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20 DAYS AFTER SMITH WORRY TO CHARITY ; Relief Fund Raised to Aid poor , i iiin uuc I line ui i itiiij I to Another. IYEAR OF CHEER IS SLOGAN Case 'Xumber 65 May See Gaunt -Specter of Deatli as Christmas Visitor in Home Where Hus band Is Dying of Cancer. If CONTRIBUTIONS TO CHRIST- 1 J MAS RELIEK FCXD OF THB ASSOlHTKIl CHARITIES. I J Previously- reported $1652.98 I J Hanna Olson, Salem, Or... 20.00 ta&n, r-. w o.uv T. P. Cook 5.00 Cash, "J. J. D." 10.00 Cash .60 t J. K. GUI & Co. employes 3.35 I Cash. "Mrs. S. B.," Mc- I Minnville 5.00 4 J. M. Strite, Woodburn.. 1.00 The Misses Allen 2.00 t ' Total ...$1704.83 f'asH rnnfrfhuHnna ohnnlH i sent to Secretary V. R. Manning, 411 Commercial block: lo II. a Howard, at Ladd & Tilton Bank. tor to The Oregonian. Donations of clothing, groceries or other I Bupplies should go to the Asso . elated Charities, 411 Commercial block. ' It is not so much Christmas day In Which the Associated Charities Is !n ; terested in the raisins of its Cbrist J mas Relief Fund. On every side ; charitable organizations, temporary i-relief bureaus and innumerable other ; devices spring into existence under Sthe expansive warmth of the ChriBt- maa spirit to assure the poor of the I city of plenty and cheer at least on ; that one day of the. year. '. The 364 other day8 In the year are " the ones that Interest the. Associated ; Charities for 364 days between one time of plenty and another is a weary 5 while for the poor to wait. And the : spirit of giving that simply runs away "with itself in the Christinas holidays j and showers the poor with gifts and ; Christmas cheer, is most apt to sink -into slumber in the long weeks of the -Winter that follow the Christmas : holiday. The association recognizes how much 'more keenly the contrast of poverty must come home to the poor in those days after Christmas, when the holiday 'spirit lias burnt itself out and generous "people come no more to the door to phower them with food and supplies find sympathy. And it in for this rea son that the Charities raises its relief fund. Charities Rise and Kali. "For charitable organizations may rise and fall, but the Associated Charities must remain throughout the year, car rying relief and cheer to the poor, the nick and the unfortunate, whether it he holiday giving or the equally neces sary relief of other times of the car. "Christmas cheer through the year" is the slogan under which the fund was launched and has grown already past Ihe $1700 mark. To catch the prodigal spirit of charity that runs free in the Christmas holidays and conserve it so that its good effects may radiate - through the whole year this is the jilan. The $20 or the $10 or $1 that the . generous citizen of Portland sends to day as his Christmas contribution to the work of the charities, may carry relief today to some family that is in dire and Immediate need, or it may come out in the middle of next month Just in the nick of time to save some poor family from losing its home, or to tide some sick man or woman over until they are able to support them selves and their families once more. Cases of Need Numerous. The cases of need that arise are in numerable, and the procession of poor that passes through the headquarters f the Associated Charities continues as endless in other months as in the month in which the Christmas day is celebrated. . There is one case, for example, listed as "Number 65" in the files of the Charities, that calls out to the sym pathy of all living men and women. Case 6& Death May Be Christmas Visitor. . Not the Joyous Santa Claus, but the taunt Bpecter of Death seems likely to he the Christmas visitor in this home. The husband is an old man and is surely dying from cancer of the stotn uch. Wife Struggle Onward. The wife, who is about 50 years old, struggles, by such day work as she fan find, to support the sick man and the little granddaughter, 12 years old. Her meager earnings are not suffi cient even to keep the family supplied with the bare necessities of life. They have little food and no fuel. And as the great Joy day of all the world approaches, the hand of death Is creeping closer and closer to the latchstring of their door. Case 6. - Aged Woman to Luie Her Home. No chick nor child to care whether she lives or dies, has one old woman who lives all alone in a cheap little house. Ono cannot work much at 72 years, especially when all one's kin dred, the ones who keep within one the ambition to live and to work, are gone. She has no money and no way to . earn any money. fche is lonely and ; without food. ; Soon the rent will be far in arrears - and to protect himself from further loss the landlord has said that it will be necessary for him to turn the aged ; womon onto the streets to make her . way as best she can. Yesterday morning the thermometer was well down below the freezing point, and householders