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recognized no ethical consider
ation whatever and that was ready
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to break any contract that could
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not he enforced at law. After such
an object lesson in union honor
THE TIMES is not responsible for any opinions expressed by correspondents Fame-Seekers, by Alice Woods the company asked for a bond for
appearing in its columns.
$1.20. Illustrated. George II $5000 as a guaranty against its
Doran Co., New York City.
repetition, and as tiiis was a con
dition
of reinstatement the bond
Entered in P osto flic# at Portland, O regon, an second-class matter.
With illustrations by May Wil
forthcoming.
son Preston, this attractive novel was immediately
Henceforth the Tug Firemen’s
depicts
with
cleverness
an
Amer
' " A FEARLESS EXPONENT OF INDUSTRIAL PEACE
ican artist-story of Bohemian Union will probably be a little
more chary about breaking its con
Paris, known and Trilby Land.
The Under Trail, by Anna Alice tract. If it can not understand
SUBSUMPTION HATES—$2.50 per year, in advance.
Chapin. $1.25. Ilustrated. Lit the obligations o f an agreement it
ADVERTISING RATES made known upon application.
will have no difficulty in estimat
tle, Brown & Co., Boston.
ing the precise value o f $5000 and
Ilate, love and a secret erosseut
the inconveniences o f forfeiture.
trail in the Virginia Mountains
Saturday, August 3, 1912
All agreements with unions ev
make up this attractive novel of
erywhere ought to be based upon
the Southland. The characters
liability bonds.
Without such
TRANSFERS AND PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION.
are exceedingly well drawn.
bonds the agreements are useless.
Beggars and Scorners, by Allan
Moral obligations have no binding
McAulay. $1.25. John Yane
Is it tin- policy of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company
weight upon men who are ready
Co., New York City.
at a moment’s notice to throw
to accommodate the public when it may be done without loss or ex
An historical novel tvell worth- aside their duties to their em
pense, or to reject that consideration for the purpose of creating a
reading— harking back to the tri ployer in obedience to orders from
new condition wherein it will he possible to reap an added harvest of umphs won in a similar depart dictators o f whom they know
nothing and in quarrels that are
nickels without rendering any greater service?
ment by Charles Major— depicting
not theirs. To give bonds in sup
This question is entirely pertinent at the present time. It has been the struggles, intrigues, loves and port of contracts is the general
hates of Scotch Jacobite exiles in
practice even among
raised by the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company itself in Holland, after the memorable bat commercial
men who _______________________
attach a certain sanctity
such a manner that the answer to it must lie against the public and in tie of Culloden in Scotland in to an agreement. Why not impose
1745, when^the English army, un similar liabilities upon those whose
favor of the extra harvest of unearned nickels.
der the Duke of Cumberland, promises have been so often
There should be reason in all arrangements, not excepting the smashed the hopes of Bonnie proved to have no value?— The
matter of streetcar transfers. To thousands of people it is a matter Prince Charlie and his adherents Argonaut.
Book
Have You Ever
Reviews
o f great accommodation to be able to get off the ears in town and A Cleveland Towing Company Re
T H E D E A T H OF C L E O P A T R A .”
quired a Guaranty Before Tak
make some purchase which nine times out of ten is related in some
International vaudeville with every
ing Back Repentant
way to the journey in hand. This applies, especially in the summer
act a stellar act will be the delectable
Employes.
offering at I’antages for the week com
season, to those who go out into the suburbs or, maybe, outside the
city on picnic jaunts for a day.
W tV .V ^ A V .V /.V .V .^ V .V .V .V iW A W .V V W iW ^ m V V C S S S j.
Such people very often like to stop
The Great Lakes Towing Com
over long enough to buy fruit or picnic edibles or conveniences of pany of Cleveland, Ohio, estab
some sort. Aside from this there are a thousand and one instances lished a useful precedent when it
demanded a financial bond from
wherein the privilege o f a reasonable stopover in the heart of the city
the Tug Firemen’s Union before
is of great advantage to the streetcar patron, involving no loss what allowing its striking and now re?
penetant employes to return to
ever to the street railway company.
work. The offense was a partic
The proposal to hold the transfer privilege down to the practice ularly bail one. A contract entered
of immediate connection is one of the street railway reforms which into a year previous, and that was
supposed to preclude a strike, had
shows that all the corporate professions of public accommodation are
been deliberately broken, nbt un
only skin deep. It is another manifestation of the desire and the der the pressure of grievances, but
because certain agitators in Chi
purpose to grab everything in sight.
cago had arbitrarily ordered the
The intimation of the establishment of an exchange wherein the men to leave their work. Even the
morning streetcar patron from one suburb disposes of his transfer local union president had been ig
nored in the matter, orders being
to the afternoon passenger from another suburb does credit to the
sent to the men direct from Chi
imagination, but otherwise is not worthy of consideration. The real cago. and this fact was actually
apology is the extra nickel in the tens of thousands of instances urged by the employes themselves
in their plea for reinstatement.
wherein streetcar patrons must spend a few minutes in the city be They acted, they said, in the heat
of the moment and without refer
fore completing their journey.
ence to right or wrong. Now they
And, speaking of continuous journeys as they are related to ask to go back to work under the
the transfer privilege, what recompense does the Portland Railway, terms of the unexpired contract.
