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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1914)
THE SUNDAY OREGONIATT, PORTLAND, AUGUST 2, 1914 M.ry aim " il PORTLAND FIRM BIGGEST IN LINE ON PACIFIC COAST Fleischner, Mayer & Co., Jobbers of 40 Years' Standing, Handle Vast Stock Annually Through Home and Many Branch Stores. WHERE is the largest wholesale dry goods house on the Paciflc Coast? Probably the retail trade knows, for It has been In a large measure the reason for this being the largest wholesale drygoods house on the Paciflc Coast. But the ordinary citizen the chances are that he would be greatly surprised and would feel an immediate and pleas urable expansion in his bump of state pride to be told that it is in the me tropolis of Oregon. Naturally the citizen, at first blush, commonly guesses on a population ba sis and picks on San Francisco, hence the cause for pride is the greater when he learns the truth. The largest drygoods house on the Coast Is at First and Ash streets and it Is Fleischner. Mayer & Co. It lias been in existence for 40 years or more and has reached out with branch es tablishments into various cities out side the immediate Northwestern trade territory. Sample houses are established at. Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Juneau, Honolulu, and other cities. It is esti mated that this establishment carries a greater stock than the wholesale houses of Seattle and Tacoma together. And this is only one house in Port land carrying on wholesale business in drygoods. Many others carrying stocks as complete in their way. although their general sphere is not so compre hensive, distribute their goods to the territory that depends upon Portland for its supply. Idaho. Washington. Northern Call- the territory uf the wholesale drygoods Averlll, president of the Chamber of xne ien uui J ui. DAr.umi -itiH this territory l being developed still further both ex tensively and intensively, every year. There are several large wholesal t i nna rtf W Vl i f h Is th nuusfa in x ui " jfreat establishment of Fleischner, iiva jc. Cr. that manufacture also '.t.'r..!.!.. atmnlies such as shirt nvArQiia hpRifs handling all standard drygoods, produced both In Oregon and outside mills. Woolens Big Product. Woolens are the principal textile product of the Oregon mills and these goods are coming steadily into a greater market throughout the North west, handled not only from their manufacturers, but also by the bigger distributing houses. Ketailers coming to Portland from any part of the trade territory of this city during the Buyers' Excursion week, will find in the drygoods whole sale houses a stock as complete and service as perfect as could be found in anv part of the United States. The movement for the Inauguration of the Buyers' Week excursions was begun in the house of Fleischner, Mayer & Co. by Nathan Strauss, who was elected chairman of a committee of wholesalers and jobbers and engineered successfully the Buyers' Week of last year. Mr. Strauss is head of the Job bers' and manufacturers' association again this year and has been one of the most active in preparation for the entertainment and service of the visit ing out-of-town merchants when the buyers' excursions are on. Paint Business Here Amounts to $5,000,000 Annually Portland Colors Are Spread Along Paciflc Coast to Alaska and East ward Into Idaho. Somethi.no liKe o.vvv,uvv paint business a year is handled by the larger wholesale paint houses of Portland alone, and Portland colors are spread on buildings and fences from Alaska to Idaho. . There are a dozen or more paint firms in Portland dealing in wholesale distribution. The larger of these, such as Rasmussen & Qo., not only serve as distributors for goods manufactured elsewhere, but manufacture great sup plies of paints. Thousands of gallons of paint a month are produced in their shops and go out into the retail market through out the whole Northwest. Outside of a few big firms in San Francisco, the large Portland houses are not equaled in their magnitude nor the scope of territory they serve by houses in any other city on the Pacific Coast. In addition to paints and painting supplies, these houses carry also a full line of glass, windows, doors, etc. The Fulles Company, the Flsher Thorsen Company and the Rusmussen Company, which are the largest and oldest, firms in Portland dealing in paints and paint supplies, are all in t, nrsranization of manufacturers and Jobbers which is preparing to enter- I tain the merchants of the Portland trade territory in mis city in aususi, during the week of the annual buyers' excursions. growth of the business of the Dough erty Shoe Company, which established its factory and house In Portland In 1905. Its territory now extends throughout California. Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon and goes further, to Ha waii and to Alaska. The great areas of mining and log ging territory in the West have made a natural market for the tieavy quali ties of shoe products and in this Held the Portland distributors have taken the lead of the field. Alaska is cov ered continually by their agents. The heavy goods, however, are not the limit of the product of the Western manufacturer and distributor, but the higher grades of goods are also pro duced and are competing successfully with the products of factories in larger and older districts. "One thing that counts in our favor," says Mr. Dougherty, speaking of the Portland shoe man as compared with the Eastern shoe producer and dis tributor, "is that tlie West has never yet been put to the need of enacting a 'pure shoe law.' In the East there is a determined movement on foot to pass law requiring shoe factories to use leather in the shoes they put out. The Western gooos go wunuui nucon,.. the pure goods which they are." J. N. TEAL PORTLAND ENVOY Commerce Chamber to Send Him to Capital to Aid Harbor Bill. J. N. Teal is to go to Washington to work in behalf of the passage of the . . . . , win A U NatiAn I ,-ivers mirt narDurs um. -n- Avenii, piesiuciu ui . Commerce, announced the appointment of Mr. real yesieruay. The Portland Chamber also has tele graphed to Washington asking that a telegraphic vote of every Chamber of Commerce in the country be taken, for the purpose of putting up to Congress squarely the demand for the immediate passage of the rivers and harbors bill. v . 3 , . e .1, Kill , i . . T 1 n i ! l rmoraeiiieii l:-- ui mo u,.u Uw......- that It he adonted are coming in from clubs throughout the Northwest and are being transmitted, as fast as received, to the authorities and representatives in Washington. ROSE FESTIVAL UNCERTAIN Meeting Tuesday to Decide Whether Celebration Is to Live. Whether the Rose Festival is to be continued next year will be discussed at the meeting of delegates from va rious clubs of the city which are mem bers of the Rose Festival Association at the Commercial Club Tuesday night. Some urge that the fund collected tny ihn TtriKe PVsHvr1 da used tlirougrh- out the Summer to entertain tourists who pass through i'ortiana on tne waj to or from the Panama-Pacific Expo sition. Others are said to advocate abandonment of the festival, and oth- . . i , ;.,, - ers suggest tnat tne lesnvai iieimu be cut down and stress laid soieij upon the floral features. Fifty-two organizations are repre sented in the association. Rosarians Talking Picnic. (Khmbai mAmhortt f the Roval OOtCIOI - Pnrlaiis are advocating a picnic and frolic at Bonneville. The matter will come up at the regular mommy meei- ng tomorrow at the Commercial l.iud. The Rosarian band members are anxious to distinguish themselves as fun makers. Washington Logs Go to Norfolk. WINLOCK, Wash., Aug.- 1. (Spe- ial.) Clark & Shives this week shipped ix logs 80 feet long across the contl tent to Norfolk, Va., to Mil a Govern ment order. Andrew Johnson is ship ping several carloads of oak logs on a overnment contract. KNIGHT PACKING CO. PICKLES AND VINEGAR, Kast Ninth and East Alder St. Get Off Snnnyslde or Mt. Tabor Car at East Ninth St. Music Houses Sell Over Vast Territory. Increasing Demand for Instrument of All Kind Build Up Stores Like Ellen' and Sherman-Clay. PORTLAND practically covers the territory of the Northwest com plete, in the lines of musical in struments and supplies. Such houses as Sherman. Clay & Company, Eilers Piano House and others have reached out every year until their service ex tends far into Western Idaho In the east, north into Washington and south into Northern California, and the radius of their influence is extended still fur ther yearly. Eilers. one of the largest and oldest houses in Portland, was established about 1898, and has had a striking growth. This house has a factory and assembling plant in Portland which has put out many of the large pipe organs Installed in public auditoriums in the West in past yearB. Many pianos and organs also are assembled and sent out from Portland as a distributing center. "The growth in the business of handling musical Instruments, talking machines and the like has been more than 100 per cent, I believe, in the Northwest territory since Sherman & Clay branched out with a house in Portland eight years ago." said J. H Dundore. manager of the Portland house of Sherman & Clay. "The dis tributors in Portland are able to fur nish to the Northwest territory