shivered when they slipped out of bed and down to the frosty basement to fire up their furnaces. Half clothed and poorly fed. how will it fare with this old woman in the next few weeks? Case 67 Widow and Children Hansrry. There are six children, all under 14 J ears of age, and the mother, a widow. is me soie oreaawmner. .She lias been nnable to earn any thing for a long time, and the family is utterly destitute. They are cold and hungry, and the immediate need is for fuel, for clothes and for enough food to keep life in the children's little bodies. The mother is unable to earn enough to care for them at this time, and It will be neces Fary for permanent help through the winter to be given. It is for such cases as this that the charities has its Christmas relief fund. Responses Already Generous. Portland's generous people have re sponded to the call for donations to the fund as never before this year, in spite of the many other demands upon their charity that have been made. Even cities- in other parts of the state are joining in the work to help provide the sort of Christmas cheer that will help the poor-through all the year. Turner, Tillamook and McMinn vlUo, cities that gave such great as sistance last Summer to the fresh air movement, have sent in messages ask ing for the names and addresses of children who visited them last Sum mer, so that they can send them Christmas presents and assist in help ing them in their needs for the Winter. Portland contributors are liberal not only in sending in cash donations, but also many are sending in supplies of food and clothing. Groceries were re ceived yesterday from Mrs. F. J. Haw kins, George Downs, Mrs. J. C Dow ling and Mrs. Griffin. Clothing supplia-i were received yesterday from Mrs. Louise Charleton, Miss Mary Walker, "A Friend from Clatsop Beach." Mrs. F. M. Warren. Staiger Shoe Company and Mrs. J. C Stranahan. Andrews and Connover sent wood supplies to several families. The Christmas relief fund campaign will continue until Christmas. Only about two weeks remain and in that time the Associated Charities sends its appeal to all of the generous citizens of Portland to help create a fund of sufficient strength to make it truly possible to carry help to the poor, as they need it throughout the whole year as well as in the Christmas season. TESTS PUZZLE TROON EXPERT SAYS SLAYER IS VICTIM OH" ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. Testimony That Murderer Has Mental Power of Child About Years Old Does Not Impress Jury For the first time in the history of Multnomah County scientific tests were applied last Wednesday by an expert to determine the degree of mental de velopment of a prisoner accused of murder. The case was that of Fred Tronson, convicted of the murder of Emma Ulrich. The defence failed, but the problem presented was an entirely new one to state jurisprudence. The expert who examined Tronson, Miss Grace Lyman, who is employed to make similar tests for the United States Government, de cided that, Tronson is a victim of ar rested development and that he has the mind of a child 9 years old. She testified to that effect at the trial, but the Jury was not impressed noticeably and Attorney Dan Powers for the de fense attributed this to the fact that this line of evidence is entirely new and untried in the West. The tests were applied in the se clusion of the office of Chief Deputy District Attorney Collier. Miss Lyman impressed the prisoner with the fact that she was his friend and had come to help . him. He was urged to do his best in making answers to the ques tions, and it was believed he did so. although some thought that he realized the object of the tests and purposely made a poor showing. Tronson is large of frame, appears to be stupid and probably is best de scribed by the words "loutish" and "hulking." A look of entire vacancy is always on his face and he never laughs. Humor seems entirely absent from his mind. Miss Lyman first spoke a series of numbers, which he was told to remem ber and repeat after her. such as 3. 7, C, 6. 4. This simple test brought mistaken answers, lio was then told to look sharply at two diagrams drawn on a sheet of paper, one being two rectangles, one within the other, and another a roughly drawn series of squares in the shape of a W. "I used to paint a little and I can draw some," mumbled Tronson, when this test was shown him, "but I don't know if I can do this." After looking at the figures for a moment a pencil and paper were sup plied and he was asked to imitate them without looking at the originals. He evidently had forgotten the designs and asked to look at them again. After another look he drew something that remotely resembled one of the figures. "Make a sentence using the words "boy, ball and river." directed Miss Lyman. Tronson gained vacantly over toward Mount Hood for some time and then, evidently pleased with himself, said: "He threw the ball in the river." A clrcla was drawn on a sheet of paper and Tronson was told it repre sented a two-acre field in which a boy had thrown a ball and lost it. "Where would you look for the ball?" he was asked. This was a game that Tronson liked. He took the pencil with avidity and after the proposition was explained to him over again be drew a corkscrew spiral that covered the field and showed his search would be a most thorough one.