TITK ST7NT)AY ORKGOXIAN, PORTLAXP- APRIL C, 1916. !ER TO HAVE BOY SCOUTS OF PORTLAND GOING THROUGH FIELD DAY MANEUVERS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. SPEEDWAY PORTLAND IS OF MANY Oil E IT'S HERE, MEN! OPEN HOUSE FRIDAY STAGE 5T Exhibits and Workings Will Bs Shown to Guests at In formal Gathering. Oregon Metropolis Particu larly Useful in Providing for Orpheum Circuit. 3rd. fleor WOMEN TO HAVE PART DOZEN ACTS TO ITS CREDIT 16 CHAM E HO ucs ' rsar;Ea- ... fe'M lvNi.JvV n. r., t v r- Members, Ilelatives and Friends Are Invited Governor, State and City Officials Will Attend Color Views to Be lut On. Next Friday night has been des ignated as the time for the official "house warming" for the headquarters of the Chamber, of Commerce, the offi cial opening of the Oregon state ex hibit on the ground floor of the Ore gon building, an inspection of the head quarters of the Oregon Fish and Game Commission, which have been located in the Oregon building, and the first public appearance of the Berger-Jones pictures since their return from the East. The affair is to be entirely informal and is for members of the Chamber of Commerce, their families and friends. It will be attended by the Governor of the state and a number of state offi cials, as well as by the Mayor and Commissioners. It will be the first time that the gen eral membership has been gathered to gether since the organization of the Chamber, and opportunity will be given them to inspect the entire plant they own and to become familiar with the methods and plans by which their busi ness is carried on. Fair Exhibit Secured. On the first floor of the building will be found the Game and Fish Commis sion and the Oregon state exhibit. The latter is said to be the finest perma nent exhibit ever gathered in the West and to be the best mounted. It gives opportunity for study of the land prod ucts, sea products and the industrial products of Oregon, and is so arranged as to present these in sections corre sponding to the divisions of the state. The exhibit is largely composed of products which aroused so much en thusiasm at the Panama-Pacific Fair. It was gathered at the expense of the state, and later an appropriation was secured for permanently locating the exhibit in Portland. Phil Metschan, Jr., is to be chairman of the reception committee, on the Bround floor of the building. He was selected because of his wide . ac quaintance with the people of the state. He will be expected to intro duce state officials to their constit uents and to welcome the stranger. Many Features Planned. On the fifth floor of the building will be found the offices of the executive secretary and the headquarters of the different bureaus. All employes of the Chamber will be found at their posts and ready to explain the methods used In each department. Dean Vincent is to be at the head of the reception com mittee on that floor. Just above will be found the billiard rooms and the card-rooms the 1916 bar, barber shop and a numr of private dining-rooms for the use of commit tees. J. E. Cronan, chairman of the house committee, will receive visitors, and has arranged for women to have the use of the tables during the en tire evening. E. D. Timms will extend cordial greetings on arrival at the seventh floor, where will be found the famous green room, the ladies' parlor and of fices of the accounting department, to gether with more committee rooms. On the eighth floor, the main dining room, kitchen and service rooms will be encountered, with W. J. Hofmann in charge of showing them to g-uests. The Berger-Jones pictures will be seen In the big dining-room. This event will be somewhat in the nature of a re ception for Messrs. Berger and Jones and Phil S. Bates, an appreciation of their work in advertising the city. AVomen Attked to Serve. The Portland Chamber of Commerce Is unique because of having a large number of women as members. These women have been asked to form a re ception committee composed of their entire number, and also will be in charge of the serving of loganberry punch and refreshments. The follow ing named women have been asked to eerve: Mrs. C. H. Ball, Miss Myrtle Barndt, Mrs. Sophia Baumgart, Mrs. S. I. Clark, Mrs. Bessie F. Colwell, Tillie F. Cor nelius. Mrs. "William H. Daugherty, Mrs. Beatrice Deering, Miss Grace DeGraff, Miss J. N. Elliott, Miss C. W. Flanders, Miss M. L. Flanders, Mrs. John Flem ing, Dr. C. Gertrude French, Miss D. E. Goodman, Mrs. William Grabach, Mrs. Estella M. Hammond, Mrs. M. Jeanette Hill, Mrs. Sol Hirsch, Mrs. J. P. John son, Jr., Mrs. Mary E. Lent, Mrs. C. M. McAlister, Mrs. L. R. McGee, Mrs. Anna