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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1912)
THE SUNDAY OBEGOKlAJi, PORTION), 0V& ga, 1912. tl ELKS ARE OFFICIALS OF ELKS' GRAND LODGE AND OTHER PROMINENT ELKS WHO WILL ATTEND REUNION. Af.TLERED HERD L00KST0P0RTLAHD Every Member of the Horned Brotherhood Will Come in . Person or Spirit. One Hundred Thousand Is Con servative Estimate of Their Strength. VISITORS MAY BE 200,000 ALL WILL BE CARED FOR GOMIIIG Of.! E VERYWHERE Member of Local Lodge and Com mittee of Arrangements Confident All Will Find Accommodation and Entertainment Plenty. "Look out for the Elks!" This warning- should be repeated to the people of Portland about 60.000 times In the next two weeks, as they will be called upon to look out for at least that many members of the order within the week beginning- Monday. July 8. . ; ' While this expression, "Look out for the Elks." might be interpreted jocu larly, it needs some serious considera tion. Portland will have a serious task on Sts hands in "looking out" for a party of 0,e00 strangers for seldom, it ever, have so many people visited the city for a week. The task grows when it Is considered that each visiting Elk probably - will bring with him one or mere members of his family. The aggregate number of people who will visit Portland within the week, on the most conservative estimate. Is 100,- 00. If the weather is favorable and If the big political conventions settle their business before it is time for large par ties of lodgemen to start from the East. It Is probable that 125.000 persons will come here for the entire week. Crowd Depends Weather. ( - The crowds who will come from the 'immediate'" Northwest will be deter mined largely by the weather. Under favorable circumstances the aggregate number who come for a day or two at & time may add an additional 50.000 to ih total. Railroad officials estimate that the maximum number of people who will be here within the week. In cluding those who stay for the entire convention period as well as those who com for a day at a time, will not txceed 100,000. As a matter of fact, they would not be able to haul more than that number with convenience. Should all conditions be so favorable that the outside figure of 200.000 Is reached, Portland. . Indeed, would be compelled to "Look out for the Elks." The city never has been called upon to entertain so large a crowd. Unusual methods and unusual measures will be required to accommodate the visitors. "Portland Is able to care for all vls ' Itors," says Harry C McAllister, secre tary of the commission of Elks that Is preparing for the forthcoming conven tion. "But I am afraid that the city does not fully appreciate the magnitude of this convention. Many members of our own lodge here don't seem to realize the number of people who will be here for the week. Perhaps comparison with previous crowds will Impress them. At the Rose Festival last week we had one ef the biggest crowds in our history, which was, liberally estimated. 10,000. Portland took care of everyone nicely and would have been able to take car of twice as many without trouble. Advance Information Desired. "But we are confronted now with the problem of caring for nearly four times as many. For one day the day of the parade, which is Thursday, July 11 we may have six or eight times as many people here. So that Is the rea son that we have been so persistent in advising residents of Portland of the probable attendance. We are not fear ful of the ability of Portland to handle everyone if Portland only has advance assurance of what the city is up sgalnat So I Join heartily in the cry issued by The Oregonian, 'Look out for the Elk.'" While members of the commission have given much time to planning for the accommodation of the great army of visitors they have heeded the warn ing "Look out for the Elks" in many other respects. Evidences of this fact are manifest. On Seventh street, for instance, where the great arches and pillars for' the majesties "Court of Honor" Is taking form, results of the commission's en ergy are visible. Again, at the North Bank depot, the great arch of welcome beamed a cheery greeting to the thousands who came to Portland for the Rose Restlval, and give further proof that the admoni tion. "Look out for the Elks" has been heeded. In hundreds of other places la this evident. An