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THE MORXIXG OKEGOMAN. THURSDAY, MAY 21, 190S.
ENGINEER REPORTS
DRAWBRIDGES
Submits Plans for Structure to
Replace Madison- Street
Viaduct.
FOUR TYPES SUGGESTED
Favors One 70 Feet Wide High
Enough to Allow All but Largest
Vessels to Pass Under and
Costing $1,0 00,000.
City Engineer Taylor made a report
to the City Council yesterday afternoon,
accompanied by plans for four types of
bridges across the Willamette River, in
the vicinity of Madison street. The style
most approved is a high bridge, 70 feet
wide, which would allow of the passage
of all but the largest vessels without an
open draw, the cost being $1,000,000. Other
designs would cost less, but none would
remedy the oprn draw problem now com
plained of. The Council took no action,
except to refer the report, but will prob
ably adopt a design at its next regular
meeting, next Wednesday. The street
committee will thresh out the details
in all probability, at its meeting tomor
row afternoon.
In ail the designs, the draw pier is
located 200 feet east of the prpsent loca
tion, a f nature which is said to be a
marked improvrment in the condition of
navigation, as this would make the draw
in line with the draw on the Morrison
street bridge.
City Engineer Taylor's report is as fol
lows: City Engineer's Report.
To the Honorable Mayor and Council of
the City of Portland Gentlemen: In the
matter of the preparation ot plan, etc..
fop a proposed bridge to take the place of
the present Madison-street bridge, I wish
to make the following report:
tn pursuance of authority granted by
your honorable body, Mr. J. B. C. I,ock
wood wai employed as consulting engineer
and one of tic first Questions wan to de
cide on what streets to end the approaches.
Hawthorne avenue being a main thor
oughfare for the Eat Side and wider than
the ordinary street, make it the most suit
able location for the oast end of the htidce.
Fast Clay. East Market and East Mill
streets extend In a straicht line only as
far as East Twelfth street, where they In
tersect Ladd's Addition, the streets of which
do not conform, so that the travel has to
turn to the right or left.
On this account Hawthorne avenue is also
preferable. On the West Klde should the
approach be changed from Its present loca
tion on Madison street It should be moved
to Jefferson street.
The objection to Columhia Clay street
would be the serious Interference with the
Southern Paclflo terminal yards.
Kite for High Bridge.
Tn the event of it being deemed advis
able to construct a high bridge. Jefferson
and Pecond street is the proper place for
the west end.
This would permit of head room for the
street cars on FJrht and Frcnt streets. The
bridge ending on Hawthorne avenue, at
T'nion avenue at the east end. would safely
clear the tracks on East Water street. East
First and East Second street
There are practically four plans prepared
by Mr. lock wood. -viz. : First High bridge
from Jefferson and Second street to Haw
thorne and I'nion avenue, with epst and
west side a ior ouches of steel and concrete,
estimated cost $1,000,000.
Same bridge with pile trestle approaches,
61o,ooo
Second High bridge from Jefferson and
Second streets to Hawthorne avenue at
Water street with approaches of steel and
concrete, $M.Ynon.
Same 'bridge with pile trestle approaches,
$,.Y0OO.
Third Bridge from Madison and Front
streets to Hawthorne avenue at Union ave
nue wftu approaches of steel and concrete.
Same bridge with pile trestle approaches,
$oo.000.
Fourth Bridge from Madison and Front
streets to Hawthorne avenue and East
Water street v it li approaches of steel and
concrete. $O0.0rt,
Same bridge with pile trestle approaches,
$550,000.
Substituting timber grillages in the river
filers for that part of the concrete below
ow water will reduce the amount of each
of the above estimates $,".0,000.
Higher Than Present Bridge.
The proposed bridge from Madison street
to Hawthorne aenue would be 10.S feet
higher than the present bridge.
The proposed bridge from Jefferson and
Second streets to Hawthorne avenue would
be 2T feet higher than the present bridge.
The estimate of probable cost of con
structing brldsres in accordance with plans
submitted docs not include anything for
tight of way. or for damages that might be
claimed by the owners of adjacent property.
I herewith submit blue prints of the dif
ferent plans prepared by Mr. Iockwood,
together with a copy of his report which
fully covers the ground.
