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13 HOTEL'S DRESS HEW ALL ILL ARE AIDED BY VISITING NURSES HUMOR BLENDED WITH MUSIC BY MR. BARRERE Changes From Serious to Merry Tunes So Sudden That Audience Some times Catches lis Breath With Amazement, but Effect Is Enjoyed. The Portland Is Remodeled for Summer Visitors. THE SUTOAY OltEGONIATSV PORTLAND, APRIL 25, 1915. ft fielief Carries Workers From Most Comfortable to Most Needy Abodes. ADVICE OFT ONLY TONIC Dispenser of Cheer Declares That Discouragements Are Many and That Efforts Scarcely Noticed In Removing Misery. BT MISS K. J. LACKUKD, Visiting N'una. Our work for the day begins at 8:30, and the number of visits paid depends upon the amount necessary to be done for each patient, as well as upon the distance one has to cover In getting to and from them. Here la a sample day: Our first visit is to a new patient, where much preliminary work must be done in getting thingrs together in ratber a careless household at the best, out now thoroughly demoralized on account of an 111 mother. They are not real poor people, these, as the fath er is working steadily and there are only- two children to clothe, feed and educate. After much searching: on the part of the older girl, who Is staying: home from high school to do the housekeep ing1 and attend to her. mother, some clean linen Is found for the patient and her bed. The nurse, in the meantime, takes temperature, sizes up the situa tion and, incidentally fixes up the fire and puts on water to heat. All Ins; Babe Is Next Charge. A first visit of this sort, when so much instruction, as well as nursing has to be given, will take at least an hour. Our next visit is to an ailing baby, getting better now, after several weeks' Illness, from which the doctor and all of us hardly expected her to recover. The brain lias been affected seriously and the child, 2 years of age. is just beginning to notice people and things around her, but acta as & baby of five or six months. Here the father is with out steady work and there are two other little girls. Just a few years older. We walk a few blocks to see a small boy of 4. who lives on the third floor with his widowed mother and a big sister of 16, who is at present the only wage-earner in the family. She re ceives only i$7 a week. Our boy has been left in the care of the landlady (not being well enough to bo taken to the Day Nursery, where he usually stayed while his mother went out to work) He became sud denly worse and the doctor who was called in and gave his services, pro nounced it an attack of appendicitis. Here we have a nervous, anxious moth er, who will not hear of the hospital for her darling, when she can take so much better care of him at home. We have an uphill time. As our patient Is naturally nervous and shows the strain of being cared for by .an excitable mother. Kulton Famlljr Is Visited. We are quite contented to sit down now to'-a few minutes visit to an in teresting old couple. No actual nursing is needed as the patient is up most of the time and prefers his wife to wait on him. These are Russians, in Amer ica only two years. The husband had been a teacher of Hebrew in the old country, where he made a comfortable living. They had come to America and were having a Hard time getting along. Scholars were hard to find and, besides, the old man's health began to fail. A few words of advice and cheer (given with the aid of an interpreter) is all to be done here. Lunch over, and a short rest we start out again. This time we take a car to the end of the Fulton line, to And a family father,' mother and nine children camping in a field, living in a covered wagon and a vacant shack (the latter they had found near a stream, so de cided to stop there). They had started out from a small town in Idaho, across country In a covered wagon, planning to take up a small tract of land In the Coos Bay country. One baby, a twin, had died just be fore they started and the other en route. The family was stranded here. The man had no work and they were really starving, with the mother ill There is nothing to do in the way of nursing care here, so the patient was Bent to a sanatorium. 'The situation was reported and. "by the aid of the Salvation Army and Associated Chart ties, the famtly was moved to a home in Fulton and cared for until the father and older children could get work. Boy Is Treated for Ring Worm. A few blocks from this patient we top in and dress a tuberculous hip. A Russian boy Is home from the hospital n lew weeks. The Jewish Women's Benevolent Society has paid for hospital care, plaster cast and ray plates, while the doctor has given his services. An abscess is showing much improvement and the bov is getting around by the aid of crutches and a high shoe, with a plaster cast from ihe waist down the whole length of one leg. Before having the cast he had been suffering much nain. having some fever and very little appetite. Now his mother is telling with pride about the-quantlty of milk lie drinks and about the eggs and every thinir else he eats. Another car ride this time to North Portland to see a stolid German boy of two and a half years. We stand him on a chair and proceed to cut off his hair, which is done with difficulty, as the head