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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 27, 1014. EIGHTH PERSON CAUTION PLANS LAID nly '97.20 for This New '250 Piano DE WOLF HOPPER STAR IN COMEDY SINCE 1890 Actor's History Includes Records of Long last of Productions, Starting With "Castles in the Air," Presented First in New York. G!TY NOW Enthusiastic "Safety First" Meeting Is Held. Disappearance of Man Who Threatened Suicide Latest Case Reported. AID OF EVERYONE ASKED 14 MISSING WIFE CARRIES ON SEARCH John Johnson, 7 Years Old, JFVjnnd, but Xo Clew Is Discovered to Whereabouts of Superintend, ent of Ford Factory. MISSING POBTLAXD RESIDENTS. Thomas F. Bradsllaw, superlnten dent of the Ford Automobile Com pany's factory here, missing; since Tuesday. Foul play la suspected. Ed DeMuth. 1433 East Flanders street, missing since Saturday- night. He was seen last at Second and Madison, streets. Mrs. Joe Blash, 20 years old. left Mosler, Or., September 12 to meet her husband In Portland. Henry Forrest. 22 years old. left bis home at 403 First street Friday night and has not been seen or heard from since. Benjamin Cook, 11 years old, miss ing from his home at Parkrose since ' "Wednesday. L. F. Thorn, a Portland salesman, left Eugene to return to Portland Monday. Has not been seen or heard from since. C. T. Cox, left Canby several days ago for Portland and has not been seen since. It la believed he never reached this city. Cos is 30 years old. James B. Carter, 65 years old, 728 East Charleston street, missing since Thursday. May have committed suicide. Mysterious disappearances of persons In Portland or on the way here In the 'past week increased until yesterday the total number of those missing reached eight. James B. Carter, 55 years old, of 728 East Charleston street, was the latest reported missing:, and his wife and the police fear he has carried out a suicide threat. Carter was arrested Wednesday night on a charge of being drunk. Patrolmen Gladden and Collins testified at the trial in Municipal Court the following day that Carter had threatened to com mit suicide. Carter admitted the ac cusation. He said he had been out of employment for several months and was uiBuuuiascu Ktin iiie. juags oie venson promised to procure work for Carter, who was to return the follow ing day and report to the court. Carter Repeats Threat. Carter did not show up and, instead Of going home, he visited friends and remarked that he "'was going' up the river to do away with himself." Since then he has not been seen. Mrs. Car ter Is frantically searching the river front for signs of her missing hus band and she fears that he has carried out his threat. When last seen Carter wore a brown and black shoes. He is described as being five feet ten inches tall, weigh ing 150 pounds, having blue eyes and a light-colored mustache and being of light complexion. John Johnson, 7 years old. was re ported missing from the Children's Home, 887 Corbett street, several days ago. The child was found yesterday and returned to the institution. He ' had been cared for by different resl- No Trace of Bradshaw Found. No clew has been found to the where abouts of Thomas P. Bradshaw, super intendent of the Ford automobile fac tory, who disappeared Tuesday night after leaving the factory with $200 In his pockets. Mrs. Bradshaw, residing at 1292 East Eighth street, has been conducting a personal search for her missing husband. Miss Elizabeth Hall, financee of Hen ry Forrest, who disappeared a week ago and has not been seen since, searched the hospitals of the city again - yesterday on a leiepnone, uui was un .. able to find any trace of Forrest. For rest reaiUCU 1 1 VO J.-I1BV OV.CC.. Hall lives next door. They were to be married in a few weeks, and Forrest bad saved up $105. SCHOOL UNION IS PLANNED Proposal Up to Vnite 8 Districts With Building at Gresham. The Gresham Board of Education has started a movement for a union nor mal and agricultural high school at Gresham to include eight school dis tricts Gresham, Powell "Valley, Bea ver, Rockwood, Lynch, Terry, Pleasant Valley and Hillsvlew. It is planned to consolidate all these districts for high school purposes only, the high school building to be located at Gres ham. The directors from the Gresham district consulted County School Super nt.niTnt Armstrong vesterdav about the procedure and the arrangement for a vote in tne eigni uisincis. t . WOa .Tnoct.H trt vntw