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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1911)
::-" THE A Y OREGOXIAN.-PORTLANT. JUNE 23, 1911. when th $10 per car rebate period was on. th people would not hava been able to call It rebate, and so on down th line. Now that th grand Jury has got down to business, discharged the old line expert accountants and employed A naw man to go through the books and records, something more than a coat of official whitewash may be looked for. The man John Morton now in charge, haa a record for ability, com petency and fearlessness In the dis charge of his duty which cannot be dis credited. Y. M. C. A. GARDENERS' CONTEST IS OVER; VICTORS ARE ANNOUNCED Arthur Diersch "Wins First Prize Auditorium Is Thronged With Anxious Boys After Prizes and Viewers of Big Display Lettuce Best in Exhibit. FLORA-IS CENTER OF GORGEOUS SOCIABLE ROSF SWELLDOM ATTENDS T. V. Holmin, AxTansin, Amy of EliU la Budj Sine February. AMemblw Beauties in Chamber of Commerce Corridor, Where They Are Admired at They Bow Gracefully in Beceirlnf Line. W' r ' --"If L : - If: "(.A " : - - -. ' ' ..,"'' ' 'r V "7 - ' : ' V'-; v v.,- :.;- s 7' ' --"t' '.-'':--'- ' ..s'--' j ! -,W:rV:" . ,-:-L. ;.'" i ;' '; J V :-; f- v. v-. ;. . -. - i D - or -. - V " - .. . . . . . j Joe 1 1 . i ... ; , . . . . SOCIAL I CtDEKS A.D ROTALTT OP BY U.ONC CJMiS BAR. OXE of ttL blKcest oc!J rrnt of PortJaod v&a th Knind reception yjtrdy siren br Frederick V. Halman. rosartsn. la -he main hell of tbe Chamber of Coinrarc bulldln. Everybody who could ko went. In Titatloae were by word of mouth and via newspaper and the (ur( Ut aa therefore lenjetby. Te hoorn were from II A. iL unUI 1A.M. Mr. Ilolroan. with lulitanU. bee an planning thla blr party laat February, ao no wonder It was a irreat ahow. TT.e rerelvlnf Una waa compoaed of time of the best-known beautlea of the rlty. m-lth a itoodly lot of bandom maacultnlty. First tn line waa Madame Caroline Testout. a Trry nne lady of (rand beartne. rather haughty, but like all well-bred folk very kind to the enmmon people. A wise man waa he who said If he should be cut Into exile and allowed to take one single rose aionn with him. his choice would be the Caroline Trstout- The Madame was irowned. aa Is In Tartably her custom, tn an exquisite salmon pink. Next to hor stood Fran Karl m-uschkL a German beauty, quite colorless almost to dead white, and presenting the atmosphere of lacking sympathy. Beside her stood her sister the Kalsertn Augusta Victoria, regal in erry Inch of her beauty. It has been whispered that the Frau Karl Drushkl was loreller hy fr than her sister when both were buds, but that the Kalserln has made the handsomest matron. Next In line was lha Baroness Roth srhild. one of the really royal beauties, and beside her was her lovely daugh ter Ill's Alice de Rothschild, gowned In a shade of Marechal NIoJ yellow. Mm. Kno!rrrit Tlx-re. Mrs. Theodore Rnosevelt, gowned In rream-whlte. came next: a sort of un obtrusive personality hers, but of bis stalwart outward sign. Bessie Brown, true Irish beauty of the peasant type, stood next In line. Hl has been out some 1 or 11 seasons, and In Encland la regarded as a top-notcher. She waa attractive In her thin crepe-Uke gown of white suTasrd with dMtcate pink. Mrs. Kdward Mam-ley. who could never become a chnrue girl because her stems are very thin and Imperfect, was tlunnlrr In exqullte pink. The Du hess of Portland, a truly patrician dame, was next In line. It ts senerallr known that the Duchess Is a devotee of race suicide and that she Is exquisitely lovely herself, but has paid no attention to the theory of evolution. Madame Melanle Foupert excited wholesale admiration by those who do not know hr or tier family history. Magnllleently gowned, she la In spirit as hollow aa proverbial mockery, glorious aa a girl, a superb matron, but thin and unhappy as an old woman. A new family waa represented In the appearsnre of Yvonne Vacherot. a lnder beauty In white, touched with sea-shell pink. Minun Cochft and her daughter. White Maman Cochet. cam