TILE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, MARCII 15, 1914.
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HISTORY OF UNITED STATES TO BE
TOLD IN SONG, STORY AND TABLEAU
Seventy-five Persons Will Take Part in Uniqne Demonstration' of Country's Progress and Development to Be
Presented at Masonic Temple Friday Night by Music and Picture.
NINE-STORY $750,000 CHURCH WILL
HOUSE HOTEL, CLUB AND RESTAURANT
Institution Will Provide for Members Dormitories, Gymnasia, Basketball and Tennis Courts, Sleeping Porches,
Bowling Alleys, Billiard-Booms and Social and Banquet Halls Plans Are to Provide for Whole Family.
faintly from where the prisoners await
trial.
. While Judge Stevenson hears many
tales of woe. there are times when the
safety valve of . humanity humor
plays an all-important part in police
court proceedings. It's a, place where
one can hear wit and near-wit, cruel,
sordid and filled with human pathos.
Sometimes the play of wit descends
from the judicial throne, and while the
humor may be entirely lost upon, the
subject before the bar of Justice, the
answers are excruciatingly funny,
though the author of the reply may be
entirely void of a sense of humor.
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Top Itov (Left to ItlKht), No. 1, Puritan Maidrns, Anna Matxin, Kuthrr Brrcatrom, Lillian Sirnnnon. KuIt 'Wilklniion;
Front Ron. Agnw Oilern and Leila Rraux JVC 2, A Puritan Kamlly, Maori Egbert, Paul Daniel. Lillian Swnnnen.
JVo. 3, IndlanH. Anna Matxon, Leila Braus, Hoy Young, But her Bngstrom, AsneK Odeen, Baby Young:, Ituby Wilkin
son. An interesting entertainment is planned for Tuesday nisrht at the Masonic Temple, with Charles Swenson direct
ing the musical parts, and Mrs. C. O. Young in charge of the dramatic features. The history of our Nation will be
given in outline by means of song, story and tableaux. Seventy-five people will take part. . The programme In
cludes: . . r . -
"Our Country's Flag," male chorus. Indian period (tableau) Song. "The Woodpecker," Miss Leila Braus; song
"Indian Lullaby." Miss Agnes Odeen: song. "The Moon Man," Miss Esther Bergstrom and Indian Ladies' Chorus: cut
ting from "Courtship of Miles Standish," Miss Elizabeth Eugenia Woodbury; "Spinning-Wheel Song" operetta. Grand
mother. Lillian Swanson: Granddaughter. Maori Egbert; Raymond Lover, Paul Daniels, and Ladies' Chorus. Piano
solo (a) "If I Were a Bird," (b) "Novelette." Mrs. Minnie D'Aoust Truelove; 'Colonial Lullabv," .Miss Anna Matson'
"The Revolutionary Rising of 1776," reader. Mrs. C. O. Young; "Warrior Priest," P. L. Thompson and Puritan Chorus
singing oiesi tse tne lie mat Binas ana unwara Christian soldiers' ; violin solo, "Ancient Danse." Mrs. Julia
rtciene swenson. civil War period "Tenting Tonight" (with tableau), H. Dahl and chorus: "Uncle Tom and LIUle
Eva" (with tableau): solo, "Massa's In the Cold, Cold Ground," Enoch V. Elmgreen and chorus; solo, "Evening Prayer,"
Baby Elmgreen: "Barbara Fritchie," W. R. Kaser: "Mammy's Lullaby," sung by Aunt Eliza; solo, "Recessional," George
Hotchkiss street. Modern period "Modern Cradle Song," Miss R. Wilkinson: "The Iiosarv." Miss Alice Johnson-
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male chorus, with solo by Miss Maori Egbert
DAY IN POLICE COURT
NOT ALL SORDIDNESS
Humor Plays All-Important Part in Parceling Out of Justice Before
Judge Stevenson, and Wit Does Not Go Unrecorded.
"I
BY WILL G. MACRAE.
AM not as a rule vindictive," re
marked Police Judge Stevenson,
as he gave a hurried glance
around the usual Monday morning
motley crowd, composed of police court
lawyers, harpies, haridans, flat-footed
"harness bulla" and soft-palmed de
tectives, "but I would like to have that
fellow who said he did not like 'seri
ousness because it was the fashion of
all false religion' sit on this bench
with me some Monday morning. He
would find, I have no doubt, a 'just
proportion of vital seriousness and
humor."
