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14 TJTE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MAY 31, 1914. MRS. G. H LEWIS IS DEAD AT 75 YEARS Three Sisters and Ten Children Survive Pioneer Who Arrived in Oregon in 1852. FAMILIES HISTORY MAKERS Marriage of Clementine freeman Couc-h and Cicero Hunt Lewis Solemnized in State's First Episcopal Church in 1857. After an illness of three months, Mrs. Cicero Hunt Lewis, widow of the founder of the wholesale grocery firm of Allen & Lewis, died shortly before 2 P. M. yesterday at the family liorae. Nineteenth and Glisan streets. She was nearly 76 years old, having "been born in Newburyport, Mass., Oc tober 14, 1838. The funeral arrangements will not be made until today; but it was an nounced last night that the services will be held from Trinity Episcopal Church. Nineteenth and Everett streets, of which Mrs. Lewis was an active member for many years. Mrs. Lewis is survived by three sis ters. Mrs. Caroline E. . Wilson. Mrs. Elizabeth R. Glisan, of Portland, and Miss Mary H. Couch, who is now trav eling abroad, and by 11 children, ten of whom are residents of Portland. Her sons are L Allen Lewis, presi dent of Allen & Lewis; John C. Lewis, Robert W. Lewis, David C. Lewis and C. Hunt Lewis. Her daughters are Mrs. J. E. Bingham. Mrs. George Good, Mrs. A. Li Mills, Mrs. Sherman R. Hall and Miss Sarah H. Lewis, all of Portland, and Mrs. Henry P. Fair banks, of New York City. Panama Route Taken. As Miss Clementine Freeman Couch, daughter of Captain John H. Couch, a prominent pioneer, Mrs. Lewis came to Oregon in 1852 by .way of the Isth mus of Panama. They took a train part of the distance across the isth mus, crossing the Chagres River in a boat. In striking contrast to the present-day method, they climbed over the mountains where Culebra Cut is now located by muleback. Portland was a primitive town of only 1000 persons when they arrived here. There were then but two streets, the forest extending down to what is now First street, which, then had stumps in It. Captain Couch, who had preceded his family on voyages to the Pacific Coast in the early forties, took up a land claim, known as the Couch dona tion claim, adjoining the original Port land claim established by Pettygrove and others. With him was associated his brother-in-law, George. H. Flan ders, another of Oregon's pioneers. Their tract extended from the Willam ette River to a point a. mile back, em bracing most of the land between An keny and Washington streets, the river and Thurman street. This tract was later subdivided and sold, but the name of Couch is perpetuated In Couch street. Couch Addition and Couch School, while Flanders street was named after the other owner. Early History Recalled. The beautiful residence property bounded by Nineteenth, Twentieth, Gtisan aud Hoyt streets, has been re tained intact all these years, and It was in the home on this site that Mrs. Lewis died yesterday after living In Portland continuously for 62 years, a large share of them passed on that original property. The Couch family settled at First and Ankeny streets, where the Leon ard building now stands, later moving to a part of the homestead at Fourth and Hoyt streets in the midst of a great grove of oak trees on the shores of Couch Lake. The former bed of the lake has long since been filled in. The Hill-Northern Pacific terminals are now located there. In that early day debates were fre quent as to which would be the ulti mate metropolis of this section. Port land or St. Helens. On January 18, 1857. Miss Clementine Freeman Couch married Cicero Hunt Lewis, a pioneer of 1851, who lived to be one of Oregon's greatest merchants and citizens. The marriage took place In the first Episcopal Church building erected In Oregon, a small edifice at Second and Oak streets, where the City Jail now stands. The church later was moved to the corner or Fifth and Oak streets, where the Commercial Club building now stands. The Sunday school of Trinity Church was con ducted in this building for many years. Benefactions Are Told. Mrs. Lewis, kind and modest in her disposition, was beloved by all who knew her or who came In contact with her. In a quiet way she was a generous philanthropist, not interested in any one particular movement, but in all. The greatest enjoyment of her fortune seemed to be in doing something for others. At the time of the San Francisco fire she donated $20,000 to the relief fund. She also gave liberally to the Good Samaritan Hospital and Trinity Episcopal Church. The addition to the Good Samaritan Hospital was built by her as a memorial to her husband. Mrs. Lewis' father. Captain Couch, vas prominent among the builders of Portland. He was born In Newbury port in 1811 and educated in New Eng land. When only 14 he went to sea. Fourteen years later, in 1839, he was sent out by Captain Cushing, of