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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND. JUNE 13 1913. 17 90 MILES OF PAVING TO 8E LAID IN 1913 54 Miles of Street Grading and Sidewalks Included in Year's Work. TOTAL COST IS $5,011,744 statement, however, until he had seen the actual figures. General Passenger Ar?nt Scott, of the Southern Pacific, Bald he believed the volume of passenger travel would be at least as large ae last year on his lines, in spite of the fact that the ex tension of the Oregon Electric lines had put competition Into his territory that did not exist In 1812. He. too, did not care to make a definite state ment pending receipt of data on which he could base an Idea. At the offices of the Spokane. Port land & Seattle It was said that the vol ume of traffic probably would show an increase over last year because of the extension of the Oregon Electric lines and the probable stationary amount of steam travel. Several Uarge Contracts Are Yet to Be Iet, Including Sewer Improve ments for About $fil.780. Tin rl hurt Issues Report. .$ 17. 47 15,721 77,905 10,969 81,867 Ninety miles of hard-surfacing pav ing and 54 miles of street grading and sidewalks costing a total of $5,011,744 "ill be the record of street improve ments in Portland during the present year according to a report completed yesterday by City Engineer Hurlburt. Of the amount listed, paving aggre gating In cost $25 8,045 and grading and sidewalks costing $2 29,187 have already been accepted by the city since January 1, 1313 ; paving contracts amounting to 91,652,688 and grading and sidewalk contracts costing- $429,411 have been let to various companies and estimates have been filed and contracts "ill be let soon for an additional amount of $2,073,714 in hard-surfacing anil $868,4199 In grading and sidewalks. In addition to these improvements there will be a total of $619,780 spent for sewers. So far there has been ac cepted in the sewer department com pleted sewers costing $619,780 slnoe January 1. Plans and specifications have been filed for sewers from Janu ary 1 to date to co3t an aggregate of $631,661. Sewers under BOW of con struction now will cost about $125, 000 not including the I-ambert avenue sew er, the bids for which were rejected Friday by the City Executive Board. Report In Detail Made. The report covering the street Im provement work shows the following: Street improvement work accepted since January 1: Hard surface, $258, 045 ; grading and sidewalk. $229,187; total, $487,232. This does not include the improve ment of Mllwaukle street, which was completed last year but not accepted until January of this year. The cost of this Improvement was $132,000. Estimates filed since January 1: If ard surface, $2,073,714 (50 miles) ; grading and sidewalk, $868,699 (24 miles); total. $2,442,413. Under contract at present time: Hard surface, $1,652,688 (40 miles); grading and sidewalk, $429,411 (30 miles); total. $2,082,099. Some of the larger improvements ac cepted sinco January 1 are as follows: Oradiug and Sidewalk. Broadway and "Wheeler street $ 12.580 We Idler street from Flrat to Wheeler 15,482 1 .tberty street district 17.623 eleventh street East 14.113 Bryant street district... 14,03 t 'ouch street east district 18,1 02 Hard Hurf&ce. Twentieth street from Carter Sprlnc Twenty-first street from Carter Vista Hall street district Tenth street east from Bumside fe Glle&a TVestover Road district Schuyler street from bast Twenty- elKhth to East Thirty-sixth 15.419 Some of the larger estimates filed since January 1 are as follows; ( railing: and Sidewalk. Bryant street district $ 14.S90 Forty-second rtreet from Hoi sate to Powell 17,604 Minnesota avenue from Bryant to Buffalo 18,689 Thirty-ninth street east from Fre mont to Alameda 23,185 Eleventh street district 20.008 Stark street East district 11,418 Plxtleth avenue from Forty-first to Fifty-second street 16,259 Kta-htieth street Bast from Haw thorne to Stark 10,650 Forty-first street from Henry's firth addition to Sixtieth avenue 21,981 TTard Surface. Forty-third street East district. . . $122,854 Fortieth street East district 65,615 Stark street East district 84.4S5 Clay street East district 111.744 Lincoln East district 78,389 Holgrate street district 75,865 wtii.rntte Boulevard from TVaoash to S. P. A 8. bridffe 93.544 Thirteenth street East from Ochoco to Maiden avenue 52.824 Arthur street district 67,876 T'pshur street district 73.960 Below are shown some of the larger Improvements which are now under contract: Grading and Sidewalk. Eleventh street et al , J$ 10.814 Thirty-ninth street East district... 