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THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1907. AGENTS ARE BUS! foundation, owing to the nature of the ground, especially on the north and west sides. The Crystal Ice & Storage Company, which has had plans prepared for the largest ice plant in the Northwest, has a force at work excavating for the founda tion of new buildings on East Seventh and Salmon streets. The company has placed its order for machinery, one piece of which will cost $30,000. It will have an extensive boiler capacity, as Manager George Weatherly has submitted a pro posal to furnish steam for heating the new East Side Opera-House, which will be built on the half block ' west of the ice plant. On East Morrison and East Second streets the foundation for the four-story brick for the Mitchell, lewis & Slaver Company, 1110x200, is completed, and work on the building will start the coming week. Work on the foundation of the two-story brick for W. H. Markell & Co. is progressing rapidly. The Heaiey building, on Grand avwnue and East Mor rison street, is being completed. It will probably be occupied within a month. BY luncheon. Some of them leave their work half an hour before noon so that they .will have no difficulty in getting a chance to play. The craze has developed a number of bottle-pool "sharks," among; whom are R. M. - Gray, C. C. Chapman, Isaac A. Manning, C. E. McDonnell, E. H. Mc Craken and others. Bottle-pool is a combination of bil liards and pool, and is essentially a game of skill. Tut, tut says the Harriman Officials Given Little Peace. Finishes First in Washington's Birthday Paper Chase. Telephone System Will Soon Be in Working Order. First Golf Games of Seaon. Yesterday afternoon a large crowd of golfers played the first games of the sea son on the Waverly links, and in spite of the threatening weather, a large num ber of golfers visited the club. The links were In good condition, and everything ideal for golfing. The entries for the mixed foursome were Mrs. W. B. Ayer, R. Koehler, Mrs. J. Mclwood, Carl Spuhn, Mrs. N. E. Ayer. J. Mcl. Wood. Mrs. Koehler, Mrs. Thomas Kerr and Mr. Mc Cleay. Man SALESMEN TRAILING THEM JOHN BOGGS HIS MOUNT NEW CABLES BEING LAID Who Knows; Jlottvc Power and Equipment Men Victims of the Vblqultous Promo ter AVIio Has Something That no Other Can Give Them. J. Alexander Second and D. A. Pat tullo Third Hounds Follow Fine Course of Over . Four Miles. Big Force of Linemen Engaged in Remedying Damage Done' by the Recent "Silver Thaw" Safe guards Against Future. Uneeda Biscuit PLANS NO ENCROACHMENT PORTLAND HOTELS FILLED 10 IN Hi W R K MOBEraiiijii i -X 1 m r 3 Agents hy the score are on the trail of the Harriman superintendents of mo tive power and equipment now meeting in this city. The officials are waylaid by these men, exploiting almost every con ceivable sort of equipment, and each wants the Harriman officials to adopt some new sort of appliance. About 30 such men are in town, and they lost no opportunity to press their claims. Almost every known railroad device is represented by alert salesmen, who are campins on the trail of the Harriman superintendents. New and improved car wheels, oil boxes, draft riggins, car roof ing, airbrake couplings, car trucks, valves, car couplers, journal brasses, new staybolts. and in fact everything that is needed in the construction of a locomo tive or car down to a patent brake shoe is represented in Portland Just now by vigilant salesmen who are Intent on pressing the virtues of their wares upon the superintendents. Not only are new patents being boost ed, but the older appliances that have been in use for some time by the rail roads are being taken care of by repre sentatives of the manufacturers, who find it necessary to attend such gatherings and see that their product is not dis placed by some one more active than they are. Agents eager to introduce some new patent carry models of their appliances in their grips and waylay the officials whenever possible, and beg time in which to explain the workings of the model. These are kept in their rooms and are sprung whenever a listener can be found. The devices are also attached to cars standing at Albina or in the terminal yards, in order to Illustrate fully how they work. The convention of the superintendents will last until next week and daily dis cussions of technical subjects are being held in the directors' room in the Worcester building. Until the meetings adjourn the representatives of the vari ous appliances will watch the officials closely. TERM IX All FIGHT IS XEAK END Mutual Concessions Made in the Hill-Harriman