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THE 3I0RIG OREGOXIAN. THURSDAY, MARCH o, I90S.
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LETTERS ANSWER
LIFE-SAPPING PARASITES
THAT WRECK HUMAN SYSTEM
FED INTO MAINS
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PASTOR
CHARG
Noxious Fumes Cause Port
land Consumers Several
Hours of Misery.
RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT
Company's Manager explains That
Sulphur Compounds In Crude
Product Created the Trouble.
Many All -but Suffocate.
Gas. mingled with poisonous Impuri
tieB that was fed Into the mains at
the central gas plant of the Portland
(Jas Company lawt night by mistake,
set the people of the city to choking
and jftaRpinff for breath before the man
agement of the pas plant discovered
the mistake and corrected it. The acci
dent that was the cause of the trouble
occurred at a time when the maximum
of gas was being used by householders.
The noxious fumes were noticed short
ly before 6 o'clock, while dinners were
being cooked and lamps lighted all
oxer the city. The awful stench from
the gas burners continued until nearly
9 o'clock, although out in the suburbs
pear the ends of the gas mains, the
bad gas was noticed until a later hour.
Indignant consumers of gas through
out the city kept the complaint depart
ment of the gas company busy for
hours asking what caused the poor
quality of gas. The gas company
vouchsafed no Information on this
point, but advised all patrSns to keep
their doors and windows open, saying
that if this were done, there would be
no danger This advice was far from
satisfactory, considering the cold night.
Many dinners could not be eaten or In
fact even cooked because of the chok
' ing fumes from the gas ranges.
Vnpurlfled gas was fed Into the gas
holders last night, as a result of an
accident at the works. This gas had
not passed' through the washers and
contained a high percentage of a carbon-sulphur
compound. Hydrogen com
pounds are always taken out of the
gas before it Is let into the mains, but
some of these poisonous combinations
became mixed with the gas last night.
The sulphur compounds that are usual
ly eliminated by washing the gas
caused most of the discomfort last
night.
Papst F.xplalns Trouble.
"All coal or oil on this Coast used
for gas-making contains a high pert-en
t age of sulphur," sa id Superintend
ent Papst, of the Portland Gas Com
pany, last night. "An unfortunate ac
cident at the works, while the puri
fier were being changed, caused a
quantity of raw or tinpurified gas to
rind its way Into the storage tanks.
This was corrected as soon as the mis
take was discovered. We are getting
ready to Install new appliances at the
works, that will do away with those
sulphur fumes to a greater extent than
at present, and the foundations for the
new apparatus are being put In. It
was on this account that the accident
occurred."
There was a atorm of protest from all
parts of the city last nipht over the
wretched quality of the gas. Hundreds of
people rang up The Orogonian to ask
the cause of the trouble end what could
be done to escape the poisonous fumes
that were pouring from gas burners in
all parts of the city.
Louis "Whiting, of the real estate firm
of Whiting & Rountree. who lives at
710 Johnson street, reported that fumes
from the burntng gas was choking eiery
one in the. house and that he had heard
complaints from scores of people in his
neighborhood.
C. 1.. uMead. 12R Fourteenth street, said
the smell from the gas burners was so
overpowering that two domestics had
to vacate their rooms after being almost
suffocated. One girl was so overcome
that she could not speak.
Mrs. J. J. Morgan. 5$ Bast Alder street,
complained that the stench from the gas
was something awful and could not be en
dured unless the doors and windows of
the house were left . wide open. This
remedy left everyone in the house shiv
ering and was only less discomforting
than the gas fumes themselves.
W. I.,. Lister, a grocery man on Nob
Hill, said everyone in his neighborhood
was taking the open-air treatment to min
imize as much as possible the injurious
effects of the poisonous gas.
All Windows Left Open.
On Grand aenue last night all the
tl oors and w 1 n d o ws were wide o pen In
order to get relief from the foul-smelling
gas.
Reports from Albina were to the sa;f;
effect, showing that the poison in tu
gas served to customers of the company
last night was distributed Into all the
mains and served to every section of the
city.
