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17 ARTHUR HARHAN IN A CONFIDENTIAL. 'WOOD iam'1 '-Rosenblatt : & ' Co THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1908, , I Off " "I think It la tlma America stopped hiding behind . the 'young: country1 ex cuae. That ia all past now. Tou have time here for dreams, for fantasy, and, that's what art Is." , Thus dop Arthur Hartraann, ' one " of the world's great violinists, aam up the situation In America. "When you can get a permanent philharmonic or chestra herind, get a young man to vIad it and wv hia time to it. that's the beginning of art In America. . "For the next 10 years I shall go around the world with my fiddle play ing. After that I shall stop and become an orchestra leader. Not for the money there is in It, understand, for I could - make 10 times as much touring and giving concerts. Money Is not every thing. There are better things than money." "Why should : not you become the laaj., a Ul. I. 1 1 1 I I . nt I Mr, Hartmann was asked. Dislike, tie Eat. "Perhaps. Why not" When I say I would like to liva ia this part of the . country, I am not giving you .what they call a California lemon. I mean it. Tou have leisure here, time for dreams, for fantasy, time for art. But the east No. Whenever I have to go between Chicago and New York 1 go into a sleeping car and pull down the curtains so I shall not have to look out and see the billboards advertising the , 67 varieties, J don't like the east and would never think of living there. But this cpuntry out here perhaps I may 45ome back some day and stay here.v? I .want to." " Only J 7 years old and yet one of the greatest musicians In the worlda man looking no older than his age, vig orous, full of fir and enthusiasm and devotion to his art: not modest net con ceited, but ' having a great respect for the art that expresses itself through him and proud of the fact 'that hla has been chosen by nature to be the mouthpiece of that art such ia Arthur Hartmann. BadlatM Virility. At hla Nlnm In tha PnrtlnnJ i this fnornlner Via not artA amnlriiil m Kltf beautifully colored meerschaum pipe while he talked. "My manager has asked ne to talk frankly and sincerely," he said, "to eay nothing that I don't mean, and that's what 1 am going to do. I am a Hungarian, you know, not an American, and I do not speak very food English." In wftlch statement Mr, lartm&nn was unduly modest, for he does speak good English, much better, not slurring like that of most of us. He is a good looking young man. with a fine head of hair (who ever saw a musician who was bald?), which he does not wear unduly long, and he radiates virility. Mr. Hartmann was warned that he was not talking to a mimical critic and was asked to go ahead and say anything that he felt would be of Interest to the people of Portland. "Well," he said, "I suppose you would like to know something of the program for the concert. 1 am going to opefi with the Mendelssohn concerto. , I had hoped to open with the Saint Saens con certo, because I havo played It with the composer himself. But I opened with the Mendelssohn concerto w hen 1 appeared in New York with Walter Damrosch exactly 20 years and". 1 was only 7 years old then. I made my first public appearnnces In America, you know, not In Europe. That is one rea son, I suppose, why I like this country so much. "The second number will be the Bach figure in A, which is seldom played. "I have written ft long treatise on Bach, which has ben translated Into evary language of Europe. 1 have been asked to reedit it s,nd have it re published, and I think I shall do so. "And, then, there Is my transcrip tion of a composition by Dehussey. I made this transcription at Pebussey's OHM FOB SCHOOLS That Sum Is Expected to Be Needed for Portland Education Aext Year. i. nccreiary inQinas ni ecnoui Doaru f has received from the county aasessor : the tax roll of district No. 1, which totals $220,000,000, an increase over last year of nearly 6 Der cent. The assess able property in the district was last year valued at something more than g m levy tzog.zoo.otiu and t fund of $625,000. netted a At the tame rate the money provided by taxation for school expenses would amount to $660,000, but It is expected that the taxpayers at the' annual meet ing with the board December 88 will bt asked to recommend a levy that will create a fund o nearly $1,000,000, as the expenditures " this year' will be largely Increased by the additional buildings to be erected and proposed in crease of teachers' salaries. The taxpayers' yearly meeting will be held at the West Side High school at 7:80 p. m. December v28. SCEIBER PETITION RECALLS FAILURE The bankruptcy petition of Clara J. Scrlber, of La Grande, a son of J. W. Scrlber, arrested some time ago by the federal authorities on a charge of forg ery, an echo of the failure of the Far mers A Traders National bank, waa filed in the United States district court yesterday. Borlber-s liabilities are $26,667. Of this amount the