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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1907)
THE v MORJiTSTG OKEGKWIAX, . TUESDAY, JUSTE 18, 1907. 10 PLi FOR FIESTA PARADE COMPLETE Carnival Committee Announces Details of School Chil dren's Pageant. ANOTHER CALL FOR ROSES Governor Chamberlain Will Head the Citizens' Body That Is to Give Admiral Swinburne a Fitting Welcome to Portland Today. ROSES ARE WANTED. If you have roses in your yard, divide them with the Rose Fiesta. They are needed and will serve a. better purpose than if. allowed to wilt on the bushes. It will be little trouble for you to deliver them. ' This problem has been rendered easy by the Fiesta management. While it is preferable that you leave the flowers at the Multnomah Club or Armory. Thurs day afternoon or Friday morning, yet there is a simpler way for those who have not the time to do this. Place them on any streetcar. The crews are to receive instructions to carry the flowers downtown, where Fiesta workers will take charge of them. The success of the Fiesta de pends largely on the liberality of these contributions from the public. The detail of organization of the big floral parade of school children Thurs day was announced yesterday at Rose Fiesta headquarters. The plan of as sembly la a simple and effective one and will be carried out so as to avoid delay. The drawing presented here with Indicates the positions assigned the various schools. For the first assembly, the Couch, Stephens. Falling, Highland, Sunny- side, Shattuck, Ladd, Atkinson, Holla day, Williams Avenue and Thompson schools will gather at the Shattuck school, Fifth and Harrison streets. The North Central. Hawthorne. Sell wood, Clinton Kelly, Shaver, Ockley Green, Mount Tabor, Holman, Arleta, Woodlawn and Montavllla schools will assemble at the Ladd school. Tenth and Jefferson streets. All schools must be on hand not later than 1:45 P. M. Special cars will convey the children from their various schools to the meeting places. Promptly at 1:45 the principals will march their pupils to the places as signed them along the park blocks be tween Park and West Park streets. The judges will take their positions in automobiles at Salmon and Sixth streets, where the first inspection of the column will be made. When the column reaches Pine and Sixth streets, the flanks will be wid ened so as to leave a lane through which the judges may drive. The col umn will stand at attention during the second Inspection. Final inspection will be made from a reviewing stand in front of the courthouse. When the head of the column reaches the Courthouse a halt will be made while 100 girls, under the direction of Professor Krohn, give m wreath and garland drill. Another Appeal for Roses. The public is again urged by the Fiesta management to contribute roses and other flowers to the floral demon Mratlons of Friday. The success of Fiesta Day depends in no small way upon the response of those able to contribute roses and flowers. All con tributions should be left at the Armory or Multnomah Club Thursday after noon or Friday morning. The bright, warm sun of yesterday occasioned much glee at headquarters. Following the rainy spell of last week, sunshine this week means roses in greater profusion than at any time during the season. Admiral Swinburne and the fleet are expected in the harbor by noon today. Dock Gaily Decorated. The Stark-street dock has been attract ively decorated as a landing-place for the officers and crew of the warships. More roses are needed, however, in the decora tions, and contributions will be most wel come at the wharf during this forenoon. Admiral Swinburne and staff will be welcomed by a special committee, made up of Governor Chamberlain, Mayor Lane and -officers of the Rose Carnival. The party will escort the Admiral ashore in a beautifully decorated launch, tendered by Captain Kellogg for the occasion. The committee of judges on decorations was announced yesterday by Chairman Whitemore, and will consist of Mrs. F. Escert, W. T. Gardner and George H. Hill. Open Information Bureau. A bureau of Information and accommo dation is to be established at the Portland Hotel. Any persons able to furnish ac commodations for visitors should notify the bureau, stating nature of the accom modations arid the rate asked. Mayor Lane has decided to set Friday afternoon apart as a half holiday. A proclamation to that effect will be Issued. All municipal offices will be closed and many business houses are planning to follow the example. Today Is Indian War Veterans' day. The annual banquet and encampment of veterans will be held at. the Woodmen's Hall. Roses are needed by the fire apartment for decorating the apparatus, which will appear In Friday's parade. Those having roses to contribute for this purpose should notify Chief Campbell, who will send for them. BALL GAME A FOiNY AFFAIR Two Men Will Play Each Base When Railroad Rows- Collide. Xot the least of the attractions of the