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Historical Society ST. JOHNS REVIEW I IT'S NOW UP TO YOU C i . Il I.. Tlllti II . GET IN THE HABIT Of iitverflilat In THIS Psptr ml you'll nattrrcrrai li. 11. All Ihr newt while It II newi 11 J our niullo. Call la and enroll J final once and kttprljbtal II J jlKii.iiifc6nwitnW Devoted to the Interest of the I'cnlmula, the Manufacturing Center ot the Northwett VOI,. 7 ST. JOHNS, ORKGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST it, 191 1. NO. .jo Progressive Meeting Trading at Home More Grief Firemen's Barbecue The Boy Scouts Council Proceedings Highway Terminus The second meeting of the St. Jolms Progressive nssocintion was held In the city linll Saturday night, ntid a fairly good attendance was present. After Chnlruinn Perriue had neain stated the object of the organization, he urgently request ed all good citizens to join by en rolling their names, which a num ber proceeded to do. The constitution and by-laws, as prepared bv a committee endow ed with that mission, was read and adopted bv sections. As they are short and to the point, we print them In full: Article i The name or title of this organization shall be: "The St. Johns Progressive Association." Article m The object of this or ganization shall be for tlie purpose of discussing and taking action up on any public measure vital to the welfare and advancement of St. Johns. Discussion and action will be taken only upon matters perti nent to the city as a whole, and not for any individual, clique or faction. Article III This organization shall meet in the city hull Thursday evening of each week. Article IV All citizens interest ed in the welfare and development of St. Johns ore eligible to join this organization. Article V The lines of this or ganization shall be 10 cents per month for each member, payable in advance. No initiation fee shall be exacted. The committee on resolutions asked for another week's time lor preparation of same, which was readily granted. Chas. Anderson and S. W. Clill dcrs believed that the ordinance al lowing tlie water company 10 cent.s per foot for lowering mains was un just. II. S. Hewitt made a motion that it be the sense of the meeting that the city council be rcuucstcd to rcpeul the ordinance allowing the St. Johns Water Co. ten cents per foot for relaying water pijies. Car ried unanimously. S. C. Cook thou stated that the Maple street sewer proposition had 1 cached n point where it was of vital interest to the tuxpayers in the city. He read several sections of the city charter relative to when warrants should be issued for street or sewer work. He contended the warrants had been Issued prema turely, and therefore the city and not the projierty owners affected by hying of the sewer were responsi ble for their payment; that if one link in the proceedings is violated the whole is vitiated. D. C. Lewis, an attorney who bus lately become a resident of St. Johns made a few pointed remarks on the subject, in which he advised laying the matter before the dis trict attorney. Mr. Hewitt then moved that a committee be np K)!uted to take the mutter up with the district attorney; carried unan imously. S. C. Cook, Dr. Mc Chesney and S. V. Childers were selected for the mission by the att dieuce. Adjournment to Thursday even ing. Everyone to be Rated The Merchants' Mercantile Co. of Portland is preparing to prepare a credit guide for this district, in cluding Multnomah county. By this system this county will lw put in direct touch with credit conditions all over the United States and whenever nnyone moves here from any other part of the United States, the merchants here will be at once posted through this com pany as to how the party paid his bills where he formerly lived. These credit guides are made up In districts covering every state in the Uuiou. They are made from the combined experience of all the merchants In each of these districts and every merchant rates his own customers according to how they have paid him. Before a customer is rated he is given notice by letter that he will be rated nud Is given a chance to pay up his old account and thus secure a good rating. Each merchant and professional raan is furnished with a copy of the rating guide so that he may re fer to it and look up the ratiug ol any customer or prospective custo mer before giving any credit. Oregon's hop crop is another source of prosperity for the farmer (bis season. With 30 cents already paid for the growing crop and re ports of extreme shortage abroad, making further advances probable the bop grower is in high feather. The state has an