The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, April 23, 1911, SECTION THREE, Image 30

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Newspaper Page TextTIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, APRIL 23, 1911. KIRMESS PROMISES TO BE MOST BRILLIANT AFFAIR OF SOCIAL YEAR Participant Working Hard to Bring Dances Into Proper Form, as Big Success Is Predicted Rehearsals Will Not Be Abandoned Until Day Previous to Performance.. f : . V Shuts' 'iKvf J fiv-jLXi VVX.' aw-; . s . ! " " - 4 -,V. --" A .1.. .. - 4 -V. : V f ,' ', ' t ONLY four day -ore rrmatn before tb opcolnc of the charity Klrmesa, at the Uelllc Theater next ThuraJay Yenlnr. nd the JJO aoclety debutante and young; bachelors who are to dance In the bl ahow. a well as a amall army f other aoclety folk who are to partici pate axe bard at work. Notwithstanding the fact thAt the three week of constant practice, un tier the relentless firc-lna of Mls Ula nw Stewart, director of the dancers, has smoothed oat all In harmonies and brou tit the standard of erery number on the bis programme tip to that ol tne nla-h-claaa professional, rehearsals are to be kept up until within Zi hours of the openlnr performance. The elaborate costume that are to be worn in tne Mne spectacular dances arrived from an Francisco Saturday and nimble feminine Oncers will be kept busy all ay tomorrow "taktns; up" or "lettlns; out" seams and darts to nt the Individ ual requirements of those who will wear the costarae. The first dress re hearsal will be Tuesday evenlnr. and cn Wednesday evening-, the niirht pre ceding; the opening; performance, there IWU1 be a full dress rehearsal. Kl rroes to Be nrllllant. Thf re Is no lona-er any ' doubt but hat tne Klrmess will be one of the knost brilliant society events of several eeson. as well as a notable charitable undertaking-, and that the four-per formance entertainment with the Inci dental Klrmesa enterprises, will net large sura for the OpenrAlr Sanatorium for Consumptives and the People's In stitute, the two beneficiaries. Friday's auction of boxes started the ball roll ing; and A. I Mills and Thomas SVott Brooke, who have the Klrmesa finan ces In charge, both predict gjrattCylna; results. The Klrtneea King; made hla first ap pearance at the Brst full-programme rehearsal at the Bungalow Theater Fri day evening;. Dancing; with ray abandon, and waving; a rold-handled unbrella In Ilea of the wand wblcb will be unpacked with Ms costume to morrow, the Klrmesa King; (Thomas Scott Brooke) led a long; pageant of subjects upon the Bung-alow stare and conducted them throtirh a graceful series of evolutions. The striking; en semble of the Ue Klrmesa dancers, with the Klrmesa Kmc in advance, elicited enthusiastic applause from the small army of patroneaes. chaperons nd newspaper men who were la at tendance. Following; the crand march, all the Bine spectacular dances of the pro gramme, concluding; In a rrand glnainc finale, were cone through. Those who wttnened the rehearsal freely predict that Portland's second chsrlty Klrm esa will excel even the brilliant affair of two years ago. Coe tames Are VnpacVrri. The richly Jeweled costumes for the Various picturesque dances are being; unpacked today, and when these are donned by the dancers, and the per formance put on at the Flelilr with the elaborate scenic settlnrs that are be ing; arranged for each dance, the effect. In the opinion of those who were pres ent at Friday evenlnr'g rehearsal, will equal the beat of any professional spectacular performance ever given In Portland. Tuesday morning; the HUlr will go Into the hands of the Klrmesa corn tnlttees and decorators will begin trans forming 'the building Into a carnlvaj place. Foyer and lobbies will be necked In greens, pennants and ribbons and fitted out with booths where pretty maids will play at being candy and flower merchants. The Heine's perma nent tearoom, which Is to be opened for the Klrmess, will be decked with boughs and made Into a tea garden for refreshment of those whose patronage will be solicited for charity's sake. Throughout the four performances, prhlclk Include a Saturday matinee, the .1" . .H ,T-.-' -':A - j V i . VP" ' ..i ,-..