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13 TITE STJXDAY OREGONAN. PORTLAND. JANUARY 7, 1912. SUPPRESSION OF WILD NEW YEAR'S ORGIES URGED BY SAN FRANCISCANS Saloon Men acd Cifa Owners Oppow Movement Started fcy Puritan to Adopt Sane Celebration Anna Held and Company Entertained t Gay Party at Press Club. X SAX FRANCISCO. CaU Jan. . (Special.) Will til wild spirit with which San Francisco celebrat ed In Sunday night New Yara be curtailed In the future, or will the Bo hemians be allowed to ramble about at will on this one night in the year? It's a question tl.at came up for consldera tion thia year and although the protest wat baaed oji the ground that New Year's ere happened to fall on a Sun day ulnat. H Is known there is much more buck of the objections that have been rained. Generally speaking, there Is a protest from a crrta'a c:a of residents who areue that t.-.e rbtmi of San Francisco is to be fuund In Just such celebrations that are peculiar to the city. Naturally, also, the cafe owners and saloon men object to any curtailment of their prlv llKea. because It would mean the loss of thouaan-is of dollars to thero. No one In the cafes makes much of a pre tense of eatlnc on New Year eve. and to bare anytr.lna- In front of you save a bottle of wine is t Invite ridicule. It Is Just for this reaaon and also be of the night workers who figured on a nice, quiet place In which to take their meala. one of the San Francisco morning pa pers stirred up quite a bit of Interest this last week by Interviewing the girls of the Anna Held Company on the stage door Johnnies. Some of the girls turned over to the newspaper men notes that they had received and while names were not used In the paper, atlll for all that. It made some Interesting reading. The fair Anna herself permitted an In terview to escape from her ruby lips In which she told of the triale and trib ulations of the woman In the theatrical game, and how the girls are continually annoyed by men who want to meet them. Some of the girls said the same thing, but there were others who disagreed with this theory and said that they got along on the road without annoyances. Miss Held was the center of marked attention from friends. Charles Han Ion, a prominent and wealthy attorney, gave a party at the Press Club at which Miss Held and all of the members of her company were guests. There was take-off akit on Miss Mela ana cause of the roughness of aume of the penty. of music and the affair wound people on the street that the move has up Wtn a rag dance. Even Anna Held come about for a sane .w 1 ears eve. j0jne a the merriment and permitted For Instance. M.maicer James Wood, ' n,rf lo be given a lesson In dancing nt the t-t. Francis Hotel, estimated that they would take In liO.Poe between o'clock In the evening and aay 4 In the morning. The same thing can be aaid for the Palace Hotel. It was estimated that Talt's Techau's Tavern and other of the hlgh-clasa restaurants would average around the $10,000 mark from the standpoint of receipts. Oolog fur ther down the line, tenderloin resorts such aa bpldrr Kelly's, the Black Cat and othera with alluring names, the rtne bill will run to something like the Texas Tommy by an expert from the Barbary Coast, who was on hand to do hi dance for the visitors.. It was all hours when the party broke np and everybody seemed to have had a great time. Later the French Club gave a party to the Parisian actress and members of the troupe and there were Innumerable private stunts. When the show broke up Jast Saturday night. It Is said there were many with broken hearts left behind. At all events, any number of machines escorted the girls admirers to tne , i nninurr vi -" " w"- -.' I , . I and their eratwnne aaroirers xo in. rs also spend their money frttly fr I ,n tna, wm .waiting to the laughing soup, aa some one has ,' ke tn,m to Lo Angllee. characterized It: so altogether, there Is . ak.d. of the First Con- a world of money spent that might pos. slbly be spent better In other channel. The merchants feel the difference, and so It Is quite possible they are behind the- movement to put on the lid. Lo Angeles, by theway. started the ball rolling this year. Of course, there are no saloons open In ths South on a Sundsy. and particularly on this Sun day night. The police were further In structed that there wasn't to be any gathering of crowd on the streets and from all accounts the celebration was ne celebration at all. " I don't believe there was a spot In Ban Franrtsoo which the women did net Invade. I'p on Powell street there la a restaurant and hotel sacred to men. Women have never been granted the privilege of frequenting the place, but an exception waa made last Sunday night to the general rule. Women were granted the right of going to the dining-room, much to ths disgust of some The Rev. Dr. Aked. of the First Con gregatlonal Church, has started an An anias club of hi own. A coup) ot Sundays ago. he