excelleut yield of hops this season, the total belug es timated at 100,000 bales, which is the biggest crop since 1907. Have you any town, city or state pride? Why do you buy out of town? Boost your town; don't knock or try to kill it. Why do you buy out of town? You may think you save money, but do you ? Kvery dollar you put out of cir culation here at home makes it just that much harder for you to find another dollar to take its place. Is that saving money. Your home merchant extends you credit when you need it and von know how often tliat occurs and for how long you "hang him up" but when you do your cush buying you send your money to some other city because some tilings in which the regular price is widely advertised are sold a few cents low er than nt home. And the out of town house makes up on something you do not know about -or on the quality of the goods. When you buy of a home mer chant and find that the purchase is not up to the standard you can go to him and have it out. Can you do that when you buy in Portland or Chicago? You muv argue that you do not sell your products in this town, Perhaps you don t but couldn t you do so if the town were lorger and more prosperous? Do you think tills town wilt grow if you persist in sending to an out-of-town firm for goods? And wouldn't your products have n greater sale if we all did our share in calling for Made in Oregon" goods, all things being equal? If iK'ople sending their orders to out of town houses would spend the same amount of money In their own town these towns would be growing just as the larger cities are growing. There would be a larger demand for "Made in Ore gon" merchandise, a demand for a larger force of clerks to handle the increased trade and a demand for houses for the clerks to live in. There would be a larger demand for farm products for them to live upon, a larger demand tor tlie pro duce that the average farmer raises and is willing to raise more 01, if the demand makes it necessary. Think it over and see if your trade would not be of some hell) toward bringing about these new conditions! -Kx. Good Place to Rusticate Hillsboro, Ore., July 29, 1911. Kditor Review: I noticed an item in the Review about the intense heat in St. Johns July 2.1th. Out here on Maple I till at tlie fir wun ranch, where the flowers bloom the year around, the birds sing their praises, the trout jump over tlie tree tops, the grouse and pheasants most beside the shadv brook and the deer wake me up every morning with their musical bleating, i ten voii the climate was rather tropical around these diggings. I had something less than 100 acres of hay to haul In on that beautiful day. I Invited in all of mv neighbors consisting of about 8 good heavy weights. We opened a keg of nails and we put it in the cool rippling brook, and it is hard to tell which flowed the faster the perspiration or the nails, but never theless the hay was all confined by nii'ht in a beautiful lot: bliliRalo that cost something like 25 cents, not saying anything at all auout the murders we committed ou those little singing insects (culex pun- gens) that say co-u-si-n. The only thing- we lacked to complete our job in first class shape was some of the St. Johns boys, some thing like Roy Wilcox or some of the other good heavy weights to count the nails for us. If you have any more'extremely hot days iu St. Johns you are invited to come out to Maple Hill on the Fir Bluff ranch where the merry breezes sing their merry song. J. B. Campbell. Big delegations from all parts of the state will gather at Astoria for the annual convention of the Ore gon Development league on August 14, 15 and 16. There is wide in terest in the approaching sessiou and a splendid.intcresting program has been prepared. Each section promises to have a full representa tion and the meeting will mark a forward step in development circles. The Centennial celebration will have an added interest for delegates to the League gathering, known far aud wide for its hospitality. As toria will make a special effort to entertain the leaguers. On the whole, the approaching ponvention promises to be the very best ever held in the history of the state-wide development body. The parallel development oi political nun itiutistrini lite: POLITICAL l'lrst stage l'rlmativc barbarism In- illvlduallsm in olleiisc rum defense, No organization. Knch (or himself, l'ree competition, which finally results in ttmstery of the stronger, mid the bculti 11 1 lit; of organization mid the leadership 01 cuiritnius, feudal Damns, etc. Co-operation in the fighting hut not in 111c tUstriDuiion 01 (lie sixiiis, bareer mid lurirer political combliui lions preclude the possibility of Individ mil competition, which meant only waste ami ruin, and establish kingdoms anil em pire holding a complete niouooty of political jiower which is Monarchy. The next step is mi attempt to obtain relief from this olitical iimnoKly in constitutions ami laws granting some rights to the H.