-..;-He has a deep-seated objection to losing anything. He often regretted since his arrest that he lost his hat on a country road near Van couver while making his escape after the shooting. "You would think that was a million-dollar hat," said one who heard him tell of his loss. Miss Lyman put a number of fables to Tronson and asked him to point out the morals. He did not show the slightest reasoning power. She started to tell the familiar one of the milk maid going to market, the moral being not to count your chickens before they are hatched. "1 dpn't want to hear about milk maids," said Tronson. so the story was changed to the adventure of a milkman instead. Tronson said he could see no sense in it. Other children's stories fared the same way. Miss Lyman asked him to name as many words as he could in a given time. She held the watch and told him when to start. -Tronson hesitated and showed no sign of making a be ginning. Being urged, he mumbled: "X don't feel like naming words; 1 don't want to do that." The fable of the crow with the piece of meat in its mouth and the wily fox that stood under the tree and asked the crow to sing conveyed no lesson to-Tronson and a number of others also went over his head. He did some sim ple tests in mental arithmetic, such as making change in imaginary purchases, suggested some words that made rhymes with others of one syllable and arranged blocks of different weights in order. ' These tests were accom plished with a fair degree of accuracy. On the whole, however, Tronson's mental status was found to be deplor able. Any normal child 9 or 10 years old would have made a much better showing, say those who watched the tests. It is the opinion of Miss Lyman that he Is teebled-minded. which is the same, she says, as pronouncing him a victim of arrested development. Boy, 11, Missing Since Wednesday. Arthur Trevor. 11 years old, has been missing from his home. 618 Union ave nue, since Wednesday "morning, and his mother, who is ill, is worried over his absence. The boy has light hair, is of medium build and wore a dark blue serge coat. He is reported to have been seen on the Hstacada line, but efforts -to find him have failed thus far. Columbia Highway Open. The cold, dry air of the past few days has dried up the Columbia River highway to such an extent that Road master Yeon has decided to drop the bars and permit automobiles to use the highway any time today. As it is cold and windy there. Mr. Yeon - advised tourists to "bundle up" to make the trip, comfortable, TRONSON TAKEN TO SERVE LIFE TERM Judge - McGinn, in Sentencing Slayer, Says No Sympathy Should Be Shown. MURDERER CALLED COWARD Court Believes if Act Had Been Committed Before Election Death Penalty Likely Would Not Have Been Abolished. Fred Tronson, convicted of murder in the second degree last Wednesday for the Bhooting of Emma Ulrich, was sen tenced to life imprisonment yesterday morning by Judge McGinn. An hour later he was on his way to the pen! tentlary in charge of a Deputy Sheriff. Tronson wore the same blank expres sion that was characteristic of him throughout the trial. He seemed to re alize nothing of what was being done and had nothing to say when Judge McGinn asked him to give reasons. ,lf any, why sentence should not be pro nounced. Judge McGinn made soma significant remarks in passing sentence. He said that had Tronson committed the rash act before the recent election he had no doubt in his mind that the anti-capi tal punishment amendment would not have passed. . 'Showing Clemency Opposed. He said there should be no clemency shown murderers of the Tronson type and that the sentence of life imprison ment should mean just that and noth ing less. Judge McGinn said: "Before the curtain is rung down upon the last scene of this horrible tragedy which took the life of this beautiful young woman it may be well to pause and consider the lesson which is read to us therefrom. "We have recently decreed by popu lar vote that the death penalty is to be abolished; that life is so sacred that not even the state in its governmental capacity may lawfully take it; that the injunction of the municipal law, fol lowing the teaching of the command ment, 'Thou shalt not kill,' applies to the state as much as it does to the indi vidual, and we are told that human life will be more sacred and will be more respected if the state itself does not take life. ' It may be well if what is thus presented is proven true by