M. E. Mann, Dr. Katherine S. Myers, Mrs. O. M. Plummer, Mrs. Rose Coursen Reed, Miss Pauline Rummelin, Mrs. Madge Taylor, Mrs. Mary C. Therkel sen, Mrs. C. C. Van Orsdall, Mrs. Isara White, Mrs. E. Witmer, Mrs. Fred G. Wonder and Mrs. E. Jonason. TESTIMONY IS ALL HEARD Judge Davis to Visit Jackson County in $86,000 Paving Salt. After dragging through the court of Circuit Judge Davis since February 21, the $86,000 suit of the J. W. Sweeney Construction. Company against Jackson County for extras incidental to grading the Pacific Highway for 13 miles over the SisTciyou Mountains, came to an end yesterday morning, so far as the taking of testimony la concerned. Arguments on the facts will be sub mitted in briefs of the attorneys. Be fore deciding the case, Judge Davis will make a trip to Jackson County for per eonal inspection of the work involved in the litigation. This will not be in less than a month. BASS SEINERS FINED $25 M. G. Bestin and A. J. Lester Change Their Plea to Guilty. M. G. Bestin and A. J. Lester were ar rested late Friday by Game Wardens Clark and Smith on- tho charge of sein ing game fish in Columla Slough. They pleaded guilty before District Judge Bell yesterday of having seined bass, croppies and catfish. They were fined $25 each and costs. They paid their lines. Their plea at first was one of not guilty, saying they were seining for carp only and the other fish were en tangled in their nets witnout any in tention on their part. They later changed their plea to guilty. tn- . r --CTy 4y i -. .... ' :-yyy?y- I " 1 ,- . BOY SCOUTS IN TEST First and Second-Class Ranks Sought by 100. SHOWING OF LADS LAUDED Examinations In Woodcraft, Sig naling, Walking, Running and . Cooking Given at Rose City Speedway. More than 100 candidates for rank ing as first and second-class Boy scouts were put through all kinds of tests at the Rose City Park speedway yesterday afternoon to determine their qualifications. There were tests in woodcraft, in signaling, running, walk ing, cooking and in doing all the vari ous other things necessary for a boy scout to be efficient. The examination was held under the direction of James Brockway, scout commissioner for this district, and Scout Masters Mackenzie, Wood and Walker, who acted as inspectors. Mr. Brockway expressed himself last night as well pleased at the showing made by the boys. He said that the percentage of those qualifying would be high. One of the tests, which was particu larly interesting, was doing what is Known as the "scout pace. This is 50 steps running, alternating with 50 steps walking, ana done at the rate of a mile in 12 minutes. The scout must do this so accurately that when he has gone for 12 minutes he will know he has covered a mile, or if he has gone a mile he will inow he has employed 12 minutes' time. Other work which the boys were put through were the use of the sema phore and international Morse code in signaling, the starting of fires with out kindling and with not more than two matches, and also starting fires merely by the friction of two sticks. There were also tests in wall scaling, obstruction drills and cooking without utensils. A written examination in first aid PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE DIES. - - z& y ?-i 0 SS ! Mrs. Gerald G. Sullivan. Funeral services for the late Mrs. Gerald G. Sullivan were held from the K. S. Dunning chapel March 25 at 2 o'clock. Rev. Father O'Connogan officiated. Interment was at the Mount Scott Park Cemetery. Mrs. Sullivan was a Portland girl, having been born near Lents, March 30, 1897. As Miss Gladys V. Avery she attended school here, having been a student at both Washington and Lincoln high schools. During her last year in Lincoln High School in 1914 she met and was married to Mr. Sullivan. She is survived by her husband and an infant son. Her parents and a brother, Verna Avery, also survive her. SW .NEW MODES BARRED -j 1) Preliminary Instruction In the Art of "Tnkin" an Obstruction. (2) Showing Their FroweM at Bulldinlf n Campf ire. (3 One of the Menl berM of the SiKnnl Corps In Action. and similar matters was given some time ago. The Portland Boy Scouts' organiza tion now has between 500 and 600 mem bers. ARMOURS HOPETO BUILD CHICAGO PACKERS' REPRESENTA TIVE HERE O.V BI SINESS. Company Kxpecla to Buy Oregon Can nery ProdiictM This Year, and to Erect Plant AYhen Needed. As soon as business conditions in the Northwest justify the expenditure, it s probable that Armour & Company, the Chicago packers, will establish a large fruit and vegetable cannery in Oregon. C. II. Davidson, superintendent of