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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1912)
, PORTLAND, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 7,1912 RE DRS TRUSTIES” ASK BOON OF PLAYING HOOKEY FROM PRAYER NIGHT Every Thursday night is prayer meeting night at the eity jail, under orders from Capt. Slover, acting chief of police. Capt. Slover is a religious man, it is reported, and when some mem bers of the Apostolic Faith asked his permission to visit the prison ers every Thursday night, and carry to them the glad tidings of their belief, the acting chief gave his consent. There are always a number of trusties at the city jail. These men are given the freedom of the upstairs courtroom during the afternoon, but are locked up at night, the same as the other pris oners. Soon after the prayer meetings started, the trusties showed signs of uneasiness, and after two or three gatherings had been held, they went to the jailer in a body, and asked if they could not be allowed to stay out on Thursday nights until after the Apostolic Faith missionaries had had their innings. “ The Constitution grants us religious freedom,” said the spokesman of the trusties, “ and w e’d rather sit upstairs in the dark and think over our mis deeds than be caged up down there with those folk singing and shouting in the corridor.” The jailer thought it over, and granted the request of the trus ties, and they are now absent from the weekly meetings. The Man on the Comer Price 5 Cents OSWALD QUITS CITY; VICE CAMPAIGN TOO MILD FOR POLITICS. RUSHLIGHT IDEA BEHIND ATTACKS ON CITY FORGE Governor West, who was go OU’VE got to hand it to|to the bills that LaffVrty has in- ing to clean up Portland in a Lafferty, any way you look treduced, but just the same, lit- week, has decided to return to >ck in at it,” said The Man on the tie A. W. lias come out ou the tlie State Capitol and there con Plan to Abolish Civil Service in le Police Department Laid Corner. “ He seems to be right | top of the heap, and he is still tinue his business o f being execu to Mayor. on the job, and he seems to think i in the race to represent Oregon tive of Oregon. In departing he has left behind him a number of he was sent to Washington to do | again in the lower house, things for the people o f Oregon. “ The people have expressed special deputies, who will in While His Honor does not fig ington Maybe he hasn’t pleased every their opinion of him and have dustriously try to find atul stamp ure openly in the latest move to Sixth, body, but nobody who has been given him a vote of confidence, out wickedness. But the Gover get the police force out from un •s are in the halls of Congress was ever lie is the regular republican nom nor, the big show in the big tent, der civil service, people familiar to pay able to please everyone. But inee, and in all probability he will has departed. with local political events for the in the when you come to study it out, gather in the votes in November. He left without the fanfare past year or so see in the pro Com He has put a slight crimp into of trumpets that heralded his posed submitting of this question be in- the plans of some land barons coming. He left without having to the people the tine Italiau vs of between Portland and California, gained that political ascendency hand of A. G. Rushlight, mayor n the and he has made his fight right that he expected, lie left with o f the city. It has long been form from the shoulder all the time. out any scalps to his credit, with known that Mr. Rushlight is de ift— a When he was in Portland last Mr. Cameron still district at sirous of making certain changes r boat time he told the voters his side torney, and with Sheriff Stevens in the personnel of the police de here- In partment, and it is generally be of a lot of stuff that had beeu still ignoring his presence. îydro- slung at him by people who want short, he left just as soon as it lieved that it was his inspiration » that ed to boss him. and his word was became evident that his grand-jthat moved the council to rec- ftland accepted before the word of the stand campaign was not drawing ently order this matter placed on enough gate money to pay ex-1 tin1 ballot. gang that was fighting him. hero All sorts o f arguments are be- îcting “ I ’ve beeu buzzing round quite penses. With the Governor gone, busi- mg advanced to show why civil esting a bit. and nearly every person I ,’elous speak to is going to cast a vote ness will, it is to supposed. • re service is a detriment to the work grey- for Lafferty. That looks as if sume its normal condition. Port of the police department, but , and he’ll made good, doesn’t it? And land will no longer be advertised none of these arguments will hold Perhaps the most fre oduce let me tell you this: one of the as the