Morning Oregonian., February 25, 1908, Page 7, Image 7

Till: MORNING OREGOXlAN", TUESDAY, PEBRUART 25, 1908.
CLASH OVER ML
HOOD
FRANCHISE
Manager Miller Declares City
Is Needlessly Delaying the
Work on New Line. .
DODGE REPLIES TO CHARGE
Superintendent Says Construction of
Tracks as Surveyed Would In
terfere With Bull Run
AVatcr System.
Heated verbal encounters between
Superintendent Dodge, of the City Water
Board, and C. W. Miller, general mana
ger of the Mount Hood Railway & Power
Company, -were frequent during a joint
session of the Council committees on ju
diciary and parks and public property,
at a meeting held yesterday afternoon.
The question of granting the railway cor
poration a right at -way on the property
of the city for a short distance, just east
of Gresham, and at another point in
Clackamas County, -west of the Sandy
Boad, was up for settlement. It -was
Anally decided to refer the disputed
points to the engineers of the City Water
'Department and the engineers of the
company. A report will be made by them
In the matter at another meeting of the
Joint committee.
Mr. Miller has clashed repeatedly with
Mayor Lane and the Water Board, and
when he and Superintendent Dodge came
face to face yesterday. It was evident
at once that considerable 111 feeling ex
luted between them. Repeatedly, Mr.
Miller challenged statements of Mr.
Dodge, but the latter paid little attention
to his opponent, never making a heated
reply.
Officials Fear Encroachment.
Mr. Dodge declared, when firBt asked
to state his objections to the application
of the Mount Hood Company, that he
and the Mayor and the members of the
Water Board feared the company Intend
ed to interfere with the city's water line;
that it was impossible for the road to be
Tut In without this Interference, and that
If the survey is followed, it would neces
sitate the moving of the air valve, which
is part of the water system, and cut oft
for an indefinite time the Bull Bun sup
ply from Portland.
"The city's right of way Is 33 feet
wide." said Mr. Dodge, "and when pur
chased. It was stipulated that we were
to have at all times free and full access
to the air valve and our entire system.
If the railroad Is put in as at present
surveyed, it will interfere with our ac
cess to the air valve and thereby injure
our water system."
"Why do you say that it is impossible
to put in our road without injuring the
water system, when you know better?"
a.sked Mr. Miller of Mr. Dodge. "Sup
pose we build an elevated track?"-
"If you build it six feet high we can
work all right," replied Mr. Dodge.
"And if we built it four feet above the
air valve, you could work," retorted Mr.
Miller. "There Is absolutely no sense In
saying that valve cannot be operated un
less our road is elevated six feet; a man
can work on it fitting down, just as well
as not. We have no intention now, and
never had, of Injuring the city's water
system in the least.
Will Lay Double Tract.
Mr. Dodge then expressed the belief
that the railroad tracks. If laid where
the present survey runs, would neces
sitate a complete shifting of the city's
water mains and air valve. Mr. Miller,
however, declared that at the points
under discussion, his company will lay a
double track, with 16 feet between the
Inner rails, and that there will be ample
space to do this without any interference
whatever with the water system.
"The whole trouble In this matter." de
clared Mr. Miller, "has been with Mayor
, Lane and the members of the Water
. (Board, They have refused to do any
thing: have declined to take any action,
.one way or another, and have thus held
,p our project for months. Now, the
ftime has coma when we are going to put
Mn our road. We have ordered the steel
! already, and we are going to follow the
isrurvey we have made; there will be no
ichange on that matter. If the city gives
tva a right of way, all right; If not, we
rwlll get It another way."
The members of the committee were
: surprised, and so expressed themselves,
after learning that Mr. Miller's company
purposes laying a double-track road, and
Relieve that a conference of the engineers
f the city and of the company will prac
tically adjust the matter. At the next
meeting of the Joint committee, Mr.
Miller will present an ordinance, in which
It will be stated what rights his- com
pany desires, and this will be taken up
and) considered In regular order.
NEW POSITIONS ON FORCE
Scramble for Jobs to Be Created by
Council.
