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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.
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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.;
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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.