New buryport, the father of the celebrated Caleb Cushing, in command of the brig Maryland, carrying a cargo of general merchandise, which he was to dispose of in the Hawaiian Islands and Ore gon. This was his first trip to the Pacific Coast. Portland Reached in 1S40. In 1840 he continued upstream to the Willnmette Falls, where only canoes had ventured up to that time. After building a warehouse at Oregon City ' to establish trade relations he later abandoned it and dropped his anchor below Ross Island In the present har bor limits of Portland. Keturning to Massachusetts, he bulit th bark Chenamus. named after a Chinook chief, on which he made three subsequent voyages to Oregon. After further investments in essels, he abandoned the water and engaged in a general wharf and warehouse business on Front and Burnside streets. He was a director of the Orearon Printing Association and a plaintiff in one of the only two cases heard at the first term of the Supreme Gnurt. During hi residence in Oregon City he was elected as one of Its first Mayors, and -was the first treasurer of the pro visional government of Oregon. l'nnama Route Taken In ISTiO. Cicero Hunt Lewis occupied a fore most position in the business circles ef Portland for 47 years. He was born in Cranbury. Middlesex County. New Jersey. December 22, 1S26. AN" hen 20 he moved to New York, where he received his education. While there he was employed In the dry goods house of Chambers. Heiser & Co. Realizing the great opportunities of fered in the primitive West, he left New York City in February, 1S59, In company with L. H. Alien, taking the Panama route to the Pacific .Coast, traveled not long afterward by his fu ture wife. Arriving in San Francisco March 23, they -remained until June, when they made arrangements to start a. business in Portland, then a small vilage of no commercial Importance. In 1S53, after Mr. Allen had returned from a trip to the East, the firm of Allen & Lewis, which now operates on a large scale in this territory, as one of the largest wholesale concerns on the Pacific Coast, was organized. This house was at first only a small grocery. Rise to Influence Rapid. Mr. Lewis was for a time the agent of the Adams Express Company and for a line of Pacific steamships from San Francisco. Rapidly the trade of tho firm grew in volume and import ance until its owners became prom inent in financial circles. Mr. Lewis subsequently became a director Of the Security Savings & Trust Company and several other banking institutions. Though independently wealthy long before his death in 1897. he remained at the helm of the firm until the end came. He was a prominent Mason and served in the early days as a member of engine company No. 1, of the fire department. He was active in many movements for the public good, but held only one public office, that of member of the water committee. Like his wife, he was charitable but in an unostentatious way. FIVE READY FOR DEGREE REED WILL NOT HAVE GRADUA TION EXERCISES UNTIL. 1915. Student Now Completing Course En tered Portland College With Stand- Ing at Other Schools. Although there Will be no graduation exercises at Reed College until June, 1915, five students will complete their work for the bachelor's degree this semester. All of these students entered Reed with advanced standing from other colleges. They are: William Boddy, Arthur Caylor, Gladys Lowden, Claude Newlin and Lizzie Ross. Mr. Boddy entered Reed College from Spokane College, where he had taken one year's work. In addition to his college work he has been pastor of the Central Free Methodist Church for three years in Portland. He has been one of the leading students of the col lege in regard to scholastic attainments and as a result of his college record he has been elected a member of the Reed College faculty and will begin his duties next September as instructor in English. He has also been prominent in student affairs, having served two years., on tbe student council and for the past semester he has been editor of the Reed College Quest. Arthur Caylor entered Reed College from the University of Kansas, where he spent one semester. By hard Work and close application he has succeeded in making up enough extra credits to graduate this year. Claude Newlin is a graduate of Pa cific College and he has had several j ears' experience in teaching. At Reed lie did his major work in the English department and expects to teach Eng lish. Miss Ross entered with the first class after having studied a year at the University of Oregon. Gladys Lowden entered from Whitman College, where she did the work of the sopho more year. In her freshman year she was at Mount Holyoke College. Bishop to Be Chosen September 16. Tho standing committee of the dio cese of Oregon, after the funeral of Bishop Scadding yesterday, called a special convention of the diocese