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A-: 4 ... -- r V PORTLAND'S PLAYGROUND ON. THE BANKS OF THE WILLAMETTE s v Parhapt th moat picturesque of all the modem jcreatlon resorts la Amer ica, not excepting Dreamland at Coney Inland. New Yorlt, will be tlia, Oaks, slt- Aiated. along tba ' line of the Oregon XVa4er -Pwer Rati way -company's road, within 12 mlnuto-rld of Flrat 'and fV'aahlngton streets. If Is con nected directly lrtth tho city and has mora ampls t raff lo aervjc today than any of h, oldttbrhrtiel-parks' of similar places of .. amusement jn-s)h" t'ntted 8fats.ir M easV of access,' as every car line transfers direct to the Oaks with but the coat of one fare, and places trie visitor Immediately In front or he beatKlful 'station at the ap proach to thegrounds. It 1(5 accessiUla. aii railroad and steamboat stations. rc- 'j Bennlngs t' ICEAK" winner of the Bennlngs . meeting last fall was a United j ' States poatofflce tnspetor. He and his wife had arranged to . take.' a friend from the west, and his wife to the Bennlngs track pn the open ing day Onv. the .. evening before the - opening -the. two couplee played a bit of home fenny-Ante draw - poker tu -whll awayh time, and liwthe-eoUrse of the-evnlnr ther wife of the western man caught four seven pat three times, folks call a hunch to me," observed the government official.' "Looks like it points to No.' T on the program as the .. r- II J A T tv t T ims t a t rcrvr Txih nrTmc 1 '""'l III i ne. jcw.xprKj3un. . you 1 va, sot one m tomorrow. tnat si tn a winner or one or tomorrow a races, any how. We ought all to play Just a little bit on No. J,. in the first raee, no mat ter how bad the horse is or how poorly he figures.. Just to-see how these-huhch affairs come out that we read "I much ..about.", ' ' V . The suggealon mado-en all around hit,' and they all agreed to have a small bet. down tin the horse No. "7 on the program In the first race on the- fol- - lowing dsy. - r : .- '- A press of office business prevented ' the Inspector from going to the track -- with his 'wife and guests on the fol lowing afternoon, so he sent them to the track in a carriage and told them that- he would be out a . bit later,, in time for, the flrsfrwce, heTioped. Twenty minutes before, the first race, the postelTteetespeetorfi at his desk, suddenly recalled that agreement, and ' lie darted out and got into a publlo au tomobile and told the chauffeur to whist lilm to the ' track . attotL.Jpe(L Ibei machine was held up several times on the way to the track by mounted po licemen for exceeding the speed llmit. ' . The government official dashed into the track grounds about a minute after " the .numbers of the placed horses in the first race had been hung out. He didn't know that the race was over, however, and he. rushed-p tothe bookmaker's -', stool and flourished a S20 bill wildly In ' the face of the layer. ' "Bay. put that on that No. T horse for me, 'wiIpjLJsiatl-lifl-JWld-la the'bookmaker. , 1 r The layer looked at the'postofflce in- - speetor .IW a pussledsort ,of way for : half (a minute. "' . "7 "Bay. that's a new system you've got. and It's a . wlnner,'i-be-said to -the-of v- flctal. "You play Vem after they'-re In, ehT That'd be--reatrteway-f hav ing me sllp-ou 14,000. woutdn t It getting tto down on a winning 200 to t shot . after the humber's out,. and the vvnu " '"!' , . ins winner, ro. onwiprus;riiir - had- been If ary-Qleiyi, and her price had ;nwn bvt to l . . - - - -i The postoMce inspector rushed Into 'the stand snd found that his wife and guests from the west: had completely -forgotten-about their agreement frthe evening before aa to the No. 7 tiorae, snd none of them had got a dollar -down on tne nne long shot A' former New Yorker-' who-' gdv -tnrt 7" playing the. horses steadily seven or t -eight years ago and settled down in business ki Washington tells a, ncar-wlo - story of the Bennlngs- meeting list spring that contains several more' or ' less dlemsl features. '"-' - ' - "I didn't intend to go to Bennlngs at all last sprlftg." Jie said, "but one even ing while down at the . Hi'gga house playing a gnme of billiards an old friend, Tom Mannlx, the horseman, gave ; -me the shoulder clap and we had a talk about the old days when 4 belongedMo " the trfbe of thoronghnred fanatics, i Merely tint of force of old fiftrie i hsblt I asked Tom If he knew anytfllpg , sweet that was liable to rnm Off. . v "Mannlx twiddled , his thumbs for a minute and then aald - "Well. pal. you never ' were . one of those loud monologists, and so I'll tell i . : and surrounded by the Willamette river, Is finely located for boats and launches. With all the latest and best qualities of amueementw, the Oaks . will certainly prove an Ideal place, for-the pieaaure lovlug publlo of Portland and Vfclntty. It 1 stated - that the company has thus far extended 1250,000 in the im provements pf the grounds and the con struction of amusement enterprises, awl It has hi view novel attractions that wilt entail an outlay of $500,009 before its completion. 