The Oregon daily journal., May 21, 1916, Page 11, Image 11

MERCHANTS DECIDE IT
IS TIME TO CALL HALT
TO RETURN OF
Practice of Borrowing' Arti
' cles Under Pretense of Buy
; Ing Brings Complaint.
PUBLIC PAYS THE BILLS
instance seiated wun one natron
Varnished House end Attired Her
self la rine Beimant f or T arty.
Upon tha shoulders of Slnbad, the
Portland retailer, sits a most burden
iom OM Man of tha Sea.
. Tha old man clutches with muscular
knees the aching neck of Sinbad, ever
and anon reaching into hla pocket and
taking- out a handful of gold.
But he does not use the gold he
flings it Into tha ocean, where it ta
wallowed up, leaving not even-a splash.
Slnbad personifies every storekeep
er In Portland. The Old Man of tha
Sea symbolizes tha curious and uncan
ny custom that has grown up among
customers of buying an article, becom
ing dissatisfied with It and then send
ing It back. Maybe the article Is soiled
In tha transaction; maybe It has been
avan used; maybe it was purchased
With no Idea whatever of being used.
Maybe it was purchased in bad faith
for temporary use and then, when It
has served that temporary purpose. Is
sent back with the expressed regret
that it should "prove unsatisfactory."
PqbUo Has to Cover Xoss.
But the merchant suffers. The pur
chaser gains nothing. The general pub
lic has to make up the losses sus
tained by the merchant. The system Is
one which Portland retailers have
sought Individually and collectively to
throw off. So far thoy have not suc
ceeded. One reason why they have
failed, Individually Is because each Is
mora or leas suspicious of the other.
Why they hjrVe failed collectively is
because they sMH face the encroach
ments of the mall order houses and
the competition of Institutions similar
to their own In Seattle and San Fran
cisco. The scope of the "return merchan
dlse"' evil is indicated by the fact that
fully f 100,000 Is wasted every year in
losses to merchants from goods once
taken out of the store and later taken
back. All such goods, if salable at all,
must be put on tha bargain counter at
reduced, prices. Some of the goods are
not salable again under any circum
stances. One merchant estimated yes
terday that tha goods brought back to
Ms store after sale la once made
amount to 20 per cent of his gross
sales.. Others put their figures as low
as 4 per cent, while An average of all
estimates Is around 10. per cent.
Hardships Are Enumerated.
Here are some of the hardships
Which the merchants' have to saddle
themselves with if they are to stay in
business at all and hang on to the
trade they have been years In work
lag up;
Women pick out a dozen shirtwaists,
"on approval," sending back all but the,
one they finally select.
Women, carried away by the allure
"menta of displays In the stores, pick
out something they afterward discover
they do not want or cannot afford.
Women purchase gowns, hats or
cloaks they know full well they can
not afford, for the sake of attiring
themselves in them to c6mplete tha
picture of themselves In the mirror
and satisfy personal vanities.
Women, out shopping with friends,
select rare clothes and Jewels as a
means of exalting themselves in their
friends' eyes and rousing their envy.
Women, not being able to afford the
exclusive and costly seasonal models,
"purchase" them so that. In the pri
vacy of their homes, they may copy
tha costume in cheaper materials.
Various Seasons Are Given.
These are only a few of the causes
leading up to the returning of mer
chandise once bought. Almost every
woman who practices this tendency
has a different reason or her own per
sonal variation of the big underlying
reason.
It should be noted, first of all. that
It is the women who are practically
the sole offenders against good busi
ness. Possibly they do not believe
that they are dishonest. Possibly they
are merely unadvised of what such
conduct means or merely thoughtless.
But many women do realize and do
think, but continue to return merchan
dise at all the stores where tky trade.
Soma of these women have been won
dering lately why it is they cannot
get the courteous treatment accorded
them of yore. But the "shopgirls"
know why and the floor managers
know why. If the truth were known,
the proprietors know why also.
Wagons Break. Sown Sometimes.
