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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1912)
1913. 15 THE SUNDAY ORBGONIAN. PORTLAND. AUGUST 11, . . . . . . .aaa 1.11ft 15 - - ..... , mmmmmimmmmmmmmmmm- . . COUNCIL URGED watt hours in one month, 1.3 cents per kilowatt hour." 4S4 kilowatt hours at 1.3 cents 55175 "The bill here is 512S.65 and in Los Angeles would be 552.75, no stand-by or monkey puzzles about it. "They say if a competitor Is allowed in the field, we may have to pay inter est on two plants. WTiat the citizens of Portland need and ought to have is lower rates. Rates comparable with those of other cities on the Coast. The following figures from the quarterly statement of the Portland Railway, Light Power Company, filed with the City Auditor, ought to be of interest to light consumers: . "Light department: fU?"pr.'r . "'!'' 'V. .,m.,4S Disbursements .143. 432.8 HSS.80T.77 nSZtfr M"V..J.8"T73.63.30 D?.burs.m.nts" ' 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 142.080.18 5531.615.81 "This ought to be gratifying read ing to the people who are paying out rageous light rates. Competition Life Trade. "Don't we need competition? It is axiomatic that competition is the life of trade. Give us competition by all means. The writer does not know, nor Is he in any way connected with the .. ... ...i.inr fnr the fran TO GIVE E Henry Calls Portland Railway, Light & Power Company "Greatest Blight." FRANGH1S COMPETITION TRADE'S LIFE Letter Addressed to Portland Execu tives Shows by Comparisons That Business Hero Differs With. Los Angeles. Declaring that the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company is the "great est blight that Portland has to contend with." Charles K. Henry has sent a communication to Mayor Rushlight snd the City Council urging the granting of a franchise to the Northwestern Electric Company, which concern is seeking- the right to enter Portland in competition with the Portland Railway. Light A Power Company. In the communication Mr. Henry takes exception to the recent communi cations of T. B. Wilcox. W. T. Wood ward and 6. F. Johnson, urging the Mayor and Council not to grant a fran chise to the new company, and sets forth a number of comparisons of rates for electric service in Portland and other cities. He asserts that the com pany with exactions, evasions and high charges coupled with poor service has been the city's greatest blight. The communication follows: "To the Honorable Mayor snd Council of the City of Portland. Oregon. "Gentlemen: Inasmuch as my friends Mr. T. B. Wilcox. Mr. W. F. Woodward and Mr. G. F. Johnson, chairman of the Commercial Club exe cutive committee, have written you. as published in the daily press, urging that your honorable self and Council do not grant franchises to a probable competitor of the Portland Railway, Llgnt & Power Company, giving rather lame reasons therefor and also as Mr. B. S. Josselyn. president of the Portland Railway. Light & Power Com pany, has designated himself in last Sunday's Oregonlan as a 'firm believer In the Golden Rule.1 I feel impelled to say, in my feeble way, to the Mayor and Council of the City of Portland, that I think that you and they will be doing your duty to the citizens and taxpayers to use every honest and legi. timate means to obtain for the City of Portland competition against the Port land Railway, Light & Power Company, which, in the Judgment of the writer after years of experience and visits to other cities, is compelled to say that the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, with its exactions, evasions and high charges, coupled with the poor service given, is the greatest blight with which Portland has to contend 'Mr Josselyn, self-styled exponent of the Golden Rule, who has done so much to snarl and tie up bridge mat ters in the city of Portland during the past few years. Is still fight ing with the city in the courts to maintain that ridiculously low rental (on the new costly bridge) given on a cheap wooden bridge long since worn out and gone. Goldea Rule Talk Scored. "Talk about the Golden Rule by which he proposes to live! It is a mighty one-sided. Jug-handled affair. In . The Oregonlan of Monday appears: We have always been ready and willing; to pay what we considered rlsht In this matter." said President Josselyn yesterday. Tl'e were willing to pay a rental which would probably amount to more .than 3 rests on each car operated over the bridge. We applied for revocable permits from the City Council for the use of the approaches to the brliJe. but the request was denied by the street committee, and for thst rea son it is up to us to do the best we can by use