THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, "PORTLAND, DECEMBER 10, 1922
LOIASSOGim
TO HOLD flUGTI
$15,000 Worth of Pledges
to Be Sold Off.
OFFERINGS ARE VARIED
Poor Man's Bank to Get Rid of
Securities Left Unredeemed
by Former Owners.
. The super event of the winter
auction eeaBon, not a card game, but
the disposal of $15,000 worth of
flotsam and jetsam jettisoned by do
mestic barques and individual craft
in distress, will take place tomor
row at 388 Stark street. It will be
the annual auction . of unclaimed
pledges staged by the Portland
Remedial Loan association and the
flrBt act will begin promptly at 10
A. M. This is the poor man's bank,
and the collection of valuables that
will be sold under the hammer is
all embracing.
For sheer, downright interest it
is doubtful if anything could com
pare with this yearly sale. The
Remedial Loan association is a "hock
shop" in one sense of the word, but
Mrs. Carrie Myers Herrmann, man
ager, combines a real banking
credit sense with the business. It
is not a hard and fast commercial
venture, but a semi-charitable busi
ness run along real ethical lines.
Mrs. Herrmann combines the per
sonal element with the practical in
making loans, and bases a grea,t deal
of her valuation on the need or ne
cessity as well as on the character
of the applicant. 'The loan associ
ation is one of the big means Port
land has to alleviate a great deal of
temporary d istress.
Pledpes Are Varied.
Just to give some idea of what
sort of pledges will be sold tomor
row, herewith is an abbreviated list
taken at randow from the 500 or
more articles on sale. "What tales
these individual possessions may
hide or what tragedies their sale
may mask, must be left to the
Imagination of the purchaser. But
there are scores of watches, dia
monds mounted In all manners and
of all sizes, Lemaire opera glasses,
carpeter's tool chest and tools, $20
gold piece, tuba horn, alto horn,
comptometer, generator, silver tea
set, guitars, mandolins, gold pen
knives, clarinets, clothing both
men's and women's, fur capes, check
writer, veterinary instruments, all
sorts of phonographs, furrobef sil
verware, transit and tripod, figure
of Chinese god Buddha. Indian bas
kets, kimonas, machinist's tools,
Red Cross hypo set, banjos, sewing
machines, brooches, necklaces, set
of taps and dies, suit, cases, type
writers both standard and portable,
perculators, kodaks, violins, stick
pins, trombones, planimeter, cigar
ette cases, books, rifles and cut
glass, chinaware, gold coins, sur
veyor's compass, Japanese Buddha,
orchestra bells, batiy basket,
trunks, cornets, fountain pens,
Bausch and Lomb lens, malaphones,
reginaphones, oriental rugs, brace
lets, merschaum pipes, drums of
all sorts, handbags, vanity cases,
silver spoons and table ware,
aneroid barometer, stenotype ma
chine, mimeographs, assorted tools,
roller skates, and other articles too
numerous to tabulate.
Mother Borrows Railroad Fare.
The baby basket came in one day
for a pinch loan. The mother ar
rived at the Union station penniless,
lost her purse some place en route
and the matron sent her to the loan
association. All she had was tho
fcaby and the baby basket. She left
the basket and took the baby in her
arms and went out happy in the pos
session of enough to take her to her
destination, but never returned to
redeem her basket or repay the loan.
Why anyone would want to pawn
a $20 gold piece might be a mystery
to most of us, for why should you
be broke if you have $20? And the
elaborately carved and ornamented
figure of Buddha, where did it come
from? There must be a real story
for the one fortunate enough to find
it. And the several packing cases
contaning household goods? What's
in them? No one will know but the
purchaser, for they were taken on
consignment and loans made to new
comers to the city who were in dire
straits when they came and could
not find anything to do or get the
money to take their household goods
out of the hands of the forwading
agents.
Newly-weds Pledge Furniture.
Many a new home, starting out
merrily on the partial payment plan
in a neat little apartment, comes to
grief or meets with hardships, and
then the first thing to do is to pawn
the phonograph or some valuable
article of furniture. And this is just
where the Remedial Loan associa
tion functions, for it is a retail bank
where small borrowers can get the
same service the large ones can at
the big banks by placing the proper
security.
