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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1913)
. . a TTjnrTi?T?P Ol 1013 I CHRISTMAS SHOPPING AND CHRISTMAS CHARITY IN EVIDENCE UPON THE STREETS. PLEASURE FOR ALL, CHRISTMAS SLOGAH Endeavor Will Be Made to Carry Good Cheer to All of Portland's Needy. The Oakland ''Light Six" Is the Foremost Car in Its Class SOCIETIES SHARING WORK Among Otters Who "W ill Be Remem bered T Kind-Hearted This Tnletlde Season Are WItcs and Famines of Prisoners. JtUTT OROAJOZ.4TIOX8 RAISE mM FOB CUKI3TMA8. Salvation ArraT (cash) 110O UmlvmUna Armr (rappllaa) 50.00 Portland Common (caah)... -Portland Commons (auppllee Ptacab Horn caah roportod Placah Horn euppllea . . . . PoopU'a Inetltute caah ap propriated) People'a Inatltnta euppllaa). General rand of cmah and sop pllea reported by Journal for various orranixatlona. . B410O 4SO.0O 12.00 85.00 150.00 aoo.os 84T.SS Aaaoelated Charttlee Chrlat- maa relief rand 300 l.M Vleltlns Norse AecoclaUoa leaah) Vlaltlns Nurse Aaaoclatlon (enppUes not aatlmatad) . - Volunteer of America (ap proximate caah and sop pllea) 40.00 121.14 Total .6330.S4 e Christmas plana by the organizations in Portland that look after the dispensing- of holiday cheer to. the needy are more extensive this year than erer before and In their preparations for the work they have been receiving wonderful support from the cltlxens of Portland. Prisoners In the state penitentiary, the county jail and the county and municipal rockplles are the especial Christmas charges of the Portland Common, which Is endeavoring to raise cash and contributions of supplies to the amount of S13G0 for this purpose. Already 1534 In caah baa been sent In and 3450 in supplies. Eight hundred baskets will be packed for distribution among the prisoner The families of the pris oners also will be looked after with Christmas baskets and gifts and on Christmas day the women and children will be guests at a Christmas tree and entertalnmeent at the Commons. Au tomobiles are to be provided to bring them there -and every effort will be made to make the day a happy one for them In spite of the fact that the fathers of the families are spending Christmas behind the bare. Kane Aaaoclatlea Active. The Visiting Nurse Association la not raising any cash budget and Is not preparing any extensive Christmas cam paign, but will devote itself rather to relieving special cases of need that are under Its care. Many Christmas par ties will be given and baskets of sup plies and gifts are being dispensed. Tbe cash contributions to the asso ciation during the Christmas season have been light, but large contributions of supplies have been received and many needy families have been turned over to the care of Individuals who de sire to help carry Christmas cheer to the poor. Christmas dinner baskets for the poor will be the principal activity of the Salvation Army. About 300 fami lies are to be cared for in this way as well as the Inmates of the Industrial Home. The donations to the Salvation Army fund in cash last night amounted to 31100 and Major Andrews said that about 350 worth of supplies had been sent In. The baskets will be packed tomorrow and Tuesday and will be riven out Wednesday at the headquar ters of the Salvation Army. Plana Hesse Neglected. The Plsgah Home lacks yet quite a sum of having enough to care for Its 9 Inmates properly on Christmas day. Cash contributions are only about 311 and additional supplies to the amount of about 31S have been sent In. There are men In the home, and 13 wom en In the cottages. The plans for Chrlstmaa Include a dinner and a spe cial programme. Children's parties and Christmas trees will be given under the auspices of the People's Institute, and contribu tions not of cash only but "Christmas stockings' are being sent In for these entertainment The gifts of cash and supplies amount to nearly 3700, ac cording to Miss Valentine Prichard. su perintendent of the Institute. Seven parties for children's classes and three Christmas trees are to be given besides general relief work. The Rotary Club luncheon for the poor children and the theater party Tuesday night, special Christmas activ ities by different fraternal organisa tions and the extensive relief work carried on by the Associated Charities, also carry ths holiday work among the poor Into homes In all parte of the city that would otherwise be unvislted by cheer on the Christmas day. CANOE VICTIMS RECOVERED W. Brans Says John Xagel Was Drowned Aiding R. Fitzgerald. The bodies of Richmond Fitzgerald. 1T70 Villard avenue, and John Kegel. 