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10 TIIE MORNING OREGOXIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1910. BIDS FOR SITEARE DIFFICULT TO FILL Uncle Sam Wants Tract Heart of City That Is 300 by 200 Feet in BLOCKS ONLY 200 BY 200 Chamber of Commerce and Commer cial Club Ask That Change In Plans Be Made by Treas ury Department. With the announcement from Post master Merrick that bids' for the ground on which to locate a new Portland 'Post office must be received In Washington so s to be opened and considered by Au gust 2, comment was made that archi tects employed by Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh were asking the Impossible. Ground. 300 by 200 feet. In a compact tract, and "centrally and conveniently lo cated" is demanded by the government. When it is considered that Portland blocks, in central and convenient locations in the business district are but HOOxiOO feet square, without alleys. It was real ized by the leaders of the Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Club that on effort should be made to have the plans changed. After, a hasty conference between B. C. Giltner,' secretary of the Chamber, and Harvey Beckwith, President of the Com mercial Club, a telegram was sent Sena tor Bourne requesting a change in the plans to cover a block not larger than 200x200 feet. It is believed that the sena tor forgot that Portland business blocks are smaller than those of other cities, if he was at all consulted by the architects. It -is hoped by the officers of Portland commercial bodies that the plans may be modified before any bids are sent in. If the Secretary of the Treasury shall persist In demanding a site of not less than 300x200 feet for the new building, the only available sites will be North of Burnslde street, or in the residence dis trict west of Twenty Third street and in East Portland. In all of those localities larger blocks of ground may be secured, tout- the selection of any one of them would meet with the bitter opposition of every merchant in the retail district of the city. Sum Is Xot Sufficient. In the specifications posted by Post master Merrick It is conceded that if the tract of ground offered by any bidder is surrounded by four streets, it may only measure 260x170 feet. But with that re duction, the long way of the tract of ground would be greater than any block In the business center of the city. Another question which was freely dis cusseed among the commercial bodies yesterday was. the sufficiency of the sum appropriated by the recent act of Con gress for the purchase of a site for a new postoffice, located in the business section. The act makes $500,000 the limit of funds obtainable at this time and that the sum shall be available is. indicated toy the speed with which the Treasury Department has acted in the matter. It has been about two weeks since the act was signed by the President. Usually it requires months of consideration of the estimated revenues before the Treasurer of the United States will ask for bids. It was pointed out that half a million dollars would not begin to purchase any of the downtown blocks which might be considered desirable for postoftice pur poses. The sale of the Portland Hotel block on a value of $1,000,000 for the ground, and the sale of a portion of the block occupied by the Omnibus & Trans fer Company, on a basis of $600,000, were cited in support of the argument that more money would be needed. Secretary Giltner, of the Chamber of Commerce, asked for information as to what should be done with the site of the present postoffice, and suggested that in casa the appropriation is not ample, it phould wart the next session of Congress, when an effort could be made to have it transferred to a building fund to be ex pended in a 10 or 12-story building on the present site. That a structure of such dimensions would not be amiss in Portland is argued by those who point out that the War Department, the Land Offices, the Geo logical Survey, the Reclamation Service and the - Forest Service are now renting buildings for Portland headquarters, at an expense to the Government of more Khan $15,000 per annum. Court Location Determined. The Federal Court cannot be moved from the present location, because Its lo cation is determined by act of Congress. In no event will the selection of a site te determined until an agent of the Treas ury Department has visited Portland and mibmittted a report on the various sites offered, and among the ominous rules announced to govern the matter Is the statement that "whenever the Govern ment is unable to purchase an acceptable ite at a reasonable price, a selection is made and the title acquired by condemna tion proceedings, in which the price is Judicially determined." "This thing can be made a big benefit o the city." said Harvey Beckwith, of the Commercial Club, "and it should be handled in the most patriotic manner. After we have heard from the