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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1907)
TkuvsJ I Kuv sdo.U o XG OREGOXIAN. W5SSTOW3r- AUGUST 190?. lO THE MORXIX iKtliMtti DOES LANE ASPIRE PICTURES OF PROGRESS IN THE MAKING OF A GREATER PORTLAND No. 10 TO GOVERNORSHIP? Drive Straight for IN WATER RATES Li CHANGE Members of City Board Make Light of Protest From Merchants. WILL GRANT NO FAVORS Jievenue Derived From Hydraulic Elevators Is Small and City Does Xot Care to En courage Their Use. No change In existing water rates in Portland can be expected before Jan uary 1, 1908. This announcement was made yesterday by G. W. Allen, a mem ber of the Water Board, who Bald that the charges for the municipal water ser vice had been scheduled on a basis of .the cost of operating, maintaining and ex tending the system for the year. The schedule of charges for the service, he explained, was fixed by the Board and ratified by the Council at the beginning of the year for the ensuing 12 months. In regard to the complaint of the large consumers, especially those who use city water for operating elevators, alleging prohibitive charges, the members of the Water Board are Inclined to be indif ferent. These patrons, members of the Board say, are paying the same rate for water that Is charged the homeowner, with the exception that they have the advantage of a substantial rebate on all water used In excess of the minimum amount. The Board has never been desirous of supplying city water ifor operating elevators. In view of the fact that It has not had a supply sufficient to meet the demands for domestic pur poses. By serving these firms with water for elevators the supply has been re duced to such an extent that many householders who could nave been oth erwise served, have been deprived of water for family use. It was for this reason that the Board decided, several months ago, that It would be only a mat ter of equity, owing to the scarcity of water, to require these large consumers to pay on the same basis as the humblest cottage dweller. Second Pipe Une Needed. Under the present administration of the Water Department, all charges for maintenance and operation, together with the cost of all extensions and Improve ments must be defrayed from the re ceipts for water service. The city will never have an adequate supply of water : for all purposes, say the members of the Water Board, until the second pipe line from Bull Run has been laid, and for which the people last June voted $1,000, 000 of bonds. Neither can a reduction in water rates be effected until the or dinance assessing the cost of new pipe lines to the property owners benefitted and adopted at the same election, goes into effect. The legality of both these measures has been questioned and until the question has been decided, no relief is in sight. The receipts from the Water Depart ment approximate $.TOO,000 a year, while the cost of operating Is about $100,000. The difference Is expended In the laying of additional mains and making other needed improvements to the system. "The present rates for water in Port land are high, it must be admitted," eaid G. W. Allen, a member of the Water Board, yesterday, "but the cost of main taining, operating and extending the ser vice, all of which must come out of the receipts for water, will not enable us to reduce the charges. These rates were fixed by the Board after having carefully studied the situation and they are con sidered as equitable to all consumers as ' it was possible to devise. ' Board Needs More Money. "In fact, the Board does not have half enough funds with which to operate. It must be remembered that Portland is growing rapidly and tne demands for water service are greater than ever be fore in Its history. But, handicapped as It is with a scarcity of funds, the mem bers of the Board feel they are giving the people of Portland the very best ad ministration of this department that is possible. "The charge that the Water Depart ment Is wasteful of city water Is un founded. It Is true that not more than 40 per cent of the water supply conveyed in the pipes to this city last year from the Bull Run plant was actually' used and accounted for, but defective piping and the carelessness of consumers were responsible for that condition. Since then about 3500 meters have been installed with the result that this waste no longer exists, consequently, there is more water for those who need it and the depart ment this year has not received half the complaints it did last year because of an Insufficient supply in the outlying dis tricts. This Improvement has made It possible to supply many families that were last year deprived of city water. "If these large consumers decide to discontinue the use of city water In- op erating their elevatos, the receipts of the