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CITY OFFICIAL
CITY'S NEW Wooden buildings through the heart of the business
FIRE LIMITS district of the city are now a thing of the past. Under
the provisions of the new ordinance passed at the council session Wednesday
morning, only buildings of a fire proof costruction will be erected hereafter
-fn thcterritory from the river to the bluff and from the southerly limits to
Twelfth street on the north.
The passage of the ordinance marks another step in fire protection. The
council has almost completed its new fire alarm system that will increase
the efficiency of the department 50 percent, by minimizing the delays caused
by the slowness of the present methods. The new ordinance creates a fire
district something that Oregon City has not had in years and that it has
needed for a long time and prohibits the erection of buildings that are
veritable fire traps and flame centers from which other structures may be
ignited and a general conflagration started.
All of the approved fire proof nfaterials are to be allowed by the coun
cil under the provisions of the new regulations. Each building will, here
after, be erected under a permit issued by the city engineer or the commit
tee 'on fire and water. For this permit, the council authorizes the com
mittee or the engineer to make a charge of five dollars to cover the cost of
the investigation and the time that the city engineer will have to give in
order to pronounce a judgment based upon the facts and circumstances of
each case.
- Through the business section of the city where the buildings are huflled
most closely together, the regulations will require materials that are gen
erally recognized as fire proof, and will tend to improve the fire conditions
there as rapidly as the new buildings are erected.
In the course of time, under the new ordinance, the business section of
Oregon City will be of modern fire proof structures. The wooden build
ings will gradually disappear and will be replaced by those of the newer
t3'pes. As the city grows and developes, more and more of the new houses
will be built of materials that can withstand the intense heat of big fires.
As a result and following naturally in the train of such an ordinance a
this, the fire losses of the city will be materially reduced. Fires will be
less frequent. ' They will be less damaging. Their danger will be greatly
minimized. Through the limits created by the regulations, conflagatioir;
will be almost unheard of and the danger that is now ever-present of a
general fire started by a wooden building in which a blaze has arisen will
be a rhinsr of the nast.
Under the present conditions, a general fire in the business section, situ
ated as it is in the path of every wind that blows up the river and easily
fanned into flames by the first breeze, would give all of the forces of the
department the hardest battle of the city's history before it was finally con
Ciuered and extinguished.
Not only will the appearances of the business district be materially im
proved by the enforcement of the new regulations, but the rates of insurance
will, in all probability, be decidedly reduced through a stringent supervis
ion of the buildings that are, in the future, erected within the limits.
Most of the work, under the provisions, will devolve upon the city en
Education Has Taught All
Labor to Demand
Its Fair Share
By GEORGE W. PERKINS.
Advocate of Profit Sharing
THE problem of the worker's fair share goes HAND IN HANI)
WITH THE GOVERNMENTAL QUESTIONS that are up for
solution today, for it, too, is the product of our educational system.
For instance, I firmly believe that we NEVER CAN , SETTLE THE
WAGE QUESTION, the question of compensation for, labor performed
or settle the strike question by MERELY RAISING WAGES FROM
TIME TO TIME.
. SINCE EDUCATION HAS GROWN WE HAVE BEFORE US A CON
STANT DEMAND FOR INCREASE IN WAGES BECAUSE THE LABORING
MAN FEELS THAT HIS WAGE, WHATEVER IT MAY BE, WHETHER IT
BE $2 OR $5, IS NOT HIS FAIR PROPORTION OF THE EARNINGS OF THE
BUSINESS IN WHICH HE IS ENGAGED. HE SEES THE BUSINESS
FLOURISHING; HE SEES ALSO BY MANY OUTWARD SIGNS THAT THE
MEN WHO OWN THE BUSINESS ARE LIVING BETTER EACH YEAR
AND GETTING RICHER EACH YEAR, AND WHEN HE STRIKES IT IS
, FOR WHAT HE REGARDS AS A FAIRER PROPORTION OF THE EARN
INGS. A HIGHER ORDER OF INTELLIGENCE is at work on this
problem. No arbitrary dollar and cent increase will ever satisfy him.