As the matter of the proper location of
the proposed new bridge has been the sub
ject of much discussion and the cot of
the bridge to be built Is of great import
ance to the ' taxpayer. I would suggest that
there plans be referred to a special commit
tee or taken up by the Council as a com
mittee of the whole, so that the matter can
receive careful consideration before any
plan is finally decided upon. Yours respect
fully, D. W. TAYLOR, City Engineer.
CREATES W0 COMMENT
Mayor's Message on Automobile
Ordinance Hoad jn Council.
Contrary to expectations. Mayor Lane's
communication to the City Council rela
tive to certain amendments to the ordi
nance regulating automobiles and naming
a registry board, did not create any com
ment, when read to the members at i
special session yesterday afternoon. Coun
cilman Baker, the author of the amend
ments. was absent when the communi
cation was read. It had been expected
that he would lead a tight to even up
scores with the Mayor, who declared in
his message that the appointing power
does not lie with the legislative body,
but is an executive function. The Mavor,
stating his desire to make the ordinance
legal, made official the appointment of
tne men specified ny the Council.
Robert 1. Inman, who was named as
chairman of the board of registers, has
not announced whether or not h will
accept. He previously served in that
capacity by appointment of the Mayor.
but resigned. Trouble between him and
Mayor Iane arose over proceedings on
behalf of the city to put through a large
flit on East Sixth street, which would
cost the Inman-Poulsen Lumber Company
$25,000. Mayor Lane took up the city's
fight and made on issue of it, thereby
gaining the enmity of Mr. Inman.
The Mayor, however, recognizes Mr. In
man. as a good man for the position of
chairman of the board of registry, and
has asked him to serve.
RESCINDS FORMER ACTION
Council "Will D ra f t a New Pawn
brokers' Ordinance.
Owing to several unjust provisions in
an ordinance passed by the City Council
one week ago. regulating the conduct of
pawnbrokers and second-hand dealers.
the Council yesterday afternoon voted to
ask. Mayor Lane to veto the measure and
allow a new one to be drafted. Counsel
fur the dealers affected presented argu
ments against the ordinance ana the
Council promptly decided to rescind its
action.
The objectionable features were those
requiring a J1UO0 bond, the keeping of a
description of every person from whom
goods might be purchased, and a com
pulsory daily report of all goods pur
chased to the Chief of Police.
' Track to Livestock Show.
The City Council yesterday afternoon
passed a n ordi nance gra n t in g to the
Portland Railway. Light & Power Com
pany the right to lay a loop track around
the site of the livestock show, on the
Sandy road. The same tracks will ac
commodate the crowds at the automobile
races. The tracks must be taken up by
July 10, according to the action of the
Council.
EP WORTH LEAGUE TO MEET
Portland District Convention Will
Open at University Park.
Epworth Leaguers from aril over the
Portland district will gather at Uni
versity Park Methodist Episcopal
Church tonight, when the first annual
convention of the newly-organized dis
trict will be opened with an address on
"Optimism," by Rev. F. L. Young, of
St. John. The convention promises to
be largely attended. Delegates from
30 chapters, representatives from the
Junior League chapters and all Metho-
Rev. F. L. Young:, Who Will
Aildrens Epworth League Con
vent Ion.
dist pastors will be present. Prepara
tions have been made by University
Park Methodists to provide meals at
noon and night Friday and Saturday,
and late Sunday afternoon for every
person in attendance, whether delegate
or visitor.
Rev. F. L. Young, who Is to deliver
the opening address, is a favorite
among members of the league through
out Oregon, and wherever he has been
assigned he has labored to build up
the league chapters.
Tomorrow morning the services will
open at 9 o'clock with devotions, led
by Rev. C. T. Mcpherson, pastor of
Kpworth Methodist Kpiscopal Church,
after which short papers on various
features of Kpworth League work will
be read and discussed. The afternoon
will be devoted to papers and discus
sions, after devotional services led by
Rev. Harold Oberg. pastor of Monta
villa Methodist Episcopal Church.