There will be a big scramble for pro
motions in the Police Department, now
that it is virtually certain that the
Council, at its meeting tomorrow after
noon, will authorize the appointment of
eight detectives, at salaries of $115 a
month, to be assigned to duty as patrol
ecrgeants. This is the recommenda
tion made by the ways and means com
mlttoe, at its session yesterday, and
there is no opposition to It.
The appointment of eight additional
detectives does not mean that the se
cret service branch of the force will
be increased. 'It simply became neces
sary to name the promoted officers as
detectives in order to legalize the
change, as the rank of patrol ser
geant, which was voted last Summer by
the people, is tied up in the Supreme
Court, with other questions, pending a
decision on the legal phases involved.
In the meantime, it is absolutely nec
essary to have the offices continued,
.Bnd City Attorney Kavanaugh advised
the means adopted.
The positions are very desirable, at
the increase in pay authorized by the
Council several months ago. Thore are
already three officers who are acting
sergeants. They are C. K. Baty, Wil
liam J once and E. W. Cole. That their
appointments will be made permanent
is virtually certain, but the other five
are yet to be selected by the depart
ment heads. It is likely the appoint
ments will bo made within a week.
WILL ISSUE NEW BOOKLET
Chamber of Commerce to Compile
Statistics of Oregon Resources.
At a special meeting yesterday of the
trustees of the Portland Chamber of
Commerce, it was decided to begin
immediately the preparation of a
booklet of 64 pages, dealing with the
industries and resources of the state,
similar to the book issued by the
Chamber last Summer. An edition of
50.000 copies of the booklet has been
arranged for, and will be published
jointly by the Chamber and the Pacific
Monthly. The booklet will be profuse
ly illustrated with halftones and in
every particular will be of the highest
standard.
The early preparation of this booklet
was rendered imperative by reason of
the fact that the supply of the booklet
Issued, by the Chamber last Summer is
now exhausted, and the demand for
advertising literature on Oregon Is still
very great.
Resolutions of condolence on the
death of B. M. Brannick were passed
by the trustees at yesterday's meet
ing. The following new names were yes
terday added to the membership roll of
the Chamber:
The Crossley Co., Multnomah Iron
Works. Multnomah Trunk & Bag Co.,
Hood River Milling Co., Jens Olsen,
The J. A. Reid Co., Snodgrase & Wil
liams, Parrish, Watklns & Co., The
Whitney Co.. Willamette Tent & Awn
ing Co., Devlin & FIrebaugh, Dolph,
Mallory, Simon & Gearin. J. M. Cam
eron Realty Co., Beeman, Spaulding,
Woodward Co., Portland Mfg. Co., J.
FranK Porter, William P. Halhurst, W.
J. Day & Co., J. P. O. Lownsdale, John
Wood Iron Works, Union Box & Lum
ber Co., K F. Williams, Wheeler Tim
ber Co., J. O. Blrod. M. C. Davis.
WHIN GRANGE LEADS
LEXTS SECOND IN COMPETITIVE
. DEGREE CONTEST.
Contest Under Auspices of Evening
Star liodge Entered by Three
Teams Evenly Matched.
The degree contest conducted at
Evening Star Grange Hall on the Sec
tion line road Saturday resulted In
Woodlawn Grange securing first place.
Lents second and Russelville third, the
finding of the judges being announced
yesterday. According to the marking
of the judges, the difference between
the three granges, was so slight that
it took some time to figure out their
respective standing. J. J. Johnson,
master of Evening Star Grange, and
district deputy, inaugurated and had
charge of the contest. Daniel Baker, of
Gale Grange, of Washington County,
and Mrs. Christenson, of Butte Grange,
were the judges.
The marking was for proficiency in
opening and closing; raising the
Grange from the first to the fourth de
grees, and from the fourth to the first
degrees, and in giving the first degree.
Each officer was marked on the way he
performed his part, and other credits
were given for team work. Following
are the totals for each team:
Woodlawn First Judge, 177.6505;
second judge, 178.6491; standing,
178.1498; officers of team Master, J.