And judging irom what . I saw and
heard in the .Portland. Police Court,
the cases that come before Judge Stev
enson do not differ much from those at
the bench of police judges in New
York, Chicago, Washington and San
Francisco. The world's the same the
world over.
Here in Portland you have the same
heterogeneous mass of humanity, that
flotsam and jetsam of nations that
have drunk of the wine of life until
now only the bitter dregs the Police
Court remains.
Amid a babel of dialects, which told
of woes and spoiled ambitions, the
pouring of these human derelicts' tales
Into ears that hear not, nor care, be
comes a vast hideous rumbling of
noises made vocal as though a world
had been swallowed, as. though a
thousand drear.y heartbroken sobs were
At one of the afternoon sessions of
the court of domestic relations. Judge
Stevenson, in the course of his inves
tigation, asked the woman witness why
she left her husband. Without a sign
of anger or resentment she replied
"Because I can't afford to keep him
any longer.".
The, Humane Society Is ever active
and on the alert, and cruel owners are
often before Judge Stevenson. This
was one of many cases. A peddler
had denied In his explosive way that
he had been cruel to his horse, and his
honor's mind had drifted a ibit. Sud
denly he sat upright in his Jchair and
spoke to the complaining witness.
"Did you say that, the horse ought to
be shot" . ,( ' -
o your honor.' I said shod, was
the reply.
Frequently come before the court
denizens of "darkest" Portland, male
and female. Zeta Snow was a defend
ant, and her presence opened oppor
tunities for the ever-present police
court. wag. He, with a megaphone
whisper: . -"Snow
has come at last"
The Police Court though one may not
expect it can hear the retort courteous.
There was before the Judge a human
derelict of apparently nondescript par
entage, ho, the arresting policeman
told, the prisoner had become beastly
sodden from drinking stale beer from
beer kegs piled in the rear of a saloon.
The Judge. "I'll fine you $10 and you
can take the rockplle cure for the next
16 days."
Replied the had-been-drunk: "There
will begin the best lesson."
The arresting policeman said: "This
gay just got gay. I didn't want to do
it He made me do It"
Judge Stevenson:- "I don't want to
do It, but I must fine you $10 and costs."
"Order in the court," said the bailiff.
Hamlet undoubtedly set the vogue
for holding soliloquies, but the "Bard
of Avon" little dreamed that a solil
oquy would be used as a plea of de
fense to bring out the very human side
of Judge Stevenson. The policeman
had arrested a well-dressed floater for
being drunk and using profane lan
guage. There was a soft pedal effect
to the policeman's testimony (for a po
liceman can be as human as the judge).
The judge heard the testimony through,
about the prisoner being drunk. WThen
It came to the bad language used, the
judge's inquiry was brief.
The Judge: "To whom?"
The policeman: "I didn't see any one
around." -
The Judge:' "He was indulging In a
soliloquy?"
Prisoner: "I was, please your honor,
talking to myself."
Judge Stevenson: "Just taking your
self to task for being sptffled."
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At every session of court Judge
Stevenson hears & new slang word for
describing a plain drunk. Sometimes
it is the policeman in his vivid account
of the arrest. . sometimes the " word
comes from the mouth of the witness
or Police Court lawyer. Here are some
of the new and old ones: "Freshy,
"Cherry Merry," "Juiced up," "pickled,
"seas over," "soused." "stewed," "bad
a bun." "bleary eyed and tanked."
Good Things in Markets
Aside from the king of fish, the list
from which to choose is rather short
this week, but with halibut at three
pounds for a quarter, and black and
ling cod (the latter from the shores of
Alaska) at two pounds for 25 cents,
fresh herring and black or salt-water
perch at 10 cents a pound, the house
keeper and cook can make a creditable
showing.
Columbia River smelt still stands by
us at three pounds for a dime, and
crabs, of which there appears to be a
liberal suply, are 15, 20 and 25 cents
each. Olympia oysters are 70 cents a
pint, shrimps, la and 20 cents, and
shimp meat, 50 cents a pound; razor
clams, 15 cents a dozen, and mussels, 10
cents a pound.