The Portland Remedial Loan as
sociation was started eight years
ago as a non-profit making institu
tion, with Mrs. Herrmann, a skilled
psychologist, if ever there was one,
in charge. The capital is $100,000,
of which but $50,000 is paid up.
They pay 6 per cent interest, and
whatever profits there are over and
above this sum are returned to the
business, and after a period of years
the charter provides that the profit
account shall revert to charity. At
the present time the association has
20,200 loans on pledges, 6000 loans
on chattels and 3100 salary loans
in force, and is making 400 or more
new ones every month. As bor
rowers pay back their loans the
money is again passed out to the
next one in need, and so it goes.
BDstnens Is Brtek.
Business at this time of the year
is brisk and the main problem with
the association is the need for more
capital. They have $175,000 lent
now, much of this money having
been borrowed from banks at 7 per
cent interest, but more is needed.
Like a great barometer, the poor
man's bank tells the condition of
the city. If times are prosperous
there is little business. When times
are dull the need is great. So
heavy have been the demands on
the association of late months that
the incoming articles that have
been pledged have crowded the of
fice staff out of its quarters. To
morrow's sale will clear away a
great amount of pledged security
that has been forgotten or that
cannot be redeemed by its real own
ers. They have been notified half
a dozen times or more of the pend
ing sale, and the articles have all
been advertised. So now the varied
assortment how varied you'll have
to see for yourself is ready to pass
into new hands.
DEBRIS OF DOMESTIC TRAGEDIES GOES ON SALE TOMORROW.
If jNt'V'' W li f 'I
1 itSS?fKv.di" fSfi "vl
ill nil POSSIBLE
REPUBLICAXS IN CHICAGO
DIVIDED OX MEN'.
VARIED ASSORTMENT OF PLEDGES TO BE AUCTIONED OFF BY I-ORTIASB REMEDIAL lOAM ASSOCIATION'.
MUTER LIE IMPROVED
SECRETARY FALL SAYS XEW
ERA CONFRONTS RESORT.
of the building upon the termina- I yesterday by Rev. W. W. Youngson,
tion of the lease. As rental for the president of the Oregon Alumni as
ground the lodge will have complete sociation The chapter probabiy
ing, on which work will be started
at once.
Developments at Tark Promise
Adequate Facilities for All
Tourists in Future.
THE OREGONTAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, D. C, Dec. 9. "This
year marks the beginning of a new
era for Crater lake national park,
with developments in progress that
insure adequate facilities for the
accommodation visitors not only
now but for the future, says the
annual report of Secretary of the
Interior Fall submitted to congress
today. The report covers the work
of the interior department for the
fiscal year ended June 30.
"A group of business men and
public-spirited citizens of Oregon,"
says the report, "acquired the Cra
ter lake utility and a new franchise
was granted them. The Crater lake
lodge was further improved this
year and plans drawn for the erec
tion of an 80-room addition. At the
present time the stone work is prac
tically finished and the structure
will be entirely completed and furnished-
by the opening of the 1924
season.
"A fleet of powerful new seven
nasspnppr tmirine" cars was nlaced
, D KW,
in operation between the park and Fy
the gateway cities or Meaiord ana
Klamath Falls and service in all ,
lines of activity engaged in by the
public utility unaer its new man
Qo-nmPTit wiic hie-h rlass in everv re
spect Travel increased more than !
J. V I-JK1 Vtfitl VCJ juxcn a ivi
visitors.
"Sentiment in Oregon is now gen
erally favorable to the Diamond
lake extension, but the usefulness
of the region for park purposes is
being impaired by the granting of
summer-home sites for small busi
ness enterprises. It is hoped that
early action on the extension proj
ect may be taken by congress."-
The report shows that 33,011 per
sons visited Crater lake national,
park and 70,376 Rainier national
park during the year.
CLASS A BANNER IS WON
Trophy Captured by Local Office
' of Postal Telegraph.