delivered a sermon on th McNamaraa and the labor problem. Reading th morning paper report of the sermon, th San Francisco Labor Council sent the reverend gentleman a hot reply. He answered It letter of protest by denying he had said what two of th paper had printed. The men who reported his sermon have people In th congregation to support their contention that they gave a fair and truthful summary of bla address. Newspaper men will hereafter else Dr. Aked along with David Starr Jor dan and some of the member of th University of California faculty and treat him accordingly. Most newspaper men will not take a statement from the college professors named unless a la nresent. for they bav a hab- I It of retorting that they were not quoted correctly when called to ac count foe their interviews., The '"eons of revolution." ss some one ha happily styled them, the boy who attend the revolving doora In th big hotels, are Jlie first to feel serious ly the effect of the crusade against tipping. Two of them were complaining the other day that since the chief of the National Association of Commercial Travelers Issued his edicts against tips, commercial men, together with the gen eral public, passing In or out of the smooth-turning circular doora are not handing out their 10 -cent pieces as of old. "They talk about the waitress In Denver who recently bought a 1100 coat with tip of 1000 dimes she had been able to save up in three years." said one of these boys. "Why, I have got as high a $385 In five and ten cent tip In one year at tnla door. But they are scarce these days, formerly I could depend upon at least $1 a day in tips, which with my 125 a month salary. and board made a good wage. The bloke who talked against tips should attend to his own business and let us boys make something decent." Quite a scandal came up this last week In local society circles when Cup tain H. H. Norwood, known to his friend aa "Skipper" Norwood, was forced to resign from the Cosmo Club due to a acandal about winning money with cards that were marked. The Sklp ter was exceedingly lucky In his play. and finally one of the losers, becoming suspicious, took one of the decks horn with him. He had the card exammea by an expert and discovered that they had been marked. Of course. Captain Norwood protested hie Innocence and all that, but he resigned when nis res ignation was Insisted upon and said that he did so in order to avoid em barrassment. Men who returned from Sacramento recently say that If United State Sen ator Perkins were to die tomorrow. there I no doubt that Governor John on would send Francis J. Heney to Washington in hi tead. But If there had been a vacancy while th Leglsla- lature waa still meeting, Heney wouldn't have had a chance. His nam waa hardly mentioned. Among the Progressives, the name of CurUs H. LIndley la being a good deal discussed as a Senatorial possibility. He Is widely known among the lawyers of the state, having been president oi the Bar Association, and he has built up a competence In practicing mining law. on which he Is a recognised au thority. Like Heney. he was formerly a Democrat, but his activities were not prcnounced. The standpatters talk a great deal about Samuel M. Shortrldge. who Is a recognized candidate for the high of fice, and of former Governor James N. Glllett, who i working Into a good law practice In thl clty. SEATTLE MUNICIPAL PLAN MEETS COLD RECEPTION Politldani Declare Citizen Are Not In Favor of Heavy Expenditure at This Time Tax Scheme Promoted. SEATTLE. Jan. . ISpedaL) If th maneuvering of political candi dates furnishes any criterion of public sentiment. It la fair to aay that th plan recently drawn at a coat of some fSO.000 and Intended to guide th city In It material development for decade to come, do not stand high In popular favor. Candidates declaration of pol icy vary from platonlo admiration for the scheme and their safekeeping 'in an unofficial pigeonhole, where they can be consulted If needed, to actlv opposition. The municipal plans, as they are known, are the work of a commission of ;1 men elected under the city char ter from various public and semi-public oricanlxationa in such a way that it was supposed to represent all Interests. The commission employed Virgil Bogue. n engineer, and went at the work with great enthuslaam. The result Is embodied In a beautifully printed book as big as a college annual, accompa nied by numerous maps and plans In colors, describing a city of over 1.000. t00 population, covering several time the present area of the city. Ueavy Exeeadlfar Opposed. Most of the commissioners are suf ficiently Impressed with th validity of the Idea embodied to be drawn Into actlv advocacy of th plan, and po litical meetings where thia question is taken up frequently develop Into Joint debate. Opposition arises from nu merous causes, but th underlying feeling seems to be that this is not th time to commit the city to heavy ex penditures. Jt Is