in November on a bond issue for erecting a high school building for the Gresham dis trict alone. At the Gresham High School the .H.niiTnnt u 90 xtuflents. which, is 24 .per cent increase over the enrollment of last year. It is estimated that a high school of from 200 to 250 to start with can be formed out of the eight districts. It is proposed to introduce an agricultural course such as has been suggested by State Superintendent J. . - v V.M1 tn ti& nninn Viie-h ftchool. Experimental grounds comprising five acres at liresnam purenou i are available. APPEAL FOR GIRL ISSUED Passage to New York Wanted so Tot May Reach Relatives-. Mary is three years old. Her father has recently sustained an operation and Is weak and 111. His plucky little wife has made a bard fight to keep the wolf v.o Annv Hut in srjite of her best efforts, things have gone hard with the family, thougn iney nave oorne their privations without complaint. Now Mary's grandmother, an old Englishwoman, who lives at Orange, N. J., offers to take the little one to her home, where she will be well cared The Portland Associated Charities now is looking for some one who is going to New York, to take the little girl. Once in New Tork the New York Associated Charities will have her con i . j tf-t-ono-o Xfra VTnrcarpf Thor- UU. LU L ' ' " O w- oman, of the Associated Charities, is In charge of the case and she may be reached by calling Main .u or a . ;(( 7- Slf iiiiiliiilMK' .BIsBiilll DBS WOLF DE WOLF HOPPER, who will come to the Hellig Theater, week of October 11, with a revival of the Gilbert & Sullivan light opera, made his debut as a star at the Broadway Theater, New York, May 5, 1890, in "Castles in the Air," the year follow ing bringing out "Wang," which lasted two seasons. In 1893 he was seen in "Panjandrum" and the next year In "Doctor Syntax," which was a musical version of Robertson's delight ful old comedy, "School." The season of 1S95-1896 he toured in "Wang" and "Dr. Syntax." and on April 13, 1896, at Boston, Mass.. he brought out "El Capitan," which lasted him two years. The searon of 1898-99 Mr. Hopper was seen In "The Charlatan." It was in the year of 1899 that he made his debut before the London public on July 13 at the Lyric The ater in "El Capitan," and on the fol lowing December 13 he was seen at BOOTHS TO BE BUILT Permanent Structure for Pub lic Market Planned. WORK TO START AT ONCE Success of Institution Established and It Has Its Second Best Day Despite Rain, Receipts Be ing: About $6000. Portland's public market had its last Saturday as a temporary Institution yesterday. Unless weather conditions are too bad, work will be started this week on the tearing out of the tem porary wooden booths and the erection of permanent booths with wide um brella shed " coverings, rain awnings covering the sidewalks and folding dis play tables of the latest type. The transformation of the market place will require about two weeks. In spite of the rain yesterday was next to the largest day the market has had. There where 1S7 producers occupying .the booths and produce found a ready sale. It was estimated by Market Master Eastman that sales for the day aggregated between $5000 and $6000. There was a wide variety of produce of excellent quality and by closing time practically everything in the market had been sold. . Plan la ' Experiment The market was established on Yam hill street, between Third and Fourth streets early last Spring, at which time temporary frame tables with canvass tops for shelter were erected. The plan was an experiment, which had been advocated tor many years. The growth was rapid, as the suc cess of the farmers in selling their PORTLAND GIRLS RISE RAPIDLY (ft ft ( iA P&ui 1 Mil fl :H . ?$i Sim 1 Two Portland girls who are making rapid strides in their chosen profes sion are Florence Hart and Fay Bainter. Miss Hart, who is a sister of Harry L. Hart, a hopman, of Portland, is playing the role of the English girl Ethel in the Eastern company of "Peg o' My Heart." Miss Bainter is a sister of Mrs. H. A. Burgess, of Portland, and was ingenue at the Baker stock four seasons ago. She is playing' leads with Edward C. Woodruff at the Princess s tock in Des Moines. Ia. , HOPPER. the Comedy Theater in "The Mystical Miss" (the British title for "The Charlatan"). He returned to. America in 1900. and for ' two years was a leading member of Weber & Fields' forces, appearing in the burlesque of Fiddle-Dee-Dee" and "Hoity-Tolty." He Ihen resumed starring activities and for two seasons appeared in "Mr. Pickwick," which was followed by a season's revival of "Wang" and a three years' consecutive tour In "Happy land." Mr. Hopper then turned his attention to "A Matinee Idol," a musi cal version of a French farce, which served him for one year. This chronology brings the career of this comedian up to the time when the all-star company was organized for the revival of Gilbert & Sullivan's operas.