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PICTURES OF PROGRESS IN THE MAKING OF A GREATER
PORTLAND No. 10
TO GOVERNORSHIP?
Drive Straight for
IN WATER RATES
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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
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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-
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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.
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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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I aliall certainly recommend them to my friend
aa the beat medicine I have ever ifcn."
Anna Baalnet, Oaborn Mill No. S, fall fiiver. Has.
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Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y. flox
ANNUAL SALE, TEN MILLION BOXES
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sessor Oliver Allen haa the tax rolls com
plete for the next year and th9s will be
gone over by the Commissioneis and ap
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provocative of good humor as
GhirardellTs Cocoa. Its delic
ious fragrance and sustaining
goodness fill the most exact
ing guest with generous im
pulses. The best thing too
for his own
breakfast Is
Ghirardelli's
Cocoa
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Ruin reacnes out for the stomach
which is subjected to dosing with
nauseous drugs RHEUMATISM
cannot be cured that way.
Try a pair of " ELECTRICURA " shoes. They are Natures
own simile remedy. If your dealer can't supply you.
send us $5 we'll prepay charges. Give
size, width, leathers wanted.
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