events to follow. "I have no doubt in my own mind that if this horrible tragedy had oc curred a few days before the election the death penalty would not have been abolished, but it would have been retained by a very large majority. It remains for us all, therefore, to see. if the death penalty is to continue off of the statute "books, that there be no recurrence of acts of this kind. If they happen again we may . depend upon it that reaction will come which will put the death penalty upon the statute book, there to abide. "Bars Must Not Be lt Down." "Another thing that is read to us: Where ono is shown to have the blood lust, as is indicated in this case, to such an extent that human life is never safe while such an one is at large, life imprisonment must mean life imprison ment. There can be no letting down of the bars in the years to come when sympathy for this man may cause some to think that he ought to be released. Warned as we are by what he did in this case, we must know that in the future life imprisonment must mean life imprisonment for him. "We must follow the example of Massachusetts in the case of Jesse Pomeroy. Forty-two years ago and more Jesse Pomeroy demonstrated that he had the blood lust; that it was congenitally there. He was by reason of his tender years, committed to the Massachusetts penal institution, and there he has remained ever since. He has become an eminent Greek scholar, and many appeals have been made to the executives of that commonwealth for clemency, but Massachusetts has not forgotten that it owed a duty to the living and that duty was not to let men o"f the Jesse Pomeroy type loose to prey upon mankind Judge Would Leave Message. "So I want this morning to leave a message to those that may come after me, and to those who may be on the scene when many of us who are here present are gone. This is a murder, most foul, committed by one for whose life we almost might say. in the lan guage of humanity's great poet: TTnr thy lifn let lustlce be aRCusd! Thou almost mak'st me waver Tn my faith. To hold opinion wun fytnagoras. That souls of animals Infuse themselves Into the trunks cf men. Thy currish spirit Govern d a voir, ... tor all thy desires Are wolfish, bloody, starved and ravenous. Aye, worse than any animal, because the animal will let one alone who ordi narily lets it alone; but this man went out looking for one who never did nim a wrong in the world and deliberately shot her down. A more arrant coward does not walk the earth than this man who stands here now, for when ar rested at Kelso .and mention was made that his life should be taken then and there by hanging him, he shook like an aspen leaf; and when he was being brought to this city he asked the de tectives to sit near the window for fear that someone might do him Injury. Wanton Slayer Always a Coward. ."This is not called up at this time to offer any insult to this man. but that we may thereby take a lesson. Those who have had anything to do with the administration of the crim inal law know that a wanton murderer is always a coward, and such is this man. "The message which T leave this morning, to be read at all times in the future whenever any application may be made to any executive for the re lease of this man, or to any pardon board, is to know that whether I am here or gone, whether I am on this earth or beyond 'it, that I protest against executive clemency ever being shown to this man. Life imprisonment must mean life imprisonment- We owe it to the living to see that his kind are not allowed to repeat these acts. "The judgment of the Court is that you be imprisoned in the Penitentiary of the State of Oregon for the term of your natural life; and I trust that natural life means Just what it says. And there is no reason why there should be any delay in this case. Let this man be taken immediately to Sa lem. There are no certificates of prob able cause, or anything else needed. Take him at once." Woman Sentenced for Life. MINNEAPOLIS. Dec. 12. Mrs. Char 16tta Sharpless, convicted yesterday of the murder of her husband with a jew eled lodge sword, was sentenced to the penitentiary for life today. She heard the announcement with the same appar ent unconcern manifested by her throughout the trial. The United States has been expressing Germany nearly 50.000.000 pounds of prunes a year- and 83,0v0 sounds of raisins TRONSON, AGED 24, PLACED IN UNDESIRABLE CLASS George A. Thacher Makes Unique Study of Criminal, Apparently Inoffen sive Until Mind Impels Him to Destroy Being He Cannot Influence. . BY GEORGE A. THACHER. ' x ALL of the circumstances of the killing, of Emma Ulrich by Fred Tronson, together with his ap pearance and actions and personal history, made me think that he was a -mental defective. The morons are com mon enough but are not criminal asa rule, being usually the shiftless, the incapable, the drunken and the hobo. both male and