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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. OCTOBER
15, 1914.
SIN OF MAYOR NOT
PLAYING POLITICS
City Attorney La Roche Says
Recallers Fight Officials
for Keeping Oaths.
METHODS ARE ATTACKED
Fake Stories Concerning Mr. Albee
and Commissioners Circulated
in Pure Malice, Is Charge.
Conspiracy Is Seen.
"The real sin committed by Mayor
Albee and. City Commissioners Dieck
and Brewster, who recallers sees: to
recall from office at the special elec
tion Tuesday, is not the few minor
mistakes they may have wnade. The
trouble is they have not played politics;
they have not played the game.
So said City Attorney LaRoche in a
statement issued yesterday covering
Bis views of the recall movement.
"Has not the time come." said Mr.
LaRoche, "when men who are serving
the public, after havjng taken solemn
oath to observe the laws of the land
and city, can win the approval of the
community when they regard their
oaths of office as of higher importance
than the rules of th political game?
When they find soma man or set of
men in the community wilfully vio
lating the laws, are they to take the
measurement of his potential political
strength to determine whether it would
be politic to prosecute him or them, or
are they, on the other hand, to stand
nrm and say to themselves: On my
oath of office I must prosecute, de
spite the consequences."
Makins Terms Easy.
Any statement from me in favor
of the officers against whom this re
call is aimed will be misconstrued
deliberately misconstrued on the
ground that my position as City At
torney is at stake, and therefore I
speak from selfish personal - interests.
It would be a very simple thing for
me to keep quiet and make terms which
would make my position perfectly se
cure, but holding the views that I do,
this would be quite impossible. If there
were a dozen positions at stake.
"What is there to this .recall, and
when did the hidden springs that have
given it motion begin to operate?
"From -ery reliable authority, th
recall was set in motion before Mr.
Albee had taken his oath of office
not because of anything that he had
done, but because he was not the type
and sort of man- that certain poli
ticians desire in office. He could be
neither moulded, swerved nor con
trolled and they knew it.
"The recallers, in circulating their
petitions, employed women, and some
of them have said that they never
made bo much money in the same space
of time in their lives before.
All Kinds of Methods Used.
"All kinds of methods were employed,
all kinds of stories fabricated, and men
of this community who count them
selves fair-minded and honest have de
cided to vote against one or the other
of the Commissioners in reliance on
false statements made to them.
"It has been said that poor men were
not welcome in Mayor Albee's ofricee,
( and found It difficult to see him. There
could be no more deliberate and false
statement that this, for it is known
to every man and woman in the City
Hall that Mayor Albee's office Is one
of the most accessible in the city, and
that almost any man with a tale and
appearance of misfortune can, within
five minutes, get from the Mayor's
pocket every cent that he has.
"Stories without foundation and
originating in pure malice have like
wise been circulated about Commis
sioners Brewster and Dieck, too numer
ous to mention.
Minor Errors Outweighed.
"The recallers speak of the mistakes
that the Commissioners have made,
and yet they never point them out;
they only deal in generalities. What
mistakes have been made? I know of
none of moment. Everybody makes
some errors; they would not be human
if they didn't, but in looking over the
record made by the present City Com
missioners and the Mayor, the really
splendid work that they have accom
plished will completely obscure every
little, minor error made. Small and
carping criticisms have been abun
dant about little things, but what has
been said of the meritorious accom
plishments achieved. They speak
about one. In all fairness they ought
to speak of the others.
"JbJverybody w'ho has followed the
course of the Commissioners well know
that they have not played politics; that
they have done the things most im
politic, most unpopular with certain
groups of men. But it seems to ' me
that instead of condemning them, every
clean and strong-minded man and
woman in the community will give
them their plaudits and say: "Well
done." Careless and reckless as many
have been in this community in cir
culating statements designed to preju
dice people against the Commissioners,
none of them has had the temerity to
charge a single Commissioner with any
act of dishonesty.
Public Money la Safe.
"Everybody knows that they are
honest. Everybody knows that the
Commissioners believe that when a
public officer takes something that
does not belong to him he is a thief
and unworthy to hold office. Your
publio money is safe with these men.
They won't steal, either directly or
Indirectly. There has been no graft
around the City Hall, nor has there
been any suspicion of any. and it is
absolutely refreshing to have the pub
lic business of the city done out in
the open, where everybody can see and
hear all that tak.es place, so there can
be no question.
"You are not approaching an ordi
nary election on the 27th. You are
approaching a recall. Under an amend,
inent to your constitution this was de
vised to protect the public against
dishonesty, incompetence and wilful
negligence. Ambitious and designing
people are invoking this tremendous
Instrument of protection to crucify
men who have done no wrong, and
who stand as clean and as strong as
the best men in your community."
