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r 8 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 11, 1921 PRUNES IN ARGENTINE REPUBLIC INFERIOR TO THOSE OF OREGON DISTRICTS, BUT PACKING IS MORE SATISFACTORY Consumer Accustomed to Fruit Packed in Tins American Exports Fall Short of Requirements and Most of Prune Trade Is Lost Reliable Agent to ' Handle Sales Necessary Exchange Rate Is Serious Disadvantage American Chamber of Commerce in Buenos Aires Seeks Remedial Measures. Argentine bricklayer 2000 days of .for tricks, 16 for honors, BO for mak- line good ana zoo lor ruDoer. xni family man in as against a loss of 400 makes a dif- Iabor. Where tie small the United States direams of a little ference of 764. Trick. 1 many nationalities as there are beer won wjth the Jack and came down balls to the block. "Concert every the nn. wlth nIs tw0 remaining clubs night," reads the Invitation over the y got in the lead at the next trick Ldoor end a tinpanny piano that saw and made the remaining tricks, but be was already set to the extent of two tricks. Had the hand been played at spades, and correctly played by both sides. the play would have gone as follows - ' u i , j r A-LA n r BT LUCILE F. SAtTNDERS. jFormer Member of tbe News, Staff of The Oregonian. l--xTONOS AIRES, Aug. 10. (Spe I r ciaL) "Poor prunes," eay the I nftOnlA nt Clvovnn whan thav T ter to unpopular persons. But, if they were to employ the term literally to fthe fruit In question they would find ucn a condition was entirely unfa miliar to them. not so in tne Argentine. A "poor prune- is the ordinary state of af fairs. It is the only kind of a prune Ithe --porteno." as the dweller in Ltsuenos Aires calls himself, has ever een introduced to. To one who brines freeh memories rf drooping trees laden with the blue ruit and tees hovering around the Kmoking dryers sipping the sweet- ess from scattered and bruised por tions and warehouses in the fall, filled KvlUt coal black heaps being ahoveled nto a cleaning and packing machine. he prune in Argentina is a sad af fair, what there is of It. It wtuld eem that a country such as this, if approached in the proper fashion. knight be induced to relieve a state ucn as Oregon of a surplus like that f last season. Newspaper accounts of "prune keek" earlier in the year prompted he writer to inquire Just what is he matter with the market In this ountry. . There is one underlying x&lanation. The folks who like runes are peeved. American Fruits Best. The Argentine consumer is edu- ated to prunes packed in tins hold- ng 7 kilograms apiece, such as ancs exports. These European ruits are not as good as the Ameri- an. They are dryer and smaller, ut the main point is that they are roperly prepared for shipping, an ssential feature to consider when a ommodlty must go near or across he equator In transit, for this hot elt provides a risk of spoiling and ins are the safest way to prevent hia. During the war France was unable o supply the fruit for this market nd a few shipments succeeded in ettlng by from the United States, at these were in wooden boxes. Mer- hants here generally figured on mak- E a 10 per cent profit on this class f goods, but when they began im orting prunes from the United States average of every fifth shipment as received In bad condition and e importer lost on it all the profit s had made on the four other ones. During the war the United States overnment checked all fancy pack s' and filled the boxes with the holcer fruit. This was not in ac- ord with Argentine psychology. ven though the fruit came through good shape and 'the price held to at of the French, the boxes did not ppear to be as desirable for the uropean trade always gave the top -yer an artistio appearance. Importation Practically Ends. After the great Conflict had opened e way for the American prune it nmediately proceeded to strew rocks the path. It became difficult to ring In the fruit, there was delay In hlpments, merchants gave up in dis- ust and the importation from the orth was practically at an end. A peculiar feature of their brief tay in South America is the fact lhat they were regarded with sus- lcion. The housewife, when she ished prunes, bad been accustomed buying a dry, gnarly, knotty, harsh oklng black substance. She thought 11 prunes should look like these, and hen the tender, glossy, moist ap- earing ones came in she could not elieve they were the same. Finally e tried them and was- partially edu- ited to the better prepared, sweeter b-utt Merchants still hold that American runes are not a hopeless proposition eell here, if some concern has the mbition and push to rebuild the de- and. In size the 40-50s and 60-6US re the best sellers in fact, are the niy sellers. Even with exchange at Is extraordinary adverse state, tuese dried fruits can come In at the same price as