In downtown restaurants diners could
hardly endure the fumes long enough to
eat. even with floors and windows wide
open and electric fans going. Cigar
tores, drugstores, saloons and all place
of business open at night that use gas
were filled with a sulphur stench that
drove patrons to the open air. People
everywhere- complained of the sulphur
fumes and feared poisoning by the gas.
"These gas fjimes are a rank poison."
said one of the leading physicians of the
city last night, "and their primary ef
fect is to produce congestion of t he
lungs. They do not directly affect the
heart. But the presence of the poison in
such large quantities means that sick or
delicate persons subjected to the fumes
are endangered. In addition to the dis
ease that is to be combatted. the ill
effects of these poison fumes have to be
overcome as well. Particularly are the
bad effects of the gas fumes noticed in
cascjt of lung affections, such as pneu
monia, bad colds, inftuenxa and grip- all
of which are very prevalent Just now."
NEGRO FIRES ON POSSE
Wounds Three Men and Then Gives
Him-cir Vp.
CIjA RKPRCRG. W. Va.. March 4
Frank Johnson, a negro murderer who
took refuge in a barn on the Yates farm,
nine miles from here, early today shot
and wounded three persons. The injured:
AVIIIiam Magheny. a school teacher;
Harry Cork and John Ramsey. It is not
believed any were fatally injured.
The men shot were members of a posse.
Johnson yesterday killed Mrs. Carl
Martin, colored, because she refused to
ciope with him. Just as the- posse was
about to burn the barn this evening the
negro surrendered on promise of protec
tion. He waa brought to jail here.
8 END SCENIC PHOTOS EAST.
6ee Klaer's display. 248 Alder st
Kfead Sharkey's Sunday ad.
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MISS GRETCHEN" HOVT, OK
Miss Gretchen Hoyt, whose engagement was announced last week to Henry Ladd Corbett, of Portland,
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reese. Hoyt. of New York City. Miss Hoyt made her Initial bow to New
York society two Winters ago, and sinre thpn has enjoyed frreat popularity In Gotham, being a brilliant
and highly accomplished girl. She was a Portland visitor last year, having been a guest at the residence
of Mr. Corbett's grandmother, Mrs. W. S. Ladl, for a week prior to taking a motor trip with her parents
through California. Mr. Corbett is presidenc of the Portland Hotel Company and a director of the First
National Bank.
5 TO BEAT SEATTLE
CLERK FIELDS. AXXIOtS FOR
HEAVY REGISTRATION.
At Present Rate Total Will Rcacli
28.000 by Tim Books Close.
Canvasser Sent Out.
If voters of Multnomah County con
tinue to register as rapidly as they have
been doing in the last few weeks, and
if the usual increase is made as the date
of the primaries approaches 28.000 voters
will have registered when the books close
April 7. County Clerk Fields said yester
day that the total number of regietered
voters this year will probably stand be
tween 27.000 and 28.000, although he has
some hope that it will go higher.
In order to facilitate registrations Mr.
Fields has decided to send one of the
registration clerks out this morning Vith
blank cards. J. Earl Gaash. the clerk,
will visit the large department stores,
and if the plan works well Mr. Fields
says ho will also send him to the factories
and machine shops. Mr. Gaash will carry
the following letter of introduction:
To "Whom It May Concern: This will
introduce Mr. J. Karl Gaash, who is dis
tributing regiHtration cards. If you will
kindly allow him to pass them around in
your establishment the favor will be ap
preciated. Seattle registered over :lo.000 voters, flft
per cent of whom voted at the .lection
there yesterday. Let's try to beat it.
Ycurs for U,000, and U to vote.
F. S. FIELDS.
County Clerk.
If the cards are properly tilled out be
fore the voter goes to the County Clerk's
office there will be no delay In register
ing, and a larpre number can be registered
by the clerks in a very short time. The
Oounty Clerk's office is now open for
registrations until 9 o'clock, so that all
who are at work in the daytime may
have an opportunity to sign up. Clerk
Fields says it is well for voters to register
as soon as possible, for during the last
few days' there is always a big rush.