for Wednesday, September 16, at Trinity Church to elect a bishop. COWBOY AT OAKS TURNS DOWN OPERA CHANCES Montana Bill Pruitt Refuses Long Contracts on Largest Circuits Because They Take Him Too Far From Home and Ranch. PIVB years ago Bill Pruitt was a rip-snorting cow-puncher in Mon tana. Now he turns down grand opera engagements. j Louis W. HUI. president of the Great Northern Railway, heard him sing. took him in his private car to Chicago, introduced him to Andreas Dippel, for mer director of the Chicago grand opera company, and the latter made him one offer after another. As exhibit A, Pruitt shows a long series of letters, telegrams and postal cards from the volatile Dippel. Pruitt has recently been on the "big time" in vaudeville, and, because of his wife's health, decided to stay in Portland for the Summer. As a result, he is one of the features on the bill at the Oaks Amusement Park, singing in a voice that excites amazement. Range Rider Tells "Story. This is the way Bill Pruitt, or Mon tana Bill, as his singing and cowboy "monaker" has it, told his story last night. "Ho'd I happen to come on the stage? "Well, partner, it all happened 'bout five year ago. I was rldin' for the old Five T Five Bar T outfit. Ol John Jenkens owned it then. "The mornin' this happened, the ol" man sent a couple of the boys and I to the upper ranch at Pilgrim Creek to look after some dogies (cattle). I was a-ridin' 'long th' edge of a cutbank, seeing if there was any strays in the coulee, when the ground broke under my hawse and down we went for a couple of hundred feet. The HT hawse broke his leg. I got & busted rib or two and my hip thrown out of place. "After I got out of the hospital, 1 was ambltn' roun' town one mornin'. "nd dropped in to see a friend of mine who run a music store. The first thing Charlie asked me was how I was a feelin' and so on. when, all of a sud den, he says: 'Bill, there's a feller a-startin' a moving picture outfit up the street and he's looking for a singer." "I looked at Charlie a. minute. 1 said: 'Are you kidding me or trying to hand me some trouble?" After some persuading, I took it and lasted six months, singing for pictures. That was as long as I could stay away from the ranch, and I went back for two years and a half. "While the bunch were in town one day In Helena, Jim Shoemaeher, then secretary of the State Fair of Montana, asked me if I would sing for the fair a new song a Montana man had writ ten, which had been O. K.'d by the Government." (The Shoemaker whom Pruitt men tioned was the Shoemaker who was in Portland last year as Louis Hill's per sonal representative with the Glacier Park Indians.) Cowboy Band la Organised. Montana Bill hitched uneasily at his belt, then went on: "After talking it over with Jim. we thought it would be a good thing to get up a cowboy band, so we got 12 of the boys who could bust instruments nearly as well as broncs. to practice a few days before the fair opened. "During the week. Louis Hill came to the fair and heard me sing, and got OREGON PIONEERS MEET HERE JUNE 18 Exercises Exclusively for Mem bers Open at 2:30 P. M. in Masonic Temple. RAILROADS FURNISH RATES Indian War Veterans Will Meet One Day Ahead of Old-Timers All Persons Coming -to 'Original . Oregon' by 1859 Eligible The 42d annual reunion of the Ore gon Pioneer Association, will be held in the Masonic Temple, on the southwest corner of . Yamhill and West Park streets, June 18. The literary exercises, for pioneers exclusively, will begin In -the Temple at 2:30 P. M. The programme arranged is as follows: Call to order, Joseph L. Carter, 44. of Hood River, president of the as sociation; invocation by Rev. John Flinn, 50, of Portland, chaplain; ad dress of welcome, H. R. Albee, Mayor of Portland, or his representative; re sponse by the president; annual ad dress by Judge Grant B. Dimick, of Oregon City; benediction by the chap lain. Patriotic band, instrumental and vocal music will supplement the pro gramme. ' JBanquet Follows Buftinens The exercises jvill be followed by a banquet intendeor pioneers, and their wives and husbands, who may not be pioneers. What is termed a "Hi-You-Muck-a-Muck" gathering will be staged in the Armory at 4:30 o'clock. This event, which, translated from the jargon, means a line informal time, is jutder the direction of the organized Woman's Auxiliary of the Oregon Pioneer As sociation. At the annual business meeting in the Masonic Temple, at 7:30 P. M., of ficers for the ensuing year will be elect ed and other business matters trans acted. Colonel Robert A. Miller, '54, will preside at the annual campflre, directly following the business session. Among the striking features of this occasion will be five-minute talks by well-known pioneers, old-time melodies by the G. A. R. Quartet, Chinook son KB and pioneer dancing tunes by veteran fiddlers. The children