the best that the world has to offer." In a single wholesale house In Port land the shipments of pianos alone over the Northwest averaged between -'000 and 3000 Instruments in late years. The shipments of talking machines from the Portland distributing houses have reached hundreds of thousands. Still the great trade territory of the Northwest makes a steadily increasing demand that indicates a still greater prosperity for Portland as a distribut ing center for musical Instruments than the city has enjoyed in the prosperous years that have gone before. "EVERYTHING FOR THE OFFICE We carry the most complete stock of Commercial Stationers' mid can meet every requirement of the modern office. Blank and Loose-Leaf Books Filing Cabinets and Devices Safes and Safe Cabinets Printing and Bookbinding Office Furniture Architects' and Engineers' Supplies Phones Marshall 6080 A- 6548 Northeast Corner Fifth and Oak Streets Portland Shoe Trade Now Steadily Growing. Sole-Prlnta of Footwear Made Here Are Spread Over West nnd Are Gradually Working Way Eastward. IN spite of the widely extended influ ence of great Eastern shoe manufac turing Arms, the print of the sole of the Portland-made shoe is upon the whole of the West and those sole prints, by the way. are gradually going further eastward, as the Western man ufacturers invade that field in a win ning contest of quality. Freight rates to the East have been disadvantageous to the Portland dis tributor In the past, but in spite of this he has pushed his field steadily fur- thr e"HtW:-1. DENNY-RE NTON CLAY & COAL CO. Manufacturers of Vitrified Paving Brick Vitrified Sewer Pipe Vitrified Building Blocks Architectural Terra Cotta Pressed Brick Partition Tile Standard Fire Btick Drain Tile Flue Lining Acid Brick Vitrified Paving Block Vitrified Sewer Brick Vitrified Electric Conduit Vitrified Wall Coping Mantel Brick Hollow Wall Tile Special Fire Brick Fireproofing Chimney Pipe Fire Clay Factories Image, Wash.; Portland, 21st and Sherlock avenue. City Yard; Front and Couch Streets. General Offices, Portland, 176-8 Burnside st. Ye Furniture Buyers WELCOME to the home of the famous DOERNBECHER LINE COME ONE! COME ALL! We'll be glad to see you: DOERNBECHER MANUFACTURING CO. Tnke Rose City Park Car and Get Off at East 28th. Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle Special for Buyers' Week Only In order to give out-of-town buyers an opportunity to secure inr "mV""'"'7 In musical instruments, we have cut the prices on every piano, player piano and grand piano, new or used, displayed in our establishment. All visitors during buyers' week are cordially Invited to mulce Kllcrs Mulc Houu thir headquarters. Fre use of stationery, phones and restroom. ' An Outlandish Sacrifice of Special Interest to All Musicless Homes We offer these slightly used piano, which have come to u In part pay ment for grand pianos and player piano. Each instrument lis been tnoroujfn ly regulated, tuned and polished, and In every respect as good new. uur unrestricted guarantee against all defects will be given with earn instrunienr . -i ,-. In... u' til 1... i. I'nv ill.,,, f 1:1 ins ItllWl "I one of these Instruments to turn same back within two years and be ailoweu all money paid towards purchase of a new instrument. SACKS New and Second-Hand Sacks for Wheat, Barley Oats, Onions Potatoes Hops, Etc. We guarantee our grades of second-hand bags. We manufacture new burlap bags of all kinds. De livered prices made to any point. We extend to yon an invitation to visit our plant when in Portland. If It's Made of BURLAP, We Have It. BAGS HOP CLOTH TWINE WINKLEMAN BAG CO. Oldest, Largest Second-Hand Bag Dealers in korthtvest. 175 FRONT ST., COR. YAMHILL ST., PORTLAND, OR. Below Are a Few of Our Bargains in Used Pianos Frisbee upright, in ebony case S jt22 Mathuschek, in rosewood finish, at .Oi (Good piano for a beginner.) Estey piano (in first-class shape) at....... J45.00 Dunbar in the new French walnut finish... 1JH.OU (Can hardly be told from new.) Kohler & Chase, in golden oak finish 135. OO (Guaranteed to be like new.) Still another In oak case for J4':J Stuyvesant, beautiful mottled walnut finish l.OJ Crown, in quarter-saed oak case Hinze. French walnut finish, for only J2s'5i? Steinhauer. in magnolia walnut A?S'!!!! Lester, in beautiful San Domingo mahogany 24B.OU Chlckering, guaranteed in perfect condition 254. OO Hobart Jl. Cable, in choice walnut finish... 