Water Department can at best be only temporarily affected for the water so used will readily be taken at the estab lished rates by residents who cannot now 'be supplied. ' Revenue From Elevators Small. The amount of revenue derived by the Water Department from the operation of elevators is not a large item. For the year 1906 only $30,570 wes received from that source while the receipts from sprinkling alone aggregated $33,639. From water users a total of $492,655 was re ceived last year. January 1, last, the city was supplying 90 elevators with water power and of that number eight have since discontinued the service. "Some complaint has also been made because the city exacts a charge for supplying business firms with a special water service for fire protection," said an employe in the Water Department yesterday. "Reference to the records In other cities shows that some charge for this protection while otners do not. But the situation in Portland is simply this: The city requires a certain amount of money each year to operate, main tain and extend Its water system, in cluding the payment of $72,000 in lntenest every six months, and the present sched ule of charges Is based on the actual requirements of the department. The charge for fire protection in private buildings Is moderate and In a majority of instances the cost does not exceed the saving in Insurance rates that is effected by reason of that equipment. "The average rate to families does not exceed $1 a month, which Is no greater than that charged In about 80 of the lead ing cities In the United States. This ser vice includes water for domestic pur poses, including drinking, cooking and washing, and for a bath and toilet. The whole trouble Is that the average family uses too much water. In London the average amount of water used per capita is 75 gallons, while in America we use on an average 210 gallons per capita. "Where there is an inadequate supply It becomes necessary to employ stringent r'des tor regulating tne use of water In f V4 5 I- Mil I iiWfe lill IfW 1 1 H tftf ' fH - It lillllr 1,s,n! ; I ' -ill! NEW MASONIC TEMPLE, COKNEB YAMHILL AND WEST PARK STREETS. In 1S00, IS years after the Grand Lodge of Oregon was Instituted, the Masonic Building Association was formed, and it was under Us direction that the Temple at Third and Alder was built. At that time the location was In reality on the outer edge of the Town of Portland, but as the city grew in dimension and Importance, It was found by the year 1903 that the building was entirely Inadequate for the purpose of its construction. The building associa tion thereupon looked about for a more suitable site, and finally secured the quarter block at the southwest corner of Yamhill and West Park streets. The old lot and site are still held by the association as an Investment. Last 'Spring work began on the new Temple, and It Is now under roof and Is about ready for the plasterers Inside. The contractors met with some delay In fulfilling the terms of their agreement on account of scarcity of building ma terial and some trouble with workmen. If these obstacles had not come In the way, the building would now be almost ready for occupancy. As it Is. the association expects to have the structure ready for tenants by November 1, and pos sibly sooner. The building is of the steel-heavy-mlll-constructlon style and is to be modern In all respects. The outer walls are of buff brick. On the first floor there are five store rooms and a room for the office of the grand secretary. While the new Temple is not the property of the Grand Lodge of Oregon, it is in a way under its care, as the build ing association is, In fact, an outgrowth of a Grand Lodge regular committee, and the Grand Lodge owns the majority of the stock. On the second floor will be the large hall in which the Grand Lodge Is to hold Its meetings, taking up one half of the floor space with a 28-foot ceiling. The other half, on the north side of the building, will be two stories of 14-foot ceilings divided Into committee-room, clubroom and banquet-room. The Grand Lodge room will be also rent ed for entertainments concerts, etc., g lven under the auspices of the different tenants of the building. The third floor will be divided into lodgerooms (subordinate), parlors, banquet-rooms, etc., where it is now expected the following "blue" lodges will hold their meetings: Willamette, No. 2; Harmony. No. 12; Portland, Nq. S3; Alblna, No. 101; Hawthorne, No. Ill; Columbia, No. 114. and possibly Mt. Tabor, No. 42. Four chapters of the Order of the East ern Star (women) will also be furnished with quarters. The fourth floor will be given over to the asylum of Oregon Commandery, Knights Templars, the Royal Arch Chapter, parlor, banquet-room, etc On the top floor will be located the Janitor's quarters and storerooms