In for a Int of admiration. The former. In pink, was a plump, gorgeous beauty, full of the sense of her own charms. Madame liabriel Lutset would have looked love l:er ly herself. In a crowd her beauty Is lessened. Even so she was arMocratlc and thoroughly charming. Florence Pemberton, a large English beauty, was next In line wearing a creamy gown veiling, a scarlet under ribe. Florence Is of the over-srenerona beefy type of Fnc-llsh beauty, but none the less a beauty for that. Mxa. John Laics, a hlgh-clae Ear- MtJT .f AXIOMS GKOIFKO IX CHA II b ir-etron. cam nrt. vary pink, aJ most to florldness, and very large. A beautiful and sturdy type. A Scotch dream. Lady Helen Stewart, was next In line, the wore the con scious authority of a peerage as long a the moral law, and the contentment that arises from knowing that. In form and color, ahe was pe. feet. Mrs. Joseph 11111, a French beauty, cam next, fol lowed by Mrs. Foley-IIobba, who baa only broken Into good society aince last July. She la not a climber In any sense of the word, and has mad good aolely through her own charms. "Queen of the Burg" would be the American title of Gllore de Bourg la Itelne, and she surely looked every bit of It. hes mighty exclusive. not large, but lovely; and In her flamboyant scar let gown aha was the cynosur of all yes. Mrs. Myles Kennedy, a beautiful Irish matron, was a flash of white, with pink trimmings. Next cam Lady Roberts, of English birth, neither robust nor over medium nlxe. but lovely In an ex quisite shade of orange yellow. The Viscountess Folkestone, In a combination effect of hlte and pink and yellow, was next In line, followed by Belle Slebrecht. a true aristocrat In every part of her blushing plnkness. Here's a Mt of gossip about Miss Kle brecht: Over in England she Is known by an entirely different name. Mrs. W. J. (.rant, but ha bears no hint of a double life In her serene charm. Of the men probably the most ad mired waa J. B. Clark, a great big. broad-shouldered Irishman, with red hair, and wearing blood-red shirt. A sturdy, handsome specimen waa he. Beside him stood Ms brother. Hugh Plcksnn. Not a doubt rxlsted as to the Shake-Up in Los Angeles City Mall Stirs Up the Taxpayers Fire Commissioner's Charges Aronso Public to Bealization of Gold Brick Politics Democrats Prepare for Municipal Campaign. LPs .u(.ut3, jane 14. tppejciai.j Alss, there Is no rest for th weary Ooogoos. Nowhere can they find that peace of which they are ever crying. , First come the arrest of tht pious couple Jonas (and don't forget th Doc) and Busse, and on top of that enters Fire Commissioner Hawley with a bun dle of charges that make th sainted administer of public weal In this south land of ours grasp his whiskers with A freniled hand. That la no Joke. Mayor Alexander Is beside himself with rag and with shame, and worse than all, he doea not know where th lightning Is going to strike next. It might with Justice be said that Hawley haa. to be a llttl vulgar, caved down th batik, with th result that th Kari-Lissner-Alexander organisation- la facing a crisis. And their brand of re form haa had an awful Jolt. Th taxpayers are awakening to th fact that they have been banded A gold brick, and thnt the brand of reform which they have supported with their votes and personal Influence Is not re form at all. Something over 11 years ago Colonel Martin V. Brady, man about town, agent for a brand of champagne and author of more bonmots than any other man In the atat. waa elected to th Plate Legislature from a baa Francisco district. Alter that LegliiAtur Adjourned. Ai XBCK OK COMMEBCB COHBIDUH. relationship, although Hugh Is J. B. much toned down not so aggressively red. Hugh said their sameness In call ing reminded hi m of the Irishman who said that "his horses were vary much alike, especially the off one." Flanking these cams the Prince Camilla de Rohan, who Is of either Spanish or Italian descent, and quit correct and faultless In bearing. William Phean. whom you'd think would spell it S-h-e-e-h-a-n, waa next, a big, hearty Irishman, with fhin. un cultivated