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
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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.
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"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
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..- . 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.
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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!
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