for paraphernalia. The basement Is to be cemented and a portion used by the stores, the balance for the heating plant and ventilating apparatus. The building will have at its opening a modern electric elevator and later on may have also a freight elevator, space t-elng allowed for its Installation when required. . Grand Lodge officers for this Masonic year are: Lot M. Pearce, Salem, grand master; Edward Kittle, Oregon City, deputy grand master; Dr. Norrls R. Cox, Portland, senior grand warden; Judge Charles E. Wolverton, Portland. Junior grand warden; William A. Cleland. Portland, ( grand treasurer; James F. Robinson. Eugene, grand secretary. The directors of the Masonic Building Association at present have held office, for the most part, for many years and are: J. M. Hodson, president; Henry Roe, vice-president; A. M. Knapp, secretary; M. S. Woodcock, Corvallls, treasurer, and-A. Thurlow. The quarter block upon which the new Temple Is built was bought In 1905 for $25,000 and is easily worth over twice that at the present time. With the building the total amount expended will have reached between $160,000 and $1T),000 when the work is finished. the interest of extending the service to the greatest possible number of people. It is solely on this basis that the Water Department of Portland is being ad ministered." The manager of one of the largest hardware firms in the city asserted yes terday that 95 per cent of the wholesale houses are equipped with hydraulic ele vators and that many will discontinue these elevators in the near future. He further said that in one year his firm's bills for water had been more than doubled. "If this firm owned the building we would install electric elevators immed iately. The rates for water are out of all reason," he added. Another well-known wholesale grocery company is about to install electric ele vators on account of the rate charged for water. In a canvass of a number of representative wholesale establishments a comparison of the bills for the cur rent month with those of a year ago showed that charges have more than doubled in .nat time. Elevators Under Ban. . Many merchants are of iae opinion that the high rates are maintained for the purpose of doing away with the hy draulic elevators altogether. One man expressed the opinion that If such were the case, the use of hydrcunc elevators should he prohibited and in that way compel landlords to equip their buildings with electric elevators. Some merchants who occupy leased premises are even considering the matter of. installing elec tric elevators on their own account, be lieving that such a course in the end would result in economy. The Northern Pacific Terminal Com pany is said to be putting in a plant which will permit the use of Willamette River water at the round houses and in the various shops at the Union Depot when the use of city water will be, discontinued. 'COLUMBIA PARK TONIGHT Band Will Play at Place Not Hith erto Visited. The park band will play tonight at Co lumbia Park, a place not hitherto visited. The park la near the northern limits of the city on the East Side, and located on the St. Johns carline. The programme follows: March. "The Star of Destiny" Dewey Overture. "The Linnet" Mackie Walts. "Janice Meredith" Gustln Selection. 'The Governor's Son" Cohan Intermeiro, "Ramona" Johnson Intermission. Fantasia, "A Hunting Scene" Bucalossi "Dance Afrlcalne" Gilder Selection, "Morse's Melodies" Morse March, "Flying Arrow" Holzmann A. de Caprlo. director. Barley Going Out of Dayton. . DAYTON, Wash., Aug.' 7. (Special.) Corbett Brothers shipped the first carload of new barley from Columbia County last Saturday to the Northwestern Warehouse Company, of Portland. The barley which averaged 48 pounds to the bushel, brought the farmer $1 a hundred. Corbett Brothers made another ship ment of barley yesterday when they shipped two carloads to San Francisco. When weak, weary and worn out. Hood's Sarsaparllla is Just the medicine to restore strength. Men's belts on sale. 239 Wash. at. PUN EXCHANGE Members of Portland Realty Board Discuss Project. WOULD LIST PROPERTIES Real Estate Agents Outsifle Associa tion Do Xot Favor Plan, as They Believe It Would Give Mem bers an Undue Advantage. At the last meeting of the Portland Realty Board, which has as members about 75 per cent of the regularly es tablished real estate dealers and agents of the city, it was decided to take up again the proposition to establish a real estate exchange. This proposal has been talked over at nearly every meeting of the board for the past two or three years, oppo sition to the plan coming largely from dealers outside the board. It is urged that by listing in the exchange prospec tive transactions, an undue advantage' would be given to members of the ex change who had not heard of the deals