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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1912)
THE TIMES TOM. M. WORD MAN OF WORTH GIRLS WIN WALK NEW RAILWAY FOR THE EAST SIDE is Three Daughters of Well-to-Do (Continued from Page 1.) Ranchmen Make 88 Day Trip coming line to transfer passengers Everybody’s Candidate for the on $1,000 Wager and Will Get and freight to the Portland sys Office of Sheriff of Mult the Money. ■ ( ?; . <T tem at the outskirts o f the city, nomah County. so that the local concern may n ** Chicago, 111.— Twenty-six days profit by this interchange of traf There are thousands of little ahead of their schedule, three mothers sitting quietly in their fic. Residents of North Portland homes who, on election day, will pretty Western girls arrived in see no reason why the new com- have a yearning down deep in this city, after walking all the i panv should not be given real their hearts for the privilege of way from Madison, S. D., thereby winning $1,000. entrance to the city, however, and the ballot, that they might just They are Celeste Maynard, 1!) will fight for the Ileusner people for onee slip up to the polling place and drop in a vote for Tom years o ld ; Orietta Regask 20, and with all their power, Katherine Xelson, 18. All three Word. i In this flirht. they will be as live about 40 miles from Madison, They know Toni Word. They and are the daughters of wealthy sisted by tiic interests behind the I Swift Packing Company, who sec may not know him as a man—- ranchmen. i In the Ileusner line a new arterx wouldn’t recognize him on the “ Early last summer a cowboy lover which their stock •may be street, perhaps— but they know employed on one of the ranches, | brought to the huge plant they him as a living force for the scoffed at the idea of a girl be have built on the Peninsula. It is right— for all that is good and ing the physical equal of a man, also reported that the Swifts are manly. They know that with and immediately found an argu interested in the new line, and Tom W ord in the office of Sheriff ment on his hands,’ ’ said Miss this is another reason for their that decency will prevail—that Maynard. “ Other cowboys im backing it. the law will be upheld. Indec mediately backed him up, and ency will not be permitted to The new line, owing to its pro finally 67 knights of the lariat flaunt itself in county road houses, posed route, will also give the made up a purse of $1,000 which in city grills or public streets. Peninsula and North Portland a they offered to us if we would These mothers of ours know that better route to the heart of the succeed in walking to Chicago in Tom W ord as sheriff their chil city than they have at present four "months. dren— both boys and girls-—will over the antiquated Albina and “ One specific condition was that St. Johns lines of the Portland meet with fewer temptations, fewer pitfalls of vice, to lead we must earn our living as we Railway. Aside from the better them astray. Do you wonder went. I accepted the challenge route, the new line will have that the mothers of Portland are and started from Madison the lat modem roadbed and reputable almost a unit for the election of ter part of June with $5. We ar rolling stock, and as soon as it rived in Chicago with 10 cents.” starts business, will drain traffic this man? Starting in the same typical from the old cars that are notv The fathers—the business man Western clothes they are wont to of the street— thousands of them, wear when riding over the Dakota operated on a hit and miss sched ule over the Portland Railway favor Tom W ord ior Sheriff be prairies, the girls walked to Du cause they have seen him tried. buque, Iowa, in buckskin skirts, Company’s lines. That the Peninsula is heart and They know that he is cool, Clear- stout boots, flannel shirt waists Headed and wise, and will con and with sombreros on their soul behind the new movement, duct the office as a sensible up- heads. There they found other mid that its people will do every to-date business man should. clothing awaiting them and after thing to make the entrance of the They know that he will make no shipping their prairie clothes Ileusner people to the city easy, grandstand plays— that he will back home, started on the sec goes without saying. It means not plunge the city into turmoil ond and last lap of their journey. better ear service to them, it means quicker ears and more com and make a hullabaloo for no “ We washed dishes, swept fortable ones, and it means the toriety’s sake. They know his will be a business administration floors, assisted generally in house extension of Portland's commer and that only the violators of the work en route,” said Miss Nelson, cial field into Southwestern Wash law need have any anxiety as “ and every one treated us charm