THE OREGON SUNDAY "JOURNAL5. PORTLAND, SUNDAYMOR
JLATION
FATE NOW
.GING AHEAD
(in State Ex-
las Increased
Census Taken,
tSE 170,091
by ths Portland
Multnomah's
as 76,806.
regon. Have four,
alns in population
r years, according
by the promotion
Portland Commer-
publlc yesterday.
wince the last de-
170,091. of which
Increase was
iwere found by the
to be responsible
In Morrow, Jose
Hood River coun
' tountles .fared, accord-
and square mile area,
th following table:
Rooster Bums From
Enid to Chickasha
Oklahoma Bird "BldH ths Bodi" 4
Acquire Reputation of Only "Boom
er" Chicken in ths World,
CTilckasha, Okla., Oct. 17. "I have
seen a lot of 'boomers in my time, but
I have never seen a boomer chicken
until now," said Mike Crowley, vet
eran Rock Island engineer,' as he
alighted from the cab of his engine
in the Chickasha yards. "Look under
there and you'll see the only 'boomer
chicken in the world," continued
Crowley. "That bird has been riding
with me all the way from Enid"
Crowley pointed under the engine.
There in a crevice of the trucks hud
dled a small battle-scarred rooster, of
uncertain breed, besmeared with coal
dust, but otherwise apparently in per
fect condition. Engineer Crowley ex
plained that as he was oiling his en
gine in Enid on the southern trip he
noticed the chicken perched on a rod
underneath the locomotive. He did
not molest the "hobo." but climbed
down at tTl Reno and found the rooster
secure as when he had pulled out of
Enid.
At Chickasha, the end of his run, it
took the concerted efforts of three ne
groes, employes at the roundhouse, to
catch the "bum" after the rooster had
been routed from his perch beneath
the engine. "I'm going to take him
home and give him to my kid," said
Crowley, "and I'm going .to name hirtl
'Boomer.' "
PIONEER
FURNITUR
FIRM TAKES; LEASE
ON BIG HOLTZ STORE
Henry Jenning & Sons Se
cure New Quarters for
Expanding Business,
NEW CHAPTER IS BEGUN
History of Growth of Enterprise
Xilnked With Growth of the
City of Portland.
Population,
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t
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"HUH ,i4,ap,
la
a.
' i t
ngton ,
H . "- .
A Is
1914.
21,281
14.045
38,711
24,000
13.39S
23.131
J7.K9S
2.83
19.7F.2
s,3rr.
6,619
7,91 i
27,369
8,446
12,260
5,378
38,r.80
7,211
26,680
11,766
47,948
4,179
303.067
J7.437
3.870
7,719
23,8119
17,181
9,21 1
19,189
26.428
2,592
22,697
842.856
1919.
18,076
10,663
29,931
16,106
10.C80
17.959
9,315
2,044
19,674
3,701
5,607
4.059
8.016
25,75
9.567
8.554
4,658
83,783
fi.587
22.662
8,601
39,780
4,357
226,261
13,469
4,242
6,266
20,309
I6.19t
8,361
16. 336
21,522
2,48 .
18,2X5
672.765
Land
Area,
Acres.
1,958,400
440,320
1,192,960
625,440
423,680
1,041,920
4,977,920
958.720
3,150,080
768,640
2,892,800
6,357,120
347.520
1,815,040
1,120,640
3,839,360
5,068,800
2,951,680
645,120
1.433.520
6,325,120
764,160
1.296,000
288,640
453,760
535,040
720,000
2,030,720
1. 335,680
i!,01 2,800
1,499,520
476.840
1,090,560
456,960
CI, 188,480
Thirty-seven years ago, Henry Jen
ning, Sr., came to Portland and went
into the furniture business with a
few dollars capital. Yesterday Henry
Jenning & Sons signed a 15 year
lease with the Mead estate for the big
nine story Holtz store building at
Fifth and - Washington, -.the hub of j
Portland's business district. There !
they will soon move their big Second;
and Morrison street store and
within six weeks open at the hew
location and start another chapter In
the progressive history of the pioneer
firm,:
At the present time the firm uses
four floors in the building they oc
cupy and two additional floors in
the annex to display their goods. In
the new location they will have
double the floqr space they now have,
and expect to need it all for the rea
son that their policy will be to do
a volume of business and handle
every class of trade.