the French and, even if a lit tle higher, can command a market because they are choicer. Special Packing; Necessary. But special packing Is a prime ne cessity. There are in Buenos Aires Ameri can firms that Import this class of roods, some of them wholesale gro cers. The man In the north who would break Into this market needs a reliable connection in the city. He would do better by establishing an agent already familiar with the ways of importation in the Argentine than to try either direct selling or putting In his own office. The man now here in business knows his customers and the state of their credit. He ,1s also acquainted with the technical points that will get his goods past the customs house with fewer taxes, and ne knows bow to get them passed by national and- city health officers, a point required by law. He Is in a po sition to sell either upon sight draft against documents or to give credit. Perhaps, when Oregon has another bumper prune year, she might do well to Inquire Into the conditions of the local market. At this time American. Importers are considerably worried by the pres ent exchange, which threatens to cut off much of the trade with the United States and drop it from first or second place in importance to Argentine com merce to nitn or sixth. It has become almost a weekly habit with the American chamber of commerce to hold a session for the express oumose of discussing remedial measures, but no conclusions have been reached. Lack of demand for the Argentine peso In the United States and the In creasing demand for imports here causes an adverse trade balance. Gold Reserve Large. In spite of this, the country is not lacking in gold, for it has the fifth largest reserve In the world. Since 114 none has been taken from the national treasury. A recent compila tion of statistics as to the amount on hand revealed the fact that there are in the vaults in Buenos Aires, locked away as tightly as the gold of me unuea states. 27.656.967 eold American eagles, to say nothing of billions of other coins. If one thinks of shiDoinsr in Bnenna Aires one invariably associates It with a peculiar district In the citv. the Boca. The harbor In the river is an enclosed one and the wonderful ce ment docks are arranged in a basin system. They are completely equipped with stationary cranes, smaller chan nels for tugboats to tie ud in. small railway trains and the like, all In one vast chain. - . Toward the southern end one finds the Boca or mouth to the harbor. where all ships enter, and down at this corner in a sort of estuary are tied up many of the smaller craft. river boats, fishing schooners and freighters, the large passenger ships going closer in toward the city. Sail ing vessels invariably end up in the Boca and the district is a veritable forest of masts and on an ordinary day there may be an average of 7 Of boats of all types in here. They are from every part of the -world, bring ing the pine of the Pacific coast, the tea of Japan, the Jute of India, the crockery of Germany. It is most nat ural that about this portion of the water front there should have built up a strange and cosmopolitan section of the city, where people of every race and color dwell together in cheap ho tels or in tenements, each housing an entire family and perhaps an extra lodger to every room. Buildings House 200. " These large buildings or "conren tlllos" are of cement construction, with alleys or a court about which the rooms are built In from two or three flights. Such an edifice will house about 200 persons and any time you enter one of the enclosures you find it alive with motley inhabitants. Plump matrons are sharing the com mon washtubs and children of half a dozen nationalities are playing the penetrates through the opaque sheets of flopping underwear, blankets and skirts on the files of clothes lines across the open spaces. Each of the buildings is a little world in itself, where feuds are fre quent, romances are not uncommon and every feast day means a cele bration. Up and down the numerous stairways that lead to the patio there passes hourly a stream of life, men each of whom could recount a fat different history from that of his fel Iotv lodger. One landlord generally takes over a conventlllo, lodge near the en trance and acts as Janitor, as well as lessee. His rent is computed by the room and on each of these he counts for several pesos profit monthly. He always has a crowded house, as there are not enough dwellings to supply the needs of the population. Rents to families run to 25 pesos per room (at normal exchange about half that amount in American dollars). Evic tions are commonplace occurrences and many a household has its pos sessions rudely removed to the side walk on scant notice. . Families Live in One Room. The writer chanced to enter one of these homes on a