22.172 Saratoga, street district 86.560 Farragut street district 1-5,656 Bryant street district 13.2S0 Williams avenue district : 44,634 Gllsan street East from East For- ty-sevsnth to East Sixtieth street 10.020 Terrace Read from Spring- to Pat ton 80,784 Hard Surface. Lombard street from "Wabash to Patton $ 52.16S Alberta street from Union to Vernon 36.008 Fpoltane avenue from Grand to Nine teenth TT.015 Nebraska street dlst rlct 81,121 Holrate street district . 82.373 Wabash avenue district 91,840 Fremont street from East Eighth to Thirty-third 70.474 Forty-third street East district. . . . 98,407 Fifteenth street East district 41,333 Thompson street district 103.344 The report on sewer construction shows the following: Pewcr construction accepted January 1 to date totals $619,7 80. Among the newers accepted are; Sullivan Gulch trunk sewer No. 1..$ 77.000 Sullivan Gulch trunk sewer No. 12. . S7.000 Sullivan Oulch and Sandy Boulevard 57,000 Kat Thirty-third sewer extension. . 93.000 Canyon Road sewer 47,009 lnsley avenue trunk WW 127.000 Plans and specifications have been filed for sewers from January 1 to date aggregating $621,66). Among t'lese plans are the following sewers: Rhine street sewer extension 41 25,000 East Sixty - third street extension of East Stark street sewer 140.000 1-itmbert avenue sewer systum 70.000 East Forty-seventh street and Klick itat street sewer system 40.000 Long avenue sewer extension 18,000 Bast Forty-ninth street and East Hoyt street sewer system 25.000 ntracts will be awarded at an early date. Among the sewers under contract at t . present time and ncaring comple tion are: Kast Stark and Kast Forty -ttrsi street sewer system. $60,000; Mar quam Gulch sewer, $SS.000. SIXTY WILL BE GRADUATED St. Mary's School to Hold Closing Exercises Tomorrow Night. St. Mary's School. 295 Stanton street, conducted by the Sisters of St. Dom inic, will hold its closing exercises to morrow night at the Columbus Club auditorium. Sixty will be graduated In the various branches. Archbishop Christie will deliver an address to the graduates. Besides an extensive musical pro gramme, a mystery play and musical drama entitled "Evervsoul," will be given. Following is the list of graduates: Commercial course, February class: COST OF RUNNING CITY IS ANALYZED Increased Expense in 1 1 Years Out of Proportion to Gains In Population. HEEDLESS SPENDING SEEN From 190 2 to 1913, Inclusive, Ad. vance iu Number of Resident Is 110 Per Cent ; In Cost 311 Per Cent, Assessed Value. 55 8. A study f the tables below will show that the cost of maintaining: the City of Portland has increased in the last 11 years at a rate much out of pro- FATHER AND TWO SONS TAKE BAR EXAMINATION. jr- -"' is I). X. MISTURFF. H. Fa MTNTUEFF AND J. W. MINTliRJFF. SALEM. Or.. June 14. (Special.) A unique feature of the special examina tion being; conducted by the Supreme Court for entrance to the bar la that of a father and two sons taking: the test. They are D. N., H. F. and J. W. Mc Inturff. The father -was born in 1860 in East Tennessee, his father belny a soldier In the Union Army. His mother's father and General "Winfield Scott were brothers. Mr. Mclnturff waa graduated with high honors from the TJ. S. Grant University in 1886 and In 1887 he went as a Methodist missionary to Japan. He has been the pastor of Portland. Spokane and Eugene churches. H. F. Mclnturff was bom in Ashvllle, X. CL, and went with his parents to Japan. H was educated in the public schools of Spokane and the Idaho and Willamette Universities. J. W. Mclnturff was born In Japan and was educated in the United States. Mr. Mclnturff and his sons will form a partnership and practice law in this city. Ellen Kelly, Mary Johnston, Theresa Stopper, Irene Kirby, Mary