1773 Flake street, tbe two lt-year-old boys who were drowned yesterday In Columbia Slough, were recovered last night by Municipal Grappler Brady, and were taken to the morgue. According to W. Bruns. a baker at University Park who witnessed the tragedy. Pits gerald fell out of the canoe as the boys were paddling past the North Bank bridge, and the canoe tipped over while Nasal was trying to rescue his companion-Joseph Clark, section foreman for the North Bank Railroad, saw the accident from the bridge. He got a boat and was within a few feet of the boys when they went down. He petroled the spot for several minutes, but neither re - appeared. The funeral arrangements have not been completed. ' Crawfish Fisher Fined. When laborers on the county road, working near Linnton testified that L. Nelschl drove his car so fast that they had to jump to avoid being bit by the machine. Judge Rayton fined Nelschl 310. Nelschl is a csnwfish fisher on the Columbia River, and drives down the Linnton road regularly. It Is said, and generally goes much faater than the law allows. The complaint against Nelschl was made by County Patrol man Walts. if " "ft A I ' rs : y t - 1 .-. : ci: v ' M I -I If M ill 1 if- , ? i- h i V ".'h r r ZS ;f Tf? fv-;Su.-:-M hi-? rvT;. '4W;I V V h ki : ,..rn . 'Tn "? 4 LH -aJ sU & wi r j v r - k i ' if I rr? H f -. a f hV i I J JLrtYJ : sit. JJ, it' -I ,f-r"V Jf)i' f 'O.i'v : v1-jv fC-t f . ir- " -.pikfi i.M -J&fr&t- if v lit? v fil I - iv vM -slJ r&:' c?;,r -h i v;, HI mil I, . - J V elusion that he will provide his bit of I ' " ., -W,. -r I - merriment at all three of Broadway s tA 1 - .. .nu STAGE FOLK. BUSY Theaters to Combine Talent for Midnight Matinee. RECEIPTS GO TO CHARITY Wirr deett-Baker. Billy unnoro and Many Others to Take Fart In C6herln In Jfew Tear. Broadway to Blase. In a meeting of the Theater Man aa-ers Association and the Theatrical Mechanical Association yesterday it was decided unanimously to have a midnight matinee, as ut yore, and the stagehands laid plans immediately to .K-- tn ih. nw vear more auauiui- ...iw than vr All-star vaudeville howa win ha made iid of acts selected from the city's big theaters ami in midniaht matinees will be staged at tha Ornheum. Empress and Pantagel the big trinity -of Broadway. Broadway will be a blase or glory tor im inn mr,A Mavnr Albee will be asked to suspend the after-hours' ordinance for sweet charity's sake, as the fund to be raised by the T. M. A. win oo o vAtt trt Hanaflcent DarDOiea One Innovation this year will make the midnight matinee of especial local Interest. Mary Ed sett-Baker, the tal ented daughter of George I Baker, haa volunteered to take part and Louis Leon Hall. William Nolte and Walter Gilbert, also members of the Baker Stock Company also have come to the front to aid the T. M. A. in garnering shekels for 111 and needy theater folk. Billy CUfferd ta Help. Miss Edgett-Baker has not yet de cided on the form of entertainment to be offered by her and her colleagues. They may form two doubles and offer song and dance acta, they may combine to present a one-act play or each may entertain -as a "single." At all events, all four of the Baker Stock volunteers are so energetic In behalf of the mid night matinee that they have expressed willingness to appear at all three vau deville theaters, jumping from one to the other between acts to amuse the holiday throngs. Talent from the Orpheum. Empress. Pantagea, Baker, Lyric and Heillg Theaters will combine. In the final week of the year Billy Clifford will be at the Hellig in "The Girl, the Man and the Game" and It Is a foregone con clusion that he will provide his bit of merriment at all three of Broadway's vaudeville houses. . t The mldnisrht matinee will be held at the Orpheum. Empress and Pantages after the regular shows of those thea ters and the various vaudevue acts se lected easily will -provide three shows. each of which will last ror two nours or more and send the midnight matinee throngs away happy in time for the last car or at least before the milk wagons make their appearance. Tlcketa for the midnight matinee cost SO cents each. They will be on sale at the Heillg, Baker, Lyric, Orpheum. Empress and Pantages Theaters, and reservations may be made at Huntley Brothers' drug store at Fourth and Washington " streets, December 23, 80 and 31. Every member of tbe T. M. A. Is armed with a batch of tickets and the sale already has begun with vim. It is the aim of the stagehands to make the midnight matinee of 1913 the best holiday entertainment In the history of the organization. Tm pretty busy with the Rose Fes tival, the Ad Club and a few other little details." said George L. Baker, "but I'm going to work overtime to help make our next midnight matinee a 'humdinger.'" Then George L. sold three tickets to three friends who had merely stopped to say "how-de-do" to him at the en trance of the Morgan building. CUPID CUTS COUNTY .COST Two Widow's Pensions Granted and Five Are Withdrawn. Two new pensions were allowed by the case committee Friday and five withdrawn, three of them pe- BAKER THEATER. ACTOR WHO WILL PERFORM AT MID NIGHT ...... - 4- "5. ' y .. m7TrTr77""M "" 1 " "T """"mmii n-i irrtBtOia.ft liOriS LEOJf HALL 1, Volunteers of America Collection Bo .r&V.e0TVg Poor Childrea of Alblna by tne nasarae atiuj. cause the beneficiaries have received insurance money and two because the widows are dependent no longer,. One of those who asked that the pension be stopped