There will be a roll call of chapters,
and a missionary exhibit. The collec
tion consists of curios, pamphlets,
books and various interesting articles,
and will be in charge of Miss Mabel
Downs, of Central chapter.
Tomorrow night there will be a tem
perance rally at which Rev. J. R.
Knodell, superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League for Oregon, will speak,
if it is possible for him to be in Port
land. Saturday there will be busi
ness sessions morning and afternoon,
and a Junior League rally from 2 to 4
P. M., and at night a big social ses
sion is scheduled, in which all chap
ters In the district will participate.
The convention will close Sunday night.
CLOSING-OUT SALE.
Fine Black Goods.
Fine Imported black dress goods and
silks from the world's best makers
mourning goods of all kinds on sale at
regular wholesale cost... If you want a
fine black dress, buy it here during this
sale. McAUen & jdcDonnell, Third and
Morrison.
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SCORED BY MAYOR
Says Council Is Unfair to the
Water Consumers.
PAY FOR FIRE HYDRANTS
Lane Declares $42,000 Appro
priation From General Receipts
Should Be Withdrawn . and
Used for Extension of Mains.
Mayor Lane addressed a communication
to the City Council, which was read
to the members at a special session yes
terday afternoon, reviewing the situation
with regard to the present need of fire
hydrants. He asked the Council to re
consider its action in appropriating $42,000
from the water fund for hydrants, saying
all funds from water revenue are badly
needed for the laying of new mains.
'Mayor Lane's address follows:
Message of the Mayor.
To the Honorable 'City "council: Gentle
men: In making up the estimate for the
city's expenditures for this year, there was
set aside by your honorable body the sum
of $42,000, which amount was ordered ap
propriated from the funds of the Water
Department for the purchase of fire hy
drants. At the time you ordered the diversion of
this sum of $42,000 from the funds of the
Water Department, I do not believe that
you quite realized the significance, or the
entire effect of such art Ion. and if I may
be allowed to do so, I would like to call
your attention to the matter as it applies
to one of the most Imixtrtant functions of
the city's government.
At all times in the past the entire cost
of the city's water system, from which it
has profited so much In so many ways, has
been borne by the consumers of water. All
of the cost of the installation of the entire
plant, including the head works, the piPe
line from Bull Run River, the reservoirs, all
water mains, all fire b yd rants and every ex
penditure for maintenance or for repairs or
improvements so, far as they have been met.
have been paid out of the moneys collected
from such persons.
The city Is growing- and every dollar re
ceived by the Water Board is urgently
needed to place additional mains to keep
pace with such growth, ana as it is there
are hundreds of families whose urgent need
for -water for household use it is impossible
to meet for the lack of funds.
Burden on the Consumers.
Water consumers in scores of cases nave
been and are being compelled to put In
water mains in the public streets at their
own expense without any hope or expecta
tion of ever being reimbursed for the out
lay, and at the same time are being forced
to pay full rates for water, of which. In
certain seasons, they receive but an Insuffi
cient supply, owing to the small size of
the mains which they were able to put in.
These persons and many cnersvnot here
mentioned can have no fire protection of
any sort and If their homes should catch
on- fire must stand by and see them burn to
the last ash without any relief in the way
of protection from fire hydrants or other
fire apparatus; yet they are taxed to pay
their full share for fire hydrants to guard
the immensely more valuable properties in
the down-town diRtrlcts.
At every meeting of the Water Board
many persons come with petitions asking
for water not for fire protection, but water
to drink and cook with; and when the heat
of the Summer is on, as it booh will be,
they 'will come in throngs and a lack of
water mains will exist and reasons will be
demanded, and explanations are going to be
due and the facts must be wet forth. They
beg for water for their families to drink,
and. forsooth, we are compelled to offer
them a fire hydrant with which, to quench
their thirst.
A thousand fire hydrants "r "more are
urgently needed and should be purchased
at once, but the co.t should not be fas
tened upon the household consumer of
water, already taxed beyond all rules of
justice.
Bays Plan Is Unjust.