Danaher, Marie Seiffert, Sadie Rlohardson, Mau rina McNicholas, Clara Stoneman. June class: Julia Blanc, Veronica Fass bender, Matilda Sebecki, Clara Rieschel, Frances Broeren, Anna Fassbender. Grammar grades, February class: Robert Brady, Francis Hockenyos, Ray mond Maier, Michael Murnane, James Peronto. Fred Thomas, Bernice Amero, Marie Chambers, Mary Donovan, Edna GUmore, Edna Kelly, Margaret Keelan, Ethel Kissel, Frances Kirby, Marcella Larkins, Frances McCarthy, Florence McEntee, Mary McTimphany, Grace Mc Nicholas. Mildred Miller. Anna Sulli van, Hazel Van Avery, Nellie Williams. June class: Ralph Brady, John Sullivan, Mathew Fitzslramons, William Jeffries, Verna Burnette, Catherine Deschner, Agnes Klupeneger, Frances Buckley, Margaret Mahony, May O'Mara, Mildred Gravelle, Eva Mason, Blanche Richt- meyer, Cecelia Shanahan, Alta Mc- Graw: Certificates for excellence In music: Piano, Theresa Stopper, Irene Kirby, Marie Chambers, Ethel Kissel, Lorene Healy; violin, Marcella Larkins. LIQUOR IS CONFISCATED Shipment of Whisky to Roseburg Woman Is Seized by Sheriff. ROSEBURG, Or, June 14. (Special.) Acting- under the new law providing for the confiscation of liquors shipped into "dry" territory unless properly marked. Sheriff George Qulne and Dis trict Attorney Brown late today seized the shipment of whisky con signed to Mrs. Rudolph Jennie, of this city, by the Rose City Importing Com pany of Portland. Local officials declare the shipment was not marked in accordance with the provisions of the new law. Mrs. Jen nie says she did not order the liquor, and in explanation says that it was purchased by some unknown person who used her name. Under the pres ent law a common carrier receiving shipments of liquor not properly la beled Is subject to prosecution. portion to the Increase in the popula tion and the assessed valuation. The cost of the city in 1912 was 311 per cent greater than the cost in 1903. The population of the city in 1913 was approximately 110 per cent greater than in 1902. The assessed valuation in 1912 was approximately 55S per cent greater than In 1903. The cost of operating the city each year since 1903 is shown in the follow ing table: Tax paid Tax levy Tear. to city. mills. 1902 J 483,045 8.S 1003 487,803 9.5 1904 489,898 9.828 !:- 082.226 S.2 1908 949.831 6.T 1907 091.687 4.6 1008 1,424,520 6.6 1909 ...................... 1.182,001 4.0 1010 1.647.187 6.0 1911 e. 32.797 8.8 1912 2,182.272 7.7 Increase Vot Proportionate. The Increase In the expenses has been out of proportion to the growth of the population of the city. The popula tion figures are: 1000 00.428 1902 OstlmateJ) 110,000 1010 207.214 1012 (estimated) 240,000 The debt of the city has grown not In proportion to the population, but In proportion to Its annual budget. The bonded Indebtedness in 1902 was $5,195,000. The following table shows the amounts issued by years since 1902: 1902 1903 1004 190S 1806 1907 190S 1909 Independence Builds Xew Bridge. INDEPENDENCE, Or., June 14. (Special.) Work was started today dismantling the old wooden bridge at the foot of C street, across Ash Creek, preparatory to erecting a modern rein forced concrete span. It Is expected that the work will be completed? by the middle of August In time for the traffic which will come during the hop picking season. - Xone t 71.500 - 450.000 None . ....... .. ...... . None a. . ............ .a...... Non . . a v 600.000 70C.00. itfiw l.-jyo.oon 1011 3.277.20O 1912 1.31o.OOO Total December 31, 1912. $12,798,700. The assessed valuation of property in Portland since 1902 is shown in the following table: 1902 $ 48,136,275 1903 48,084, 5S4 1904 SO.898.600 1905 131,197.561 1906 166.549,335 1907 .- 215.679.S33 1908 215,836.410 1909 ... 231.161.900 1010 274,081,310 1011 208,941.330 1912 . 283,412.105 Significance Is Pointed Out The significance of this showing Is the apparent fact that for the present at least the real estate in the city has ceased to increase in taxable value. The tables and comparisons are shown to demonstrate how solidly based is the contention of the business men and students of finance who de clare that economy and retrenchment must hereafter be the watchword of a OREGON BOY GRADUATED FROM NAVAL ACADEMY Persistence Gains Entry to Annapolis for Justin McO. Miller, of Yoncalla, and Marriage to Baltimore Girl Is Announced. o BY MARK WOODRUFF. FFICIALLY Oregon has no credit for having a graduate in the Na val Academy at Annapolis in 1913, owing to the fact that Ensign Justin McC. Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Miller, of Yoncalla. Or., was appointed from Utah in 1909, while a student in the Salt Lake High School. Six years ago his parents were de bating the question as to whether to send him to Oregon Agricultural Col lege and make a scientific farmer ot him or allow him to go to his sister In Salt Lake City and enter the high school there, and as his brother Gil bert was taking a course In electrical engineering there. It was finally de cided to send him to Salt Lake. One year had been spent in the Eu gene High School, which was all the naan, T-O Hn. Via. Vl Q A Allt.lO Clf AYl Ttallroad Men Think Festival Visit- , eighth-grade diploma in his home ru ral school. TRAVEL BELIEVED NORMAL ors as Many as in 1912. That the railroads carried fully as ninny people into Portland during the big days of Rose Festival week M at tended last year was the consensus of opinion of transportation men yester day, in the absence of any definite figures from tli passenger depart ments. William McMurray. general passenger gent of the O.-W. R. & N. Co.. said his "pinion was based principally upon his own observation of the crowds in the streets, though unofficial reports that reached turn thruush the regular chan nels Indicated no perceptible Increase. H did not caie to make any definite When he had reached the second year In t-hie Salt Lake school he re ceived tU4 appointment to the Naval Academy, fcut after taking the long journey ta, Annapolis he failed to pass the examfe -n. Nothing daunted, he returne to his home In Yoncalla and three days after his arrival had se cured a .seven months' term of school and begin teaching, while continuing his studies, with a view to taking an other examination for the Navy. The Senator who appointed him from Utah, on learning of his failure to pass, kindly reappointed him and the Navy Department granted him permis sion to take the Spring examination at Eugene, which ho passed. : Wm&aBBB ' IS - lialBim ' ;.iitfnnl tin McC. Miller. . Two Extraordinary Attractions For June Piano Buyers A Piano Sale of Unusual Interest and the World's Smallest Baby Grand i Real Bargains in High Grade Pianos at Less Than Wholesale Cost The B ramoac bach BABY GRAND A clearance sale of 1912 discontinued art styles of pianos, player pianos and baby grands. Most of these instruments are new, many are only slightly shopworn, some slightly damaged in ship ment, and a few have been vised. Included irf is !.iannraHaBBgaH ii a this list are such well-known stand ard makes as Soh mer, Eilers Duo tonal (the world's only double sound ing board piano), K n a b e, Chicker ing, Mason & Hamlin, Weber, Steinwav, etc. Every one of these instruments has some special indi vidual feature pos sessed by no piano of a similar or any other make. There are cases of fine mahogany, satin finish mahogany, exquisite veneers of San Domingo mahogany, choice Circassian walnut, quarter oak from every part of the world, ebony and other kinds of high-grade, selected woods. This is a splendid chance to get a standard, high-class piano for the cost of a second-hand, inferior make. You will find them arranged in a special display in our big basement bargain room. There is no reason why every Western home should not now have a good piano of standard make. Surely every home is in a position to pay the small amounts we ask for these pianos, espe cially as we make terms to suit your conven ience, in many cases as low as $1 or $1.50 per week. The Smallest Grand Piano Made The Nation's Largest "The Best of Everything and the Most for the Money" IN the Brambach Baby Grand piano we present an instrument of vital importance a perfect grand piano that will fit in the room-space of an upright. The wonderful Brambach has just been perfected. As usual, we lead by offering it to this city. The Brambach Baby Grand is the answer to that