THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SATURDAY EVENING. DECEMBER H I90C 19 T St Louis Fair Grand Prize AWARDED TO Walter Baker & Co.'s Chocolate 5Cocoa a In 1Mb 1MB Ton Tilt 9 mDMUU 43 HIGHEST AWARDS IN EUROPE and AMERICA Walter Baker&Coltd. E,uMUIudi7!a DOKCXXSTXX, MASS. SIOUX CITY 1$ RAVAGED FIRE On Man Killed and Damage Es timated at Two Million Dollars the Result. CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS FLEE FOR THEIR LIVES High Wind Fans Ramos Which Firemen Are Unable to Check for Several Hours. (Journal Special Berries.) Rloux City. Ia., Dec. 14. On man kilted, two entire blocks In the business district destroyed, with a loss approxi mating S2.000.00t, 1s the result of a fire that started In tba basement of the Fel Uetler department store In this city about o'clock yesterday evening. The Pel -Metier store was located In the T6y block, a big six-story stone structure. A high wind fanned the racing flames, which spread with great rapidity. The Christ mas shopping wis at Its full height. The Pellletier and several other big stores that were situated In the block were crowded with a throng of men. women and children, and It Is consid ered little less than miraculous that many wars not killed or Injured. The only person killed was a nan, who jumped from the Massachusetts block, a distance of firs stories. Before the Are department had arrived the flames had gained great headway nd were pouring from all part of the building In which they originated. Ev erything In the path of tba Are waa de stroyed, tba department being unable to stay Its progress for mora than three and a half hours, and not until the flames had eaten their way out of range of the big buildings ware tba firemen able to check their onslaught. The Massachusetts block, a sis-story building, was the second one attacked by the flames. With Incredible rapidity they quickly spread to the Commercial block. In which was situate the City National bank, wholesale grocery and clothing stores and the Western Union Telegraph company, vrged by the high wind that seamed to Increase with the intense heat, the flames swept across the narrow alley from the Massachu setts building, quickly devouring tba Northwsstern National bank and other email buildings on Fourth street. Many small establishments fall before the fury of the wind end flames. Including the new West hotel, at Third and Ne hrseka street, nnd the Leader hotel, at Third end Pierce streets. Concentrated efforts on the part of the Are department checked the flames when they had reached a point near the Tribune building. This structure, al though considerably damaged, was saved from destruction. Among the heaviest losers are: Pel lletier Pry Goods company, $240,000: J. Brush & Co.. $60,000: R. R. Purslow, West hotel and other buildings. $46,000: commercial block. $40,000: Schuleln es tate, $60,000: George M. Conway, whole sale tobacronlst. $56,000; Stat Bank building. Toy building. $175,000; Martin Bros., department store. $76,000. The Tillamook Herald published last week a large special edition, with a flne Illustrated front pnge, and will In future Issue a special Indus Ion, thus exhibiting much en terprise. SCOTT'S EMULSION We don't put Scott's Emul sion in the class of advertised cure-alls; it doesn't belong there. We hardly like to use the word "cure" at all, but we are bound to say that it can be used for a great many troubles with great satisfaction. Its special function is to repair the waste of the body when the ordinary food does not nourish, 'and this means that it is useful in many cases which are indicated by wasting. W.TI aaas fss i HOW CHRISTMAS WILL BE OBSERVED King Edward Will Carve a Royal Roast and Kaiser Will Eat Boiled Carp With Beer. BOSTON'S NEW TRANSIT TUNNEL LIKE A GIFT Its Opening Will Attract the At tention of Holiday Crowds White House Doings. (Joans! Special serrfc London, Dec. 24. London presents the deserted appearance usual on the eve of Christmas, the king and other members of the royal family Having gone to the country. Emulating tba royal example, the aristocratic fami lies, together with all aorts and condi tions of people, have gone to country homes, where Christmas will be cele brated in the old-faahtoned English style. In no home of the whole British em pire, perhaps, are the traditions or Christmas observed with stricter regard than at Sandrlngham. where King Ed ward and Queen Alexandra have spent the Christmas ssaaon for years past, surrounded by their children, and lat terly by their grandchildren. Here the 26th la a day of peace and bounty and charity. The house party usually in cludes ths Prlnoe and Princess of Wales and their children, ths Duke and Duchess of Argyll and their children, and Prlnoe and Princess Charles of Denmark. Prin cess Victoria Is, of course, of the party, f This afternoon and evening the cot tages, workmen and other laborers at Sandrlngham assemble and receive pres ents of beef, the Joints averaging six pounds apiece. This pleasant task com pleted. Christmas trees are exhibited and presents are exchanged among the members of the royal family and the guests In ths bouaa party. Bright and early Christmas morning the grandchildren of