-ople ami limiting the power of the ruler. This H limited moil nrcliy or a measure of public control of itolltica! niwer. The next step Is pub lic ownership of political inmcr, which is Democracy. INIIl'.STHIAl, I'lrsl stage Indutlrial barbarism Individualism In production No oruan lation. Hach producing what he uses. 1'iee conieimoii, tcMilting III mastery of those better qualified, and the begin ning of orgaiiln-d production under the leadership of those owning the ma chinery. Co-operation in production hut not In tlie iilsirlimtiou ol tlie prod net, Larger and larger Industrial combina tion preclude the xssibility of Individ ual competition, which also means only waste nud ruin, 11ml estalill,h trusts and combines holding 11 complete iuouoMly of iiiiluttrf.il power, which Is Industrial .Monarchy, or Capitalism. And we try to obtain relief from In dustrial monojxdy In laws mid commis sions such ns establish railroad rates, say what trains shall be rim. etc. This is what the editor say Is the true means of relief, inn 11 is only limned nionaicny, this public control of industry. And the next step iiitist be Public Ownership of Industrial Power, which is Socialism. Mr. Itdltor, you give the pncr defi nition of democracy as "rule by the peo ple at larec" mid then say that this pro motes individualism. Hut sir, rule by the people at large uhollshcs Individual ism In political government In identical ly Hie Mine way mat socialism would aiMlUh iuvldtiulUm iu Industry. Dem ocracy means majority rule, the sinking of the will or the individual in the will of the majority. It means collectivism which is the di rect opxllc of individualism. The true Individualist l the anarchist who com plains of the "tyranny of the majori ties." And you who would continue industrial anarchy are loath to submit to the majority rule of the Industries. Once more socialism means manage ment of the Industries of the jx-oplc by the people ami for the people. Nothing but industrial democracy, Now. Mr. IMItor, I have been a stu dent of scientific socialism for more thnii twenty years, and when you say that I seem more of 11 pnpulUl than a socialist, you have In iniiid tlione misunderstand tugs of socialism, which you, iu common wiili many others, have acquired, the Iorsl knows bow, but it hus not been from reading socialist literature. "Couliscalloii, dividing up, to elve somelKHly something for nothing, which Subscriber objects to unite proixrrly, and the abolishment of gold and silver uion- y. lucre is not one word lit nil so lullst literature to nlve foundation for such notions. Some writers have men tioned us merely Incidental that the use of such money would probably grow leu or disappear, which is even now borne out by tlie facts ou the Isthmus where government is 111 control 01 practically all business. This merely m Interesting result. And by the way what per cent of business is transacted with money today? As to confiscation, there has U-eu no confiscation to obtain government own ership of such industries us nre now gov criimeutally owned iu the different countries of the world.There would he 110 confiscation If the government should stop the Guggenheim confiscation of Alaska coat laud, open up the mines it self and furnish coal to the jcople at cost, and there need be 110 confiscation to continue the good work on other lines, It would not be confiscation if the government should declare forfeited the lauds which the railroads have gobbled up although tailing to live up to their part of the contract. And it would be "dividing up" though not equally, to parcel it out to settlers 160 acres to each of the first comers. And you have told us that if alt property were divided up it would In a brief time be In the hands of a few, and that we know is true, there fore we don't want it dUided up, we want it held by the government undi vided, and used for the benefit of all, Now as to the statistics of certain In dustries, You believe that considering the things incidental to competition they made only a reasonable profit. You might have gone farther aud shown that many others make no profit at all, and that 95 per cent ot all business ventures fail utterly, do not pay for their time to say nothing about profit. And come to