old, dissatisfied question, "Oh, why haven't I room for a grand instead of an upright?" It is only four feet eight inches long by four feet six inches wide. Measure an upright piano and you will find that it occupies practically the same space. It would have been easy to build this Baby Grand years ago if it had been merely a question of space. But it took these many years to put a splendid full "round" grand piano tone in this little compass. It is accomplished in the Brambach at the low price of a first-class upright piano. The Brambach has created a furore among music lovers since we placed it on dis play in our show windows shortly after its arrival last week, and it awaits your thorough investigation in our showroom. Cased in exquisitely finished mahog any, they are destined to be the piano sensation of this city. Broadway (7th) at Alder Portland, Or. Everything for Music Making community that has been heedless In its spending. A perusal and analysis of the tables demonstrate clearly the fact that a business administration must be the main feature of the coming city com mission government. RAILROADS HAVE NEW PLAN Welnhard Building- Considered as Location for Consolidated OfHces. Plans for grouping most of the prin cipal railroad offices in the city on the ground floor of the Weinhard building, on the north side of Oak, between Fourth and Fifth streets, are being en tertained by two or three of the Initial lines and several of the foreisn roads maintaining headquarters in Portland. The leases of the wholesale houses now occupying the Weinhard property will expire about November 1. most of them having provided quarters of their own for occupancy after that time. It is planned now to remodel the building for retail and office uses, with an ar cade extending from Fourth street to Fifth street through the middle of the structure and an ornamental entrance and lobby connecting with this arcade from Oak street. The railroad offices would extend from Oak street through to the arcade, having entrances from both the arcade and the street. It is proposed to have an initial line occupy the office at each of the two corners with the foreign lines in between. JOHN HEIMHICH BURIED liVFE OF ACTIVITY K.VTS IN SIXTY-EIGHTH YEAR. Soldier, Manufacturer, Miner and Legislator Ends Career as Banker and Railroad President. John Heimrieh. capitalist and Civil War veteran, died Tuesday, June 10, at his home, 400 Larrabee street, from Bright's disease. The funeral was held from the residence Thursday, and the body was cremated. Mr. Heimrieh was born in Tiffin. O., February 28. 1846. At the age of 18 he enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. At the close of the war he was mus tered out at Charlotte. N. C. He was one of the pioneers of the state of Nebraska, and its first manu facturer of brick and tile, later be coming interested in the banking bust- When informed of his success he closed his school and started for An napolis. He was graduate with honor June S and on the following day married Miss Margaret Wall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Tailor Wall. f Balti-moja. MANY PIONEERS ARE HERE Oregon Society Headquarters Enjoys Many Visits. The Oregon Pioneer Association headquarters in the rooms of the Ore gon Historical Society In the Tourney building, 205-207 Second street, had a busy day yesterday. A goouly number of pioneers called to secure their badges. Some of them came from as far north as Seattle, some from as far south as Ashland, and some as far east as Boise. Idaho. The badges for the reunion of 1913 are now ready, and the secretary of the association urges resident pioneers to call for them at an early date. In the case of many pioneers the annual re union la one of the most important eventa of their lives, and is looked for ward to at each recurring year as a season of great Joy. Cnder the rules of the association all who came to or were born tn Oregon any time np to the close of the year ijJS -9 art eligible to membership. sm s? j ness and other enterprises. Not only unsolicited, but contrary to his own wishes, he was one of the few Demo crats elected and re-elected to the Ne braska Legislature, serving from 