W. Black; overseer, Ann Patton; lec
turer, Mrs. J. E. Standbury; chaplain,
Mrs. M. Hammon; steward, J. A. Mel
ton; assistant steward, J. E. Stansbury;
lady assistant steward, Alice Germane;
secretary. Miss Clara Garrett; gate
keeper, D. W. Wooton; Ceres, Miss E.
Robinson; Pomona, Mies Glena Lee;
Flora, Miss Edltlh Small; organist. Miss
Nettle Kublck.
Lents First judge, 176.23208; second
Judge, 177.225; standing, 176.7285; offi
cers of team Master, H. A. Darnall;
overseer, Mrs. Maud K. Darnall; lectur
er, A. F. Hershner; steward, Donald
Furey; secretary, Mrs. Christler; chap
lain, Miss Zimmerman; assistant stew
ard, W. Snuffin; lady assistant steward,
Mrs. Rockwell; Ceres, Mrs. Hershner;
Pomona, Mrs. Snuffin; Flora, Mrs.
Thomas.
Russellville First Judge, 172.9295;
second judge, 173.195; standing.
173.0622; officers of team Master, Ray
Gill; overseer, E. Huffman; lecturer,
Miss Alice Mickelson; chaplain, Mrs.
Pollock; steward, Clayton Lewis; as
sistant steward, John Mickelson; lady
assistant steward, Miss Anna Mickel
son; secretary. Miss Martha Jesma; or
ganist, Mies Julia Mickelson; Ceres
Miss Rose Littleneld: Pomona Ml
Clara Anderson; Flora, Miss Mabel
jxiicKeison.
The contest lasted from 10:30 A. M.
unui nigni. The hall was filled with
visitors from all over the county and
from the surrounding counties. Owing
to the mass of figures required in the
marking, the totals were not ready
for announcement until yesterday. The
success of the contest was due to the
district deputy, J. J. Johnson, and the
juages, uaniei uaKer and Mrs. Hanna
Christenson, who endeavored to be fair
to all the teams entered for the con
test. On the whole, the work by the
teams was considered first-class.
Oregon People In Chicago.
CHICAGO. Feb. 24-(Special.)-Oregon
people registered at Chicago hotels today
as follows:
From Portland P. A. MacPherson. at
the Palmer House; A. E. Logan, at the
Wellington.
Metzger. Jeweler, optician, 342 Wash.
OFFICES
IN. '
MERCHANTS
TRUST
BUILDING
Sixth and Washington
Best Location
in City
Modern Equipment
Throughout
FOR ROOMS APPLY TO
MERCHANTS
SAVINGS & TRUST
COMPANY
247 WASHINGTON ST.
T- IS
5U5T1ED
Judge Supports Act Creating
Local Corporation.
SUIT BROUGHT BY ELDER
Right to Charge Fees for Dockage Is
Also Affirmed In the Federal
Court and Steamer Must
Pay $4788.
Judge Wolverton, in a decision yester
day, in the suit of the Port of Portland
against the Steamship George W. Elder,
not only sustains the constitutionality of
the act creating the Port but holds that
this municipal corporation has the right
to charge fees for dockage. The suit in
volves an unpaid balance of J4788 of a
claim held by the Port against the ves
sel tor dockage and other services from
May 29 to September 18. 1906.
Counsel for the libeled steamer filed
exceptions to the proceeding, attacking
the constitutionality of the act creating
the Port of Portland, as to its rights to
construct and maintain a drydock and
charging that the court was without
jurisdiction for the reason that the cause
was not of a character cognizable in ad
miralty. Commenting on the scope of
the powers of the Port, the court says:
A municipality created for the purpose ot
Improving- and keeping open prreat water
wars in aid of commerce should be given
the authority to construe and maintain a
drydock. It ia a easily germane to the
subject embraced by the title as the con
struction or maintenance of wharves and
docks Is connected with the simple title for
the incorporation of a city or of the many
and diverse other pubjects of specific power
conferred by the various provisions of the
charter.