Rose Show will be a baseball game by electric light on Multnomah Field Satur day night. June 22. between Portland and Spokane railroad men. A special Pullman will arrive here Saturday from Spokane, brir.gliig a large delegation of players from the Washington city who will cross bats under the electric arcs with the home guards of railroad row. No common baseball game will be this contest. Lest a ball be muffed by a baseman and the other side steal from one stAtlon to another, two men will be placed at each base. Bach will assist the other. The railroaders figure that if one man on a base is a good thing, two men are better. In addition, just to make the game a striking one. players will wear plug-ugly uniforms, and the diamond will look like a masquerade. The proceeds of the gams will go to aweet charity. The management is having considerable trouble in securing the required double complement of basemen, for In the rail road business it Is difficult to find two men who agree long enough to hold down the same base. Competition has always been so strong among the ticket-sellers that rehearsals have so far ended In the umpire fining the members their entire year's salary and thereby causing some opposition from the families of the con testants. Several members of the home club are rounding Into fine form and promise to advertise their line when the game Is started as scheduled. Jim Casey is "go ing some" and has surprised his best friends by his style of play. He is slated to play 100 feet behind the batter, with the penalty of losing his long hauls for his company for every time he is caught asleep. Harry Dickson is practicing the High land fling evenings on top of his center table, in the hope of breaking all records as a second Hans Wagner at shortstop. He now says he can outdistance all pros pective passengers in the 100-yard dash down Third street. C. W. Stinger admits practicing throw ing out-and-ln shoots with bundles of canceled steamship tickets. He has es tablished an enviable record, and friends have noticed an increase in strength while shaking the agent's glad hand re cently. M. J. Roche, one of the greatest enthu siasts, has volunteered to play third base, and will punch the description- of all pas sengers passing his station. He Is to be assisted by Hughie O'Neill, who will be readily recognized in the costume of Lit tle Red Riding Hood. F. R. Johnson will be seen as official slider, as he claims past experience in, sliding into the office on schedule time. Some of the younger generation of rail road row. who have been bitten by the matrimonial microbe lately, will have a special position in the infield close to home. Joe Boyce will be the official hand shaker, and guarantees to shake hands with every ticket purchaser at the game. All in all, the contest promises to be very funny. CITY BUYS 201 HYDRANTS WATER BOARD DIVIDES ORDER BETWEEN TWO FIRMS. Bids for Other Apparatus for Im provement of, System Are Accepted. Bids were accepted by the Water Board yesterday afternoon for the pur chase of 200 hydrants for $9988. Sev eral bids had been submitted but in most cases the models on which the proposals were made did not comply with the specifications set out In the advertisement calling for the bids. After discussing the merits of the two styles which were considered the best suited to the use of the fire depart ment, the Board divided the order be tween the two firms. Hogue & Swift will furnish 150 of the Ludlow patent for $46.66 each and the Oregon Foundry Company was given the contract for 60 of the Howe model at $62.76 each. The Howe model complies strictly with the require ments of the hydrant which was adopted recently as the best type' for the local department, but the members of the Board said they could not see that there was enough difference in the two models to warrant the margin of $17.10 in cost. Fire Chief Campbell explained to the Board that the Howe hydrant, in his opinion, would prove far more serviceable than the cheaper model and In service would justify the Increase In the original cost . of the is a demand In all sections of the city for more hydrants and the Jmrrr.r. SCfOOt CLAYJT wtrjr lSJX77Xr oourr I situ ST a.rra 1 fAltt yjumm Y T Mil iT 1 o Diagram Showing the Formation of the School Children Parade. Board is without funds to purchase and install as many as are really required to give the outlying districts needed protection. Even after the hydrants had been ordered purchased, the members qf the Board were con fronted with another difficulty and that was where to place the hydrants where they are most required. But It was generally agreed that the 150 Ludlows should be distributed largely In the residence district on the East Side, while the Howe patents will be Installed In the business district on the West Side. Hogue & Swift were also awarded the contract for furnishing 106 gate valves, their bid of $4633.70 being the lowest submitted. The contract for furnishing the