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SECTION FIVE Pages 1 to lO WOMAN'S AND SPECIAL FEATURES PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1912. VOL. XXXI. NO. 29. JOE BUCHTEL, WORTHY PIONEER, GOES BLIND Veteran Portland Citizen, 82, Takes Rest After 60 Years of Activity, Saving Lives and Building Up Cities Fortunes Made and Lost. Gray Enamelware Kitchen Utensils, Worth Up to 85c For 10c, 15c, 29c and 33c Sc Small Pudding Pans anjl Pie Pans, Regular 10c Value Values Up to 20c 2-quart shallow Sauce Pans, No. 18 deep Sauce Pans, 1 q n art, lV-quart and 2-qnart Pudding Pans, No. 160 Pre serve Kettles, Kettle Covers, No. 10 Cake 1 f Pans, No. 10 Pie Pans and Cups ONLY. . 1 U C Values Up to 30c 4-quart Keystone Sauce Pans, No. 2 covered Pails, No. 11 Bread Pans, No. 10 Fry Pans, 5-quart Baking Pans. 4-quart lipped Preserve Kettles, 3-quart, 4-quart and 5-quart Pudding Pans, No. 28 and 30 Wash Basins, No. ?, 4 and 5-quart Milk Pans, Sink Strainer and Dipper ONLY 3U VOSUlJy 15c Values Up to 85c Included in this lot are 6-quart Berlin Sauce Pans, 6 quart Berlin Kettles, 8-quart Preserve Kettles, 10 quart Dish Pans, 14-quart Dish Pans, 2-quarrt QA Tea and Coffee Pots, etc. ONLY aZ?C Values Up to 85c A more limited assortment is offered at this price, hut every piece is useful if not absolutely essential to kitchen work. 10-quart lipped Preserve Kettles, 10 quart Water Pails, 10-quart lipped Sauce O Q Pans, 10-quart Berlin Kettles and Sauce Pans 33 C The "Free" Is the World's Best Sewing Machine Sold on Terms as Low as $1 a Week A machine of highest grade v. ith over twenty-seven new improvements over other to. chines. A machine which has been adopted in the establishments of leading dressmakers all over America, installed in the Domestic Science Departments of city High Schools and sold to thousands of private homes, all of whom speak loudly in its praise. It is the easiest of operation and does the most perfect work, including the finest of embroid ery. Come in and see it. m : , . I'M Let us show you our Aviator Satisfaction, Safety and Economy in the "New Idea" Best Gas Range Made Consider carefully the merits of the "New Idea" be fore making your Gas Range investment. An article of housefurnishing which plays so important a part in the equipment of a home should be selected with the great est care and judged on a comparative basis. If it is a better Gas Range than any other, which we claim and can unqualifiedly prove, wouldn't you prefer it to a Gas Range of less merit, for which you will have to pay the same price or perhaps higher t Another, carload "New Idea" Gas Ranges just received You'll Welcome These Rare Savings on Fumed and Golden Oak Library Tables Golden Oak $11 Quartered Oak Library Table, golden finish, top measures 22x34 inches, has tray and drawer, special JIT Quartored Oak Library Table, golden finish, designed with shelf underneath and magazine ends, special Quartered Oak Library Table, golden finish. Top measures 28x40 inches, has large lower shelf, special $29.75 Quartered Oak Library Tablet top measures 30x46 inches, has full lower shelf, golden wax finish, special 137.50 Quartered Oak Library Table, golden finish, top measures 30x54 inches, very handsome' design, special $67.50 Quartered Oak Library Table, top 36x60, colonial de sign, goliien finish, very massive and of highest quality $6.95 $12.75 $15.75 $21.50 $24.50 $43.75 Fumed Oak 115 Quartered Oak Library Table, fumed- finish, top measures 30x48 inches, has long drawer and shelf, special... $19.75 Quartered Oak Desk. Table, early English finish, top A 4 1 or measures 26x36 inches, fully equipped, special P X A J J $24.50 Fumed Oak Library Table with panel ends and lower CJ "1 C Q E shelf, top measures 26x42, special vPlOaOsJ 137 50 Fumed Oak Table, a very attractive arts and crafts design, top measures 28x48, special r;n Fumed Oak Library Table, with massive legs and low shelf, top measures 30x48, special value 7t T,'i.m Oak Library Table, with shelf underneath, top very large, measuring 36x60, extra fine value for. $9.95 $29.75 $33.50 $52.75 Low Seat of Old Hickory With Hand-Woven Top J $1.49 Excellent little stool or low seat 20 inches wide and 15 inches high. Frame is of old hickory with woven sap ling top. Convenient and Attractive Folding. Lawn Settee value $1.39 j Made of hardwood .in slat design: 41 Inches wide and very roomy and comfort able. "Folds to occupy unlv six inches in width. a.' Jvp. ?Trr-353 Regular $13.50 Spanish Chase Leather Couch fc t&Mk .KruifUt fci.tv-iwn with oak frame, carved claw feet, plain top and roll edges .' $8. 