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THE Itf ORfflNC " OBKGQiNIAy, tWEDJJESDAY, MAEOH 1, 1905. If 0 GLEAN HOUSE Jhat !s the Duty of the City of Portland. INSTANCES OF NEGLECT W:here?roperty-Owners Must ' ' : Do Better. WHAT THE MAYOR PROMISES Electric Light and Telephone Poles Must Be Painted and the Munici pality Generally Be Trior oughly Up to Date. CITIZENS URGED TO SOTS TS CIVIC IMFBOVEMENT WORK. PORTLAND, Feb. 28. To the E3 Jtor.) Noting your Interest In th cause of civic Improvement. I have no hesitation In asking: you to give all pub licity possible to the fact that the board Is very desirous of obtaining the names of citizens and others who are willing to take an active part In the -work. All such persons are requested to send their names and addresses to the Civic Im provement Board of the Chamber of Commerce, with suggestions aa to the direction In -which they desire to employ their efforts. These applications wlUJbe considered and acted upon as soon, as i i the organization Is complete and gets nrjuworjunsT oraer. wnico iu m u m irtr& .ot'a. very Jsw days. y wtt-t-tam d. wheelwright. Q'balnnan of the Civic Improvement 'It mustSie apparent to anyone with eyes to pee that this town needs a housecleaning before the opening day of the Fair. Tens of thousands of visit ors will "ccfme to see Portland during the. period Trom Juno 1 to October 15, and the city does not want them to catch it with the bedding hanging out of the front -windows and the dishes not washed. These guests are coming to look the place over. They will come from some of the finest and best-ordered municipal households in the world. If they like the place a lot of them are going to stay but if Portland looks slatternly and out at the knees they will go home and talk. .There will be enough to talk the city to death, so it is up to us to begin sprucing up. Washington street, being the main thoroughfare and the high road to the Exposition grounds, will come in for the most minute and careful inspection. "Washington street is not ready for ln erection- It needs fixing. To begin with it has still in its midst the disreputable ICamm hovels. Possibly no other city in the United States, bar ring Seattle, would tolerate those an dent ruins in the heart of its business section. Every few months the city ad ministration announces that they are to be condemned and torn down regardless of their owners' action in the premises. but they are standing at this moment and will be much in evidence next sum ra.tr unless something is speedily done. Other Bad Corners. There are other bad corners on "Wash ington street well within the business district. As they are earning an enor mous income on the investment, how ever, there is very little hope of their ever being replaced unless tne Lord should send fire and brimstone from Heaven. The pity of their existence is the greater when it Is remembered that they are all owned by very rich people. ,The shacks referred to lie at Intervals from Front to Fourteenth, not alone on "Washington street but on Alder, Morri risen, Yamhill and others In the center iof the city. To go farther out on the way to the Fair, the visitors are likely to "talk" about miserable conditions of the block on Sixteenth, between "Washington and Alder. They will certainly say uncom pllraentary things about tho caVe-In which lies invitingly along the car track between Sixteenth and Seventeenth, and the hovels which cluster about It. "When the cars reach King street the tumble down dog-kennel at the corner of "Wash ington and King will no doubt entrance the vision of visitors from such cities as Denver, Detroit and "Washington. Be tween St. Clair and Twenty-third streets is an unsightly clay bank that could be terraced with small expense. grealy to the benefit of the city as a whole and the surrounding property in particular. In the King's Heights district, one of the finest residence sections of the city there is much that should be done in the w.ay of cleaning up the vacant lots, especially between Wayne and Park ave nue. Streets Need Attention. Many of the streets are sadly in need of attention, among them Taylor and Seventh, beyond the pavement limit. At 6eventh and Taylor, within one block of the Portland Hotel, the Intersection of those streets is a positive, menace to automobiles and light vehicles. Seventh street is. during most of its length, lined by good concrete sidewalks, but in the vicinity of Clay there is hiatus of a block where the walk Is cf rotten planks, with a crossing close by which long since lost any degree of use fulness as a means of keeping pedestrl ens- out of the mud. The missing pave ment between Fifth and Sixth on Yam hill ehould be laid, if the contractors cf the Government building can bo induced to .remove the debris and the aesthetic display of high-art billboards at Seventh and Morrison should be removed to Idyl lic surroundings. Almost half the frame buildings in town are crying for paint, and a few carloads of kindling