- Mr. Hopper has been at the head of this company for several sea sons, and is regarded as by all odds the best portrayer of the chief comedy characters ever seen in the Gilbert & Sullivan works. products spread through the nearby farming communities. Finally it be came necessary to erect additional booths between Fourth and 'Fifth streets to take care of the overflow In the market in the block in which It originally was established. Realizing that the market was a success, private markets of various kinds moved Into the buildings along Yamhill and plans were made for an attractive new building at Fourth and Yamhill. This is being erected at present by T. Scott Brooke for market purposes only. . Cost to Be Divided. The success of the market was acknowledged recently by the City Commission when arrangements were made for permanent structures to take the place "of the temporary sheds in the street.- A design for the perma nent market was worked out by Build ing Inspector Plummer and adopted by the Council. The property owners along the street will pay half the cost and the city the other half. Over the top of the display booths will be a wide corrugated iron shed, with roller awnings, arranged for shel tering the booths from the street side and awnings running from the top of the sheds to the' top of the first story of the buildings along the street on the sidewalk side. The booths will be so erected that they can be folded up at night, opening the way for thorough cleaning of the street. The market will be confined at first to Yamhill street, from Fifth to Third streets. As the market grows it will be extended eastward on YamhIH as far as First street. An effort will be made to have the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company remove its tracks from Yamhill street, so that there wll be no interference to the market. Drouth Draws on Water Supply. HERMISTON. Or.. SeDt 26. fSDe jcial.) At the close of the Irrigation season the Cold Springs reservoir re mains with one-third of the 1914 water supply on hand for next year. The reservoir holds 52,000 acre feet and after a liberal supply was granted the settlers because of the unusual drouth something over 16,000 acre feet are still in the lake. A Bed Bu sr Cure. Ask for Insecticide Plummer Drug Co.. 3d and Madison. AQV. IN THEATRICAL PROFESSION. Mayor Would Make Portland Second to Xone in Avoidance of Acci- i dents Commission Dines at Commercial ' Club. To make Portland second to no city In the United States In provisions for public safety is the aim of members of the new commission appointed by Mayor Albee as, expressed at ihe lunch eon tendered them yesterday noon at the Commercial Club. Fully 350 persons attended the "safety first" 'meeting. Speeches were made by Horace D. Ramddell, president of the Portland Commercial Club: F. E. Allen. Mayor of Marshfield; H. P. Coffin, chairman of tne public safety commission and traf fic burj .u; L. R. Alderman, Superin tendent of Schools and head of the bureau of schools of the public safety commission; B. F. Boynton, claim agent of the Portland Railway, Light & Pow er Company, secretary of the public safety commission and chairman of the Dureau or electric transportation; A. M. Churchill, chairman of the fire preven tion bureau; F. S. Burkhalter, general superintendent of the Southern Pacific and chairman of the bureau of trans portation; B. T. McBain, manager of the Willamette Pulp & Paper' Company, Oregon City, and Mayor Albee. By advertisement and demonstration the public safety commission desires to bring home the value of "safety first" to every citizen of this city, and Mayor Albee believes it can be done and must be done If the movement is to be suc cessful j Xeed of Co-operation Asserted. "I am here today to assure you that the city will co-operate In the 'safety first" movement," he said, "but our ef forts can be successful only if we work together. No one can refuse to lend his approval to this movement, but that Is as far as many of us get. It is very easy to say, after an accident, that the other fellow was to blame.