' THS OHEGOf; DAILY .JOURNAL," PORTLAND. FRIDAY EVENING; APRIL 27, 1CC3.
GLAD 2EIjS FOtl
CODMCIOi
GOODS PURCHASED on CREDIT ACCOUNTS TODAY, TOMORROW, MONDAY will be Charged on MAY ACCOUNTS
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A eoBtlnuoua panorama of Oregon handi
work; a spectacle truly thrilling and ef
stupendous moment' t every Oregon
resident. -v.
rortund - - - a2ny It to ( Xnolnatva
"llzie in Oregon" Exposition
A continuous panorama of Oregon handi
work; a apectacle truly thrilling and of
stupendous moment to every Oregon
, , ' . ; resident. ' . '
Vasttaaa ' - . May It to XaolaelTe
TSIEV
STM7ED 'THIS MORNIM
Oriental Liner Nicomedia Arrives
--With Eight ThousarijJ Barrel
- of Cement.
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MATTING, RICE AND r i
; CHINESE , GROCERIES
On Outward Trip From . Portland,
Nicomedia' EncoWered Heavy
Weather and, Used Oil to Calm the
S Sea Whn Excellent Result.-; '
Building 'contractor were , alad. thla
,' morning wheo they' learned that the
oriental liner Nicomedia reached the
harbor last night from the far east with
, a ahipment of I.OOt barrels of cement.
The material wu bad It needed and will
.be discharged from thtfl vessel-Just aa
soon aa the work-can be performed by a
large force of men. The ateamer
brought other large conalgnmenta of
freight, but the cement waa In greater
demand than anything else.- The em
tire cargo comprised about- 4.800 toria,
. made up. of building material, matting,
rice and Chinese groceries. ,
' 'The ateamer carried T baga of mall,
the greatest, amount ever brought to
Portland on one of the liner a. 0n the
outward trip from Portland the, Nico
media encountered heavy weather all
the way across the Pacific. Much oil
waa used to calm the aeaa and the of
ficers say tha results were almost mi
raculous. When they saw a big comber
which looked aa though lt,wouid awamp
the ship coming they poured oil over-
" board and it immediately receded or
.'' became ao weak that it did no damage.
Coming' back fine " weather was e
'pertenced. When .nearlng tha mouth of
the Columbia, the Nicomedia waa sig
naled toy an American barkentlne. The
latter uaed an ancient coda and it waa
some time before it could bo deciphered.
Tha German finally learned that the
"American wanted" to be Informed aa to
tier bearlnga. She waa accommodated.
The name of the vessel .could not "be
discerned. , It is aald that aha was evi
. dently bound from the souths
FINE NEW DREDGE, . ' "
Columbia Biff Company to Have Ons
- - of pest la' Xarbor. .
Machinery Is" being ins tailed In I new
dredge which ia being Jullt at the foot
of Ankeny atreet by tne Columbia Dig
ger company. The craft- la what' is
known aa an endless : chain bucket
dredge and will be uaed for digging
nand and gravel from the bed of - the
v Willamette river. If all goes well. It
- will b ready for operation In abou'
three . Weeks. ,,
' The hull waa built at Llnnton an
, brought up to Portland a few days ago-
It is 105 feet In length and St fe
wide, T Kxperts aay that it will be an'
- r the, best dredgee of its else in loca'
watara. - Everything about" it is new
'nad modern.. ' The material which it
' takes from tha alver will be used for'
improving 'the streets In Portland. A
. )are number ef almllsr ' dredges are
. ' at 'work In the harbor limits operated
, by private flrma and are the means of
preventing many ahoala near the
'channel. ; , ''
5 TO RESUME SERVICE.
' Tlvo Say ciedule Again, "fctaVUng Win
- Arrival ef Xarrmooata.
Beginning with the arrival of the
Barracouta from San Francisco tonight,
or tomorrow morning, a five days' serv
ice will again- b established by the
' San Francisco St Portland Steamship
company between Portland and the Bay
City. Word to thla effect waa received
this morning from G. U Blair, ' San
. Francisco agent for tha company. . VU
said that the Costa Rica, had been Te-,
. leased by the authorltiea and would'
follow, the Barracouta to Portland.
He explained that southbound freight
would be received at the Alnaworth dock
at thla end of the line. For northbound
' points it will be received at the Spear
atreet pier, San Francisco, and at
Broadway dock, Oakland. . , , ' ,
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ALONG THE WATERFRONT.