Several authorities were cited to show
that the Port had full Jurisdiction of the
controversy.
El'GEXE MVST PAY SURVEYORS
Court Allows Kelsey & Young Judg
ment of $2450.
By a decision of United States Judge
Wolverton yesterday the City of Eugene
will be required to pay Kelsey & Young,
contractors, the sum of $2450 for serv
ices performed. In 1905 the electors of
the university city authorized the is
suance of bonds, to the amount of $100.
000 with which to install a municipal
electric light plant. Subsequently the
City Council employed Kelsey & Young
to make a survey, agreeing to pay $2900
for the work, and on which a payment
of $450 was made. But upon being ad
vertised for sale, no bids were received
for the bonds and the contractors ap
plied to the city for the balance due
them. Warrants were drawn on the gen
eral fund and L. Simons brought suit
enjoining their payment, contending that
the service was to be paid from the pro
ceeds of the bond sale.
Judge Wolverton held that where a
municipality fails to comply with the re
quirements of Its charter to supply funds
or if there is any unreasonable delay in
enforcing such provisions or collecting
and turning over such money, the con
tractor has the right of action against
the corporation for damages, in which he
may recover the amount due under the
contract, even if the contract contains
a provision that he shall look for pay
ment only to a special fund and that he
will not require the municipality, by any
If there are any weak
spots in your armor, the
Spring rains will find
them.
Better get inside one
of our new Spring Rain
coats, $15 to $20.
tji2 IiIGH vX
CLOTH IMGCO
Gus KuhnProp'
166-168 Third Street.
legal - process or otherwise, to pay his
claim out of any other fund.
Two Bankruptcy Petitions.
Two petitions in bankruptcy were filed
in the United States Court yesterday.
Rilla E. Johnson, a householder of Clack
amas, reports liabilities aggregating $9500,
with no assets. C. J. Smith, a stonecut
ter of this city, gives his liabilities at
$4126 03, with assets to the amount of
$2317.
VOTE DfJ ISSUE OF BONDS
ELECTORS TO PASS OS NEW
' HIGH SCHOOIi.
Board of Education Calls Meeting
for April 7 to Consider Rais
ing of $'250,000.
A special election will be held by the
electors of School District No. 1, Tues
day, April 7, on the question of author
izing the Board of Education to Issue
bonds to the amount of $250,000 for
building a new High School in the
northeast portion of the city, probably
in Albina. This action was ordered
yesterday at a meeting of the Board of
Education, which also instructed the
District Clerk to advertise for bids for
constructing an addition of four rooms
to the Sellood School building. Plans
are being prepared by the Board for
the erection of a six-room school build
ing at Peninsula, to replace the four
room building now occupied, and which
is . inadequate to accommodate the
school population. '
, William Becket appeared before the
Board and asked for additional school
accommodations at Vernon, where the
present building is "uncomfortably
crowded ..by an influx of pupils from
the Highland district. He informed the
SALE ef DINNER SETS
Ending tomorrow in the Basement Crockery
Department, in which eight attractive pat
terns in semi-porcelain and Haviland are
offered at special prices Sets consisting of
50 pieces and 56 pieces. See our MorrisoiT
street Windows.
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56-PIECE DINNER SET FOR $7.50
Regular jrice $9.50; Maddock's English semi
porcelain; "St. Louis" pink and gold dec
oration. 56-PIECE DINNER SET FOR $7.50
Regular price $9.25 "Allerton" Blue; con
ventiorml decoration. "
50-PIECE DINNER SET FOR $7.50
Regular price $9.50 semi-porcelain green
and 'gold conventional decoration.
50-PIECE DINNER SET FOR $9.25
Regular price $11.50 semi-porcelain royal
blue and gold decoration white centers.
56-PIECE DINNER SET FOR $10.00
Regular price $13.25 "Elite" white and
gold semi-porcelain a new and dainty pat
tern. 50-PIECE DINNER SET FOR $13.75
Regular price $16.25 semi-porcelain quaint
"Iris" pattern in green, gold and brown.