PERSONALMENTION.
H. S. Clark, of Camas, is.at the Mult
nomah. H. S. Smith, of Salem, is at the Wash
ington. J. E. Burke, of Medford, is at the
Cornelius.
Ellas Blum, of Walla Walla, is at
the Seward.
Miss Anita Osgood, of Boston, is at
the Carlton.
A. S. Bennett, of The Dalles, is at
the Imperial.
J. A. Griffith, of Firdale, Wash., is
at the Carlton.
Q. E. Duo ken. of Union. Or., is at
tie Multnomah.
Ueorss IX. Burnett. Judge of the Su
preme Court at Salem, is at the Im
perial. . . - .
Albert S. Hall, of Hood River, is
at the Perkins.
Alex Phillips, of St. Helens, is at
the Washington.
Thomas J. Miller, of Qlympia. is at
the Washington.
Ir. P. H. Hawkins, of Newberg, is
at the Cornelius.
Chris Schmidt, a brewer of Astoria,
is at the Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Watkins. of Salem.
tare at the Oregon.
Alfred C. Harting, of Marshfield. is
ai me wasnington.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Hardy, of Seattle,
are ai tne Perkins.
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Olds, of Seattle,
are at the Cornelius.
J. F. Reddy, a business man of Med-
rord, is at the Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Medin, of Al
bany. are at the Oregon.
X. D. Keerhauer, a fruitman of White
fcaimon. is at the Perkins.
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. McComb, of Cor-
vaiiis. are at the Seward.
Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Ryan, of As
toria, are at the Cornelius.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Homer, of Ash
land, are at the Washington.
A. C. Anderson, a merchant of Ne-
halem, is at the Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. William Anderson, of
Gardiner, are at the Perkins.
F. B. Waite and W. E. St. Johns, of
butherlin. Or, are at the Imperial.
. G. B. Johnson, agent for the Spo
kane, Portland & Seattle Railroad at
Astoria, is at the Imperial.
Mrs. May D. Bybee has taken apart
ments at the Iris, Third and Mill streets,
where she will be located permanently.
J. H. Price and Lester Wellington
are at the Multnomah from St. Helens.
P. von Weymann, of Calgary, is at
iue juuunoman.
S. H. Beck and . IT. C. McGowan, of
wasnington, u. c, are at the Seward.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Barr, of Eugene,
are at the Seward.
TEST BY .SNAKE BITE
Religious Sect Have Odd Way of
Showing Their Faith.
New York Herald.
A faith in God that makes them cap
able of handling poisonous reptiles
without fear of injury is one of the
tenets of the "Snake Eaters." a reli
gious organization which has been
holding meetings in Dodge City, Kan.
The poisoning and death of members
of the band as a result of handling the
snakes, and prosecutions by the au
thorities, have not broken up the
organization, which now has a mem
bership scattered over Snnthwunam
Kansas and Oklahoma.
The presence of the members of this
cult was revealed by the calling of the
ponce to quell a disturbance that be
gan as a result of "revelations" made
by one of the speakers. The True Dis
ciples of Christ is what the members
call themselves.
The hair-pulling that was staged
was a result of the interpretation giv
en by one of these speakers, Mrs. Mary
Osteen, a widow, of Bloom, which re
flected on the morality of Mrs. T. A.
Covington. Mrs. Covington indisrnantlv
denied that she was guilty . of a sinful
spirit, as charged. The lie was passed
and immediately the meeting was in
an uproar. The hostess seized the
speaker by the hair. Four other mem
bers, including Mrs. Covington's hus
band and son-in-law, tried to unlock
her fingers. Then somebody called the
police.
"We believe that throuerh faith we
can handle snakes," said Airs. Coving
ton. "For in Luke Ho tells us that if
we have faith we can raise ud serpents
and not be harmed.
"It doesn't say that people won't ba
bitten by serpents, but if they are bit
ten it only shows that their faith is
sak. If they die they are only laying
down their lives to the Lord, and any
of us are ready to do that."
That this belief of divine protection
has been put to the test for years in
Southwestern Kansas and sometimes
with fatal results was admitted. For
tunately for the mortality record,
rattlesnakes are scarce in Kansas.
Whenever a reptile is found it is
passed from hand to hand among the
members. Even if some of the disciples
are bitten, it does not deter the others
from testing the strength of their
faith.
At a meeting in Stafford County a
few years ago, when 25 disciples were
holding a test meeting, three of them
were bitten. All three of the bitten
ones recovered, but the county author
ities arrested the worshippers and took
them to St. John. An attempt was
made to take the minor children of
the worshippers from them, but this
failed.