He is STRIKING FOR A PRINCIPLE that he has thoughfout and
reasoned out. Believing these conditions tt be fundamental, I was led
a number of years ago to the conclusion that we must adopt PROFIT
SHARING in connection with wages as a matter of getting at the
worker's fair share.
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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29,
gineer. Upon him will fall the responsibility, of determining whether or
not the plans and specifications of the new structure comply with the letter
iind spirit of the regulations. He will have to decide questions of a techni
cal nature that are presented during the enforcement of the new ordinance
and upon him will depend to a large measure the success of the council's un
dertaking. That he will put forth every effort to bring all buildings up
to the standard set in the ordinance, and that he will insist that the fire
proof materials prescribed are used is a foregone conclusion.
The permit feature of the ordinance gives the council more contrpl over
the erection of buildings than it could have by almost any other method. It
places the contractor and owner directly under the supervision of the coun
cil and its agent, the city engineer. It makes him submit his plans and
specifications to an expert for scrutiny before the first stone is laid or the
first shovel of dirt lifted for the foundation. -
From every angle, the ordinance is a good one. It is one that will bene
fit the city in more ways than one, that will reduce insurance rates, that
will improve the appearances of the business district, cut down fire losses,
and eliminate the future danger of conflagations in the heart of the city.
HIGHWAY Multnomah is to have a road expert in charge of its high
SUPERVISOR way construction work. The commissioners will pay
him a salary of $300 a month for what he knows: Samuel C. Lancaster
has been appointed by the board and ample authority has been given to
him in all matters of road construction in the county.
Lancaster is recognized as an expert on road matters. He knows a
good road when he sees one, and be knows what a road ought to be and how
to build it. He will organize the county's force of road supervisors and
engineers and will direct them in the construction work that the county here
after undertakes.
The appointment of the expert organizes the forge of supervisors into a
compact company, working together along one set of plans, and with one
purpose continually in view. It means that one man will direct whatever
road construction work or repair Multnomah does hereafter, and that the
ideas of man, instead of 50 or more men, wTill constitute the determining
factor in the way that roads in -that county shall be built.
Though Multnomah is perhaps the first county that has made this ex
periment, others have thought of it and have considered the plan a good one.
Eventually, all of the counties of the state will come to that plan as the best
method that can be adopted for uniformity in road building. One man,
with authority enough to get what he wants and money enough to do what
he sees is absolutely necessary, can accomplish wonders for any county and
can so improve and build roads that the taxpayers will save each year several
times his own salary in the cost of the work done.
Three hundred dollars a month seems to be quite a large amount of
money to pay a man to supervise the county road work. It would be a
large amount were the man not an expert in the construction of roads, U
he did not know about roads what he must know in order to make him
worth that much over the old system. Brains cost money nowadays, and an
expert in any line of work saves every time more than the amount of money
be is paid for his services.
Uniformity in road construction is an important factor in the success
of good roads in any county. With a one man power at the top, responsible
enly to the county court.better roads will be built, more lasting highways
will be constructed, and the taxpayers will be saved money that, even by
the best management, cannot be saved under the old system.
The state laws enable the county court to appoint a road master for all
of its construction work. Multnomah has but taken advantage of the pro
visions of the statutes. Though it has but 1000 miles of road insides of its
lines, it plans to put those in better condition and keep them that way, and
thinks that it can achieve more lasting success under a plan of this kind than
by any o'ther method.
When the question came before the commissioners, each of them ex
pressed his determination to get for the county a dollar's worth of value for
every dollar expended. vHe meant that unless he could see that the county
would reap a material benefit from the employment of the expert and that
it would save money and receive better work on its roads, he did not pro
pose to vote for the creation of a new office in the administration.
That the board made the appointment and gave him the direction of
the work is evidence that the commissioners of Multnomah county believe
they can save money for the taxpayers of their districts and can, at the same
time, produce better and more lasting work in the construction of the public
highways. The logic of the contention is good. There is no reason why
one man who knows what he wants and how to do it cannot get more for
the money expended than 50 men with the same amount of funds at their
disposal and with different ideas of how it should be used.