their majesties scramble out of bed pretty mueh In ths same manner of children all over Christ endom, and run to their stockings to see what Santa claus has brought them. The king, queen and all ths houss party attend Christmas service In St Mary Magdalane'a church. After serv ice lunch la served, and ths royal ken nels and stable are visited. King Ed ward, as la well known. Is very fond of horses, and the queen makes a pet of dogs, of which she keeps quits a num ber. At aVmarlngfcam. Christmas dinner Is eaten in the hand some dining hall at Sandrlngham. Many of the customs Inaugurated and estab lished br Queen Victoria In regards to ths Christmas dinner are religiously ob served by the present sovereign. King Edward will carve the roast, which when served at the table will weigh In the neighborhood of ISO pounds. The differ ent courses will be marked by the quaint ceremonies Inaugurated In the reign of Henry the Eighth and since followed by every sovereign on Christmas day. The plum pudding, which will weigh an even 100 pounds, will be placed upon an Immense golden platter decorated with mlaUatoe and holly and borne Into the dining room on the shouldsrs of four attendanta at anna. At the close of the dinner the toasts will be drank by the company stsndlng to the memory of the late Queen Victoria and the prince coneort, and hla majesty will then toast In order, the Prince of Wales Oroat Britain and her colonies and her loyal subjects. The presents of the king and queen to the servsnta of ths royal household are on the usual liberal seals, while ths outlay for toys, articles of Jewelry, books, pictures and boxes Of clgsrs, for the gentlemen and ladies In watting, the grandchildren, children. Intimate friends and other favored ones. Is said to hav exceeded $10,000. In addition to those of the Immediate family circle there were handsome gifts for ths relatives and frlenda at St. Petersburg, Berlin, Darmstand, Bucharest and other foreign courts. so numerous and generous a family. But in about two hours the ceremony 1s over and the emperor loaves the apartment to take his solitary walk about Potsdam. In ths course of which he distributes largesse to those of hla poor subjecte he chancea to meet. GIFT FOR BOSTON. sTsw Transit Tunnel Undsr nor Is Completed After Hasty Tsars. (Journal special Service.) Boston, Dec, 34. The city of Boston, and especially that suburban section known as East 11 'ston. is going to re ceive a Christmas gift that will be "a Joy forever" to every man, woman and child in town. The new transit tunnel under Boston harbor, connecting Bast Boston with the olty proper, le completed after years of work and will be opened to trafflo to morrow. The new tunnel la the most Important segment of ths Intricate and elaborate underground system of trans portation which, when completed, will give to Boston a rapid transit system that will rival NSW York's recently opened "Battery to Harlem In 10 min utes" Subway. Tho through line as planned will make It possible to run ears from Roxbury and the western suburbs underneath ths great, throbbing arteries of travel of ths olty, and Anally Underneath the harbor Itself to the East Boston terminal. The tunnel now completed was begun on August IS, 1900, and has cost $1,11$. 607. It is 7,100 feet long and the pres ent terminus In Boston proper Is Scollay square, where It connecte with the sub way. Two thousand six hundred feet are under tho water and ths rest undsr the streets, buildings and wharves of ths olty. AT , King Bora on It is slways supposed to be peculiarly lucky to bo born on Christmas day or cnriatmas eve, yet only one sovereign has had the privilege this Is King George of Greece. Queen Alexandra's fa vorite brother, and ons of ths few royal personages In Europe Who may be counted a sincere well-wisher to the British empire and Its many peoples. So far as luck Is concerned the career of King George seems to bear out the popular superstition, for he has succeed ed In "holding down" a shaky throne for more than 40 years and at the same time accumulating a fortune through shrswd Investments and speculation that has made him one of the richest of ths world's rulers. The Christmas holidays as usual are being made the occasion for numerous house parties snd festivities among the nobility and aristocracy of England, one of the most notable being a great chil dren's party given by ths Duchess of Roxburghe. formerly Mies May Goelet, at Floors Castle. One of the features Is a monster Cbrlstmss tree, for ths adorn ment of which the duchess ransacked the toy shops of London, Paris and Vienna. Many of her purchases were of the most extrsvsgant kind, among them be ing a collection of mechsnlcal toys, In cluding a perfect miniature motor car on rails, which, when wound up, races round and round at' unlaw'ul speed. In Its progress upsetting a small automatic policeman and eventually pitching out Ha two occupants. CHRISTMAS AT POTSDAM. and Imperial Tamily Will Cele brate Holiday u Stall of Shells. 