- Every day we see men risk their lives, limbs and property trying to save 30 seconds on the bridges across the river. "If this movement is to besuccessrui each must consider himself a committee of one to look out for himself and everybody else. The" organization of "sarety iirst committees of older students In the schools is part of the plan being furthered by L. ft. Alderman, cnair man of the Bureau of Schools, and of which he spoke at yesterday's lunch eon. Students In the manual training department are working on Blgns to be placed on streets leading to tne schools, warning the autoist that he is coming to a danger zone during school hours. -Chapter Flan Suggested. A suggestion that Portland organize a chapter one of public safety, that Oregon City organize chapter two. etc., that the movement might spread over the state, was made by ts. i. mcisam, and met with favor. Mavor Albee formally appointed Fire Chief Dowell on the Public Safety Commission to collaborate with A. M. Churchill, chairman of the Fire Preven tion Bureau. Chief of Police Clark al ready is on the Commlesion as chair man of the Bureau of Public Safety. The Commercial Club dining-room was decorated with placards boosting the "safety-first" propaganda. Illus trations of traffic necessities to pre vent accident, fire prevention rules and similar displays caught the eye of the diner. In an exhibit of the safety-first" department of the Port land Railway. Light & Power Com pany were shown statistics - demon strating how easily accidents are pre vented, the proper way to avoid them and how to cause them. In the fire prevention display were photographs of buildings In Portland wnicn constitute menaces to the community; of plies of rubbish which need only a spark to ignite them and start a conflagration, and other fire risks. "Safety-first" blotters were distributed as mementos of the occasion. Cities Are Compared. "A Careless City Portland" was the heading of one placard which drew the difference between this city and "A Careful City Hanover, Germany." Placing of responsibility for fires with owners and sometimes compelling them to pay damages when others' property was burned was pointed out as one of the reasons why Hanover, a city of 302.3S4 people, living in a territory of 38.32 sauare miles, has a lire damage amounting to $112,408, or 37 cents per capita in one year, while Portland, having 250,000 people in 51.8 square miles, has a fire loss In one year ol $809,983.46. or S3. 24 per capita. H. P. Coffin presided at the luncheon. CITY'S BALANCE $1,514,107 Semi-Monthly Statement Issued by Corporation Treasurer. There is a total of $1,514,107.39 on hand in the various city standing funds according to the semi-monthly finan cial statement issued yesterday by City Treasurer Adams. The statement Is as follows: General $ 894.340.75 Fire department 118.95 Police department .............. Street repair 20U.44 Bonded Indebtedness Interest ... 83.ulo.19 Library 40.S9 Park 2,138.28 Street cleaning and sprlnkllnz .. 26.1 Improvement bond sinking- 233.64tt.17 Improvement bond Interest ..... 14.542.34 Water 162.921.49 Park and boulevard 11.124.74 Broadway bridge - G.133.55 Garbage crematory 2.278.10 Municipal jail 600.00 Fire boat and (Ire main 108.03 Special bridge 4,497.47 Sinking 12.368.91 Water bond sinking- 7.430.87 Water fund bond account 22.95 Police and fire department relief.. 35.35 Bonded Indebtedness lloklne .... 644.74 Street improvement ..- ,27,030.96 Sewer 13.IU5.12 Street extension 6,793.14 Street and sewer Interest 1.311.30 Public auditorium 24.511.44 Police relief fund 4.652.01 Total 614. 107.89 $850 Mellville Clarke Flayer Piano $437. Read page 14, sec tion 1. oiile Stock to be Sold Under of the Court Don't imagine that Soule Bros, ran a junk shop. They may not have been the best piano merchants in the world, hut they were practical men and carried fine pianos. This house is still chockful of the very finest kinds of pianos; Baby Grands, Uprights and Player Pianos, too. Not ordinary, shoddy, snide cheap John truck, but high-class, valuable, much-to-be-desired and musically appreci ated instruments, fit to grace the proudest mansion or, the musician's music room. Play Late SS-Note Now 'Some of These Player Pianos Are s 850 Original Values Some of the Pianos in This Sale : ChickLeringr