female, the latter gen erally a woman of the under world. At the same time the criminal class is largely recruited from the morons, though they are not the leaders In crimes demanding skill and careful planning. The name moron is arbitrary as are the terms idiot and imbecile. The American Association for the Study of the Feeble-Minded defines an idiot as a person whose intelligence does not go beyond that of a child of 3 years; an imbecile one who does not know more than a child of 7 years; and a moron as one who has the Intelligence of a child from 7 to 12 years. A casual glance is enough to pick out an idiot or an imbecile, but the morons often appear like normal per sons until they have been studied care fully. They are a source of exaspera tion to social workers, and the hard headed business man often suggests that the police club them to death be cause they refuse to behave like normal beings. Transom Shiftless Person. To this class belongs Fred Trouson, a young man of 24 years, whom I learned from his mother had never held a job in his life more than two or three months (though she had various excuses for the fact). He always has been inoffensive, and is a member of the Millard - Avenue Presbyterian Church and voted for prohibition, but when he found he could not have the girl he wanted his childish mind im pelled him to destroy the being he could not influence. fciome mouths ago a feminine moron of 22 years, whom I knew well, blew off the top of her head with a shot gun for some childish reason or other. She was a pretty and attractive girl and was fond of ' her mother and brothers, wo of whom were so hope lessly feeble-minded that they would be picked out as imbeciles by anyone. She took, care of the family part of the time out of her earnings. It is perhaps needless to say that she was a disorderly character, and in her short life she had created more trouble for the United States courts and state courts in white slave cases than any girl on the Pacific Coast probably. In this case of Fred Tronson, Mr. Pow4s, his attorney, asked my as sistance as a member of the board of directors of the Oregon Prisoners' Aid Society and because I have helped to handle cases of delinquent defectives. I have had numerous opportunities to study these defectives through the courtesy of the District Attorney's office, and of the Police Department, especially the woman's protective division, as well as the cases of paroled prisoners and defectives cared for by the Pacilic Coast Rescue and Protective Society, of which W. G. Mac. Laren is the superintendent. There is a steady grist of them being ground through the mill, and society pays a heavy cost in the prisons, courts, police and Sheriffs' deputies, not to mention the destruction they cause In life and property. Prevention Is Great Need. This case of murder was so flagrant that we decided, after consulting with the District Attorney to try to get the facts before the public, not with - any idea of securing immunity for Tron son, but simply to show the citizens of Oregon that this is more a problem demanding prevention than vengeance. Mr. Powers admitted the fact of the killing to the court and the jury, and offered the testimony- of the alienists. Dr. House and Dr. Joseph!, to prove that Tronson was not insane, but of low-grade mentality. We also secured the services of Miss Grace Lyman, a psychologist' who has examined hundreds of feeble-minded persons, to examine Tronson and to testify in court. She said that Tron son was about 9 years old mentally. The tests used by Miss Lyman have caused some amusement and the first impatient thought is that they are all "bunk," as one of .the District Attor ney's assistants in the criminal work assured me. Grade off Moron, Determined. They are, however, based upon thous ands of experiments among children and show the growth from year to year of the child's intelligence. By these tests the grade of the idiot and the imbecile is determined as well as the moron. t All fathers and mothers who are interested in their babies hail with delight the time when the year old babe can point to its nose or mouth upon being asked. As they grow older they can repeat words and answer questions and as they approach ado lescence they can reason and use the teaching they" receive. These stand ardized tests -have been arranged in a system called the Binet-Simon scale for determining the psychological age or the child. 