One storekeeper explains to these
confirmed senders-back that they are
sorry their wagon "broke down" when
they were delivering the half-dozen
gowns they ordered yesterday. Maybe
they can be delivered In a few days
Oh. yes. In that case the outraged cus
tomer goes to his competitor and or
ders the gowns which Blnks & Banks
wouldn't send. The competitor usual
ly; has been apprised of Just such a
possibility and another delivery wagon
breaks down next day. This may con
tinue until all the delivery wagons In
;town "break down." Then the enraged
customer, sends to a mail order .house.
But ven that catastrophe Is prefera
ble, say the merchants, to having to
put up with the unreasonableness of
some customers.
'"All the stores are eager to take back
goods, however, when the reason is
good. For example. If an article la
found defective or if it is the wrong
site or the wrong style or wrong some
thing else. Legitimate returns of
merchandise are never objected to.
'what irks Is the wholesale ordering,
the wholesale returns, with no reason.
Xonse Was Quarantined.
Merchandise once taken from the
tore should not be returned because
Of sanitary reasons If for nothing else
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GOODS
' Anything You Can Wish for Double Value Always
COZY DAIRY LUNCH
- 323 Washington St., Near SixthDay and Night
, - 3 Nutbrown Hotcakes with our Famous Coffee, 10c
Choice Roast Beef with Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Bread and Butter, toe
Small Sirloin Steak, toe. Regular 60c Tenderloin Steak, 25c
(- . Special Chicken Dinner every Sunday, 3 Sc . .
Nowhere oa the Coast Can Yon Cot Bettor Value . .,
i - ; : ir is prove, n to you -
One woman naively called the mana-!
ger of a specialty store the other day
and asked to have the company wagon
call at her house for some merchandise
he -wished to send back,
"I would not ask you to send for it,"
she said, "but my children have scar
let fever and the house Is quaran
tined." The wagon was not sent and the
goods are atlll the property of the
purchaser.
NoneXbf the Portland stores wil'
accept the return of hair goods for
sanitary reasons. Curls, switches,
waves, ornamental combs, hair
brushes all are on the taboo Hat.
The other day a good customer of
one of the stores ordered a pair of
side curls. They matched her own
hair perfectly. They were satisfac
tory in every way when the customer
took them from the store. - But when
she reached home she got to thinking
that she shouldn't be wearing falsa
hair. So she took them back.
Politely, the young woman clerk
said she could not receive them. The
customer sought the floor walker. He
referred her to the manager.
Curia Olven First Treatment. V
"You are a good customer of ours
and we cannot afford to antagonize
you," the manager said. "So we will
take the curls back and credit your
account. But look at me."
So saying, he took the curls in one
hand and his desk shears In the
other and snipped them into 40 pieces
wi.ich he dropped in the waste basket.
The woman gasped.
"What a waste?!" she said.
"It Is better to charge off the price
of those curls than to lose a good cus
tomer," replied the manager. "We
could not put those curls on sale
again."
The manager believes the customer
at last got the Idea.
But here Is the most aggravated
case the merchants of Portland ever
encountered:
Struck by the enormous quantity of
goods a welV-known and wealthy Port
land woman sent back one day, a mer
chant mentioned it to a competitor
while a group of these merchants were
gathered to discuss the pending mini
mum wage legislation.
Zt Was a Big Social Event.
"What! Did she send goods back
to your store too?" cried the friend.
Then all the assembled merchants
compared notes. Most had sold goods
to this woman on the same day and
had received them all back as "un
ratisfactory" on the following day.
They looked then at the society page
of a newspaper and speedily found
the reason.
It developed that this woman had
bought an expensive evening gown,
some costly rugs and a piece or two
ol expensive and highly ornamental
furniture at one store. At another
sl.e had bought some draperies, some
linens, some stiver. At another she
had bought more rugs, and more
draperies. To cap the climax, at the
third store she had purchased some
l.k hose and a pair of dancing
pumps.
Everything Up to Sate.
That night she gave one of the
"swellest" parties of the season, using
the articles boughyfroir. these stores.
She wore the gown, placed the rugs
on her floors, the furniture about
I he rooms, hung up the draperies,
adorned her sideboard with the silver,
had worn, the silk stockings and
pumps.