sink-hole of sin that the water. long reasons why Lafferty has found a Governor dubbed it, and the city quently heard argument is that e ex- warm place in the hearts of the will gradually recover from the the abolishment of civil service ed a Webfooters is because he has black eye which the state execu will do away with the embarans- i one gone right on his even way, do tive gave it. It is to be hoped meut occasioned by the reinstate tanks ing what he thought was right, that the Governor is satisfied with ment o f patrolmen and others chain and disregarding all the thunder the damage that he has done, who have been dismissed after living bolts and muck that have been and it is to be hoped that the hearing before the police commis screw this Lafferty man has done con hurled at him. He is the kind of pastors and others who have so sion. e en- siderable for the folk at home, men who are proving valuable industriously sought after sin will Civil service is not to blame for l out and he seems to have done it in a these days, men who do what feel more comfortable. this. If proper charges were pre pretty thorough fashion. Portland, however, does not ferred against the men before the they think is right, and who “ Lafferty has had as fine a w on’t listen to the persuasive seem to have changed much. It commission, and if the commis ilized crop of enemies as you could find voice of the ‘ fixer.’ They say was a pretty good town before, sion was made an effective body, >ssive anywhere. But they don ’t seem Liffcrty is the poorest man in and it still seems to be a good instead o f a group of figureheads, ■ntire there would be no reinstatements. to have put the kibosh on him Congress— well, if he is, I ’m town. The trouble lies rather in the at all. They have slung a lot of proud of him, for it takes a think manner in which men are brought mud, and they have sent ‘ fixers’ mighty strong man to stay poor Last week The Times made back East to see him, and they in Congress these days of dollar listen up upon charges, and in the fact so if some slight mention of the Great have even sicked the Senate on I diplomacy that all too often the charges are cture Northern Tailors’ Combine, with mere recitals of personal spite. s put offices at 403, 404 and 405 Swet- No civil service board, no matter this land building. At about the same how corrupt, would dare rein i are time the Portland police also state a policeman who had been Late Founder of Salvation showed a remarkable interest in rring The general impression that a emphatically proven guilty of ' the this firm. Many firms, under sim A r m y and His Successor fireman is a husky person who some breach of police regula l all ilar circumstances, would have just delights in danger seems to tions; hut the civil service board upon quietly folded their tents, like the be altogether wrong. At least, it is not to be blamed for reinstat sssel, Arabs, and silently stolen away. seems to be wrong in Portland, ing men who have been “ dis s are But not so with the Great North and particularly in tin; home of missed” merely upon some vision ern Tailors. Truck No. 3, at 511 Glisan street, ary and elusive charge. What do you think they did? etty. for members of this company of Civil service is not only a pro g to They actually “ blew back” with fire laddies have asked the police tection to the police, but it is a the money that they collected in - C. to gather in a former member of protection to tin* public as well. ving their wonderful prize chance to the company and have him placed If civil service rules were carried ially get a perfectly good $35 suit for under bonds so that he will not out in Portland as they are in )lain one dollar. Whether or not they continue to beat them up. Fire other cities, there would be no have got scared, or whether or not men in most cities would hesitate complaint on citln r hand. A ser and they thought the lottery laws long before asking the police to vant of the city is entitled to __ , might bring them into unpleasant >ove, intrefere in a personal matter the protection of civil service, i in n otoriety they did not sav—they like this. and given this protection, the av- "simply went out and paid back Be that as it may, this is what erage man will work all the more gore the many and sundry dollars that has happened. Last Thanksgivingi honestly and effectively. Under him they had collected from unwary there was a lire, and Truck No. 3 1 civil service he knows that lie is en- women who thought the solicitors responded. At the fire ( aptainjfree o f political intrigue, and he îake looked good and honest. llabcrluud asked Lnddermau fearlessly do his duty as he They were quite particular 500 Charles Abbott to pick up a lad sees it. If lie does wrong, civil wa about paying back the money, der and put it back on the truck. service will punish him for his in if a too. In one case, a representa Abbott didn’t feel like doing it, discretions just as surely as it tive of the concern called five and said so, and was thereafter will at other times protect him. are times at one address, so as to he brought up on charges. At his Ilis Honor, however, desires to ters. sure and give back the dollar hearing Capt. llabcrluud, Lieut. make the police department a that had been collected under iany R. E. Berry and Laddcrman R. part of his political machine. _ , ided false pretences. 