should be made of the antiquated board fences which still surround many residences and vacant lots. City Engineer Wanzer says that he and the Mayor will see that the telephone and light companies paint their poles, as they were directed to do by ordinance eome months ago. and it is to be hoped that the officials named will poke up those corporations before the Fair days of Jun, There Is a lot of housecleanlng which Portland ought to do right away, and from now until Summer she should be as iiicv ob a "hnusfkeener with larcre fam. Hy of dirty children and no hired girl. Disclaims All Credit. PORTLAND, Feb. 2S- (To the Editor.) I am receiving considerable free advertising In con. beetles with 'the Civic Improvement revival .now in progress. As a matter of fact, lie Civic Improvement Association has been dor mant -for about one year, and the awakening Wt threatrh tfcs efforts of the Chamber of Com-nuf-T i Vr aTSMahrrlcht, prrsjgfnt -of that. organization. Is a very active and aggressive man, and Is chairman also of the CJvtc Im provement branch of that body, and all work will be done under his supervision, and the credit lor same ehonld so to him. and not to me, as I have been and am now too busy to give the necessary attention to this work, con sequently am not entitled to any credit- I make this statement for the reason that some are under the Impression that the present work la being dene by the old organ ration. Z trust that all "who were members of the Civic Im provement Association will Join with the Cham fer of Commerce and lend them every assistance posible in. their work. THOilAS M'CUSKEK- QUA5&EL OVER GRA2JD AVENUE Councilman Sharkey and ex-CouncII- man Hall Exchange Compliments. Borne excited talk Is made over the con dition of Grand avenue, between Council man John Sharkey and ex-Councilman W. B. Hall. I see that llr. Sharkey says this morn ing," remarked Mr. Hall yesterday, "that the streets of East Portland have been generally Improved out of the revenues derived from a Xorth-End saloon. That is rich news for the good people of East Portland, -who imagined they were paying for their own Improvement, iir. Sharkey also takes a fling at the hardware stores and says that they all pay less revenue to the city than one saloon In the North End. He forgets that it takes nine police men to "protect that one saloon while the hardware stores hire private watchmen to look after their places of business. I am glad I did succeed in stirring up the Councilman. He has been around, and is now ready and willing to help us out on Grand avenue." At Mr. Hall's place of business a peti tion 13 being signed asking the Council to repair the elevated roadway on Grand avenue between East Stark and Pine streets. It la set forth in this petition that a great injustice Is being done the business men on Grand avenue by closing the street when a little repair would permit it to be opened to the public- t is also said in the petition that the business men have Just gone through a long siege of dullness by reason of the closing of the Morrison bridge. A strong committee of business men will take charge of the petition and see that it receives attention. FESTIVAL OF ST. DAVID. It Will Be Celebrated With Special Services at Church. This is the anniversary of tho festival of St. David, and at St. David's Church. East Twelfth and Belmont, special ser vices will be held this evening, at which the largest choir that ever sang in Portland church will chant the anthems in celebration of the festival. The surpllced choirs of Trinity and St. David's Churches will be combined and number of prominent vocalists from other churches will take part in the sing ing, under the direction of Frederick W. Goodrich, organist of St. David's. In the chancel will be gathered all of the Episcopal ministers of Portland, number of whom will assist in the ser vices. The sermon will bo delivered by Rev. G. B. Van "Waters, the rector of St. David's. The services will begin at 7:30 o'clock. The programme follows: Organ prelude. "Andantlno" (Chauvet); pro cessional hymn, "The Son of God Goes Forth to War" (Whitney); confession and responses (EHyuse and Tallls); Proper Psalms 93 and 100 (Chant by Eir J. Gets): Magnificat and JCuno Dimittls in D (J. T. Field); anthem. 'What Are ThepoT (Sir John Stainer); hymn. For All the Saints" (Sir Joseph Bamby); or gan offertory, "Pomp and Circumstance" (Sir Edward Elgar); Thanksgiving Te Deum. In V (11. H. Woodward); recessional hymn, "Re joice, Te Pure In Heart" (Messlter); organ postlode, "Grand II arch In B Flat" (Stllea) Chinook Run Increasing. ASTORIA, Or., Feb. 28. (Special.)