Their usefulness over, this woman
sent the whole assortment back. She
had Ironed out the silk stockings,
had whitened the soiled soles of the
pumps, had pressed out the wrinkles
!n the gown. She thought no one
could tell that she had used every
article that was sent out. She de
ceived everybody except the shoe
salesman, who saw at once that the
pumps had been worn.
Some, thought entered the minds
of the merchants to start prosecu
tion on charges of fraud, but because
of the prominence of the woman, the
l.oods were merely taken back, the
cost charged off and the incident re
ferred to afterward only as a "hor
rible example."
Incident Is Fully Analysed.
Here is what happened: The time
of at least seven sales people was
consumed by the woman when she
crdered the goods; the time of the
delivery force of at least three stores
was taken In making delivery and in
getting the stuff afterward; the goods
were" all soiled niore or less and
therefore reduced in value for resale.
"The public will pay for all those
waste charges," one merchant said
yesterday. "It always hstppens. The
overhead expense of running a store
irutft keep up and If 20 per cent of
this overhead Is lequired to care for
tales that turn out to be comebacks,
the honest customers of course have
to absorb it."
Sometimes it happens that people
will order expensive goods and keep
them for weeks months. In the mean
time, the merchant may have had many
calls for such articles which he might
have filled with the goods thus held
out of stock by the customer, eventu
ally the goods come back. The mer
chant is deprived of the use of that
much invested capital. Besides, the
goods go back on sale at reduced value
because of their possible use by the
customer.
Jewelers Are Hard Kit.
Jewelers possibly are harder hit than
the department or other specialty
stores, heir goods represent so much
greater investment. Many and many
a gem-studded ornament is returned
after once being sold. Milliners have a
hard time with the comebacks. So do
the exclusive shirtwaist shops", the wo
men's ready-to-wear houses, the shoe
hcuses.
Some rays of hope appear. For ex
ample, nbne of tha stores will now take
back hosiery, underwear or any article
that comes In contact with tha skin.
Notices to that effect are posted in
plain sight in many stores. Some have
pursued the practice of refusing also
to take back piece goods that have
bean cut to certain lengths.
Deductions Had on Certain Goods.
Silk from the bolt cut to dress pat
tern size are now seldom accepted on
return or exchange. Occasionally, if
it is accepted, a credit of much less
than the list price is allowed as a pen
alty for return.
k. Recourse to popular opinion is now
looked upon by tha merchants as the
most effective way out of their return
merchandise troubles. They feel that
If people can be brought to realise that
unnecessary sending back of goods la
wrong, wasteful and almost dishonest,
they will gradually take more care in
their shopjlng, select only what they
know they want or can afford, satisfy
FATHER SCHOENEFTMAKES
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Business men try to learn how new piante are created for Oregon by plant wizard at Schoener Scientific Garden. Above, left to right
John H. Haak, John 8. Bradley, J. A. Currey, Father Schoener, J. A. Haak, Howard Evarts Weed. Other visitors who do not appear
in picture are George Cornwall and John N. Edlefaen. Below A section of the Schoener gardens recently planted.
The
Oregon plant wizard, tather
George Schoener, la beginning- to ac
complish seeming miracles in the crea
tion and adaptation of field crops,
fruits and riowers at' Bchoener scien
tific gardens on the peninsula.
He planted a rose seed February 8.
More than a week, ago the plant was
In bloom. Some people hold to the
opinion that It requires three years
for rose seed to germinate. Govern
ment and other records will beacarched
to see If the feat has ever been dupli
cated. The plant wizard has succeeded in
pollenizlng an azalea with a rhododen
dron. The result will be an entirely
new ornamental plant.
He has taken the stems of the native
or wild Oregon gooseberry and has
grafted thereon domestic gooseberries
and currants. The result is the pro
duction of currant and gooxoberry
trees that already are bearing tiiilt.
A number of the plants that embody
the croat between the blackbeiry and
the raspberry that he was able to ac
complish when at Brooks, Or., are
growing in the new gardens, blooming
last week with blossoms similar to
themselves at the counter and then
"stand pat" on their purchases, every
one will be better off including the
shoppers themselves.
French Play and
Songs Given at Reed
.
Students stertaia in Unique Xaaaer
Miss Adele Brauit Was Vocal
Soloist.