is covered with sores. Then we scrub and clean with green soap and water and finally apply the doctor's treatment for ringworm. Now, if there Is a little time left we stoo bv to "see some of the physicians whose patients we are caring for. It. too late for this we must phone and ask advice. Any one, looking over the daily rec ords of a Visiting Nurse can read be tween the lines and picture the many ai-ene of poverty, distress of mind and body, and often the seeming unfitness of those we come in contact with, to . contend with the problems of living, There are many discouragements; for after all. though we try and often do help many to recover their hold on life, we realize we can do comparatively nothing to remove the cause for all this misery. FIRE LAID TO HOTELMAN lrank Ketclmna, of Camas, Accused of Arson, Follow ing Blaze. VANCOUVER, Wash.. April 24. (Spe clal. ) Frank Ketchum has been ar rested charged with arson. He had recently leased the old Camas Hotel t Camas, which was burned Wednes day. The hotel was the oldest larg bulldinar in Camas and for years wa the best hotel there. . It was leased by the owner, Loren Wright, to Ketchum, who was to open It as a rooming-house. It is charged that Ketchum tried to fumigate th house and fire was started. It was insured for 1008, S : : i . L: ' , .:: . -J .'- - i - . . . ' s S . - j . - " , GEORGEJ BARI1KBE, WHO WILIi BE I1V PORTLAND WITH HIS WOOD-WIND ORCHESTRA MAY S. G EORGB BARRERE, who comes to Portland for the first time May 5 with his eight famous wood wind artists, Is not only a musical genius of the highest order and the greatest living flute player, but he is also that rara avis, a wit. He has that naive, flashing sense of humor, so inimitable in its subtle grace and piq.uant delicacy of expression that is the rarest and most delightful heritage that Gallic genius has given the world. This sparklirig humor that is so characteristic of the man must break out occasionally in the music of the Barrere Ensemble. an organization famous on two continents, for its nipe players on flute, oboes, .horns, clarinets and bassoons, are men of the finest musical instinct and skill, without a peer the world over on their respective Instruments. ' A merry jeu d'esprlt takes the audi ence by surprise. After tho pure con. tentment of a classic number by Mozart or a flaming outburst from" Beethoven, in which the passions are always held in subjection by sublime optimism and sense of right, it is refreshing to relax and enjoy the scintillating play of flute and clarinet, oboe and bassoon. in a modern French trtfle, so exquisite ly merry and aerial that the smile is accompanied by a catch of the breath in sheer delight. The bassoon, in particular, plays NEW CHILD BOOK ON BIRD LIFE PUBLISHED William L. Finley and Irene Finley Mountains, Making Friends of r t r r--.fi Trr Sine? S3-j?. AN interesting child's book on bird Ufa by William I and Irene Finley has been announced by Hough ton Mifflin Company, the Boston pub- 1 Ushers. The new book is entitled "Little Bird Blue," and Is a charming biography of a bluebird which was adopted by the children. The book is well illustrated with both drawings and photographs. This new book has heen written by Mr. and Mrs. Finley on account of fre quent requests for a child's book on birds. It Is one of a series of books to be written by these bird lovers to interest children and older people in protecting and making friends of the birds. For eeyeral years, especially during the Bummer season, these two natural ists have spent their spare time In tramping and camping; through the P f IB 4 vt aMMMBaM.-d many a freakish prank, yet never mars the spell made by the beauty of the music, for there is a hidden but incorrigible element of grotesque Uu mor in the bassoon that calls to mind the mingling of serious philosophy and wit in Shakespeare's fools. Beethoven made use of this with- delightful ef' feet in the Pastoral Symphony, and Gounod in the "Funeral March of Marionette." as did also Mendelssohn in "Midsummer Night's Dream." Yet the bassoon can be highly effective in serious melody, as Handel has shown us in the scene of Saul and the Witch of Endor. There are all sorts of surprises in the notes of the oboe, also, for it has been named the "feminine sex among wind instruments," and is quite as coquettish and variable as womankind in general is supposed to be. From the dreamy, languorous beauty of a melody from the French horn to the fairy laughter of the flute, as Its trills and roulades fall upon the ear in cascades of merry enchanting music, one mood chases another, as George Barrere and his happy pipers play upon our heartstrings. The ethereal beauty of their music appeals to all alike, leveling all classes. This concert by the Barrere En semble will take place at the Heilig May 5, under the direction of Steers & Coman. It will be the last of their series, and promises to be one of the most delightful musical offerings Port land has enjoyed In the past 20 years Spend Several Summers Tramping in Feathered Folk and Getting Data. i i 2r &s&stt mountains, making friends of birds and animals and collecting Interesting stories of outdoor life. Lebanon. Veteran, Hurt Again. LEBANON. Or.. April 24. (Special.) John S. Gibson, a