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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1912)
5000 Circulation. -¿f ~¡ P O RTLAN D , OREGON, OCTOBER 25, 1912 COMMISSION GOVERNMENT DESERVES TO BE DEFEATED Just One Foolish Man Under Commission Form Is Menace to All Advancement. Voters who will, in the near cutive board have surprised many future, be given an opportunity people, and have delayed consid to express an opinion upon the erable sewer work that ought to advisability o f adopting the com be rushed to completion. Dr. Fix- mission form of government in ott presumably has acted as he Portland, may obtain some inter thought correct in his votes upon esting data upon the practical sewer construction, but the fact workings of the plan by review remains that he has caused delay ing recent events in the municipal to much needed sewer work. Theory Versus Practice. fire commission’s affairs. Particularly will they find illu But sewer work is not the topic mination in the manner in which in view. What has Dr. Fixott contracts for the purchase of au done to better Portland’s fire de tomobile fire apparatus were dis partment, and to make it more efficient and better able to protect posed of. Portland’s fire department, like the lives and property of Port some other branches of the city ’s land’s citizens? business, is managed by a com Sometime before the fire appar mission composed of certain mem atus contracts were taken up, Dr. bers of the executive board. Next Fixott was one of a party of Port to the police commission, this is land officials who visited Denver probably the most important com and other cities to inspect other mission in the city; and it has di fire departments, and to attend a rectly and indirectly in its hands convention of fire fighters. At the the safey of the men, women and convention, various kinds of fire children whose homes lie within apparatus were on display. Dr. the city limits. This responsibility Fixott viewed these displays in alone should be sufficient to ban common with other members of thè ish all personalities from the de party. But while all the others re liberations of the commission. garded the different apparatus from the viewpoint o f technical Just One Example. Upon this fire commission, as j efficiency, Dr. Fixott seemed to among others, is one Dr. Henry C. be interested in but one thing— Fixott. Dr. Fixott is a man who cost. The group of Portland officials ranks as a good citizen. He is a professional man, he is a director returned. The chief of the fire de in a charitable enterprise of con partment, who was one o f the siderable merit, he is a prominent group, turned in a report, recom resident of the Sellwood district, mending that a certain variety of a leading member of one of the fire apparatus be purchased. He, Sellwood churches, and a man and the other members, thought who has, by his own effort, at this apparatus the best for a tained remarkable success since number of reasons. It seemed he first came to Portland. In practical, it was manufactured by short, he is just such a man as|a reputable firm, it was standard the average voter might pick for apparatus, its parts were carried a member of a commission which in stock by a Portland agency, so would rule the city if the com- that repairs could be easily made mission form of government were — in short, it was regarded as the adopted. most efficient. When it comes down to h is1 Matter of Price, actual accomplishments on behalf j And Dr. Fixott? Dr. Fixott (lid of the city, however. Dr. Fixott! not agree with the others. He, does not loom in quite so favor-¡without technical training or prac- able a light. His official actions tical experience, differed with the on matters that have come before views of the chief of the depart- the sewer committee of the exe- ment. He believed that a cheaper DETERMINED OPPOSITION TO STREET CAR MONOPOLY variety of apparatus was just as good. The fact that this other apparatus was practically un known in the Northwest, that it was not carried by Northwestern firms, that it had no standard rep utation— made no difference to him. It was cheap, that was the main thing. And because it was cheap, Dr. Fixott thought it was good enough for Portland. Be cause it was cheap he was willing to risk the safety of property and people upon its improved effi ciency. In other words, without techni cal judgment, Dr. Fixott wanted this apparatus just because it was cheap. Fortunately for Portland, Dr. Fixott didn’t get what he wanted. The ideas of the majority were accepted, and standard ap paratus was accepted. Now, suppose Dr. Fixott had been a commissioner in full charge, under commission rule, of