of other bridges. It is the city's next move. If the officials ra willing to come to reasonable terms, all well and good; oth erwise we will not bother any more about the bridge. "Did Jay Gould, or any one else say more clearly, 'the public be d d?" Is that an honest statement? Is It not a fact that he tied up, with the request for revocable permits over the bridges, a number of street franchises, and when the latter was denied, be would not take the permits to the bridges; and note the suggestion of three cents a car. When the Burnslde street bridge was built, we were a small struggling community; the old Portland & Vancouver Line, coming across that bridge, had been electrified, and the city charged them seven cents a car, and that was in 1895, when they used little Thompson and Houston cars which did little damage, while Josselyn's massive ears are de molishing our bridges. Ten of his cars are designed to carry as many as did 20 of the cars then in use. Mr. Josse lyn using them so as to keep down the number of motormen and conductors employed, and he is willing to pay three cents a car Golden Rule Golden Grab he means. Mr. Henry Asks QueatloM. "Tour honorable body will certainly never comply with such a demand from that company. If the small struggling company could pay seven cents a car In 1895. with their small ears, why is It not reasonable and why is It not complying with the golden rule to have this company, using such massive cars over our more expensive and costly bridge, pay at least the same rate? "Mr. Josselyn and his employes on their return to the city from any visits out of the city brag through the papers about the splendid car service that the city of Portland is getting. When he put on his pay-as-you-enter cars, he used a part of the legend which the writer saw in Chicago streetcars. There it read: "Please do not crowd. Help us to avoid accidents. The city gets 50 per cent People Misled, He Says. "This latter part Josselyn forgot to put on. When he says we have a bet ter and more rapid car service, he pur posely misleads the people. For while his car system has grown, the Los An geles car system has far exceeded it. Think of four different routes out of Los Angeles to Pasadena, three double tracked and one four-tracked. The writer r-cently took pleasure in riding over the Key Route, the Borax-Smith system in Oakland, and there was not a single straphanger allowed. On com menting to the conductor, he stated that "Orders were not to allow people to stand but to put on more cars." When In Honolulu two' years ago, at which time Mr. S. Benson and Mr. Emmet Wil liams were there, we remarked on the fact that in that city of 4S.000 inhabi tants. 75 per cent Japanese and Portu guese, they had a more dependable and reliable car service than the city of Portland boasts, and as for light and power they have been charging us a base rate of 15 and 5, equalling 20 cents. They voluminously published a pro posed reduction making a base rate of 9, 7 and 4, also equalling 20 cents- ' "July bill for the Henry building reads as follows: ' , 3 kilowatt hours at i!4 cents f M 81 Standby charge (a robbery) 24.75 , $ iza.es "Los Angeles rate for current year as follows: "For the electric current consumed chise. I have been informed that they are responsible ana reusoi". " be conclusive to the Mayor and Council of the city of Portland that a n7,y hand Is needed over the Portland Rail way. Light Power Company. "Messrs. Wilcox. Woodward and John son no doubt were very glad to have competition when the North Bank road, the Oregon Electric and United Rail ways came Into the city and helped to develop eur country. Let us welcome other competitors. Respectfully yours, CHARLES K. HENRY. HILL FRANCHISE URGED ' . MAXY EAST SIDE ORGAXIZAp TIOXS WOCLD RtTSH PERMIT. Action of Business Men's Clnb In Requesting Decision by City Is Freely Indorsed. The East Side Business Men's Club, which is urging the granting of the franchise asked for the Hill Lines, has secured the indorsement of a number of the Improvement clubs and civic organizations. The list of organizations which have Indorsed the Hill franchise, as tabu lated in the office of Assistant Secre tary C C. Hall, includes the following: Alberta Push Club. Ad Club, Albina Push Club, by George Hoekyenos, pres ident; East Forty-first Street Improve ment Association. West Side Business Men's Club. East -Burnside District Merchants' & Manufacturers' Associa tion. Central East Portland Merchants and Manufacturers. East 6lde Imple ment Men Retailers and Shippers, East Side Realty Men, by J. P. McGowan, East Water Street Tonnage Jobbers and Shippers. East Side Improvement Association. Fulton