1 5 Child's Marathon Sulky Sells Rejularly at $4.75 $3.85 Exactly like Illustration. Has spring: seat, padded cushions and back, and rubber-tired wheels. Selected Patterns of Matting One Roll of EachEach Roll Containing Forty Yards $12 and $ 1 3 Values For $8.85 A splendid assortment of patterns In colors, blue, green and tans: ex cellent qualities that will give months of service. One of the strongest values In floor covering; we have ever offered. Forcible Reductions on High Grades of Carpet $1.75 Axminster Carpet, 14 choice patterns, with or ' without g '4 Jk A $1.22 $1.17 Small Size Rugs Very Specially Priced IS.OO value, size 36x72, Axminster quality $4.S9 $7.5(value. size 36x72. bordered and solid effects $3.95 $2.00 Tapestry Rugs, 27x54, extra good quality, special $1.27 $27oSO Golden Oafc Table Special border; sewed, laid and lined $1.35 Velvet Carpet, 18 patterns to select from, all colors; sewed, laid and lined......' $1.35 Brussels Carpet, only five patterns at this special price; sewed, laid and lined, special Four Excellent Patterns in Sideboards Greatly Reduced $16.95 $21.00 $22.50 $37.75 $22.50 Sideboard, finished In quartered effect, has swell front top drawer and large plate mirror, finished quartered effect t $32.56 Sideboard.golden. finished quartered effect. Has case 40 inches wide, oval plate mirror and French less $39.00 Sideboard, finished quartered effect, has full swell Ann Ef front and oval plate mirror ..f. ?. 9 vl $56.50 Quartered Oak Sideboard, best selected stock, colonial design, massive and attractive in appearance Designed with massive base and flaring legs, con structed of best selected oak, golden finish. Top measures 48 inches. Will seat ten persons. Two Patterns in Quartered OakDiners Specially Priced $3.00 Quartered Oak Box- Seat Diner, golden finish. on sale for only $2.15 $4.50 Quartered Oak Box- Seat Diner, French le with claw feet, special at. $3.45 Child's Rubber-Tired Sulky With Reversible Back $1.59 Very strongly built and attractively designed. Light and easily handled. Splendid for Summer use. JOE BUCHTEL. Is blind. For more than two years his eye sight has been failing, and a year ago suddenly one eye became completely blind, since which time the other has been affected, until the last week when the light .of heaven was shut out for ever. There Is little hope that an operation can restore the sight, although an op eration may be undertaken. Mr. Buchtel was born 82 years ago and came to Portland 60 years ago 60 years of constant activity. There was hardly an enterprise in the early history of Portland in which Mr. Buch tel did not have some part. He was with the Volunteer Fire Department; he was the first maker of pictures in Portland outside of L. H. Wakefield; he was a steamboat man. a footracer and athlete, beating all the fast racers that could be Imported Into Oregon; building the first streetcar on the East Side; promoting the first bridge across the Willamette River at Portland and organizer of the Pioneer baseball club. To see Mr. Buchtel today, feeling his way across the house with ihs cane with uncertain step, it seems incredible that he ranked with the fastest foot racers of the world, and that as a life saver he is Justly entitled to a Nation al reputation. The final act of his 60 years of ac tivity was in bringing about the pur chase of 12 acres at Champoeg as a state park in memory of the convention of May 2. 1843, when it was decided that the "Oregon Country" should be under the United States Government which is a fitting end of his long ca reer of public service. ' Fortunes Made and Lost. Since coming to Oregon In 1852 Mr. Buchtel has lost and regained several rortunes. He has seen the savings of a lifetime swept away with a smile, and then, when most men would have given up In despair, he went to work to pile up another fortune. It may be of In terest to his friends to know that he is independent financially, a recent real estate deal having placed him where he can spend- the remainder of his life In retirement and comfort, even though the sunshine is closed to him forever. He has had a remarkable career as the saver of human lives, more than 40 men directly being saved through his prompt decision. His remarkable flect- ness and quickness coupled with a keen mind that always acted with in stantaneous decision, made him a very useful man in- the early days of Ore gon. While serving as steward on the steamer Phoenix, of which Captain