outside agencies for the company, has been in Portland for the last few days. conferring with representatives of the company in this territory and inciden tally viewing the situation with ref erence to possible future developments that will determine the erection of a new plant. Mr. Davidson reports that Armour & Company expect this year again to contract with various fruit and vege table canneries in Oregon for the pro duction of a large volume of local prod ucts. Some of this canned goods will be used to supply the local trade. Oth ers will be sent into the Eastern field. It has been the custom of the company to participate in the Oregon business by contracting with local canneries. W e hope, said Mr.- Davidson last night,- at the Benson, that our bus ness in this territory eventually will force us to build a cannery here of our own. Doubtless such a step will be the natural outgrowth of our present activities in the Northwest. We would welcome a condition that would ius- tify us in making such an improvement ngnt now, but we fear that action of that kind this year would not be Jus tified. "Our people are fully alive to the importance of this territory and to its growing needs. When the time comes they doubtless will provide more sub stantial representation here." Mr. Davidson is making a tour of all the Western agencies of Armour & Company. He expects to visit Portland again later in the season. METER WATER BILL FOUGHT Mrs. S. M. Cornell Gets $31.50 State ment, but "Ijeak" Is Keported. Once more the busy little water meter has seored a point for the city'B water fund. This time it is Mrs. Sarah M. Cornell who is hit by the antics of the meter at her place, 101 North Eleventh street. She opened her water bill the other day expecting to find the usual amount of J2 or S3 a month. But lo and behold the bill said $31.50. And the meter substantiated the claim. Mrs. Cornell complained and the Water Bureau investigated and reported "lean in building." Mrs. Cornell has appealed to the City Council for relief from the bill. Pendleton Seniors Kest Students. PEMDLETON, Or., April 1. (Special.) The second quarterly report of the Pendleton High School shows the seniors to lead all of the other classes in grades. Seventeen of the seniors and juniors each received averages of 90 per cent or better. Marguerite Straughn. Helen Mings and Alta Boy len, tied for highest honors, each hav ing a grade of 96 per cent. Dewey Gervais and Henry L,azinka, with an average of 95 per cent, lead in grades for the boys. Vista House Ball Will Be Old-Fashioned Lines. WALTZ AND POLKA RETURN Local Theaters Provide Numbers for Vaudeville Bill During Inter mission and Otlicr Features Also Are Promised. An evening of old-fashioned revelry is planned for all who attend the Vista House ball at Cotillion Hall tomorrow night. Not only is the affair a benefit for a pioneer cause, but all its appoint ments are in keeping with the idea. The whole amount realized will go to the fund for building the Vista House. Everything connected with the benefit has been donated by prominent people interested in the pioneer landmark. At the Vista House ball there will be no one unpopular because of un familiarity with the new steps. They're going to waltz, polka, schottische, three-step and two-step, with only a few of the newer dances thrown in for variety. The "circle two-step" will be rejuvenated and enjoyed. Local theaters have donated num bers to make up a regular vaudeville bill that will be given during an in termission. All the features are to be surprises, say the committee. There is to be a county fair in connection. This is a gift of Portland merchants. Pretty maidens will be behind the counters. A large number of the young er set have been selling tickets, and many people are expressing their in terest in the pioneer benefit by pur chasing them. Tickets are on sale by Mrs. S. Mills, Miss Margaret Sellers, Wiley B. Allen, Jaeger Bros, and the Baker Theater. The chairman and vice-chairmen of the committee will be assisted by the floor committee, who are Mrs. Lillian Brooks, Miss Lydia Jaehnke. Mrs. Van Hooser, Miss Cherry Couey. F. W. Skiff, G. C. Braman. P. T. Liddy, W. E. Kier nan. H. Reed, L. L. Hurst, George Wolfe, Roy Sloane, Misses Vivian Coo ley, Florence Hanley, Ann Curran, Nan Gerdes. L. Allen, r.aura Christen sen and Sadie Crowder. Library Notes commemoration of the 300th an- A. ni lversary or Shakespeare s aeatn. the Public Library has arranged ex hibits showing the life of the period. In the second floor lobby is a col lection of the Abbey illustrations of Shakespeare's plays. In cases in