certain day in com pany with a missionary, the only one that has ever wormed his way into the heart of the Boca and stayed there. He is familiarly known as "El Padre," the father. The family vis ited consisted of a stevedore, his wife and three children, living in a single room. The fourth child, a lit tle girl, had died two weeks previous and the parents had not the price of a coffin to bury her lp. After they had sought to obtain a loan from the union that kept the father out of employment and failed to secure it the mission came to. the rescue and had the little one properly laid away. This family lived in a single dark room containing three chairs, one iron and two home-made wooden beds, two trunks, a small table behind the door containing dishes and one or two other bits of furniture. There were no windows but two dark doorways with a species of matting tacked over tbe upper half. Figures show that 88 per cent of all workmen's families "in the city live in one room and, in fact, that out of every 100 families living under such conditions 19 consist of four persons. 20 of five persons, 11 of six persona, four of eight persons and one of 11 persons. Consequently in Buenos Aires there are about 2000 families of 11 persons each dwelling in one room. Statistics also show that in 1919 in the United States a bricklayer's salary for . 600 days would buy him a home that cost the rente bunralow In the suburbs with a backyard full of gooseberry bushes thus: and Leghorn hens and a rront yarn featuring geranium beds and a cro quet act, the same man here must face a far different ecneme or tnings. Scattered through . every part of the metropolis, tucked In behind high board fences, walls of office buildings or down alleyways in the center of many business blocks these crowded dwelling houses are to be found. Jusf In baok of the seven-story apartment house where the writer dwells you may walk along the street and pass what you think is a vacant diock, for it is apparently nothing more than a brick and cement wall, but if you open one of the patched doors that afford an entrance to tne ao mains beyond you will find your self razlnc upon a Down at the foot of a stairway in Played at no trumps, the hand went 2. S. 4.., t... (... 7... 8... ... 19... 11... 12... 13... A Y B Z 2 Q K 4 6 4 10 3 It 24 A 8 J 34 9 5 A 24 84 84 74 94 3 7 10 A 6 9t 6V K4 44 44 24. Q4 64 J E4 K 8V Q 64 J4 64 J4 74 Q4 74 K4 104 94 104 A4 Denotes winner of trick. At trick 1 B properly led the king curious sight. ,uit. following at a stairway in oviv hi. h ih wnat must nave once neon luieuucu tne 10. This also held the trick. Then, as an excavation for a large struc- suspecting that his partner might not ture, there is a group oi jrlck houses, have a spade to lead him, B at a flock of youngsters and clothes Trick 3 took the precaution to lines. In other places there are mai his ace of spades. Had he not equally curious buildings. Scarcely done so it would not have made at an inch of ground has been wasted all as Dy the tJme declarer got i when it was possible to turn this into a tenement. the lead his hearts and diamonds were good for the eight remaining Retuminr to the Boca, it IS not trlcka. an unnrloa wnulri nnt have hfn the ships ana the conventilloa alone ei and deoiarer would have lost but that make It interesting. There are rows of bars, catering to almost as one trick, rather than two. At Trick 4 B led his last club, which A better days back about 1863, and per haps a wheezy violin and cello are going full blast Inside. Pawnshops Tell Stories. This) Is also the haunt of the shell fish and all along the streets are es tabliohments with hot braziers In the doorways) and sea food beckoning in warm trays. Sometimes these retire for a short period and the roaster is laden with steaming chestnuts. Every where are the pawnshops, wherein one may purchase anything from a darning needle to a ship s anchor, Here are the fine Jams and preserves, clothing and mariner's equipment at bargain prices and no wonder, ror these stores are stocked from the best that can be stolen from slopchests. There is English tobacco and all tbe other things that are dear to the heart of a man who has been denied tne .nmfnrt. tf Vi a V, n m a nil tft be had for a song. And then there are Trick 1 B, as before, would lead ths displays In the windows that tell tbe king of clubs, which again would k. il . h.iAMmhir who I hold the lead. v la k. i .n.uinn Then, counting the number of clubs that bound him to his relf-respect 'n bis own and the dummy's hands There are trinkets that suggest " Knowing- ma P".."r , . , j ,i. that had five In order to bid, he would ."I" ""know, if Indeed he could not tell from l;"",u r,'ot. clarar-. drop of queen, that he, de- " r clarer, had no more. B would nave HmUadndyei SL? 1 ZZTtTrl ling his ngletoiT diamond In mo liupo III mil 111 Ills wwii uauu, he would likely adopt the former doIIcv. at Trick 2 he would lead the 10 or Trick. A Y B Z 1 J 24 Q4 I K" 34 2 64 24 104 44 3 2 K4 A4 84 4 74 34 94 64 5 6 A" 3" 7 6 10 K" 6" 9 7 J4 4 8" J 8 24 Q4 84 44 9 64 84 44 J4 10 64 94 64 84 . 