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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.
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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
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Critical IlliieM Canaen an Ap
peal to Be 3Iade to Homer X.
Kord. Who Repudiated Her
Mother.
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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
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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
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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
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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.".
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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
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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
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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.
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