T1TE MOKS1SG OKEGOXIAX. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1908,
"GUSSWORDS'USED
BY LIQUOR MEN
Big Row at Meeting of Liquor
License Committee of the
Council.
TWO LICENSES REVOKED
Amendment to Women-ln-Saloons
Ordinance Passed In to Council
Without Recommendation.
Fight In Prospect.
WHAT THK "JOKKR" MEANS.
If th irtndmnt to tbe cellars
nrdin:uireis paused by the City Coun
cil tomorrnw. as proposed by Coun
cilman Ruh!iht. Councilman Cel
lars declare the law may as well
be repealed that eatfn house"
mesns nothlna In particular, and
that the reduction In number of feet
of floor spare where liquor can be,
red with meals from 4V) to Son
will make. It possible for women to
enter every saloon In the city.
The fat of the. ordinance la un
certain. Tomorrow the Council will
n mi .nit th nronosed amendment
rill be up for discussion. Great pub-
lie
Interest nss been arousea. ana
delegation of prominent ministers
rill
be present to watch the pro
ceedings.
During a stormy session of the li
quor license committee of the City
Council yesterday afternoon a com
mittee of prominent ministers sat
quietly by and listened to what Is re
garded as the most uproarious meeting
this committee ever experienced. A
feature of the heated debate was the
open rupture between Councilman
Driscoll and John Friedlinger, busi
ness agent for the Retail Liquor Deal
ers' Association, and Jacob Reisch. a
member of the Board of Governors of
the organization. Friedlinger and
Reisch. in the verhal thrusts adminis
tered by them used a generous supply
of profanity, at the utterance of which
the preachers cast significant glances
at each other. Councilman Cottel, the
chairman, made no effort to curb the
row. which for a time threatened to
end In a fight.
After the tempest died down, the
committee voted to continue citing sa
loonkeepers for trial; recommended
revocation of two saloon licenses;
passed the alleged "Joker" amendment
to the Cellars "women-in-saloons" or
dinance to the Council without recom
mendation and refused to arrant res
taurant liquor licenses to several welr
known downtown restaurants.
Saloon Agents A.ail Driscoll.
The fury of the representatives of
the Retail Liquor Dealers' Association
at Councilman Driscoll knew no bounds
when he declared that the organiza
tion opposes certain saloonkeepers for
its own selfish interests and that the
best men in the business will not Join
the society.
Business Agent Kriedlinger attacked
Air. Driscoll witli all the vehemence at
his command. Including profane and
abusive expletives, after which Mr.
Reisch. of the organization's board of
governors, lambasted Mr. Driscoll and
defied him 'to prove what he had said.
Mr. Driscoll told the two men that
they could not tell him anything about
the business; that he knew why they
favored certain persons and opposed
others, and that he would not allow
the Retail Liquor Dealers to dictate
to him.
While the two saloonmen and Coun
cilman Driscoll were administering
verbal lashes, their words were ban
died about in a tone so loud that peo
ple from all sections of the City Hall
were attracted and the room was
filled to suffocation in a few moments.
Throughout Iie hot clash. Chairman
Cottel did not attempt to restore order,
neither did he suppress or endeavor to
suppress Messrs. Friedlinger and
Reisch. who were speaking without
the privilege of the floor having been
granted them.
The ministers were Dr. William Hiram
Voulkes. of the Kinst iYesbyterian
"hurvh: Dr. E. S. Muckley. of the First
Christian Church; Dr. K. Nelson Allen,
of the Hawthorne-avenue Presbyterian
Church, and Dr. J. V. M.Dousall. of the
Mount Tabor Methodist Episcopal
Oiurch. Although the committee repre
senting the Retail IJquor Association
occupied mui-h time on the floor In stat
ing their position on all subject coming
befure the Couneilmen during the meet
ing, not one word was spoken by the
ministerial delegation.
Borden Thrown on Council. '
There was less debate over the pro
posed amendment to the Cellars "women-t3n-ealoons"
ordinance than any other fea
ture of the session, principally because
there is such a strong division of senti
ment among the members of the liquor
l".cense committee on this subject that
It wan known no decision could easily
be reached, and the whole section. In
troduced by Councilman Rushlight, was
"passed up" to the Council without rec
ommendation. This is the matter which
railed out the ministers. The delegation
will be present at the Council session
tomorrow to witnese the proceedings.