'The buildings already completed surpass In beauty anything everj)ullt en this order west of New. York. Indeed, the Oaks has already aa sumed alt the appearances of an ideal amussment . resort. The l.wnri been beautifully laid out and the effects you I ve. got one In tomorrow.that liable to get by. Meet me here at the Biggs house tomorrow forenoon at 11 o'clock, saV. and I'll pass the name of It along to you. .( "Well. I was at the Rlggs house at 11 o clock the next morning. 'Track's lumpy and dead today,' MannTxtold ms,-'and this goat of mine can't so muoftK as" walk 'unless llie-soll tinderlili feet Is red-hot' rastrTrn going to scratch today, but you meet me at the paddock at 1 o'clock tomorrow I think thrsunwni dryTThe track out thoroughly today and you can have It for the asking.' "I "1 tried to find Mannlx In the paddock the .next day at 1. but It was like look ing for a flea by name in a Nob hill mansion In Ban Francisco. I was always about - two minutes - behind him, from shed to shed, and Anally I aalled Into the betting ring to see if I could nail htm there. No Mannlx there, either, that I could find. Bo I had to give it up. "A couple ' of 'minutes . before the fourth race. asifwss lesnlng against a stanchion In the betting ring, a friend of mine sailed along and gave- me hurry clout and said;, ' ; 'Have you aeen Mannlx? 1 guess he's got something to slip you. for he's bees plunging around like a wild man and looking for you.. Last I ssw him he was over yonder,' and he pointed te a far corner ot the rati.- - - ".X "But It was too latethen. They got away as i iwnea tor me iawn, ana then Tom's horse, Princelot, came romp ing, home, about 10 lengths to the nice, and with all the 100 and even 160 Bgamst-lilnnharTr fellow could pick up with a gardener shovel. , ... - -"It ook Tom-I met him right after the race, of course about three hours to walk back of the pay off lines and gather In ochre money, and the out of town dough reached htm In bales until long after the hyaclntha and crocuses had disappeared., I've never thoroughly recovered my appetite since." A man who ts prospering at the pres ent meeting, and who had a swell sea ann at Ascot and Oakland baslde.-re lates a harrowing tale of the good thing' hes and he alone,' had at Bennlngs two years ago this spring, upon which he was unsble to get even a dollar's worth of action. . ". "I had to make the run up from New Orleans, two years- ago this spring by shorts Jumps. - because -Lwean'A-there with the price ot any long or consecu tive ticket." he says. "One of my stopping off places was Atlanta, where they had a little old kind ot a bush - , . ,tA i W IT , that looked as if he'd do about right In tne company ne would meet - at Ben nlngs, .snd I heard from his people that they ere going io take him fo Bennlngs. -- , ''When-1 reached Washington I didn't nave the price or a quill toothpick, but by the use of all the face I could get together I, managed to -hire a, -little wom In Washlngn office building. This was three daya before the meeting wss to open. ' "I owed everybody on earth among the horsemen drifting- Into Washington from all points, but I Just did mske quick touch for enough to put a little four-line advertisement tn the 'Wssh lngton papers announcing that t,had n Swell thing all salted sway and Inviting folks to come and talk to me about It. I stated Int my 'ad' that I'd let them have the thing for a quarter of their winnings." and that they wouldn't have to -dig a cent before the good thlna clomped homa. '. " "ineari sat in mat nttie qrrice and waited for the rush. I didn't spring so much ss one caller not one. They don't bite on the tipster thing to any great extent in Washington, and. so there. I wis with that goodJbing and nobody THE " OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL,; PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. ' MAY- 14, - Av. of thousand jif-lllumlnanta will -be much admired by ,thpstwhQ wlllvlsit the Oaks when rt opens to 4he public on Baturday afternoon. May 11. -Some 1 1 idea, of the mag'nltuaefof 1 the Oaks may be conveyed by the -fact that among the several buildings under roof are an Immense pavilion, which can be utilised for a ballroom, and which will be. one of thftlnotabU f eaturf i.nTB.erfiJ : large boat and yacht house and a modern .. bathhouse stocked with the latest hygienic" bath costumes, whlcn will be in cbsrge of expert swimmers. - Among the other devices for amuse ment are an. original mass, the first of the bumps on Hie Psciflo coast, the 'tshoot the chutes In the coun1 aUapanBSeteahouse, .merry-go round, lvar.lt to on "nB quarter -xy terms. - "On the day of the race. I went forth ready to, do everything but neck under- slsed men to get them to play the good thlngI -had "sprung at Atlanta, and which was to run In the first race that day,- but -I eouldn't get a victim to fall for It. ?.J'"dJ". fronts and tom, of them that I tackled looked as -"if-the were going to have me arrested. "Up-" to"th very minute' when they were off I waa begging men that I had known ground the. tracks for- 10 years to go to the Tommy Foster thing with aa little aa five bucks, if they couldn't see any mora than that on- lv but they only laughed at me, '"I waa so desperate that I tried to get a yap I met fa the ring to go in with a half dollar on it that is how strong I- was,- Just a half so that could at least have a buck down, but the hanky only edged away from me as if he though t I had-the bubonic plague,' and looked upon tne with dis trust for ss far as he could see me. "Then -Tommy Foster, the nest thing that I Had picked up. all by. my little bright-eyes lonesome down at Atlanta, came skylarking home dn thehJs-atiwrrfThat there was - no auch thing as a andtheraa-alshflfi-s!and800. to 1 on tap against htm that you could buy. ' "After the race." concluded the former toatlwls mil rldtnarfrranf Tftim lbs trafsT' in " mrxx-wsgon -splendor, "a. bout 1.000 of -the lobs that I had begged to put just any teenchy little old thing on It came to me and asked me why I hadn't made it stronger, and gave me the sad lamp, and reproved me for not Just roping them and driving them up to the layers' stools. 'If you know of anything worse than having a three-figured long shot In the hollow of your mitt and not enough ac tlon pn-i It to buy a paper of chewing tobacoo, I want you to take me to it so that I can have a replica made of It to hang in my dive." raTira ooktbaots. 8. A. Laasalle -of Albany. Oregon. owner ' 6fc ke "'Knion f rultdrler, has clos-Tr-irye-year' cdfltract with the prunegrowera of Cove and VnIonHaere by he agrees tp buy at 110 a rSn the entire prune croi of this section, estl mated .at . I;t60- tone-per -yar. To aid In handling this product a new drier will be erected at Cove in time for this eeaaoo'a crop and both plants will be run to their capacity for. about, it dsys during the drying season. Estimating the crop at 1,400 tons, the dried product will be 400 tons, weight being reduced two thirds by' the drying -process. ' The market for prunes is found principally gam Colorado-eastward.- " - It will be seen that the running of these driers will mean a revenue each i;!Vr'0,jDj.t.M.-tri 'nf.Xnun-4-tftr- 0(10 to I2.0uUI .ur lMgt Ie0, to- !, Oef for the total time under contract a period of-Ave years-JL. certainty of a market for prunes will stimulate their growth, and It ts fslr to presume that at the end of five years the yield may be even, greater than present estimates indicate.; ' ----t .. Sepew tayr It's Trae j " . ' This story Is perfectly true,' accord ing to Senator Depew, the little com edy being enacted In the Grand Central station A traveler, had entered. the waiting room evidently the worse for drink, and after elghtlng ln-eUdl-rectlons made in a suspiciously straight tine for the ticket wtndew. "Do you sell tickets "hersT" he asked. " "Whst. point, please r "Well, say, young fellow." aaid. the man. "what tickets have you In stockr " 'J Ml llliil.KT -"t . t 4 electrle tower, haunted swings, shooting gaHext-"sTf ie jravnge and twsabail parity Many other amusements will be added. Including sea on land,- old hill aa uarlum, Toop the loop, coal mine, miniature -railway, a-giant cabaret de la mort, live