Eggs are abundant and poultry con
sequently scarce. Really fresh ranch
eggs can be had from 20. 25. two
dozens for 4s, and 30 cents a dozen
dependent on where one goes to pur
chase, f rom selected dozens in neat
cartons, they overflow in baskets and
boxes on all sides. Duck eggs, for
those who prefer them, are offered at
20 cents a dozen.
Butter ranges from 55, 60. 65 and 70
cents for two-pound rolls.
In the meat market: Roast beef
averages 15 cents a pound, roast veal,
20 to 22: leg of mutton, 15, and leg of
lamb, 18 cents a pound. Shoulder of
pork, 17 cents; T-bone steak, 23; round,
20, and sirloin. 18 cents. Pork and
lamb chops are 22 and 20 cents a
pound respectively; Hamburger sau
sage, 15 cents, and tripe and lamb's
brains, 10 cents a pound.
The bulk of fresh fruit now in mar
ket consists of oranges, grapefruit and
apples. Oranges look very tempting
and range from 20 to 60 cents a dozen.
Now is the time :!or marmalad . mak
ing and attention is directed to several
tested and practical recipes, given by
that culinary expert Miss Tingle, in
Thursday's Oregonian.
Lemons retail from 26 to 30 cents a
dozen;- Florida grapefruit. 10. 16 and
two for -25 cents; pineapples, 20 cents
each or 10 cents a pound; bananas. 15,
20, 25 and 30 cents a dozen; cocoanuts,
15 cents each or two for a quarter.
Apples are narrowing down, but
some very choice specimens are still
on sale. Yellow Newtowns at 60 cents
a dozen; Northern Spys at 60 and Spitz
enbergs at 40 cents a dozen, are fruit
that would adorn the most aristocratic
table, and some sound, rosy stock at
25 cents a dozen, is not liable to lin
ger long.
The latest comers among vegetables
are new Florida potatoes, at two
pounds for a quarter, and leeks, at 25
cents a dozen. Cauliflower makes a
good display and ranges from 10, 20 to
25 cents each: tomatoes, 15, 20 and 25
cents, and green peas, 10 to 15 cents a
pound; large sweet Spanish onions.
three for a quarter.
Among the more select offerings are
mushrooms at $1 a pound; cucumbers
at 20 cents, artichokes at 10 and 15
cents each, and eggplant at 30 cents a
pound. Mustard greens and endive at
two bunches for a nickel; green onions
at 5 cents and green kale at 15 cents
bunch, set off, in their refreshing
greenness, turnips, carrots, beets, rad
ishes, etc.
Potatoes are SI a sack, and the sweet
variety 2V4 cents a pound; dried onions
cents a, pound, or four pounds for
15 cents: red and green cabbage. 5 and
2'A cents. a pound, respectively; green
peppers, 20 to 40 cents a pound; rhu
barb, two pounds for a quarter: aspar
agus, 20 cents a pound, and celery 10
cents a bunch, make & very respectable
list
.A new feature in one of our public
markets Is the dally roasting of coffee,
a blend of Mocha and East Indian Java,
which sells at 35 cents a pound, a
demonstration demonstrating to all
and sundry its really delicious flavor.
OS ANGELES, March 14. (Special.)
... "Our Church," the name by
which the great nine-story edifice
which is being erected here by the
Trinity Methodist Church, South, is
known, will be completed within
four months and elaborate plans are
being made for the 'opening of what
will be the greatest institutional
church west of Chicago.
"Our Church," which is going up at
the corner of Ninth street and Grand
avenue, covers a lot 160 by 160 feet
is built of brick, granite and terra
cotta. The architecture is of Italian
renaissance, and when completed ' the
building will have cost $750,000.
Designed for the people, to make it
possible for the whole family to get
together for worship and recreation.
the new Trinity Cnurch has many spe
cial features, which a score of years
ago or less, were never thought of In
connection with church buildings, but
which now. are recognized as being es
sential in interesting the whole (am
ily and the young men and women in
the church.