Reducing the number of square feet
.necessary for an '"open and public dining
room."' and the injection of the words
"eating house. ' are the two "jokers"
Alleged by the opponents of the proposed
3inshliht amendment to be concealed in
the new section sought to be added to
the Cellars ordinance. The terms of the
1'ellarn law. now In effect, forbid women
to enter saloons or restaurants where
l.quor is served with meals, except where
there are "open and public dining
Tooms." having no obstructions, and
Laving at least . square feet of floor
pace. The real "Joker." however. Is
declared to be the two words "eating
house." Included In the proposed amend
ment. Poible F.ffect of Amendment.
Councilman tVUsrs declares that, if the
Council adopts the amendment, carry
ing the words "eating house." and reduc
ing the required number of feet of floor
epace from X to 9. it will permit of
every saloon in the city installing an
"eating hnuse," and In thie manner the
result will be that women will again be
permitted in every salmon In Portland,
dir. Celiara declares that. If this should
be done, "the law may as well be re
pealed." "What Is an "eating houser " asked
Councilman Cellars. "There ie) no ordi
nance defining the term, but there Is an
ordinance defining a restaurant. The
latter must furnish three full meals every
day and the other, for all that the law
says, may mean any place where a sand
whlch Is served once a day. or whenever
it Is necessary, in order to permit of
women being in an establishment from
whioh they are now barred. The only
changes tiiis ordinance needs now. as I
view it, are two; one to make it read
licensed restaurants.' and the other to
exempt family liquor stores from Its pro
visions." Councilman Rushlight says that the
Cellars ordinance robs a woman of her
personal liberty, and makes a distinction
between her and her husband, brother
or escort that Is unconstitutional. He
says that, if a man takea a woman into
certain places in Portland for the pur
pose of buying a glass of beer or other
liquor, the woman, according to the Cel
lars ordinance, must eat a full meal in
order to get liquor, while her escort can
drink without ordering anything to eat.
This, he contends, is un-American, and
without Justification by law.
Restaurant Licenses Denied.
The liquor-license committee had be
fore It seven applications for restau
rant liquor licenses, included among
the establishments being the Perkins
Hotel Cafe, the Hofbrau, Richards', the
Louvre and the Turn Halle, all places
of prominence in t:ie downtown dis
trict. City Attorney Kavanaugn has
ruled that the Cellars ordinance makes
It necessary for all establishments
serving liquor with meals to have a
license for it, but the members of the
committee did not sign the applications
In the required number, and unless they
do so not later than tomorrow. City
Auditor liarbur declares that the police
will be obliged to see that no liquor is
served with meals in any of the places
named. The Couneilmen are divided as
to the proper sum to be paid for these
restaurant liquor licenses, some think
ing it should be SSOO a year, and oth
ers that It should remain at 1300 a
year. If the Council does not act to
morrow In this matter, patrons of these
fashionable places will not be served
with liquor at the tables in the dining-rooms,
it is said.
The committee voted to continue the
policy of citing saloon-keepers to ap
pear and show cause why their licenses
should not be revoked. In cases where
there has been a conviction In the
Municipal Court. This system was at
tacked by Councilman Driscoll. who
said It is useless to do this, and that
the rule was adopted simply because
the Retail Liquor Dealers' Association
wished It. in order to weed out of the
business certain men who are not in the
organization's good graces. This was
the remark which caused the uproar at
the outset.
Two Licenses Revoked.
After voting to continue the plan, the
committee took testimony In the cases
of B. Pugliese. of 361 North Sixteenth
street, and J. P. Berg, 514 Savier street,
and voted to revoke both licenses. Both
saloon-keepers were fined in the Mu
nicipal Court for violations of the ordi
nances, and the committee found the
charges sufficiently serious as to rec
ommend that the Council revoke the
licenses.
Business Agent Friedlinger. speaking
for the retail liquor dealers, declared
himself in favor of an ordinance "cut
ting out the free lunch In every saloon
in Port'and." He declared this free
lunch to be a disgrace, and a thing
which should be abolished by law. No
action was taken, but it Is thought
something will be done later.