50-PIECE HAVILAND SET $21.50
Regular price $26.00 pink and gold decora
tion. 50-PIECE HAVILAND SET $28.50
Regular price $36.50 dainty rose designs,
pink and green.
9 ft. x 12 ft. SEAMLESS VELVET RUGS $19.75
mmm mm mm mmmm mwmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Today only in the Carpet Department Sixth Floor these serviceable and
sightly room-size Rugs, in patterns and colorings that display perfect har
mony and beauty Oriental designs in correct color combinations medallion
and small pattern centers, etc. These rugs are especially adapted to the liv
ing-room and dining-room, and are extra good values even at their regular sell
ing values of $27.50.
Sale of
Iron
Beds
Ending
Tomorrow
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Showing
of New
Styles in
Go-Carts and
Carriages
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Board that he had been instructed to
say that the people of his community
protested against the portable school
building which had been constructed
for their use, and declared that the
families there would not send their
children to such a building. Mr. Becket
was assured that the Board had done
all that could possibly be done with
the funds on hand, and was advised
that further relief could not be granted
before next year, when it is proposed
by the Board to add several rooms to
the Vernon School building.
The election of a principal of the
trade school ws deferred until the
next meeting of the Board. A number
of applications have been received
from which the Directors expect to
make a good selection. Salaries asked
by the different applicants range as
high as $2400 per annum.
School Clerk Allen was directed to
advertise for a wood supply for the en
suing school year, so that fuel may be
delivered and stored away before the
rains begin next Fall.
Mullane's Cincinnati taffies. Slg Sicliel
& Co.. sole agents.
SCHOOLS MAY NOT MARCH
BOARD OPPOSED TO CHIL
DREN'S ROSE PARADE.
Directors Expected to Act Unfavor
ably on Request for Repetition
of Last Year's Feature.
A majority . of the members of the
Board of Kducation does not favor a
general participation by the pupils of
the public schools of this city in the
Rose Festival street parade next June.
For some time the officers of the Rose
Festival Association have been In cor
respondence with the school directors,
urging their approval of the plan to have
all school children take part in the exer
cises, as was done last year.
At yesterday's meeting of the Board.
Chairman Wittenberg and Directors I. N.
Fleischner and Mrs. L. V. Sitton op
posed favorable action on the request.
But after some discussion the matter
was referred to a committee consisting
of City Superintendent Rigler and Mrs.
Sitton. with instructions to consult with
the principals and pupils of the different
schools and make a report back to the
Board. The directors do not wish to ap
pear to be opposing anything that would
add to the success of the approaching
rose show, but they consider that it is
too severe a test for many of the smaller
pupils to cover the long distance that ia
included In the itinerary of the line of
march on such occasions.
With a majority of the Board opposed
to the plan, it is possible that the scheme
will finally be voted down, regardless of
the report of the committee on the
action of the school principals.
If Baby Ik Cutting Teeth
Be sure and use that old well-tried remedy,
Mrm. Wlnslow'B Soothing Syrup, for children
teething. It soothes the child, soften th.
sumn, allaya pain, colic and diarrhoea.
Metzger. Jeweler, optician, 842 Wash.
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THE TRIUMPH 0FTHE
At the Paderewski Recital
Last Evening
One cannot but admire Paderewski's selection of the "Matchless
Weber" piano as the medium of his wonderful art.
Tested as no other instrument ever was or probably ever will be
the Weber piano, indisputably and pre-eminently the piano of the day
astounded the greatest audience of musicians and music-lovers ever
assembled in this city.
Never has a piano been called upon to respond to such varied and
seemingly impossible demands and
never has a piano responded so nobly
to every whim, mood and desire of the artist as the Weber last evening.
The wonder of it all was that a creation of wood and metal could be
so delicately and adequately responsive to both the most delicate of shadings
and the superhuman muscular onslaughts of the master artist of the keys.
It's Weber tone It's Weber construction It's Weber individuality
It's Weber durability In a word, it's the IDEAL that elevates it to the
highest pinnacle of supremacy.
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