think of it. the feudal barous and rulers of dinky little polit ical institutions didn't make such tre mendous profits, considering the inci dentals of competition, the responsibi lities tint the dangers of losing their heads from internal or external disturb ances, even when they bad ground dowu their serfs and underlings to the lowest point of existence. We wouldn't want the job for what there is in it. Well is that a reason to continue that system? Great Caesar! That is just the very reason we have changed it. Iu the interest of both the njlcr and the ruled we cut out the waste of effort, the res ponsibility and the dangers of that form of competition, and cut out the tirofit.all profit, even the reasonable profit of the ruler. We now hire one and pay him a salary. Aud won't you please tell us what great and valuable incentive, what rest was destroyed so that there was nothing worth while to work for, and make life worth living? Welt now, when opposing financial interests, because of the risks, the losses, The fire'laddies held their second annual picnic aud barbecue ou the shady banks of the Willamette just north of the ship building plant Sunday. Almost the full eoniplc nient of firemen and ninny of their friends congregated ou this delight ful spot aud spent the day as only such good fellows can. A large section of an ox, done 111 mi ex quisitc manner by a chef of high attainment, provided ptoveuder enough to feed Coxey's army. Be sides this there were pickles by the barrel, baked beans, salads nud sandwiches iu endless profusion. The fircbel! rung just after all hud eaten to the capacity of their clothes and the way some of the liremeii waddled up the hill to the scene of disaster, was highly amusing to some of the guests who had eaten so much that they were unequal to the task of following suit. Hall games aud a kangaroo court were the features enjoyed by nil, and the occasion was 1111 immense suc cess. T 1 the waste incident to coiuietiliou can only the strongest of them make a rea sonable profit, unit that upon tin ruins of the 95 per cent who fail, and by foio iug the wages of the millions down to the lowest, nud the price of cniiimiiditii-s up to the limit, --what is the answer? "Willi malice toward none, nut i-uar-It v for nil" we will learn from isist polit ical ehanec what the next lii'liisltial change must be. And iu the interest of the liarnifH'd employer and oppressed worker alike we wilt change the kvstciu cutting out profit, even the (under present condi tions) reasonable proiit. pulling our cap tains of industry on n Hat wilarv. Hut of even greater Importance than the mivIiii! of the profit will be the saving of the waste ol many iiiHiiiiiiinuNopiiosiug cacii other. A. V. Vincent. After n careful perusal of the above, one who . is not a socialist could not help but wonder what could possibly lie gained by social ism over present conditions, Tlie doctor takes the planks upon which "Appeal to Keasou and all tlie socialist street speakers that we ever heard have long been standing aud ruthlessly casts, them into oblivion. The time honored plank "confiscation," upon which so many weary socialists have clam bered, and upon which their fond est hoes are ccnteted is discarded; the "division or the public loot" plank, "something for nothing" plank, aud abolishment of gold and silver as n medium of exchange plunk are all thrown into the bot tomless pit. The doctor also gives us the first instance in nil our ex- jierlence of a self-styled socialist of 20 years' standing pitying the "liar rassed employer." Invariably they are stvled as "blood suckers," 'slave drivers," "inhuman mon sters" and the like. To prove this statement we ask any one to listen 30 seconds to any street orator ex horting socialism any evening in Portland. The doctor Is most sure- y iu a class by himself. He states that 95 per cent of all business ventures fail. Why? Is t because they pay their employes too much, or too little as the social- sts would have us believe, or is it lecattse 05 per cent of the people making business ventures nre un fitted by training and ability to suc cessfully transact business? Since the doctor has cast aside so many planks that are dear to the hearts of most socialists, mighty little remains between him aud the present svsteni. The only differ ence, as we glean from his remarks, is that the public should own all industrial power, so that the 95 per cent above mentioned would have no chance to exploit their business aspirations, and the laborer's wage crushed down to such an extent that failure iu business would be m possible. But is the