Councilman Rushlight inquired about
the West Coast Oyster House, on Sev
enth near Alder street. He said he un
derstood that Ed Johnson, whose li
cense was revoked several months ago.
is still In charge of that place, al
though It was agreed by him that he
would turn the business over to a new
proprietor. Ed Kennedy. Mr. Rushlight
said he had been told that this place
needs a rigid investigation, nothing
was done.
W. B. CHASE PASSES AWAY
l'ormrr City Engineer of Portland
Succumbs to Paralytic Stroke.
As the result of a stroke of paralysis
received at McMinnvllle, last Febru
ary, William B. Chase. ex-City Engi
neer of Portland, died at an early hour
yesterday morning at Good Samaritan
Hospital. Since he suffered the par
lytlc stroke he has been confined to the
hospital.
Mr. Chase was born in Ohio 63 years
The Late W. B. Chase.
ago. He came to Oregon when a young
man and married Miss Georgia Barker
in 1SS4. He was the engineer in charge
of building the Burnslde-street bridge,
and was City Engineer under Mayors
Mason. Storey and Rowe. It was while
engaged at his profession at McMinn
vllle last February that he was strick
en. He was a member of Centenary
Methodist Church for years.
His wife died 14 years ago and the
deceased is survived by two daughters.
Miss Marlon Chase, a trained nurse at
Good Samaritan Hospital, and Miss
Jessie Chase, who lives at Cliffs. Wash.
Miss Marlon Chase was with her father
constantly during his illness. He Is
also survived by a brother, who re
sides at Oakland. Cal., and a sister at
San Francisco. CaL
Institute at McMinnvllle.
MWUXNVILLE. Or.. Oct. 2& Special.)
The annual County Teachers' Institute
will be held in this city beginning
Wednesday of this week and ending with
the school officers' meeting on Saturday.
Among lecturers who are expected to be
present are Superintendent of Public In
struction J. H. Ackerman. E. D. Ressler.
president of Monmouth Normal School;
Miss Cornelia Marvin, of the Oregon
IJbrary Commission; J. M. Powers. City
Superintendent of Salem Schools, and W.
R. Rutherford, of Tillamook schools.
We make the best suit In the city to
order for let us prove It. I nlque
Tailoring company, 309 Stark, between
Fifth and SUth.
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BOARD OF TRADE
OFFICIALS RESIGN
President Townsend and Sec
retary Muller Suddenly
Quit Organization.
WILL ASSIGN NO REASON
Action of Merchant' Kxchange in
Providing Sample Tables and
Giving Information Thought to
Be Cause Board Criticised.
Annoyed because the Merchants' Ex
change intends to provide grain sample
tables and furnish more complete infor
mation to grain men than the Board of
Trade, two officials of this organization.
President T. S. Townsend and Secretary
Fred Muller, handed In their resigna
tions yesterday to Vice-President A. B.
Stelnbach with the request that they
take effect immediately. Neither will dis
cuss the causes for the act but It is
generally understood the officials are
angered because of the competition of the
Merchants' Exchange.
Since the reorganization of the Board
of Trade the first of the present year.
Its grain sample exchange has been its
chief activity. After considerable argu
ment at the time, it was decided to deal
in grain options and this has lost it the
support of a part of the grain dealers.
It is said the management of the ex
change has not been an entire success
and that the trouble culminated yester
day when the active management of the
Board of Trade decided to give up its
efforts to carry on an option-dealing
grain exchange. By the officials who
have resigned, the Merchants' Exchange
Is blamed for their action.
Directors to Meet Today.
"I can stand any kind of competition,"
declared .Secretary IMuller yesterday, who
was In anything but a calm frame of
mind, "and have been In the exchange
business for many years. I welcome
competition. But this sort of competi
tion is altogether something I will not
stand." '
Mr. Muller would not explain to whom
he referred, nor would he make clear his
reasons for resigning, declaring that until
the board of directors has had a chance
to act upon his resignation, he would
not discuss it. A meeting will be held
either this afternoon or tonight by the
directors to act upon the resignations.
Grain men declare that ine Board of
Tnatfe exchange, by reason of its dealing
in options, did not wholly meet the re
quirements of the grain dealers in Port
land. They say that they have been
getting grain information from the Mer
chants' Exchange, which is owned and
operated by E. W. Wright, an authority
on grain matters and shipping, for many
years. The Merchants' Exchange pro
poses to move into new quarters In the
Board of Trade building soon, where ad
ditional facilities will be provided for
grain men. It was this knowledge, it Is
understood, that caused the resignations
of the Board of Trae officials yesterday.