army of decorators, artisans, itinerant merchants, souvenir vendors and the usual group of In dustrious gentry whose presence at very great gathering has become al most indispensable already in the city. Concessionaries who were at the Re publican National convention at Chi cago last week now are on their way to Portland to ply their trade here. They will come loaded with buttons, canes, pennants, badges and other sale able what-not which they hope to dis pose of to the thousand here as sembled. Skyscrapers Tnke on Color. In the business district a corps of decorators is busy preparing large building for the coming of the Elks. The suggestion. "Look out for the Elks" went out to owners of sky scrapers and business blocks more than six months ago. It was Impressed thoroughly upon their minds when the Elks' commission appropriated 1600 for the best decorated buildings. This is to be divided into three prises of 1300. 1200 and 1100 each. Another purse of 1300 Is to be divided among the three merchants having the best decorated display windows during the week. Nowhere has greater activity been shown in "looking out" for the Elks than among the members of Portland lodge themselves. They have organ ised themselves, into sub-committees to assist In receiving, entertaining and making enjoyable the stay of their guests. ' A uniformed squad of "hello boys'" has been- organized to meet and to ' greet all visitors at the stations. They have been drilled in military maneuvers by Colonel McDonnell. They will be on duty continuously from nearly a 'week before the convention opens until after the last visitor ar rives. They will meet every train and will escort visiting Elks to their hotels ' or to headquarters. A part of them will, serve by day and a part by nignt. Bands' of skilled musicians will be at their service and will Join In the dem onstrations In honor of visiting mem bers. Majority to Join Parade. Of the 1350 members of Portland lodge is is probable that 1000 will be In line on the day of the big parade. They will wear uniforms consisting of aouble-breasted blue serge coats, white flannel trousers, white straw - hats, white canvas shoes, purple sox. purple ties and white shirts and march at the head of the procession. They were among the first to cry, "Look out". As In - Portland, so In every city In the land in which a lodge of Elks has been established echoes of this Port- 'x' " J ' 7 v p 4 " ' J TVSjA f " Jf - V J" wf - CeTu&cfefefifcs. 1 ' - I - i :- f ' ! "I - J u mm ilslpi . .7 KM WM &WA Jl l CHURCH DEDICATION SET a.i fnr h 1 Jt.. - I 1 aaaTBin3!,,sssfc&,, f ' I land utterance,' "Look 1-' 1. " v. -a hii finfirfl John P. Sullivan, -of New -Orleans, grand exalted ruler of all the Elks and stalwart champion of Portland as a convention city, has toured up ana down through the country spreading the news of how fortiana is 10 enwr . 1. - -wa iiwi aa hi Summer. Fred lain mo ..uu n i" TAkinDnn nanri crAtarv. and Thomas B. Mills, chairman of the board of grand trustees, have sung rortiana praise with equal fervor. Other lodges have accepted impnea aavice preparing to come here in swarms. A long list or special trains i In the railroad offices. A long list 01 reservations is on file in the hotel of fices. In every department of the city s commercial and Industrial life Is con tained testimony that the "Look out warning has been heard and heeded. Piano Recital Given. " An interesting piano recital wa given In the lecture -room of the ThlrJ Pres byterian Church last Friday night, when Mrs. C. H. Clement presented a number of students, who were assisted bv Miss Nettle Habekost. vocalist, and flss Elsie Msyer. accompanist. The programme: Duet from "Faust" tGu nod). Miss Alice Barerer and Miss Mil dred Redmond; "Robin's LuUaby" (Krogmann). Miss Winnifred Miller: "Spinning Song" (Elmenreich). Miss Marlon Hodges; duet, "Clover Blossoms jCo7tZ222l2f 072 7i ffrcet Bjbrm brt of ( 'ostpill, Miss Lela Howitt and Mrs. Clement; song. "A May Morning" (Den ia). Mis Nettle Habekost; "Fairy Whispers" (Krogmann), Mis Edna Howitt; "Hovering Butterflies" (Qay nor). Miss Pauline Norton; "A Summer Evening" (Abelle). Miss Clara Alexan der; "Mav Bells" (Bohm). Miss Gladys Chamberlain; "Just for the Fun of It" (Sudds). Miss Mildred Redmond; "Mur muring Brook" (Bohm), Miss Alice Barger; "Shower of Blossoms" (Spind ler). Miss Una Rilea: selection, "II