telegram which Secretary Giltner has sent Mr. Bourne, we will understand what must be done. Until then we can only specu late, because no one can .furnish the ground of the dimensions demanded. There is no danger of the new postoffice going outside the business district." Postmaster Merrick is supplied with blanks for the accommodation of bidders, although no special form is required. An ordinary letter will be accepted, pro vided H is accompanied by a map and the "width of adjacent alleys." "Not having any alleys in Portland." Baid Postmaster Merrick, "I shall hope to have an opportunity to suggest that provision be made for running mail cars, operated over the street railways, into the lower floor of the building. I am per sonally very glad that the commercial or ganizations have so promptly taken hold of the matter. Undoubtedly the agents of the Government will listen to their suggestions and accord them a great deal Of weight." MANIAC ATEMPTS FLIGHT ijolm Duffy, Demented, . Gives City Jailer Kiel ting Period. An exciting attempt to break jail was made at the City Prison ysterday morning by John Duffy, a demented person," and only quick work on the part of the officers on duty around the station prevented a successful "out come to the maniac's flight. Duffy was arrested Saturday and was in a highly excited state at the time. He claimed to be Jesus and showed desire to commit violence. Yesterday morning he had become much quieter and, thinking that his paroxysm hadj passed. Jailer Ben Branch allowed him to come out into the corridor. Duffy made his toilet quietly and seemed dis posed to give no trouble, but judging from the developments, he was all the time -revolving in his mind a plan to escape. He had observed that the door from the main office into the jail was not locked. He watched for an opportunity and when Branch unlocked the heavy gate entering the corridor Duffy made a quick rush and brushed past the jailer and out into the main office. Branch made a flying tackle and caught the fugitive around the waist, but so great was Duffy's mo mentum and his maniacal strength, that the jailer was carried out to the main entrance of the jail, scarcely touching: the ground. Captain Baty, Sergeant Riley, Officers Gruber and Lelsy and other officers saw Duffy's rush and went to the assistance of the jailer. uffy fought like a wildcat and it required all the strength of as many as could gather around him to place the handcuffs on his wrists. All the time he screamed in a most Inhuman manner, and the morbid crowd, which seems to spring from nowhere when anything happens at the jail, blocked the street- As soon as he was over powered, Duffy's frenzy seemed to pass, and he calmly told the crowd that he was "Duffy, the horseshoer." He was sent "to the County Jail and will be examined for .commitment to the asy-lurr PIONEER LAID TO REST MANY FRIENDS AT FUXERAIi OF IIEXRX IXECKEXSTEIX. For Firty Years Dead Man Had Been Prominent In Business In This City Was 72 Years of Age. Funeral services of the late Henry Fleckensteln, an Oregon pioneer and for many years a prominent Portland business man, were held yesterday af- PIONEER PORTLAND BUSI KESS MAX IS LAID TO REST. - 1 J Henry Fleckensteln temoon at the family residence, 370 Park street- After the services the body of Mr. Fleckensteln was laid to rest in the family plot in Rlvervlew Cemetery. Mr. Fleckensteln died at his home late Sunday afternoon at the age of 72 years. For 50 years he had been prom inent in Portland business life, and un til shortly before his death was active in the management of his own business affairs. He was also prominently iden tified with politics at one time, and had held many offices. He was a Park Commissioner for years, and took great Interest in the general municipal wel fare of Portland. Born in Worms, Germany, Mr. Fleck ensteln emigrated to Oregon in 1860. He was senior member of the whole sale liquor firm of Fleckensteln & Mayer until 1902, when he dissolved partnership and organized the firm of Henry Fleckensteln & Son, at 122 Sec ond street. Rev. Horace M. Ramsey, vicar of St. Stephen's Cathedral, conducted the fu neral services, which were private. many friends attending. The local lodge of Elks and the Oddfellows, of which he was a member, sent floral of ferings, as did many friends of the family. Services at the grave were pri vate. Mr. Fleckensteln is survived by a widow and four children, all residents of Portland. The children are: Dr. H. F. Fleckensteln, B. Fleckensteln, Mrs. W. P. Adams and Mrs. J. S. P. Copland. Mayor Joseph Simon, C. A. Dolph, Thomas C. Devlin,. J. E. Werlein. H. Sinsheimer and G. McGowan, all for mer business associates of the dead man, acted as pallbearers. PERS0NALMENTI0N. Harry Foster, of Seattle, is at the Ramapo. O. A. Elliott, of Tacoma, is at the Cornelius. B. D. Mathison, of Walla Walla, is at the Oregon. S. H. Stafford, of Fargo, N. D., is at the Ramapo. I. W. Hope, a merchant of Vale, is at the Imperial. A. B. Carter, of Carson, Wash., is at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. R. Barr, of Carlton, are at the Perkins. A. M. Orcutt, of Roseburg, is staying at the Cornelius. Dwight C. Pettibone, of Belllngham, is registered at the Oregoir Clarence Jack, of Hoquiam, Wash., is registered at the Lenox.. J. Busby and party, tourists from Aus tralia, are at the Seward. J. T. Kappenkeg and family, of lone, are staying at the Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Martin, of Hart ford, Conn., are at the Lenox. F. Reed, of the Arlington Hotel, Seat tle, and Mrs. Reed, are at the Seward. Judge J. H. Raley and Judge Stephen A. Lowell, of Pendleton, are at the Im perial. 