-The run of chlnook salmon in the Columbia has shown quite an Increase during the past few days, and the fishermen who are working are doing quite well, as the price still remains at 9 cents per pound. Steel- heads are not very plentiful at present. T j I ' I SYSTEM MAY FAIL Merit Plan for Teachers: Un der Fire. BOARD MAY RECONSIDER" IT Wittenberg as the Lone Champlon.of the Project a Possibility .at the Next Session of Directors. That the Board of Education will re consider the resolution recently passed In augurating tho merit system, in- teach ers' salaries is among the strong proba bilities. Herman "Wittenberg stands alone as the supporter of the system as at present ap plied. A majority of the directors favor a 'merit system of some kind., tout they are opposed to the plan which delegates to an examining commission the author ity to raise the salaries of the grade teachers. Mrs. L. W. Sltton, president of the board, is against the resolution; J. v. Beach did not vote for it. Richard "Will iams did so. disliking the commission fea ture, and R. K. Warren said yesterday that at the meeting Monday evening he' was tempted to move that the action of the board be reconsidered. The teachers have so many friends and so many tax payers were interested in the raise of sal ary for tho teachers that complaint against the merit system has been too general to Ignore. Had the board been unanimous and prepared to present a solid front to its crftle?: the merit system might have stuck, but this is not the case. Mr. "Wittenberg, however, shows no signs of surrender. It is very probable, therefore, that If a motion to reconsider the merit system resolution is made at the next meeting or if the directors are called In special session, that Mr. "Wittenberg will find himself tho lone champion of the much criticised system. TO DISCUSS STREET PAVEMENTS Council Will Hear the Representa tions of the Various Companies. "Asphalt vs. bltullthlc pavements et at" might as well be the name of the case which will be Informally heard before the meeting of tho Council this after noon. It Is war to the knife between the allied asphalt companies and the "Warren Construction Company handling the pat ented bltullthlc pavement. The Bentley ordinance allowing pavement bids to be made for "Warren's bltullthlc pavement or as good" brings the pavement contest into the Council Chamber. The asphalt companies want a chance to bid on bituminous macadam paving when bltullthlc pavement is called for. They cannot call their pavement "bltu llthlc" as that is a patented name. The bltullthlc promoters naturally want to keep a good thing now that they have succeeded in convincing the city offi cials that their paving is superior to anything else at the same price. This is the opinion generally held. Mayor Will iams, formerly partial to treated wood blocks, now believes bltullthlc pavement is the best for Portland. The building Inspector ordinance will also coma up for passage, carrying with it the increased salary of J 150 a month. the amendment of the ways and means committee. Automatic telephones will probably take up considerable attention, as the Sumner franchise ordinance will appear after con slderatlon by the street committee. The ordinance has a fair chance of passage. A new measure will be an ordinance which gives the Mayor the right to par don or commute the sentences of those found guilty and sentenced by the Munlcl- WHAT A BILLBOARD HIDES AT rHOTOGKATU XAKEX COT HALL, DIKECTXY MONTAVILLA 5-ACRE TRACTS . t i At Monta villa Station, on 0. R. & K. Convenient to street-cars. Good drainage. Pure air. The most healthful and rapidly growing suburb of Portland. Railroad center of a heavy population. For sale on installments. PRCE $1250 EACH $100 DOWN AND $15.00 PER MONTH Apply to B. M. LOMBARD, 514 Chamber of Commerce. pal Judge. The Municipal Judge, City Attorney and Chief of Police may be called upon to furnish additional facts concerning the crime alleged, and the Mayor shall file with the Council a state ment of those pardoned or given com muted sentences, together with, a sum mary of the crime. A building permit now costs $1. no mat ter how expensive a structure- By an ordinance, which will also be Introduced tomorrow,' an additional 51 is to be charged for every 51000 to be expended upon the building. Want Cement Sidewalks Laid. Property-owners in the district bounded by East Stark, Twentieth, Six teenth and Multnomah streets will soon ask the Council for an extension of the cement sidewalk limits so that -their neighbors may be forced to lay good walks Instead of the old wooden board3 which In a few places still remain. The boundary of the cement district now runs down East Stark from East Twentieth to East Sixteenth, and con tlnues out East Sixteenth to Multno mah. The plan is to take out the Jog In the line, and run it along East Twentieth to Multnomah. PLATE-GLASS EXPLOSION. Black Paint Causes It to Overheated. Become Business men and pedestrians passing In front of the Logos building, northeast corner of East "Washington street and Grand avenue, were startled yesterday by the remarkable explosion -of the large plate-glass window on the I south side of the front facing East Washington street. There was a loud report attending the ex plosion, but to every one It appeared to be a great mystery, and no one seemed able to explain why the glass had ex ploded