Wright Tells or Exchange's Work.
"I hardly see why the Merchants' Ex
change should be drugged Into the ap
parent internal dissensions of the Board
of Trade," said E. W. Wright, who for
the past 12 years has managed tne ex
change. "No one connected with the Ex
change has ever in any manner Inter
fered with the Board of Trade, and tne
Exchange will gain nothing by the
Board's disruption. The announcement
that members of the Merchants' Ex
change would be afforded facilities for a
sample market as soon as the Exchange
moved into its new quarters, was made
in accordance with the request of mem
bers who have supported the Exchange
for many years some of them for a
quarter of a century.
"As a matter of fact, the Exchange,
nearly 20 years ago, established a sample
market in connection with its marine
service, but was obliged to abandon It,
because the business had not at that time
reached proportions that warranted it.
The Merchants' Exchange has always
been run in the interests of the grain
and shipping trade, from which It drew
its support. It will continue on the same
lines. There is undoubtedly a field here
for a produce exchange, where the rapid
ly increasing butter and egg trade can
be handled but the grain business of the
port is too big to be mixed up with other
features in no way connected with it."
Options Said to Have Xo Place.
Theodore B. Wilcox, president of the
Portland Flouring Mills Company, in dis
cussing the matter, said:
"The Merchants' Exchange is willing to
establish a cash market, for which there
is a field here. The Board of Trade
Exchange deals In options, to- which I
am opposed and have been ever since it
started. I cannot support an Institution
which fosters gambling In the grain
trade, and I do not think there is &
field for that sort of thing here."
Another prominent grain man, who did
not wish his name used. Bald: "There
are too many bodies here to handle the
grain business. I suppose there has not
been a demand for what the Board of
Trade has provided. The Chamber of
Commerce handles groin samples, the
Board of Trade has a grain exchange
and the Merchants' Exchange supplies
grain news and shipping Intelligence. We
have been using the latter firm for a
Uong time and saw no reason to make a
.luincrA w-ben the Board of Trade Ex
change was opened. But we Joined and
sent one of our men down there. The
option business did not seem to go and
from our experience, we did not get much
out of it."
-V. J. Burns, resident partner of Bal
four. Guthrie & Co., gave it as his
opinion that the service supplied by the
Merchants' Exchange was of more value
to grain men than that furnished by the
Board of Trade's option-dealing ex
change. QUESTION GOES ON BALLOT
Mount Scott District to Have Oppor
tunity to Vote on Annexation.
Residents of the Mount Scott district
will probably have an opportunity of vot
ing on the annexation question at the
coming election. County Clerk Fields
said last night that he will this morning
order the ballots printed.
Earlier yesterday Mr. Fields said that
he would withdraw from the Supreme
Court at once the appeal of the case in
volving the balloting question If those
opposed to annexation did not come for
ward with a bond to indemnify him
against loss. The bond was furnished
yesterday afternoon, but counsel failed
to obtain an assurance from the Supreme
Court that a decision would be banded
down before November S. Thus It Is
probable that the question of legality
will have to be fought out after election.
It is the contention of those who wish
to defeat the annexation that the No
vember election Is not a general election,
hence the question cannot be submitted
to the voters. As Mr. Fields has no per
sonal Interest In the case, he felt that he
should not be called upon to bear either
court costs or attorneys' fees.
TYPHOID IN BAD WATER
Every Case Comes From This Cause,
Says Dr. Tenney.
Members of the State Board of
Health met with the people of Rose
burg Saturday night in a public meet
ing held in Elks' Hall in that city. The
meeting was presided over by Dr. E. V.
Hoover, County Health Officer, and
Judge Hamilton delivered an address
of welcome to the visiting doctors. Dr.
Andrew C. Smith, of Portland, was
present at the opening of the meeting
and was to have read a paper, but was
called, home on account of a death in
his family.
Papers were read by Dr. E. A. Pearce,
of Portland, on "Tuberculos'is." and by
Dr. R. C. Tenney. on "Good Water, and
Sewage Disposal." It is the Intention
of the state board to meet with citi
zens of communities in different parts
of the state for the purpose of dissem
inating information regarding the duty
of laymen In assisting physicians in
their work of preventing disease.