-- Klrmesa with Its varlons dime-gar- Bering enterprises. will be a busy place, and bevies of debutanteg win be on duty every afternoon and evenlnr. selling hon-bona. souvenir postals of the Klrmesa dancers. hot peanuts. ginger pop, ire cream cones and all manner of sundries. The activities of the flower booth workers have already begun. The com mittee of matrons acting as managers of this enterprise have secured the co operation of the local florists, and have announced that they stand ready to re ceive orders and fill them with careful attention and In Hrst-claas manner, at the rerular prices. They are solicit ing orders for first-night boutonnleren and corsage bouquets, and have come oi-t with a business-like announcement lirwhl-h It Is stated that orders will be taken and filled by Mrs. Charlea Scaddlng, Mrs. C. J. Reed, Mrs. John Phepard. Mrs. Isador Lang. Sirs. E. C Mrars, Mrs. James Canbv, Mrs. Ben Neuatadter. Mrs. John Ebea Young, Mrs. Edmund Pevereaux or Mrs. Robertson. The harvest of small change that will he garnered by the fair flower and candy merchants, and all other Inci dental proceeds, will be added to the main Klrmesa fund and after the Klrmess expenses have been deducted. trie net proceeds wtll be divided be tween the Portland Open-AIr Sanatorium for Consumptives and the People's. In stitute. San Francisco Mayoralty Figki Is Enlivened by New Candidate James Eolfe, Jr., Is as Popular in Labor Candidate's Own District as He Is on 'Change, and Is Known Throughont City as Good "Mixer" as WelL BY HARRY B. SMITH. SAX FRANCISCO. April JI. (Spe cial ) James Rolph. Jr., choice of the progressives for Mayor of San Fran cisco, is known on 'change as "Glad- Hand Jim. This Is because of his un fulllnr affability and - courtesy that even overmatches Frank U. Brown's. If he gets Into the camualrn." re marked one of his friends, "we will have a change of climate. "How so TV asked jk dense bystander. "Because of the hot air." was the an- r. Joking aside. It Is believed that Rolph as the non-partisan choice, of the Municipal Conference, will make a vigorous fight and the campaign forces bark of blm are being lined up. Rolph. so say his friends, will show considerable strength In the Mission district, where Is found so much of the labor vote that elected McCarthy. P. L McCarthy's activities are ap parent on every side. His supporters are to be found at work, In almost ev ery assemblage and the city adminis tration is doing the best that 't can. Charles F. Curry, former Secretary of State, who was a candidate for the gu bernatorial nomination on the Repub lican ticket, says he is In the fight for Mayor and will continue. A. TV. Scott. Jr.. whose friends assert that he will remain In the fight to a finish, has not as yet demonstrated that his candidacy Is other than a small house of cards. The campaigns of Major Francis J. Keesllng and Andy McCarthy are fading and no new names have been suggested during the week. The suKceeted primary fusion between the McCarthy and McXab forces would Indicate that the lemocratlc . machine may not put a candidate in the field, but rather wll Indorse McCarthy. The other wing of the local Democracy will divide Its vote between Rolph and Mc IewlU. the Socialist. Its leaders have undertaken to organise non-partisan clubs. Ciovcrnor Johnson to Cut Pic. .There Is a storm brewing over the delay on the part of Governor Johnson 2 In distributing the loaves and fishes among his henchmen In this city. Even the "Push." like the modest worm, will turn. The workers not only are disgruntled over the failure of the Governor to recognize their efforts In hla behalf, but they are much dis pleased with some of the appointments he has made. Fred G. Sanborn, local boss for the state administration and chairman of the county committee, has called a meeting for a week hence and unless something Is done to quiet the kick ing, the row will break out. Some of the members of the committee favor adopting a resolution censoring the patronage programme or lack of action on patronage. The ever-active Job-chasers were quieted, if not satisfied, for a time, by the atatement that the Governor would cut the patronage pie as soon as the Legislature should adjourn. There are many desirable places on the city xront. nominally at the disposal of the Har bor Commissioners, and these are the allurements that excite the discontent of the seekers for sppointtnents? It is the talk In local political cir cles that Burns' private detectives are to be liberally provided for on the city front, ricrrin Pats "Rldor' n