" . , ! t - 4g 14 THE. SUNDAY CKEGONIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 3, 1916. FORD HAS CHANGE TO AID DAUGHTER CHRISTMAS TREE FORMS CENTER OF ELECTRICAL WEEK DECORATIONS. ST. AGNES HOME IS WINNER OF $250 Your CKristmas ctrola Is Here Little Harriet Is Near Death. Appeal Is Made to Father, Who Professed Love. Votes Cast in Greater Port land Association Contest Total 1,726,270. This Style X Victrola. ., . . $73.00 s Ten Double-Faced Records. , . 7.50 .$82.50 si(.ls-.. Take Fifteen Months to Pay. . - ' ,."- J 'ft; wi 1' x X 4 x -l -i a,, "x -x. St .4-5 -1 ; 4 ? FORGERY TRIAL RECALLED Man Out on Ball Is in Canada, Vhilo Cast-Off Common-Law Wife and Child Here Are in Desperate Straits. "My daughter means the world to ran I love her now and I have always loved her," declared Homer N. Ford, defendant In a sensational forgery trial last September, In which his common law marriage to Caroline A. Voght in Alaska figured prominently, when on the witness stand. How much of this paternal love was clipped on as a cloak and how much was the expression of real affection may be shown Then he replies to an appeal sent hirn yesterday by John A. Collier, Deputy District Attorney. His child today is at death's door. Harriet Kord, aged 12, offspring of this common law wedlock and who was de creed the legitimate child of Kord by a ruling of Circuit Judge Davis, lies crit ically ill of scarlet fever at her home on Bast Thirty-fourth street, near Hawthorne avenue. She cries in her delirium sometimes for her father. He was kind to her before he deserted her mother for a younger woman and en tered into the marriage compact with Elizabeth G. Frary. Eut the sustaining love of the girl !s for her ministering mother. Caroline Ford, who is at hr bedside in constant desire to do something which will abate the burning fever. Yesterday the girl's temperature was 105 degrees. Despite the impoverished condition of the fam ily three physicians have been in at tendance during the week, striving to save the lifo of the child. Mother HI, Then Daughter. Driven from her home, after it was deeded away by her husband, with Miss Frary signing the conveyance as Mrs. Ford, the Portland woman has descend ed to actual destitution. She was ill at the time of the trial, and the strain of the days on the witness stand caused a complete physical breakdown. And then as she was recovering and was searching for work, her daughter be came ill with scarlet fever and was taken from school. Now their home is under quarantine, the mother's every waking hour is devoted to struggling for the life of the child, for whose sake he suffered much before. On neigh borly aid and county charity their daily food depends. Mrs. Ford is almost hysterical with grief ,as her daughter grows worse. Three other children of whom Ford was the father died in infancy, and Harriet was the sole comfort of her deserted mother. Ford's paternal love, though expressed freely on the witness stand for Harriet, did not enable him to "remember," it will be recalled by those who heard his testimony, whether he had lost two or three children by death. Ford's Manhood Appealed To. Deputy Collier wrote yesterday to ap peal to the manhood and paternal af fection of the man. Ford, telling him of the desperate need of his wife and child. "Don't visit your dislike of the moth er on your child," pleaded Mr. Collier. "You owe it to yourself and to the girl to help her." He asked that Ford send money, if he would, to the bank, to the court, to anyone Ford would trust, with the assurance that it would be used for the relief of the girl. The girl may die before her father receives the letter, for her condition is considered serious. Ford was found guilty of the forgery in which the rights of Mrs. Ford were r: : . T MaRSfSW-'- -;v" 5 T si Harriet Ford. Ased 12. Whose Critical IlliieM Canaen an Ap peal to Be 3Iade to Homer X. Kord. Who Repudiated Her Mother. U 1 CJrr ' fit a SALVATION ARMY IS SECOND r 9 n i 7 c? z&'M P it 4,- i ,'3-. x TTrriminiiiM ' WW. XM? V: y . w.