If a farmer needs a manure spreader
and wants an automobile, there is just
one thing for him to do.
"SATETY FIRST" FIREMEN AT CAR SHOPS INITIATED BY
I life;
Never" Such a Sale of High-Grade Pianos
ale of Soule Bros'. Failure Pianos Combined Witta
Manufacturers' Emergency and Surplus Sale
Special for tomorrow morning-, a $1050 Baby
Grand, the most costly manufactured by any of
America's time-honored manufacturers S437.
Other Grand Pianos, $385, $335, $275 and $248,
any one of them worth double and even more.
Free Music Rolls, with f loorsf ul of Player Pianos,
all at corresponding outlandish reductions.
Superb Baby Uprights and professional service
Upright Pianos, also the DeLuxe Player Pianos
and the Duotonal, all now included in this
double event.
IMPORTANT.
The beautiful pianos referred to
In this advertisement are nearly all
the latest style, brand new and not
even shop worn. A few that are used
are in the very best and guaranteed
condition.
CAITIO.V.
We shall sell everv instrument in
this great stock before this, Port
land's greatest piano sale, closes, but
the end will no doubt come very soon,
for tha crowds of enthusiastic piano
buyers are selecting' many pianos
daily.
The manufacturers make the prices
and certain it is. when the man
who makes the instrument agrees to
sell a certain number of pianos, there
is not a firm, no matter what the cir
cumstances might be. that can dupli
cate the low prices.
The manufacturers' agreement with
the Eilers Music House is that every
time the manufacturers' representa
tives sell two pianos, the Eilers Music
House agrees to buy three more of
their surplus pianos which have accu
mulated on account of the recent
stagnation. The -wheels of a great
factory cannot be stopped on a mo-,
ment's notice. Therefore, the Eilers
Music House buyer made an agree
ment to take the surplus stock from
seven of the world's largest and best
known makers of high-grade pianos,
and the manufacturers' representa
tives, Ellsworth, Barnes & Davey,
are now in charge of the selling cam
paign of the big piano house.
Thus the Nation's largest institu
tion is now selling the most ccstly of
all makes at what they cost us, and
some for even less, and- included Is
also the residue of the costly pianos
from the Soule Bros.' Failure Sale,
hence this double event, making pos
sible the furnishing of more intrinsic
genuine piano worth for the money
than ever heretofore, and than ever
will be possible again. But this sale
cannot last long. There are no dupli
cates. - Immediate action is essential.
Coine at once.
TEST FIRE FOUGHT
Carshop Hose Company Has
"Safety First" Practice.
ALARM SYSTEM IS TRIED
Portland Kail-nay, Light & Power
Company Employes Put Ont Blaz
ing Car at Center-Street
Plant City Chief Inspects.
As a feature of the "Safety First"
campaign a public test of the fire alarm
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Al Question of Doubt Regarding the
Service That Any of Tbese
Pianos May Give Has
Been Eliminated.
When the Soule Bros.' Failure Sale
was in full force, many people would
not buy. for they realized there would
be no one to look to if the piano was
not Just as it was represented. There
is now no cause for any thoughts of
this kind, for Eilers Music House is
a money-back institution. It guaran
tees quality and guarantees positive
satisfaction, or money back. A liberal
exchange agreement is Issued where
by if at any time within two years
for any reason the piano purchased is
not in every way satisfactory, it may
be exchanged at full price paid for
any other new piano in our stock of
.nearly all of the world's best-known
and highest-grade Pianos, Player
Pianos and Baby Grand Pianos.
Chlckerlruc Pianos.
The price of the Chickerins is
standard the world over, but -owing
to our special arrangements with
the manufacturers we have also a
special proposition to offer on the
Chickerins:.
America's oldest-established and
very best piano in regular uprights,
in player piano models and, in beau
tiful baby and parlor grands, can now
be had at a price that will prove a
real surprise. An offer that has
never been made to any piano pur
chaser heretofore, and limited to im
mediate buyers of only a few of these
time-honored, time-tried and world
renowned Chickerings.
New York's proudest achievement
in high-grade piano making The
Sohmer. It is used by nearly all the
Nation's best music houses as their
established leader.
The Sohmer also has a standard
and established price, but even these
instruments will be sold in this emer
gency and surplus sale, though the
low prices cannot be advertised for
obvious reasons. Be sure and see the
beautiful Sohmer Pianos, and let us
tell you the present low price.
system Installed at the shops of the
Portland Railway. Light and Power
Company, on East Seventeenth and
Center streets, and a demonstration of
the efficiency of Portland's nre de
partment, were made yesterday morn
ing in the presence of Chief- Dowell,
Battalion Chiefs Stevens, Holden and
Laudenklos. of the Portland fire depart
ment. At the shops a complete local
fire department has been organized,
but the men are new at the business,
and yesterday was the first time they
had been called out for actual service.