Struggle. Pacific, adjustment of the pending termi nal warfare between the Hill and Harri man interests in Portland seems in sight. In view of the concessions to the Oregon & Washington, the I'nlon Pacific exten sion to Puget Sound, made by the Hill interests on the Seattle tidelands. there by facilitating the entrance of the Harri man road to the Sound city, it Is expected an amicable settlement of the Portland difficulties will be had. Vice-President lyvey, of the Northern Pacific, intimated yesterday that the con demnation proceedings, brought by the Portland & Seattle, the Hill line, against the Northern Pacific Terminal Company, will not be pushed. This is supposed to be the result of conferences that have been held during the past few weeks be tween the warring Interests who sought to adjust their differences. WILL EXTEND I.IXE 13 MILES Construction Authorized at Annual Meeting or P. R. & X. At the annual meeting of the stock holders of the Pacific Railway & Navi gation Company this week the same directors and officers were re-elected for another year. They are: President. E. B. Lytic; vice-president, Zera Snow; general auditor. El B. DeYoe; secretary. May Knrlght; chief engineer, George L. Davis. E. E. Lytle. Zera Snow and E. B. DeYoe are the directors. The directors authorized the extension of the road from the 20-mile point, near Buxton, to Veronla. a distance of 13 miles. This Is the first definite step towards reaching Astoria. Later the ex tension to Mist from Veronica and thence to Astoria will be authorized. A stretch of nine miles up the coast from Garibaldi was also authorized by the directors. Will Demand Better Car Service. At the last meeting of the St. Johns Commercial Club it was decided to ask the electric railway company to put on a lo-minute car service between Portland and St. Johns, and in addition run a spe cial car at 1:30 P. M. from St. Johns to Portland and from Portland to St. Johns, with no stops between Portland and Uni versity Park. Also to run a through car at R:45 A. M. with no stops after leaving University Park. These through cars are for business men and to enable business men at St. Johns to get to Portland as soon as possible and transact their busi ness. It is found that at no time of the day are there cars on the Peninsula route that are not overcrowded. The de mand for 15-minute service is indorsed by the University Park Board of Trade. Spokane Line Clear Again. After being blocked for days because of washouts and landslides, the Spokane line was cleared last night and the Spo kane Flyer left on time. The train was bulletined to leave Thursday night, but shortly before time for its departure or ders were issued for annullng the train. Superintendent of Lone Fir Cemetery Company Answers Charge. Tn answer to the charge made by H. M. Williamson that the Lone Fir Com- BUILDINGS 0NEAST SIDE Work on Several Large Structures to Begin at Once. Already the work of clearing the south east corner of East Burnside street and Union avenue for the three-story brick for the Buckman sisters has been started. The present buildings will be torn down or removed during the coming week, when excavating for the foundation will be started. . Plans are being prepared for the new four-story reinforced concrete and steel building for R. A. Proudfoot, by the Gib son Architect Company. It will stand on the northwest corner of East Third and East Burnside streets. As the top will be tilted for a roof garden, the skeleton of the structure will be steel throughout, one of the first of the class to be put up on the East Side. The building now occu pied by the Justice Court will be moved off the ground the coming week, and work will be started on the foundation. W. I Morgan, whose three-story brick will stand on the southwest corner of Grand avenue and East Stark street, will ' have several hundred piles driven lor the Hugh H. Herdman. one of the pluckiest among the riders of the Portland Hunt Club, won the Washington birthday closed paper chase held by the club yes terday afternoon. This makes the sec ond chase that Mr. Herdman has won Heavy Tourist Traffic Expected Dur ing Spring and Summer. Portland hotels are filled to overflowing and this Spring and Summer with tourist r i. A" xv. ,.r " oa ji . io' ' , f n & w ' sir n MEMBERS OF THE HUNT CLUB TAKING THE TRAIL. pany Is preparing to move its fence 20 feet Into East Twenty-sixth street, be tween East Stark and East Morrison, Wilson Benefiel, superintendent of the company, says that such is not its in tention. "Mr. Williamson," eaid Superintendent Benefiel, "was in error when he said the cemetery company intended to move Its fence 20 feet into the street and in tended to use the street for burial pur poses. It never contemplated any such thing. Until recently I did not know that we owned part of the street. The City Engineer made a survey and found we owned 38 feet at East Stark street and a little less at East Morrison street. I had an engineer make a survey and we found we owned at East Stark only 27 feet, or 11 feet less than the City En gineer gave us. "We were asked to make a dedication of enough to make a 60-foot street, but had made no decision when the Council took its action. 