petitioner claims that the sum of $24,S30 is In the form of bills and notes which ought to be paid tw other cersons. In moat of the in stances young Scrlber went on the notes of hla fatner. The assets of the bankrupt amount to $2200, property of which worth $1800 is Claimed to do exempt unaer mi uw. - 'V ' '':. . .' sr. -W. A. Wlae, , OUT OF TOWN PEOPLE Should remember tnat our force Is so organleed that WE CAN DO THEIR ENTIRE CROWN, BRIDGE AND PLATE WORK IN A DAT If necessary. osltlvly Painless Extraction free When plates or "bridges are ordered. WE REMOVE THE MOST SENSITIVE TEETH AND ROOTS WITHOUT THE USAST PAIN. NO STUDENTS no un . certainty but SPECIALISTS who df the most scientific and careful work. WKP.'nr.NTAl, rO.. Fnr w W aa-ar raws w tm m anw a - w Dr. W. A. Wise, Mgr, SI years In Portland. Second floor, - railing bldg.. Third and Washington atreets. - Office hours, la,m. to 8 p. ro.- Sundays, to 1 p. m. Painless extruding. f0c; piatea, $5 up. Phone A and Main 2020. f own request he does not write for the violin, you knowand changed It around considerably and with bis ap proval. , "Your American composer, McDowell, was another who did not write for tha violin, you know. . I have arranged five of his composition for the violin. Every cafe orchestra In the country. I think, plays my arrangement of hia To a Wild Roae.' , Woat Kuslo Idkes. . : ''But I don't cars' for that myself so much si 1 do for 'The Cradle Song,' which I am bringing out on my present tour. Another thing which I am also playing on this tour la the C'sardas, alao originally written by McDowell. McDowell waa an American, and it was rather funny his trying to write Hun garian music. But I have, taken tha Csardas and changed It a, good deal and put the real Hungarian into It, for I am a Hungarian myself and know what It should be like. "There is one thing about ma which may Interest you. I compose a great deal, s X have never had a lesson in my life on the piano, yet I write for the piano. In November of next year I am going to make my formal debut as an orchestra conductor. I shall conduct the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra and ahan bring out two symphonic poem. One la a' Hungarion Jokf, called 'Ti mer,' which ' I wrote when I was It years old. It is a very big score, taking about 40 minutes to play, - "The other is a composition based on' the work 'Ana God Spake,' by Carmen Sylvia, queen of Roumanla. Carmen Sylvia and 1 are very good friends. I do net say this because she is queen of Roumanla, but because she la an ar tist Every summer I spend a . week with her, and we read and talk together and I play for her." "Apparently the thought of Carmen Sylvia suggested to the musician Amer ican women, for he branched oif into an exposition of his ideas concerning the womanhood of this country. - A to American Woman. "When I went back to Germany last time," he Bald, "I wrote a big article in German on America, In which I said that the American woman, frdm the standpoint of culture and refinement, is wonderful, far superior to the American man, who Is too busy to take- time for such things. I submitted the article to the big German newspaper. Die Wocha, and it was accepted. I was feeling cor respondingly proud over what I had done, when I received a letter from the editor telling me that he would like to publish the article, but I must cut out what I had aaid about the American woman. " That I cannot do,' I replied. 'Amer ica without the American woman is im possible. In America It is the woman who is supreme, not the man.' " "Well, we won't have this about the American Woman,' the editor re plied. "VVe don't want the American wo man coming over to Europe. She Is too smart What we want Is our Ger man haus-fraus.' "So I withdrew the article, but I expect to have it published In another big European paper goon. I do nearly all of my composing when I am traveling. I go Into the smoking room sometimes, in mv pa jamas, and sit there and work, often as late as 3 or 4 o'clock in the mornlna. When I work, I work anywhere I hap pen to be. 1 am all on fire. It Just pours out of me. And then, of course. come periods of terrible depression from tne reaction, ana i am just a common place man. "After I finish my present contract I expect to go to Mexico for six or eight weeks, as I have an offer from that country to come down there. And after that I shall return to Paria, where I teach and where I generally have a large number of pupils." GAY SEASOfl JIT WHITE HUUSE It Will Invite Comparisons With Previous Ones of Roosevelt's Time. (Speelal Dispatch to Th Joornal.t Washington, Lec. 17. Everything In and around the White House haa been put in the best possible order for the opening of the last and most brilliant social season under the Roosevelt ad ministration. The opening event will be the cabinet dinner this evening and the season will close with the army and navy reception on Thursday, February 18. During the intervening time there will be a