White was in command, he saved eight men from drowning. "I - can hardly tell now how I got those eight men out of the river." said the veteran, as he was speaking of the incident, "but it was done. The Phoenix stopped at Kruse's Landing on the Willamette River, and had pushed off from the shore. Suddenly there was a roar, the boiler having blown up. The men, eight In number, were thrown into the water.' They fejl together and each grabbed the other until they were all a struggling mass. I saw that they would certainly all drown, and making a big Jump, I reached the shallow water, got a long pole from the fence and fished out the struggling mass, feix men came out on the end of the pole and two others, jwho broke away from the mass, were saved separately, but all were saved. Ruae Save. Sblp. "I remember when the Gazelle blew up at Canemah, Just above the Falls at Oregon City. I happened to be the first man to reach the scene of the terrible accident. Men were struggling in the river in imminent danger of go ing over the falls. People were stand lng around not knowing what to do, but presently we had them at work. Four or five were rescued rrom goin over the falls." Another Incident happened while the Canemah was on the way from Port land to Oregon City with Captain Pease in charge. The craft was overloaded and In danger of collapse. Captain Pease told Buchtel. then steward, that the boat would -be wrecked unless the crowd could be gotten below on the lower deck. By a ruse Buchtel got the crowd off the upper decks and then stationed men at the stairways and prevented them from returning to the upper deck, and the boat reached her destination In safety. Buchtel was an all-round athlete and the fleetest sprinter In the country. Before coming to Oregon he had beat en Jack Shepherd, in Illinois, the fast est footracer of the United States. In the early days of Oregon horse and foot racing was the principal diversion, and there were many sports In the Yamhill, Lane and Marion County district, and race meets were held at Lafayette and Barfow Prairie. Buchtel went to these meets to make pictures of horses and scenes, not as a footracer, but as he was known to be very fast he usually was forced into the races. Sim Oldman. a gambler, of Portland, was a racing man, and had strings of horses. Old man imported Dave Crawford, the first man to- be buried in Lone Fir Ceme tery, from California to come to Ore gon to "clean out "the farmers." Craw ford was then considered the fastest footracer in the United States, and Old man thought he had a cinch on the sports. The race was held at Barlow Prairie, the favorite place for such af fairs. Buchtel was pited against Craw ford. Great Race Remembered. "I -. remember that race," said the pioneer, "as all the sports in the coun try had come from the surroundings and had bet on Crawford. Crawford was as fine a specimen of humanity as I ever- saw, tall and finely propor tioned. I was just the reverse slen der and rather undersized. Had I come out on th track before the race there would have been few bets pn me. Just before the race John Burns, who had seen me run at Oregon City, got on the fence 'and yelled, 'I will bet my entire packtraln here that Buchtel will beat Crawford.' If Burns had kept still we would have cleaned up -every cent Oldman and the Portland crowd had with them, for after that no more bets were made. I beat Crawford easily. All the oldtimers, if they are living, will remember that race." But Mr. Buchtel was not a profes sional, and his buslnes was that of making pictures, not running races. He made pictures of all the leading men and pioneers, and had a collection of rare value, which unfortunately were destroyed by a man who did not know their value. Nearly all the pictures that have been saVed from early days were made by Mr. Buchtel. He began mak ing photographs In 1855. Sport. Held Interest. Mr. Buchtel was interested in sports, and assisted in organizing the Pioneer baseball club, of which he was pitcher and manager. Those were the days when the ball was pitched, not thrown. Mr. Buchtel, was one of three men who ran 150 yards in 15 seconds, the other two men being professionals. He was interested in school matters.; r- ; . 1; i C f A 3 1 t Cr 2 - JoKeph Bttehtel, Portland Pioneer f W ho Haa Lt Hl Uyealcht. ........................ 