Park Improvement Association, Meagley Junction Improve ment Club, Kenton Club. Montawllla Board of Trade. Montavilla Business Men's Club, Mount Tabor Improvement Association. Peninsula Improvement Club. Portland Chamber of Commerce, Rose - City Park Improvement Club, Sellwood Commercial Club. Sunnyside Push Club, United Improvement Clubs Association, Waverly-Richmond Im provement Club. Woodlawn Improve ment Club, Union Meat Company, Port land Bankers' Association. Chamber of Commerce. Portland Retail Merchants' Association. Indorsements are oeing receivna irom other clubs as they meet and consider the matter. Dan Kellaher. president t- c(h. -RtiKinKR Mar's Club, has aent the list to all members ef the Council and Mayor. Mr. Keuaner says: "This list represents the business -nf.a.fAnel m,n merchant. Implement and machinery men and heavy shippers or trie enure rsti oiae with its 175.000 Inhabitants, besides thousands of broad gauge business men and shippers on the West Side, repre senting practically a united city - with a population of 252.000." ROAD QUICKLY ROLLED CITT BUItrDS SOLID STREET Td STEEL BRIDGE IX ! HOURS. 400-Foot Mud Hole on Adams Elim , Inated-J-Track Laying; starts at Once. In less than 10 hours the city yes terday constructed a solid rolled street 400 feet in lengtn, on Adams street, from Holladay avenue to the east end ef the new Steel bridge. The rush was occasioned by the opening of the bridge to team, automobile and pedes trian traffic. When the big bridge was thrown open at daybreak, Adams street was little more tljan a mudhole. through which people were requirea io wade almost ankle deep and in which wagons passed over with difficulty. Under the direction of the City En gineer a large force of teams and men hurried to the scene and began build ing up the road. Within a few hours the way was safe for teams and it was possible to walk to the bridge without getting in any mud. By night the road was finished for temporary use. the course being built up several feet and being rolled solidly. The streetcar company will begin at once to lay its tracks to and over the bridge. The material is all on hand, and it is the plan to get a force of men to work at once. A double track will be extended from Holladay avenue to the east end of the bridge and from tuere over the structure to the west approach, which is only a few feet from the west approach of the old Steel bridge. President' Josselyn said yesterday that the work of constructing the tracks will be hurried. "We have the men and the material on hand," he said. "We intend to rush construction as fast as possible. It must be under stood that we could net do the work, until we had a right to go upon the approaches to the bridge. How long it will take to pave and perform the work necessary to fix the approaches for streetcar travel is hard to esti mate. The ' company is assuming a great risk to Invest (15,000 in material and work to run Its cars on the new Steel bridge with only a 90-day per mit to base it upon. The willingness of the company to do .so Is indicative of Its desire to meet the public more than half way. We are deeply inter ested in giving good service, and In this connection it is fair to state that we are willing to help the Mayor out la his efforts to prevent congestion, as a consequence of the bridge tangle." Small Boy Is Drowned. While swimming at the foot of Ban croft street. South Portland, yester day. Joseph Kuzns, 10 years old, was drowned. The body was recovered by Hugh Brady and was turned over to the Coroner. The boy Jived at Third and Bancroft streets. Suit sale at Jimmy Dunn's, $50,000 Stock of High-Grade Pianos Must Be Sold at Once Lease Expires in Three Weeks a Desperate Situation Which Calls for Drastic Action. Reed-Ff ench Piano Co. Quit Business. Prices Tell the Whole Story NEW PIANOS t $96PLAY ER PIANOS t $297 Did you ever "hear of strictly brand-new upright pianos the large, full-size, genuine mahogany cases being sold for less than $100? Did vou ever hear of dependable Player Pianos the very latest improved 88-note instruments-being offered for $297? These prices tell the whole story. We're up against it. ' The lease on our present large quarters expires August 31st less than three short ,weeks away. We have been unable to get suitable quarters at any where near a reasonable rental. We're com pelled to quit the piano business. Here we are with a mammoth $50,000 stock of high-grade pianos which must be sold in eighteen days. It's a desperate sit uation. It calls for drastic action. -Everybody knows this is the dullest time of the year. Nothing short of the most phenom enal price-cutting will accomplish the re