The trouble that has always been, not only in this state but in every
state where road construction is not under the supervision of a highway engi
neer, is that each strip of road represents a different idea in construction. It
is a picture of the mind of the man that built it, whether that man knows
how to build a road or not. The result is that the county roads of-many
states are as different in construction and durability as they can possibly be
made.
Open one door to fortune and others
will open cf themselves.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
Wail of Man Robbed of Fortune.
Grouch There goes a man who rob
bed me of a large fortune. Gink He
robbed you of a fortune, and still he
Is enjoying his liberty! Grouch Not
by a darned sight! He married the
rich widow I was after. Judge.
Just a Reminder.
Jack And after we are married, dar
ling, the love lights will still linger in
your eyes. " a
Maud Yes. but the love lights won't
keep the gas bills from coming. Pitts
burgh Press. - s
1913.
WILLAMETTE
WE make a specialty of Will
amette property close to the car
line. The price ranges for
Lots $62.50 to $300.00.
Houses and lots $450.00 to $3000
Acreage $300 to $1000 per acre
We will sell for a small
amount down, the balance ou
easy terms.
DILLMAN & HOWLAND
Aug. 29 In American History.
1809 Oliver Wendell Holmes, physi
cian, poet and author, born; died
1894.
1877 Brigham Young, the Mormon
leader, died; born 1801.
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
Evening star: Jupiter. Morning
stars: Saturn. Mercury, Venus, Mars.
Constellation Scorpio seen setting
south of southwest about 9 p. m., hav
ing already lost the bright star An
tares below the horizon.
Pretty Near.
It was Sunday afternoon, and Ma
bel's little sister, Ruth, aged four, was
seated beside Mabel on the sofa. Pres
ently the little girl asked of Mabel's
fiance. "Aren't I your tweetheart, Mr.
Bumper?"
"Well," answered Mr. Bumper, with
u fond glance at Mabel, "you're the
next thing to it" Judge.
f L. G. ICE. DENTIST S
J Beaver Building
$ Phones: Main 1221 or A-193 ?
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HOW would you like to talk with
1400 people about that bargain you
have in Teal estate. Use the En
terprise. .
HELP WANTED FEMALE
WANTED Woman who has had ex
perience in men's tailoring to do al
teration work on suits. State ex
perience. Address letter "H" care
Enterprise.
WANTED Girl for general house
work; three in family; easy work
203 Molalla Ave., City.
FOR RENT.
FOR RENT Two clean rooms nicely
furnished, with sleeping porch, pat
ent toilet, electric lights, hot and
cold water. Mrs. Henry Shannon,
a05 Division St , back of Eastham
school.
FOR RENT One modern 5-room
house on 5th street. All latest im
provements. Inquire Geo. Randall,
5th and Jefferson Sts.
FOR RENT Furnished downstairs
room for rant. Close in, 1007 Main
St
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE Furniture of 7-room
house, used only three months. Will
sell all or part. These rooms are all
rented to steady people. A very
good buy. Call The Enterprise of
lice. FOR SALE 5 acres land joining city
limits of Willamette; cleared;
family orchard, several varieties
berries; 4-room house, chicken coop
and small barn; all fenced; 5-pass-enger
auto. Owner an invalid. Ad
dres, Box 8, Willamette.
WOOD AND COAL
COAL COAL
The famous (King) coal from Utah,
free delivery. Telephone your or
der to A56 or Main 14, Oregon City
Ice Works, 12th and Main Streets.
OREGON CITY WOOD & FUEL CO.
Wood and coal, 4-foot and 16-ihch
lengths, delivered to all parts of
city; sawing especialty. Phone
your orders Pacific 1371, Home
A120. F. M. BLUHM.
MISCELLANEOUS
CLACKAMAS COUNTY FARMS
WANTED To trade good Portland
property for Clackamas county
farms. Inquire P. A. Cross, Glad
stone, Oregon. Office phone Main
1982, residence Main 1994. .