round of diplomatic recep tions, diplomatic dinners. Judiciary re ceptions, , the usual supreme court din ner and congressional receptions, all to be given on Thursday evenings, inter spersed) with many other, less formal social functions, prime among them the ball to ba given on tha evening of De cember 28, In honor of Miss Ethel Roosevelt's social debut The old historic mansion baa wit nessed' many Interesting social events under the changing administrations, but probably never a season quite aa strenu ous and brilliant as will be the closing season of the present administration. Next winter Mrs. Taft will be the "first lady" and Washington society is already speculating over the prospects of the first 'Taft season." Btate Dinners. The three state dinners, the first of which will take place tonight will In clude from 40 to 70 guests. That to the diplomatic corps will be the larg est, aa It roust Include all the chiefs of embassies and legations, with the wife of each ambassador or minister. The evening receptions will be, as In former years, from 9 to 10:80. and 2000 invitations will be Issued for these events. Aa a rule guests other than those of the administration circle will be Invited to one reception only. The president and Mrs. Roosevelt will also receive as usual on New Year's day, but no cards are issued for that occasion. Mrs. Roosevelt haa also planned a number of muslcales on Fri day evenings during tha season, in ad dition to other minor social functions, among them the ball on the coming out of Mias Ethel Roosevelt. Oajrest for Kany TearaT There is every indication that the season just opening will be the gayest the White House has seen since tha first winter of President Roosevelt's administration, when his eldest daugh ter, Miss Alice Roosevelt, now Mrs. Longworth, was presented to society. The ball for Miss Ethel will be given In the same historio room where Abigail Adams dried her clothes and - which never waa the acene of a gay . ball unin during me narnson administra tion, when Mrs. McKee gave a cotillon. In addition to the ball there will be many dinners, luncheons, breakfasts and receptions, from the beginning of tha new year to the beginning of March, when Mrs. Roosevelt will turn over tha household affairs to her successor aa lady of the White House. Xooserelt's JEotueeleaniar. Nearly an theae social functions are held on the lower floor of the presi dential mansion, - which had been changed but little tinder the succeeding administrations until It had reached such a state of dilapidation that Presi dent Roosevelt considered It advisable to subject the antiquated1, Inadequate and uncomfortable lower part of the mansion to a radical reconstruction and rejuvenation, which raised such a pro test throughout the country, mainly from those who seldom or never fre--quented the house and knew little or nothing of Its needs and requirements. In accordance with time-honored cus tom no changes or Improvements of any consequence have been made since last , winter and pone ' Will be made tin- A". . 1 der the present administration, leaving it to the next president and his" family to arrange the house and its fixtures and furnishings according to their taste. MES. SAGE'S GIFT TO THE Y. M. C. A. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) New York, Dec. 17. The new build ing of the Long Island Railroad Toung Men's Christian Association at Borden and West avesues Long Island City, for the erection of which Sirs. Russel Saga contributed 1100,000. is practically com pleted and everything is in readiness for the formal dedication this evening. Mrs. Sage has consented to be present at the dedicatory services and it ia ex pected that there will alao be many other distinguished visitors from New ,lork and other cities in attendance. The building is a handsome structure of pleasing architecture and, when en tirely completed will be one of the best equipped Institutions of its kind In this section of the country. Mrs. Russel Sage has always felt great interest in the man employed on the big island railroad and when the plan was suggested to erect a modest building for the use of the railroad sec tion of the T. M. C. A. at Long Island City, ahe manifested her approval of the plan by subscribing the round sum r Corner .35 Suits and Overcoats 6 S for Hart Schaffner & Marx very latest $25.00 Suits and Overcoats 00 $30.00 Suits and Over- n 'coats 00 $40445 Suits & Overcoats Including Full Dress and Tuxedo Suits ONE-THIRD OFF ON of $100,000 to the building fund, thus enabling the society to erect a much larger and better equipped building than would have been possible without her generous gift HARRISON CAUGHT CRACKING A SAFE (United Press Leased Wirt.) San Francisco, Dec. 17. After a des perate struggle, the outcome of which for a time seemed In doubt. Patrolman Charles Galllvan arrested John Harri son in the office of the Portland lodging house today. Galllvan had been sum moned by the proprietor, J. Bessiti, who found