sult. Accordingly, we have cut, slashed yes, actually slaughtered prices, if you please, to the lowest point ever known in the history of the city. Profit is out of all question now. Give us the bare cost; that's all we ask. And when we say cost, we mean exactly what we say. Pianos of the Highest Grade All Must" Go at Once The Eeed-French Piano Co. has the repu tation of carrying one of the finest lines 6f high-grade pianos-in the West notably the celebrated Knabe the world's best piano, the time-honored Lindeman, - the superb Jesse French, the artistic Haines Bros., the well-known Willard, the favorite Steinbach Glance at These Prices TL T 1 hey i $200 $250 Pianos Pianos Closing-Out Cost $ 96 $129 $168 $207 $283 $300 Pianos . . . , . $350 Pianos ...... $450 Pianos ETC., ETC. , AS TO TERMS These closing-out prices ought to bring all cash, or at least half down. But we're W in a position to dictate. The burning mipstion is to find homes AT UUJb ior au uiese iuw riauw and Player Pianos. We'll not quibble about terms, down and $12, $10 or even $8 a month will do. $500 $525 $565 $600 $800 Player Player Player Player Player & Dreher, the popular Armstrong, the beau tiful Starck, the dependable Brewster, How ard, French & Sons., etc. in finest Mottled Mahoganies, Burl and Circassian Walnuts, genuine quarter-sawed Oaks, and other rare and costly woods. Included also are the. finest and very lat est improved 88-note Player Pianos. We have featured the Player Piano business for years and today the Reed-French Piano Co. is recognized as the Player Piano Headquar ters of the city. But everything must go, regardless of the sacrifice, including even a number of the finest and most costly Baby Grands ever shown here. Desks, Rugs, Office Furniture and Fix tures will be sold all or in part to the high est bidder. ell the Story Closing-Out Cost Pianos Pianos Pianos Pianos Pianos $297 $317 $335 $362 $477 $25 or $30 ETC, ETC. JUST A FINAL WORD Remember, every instrument is strictly brand-new, the .very latest style and absolutely guaranteed for a long term of years. "Money Back" if not exactly as represented and entirely satisfactory AFTER DELIVERY: "We can say or do no more except to suggest that you be on hand early the very first thing. Orders by wire or long-distance phone will be honored only until deposit money can arrive. Deliveries will be made as promptly as possible. Doors Open Tomorrow at 8:30 A. M. Sharp. Be on Hand Early Desks, Office Furniture and Fixtures for Sale All or in Part REED-FREMCI PIANO CO. SIXTH AND BURNSIDE STREETS STORE OPEN EVERY EVENING UNTIL 10 i 1 1 QUAKE SIGHT GREAT i Portland Boy Tells of Alaska's Volcanic Eruption. HAROLD GILL SENDS LETTER 6on of John GUI Welcomed Night Work, "For Had I Been Sleeping I Should Have Missed Seeing Ufetlme Sight," He Says. Harold Gill, who 1 employed In a salmon cannery at Nushagak. Alaska. In a letter dated June 18 to his father, John Gill, of this c)ty, writes inter estlngly of the recent earthquakes In the territory. . , ,,, Although NUshagak la about 100 miles distant from the actual scene of the volcanic disturbances, Mr. Gill de clares the electrical effect at night was the sight of a lifetime. Quantities of fine dust thrown otr by the active mountain peaks were carried In the wind and distributed In the vicinity of Nushagak. Mr. Gill's letter follows: Wlr4e I" Affected. "Though we are much nearer the volcanoes. I presume you know more about the eruption than we. We hear that many lives were lost at Kodiak and that the ashes fell there to a depth of 30 feet. "The air Is so full of static elec tricity and of rumblings from tb,e vol canoes that the wireless isn't much good. Don't know whether this will reach you, as the mailboat ("Dora") was In the thickest of it on her way to Kodiak. "I am working on the night shift, and our crew were told, when at sup per about a fortnight ago, by the day crew that there had been an earth quake, and the cannery much shaken. We laughed at them. Well, about 8 that night, while I was at work in the can factory, I heard above all the din of the machines, a very distinct con cussion, like that of a heavy canon shot. 