While the average number who register
in a day is . tm March 14, 1904, the
last day for receiving registrations, 1334
signed the books between S A. M. and 5
P. M.
The total number now registered is
about liS.SOO. Vp to Tuesday night it was
36.017. Deputy County Clerk Schneider
estimates that about 3" will register
each week from now on. and that 4000
will register during the last week. At
this time in W KA' had registered. In
1P04. 11.4-5 had placed their names on
the books, and in 1902. the number stood
at 11.435.
The total registrations for the 1WS
primaries were as follows: West Side.
9530: E,ist Side. S476: country. 3121. Total,
21.171. When the date came for the gen
eral election in that year the total num
ber of vaters registered was aa follows:
West Side. 10. ITS: Bast Side. 9561: country,
S5S. Total. 23.4SS. The registration for
the city election last year was as fol
lows: West Side. 12.834: East Side. li.o2.
Total. 2o.3S.
CREDIT MEN HOLD BANQUET
bccrctary-Troasurcr Meek or Nation
al Organization Honored.
Nearly 100 members of the Portland
Asportation of Credit Men last night
attended a banquet that was Riven at
Richards ro5taurant. in honor of
Charles E. Meek, of Xew York, secretary-treasurer
of the National Associ
ation of Credit Men. Other distin
Kuished puests at the banquet ware A.
C. Foster, cashier of the United States
National Bank, of L'envcr; and Charles
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NEW VORK CITV. WHOSK KNCJACiEMET TO HEnV I. ADO COKBKTT
- WAS AN.OHN('KD LAST WEEK.
Bayley. vice-president of the Credit
Men's Association, of Denver. Colo.
B. B. Rutherford, president of the
local association, presided as toast
master, and introduced Mayor Lane,
who welcomed the visitors to the city.
In presenting Mayor Lane, Toastmaster
Rutherford became facetious and told
of becoming "Waymired" in the North
Knd " while undertaking to introduce
the visitors to some of the manufactur
ing sections of the city. In responding.
Mayor Lane humorously referred to the
recent Circuit Court trial in which he
was more than an interested spectator,
and declared that while Portland is a
town modest in her claims, it is even
a better town than it looks.
"Portland is the greatest city of its
size in the United States," said Mr. Fos
ter, of Denver. "I said the same thing
up at Seattle the other night, but that
was before I had visited Portland."
The speaker then proceeded to detail
the advantages of organization among
merchants who extended credit, and
was ' warmly applauded for his re
marks. Other speakers were Mr. Meek and
R. L. Sabin. secretary of the Merchants
Protective Association, of this city. The
banquet was one of the most success
ful that ha been conducted by the
local organization.
BRIDGE CONTRACT IS LET
Local Firm . to Build Sullivan
Gulch Structure for $61,500.
The contract for a reinforced concrete
bridge across Sullivan's Gulch, on East
Twenty-eighth street, was awarded to
the Northwest Bridge "Works, a Poryand
firm, yesterday afternoon by the Execu
tive Board, at an adjourned meeting.
The contract price is H4,500. If the city
puts In a double track for the Port
land Railway, Light & Power Company,
but if the contractors are ordered '-to do
the work, it will cost $1900 .more, ac
cording to their bid.
This is the first bridge to be built in
the city on which the electric railway
company has refused to pay its por
tion of the cost and where -the city has
proceeded regardless of this attitude of
the company. President Josselyn, of the
Portland Railway, Light & Power Com
pany, has officially announced that his
company will not use the bridge and
will not give anything toward its con
struction. City Attorney Havana ugh gave an
opinion on the matter, in which he held
that the city can 'force the company to
pay its share of the cost of the bridge,
and suit will be entered In due time.
In order to collect, the city is obliged
to lay double tracks and put in trolley
wires over the bridge.
Will Resume Probing Today.
Interest in the session of the special
City Council committee, appointed to
probe alleged "trusts" in Portland,
which is scheduled to meet at 10 o'clock
this morning, renters in the appearance
of W. H. Beharrell, manager for Hey
wood Bros, and the "Wakefield Furniture
Company, as a witness. He will be
asked td explain what he meant in a
recent letter to The Oregonian by "an
itching palm." He will be questioned
about the alleged furniture combine,
which, previous witnesses have declared,
still exists, but an explanation of what
he meant by his recent letter is par
ticularly what is desired by the commit
tee, composed of Councilmen Vaughn.
