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About The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1908)
THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1808. 1NNES THE ENTIRE CORNER FIFTH AND ALDER STREETS TO BE TORN DOWN BUILDING TO BE TORN DOWN ENTIRE STOCK MUST BE SOLD IN FIFTEEN DAYS SALE STARTS TOMORROW MORNING 'AT 8 O'CLOCK WANTED I 50 SALESPEOPLE I APPLY t AT ONCE TO MANAGER The Entire Corner Fifth and Alder Streets TIE A $50,000 Stock Thromm to r:.the;:MerQy ' of, thevPuMc F VERY ITEM A BARGAIN! READ ALL! LOOK FOR THE ANNEX SIGNS ! THE BIGGEST, THE BEST, THE GREATEST OF ALL SALES t THE CLIMAX HAS BEEN REACHED I IT'S THE MOST SENSATIONAL, OF ALL SALES ! . . MEIN'S HATS ALMOST GIVEN AWAY $2 men's Hats...,...' -Jt $3 men's Hats..,. ;.00 $4 men's Hats.. ........ 1.50 $5 men's Hats...; v..3.00 Genuine Panama Hars, $5 values I- for fa.oo FIXTURES FOR SALE Meit's Furnishings Genulno 500 President , Susp'ders lo .Men's 25o Hosiery tor .i . .. o Men's 15o Hosiery tot ......... So ' Jien'i 25o HandkerchlefsT for. ..... . So Mn" 60c Handkerchief a or ....ISO Men's St Underwear lor 3Bo '.Men's 60c Underwear (or ........ 19o . NOTICE TO DEALERS. Positively no discount given in buying quantities. No goods will be sold to merchants after 9 a. m. unless by apecial ap pointment. ' .". - . -; We occupy THE ENTIRE CORNER of Fifth and Alder streets and the landlord is going to build. We are unable to secure a suitable location for our phenomena rapidly growing business and right now in the heart of the season we are forced out and we have only 15 days in which to sell our merchandise. That's the' story in a nutshell, and it tells a tale of sacrifice such as never before has stared Portland people in the face. A slaughter greater than you have ever heard oft than you have ever hoped for. A butchering of prices that casts into oblivion every record for cheap selling. Just think $50,000 worth of high-grade goods, at . less than one-fourth price. In many cases a dollar's worth of merchandise for 25 cents, and that's the way well sell it too. The finest grades of merchandise at less than the cheapest grades were ever sold for before. NO OTHER SALE CAN COMPARE with it. It's a mastodon event before which all other sales pale into mere insignificance. At 8 o clock tomorrow morning the excite, ment begins. All over the Big Corner a Whirlwind of bargains. The wreck of values is complete. Buy) Buy I Every price is nearer to nothing on high-grade goods than ever before. READ ON. - .- 7:..-;. -yJ "3 ' ' i VW MIA viun isra anu o win m mw-i s uvu buu it&mu ou iuc The Most Famous and Renowned Makes The Weil-Known Hart, Schafner & Marx, L System, Fleishner Bros, and Other Brands That Swell Dressers Demand All of Our Men's $12;50to$15 Suits Big range of fabrics in worsteds, cheviots, cassimeres, tweeds', etc., latest shades, colors and effects; the late browns,' tans, grays, also blue serges, black Thibet! and unfimshed worsteds: all of our best . $12.50 to $15 values must be, sold; all sizes; cnoice..,.,..... ges, black Thibets $5.00 All of Our Men's $17.50-$20 Suits These Suits are the very best values eWr offered by any house in America; the latest extreme or conserva tive styles of the season; fine imported and domestic fabrics; every garment hand tail ored throughout, handsome ele- ant garments that we sold at 17.50 and $20, all are included. orted and domestic $7.50 AH Our of Men's $22.50 to $25 Suits Suits of highest standard of excellence, all the distinctive feat ures discernible in the highest priced tailors products, easily noted in these high-grade suits. They're the finest production oi -tne country; every garment is nana tailored; only the best turcica una aomcsuc isoncs, su sizes; regular, stouts and slims; these suits will mand style; $22.50 and $25 suits, choice..... ored; only the best $9.50 MEN'S FINEST $30 TO- $35 SUITS All Hart, Schaffner & Marxand Fleisher Bros makes included, i It meajis the free and urilimited choice of the entire stock the finest and best high art productions- garments equal m every respect to the best made; to order clothing' costing three and.four times as 