until a painter gave the cause. The broken section of the thick plate window Is confined to the lower half. which had been painted a .solid black color on the inside, being one-fourth of an Inch in thickness, so that the gilt let ters of the sign would set out in Setter relief. The black paint arrested the pas sage of the rays of the sun and held them In the glass, resulting in the glass becoming overheated, which produced the explosion by expansion. Nearly one-half of the lower section of the plate-glass was forded out in a thousand pieces on the concrete sidewalk. A hand placed on the portion painted black shows it to be constantly warm, while the unpalnted -portion, which allows the rays of the sun to pass through It unobstructed, is always cooL The loss by tho explosion will be about 575. FIFTH AND MADISON STREETS OITOSTTE TITS PXOFXK.TV ACROSS XADISOX STREET. WHITE CLOVER BUTTER MADE FROM PASTEURIZED CREAM And packed in airtight, germproof cartons is the ideal creamery product. Ask your grocer for White Clover Butter. Accept no substitute.- T. S. TOWNSEND COMPANY, Portland, Oregon " '"-- 1 Jobbers Exclusively in Butter,. Cheese and Eggs. e(ittiiiati((iat9ietitt((io9too(i)ttttci(U((ietiotsit(ae(i(i(s SHAKE UP IS BIG Chief Hunt Makes Changes on Police Force, JAILER LILLIS SUPERSEDED Some of the Results of the Recent Jail Break, In Which Four Prisoners Escaped Through the Bathroom. A general order issued yesterday morn ing by Chief of Police Hunt, caused a big shake-up at headquarters. The most Important change is the appointment of Patrolman Baty to the poslUon of jailer on the first relief, commanded by Captain Moore. Rockplle guards were assigned from the mounted squad. They are Pa trolmen Maloney and Smart. The order Is the latest to follow the Jailbreak of last Friday night, when four long-term prisoners escaped from the bathroom. Jailer Lillls. then on dnty with the first Tellef, Is now assigned to the position with the second relief. Cap tain Bailey commanding. Llllls stated last night that he Intended tendering his resignation today, but because of recent .vAtimmiint. Yitk -will Mmnln Ttrlttt ttlA I department- ' It was stated by Chief J Hunt that LIMs denied authorizing the i interview published In The Oregonlan Sunday morning, but LUlls says he plain ly told Chief Hunt that the Interview was authorized. Patrolmen Maloney and Smart, who were assigned to guard the city prisoners at the rockplle. have been members of the mounted squad many months- To fill their places on horseback, former Jailer Robson and Patrolman Carlson, until now attached to the second relief, have been designated. Jailer Baty was until last night the partner of Patrolman Burke. On the first relief, they traveled the North End beats. Patrolman Baty to the position of jailer has been in plain clothes with Patrolman Jones, Is now Burke's partner. Jones. It Is said, will soon be detached from duty in plain clothes and placed back with Patrolman Courtney on the North End beats with the -second relief. Since the jallbreak exceptionally close watch s being kept on the city prisoners, the Jailer being required to Inspect the cells every half hour. There are still two of the escapes to be captured". SENATOR TTJTTLE ON VETOES He Discusses Bills Which Governor Would Not Sanction. ASTORIA. Or., Feb. 24. (To the Editor.) May I ask apace to say a few words with ref erence to Senate Bill No. 13. recently vetoed by the Governor aa published in your paper of today? It might be Inferred from the fact that the Governor has seen fit to veto three bills relating: to the Ashing industry in Ore gon that the legislation had not been well considered, and I wish to correct that Idea. Month of careful deliberation . and several conferences with different intercata Involved were given the different bills In order to per fect them and to harmonize their provisions to the satisfaction of all. or as nearly all as pos- stble; and with so much success that only ah. man ftnallv TnrpSAPi himself as dlS- satisfied; even an agreement was reached with the State of Washington on all concurrent legislation relating to fisheries something that had never berore been accompimaea mouga constantly tried at every session of the Legis latures of the two states. I have said that all interests were satisfied except of one man. but in that I have erred, for the Governor Is another and his veto has fallen upon three of these bills: first upon I one providing for an increase of the expense allowance for the Master nan uaraen. maae necessary by the vastly Increased amount of work to be done, more than when the present amount was set aside for the purpose: and next upon the bill providing for a patrol boat to enable the Master Fish Warden to enforce the laws regarding close season and licenbes: this veto leaves the Warden with 170 miles of river to patrol for at least eight months of the year, and no boat with which to do the work; it Is absurd to talk of hiring a boat oc casionally for this purpose, and no