Concannon and Belding.
Good for Everj-body.
Mr. Norman R. Coulter, a prominent
architect, in the Delbert Building, San
Francisco, says: "I fully endorse all
that ha been said of Electric Bitters
as a tonic medicine. It Is good for
everybody. It corrects stomach. liver
and kidney disorders in a prompt and
efficient manner and builds up the srs
tem." Elertric Bitters is the best
spring medicine ever sold over a drug
gist's counter; as a blood purifier it is
unequaled. 5c. at Woodard. Clarke &
Co.'a drug store,
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SEIJVICKS AT CATHOLIC AND
EPISCOPAL CHURCHES.
Father McDevitt Preaches at Cathe
dral and Bishop Scadding Ad
dresses Trinity Communicants.
Yesterday. Ash Wednesday, was cele
brated in all the Catholic and Episcopal
churches of Portland with special serv
ices. It is the beginning of a season of
40 days' fasting and prayer, which will
terminate on Easter Sunday. The season
is observed by the Catholic and Episcopal
churches throughout this country and
-Europe.
The Catholic churches of the city cele
brated masses yesterday at 6:30. 8 and 9
o'clock in the morning. The ashes were
blessed and- presented, as a symbol of the
affliction of the spirit, preparatory to
the celebration of the festival of the
Lord's resurrection. Last night there
were sermons in both the Catholic and
Episcopal churches. Father T. B. Mc
Devitt preached at the Cathedral, the
sermon being one of instruction to the
members present on the proper observ
ance of the Lenten season. There will be
preaching in the Catholic churches of
I the city every Wednesday night during
lent. on Friday nights the service will
be what is known as The Way of the
Cross, and benediction.
Bishop Scadding preached at the Trin
ity Episcopal Church last night, taking
for his text the words of Christ: "When
ye fast be not as the hypocrites, for they
disfigure their faces, that they may ap
pear unto men to fast." The bishop
called for an abstinence of heart. 'I
believe in the discipline of the physical
body." said. he, "but our call is to spirit
ual things, to righteousness, to the in
troduction into our daily life of a larger,
higher realization of the duty of Chris
tian living." The bishop said there was
not much to be gained by abstaining from
meat on Friday, and eating only fish.
If the heart was not right.
At 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon there
was prayer service at the Trinity Church,
which will be repeated every afternoon
until Easter .at the same iiour. Commun
ion service was held yesterday morning
at 10 o'clock. It will be held also on
the other "Wednesdays of the season.
Similar services were held yesterday at
St. Stephen's Pro-Cathedral, and at St.
Matthew's Episcopal Church.
JUMPS INTO WILLAMETTE
Martin Sullivan, Threatened With
Blindness, Takes His Own Iiife.
Martin Sullivan, a street sweeper. 67
years of age. jumped from the Madison
street bridge into the Willamette River
and drowned himself at $:30 o'clock yes
terday morning. The old man waa de
spondent because of eye trouble which
threatened blindness. He had been a
sufferer from eye trouble for over two
years and was unable to get relief. He
brooded continually over his condition
and waa known to have threatened sui
cide frequently.
He left his home at 638 Third street yes
terday morning and went directly to
the bridge. He told his daughter, Anna S.
Sullivan, he was going for a walk, but
said nothing that aroused her suspicions
as to his destination.. His plunge into
the river was m-itnessed by W. McDonald,
who notified the bridgetenders. James
rtelly and Joseph Acton. These workmen
got a row boat and recovered the body.
H'hlch did not sink, strangely enough.
After getting the lifeless form ashore,
the bridgetenders attempted to restore
respiration, but-,. Sullivan was dead. His
body was taken to tlie Finley undertak
ing establishment. Sullivan leaves a
qyiughter. Miss Anna, and two sons. John
and James Sullivan- . .
Mayor Lane Makes Public
Correspondence Regarding
Fritz Case.