government (which is the people) capable of operating any proposition successfully ana equitably? Has it proven to be so? In conducting military attairs it lias been woefully inequitable. A good soldier receives no more than a poor one, and the soldiers arc iu far worse bondage than the average workman. He can not throw up his position whenever he desires, and at all times is at the beck ami call of the government. In Postal affairs the government is just as in equitable. The rural mail carrier gets $500 or $600 per year for his services, must furnish ins ownj torse and feed out of this. Other , employes doing much less work ' receive many times um amount. They cannot throw up their job at , moment's notice, either. me. Panama canal is costing twice us much as a corporation could do it ! for, and yet the wages paid for la bor is not much aliove the average, if any. Therefore, it would be wise to first let the government show that it is capable of conduct ing affairs iu an economical and equitable manner before burdening A card from Adjutant Butts says lie is having the time of his life. The aquarium is growing in in terest as' new specimens tire being introduced. It now contains three specimens: two adult Kpomntis Gibbosi and their Imby; one Aci penser Trnnsmoiilanes, one Aineiit ritts Nebulostts, one Microptertts Salmoides. There two fine speci mens of Carpiodcs Cyprintis con tributed, but they had been caught with the hands nud a few days later the dreaded sporndes made their appearance, making it nece'tsnry to remove them. The Acipenser was caught by Scout Poff, who caught two, but they handled witli the bare hands. After a week one had to be removed from the nquarium and the other is being closely watched. The two adult Kpomntis were contributed by Scout Hurtle who. handled them with his hands just as little ns possible. They may escape the fate of the other victims of handling but it is doubtful. They are beauties and it would be too bad to lose them. Tlie onlv safe way is to NKVKR TOUCH A KISII with the bare hands if it is for the aquarium nud never put the hands in the aquarium. The baby Kimmutis was caught nt the same time its the Salmoides three weeks ago by tt stranger who said he did not handle them. As they have passed the danger period without any symptoms of evil effect we nte iu hopes they are permanent resi dents. depart - not yet Tlie show case for the incut of "bugologv," has materialized. Is it possible that our business men and citizens caie so little for their boys aud think so much of the almighty dollar that they will not loosen up to the ex tent of n few sheckels to enable those boys to devote some of their spare time to nature study instead of loafing about the street, learning things that can dothcin nothing but imriiir it iuuks liiucii uku u. New specimens nre coming iu al most every day, among them a fine belostoma', u pair of prionus lute cellls, n most beautiful pnpilio eu rymedon, n very rare moth, arclia chain n native of Labrador, but found iu the mountains as far south as Colorado. How It hap pened to come to St.Johns is a won der to the bugologist; there nre n number too which we have not had time to classify, nil of which will have to be kept piled up iu boxes to deteriorate without doing any one any good until fiom some fcottrce a suitable .showcase is seemed. A few cents each from our busine men would be sufficient to buy n good case which they could donate cither to the public library or the scouts as they see fit, in cither case It will be Tilled by the boys and will prove n source of instruct ion a- well ns amusement, for noxious insects will be classified and the best meth od of extermination given. ScoutmaHtcr. Building Permits No, 70 To J. Del,yser to erect a dwelling on New York street be tween l'csscndcu and Portland boul evard; cost $350. No. 80 to Tony Jlulies to erect a dwelling on Bank street between Midway and Oregonum avenues; cost $60. Teething babies ever have n hard time of it when this process occurs in hot weather. They not only have to contend with painful gums but the stomach is disordered, bowels loose and the body uncom fortable. The best help you can give the little sufferer is McGce's Baby hlixir. It corrects sour stom ach, cools nud quiets the bowels aud helps digestion. Price 25c, and 10c tier bottle. Sold by St. Johns Pharmacy. I.akeview people are making ar rangements for a monster celebra tion in October when the new rail road, now building north from Cal ifornia, will reach that place. It is projosed to have the biggest dem onstration of the kind ever held iu Interior Oregon, and it