1 Mrs. Mary LaMonto, of New York, who recently purchased a $45,000 ranch near Hood River, is at the Portland. NEW YORK, (Special.) From the Northwest the following are visiting New York: Seattle At the Wolcott, Miss 9. M. Gleason. At the Herald Square, T. B. Swan, W. H. Klepper. At the Broadway Central, J. C. Parkhurst. J. W. Jarvls. Tacoma At the Broadway Central, E. E. Hearln. Spokane At the New Amsterdam. C. W. Riedman, Mr. and Mrs. Wellington S. Barry, H. H. Garrett. Professor Arthus at a conference of the Society of National Sciences - at Lausanne announced that people bitten by venomous snakes can be kept alive for elht or ten hours simply by subjecting them to arti ficial respiration. He urged that everyone livlnr in troDtcal regions should be com pelled to learn how to carry out artificial restoration,. ' BLOCK FIRE-SWEPT Early Morning Blaze Causes Loss Amounting to $30,000. MONTAVILIA IS MENACED Explosion of Gasoline Stove Gives Flames Good Start Business Firms Suffer People Are Forced to Flee for Lives. By the explosion of a gasoline stove in the confectionery store of William Armstrong, in the building- owned by Leander' Lewis, at the northwest corner of the Base Line road and East Eigh tieth street, Montavllla, at an early hour yesterday morning, the entire block was swept by fire, causing losses aggregat ing more than $30,000. There was $9000 insurance, property and stock. Thirteen separate business firms occu pied the buildings burned, which carried small Insurance, and many of the firms carried none at all. That the flames were not carried to the buildings on the south and east sides was due to the prompt response of the Sunnyside fire company, which answered to a telephone call for assistance, making the long run to Montavllla in less than 25 minutes. The explosion scattered fire through Armstrong's store and very soon the entire frame structure was enveloped. The second floors of the two-story build ings facing the Base Line road, owned by Fred Green and Ole N. Tweet, were occupied by families and these made their escape with some difficulty. The fire spread so rapidly through the flimsy structures that very little of the mer chandise was saved. Those sustaining the principal losses were: Leander Lewis, buildings 100 feet long, facing the Base Line road, loss t30CO, partly covered by insurance; Ole N. Tweet, paint store and building, loss $2500; Fred Green, corner building, two-story. Base Line road -and Bast Seventy-ninth street, damaged to the extent of $3000, Insurance $2000. Many Firms Suffer. Beginning at the corner of East Eigh tieth street and the Base Line road, the principal firms burned out were: Wil liam Armstrong, loss $2000: Lawson Par ker, grocer, $2000; W. A. Morton, dairy, $250 (most of stock was saved); L. D. Haygreen, feed store, $800, portion of stock saved; Montavllla Meat Market, $3000, insurance $600; C.. O. Mount, furni ture, loss nominal: James Croob, general dry goods and furnishings, $2000. no in surance; Fred Green, harness store and stock, $500. Facing East Eightieth street, the following suffered losses: L. J. Stolls, house and store, $2500. no Insurance; Razene shoe repair shop, $250; Dickson's drugstore, $2000, partly insured; Grimes building, damaged $250; Grebble depart ment store building scorched and dam aged by broken glass, $500. L. J. Stolls, who lost his home and shoe store on East Eightieth street, stepped on a broken glass bottle, cutting his left foot badly. With the exception of the Green, Tweet and Stolls buildings, the structures burned were of no great value. The fire company from Sunnyside saved the rest of the buildings on the opposite sides of the Base Line road and East Eightieth street. A petition was circulated yester day morning asking the city at once to provide fire protection for Montavllla. Xeed of Autos Shown. The fire amply Illustrated the great need of automobile apparatus. The nearest station-house being at East Thirty-fifth and Belmont streets, equipped with horse-drawn engine and chemical, it re quired much time in reaching the scene of the flames. There is a steady up hill grade from East Thirty-ninth to the top of the climb at Mount Tabor, making it very difficult for horses to