intelligent man with full knowledge of the conditions would suggest It. If it Is meant to charter a suitable boat to do the work for the time necessary. It would cost far In excess of the interest on the investment proposed In the bill. If the Master Fish Warden is to be held strictly accountable for the enforcement of the laws, he must certainly be provided with thV means to do so. As It now stands, one might as well require a man to fell a tree with an ax and refuse to allow him the ax with which to do It. Senate Bill No. 13 is second only in Import ance to the bill providing for close seasons, etc.. and 1 regret exceedingly that the Gov ernor found It necessary to Veto It. The pro visions In it to which he objects are the me as in the laws of many states, notably ew Jersey and New York, and practically Ihs I same as In California. As to the right, justice , to In the Governor's veto. It may be said tfcat I the United States Supreme Court has oe-S(.ed I favorably upon this very point in a case com- i ing up from the State of New crk. which may be found In United States Supreme Court Reports 152. page 133. Lawton et al. vs. Steele; Senate BUI No. 13 was drawn with special ret. erence to this decision, and the particular pro vision objected to by the Governor was in the language of the New York law. As I have said, above, the measures pertain ing to the fishing industries were prepared with great care, and were left in committees nearly the whole session of .the Legislature that all persons might be heard, were amended In sev eral minor particulars, and finally passed both houses, and I very much regret that the Gov ernor has found It necessary to veto any of them. I disclaim any desire or Intention of entering Into any controversy with anyone, or to criti cise the Governor, but to set myself right with thoie who are Interested in the fishing industry of Oregon, and to try to show that aa sponsor for the bills referred to I was not altogether aa ass. Very respectfully yourt. JAY TCTTLE. Rural Line Out of Centralia. CENTRALIA, Wash., Feb. 2S. (Special.) The rural telephone line from Centralia to Elma Is now an assured fact. The poles have been set as far as Oakville and will soon be set on to Elmi. The line will connect at both ends with the Sunset Telephone &. Telegraph Company's lines. A crew of men will commence to string the wires In a day or two. Sub scribers on the line will not have to pay tolls but all transients wllL The scheme has been engineered by several Centralia men, Theodore Hoss, of Centralia. being president of the com pany and several other prominent ,men being connected with the directorate. Philippine Veteran Goes Insane. EUGENE, Or.. Feb. 2S. (Special.) Arthur Hanna. a tailor who has a shop In this city, was examined today before the County Court and adjudged insane. He was taken to the asylum this afternoon. The first that he gave evidence of his dementia was last night, when he became violent and jumped from a second-story window, under the illusion that be was pursued by a man with a knife. 1 trap" a. iraa a-xnas of gplzt, -diaposiUoa and Is about 35 years old. He served In th Spanish War and Philippine insurrection. INDIGESTION Leads to Chronic Dyspepsia and Catarrh of tht Stomach. HOW IS YOUR DIGESTION? Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests "What You Eat, Sweetens the Stomach, and Enables the Digestive Or gans to Feed the Body. ( Uiuolicitid Correspondence.) Spencer, la. Have had Dyspepsia for twenty years. My case was almosthope le3s, Kodol Dyspepsia Cure "was recom mended and I used afew bottles of itand it is the only thing: that has relieved me. "Would not be -withoutit. Have doctored with local physicians and also at Chi cago, and even went to Norway with hopes of getting: some relief, but Kodol is the only remedy that has done me any good, and I heartily recommend it, Geo. A. Thompson. Taylorsville, N. C It affords ma pleasure to bear testimony to the most excellent merit of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. I have used it in my practice with the most satisfactory results and recom mend it as one of the finest digestanta known to the profession. Every person suffering with Dyspepsia or Indigestion should use it O. L. Hollar, M. D. Crookston, Minn. I have used Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for a period of nine months, using in all four bottles, and-1 can say that it has cured me from Dys pepsia completely, and I recommend it highly. J. O. Sether, Traveling Salesman. AHenville, Mich. I suffered Heart burn and Stomach trouble for some time. My sister-in-law has had the same trou ble and was not able to eatforsixweeks. She lived entirely on warm water. After taking two bottles of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure she was entirely cured. She now eats heartily and is in good health. I am glad to say that a dose of Kodol al ways gives me instant relief. J. D. Erskine. New Britain, Conn. 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