Passes. William F. Herrin. ' vice-president and general manager of the Southern Pacific Railroad, has issued passes to members of the Railroad Commission In response to the threat that the body would Issue its own passes If the railroad company refused to do so. Far from meeting with their expec tations in the matter, however. Herrin has given the members of the commis sion a jolt by printing the provision of the act of February, 1910on the passes, so that the passes are known as "Form If." This means that the Railroad Com missioners can ride on the passes only when they are on official business and that If anyone detects them using the passes for any other purpose, they can be prosecuted under the provisions of the act. Heretofore, the Commissioners were provided with passes that were not good on the limited trains. The pres ent Commissioners concluded that their official business urged them to ride on limited trains, so they served notice on the Southern Pacific that they would have to get that kind. Herrin then took personal charge of the matter and decided to give the Commissioners passes that would be good on any kind of a train. But the joker is more, far more, than the Com missioners bargained or. Scotch Novelist In Bay City. Edmund Mitchell, the eminent Scotch novelist, has recently oome to the bay cities to live, and with his charming wife and three boys. Is comfortaoly set tled In Berkeley for the Summer. The Mitchells have been living In San Diego and the father tells an amusing story on hla youngest Non, Eddie. It seems that in San Diego, where money Is plentiful, almost every one of any consequence whatever owns an auto mobile and Eddie was hard pressed to explain his father's evident lack, of funds. On one occasion some friends from London were vlsittng the Mitchells and Eddie was deputed to show them around. In the course of their travels, au tomobile after automobile flashed by. Finally the lad could stand it no longer. "I am having you walk, he said with an airy attempt at nonchalance. "because, being English. I know you prefer it. And then, besides, our ma chine at present, happens to be in the mirage. Cannot Kind Teddy's Mark. "When you see the elephant, think of That's what Colonel Roosevelt said of his gift of a big African bull to Presi dent Benjamin Ide Wheeler In an ad dress at a student's baseball rally while In Berkeley. The pelt and pachyderm has arrived. The question has arisen, did Roose velt really shoot the trophy he pre sented to the University? Curator Harry Swarth. who is in charge of the museum of vertebrate soolology. In the absence of Director Joseph Grlnnell. can't find a bullet hole. And. unless Director Grlnnell can locate it. there wtll be no "X marks the spot" on the Roosevelt specimen. Millionaire Gets Revenge. The bachelor days of Joseph East land, the young millionaire clubman. ended the other day in Chicago, when he married Mrs. L. M. Rouse, a hand some divorcee of New York, who is well known in San Francisco. ' East- land and his bride are now on their way to Paris, where their stay will be Indefinite. , The marriage of Eastland recalls the one-time romantic determination of Eastland to wed Mrs. Vesta Shortridge Brugulere. Eastland was in Turin at the time and he heard reports of the engagement of Mrs. Brugulere to young Hsvemeyer. of the sugar trust family. Mrs. Brugulere is not engaged to Hsvemeyer." Eastland cabled from Italy; "she is engaged to me." Mrs. Brugulere laughed at the cable- gram. Early in the year. Eastland was found free in New York and his en gagement to Mrs. Rouse was shortly announced. A San Francisco society woman, whose ancestors helped to whip George the Third, has been Invited to ride in the T i:JgS5W(g BEAUTIFUL FLOWERING PLANTS LET US HAVE YOUR ORDERS NOW 50,000 Geraniums Petunias, Heilotrope Lobelia And all the popular and most desirable flowering' and foliage plants end vines for your window and porch boxes, vases, beds and borders. Our plants are all transplanted or pot grown and are strong, stocky and weU rooted. Every plant will grow and bloom profusely all season. Re member, there's as much difference in plants as in seeds. Qual ity counts, and our motto is "Quality first, prices as low as we can mal e it. Let us help you. From years A experience our salesmen know tt hat's best for certain effects. locations, etc., etc. They will tell you what's new