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TIIE OllEGON DAILY JOURNAL, TOTITLAND, SATURDAY IJVENING, JANUARY 2, 1904. CAUGHT BY THE GRIP. RELEASED BY PE-RU-N.. Congressman Geo. H. White's Case. A Noted Sculptress Cured. "STOCK" ACTORS OF OLD PORTLAND PORTLAND GIRL DlS IN CHICAGO FIRE EXTRA HER MISS STILL ALARM TETEBA.IT KiKlQEl joiR " MA GTJTJLB WKXTES EWTEBTAlNOLY 02- CKABXJSY BATES, TATHEB OP B1AHCHB BATES, ANNIE PIXLET AHD OTHEB 0X9, PLATERS. ... v "Let us go. out there and open a goose farm." "A gooaa farm?" , "Yes, a goose farm. ' It it is as you describe it and the ' land can . be pur chased cheaply or leased 'advantag eously,! it la Just the ideal place for a goose farm." . - - ' But I ,iuerled what is a goose farm, I never before heard of such a thing., "Why. a goose farm Is a - place to raise geeso on and nothing else,)gnd - for the investment therels no other kind of a farm so profitable. ; Why, they, are' as. profitable, as sheepraislng, and the reason why there are so few in, this country , is the difficulty of finding sq suitable a location . where ! you - have plenty of grass and water, combined , and right', at : the -very fence rails of , your ground is your market in the city : itself. v,-,.;'.' ::,r-.v..' v"o "Why,,. Just imagine the: 'pjucklngs' and the price paid for ''live' feathers; talk of your , wool clips, and-then there's 'Thanksgiving' and Christmas, when the ; demand for stuffed goose is enormous and the great yearly increase that the -supply would always grow "with tho demand, and the little expense com pared with other' industries that require big investments, while the goose farm profits were enormous when the con ditions were such as I describe." The above was part of a conversation at Fort Yates, Dakota, where I . was visiting less than : a year after my leaving Portland, for - Montana, now nearly a quarter of a century ago. The speaker was the post trader of the ' fort. The- conversation took - plltee in the officers' club rooms.. I was i de- , scribing the city of Portland where. I then hailed from, its marvelous growth even in those 7 days giving' its re sources, its prospects for a great fu ture, how" real estate-values were in creasing, etc., and that the city would ; grow southward, as north of the Clar endon .hotel there was then, a. few. lum ber yards, and the ground being of a swampy nature, . grass and water in abundance. : there never would be any city growth in that direction. Grass and water In abundance, and can be : bought cheap, says my friend Douglas, the post trader. "Why,' the ideal place for a goose farm.". When J arrived In Portland last Sat- - urday I found the terminal buildings M . . V- 1 11 J .k. 1 pot and all around it streets in every direction and between there and the lo cation where stood :' the Clarendon, a city in itself . and containing as large a population as all Portland proper con tained in the days I speak of. This new addition not only covers the place where it was suggested I should go Into goose farming, but far and away beyond. ' This ' is one of the great ..changes that strikes me which Tias oc curred in - Portland's expansion, and - when J beheld u.cn marvelous improve ments in this direction I was partially .1 -A n....nn t ' Iw. mnn,lAM f pirjWlCU IU H.lttin ill WW V,ill4K: tj liava seen ,in all other directions around liiw city. ... . The New Market theatre was, in my time, consldwed away (jut, but inaplte, of allihat Portland then, as now, was a trnnn iDPra.Tnwn. ana l 1 1 u vn no nnuui that many an old timer keeps a- linger ing love in his memory for his favorite plays and players of those early days. Those were what are. called the stock days., when the .player had a habitation and his own little circle of friends in the community, and were he a popular performer the circle was enlarged . ac cordingly. How changed is everything even in the actor's life. " In .those : stock days favorite actor's could remain for years in one engagement. They had their homes, their Sundays were spent with their -families, interchanges of so cial visits on the Sabbath was custom ary. Not-even rehearsals were ever given except in ; extraordinary cases, which were seldom on a Sunday. Now the Sunday is no day of rest for the actor, .the exigency of change in all things', and most of all in the Insatia ble public in the manner and matter of its amusements, makes the coming of 8uriday, the player's-weekly horror for if he is not playing he is traveling. Sunday being picked out in routing the companies, or I should say, the "shows." to make the ' long "Jumps." The actor of today might be said to be living In a trunk, for he. packs and unpacks that trunk -nearly 865 times a year. many vi me cua-umo hvuck iciuib held a warm place in their hearts for Portland. Those - who had ever ap peared here were always, if disengaged, ready to accept an. offer from the man ager who was organising a company for Portland. San Francisco was ' theatrl- - cat headquarters,' and it a dull season was in evidence or one of the outside stock companies , had closed their sea son, the actors would get together, and after due ' deliberation, ;, suggestions would be made aboufa tour. As a general - thing the - managers were al ways actors. It was indeed very rarely that a manager of a theatre or a com pany was without the experience of th actor. The business was conducted dif ferently and not systematized as it is at the present time. Commercialism In the : theatre wim pretty much an ''un known quantity with the actor-manager. 'Sentiment and the artistic side of his profession prevailed, and very often he foolishly supposed that what . appealed to him individually as an actor for its beauties, in an artistic sense, would also appeal to the public at large, but here he would be woefully mistaken at times.. In the new t state of things "there's tro sentiment or ideality. The first consideration Is the pratical ques tions, what's in HI The actor of today has no time to get acquainted with anyone outside of the .company he travels with. And yet if such a state or ininK prvvBueu mk muDi vwi . uiu days how poor would the old 'theatre goer i of today, .who -; has outlived the The White Is King Special Sale NOW ON 203 LATEST MPBOVED HWXjr MA- ', ojulhes. ' ' ! Just arrived.- Call and take a look at them. We sell them on small payments. New machines for rent.- A ew sec ondhand "machines for sale , .. Price $3.00 and Up ' jreedlM and parts for aU Machines. Bartlett & Palmer Corner Statu and Alder Street. Phone Maia 2048. '.:: " :",: :V.V. . : f . v :"':::.::: .- . fillSIIIIiPf - ' ' "- " ' : ' 1 ' ' , ' - - " i::;S:4SSi::S';:;; i r' I ' f 4 s - ' -' ' . -' - ' - - - I MISS ELIZABETH lIART. Miss Elizabeth Hart, daughter of Ed ward Hart, a wood-turner, living at 9 Second street, is a Portland girl who was. suffocated in the "Iroquois theatre fire-in Chicago- last "Wednesday. , Tele grams Informing the," family of her death were .received yesterday from a brother and sister of tha-dead girl, wb.o also reside in Evanston. The telegrams gave no particulars beyond the fact that she was sufTocated and not burnap. - v Mrs. Carl S. O. Licbe. wife of a book keeper in the city auditor's office, and sister of Miss Hart, left tor Chicago this morning. - Miss Elizabeth Hart resided with a married sister. Mrs. IP. A. Fisher, at 805 Dempster street, Evanston, 111. Her' brother, Charles Hart, a dentist in Chicago, also resided with Mrs. Fisher. Mrs. Fisher is prostrated with grief by the death of her . younger sister, and Mrs. Llebe went East to be with her in their mutual affliction.- Mrs. HarU the mother,--! at the family home on Second street.. '.. ,j. - t, Lizzie Hart was 22 years old. She originally went to Chicago to be edu cated. Last June . she made a visit home, the first for five years, and re turned to Chicago about July 1. "My sister Lizzie was a matinee glrL a regular theatre-goer," said Miss Jen- BACK TO MISSOURI SNUFF AND AGUE "Where are. you going," inquired the depot matron of a crippled old woman who was hobbling along the main cor ridor laden with a bagging cloth grip and a bundle. The traveler stopped, straight ened up and . in a shrill, piping voice said: Tin goln to Missouri. I anv" Her tone Indicated that Missouri was the home of the blest The south-bound passen