, The Pacific Coast Steamship com
pany has Issued a new schedule show
' ing the salMng dates . of its steamer
' from Paget Bound to ports In south-
eastern Alaska. ' -
- Captain N. B. Jordan, a well-known
San Francisco pilot, .has sent word to
. local relatives that he escaped' safely
from the earthquake and fire.
leaden with a full cargo of freight
and carrying Sf passengers, the steamer
Roanoke sailed laat night for Loa An
gelea and way ports. She will not stop
at San Francisco. The freight con
. slated of 17,603 bushels of wheat, 170
aacka of oata, t.000 sacks of potatoes,
217 sacks of flour, 120 sacka of barley,
' 268 rpackagea of groceries and' miscel
laneous goods.
After a paasaga of It daya from San
Francisco the British ship Bardowle ar
'.' rived at Astoria yesterday afternoon.
She will came up to Portland In a day
or two. She is bringing a part cargo of
pig Iron, firebricks and other freight
from Newcaatle-on-vf yne, consigned to
Meyer. Wilson OIL ' ' '
J. H. Peterson, owner of the .Elder,
received a letter from Captarfi Baker
this morning-that he' Intended to start
' tha pumpa at work on the vessel yester
day in order to test. the cement patches.
Before proceeding to ""raise the craft,
however, the captain asys he Intends to
wait for the river Jo rise.
Frank J. Taylor, a brother-in-law of
. ; George Taylor of the shipping firm of
, Tsylor. Toung Co., arrived this mom
I Ing from Han Francisco, He waa in
' the Bay City during the disaster and
aaya that the situation has not been ex
aggerated. Mr. Taylor Uvea at Astoria.
Colonel W. Roeselei returned thla
morning from Cell lo where ha Inepeeted
s the work which had been done on the
government canal. Little1 additional
''' work will be done on the canal until
j after high water.
The Harvest Queen took a cargo of
freight to Astoria laat night In order
to aaalat the Hassaln, which was receiv
ing mora business then she could
handle. " ' . .'
r MARINE NOTES.
Astoria. Or.. April IT. Arrived down
gt 7 a. m. Btesmer Roanoke,
Astoria. Or., April 2. flailed at 2
p. m. French bark General Neumayer,
for true United Kingdom for orders. Ar-
' rived at 4 p. m. British ship Bardowle,
from' San. Francisco Arrive st 4:41
p. m. Steamer Elmore, from Tillamook.
Astoria, Or, April JT.r'-Conoltlon of
he bar at I a. m.. obacored; wlJld north
west; weather rainy ana ipggy.
Tnt erred Mock Censed oats,
Allen ft Lewie" Best Brandy , ,
' flFTH, SIXTH AND
WASHINGTON STREETS
Five Per Cent of the Store's Gross Sales Until May lsf Goes to 'Frisco RelielFuhd
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STORE OPENS tt 8 A.M.
CLOSES 816 P.M.
TICKETS on sale in Men's Furnishing Section
for the fil. 71. A. C LADIES' 11IGHW This
Evening. Benefit of the San Francisco Sufferers
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Bimuirf arroma. ,
GRMD BENEFIT SALE for the SM FRANCISCO
2 DAYS- -FRIDAY AND SA TURDAY2 DA YS
SUFFERERS
Starting This Morning and Continuing Until Saturday at Closing Time, Te IV Hold a Sweeping " CLEARANCE SALE!"
Today and Tomorrow Absolutely Every Article in the House; Contract Goods Alone Excepted DRASTICALLY REDUCED 1
This sale will be conducted exactly along same lines and ori lame plan as. the famous January "Clearance Sales" everything reduced. v An appreciable boon to every man, women and child
... "" t "1 V J 1 m-l -V. m rmm-J-VartAiBM inniral (nr nerunil tuir Mr erniAm fnr "iniiahnM nsLnnr1 RF.AR TTJ MINT) A PRR PTC NT1
within shopping distance of tne store wno nas ny neen to muyw ps " r . - - -
OP GROSS SALESc-OF TUB STOKE UUES iu int. &w rwtnwjwu Mww.runyi . m - " . " 7 -
A SERIES OF STIRRING EXTRA
150 Women
Ms in Suit md MiBlkm? SMmw
Today
and
Tomorrow!