city with split sleeves, branches and valves, 190 in number, went to the A. P. Smith Manufacturing Company for $6319.04. A lower bid of $6010.40 was submitted by the Waterworks & Equipment Company, but Superintendent Clark, of the water department, recommendod the accept ance of the Smith Company's bid for the reason that Its goods are the same as are now in use and are considered superior to those included in the more reasonable bid. SHIPPING REMOVED negotiations for the removal of the differential, was much pleased over the result of the Bremen meeting. "While I have at no time since my last visit to Europe," said he, "had any doubt about the early removal of the differential, I knew that the ene mies cf the Port of Columbia were in terjecting; matters which might befog the issue and hold up action at this time. In anticipation of this opposi tion I went into the matter in detail with the advisory committee of the union, and also with Secretary Pollak ana President Roxburgh, all of whom assured me of their satisfaction with the proposition which I submitted. "I do not know what the new rates will be, but as the sailing vessels have had a hard time keeping even recent ly, I would not be surprised at a slight advance. The rate from San Francisco will be lifted several shillings, and there may be an advance from the Northern ports. Whatever the new rate may be, however, , it will be the same from all ports north of San Fran cisco, and even the Bay City rate may be lifted to the minimum rate charged in the north. I endeavored to induce them to put in a minimum rate of 25 shillings from all ports in the north, but some of the directors had ships Which had been waiting for from three to six weeks for crews, on Puget Sound, and .they were in no mood for anything but an advance. I do not be lieve, however, that they can make a rate in excess of 27s 6d stick, so long as steamers arc so plentiful." Satisfaction Is General. The news of the lifting of the differ ential against Portland was received here with a good deal of satisfaction. Men prominent in the commercial life of the city, who have Interests of the port at heart, were seen last night and the interviews secured follow: S. G. Reed, President of the Chamber of Commerce It is gratifying that the promise made by the members of the Shipowners' Association has been ful filled.. They promised to make the change in rates as soon as conditions at the mouth of the Columbia River were improved. Mr. Wright, repre senting f the rivers and harbors com mittee of the Chamber of Commerce, made two visits abroad to attend meet ings of the association, and he was assured on his last visit that the mat ter would be adjusted at the next meeting. The announcement of a favorable decision was consequently not unexpected. Serious .Handicap Removed. W." D. Wheelright, member Port of Portland Commission It is of course a matter of grert . congratulation to have the handicap under which Port land has been laboring removed. ' It is a great thinga for Portland. This is a matter that the Chamber of Com merce has been working on for . the past two years. ' It is largely the result of the negotiations carried on by E. W. Wright that this has been accom plished. He is entitled to great credit. Chairman Ayer, of the navigation com mittee of the Chamber of Commerce, has also done much good work in this direction and we are indebted, too, to C. F. Swigert for agreeing to take caro at the ballast proposition. R. D. Inman, President Port of Co lumbia Commission I think it is cer tainly a good thing for Portland. I am very much pleased to think it has occurred. R. B. Miller, general freight agent for the Harriman lines There has been a differential of Is 3d against the Columbia River in favor of Puget Sound wheat in charters to .European ports. The practical effect of higher rates from Portland was to cause wheat to be worth more on Puget Sound than here. Wheat prices for export are based on the Liverpool price. less the cost of shipping from the Pacific Coast to Liverpool. Natur ally a lower freight rate by water to the United Kingdom makes wheat worth that much more at tidewater and, consequently, that much more in the interior. The O. R. & N. Co.. by absorbing the differential, enabled the exporters to pay as much for wheat here as was paid at Tacoma. In this, of course, the O. R. ft N. had a selfish Interest, but its action in tak ing care of this differential out of its own earnings was largely for the good of the port. O. R. & N.'s Part in Work. "The removal of the differential was not accomplished without much effort with the sailing-ship owners. It was only possible to get them to equalize the rates by the O. R. & N. agreeing to absorb the cost of pilotage at .the Columbia River bar, which is made compulsory by a state law. There Is no pilot charge for vessels entering Puget Sound. The O. R. & N. Co. makes the samo towage rate from the sea to Portland and return as is made by the Sound