1 To the incredulous who accept new ideas only upon good authority, I refer a recent work, "Outlines of Psychiatry, by Dr. William White. Dr. White is superintendent of the Government Hos pital for the Insane in Washington, D. C, professor of nervous and mental diseases in the Georgetown University. and also in the George Washington University, and lecturer on Insanity in the Army and Navy medical schools. Dr. White explains that feeble-mind edness differs from .insanity because insanity is a disturbed and disordered condition of mind, while in feeble minded cases the mind has never grown to normal proportions and so shows a hopeless lack. He devotes a chapter to the Binet-Simon scale and says in the introduction: "The important point is that this scale is the most efficient means we now have for determining the mental development of the child. Application of Test Told. It is obvious that an adult who can not pass the test for more than a 10-year-old child must be rated accord ingly. There are two objections to these tests as applied to Fred Tronson. One is that he was not in good condi tion to pass well because he was on trial for murder. The other objection is that he guessed the object and so tried to appear aa stupid as possible In order to escape. District Attorney Collier told me that Tronson was pur posely, he thought, answering as slow ly and poorly as possible. Miss Lyman thought that he did as well as he could. I will call attention to Tronson's portrait in profile to those who be lieve that physiognomy expresses in telligence and will relate an incident. Mr. Amos, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of which. Tronson is a mem ber, and who sat beside Tronson dur ing the trial, told me that after Tron son's confession was read to the Jury Tronson leaned over and asked him, "Well, what do you think of itr Then when Tronson was brought in to hear the verdict of guilty he is re ported as asking the Sheriff, "What Is it?" and on being told that he was found guilty he - said that there was not so much of a crowd as there was at the" trial. To tha, childish mind, being the center of 'interest of the crowd surpassed in importance a ver dict that would fOiut him up for life In prison. The Prisoners Aid,. Society.- Js Inter- t- -a .ij -a-.?! I " V A ; "LA 1 ) isisnimiimsn- mn-flnmmii istr i rA , Profile View of Fred Tronson. ested in this case and many others where the offense is not murder, be cause the members know that many men are, paroled from prison who should be detained permanently be cause they are a menace to society. Tronson should never be permitted to go at large, and lie should never be permitted to leave prison, for this de fect is certainly inherited. There are many other men of his type who are in prison, but who will get out after Bervlng a minimum sentence because the prison is a hard place to live per manently, and because the room is needed for a fresh lot of prisoners. Strictly speaking, these are institu tional cases and should have a perma nent home where they may be made as nearly self-supporting as possible. In the meantime scientific studies are being made to determine the means of prevention of f eeble-mlndedness. The most obvious remedy is to pre vent progeny of feeble minds, but that is also impossible except in institu tional cases. The people - of Oregon object to sterilizing criminals as a question of personal freedom. Tronson Surly Feeble-Minded. Tronson's mother says that he was ill at 4 years of age with diphtheria and that he suffered afterward from discharges from both ears for a period of 10 years. Whatever the cause, he is undoubtedly feeble-minded and must be permanently detained as a menace to society. A couple of years ago I wrote an ar ticle on commercial prostitution which was published in The Oregonian. The significant thing in that discussion was the fact that several vice centers in Portland were managed by apparently hereditary defectives possessing a blood relationship to each other. I called attention to "The Kalllkak - Family." published by Dr. Henry H. Goddard, of Vineland, N. J., which gives a his tory for half a dozen generations of a feeble-minded, alcoholic. Immoral and degenerate crew, which cost the state many thousands of dollars. Dr. Goddard has Just published a comprehensive discussion of some 326 cases of feeble-mindedness. There is a copy in the Public Library, and Miss Isom has ordered an extra copy for the City Hall reference library. The title of the book is "Feeble-Mindedness: Its Causes and Consequences." Some of these cases are the despair of everyone under our present criminal laws and jail system. I have in mind some of the girls in the State Training School at Salem, in the Louise Home in Portland, and in the Mouse of the Good Shepherd, not to mention some of the recurring cases in the police court. "I have Just received a letter from Dr. Goddard in reference to the mental defect of Tronson which he wrote upon reading the account of the murder in The Oregonian and some facts which I sent him. Speaking of the probable mental defect, he says: "I shall be most interested to know whether this phase of the matter is at all considered in his trial. I pre sume the people .will object to such a version of the case, and yet they ought not." Readers of his books will understand the reasons for a change of attitude on the part of the public in this vital matter .of the protection of society. RABBITS TO RELIEVE POOR Drives Organized in Five Towns Help Needy in Portland. Five towns have organized rabbit drives in Kastern Oregon and will send the rabbits caught into Portland for the relief of the poor of the city. This announcement was made yesterday by J. L. Miller, traveling passenger agent of the O.