veteran of the Civil War. who was recently seriously shot hv W. C. Amzel. at Sodaville. and who has about recovered from the IW jurv which at the time was thought fo be fatal, met with another accident yesterday at his home in the suburbs of Lebanon, when an oil stove he was lighting exploded. He was covered with burning oil, his clothing was set on fire, and hie hands, head and face were severely burned. The house was set on fire, but was saved by the prompt arrival of the chemical engine of the local lire department. TTiare are 800 Iron mines In operation in Sweden-arid. 40 mines -of other metal. It! SJ r : . ...11 ARTISTIC EFFECT PLEASING Harmony of - Color and Greatest Utility to Be Gained Guides In Alteration. Plans to Add to . Attractiveness of House. The Portland Hotel, one of the old est and moat famous hostelries on the Pacific Coast, has in addition, been made thoroughly modern by the re modeling and refurnishing work which la just being completed at an expendi ture of $31,000. The great caravansary, which was designed by the late Stanford White and is under the management of George C. Ober, has been overhauled from cellar to garret by an army or carpenters, painters. paper-bangers, carpet-layers and other workmen. who have left it in holiday attire. ready to welcome the crowds of East ern visitors which it Is expected will pass through Portland on the way to and from the fair at San Francisco this Summer. Improvements Please Exacting. Practically all the rooms of the hotel have been fitted up with, new carpets of rich and artistic hues and have been hung with beautifully tinted paper to match. The woodwork of the rooms also has been restained and varnished. everything being done to delight the eye of the artist and please the most exacting taste in harmony and color effect. The private dining-room, with its golden draperies and portiers, gilded furniture and new and indirect light ing system, is one of the rooms where the remodeling and alterations have been worked out- in the most delight ful manner. The sum of 1800 was spent in refitting this room alone and. to the observer with an eye for the ar tistic the money appears to have been exceedingly well spent. The main parlor has been fitted up in beautiful tints of gray and light green and the ladies reception room has been given a delightful Oriental cast by its fittings of red and ma hogany. Kitchen Also Altered. The kitchen has not been forgotten, that indispensable part of the hostelry having been remodeled and enlarged to make it more adequate for the needs of the house. New equipment has also been obtained and everything arranged in the most up-to-date manner. The work has also been carried on below ground until every department has felt the touch of the remodeler. Frigid cellars, the hot engine-room storerooms, the electric lighting plant ice plant, laundry, heating plant, and the various other appendages of a modern hotel have been changed and improved in an attempt to put every thing in" the best possible order. The alterations are the results of the careful study of men who have watched every improvement of hotels introduced in the past 20 years. BUILDING LAGK BLAMED KKFJTTSCHJIITT ATTRIBUTES UM BER STAGNATION TO DEPRESSION. Dealer. However. Take Different View and Asnert Tariff Change Playa " Important Part. An illuminating analysis of the pres ent situation in the lumber industry was made recently by Julius Krutt- schnitt, chairman of the Southern Pa clfio board, upon his return to New York from a trip through Oregon, Cal ifornia and other parts of the .West. His observations on the business sit uation generally were encouraging, with the single exception of the lum ber trade. He is quoted as speaking of the "practical paralysis of tho lum ber business," of which subject he Is held to be a competent judge, inas much as the transportation of lumber, especially in the Northwest and upon the Pacific Coast, has in the past fur nished an important part of the traf fic of his systems. 'Mr. Kruttschnitt s explanation of the great demoralization of this busi ness was- based exclusively upon gen eral business depression." is the com ment made by his interviewers. "The falling off in building operations throughout the country had greatly decreased the demand for lumber. But it is said that if that is the only ex planation, then the lumbermen may look forward with confidence to the return of prosperity, since building, and that upon large lines, is certain to follow revival of prosperity." In connection with Mr. Kruttsonnitt s discussion of the lumber trade, new York experts are pointing out that the depression in Oregon and Washington is due to other causes than general lack of trade activity, frincipai among these other causes is enumerated the tariff. It is pointed out that tns canaaian lumber interests are able to maintain successful competition with the Ore gon and Washington producers by rea of the recent tariff reductions and Iki. nnan or me J-&nnia. IMH. Canadian lumbermen are said to d confident that, with the change in the . . . in W l I . h!n lumber tariri. iney win lumber from the Canadian ports on the Coast bv wav of the Panama f-.i to New York and other Atlantic . Kn .h dtioK and maricec it i a i tivnr than the Oregon and Washington lumbermen could sell like nroducts. "WeU-inrormeo. ousmess rani. ) the New York report supplementing Mr Kruttschnitt s statements, bio confident that the country cannot have if mrasurn ol prosperity uuiuna the great lumber industry of tbe iTnited States aids in stimulating that nrnnnArllv find has its due share of it. The fact tnat tne iraiiovuuumiiu- , i . . 