legs. Next came Captain Christy, a French exquisite, of old family, a beau vlvant in every meaning of the term. Dean Hole graced the assemblage, a qulet-appcartng pink personage, most difficult to cultivate. It Is rumored in pollje rose circles. General McArthur, an American. A beauty. If he Is masculine (accent on the "Is"), waa one of the most admired In the gathering. C J. Grahame. of frail constitution, with very thin legs, and a strikingly handsome face, bear ing all the earmarks of a society beau, wss next In line. Following came Xavler Oil bo, an Italian, dark and magnificent, and a personage most difficult to obtain for such exhibits. Ulrlch Brunner, a great big. red faced Uerman. whole-souled and gen erous, completed the lineup. Assisting in making the reception a success were: Helen Kellar. Lyon Rose. Captain Hay ward. Charles Lefebvre, Jean Note. George C Waud. Horace Vernct. Etolle de France. Earl of Pembroke, Chateau de Clos Vougeot. Miss Cynthia Forde, Souvenir de President Carnot, BenCont. Uloire Lyonnalse, Mervelli de Lyon, Klllarney. Honorable Ina Bingham, Marchioness of Waterford and the Duo de Montpensler. Murphy th only "Blinder" Inter viewed Colonel Brady, aa to what he (th Colonel) thought of th Legisla ture as a whole. Quick as a flash the Colonel replied. "Me for th study of law, and then me for politics and a seat In th State Sen ate." When asked why th law. and what the llttl tin sign "Attorney-at-Law" hd to do with politics and office-holding, the Colonel replied: "Tou see. It's this way: I lost 4 days of valuable time aa A member of the Legislature. Just because I was not a lAwyer, And I Am not casting dis credit on tn fraternity At that. "It s this way: If I had been an at torney, money paid for my Influence would be called a fee, while If I had Aocepted money for my Influence dur ing this seslon. the people would hava called me a grafter; so you see It Is ma for a course In jurisprudence." The application of th Colonel's sug gestion fits Into th situation In which Fir Commissioner Hawley finds him self. If he (Hawley) waa an attomey-at-law he could assert that he had been acting aa the legal advisor of the fire men, and that th 1160 which ha ad mits that he took waa merely a re taining fee. But aa he Is an Insurance agent, he took a long chance of being called a cheap grafter. Colonel Brady s advice looks like good Advice. IX Ji X. EatX beul beta a attorney Now that th investigation has been started, there is but one thing to be done, and that thing Is to make the Inquiry as searching and far-reaching as it Is possible to make it. even if It takes all Puromer. Sixty Democrats held a meeting at Blnnchard Hall the other nlitht in A desperate effort to organise s city com mlttee and prepare for the coming mu nicipal campaign. Joe Simons was announced as ready to "tear loose. At a late hour, after a speech from Adam Dixon Warner had been evaded the committee decided to authorise Its chAlrman to appoint a committee of 11 members to consider whether It Is Advisable for the Democrats to back a candidate or to Indorse one of two already announced Alexander or Mushet. Many administration Demo crats attended the "meeting believing that it was the purpose to indorse Mushet. but when this was not pro posed, there was no open opposition to the committee, which waa moved by Joseph H. CalL - The committee also authorised, on motion of James Hanley. a committee of 11 to start a movement for a free holders' charter convention. Hanley said Imported experts are not needed which was A crack at Llssner's $6000 herd, recently engaged in New York. Th purpose of th meeting was sob merged under A flood of other things. however. And Ltssner And the Board of Publlo Utilities wer grilled for two hours. VT. F. Moore (anciently known as "Windy") even went so far as to move that the Mayor and the council re move th Lissner board, but a point of order that this was outside the scope of the call waa sustained, though everybody agreed that it ought to be done. ' Ixruiek Grills Mayor. . "Bobby" Loulcks declared that the