ger was 'piloted to a corner of the rest room, her bundles piled about hr and a friendly neighbor started a conversation. J'Well. well. Weill did you ever .see slch goings onT inquired the Missourlan as she looked at the passing crowds, "Jost like a county fair ain't ItT My dar ter's man done sent fer me and I'm goln genial soul, who long ago contributed by their genius as .an actor, or their hearty soclabUtly as companions I say how poor in pleasant - recollections of the stage and its followers would he be who could not bring back soma aneodots or good story of those popular actors of a goneby generation, for with him no actor of today can usurp the plaoe in their memory. There's Frank Bates, whose daughter, Blanche, is now one of the greatest actresses on the Ameri can stage, and who was born in this very city of Portland. Who doesn't re member that prlnoeof comedians, "Bill Barry." who was wont to set th house in a-roar. Who, of those days,-can for get : that venerable Chesterfield of the stage, ; "Jim" Vincent, i who so often presided over the destinies of the old Oro Fino theatre, and whose last ap pearance here was during my manage ment of the New Market. How"numerous were the admirers of that splendid actor, George B. Waldron, who, whoever saw "8ue Robinson," can see anyone ever since - who. could give them such delight? Fanny Morgan Phelps; Billy Bimlns, "Dick" Cox. ."Long" Wards and so many others who were such strong favorites in Portland. There are two, others who have passed away and whose memory will always leave a fragrance of loving esteem; the greatest Of all favorites, not only in Portland, but throughout the entire land, not only for her genius as an artist but her vir tues In private life Annie Plxley, and the genial and. talented Jenny Mander ville, whose tragic ending in the going down of the steamer Pacinc,'' Is yet re membered. ' , "Well, you've set me talking., sir." v JOHN MAGUIRE. pobtx.ajts's porcnukm pithouse. Where do you amuse yourself Sunday afternoon and evening?" asked a friend of another, who answers.) "The popular family theatre of Portland, the .Arcade. 320 Washington street, where a continu ous' performance is held from to '10 p. m. every Sunday afternoon and even ing. " Tou can drop In for 15 or 20 min utes and out again. It only costs a dime and the program Is the, best" All the star vaudeville and novelty acts com ing to the. Coast are to be seen at the Arcade. 4 r"':77.7v' v:7" . Preferred gtock Caaaed (loots, - Allen & Lewis' Best Brand. nle Hart this morning. "She held, a position in aa- lnsuranoe offloe in Chi cago as stenographer , and got $65 a month. She- must have got away on Wednesday afternoon on purpose to go to that humble wtlHeeTlreeiirntT.- O fHAn1 Mtasi Uo!f a Vfa vtln whn oa I burned td-death. My sister, Mrs. Llebe, received letter from Lizzie only yes terday morning. It was written In a happy vein and told what presents -she had received for Christmas. She wrote that she had received a diamond brooch, a gold bracelet, a hand-painted powder box, a hand-painted glovebox, a fur boa and some other things. "I do not know whether Lizzie was engaged to be married or not Bhe may have been. She received marked atten tion from a wealthy gentleman who was nearly twice her age. - My brother Charles, however, objected to him and in - one of her 1 letters, received some time ago, she said she had told him not to visit her any more. r- Whether that was the end of it or not I- do not know. Charles and Lizzie were companions. To see them together you would think they were sweethearts if you did' not knqw they were brother and sister. Miss Lizzie Hart expected to return for another visit to Portland during the Lewis and Clark exposition in 1905. back ter Clay county. Goodness knows, I've been out here long enough. No, I hain't got no llktn' fer the west; been out here most nigh 0 years and never had a p'slmmon. ef a chill, er a shake, er nothln." not even home dried tobaccy, an' I'm shore pow'ful glad ter sot my face fer Clay county, Hev yer got er bit of snuff 'bout" i "This , is your train," interposed the matron, and the woman seeking malaria and plug rut was