French songs and dances represent
ing the art of present, and last thre
centuries, and a French "play, Labiche's
"La Perls de la Canebiere," were given
by students at Reed college Friday
nfght.
Miss Adele Brauit. soprano, was the
sololBt, and the dances were given by
Miss Mary Brownlie and Miss Doris
Foresman. Besides several solo
dances. Interpretations of the songs
were given. The songs were in groups,
two of them being from the seven
teenth century, four from the eigh
teenth, five from the nineteenth, and
five contemporary.
The comedy, given in French, was
also successful.
The parts In the play were taken as
follows; Thereson Marcasse, the wid
ow. Miss Prlscilla Gabel; her servant,
Mietto, Miss Wllma Diettrich; Blanche
St Poule, the fiancee. Miss Dorothy
Watson; her mother.. Mine. St. Poule,
Miss Louise Huntley; Beau tendon, the
father, Fred Whiter Godefroid. the
eon, Harold Burnett, and Antoine,
Beautendon's servant, Clyde Beals.
Best Man Suicide.
Tomah, Wis., May 20. After the
wedding supper following the marriage
of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Naes a guest dis
covered Fred Naes, 1?, best man and
brother of the bridegroom, dead In
his room; a suicide. He had been re
jected - by - the girj who married .his
older "brother
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Wsee writing ar eaOiag oa advertiser pleas
tastioa.Xba Journal.
(AdV.)
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double Shasta daisies. The foliage is
very handsome, even ornamenta1, and
the fruit is expected to embody both
the size and juiciness of the blackberry
and the delicate flavor and sweetness
of the raspberry. The result may be
a finer berry than the loganberry.
The government, which has given
official recognition to Father ?choen
er's work, has sent him specimen of
the native Korean blackberry, imported
by federal scientists, and these plants
are doing well. They have a quick
growth, the fruit ripens early ?n the
season, and the plants flourish-.; n spite
Of cool nights. The berry may prove
of great value in Oregon.
I Seven Acres Planted.
Father Schoener has had planted
some seven acres In McKenna park.
wh3re ground for the purpose wji do
nated by Coe A. McKenna. He has
planted 15,000 roses, representing 2300
different varieties, this being, it Is
said, the most representative collec
tion of roaes in the west.
He has planted the seed of corn that
he started at Brooks, corn that endures
cool nights and matures in about 50
days after planting.
I
OF
Modest Structure in Wilds of
Lincoln County Credit to
Settlers and Families,
Down in the wilds of Lincoln county,
close to the Benton county line, stands
s little school house built of "shakes."
It Was constructed by the settlers and
the settlers' wives, with material
hauled out of the woods by the set
tlers' children. The little shake school
house is untentanted.
P. 8. Fry donated the site of this
school house as a contribution to prog
ress. But he asserts that the hopes of
the settlers to find a way to educate
their children were thwarted. He
charges that an element of the popu
lation of this school district large
in area but small in Inhabitants has
conspired to prevent the use of the
school house. He charges that they
do not want a school at all.
naa Keats OUstaelee.
"I have tried to get action to en
force the legal rights of our children."
said Frye during a visit to Portland
from his home near Peak yesterday.
"I took up the matter with the county
superintendent of schools, with- the
atate superintendent, with the attor
ney general and even with the gover
nor. They had me running around in
circles trying to find someone with
authority to take action, v I submitted
affidavits to the effect that the census
was falsified, that the directors now
In office obtained their election for
the express purpose of defeating our
school - plan. These - affidavits were
CHILDREN
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SCHOOL
HOUSE
SHAKES
PROGRESS IN NEW GARDENS
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The peas that he originated at
Brooks, having edible pods, are grow
ing rapidly.
At his home, near the gardens, .he
has replanted the roses which won tha
silver medal at the Panama-T'aciflc
International exposition, and will use
these, as well aB others, in the creation
of new varieties.
It is the ambition of Father Schoen
er and the organization supporting
his work, to produce a distinctive Port
land rose, which will be officially
adopted when created. Father Scnoener
has created a number of new varieties,
but the Portland roee will represent
the greatest of his achievements.