ington, with a corresponding de Candidate for to the conduct of the sheriff’s ingly. W e cannot truthfully say velopment of East Side and Pen office. The public has not forgot that we had a single adventure, insula business and commercial ten the good work done by Tom and not once were we even ac interests. W ord in the past, and many who costed. Mr. Xolta appeared before the FIRST CONCRETE were free to criticize him then “ As a rule, we were able to East Side Business Men’s Club at DOCK TO BUILD are now among his warmest sup sleep in a farm house, but several their luncheon Monday and after porters. I f you are in favor of times when we were far from a stating the stand taken by the Public Dock Commission Gives a decent, law-abiding city, not house, at nightfall, we slept in North Portland Improvement George W. Bates Authority to only vote for but speak a word hay stacks. Twice we slept in Club, asked the East Siders to Build on Water Front. to your neighbor in favor of this caves and two or three times we endorse its stand. This was done man-—Tom Word. found shelter in bams. by unanimous vote. Work will soon be begun on the first concrete dock, the Pub lic Dock Commission having given George W. Bates permission to A single dollar down erect ji permanent dock on the west side of the harbor adjoining Is the talk of the tow n; the Burnside bridge on the south. Just a dollar a week The dock will have a frontage o f 86 feet and a depth of 68 feet. . Is all that we seek, It will be a one-deck structure and the floor will be 274 feet On the finest of gowns, above low water. It will be of open construction, concrete col Either female or male— umns being anchored on piling Come to us—w e’ll make the sale that is being driven, and the top of the clusters will be within two That the garments will fit, or three feet of the low water mark. And are made very fine ' It will be of reinforced con-1 Is guaranteed by “ I t ” — crete, and an office building to be erected in the rear, facing the bridge approach, will be of the J same construction, though at first it was planned to have th e 1 interior of wood. Mr. Bates will improve adjacent dock property on which sand and gravel bunkers are maintained in 403— 406 Swetland Building. two or three years, when they, j also, will be rebuilt o f concrete. I T O M Great Northern Tailors M. W O R D SHERIFF of Multnomah County (Paid Adv.) ¿4 Phone or Write Government Standard P ow d ers C o m p a n y OF PORTLAND And Have an Expert Explain Our Money Maker Main 6383 90 First Street Combine U. S. SENATE TO HAVE RAILROAD OF ITS OWN Special System Is Being Built So That They Will no Longer Have Tired Feet. U $1.00 Down $1.00 a Week Merchant Tailors to Men and W om en Suits made to measure from the finest fabrics, in latest New York styles; a fine line of samples for your selection. Our prices are so moderate and terms so easy that you cannot af ford to be content, with a “ hand-me-down” suit when you can obtain one made to your order, and therefore perfect fit. from us. Best fitters and cutters in the city. Call and inves tigate. Fourth floor, Fourth-St. entrance. GREAT NORTHERN TAILORS COMBINE 4 0 3 - 4 0 6 Swetland Building, Fourth and Washington Sts., Portland, Ore. Washington, I). C.- -The United States Senate is building its own railroad system. Work has been started on the project, and when the solons who hold forth in the upper branch of Congress come hack to resume their duties in December, they will lie able to ride right from their offices in the Senate office building to the Capitol, whefe elevators will take them to what ever floor they wish to go. A one-rail system is being in stalled in the tunnel leading from the office building to the Capitol, an<l it will he a double-tracked, sure-enough rapid-transit line of about 500 feet in length. The cars will be operated by electricity, but owing to restric tions of space, they will not be of Pullman proportions, and it is possible that, fat Senators may find it convenient to walk. It is not uncommon in the country to sec children wading through deep mud on their way to school. Study conditions and build th< road suitable to the traffic with due regard to the probable main tenance. NINE TRAINS DAILY Leave UNION D E P O T P O R T L A N D via Steel Block Signals Coaches For TACOMA f s'«> nr« CC1 T -ri c 8: 10 A . 1:45 P. 1 0 0 P. 11:00 P. Puget Sound Express ) I s h u t * Lim ite d SEATTLE l Tlie0w| CHICAGO f ° w 111 i'“ 1 and EAST J 10:00 A . M Portland and Puget Sound Kxpress 8:00 P M. i Soo-Spokane Train De Luxe CENTRAL S T hro*.g»i Sen-ire OREGON ( Quick Service THE DALLES Itallu Local M. M. M M. 9:00 P. M. 7:50 A . M. . . . , 10:00 A M. 4:00 P. \T. A TICKET VIA O-W. R & N„STANDS FOR SERVICE. C IT Y T IC K E T O FFIC E Third and Washington Street« Phone Marshall 4500