Business Grows Steadily.
"Things are quite different with
me today than when I first came to
Portland," said Henry Jenning, Sr.
yesterday in announcing that the
lease had been signed. Since 1 came
to Oregon, 37 years ago, I have been
blessed with three sons Fred O.,
Charles and Henry Jr., my youngest,
who is 32 years old. My business
has prospered. It has grown larger
with each succeeding year, and now
that we have secured the big build
ing at Fifth and Washington, at a
very reasonable rental, I look for It
to grow more. "While we have a re
moval sale in progress here. Fred, my
eldest . son, will go east and secure
a new and larger stock preparatory
to the opening of the old. firm in
Its new hom. V . " - ' ' . '; j
Mr.' Jenning la a native of Canada
and is 60 years of age. He ascribes
much of his success in the furniture
business to the fact that be was
given a thorough training in the fur
niture business from the workman's
bench up. He knows furniture from
the forest to the drawing room.
Had Humble start.
"And they trained them when I was
a youngster," he exclaimed. "When
I was learning how to make furni
ture, as an apprentice, I was paid
the splendid wage of J20 for my first
year's work, $30 for the second and
50 for the third 100 for three
years' work. I ate, slept and dreamed
of my work. After I had completed
my apprenticeship I went from place
to place looking for the best shops to
increase my knowledge. Finally I ar
rived at Toronto and there got a job
with the Johnson Semo people. I got
$1 per day, but at the end of two
weeks they raised me to 11.50 per
day and then I was made foreman of
the factory at $15 a week. At the
time I was 19 years old and the wage
was high for those days."
But he was dissatisfied, and finally
throwing up his Job he came to the
United States and worked through the
east and south and driven onward by
wanderlust, finally came to Oregon.
Here his sons were born and he laid
the foundation of his fortune and
created the firm which stands among
the. first pf the city's big business
enterprises.
With a few dollars he established a
small furniture; store in a room 14
by 40 feet, at First and Columbia.
hen he started out and began to
hustle for jobbing business. One of
the first sales he made to an out of
town furniture man was at HUlsboro,
where he found the proprietor work
ing on a casket.
looking for Greater Things.
Meanwhile his business grew In
Portland. He moved to First and
Salmon streets into quarters measur
ing 40 by 65 feet, then he moved to
a place near First and Washington
and finally the Mead estate built him
a building at Front and Morrison,
where he remained 12 years. At the
time this structure, which still stands
was the largest in the city.
The preseat quarters of the firm at
Second and .'Morrison have been oc
cupied by it for eight years and Mr.
Jennning has been out of the whole
sale end of the business for 10 years,
and now, he says, he "is pleased to
announce that he is back in a building
owned by the Mead estate," builders
of the first big home for the store.
"But what pleases me more than
anything else, though," he concluded,
"is that -myself and sons by moving
into the heart of Portland's business
district will be able to work toward
bigger and better things."
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Established 1895. i'tj
151 Fourth Street Bet. Morrison anicl Alder Streets
Land Area, Pop.
Square Per. feq.
Miles. Mile.
3,060 7.0
688 20.5
1,864 20.8
821 29.2
662 20.3
1,6;8 142
7,778 2.3
1,498 1.9
4,922 4.0
1,201 3.2
4,520 1.4
9,933 7
543 14.6
2,836 9.6
1,751 4.8
5,999 2.1
7,920 .7
4,612 8.4
1.008 7.2
2.243 11.9
9,883 1.2
1,194 40.0
2,025 , 2.0
451 672.0
709 24.6
836 f 4.6
1,12r 6.8
3.173 7.R
2,087 ' 8.2
3,1 4o 2.9
2,343 R.2
731 36.2
1,704 1.5
714 31.8
lnd;area 9B.607
area 1.092
Hi...: V 96,699
iiinir pur B'luane mile iann area
8.8
b tablt Tvill be inrluded in the forthcoming issue of the Oregon Almanac
able to discus the cam-
14 west with far less free-
;lish Censorship
: Still Very Strict
n lims Military Correspondent
i E- a'islaa Papers Ort More Hews
a r.rittsh Contemporaries.
i i .
donl Oct. 17. In a comparison
Veiforshlp, as it Is being applied
?Und and Russia, the Timts' mii
torr.espondent says:
;in tK.
ihan; our Russian contemporaries.