He Is producing some intct'estlng
seedling roses, among them beir.f; sev
eral from the Madame Herriott or
London Daily Mall rose. The flower
bears its nickname because it won the
Daily Mail's prize for the best rose.
. Father Schoener has planted several
thousand rose slips, which, when
brought to proper point of develop
ment, will be distributed among mem
bers of the association. The purpose
of the organization is non-commercial;
the motive is to produce plants of all
kinds that will be useful and valuable
submitted to all these officials and
still we have no school.
"The building was put up without
cost to the county or district except
for the windows and nails. The ma
terial was all furnished and the labor
was contributed by the settlers. Under
the law, our district. No. 67, is en
titled to 1300 a year for the mainten
ance of a school for six months of the
year. Under the law. the people of the
district in November, 1913. voted in
favor of the present site of the school,
which is approximately in the geo
graphical and population center of the
district, the vote having been 12 fr
and four against.
Oouat Xs Xa correct.
After one six months term of school
the building has stood there unused.
When the district was first orfanlted,
there were. 15 pupils. .Now there are
eight children of school age. Tho
school census shows only five. Tha
affidavits I have prepared and sub
mitted show this count is Incorrect
"Last summer, my boys walked
eight and one-half miles to school to
another district, making a round trip
of 17 miles every other day. Other
children In our district did not go to
school at all.
"It seems that no matter how much
I have agitated the wrong being dona
to our children by what I have called
a plot to prevent any educational ad
vancement, I have been thwarted by
those who are in office. Indifference
characterises those who are not espe
cially interested against me.
"My wife and my boys hauled the
shakes for that school house out of
the forest and the wife and another
settler helped nail on tha boards.
Sometime I think the attitude of the
men who have elected themselves di
rectors cosies from personal hostility
to me., At other times it appears that
they are merely trying to block any
effort to improve the condition of our
eaUdren." i
Champion Sniper Also.
London. May JO. (U. P.) Private
William Kirkbride, former champion
rifle- shot of . tO.OOO recruits, is re
ported to--lu-:s tar -.-.'taliped1''' 41
enemies at the front ,
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to the people of Oregon,
He has gladioli and dahlias of many
new varieties growing. Many fruit
trees have been planted, but his ex
perimentation with these will bs t-ome-wha-t
delayed because of the Mower
growth. Most of his fruit tr.?e and
many of his roses were destroyed by
fire at Brooks.
He devotes one section to ornamental
shrubs. Including many imported vari
eties; another to berries; a th'rd to
corn; a fourth to roses, and so on
Visitors are welcomed at the gar
dens (take St. Johns car to McKenna
avenue) Wednesday and Sunday after-
noons; but the gardens will meat little, them to make Independent livellhods.
even to nurserymen, without the ex-1 There are 80 families' of self-support-plantalon
which Father Schoener will ! ing, respectable and respected deaf in
give.
A number Of the officers and direc
tors of the Schoener scientific gardens
and other business men visited tha
gardens last week and studied the wor
which tha plant scientist is doing. They
consider the progress which he. has
made remarkable In consideration of
the brief time and the small amount
of money that has been available from
membership dues at 110 a year for
each member.
L ENLISTED IN FIGHT
FOR THE NAVAL BASE
United States Official Says
He WHI Do Anything to As
sist Portland.
John Burke, United States treasurer,
and brother of Thomas Carrick Burke,
collector of customs for the district
of Oregon, has been enlisted in the
fight for a naval base at the mouth
of the Columbia river.
Replying to a request from the
I will be only too glad to do anything
vu iitsi v jruriiana, iicji only Te-
eause It is your home, but because
the matter looks feasible to me.
"The establishment of a base at the
mouth of the Columbia will not only
help Portland but the entire country
at large. Being a help to the country
at large is the only reason why it
can be urged.
"Since you requested that I take a
hand in the matter I have also been
approached by Judge King with a re
quest that I see Secretary Daniels
after certain data have been gathered.
I agreed to and wIlL Tou may tell
your friends that I will work In eon
junction with Judge King and the
Oregon delegation to further their
beet interests in the matter."
; Wear Wooden Shew.
London, May 2a. (U. P.) Beceue
of the hlgb cost of shoes, hand reds of
acHool children in South .London - are
wearing wooden shoes..