'much. And remember, there's every size for you and every other man. Sale begins at 8 sharp tomorrow, asl vli trfk ' TsaBr-itasv rVirl t 1si Itsviiajk 4Vtw "tnlvrV. ' mitea cnoice of the $12,50 3,000 PAIRS OF, MEN'S HIGH-GRADE PANTS IN THIS SALE AT ONE-QUARTER AND ONE-HALF PRICE Every pair must be sold in 15 days l n A $3.50 Men's (Jj-i r-A $5.00 Men's 0 AA $8.00 Men's & $7.50 Men's A A $8.00 to $10.00 Jq C A OlUU Pants, choice. JX. OU Pants, choice. J)UU Pants, choice.Oil,JV Trousers at... t9ulU Men's TVouserss9edll $2.50-Men's Pants....... STORE OPEN SATURDAY TILL 10:00 P. M. i : I "VrTpTp7 I This most wonderful sale at these remarkable low prices will cause a jam at this sale from opening time, 8 a. m., until closing time, 10 p. m. TO AVOID DAN 11 V 1 1JKj GER OF CRUSHING, the entrances will be at 133 and 135 Fifth street; the exits will be on Alder street. Merchants or parties tendering check or other than , cash must be identified. No goods on approval. No mail orders filled for less than a total of ten dollars : - " Entrance to Ladies' Departm't .V'A s at 0 135 Fifth St. Entire Corner FIFTH AND ALDER ANNEX Entire Corner FIFTH AND ALDER Entrance to Men's Departm't at 133 Fifth St LASTING IMPROVEMENTS RETURN GOOD PROFITS . ; City Engineer Thomson of Seattle Declares City Must Haye Sufficient Power, and That Good Pavements ' . and Parks Will More Than Pay for Themselves. r That & veritable Mg stick wielded tor th publio benefit li absolutely neoaa ary to obtain the beet result waa the principal point made toy R. H. Thomaon, city engineer of fieatUe, who addresaed several hundred of the most prominent liuBlnese men of the City at the Empire theatre laat erenlng. ; Most forcibly did ha alao bring; out that permanent improvementa, such as liard-eurfaee pavements, sewers and Bflequate water mains will ' pay for 1'ieraselvea several times over. He cited several instances where new addi tions bad been - platted In the Puget found to wrv in which owners had made these Improvements under the bonding act. ) "Thev had faith that with these Improvements made the booses would ko up on those additions just as quickly nn ttie material could get there," cried ir. Thomson, and the noose broke Into applause. .-- It was - throuch the efforts of the raltv board that Mr. Thomson came to 'ortland to speak on clvlo lmprove- inpnti, f He has served Seattle for 20 yars, said Isador Lang In Introducing ))!m, end has studied the systems and iniluda of improvement in nearly every city In both America and Europe. Mr. Lang-paid a compliment to City Engineer Taylor, but declared, the time i.nt come when Portland should secure t he services of a man large and broad in training ana experience enough to rommand the attention of property ownpra, and that the salary of Port land's engineer, l,400 a year, was altd-pt-thfr inadequate. Seattle, it is under t-tood, paailr. Thomson $6,000 and gives ),!;n tne privilege of acting as consult ing engineer to other cities besld. , . . Oon tractora xa-TrXtA.t " One "subject touched ' 'upon' ' by" iiV. Thi.tiiRon had nrohably occurred to few (, his hearers before.. It was that the Method of paying contractors In Port ; ,ml is unjust. Ha frankly said that if forced to do work for this city under the present system o payments warn x" ' the Job. "I'oar contraotora her must have had remarkable mothers; 1 on hardly tinderatand how they can lp honest 'at is." he aeciareu. . . Tht. in the HeatUe system of taV' inouts: The property owner la given SO ,i,v In which to rav for the improve- l-i-iit. pavrment. sewer, water main et v Binw It mar tx. it ai tne ena oi i tir'-io he has not paid, the property t.