and most desirable. Window and porch boxes made to order and filled. Gladioli and Dahlias Them Now The improved types are the most beautiful and satisfactory Summer and Fall flowering bulbs. We grow acres of them. See our catalogue for full description and prices. Don't Neglect Your Lawn Remember, nothing adds a greater air of refinement to a home than a beautiful, velvety, green lawn. Our "Highest Quality" Evergreen Lawn Grass Seed gives the most satisfactory results. Apply WLLGROW, the greatest garden and lawn fertilizer. It does wonders your money back if you want it. Cactus Type Dahlia A m PS Flowering Shrubs and Ornamental Evergreens At Our City Tree Yard Just received 'a fine assortment of Bays, Box, Laurel, etc., etc., in tubs and boxes. Most desirable for entrances, porches, halls, gardens, hotels, restaurants, etc.- We also have a choice lot of Shrubs and Plants balled and potted so they can be set out at any time. Drive around and see them at Fourth and Madison, our city tree yard. We still have some choice Rose Bushes in good shape to transplant. . Other Seasonable Stocks Poultry Supplies, roods and Remedies, Insecticides, etc. Sprayers, Garden Tools and Supplies of all kinds; Weed Killer, Wire Hanging Baskets, Jardinieres and Pots, etc.; Vegetable Plants and Roots. Our 104-page descriptive Catalogue tells alL f T 'VbbsbV 169 2D St. Bet. Morrison S Yamhill He member Our City Tree Yard Is Now Located at Fourth and Madison Sts Opposite the City HalL Phone A 4715. royal procession on the morning; of the coronation next month. The woman to whom this unique honor has come is Mrs. Kate Voorhler Hertry, who left the middle of the week with Princess David Kawan anakoa en route for Europe. As a widowed princess. Princess David was privileged to invite & woman as her com panion to ride in the royal carriage with her and with true chummy devotton, Bhe Immediately cabled Mm. Henry to make up her mind to come along;. Mrs. Henry and the Princess David often have been called the "Heavenly Twins" for they were absolutely Insep arable. All the other San Franciscans who will cross over to see the historical pageant will have to content themselves and be lucky at that by getting; a flitting glimpse from some window, for the grandstands have all been reserved for the favored British subjects. A privileged few, such as Miss Crocker, the Irwlns and other friends of Ambassador Reld will be crowded Into the place dedi cated to the foreign representatives. Incidentally. Princess David will take with her the royal costumes worn by the Hawaiian family on the occasion of their coronation. Although the royal Hawaiian robes are not made In the Parisian fashion and are unlike those of any other country in the world, the British museum has been trying to coax Prin cess David to part with her royal cape and has offered a fabulous sum for it, for Its like cannot be reproduced and It la coveted as a priceless treasure. This robe Is a cape which envelops the black gown worn beneath It, yellow and black being the Hawaiian royal colors. The cape Is made of tiny feathers from a bird that inhabited the high alti tudes of the island and the epecles Is I now extinct. A each bird had but one such feather, the difficulty of obtaining enough to make the cape may be Imagined. The cape owned by Princess David is a bright, almost iridescent yellow. COLD-STORAGE MEN CLAMOR WILDLY AGAINST LAW THAT MAY MEAN RUIN Millions of Pounds of Butter and Thousands of Cases of Eggs Will Be Forced on Market if Unfriendly Legislation Is Enacted Veteran Chicago Newspaperman Dies at Work. BT JONATHAN PALMER. CrllUAUU, April zs. tspeciai.; With an actual loss of $5,000,000 to $7,000,000 already chalked up against them. and with prospects strong- that this loss will be lifted to 110,000,000 or more, unless Bummer conditions shall be peculiarly favor able, the dealers In cold-storage butter nd eggs axe lobbying desperately at Washington and at state capitals to prevent the passage of antl-cold-stor- age legislation. u certain penuing bills are passed In Illinois Deiore tne Legislature adjourns sine die in May, the country may look for some sensa tional failures of butter and egg firms. It so happens that the main burden of the loss sustained by cold-storage Interests during the season now draw Ins: to a close falls upon shoulders able to withstand It- For that reason there have