felt that pressure for the Im mediate realisation of parts of the plans would be applied by property owners whose holdings were marked for future condemnation and that there would be justice In their contention that the city ought not to mark out their property for public uae and at tbe same time delay taking It over. The plans are to b submitted to the voter at th olty election early in March. If adopted they acquire th standing of a part of th city charter. There Is some sentiment to the effect that they ought to be simply advisory, van If they are to be used In a gen eral way as a municipal galde. What the voter will do only the election can tell, but the politician with their ear to th ground seem to have sized up th situation aa Indicated. Stasia Tax Plaa Vs. Aa amendment of decided tntereat which will be submitted at th earn time I that which proposes to exempt from taxation for municipal purposea personal property and real estate, fol lowing within this limited scope th single tax principles of Henry George Councilman Austin E. Griffiths, who la an attorney of standing, believes that such aa amendment would be effective. Lawyer disagree. To a non-technical reader the state constitution seems to ay aa plainly aa ita framera could put It that "all" property must be equally ta&ed In proportion to l:a value. Even the sllcht exemption allowed In this state. 1300 worth of personal property to the head of a" family, was tntro duoed aa an amendment to the consti tution. The neighboring City of Everett re cently authorized such an amendment to Ita charter, which has been entirely lanored by the County Assessor of Sno homish County. Neither the City At torney nor Prosecuting Attorney has tsken any steps toward ita enforce ment and the charter commission which has Just completed framing a new charter for that city refused to Incorporate the single tax In Its re port, but has submitted the question to ths voters again as a separate prop osition. Fire Flatter Retiree. Th retirement of Gardner Kellogg aa Or marshal, at the age of 71. marks the end ot a career of unusual Interest. Mr. lCaUogg entered th village fire , department when It waa first organ ized In It;.. With hi brother volun teers, many of whom are now the lead er In th city life and actlvltle, h fought th early fires with the primi tive apparatus of those day. In 1U the service was reorganized and the volunteers, now In six com panies, chose Mr. Kellogg Chief. After tbe big Ore of lis the Council pro vided for a paid department and ho was again made Chief, which position he held until 189. and again from 1895 to 1902. since which time ho has been marshal. Mayor Dllllng ha appointed Harry W. Brtnghurat to aucceed Mr. Kellogg. Mr. Brtnghurat was Chief from 1906 to 110. when he waa removed to make way for an appointee of Mayor Hiram C G11L Mr. Kellogg retirement was honored by the department with a re ception and the presentation of a gold medal In recognition of his long serv ice. , Chief of Police Bannlek haa gained the disfavor of the small boys of Seat tle by a reported order forbidding all coasting. The edict went forth after there had been a serious accident In the Oreen Lak district. M. F. Jonas, a resident of th uni versity district, who haa appeared from time to time in the role of philanthro pist, has donated a valuable tract of land at Ravenna as a site for a horn for destitute women and children. The gift Is contingent upon the raising ot $10,000 toward construction. Tbe Vol unteers of America already had more than half this amount pledged and It Is said ths gift will make It easy to secure the remainder. The announce ment of the donation was made at a dinner given by Mr. Jones at the Washington Annex to 60 workers con nected with tbe various charities of the olty. ' RECITAL PROVES PLEASING Miss Ulldreth Humason Is Heard in Elocutionary Programme. At th homo of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Bui mason, of 19 North Twentieth street, their daughter. Miss Hlldreth Humason. waa presented In an oratory and elo cution recital by Edna Will-Bush. Half a hundred guests were In attendance, and a programme consisting of read ings by Miss Humason and Mrs. Bush, together with musical contribution by guests, waa given. " Miss Humason ha taken up a career a a reader, and her progress in her ohosen work has been particularly rap Id. She was heard In several recita tion, tbe best liked of which, perhaps, was a selection from "Ben Hur," whloh she Interpreted with charming simplic ity and naturalness In expression. Mrs. ' Wtll-Bueh gave . Van Dyke' "Last Word," bringing out the sweat ness and real beauty of the story. NEWS AND GOSSIP OF PLAYS AND PLAYERS EDITED BT LEOJig CAS BAJEITL SOME refreshing news has Just been received concerning- Isetta Jewel, whom everybody In Portland re gards ss personal property, henc "V thlng about her movements, hope and ambition will be hailed with delight by host of her local admirers. Horace Ptevens. at whose mining camp In Northern California the charming young actress and her mother spent a ten day' vacation last Summer, has Just returned from a trip East, bring ing back with him some glad tiding on th subject of th great suoces Miss Jewel Is meeting wherever shs v.