4 He saw the need of playgrounds for children, and advocated purchase - of two blocks where the Washington High and Hawthorne buildings now stand. Dr. J. C. Hawthorne thought it waste of money and organized to defeat the purchase of the ground. Buchtel or ganized tand carried the motion to buy the ground. It is somewhat singular that' the Board of Education should have given the name Hawthorne to this building, ignoring Buchtel. the man who suc ceeded in securing the two blocks. Buchtel Has interested in the City View racetrack at Sell wood, and with two other men started to build a street railway there on Grand avenue, laying; iron down for one mile. Just before cars were put into operation some peo ple in East Portland opposed to the line pulled up the track one dark night, Buchtel's fortune was swept away through this transaction, and he was left in debt to the amount of $76,000, all of which he subsequently paid.. Buchtel declares that he owns the fran chise today on Grand avsnue. - ' Mr. Buchtel with William Beck ini tiated the movement for the first bridge across the Willamette River on Morri son street, and when it was finished was accorded the honor of crossing ahead of the procession. Invention. Are Hla. In the volunteer and .paid depart ments of Portlend he was a factor. H assisted in organizing Multnomah En gine Company No. 2, which Is now a fraternal organization, owing property to the amount of $30,000. He was chief of the' Portland Paid Fire Department for two years and put into service the first flreboat, the Vaughn. He invented several important devices for fighting fires which will come Into general use. Including an electric fire hose, by which the man at the hose end can signal when to turn on and turn off the water. These are a few things In the early days in which Mr. Buchtel was In terested. The last ten years he has been active on the East Side. He ini tiated the movement for regulating the bridge draws; was the first to urge the erection of a library on the East Side, and undertook to have the Lon. Fir Cemetery preserved, but was compelled to cease his work by failing eyesight. He was one of the foremost advocates of the Broadway bridge. But his activity must now cease. The sunshine of heaven is closed tn him forever, but he is still full of enthu siasm and hope and Is cheerful. He hopes to live long enough to help com plete the memorial state park at Cham poeg, which was his last work. He hopes that the Legislature will take over the property and make a park, In memory of the men who weted to keep the Oregon Country for the Untted States. APOSTLES' CREED TOTTERS German Clergymen Attack Time Honored "Aposlollkum." - BERLIN, July 20. (Special.) Church circles throughout Germany are becom ing deeply concerned with regard to the position of the Apostles' Creed -in their liturgies. - - Both the r-icene and ; Atnanasian . PpaaiIi h,v lAnv f0an rcArrierl BNT1,- clally In the churches of the Reforma tion, as containing matter which his torically or scientifically educated Christians cannot wholly accept- as binding, but until recently the Apos tles' Creed, or the "Apostolikum," as it. Is called here, has escaped hostile criti cism, owing to its extreme simplicity, its scriptural character, and its -comparative freedom from dogmatic, as sert! veness. A number of ecclesiastical organiza- on them recently to protest against the use even of this simple creed at con firmations and baptisms, but more es pecially at the ordinations of young clergymen, and a movement of great strength has set in to abolish it from the services of the church. JIl lll'JOl I.11UI1.II UIIVICB II IS KCIICIA1IT believed that? the fate of the "Apostol ikum" Is sealed in Germany.. FIGHT STARTED BY WOMAN Free-for-All Follows Lecture on I'uturUt Movement. PARIS, July 20. (Special.) Femin ists are taking a hand in the Fu turist movement. The poetess, Mme. Valentine de Saint Point, read to an audience of Futurists and their friends lecture on "Women and Futurism. At first nothing was seen but the lady's magnificent hat which was unani mously , applauded, but gradually, as from beneath the hat a charming voice expressed ideas and sentiments of unexpected audacity, signs of indig nation were visible in certain quarter! of the room. The lecturer seemed to gather strength from opposition. She claimed . for women a new and high, If not the foremost place in the Futurist move ment. Women, she asserted, had un tapped stores of violence and brutality in her nature the female of the spe cies was, in fact, deadlier than the male. Futurism must use the Innate ferocity of woman for its own hlah ends. When the meeting broke up dli- outants exchanged blows witn bucks and fists on the staircaea.