Mayor la culpable because he hasn't the backbone to remove the Lissner "oli garchy." Loulcks called the Goo-goos "novices" (witness the Mayor) and de clared the charter amendments had permitted WaU street to grab the con trol of publlo utilities in Los Angeles. Joe Call complained of the high taxes of the Alexandor-Llssner admin istration and its failure to make prog ress either in harbor improvement or a municipal railroad, and Joined In con demning the Lissner rate-fixing depart ment and its Imported experts. There was so much enthusiasm that Chairman Hill appointed everybody present a member of his City Central Committee and Invited each to- name two mora members. "W will have a commute of $00 within two weeks," said he. T. L. Winder, another wheel horse. made a "put your shoulder to the wheel" sneecb And urged tha the Demo- rrsts put A new crowd in the City Hall. He. too. Agreed that th Lissner board ought to be removed and that me Democrats ought to lndorss and vote for Mushet. Fasadftnat Ei&nkji Combine. It la A relief to turn to the doings of the bankers of Pasadena After listen ing to the doings of th gangsters of Los Angeles. The consolidation of the Crown City National Bank and the Crown City Pavings Bank was accom plished th -other day with the election of officers for the consolidated corpor ation. The last meeting of the directors of the old Institutions was held th day before, when It was expected the con solidation would be effected, but be cause of some minor hitches negotia tions were held up a day. It is under stood that the Crown City National Bank will take over all of the com mercial banking business of tha two institutions, while the American Bank a, Tnmt enmnnnv will take over the savlnsrs bank business. Whether the I latter name will be changed is a mat ter not yet decided. The Crown City National Barnc ih one of the strong banking Institutions of Southern California, and during the past few years has Increased Its Dull ness very rapidly. The old officers and directors are J. U. Coulston, president: Charles W. Durand, vice-president; Albert Mercer, cashier: C. A. Goodyear G. A. Glbbg, A. B. Tlrrill. J. M. ilcKID ben. Thomas Chlsholm and John Lam bert. The directors of the Crown City Savings Bank are Thomas ChlBholm, Rudolnh Schiffman. J. C. Brainard. K. D. Davis, N. T. Nixon, J. B. Coulston C W. Durand. The officers of the American Bank &. Trust Company are W. H- Hubbard president: H. H. Goodrich, vice-presi dent; H. T. Hazard, vice-president and cashier; D. C. Davis Ana M. v. uuotara assistant cashiers. Wlerd Case Discovered. From Prescott, Ariz., that home of new things and old things made new, comes a strange tale or a prenisioric rAce and, its cavern home. Cathedral Cave Is the name that haa been given to a vast cavity In the earth, eight miles south of Ash Fork In which some of the most awe-inspir ing works of nature, in the form of stalactites And stalagmites, that the eye of man ever beheld, also evidences that the place was used both a: burial ground and as a dwelling by some prehistoric race, have been dis covered. Lee Burhans, of Ash Fork, recently discovered the cave and the first ex ploratlon has been made by u. m. Clark, who haa the contract for con structing the new county road from Prescott to Ash Fork. Forest Super visor Benedick, of Flagstaff, has made partial examination of the cave and located It as a National monument. With some trouble. Clnrk let him self down Into the ceve srlth a rope, the opening being Just under Its roof. With An Automobile lamp he explored the cave cautiously. ..determining Its size aa near as he could. He says that it Is from 0 to SO feet In height, 80 feet wide and 800 feet long. From the floor Clark picked up hu man bonee and Articles which, to him. Indicated that the cave had been used as a burial ground by the mysterious people who Inhabited the Southwest before the Aztecs. Mr. Clark has ex plored many burying grounds of that race and here found the same evidences of careful disposition of the dead that he observed elsewhere. Implements and pottery