Harrison trying to pry open the hotel safe. Besslttl attempted to cap ture Harrison, but the Intruder turned upon htm and began to beat him. Bes sittl's cries were heard by tJalliva i, who hastened by the shrill sound of a police whistle blown by Mrs: Besslttl, came In time to seize Harrison. Harrison fought until he was clubbed almost to Insensibility. He waa booked at the city priaon on a charge of burg lary. The production of araenlo In the United States in 1907, 1,751 short tons, made a new record for the industry, nearly doubling the output for tha pre ceding year. Grows Hair and we can PROVE IT! The Great DANDERINE Never Fails to Produce the, ' Desired Results. IT enlivens ana invigorates the half glands and tissues of tbe scalp. resulting; In continuous and Increasing; growth of tbe hair. Letter of pnlM are coatftmsny eotntDg In from oesrly all puts of the country sutlns thst DiKierln ba reaewed the growth of bslr In cum that wars eoaalderei bo lutely hopeless. A Udr from Braoklya writes: "After a abort trial Br hair stopped falling, and I now bars a IotbTt head ef hair, Terr beary and ever obs and a qaarrar jrards lon(.n . Danderine stimulates the acalp. makes it healtby and keeps it so. It ia the greatest acalp invigorstor known. It ia a wholesome medicine for both tha hair and acalp. Even small bottle of It will put more genuine life la your hair than a gallon of any other hair tonic ever made. It shows results from the very start. . Now oo tale at every drug and toilet store ia the land ; 3 sixes 25c, 50o and $1.00 Cm g) aj Te show how alcklf rise InderiaeaoU,ws will send a larce sampls free Cut Thl$( hf retnrninall to anyone who senosioisiree eon poa w ua Out , Ksssltes Bsaitriaa Cs., CUeirs, with their name and address and 10o in allrsr or sumps to pay pottage. .. Third and Morrison for Hart Schaffner & Marx Fine $20.00 for Hart Schaffner & Marx most superb for Hart Schaffner & Marx extra fine ALL BOYS' SUITS AND OVERCOATS B3 iliil IMH IHJUULD WW , -J CAUrOSSTXA XOTEX.8. PACIFIC GRAND HOTEL M H. ROSTOV! Free. 18T-1S1 Ellis S. Ph.u tr UU In tbe yerjr heart Of tbe downtown bonlnews and sbopnlDir district; ronTealent to all earltsM; ao Ideal hotel for permanent anesta; a amt eja lrable hotel for trsreUng men and toorists; a modera hotel at moderata prirea. Ru, $1 Oil per dax and Bp. ifeseryatlons mad by VUi or wieiTapn. H. l. NIXON, Mflnase. U. H. kfcCOIXISTEB. Chief CleK Streets ... 'feifilx Copyright 1908 by CALIFORNIA HOTELS The Journal's Free Information Bureau To enable its readers to obtain reliable first-hand Information regard- ing the hotels and resorts whose announcements appear in this column. The Journal has installed a free information bureau. Descriptive litera ture, rates, etc, will be gladly furnished to those interested. FAIRMONT H O TEL SAN FRANCISCO Scenic Hotel of (he World Overlook Sail Francisco Bay and City Five Mlnufej Ride from Ferries 600 rooms. Every room haa bath Rates single room and betb 12.80, tS.00, HM.H.OO.iiM.toM L S7.00. 10.00. Suites-flO.00, fliSO, 115.00, $20.00 and up. Miaitfaatat Palace Hotel Company SPEND THE WINTER AT DEL MONTE CALIFORNIA Tbe Paradise of the Pacific; 125 Miles South of San Francisco. Affords every facility for golf, tennis, riding, driving, motoring, and all other sports under ideal conditions. Superb climate; beautiful scenery. Eery luxury and convenience of the best city hotels. Stopover privileges on all through railroad tickets. Illustrated literature on request II. R. WARNER, Golden West Hotel Cor. PdVeU and Ellis Bt.. jr r&ajrcxsca - 1 Entrance on Powell St. Rate 11. OS and Upward. FRED P. F6AGEMAN, Prop. ' VON DORN: HOTEL S49 Turk art. Bum Fraaulaeo. ' Steel- bulldlnar. absolutely firenronf. EuroteA Plan. Fine Cafe. Central lo- i cation. Rate S1.00 per flay and up. I Take Eaay at. car, Kt off ,st Jotim. , ! - i. W. i"RET, V.sT. Hart Schaffner & Mane HOTEL STEVMRT SAN FRANCISCO GEARY STREET ABOVE UNIOS SQUARE JUST OPPOSITE HOTEL ST. FRAKCIS EUROPEAN PLAN $1.50 A CAY UP AMERICAN PLAN $3.00 A DAY UP 9 A new down town hotel. . Staaf iiut brick ttruoture. Furnished it cost sf $150,000. Eierj oomfort tnd contenl ence. J0n ear lines transferring to ill parts of oltf. OmnlLus meats all trains and steamers. Q if joii wait comfort, oommImos and luxury at a iirj reaunasls prloe, atop at the aelaot HOTEL STEWART Hotel St Francis SAN FRANCISCO This hostelry possesses all the best features of the world s finest caravansaries, and has added Many ideas to tbe sum of hotel happi ness. It has introduced to Pacific Coast Hoteldom . the Electric Grill, Pneumatic .Tube Servics, Magneta Clock System and today represents the farthest advance of science in hotel service in America. Rates European, from 2 upward Under the management of -JAMES WOODS H'OTE L MAN '; .Powell Street at OTarrcli SAN FRANCISCO The core f tha cltjr. Offers aeiom motfatlona. aervtce and ctiiine rf .ir acterlatlca of America's t.et t.-v;,. SOI) rooms, each eannectttttf u-( bath. Rooma $1.50 tip. , .