the hall and in the circulation room are plates showing the architecture, in teriors, furniture and costume of the period. Through the kindness of Miss Josephine Hammond, of Reed College, a model of a theater of the time can be seen in the reference room. In view of the present widespread agitation for improving the port fa cilities of Portland, the "Port of Ham burg." by Edwin Clapp, is especially timely. Hamburg has a position similar to Portland, being located on the river Elbe 75 miles from the sea with a rich hinterland tributary to it. This book gives an account of how, with a chan nel ixi the '40s of only six and one-half feet she has become the greatest of European seaports. "Posture" will be the subject of Dr. Bertha Sabin Stuart's lecture to be given in room A of the Central Library on Thursday evening. This is the sev enth lecture in the course on "How to Get Well and Keep Well." Mrs. Eleanor Sanford Large will give a talk in library hall on Friday evening at 8 o'clock, on "Shakespeare on the Stage." All lectures given in the library auditoriums are free and everyone in terested is invited to attend. Cornelius Women Meet. CORNELIUS. Or., April 1. (Special.) One of tho smart social affairs of the season was the tea given for the benefit of the Women's Club at the home of Mrs. Charlie La. I'ollette Friday after noon. About 30 ladies were present, and a large number of them appeared in costume to represent some adver tisement. Nellie Revell, Director of Public ity, Says Every Large Town Has Its Own Representative and List Includes Many Cities. That Portland has been a center for home vaudeville talent on the Orpheum circuit for the season about to close is indicated by reports cent out by Nellie Revell, director of publicity, from the Orpheum headquarters in New York. Miss Revell does not list all the acts Portland has provided for Orpheum vaudeville and, in fact, the record is far from complete for all the cities mentioned, but the roster as it is puts Portland in the fore rank with more than a dozen acts to its credit. Prominent among tne Orpheum acta of Portland origin are the Leightons, who have a home-coming here every season; Lai Mon Kim, the Chinese bari tone: Rev. Frank W. Gorman, "The Singing Parson," now on the Keith cir cuit, which is affiliated with the Or pheum; Cathrine Countiss. whose hit with the Baker Players led to an Or pheum engagement; Hirschel Hendler. "The Poet of the Piano." who got his start in a jinks of the Portland Press Club; Frances White, new partner of William Rock, who was "discovered" here by Keating & Flood; Ethel Clif ton and Brenda Fowler, former Baker Players, who were at the Orpheum last week in "The Saint and the Sinner," and who are obtaining royalties from five other acts now traversing the Or pheum; Miss Dong Fong Gue, Chinese singer and dancer, who will be at the Orpheum next week, and Miss Floy Le Page, who will make her first Orpheum appearance here next week in an en gagement won after a tryout before Carl Reiter, manager of the Portland Orpheum. Other Aetora oil Circuit. Aside from these, many Portland actors and actresses have appeared in Orpheum sketches. These include W. S. Phillips, son of Adolph Phillips: Frank Dekum, Miss Vida Reed, Richard Carroll, Harold Germanua and Mar guerite McNulty, who will be at the Orpheum next week with Harriet Mar- lotte in "The Lollard." "Perhaps there has never been such a season as the present one when the Orpheum circuit has been permitted to offer to its patrons so much home vaudeville talent." writes Nellie Revell. "There is probably no city on the whole of the Orpheum circuit that has not had its own representative on the cir cuit this season. Home talent does not necessarily mean rank amateurs. Of course, all actors must be amateurs at some time, but the Orpheum cir cuit managers are always looking out for talented people and when they find them the managers lose no time in communicating with their home office and in developing the aspirants until they can proudly present them in Or pheum theaters, representing the beat of vaudeville. The Orpheum circuit man agement evinces a parental interest In these vaudevillians and they, in turn, regard the circuit as their Alma Mater. A glance over some of the names that are familiar to Orpheum patrons is the best proof that home talent is worth while." Talent Distributed Widely. The partial list referred to by Miss Revell follows: San Francisco Gertrude Hoffman, Mrs. Gena Hughes. Paul. Minn. Max Hoffmann, Thomas Ejran, Irish tenor. Minneapolis,. Minn. Halperin. 