RuBSli. the last home of liberty
press, has become po-sitlvely
ble ;jto" us In England. 'Russian
ts.(lre far more full than ours
tuslan'eomment Is far more un
nclled nd therefore more ilium-
e shall have a pood deal to say
: Eljglish cffcsorship when the lib
of the press Is restored, but no
ioufets that in the present critical
i of operations in the west Gen
Joffre Is reaily justified in exer
t dictatorship in news and rom
. 'It Is normal for all dictators to
trustful of their closest friends,
wejhave no muse to complain if
Ilctators treat ns after the man.
f their kind."
Xdu-ge Attendance Drawn.
e" T. M. C A. classes in public
ilngr have drawn large attendance
the start and several new mem-
have been enrolled at each ses-
The advanced class will meet to-
ow; night at o'clock and the ele
ar students Tuesday night at
- 2"he association has planned a
)ifD course In the subject for th
(nts i and purposes to develop it
'rtalry through the winter session.
Mary Garden Will
Go to Battlefield
Grand Opera star Joins Xsd Cross and
Will Aid Wotmded French Soldiers
at the Trout.
London, Oct. 17. Mary Garden has
abandoned the gTand opera stage for
the time being and Is going to tin
front as a Red Cross worker. She has
just returned to London after having
spent the summer in Scotland, and
looks prepared for any eventuality
After seeing her mother and sister off
for America she will proceed to Paris
to take up her new duties.
"I may never sing, again, she said,
'and I don't care, f am intensely In
terested in my new work and am im
patient for relaxation. Having had n
experience in nursing, I shall have no
hospital work to do, but I shall help
to move the wounded from the battle
fields.
"Dangerous? Tes. Bnt what does
it matter? I am not afraid. I am a
fatalist. If it is destiny, what mat'
ter? I might as well die from a bul
let as from any other way. At least
I will be doing something useful, and
that is sure to count in the final sum.
ming up.
"I expect to be at the front with the
French troops next week. If I come
through It alive, perhaps I shall he
able to sing better than e-ver before.
The experience win at least be broadening."
Cholera in Germany.
London, Oct. 17. The North Ger
man Gazette admits the appearance
of cholera in Germany as well as in
Austria, says a Rome dispatch to
Reuter's Telegram company, but as
sures the public that the outbreak Is
well In hand.
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Porcelain Crown $3.50
Gol$ Fillinjjs ?1.00
22-k. Gold Crowns $3.50
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Silrer Fillings ....... ... k SO
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Lady Attendants
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j.'0: ; 231 Morrison Street, Corner Second Entire Corner
.r Open Evenings and Sunday Mornings From 10 to 12
Tnir for the Big Union SignJSISZSZZSSIZ
Most Extraordliiniary Furniture
Anmoiuiiiicemeinit .Ever Made in Portland !
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tore
At noon yesterday, we signed a fifteen year lease for the ten story Holtz building, at 5th and
Washington streets. It is the first, move in our plan for the establishment of the greatest fur
niture institution in the Northwest.
We must vacate our present building on November 15th. Think what that means the mov
ing of a giant furniture store in less time than was ever attempted in Portland's history!
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n
;ms at Engot o Clloclk Soarp
'ommoirrow (Moeday) Mormiog
Fred O. Jenning leaves tomorrow morning for Grand Rapids and the Eastern market to pur
chase the finest and most complete new stock of furniture ever brought to Oregon. The pres
ent stock will be sold out at marvellously low prices.
This is the first sale in our 37 years of furniture business. We have never believed in sales
unless for a legitimate reason. Here is the greatest opportunity you have ever known.
Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars of Fine Furniture,
Carpets, Stoves and Homefurnishings Slaughtered
Prices on hundreds of articles will be cut right in half many staple lines actually reduced
33 1-3 and 25 per cent. This advertisement was prepared hurriedly. We, did not have time
or space to mention prices. Come when the store opens tomorrow morning, prepared for the
greatest savings you have ever wtinessed.
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Corner of Second and Morrison Streets
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