-it(inmiirl!Y trews under the bonding i .i . in i'mtUnd it is nocesary for the iviij owner to uiake application for the benefit of the bonding act. In Seattle and throughout the stata of Washington the act is self-operative. These Seattle property toonda are worth 100 cents on the dollar, declared Mr. Thomson, he contractor get the bonds If the cash la not on band and he can bank them lmmedlatelv. - After two years the holder of the bonds, not the city, has the right to bring; the matter into court, and If there Is no answer from the property owner, the holder of the bonds can, under the law, bring about the sale of the property and the consequent collection of the money due nun. , - "Will it pay V was the first question asked hv Mr. Thomaon. Ha then recited the history of tha local district Im provement plan, ana snowea wny it is equitable, declaring that a number of adjacent streets should always be Im proved at the same time and each with referenea to the other. He likened the present system in Portland to the paint ing of a human face In sections, each portion being palnta4 while the others were covered from the eyee of the artist, This system, he declared, baa resulted to "paxchworic" streets. Power of Mnalolpality. Then the enrineer clunaed Into his leading topic, the necessity of a mu nicipality having the power to acquire property neeaea lor puouo use, wneuisr or not me owner wisne u nu n, u aessing; the cost of the purchase to the several ' - interest benefited - thereby, whether It be the park system, private owners er the city at large, represented Dy tae general iudo. - In Seattle this method la pursued: The court appoints three oommtat loners, not necessarily employes of the city. These act aa viewers and learn the pro portional benefits to be derived from the Improvement to be mads by the pur chase of the property. ' - ; Then the several interests affected appear In- court with their attorneys, the commissioners - being there with their lawyers as well as the property owners. When the Jury decides the case is settled, and the - Improvement goes ahead, let a minority of the property owners eay what they will If If Is con trary to the verdict.- . : ..' Mr. Thomson cited one Instance in his city where every house on an area of SO acres had been swept away at a cost of S1.Z20.00O. "But the benefits wereequai to. the damages four times over. he cried. In this way Seattle's precipitous hills had been conquered often by. the- mak ing Of cuts 0 to 100 feet deeo. Here again the engineer of the Puget sound kilt vura iihi)ico .wnere we prop owners had first protested with a mighty cry against the Improvement, but after It became known that such improvement was to be made found a ready market for their property at an advanced price. "I notice a place on your heights where the view should be preserved for the publlo benefit forever, but I under stand that the only way your city can secure this property is to sit down and dicker with the property owner and pay his price or not get it at all. Get the riaht from vour leaislatura to an. quire this property by paying a fair, equitable price for it, . said Mr. Thom aon. -i Division ox Benefits. Mr. Thomson asserted that It ia !m nossible to imorova one block without either benefiting- or damaging another adjoining block, holding this as proof ui tun equity oi we district improve ment system. In , Seattle the city council has the tower to order an improvement worth S per cen of then value of the property, regardless; of protesta Also It la evi dent thain the Washington city, the protesting property owner has not the power to block an Improvement as he has In Portland for. said Mr. Thomson, the court holds that TS oer cent of the property owners should know what thev wane, no matter what the remain in ir 18 per cent think. What the majority waui. us uone. ... , rVe listen to nrotests. but falsa frivolous and contemptible excuses are mines we have no time for," declared Mr. Thomson. "Be firm, stern and true. , Admit your error if you have made one, but when a man comes to you with a lie ten him Tou're a liar.' "The pavement la the carpet of the street" is the way Mr. Thomson puts it. "The pavement must be adapted to the use, grade and width of the street." ,He spoke of the modern boulevard which has a block pavement on the siae ior nesvy traino, a smootn, nard surface pavement inside that for car riages, and in the center a strip of mucauain tor epeeaing purposes. He toid or tne raiiacy or the old method of treating wood Dlocks with creosote befors the water in the center was driven . out, but said that under the new system of driving out the moisture it