
parallel In its ruinous effects.
These Socialistic dogmas imported
from France should be classed as pes.
tllential and placed under the most
strict quarantine, at least until the Fels
fund Is exhausted, and then If the
Clackamas law factory can be forced
to pay Its own expensed, reason and
sane methods may get a hearing.
In conclusion, It is but Justice to ex
press the belief that. Impossible as the
Socialistic theories are. the rank and
file of the Socialistic body are sincere
The Greatest Living Coloratuie Sopran
v
in their belief.
w. a. cusrcic
Letter-carriers Elect.
Branch
tion of
elected
No. 82, National Associa
Letter Carriers, last week
the following nffixa..
the year: Charles H. trunagan. re
elected, president: Charles J. John
son, vice-president: Fred P. Holm
re-elected, recording secretary; H. II
Howard, financial secretary A g'
re-!ectd. treasurer; S.' E.
Hlbbs. sergeant-at-arms; John G
Irancls, re-elected, collector; A e"
Lincoln, trustee for three years' D H
Rand. M. P.. medical examiner '
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MME.XUISA
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TETRAZZINI
Will Be Heard in Portland at
the Heilfg Theater Dec. 30
Mme. Luisa Tetrazzixri is today the recognized Queen of
Colorature Sopranos, both in concert and operatic stages.
She is in the prime of life and at the zenith of her career. In
deed, as a bravura singer Mme. Tetrazzini may be said to
have no living rival. Her voice is worth to her as much as
$250,000 a year. Do you think she could chance using in her
home for practice, for studying new operas and songs any
thing but the best of pianos ?
The world famous Prima Donna has expressed her prefer
ence by buying and using exclusively the
HARDM
AN PIANO
In both her American and European homes
In the accompanying letter Mme. Tetrazzini tells why she
purchased a Hardman' in preference to any other piano :
Messrs. Hardman, Peck & Co.,
Fifth Avenue, New York.
Gentlemen: The Hardman Piano I pur
chased of you last Winter for my home in
Milan, being the first piano I ever liked '.veil
enough to buy for my own use, has given
me the utmost satisfaction and pleasure.
The tone of the high register is of an ex
quisite purity and delicacy. In singing with
it I really feel as if I am being accompanied
by, an orchestra. Its touch is so extraordi
narily responsive that I study upon it, with
infinite pleasure, the new operas as well as
rehearsing the old ones.
It is most gratifying to me to add my
name to those of the many celebrated musi
- cians who use the Hardman Piano in their
homes and have proclaimed it the leading in
strument of the century.
(Signed) Luisa Tetrazzini.
The exclusive sale of these magnificent Pianos has been
with The Wiley B. Allen Company for almost twenty years. .
We cordially invite you to inspect our present stock which
contains the latest styles in the various different woods.
. Prices the lowest consistent with their great value and ex
cellence. Time payments may be arranged if desired. Hon
est value allowed for instruments in exchange.
-e-- f a . a vj m - """ w'-xr -j
304 Oak Street, Bet. Fifth and Sixth
j $100 for 1 Hour I
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Hovr to sret there
Take Mount Tabor
car, on Morrison
atreet run every 74
minute or better
atlll, come -to onr of.
. Ice and we will take
yon out. 11 it 11
CHAPTER 11
We want to engage about an
hour of jour time todav. Tt 's
to be an outdoor job. and mak
ing from S100 to $300 for Tour
trouble you 'will have an enjoy
able time.
Here's what we want von in rlr.'
Ai3 . We want von in twr. -von,- ..-i f
7 girl you intend making- vour wifei and
come out and buy a couple Morning
fj Side lots just a flyer, a sort of a spec
if? ulation !
There is going to be the finest residence
district here within a short time of any in
the City of Portland. Tabor Heisrhts. von
know, is located on the East Side, the same
as Portland Heights is on the West Side,
and Morning Side is the cream of Tabor
Heights. L,ots are selling from $6-50 to
$1500 each. Any one .of these lots (there
are about 75 left) is bound to be offered
at an advance from $100 to $300 within a
short time.
How do we know T
m
Portland is increasing its population,, ac
cording to the census report, 12 per cent per
annum. AH of these newcomers must have
homes. The West Side is full- rho m,,
live on the East Side, and of course they will
""""" cicaui oi us .nasi iswe property.
At the same time they will want their
wives and children to live in a district
that has the beautiful view, that is lo-
caiea aoove tne tog, alongside of the
new Mt. Tabor City Park and where
mere are schoolhouses on both sides
of the tract.
All right! Then come out right
away and pick out your lot.
If you don't make from $100
to $300 on this proposition we
have missed our guess.
In fact, our own employ
ees in the office are so
sure that they are buy
ing lots.
That's a pretty good
recommendation, is it
not 7
Hartman & Thompson
BUI, ESTATE DEPARTMENT.
Chamber of Commerce
Private Ex. 20 A 20SO and A 7004
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