UNFAVORABLE TO BRUIN
Kvidence In "Writing That Both
Mayor and Chairman Greene, of
Police Committee. Gave De
tective Free Rein.
Maor Lane yesterday made public five
letters, being the official correspondence
that passed between himself. Captain of
Detectives Patrick Bruin and T. G.
Greene, chairman of the police committee
of the Executive Board, relative to Fred
Fritz' Bumside-street resort, last Janu
ary. This constitutes a reply to certain
statements made by Dr. J. Whitcomb
Brougher last Sunday night. In his ser
mon at the White Temple, in course of
which he charged that a searching inves
tigation should be made by the Municipal
Association to -ascertain who is standing
In the way of convicting Fritz.
In making public this correspondence
Mayor Lane says that he is in no wise
criticising Dr. Brougher or any one else,
but deems it justifiable . to make known
the efforts of his administration to force
Fritz and others to obey the law. Neither
does the Mayor desire portions of these
letters to be construed as in any sense a
reply to anything Captain Bruin has said
since quitting the police department.
The letters show that Captain Bruin, in
his capacity as inspector of the police
department, declared to Mayor Lane
January 17 that all efforts to secure a
conviction of Fred Fritz had met with
failure. The officer virtually demanded
to know how the Lane administration
stood; he volunteered rlie information
that unless he received the full support
of the city government he would drop
the case, as he said he-was making many
enemies by his campaign. Mayor Lane
replied the following day. in plain terms,
assuring Captain Bruin that no resort in
the -city had any protection of any sort,
and urged an aggressive fight against all
violators of law.
Reply Was Emphatic.
The Mayor also communicated with
Chairman Greene, of the police commit
tee, and Mr. Greene's reply was emphatic
in ordering strict compliance with the
law by Fritz and every other alleged vio
lator of the law.
As a result of Captain Bruin's letter,
under date of January 17, 1908. Chief of
Police Gritzmacher and Captain Bruin
were instructed to raid and raid again
Fritz resort and other establishments of
the kind, every day in the year, if nec
essary, to compel obedience to the law.
The only action taken by Bruin was to
prefer charges against Fritz with the
liquor-license cdmmittee of the City
Council, but the charges were dismissed.
Captain Bruin, in his letter to Mayor
Lane, gives the impression that he is the
only honest, courageous and fearless of
ficer in the department, and charges that
Fritz Is receiving protection from some
one. It was while discussing this Fritz
matter that Dr. Brougher declared it was
time the public was given the facts, so that
they might know who was responsible
for the failure to convict in the Fritz
case.
The correspondence passing between
Captain Bruin. Mayor Lane and Chair
man Greene is as follows:
Captain Brain's Letter.
January. 17. 1908.
Hon. Harry Lane, Mayor of Portland. City.
Sir: I have the honor to make the fol-lon-lng
report:
About November, 19J5. I complained in
a legal way. against the North End concert
halln, among which were Erickson's.
Blaziers -two places, Fred Fritz, and
several, other In different parts of the
city, and after more - or less of a leral
battle, they all closed their places, except
that of Fred Fritz, on Second and Burnslde.
and that has never been closed, and Is. at
the present time, running full -blast in vio
lation of section , ordinance 10904, page
73. and also section 29. ordinance 14049.
page 446. I entered suit against this place
on numerous occasions, but have never
teen successful in getting a conviction, ex
cept on one occasion, and that was not
really a conviction, as he merely forfeited
a ball of .$150, and when this forfeiture
was made both Fritz and nls attorney were
present In the courtroom, the thing being
simply fixed up by his attorney and the
prosecuting . attorney and the court.
About three month ago I filed charges
against this same Fred Fritz for violating
the same above-mentioned ordinances, and
In the .same place and way. Another
agreement was entered Into between his
attorney and the court, to suspend proceed
ings until he made certain alterations that
would make hla place comply with the
ordinance. Some alterations have been
made, but Instead of improving the place
It has made it. in my opinion, much worse
than It was before.
Yesterday I asked Deputy City Attorney
Tomlinson to dispose of this case against
Fritz and he Informed me that there was
now nothing to be done, inasmuch as Fritz
has altered his place and was now com
plying with the law, and that he had been
so informed by Fritz's attorney, Ralph
Moody. I asked Mr. Tomlinson to accom
pany Sergeant Baty and myself to Fred
FritVs concert hall. Upon entering, Mr.