1 want to say that at no time was it Intended to use the strip outside the fence for burial purposes. I suppose people got the impression that such was our intention from the work of our surveyor. Now that the Council has taken action before we decided what we would do, we shall let the proceedings to condemn go on." ARTHUR TO KEEP PUMPS With Such Reservation He Is Ready to Sell Water Plant to City. Mayor Lane received yesterday from J. M. Arthur a written acceptance of the Water Board's offer for the sys- with his mount. John Boggs. J. Alex ander, on Callbond, was second, and David A. Pattullo, on .Branto, was third. Miss Hahn was fourth. The course was one that had been carefully selected and covered about four and one-half miles. In the absence of F. O. Downing, R. H. Jenkins was master of hounds. The start was at the foot of Mount Tabor, and the finish was at West avenue. The chase was a closed one. but in spite of this the ride was one of the fastest held so far by Uie club. The hares, Miss Anne Sliogren and E. T. Chase, selected a fine open course, but strung over the route were many confusing blinds that made the run from start to finish inter esting and the winner In doubt until the red paper was struck. Those who rode through are: Mrs. Buffum. Mrs. Norton. Mrs. Spencer, Mrs. Edmonds. Mrs. Blythe. Mrs. Cronin, Mrs. Clarence Nichols, C. H. Ieadbetter, Miss Cummlng, Miss Hahn, Miss Lawrence. J. W. Chapman. Harry L, Corbett, J.' C. Muehe, James Nicol, Dr. Drake, T. T. Strain, James Alexander, R. V. Holder. R. E. Eldridge, W. Voll mann, Sam Kerr. Ambrose Cronin, H. H. Headman, Dr. Wood. Dr. Coughlan. L. L. Pagett, D. A. Pattullo, Dr. Cumming, Mr. Wilder. BOTTLE POOL TOl'KXAMEXT Commercial Club Experts to Have Chance to Prove Prowess. The Commercial Club is to have a bottle-pool tournament and several dozen of the skilled players' of the club MISS AXSE SHOtiREN AND E. T. CHASE, HARES IN THE HUNT CLUB'S PAPER CHASE. travel In full blast a conjestion almost as great as during the Lewis and Clark Ex position is expected. Never before in the history of Portland has there been so many transients in the city at this time of the year and the only cause that can be given for the heavy travel is the increasing audi continued prosperity of the Northwest. During March and February the travel through the Northwest is generally light and the hotel men were not expecting any great rush this early in the year. About the latter part of next month and In April the tourists who are now spend ing the Winter in Southern Colifornia will start for their homes In the East. Thou sands of them will return to the East by the way of Portland. Last year tourist traffic through Portland from Southern California was heavy, and this year it Is expected to be bigger than ever. In the Summer there will be another influx of tourists as Oregon Is, gaining a reputa tion as a Mecca for Summer tourists who are attracted here principally toy the fine climate. Contractors Want Their Money. Contractors who have done street work In St. Johns want their money, but there is a very serious obstacle to payment at present. Many of the property-owners, delinquent for street assessments, made application for the benefit of the bond ing act, which is provided by the St. Johns charter, but Recorder Thorndyke has tried to sell improvement bonds with out success. The highest amount offered was $3500, but there have been no offers for the bonds, although they bear 6 per cent interest and are secured by the credit of the city. The Recorder also conferred with financial firms handling bonds In Portland, but they declined to take them. The result has been that the property-owners who applied for the benefit of the bonding act provided for in the charter are delinquent. It is a se rious question whether the city can re quire them to pay cash for the improve ment, in view of the fact that they have the privilege of the bonding act. The matter has been placed in the hands of the City Attorney to investigate. Big Reward for Chehalis Robbers. CHEHALIS, Wash., Feb. 