'Chug'.' it came, and a moment later "Chug, chug' again. "The air seemed to burst at each re port, and the windows shook and rat tled. Almost at the same time came a violent earthquake shock from the eastward. It lasted nearly a minute. Piles of boxes rocked as if about to fall. This shock knocked the gaily stack out of the 'Burgess.' - "All through the night we heard the boom of the explosions and milder earthquakes continued. The sky looked strange. The clouds were thin and filmy, and of the gray color of a newly sawed iron bar, and gave the impres sion of hardness like iron. It does not get dark only two hours of twilight. Quaking Rock to Sleep. "I went out many times but could see no fire or glow anywhere; only the strange, hard sky. I was standing among the net-racks when one quake came, and the bars warped and buck led strangely. Another great shock came about 3 A. M. When we went to bed In the morning we were rocked to sleep by the quaking of the bunk house. "I got up that afternoon about 3, and while sitting outside the store there came several bangs like blasting a lit tle way off. They made more din than those the previous night. "There were light earthquakes when we went to work : that ' evening, but we were getting accustomed to them. Nothing much occurred till 11. when I happened to be outside, and looking off eastward I saw a lightning-flash, close down to the horizon; and instead of the usual forked lightning it was a wide, straight bar, like a sudden glint of light on a knife blade. It was not dark, of course. The clouds eastward were great masses piled ifr enormous solid-looking rolls or' thunderheads, bright pink with deep purple shadows, and below these a black pall down to the horizon. "It grew darker, and we saw more flashes, rod in color, still short and wide and playing close above the horizon. The darkness became un usually dense. We ate our midnight meal, and still the darkness increased, being intense from 1 till 2. No mistake about the eruption now! Puff! and the clouds would light up red and lurid as they do above the gas works on a rainy night. And the lightning (or was it lightning?) continued. It was bloody red now, probably from the dust in the air. It took strange shapes, great chains, short knife-like bars and fiery puffs reflected from the burning crater. But strangest, grandest and most awful were the burning, bursting jewels of fire that flashed in that angry sky. urk.ih.. .Tnlnlnr hodies of CraS or lightning, I know not no chain or forked flashes, but like a great giuw- I h., rtnnlnir fir and Snuffed OUt again in the twinkling of an eye. The air jarred and vlbratea, ana every muo while 'chug came the muffled reports that fairly shook off our caps, and still the silent, heaving earthquakes. There seemed to be no thunder, and yet for an hour there was not a min ute's cessation of the grand fireworks. The flashes paled with the return of day, but seemed to be spread over a greater expanse. "Again we went to bed, and, strange to say, slept, with nothing but earth quakes to disturb. The next afternoon we went for a walk to Snag Point. While sitting In the tall grass we be came conscious, first, of a vibration In the air. It grew louder until it Jarred and rumbled like the booming sounds made by an oil-burning locomotive; This continued a half-hour or mote. Native Are Frightened. "We place this volcano up near Lake Iliamna, about 100 miles east of Nu sbagah (doubtless Iliamna Mountain, about the height of Mount Hood, at the east end of Iliamna Lake. Ed.) We can see no mountains in that direc tion. The natives were greatly fright ened. King Youk-Luck said, 'blme-by capsize.' These people never saw such skies, and they say the earthquakes are caused by war's of little men under the ground. All night long their dogs howled and the Indians were wailing and chanting. "One morning we noticed the earth and the roofs all white. On investiga tion we found it to be a thin layer of volcanic ash. Two nights later we had a wind from the volcano and more ashes fell. The air was full of' this fine dust, and it stung our throats. By good luck the wind soon changed and the clouds bore off to southward. "They were densely black like the layers of oily smoke we see pouring from the gas works at home. Two feet deep the ashes fell at Nlcknack, and we should have had it, too, if the wind had not changed. "I am glad to have been working nights, for had I been sleeping I should have missed seeing one of the great sights of a lifetime." Portland Free or Infant Malady. While Los Angeles has been suffer ing from what might be called an epi demic of infantile paralysis, Portland has been singularly fortunate In hav ing scarcely a case to come under the notice of the Board of Health during the past two months. A few years ago Portland had quite a number of cases, but since then, although other cities have been troubled with the disease, this city has been remarkably free from distressing infant malady. It is not very long since the specific organism of the disease was discovered by Pro fessor Flexner. Child Scalded at Oregon City. OREGON' CITY. Or.. Atig. 10. (Spe cial.) 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