The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-08-10
NEWS AT THE METROPOLIS
Doings of the Week as told by
the "Gazette's" Special
Correspondent.
PORTLAND. Aug. s. 1891

I PORTLAND, Aug. s, 1891.
About the boldest effort for free
pulpit advertising that has eve
been made in this city was that o
| DR.. Wallace at the First Congrega
itional church last Sunday week
Mrs. Potter and Mr.. Bellew had
been presenting a series of Frencl
Iplays at the Marquam during the
week, and DR.. Wallace announced
that he would give his opinion OF
them and their plays on Sunday
evening. AS was expected there
was large audience. Scandal.
gossip and personalities of any
kind always draw crowd, even to
church. Wallace emptied his
vials of wrath upon the French
drama and seasoned his discourse
by the relation of alleged scandal
Gus conduct on the part of the per
sons named, believing at the time
he did so that those individuals
were in his audience, having mis-
taken two members of the COM
pany for the principals. Finally
Those indignant persons LETT the
church, quietly and quickly as p IS
sibie i'll passing through crowded
aisles, and the preacher. fearing he
had not insuited them enough
rubbed it III by calling the atten-
ton of the audience to them.
This was not enough, for the next
day he went i'll person 10 the Ore
gonian and related the incident for
publication, in order to secur; the
full advertising benefit. This
brought out storm of indignant
Protest against this orm Of pulpit
advertising, and the preacher was
roundly scored for his boorishness,
lack of Christian charity and gen-
tlemanly instincts. 1t soon trans
pired that the persons who lef, the
church were not Mrs. Potter and
Mr.. Bellew, but as Wallace
thought they were at the time, and
still asserts that they were, nc fact
makes no difference so far as criti-
cism of his behavior is concerned.
This same preacher endeavored to
attract attention TO himself during
the recent strike, by going to the
plaza on Sunday afternoons and
talking to the crow.ls upon eco
nomic, social and other questions
in an effort to refute the arguments
of the agitators to whom the
crowds were accustomed to listen.
The reverend gentleman is re-
cent importation from Chicago,
and his congregation will soon
move into new and elegant stone
edifice whose empty seats he is
to fill in opposition to
two other big stone churches, and
for tins he courts notOriety and
pupsues sensationalism as bust
ness proposition. He got his ad-
vertising free and all the notoriety
he could hope for. but has scarcely
gained the popularity that fills
empty church benches perma-
nently.
1t is but a short time since the
0. r. & N. Go. was taken from the
control of the Union Pacific, but
events indicate that 1t is the best
thing for Oregon hat has happened
for long time. With that sys-
tenn independent it can pay more
to local traffic and not be
solely in the interest of
through traffic of road whose
interests are chiefly outside the
the state. 1t is in a position to
afford entrance to Portland to
three great overland systems, in
stead OF being tied up to one.
The traffic arrangement just made
with the Great Northern, by which |
cars of that road will run into
Portland direct from Spokane and
through freight business be done
over the same route, is sample of |
the benefits to be derived. This |
will put both the Union and
Northern on their mettle, and the
result will be better passenger and
freight facilities and in the end
cheaper rates. The fruit industry |
should derive benefit
from the changed conditions.
Word comes from California
that anything that will pass mus.
ter as hay will command high
price this fall and winter. The
long drouth this spring has cur
tailed the hay crop alarmingly, and
large quantities will have to be
So bulky product can
not be transport ed far without
the price up pretty high,
therefore Oregon should have
almost a monopoly of the market
at good figures. One item in our
large crop thus promises to bring
us in a little profit.
The highest offer ever made for