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
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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-
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oman, of the Associated Charities, is In
charge of the case and she may be
reached by calling Main .u or a
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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
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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
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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
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Under Authority
C. E. LUC0
Open Evenings Until 9 o'CIock
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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
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.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.
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of Order of Court
Agent and Creditors'
Representative
388 Morrison Street