11 74 Q4 64 K4 12 104 J4 74 Q 13 J A4 34 104 A4 Denotes winner of trick. In many a sunny spot tlve old women with heads bound up in kerchiefs, wearing flowing faded gingham gowns and guarding a sack. the only essential article in their line el declarer would trump. the buzzards of the wharves, mostly Poles and Slavonians, veritable gyp- and at Trick 3 lead one of his high trumps B likely would at once put up the I S IN all things we profit by our mistakes, so the evils resulting from improper methods in auc tion often embody valuable lessons which should be of use In the future. If players would but preserve their balance and poise Instead of becom ing frightened and resorting to ill advised methods because of unex pected and at times somewhat star tling developments, it would mate rially strengthen their game and con duce to their success. Ths following hand furnishes salu tary lessons in this regard. The bid ding started right, but in the end went entirely wrong, with disastrous results to the players so bidding: AKi , Q 4 Q9S KQJ932 10 7 5 2 4 AJ762 4 7 6 6 T A B Z V 858 4 K10S 4 8 A107I 64 Q J 9 7 4 9 5 4 3 4 A KJ4 4 8 It was love all on tbe rubber game. the last rubber, it had been decided, and therefore the decisive one of the evening. Both sides felt there was much at stake and were equally de sirous of getting a game-going dec laration. Z-Y, who were considerably ahead on penalties, knew that if they could get the bid and go game it would turn out to have been a profitable evening for them. Z, the dealer, was quite discomfited, there fore, when upon looking at his hand he saw he was compelled to pass. A also passed, devoutly hoping the two remaining players would likewise pass and the hand be thrown up, in which event he would stand as good a chance as any of the other players of getting a game-going hand on the next deal. Y, however, bid a spade. As may be supposed, this was pleasing to B, who with six spades to the ace-10, a probable trick in clubs and the ability to ruff the second round of diamonds, felt he had a good chance, if not of defeating the contract at least of saving game. One-trick contracts if built UDon anvthinar whatever am cams games. In the homes little Ughi as a rule easy of fulfillment, or, at any rate, the prospect of defeating them profitably is small. B vainly wished therefore that he might push Y, but having no bid at all save in spades, the adversary's suit, he re luctantly passed. Z, though having one card only of his partner s suit, spades, also passed. There are some who may contend that because of his singleton spade and the knowledge that his was pro tected in this suit he should have shifted to no trumps on his two pro tected suits. As tbe player who oc cupied Z's position in this particular hand was especially addicted to bid ding no trumps, often bidding them on very light strength, generally, too, pulling them off owing to skillful play, it Is somewhat surprising that he did not do so. A, who did not relish the thought of the adversaries getting a probable game-going declaration in the de cisive rubber of the evening, bid "two clubs." As a second-round bid this Is per missible, the more so because of the critical score. Y went "two spades," and B, who felt his chance of defeat ing the contract in case the bid finally prevailed greatly augmented, was more pleased than ever. It being the rubber game, however, he con cluded it better to play for game rather-than penalties, so took up his partner's bid and called "three clubs." He reasoned that with eight or more trumps between them his ability to ruff the second round of diamonds and the ace of spades in his own hand they stood a good chance to win their contract, if not, indeed, to go game. A's bid, to be sure, was a forced one and not made until the second round, but B. with a trick (the king of clubs) and two raisers (the ace of SDades and the impending ruff), had strength sufficient, he felt, to Justify a one raise. - Z again passed. This time It was a compulsory pass, since the no-trump bid. the only bid his hand offered, was quite out of the question because of bis lack of protection in the suit the adversary had shown. Y, however. went "three spades." He counted upon five spade and two heart tricks in his own hand, and though his nartner had persistently passed, felt he might depend upon him for one trick at least. This would bring the number of tricks to eight, and if the play of the two hands brought an additional trick, as la. often, the case, , sies in appearance. As she sits In the I (whetner or not he does so does uu, U..B u. - vU-u. . not affect the result) and lead a third turea is ever on the alert, watching club Thi9 aiso declarer would trump, for a broken grain sack, a lost veg- Thlg would leave declarer with queen, etable the accidental discards that th- a mmn, onlv and B afford her livelihood. She has com- wlth f iv. of them Deln(r the 1 0. petition of a more agile sort, for in j-i0wij raliz he rould not and out behind woodpiles and trucks exnauBt b, he would likely resort to there dodges a group of husky young- id. suita and take three rounds oters, boys who are hoarding up of hearts, leaving the lead on the oranges appropriated unawares and third round, or at trick 7, with the otner arycies tnat can De exenangea i dummy. for cash. I niimmv a the next trick would The younger generation of the Boca iHll . diamond, which declarer would Is one inured to hard knocks, it bor- wl ith th nneen. and at rows matches to light cigarette stubs Trick 9 would lead another, forcing picked from sidewalks and it pitches jj t0 trump. Declarer would now 2-cent pieces for pastime. When it I have accomplished his purpose, hav gets old enough, it goes to work. ling put B In the lead at a time when This district is filled with quaint h had nothing but trumps and was characters who have seen more pros- forced to lead a trump. This enables perous days. They live In rubbish declarer's 9 of trumps to win, as weu heans. in cast off furniture and ghan-I ft, his oueen and Jack, and he thus ties of tin and even in holes In the makes good his contract. Had de ground, but despite. their poverty they darer himself gone on with trumps are happy and content. This extreme B would have made three out of his state of destitution may cause the by- five remaining trumps and declarer stander to lose sight of the pic-1 would have been set. As itis, he turesque. but he who would not sboul- I made but two of them. der the burdens of a world that has somehow managed to stumble along without such assistance In the past, may get a lot of keen enjoyment out of the Boca. There are fishing crafts with the week's washing hung up on the stern deck and sections of beef suspended cn ropes outside the galley door. There are tne sman sailers tnai run . cAICCi Ma SeDt 10 The up the Paranaand Plate rivers and QOUTH CASCO, me., &ept. iu. ine bring in cargoes of firewood. There O house on the shores of Sebago are groups of laborers pausing to lake here. In which Nathaniel ttaw- warm yerba mate, the native bever- tnorne lived as a boy and where he age. on a few coals at the edge of the h, homa when he WM attend- street. There are dapper gringoes in ,. , h. ...it. tht wr nnid Ing Bowdoln college, Is to he pre- after the fashion plates and there are served as a community house. Citi dusky Lascars in middies and bare zens and summer residents have Just feet, shoved Into Argentine sandals. lormea a cumulation ii u 41m T, 1a nlfLOA hit. fit fill t1A rARt 1 DOSO, of the world molded together into a KODeri manning 01 wno ownea inousanas ok acres ui. land about Sebago lake, built the house in 1814 for his sister, who was Hawthorne's mother. Mrs. Hawthorne had lost her husband at sea and lived afterward in retirement. Haw tnorne was ten years old when he came to the new house with his mother, and this continued to be his home until after his graduation from Bowdoln college In 1S25, when he re turned to Salem, The building was occupied as a Old Home of Hawthorne to Be Preserved. Bnlldlnc Rebuilt 70 Tears Ago Is Mow Used as Church. new one. he saw he would make his. contract, and there would be a chance at least of his going game. The end in view was well worth, he felt, the risk en tailed. In a sense he was as greatly op posed to the adversaries securing the declaration as they were to his secur ing it, not so much because of the fear of their going game (their bid oThf, 'unusuri strength' and VXJ' j? i -..... ... (Continued From P 6 ) man has given many enjoyable con certs in this city In the past and the people of his home city are awaiting this coming event with pleasant an ticipation. Soon he is to leave for New York, where he will resume his studies with Frans Kneisel. Louis appeared last Wednesday at the Modern conservatory of music at their monthly social recital and astonished all who heard him with his rare violin ability. Nina Maria Walker has been ap pointed head of the piano department in the music section of Pacific uni versity, forest urove, or. She is a former student of Carl Denton and Dr. Emll Enna of this city. Marlon de La Parelle, baritone formerly of this city, and who, with Mrs. Parelle, lives in Spokane, Wash., Is a Portland visitor. For several years Mr. de La Parelle was a mem ber of the musical colony of Los Angeles. Walter Jenkins, community song leader and baritone soloist, has re turned from a several months' tour in the furtherance of community singing In several southern states. He re ports having experienced an enjoyable time. Charles DIerks will present Mrs. Henry Isaacs, Miss Hannah Davis and Miss May Pendergrass In piano re cital towards the end of this month in the Multnomah hotel ballroom. Compositions will be played from the works of Saint-Saens, Chopin, Men delssohn, Gluck-Brahms and Liszt. The opening concert of the season will be given at the men's resort. 