An old streetcar filled with inflam
mable material was set on fire, the
automatic fire alarm was turned in and
in 1 minute and 15 seconds the com
panies were out of the buildings and
had water on the burning car. In 2
minutes and 15 seconds the fire was
under control. The same alarm that
called out the carshop companies gave
the alarm to the Portland fire depart
ment, and companies Nos. 23 and 11 were
sent to the shops, which arrived in
3 minutes and 25 seconds. They ex
tinguished what was left of the nre
in short order. The railway firefight
ers had four streams on the fire. Mo
tion pictures of the firefighters in ac-
FIGHTING REAL BLAZE.
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The manufacturers make the low
prices in the Emergency Sale tinder
the agreement, that the House of
Eilers purchase three surplus pianos
every time their representatives here
sell two. Free Music Bolls with all
player pianos, including the beauti
ful Flayer Piano de Luxe.
The following now offered at re
ductions almost unbelievable:
Chickering
Hazelton
Sohmer
Knabe
Hallet & Davis
Kimball
Kranich & Bach
Steinway
Weber
Pianola Pianos
Wegman
Steck
Kingsbury ,
Kingsbury Player
Piano
Lester
and many others.
Kimball.
We want to call particular atten
tion to a lot of the very finest Kim
ball pianos ever shown in this city.
No finer Xlmballs have ever been
here. Thousands of KImballs have
been sold by us in the past. We are
now offering these splendid Kimball
pianos for sale at less than actual
dealer's billing, for the reason that ,
these instruments have been taken
back by us from several dealers for
whose trade the)' were found to be
too expensive and we have already
received a portion of our cost from
these dealers.
It would jeopadrlze the manufac
turer's interest elsewhere were we to
osenly publish the sale prices of these
Kimballs. But we wish to state
frankly that we are selling these
Kimballs for less and on easier terms
of payment than we have ever offered
Kimball pianos since we commenced
business here.
Exclusive Types Also Included.
The now famous Duotonal. double
sound-board Piano, and also the beau
tiful Player Piano de Luxe, the most
valuable of all player pianos, because
it possesses five distinct points of su
periority over the next best .makes,
are also Included In this price sacrifice.
tlon were taken by several operators.
Following the fire test the nre chiefs
under the direction of B. F. Boy n ton.
of the Portland Railway. Liirht A
Power Company, and Chief H. C.
Drumbough, of the car company's de
partment, made an inspection of the
fire alarm system in the large build
ings, and its workings were explained
by an expert.
Chief Dowell commended the nvat.m
and said it could be introduced Into
public buildings and schoolhouses to
excellent advantage.
ine private fire department i com
posed- of men working in the shops, and
it is organized along the same lines as
the Portland fire department. H. C.
Drumbaugh Is chief and F. B. Willis
and T. C Wendland are chiefs of the
two brigades. L. L. Bell and George
Boss are the Inspectors. The captains
of the seven companies are: J. O'Brien,
F. Roberts. O. S. Muhllg. Z. Zeigler, L.
Luessing. L. F. Morrow and H. B. Ever
son. The object of installing- the fir
alarm system In the Center-street car
shops is to provide a means by which
tne private fire brigades composed of
the men employed in the various de
partments could be called together to
hold tire drills at regular Intervals and
to receive instructions in fire preven
tion and fire fighting. As the shops
are some distance from the Portland
fire department, it was thought best
to install a system by which the city
fire department might be called from
any one of the buildings.
Apparatus Is Complete.
At the shops the fire apparatus, in
addition to the automatic sprinkler
system, consists of eight standard fire
hydrants fed from an eight-inch main
and a 50,000-gallon gravity tank 75
feet high. A hand hosecart carrying
800 feet of 2H-inch hose is housed
in the center of the group of buildings.
Throughout the interior of the build
ings are two-inch outlets, with 50 feet
of hose. The fire-alarm system at
present covers three buildings, all of
which are one-story in height and have
a floor area of 150,000 square feet, and
the system has been extended to cover
the warehouse, a three-story structure,
which has an area of 60,000 square feet.
The local alarm system consists of
14 large single-stroke electric me
chanical gongs and 29 fire-alarm push
buttons or stations of the break-glass
type, distributed throughout the vari
ous departments. Every building has
a separate gong circuit and push-button
circuit. This arrangement makes
it possible to ring an alarm in any one
building without sounding an alarm
in any of the other buildings.