-W.- K. & N., who has just returned from a trip in Eastern Ore gon. The drives will be out of Stanfield, Pendleton, Hermiston, Echo and Uma tilla. Wagons will follow the hunters and the rabbits will be hauled to the nearest depots, where they will be shipped by the American Express free of charge. E. E. Cleaver, of Pendle ton, and Mayor James Kyle, of Stan fleld, are heading the Eastern Oregon Great Semi- Annual MADE to ORDEC REDUCTION SALE Suit and Extra Pair Trousers. For the Price of the Suit Alone Of the Same or Striped Material $25 to $45 Tailor for Young Men. wTTJiTAM JEREEMS SONS, lOS THIRD STREET. K. F. Boodj, Manager. Please Call for Your 1915 Calendar. A Concert Recital At Eilers Recital Hall Music lovers, teachers and students are cordially invited to attend a free concert of the splendid JOHN JVP C0RMACK Records, assisted by W. -"YV. Allen, violinist, at Eilers Recital Hall, Broadway at Alder. The beautiful ballad singing of Mr. McCor mack wins the hearts of all lovers of a glorious tenor voice; and the musically perfect Victor records leave nothing to be desired. Mr. Allen, the clever and artistic violinist, will appear as his own accompanist in several numbers and in a special demonstra tion number will also be accompanied by Arthur Nikisch on the Welte Mignon. Following is the programme : I Sextette, from Lucia di Lamnermoor. . . .Donizetti Mr. W. W.' Allen, violin and Eilers Player Piano de Luse. II. "Ah! Moon of My Delight" (from "In a Persian Garden") Lchmann John McCormack. IIL 1 " Pariglio Car a, "Traviata" Verdi Duet, Lucretia Bori and John McCormack. IV. Berceuse, from Jocelyn ." Godard John McCormack. Violin" obligato bv Fritz Kreisler. V. Hungarian Dance No. V Brahms W. "W. Allen, violin. Accompanied by Arthur Nikisch Welte-Mignon. VI. Quartet from "Rigoletto" Verdi Bori, Jacobv, Werrenrath, McCormack. VII. a. Mother o' Mine. . . : Kipling-Tours b. Molly Brannigan .Old Irish John McCormack. vin. Cavatina .' Raff W. W. Allen. - IX. Parle moi de ma mere, "Carmen" Bizet Lucy Marsh, John McCormack. ' X. She Is Far From the Land Moore John McCormack. XL Meditation, "Thais" Massenet W. V. Allen, violin; Miss Chrysler at the piano. Wednesday evening, December 16, 1914, at 8 P. M. Complimentary tickets to this concert may be obtained at EILERS MUSIC HOUSE Eilers Building, Broadway at Alien committee. About 5000 rabbits is the total bag expected. Alleged Holdup Is "Fake." After reporting that he had been Featuring the Best the Hotel Multnomah offers a service of distinction for the tourist commercial man and the visitor about lotvn Tvho drops in for lunch, dinner or after the theater. Splendid entertainment in the Grill by singers and dancers of note. Sunday Grand You will meet )our Hotel Multnomah H otel ANNOUNCES a new departure in serving a Table d'Hote Dinner daily and Sunday, 6 to 8 P. M., at $1.00 per plate. Entertainment de luxe: Elaine Forrest, Soprano; Helen Kleka, contralto; Robert Lovell Wilson, baritone; Les Bohemiennes Orchestra. Entrance through lobby or Oak street. Make your reservations now for Xmas Dinner and New Year's Eve The "Finest Grill on the Coast Has Just Been Finished at the HOTEL SAVOY SEATTLE Twelve Stories of solid comfort. The fireproof hotel In the heart of the city. Lobby recently en larged. European Plan Rates ft Per Day Up. N With Bath - Per Day Vp. Management. decoiaced and tt throughout. (LOOpwrDsrsodoo ft rb Bfc 12.00 sad a ti 1 II Entire Men V l liNewi, I V Jl furnished robbed of $35 at First and Davis streets last week, Alvin V rederickson, a farm er, yesterday confessed that the rob bery was a fake, the police say. He will be tried on a charge of vagrancy. Table d'Hote Dinner, 6 until 8 Concert in Lobby From 8:30 until 10 friends at this hotel Reserve Tables Eve. H. C 'Bowers. Me-r. L. P. Reynolds, Asst. Mgr. enson CAMFOBXIA HOTEXS. HOTEL ! SUTTER 8 UTTER AXO KEARVY STS, SASf FRANCISCO. European Plan 91JSO a liar Fs. American Plan S&SO a Day lip. 250 ROOMS WITH 200 BATHS. NEW CENTRAL FIREPROOF. Every comfort and convenience. In the center of theater and retail district. On carlines transferring to all parts of city. Omnibus meets all trains and steamers. HOTEL SAN FRANCISCO Csanf Stroat, abovo Union Squara European Plan $1.50 a day up American Plan $3.50 a da; at New steel and concrete structure. Third addition of hundred rooms just com pleted. Every modern convenience. Moderate rates. Center of theatre and retail district. On carlines transfer ring all ovex city. Electric omnibus meets trains and steamers. SlIwABT