were atrewn about In pro fusion. Thousands of visitors cam here the latter part of thla week to attend the sixth turnfest of the Pacific Circuit of the North American Gymnastic Union. Turnvereln Germanla. the host, gave the visitors a royal welcome. From aa far east -as Denver and as far north as Seattle cam th beat gymnasts of which th Turnvereln of the Pad f la Coast States can boast. The Athletes were accompanied by many relatives and friends. Numerous committees were appointed by the local organisa tions to manage the festivities. Child Labor Law Violator lined. For employing a boy after fi o'dlock P. Gearhart Custer, a milk-wagon driver, was fined $f In Municipal Court yesterday. J. E. Williams, proprietor of the wagon, was first arrested, but It was found that he knew nothing of the boy's being wylvye "j ii agssssssssasssasawssssaswswwssss y yir.fyTyr7TiW (.V.Ja'S"., k The prize-winners In the Young Men's Christian Assoclatioa garden con tea were announced last night at the close of the show, Arthur Diersch, Co lumbia boulevard and Peninsula avenue, winning first prise, with Fred Kelly, Lents, and Walter A. Bplndler, of 860 E. Twenty-olghth street North, taking second and third awards respectively. In the slngle-clnss specials, Robert Gray, of Lents, won first on lettuce; Carroll Reeves, Fulton Park, first on spinach, William Helming, Fulton Park, first on radishes; Frank: Trout wtne, Fulton Park, first on green peas, and Lionel Krall. of 1504 East Ninth street North, first on sweet peas. In the specials, Arthur Diersch won the special prize of $5 for the best dis play of contest vegetables. Ernest Les lie took the special prize for the best display of garden vegetables not en tered in the contest, and Fred Kelly. Lents, won the gold medal for the best garden. Throngs See Exhibit. The auditorium was packed last night with hundreds of excited" boys, gath ered to hear the list of prize-winners announced, and as the boys picked out their prizes In the order of their scores from the heap of articles dear to the heart of a boy donated by Portland merchants, the excitement was Intense. "The contest was a great success," said Professor A. G. B. Bouquet, of the Oregon Agricultural College, who was the Judge, "and I was surprised at tha excellence of th exhibits. The lettuce especially was good and cannot be beaten anywhere. The first section of the contest was a decided success, and if the second section, which comes off In August. Is as successful, nothing will be left to be desired." Many Prizes Won. The scores made in the contest, based both on gardens and exhibits, and the firsts and seconds In the rpaclals are: Score by points First, Arthur Diersch. Columbia boulevard and Pen insula avenue, second, Fred Kelly. Lents, 95; third. Walter A. Hpindlor, ) E. Twenty-eighth street North, 94; fourth, Walter Bollen, RM Maiden avenue, 93: fifth. Clyde Martin. 1616 Haven street, 91V: sixth. Reginald uunnage, ka ciareu street, fr; sevenin, cuwarra xiutt-u- schoen. 2R5 Willis boulevard. : eignin, Kenneth Wilson, Lents. 0; ninth. Wal ter Anderson. 1861 Peninsula avenue. 90; 10th, Harry Benson. 548 Indiana avenue, S8- 11th. Lyman W. Fatton, a Bianoena street. 88; 12th, Carl Wilson. Lents, 87ti; 13th. Orville Clanton, 728 High land street. 87; 14th. William Lane Lauder. Fulton Park. 87; 15th. Ken neth Woolley. 1"8 Mast lammii. s.; 16th. Karl Burgard, 471 Ainswortn av enue. 87; Utn. jncsier ireiciiei. joa Mall street. 86; 18th. Howard Hall. Ful ton Park, 85. SDecial class Lettuce First. Konert r,rv. Lents: second, Clinton parr. 405 jirrarpento street. Lyman W. Paton wwsczr' fax'zz 2&srrT'& cyz-o'r igtg Is awarded a special prize for the best Individual display of head lettuce, and Arthur Diersch receives honorable men tion. Both are disqualified for special prizes because they drew prizes in the first 18. Spinach First Carroll Reeves, Ful ton Park; second. Arthur Cooley, Sell- MAY ROBSON'S TROUPE CALLS HER "MOTHER Comedienna in "Aunt Mary" Declares, Therefore, She Is Boss of Kinder garten, Not Company of Actors. BY LEONE CASS baer. LL the boys in my company a call me "mother. It's a kin dergarten, not a play, I'm run ning. Whenever we appear together In hotels, depots, on the streets, people Invariably raise their eyebrows Into the roots of their hair and exclaim. 