22. (Special.) Excitement over the robbery of R. Fechtner's jewelry store here Monday morning is still high. Additional zest has been given the matter by the offer of rewards. Governor Meade has authorized a reward of $250. In all, re wards aggregating $1000 have been posted. There are no clews as yet, but officers and detectives are working on the case. Moneyback grocer sells Schilling's Best tea and coffee. In a week Portland's telephone system will be completely restored and the rav ages of the recent "silver thaw" will have been completely repaired. It is stat ed the West Side district will be in as good a condition as before the storm by Monday night. The East Side will take a little longer, but by the last of next week the 'telephone company say repairs will be completed. A large force of men, both linemen and splicers, has been busy ever sinoe the dis astrous storm. Open wires "have in most cases been replaced by cables, rendering liability of future damage less likely. Ca bles have been laid on Lovejoy, Flanders and Raleigh streets, and a new cable has been put In to supply the Portland Heights district." Workmen are now connecting up the telephones to these cables, and within two days every West Side telephone will be in working order, it is said. On the East Side new cables have been put in on Union. Williams and Michigan avenues, on East Stark and Division streets, as well as in other districts. Most of the open leads have been replaced with cables. A big force of workmen is now at work on the Bast Side splicing the tele phone 'leads into the cables. City Manager Hickman, of the Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company, says 5000 telephones on the East Side are now working. Workmen will be connect ing Instruments on all the new cables during the coming week, and within seven days every telephone in Portland will have been put in working order again. Rapid progress Is being made In effect ing the final repairs. About 400 men are working under the directioivof the repair department rebuilding the damaged parts of the telephone system. The toll or long-distance wires of the company are all working, with the excep tion of those to the east. Spokane, The Dalles. Pendleton. Walla Walla and other eastern points are cut off. but it is possi ble to reach these places via Tacoma. The direct lines east will be repaired within the next few days. Happily the underground conduits now being built by the company were availa ble in three suburbs, so they could be used without the necessity of rebuilding the pole lines. The St. Johns, Mount Ta bor and Sellwood underground conduits are ready for service, and will carry the messages to these parts of the city. MANY VIOLATE POSTAL LAW Tobacco Tags Are Sent Through the Mails Contrary to Statutes. Postal Inspector Riches called atten tion yesterday to the fact .hat many persons are Ignorantly violating the postal law by sending' tobacco tags through the mails In letters, usually to a firm or firms In St. Louis, which ad vertises to give premiums for the tags. These tags, Mr. Riches said should not be put in letters, put sent separately as fourth-class matter, according to their particular classification. If it is desired to send a letter explanatory of the tags this can be done In the usual manner. Sending tooacco tags In an velope containing written matter is a violation of the Federal statutes and the penalty Is a fine of $10. Inspectors In the various cities are on tiie lookout for letters addressed to the 'tobacco firms that redeem these tags, and quite often they seize such letters and open them. They come into posses sion of the sender's name and address and forward the same to the Inspector nearest the sender's home. Men, women and childreD are often the vic tims of their own ignorance, and when called upon to pay the prescribed find of $10 they almost Invariably imagine that the whole thing is a scheme on the part of the tobacco companies to evade paying the premiums for which the tags were sent. Unknown Donors Give $450,000. NEW YORK, Feb. 22 The trustees of the Teachers' College, the professional shoot for the. advanced training of teach ers of Columbia University, today an nounced an anonymous gift of $400,000 for the building of a school of domestic econ omy and an additional gift of $50,000 from another anonymous benefactor for the necessary extension of the heating plant. They also announced contributions from many sources of $500,000 to complete the "First Million"' endowment of the insti tution. The total endowment of Teachers' College now amounts to $1,073,948. of which John D. Rockefeller has given nearly