Tomlinson locked around and said that
"everything looked all right to him." I
then took him through the bar room and
from there through a passageway to the
stage and the boxes In the theater.
Women Work lit Resort.
Mr. Tomlinson admitted that the pas
sageway was a violation of the law, but
denied that a vestibule in .front of the
theater, and connected with the saloon by
a door, which is also the main entrance
to the theater, waa a violation of the city
ordinance. This vestibule is about SO by 40
feet and in it ar two shooting galleries
and several electrical slot machines, which
by dropping a permy in tre slot you may
see several views." All thee thing. In
cluding the shooting galleries, are attended
to by women.
Also with reference to a saloon on Second
and Clay streets. A woman was arrested
about two weeks ago on a charge of vag
rancy, and she informed Ating Detectives
Kay and Keinlen and myself that she was
a common prostitute and that nhe piled
her trade at that saloon. I Instructed Kay
and Kelnlen to apply the law to this place,
and in a few day afterwards these two
officers raided this place and got evidence
that would convince any intelligent man
that a bawdy house was being conducted
by the proprietor of the saloon, and in
connection therewith, and in the police
court this morning, according to Informa
tion by the thr officers making the raid,
the charges will come to nothing, provid
ing the proprietor alters the building so
that a: person cannot go from the bar room
to the bawdy house upstairs without first
going out on the sidewalk. There Is no
intention, so far aa I can see. to impose
any penalty.
Going back to the case of Fred Frltr, It Is
a cinch. In my opinion, that he has a
"frame up" with some one in authority.
No other man that I know of in this city
would be permitted to conduct a business
like he has for one night. He has never
been interfered with by any other officer
In this city except myself, during the past
two years. I would like to convince your
honor that what I have above stated .ere
farts by having you visit the place yourself
when It is running in full Swing, or send
some members of the police committee to
look over the place.
By applying the law to Fritz -I am
making many personal enemies for myself
The following remarkable statement
was recently made by L. T. Cooper.
It concerns the preparation which has
been so widely discussed throughout
the country during the'past year, and
has sold in such enormous quantities
in leading cities:
"It Is now a well-known fact that
wherever I have introduced my New
Discovery medicine, hundreds of peo
ple have brought Internal parasites,
or tapeworms, to me. in many cases
these people did not know the nature
of the parasite, and were consequently
extremely nervous until I explained
the matter to them. In some cities so
many have had this experience that"
the public generally became alarmed.
"I take this opportunity of explain
ing what these creatures are. and what
I have learned about them in the past.
"Tapeworms are much more com
mon that would be supposed. I ven
ture to say that ten per cent of all
chronic stomach trouble, or what is
known as a 'rundown condition. Is
caused by them. An individual may
suffer for years with one of these great
parasites and not be aware of it.
among prominent citizens of this com
munity, and if I am not to have the full
approval of the entire city government I
will drop this case. My Interest In prose
cuting Fred Fritz Is Just the same as that
which caused me to prosecute Ericksun"s.
the Blaziers and the Paris House, the slot
machines and the dives along Fourth street.
They were all guilty, the same aa Fred
Fritz, and rio more.
aoing back to the Second and Clay
street saloon. I do not see any good reason
why any one setting up and " maintaining
a bawdy house In that part of the city
should escape punishment If the case
against him is proved, as 1 believe this
case to be. Respectfully.
P. BRUIN,
Captain and Inspector of Police.
Reply of Major Lane.
Mayor Lane, replies to Captain Bruin
as follows:
Jan. 18, 19t8.
Mr. P. Bruin. Captain and Inspector of
Police. Portland. Or. Dear Sir: I am in receipt
of your communication of the 17th inst.; In
w-hieh you, report that your effort to compel
Fred Fritz, of Second and Purnride street,
and- a saloon situated on the comer of Second
and Clay atreets. to obey the law. has met
with failure owing to the fact that you are
not supported in your effort in that direc
tion by other officials in the city's employ.