Within the walls of the pile will be
restaurants, cafes, a gymnasium, 3a0
bedrooms with sleeping porches and
shower baths, tennis, hasketball and
promenade courts on the roof, and a
great auditorium capable of seatin
2500 people where the Sunday services
will be held, and which in addition
will be open every night in the week
for lectures, high-class .musieales and
other purposes that may be of use In
building women and men to their best
development ,
Billiard Rooms Provided.
There will be a social and banquet
hall, open every .night of the week,
where young women and men may
meet In social ways under the care of
a Christian man and his wife.
For men and boys, there will be
apartments for social work, billiard
and clubrooms, the gymnasium and,
with the women and girls, they will
have the use of the tennis and basket
ball courts on the roof, and the bowl
ing alley under the sidewalk.
Fqr the young people and the wom
en there will be parlors, dining-rooms,
social halls and a nursery.
The basement will be divided Into
several apartments. In the machinery
section will be installed an electric
lighting plant. The heating and ven
tilating plant will be so well arranged
that no draft will be felt in the audi
torium or dormitories, nor the tem
perature vary with the change outside.
On the first floor, on a level with
the sidewalk, so doing away with
steps. Is the main church auditorium.
which may be entered from the front
through a spacious lobby ana a beau
tifully finished vestibule, or from
either side through a court.
The main auditorium is 140 feet by
90 feet. The great organ will be sec
ond to- no instrument of the kind on
the coast and will have as extra
features the echo organ, chimes and
harp.
In the rear of the pulpit are the of
fices of the pastor and Sunday school
superintendent Above these is the
choir room and above it the nursery.
There are four large apartments for
Sunday school work, and besides these
there are classrooms on eacn siae or
the auditorium, and. four large rooms
on the third floor in the front part of
the building which may be devoted to
educational purposes. A gallery or
reinforced concrete extends around
three sides of the auditorium with a
second gallery on one side.
Bowline; Alley Belovr.
The decoration is in old ivory with
gold leaf, with all wood and furnish
ings in mahogany. The electric fix
tures are so arranged that neither fix
tures nor globe can be seen.
One special feature of the ouiiaing
will be the bowling alley under the
sidewalk, so placed that the building
will be free from the noise which
usually accompanies Buch places.
The general manager and supervis
ing director of this great combination
of church, hotel and club, will be the
pastor. Rev. Charles C. Selecman, who
has had wide experience in institu
tional work in St. Louis and New Or
leans and who came here from Mis
souri threo months ago to take charge.
Immediately upon his arrival. Dr.
Selecman, a young man with no hint
of the cleric in dress, declared that
the new church should be open seven
days, in the week. "It Is a poor busi
ness," he said, "to invest 11, 000.000 as
we are doing and allow it to be idle
six days out of seven.
"Just a place to drop in for five
minutes and pray Is like an oasis In
many a dusty, weary day. But wor
ship is not all men and women need
social life. Young people want a
place they can call their own.
"Many young people who work in
stores and shops are led into quesiton
able places of pleasure because no
suitable Substitute is offered by the
church. If these young people are
going to find mates, they must have
some opportunity for mutual acquaint
ance. Most fellows would prefer to
find their wives in the social parlors
of a church rather than in a dance
hall over a store or a wine-room.
Attention Is Wide.
"The open church usually is a
structure that is not too ecclesiastical
in form or architecture. Many peo
ple shy at fine Gothic churchly build
ings just as they shy at a pale, pious,
buttoned-up, straight-laced preacher.
Most clergymen wear business suits
nowadays in order to come closer to
the masses. The open church is the
same old organization in its every-day
clothes. In England I found they call
"halls' to remove
many have in
the
such churches
embarrassment
church.
"And these kinds of churches are
getting the people by throngs. It is
first century Christianity with twen
tieth century action. It is orsanlzel
human kindness plus the strength of
redeeming grace."
Since coming here Dr. Selecman has
attracted much attention through the
novel methods he uses in interesting
the young men and women of his con
gregation. Recently he induced 15
young women of his congregation to
give a symposium of what they con
sidered the proper plans and specifica
tions for an ideal husband. The fol
lowing Sunday 13 young men gave
their ideas of what kind of a girl each
wanted for a wife.