1 . Vi 1 nnf. to railroads require iuiuuoi fill their eastbound rreigni cars is ei American uaae wh.ii " Orient depends largely upon maintain ing this equilibrium, it. is maim--.., FUGITIVE IS HELD IN OHIO r. H. LeMonn to WaWe Extradition to Face SOO-.O'OO Fraud Charg-e. V. H. LeMonn. for whose arrest as fugitive from justice a reward recently was offered by United States Marshal Montag, was arrested in Toledo, O., Fri day night, according to advices received yesterday By f eaeru huiuui uich Portland and will waive extradition and return to Portland for trial. He Is un der indictment by the Federal grand n connection with eight other of ficials and salesmen in mo umicu st.te Cashier Company cases, accused nf fraudulent use of tne mans. LeMonn was a stock saleenian for the Jones Cash $150,000 Stock NOW SELLING SIMON SALYAGE Join the merry crowds tomor row and save substantially on wanted merchan dise. at ppvset SomCo8 company and is said to have made $0, 000 in commissions during his opera tions here. FARM TALKS TO BE GIVEN Dr. Shaw and G. Tj. Wilson to Visit Central Oregon in June. Dr.- Thoma Shaw, agriculturist of the Great Northern and Northern Pa cific Railways, will make a tour of Cen tral Oregon the first week in June and will give a series of lectures in that district on diversified farming and live stock growing. C. E. Arney. Western industrial immigration agent of the Northern Pacific, with headquarters in Spokane, was in Portland yesterday and conferred with Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway officials regarding the Itinerary to be made by Dr. Shaw. It is expected that plans for the tour will be completed thi week. "Central Oregon has tremendous pos sibilities for livestock raising and di versified farming." said Mr. Arney. NEW POLICEMAN WHO CLAIMS DISTINCTION OF BEING -BIGGEST COP" ON FORCE V t -jrtf, Hi': T. J. BIO TIM HEALY BBINO SWORV IX AT CITV HALL BY DEPUTY AUDITOR E. VV. JOXE8. Although no record has been made recently of measurements of Portland policemen. Timothy J. Healy, who was sworn in at tho Cits Hall recently, expects to carry away the title of the "biggest cop." He will join the force tomorrow, having been appointed, by .Mayor Al bee and having furnished his bond, taken his oath and donned a star. Healy, who is known in police circles as "Big Tim," stands ( feet 4V4 inches in his stocking feet, weighs 275 pounds stripped and and has a chest measurement of 49 inches. He Is SO years of age and has been in tbe police business a number of years. After being shot by a highwayman on January 27, 1914, he was taken to the hospital, where he was confined for two months. He had planned to take a civil service examination for the police force, but the test was held while he was in the hospital. In recognition of his services the Municipal Civil Service Board held a special examination for him and he passed high in the list. m ?J? Jones Cash Store H at STORE Test the Strength v Simon Salvage Store TOMORROW 9:30 A. M. "Simon" offers another block of merchandise from the big Jones Cash Store Greater Stock Greater Variety Greater Bargains Tomorrow By the Bargains That Await You "Simon" Shall Be Known Doors Open at 9:3 SIMON SALVAGE 131-133 First St. "Since our line has been built and irri gation projects constructed rapid strides have been made there. The real development of the district has Just heen started,. It is our plan to aid Central Oregon in every way possible. "As a practical agriculturist. Dr. Shaw has a National reputation and tho message he will have for the farmers of Central Oregon will be something of great value to them. Io has- visited that section before and knows what the possibilities are. It Is probable that he win pass a week or 10 days in the district." - G. 1 Willeon. alfalfa expert of the Northern Pacific, will accompany Dr. Shaw. Church Recital of Music. K. Eugene Renfro, baritone, will be presented in recital by Maude Springer Watklns Wednesday night at Central Christian church. East Twentieth and Salmon streets. Mr. Renfro will be as sisted by Vivian LeLory, violinist, and Ocean Jolly, reader. Tho publlo is in vited. f X i I. r - V O'ij "J..-f. Tie--h 1 1 1 ;. Men's. Women' and 'blldrrns Kornlabtnics. Hats. tbi-. Fur niture. II r a w a r e. iro-eres. HHdlns anal Dry .00,1 n. Content of S-Mory Sale Opens Mon- day at S 1 m o n's : Salvage Store.f, builrtlnK rclallrd by 6IMOX K. f VAU8 8TOKE 131-133 First St. I, ', I f , . 1 A in ..' ' ' X of Your Dollar at MORNING O A. M. STORE' Simon & Eio NEAR ALDEIt SMILE, BE HAPPY! TAREJA8CARETS Cheer Up! Remove the Winter's Poison From Your Liver and Dowels. Enjoy Ljfe! Don't Stay Uilious, fcick, Headachy and Constipated. Spend 10 cents feel grand! Tonielit take I'amarels to liven your liver and clean your bowels. Stop tho headache. bilious fpells. 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