- leadlna- woman In James K. Hackett s company. "My trip .asi reiatea iuibi business at tbe National Capital. said Mr. Stevens lat night, "th return ticket calling for a route over the Chi cago. Milwaukee Puget Sound road. i -w . . MlniiMntL Much to my delight the Hackett company waa playing in Minneapolis wu.o n. there, so I dcMd to atop over and . . irt...l...lvln, Hlnnar with IIM ' ' ' 7 .-r,'.."r, Miss Jewel and her mother, and Inci dentally, attend a perrormanc ox in Grain of Dust at the Metropolitan Opera-house there. They were both tickled to death to see me. ana piiwi me with all sorts of Inquiries about . i l n 1 mnA mutual friends In particular, and as I have been more or leas connected with newspapers. I guess that I cam in mdoj awuaw of Information. Anyhow, I found It i v. i nn.r the elrcamatanoea. to hake any grain of dust or any other t mm mv kleka In the short time 1 had allotted for my stay. so I bad to get an extension oi time, as the lawyers say. No matter where she Is, the moment Miss Jewel casts her lamps on anyooay irom uregon, us is a dead-gone 'Injun.' becaus she i i. - .. ...nhnlv from thia state aa ber long-lost brother, and I firmly believe wouki oispiar w m .pirn of alsterly Interest were she to taco him on the Desert or eanara. wnw ah took her outinar down at my mining eamp last Summer Just before her appearance at the Or pheum. and, naturally, whenever two old mining pards like us meet In dis tant lands, we have to gather around som campfire and hold a long pow wow. For that reason I did not break sway quit as soon as expected, and am mighty glad of It, because It not. only afforded me tbe opportunity for having a nice visit with them, but also taking th first alalga lid of my life. Too see. It was sero weather at Minne apolis, and Just about enough snow on the ground to remind me of my little log cabin down in the Sisktyous, so we celebrated' th event by getting a good cutter and all hands that Is, 'Queen Pete,' 'Bill' and myself hitting the high place around th country until further order: so late. In fact, that we were all much concerned lest the cur tain should arise at th Hackett per formance minus Its kernel to The Grain of Dust-' We must have gene fully 10 miles, circling Lake Harriet In the course of our dandy ride, where Mies Jewel and myself had our Initial view of Iceboat sailing. Ton may Just bet It was grand, too, watching these fragile crafts, with their tremendous press of canvass on runners, skimming over the glassy surface like appara tlons at a speed that baffles descrip tion. "Tbe Hackett company has been do ing an enormous business all this sea son, and I understand Is about th only road company that has made much money thus far. It Is small wonder, too, for It Is certainly a htgh-grada organization. The cast Include James K. Hackett. who takes the leading male part of Frederick Norman; Ben Johnson, aa William Tctlow: Charles Stedman. as Jamea Galloway; Frank Burbeck. as Edward Lockyer; Fraser Coulter, as Isaac Burroughs; Vaughan Trevor, as Clayton Fltzhugh; Fred A. Sullivan, as Tlmson; Olive Harper Thome, a Mrs. Clayton Fltzhugh; Pauline L. NefT. as Josephine Bur roughs, and Miss Jewel, as Dorothea HallowelL the fascinating young sten ographer, who operate aa a 'grain of dust' In th eyes that mirror th soul of the lawyer's affections. The house was crowded to the doora tbe night I attended, and from what I learned, thia condition has prevailed all the way through. e The denunciation of "The Merchant i of Venice" by Rabbi Mayer, of Kansas , City, as a wanton and wilful libel on J the Jewleh race, brings Mr. Sothern' briskly to the defense of Shakespeare. I "Shylock." writes Mr. Sothern, "is no more typical of the Jews than Macbeth Is of th Scottish or Richard IU of the English people. He was a Jew not the Jews." Mr. Sothern discover that Shylock was "a vile, horrible wretch." and was so pictured by Shakespeare "to show that persecution Is not to be en dured even to the most lowly." In hi article, Mr. Sothern, of oourse, refer j THIS IS LOVEJOY STREET-NOB HILL DISTRICT THE HEIGHTS ABOVE ARE NOW WESTOVER TERRACES 7400 Square Feet for $4000 Which Is 55c a Square Foot, and in Westover Terraces There Are 15 Sites, Averaging this Size, From Which to Choose! Compare this with $1.30 and $1.60 per square foot now asked on Cornell Road and with $1.00 to $1.75 at which ordinary inside lots are held today in the best streets in Nob Hill district. But don't imagine for a moment that these lots at $1.00 to $1.75 are high priced. I can prove that they are worth, at this minute, every penny of the amount, and next year's buyers will gladly pay probably 25 per cent