been few failures, but the end of the business Is not yet. Unless the remainder of the butter and eggs stored last Summer can be disposed of on terms that will permit the storage Interests to get out fairly even on their original investment, there is no telling what may happen. some of the antl-etorage bills pend ing propose to limit storage of butter and eggs to three or stx months. If such bills become laws, millions of pounds of butter and thousands of cases of eggs will have to be dumped upon the market for what they will bring. They cannot possibly bring much compared with what was paid for them when they went Into storage. unless the sales are delayed until next Winter, and it Is not certain that they can be aold profitably even then. It Is a simple story. The butter that was put into storage last May, June and July cost 27 to 28 cents a pound. Storage expenses and carrying charges brought the actual value of this butter to the holder up to SI and 32 cents. Of the 100,000,000 pounds of butter thus stored. It 'a' believed that 60,000,000 pounds has been sold at an average loss of 8 cente a pound. Great quan tities of it were sold for 17 cents a pound, representing a loss of 14 cents a pound. One year ago at this season the wholesale price of butter from cold storage plants was 81 cents. Today It Is 21 cents a drop of 33 per cent In the year. Similar things happened to eggs. The cold-storage product was quoted a year ago. wholesale, at 23 cents. Now these eggs are down to 15 cents, an other slump of 33 per cent In the year. So demoralized hae the butter-and-egg storage business become In 12 months that the banks have announced a loan limit of 10 cents a dozen on eggs, nd 16 cents a pound on butter. In other words, they will lend that much on butter and eggs put. Into storage and no' more. This doclared policy of the bankers Is in eharp contrast with the custom that has obtained in recent years. In some rases it was possible to negotiate loans on butter and eggs for more than the goods cost. Four dollars a case had been advanced on eggs that actually cost only $3.50 a case. It had become a settled conviction among the financial backers of the cold-storage Interests, as well as among the cold-storage people them selves, that, no matter what they paid for butter and eggs in the early Sum mer months for storage. the Winter sales would be on terms that would In sure a handsome profit. For three years at least these expectations of the trade were fulfilled. Dealers became over-confident on ac count of this generous margin between buying and selling prices. Regular dealers grew reckless in their buying, both as to prices paid for product for storing and as to the quality of the goods. Attracted by the easy profits, speculators got Into the game. The result was an enormous storing of but ter and eggs, much of the property of questionable quality. Three years ago It was considered almost business suicide to pay above 20. cents for butter for cold storage. Two years ago dealers put away butter that cost 25 cents a pound and made money on it. Last year the price of butter sold for storage rose to 27 cents. Xo such prices hitherto had been paid. Some dealers thought the danger point had been passed, but the vast majority were not deterred from investing on that basis. An unprece dented quantity of both, butter and eggs was stored at such fancy prices. Then there came an open Winter. Cows and hens kept busy throughout the cold months. They came near fur nishing enough absolutely fresh product to supply the current needs of the market. With a market knocked from under the cold-storage goods, it was Inevitable they should collapse. It Is declared here that at no time since December 1 has cold-storage but- wr suia at a price lu&b cubuioq iu holder to get out even. Fresh eggs sold at wholesale in New Tork in February at 20 cents, while the cold storage eggs could command no bet ter than 124 cents. Before the Winter Industry of the hens bejran to be felt, storage eggs brought 26 cents. Here in Chicago thousands of cases of eggs that should have brought at least 27 cents to let the holder out even may be had for 15 cents a dozen now. At Immense loss the egg storehouses have been fairly well cleared up, but millions of pounds of butter remain to be disposed of. That Is one reason why the lobbies are exerting remarkable efforts to ward