8 P. M. Saturday, October 1, when sailors as well as the working men will be entertained. The hall has been decorated and a large new hall added upstairs with a new piano. Concerts will be given Saturday night and other concerts on special occasions. AH singers and other musicians who would like to take part are asked to call the concert manager, R. Desmond, Broadway 369. Under the direction of Charles Keeler, a three-day music festival will be held in the Oreek theater, Berkeley, Cal., September 15 to 17, for the benefit of the Berkeley war me morial. Three evenings are to be de voted to the work of California com posers, with the view to calling at tention to western creative talent September 15 Charles Wakefield Cad man will appear In a programme of his own compositions and Princess Talanlna will sing several Cadman Indian songs. Miss Gladys Foster Is In excellent form for the piano recital at 8 o'clock Thursday night. In Lincoln high school auditorium, assisted by Harold Moore, baritone, and Miss Mlgnon Hawkes. violinist, with Lois New and Ruth Peterson as accompanists. Miss Foster has worked steadily through the summer at technique, memorising and composing, and only resting at Rockaway beach for two weeks. She was presented recently with other students with marked success. An Interesting programme has been ar ranged - by Mrs. Ethel Barksdale-Warner. The recent musicals given at the reeldence of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Haak, 126 East 68th street, was much enjoyed by 75 musical people. Miss June Graves of Asotin, Wash., was honor guest and pleased those present by her singing Tosti's "Goodbye" and Sanderson's "Until." Mrs. J. Harvey Johnson and Mrs. Haak divided hon ors at the pipe organ by playing two groups each. Miss Ruth Agnew sang three numbers, with accompaniments by Dorothy Cox Moore. Miss Daisy Gibson sang "My Heart at iny bweet Voire" and "Sorter MIks You" (Clay Smith) and "Danny Boy" (Weatherly). Mis. Emily Speath Hageaorn gave me "Highwayman' as ner iirst am, fcllowed by a group of Italian dialect readings. m The monthly social and musical evening of the Modern Conservatory of Music was enjoyed by a capacity e s .- V' ,iJw .:! ;,'- vi -4 ;: ; ; J :: !! r'-' ! : Markham. 11 t..i. mi"-. I . i Markham. Loots Kaufman, Ttollslct, will play in concert In Pytkl hall Thnrsday nlsht. "i friends. While ' the young people were enjoying dancing, parents were conversing with the Instructors about the students' advancement. Mrs. Isabel Kldd, an advanced vocal stu dent of L. Carroll Day, gave a pleas ing number. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Paladeaux, newly added members of the faculty, were Introduced, after which their daughter, little Miss Peggy Paladeaux, gave numbers oa the piano and violin. The dramatlo art department contributed the fol lowing numbers: "The Battle," Mrs. May Haynes; "Entertaining Sister's Beaux," Elizabeth Currlgan; "The Americana Girl," L. Carroll Day, and sketch, "A Backward Child," Misses Currlgan and Duggen. Stanley Bertrand O'Connor, a young Portland muslolan, played a group of piano solos at a reception given by Golden Rule encampment of I. O. O. F, last Thursday night. Miss Leah Leaska, soprano, will be heard In concert In the Multnomah hotel ballroom, September 19, with J. R. Hutchison as piano accompanist. She leaves soon afterward for New York City. e e Avis Benton will present a group of advanced piano students In a series of piano recitals In October. Little Miss Elena Scott, 10 years old. daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie M. Scott, will also soon play a programme en tirely unassisted, except by her small sister, Betty. J. A. Holllnrworth begins his third year as director of the Sunnysld Con gregational church choir this morn ing. A keen Interest Is evidenced In the coming year's work because of the new pipe organ which Is being In. stalled. Mrs. Marian Bennett Duva will again be the soprano soloist. As sisting soloists. Miss Bertha Frelhalt, Jacob Ferguson and J. Scott Milne. The organist, Miss Martha Reynolds. Mrs. E. L. Thompson, president of the Portland Opera association, upon her return from Seaside, where she spent the summer, announced that ac tive preparations for the production of Verdi's opera "The Masked Ball" are progressing and that November 18 