At the office of the captain of the bri
gade of employes there Is a set of drill
alarm switches, by which the alarm
gongs in any one or all the buildings
may be operated simultaneously, call
ing the fire brigade to any building
or section. If any one of the push but
tons is operated in case of an actual
fire, an alarm is sent to the central
office of the Portland fire department,
which tells where the fire is located.
In addition to calling the city depart
ment, the local fire alarm box strikes
a number which Indicates the building
from which the alarm was turned in.
and calls the local brigade to that
building.
CLASS WORK OPENS NOV. 2
Examinations at Library Held and
Lectures Will Continue.
Examinations for the training class
of the Publio Library were held at
the central building on Wednesday.
The subjects given were literature and
general information, history and cur
rent events. Seventeen applicants took
the examinations. Those who were suc
cessful will begin their class work on
Monday, November 2. - -
The next lecture to be given by Dr.
Chapman in the course on current
PRICES.
Some Instruments that are worth
$1000. $1100 and 1150 in the regular
retail way can now be had (upright,
players or baby grands) for only $385.
However, it is not necessary to invest
in the very highest-priced of all mu
sical instruments, for we sell the me
dium erade at correspondingly low
prices. This means Instruments
for only $98. and $118, and $145, that
are actually worth $200, $260, $300 In
the usual retail way.
'Although this may seem an impos
sibility, every advertisement of the
Hllere Music House is true. Let us
prove it. See also for only $195 the
highest - grade, strictly warranted
Colonial design or perfectly plain up
.rights, which usually sell for more
than double the price.
TERMS,
At these exceptionally . low sale
prices the terms should be spot cash,
but so that every planoless home can
take advantage of this offer, we have
decided to give 40, or 30, or 20, or 10
months' time as best suits each pur
chaser. Never were old reliable makes of
pianos offered at the low prices now
plainly marked on every instrument.
Make a. careful lnvestisratlon for your-
en at once, tomorrow.
Grand Concert'.
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and Washington Streets.
history, under the management of the
Oregon Civic League, will be "The
New Politics." The lecture will be de
livered in Library Hall ti. Thursday
evening, October 29.
Dr. Kelley Rees, of Reed College, will
deliver the first lecture in the course
on supreme achievements in European
literature Friday evening, October SO,
at 8 o'clock. His subject wi.l be "The
Origin of the Homeric Poems."
"Great Britain and the War" will be
the subject of Dr. Kenneth Scott Latou
rette's lecture to be given In Library
Hall on Tuesday evening. This. Is the
fourth lecture in Dr. Latourette's
course on "War: Its Origin. Its Sig
nificance." "On With the Dance."
(Washington Star.)
"I hear you have taken up- the danc
ing erase."
"Yes, I got so worried I kept walking
the floor anyhow and I thought I might
as well do it to music."
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Cssry Street, above Union Square
European Plan $1.50 a day up
Amsrioin Plan $3.50 day a I
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aaaiuoa ox Hundred rooms Jart com-
Sietea. every modern convenience,
loderate rates. Center of theatre and
retail district. On car line transfer
ring all over city. Eleetno omnibus
quests trains and. steamers.
For Example We Quote:
$900 Chickering Baby Grand. .$4 ST
Used, but superb bargain
$1150 Weber Pianola, like new. .$488
Late 8S-note model.
Other Pianola Pianos $285
$750 Lester Grand $366
$950 Knabe Grand, less than
halr $472
$500 Behning $286
S400 Wegman "I".$23T
$400 Emerson $X8S
$-50 Kingsbury. $SS another. .'.$12
$350 Vose. $10S; another $124
$375 Estey $165
$275 Ludwig $13T
$S00 Melville-Clark Player
Pla-tio $396
$600 Kingsbury Inner Player... .9288
Late SS-note model.
$600 Angelus Player Piano $225
$400 Hallet & Davis only $140
Fine for Students.
BROADWAY AT ALDER
Store Open Every Evening Until 9
o'clock During This Sale.
Ellsworth. Barnes & Davey, Manu
facturers' Kepresentatives.
- Out-of-town readers should send
ur illustrations tree.
Sunday Evening
The Initial Sunday Evening Concert of the sea
son given by Heller's Augmented Orchestra will
take place tonight from 8:30 to 10 in the Hotel
Lobby.
Attractive numbers on the programme Include
flute and 'cello duet. Meaara. Mlccoll and Colette
Violin Solo. Mr. Heller. Peer Gynt Suite, Heller's
AnsmpntH Orchestra. Tenor Solo. Manor Brave.
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