more for them. I simply quote these figures' here to give you an exact idea of the extraordinary values now to be had in Westover Terraces for a very short time. Were I talking to you personally I would instance many indi vidual (viewless) lots at these prices and give you exact locations so that you could look them up. Then when I show you Westover Terraces the fine level sites; the. remarkably easy grades of the streets; the scientific terracing of each site above its neighbor, and the view, expansive and inde scribablewhy, you certainly will tell me, as I have been told by almost every person who has seen the property, that it would be a splendid proposition at double the present introductory prices. First purchasers get best sites, send you plats and full information. Better phone or drop a line now and I'll F. N. CLARK Selling Agent Westover Terraces and Eastmoreland. 818-823 Spalding Building. Main 2113-A 7617 to Shakespeare aa "Th Bard." H fa vor Shakespeare further In the cur rant Munsey'a by entering; the noisy madhouse of the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy and bidding; tbe Baconians be still. ... Mra. Jackson Oeuroud (Amy Crocker, of San Francisco) patron of the art of terpslchore, known as the best first nighter In New York, some time ama teur actress, eto, returned from Europe a fortnlg-ht ag-o and grave her first en tertainment of the season at her home, 4 West Flfty-'xth street. New York. Mra. Oouroud revealed to America for the first time the fascinating- "TongTa" dance of South America, which is al ready "th rage' in Paris. Valeska Suratt did her "turkey trot:" Nance Gwynn Spanish dance; Lura Ouerlte a French dance; Cathleen Clifford an American dance; Baroness von Groyss a Vienna dance, and Genla Agaxloff a Russian dance. Mrs. Oouroud said she hoped to get "everyone" soon to dance the "Honolulu KulC which he had 20 people do one night In Paris. ... Mlkall Mordkln. tbe Russian apollo. recently "discovered" the "future hope" of the white race in a S-year-old baby, whom he declared to be physical per-f-ctlon. A newspaper got him to back It up with photographs of himself and the little one to Illustrate ths polnta on which he based his Judgment. Now everywhere the Immortal Mike travels he ha to sneak down alleys when he leaves his private car (this Itself placed in Inaccessible parts of grimy railroad yards) In order to escape the army of fond parents who demand htm to Inspeet their offspring. . . Rehearsals are now nnder way of the special all-Scotch, company, which is to present "Bunty Pulls the Strings' on a tour which will embrace the Pa cific Coast. The cast was selected in London by Graham Moffat the author of "Bunty." This little-known play, by an unknown author. Jumped Into Imme diate favor when It was first presented at the Haymarket in London early last Summer, and 1 (till on th board there. Also It caught the popular taat In bias New York, and every-1 body has a good word for both play and player. Cyril Maud la the Lon don produoer and the Shuberts are sponsors for "Bunty" in America, Jane Laurel, whose last name is Mal colm, but who discards It for stage purposes, will soon retire forever from the footlights by marrying; Rob ert Jordan, a wealthy Bostonlan. Miss Laurel was in Portland last season with John Drew, In "Smith," playing th role of Mrs. Rosenberg, whose baby dies while she Is attending- & bridge party. She has been under the management of Charles Frohman for several years. The engagement has Just been an nounced and the wedding Is to be a mart event at Grace Church In Bos ton, where Mr. Jordan, the son of Ebon D. Jordan, a dry-goods merchant, Is prominent socially. Miss Laurel has had no nrofe-'BionsI eneae-ements this season since tbe death of Kyrle Bel lew, with whom she was playlne In "The Mollusc." e . Marguerite Clark, the captivating lit tle actress, last seen here with De Wolf Hopper In "Happyland" and who last season appeared In the Eactern "Baby Mine" company. Is to be a real star next year, In a new play entitled "When All the World Was Young." This Is to be a William A. Bsady enterprise. 2? ft-Aere Pomltry Farm p We Teaek Yew the KV Baalaee 1 Jr t Co-operate la Baying- J f ' and SelllBK. WrK W, Oakland Pooltry aK5iJ jk Products Co. ft,WJ vH. ,0B?if5I!idl,,'f " Order ITovr, One-Day. Old Chicks Co? prlaa Delivery, The piano that needs no advertising. Everybody knows its pre-eminence. The undisputed supremacy of the Chickering is recognized in every home of refinement. . . Thus it is only necessary to name the prices and to state that the Chickering in "Western America may be purchased in any of the forty stores of Eilers Music House; in Portland the 3d floor of the Eilers Building, Alder Street at Seventh. The Eilers little-profit-per-piano policy applies to every one of the fourteen different models of the Chickering the $550 kinds being priced $485, 'the $1600 style $1180, etc. Ask for descriptive oatalogue. It