previously. There are other objections to the plan, both InBlde and outside the board, and in order to get the members together on the scheme, a motion was carried that at the next meeting, Sep tember 10, the proposition would be made the order of business, and action one way or the other be taken. The Portland Realty Board has en rolled as members 58 firms which maintain regular offices, but it is es timated that upward of 400 names ap pear in published Uste as real estate agents, most of whom have deskroom somewhere or do business "under their hats," as one of the board put it. Real estate transfers and building permits, in point of number of trans actions and value of improvements, are matters of considerable surprise to dealers. In all the leading offices in the city the same story of dull times is told, but when the records are ex amined it is found that midsummer dullness is more in name than reality. With transfers involving $130,000, as in the case of the Irvlngton race track a few days ago, and permits for seven story steel buildings, as in the case of the Beck building, at Seventh and An .keny, taken out at a cost of $140,000, running the total considerably over $200,000 for the day, one wonders what figures are necessary to meet real es tate dealers' ideas of activity. As an indication of the class of resi dences that are being erected on the East Side, yesterday's building permits contained record of a two-story frame house, taken out by Johan Poulsen, of the Inman-Poulsen Lumber Company, to cost $7000. Quite a number of, per- i ; : : mits were issued for dwellings to cost over $4000 each. The Heidelberg tract, down the Pen insula, has been enlarged by the addi tion of 10 acres adjoining, purchased by the .Pacific Coast Realty Company. Knapp & Mackay closed a deal for the northwest corner of Fifteenth and Raleigh streets, sold by J. C. Alns worth and John Beck to William M. Davis, formerly deputy city attorney. The tract is vacant property. On the expiration of he two-year lease on tjie four lots on the north side of Market street, between Front and Water, Charles E. Hall, who has ac quired ownership for $21,000, Intends to erect modern buildings on the property. For more than a month past work men have been busy tearing down the buildings on the Ainsworth tract, on Taylor street, between Sixth and Sev enth. They will begin today to exca vate for the new building to be used by the Y. M. C. A and Y. W. C. A. This is the structure for which Port land people gave $350,000 last Winter. WOMAN KICKED BY HORSE Mrs. Anna Hoerzog Knocked Sense' less While Walking on Street. Mrs. Anna Hoerzog. of 221 Shaver street, was kicked in the groin by a horse at Third and Stark streets at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon as she was passing the place where the team was hitched. She was rendered unconscious, and was carried into an office, where she was given temporary treatment by Dr. Rdbert H. Ellis, after which she was removed to St. Vincent's Hospital in a private ambulance. The injuries she received are not serious, beyond the shock. W. T. Joplin, of the Arm of Joplln & Meek, with offices in the Abington building, is the owner of the team. The horses were taken to a barn by a po liceman, upon orders from Acting Cap tain Baty. When Joplin appeared at headquarters to secure his property he was placed under arrest on a charge of permitting a vicious team to stand on the street, and he was released on cash ball' of $20. The team had been left standing In the rain for at least five hours, according to Chief Gritz-macher. Mayor's Friends Regard Him as Logical Democratic Candidate in 1910. "LITTLE DOCTOR" SILENT WHERE MUCH CEMENT GOES San Francisco Has Used 3,500,000 Barrels Since Earthquake. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 7. From all sources there have come into San Francisco since the fire, according to the figures given out by the California promotion committee, 2,500,000 barrels of cement. Of this amount, 1,300,000 barrels were imported from foreign countries, 200.000 barrels came from the United States outside of California, and 1,000,000 barrels came from Cali fornia. Cement weighs 400 pounds to the barrel, consequently these 2,600,000 barrels weighed 1,000,000,000 pounds, or 600,000 tons. NERVOUS WOMEN Take Homford's Acid Phosphate It quiets the nerves, relieve nausea and Sick headache and iaducea refreshing sleep. Will Not Scheme for One Office While Holding Another, He Says Strength Lies in "Jollying." Mayor Lane may be a candidate for Governor in 1910. And again he may not. "How do I know?" he said yesterday when asked the question point blank. "The Pacific Coast cities have such a habit of putting their mayors In jail that I may be in the Schmltz class before then. Nobody can foretell what will happen In the political