and 19 the opera will be produced In the public Auditorium, with a splendid cast of principals and chorus. The names of the principals will be announced shortly. The irst chorus rehearsal of the season was held last Friday night with a large attendance of excellent singers, many of whom have been associated with the organl atlon since Its formation, eight years ago, and the conductor, Roberto Cor ruccinl, expressed himself hlphly pleased. The aim Is to make "The Masked Ball" surpass anything at- crowd of students" their families and ' tempted .0 far by the association. desire to play the two bands. uuo I ... - .H 14- a H.eflt- nVAW Uln because of the score the bidding can- church, for which Purpose , It has ince t k. h v,A, i. k... been used. It is a big square struo- prudence was thrown to the winds f1"8 ot the colonial atyle of archl-.- .i .1.1-1. . i-ltecture. MA 4. ....!. hi.. T -h. " .ea, ui, At the request of his, uncle, the the idea that he could defeat the bid, boy Hawthorne kept a diary while promptly doubled. Had the conditions lived here, and these volumes are been different, the double in itself now In the possession of Rev. W illlam would not have been so bad, but C. Norrls of Willlmantic, Conn., who with conditions as thev were it was 's vice-president of the new corpor- unmlstakablv bad. Unless one's atlon. They will be donated to the hand absolutely guarantees the num- community house, ber of tricks necessary to the buc- when, owing to the doubled valua- MEMORIAL TO BE SET UP tions, tne declarer li maKtng good would not, Is a risk too great to be Mayflower Pact to Bo Commemo- Ughtly undertaken. B endeavored to condone his policy by saying that with the unusual num ber of trumps (spades) he held, his Partners clubs and his singleton dia mond, therefore the ability to ruff. be was practically assured he would defeat the contract and secure a goodly number of penalties, thus de rated by Bas Relief. PROVINCETOWN. Mass., Sept 10. The Mayflower compact, the famous agreement signed by the Pilgrims in the cabin of their vessel in this har bor, will be commemorated in a bronze bas relief designee: by Cyrus E. Dallln, which will probably be set tractlng from the value of the rubber I Un here about November 1, in case it eventually went to me i improvements in rovincetown in aaversaries, or augmenting its value I connection witn tne x-ugnm tercen in case it went to his side. I tenary observance included the re- z ana A passed, ana i, taxing i moval of certain buildings, new graa- alarm from the double, shifted to I )ng and the construction of a dignl- tnree no trumps, as it turnea out, a i fled sDProacn to tne nigrim monu- fatal mistake. The bid was wrong in I ment on Town Hill. Tbe result is to its very inception, for, while he was I be a civic square and parkway east protected in three suits, he was en- and north of Town Hill, at the east tirely defenseless in the suit shown I end of the hill. On Bradford street by the adversaries. To attempt to I north of Town Hill, there will be make a three-trick, no-trump con tract under such circumstances Is to take a long chance, and Y should have so realized and risked rather his spade contract, in which suit he was genuinely strong. Frightened by the double, he apparently lost his poise and with it the ability to see things in their true relations. However, having shifted to three no trumps," B promptly doubled this kM nn a. -V I.I. -ar kt 1. U.U. IWW, UU . . 1 U . U I OS... A1X3 mistake and regretted his ill-advised policy. The hand being played at this dec laration, Y was set for two tricks, which at the doubled valuation gave the adversaries penalties to 400. Had the hand been played at the three- trick spade contract Y would have Just made good. At the double this would have meant 4 score of 36t ri8 . A If. . linrseanoe aipproacn. northerly end the baa-relief will be placed. Mr. Dallln's design, which has al. ready been delivered to the concern that will cast it in bronze, is laK r k . vnrlc. measuring 8 feet by 1. It displays the figures of Pil grims, ten men. three women and two children, grouped about a man in ins act of signing the compact, which Is spread out on a large sea chest. Myles Standish in armor ana tma r. two. central figures. The nautical flavor of the environment Is con veyed by means of a ship's lantern overhead. . Rainfall Records Broken. GLOBE, Ariz., Bopt. 10. Weather bur-HU records here for the past 17 years were shattered during July and the first three weeks of August when the local weather bureau recorded 10.89 Inches of rainfall. The precipi tation was 6.7,7 inches during July. Dr. B. O. Fox, observer, stated that this Is the heaviest rainfall recorded for t-.vo consecutive months during the 17 years he has been weather observer. 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