The local office of the ,Postal
Telegraph Cable company won the
company's class A banner contest in
this district for increased receipts
and general efficiency. The dis
trict includes Seattle, Spokane,
Butte and other cities In Oregon.
Washington and Montana.
During his recent visit to the
company's general offices in New
York L. 1. Craft, local manager, re
ceived a beautiful banner, which
will remain in the possession of
the Portland office until some other
office in the district captures it by
winning the present or some future
contest.
Mr. Craft visited a number of the
company's larger offices . "through
the east and middle west. He re
ported that the Postal company is
malting many improvements and ad
ditions to the present service to
take care of its rapidly increasing
business.
ARTIST'S WORK SHOWN
Anthony Eower's Water Colors of
Mount Hood Alluring.
An artist of great versatility is
indicated in the novel exhibit -of
generally meritorious work by An
thony Euwer, being held at the
Multnomah hotel this week. The
exhibit was opened yesterday on the
mezzanine floor and will be con
t'nued until next Saturday.
This local artist's serious work
attracted most attention. While the
entire exhibit of several hundred
crayons, charcoals and water colors
is uniformly good, there are about
a dozen outstanding water colors.
Several of these are of Mount Hood,
each with a different treatment, and
all of them strikingly realistic por
trayals of exalted glimpses of the
great mountain.
will be installed some time in Feb
ruary and national, officers of the
fraternity will come west to con
duct the ceremonies. Dr. Youngson
went east last June to present the
petition to the executive council. It
was placed on the accredited list.
This meant that the petition could
One Faction Considers Only Its
Own Members; Other Seeks
Independent Business Mao.
(By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.)
CHICAGO, Dec 9. A woman for
mayor of Chicago may be the solu
tion of the problem confronting re
publican factions here, which are
unable to agree on a candidate but
which are united in their opposition
ta William Hale Thompson, present
mayor.
With one faction of the party con
sidering only its own members as
possibilities and the other search
ing in vairi for an independent busi
ness man as its candidate, the re
publican women have come forward
with their own solution of the anti
Thompson mayoralty problem.
The Job ahead, as they see it,' is a
municipal housecleaning, and for
that task they propose a woman
Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen.
The proposal originated with the
Woman's Roosevelt Republican club,
in response to an invitation from
Attorney-General Brundage to sug- i
gest a candidate for the mayoralty,
Mr. Brundage is reported to have
had only men in mind, but the club
took a broader view of the subject.
Since .hen the Woman's City club
and other organizations with which
she is prominently identified have
gotten back of Mrs. Bowen's candi
dacy. "The proposal came as a surprise
to me," said Mrs. Bowen tonight.
"But important political leaders
talked the matter over with me to
day and I have asked for a little
time to consider it. I shall try to
give them a decision tomorrow."
SOUTHERN OREGON PHYSICIAN
LEAVES HERITAGE OF CHARITY
Dr. Ki Lane Miller, Who Died Recently in Roseburg, Beloved for
Professional Philanthropy and Humanitarian Deeds.
BY W. A. PETTIT. !
SALEM, Or., Dec. 9. (Special)
Dr. Ki Lane Miller, who died
recently in Roseburg, probably
was one of the best known men in
southern Oregon. He was a phil
anthropist of the old school. While
he never sought the limelight
through the endowment of public
institutions, his life was given over
to the work of a benefactor, and his
charity knew no bounds.
As a physician Dr. Miller prized
his profession . highly, and any
thought of financial reward was a
secondary . consideration. To the
poor he was a true and steadfast
friend, and no person, despite his
poverty, was turned away because
he had no money. Dr. Miller's popu
larity in southern Oregon was wide
spread and his friends were num
bered among the thousands.
Dr. Miller had resided and prac
ticed medicine in Douglas county
for 36 years, and was preparing to
answer a country call when he sud
denly collapsed and fell to the floor.
His death followed a few minutes
later.
Dr. Miller was born in Utica, N. Y.,
March 21, 1854. He studied his pro
fession in the University of Chi
cago and later attended Hahne
mann medical college there. He
afterward served as an intern
physician in Bellvue hospital.