In reply to your communication I would
say that no protection of any sort Is grunted
to these or any other places in the city by
myself or by anyone pIsc with my knowledge
or by my consent. The inference which I
draw from your communication Is that the
City Attorney's of flee, the Municipal Judge
and the Ohief of Police do not support you
in your effort to enforce the law. more es
pecially against the "Fritz" place.
f will refer your letter to the police com
mit lee and ak that the places be com
pelled to obey the laws or else be subject to
every effort at our command to compel them
to do so.
Respectfully,
HARRY LANE,' Mayor.
The Mayor to Sir. Greene.
Mayor Lane also addressed a letter to
Chairman Greene, as follows:
Jan. IS, VMS.
Mr. Thomas G. Greene, Chairman. Police
Committee. City. Dear Sir: I transmit to you
a communication received today from Captain
P. Bruin, of the Police Department, and a
copy of my reply to him. If conditions are
as he states it will be neceseary for us to
take Immediate steps to nut these place out
of business. I would suggest thai they be
given 20 hours to get i inside the law. and
if after that length of time they do not do
ko, l would also suggest that they be raided
and held In jail without bail, and re-raided
asa often as is necessary to make them come
to time.
Very respectfully yours.
HARRY LANE, Mayor.
Mr. Greene's Answer.
Chairman Greene replied as follows:
Jan. 18. ios.
Hon. Harry Lane, Mayor of Portland
Dear Sir: Referring to your communica
tion of this date regarding the report of
Captain Bruin under date of January .1 7,
concerning the violation of certain or
dinances by Fred Fritz and by a saloon at
Second and Clay streets. I beg to say that
as chairman of the police committee I
have at all times and on every occasion
instructed the Chief of Police, Captain
Bruin and every other police officer, with
whom I had occasion to discuss the mat
ter to enforce the ordinances against Fred
Fritz, or any other person, found violating
the same, and to continue to do so with
out regard to any failure of the City Attor
ney or his deputies properly to prosecute,
and without legard to any leniency, real
or apparent, that might be shown toward
such lawbreakers by the Municipal Court.
In other words, to arrest such people and
keep on arresting then) and keep on put
ting the case squarely up to the Municipal
Court and City Attorney.
It ought to be understood by the Police
Department by this time that neither your
self nor the police committee has any
control whatever over the Municipal Court
or the municipal law department. Failure
on the part of those departments. If there
has been any failure, to perform their du
ties. Is something for which we are not
responsible and to which we can apply no
remedy. But we are responsible for the
conduct of the Police Department, and it
is the duty of Captain Bruin, and of all
other members of the department, to arrest
Fred Fritz and the keeper of the bawdy
house at Hecond and Clay streets and to
throw them up' to the Municipal Court once
a day for S65 days every year, or so long
as violation of the ordinance continues.
Inasmuch as this matter was taken up
through you, I have returned herewith the
correspondence and heartily concur in your
suggestion that the places mentioned should
be raided and reraided as often as neces
sary to make them come to time. And I
beg respectfully to suggest furthr that
such instructions be given lo the Chief of
Police and to Captain Bruin at once. Fur
thermore. I think the Chief of Police should
be requested to investigate, with a view of
ascertaining to what extent, if any. the
patrolmen on the beats where these place
are located, have reported concerning the
came, and If it appears that such patrol
men have walked by such places as these
every day without attempting to bring
them to justice said patrolmen should be
given beats In the suburbs or reported to
the olice committee for trial. Tours
very respectfully, T. G. GREENE,
Chairman of the poilce committee.
. (Closes the Incident.
Mayor Lane then sent a copy of Chair
man Greene's letter to Captain Bruin,, as
is shown by. the following:
Jan. 20. 1908.
Mf. P. Bruin. Captain of Police Depart
ment, Portland, Or. Dear Sir: Again re
ferring to your favor of recent date. I en
close herewith copy of a letter received
from Mr. Thomas G. Greene, chairman of
the police committee. Yours respectfully.
MAYOR.
XOT AT BRVIX'S REQUEST
Spanish War Veterans Making Inde
pendent Investigation.