guided to the train. Beyond making a remark concerning the general uselessness of "nigger" porters the dame passed no farther comment on Oregon . or . Its people, but n I lied- ex pressively when some one mentioned the beautiful weather of late.. ' MODERN TRAINS ON SIBERIAN ROAD Folders descriDtive of the Trans-SI berlan railroad reached the local offlc of the Northern Pacific this morning. The folders are sent by Jules Clerfayt, gen eral agent for the United States, located at San Francisco. The road runs from St. Petersburg io Vladivostok directly through the heart of Russia and Siberia, a distance of 6,707 miles. The road also runs through Manchuria to Pekin and the enormous amount of .14 miles of track is embraced In the system be tween Fekin and St. Petersburg. According to the folders received the road operates modern sleeping and din Ing cars. The Russian built epglnea are apparently of the most recent Mogul type. - The "Tralns-de-luxe" operated across the Siberian territory . are com posed of a flrst'class sleeper, two second- class cars, a dining car, a composite car with "bath' room, dynamo and-a store room. The whole train is lighted by electricity, . provided with steam heat ana electric fans, noise and jar-deadening apparatus and each car, owing to the broad gauge used, is larger and more airy than American tr .continental cara. Hon. A. D. " Btillman, a prominent Pendleton attorney, is registered at the Imperial hotel. .-. Mothers! " Mothers!! Mothers!!! Hrs. Wins!cws,ScQlhing Syrup Has been used for over SIXTY YEARS by Mil UONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN while TEETH INO, with PERFECT SUCCES& It SOOTHES fke CHILD, SOFTENS the GCM3, ALLAYS u PAJNi CURES WIND COLIC and is the best remedy .for DIARRHOEA, fiold by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure tnd ask for "Mrs. Wis alow Soothing Byrap," and take noothcr kind. Twenty-five eta a bottle, -v.; 7--7 X7UMBEB OP BEOTJTiAB , PXXEKEN BESPOWDIWO TO CA11S DISTANT rBOM riBB BOZBB TOO SMALL TO BABBLB APPABATT7S CROSSED WXBES CAUSE PZBE8. A practical illustration of the need of a full paid Sre department and more equipment was given a day or two ago when a small house at Tenth and Mill streets was found in lames. A still alarm brought engine-4, truck 2, chemical i. hose 2 and Assistant Chief Laudenklos to the scane. : With all this apparatus there were but 10 paid men, none of the extra firemen responding be cause no box alarm was sounded. The firemen had a hard time to man the ap paratus and' it was only with the aid of the drivers and some outsiders that the companies' were able -to subdue the flames. . A box call would have, been sounded, but the.re is no box for several blocks. :. l' . '- ' -.- , . : - With all the apparatus which went to this flro there were nbt more' than enough men . to . properly handle the truck. One of the great objections to the present system is that in cases of still alarms the few men on the appa ratus cannot handle it properly. - . Crossed wires were 1 responsible ' for two fires and a great deal of excitement In 'the neighborhood of Sixteenth and Columbia streets, late last night. At 11 o'clock smoke was seen coming from the telephone box in the home -of ' R. P. Knight and soon flames darted from the receiver. Mr. Knight cut the wires and the fire burned out. ' Knowing that the phone of his next door neighbor, Charles Clemens, 286 Sixteenth street, was on the same line, he investigated and dis covered flumes In the sitting room of the Clemens residence. Mr. and Mrs. Clemens were not' at home,, but neigh bors broke into the residence and dis covered a couch ablaze, while flames were pouring from the box. The lounge was carried to the street,, but consider able damage was done to the dwelling, Some of Mrs. Clemens' wearing apparel was destroyed. An alarm from box 85 summoned the department, which had a long run. The fire was extinguished before the ap paratus arrived, but the firemen cut the wires. Shortly aner midnight an ther call from the' same box resulted from a fire in the home of E. Mildred, 272 Sixteenth street.