Under such circumstances the
Light
Power Company propose to offer when it compels its patrons
towing company was justified in
to stand for ten, fifteen or twenty minutes extra waiting for a car questioning the value of any con
that conforms to a schedule in theory only? If the streetcar people tract with a union to which no fi-
nanieal liability was attached. Ob
may without compensation discommode the passenger who must ride viously there could be no value to
eventually, wherein lies the justice o f charging him an extra nickel an agreement with a union that
mencing with the Monday matinee,
August 5th, when Jewell’s Manikins
will head the programme of rare excel
lence.
While many remarkable features are
sen in the act, the greatest is “ The
Death of Cleopatra,” a scenic produc
tion seldom equalled and never excelled
in vaudeville. The peculiar part of the
performance is taht each character is
represented by a mechanical figure.
Not a human person apepars in the per
formance, although the act serves to
introduce Miss Lillie Jewell, the
world’s greatest manipulator of mani
kins.
IN TH E CO U N T Y C O U RT OF T H E S T A T E
OF OREGON, FO R T H E CO U N TY
OF M U L TN O M A H .
In the M atter o f the Estate of
L O l'I S X. BISSON 'N ETT. D eceased.
N O T IC E OF P R IV A T E SA LE .
N otice is hereby given that in pursuance
o f an ord er o f the above-entitled court made
on the 23 rd day o f July, 1912, in the m at
ter o f the estate o f L ou is N. B issonnett, d e
ceased, the undersigned, the adm inistrator of
said estate, will sell at p rivate sale, subject
to confirm ation by the above-en titled court,
the follow in g d escrib ed real property, together
with the im provem ents thereon, to-w it:
All that certain tract or p ortion o f land
situated in M ultnomah County, S tale o f O re
gon. m ore p articu larly describ ed as being the
east half o f Lot 12 and the east h alf o f Lot
13, B lock 3, V ern on A d dition to the city o f
Portland, M ultnomah County, Oregon.
Said sale w ill be made on M onday, the
26th day o f August, 1912, at 10 o ’ clock A.
M. o f said day, at room 514 Couch building,
Portland, Oregon, in said city, county and
state.
T erm s o f said sale w ill be cash.
D ated this the 24th dav o f July, 1912.
V. A. B R E W E R ,
L. I). M AH ON E,
A dm inistrator.
A ttorn ey fo r the Estate. 513 -51 4-51 5
Couch Building.
D ate o f first publication, Ju ly 27.
D ate o f last publication, A ugust 24.
Had a
VISIT BY THE SEA
or a
RUN ON THE SANDY SHORE
at
NORTH
BEACH
WASHINGTON
Did you know you could reach this delightful care-slaying,
health-giving, fun-making
SUMMER RESORT
by taking the
O.-W. R. & N.
Then down the
COLUMBIA RIVER viaSTEAMERS
“ T. J. PO TTE R ," “ HASSALO” and “ HARVEST QUEEN”
TO MEGLER.
Wher trains connect with boats for North Beach Points.
YOU CAN
YOU SHOULD
Phone Ash-street Dock or City Tiekt Offiee, Third anil
Washington streets, for reservation and take a
REST BY THE SEA.
BAGGAGE STORED THREE DAYS FREE
THE
Baggage & Omnibus
Transfer Co.
General Transfering and Storage
Main Office and Warehouse
PARK AND DAVIS STS., PORTLAND
Telephones: Main 6980, A 3322
because he does not take the next ear to his destination, or, maybe,
making the charge where the transfer time has elapsed by the com
pany’s delinquency?
When a citizen pays a nickel to be transported from one end of
the local streetcar system to another, or from any point to any other
point, in justice lie is entitled to the ride that nickel buys, whether
it is continuous or whether it be interrupted at a transfer point for
half hour or such a matter, either upon his own volition or by rea
son of the lax management of the streetcar people.
Unjustly to put on the screws in this matter in order to squeeze
out the nickels discloses the disposition on the part of the Portland
Railway, Light & Power Company, to get all it can and keep all it
gets.
A WORKING GIRL ARMY
There are 250.000 working girls in New York City who support
themselves. They are between 14 and lit) years of age, and their aver
age wage is $0 a week.
The New York commission on the resources of working girls for
amusement estimates that $0 a week is the lowest sum on which a
girl living in Manhattan can he entirely self-supporting.
Wliat arc
the amusements and how fares it with this army of working girls
who receive $t> a week and require if!* to live on.
The commission concludes that most of these workers reside
at home and contribute their earnings to the family purse.
Hut,
there must he recreation and amusement for them, and therein is
the great social problem, not only of New York, hut of all large
cities.
The commission has secured legislation that has brought about
the closing of fifty-eight public dance halls and substituted super
vised places of amusement These unsupervised halls were the fester
p l a e c s mid plague spots of the city.
It is estimated that they were
attended by lOO.OiiO persons a week ill Manhattan alone. The wage
of $ti a week, the human yearing for amusement, the struggle for
survival, the self-denial and long hours of labor, the humdrum of
life, and the wiles of human vultures and gray wolves who infest
the dan<e halls and spread their nets for the unwary, make unreg
ulated halls the great recruiting station for the scarlet world.
No human agency can render higher service than that to which
the Niw York commission has addressed itselt
The proof appears
in the 250.000 working girls on a wage o f ¡ft» a week and requiring $!*
a week for survival.
It is one of the tragedies of human life, and there can be nothing
hut applause for the noble men and women who are striving through
the commisisou to alleviate its remorseless condition!.
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H. H. Harris, Manager,409 McKay Bldg., Portland
Main 6383
90 First Street