- wv.. . .... . M , V!evr of Tree at Sixth Street. Near PoMofflee. Inserts (tt A. C. MrMlcken. Oeneral Chairman Klectrlonl Werk (3) K. D. Tlmini, Chairman of Retail Merchants Committer, ana (3) W. K. Coman, Chairman Finanelal Committee. CITY IS BRILLIANT Flags on Buildings Illuminated by Searchlights." GIANT TREE SPARKLES Public Welfare Bureau, arranged for yesterday by Mayor Albee. Cases will be reported to the police by the welfare bureau, and investigations will be made at once. Also policemen on all beats will make lists of the destitute coming to their attention and will report these to the welfare bureau. signed away by the Frary woman and was sentenced to the penitentiary. He has appealed to the Supreme Court and Is out on bond of $2000. Miss Frary was tried for the same offense and the Jury hung. Retrial was postponed until after the Supreme Court should settle Ford's case, in which the same issues are involved. Today, according to In formation at the District Attorney's office. Ford and Miss Frary are living on a" farm at Marchand, Manitoba Province, Canada. The Xmas Fur Store BEST SELECTIONS LOWEST PRICES Hudson Bay Fur Co. MX. It. Gnmbert. Mgr 147 BROADWAY Between Slorrlson and Alder. Street Decorations Are Turned On and Crowds Admire Beauty of -. Coloring of Lights Stations Aro Open to Visitors. Ben Franklin never dreamed of what happened in Portland last night when the lightning ran down the string of his kite and shocked his humb, but there was just as definite a connection between that event and the opening of the ctlebratiOii of American Electrical week here last night, as there was be tween Ben and his kite. In a flash, when the celebration was opened, however, last night, the city was given a picture of all the colossal results that have followed the enter taining kite and key experiment of Franklin, and the whole city flickered and scintillated under the colorful wand of the genii of electricity. Powerful electric searchlights piayea in varied colors on the steam curtain sent up from the Northwestern build ing, and picked out gorgeously the flags on the other big buildings of the city. Giant Christmas Tree Llshteu. The big Christmas tree, a hundred feet high, which stands at Sixth street opposite the Postoffice, bloomed into Jeweled Are of incandescents as the darkness fell, and the electrical genii ran -up and down the streets whipping on the gemmed festoons of lights that are to line all the business section while the holiday season lasts. While Electrical week is on the pub lic will be the guests of the great elec trical concerns of the city, and the electrical supply houses will have such a campaign of education in the latest electrical labor-saving devices as we have never known before. Owing to the great number of its power plants, the Portland Railway. Light & Power Company will organize visitors into Inspection parties and will issue passes to all who desire to make the tour of its plants, at the main of fices. Electric Stations to Be Viewed. The Northwestern Electrical Com pany's station will be open for visitors from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.. in the Pittock block, throughout Electrical week. Its stations at Loring and Alblna avenues will also be opened for vis itors. Inclement weather held back the completion of the street decorations, and the scene in the business section will bec6me more gorgeous as the week advances and the decoration scheme is carried to completion. The Retail Merchants Burean of the Chamber of Commerce has co-operated with the electrical men in preparing the street decorations for the holidays. and as a result Portland will have the advantage over other cities that are celebrating Electrical week, for its dec- orations, put up by the electrical people and the Chamber in co-operation, will remain until New Year's day, making the city gorgeous throughout the whole holiday season. Riddle Broccoli Worth $20,000. RIDDLE, Or., Dec. 2. (Special.) The South Umpqua Association, interested in the production of broccoli, held a meeting this week and ordered two car loads of crate material which will hold in the neighborhood of 30 carloads o. the crated products. The shipments of broccoli from Riddle this season will bring $18,000 to 120,000 into this se tion. . Oaksrille Camp Completes Logging. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Dec. 2. (Spe cial.) After operating for 10 years, the Anderson & Middleton camp near Oak vino has completed logging. It will require several weeks to move the out fit and tear up the logging track, which will be taken to the North River coun try, where the company will open a new camp. In Norway there Is being built a plant that will produce '4000 tons of aluminum annually. Visiting Nurse Association Gets Third Award of $100 and Tues day's Business by Merchants Is Estimated at $200,000. FRIZES AWARDS IX GREATEI. PORTLAND ASSOCIATION 4 VOTING CONTEST. 4 St. Agnes' Baby Home J250 4 Salvation Army 150 I Visiting Nurse Association.. 100 4 ........ One million seven hundred twenty six thousand twi5 hundred seventy votes were cast in the charities contest for the $500 put up in the contest of the Greater Portland Association on Tuesday. The count was completed last night and the awards, announced. The St. Agnes Baby Home was first, with a total of 331,280 votes; the Sal vation Army second, with 2J8.280, and the Visiting Nurse A-saociation third, with 226.330. A vote was given with each 10-cent purchase made in the Greater Portland Association stores, on Greater Portland day last Tuesday. The total number of votes cast In the charities contest represent, there fore, purchases amounting to 1172,627 in these stores on that day. "Allowing for the large number of ballots that were issued but were not voted and for the purchasers who de clined to take the ballots." says Mer rill Reed, secretary of the Greater Port land Association, "this makes it clear that we were not far wrong in our estimate of a $200,000 business last Tuesday. The complete count of the ballots and the total vote for each of the com peting charities follows: No. Vote St. Aen.j Baby Home 331. 280 Salvation Army 2ti8.20 Visiting Nurse Association 228,330 Altxrtina Kerr Nursery Home 124,080 Fruit & Flower Mission 80.670 Christie Baby Home 94,600 Pt. Mary Home for Boys 66.200 Neighborhood House 93,220 People's Institute 68,180 Louise Home 5,180 Boys' and Cilrls' Aid Society - 25,900 Children's Home 87.640 British Benevolent Society 1.560 Jewish Relief 50.910 Women's Exchange 35.260 Volunteers of America....... 9,770 Portland Commons 70 St. Joseph'. Home.... 1,700 Mull 270 "Deaconess .- 270 Plsgah Home 1.100 ratton Home 290 Catholic Women's League 1.000 Junior League 590 Richmond Baby Home 680 St. Ann's Charity 10 Red CroHS 20 Good Samaritan 68.500 Florence Crittenton Home 16,380 Oerman Aid Society 12,080 Waverly Baby Home 26.300 PIPE HOT, CLIMBER DROPS Steeplejack Hangs by Hands Until Heat Forces Him to Fall. ALLIANCE, O., Nov. 27. Hanging to the top of a 60-foot iron smokestack, A. L. Rambo, 35, a steeplejack, was left struggling in the air at the Sebring Cooperage Company plant after his rope had fallen to the ground. He hung with one hand clenched over the rim of the stack until the heat forced him to change to the other hand. Rambo kept c nging hands five minutes, holding tight f rst with the one and then with the other in an ef fort to hang on until help came. Finally the heat became so intense, tne pain in his hands so great, he was forced to let go. He dropped 60 feet to the ground and was picked up unconscious. His shoul der and arm are fractured and he is believed to be fatally Injured. PHOTO OF GIRL TAKEN 23 YEARS AGO THAT TRAINED NURSE HOPES WILL BE MEANS OF LOCATING MOTHER. POLICE TO LIST DESTITUTE Department . Will Co-operate With Public Welfare Bureau. Cases of reported destitution are to be investigated during the coming win ter by the police under a system of co operation between the polic-and the & , - :H- ------ ' &r ' kji : ; : : 1 zW , - Vv " S fe ' " iS:: : :::3- c -tjrW v - HE: 7M V - - !t.v (-H j -i , i '-Wy . . . ; - m S'tn i imii iiiiii"'"'""'"" T1W I II HAZEL ANDERSON. Twemty-five years ago a young woman, giving the -name "Mrs. Lou Ander son," left her tiny daughter, an infant of a few weeks of age, in the charge of the Baby Home. The child was well cared for la the home and was later adopted by an excellent family. Her foster parents