'Why, do you suppose all them boys la hern!'" May Robson. comedienne and charac ter woman, laughed delightedly at the idea. She was getting Into her make up In her dressing-room, at the Hellig. and had granted me four minutes and a hall by a stop-watch. She's mighty pretty. Is Miss Robson. with a thatch of beautiful auburn locks and yellow-brown eyes that sparkle like a baby's. Apropos of the wonder ful tresses, she tells of the time when they weren't auburn. "I was cast for the role of a blon fflned person, a passe concert singer, in one of Mr. Frohman's revivals sev eral yf-ars ago, and I couldn't for the life of me find Just the wig I wanted. So I took things and the peroxide bot tle Into my own bands and evolved a wonder'ul yellow creation out of my own bronze locks. Maybe you don't think I was heartily sorry for It not only during that engagement, but since In the years I've been coaxing 11 oari to its original color. Now its all au burn again, and I am so glad of that I brush and comb It lots of times when I don't need to. that I may realize it's not blonde any more." Treseea Roll in Wealth. She has piles of it, too, great wads that would make the average hairless woman sigh with dull green envy. But in the role of Aunt Mary, the actress binds her curls tightly back from her brow, twists her hair and screws It Into a Tat dreary knob on the top of her cranium, and covers It all with a mop of soft gray curls. "I love this role" said Miss Robson, "and I Intend never to exclude It from my repertoire. Next season I Bhall play It at matinees. . Of course, I have a new play, one In writing in collab oration with J. T. Dazie. It's a comedy, and although I hava not de cided definitely on a name, I'm think wood. Radishes First TTilllara Helm lng, Fulton Park; second, Victor Hesse 406 Sacramento street. Green pea First Frank Troutwlne, Fulton Park; second, Lionel Krall, 1504 East Ninth street North. Sweet peas First Lio nel Krall, 1504 East Ninth street North; second Robert Gray, Lents. ing seriously of calling It -"Grand Ma'am.' It deals a bit with the sub ject of heredity. "A dear old grandmother who Is young in heart and looks and lives hr youth all over again in the escapades of her two grandsons, boys of 20. The lines and situations are even more humorous than are these of 'Aunt Mary,' which is the brain child of Anne Warner and me." Miss Robson's tour ends in Sault Ste. Marie, on August 10. "I'm ending It there purposely," she said, "that 1 may take the boat right across to Buffalo. Just as soon as I arrive in New York, my homo, I'm going to pitch right in and start re hearsals for my new play." Husband Is Police Surgeon. Miss Robson's husband is Tn: Augus tus Browne, police surgeon of New York City. He visited San Francisco, in his vacation, which happened also to be In Miss Robson's late appearance there, returning to the metropolis only last week. "Poor Clara Bloodgond used to say It was the most uncomfortable thing to introduce me to people," said the actress. "She would say 'May I pre sent May Robson. and her husband. Dr. Browne, and her son, Mr. Gore'" la son by a former marriage, who now lives in Salt Lake City.) It was the raising of this same boy. Miss Robson says, that gave her a great many ideas for her characterization of "Aunt Mary." When he saw the play for the first time, he said: "Well,-Mumsy, I see you didn't do a thing but act just as you always have when I'm about." $360 Damage Claim Vetoed. Mayor Simon yesterday vetoed an ordinance carrying an appropriation of 1260 for damages to the plant of F. A. Jones & Company, carpet cleaners in Marquam Gulch, South Portland. They allege their plant was Injured by the overflow from a sewer there. The Mayor, however, says he can see no reason why the sum should be paid, as ho believes the citv is not responsible fur the damage, r