WE REPAIR ANYTHING
AND EVERYTHING
MILLER-PARKER COMPANY
Next Door to Bank of Oregon City
NOTICES
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT OF SIX
TEENTH STREET IMPROVEMENT
Notice is hereby given that an assess
ment for the improvement of Six
teenth street, Oregon City, Oregon,
from the west side of Jackson street
to the west side of Division street
has been levied and declared accord
ing to Ordinance No. 648 of said
Oregon City.
The whole cost of said improve
ment, is $8,171.87 and tiie assess
ments are now due and payable and
will bear interest from and after the
10th day of September, 1913, at tne
legal rate after which time the prop
erty against whicn this assessment
is levied may be sold for said assess
ment and a further penalty of fif
teenth per centum added.
The property assessed for the said
improvement lies on both sides of
Sixteenm street proposed to be iin
' proved and the line of lots abutting
upon said part of said Sixteenth
street fartherest from said part of
said Sixteenth street and said part
of said Sixteenth street.
L. STIPP, Recorder.
SHERIFF'S SALE
In the Circuit court of the State of
Oregon, for the county of Clackamas
D. H. Smita, Plaintiff,
vs.
J. E. Sutherland, Defendant.
State of Oregon, County of Clackamas,
ss.:
By virtue of an execution, duly is
sued out of and under the seal of
the above entitled court, in the
above entitled cause, to me duly di
rected and dated tiie 26th day of
August, 1913, upon a judgment ren
dered and entered in the Justice
court o District No. 4, Clackamas
county,- Oregon, on the 24th day of
May, 1913, m favor of D. H. Smith,
plaintiff, and against J. E. Sutner
land, defendant, for the sum of $144.
70, with interest thereon at tne rata
of 6 per cent per annum from the
1st day of May, 1913, and the fur
ther sum of $6.70, costs and dis
bursements, and which judgment
was duly filed and docketed in this
court on the 14ta day of June, 1913,
commanding me that out of tne per
sonal property of said defendant, -or"
if sufficient could net be found tnen
out of the real property belonging
to said defendant in Clackamas
county, Oregon on and after said
June 14th, 1913, to satisfy the afore
said judgment witii interest, costs
disbursement and costs, and that at
tar due and diligent search, I was
unable to find any personal property
of said defendant out of whica to
satisfy said judgment, therefore, ia
obedience to said writ and by virtue
thereof, I did on August z8th, I91ii..
duly levy upon the real property of
said defendant, namely, all of lots
'11 and 12 in block three (3) of
Weed's addition to the town of Can
by in Clackamas county, Oregon.
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of
said execution and in compliance
with the commands of said writ, 1
will, on Saturday, the 27th day of
September, 1913, at the hour of ten
o'clock a. m. of said day, at the front
door of the county courthouse in the
city of Oregon City, in said county
and state, sell at public auction, sub
ject to redemption, to the highest
bidder, for U. S. Gold coin, cash in
hand, all the right, title and inter
est which the within named defend
ant had on June 14, 1913, or since
had in or to the above described
real property or any part thereof, to
satisfy said execution, with interest,
costs and disbursements and all ac
cruing costs.
E. T. MASS,
Sheriff of Clackamas county, Ore.
By B. J. STAAT,
Deputy.
Dated, Oregon City, Ore., Aug. 28,
1913.
SUMMONS"
In the Circuit court of the state of
Oregon, for Clackamas county.
May Coulombe, Plaintiff,
vs.
' Ovid Coulombe, Defendant.
To Ovid Coulombe, the abov? named
defendant:
In the Name of the State of Ore
gon, you are hereby required to ap
pear and answer the complaint filed
against you in the above entitled
cause on or before the 10th day of
October, 1913, and if you fail to so
appear and answer, for want there
of the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief prayed for in
her said complaint, to-wit:'
For a decree of divorce setting
aside (he marriage contract between
herself and the defendant and that
she be restored to her maiden name,
namely, which is May Eckert, and
that she have such other and further
D. C. LATOURETTE, President.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BAN!
OF OREGON CITY, OREGON
CAPITAL $5(UXX.00 '
Transacts a General Banking Buslnes a. Open from A. M. to S P.