of pioneers and the general public are invited to this meeting. Indian W ar Veterans to Meet. The annual business meeting of In dian War Veterans will be held June 17. the day preceding the pioneer meet ings. The general pioneer headquarters are to be at the Oregon Historical Society rooms, in the Tourny building, 207 Sec ond street, corner of Taylor, where, be ginning Saturday, Jyne 14. badges for the respective years may be secured from the secretary, George H. Himes, up to noon of June 18. All persons coming to, or born in, the original ter ritory of Oregon up to 1859, inclusive, without regard to where they now live, are eligible to membership and to wear the badge of the association, labeled ter their respective year. Reduced rates of a fare and a third will be given by all railroads from all points in the Northwest for the occafc sion. Montana Bill Priiltt. Cowboy AVko Refused to Go loto Grand Opera. me and the band to go to Minneapolis for two weeks in November, 1912. "After the land show there, Mr. Hill who's no tenderfoot, you can bet cherlife took the hull outfit to Chi cago in his private car. While there he sure give us a good time, believe me. "The band and I and Mr. Hill went downtown one day. We found the big Chicago opera company was going to open, so we-alls ambled back onto the stage. One of the bunch thought it would be lots of fun to start them along by playing and singin', jest to show them they was not the only ones to sing an play. "After we got through, the boss of the opera outfit come to me and asked If I would like to sing in grand opera. I tol him if I had a few lessons 1 would take a chance. He offered to pay all my expenses if I would sign papers with him for five years. At that, I think another year will see me back on the ol ranch again for a while, as I jest can't pull away from it." d Montana Bill has in his possession now proposed contracts on the biggest vaudeville circuits, offering him over two years' engagements. He is at the Oaks this week. ....................t - T ' V i f.- - ; j it Jills' V fy I if l ! I , .11; . I Will You Look at These Pianos in the House-Cleaning Sale of We,lltake$45foroId style ones, $95 for really good ones and $145 for slightly used, really worth while pianos. Pay us a little to show good faith and balance as best suits your con venience. PLAYER PIANOS DRASTIC ALLY CUT, TOO. We now offer Player Pianos at prices that cannot be dupli cated elsewhere; $290 now buys an Apollo Player; $325 buys a used Weber Pianola Piano, and $650 a most elegant Weber Pianola Piano ever seen here, while for $335, $345, $418, $435 and $624 you can now secure player pianos that regularly sell for more than twice the money in this- or any other city. Free Music Rolls included. MOST PROMINENT MAKES INCLUDED A h u r r ied trip through this big estab lishment (four floors devoted to musical in strument sell ing:, the larg est and most varied stock of everything musical on the . Pacific Coast) will quickly convince even the most dis c r i m i nating music i an of the quality of the pianos now offered in this sale. GO-OPERATION TO REDUCE COS l URGED Schools Should Work in Har mony With Municipal Bodies, - Says R. H. Thomas. BENEFITS DECLARED MANY Consultation or Publicity Societies on Problems of Management Sug gested In Final Chapter of - Address Made Recently. BT R. H. THOMAS.. Clerk of the Portland School Board. (Note Sixth and concluding chap ter of a general paper on "Some Ad ministrative School Problems," read by Mr. Thomas before the Inland Empire Teachers' Association at its recent an nual convention in Spokane. In pre ceding issues of The Sunday Oregonian chapters on the following subjects have been published: "Sources of Revenue," "The Janitor." "Insurance," "Safety First." "Problem of the Non-Resident Student." Mr. Thomas is considered an experienced school man. having been elected last week to serve his seventh year as clerk of the Portland board.) Still another problem for school ad ministration is that of co-operation with other municipal organizations. Schools should work in harmony with other tax-supported municipal corpo rations for the best results from the taxpayers' money. There are many common points of expenditure and many places each can save the other- money. There also are many places to avoid duplication, re duce cost and unite in support of good public policies. Quiet co-operative team work here will cut expenses at many points. Joint Meeting Called Beneficial. In Portland, the city, county and school officers have an organization which meets once each month to dis cuss questions of this kind, and find from each other wherein help is de sired and possible. The work is at present too new to have read into his tory what It can do, but It has a spe cific plan with definite alms. Some things already accomplished are to be found In