is expected that other cities of Central South ern Oregon will participate. It is probable there lie a week of general rejoicing over the arrival of the railroad. ' - - - it with any further responsibilities. Anyhow, it seems that it is infinite ly better to be merely a citizen with a world of possibilities before us than a government slave, subject to the whims and caprices of a fick le and incapable public. Lot m hope that the "next stop" will not be speedily taken. All members with the exception of Councilman Muck, who is absent from the city on a business trip, were present at the regular meeting of the city council Tuesday evening with Mayor Couch presiding. After the minutes had been read and disposed of, a number of re monstrances against assessment of sewer district No. 2, presented by W. J. Collins, Dr. W. V. Amos, Mrs. Charlotte Carlson, J. H. Crn nier, D. C. Rogers, W. H. King and nbout .10 others, were read. While they were out of order more1 or less, they were entertained by the mayor and referred to the street committee for report. According to the charter the time for remon strance ngainst the assessment of the Maple street sewer had long since passed. All that could have been remonstrated against Tuesday night legally was any injustice that might have been believed to have been done iu making the apportion ment. Iu view of tlie fact that the property owners did not know ns much about sewer conditions when the time for remonstrance against tlie assessment was ripe as they have learned since, the remonstran ces were accorded consideration. A resolution to improve Tioga jstrci:l from 1,,,.,, t0 willls boulevard was adopted on motion of Alderman Hill. Attorney Geo. J. Perkins then asked leave to present a couple of propositions before the council, which was granted. He was urged ; 0 )Cmf 0f ,irt die,,,, .jle St.Johns c,..r Smnl mid r.mv.d (v. ubi.-b has been handicapped by the de lay, that work be expedited ou the improvement of Macrtim avenue; that the time hail elapsed for its im provement and the work was at a standstill. Then, as attorney for the bondsmen of sewer district No. 2, he asked that the assessment ordi nance lie passed with the least pos- sH, ,cny. tmt debtors of the con ftfir.(nr ltml tirnmlit unit nivfibicl ttu. contractor nud his bondsmen, and if tlie assessment ordinance was passed it would relieve the situa tion; that the maintenance bond of the bondsmen was apparently am ple to remedy all defects that might arise on tlie sewer, and, therefore, the property owners would not be injured by an early passage of the ordinance; that personally he want ed the city to have 11 good sewer, and believed iu holding the bonds men to make it good, If it proved bad; that if warrants had been Is sued prematurely they could be ex changed without trouble for ones ihntied lifter the work had been made satisfactory; that he had been informed by one of the bondsmen that all defects so fur discovered had been remedied; that upon in vestigation the bondsmen had found little if any additional defects, He asked that if there were any other known faults iu its construction he wanted to know them so he could advise his clients and have them fixed; tlmt it was incumbent upon the council, he thought, to proceed utt rnpadly as possible to ward having the matter settled sat isfactorily. Socialist Perriue didn't think the bonds heavy enough, judging from remark' made by the contractor; that the projierty owners wanted the tunnels filled for one thing; that n good sewer was of more moment than any hardship that might fall ujHin the bondsmen. Mr. Perkrus replied that he also wanted the city to have a good sewer aud that the tunnels would be properly filled, and that the specifications would be complied with so far as nccessaiy where they were shown to vory widely enough to make a bud sew er, jttu since tlie engineer, an in spector of the rcmoustrators' own choosing, the street committee, a majority of tlie council, nud finally the chief inspector from Portland, with a wide reputation for ability and veracity, had passed upon the sewer and pronounced it good, be sides a maintenance bond for two years supplied by well known and responsible citizens, that iu the face of this evidence most any fairmiud ed person would concede that it was safe to iwiss the assessment or dinance. Gail Perriue, who lias been acting as inspector of the bondsmen work, testified that iu one place they found pipe with so little cement ou top that he could run his hand iu; that some of the pipe had been found to be cemented iu good shatK.', and others not so good. Mayor Couch