camels and Shet land ponies. A large theatre Is in con- templatlon, where.jiummer opera - will be given at popular, prices. .One of tho principal features will- be- av caferMsalled The Oaks tavern, to be managed by August Cann. " Aw-addltlonal feature Is the en -casement of D'Urbano's Royal Italian band of 30 picked musicians, who will give concerts, every afternoon and night. - Special stalls have -been provided for a ri tm stn srnf autotrroMl a. K v e ry a "Pt tall for.the opening onSaturaay afterr ROOMS l1 1UII1, 111! IAtWEf . New ' who wi ---A tWERTlSED.ifor.i roo jiJn York. aaldStthe man waa trying to eafape from New Jersey, "and I have trou- bles on oiy own hands. A hotel for mine. "My ad vertiaement called fortur nlshed rooms two. sitting room and "bedroom tor- man ana- wne, ana i spec 1 Ifled r lhe' ""r ' wMWSirteiT-TnT" the montha of May and June. I got 60 answers, and. with five exceptions all gave assurances that the rooms were steam heated. . "I aaid that the rooms must be' be' tween Fifty-ninth and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth" streets. Fourteen answers were Jrom placea south of Fifty-ninth street and seven ' were from north of One Hundred and Twenty-flfth, includ ing two In The Bronx. One .was from Wsshlngton square. i-'iOne-womani-wrote) a very attractive letter. Tne rooms ss sne aescriDea them were Ideal, and the price' was Just right. The letter wss neat snd well wrHten. Altogether it was one of the most reassuring of the answers. But the-writer forgot to give her address and. her name isn't In thejairaotorr "rV'adlnjMhetetle'rs over, I inferred nartnorn exposure hi ew roric. i think every i letter except two which didn't mention the matterataU-rU late ariir OlecTieer y7 sunny, southern out look from- the rooms of f ered.' When I began going around to see tle places, however, I found that a good many New York women are mixed regarding "the points of the compass. "The advertisement read, "Address, stating, terms.' In 14 letters the terms were, not stated. The writers In each case expressed a " flBeerful confidence that whfrn I saw the rooms 'we would have no trouble in arranging terms to ult.' ",'Maybe we would r I don't' know,- I'm sure, for I cut all these out to begin with, on the theory that. If people were not willing to meet express Instructions In A business-like way when trying to drag you in, they wouldn't pay much attention to your demands when they had you landed. My wife had been showing me a few days before some' note" paper and en velopes she had bought at a sale In'a depsrtment store, snd which she consld ered a great bargain. I could not help Tiotti-lng h.t ltt of mycivrrppnnt used that precise brand of stationery The others graded up and. down to the limit. Some were on linen paper par fumed and monoeramed: there were two on postal cards. ' "The writers displayed the widest possible variety- of education. ---Some wrote In a strain of social convention agd In striking boarding-achoolhanda; others ware terse and bualnesa like in counting room - flats. u A few only si few. ..IiDJa-cvBr, were.., .fcewllv tmirle liarOJy Intelligible, -aed - full of - bad spelluig. ...'.--...'- j,-.- - . -one woman began: 'In my beauti ful private home.' The home waa so blocks outside my limit, so I 'don't know whether It was private or not: but it is M remarkable fact that every.' one of tl places that 1 visited I 'had elimi nated the other 28. for one reason or another waa . In a, flat or apartment house. The number of people wfio seeni'to be willing to live In the three rear rooms of a seven-room flat passes all belief.' " : . - "They -Jbae the glory of living In a gooa looking house m-a good Street, and that seems to be wll some of them care about.. Others .live rent free. A very Alee woman explained to me thai site paid $76 a month for hef-apaTTment "She got ISO SI -month for the narlnr and alcove room and, 616 a month, for a fair slsed bedroom opening; en a, fairly 1 1803. r noon, May 17. has been given the closest attention, and from the enthusiasm- si' ready shown by th publlo to see the pUcejjtremendousrowdU.irLM tact. i j : .The'Pwkn 4sto bekept- absolutely clean and respectaDia, and positively no gambling or "grafters" will be allowoj on the grounds. The admision will be 10" cents for -all-regular occasions and children will be admitted for 8 cents- ' The publla will be also pleased to learn that the-company has