2eorgo Dameral, Nan St. Louid, fo. Fleta Brown and Herbert Spencer; Madge Caldwell, star of "A Tele phone Tansle"; three Natalie sisters, known in real life as Lillian, Kthel and Claire Goldstein. Kansas City. Mo. Herbert "Bailey, bar itone of Dunbar's Kalon singers; Tom Barry, author of many vaudeville sketches. Denver. Colo. Genevieve Cliff, Frank Mil ton and De Lonp sisters. Seattle Nina Payne; Miss 'Mtke' Ber kiii, violinist; Deiro, piano accordionist : Marie Bishop, violinist; "Three Magic Flutes." Omaha, Neb. Guy and Ralph Gillenbeck, of Bessie Clayton's orchestra. Kansas City Iulu McConnell and Grant Simnson; Major Mack Rhoades. boy violinist. Fresno, Cal. Max Le Hoen and Leone Dupreec. New Orleans, La, Lew Wilson ana Myra Lenore. Memphis, Tenn. Bertee Beaumonte, of Beaumonte & Arnold. Tn closing her article on "home vaude ville talent. Miss Revell says. "This list merely scraps the ground PIONEER RESIDENT OF KERBY sirrnnins at a;f? of ks. vim U9f. tot Louise fuller Hart. Mrs. Louise Fuller Hart, com monly called "Grandma Hart, and one of the most esteemed pioneer residents of Kerby, died the early part of the week. She was 8 5 years old. She had lived in frontier regions since she was a little girl, and during- the In- t dian War of 1855 and 1856 she sought refuge in a fort on Sucker Creek. Oregon. "Grandma Hart" was born in Sheffield. Conn., in 1830 and moved with her parents to Jer- ferson. Mich., when she was only 8 years old. She was 18, in the year of 1848, when she met and T was married to Lucius Duell I Hart. Of her eight children four sur vive' her. They are: Charles Hart. Waldo. Or.: Mrs. Hattie Floyd, of Kerby. Or.; Mrs. Nellie Evans. Fotlatch, Idaho, and Gus Hart, Dunamulr, Cal. h V if -.A j; v A '' ' " 1 ! " " " i i ! ; i j I1 I,, s -V Where you get the best values in high-grade, ready-to-wear clothes. I sell only guaranteed standard makes. They are the same clothes that you see in the high-rent, ground-floor stores with this difference: My suits are priced $5.00 to $10.00 lower. Why? Because I am saving $10,000.00 a year in rent and giving you better clothes for your dollars. $20.00 MEN'S ALL $25.00 MEN'S SUITS $14.75 JIMMY DUNN, The Clothier 313-16-17 Oregonian Bldg. but from Houdini. who put Appleton, Wis., on the vaudeville map, to the hundreds of others not yet in the headline class, but who may be as the years go on, these artists are illumi nating a great profession with credit to themselves, to the Orpheum circuit and to the cities with which they are personally affiliated." PHONE SUIT IS SETTLED Home Company Will Pay $500 Fine and Comply With City Laws. By the terms of an agreement entered into yesterday between the city and the Home Telephone Company, the company will pay a -fine of ?500 INAUGURATION -OF THROUGH SERVICE ON Southern Pacific Coos Bay Line Between Eugene and Gardiner, North Bend, Marshfield, Coquille, Myrtle Point, Powers WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1916 Leave 7:20 A. M Eugene 5:15 P.M. Arrive 11:50 A. M '. Gardiner 1:00 P.M. 1:30 P. M Reedsport 11:20 A.M. 3:15 P.M.. North Bend 9:40 A.M. Arrive 3:30 P. M Marshfield 9:20 A.M. Leave Connections made at Eugene for trains to and from Portland. Information as to rates, train service, etc., can be secured at City Ticket Office, Union Station, or East Morrison-street Station. John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent. '-. SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES w E UP FEELING FRESH AS A DAISY Get a 10 Cent Box of "Cascarets" for Your Liver and Bowels. Tonight sure! Take Cascarets and enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver ana bowel cleansing you ever experienced. PLASTERS Frt. iS47 The World's Greatest Exttrnal Remedy Pain In Side, Rheumatism. Backache, Any Local Pain. ALWAYS INSIST ON HAVING AIXCOCKS 70UI SUITS wear 3 1 S . 7 S Elevator to 3d Floor imposed in 1911 by Circuit Judge Mc Ginn for technical violations of the city ordinance governing the main tenance of overhead wires and will im mediately eliminate all hazardous con ditions of lines whereon they may be found and to comply strictly with the city ordinance with all lines within a reasonable time. The suit which is before the United States courts will be dismissed. There has been considerable dispute as to the provisions of the ordinance and Federal Judge Wolverton sug gested that a settlement could be made out of court. A conference of tele phone officials was held yesterday with City Commissioner Daly and the agree ment reached. Children from sanitary homes advance more rupirlly in school than those from Olrty premises. 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