tugboat companies for towage from the sea to Tacoma and return; consequently the pilotage charge here makes It that much more expensive for ships to get to Portland than to the Sound ports. The O. R. & N., by agreeing to pay the pilotage charges, overcomes that differential and in that way shipowners are in duced to make the same rate from Portland to Europe as from Tacoma. Portland is thus placed on an entire equality with the Puget Sound ports and exporters will pay as much here for wheat as on Puget Sound." Should Have Been Done Years Ago. J. Ernest Laldlaw, representing Frank Watehuose & Co. Good. This action should have been taken three years ago. Reasons for this differential, both as to bar pilotage and ballast charges, hav ing been removed by the action of Port land commercial bodies, trie shipowners' differential had no leg left to stand on. Their action was a logical result. I am greatly pleased, however, and the effect will be to place the port on a much firmer basis. P. B. Glfford, representing Kerr, Gif- ford A Co. This action places Portland on an L equality with all Puget Sound norta as reraxds European shipments. The step will give the port a much bet ter name and a great deal of good will ultimately result. I am very much pleased with the action of the sauing-cnip owners. , Allan Percy, of Meyer, Wilson Co. For the past three years we have used our best endeavors to bring about the abolishment of the differential against Portland and the result of the Bremen meeting is highly gratifying. It will have the effect of putting the Port of Portland on a much firmer basis in the shipping world. WHERE WOMEN ARE VOTERS i Colorado Woman Takes Issue With ' Phoebe Cousins' Statements. . OREGON- CITY, Or., June IT. To th Editor.) From The Oreffonlan ' special correspondence of this morning your wom en readers learn that Miss Phoebe Cousins, a backs41der from the equal suffrage ranks, has made the sweeping assertion that woman suffrage is an- absolute allure, .par ticularly In Colorado. As I have personal knowledge of the splendid success of equal suffrage In Colo rado, I beg the previlege of refuting Miss Cousin's statements. My personal acquaint ance with the enormous amount of good work accomplished by the women of Colo rado since they became voters enables me to speak with accuracy. Miss Cousins tells us that she was 1b Colorado in 1S&4, just one year after the elective franchise had been granted to the women by their fathers, husbands and sons, thus setting an example which the men of Oregon can best honor themselvea ' by emulating at the state election next June. The leading women in Colorado frankly confess that they did make mistakes as long as they were guided by machine poli ticians, but they soon learned to think, act and vote for themselves td the manifest disoQ.mfo.Tt of their political deceiver hence these tears. There Is a civic federation of women in Colorado with headquarters m Denver and auxiliary clubs throughout the state. These women make it a business to look Into the private lives of office-seekers; and this close scrutiny forces conventions to nomi nate men of higher character than form erly. I have met women In all occupations In Colorado and have never yet seen "rabid partisan." There are no "Phoebe Cousins" and "Carrie Nations" In states where women co-operate with men on terms of equality, and responsibility. Nor are there "clamorous office-seekers" In those states. The few of them who have accepted public office as a public trust represent the noblest civilization of a free country. Statistics prove that more than 10 per cent of the married women do not vote as their husbands do. And yet Colorado is famous for the harmony in Its homes. Oregon City and Portland divorce courts please take notice. 'At a recent - election the men who could have voted outnumbered the women by 30,000; yet more women than men actually voted. It Is the business of the political boss and ward heeler to make people be lieve that women's votes will merely dupli cate the votes of husbands. Are there 80,000 bachelors in Colorsdo? WILHELMINE JO EH N KB- 48 MILES OF SIDEWALK Rose City Park to Have Cement Walks Enough for Small City. Over 3000 feet of cement sidewalks have been laid adready in Rose City Park. This is but the beginning of a tremendous lot of cement work that will be required to provide this big ad dition with ample facilities for the accommodation pf the people who are planning to build there. In addition to the sidewalks, cement curbing is also being put in at the same time. Hartman & Thompson have recently let a contract to Marshall Brothers for 10,000 feet of cement sidewalklng, which will add considerably to the amount of work that has already been done. Aside from this contract, one of the largest ever let in the city, a gang of men is laying about 110 feet every day under Foreman Nelson. Cement walks, to date, have been laid on Cully, Wemath and The Alameda. The cement used is the best