At Roseburg the board met in con
nection with the good roads meeting
held Friday and Saturday. Attorney
General Crawford, who was In attend
ance at the good roads convention,
making a short address at the night
meeting. Dr. Yenney, in his paper, said
that the endeavor of the State Board
of Health is to have such conditions
prevail as will lead to the greatest
health and consequent happiness of the
people - of the state. Some of the
points In his paper follow:
"With the board we have in each
county a healrh officer, 'numerous In
spectors, the whole medical profession,
a great many societies and practically
all the live, energetic citizens, both
men and women, working shoulder to
shoulder as best they know how to
aid the various health officers in secur
ing those conditions so essential to
the material progress of the state.
"It goes without saying that no in
dividual or community can be healthy
without good water, and in abundance.
It is also Just as true that no indi
vidual or community can be healthy
without a proper disposal of the
products of bodily waste, and It is an
established fact that the contamination
of water comes chiefly through its
pollution with the products of body
waste. The problem, then, is to create
such conditions as shall prevent abso
lutely the pollution of water, and this
can be solved In only two ways com
plete prevention of such waste entering
sources of water supplies or destroying
the products of body waste by some
artificial means so that these products
can be disposed of without danger.
"Our streams, springs and wells were
originally pure, wholesome and free
from disease-bearing products. It has
only been through the presence of man
and the carelessness of man that they
have become contaminated. Man, in
stead of preserving the original purity
of the streams as the source of the
most widely distributed and universal
food product in existence, which -they
are, has converted them Into filthy
sewers, filled them with disease-producing
agents, and has created for him
self by his own acts a never-ending
source of worry, expense and sickness.
Where direct contamination of a live
stream is too difficult, he manages to
Indirectly pollute his water supply
through soil contamination from closet
or cesspool.
"Impure water causes, as a rule,
gastro-lntestlnaf diseases. However,
the most important of these, the dis
ease that ranks beyond pneumonia and
diphtheria, so far as mortality Is con
cerned, is typhoid fever. This is in
nearly all Instances a water-borne dis
ease and is rarely contracted through
other avenues. In all cases typhoid
fever arises from a pre-existing case,
and the infection from the pre-existing
case comes from bowel and urinary
excretions.. When a case of typhoid
fever arises you may say, without fear
of contraditlon, in practically every
Instance the affilctcd person had been
drinking water contaminated by a
previous patient. " ,
"Our statistics show 360 cases of
typhoid fever as the probable total for
the present year, there having been
261 cases reported since the first of the
year. On the basis that each of these
Is incapacitated for two months, his
medical care, nurse, etc., would cost
easily J3 a day, or $180: he will lose.
reasonably stated. S380 in wages, or a
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other good things, including
the crisp crust, are preparing
for pie time this week.
Order in advance for your
Halloween parties.
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I insure your diamonds
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It is the best insurance
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I "select all of my dia
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oughly, to guard against
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I put the value on a
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by is weight.
I sell diamonds to those
who are satisfied with
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people who would not
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My experience in Port
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I am always pleased to
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total loss of $460. This amount multi
plied by 360 patients results in a total
of $100,000. This is quite a sum to pay
'or the scourge of a preventable dis
ease; for a disease the prevention of
which the securing of good water and
good sewage disposal In Itself tends
to one of our greatest economic assets.
Money Invested In good water pro
duces a larger return to the people
than when invested in any other way."
Dies at Age of 89.
ALBANY, Or., Oct. 26. (Special.)
O. W. Pwetherer, who died yesterday
at .his home near this city, was buried
today at the North Palestine cemetery
in Benton County. He was 89 years
old and had lived in Oregon for the
past 34 years, residing In Polk and Ben
ton Counties. For the past eight years
he lived at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. M. Bailey, at North Palestine,
near this city.
Died In Sacramento.
Frank Walsh, of Milwaukee, Or., died
in Sacramento Sunday, October 18,
where he went with his family some
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time ago. He is survived by his wife,
three children, a mother, four brothers
and two sisters. He was born in New
York in 1872, and came to Oregon in
1877. At the outbreak of the Spanish-
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Presidio, at San Francisco,, contracted
scarlet fever, from which he never
fully recovered.
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