answers to the fol lowing: How often does the fire department Inspect the schoolhouses? How much does the City Council help out in providing ordinances for vacat ing roadways and fencing off streets and regulating vehicle speed past schoolhouses and define safety in pub lic buildings? To what extent does the city engi neering department survey the school grounds and set grade stakes? What better place is there to locate city rain gauges than on schoolhouses? What better places than schoolhouses to establish survey monuments for city levels, or election polling booths? Who is better to ferret out youthful offenders of the law than the school truant officer? Consultation of Booster Clubs I'rared. Then, there are the semi-municipal organizations the Chamber of Com merce, the Commercial Club, the Push Club, the Business Men's Association and the local Parent-Teacher societies. These bodies of interested citizens can do much to insure the successful out come of any well-defined and approved policy of school officers. They repre Eilers Building Alder Street at Broadway sent various interests and do effective publicity work, sometimes rated near ly equal to the daily press. A forceful explanation of some vital school problem would bring to your support many a voice and many a vote. There are Xlmes when the public Is of a divided opinion and you need help. It is well to take advantage of the op portunities they offer for public gath erings. Usually they have wants of their own and It is often easier to ad just some local question if you can "dis cuss with these people their Ideas on the point. Co-operation is the bottom principle of progress, but in these days it Is much impeded by discord and agitation, and it takes some effort to secure an economic working together. However, men of ability and tact will win when they have the will and an undiscour aged smile. Remember: " 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant When life flows on like a song; But the man worth while is the man who can smile When everything goes dead wrong." Olympla Bishop to Confirm Class. Right Reverend Frederick Keator, bishop of Olympia, will confirm the class at St. David's Church today, which would have been confirmed by Bishop Scadding had he lived. LAMPSHADE GOWN NEW FEATURE OF COSTUMING Design for "The Passing Show of 1913," Created by M. Paul Poiret, Leader of Parisian Fashions in Stage and Social Dress Styles. THE lampshade gown, a unique feature in stage costuming, shown' for the first time on the Ameri can stage in "The Passing Show of 1913," which comes to the Hellig Thea ter for seven nights, beginning to morrow (Monday), with special mat inee Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, was originated by that famous creator of styles. M. Paul Poiret. This well known designer of original dress styles leaped Into prominence as a stage cos turner with the production in Paris last Spring of "Le Minaret." His contribu tion to toe dressing of the production was a set of Persian costumes which were at once the talk of Paris. Lead ing dressmakers at once adopted his style, and the wired lampshade tunic at once became the sailent note of style over the entire fashionable world to the' extent of entirely changing the feminine silhouette. M. Poiret also furnished the costume designs for "Flowers of Allah," which was produced at the Alhambra, London, last year, and also for the new ballet, "Nebuchadnezzar," the present attrac tion at the same theater. He is Pari sian born, and was for many years a designer in the leading Parisian dress making establishments. The secret of his euccees lies in his courage to risk the untried and new' and in getting away from the conventional styles. This courage has made him the orig inator of an entirely new idea of fash ion. He is a lover of beautiful colors and uses them in a way never used before. He is not only famous for his gown creations and - costumes, but has also gained great renown for the Interior decorations he designed for his estab lishment In Paris. His soirees are so cial events. In the beautiful setting of his establishment and his garden of wonderful colors and flowers, he gives annual costume fetes. This year it was a Greek festival, with his guests as mythological characters. The year be fore it was Persian. Poiret is best known to the general public as an ex tremist of color and line in theatrical costuming, although the garb designed for women In private life is toned to an aristocratic elegance without the HEIRESSES SUE MAN Millionaire Distiller Charged With Attacking Girl. SISTER DEMANDS DAMAGES Lexington, Ky., Young Woman Avers Turfman Persuaded Her to Go to His Apartments, Locked Door and Assaulted Her. CINCINNATI, May 30. High society In three states Is interested In two suits for $35,000 damages brought against Alexander Squibb, millionaire distiller, globe trotter, turfman, club man and Idol In choral circles, by Mrs. Ruth Triplette and her sister. Miss n-t Dancer la Paul Poiret Lai shade Gown. theatrical touch, and not lacking in color. j; .!' i. .si s Ki5;fe : j I f? j,', V I T ( : msssSf'iX' -' . : k I ' ' I i t ' s v . 