- ' Crossed' wires here formed a short circuit and set fire to the porch. . The fiamos were quickly put out. At tho Clemens residence the damage will Amount to at leaat8200T equally o tents. . Mr. Clemens is protected. The residence is owned by the Metropolitan Insurance company. It is believed that the telephone line became crossed ' with an electric light wire. CIRCUIT QUARTERLY IS IN SESSION The Free Methodists of the Portland district opened their circuit quarterly or official board meetings last evening in the church at East Tenth and Mill streets. ; Elder "William Pearce is presid ing. He will preach again tonight at 7:80; They will have their love feast to morrow at 10 a. m. and at 11 a sermon by Elder Pearce. The sacrament of the Lord's supper will follow. " COBTEBEBCB XfXXT TVBSDAT. The Enrllsh conference of tha Pa. ctflc Lutheran synod will convene in St HI iAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Tif TVTTTTTTTVfTTtf IITTTIIfTITIITfflf fITTTTfTlflfTTfTT Carriages a- 4w IF I STUDEBAKER PORTLAND, OREGON ; 330-336 E. 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Thursday evening a reception will be tendered the conference at the parsonage. : TUDEBAKER They: are of the best grade of construction, pleasing styles, and reasonable prices. They are selling satisfac torily and in large numbers, which is a; 'sufficient guar antee for any one wanting a good reliable vehicle of any kind. ' , BROS. CO. North - west , clutched us in its fatal clasp. Men, women, children, whole towns and cities are caught in the baneful grip of a ter rible monster, y ' . P-ra-aa far Grip. Mrs. Theophile Schmltt, wife of the Ex-Secretary of the German Consulate, writes the following letter from W17 Wabash ayenue, Chicago, 111.1 , : WI suffered this winter with a severe attack of U grippe. , After using three bottle, of Peruna I found the grip had disappeared." Mrs. T. Schmltt. Brought to Time,. 7 From the Topeka State Journal. 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C, is one of the greatest living sculptors and painters of the world. , She says: . i " I take pleasure in recommending Pe runafor catarrh and la grippe. X hay. Buffered for months, and after the use of one bottle of Feruna I am entirely well," Mrs. M. C. Cooper, v . I : D. Im Wallace, a charter member of the International Barber's Union, writes from 15 Western avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.: u Following a severe attack of la grippe I seemed to be affected badly all over, t "One of my customers who was greatly helped by Peruna advised me to try it, and I procured a bottle the same day. Now my head is clear, my nerves are steady, I enjoy food and rest well. Fe rune has been worth a dollar a dose Ui, me."D. lu Wallace. - Lieutenant Clarice Hunt, of the Salt Lake City Barracks of the Salvation Army, writes from Ogden, Utah t i " Two months ago I was suffering with so severe a cold that I could hardly speak. "Our captain advised me to try Pe runa and procured; a bottle for me, and truly it worked wonders. Within two weeksI was entirely, well." Clarion Hunt. ' Congreuman White's Latter. ' i Tarboro, JV. C. i Gentlemen: I am more than satlsl fled with Peruna and Had It to be an excellent remedy tor the grip and ca tarrb. I have used It to my family and they all Join ma la recommending. It as aa excellent remedy." Georso fl. White, Member of Congress. Mrs. T. W. Collins, Treasurer Inde pendent Order of Good Templars, pi Everett, Wash., writes: r , "After having a severe attack of la grippe I continued in a feeble condition even after the doctor, called me cured. My, blood seemed poisoned. Peruna cured me." Mrs. T. W. Collins. j If yon do not derive prompt and satls factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Ilartman, giving full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable ad vice gratis. - ' 1 O ':. 1 Address Dr. Ilartman, President oi The Ilartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O, ALMANAC FOR 1904 The Highest Side. From the Washington Star. Mr. Bryan is probably convinced that the cuisine of the average European country la much better than its system of government - j It Harness ii s 4 4fr M a -" II 4 4 p- -4 a- a - - -