TREASURER BURKE IS
IL FOR DEAF
PERFORMING
GOOD
WORK FOR PUPILS
Living Witnesses to Efficiency
i of Plan of Education Give
Eloquent Testimony,
GIRLS SING WITH HANDS
Zouisleo Demonstrate What They Have
Accomplished la tha Art of
Sreaamaklac'.
lucullus
wei all wronf when he
wrote:
j To Instruct the deaf,
' No art can reach;
No care improve them,
j No wisdom teach.
i Equally wrong was St. Augustine.
! when he averred: "The deaf cannot
know God or religion."
' Thomas P. Clarke, auperintenJent of
the atate school for the deaf at Van
couver, was not satisfied with contra
dicting the ancient savants befoie the
Rotary club luncheon Tuesday. lie
brought with him children, small and
large, to whose silent lives have been
given speech, and music, and icnowl
edge. I Could "Bead" tips.
They could rad the Hps of a person
speaking and answer in vocal speech,
though never In their lives had they
heard a word.
The smaller boys and girls caught
Instruction from the lips of their
teacher. Miss McBrlde. and worked
problems on a blackboard, or spelled,
or performed mental calculations with
a speed little short of breath taking.
The club men had opportunity to
learn the meaning of the phraae,"poetry
of motion." Three of the larger girls
sang, "Lead, Kindly Light." and then,
"My Country, 'Tls of Thee," not with
their voices, but with their hands, and
arms, and swaying bodies.
The fourta year class; taugnt by
Miss Moylan, showed how swiftly
progress Is made in teaching every
thing that children with ear may
i learn.
In bis assigned place on the program
came Cl&rence Oleson, picturing In
pantomime such personages as a fish
erman, and a pastor; such animals as
a cat, a dog, a cow and a monkey, and
doing It so well that one of hla audl-
- tors remarked: "He's got - i harley
Chaplin faded a mile, hasn't heT"
Dressmaking Is Learned.
While other features of the program
were being presented, the thrso girls
who had done the voiceless, yet bcau
I tlful, singing, left the room. Presently
i they returned, differently gowned. It
was to show what they had learned In
dressmaking, for each, at a cost of Jl
for material, had made a dies, ncut )
! becoming and well made, an again
I the irrepressible Koturi.in was heard
i to remark: "Gee, I wish my wife had
' learoed dressmaking at the school for
the deaf."
, Superintendent Clarke aald that It
; Is harder to teach the deaf the English
i language than any other study. It
amounts. In fact, to three languages.
said he text book English, newspaper
English and the English that people
use in conversation.
The deaf do not learn idiomatic Eng
lish. For instance, related Mr: Clarke
a little girl came Into the school room
weeping, a letter from home in her
hand.
"My little brother Is dead and I hav?
killed him," she mourned In explana
tion. Her teacher read the words cf the
letter: "Your little brother is ilcklei
to death with the fountain pen you
sent him."
Big Investment Made.
The Washington school for the deaf
represents an Investment of fl0J,346;
its annual expense is $41,000: there are
l57 pupils instructed by 10 literary
and 6 industrial teachers. Meats are
served at a cost of 6 1-3 cents a plate.
Both girls and boys are taught the
fundamentals of good education and
given industrial training that enables
Portland, whose training and whoee
speech was given them at the Wash
ington state school in Vancouver, said
Superintendent Clarke.
Objection Made to
j Calling Drake Pirate
Governor Sliram Johmsoa Addressing
riesta Celebrating Explorer's Trend
ing Arouses Britons to Defease.
8an Francisco, May 20. (P. N. S.)
When Governor Hiram W. Johnson in
cidentally and probably without much
forethought called Sir Francis Drake,
In effect, a pirate, he started some
thing. Members and leaders of IS or
more British societies in tha bay re
gion today rallied to the defense of
the memory of the pathfinder who sot
foot in Marin county 337 years ago, a
circumstance now being celebrated In
the Marin flower festival
The governor compared Drake rather
to pirates than pilgrims in his ad
dress opening the three-day fiesta,
and the gage was promptly taken up
by a Briton) Rev. G. M. Cutting of St.
Paul's episcopal church, San Rafael.