Dr. Miller later came west and
located in Portland. In the year
1883 he was consulted by Tim Atter
bury, pioneer of the Umpqua valley.
who sought relief from a physical
disability. His treatment by the
physician pleased him to the extent
n nun n ii i
1: . v !
Phone your want ads to The Ore
be granted at any time within two gonian. All Its readers are inter- that he invited Dr. Miller to locate
years. ested in the classified cotoitnns. in Douglas county. Dr. Miller ac-
Dr. KI Lane Miller, who died re
cently in Rosebors.
cepted the invitation and later hung
out his shingle in Roseburg.
As a bill collector Dr. Miller was
a failure. The call from a distant
stranger in the most tempestuous
weather was as imoortant to him
as though the patient was of promi
nence id the skies were clear.
There never was any hesitancy
certainty of no compensation be
came known. It was this charitable
and conscientious trend in his life
work that helped to make him pop
ular among his fellow men. It was
with reluctance that he sought com
pensation, and his books show thou
sands of neglected accounts.
In the early days of mountain
trails and impassable roads, the
sturdy horse was to this pioneer
physician his greatest assurance.
It was in the saddle that Dr. Miller
was at his best. So well were Dr.
Miller's horses known along the
country roads that even today their
names are recalled by many or the
older inhabitants.
Among his horses were "Hot
Spur." "Duke" and "Big Ben." Old
farmers recall many harrowing ex
periences in which the doctor was
the sole participant. Knowing his
trusty horse. Dr. Miller never fal
tered, and often in the dead of win
ter, when the streams were swol
len to their banks and were made
dangerous by driftwood, he drove
his animal into the foaming cur
rents and emerged on the opposite
shore wet to the skin, but happy in
the thought that he was not to dis
appoint a patient. In those days
ferries and - bridges in Douglas
county were scarce, and transporta
tion was bad at its best.
Eastern Star Officers Elected.
CRESWELJj, Or., Dec 9. (Spe
cial.) Creswell chapter. No. 96, Or
der of the Eastern Star, elected of
ficers Thursday evening as follows:
Worthy matron, Mrs. Clara-Noland;
worthy patron, C. H. Sedgwick; as
sociate matron, Mrs. Grace Moore;
secretary, Mrs. Lillie Dersham;
treasurer, C. E. Leabo; conductress,
Mrs. Grace Sedgwick, and associate
conductress, Mrs. Ore Steele. Mrs.
Mina Stone of the Martha Washing
ton chapter of Portland, formerly of
Creswell, was a visitor and ad
dressed the chapter. Installation
was set for December 27, jointly
with the local Masonic lodge.
Phone your want aos to The Ore
onian. All its readers are inter-
repeating a visit when poverty and ested in the classified columns.
Kappa Tlieta Chi Gets Charter.
Information that a charter has
been granted to the local chapter of
the Kappa Theta Chi by the execu
tive council now in session at Cleve
land, O.. was received in-. Portland i
a - a
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License Applicants Slow.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 9.
(Special.) Applications for 192)
automobile licenses are coming in
more slowly than last year, accord
ing to clerks in the office of the
Clarke county auditor. Only 273
licenses have been issued since De
cember 1. There are more than 5000
automobiles in Clarke county. All
motorists are expected to get in
their license applications before
January 1.
Jail Preferred to Fine.
ALBANY, Or., Dec. 9. (Special.)
Herbert Lerwill of Brownsville,
found guilty of having liquor in his
possession when tried before a jury
in the Linn county circuit court this
week, was today fined $250. Ler
will stated after . sentence was
passed that he would go to jail be
fore paying the fine. It would be
necessary for him to stay in the
county jail 125 days.
Kelso Lodge to Build.
KELSO, Wash., Dec, 9. (Special.)
Tuscarora tribe. No. 32, Redmen,
soon will have a fine brick building
as a result of an agreement made
this week between the lodge and
Hunters & Ufter of Portland, who
agreed to erect a two-story brick
building on a lot 50x100 feet on Oak
street, owned by the lodge. The
building will be paid for by Hunters
& Ufter on a 50-year lease of the
ground, the lod.a"e to have possession
Phone your want ads to The Ore
Ionian. All its readers are inter
ested in the classified columns.
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