world in the two years to come. The campaign is a long way off. "Meanwhile It would not be right for me, while holding one office, to spend my time scheming to get another. I shall devote myself to being Mayor until my term Is out," and the Mayor resumed signing checks to pay the city'a hired men. Mayor Lane's term will expire two years from July 1, 1007. The Gubernatorial campaign will open the following Spring. If he aspires to be the Democratic candi date for Governor it will come in pat for him as far as his tenure of his present office is concerned: It is thought that he will not run again for Mayor and the sup position Is also that Governor Chamberlain will vacate the capital and enter the Senatorial lists. Then, say his friends, will come Lane's chance. He is said to be the most "avail able" Democrat. He is the only one of that political faith ever re-elected Mayor of Portland. If this does not show strength, what does? Veto His Only Remedy. Why shouldn't the "little doctor," after prescribing for the political ills of Port land for four years, take on a larger practice and safeguard the health of the commonwealth? His plan of treatment is simple and seems to be effective. The veto In large doses Is his one remedy and it seems to suit the patient. Probably he could use the same prescription in the Governor's chair and it is a 100 to 1 shot that he would get along with the Legisla ture fully as well as he does with the Council, for he could hardly be in worse standing with the city's lawmakers than he Is. Good medicine Is always unpleasant and Dr. Harry Lane's favorite prescription is fully as bitter as the most patent mixture yet patented. But' the taxpayer seems to enjoy the wry faces the Council makes while swallowing the stuff. From his two campaigns for Mayor it may be inferred that the "dear people" will be the principal asset of the Lane campaign, should he go after the Gover norship. Coupled with this well worn political "prop" will be a fine exhibition of the art of "jollying," in which Port land's Mayor is an expert and a willing performer. He does it so cleverly that the audience does not notice It. After he calls his hearers "my good people" once or twice, they forget to watch him closely for strings or wires. Strong With the Jolly. His sleight of hand is excellent. He can display a political issue In full view of the audience and then make It disap pear with such ease that the audience forgets it was ever there. Then he pro ceeds with his patter that has no relation to politics but is merely plain jolly. People come to the City Hall with "kicks." They see the Mayor, tell him their troubles and expect him to become as indignant as they are. But before they know it he has lighted a fresh cigar and is pounding them on the back while he tells them a funny story. They go away laughing. Next day they have for gotten what they "kicked" about and are telling their neighbors what a good fel low the Mayor is. He is not a hypnotist or a wizard. He is plain jollier, and nothing more, but he gets away with It. Few do It better. He does not resort to the glad hand over much. It is mostly done with a smile and an overflow demonstration of lasting good nature. There is always the smile and always the jolly. It would be inter esting to know whether he is that way before breakfast. Chamberlain a Handshaker. Governor Chamberlain elbowed his way into the executive chair by giving a pumphandle motion to the good right hand of everybody within reach, the plain people preferred. He did this stunt with a "God bless you" effect that even if it was not genuine stood the acid test and showed that the plate was well put on and ought to be good for 20 years at least. Can Mayor Lane, with his smile and his fancy line of Jolly, duplicate the perform ance of Governor Chamberlain? Can he equal the latter's remarkable popularity? This is what Democrats are wondering and perhaps Mayor Lane is as much en grossed in the problem as anyone. Ha realizes that the state is strongly Repub lican: but so is the city and look what he did to two Republican nominees for Mayor. Anyway what chance does party loyalty stand when a Jollier is speaking? with a nickel and get a package of happiness, There's no other Ginger Snap so crisp and enticing. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY SS3 J iffS tip 31 t .vV,.. . This is always a busy month for the Com missioners as they at this time take up for adjustment any matters of taxation and any other matter of this nature. As- Clark County Board in Session. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Aug. 7. (Spe cial.) The Board of County Commission ers of Clarke County is now in session as the Board of Equalization and will re main In session during the entire month. 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