then stated that he did not think anything could be done toward passing the ordinance until the engineer had passed upon it aud handed iu his report, and that he would not favor its passage until this has been received. Alderman Hill thought Contract or Pottage was entirely too dilatory iu improving Macrttui avenue and Portland has gained a great vic tory over Seattle and San Francis co. It has been recognized by the United StntCS OS the official lorml. tins of the occan-to-ocean highwny, which tlie federal good roads de partment is supporting. Seattle and San I'rancisco lmvi? hron in competition with Portland for this great tourist and commercial high-way-to-bc, aud it is now announced that Portland has won out. Maps with Portland and Now Vnrk ns llin termini are being distributed by the government In every part of the Uuitcd States, in which Is contained valuable advertising for Portland. The map shows the highway from New York to Portland will be 3800 miles long. At Portland it will connect with the Pacific highway, permitting of journey either north to Canada or south to the border of Mexico.Portland getting them com ing and going. It is believed that this great highway will be of more material benefit to this section than the Panama canal. It will afford all men of means an opportunity to travel from New York nud inter vening points to Portland by auto over one of the finest roads iu the country, which would menu n most rapid development of this little known part of the world. he favored taking summary meas ures with this gentleman nud force him to either get busy or get off the job. He made a motion which car tied unanimously, that the matter be placed iu the hands of the city attorney to demand that the con tractor get busy at once ami finish the improvement, or the city would take it off his hands nud complete the work nt the expense of the con tractor nud his bondsmen, as the charter directs. A resolution to Improve Crawford street from Salem to Richmond was adopted en motion of Mr. Hill; all yes. A resolution to improve South Jersey street from Mohawk to Ida street was unanimously adopted on motion of Alderman Valentine. An ordinance providing for the protection of improved streets reached third reading and was passed over until next week. The rqiort of vieweis ou the proposed ocuing of Kellogg street from Burlington to Chicago was then tnkeu up. Socialist Perriue thought it was just a scheme 011 the part of two or three property owners who had sold the front part of their lots leaving 110 ingress or egress to the remaining portion that wanted the street opened up; therefore he was "ferninst" it. Ou motion of Alderman Valentine that the report be adopted by ordinance 11 vote was taken, which resulted as follows; Valentine, Hill and Davis, yes; Bredesou, Perriue nud Hois man, 110. Taking the vote of the mayor to decide, he voted in the negative. Alderman Bredesou believed that Burlington street should be im proved as soon as possible; that it should be macadamized its full width ami paid out of the general fund, if necetisarv. Mr. Valentine also fevored early work upon this street; that it was a disgrace to tlie city iu its present condition. He favored the property owners paying for the improvement up to 50 ier cent of the assessed valuation of their property, and the city paying the balance. Mr. Hill moved that the matter be placed iu the hands of the city attorney and engineer to report upon same next Tuexdny night. Mr. Bredesou thought that the city water guage should be placed iu its proper place iu the Central school building instead of its pres ent abiding place iu the city hall.so that it could be easily ascertained if the projer pressure of water was be ing supplied. He made a motion to this effect, which carried unan imously. Socialist Perriue pointed out n se rious discrepancy iu the city's con tract with M. G. Nease, lessee of the rock crusher outfit, and n rend ing of the contract showed that he had the right conception of the fault, He intimated that there might have been connivance be tween the former council nud lessee 011 this section of the contract. As it was too late to do more than de plore the "casunlity," no action was taken to remedy the defect. Socialist Perriue stated that he had been requested by the St.Johns Progressive Association to recom mend that the ordinance allowing the water company ten cents jer foot for lowering water mains be repealed. He asked that the city at torney submit a written report cov ering this issue next week. The attorney agreed to do so. Adjustable window screens nt McCnhc & Corbett's, J59