T do not think that the people .as a
rule, quite understand the method by which
or the source from which, the money to
pay for fire hydrants is wrung, or that
such moneys are acauired by circumscrib
ing the extension of water mains and most
ly come from the small householder, or
realize the Injustice of the plan which
was so cunningly devised and fixed upon
them In the past, or will fail to resent
the Injustice of it, once knowing the evil
which It works upon themselves and thou
sands of others in this city, and I do not
think that once realizing the utter unfair
ness of the scheme they will care any
longer to be a party to, or suffer further
from it.
Water to drink is a necessity of life of
which no man. woman or child must be
denied, and the obligation upon the part
of the city to secure It for that purpose Is
Its first duty. The duty of the Board of
Water Commissioners in this respect is
plain and simple and may not be evaded,
and no soiihistry of reasoning can alter
the facts of the case or the gravity or in
justice of the situation as it exists.
Unjust mehods of taxation and the un
loading of burdens upon the shoulders of
others and those least benefitted, and least
able to bear them, should not and I have
reason to believe will not longer be quiet
ly tolerated by the people.
Council Asked to Act.
I therefore respectfully urge and ask of
you that you annul the appropriation of
tnese moneys irom tne water funds for
the purchase of Are hydrants and arrange
AT THE YOUNG MEN'S CATHOLIC
for their purchase by some other means,
and thus allow the Wati Board to ex
pend such moneys for water mains, the
demand for which far outstrips every re
source at their command.
I would therefore suggest that your hon
orable body go over the appropriations
made at the beginning of the year and re
adjust them, by doing which I have every
reason to believe that ample funds can be
secured to purchase a large number of
fire hydrants. This would release the
$4.000 appropriated for that purpose and
allow it to be used for the more immediate
and urgent need of water mains in which
to deliver water for household purposes
to the many families now in want of it.
Also It would greatly Increase the city's
facilities for fighting fire by providing
proper conduits to which to attach fire
hydrants, whereas at present there are
large areas where such hydrants cannot be
used or placed for the reason that there
are no mains to which to attach them a
most deplorable condition of affairs, and
one which speaks louder than words for
the contention that provision for mains
should be made In reasonable advance of
the purchase of fire hydrants. Respectfully,
HARRY LANE, Mayor.
OLD METHOD IS FAVORED
Council Wants Streetcars Stopped on
. the "Far" Side.
Upon motion of Councilman Baker, the
City Council, yesterday afternoon, voted
to request the Portland Railway, Light
& Power Company's officials to order a
return to its former system of stopping
cars at crossings, "or explain its reasons
for retaining the present rule." It was
said by Mr. Baker, Councilman Vaughn
and others that the "near side" stop, now
in vogue, is decidedly an inconvenience
to passengers, and the vote to ask for the
change was unanimous,
"In view of the large number of com
plaints that have been coming to my at
tention. I want to hear the reasons why
the railway officials are enforcing the
present rule of stopping cars on the 'near
side of intersection," said Mr. Baker.
"Complaint is very general, all over the
city, and something seems to be wrong.
I therefore move that this Council re
quest the Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company to order a reiurn to the
former rule; or explain their reasons for
maintaining the present rule."
Mr. Vaughn, in seconding Mr. Baker's
motion, said that in bis ward the senti
ment against the present rule is virtually
unanimous. He explained that much of
the complaint is made by women, who, in
order to alight from a car, are forced to
go to the front platform, open the big
double door and raise the curtain In order
to make their way out.
VIOLATE SUNDAY LAW?
St. John Saloon men Arraigned in
East Side Court.
Henry C. Knight. Luther M. Miller and
J. F. Kinser, of St. John, were arraigned
yesterday afternoon before Justice Olson,
in the East Side Court, on charges of
selling liquor on Sunday. The complaints
were sworn to by C. J. Cooper, a resi
dent of St. John. Deputy District At
torney Stevenson drew up the complaints
and filed them in this court. The defend
ants appeared with their attorney, and
the courtroom was filled with men from
St. John, presumably witnesses in the
cases. The state was not represented.
The attorney for the men charged with
violating the Sunday law maintained that
Justice Olson did not have jurisdiction
to try the cases, and read numerous au
thorities to support this contention.
While Justice Olson expressed the opin
ion that he had jurisdiction to handle the
cases, he continued the trial until tomor
row afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Knight and Miller are charged with
selling liquor to Charles Bennett, and
Kinser is charged with selling liquor to a
man who goes by the name of "Butch."