'Journal Special Serrlee.) Berlin, Dec. $4. Emperor William and the Imperial family are gathered at Potsdam for thslr usual Christmas cele bration. Chrlstmss eve Is the big time of celebration with the Germane and consequently the imperial family and the members of ths court will assemble this evening to enjoy the delight of gaatng upon the plantation of evergreens that graces the famous hall of shells In the new palace. The Bescherung. or distri bution of presents, of the German court takes plaoe after dinner, a meal that is served In the Apollo room, and, by spe cial desire of the emperor, always In cludes the national Christmas dish nf boiled carp served with sauce composed of beer end ground gingerbread. In most families one Chrlstmss tree suffices for the neets of all, but at Pots dam nine are called Into use one for the emperor, another for the empress snd ons for each of the children, the smallest being tree six feet in height thst Is the property of Princess Vlctoris ltitse. The distribution, which Is preceded by the singing of the csrol, "Peaceful Night. Mety Night." -fcy all peeeent. Including tbs emperor, is a lengthy proceeding la (Journal Special Service. ) Washington. Dec. 14. The younger Mi,. Attire etttMrem through Christendom, sre on the tiptoe of ex pectation and Impatiently awaiting the dawn of Christmas day. Express wagons. mall earners ana messenger numerous psckagee to the White House today and It required much strategy on the part of Mrs. Roosevelt to keep the contents unseen from the prying and In nl.in,. avaa of Archie. Kerralt. Miss Ethel and little Qulntln. The children win nna pmr w use fruits of Santa Claus' visit tn their stockings as soon as they arise. Later they will assemble In the library, there to receive gifts from their father and mother. FINE POULTRY AND CATS RECEIVE PRIZES Wke ekASW s. ThlJ ATI A TswY- A ISW JV'UMI J ftVUWW es w lor streets will remain Open all day to morrow and Monday. The Judges devotea tneir aiienuon io day to the household pets department. -a- ,,mhr nf ImDortant awards. They started with Tom cats. Mrs. Marlon MCKee won nrsi in wiv white, amber eyes, Peralan speclea, and Mrs. O. P. Armstrong won second with her "King lurelanh-" For a short haired cat, S. Joseph won first. All other awards, for Toms and Tabbies, went to the FOruaoa uira cmdimj. TK. .r.Alal nr.milimi WAfS dlSDOSed . ,1 w r. i. , . - of as follows: For 10 highest scoring birds, Maseiwooa r-ouiiry uomiienj. t k.ii ftimlav of poultry from associations outside of Portland. Yamhill County Poultry association, first; Corvallls association, second. Beat display or pigeons, v oiemeu. nest collection barred Plymouth Rocks. J. D. Murray. Beat pen of Buff Coschlns. W. Snooks (contributor of the trophy). T,.- Vnrlhai.t Pnnltrv Journal's CUD went to the Yamhill County association for the beat display outside of Portland. wir t aiivj. run for tba beat solid colored female In the Show was taksn by the Haielwood people. For the best Buff Leghorn collection. Oene Slmpeon of Corvallls won ths prise offered by the Buff Leghorn club of Battle Creek, Mich. SAYS DELEGATIONS HAVE UNITED TO PASS BILL (special Dtssata to The Vearaat) Seattle, Wash., Dec. 14 In an inter view given out here Robert Moran Is .. anvtn. that th Waahlneton- ton. Oregon and California, delegations In congress have united In an effort to - will ,.,4nrln. tn A nmr rent BSWS, . i oth . - - r differential m shipbuilding en the Pa cino coast over ins smpyaras vi Atlantic seaboard. If this Is dona, he states. It Will Insure a largely Increased output of battleships on the Psoitis. unu,.r It la tba Intention Of his firm, he says, to kssp on bidding for the WSr vesseie oraerea uy conirew ana not yet swarded, whether the differential la allowed or not, In the hope that some .. ., Ha fownH ta set another con tract, now thst ths Nebraska Is Bearing completion. VOW BIS) BXTOSL r BeV'ta. - WABTS WV O. W. Waterbury today filed the pa ners to ant. muriate from the Bandy rlvsr 100.000 miners' Inches of water, being a flow of 1(0.000 cubic feet per mtnute. He proposes to construct a ditch to be named the Portland canal. Ths oanal Is to be 40 feet wide on the bottom. Point of diversion Is in section 25, township 1 south, rsnge 4 E. W. M., the water to be turned again Into the Sandy river six miles below the point of diversion. The ditch is to be on the west bank of the river. Our darkest days are flooded with brightest aunshlne aa compared with those prevailing In London or sometimes In Chicago. Jit J Uilt w! Wit tjtsvr CUti boo H tr n k n S ' e ti Electricity for Power We believe you cannot afford to install your own power plant. Have you considered the advan tages to your business from the use of Electric Motors? You can locate at the most con venient point for reaching your customers. You can establish your shop In places where it would be impos sible to generate power by any other means. You can depend upon paying for only the current needed for your work. You pay no expenses for ma chines when not in operation. You can do by machinery, op erated with electric moter, many things you are now doing by hand. You have very small bills for repairs. You have no danger from fire. You have less help. Hundreds of moters now in use are making money fortheirowners. Talk it over at any time with our representatives. Portland General Electric Company Seventh and Alder Streets Portland, Oregon