was possible to make a good block for pavement in this manner. k "You never had a good pavement that cneap, saia tne engineer, and then he told of .the trouble an innocent and honest contractor experiences In obtain ing asphalt that has not been ruined for pavement purposes by over-heating. A technical description of asphalt, bltullthic, granite block and brie pavements was given, the differences In .the mtnntla of construction being set forth in a most understandable manner. In closing Mr. Thomson declare that where the contractor was not robbed by the man from. whom he bought the uiamuu. uiu uivugni nu would not be robbed by the man who ought to pr ur 'S m generally iaia s pavement that was fully worth every cent It cost the - property , owners.! ';".'';. , ,. ENGLISH ACQUITTED. ; K J . BY. BAY CITY JUBY -; :; x . r -- . .'. - .Vj ' , ..- . fTnltea Press Lmm4 Wire.) ' San 1 Francisco. Jun..lj hva tj English is today receiving.. congratul.i tlons on his acquittal rt the charge of; appropriating . government -- funds while he was clerk In the United States land office. After deliberating for four hours the Jury brought in tne verdict of not guilty at a late hour last night Although Assistant United States District Attorney Black in his closing argument made a strong Impression upon the Jury, showing that the vari ous sums charged hadT been paid Into the office, it was evident that the Jury thought the receipts and vouchera which constituted the principal evidence of the government did not prove that these moneys were taken by English. Bonding Permits. . C W. Beachem, erect dwelling. Wil low, corner Ollham, Slt.OOOi ueotge W. Cook, erect dwelling, Drnmmond, between Willis and Waverly, 1L00O; Rolfe, erect dwelling, Stanton be tween Union and East Seventh, 11,500; T. M. C. A. erect .foundation, Taylor between Sixth and , Seventh, $1,600; Mrs. N. Middaugh, ereot dwelling. Spencer between Olney and Yilla, Sl, 000; Portland Railway. Light & Power company, erect freight house and wharf, Willamette river between East Clay and East Market, $21,000; B. Trygstad, erect dwelling, Campbell between Church- and Janett, 11,600; H. Gordon, erect dwell ing, East Thirty-fourth between East' Washington and East Stark. $1,600; Harry. P, Palmer, erect 'dwelling,, .East Pevla between ' East Twenty-first and East Twenty-second, $1,900. liiiiifi ! rm nrr Trm rm a rm y We are just in receipt of 2000 pairs of new samples Oxfords for men, women and children--which we sale to-mor row at ttom js to less than regular price Now "get next" and quit paying fancy prices for your footwear as we are the only store selling new up-to-date shoes at cut rate prices in all sizes, so come and see us. 5 S f7ff--. a pair for women's $1.50 and J$1.75 WHITE CANVAS OX 7 FORDS, all sizes; 75c 'a pair for girls' black, tan and white Oxfords, worth up to $1.50; now, pair 75 $fl Of" a Pa'r a assortment of I iZil W O MEN'S FINE OX - : FORDS, -worth up to $2.50, in black, tans, patents, white; all the lead ing styles.--t this price. we have also big boys' $2.50 gunmetal and patent Ox fords in all. sizes and of the newest style ; all go at, paifi-i.i;;v.i,.......ipiJ25 or BLANCO U DRESSING now Renumber We , Fill Mail Ordtrs at th Same -Prices WHITE SHOE ......... .10 $1,95 a pair for women's $3.50 and $3.00 finest - DRESS OX FORDS AND PUMPS, in all styles and sizes; also at this price we s have men $3.00 and $3.50 fine Dress i Oxfords, in blacks, tans and patents, all sizes all go at, fa pair .V; vf .$1.05 air for boys' $1.75 BLACK uiojss, also women's T " $2.00 CANVAS OXFORDS, and misses'; black, tan and white, in all sizes and widths all go at, pair. .$1.00, COKE AND SEE DIG DISPLAY OF SHOES $1.45 a pair for men's $2.50 and $3.00 VICI KID AND PAT ENT. OXFORDS: also at this- price you can get - women's regular $3.00 and $2.50 Oxfords : in " black, tan, white and patent leather, in all the new est styles, all sizes all go. at, pair $1.45 mi sizes.....' pair for MEN'S $1.75 LEA T H E R TRIMMED CANVAS; SHOES all ..$1.00 ft -4 l Mires 6111 a pair for children's $1.25 OX II P FORDS AND SANDALS, in . T patents and blacks now, pr. 60 Cor. Firs! o & FJadlsoa