pull so far. Mayor Simon and the members of the fire committee of the executive board are preparing to equip a new engine house, now nearly completed, at East Sixty-first and East Stark streets, and it is probable that some automobile apparatus will be Installed there. At any rate. It 1b certain that the district will be much better protected than now. At the present time, there is no protection against fire in that locality, excepting that furnished by the Sunnyside com pany. The problem of maintaining an ade quate fire service throughout the city is one of the greatest facing the admin istration. John F. O'Shea, Samuel Con nell and Sv C. Pier comprise the commit tee having this branch of the munici pality In hand. They are now consider ing the purchase of automobile appa ratus, and have two bids for this equip ment up for action. Mr. Pier is absent from the city, but as soon as he returns the committee will hold a meeting and take action. William Armstrong, one of the proprie tors of the confectionery store in which the fire started, had $1500 under his pillow and fled without taking it along. He afterward made efforts to get back into the burning room and recover It, but was driven back by the heat. The money was in coin and will probably be recovered. The Armstrong family was forced to flee In scant clothing, hungrily pursued by the fire, which leaped in sheets from the scattered gasoline. STRIKEBREAKERS ARMED Two Fined for Carrying Concealed Weapons One Discharged.- Charged with carrying concealed weapons, David Dunning, W. D. Adams and Charles Dale, strikebreaking team sters, were arraigned in Police Court yes terday. Dunning had fired five shots from his revolver, attracting a number of policemen who were on a streetcar, and the three were arrested and found to have a revolver each. It was proved, that Adams' revolver was dismounted, and he was discharged. Dunning was fined $50. and Dale, who was intoxicated at the time of the shooting, was fined $25. The attorney for the men said that they had been instructed by their em ployers to carry suns. James Blanchet, a striking teamster, was charged with Ubing abusive langu age. The witnesses against It in? said that he had attacked a strike-breaker and refused to move on when directed to do so by a special officer. It was also charged that he had an oven knife in his hand, but Blanchet said that- he had been whittling a stick when the trouble arose. The case was dismissed. EXAMINATIONS . ARE HELD State Board Submits Questions to Embryo Physicians. With 113 embryo medicos taking the questions, the regular semi-annual ex amination of the Oregon State Medical Society began yesterday afternoon at the Lincoln High School. , Three days will be required to complete the exam ination of the big class. The examinations are - being con ducted by the Oregon Board of Medi cal Examiners for the State of Ore gon. This board consists of Osmon Royal, M. D., president; E. B. McDan iel, M.-D., secretary; Harry F. McKay, M. D., treasurer, and R, C. Coffey, M. D., W. S. Mott, M. D., and F. E. Moore, D. O. This is the new board recently elected. Examinations In anatomy, surgery, pathology, materia medica and thera peutics, practice of medicine, eye and ear, gynecology, diagnosis, obstetrics, nervous diseases, diseases of children, chemistry, medical Jurisprudence, his tology, physiology, theory' and prac tice of osteopathy constitute the sub jects upon which the applicants are required to pass before the.y are granted a license to practice niedlclne or osteopathy in " Oregon. This class Is smaller than the 'one taking the examination last year. Names of the successful applicants will be announced at the annual meet ing of the State Board on August 9. Several of the applicants are from Eastern states, and a number are from other parts of the Northwest, but- the majority are Oregon students. The examination will be concluded Thurs day afternoon. "BAD ' MEN" ARE FINED FIVE YOUTHS, OX HORSEBACK, "SHOOT VP" TOWN. Gresham Constable Does Xot Appre ciate Their Playfulness, and Arrests Party. Five crest-fallen and very penitent youths living at Waveriy, in this city, appeared before Justice Rollins at Gresham yesterday afternoon, charged with "shooting up the town." Three of them paid fines of $10 each and the other two were dismissed. It all started over one mangy pair of "chaps" which were a part of the outfit the boys took- with them on a horseback trip to Mount Hood. The youths had 'gathered from their pur, suit of literature that men who wore "chaps" always "shot up the town," and when they descended upon the peaceful villagers and peasantry of Gresham in full panoply of war they followed the eternal fitness of things and proceeded to give an imitation 'of the "wild and woolly West." Constable Frank Gullikson was not dismayed, however, by the roar of the boys' artillery. Hastily pinning on his star, he sallied-forth. The boys had proceeded toward Portland, but