Trov atore" (Dorn-Verdi), Miss Hortense Ballin; song. "Margery" (Ansell). Miss Nettie Habekost; quartet from "Rigo letto" (Spindler-Verdi). Miss Wauneta Kolb; duet, "Poet and Peasant" (Von Suppe). Mis Dorothy Miller and Mrs. Clement. , Visitors Flock to Hood River. HOOD RIVER. Or,' June II. (Spe cial) Hood River Valley now has nt least 200' visitor (rem the East and Southern California points, who have come . to pass the Summer with rela tives. The most popular form of di version during the Summer month 1 hunting and fishing excursions into the foothills and around the base of Mount Hood. Several camping partie have left for the headwaters of the . Hood River and others are planned, jf Dr. Raffety and Son Recover. Dr. Dav Raffety, the pioneer physi cian of Portland, and his son, Harry, who were seriously burned in a gas explosion at their home. E69 East Eighth street, early Friday, are rscov ering at the Good Samaritan Hospital. George Johnson Taken to Hospital. George Johnson was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital suffering with a broken leg and a number of bruises, which he sustained while driving piling at LaCenter, Wasb. - VANCOUVER PRESBYTERIAN ED- IFICE IS COMPLETED. Rev. M. A. Matthews, of Seattle, to Deliver Dedicatory Sermon Friday, June 8. VANCOUVER, Wash., June 22. (Spe cial.) The First Presbyterian Church. of this city, will be dedicated with ap propriate services Friday night, June 28. Dr. M. A. Matthews, moderator of the Tecent General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of Seattle, Wash., will deliver the dedicatory ser mon. There will be a special music programme, and the interior will be decorated with roses and other flowers. At first there was some dissension about' holding the dedication Friday, some persons wishing to have the ceremonies Sunday. But weighed against this was 'the honor of having the moderator of the General Assembly present to dedicate the church the only open date he had so It carried. "No, we are not In the least super stitious," said Rev. H. S. Templeton, pastor. "When : the church burned January 21. 1911, some persons thought It waa a bad omen, but really, .it was a blessing. See what a beautiful place of worship we now have, and we would not have possessed it had the 5ld church not been -destroyed." - Ilislop Goes to Yellowstone. Thomas Hislop, welUknown pioneer of the East Side, left yesterday with hi two daughters for -the Yellowstone Park, where they will pass several weeks viewing the wonders of the park. INDIAN HOSPITAL PLANNED Superintendent of Schools Wants Building Near Lewlston, Idaho. LEWISTOK. Idaho. June ; 22. (Spe cial.) "We have plans," stated Oscar H. Llpps, superintendent oi Indian schools of Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Wmihlne-ton. "for the erection and establishment of the largest Indian sanitarium in the United States near lewlston. at Fort Lapwal. If the amend- ...nrnnrbHnn bill ncv in the hands of the conferenfe committee passes, ap proximately izoo.ouu win oe avauaoie for Indian hospitals. Since there are only three in the country and all of lesser importance man tne one iiere. prospects are favorable for the imme diate erection of the tubercular sanl- wnuui. The present enrollment is about 100 , v... i.,nwiil hosnital and all children there are affected with tubercular trouble. John N. Alley is in cnarge. Husum Plans for Fourth of July. HTTSUM. Wash.. June 22. (Special.) The different committees are plan ning for a rousing celebration of the Fourth of July. Brass bands, horso racing, ball games, dancing and l' athletic events will be the main fea tures of the occasion. - The - Under wood. Gilmer, Husum and Indian base ball nines will play July and 6. Miss Kock Convalescing. Miss Katherlne Kock, instructor of u...,m lii th .Tearon Hisrh School. 1HUBUasva . . " Is convalescing at the Good Samaritan Hospital, where she waa taken severs! day ago. Ground Floor of New Oregon Hotel Promised for Use of Committee " Next Sunday General Head quarters Are Provided. a 1; - frnm tftrinv Portl&nd will hoonmo the nlvotal DOint for the Eik population of the United States. . The forty-etghtn annual grana loose convention opens here the day follow a... i,ii v fin ftftft mnmbers of --the organization will gather here within the week. Every .kik in me couimr will want n h. hr Of COUn. theV an't all Km hr hilt those Who don't come will watch with Interest the an tics of those who are here. Jvery jmk K . Anrn-- will hrlnr at leflLSt On ft member of his family or a friend who is not an Elk with mm, or at ieasi this average will be maintained. The cltv will be called upon to en-. tertaln 100.000 persons within the week. The aggregate may reach 200. 