Dr. Selecman spends several hours
each day in inspecting the wdrk on
the new church and seeinsi to it that
the plans are strictly adhered to and
that there is no slackness in the work.
PUBLICITY AND LECTURE
BUREAUS ARE DISCUSSED
Multnomah County W. C. T. U. Holds Monthly Meeting Missionary Tea
Given at Lents Events of Week in White Ribbon Circle Told.
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ULTKOMAH County W. C. T. U.
held its monthly meeting this
week Lecture bureau work and
the publicity bureau received attention.
It is the intention that the county
headquarters shall be a clearing-house
of information, and plans to this end
are fast shaping themselves. Miss Lucy
Broad's addresses during the past week
have been greatly appreciated.
A missionary tea was held at Lents
on Tuesday, after her address.
In the evening she spoke to a select
audience in the Evangelical Church.
Wednesday afternuon she addressed the
school children, who were instructed
interested and pleased.
Miss Broad will be In and about Port
land some time, and is available for
missionary societies and other wom
en's organizations. Mrs. L. H. Additon
has her dates in charge. Address her
at Lents, Or.
Mrs. J. V. Wilkins, state superin
tendent of .Sunday school work, ad
dressed the Friends Sunday school a
Lents recently, and was listened to
with close attention. Mrs. Wilkins
practical and thorough in her plans
and methods, and always finds a warm
welcome.
Mrs. Mary Mallett, the county presi
dent is constantly in the field. Mrs.
Fannie McCourt and helpers have been
doing fine work in house-to-house can
vass for registration talks, etc.
The entire force of white ribboners
are very much alive and well equipped
for the coming battle. The state ex
ecutive meets in the library hall March
19 and 20.
The social welfare department of the
W. O. T. U. is offering a silver medal
for the best essay on "The Industrial
Womanhood Versus Purity." Other
topics are being arranged for. Any
society or person interested, please
communicate at once with the director
of the contests, Mrs. L. H. Additon, for
particulars. Contests are open to all.
Miss Frances E. Gotschall, head of
the state legislative work of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
is planning splendid things fo,r her de
partment. No better choice of leader
could have been made than the ap
pointment of Miss Gotschall. who Is a
business woman and is well acquainted
with the needs of the office she will
fill.
The state mid-year executive meet
ing will be held in Portland, March 19
and 20. This committee consists of
the general officers, the county pres
idents, the 30 state superintendents of
departments and the state lecturers
and evangelists. . The committee will
meet with closed doors and work rela
tive to the Oregon dry campaign will
be laid out The open meeting for the
public will be at 7:30 o'clock Thusday
evening. March 19, in Library Hall. The
vlce-president-at-large, Mrs. Henrietta
Brown, of Albany, will preside.
The special features of this, public
session will be an address by the state
president Mrs. Hill-Booker; a message
from around the world by Miss Lucy
Broad, of England, and living word
pictures from the organizers who have
been polling the voters in the field.
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These will consist of Incidents both
humorous and pathetic. The music
will be provided by Miss Cora Cover,
arriving that day from West Virginia,
whd is a concert violinist; Miss Winona.
Mallet, of Portland, and Mrs. Florence
Seeley Williams, of St Helens.
BUILDING BEING RESTORED
Payette V. M. C. A. Will Emerge
From Kire With Modern Structure.
PAYETTE. Jdaho, March 14. (Spe
cial.) The Y. M. C. A. building, which
was partially destroyed by fire Jan
uary 26, causing a loss of nearly 120.-
000, is being rebuilt
The new building will be ready for
occupancy about August 1. Many im
provements will be added: a basement
will be put under the structure and
more entrances will be provided. Three
stories will be fitted up and refur
nished, more dormitories added and
steam heat installed.
Funds are being raised by nublic
subscription and already the citizens
of this city have pledged over 17500.
Sclmaii Man Adjudged Insane.
GRANTS PASS, Or., March 14. (Spe
cial.) James R. Clark, of Selma, has
been committed to the Insane asylum
by Judge Jewell. Clark had been under
treatment in , Utah. His peculiarities
consisted in the idea that he is a person
of much wealth, gathered from mining
operations. His infirmity was brought
aiiout by injuries received In an auto
mobile accident