192. OO Hazelton, in fancy walnut finish Hoffman, in dark rich mahogany 2 Kimballs, new French walnut finish, each (These instruments are the small bungalow stze. ) Kimball, large size, fancy figured mahogany Another full-size Kimball in quarter-sawed oak finish Smith & Barnes, in fancy quarter-sawed oak case, at Another one, In art mahogany, at.......... Still another full size in latest uoioniai oe- sign, in dark, rich mahogany 5b.OO Story & Clark, finished in specially cnoicc mahogany . Winterroth. in fancy mahogany, at X7o.OU All of these Instruments as outlined above are in first-class condition. Most of them cannot be told from new, and at the extremely low prices quoted will be taken quickly. 223.0O S.OO o.OO 274.00 245. OO iis;8o 240.00 255.00 Player Pianos and Grand Pianos Slaughtered Also Chlckering Baby Grand In the choicest ma hogany finish. This piano new Is eanlly worth uu. in oraer to qispobo ui n l. once will take IHMI This instrument Is In perfect condition; in fact, cannot be told from new. llallet & Davis Baby Grand. In choice ma- hnmnv it ...... .................... Still another llallet & Davi Baby Grand 1.. 1 m V. .. 1 1 UnK.r Hrnn.! I,, tiuu l,H Fill fllMI'V 111H- hogany, at 540.00 Lester, quarter grand size, In fancy mahog any finish PIAVKR PIWOS DROP TOO Bailey, in mahogany finish, rebuilt to play the new 88-note music; Includes bench and music Wheelock player. In mahogany, regular re- tail value $"on, now goes for 2wo.u (Including music roll and nencn.; Kingsbury, plays all 8S-note mulc, at...... Weber Pianola Piano, In mahogany, plays new 88-note music; including bench and music Steck Pianola Piano, in walnut, at......... (Including bench and music.) Lester player piano, hi fancy quarter-sawed oak; plays both 05 and 88-note music rolls, for A: One of the popular De Luxe Player Piano, in choice English walnut.......... (Including music runs and hshu Bungalow player piano. In mahogany, slight- lv used but luoks like new, at 1.M These instruments are all fully guaran teed in everv respect, and at the unheard-of prices quoted above will surely bo taken quickly. 505.00 218.00 305. OO 468.00 550.00 Superb Latest Combination Offers of Talking Machines With iree Kecoras V real feast of UfCQ Irt II Edison Disc ftOft 9R I 2SL JSET $82 .90 ni.. i ir ii a en w w i ic lor , ,,., 1C ii and re- including 26 selections, f.00 n must to mnhne-anv. or in fancy figured oak case, including free 2G records of the best vocal and other artists, vocal, instrumental, opera, vaude ville, buyers' choice or our own se lection; album, needles, oil and can; everything complete, for this sur prisingly low price of $59. lO. May be had on our easy payment plan; $1 a week will secure it. There are only a limited number of these complete combinations, Be come early, for this great offer will be very popular. nalr accessories. This is one of l'.dl- aon's latest achievements, doing away with the necessity of chang ing the needle for each tune. The tone of this instrument is pure and mellow and human like. The rec ords are different from the average disc records, inasmuch as they are nondestructive. See this new in strument at once in order to fully comprehend the big Improvement In the modern talking machine. -dli. oil and can. This instrument na set a new mark In value at It price. It is an upright and fully cablneted Instrument of handnoinc appearance, and In design and style is regarded a the standard typs of high-grade talking machine. This offer can be compared with any iiOO Instrument offered a few months ago. Talking Machine Headquarters The Nation's Largest Eroadway at Alder Portland, Or. Main 7000 A-6041 W. P. Fuller and Co. 12th and Davis Streets PIONEER PAINT MAKERS Manufacturers of Pioneer White Lead Plate, Sheet and Art Glass, Sash and Doors fe Wholesale l Department 1 fj Is Prepared for wf ilk Buyers' Week! tPJ Vi Holiday Lines in Great Variety Now Ready for Inspection ! Books. Stationery, Souvenirs, I B yi Leather Goods, Cameras, Nov- jrA elties, Games, Desk Sets, etc. V I ' GILL'S I ' ' I' dm Electricity Is the Cheapest Power You Can Buy Electricity is no longer a luxury to be enjoyed by the few. It is now within the reach of the many. Read the fol lowing figures based on the average rates for electric current A Nickel's Worth of Electricity Will Run a 12-in. fan for 10 hrm. Run a sewing machine motor for 10 hrs. Play an electric piano for S hrs. , Pump 500 gallons of water 100 ft. high. Clip 3 horses, groom 5 hot s. Grind 2xi bushels of ear corn. Crack 10 bushels of corn. Thresh 7V2 bushels of barley. Grind 400 lbs. of sausage. Clean 2200 sq. feet of carpet. Churn 50 lbs. of butter. Separate 3500 lbs. of milk. Milk 25 cows. Operate grindstone for 15 hrs. And Do Many Other Useful Things Let us show you where electricity will help YOU. Phone Numbers, Marshall 5100, A 6131 Portland Railway, Light & Power Company Salem Portland Vancouver, Wash. J i