1884 to 1888. In 1889 he made his first mining investment In what afterward became the celebrated Mercur gold mine In Utah, the first gold mine In America to use the cyanide process with success. This mine, which was closed down a few days ago, produced about tl5.000.000 In gold-bearing ores. In 1900 he sold his interests and moved to Seattle, Wash., where he already had extensive interests in' the Northwest Commercial Company, Pacific Ware house Company and the Washington Trust Company, besides being interest ed In other properties and several large buildings. Mr. Heimrlch's first railroad expe rience came with the Salt Lake & Mer cur Railroad, and in 1904 he was one of the promoters and heaviest stock holders of the Great Southern Railroad, which runs from The Dalles to Friend. Or., a distance of 41 miles, and became Its first president, a position which he held at the time of his death. Mr. Heimrieh waa married 40 years ago to Miss Elizabeth Knoell, at Fre mont, Neb., who survives him, and is survived by John G. Heimrieh. of The Dalles, and Mrs. S. A. Hull, of Seattle, Wash. CarPassenger Feels Rebuke of Courteous Man Failure to Return Thanks for Seat Criticised, to Amusement of Many. John Heimrieh. President of the Wreat Southern Railroad, V ho Is Dead. STATE TITLE MEN ELECT Banquet Feature of Two-Day Ses sion of Oregon Association. The Oregon Association of Title Men convened at the Commercial Club Fri day and Saturday, having present 21 members, representing 12 counties. The feature of the convention was a ban quet at the Commercial Club last night, over which Charles H. Wiedler, presi dent, presided. The officers elected for the ensuing year were: President. Henry Seng stacken; first vice-president. W. S Bowers; second vice-president. George J. Watson: third vice-president. Ar thur R. Wilson: secretary and treas urer. W. C. Saunders. Those present at the convention were: W. S. Bowers, Baker; F. B. Riley. Oregon City: Henry Sengstacken Marshfield: R. E. Smith and J. D Zurcher, Roseburg: J. W. Miles, Ash land: Paul Merrill. Eugene; J. M. Hawkins and Charles H. Wiedler, Al bany; George J. Wilson and A. A. Lee, balem: fc.. Johnson. Hillsboro: J. H. Gibson. McMinnville: J. F. Daly. W. M Daly. W. C. Saunders. Herbert Gor don. F. J. Oroiinert. W. Y. Masters and George F. Brlte. Portland. I GAIN something has been dls- covered on a Mlsslsslppl-ayenus r. The car slowly left Its station at Second and Alder streets without much excitement, being too crowded for any thing of that kind. The passengers were for the most part men and women who had been on their feet in the stores and shops all day. The men were doggedly reading the car advertise ments while the women were counting the buttons on the shoes of the pass engers across the aisle. After the second Btop there was a change. The men showed a little more Interest, while the women took on that critical air which they can so well as sume when they see another, dresstod a little differently. The new passenger was a woman not better dressed, but more over-dressed. None of the men jumped to their feet, thinking that some girl from one of the shops would be more entitled to It. That is; all except one man with a pail, seemed to think so. He rose to his feet and politely offered his seat. The woman accepted, with a slight tilt of the nose but nothing else. The men returned to the advertisements and the women to the shoes and-all was silence. Suddenly the man who had offered his seat, leaned over. "I beg your pardon." he exclaimed, as If he had been addressed by the woman, but had failed to understand. "I didn't say anything." husked the woman In a stage whisper, amid at tention from all sides. "Excuse me, I thought I heard you say 'Thank you.' " Exit The woman at the next stop, but the snickers stayed until the end ot the rWe. Clip Sells at Premium. FOREST GROVE. Or.. June 14. (Special.)- Al Dilley, a farmer residing near this city, reports the finest wool clip yet reported in this community. From a Cotswold lamb, a year old In April, he clipped a fleece that weighed 22 hi pounds and the wool -measured 18 inches In length. The wool brought 1 cents a pound, four cents above U lo cal mfcrket.