died and Hazel Ander son was brought up and educated by kind friends. Today she is a trained nurse, prominent in her profession and she wants to find her mother. She has sought out every clue, but so far has met with no success. To call the attention of the womaan, if she still lives, Miss Anderson has given her baby picture for publication, hoping the mother will see it and want her child again. Hazel's mother gave the Baby Home officials as her address. East Port land, and her occupation dressmaking, she stated that she had formerly resided in Wisconsin. That is all that Hazel knows. Can some one else tell what became of Mrs. Lou Anderson, the dressmaker? "No matter what my mother is, who she is or what troubles she has had, I want to find her. All my lifo I have longed for a real mother, for the love that is the best in the world," said Miss Anderson, "and so I will not give up hope of finding her until I am sure she is gone. I can picture her strug gles to make a living and the sorrow she must have felt at giving up her baby and it she Is still alive I want to make her old age comfortable.". The most popular gift, the most satisfactory one for every member of your family is the Victrola. Our special business is to find the easiest way for you to give it. Cut out this advertisement, sign and mail it to us and receive catalogues and full information. Do it today. THE WILEY B. ALLEN CO.. Morrison St. at Broadway. Portland. Or. Please mall catalogue and full particulars of your special terms on Victrolas. Sign here .. . . Address V"S - Let us send Victor Records to your home on our approval plan. 2& MASON & HAMLIN PIANOS. PLAYER PIANOS, MUSIC ROLLS. MORRISON STREET AT BROADWAY Other Stores San Francisco. Oakland. San Jose, Sacramento. Let Angeles. San Diego and Other Coast Cities. OLD COUNCIL PREFER RED 5IOVEMENT STARTED TO ABOLISH COMMISSION GOVERNMENT. City Administration Considered Vn- bearably Extravagant and Offices Seem to Inereane Steadily. A movement for the overthrow of commission form of government nas been started by a committee of South Portland, which met Friday night at the garage of W. C. Seachrest. at Fourth and Lincoln streets. Resolu tions were adopted branding the com mission form as "extravagant" and plans were made to interest other parts of the city in the movement. Mark O'Neill, M. J. McMahon. Thomas Guinean and I). Winters were the speakers at the meeting. Resolutions prepared by Thomas L. Garland and J. C. Luckel were adopted, condemning the commission form and asking for the re-establishment of the council manic form. Resolutions adopted at the meeting read as follows: "Whereas. Our city government ap pears to be unable to carry on the ad ministration of its affairs without cre ating new and useless offices, raising salaries and running our city into debt, thereby, placing an almost unbearable taxation upon the Industrious and fru gal; and just so long as our commis sion form of government is tolerated, just so long will the burdens of tax ation increase and fall upon tnose wno are least able to pay and are striving to meet the ever-exacting demand or municipal expenses in upholding this form of government In Its wasteiui ana extravagant methods and operation of public affairs. "We believe in the runaamentai prin ciples of a representative government; a government of, by and for the peo ple, and are opposed to a aupiication of Mavors and other officials without head or monumental methods; there fore, be It "Resolved. That we are opposed to the present high and exorbitant salary grab system and omciai recruiiins methods employed and now prevailing and forming the major part of our present city administration; be it further "Resolved. That we favor a repre sentative, instead of a commission, form of government, with a city char ter guarding against this wasteful and extravagant use of the people's money, and to that end and purpose we appeal to all good citizens, as well as tax payers, for an immediate change of our present city government and ad ministration." The following committee was ap pointed at the meeting by Mark O'Neill: Mark ONeill, chairman; J. J. lucKei, W. C. Seachrest, Vincent Cook. S. C. Armitage. a recent special school meeting a 3 mill tax was voted for the support of the school for the coming year. The budget suggestive of $1200 for the in troduction of manual training and domestic science was defeated. $125 SADDLE IS RECOVERED After Iiong Search, Court Will De cide Disputed Ownership. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 27. Elisha Nance, of Ramsay, 111., a stock shipper, w'.io makes frequent visits to the National Stockyards in East St. Louis, delivered a saddle valued at $125 to the East St. Louis police for a decision as to who held title. Last January Nance bougrt the saddle for $40 from a man who was arrested Monday. George Williams, who work at the National Stockyards horse and mule market, claims the saddle was ob tained from him while the sun was not shining. It is a. handsome saddle, manufactured in Miles City. Mont., and Williams haa been on the trail of it for 10 months. Whenever a shipper told of a good saddle in his neighborhood. Williams took a train and ent out in the coun try to look at it. His system of asking shippers if tiere were any good saddles out where they came from, finally won when lie heard of the saddle at Ramsay, and ex emplified the cowboy poet's epigram: 'I hardly need to tell you How you often come across A hundred-dollar saddle On a forty-dollar hoes. Williams at once took a train for Ramsay, and Nance brought in the sad dle, delivering it to the police for an adjustment. The matter will be turned over to the courts. Meanwhile the sad die, wiCi its elaborate trimmings, rests in the police station. Postmaster Is Killed. IROXDALE, Mo.. Nov. 23. J. C. O'Neal, postmaster and merchant in Irondale, was killed In an automobile accident a mile east of town. "D. F. Yeargain, a farmer, and O'Neal were returning from Bismarck, Mo., with a new car and Yeargain was being in structed by O'Neal when the car turned over. Yeargain was uninjured. New tinware will never rust if rubbed with fresh lard and baked in the oven before being used. Ttiddle Defeats Manual Training. RIDDLE, Or.. Dec. 2. (Special.) At MM Scattlo's Famon Hotel Fine central location. Every modern appointment. CmIc eoe of finest on the Coast. RATES f 1 ner 4x7 up with aae of batik j2 pel day aod up with private balk itiAsKUBMsttskau f HOTEL UABT SAN FRANCESCO Geary Street, !ust of Union Square European Plan $1.50 a da; up Breakfast 60o Lunch BOo Dinner $1.00 Most Famous Meals In the United States Kew steel and concrete structure. Center of theater, cafe and retail districts. Oa carlines transferring all over city. Take Municipal car line direct to door. Motor Bus meets trains and ateamersv Wickless Kerosene Lamps H. W. Manning Lighting & Supply Company. 63 and 63 Mi Sixth street, has a new portable KEROSENE LAMP which gives the most powerful home light in the world a blessing to every home not equipped with gas or elec tricity. 300-candlepower at 1 cent rer night. This remarkable lamp has no WICK and no CHIMNEY, Is absolutely safe and gives universal satisfaction. ALMOST every nation and race has its national method of musical expression. In America, we love music and we long to play. The !0iit (The Player That Is All but Human) enables everyone to play the music he or she likes and to play it in the way he or she likes to hear it. Once you try the Manualo you will not be satis fied with anything else. We will be glad to have you try it at our music rooms and will consider it a privilege to explain the distinctive features that make it really human in its responsiveness to the . performer. The Manualo is built into each of the four stand ard instruments of the House of Baldwin and varies in price according to the piano. Our East Side, Low Expense Location allows us to sell these superb in struments for less than the established prices on them throughout the United States. Investigate the Manualo now. Terms to suit. Sold in Portland only at our store. Open Evenings Until Christmas. PORTLAND PIANO TUNING REPAIRING & MFG. CO. "The House of Baldwin" 244-46-48 Hawthorne Ave., just at east end 2S INSTRUMENT yvju wtlit B Hawthorne bridge. Tel. East 1012. r M1-