The defendants said that the charges are
the results of politics. "While ostensibly
St. John has been dry on Sunday, it has
been common report that it was not diffi
cult to gain entrance to certain saloons
on Sunday through the back door. It is
understood that the arrest of the three
saloon men is the result of a determina
tion on the part of the new municipal
administration to ctose up the back as
well as the, front doors of saloons in St.
John.
MAYOR USES HIS CLUB
Kills Flan for City Council Junket
to Seattle.
A little junket to Seattle, to be paid
for by the city, was contemplated in
an ordinance drafted by Councilman
Dunning, but not introduced in the
Council at its special meeting yester
day afternoon because of the refusal
of Mayor Lane to place it on the list
for consideration. Mr. Dunning sought
to bring the measure up, but as it is
necessary for the Mayor to include in
a list all matters to be acted upon, it
did not see the light of day.
The Dunning ordinance, had it
passed, would have appropriated from
the general fund $400, to defray the
expenses of the Mayor and members
of the Council, on a trip to Seattle, to
see the battleships.
CLUB STREET FAIR AND CARNIVAL.
Statement of Condition at Close of Business
May 14, 1908, of the
Security Savings and
Trust Company
PORTLAND, OREGON
RESOURCES.
Loans f2.8t59.323.u5
Bonds 1,331,564.47
Real Estate ' 1.440.15
Cash and "Due from' Correspondents 1,419,33(5.37
$5,621,664.64
LIABILITIES.
Capital $ 500.000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits 328.518.68
Deposits 4,793,145.96
Interest paid on savings accounts and time Certificates of
Transacts a general banking and trust company business.
OFFICERS.
F. ADAMS, President
E. A. WYLD, Vice-President
L. A. LEWIS,
C. A. DOLPH .
A. L. MILLS
JAMES
STOP CONSTRUCTION WORK
RIGHTS OF WAY FOIi HILLS
BOKO line not Secured.
Oregon Electric Company Cannot
Reach Agreement With Property-Owners
Near City.
Practically all work has been stopped
on the Hillsboro branch of the Oregon
Electric Railway Company on account
of dif Acuities in securing rights of
way. Workmen are busy in a few.
places, clearing land and grubbing
stumps to make ready for the con
struction crews, but this 'work has been
almost fully completed up to tracts of
land where it seems impossible to come
to terms on rights of way. It is prob
able that activity will cease altogether
within the next few days and all work
men withdrawn. Whether or not they
will be put on the line to be built to
Newberg from Tigardville has not yet
been decided.
"We have used every effort to settle
right-of-way matters satisfactorily,"
said General Manager Talbot yester
day, "but we are still held back and we
do not know when we will be able to
proceed. This condition of affairs is
very unsatisfactory and condemnation
proceedings will probably be our last
resort to get land on which to build our
road."
If condemnation must be invoked, it
means that the date of construction
will be postponed at least one season,
for the cases against the property
owners cannot be brought into court
before July. It has been learned that
two Portland men, James Nichols and
George Black, acting fo the Haw
thorne estate, are at logger heads with
the railroad company over rights of
way and cannot come to an amlca&le
agreement. Three Italian market gar
deners are also disputing with, the rail
road company over the. value of the
land proposed to be crossed by the
trolley line.
George Barclay Moffatt, William A.
White and W. S. Barstow, high officials
of the company and the construction
concern, will reach Portland next Mon
day for a short stay here. They will
be Joined in this city Tuesday by A. C
Bedford, also of New York, a director
in the Oregon Electric. This party of
officials will decide on whether or not
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R.
A. L. MILLS, Vice-President.
G. F. RUSSELL, Assistant Secretary
Vice - President
DIRECTORS.
L. A. LEWIS
C.F.ADAMS
F. FAILING .
E. A.
to begin work at once on the Newberg
extension of the line. They will also
look over the road between here and
Salem.
O. R. & X. HEARING POSTPOXED
Federal Court Will Consider Injunc
tion Application May 26.
Argument on the application of the O.