000. This is by far a greater number than ever asserable4 in Portland within single wees. -A,. ih, h,akI. rariv" is the Ques tion asked by member of the Elks' iqia Minvuntifin commission. .-The commissioners feel that they are fully prepared. They are putting mo unai touches on their plans for the week' entertainment now. Contractors for the new Oregon Hotel building at Seventh and Oak streets are rushing the work on the first floor to make it ready for the use of the committee by next Sunday, when the desks and office furniture will be movd in preparatory to opening regis tration headquarters there. Telegraph and telephone wires will be Installed. The Transcontinental Passenger Asso ciation will open a branch validating office, a baggage and transfer office and information booths will be estab lished there. General Headquarters Leased. The Elks closed a contract early yes terday morning for the use of the large room at the northeast corner of Seventh and Oak streets, diagonally across the street from the new Oregon Hotel, where they will maintain gen eral headquarters and offices for book ing hotel accommodations. Harry C. McAllister, secretary of the, commis sion, will move his office Into the room early next week. J. H. Diets, hotel commissioner, also will open hi office there. A desk will replace the windows on the Seventh-street side and visitors will be able to do business with the accommodation desk from the sidewalk. The Elks propose to conduct their hotel bureau for all visitors, whether they are members of the lodge or not. Need for additional rooms in private families exists. ' - The arch connecting the, clubrpomi on the third floor pf the Elk clubrooms with the Oregon hall Immediately north of the Elks' temple has been completed. .' Great, long counters are being built all along the walls and In the center of the 100 by 100-foot room. Lunch and refreshments will be dispensed there throughout the week free of charge. This will prevent any advance In prices at the restaurants and cafes where there Is Intention to raise prices. However, the Elks have positive assur ance that there will be no advance for any commodity or luxury during con vention week. , , 'Hikers" Duo July : 4. 4 By traveling at their regular pace the three young men who are walking to Portland from .their home at Brook- 1.14 will ha nhlA tO rHCh the city by the Fourth of July. They will be met at the eage or tne city oy a string of automobiles and a large dele gation of Elks and escorted to their rooms at the Oregon Hotel. They will not camp at Troutdale, as was their first Intention. Several of the lodges that originally planned to camp in their trains in the railroad yards have secured rooms at hotels Instead. It is probable, that there will be 20 or 25 trains In the terminal yards. Only a few of them will retain their diners, as' the tour ist agencies who conduct these special train parties do not inclfude meals while in Portland in thelri accommo dations. ' ' -. All members of Portland lodge art expected to appear at the Armory at 10 o'clock this morning to participate In Ihe drill which la intended. to train them for the big parade Thursday, July 11. Members of the "Welcome Squad." consisting of 60 young Portlana Elks will don their uniforms for the first time late this week, after which they will engage In dally practice. They will meet every train bringing Elks to the reunion. WHAT A CORSET; CAN DO A look Into the merits "of our cor sets designed for fashionable wear and ordinary dress is therefore requested. 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All prices d vertlsed for Saturday will prevail dur. ing thl week. Same telephone num ber. ' - FOLLOW THE CROWD. The greatest attraction in Portland today is the new Annex Hotel, Twelfth and Washington streets. Everybody 1 talking about it. See for yourself. a Our Insecticide positively puts bed bugs out of business. We also make all styles of sweeping compounds, floor oil and floor prary. Phone Plummej Drug Co, Third and Madison. Main 22