Today others joined Dr. Cutting.
William Balnaves, treasurer of the
British Benevalent society, thought
X'rake had been maligned.
"I object," he said. "Drake was by
no means comparable to a pirate."
Others joined in the defense, but
whether the contradiction will be put
In the form of resolutions by any
society is still ad open question.
'Aged Woman Loses
Way in Sacramento
Sacramento, Cal May 20. (U. P.)
Mrs. Jean Glass, 82 years old, is
detained here today because the city
had no better place to put her. Hlie
became fconfused at the railway sta
tion and acted queerly when trfclomen
tried to guide her. She says her
borne Is in Tacoma. and that she had
attended the funeral of a niece In
OJympla, Wash., but had decided to iro
to her old home in Ogdensburg. N.
"where there are nothing but
graves," she said.
Asked if she had a good home In
Tacoma, she sad: "Yes, but I didn't
like It when they took the old plum
tree out."
She had 1400. She will be hell
until relatives are heard from.
The Travelers' Aid society allowed
ine county officers to ' taker her 13
charge, ae the society nae no
Student Vaudeville
Proves Big Succes
Auditorium of Lincoln , Ktgli ftoooc!
ruled to Capacity and Verformer
Win High Praise.
Lincoln auditorium was tilled to
capacity Friday afternoon and eve
ning when tha June '16 graduating
class presented a fine vaudeville show,
under the able direction of Melville
Brown and Guy Reynolds of the Baker
Players. r "
The vaudeville took the place of the
regular class play and a good sum was
realized to swell the June 'IS class
cardinal fund Girls from tha Vahrti.
Kary '17 class sold candy at both. pr-
lormances.
Margaret Cundy opened the bill with
a novelty dancing number. Tha first
being a Turkish dance and the second
a spring dance. This was followed by
two clever entertainers, Qravere
Fleming and Baltla Allon. ,
The third number entitled, "Some
Call It Luck," waa well represented.
The playlet was written by Melville
W. Brown, a Portland man. . v "
Robert Cosgriff played the leading
role, taking the part of Glen Griffith,
the part of Nan Griffith, his Wife, be
ing taken by Imogen Seton. Newton
Drew played the minor role. : v
Then came the blackface comedians.
They shall never be forgotten; they
guaranteed a laugh a minute, and auor
censfully filled the bill. v
The next act was Miss Margaret
Munefleld, called "The Melba of the
West." who presented three character
sketches. The first a Japanese maid,
the second a little girl, and the third
"The Sot (Scene taken from tha Com to
Opera Olivette. ' Stanley Mansfield Was
her accompanist. t
The next number was a musical act
with Alice Greene and Russell Bewail
starring. '.
The lat sketch, "Dream Love," Was
a light operetta written by Melville
Brown. The leading part waa taken
by Faye Bailey, Sterling Smith, and
Howard Hutchinson. :
They all did Justice to their parts, f
Death Threat Made
Against Reformer
u
.San Francisco, May 20. (P. N. 8V
Bascotn Johnson, executive secretary
of the Law Enforcement league. Who
has been leading a fight to close the
e-itire San Francisco tenderloin, today
was threatened with death unless he
Immediately ceased his campaign. ,V"'t
TIio death threat came through the
n'all and was signed by the name Of a
woman, who said she was "Annie 0.
Everdlng." ,
"Myself and 11 women of the kind
you are seeking to drive ont Of the
city hnve sworn to kill you," the let
ter said.
Thl week 200 women were driven
from houses on the Harbary Coast
tnrough the request of the owners of
the property, who asked the police tO
rlose the resorts. i
Fra Diavolo
Comic Grand
Opera
at
THEATRE
Thursday Night
Saturday Matinee
Presented by
Portland Opera
Association
Special Scenery
Augmented Orchestra
85 85
Introducing 16 Beautiful
Girls in Ballet
PRINCIPALSi :
George Wilbur Reid, Hertrldge
Whipp, George Hotcbkiss Street,
Jane Burns Albert, Ore-Bees See
berger, Albert S. Brown, Shirley
D. Parker, Arthur King, Karl Her.
brin(, Genevieve Paget.
Prices -$1, 75c and 50c
lie
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