placed the entire management Vf the Oaks in the hands of and under the control of S. H. Frledlander," whose many years of ex perience as a promoter and manager f big amusement enterprises and large theatres r em uvea ht! future prosperity of the Oaks. 555 : TO LET- landlady. to)d me that her front rooms brought IV0 and an Inside bedroom $16 a month. Her rent waai 160 and her gas bill about f S. so that she was about $1 a month ahead when' she) had the rooms let, , ' " . "I foundthat the expression, used by the -letter writers Were to he. ,taken'ln a. sttlatljuf kkw4ekrai sense. - A-h that waa described aa being, in a re fined, private 'neighborhood waa a new flat house, one -of three In an unbuilt section. - - "There waa not another house within two blocks In any direction exoept an otdunteated villa .jvhlch dates,-! suppose from colonial days. Then there was the woman, who said that if the quiet was any object 1-would And Just what I wanted In her home they alt have homes, I notice. Well, her house faced on Columbus avenue and the windows of the- parlor she .offered looked' out,overth.e . elevated railroad traoks . - " i. . --"What -'she mesnt by quiet wss "that she had no children. - There-were- onlv herself, her husband, a dog and a ma-caw--4n-thflat.-. " , "One answer was written by a man. I' had a premonition that It wouldn't do, but I called out of curiosity. AaI ToacheoTfhe elect rlo button at the apart ment door I heard a hollow cough. JMpaor . fellow -xiio opened "the: door was far along with consumption. He showed me the rooms eagerly. They were rsther nice; but he coughed every 40 seconds. He remarked that he wasn't very well and aa he had a little Income her wag" taking a rest. ' His wife was gut at business.. : " She had a fine position as stenog rapher and bookkeeper. - They were not really In need and they wanted to rent the rooms, more to secure .company for him all day than for the aake of the moneyI said I would rati again. His qogh echoed after roe down the" stair way. "Then-there was the youna widow.' in a -very fine apartments superbly fur nished, In a very shadowy section of the city. A liveried man took me up in the elevator. A colored butler took In mv pame and then ushered me into the. Par lor where a handsome young wrndh ' witn- a -vaporish air, dressed in a.. blue Silk gown, received mep seated in an armchair like a throne, Tvlth her feet on a footstool. .. mq the rooms, birt told me witn expressions ot regret that they hsd been rented at 176 a month. There was fron-l $16,000 to $20,000. worth of furniture, rugs, statuary, pictures snd ornaments in .that apartment If there was a penny's worth, and I am still wondering -why any -one - shouldwant to cdmblne living In such style with Xgnt ing jooms. ... - ., . irT "1 gsve up the afternoon of five days; to looking up my 2Z posslblBtles. .1 ,.p.n, ,k... -.tfff" Tl rit was rt -one -place In tJTe'liun'cK to Which there did not Seem toe some insuper able objection. i . - "Still they must gutt somebody,- for in several cases, on the latter days of my quest. I was told that the rooms were rented and the places, so far aa I could Judge, worir-not any better than some I wss- turning. down wrth empha sis. Anyway. I don't begrudge the time or money.. It, wit a revelation aa te how some New Yorkers make ends meet ai)d even manage to throw a front."- - America Is OoQegeland. . " I 1 From the Chicago Journal. " The business of college education Is one of the greatest buslnessea-of th country. iThe 426 colleges and unlversl. ties. In which are enrolled 176.000 stu dents, represent an Invested capital of $160,000,000 and give " employment to 16,000 persons as ttachers and officers.. lewiSTand PRE Twenty free trips to be flar--per9on4fT-OfegorH-aiKi-Aya "'THE JOURNAL will pay railroad and sleeping; car fare, hotel- bills' for one week, ad missions to the exposition for one week and other amuse- , -m'entsrr"-!"" " t ' :r 7 j The contest closes at midnight on June 30.., Read the , 'conditions and start the ball rbllihg"by IeridingTn"a homina-. ' tion blank for your candidate. . . ' i ThelTimelsShort OettoWdrk THE TRIPS WILL 1 ---''-.''-OsMCrOB.- Baker county Benton and Lincoln ceuntles.. --Clackamas- county . st. ;i - ' Coos and Curry counties',';;..-' 1 Columbla'ahd Clatsop eountiesrl "Douglas county .. .X . o'rant, Harney and .Malheur "'"coti ntles "v r . . 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