'i f ' , i -i TELEPHONE OR WRITE Out-of-town buyers should write or tele phone for descriptive list and numbers. Any instrument sent subject to examination upon deposit of amount stated in this ad vertisement. The deposit will be cheerfully, refunded if the instrument is not found sat isfactory. This sale will be continued until every instrument is sold. Remember, every instrument is fully guaranteed, and at these low prices all should find buyers quickly. Eilers, the Nation's largest and most pro gressive retailers, Eilers Building, Alder street at Broadway. A 1REE-CSB PLAN. During this aalo wn issue a. special tw years exchange agreement. We accept any Instrument at sale prices toward payment of one of our fine new Chickerings or tbe Autopiano or other of the many numerous makes we carry, actually giving every pur chaser now two years free use of any piano offered in this sacrifice sale. A purchaser Is bound to prove satisfied, because every In strument is guaranteed and no transaction is considered closed unless it means satis faction to the buyer. Margaret Snyder, heiresses of Lexing ton, Ky. The plaintiffs are 20 and 17 and their family, like Squibb's, occupies a promi nent place in Ohio, Indiana and Ken tucky. Both suits, one for $25,000 and the other for $10,000, are based on alleged actions of the millionaire defendant toward the younger of the two girls, the lesser amount being asked by the elder on account of the loss of compan-" ionship of her young and beautiful sis ter and for expenses incurred and to be incurred. Attack Is Charged. The story as told by the attorney for the girls is most sensational. Both are orphans and the younger declares that she met Squibb, who posed as a single man, on December 15 last. He met her. she says, in the postofflce and persuad ed her to come to what he said were his apartments. She did not for a min ute suppose, she declares, that he had any unlawful intention. Squibb, she as serts, locked the door and attacked her. As a result, she declares, that her health has been permanently impaired. That the matter will in all probabil ity be called to the attention of the Juvenile Court was the declaration of the attorney for the two sisters. This will be done because of the fact that the younger sister is only 17 and comes under the Juvenile Court age. Girls Look Aboat 16 Years Old. Mrs. Triplette and her sister are small and look hardly more than 16. Squibb is well known In this city, both in his business way and socially. He was married October 30, 1902, to Miss Margaret Wentzel, of Delhi, beau tiful daughter of the late John Wentzel. and on January of this year he filed, suit for a divorce. . Squibb's suit charged his wife with neglect, cruelty and willful absence, he alleging that she had refused, to live with him. The next day Mrs. Squibb filed an answer and cross-petition, in which she charged neglect, cruelty and un faithfulness. She declared that her husband showed no affection. She said that he kept a box in the postofflce here, although he lived In Delhi, and his business was in Lawrenceburg. She also declared that on October 17 last, she and witnesses followed her hus band and found him with another wo man. Mrs. Squibb has been making her home with her sister. Mrs. Herman Groesbeck, In Clifton. DOG STEALS BAKER'S CAKE Boys Train Canine to Make Haid on Window as They Watch. PITTSBURG. Pa.. May 30. Pietra Fiegero. an Italian taker, has missed many pies and cakes of late. "Those are nice boys." said Pletro, In recounting his experiences. "They look down my window and make much talk. They ask me how business is and say they hope it is good. Yes, they're nice boys. "I put a pan of cakes In the window to cool a little. Then I look for it to bring it back again, and sometimes maybe half a pan is there. Where does It go? "But I find out I leave a pan of cakes there. I watch it. By and by a dog come along and grab a piece oi jelly cake. I jump through the door and tbe dog run down street. I follow him. ; Then one of those nice boys meets him and takes the cake trom him. The boy runs down in the cellar. "And what do you think I see when I look through that cellar window all those boys there eating my pies and cakes. Well, my man, maybe they buy cakes now." Husband or Clara Morris Dead. NEW YORK, May 30. Frederick C. Harriott, husband of Clara Morris, the actress, is dead today jit his home in Whttestone, Long Island, from par alysis, aged 74 years. Besides nis widow, who is blind. Mr. Harriott left a brother. Samuel, and a sister. Miss Josephine, both living in Massachusetts.