1!. Siebels and S. Elliott testi-j finds that civil service stands in The Great Northern Tailors’ i ach. tied that Abbott bad refused to. the way of this, and so he has be Combine is still in business, but pick up the ladder and had other-1 been desirous from the start of >at. | now as a strictly dollar-down- | w i s e not been a perfect gentle, abolishing it, or of over riding it clothing house. ' i of dollar-a-week man. As a result, Abbott was Portland people, however, have of Representatives of the firm say “ canned” . had too much experience in the lall that their solicitors misrepresent-1 Thereupon, Abbott decided to past with politically governed in ed their plans, and “ got them in j teach his former company bro- police work, arid it is not to be to bad” . They also say that these ! th ers a lesson. He wended his imagined for a minute that the oot solicitors will be arrested. How- j i way to the truck house and catch voters will permit a change to be iles ever a week has passed, and no ing ('apt. llabcrluud at leisure, made at this late day. No Port to arrests have been made, so per ; proceeded to beat him up. Then land man wants to see efficient on i haps the promoters of this scheme . lie told Haherlund what he had officers removed from the police tnd to get money have decided to be i done it for. I service every time a new mayor op forgiving and let the solicitors A little later he mosied around|takes office, merely so that the in go. to the Glisan-street house again, coming mayor can fulfill his elec- The Times is glad to chronicle to and walloped the stuffing out of tion promises and award the Ta this honesty on the part of the j Lieut. Berry, and also told him faithful henchmen who have lee Great Northern Tailors’ Combine why he «lid it. worked for him. No Portland . is bacause it is unusual in these Still later he returned to the citizen wants to see the policemen Photo by American Press Association. rho days of peculiar business finance. I truck hea«lquarters and summon- f«-ar to arrest influential citizens m g And The Times also feels that it i NE o f the moat ptcture8i|ue figures In modern English history has ing forth Laddcrman Siebels, if they have done wrong and passed aw ay In the death of General William Booth, the founder of thrashed him, reminding him, every citizen knows this wouhl in y has some considerable credit due the Salvation Arm y. Although be wan eighty-three year» old, he had w),(.n he was through that it happen if civil s«*rvic«- were dis- >en it for assisting the firm in being been active In the direction o f the army until he waa atrteken with W|W |,.manlv to giv.- testi- carded. pie so honest. nllndneaa laat June. He waa an untiring worker and never stiffens) a serious ,, Uncle Sam firuls that civil serv n- value of the invention is proved, illneaa until his luat He w .a well known In this country, which be vla.ted m'Ln> «gamM a fellow fireman ice works satisfactorily in the for the laat time four yeare ago. Every one acknowledged the spiritual force hero rem ainedof the quartet, ly they will probably get larger re- o f thle remarkable man, but he waa no leas remarkable as a practical or- o n ly Laddcrman Elliott. Mr. El government business. The great ir turns for their money. And in- ga nlzer. Field Marshal Lord Wolaeley once «aid that the Rrtttah army had liott has been long in tbe service, «•ity o f New Y«irk finds that it can lt i eidentallv consultation of the files taken lessons from tbe Salvationists In methods o f organization, distribution lias grey bair, and other things manage its police department bet to of the Scientific American of ami control. Hla aon Bramwell (photograph shown at left o f Illustration!, that go with the «lignity <d' com ter under civil service rub's than some five years ago will furnish w ho succeeds him In command o f the army, la said to have Inherited Ills pleted growth. Elliott did not without them. Seattl.e Tacoma, interesting information regarding father’s genius as an executive. relish a beating and told bis su- civil s«'rvice a success. In view this scheme. (Continued on I’ ngo 2.) (Continued on page 4 . ) Y T S GREAT NORTHERN TAILORS “ BLOW BACK’’ IN MONEY BRAVE FIREMEN ASK POLICE AID IN DAY OF WOE 0 r