half. - Different from others in action and ef fect; Satin ktn cream Is worth trying. tern of the Mount Tabor Water Com pany. The price agreed upon is $25,000 and the city will probably take con trol of the plant March 1. Mr. Arthur reserves from the sale the pumps that are used to force the water to the top of Mount Tabor. As these were In cluded in the offer of the Board there may yet be a hitch In the transfer. The Water Board declared that it had offered Mr. Arthur every cent that it would, and if he insists on retaining the pumps their value may be deduct ed from the $25,000 offer. Don't wait until you are sick before trying Carter's Little Liver Pills, but get a vial at once. You can't take ihem i without benefit. have entered the lists for the match. The tournament will probably begin next week. Bottle-pool is all the craze of the members of the Commercial Club and straight pool and billiards are in the background as a result. Almost from the lime the club-rooms are opened In the morning until they are closed at night the pool tables are taken, and during the noon hour and at night, be tween the hours of 8 and 10 o'clock, the anxious players often stand in line to get at the tables. Nowhere else In the city is the craze so pronounced. , Many of the business men of Port land are members of the Commercial Club, and regard their noon game of bottle-pool as indispensable as tlieir Coughs of Children Especially night coughs. Nature needs a little help to quiet the irritation, control the inflammation, check the progress of the disease. Our advice is give the children Ayers Cherry Pectoral REVISED FORMULA Ask your doctor if this is his advice also. He knows best. Do as he says The new kind contains no alcohol We have no secrets to. hide! We pub lish the formulas of all our medicines. J. C. AYER CO., Manufacturing Chemists, Lowell, Mass. H iiiiiniiiiinininniMniniiinniiii! 3 NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY 1 flfl-'J " A mimioiniiniiiiiiiraEEirl II' tass ill The buyer who seeks experi ence may seek it anywhere; But the buyer who heeds ex perience buys the Remington. 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No other Bowel Medicine on earth has reached in history the tremendous approbation and patronage accorded Cascarets by the American People, a testi monial of GENUINE, MERIT and satisfactory results, for surely no sensible person would buy an article more than once, unless satisfied, or recommend it to others if not convinced of its virtues. The sale of Cascarets at the present time is over ONE MILLION BOXES A MONTH, a fact that ought to convince anyone of the satisfac tion given to millions of our friends and patrons. It is just this kind of example placed before you that ought to induce you to try a little 10c box of Cascarets and be CONVINCED of its value and effectiveness. After this harmless, inexpensive experiment you will see the reason for the unequaled popularity of this preparation as a true PERSONAL and FAMILY MEDICINE, and this realization will urge future use when necessary. So we ask you to take a DIME BOX home with you, and "WHILE YOU SLEEP THEY WILL WORK" and make you feel well and happy. We back our request by our GUARANTY, and if you're not pleased, your purchase-money will be returned to you for the asking. Such has been our Faith in the efficacy of this pure, clean, sweet, mild, harmless but forceful little fragrant tablet, so easy to buy, so easy to carry, so easy to take, so easy in its action, that we do not hesitate to offer this guaranty to the world, and make good on it. Cascsrets not only art- the best medicine yet discovered for the treat ment and cure of Chronic Constipation and all its dire consequences, but also a splendid PREVENTIVE OF DISEASE caused by bacteria and other germs in the Bowels. There are more serious troubles that have their origin in irregularities in the food channels than any other cause, and Cas carets by thoroughly cleaning out the stomach and intestines and PURI FYING in an antiseptic way, keep you perfectly safe from such fearful dis eases as Appendicitis, Peritonitis and other deadly inflammations caused by retention of indigestible food in the passages. . W said Cascarets were and are the BEST BOWEL MEDICINE m the worW. Once more we assert that the sale of nearly 100 million of boxes in eleven years PROVES IT. Our record is put up against any other medicine for the same purpose in the world, for ACTUAL RE SULTS. Try a 10c box TO-DAY. Buy it from your own druggist under GUAR ANTY and you will join the MILLIONS of our friends. Be sure you get the GENUINE the letters "C. C. C." on every tablet. S6a V 1