TVJ0-DAYS' SALE TODAY AND TOMORROW Second
5 Suits at Half Price:
VALUES FROM $10 TO $75. TODAY FOR HALF I
- To add further sest to the enthusiasm of the sweeping Clearance Sales that go into every section today and tear away a part of the price from every article in the entire store that is not
protected from the ravages of the "Blue Pencil" by its maker's contract with the house, we have arranged A GREAT. SPECIAL SALE, he most, remarkable values in. Women's Suits, Silk
PetticoatsSkirts and Shirtwaists offered In this citjr this year hundreds of women coming ffom the San Francisco disaster where they have lost everything that went to make up their ward
robes are being fitted with new apparel here daily We want to make the task as easy and as pleasant as possible we want to give them the best that money can buy and as much as money
and a httle of it can be made to buy we want to give their every dollar double purchasing power; yet we cannot have two prices, one for the newcomer and another for the old. So we shall
for the next two days, starting this morning, carry jout the following offers: , ' '.- : ":f -'.
Women's Tailored Suiis
Values $W io $75
Half Price!
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Narly every suit of this season's very
latest make and built along the newest
lines that master tailors indorse as au
thoritatively correct. In all the most
favored and wanted materials, plain
and mixed effects. - In every popular
model, embracing the "Pony, ' loose
and close fitting jacket styles, Etons,
etc. All trimmed in the very latest
and most charming manner, every suit;
an example of exquisite workmanship
and expert , designing skill. .The lot
is so large and so varied that detailed
descriptions would be nigh to impos
sible; we will not attempt it, for we
know that when we say these suits
are the greatest bargains we have of
fered this year or that have been
' offered in America, we are positive
Jou will come and see, if interested,
f you come interested or not you'll
be quite sure to select one of the great
values offered. Suits ranging from
$10 to $75 at fair regular price, today
and Saturday two days
for,. .....HALF PRICE
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See the Hew "Rainbow" Plait Skirts:
' ;; ' Today: 1- . ; ;
"New arrivals of the iwellest Silk Skirts that feminine" eyea ever
looked on. Type was never cast that could tell half their beauty. It is
as though soma conjurer had taken the silks from the looms,, and with
the beauteous rainbow for, .a mould poured them in and. bowed their
checks and plaids and dots' to suit his will. Every scheme is perfect.
As a model passes before you one thought comes to your mind and
fills it for the nonce. How it it possible to fashion so beautiful a skirt
from plaided and checked and polka dotted taffetas and India silks so
that every plaid, and-cvtrycheck ajrd every. dotshilL run into heext;
forming a bowed line from flounce back to flounce? And such a series
of linesl The effect is fascinatingly prettjrs , The skirts are being shown
in fetching black and wnitej effects and in plain blues, blacks and browns.
Don't miss seeing them .while in the store today, - .,
; v The Bargains
Women Want in Walking
; Skirts:
$10.00 Walking Skirts - $5.98
$12.50 Walking Skirts .- $8.95
$15.00 Walking Skirts - $9.98 ".
' What is there in all the category of garments that women-'wear
that women want, more than the trim and trig Pedestrienne Skirt? A
woman of taste canJgarb herself attractively and cheaply with the aids
Kof the walking skirt nd chic shirtwaist. We have aimed today to plan
this sale to be the most helpful to the most people, and we believe we've
succeeded admirably, especially . by including irt it these three items.
The collection is composed of the newest and smartest of this reason's
walking 8kirts,a1l built on the very latest models, tailored in faultless
workmanship; in every wanted material, selected, with an eye . to
service appearance. Panamas, Alpacas, Broadcloths, Cheviots and smart
tweedish and mannish mixtures, in plain colorings of black, brown and
navy.- Handsome mixed materials in smart effects are embraced. The
biggest values of all the year. today and tomorrow as above. ,
Millinery Sensation !
Monster Sale of : ".' :
Trimmed Hals at $2A9
Superb Silk Petticoats
' " Values $10 to $25
Half Price
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Thinkof itl Handsome new Silk Skirts at just half their real worth
today. Beautiful petticoats of rich, rustling taffeta, cut in the smart
round lengths that fashion favors, also a lot of drop skirts. An immense
purchase by our garment buyer, who has just returne'd from New York
the- petticoats carrre to us at an underprice amounting to a cut of
nearly a half. That helps ut to hand them to you today at exactly half
regular price. - -TheyCnncludeshtrred and tucked floimcea -and" accordion
plaited- styles. The big lot embraces black and all the .wanted; beautiful
colorings that women love in dressy skirts. Choose from any value yow
wish; the best regular values at from $10 to $25 each, .
today and tomorrow at .. HALF PRICE
Onef the most exceptional taring;
opportunities of the year in fact we
remember when we ever planned,
a greater bargain event orr an equal
.value right in the midst of t hp-millinery
season.- Here are 200 of the smartest
and most fashionable Trimmed - Hats
shown thit season at the regular pricea
' of '$3.50 to $4.50 most stores would
' say "$5 to $6.50" all hand-made shapes
fashioned from braids and : chiffons,
prettily trimmed in flowers and beauti
ful ribbons, in all the newest prevailing
shades and colorings,! The shapes are
so varied as to fit every face, and will
become the Jims or matron alike. In
fact this tale has been planned that
everyone may share. . See the Hats
to tee will be to choose: the choice
costs, today and tomorrow, but f 2.49
":; Women's ' -Pr.