known, as a result of the city tests that have been made, the K. C. & B. and Germania. Many people express surprise at the fact that Rose City Park sidewalks aye to be made six feet wide. Neverthe less, the work is progressing on that basis. The uniformity of construction of sidewalks in Rose City Park will add immensely to the appearance of the addition, as well as to the comfort of those who are building. EASTERN EXCURSIONS. The next dates of sale for special ex cursion tickets to Eastern points are July 3, and 5. Make your reservations now. Apply at the local office, 142 Third street, for full particulars regard ing rates, stopovers, routes, etc. KISER FOR BCISIO PHOTOS. Imperial Hotel Also Kodak Developing. BIGS We now launch into the second week of the great stock-reducing sales. The extraordinary success of last week's stock-feducirig sales has spurred us to still greater effort, and crowds will continue to come and share the val ues, as hundreds of others have shared. Values as great, and in many instances greater than last week's. Re inforcements have come from the workrooms and reserve stocks have been drawn upon. "We are in readiness to show you the greatest and best merchandise values ever offered in Portland. Not a lot of odds and ends, but fresh, new stock, not even ever shown before. The Best We've Skirts Values np to $5 Tuesday J.M GETS ALL BUT ONE J. V. Beach Re-elected by a Vote of 568 to 1. LONE TALLY FOR FAWCETT Women Timid at the Polls School Board Is Reorganized and Settles Down to Work at Once New Committees " Are Named: J. V. Beach was re-elected a member of the Board of Directors of the Portland public schools in the annual school elec tion , yesterday. Of the 69 votes cast, Mr. Beach received 668, one elector voting for Mr. Fawcett. About 10 per cent of the total vote was cast by women, who, however, were a little timid at the polling-places in the business districts. In RE-ELECTED SCHOOL DIRECTOR BY PORTLAKD TAXPAYERS. J. V. Beach. the residence sections they voted more freely. The "proposal to consolidate Lents . District, No. 12, with Portland District No. 1, carried by a vote of 300 to 123. At a meeting of the Board of Directors last night Mr. Beach began the term to which he was elected, Herman Witten berg succeeding to the chairmanship of the board. Chairman Wittenberg an nounced the following standing commit' tees for the ensuing year: Judiciary, Beach and Campbell; fi nance. Mrs. L. W. Sltton and Fleischner building. Campbell and Fleischner; re pairs. Beach and Mrs. Sltton; supplies. Fleischner and Mrs. Sitton; insurance, Fleischner and Campbell; examination of teachers, Mrs. Sltton and Superintendent Rigler. The Board will hold another meeting tonight, when it expects to complete electing principals and teachers for the schools for the ensuing school year. Last night was the date for the tax payers' annual meeting, but no business was transacted and on motion the meet ing was adjourned until, December 30, next. LENTS DISTRICT IS ANNEXED Election Results in a Vote of 112 For and 9 Against. At the election held last night in the Lents schoolhouse, the vote on annexa tion stood 112 for and nine against annex ation. Before the vote was taken there was a full discussion of the subject, but all the speakers favored annexation. 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Those who spoke said that Lents district would be the gainer by annexation In lower taxation and the privilege of the Portland High School, which had been costing $40 per year to students from outside districts. The report of the clerk showed that at the last census there were 630 children of the school age In the Lents district, and $1825 on hand, with interest and all floating debts paid. There are J6000 bonds outstanding and property to the amount of $25,000. including a 10-room building. Ten teachers have been employed. O. B. Lent was re-elected director and Mrs. M. M. Eaton clerk, who will assist in closing up the affairs of the district and turning over the property to District No. L Union High School Plan Defeated. GRESHAM, Or., June 17.-(Speclal.) REDUCTION II .him i Seattle, Washington Say It BIGGEST, BUSIEST AND BEST The Union High school proposition was defeated here today at the school election. The plan was for seven dis tricts to unite and build a High school to serve all districts at Gresham. The latter place offered to donate a site for the school. Gresham favored It, but the other districts showed by their vote that they did not want to go int the plan. Street Carnival at Chehalis. CHBHALI3, Wash., June IT. (Special.) A street carnival was opened auspic iously here today under the auspices of the Pacific Carnival Company. The shows are on the main business streets of the city, and It is expected that they will attract many visitors during the week. ONE OF J. M. As OFFERS WHICH CANNOT BE EQUALED - Extraordinary Values Short Box and Fitted COATS Values to $16.50, Tuesday $2.75 Y w I I 1 i s r