the fire department : While aet- j ■O Subscription Price: VL 00 per Year. ing presumably with the best of motives, he would have made it j impossible for Portland to acquire j a large amount of cheap fire ap paratus—which is the poorest kind of economy. Do Portland citizens want such things possible? Do they want commission rule, when the word of one man will have so much Johnson-Bradford Safe Company W ill weight? Do they want this when the mistakes of a perfectly hon Erect Large Factory in Near If est man may do as much harm as the deliberate wrong-doing of Present Plans Materialize. a crook? Probably not. The commission form of gov At an early date, a large factory ernment is dangerous because it will be erected at some point in places too much power in the the Last Side section of the city. hands of a few men. At the present time, the castings of their safes are made in Chi COMMERCIAL CLUB BORN. cago. The East Side factory will be utilized as the assembling point Portsmouth Residents Get To A Wonderful Oregon Invention for the different parts and the That W ill Have a World-Wide finished product will be shipped gether to Advance Community. Market — Demand Already is hence to the different Pacific Coast salesrooms, and the Orient. Greater Than Supply. The Portsmouth Commercial This new industry will employ Club was formally organized last common labor as well as expert The Johnson-Bradford Safe Co. week at a banquet held in the machinists, and when the factory Oddfellows’ Hall in University have secured large quarters on proper is established, thousands of Park, about 60 residents of that the East Side, exact location to dollars will be added to the pay district interested in the general be announced as soon as legal roll of the East Side. There is no uplift of their community being documents are signed, and will question as to the success of this present to contribute to the suc establish their assembly shops enterprise, as the demand already here. cess of the movement. exceeds the supply, and orders aro booked for one year ahead. The public has heard very little o f this Oregon invention— the first ANOTHER INDUSTRY FOR THE EAST SIDE TO BUILD FIRST BURGLAR-PROOF ANDMARINESAFE RULE OF FIVE “ COMMISSION CHARTER” KINGS I ! , r tí M ií U..H /¿r *■ m iV 'iS (Continued on page 2) HATES WOMEN; HIDES IN A GAVE Cannot Bear Sight of Them, Says Man Found in Woods Near Danbury, Conn. Danbury, Conn.— Hating wom en and everything feminine, a man of :15 years, known as Dan- iehl, lias cut himself off from civilization. He was found by policemen in a mountain cave, about 12 miles from here, follow ing a complaint that a wild man frightened women who were view ing the scenery. The cave dweller said he had lived in the mountains three years and had frightened the women away because he could not bear the sight of them. COW GIVES BIRTH TO FOUR CALVES Mother Is Black Cow, Five Years Old— Had Two Calves Before She Became Mother of Quads. DO YOU WANT TO GO BACK TO THIS^MR. VOTER P Iowa City, Iowa.— Born, to a Hereford cow, on the Arthur Itus- sell farm, four calves; all alive and kicking. The remarkable contribution to the live stock of a prominent Johnson County farmer, is be lieved to be without parallel in this State. There are two black and two red calves. One o f each color has u white face. The mother cow recognized the whole quartette as her own, but the task of feeding them was too much for her and two of them will be put with other cows. The mother is a black cow, f> years old, and had had two calves before she became mother to the quadruplets, but they came sing ly. There have been instances where three calves have been born to a cow, but they have generally been unhealthy. These four are as active and healthy looking as any that can be found. council, but so far have done Seventh Street, it will seek prop-1 line from coming south of Kill- work unless it gets a franchise nothing but delay the granting of erty in the Central East Side for ingsworth Avenue, with a common-user clause at the franchise. this purpose, and so better the The purpose of the local street tached. East Siders are not much con entire district lying to the east car trust in doing this is twofold: The Heusner franchise is for an cerned about this Seventh Street o f the river. But violent opposi- First, to keep out a competing interurban line, designed ulti opposition, however, as they feel tion will be made to all efforts of line as regards local business; Peninsula People Aid Heusner mately to connect this city with assured that if the road cannot the Portland Railway, Light & and, secondly, to force the in Interurban to Reach Heart of Vancouver, Wash., and with other make its passenger terminal on j Power Company to prevent the (Continued on page 3) cities in Southeastern Washing City. ton. Portland, through its Com Members of the North Albina mercial Club, has long been seek Push Club are hearitly in favor ing the trade o f Southwestern of the Heusner franchise, and are Washington, and at each meeting determined to put up a hard fight of the Southwestern Washington against the efforts of the I ort- Development League, this city has land Railway, Light & Power Co. sent delegations whose aim it has to block the entrance of the com been to better business relations Washington D. C.