off legislation limiting the time of storage. Dealers maintain they can hold butter two years with little depreci ation of quality. They are trying to per suade legislators. National and state, that this Is true, and that the demands of the public require a wider time margin tor storage. Sturdy Xewspaperman Dies. Death removed one of the sturdy up builders of Western Journalism when it took Cornelius McAuliff, for many years managing editor of the Chicago Record Herald. He had ideals of clean, accur ate handling of the news and lived up to them as truly as if they were part and parcel of his religion. Devotion to his work unquestionably cost him ten good years of life. For years he toiled at his desk seven days a week; not from compulsion, but from choice. Jocularly he once told the cor respondent of The Oregonian that he be lieved he had a fine yard back of the house which he owned and In which he had lived more than a dosen years, but that he never had seen It. It was one of his favorite hyperboles the kind be did not permit to go into the columns of the newspaper oyer which lie pre sided so long hut It illustrates faith fully his loyalty to duty. Possibly there was not a managing editor of a great newspaper In the coun try who left his Impress dally on so many big and little details of the ma chinery of newspaper publishing. Noth ing was too small to escape his atten tion. His counsel and influence radi ated to every news department sports, financial, social, dramatic, political, il lustrating down to the last minutiae. Symmetry One of Hobbles. One of his hobbles was typographical symmetry and clarity. Another was the summarizing of the news in "boxes" and blackface type for the ready grasp and assimilation of the reader. In the development of this style of "playing np" the news he had distinct originality and Initiative. His store of informa tion was large and his grasp of things intimate. A "scoop" well handled brought him an elevation of spirit that lasted for days. A "beat" by a competi tor had the contrary effect. These vary ing moods were the unerring signs of the newspaper instinct that never de serted him. Affectionately his subordi nates always referred to him as "tho old man." Down to the office Boy they could discern instantly whether the news day had gone well or ill with him. In the delirium that preceded disso lution. Mr. McAuIliff was "getting out the paper," directing the last little task of a "first-page make-up" before the forms should be shunted out to the stereotypers. Thus he died as he had lived, tugging away in the harness. Higher Living Hastens Death. What their feverish rush and their high living are costing the American people seem to be disclosed in a 40-year survey of the mortality records of Chi cago. Conditions that obtain here are supposed to be typical of those in other busy centers, hence the figures have more than local significance. In the decade from 1871 to 1SS0 there were 1.87 deaths in every 100 from heart disease. From 1901 to 1910 the number of deaths from heart disease was 9.61 in every 100. Brlght's dis ease fatalities rose in the same periods from 2.6 to 9.2 per 100. The conBenuus of opinion of the medical profession is that these increases are due to In creased rapidity and higher standards of living by that meaning more lux uries and richer living. The one rav ages the nerves, the other Impairs the stomach. Much blame is laid at the door of the quick lunch, the boited meal, the fever ish speed in transacting business, the avidity to take advantage of the other fellow's errors, the high pressure sus- talnedly used during office hours share in the responsibility for the man kill ing. There 's more drinking, more late hours in friendly dissipation, less re laxation. Easter week brought the wildest riot of colors in feminine wear that has been seen In Chicago for many, many seasons purples. scarlets. greens, cerises, golds, reds, lavenders and what-not. The ostrich outbid n garish splendor the most radiant hues of the tropical birds. The spectrum of Pro fessor MIchelson at the University of Chicago never showed anything more rainbowlike. Vale Wants New School. VALK. Or., April 22. (Special.) The School Board of the Vale school dis trict hae called for a vote of the peo ple of the Vale school district to be held May 9 to bond the district for $25,000 for a new high school in Vale.