the Constable gave chase in an auto. He overtook the "desperadoes" a short distance from the village and placed them under arrest. The frowning bat tlements of Gresham's grim bastile closed around them and they spent the night in the "cooler." Yesterday afternoon when they were arraigned before Justice Rollins, they gave these . names and addresses: George Fee, 1110 East Lincoln street; John Holtman, 41 Division street; Ed and Pearl Osborn, 434 East Forty-third street, and Fern Leisure, 687 Clinton street. Attorney Richard Deich, bailiff of the grand Jury, appeared on behalf of the state. Leisure. Fee and - Ed Os borne were fined $10 and the others were discharged. SIX TAKEN IN NEAR-RIOT Squad of Police Needed to Quell Early Morning Trouble. A riot call sent in from SIxtesnth and Savler streets by Special Officer Pryke. at 1:30 o'clock yesterday morning called Sergeant Wanless and other officers, who secured an automobile and made quick time to the scene of the trouble. It was found that a large party of men was assembled about two saloons at Sixteenth and Quimby streets. They had been attempting to gfct a fight out of two strangers. Pryke interfered and ordered the crowd to disperse.. They re plied with abusive language andi refused to move, saying that it was the Fourth of July and they would do as they pleased. Pryke arrested the man who did the talking and started away. The crowd followed in a menacing manner and Pryke drew his revolver, at which the crowd laughed. The officer "aid in his report, , "It was a case of shoot or let the man go, and I lat him go." Half an hour later, Pryke went back and made another attempt to disperse the crowd, with no better succe6. He then telephoned for hel? and Sergeant Wanless came out. The crowd scattered but Pryke succeeded in arresting three and Wanless got three more. The men were tried yesterday morning. Eric Johnson, who tried to bite one of the officers, was fined $75. Prank Hanno, John Nelson, Matt Collier and Jim Eeiund were fined $13 each and the case of Charles Hanno, who pleaded not guilty, went over until tomorrow. LOCAL Y. M. C. A. GROWING Portland Association Catching Up With Los Angeles. "Los Angeles now has the largest Young Men's Christian Association west of Chi cago, but we shall catch it soon," said H. W. Stone, secretary of the Portland Y. M. C. A., last night. Mr. Stone has just returned from the Southern Califor nia city, having made a hurried business trip, on which he left here June 28. "The Los Angeles Association now has 4200 members," said Mr. Stone. "The work there covers a wide scope and pub lic support Is all that could be desired. A large proportion of the members joined last Fall as the result of an exciting membership campaign in which stjeet campaigns and large meetings played a part. "Although Portland has only 3300 mem bers, the Association here is growing more rapidly than the one In Los An geles. I feel confident that we shall overtake Los Angeles next year. "San Francisco, will soon have the fin est Y. M. C. A. building in America. That city is putting $800,000 into its plant, which will be completed in November. As show ing the interest in Y. M. C. A. work, it should also be mentioned that Oakland and Berkeley, both on San Francisco Bay, are also putting up costly Y. M. C A. buildings. Frank Jackson, formerly of the Portland Association, is now gen eral secretary at Berkeley, and Noel Jacks, who used to be general secretary here, is with the San - Fraricisco Asso ciation." RATE EXPERTS WILL MEET Gathering Called for July 11 to Dis cuss Coast Decision. For the purpose of discussing the Transcontinental and back-haul rates, as outlined by the Interstate Commerce (tr-r H nr 1 1?1 nn In the Coast rats caaest rate experts of all th railroad I BUSINESS-GETTING PRICES We can here name only a few of the reduced prices that are attracting so much attention in the various departments of our store $30, $35 and $40 values in Men's three-piece suits, at .. ., $15 and $20 values in Men's two-piece outing suits, at . . k $7.50 Panama Hats, at . S5.QO $5.00 Panama Hats, at . . $3.85 $23.85 ... $8.65 $5.00 Straw Hats, at $3.5Q $3.00 Straw Hats, at .$2.00 LION CLOTHIERS 166-170 Third Street terminating on the Pacific Coast and the Hill lines are expected to send one legal advisers. Conferences will be held supplying the Intermountain country of their experts from the St. Paul office, with the Interstate Commerce Commls- are preparing to assemble in Chicago on Mr. Miller leaves for Chicago tonight. sion and arrangements probably made Monday of next week. The railroaders are going to Chicago for a uniform system - of preparing the R. B. Miller will represent the Harri- with the decision In mind and their accounts of the succeeding three months' man interests from the Northwest, while pockets loaded with opinions from their revenues, as asked by the commission. 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