— A live frog man realized there was some 1 iv-1 several times fainted with pain with this section of the neighbor that crawled and clawed and ing animal in her stomach. She peting line to Portland. Still the doctors, when she toll -J. H. Nolta. president of the ing state. Action of the Portland croaked, lived for nearly a year consulted doctors, but they all them of her fears, laughed. Two club, and an ardent booster al Railway Company in blocking the in the stomach of Mrs. L. V. King laughed at her. Last spriiar, the ways for the East Side, is lead new line is regarded as a direct of Dean Wood. After elawing frog, now reaching its full growth, months ago, the frog, declares ing the fight against the oppon slap, not only at the East Side, away at the lining of the woman’s began tr climb into her throat and Mrs. King, began to croak. She ent!- of the new line, and has but at the entire city as well. The stomach until it was raw with nearly suffocated her. It clawed distinctly head it many times, and called a mass meeting of North East Side feels that the new line pain, almost strangling her as it away at the membrane until she her relatives bear her out. That Portland citizens to make formal will be bound to give an impetus climbed into her throat and fairly determined her to leave the phy- protest against the methods pur to its many industries, and as reducing her to a living skeleton, Isicians of Dean Wood severely TIGHT CORSETS KILL. the proposed road will tap the sued by the local street railway it was finally extracted by physi-i alone, and consult city doctors. manufacturing district . , . . . . of the . . - pen- , icians of the Emergency Hospital, trust. .r San Francisco, Calif.— Mrs. She did so. She went to the It is already charged by Mr. insula and upper Albina tt is d e -■ xhpv use(, a lar(fe pump. The frog Julia R. Brandon, wife of a Emergency Hospital and the frog I w m be Digmisse(1 by New j Nolta that the Portland Railway Portlanders6 m° re X N orth|i* now preserved in alcohol. physical culture expert and a was pumped out of its hiding | Board if He Ref' geg to 0be' people have started to lay an It is a weak, colorless, wrinkled, friend of Mayor Rolph, died place. The frog lived ten min-1 Opposition, more or less in extra track on Maryland avenue the Rule. shapeless specimen, and bears a| from wearing tight corsets. utes in a tub of water. It croaked | spired. has already appeared to solely for the purpose of block- , - _ This is the first case of the and sang just like any regular ing the entrance of the new line the road from certain Seventh faint resemblance to the normal Cedar Grove, X. J.— Because kind on record. She had never frog. Then it died. According Leofric Temple, 17 years old, re from the Peninsula district. Mr. ¡Street property owners, who de- frog. Its legs are long and thin before had on corsets. She was to the physicians this is the first fused to salute the American flag Nolta declares that the street car elare that they do not wish the as toothpicks. It measures, all- companv has no intention of ns- line to reach the heart of the city told, about seven inches. Just as 28 year old and of beautiful time on record that any animal of ami to pledge allegiance to it in figure. She put on the corsets, the proportions of a frog has ever in i'th is Maryland avenue track over the new Broadway bridge it was breaking out of the egg the exercises at the public school laced them tight and caused lived in a human stomach, at j in Cedar Grove, a special meet- for regular car service, and be- \ and this down town thoroughfare, the tadpole was swallowed by least for the period of 11 months. Mrs. King in well water last Aug peritonitis. lieves that the city should not They have filed remonstrances It is a most remarkable ease. (Continued on l’ago 2.) permit it to continue with this,against the franchise with the city list. Weeks passed before the wo- NEW RAILWAY FOR EAST PORTLAND TADPOLEISWALLOWED OY WOMAN TURNS INTO FROG AND NEARLY STRANGLES HER BOY MUST SALUTE FLAG OR QUIT PUBLIC SCHOOL