Knabe Behning Wegman Lester Steinway Steck Weber Emerson Schumann Weber Pianolas Steele Pianolas Vose & Sons Briggs Estey Ludwig Kobart M. Cable Hallet & Davis In fact, you will find almost any make, eith er in an Upright, Player or Grand Piano. No Matter Where You Live, You Can Phone Your "WANT" Ad to The Oregonian Simply ask "Central" to give you the "Want Ad" Department, and, if you are a subscriber to either phone, the ad. will be charged to you and bill sent the next day. Easy isn't it? IBroSo Now, I want buyers for these fine1 pianos, and have got to have them quick. The creditors had to have a pile of money yesterday, and I have raked it all together; but there is still more money to be raised. I don't care for profits, nor did anybody else con nected with this deal. I must get rid of the goods, and all expenses must be stopped. Then there are a lot of other pianos that I had to take in a wholesale way from various sources. These must also be sold There is, if anything, .a big ger sacrifice involved in the sale of these instruments than there is in any of the others. If you want to in irti 13-' fl Tfc Tyft jv Many a pianoless home Is now being made happy for only $97.20 with pianos that are really J200 to $300 value, and at only $118 for Instruments worth $350 and more. A large number of $450 pianos are also being sold for in the neighborhood of $266, some for less, and a few for a little more. PLAYERS AUK CUT. Player pianos at prices less than the same quality uprights. For only $266, yes even as low as $188, you can buy the $700 "and even $S00 player pianos, guaranteed for ten years; for $337 the very latest 88-note $850 player pianos, guaranteed ten years, and for only $6S8 the $1000 values. GRANDS. Grand pianos now for less than the same quality uprights would cost at any other time: $700 values now $337, $800 values now $446 and $950 values now $518. all old reliable established makes. Also many other pianos not listed above, and I want to say to you right now that you can secure almost any make of piano you desire. But to appreciate the true value of these greatest bargains ever offered, you must see them. Electric pianos of the highest quality, instruments that have been in operation around and in Port land for years, can now be had at $38. $166 and $278. and the very. best and highest price electric pianos, usually selling for $600 to $1000. now go for only $388. The Sale of the ' louie oros, f aiiure Under Authority C. E. LUC0 Open Evenings Until 9 o'CIock TT3 d raiiie Authority vest $95 for a new piano, I will give you a good one; but if you think well enough of your home to realize that it should be equipped with something in the way of a piano that you would usually pay $600 or $700 for, you can get it here now for $237 to $333. But you can't expect to do it after I'm through here. Do it now. Nor do I care for all the money. If the purchaser is not prepared to pay it all at the time selection is made, why, I'll give four years' time on many of these instruments, although I would like to get the money back in. less time, say in three, or perhaps two years' time. This means business. $1 LJa. .NOT1IIXG HELD BACK. All talking machines must go. Co lumbia. Edison and Victors, and any number of records of all makes. We must also sell all desks, chairs, safes, music rolls, racks, stools, benches, cabinets, typewriters, numbering ma chines and in fact complete office equipment, for very little money. FURTHER PARTICULARS. Some particular values that we have to offer and that we would like to ciose out quickly: $1100 Weber Pianola Piano. $537. This is the finest and best ever made by the Aeolian Company: also a $1500 combination Lester Grand-Pianola, $666; $500 Com bination Burmetster-Pianola, $218; $600 or $700 Kingsbury Player Piano, 88 note. now $335. We could go on enu merating bargains like this indefinite ly. Chlckering, America's oldest and best; Steinway, Steck, Wegman. Schu inan can all be secured now at unbe lievable reductions. As above stated, practically every make that you can possibly think of is here, and must be sold at once. For the benefit of those not being able to call during the day, our store Is open every evening until 9 or 10 o"clock. C. E. Lucore. agent and credit ors representative. Makes no difference as to price or terms. Store open evenings. 3S8 Mor rison .street. TT" M 61 of Order of Court Agent and Creditors' Representative 388 Morrison Street