THE TIMES
TOM. M. WORD
MAN OF WORTH
GIRLS WIN WALK
NEW RAILWAY FOR
THE EAST SIDE
is
Three Daughters of Well-to-Do
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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.
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tem at the outskirts o f the city,
nomah County.
so that the local concern may
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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
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W O R D
SHERIFF of Multnomah County
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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.
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