Trills Tfl
netted veje
relief as may be meet with equity.
This summons is published by or
der of the Honorable J. A. Eakin,
judge of the Circuit court of the
state of Oregon for Clackamas coun
ty, for the fifth judicial district,
made and entered on the 28th day
of August, 1913, and the time pre
scribed tor tne publication of this
summons is six weeks beginning
on tne zatfl or August, 1913, and end
ing with the issue of October 10th
1913.
W. B. GLEASON,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
2-3 Mulkey Bldg., Portland, Ore.
SUMMONS
In the Circuit court of the state of
Oregon, for Clackamas county.
Amy Pye, Plaintiff,
- vs.
Edmund Pye, Defendant.
To Edmund Pye, above named defend
ant: In the name of the state of Ore
gon, you are hereby required to ap
pear and answer the complaint filed
against you ia the above entitled
court and cause, on or before the
10th day of October, 1913, and il
you fail so to appear or answer here
in the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief prayed for in
the complaint, which is that the
marriage now existing between yon
and the plaintiff be forever dis
solved ana that plaintiff be permit
ted resume her maiden name of
Amy Buxton, and for such other and
further relief as to the court mavl
seem just and equitable. This sum
mons is served upon you by publi
cation by order of the Hon. J. A.
Eakin, judge of the above entitled
court, which order is dated August
28, 1913. The date of the first uub-i
lioation of this summons is August
20, 1913, and the date of the last
publication is October 10th, 1913.
FRANK SCHLEGEL,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
NOTICE OF RE-ASSESSMENT
For the ImDrovmcnt nf MaiiJ
Street, Oregon City, Oregon, Frorrj
tne rMonn Line ot moss Street lo
the south End of the Aberneth)
Bridge.
Notice is herehv snven that the Mt
council of Oregon City, Oregon
passed a resolution on the 27th da'
of August, 1913, directing the Cit
Recorder of said Oregon City t
prepare a preliminary assessment
upon the property included in tha
district named in said resolution fnJ
the improvement of Main street
uregon (Jity, Oregon, from the nortl
line of Moss street to th smith on,'
of the Abernethy Bridge and thai
tnesaia city recorder has prepared
such nreliminarv asRpsmint ani
said assessment is now on file irl
nis omce, and the city council had
set me mm aay ot September
1913. at 9 O'olorlr n m nt tha rr,UTi
cil chamber in Oregon City, Oregon!
as tne time ana place of hearing an
considering objections thereto an
the city council at such time ah
place will consider all objections t
such assessments, as are made i;
writing, ana tiled with the record
vr uoi later tnan tne ISth aay ol
September. 1913. hv rmrties aeriAvpJ
thereby, and all such parties arl
hereby warned not tn d
sucn meeting until suca re-assesd
mem nas Deen completed.
L. STIPP, Recorder.
SUMMONS
in tue uircuit court of the State ol
Oregon, for the county of Clact
amas.
Oscar J. Kober, Plaintiff,
vs.
Annie V. Kober. Defendant
To Annie V. Kober, the above name
aeienaant:
In the name of ihe State nf rrJ
gon, you are hereby required to ail
pear ana answer tne complaint fi e
against you in the above entitle
suit on or before six weeks froi
the date of the first publication
this summons, which first date c
publication is August 22, 1913, ajs
if you fail to so appear and apewt
iur want tnereor, plaintiff will a
Dly to the court fnr the relief nm
ed for in his complaint, filed in thil
suit, to-wit: For a decree that till
marriage contract heretofore anl
uuw existing Detween tne plamtil
ana tne aetenaant ne forever di
soivea. x-
This summons is served upon yol
oy DUDlieation thereof for siv -
successive weeks in The Morniij
Enterorise bv order nf H h h
Anderson, judge of the County courl
wnicn oraer is aatea tne 21st da7
August, 1913.
E. J. MENDENHALL,
Attorney fnr the Plaintiff
Date of first publication, Augui
ZZ, 1I3.
Date of last publication, OctobJ
3, IV l&.
F. J. METER, Cashlerl