R. & N. Company in the United States
Court for a writ of injunction restraining
the Oregon Railroad Commission from
enforcing its recent distributive rate
order has been deferred until Tuesday,
May 26. The Harriman line not only
seeks to prevent the Commission from
modifying the railroad's freight tariffs in
Oregon, between Portland and poin.s
East of The Dalles, but questions the
validity of the Commission and the act
by which it was created.
The constitutionality of '.he Commis
sion has been attacked on the grounds
that it interferes with the functions of
the Interstate Commerce Commission in
that its attempted regulation of rates
within the state extends to and affects all
interstate rates. Pending a dacision on
the formal argument of the case, the
new rates prescribed by the Commission
have been suspended from operatio.i.
Heavy Travel to See Fleet.
All railroad companies ar giving the
right of way to the uuet business on
Puget Sound. For the next two weeks
special efforts will be made to handle this
business satisfactorily. Jsot only are spe
cial trains to be run to Seattle and Ta
coma by all railroad lines reaching these
cities, but special boat schedules have
been arranged on many transportation
lines into both places. The Canadian
Pacific will put on special steamers from
Victoria to Seattle while the fleet is in
the latter port, to permit the Canadians
to come across the line and see the Amer
ican fighting ships. Reports received by
local agents of the Canadian line show
that there will be a heavy travel from
British Columbia.
Xight Train. IMirlng Festival.
To provide improved facilities during
Rose Festival week, the Oregon Electric
Railway Company plans to operate a
night train to Salem from the city. This
will permit those on the Salem road to
get home after attending the Festival all
day. This car will leave the depot at
the foot of Jefferson street each night
at 10 o'clock. The first train to be ope
rated on this schedule will leave next
Tuesday night and regularly thereafter
during Rose Festival week.
PERSONALMENTION.
W. J. Peed. Mayor of Bllensburg,
"Wash., and Mrs. Peed are registered at
the Cornelius.
Professor Irving V. Pratt, principal of
the Failing school, is recovering from a
stroke of paralysis.
Liewis A. McArthur has returned from
Berkeley, CaJ., where he was graduated
from the University of California on
May 13.
Archibald Gray, assistant general
freight agent for the. Great ' Northern,
with headquarters at Seattle, arrived In
Portland last night for a short visit
here.
Joseph Buchtel, who has been con
fined to his home on East Second and
Hoyt streets for several weeks by ill
ness, is improving and expects to
leave this week for a mountain resort.
President Ressler, of the Oregon State
Normal School. Is here on a visit. He
has been traveling through the East, vis
iting normal schools and. gathering in
formation for the benefit of the Oregon
system. .
R. Alexander, a well-known Pendleton
merchant, is in Portland, en route to
Salem, where he will attend the annual
Grand Lodge of the Independent Order
of Oddfellows. Mr. Alexander says that
the recent rains in Eastern Oregon have
caused great rejoicing among the farmers
and have insured a fine wheat crop.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, May 19. Senator Fulton's wife
and son and Miss Tongue, of Hillsboro,
left for Oregon last night,
CHICAGO. May 19. (Special.) W. E.
Coman, of Portland, Or., is at the Audi
torium Annex.
CHICAGO, May . (Special.) The fol
lowing Portland people ore registered at
the hotels: Grand Pacific O. F. Overbeck.
Sherman House G. M. "Welsh.
It Bncbed the Spot.
Mr. E. Humphrey, who owns a large
freneral store at Omega, O., and is pres
cient of the Adams County Telephone
Co., as well as of the Home Telephone
Co., of Pike County, O., says of Dr.
King's New Discovery: "It saved my
life once. At least I think it did. It
seemed to reach the spot the very
seat of my cough. when everything
else failed." Dr. King's New Discoverv
not only reaches the cough spot; it
heals the sore spots and the weak
spots tn throat, lungs and chest. Sold
under guarantee at Woodard. Clarke
Co."s drugstore. 60c and 1.00.
Trial bottle free.
$5,621,664.64
deposit.
G. JUBITZ, Secretary
JOSEPH SIMOX
J. N. TEAL
WYLD
PLAN FIRE ALARM SYSTEM
A. I.
T. COMPANY APPLIES FOR
FRAXCHISK.
Outbids National Automatic Com
pany in Two Respects Chief
Campbell Sounds Warning.