Pretty White Shirtwaists
1 Worth h $4.50, for $1.59
We've left out nothing that can possibly! help aliy person from filling
her every want today in the apparel lines at sharply reduced prices that
smash every previous low-price record. We've been careful .to include
in (he sale nothing but the season's brightest and smartest styles. The
shirtwaist is indispensable in .woman's wardrobe, and woman needs sev
eral whafr-wtmatT-hatwatryf-Today-weoffer a lot tf this teason't
pretty new shirtwaists, in linen, madras, lawns and reps some strictly
plain tailored, others exquisitely and elaborately trimmed with insertions,
embroideries and narrow plait. , All have the fancy stocks and collars;
values up to $4.50 in the convention, today and Saturday, at...,.f 1.6a
IF THEY DOTT FIX STREET
" IMOni CLOSE IT
First Street Pavement Worn
Away and Horses Hurt Them
selves In Holes.
fnttss tmrnrdlats atps ar4 taken tn
improva First, strtet tha ' mayor and
straat oommlttsa of the cttr axeeutlve
board will closs tha thoroushfara. Thla
araa tha daclalon of tha oomatlttaa at a
meeting, yesterday aftarnoon.' k
Tha strrat ts In a deplorable condition,
especially that portion from Btark to
Burnalda atreet . Tha pavement, la In
many placea entirely worn away, leivlna
great chuck " holea. Recently several
vehicles have been broken passing over
tha street and a number of horses In
jured. It has been declared absolutely
danaerous tor anybody to drive fsater
than a walk and a menace to the lira department.-.
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For several months past the proposed
Improvement of the thorotifhfare has
been under dlsousslon, but a conflict has
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arisen between tha property-owners and
tha street railway companies which have
tracks on the atreet aa to who should
stsnd tha expense. . The property-owners
declare- the street railway company
ahould pay tha-cost, or at least a share,
while the-streetcar companies' In turn
aay that they cannot be made to pay a
cent.
City' Engineer Taylor told the com
mittee ha would see tha city attorney
and tha atreetcar companies abaut the
matter today and try to (et an under
stsndlne; with them. lv
"I d do It differently from that," re
plied the mayor. "I'd fence up the
street and prevent any trafflo on It.
Tbat would bring them to tlma, -
Tm In favor of barricading tha
street.'' said Max Flelschner.
' It waa finally decided to postpone
deflnlta action for two weeks. ,
CHURCHES CONVENE IN
- - SESSION AT ALBANY
(SpMlil Mipstrk to Tae Jnornal.) r
Albany, Or.. April l7.-Tbere waa
convened In aeaaion In the Conrr -rational
church In this city the tenth an
nual meet Ins of tha East Willamette
association' yesyrday afternoon, about
IS dcleiratea bernf In attendance, these
eomlna from the churches represented
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in this association, as follows: Ashland.
Albany, Kugene, Oreaon. City, Corvallls,
Salem, Hubbard and Buttevllle. ,
Rev. O. W. Nelson of Uila city pre
sided, belnr tha retiring moderator. Rev.
B. C Oakley of. Eugene waa elected
moderator. K. S. Bollinger of -Oregon
City assistant moderator: registrar and
treasurer. Rev. EL S. Creen of Cor vail la.
Committees were appointed aa follows:
Business, Rev. O. W.- Nelson. E. F.
Oreen and Mrs. M. F. Poinsett; creden
tials, the same aa the business commit
tee; program. E. B. Bollnger. C M.
Bmythe and the minister of the, church
where the next meeting Is to be held.
bast evening the opening sermon was
preached by Rev, E. C, OaJUey of JCu.
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gene, followed by a short addia by
Rev. Dora Barber Of Foreet Orov'a, To
morrow the regular business of the ses
sion will be taken up and disposed of a
summarily as possible.
- Oaraegta Visits Oaaada.
'-. IJovul SeeUI terrt-e.)
Toronto. Ont.. Anrll 17. Ar
Carnegie has srrlved In Toronto at (
Invitation of the Canadian club, '
sueat he s to be at complin-. f
dinner' tonight. Mr. Carnegie v :
to Ottawa tomorrow and eubr
will- visit' Montreal and serf
points ia Canada befuie ft'. "-
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