The Spanish-American War Veterans of
Scout Young camp are continuing their
Investigations -into the case of Captain
of Detectives Bruin, who recently re
signed from the Police Department. A
committee, of which Comrade A. J. Sauls
bury is chairman, has the matter in hand.
The members have already called upon
Chief Gritzmacher and Mayor Lane rel
ative to the affair.
"The committee was named to make an
Impartial Investigation of the cause of
Captain Bruin's virtual reduction in
rank," said Chairman Saulsbury. "It is
untrue, as published, that Captain Bruin
asked the camp to investigate, as he
knew nothing of it until he was called
before the committee and asked for his
"Contrary to general belief, the ap
petite is not greatly Increased it only
becomes irregular. There Is a general
feeling of faintness. however, and a
gnawing f ensation in the pit of the
stomach.
"Peoole" afflicted with one of these
parasites are nervous and depressed.
Their chief sensation is one of hun-p-uor.
and they tire very easily. Lack
of energy and ambition affect the body,
and the mind becomes dull and slug
gish. The memory be - omes not so good,
and the eyesight is generally poorer.
"The New Discovery, in freeing stom
ach and bowels of all impurities, seems
to be fatal to these great worms, and
almost immediately expels them from
the system. I wish to assure any one
who has tht? experience just related
with my preparation, that there Is no
cause for alarm in the matter, and
that it wiil as a rule mean a speedy
restoration to good health."
The Cooper medicines are a boon to
stomaeh sufferers. We sell them. The
Skidmore Drug Co.: Huntley Bros. Co.,
Oregon City. Or.
version of the affair. A mistake was also
made in a published statement. . In which
it was said that Comrade McCord waa
spokesman for the committee, as I am
chairman and spokesman.
"We arc investigating the Bruin mat
ter on a strictly Impartial baste, and
will report at next Monday nifiht's meet
ing. We w ill report on whatever the
fa;ts prove to be. If Bruin is at fault,
we will censure him; if Mayor Lane,
Chief Grixmaehr or the Police Commis
sioners are to blame, we will censure
them.'
COMMITTEES ARE NAMED
Organization Perfected by the
Sunnyside Push Club.
The Sunnyside Push Club perfected
its organization last night at the meet
ing held In the assembly hall of the
Sunnyside School, by adopting consti
tution and by-laws and appointing
working committees. J. T. Wilson pro
sided. J. M. Walker, ' delegate, re
ported proceedings of the United East
Side Push Clubs, which he said were
important to the whole of the Eaat
Side. The constitution fixed regular
meetings every second Wednesday
night of each month, and the assembly
hall of the Sunnyside School as the
place of meeting. The following work
ing committees were appointed:
Transportation committee, S. C. Tier. W.
H. Sawiell, J. Nash and W. H. Norman:
membership. Mrs. J. N. Walker. II. Ray
mond. 1. Nash, E. D. Curt, Mr. C. C.
Shay: local Improvements. C. S. McDuffee,
C. R. Roxburgh, Dr. More; executive corn;
mittee. Mrs. E. A. McPherson. Rev. T. I.
Kord. F. M. Varner. Mrs. F. M. Miilne. K.
D. Curtis, H. V. Ol liver. J. B. Chamber
lain. Mrs. J. N. Walker. Mrs. C. H. Rose
turgh. Mrs. C. T. Prlvatt. T. F. Shikley.
Mij A fines Drennot-n; Are protection. Toll
Thompson, B. A. McPherson. J. N. Davi;
amusements. C. C. Wood- A. Drover. J.
N. Davis; real estate, W. H. Norman. C. T.
Prlvatt; delegates to the United KaM Side
Push Clubs. T. J. Wilson. J. N. Walker. O.
A. Bosserman. Charles Mautz, F. R. Ma.
Committees on tree-planting and
health were authorized, but the presi
dent postponed their appointment until
the meeting next Wednesday night.
The club decided to affiliate with the
United East Side Clubs, and opened its
membership to women. Sewerage,
cleaning of streets, fire hydrants, fire
protection and street improvements
will be taken up at once.
Read Sharkey's Sunday ad.
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