A mild sensation was created in the
special meeting of the City Council, yes- '
terday afternoon, when Councilman Ben
nett introduced, by request, a proposed
franchise for an auxiliary fire-alarm
service for the American District Tele
graph Company. Interest in the measure
was further increased by a provision
offering to pay to the city one-third of
the gross receipts. The charge for boxes
1s fixed at a maximum of $2 a month.
Mr. Bennett contrasted these two
features with the terms contained in the
proposed franchise of the National Auto
matic Fire Alarm Company, which grants
to the city only 1 per cent of the gross
receipts and charges a maximum of $4
a month for service. The matter was
referred to the street committee.
That Fire Chief Campbell and others
who opposed granting to the Automatic
Company this franchise assert that their
position is now shown to have been well
taken. The Chief, in expressing his
objections to the measure, declared that,
if one company should secure a permit
to connect its system with the city lire
alarm, others would quickly come in and
demand the same privilege. This is now
proved. The first franchise is still being
advertised, as required by law, when the
"A. D. T." Company comes, seeking
similar favors.
Chief Campbell, City Electrician
Savarlan and others, who have all along
opposed the Automatic Company's re
quest, declare that, to connect private
wires with the city's fire-alarm service,
would be a positive danger, and might
result in great loss of life and property.
To permit two private concerns the right,
it is pointed out, would be doubly
dangerous, and it now seems likely that
no such privileges will be given.
It is said to be more probable that the
city, if it grants any franchises at all
of this description, will do so only on the
stipulation that the corporations wishing
to enter into the business, install separate
systems and maintain their own wires,
conduits and all necessary equipment.
Nature the Best Doctor.
After .ill Is said, the most truly ef
fective remedies are those derived
from natural sources. It Is a fact
generally recognized that consumptives
are greatly benefited, and frequently
entirely cured by living In the open air
among the nines. The fresh. Dine-laden
atmosphere has a healing and strength
ening errect upon the lungs and bron
chial organs and is most invigorating.
Those who are unable to leave homa
and live in the pine forests will find In
Virgin Oil of Pine all the medicinal
propeutiis of the tree itself. This
preparation Is a compound of the active
principles of the forest trees, great care
being taken in its preparation to in
sure purity and freshness. A half ounce
of Virgin Oil of Pine mixed with two
ounces of glycerine and a half pint
of good wliisky, taken In teaspoonful
doses every four hours, will break up a
cold quickly and cure any cough that
is curable.
Virgin Oil of Pine is put up only in
half-ounce vials for druggists to dis
pense. Each vial is securely sealed in
a round wooden case. Be sure to get
the genuine Virgin Oil of Pine com
pound pure, guaranteed under Serial
No. 451, prepared only by Leach Chem
ical Co., Cincinnati, O. Virgin Oil of
Pine is always carried In stock by the
following wholesale druggists: Lang
lev & Michaels Co.. San Francisco. Cal.;
Coffin & Reddlngton Co., San Francis
co. Cal.: Kirk. Geafy&Co., Sacramento,
Cal.: The Idaho Drug Co., Lewiston,
Idaho.
C. GEE WO
The WU-Known
Reliable
CHINESE
Boot and Herb
DOCTOR
Has made a lito study
of root, and herbs, ana
in that study discovered
and Is giving to the
world his wonderful
remedies.
No Mercury
Poisons or Drugs Used He
(nm tvllhmit Operation, or Without the
Aid of the Knife. He guarantees to curs
Catarrh. Asthma. Lung. Throat. Rheumi
tlsm. Nervousness, Nervous Debility, fatom
ach. Liver. Kidney Troubles; also Lost Man
hood. Female Weakness and All Private
Diseases.. SCRF. CANCER CCRE.
Just Received from Peking, China Safe,
Sore and Reliable. IK YOU ABE AF
FLICTED. DON'T DELAY. DELAYS ARB
DANGEROUS. If you cannot cal. write for
symptom blank and circular Inclose 4
cent. In stamps. CONSULTATION FREE,
The C. tie Wo Chinese Medicine Co,
16216 First St., Cor. Morrison,
Portland, Orrsjon.
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