advised the case committee that she expected to be married In a few days. One was withdrawn because the oniy son of the widow has been committed to a state Institution, and is nit dependent on his mother now. Mrs. Calope Paleologo, 2J1 Sixth street, was allowed $17.50, the full amount for twt children, and Mrs. Mary McClure, of Arleta. was allowed $10, which with $30 she is earning, thet committee feels Is enough to provide for herself and two children. Probationers Must Quit Liquor. ' - SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20. In grant ing probation today to George Garl haldl and Euarene J. Hlckey. young footpads, Superior Judge F. H. Dunne said .that if either touched a single glass 'of liquor within tbe next seven years he would be sent to San Quentln prison for a term of that length. Gari baldi and Hlckey. when drunk, held up and robbed two men last .August. Aids to Navigation Is Aim. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Dec 30. Senator Jones today Introduced a bill appropriating $60,000 for constructing aids to navigation In Alaska. MATlNxixi. Crowds In the Ixbby of the Postofflce Sendlne Oat Christmas Mall. a, BOY'S REQUEST (S RARE LAD ASKS TO GO TO DETENTION HOME TO LEARN TRADE. 18-Tear-OId "Common Laborer" Wants to Fit Himself to Care for In firm Father With Assurance. Christmas cheer, but of a different brand from what most Portland boys are expecting, was muted out to a 16-year-old boy who appeared at ths Ju venile Court yesterday and asked that he be sent to the Oregon State Train ing School that he might learn a trade and equip himself to support his In firm father and other dependent mem bers of his family. "I have been working as a common laborer, making $2.50 a day," he told Probation Officer Mcintosh, "but I want to learn a trade, that I may earn enough to keep those dependent on me comfortably." The boy was sent out to the Fraser Detention Home yesterday, where clothing and provisions will be fur nished him until some other disposi tion can be made of him. ' "The boy was at the training school once." .said Mr. Mcintosh, "and If ' he has the nerve and ambition to go back again to learn a trade that he may be able to support his father and sister,, he is all right and wo will see If we can't find something' better for htm." The boy's older sister, whose hus band Is dead, became 111 this Fall, Mr. Mcintosh said, and the boy went to The Dalles and worked In a ditch at $2.60 a day to take care of the sick stster and her little children. About the time the sister was well enough to go to work the boy's Job ran out.and. too proud to stay around and live with her when he could not find work, he set out through Washington looking for a job. He came to Portland several days ago, and has been unable to find work here, and asked that he be sent to Salem rather than waste his time, looking further for work. Several nights last week, Mr. Mcintosh said, the boy had gone to the police station and asked for a bed for the night. The father, who Is unable to work because of his Infirmities, Is living at a small Washington town, cared for by a sister, who earns what she can to help care for the parent. LODGE EXTENDS CHARITY Degree of Honor Will Make ; Pro vision for Ten Families. That the Degree of Honor as an order make provision for the relief of at least 10 families, with donations of food and clothing for Christmas was decided at the regular semi-annual ses sion of the Portland district convention of that order Friday night. The committee appointed to have charge of the work was as follows: Mrs. Margaret Becker, of Fidelity Lodge, 411 Third street; Mrs. Sarah E. Moore, of Evergreen Lodge, 803 Gan tenbein avenue; Mrs. Margarte Hous ton, of the finance committee, at W. C, T. U. headquarters; Mrs. Millie Pugh, grand usher; Mrs. Mattle Griffith, 737 East Taylor; Mrs, Maud E. Morton, of Stores. Taking a Collection tor the Fidelity Lodge, 651 West Broadway, and Mrs. Rose Colter, of Port Indus Lodge. The grand chief of honor, Mrs. Mar garet E. Herrin, offered ber office at 203 Commercial block, corner Second and Washington streets, as a place where members and friends may bring donations before Wednesday. After that day donations may be left at De gree of Honor Hall, 129 Fourth street, on the third floor. Arrangements have been made for members who have automobiles to take the donations to the families selected. LODGE WILL HAVE TREE Royal Arcanum to Provide Gifts for Members and Families. ' With a real old-fashioned Christmas party in Knights of Pythias Hall Mon day night, Multnomah Council, Royal Arcanum, will welcome all Its members and friends, including the children, to a Christmas tree laden with gifts for all. ' After the gifts have been dispensed there will be an Informal dance, with muslo by a special orchestra. A large assemblage has been arranged for. The committee In charge of the en tertainment and dance consists of L, C MacKay. W. M. Btockwell, W. L. Cooper, J. H. 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