12 TITE MORNING OREGOXIAIf, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1910. JAIL ONLY REFUGE OF MAN DESTITUTE Edwin Brown Walks Streets in Vain Search of Lodging, Meal or Bath. CHARITY IS QUERULOUS Reformer Urges Establishment of Municipal Iodglng-House Men Out of Work Forced to Be come Tramps, He Says. That the City Jail is the only lnstitu tlon In Portland where a destitute 'work ing man may obtain, a fr-e lodging over night, is the assertion of Edwin A. Brown, a Denver humanitarian, who is investigat ing social conditions on the Pacific Coast, and urging the establishment of muni cipal lodging-houses. "I devoted a large part of Monday and Tuesday to trips- over the city," said Mr. Brown last night, "and notwith standing the large amounts of money contributed to Eemi-public and publio Institutions by the citizens of this city, county and state, I could not get a free lodging, a bath or a free meal. Mr. Brown became interested in so cial conditions through the adoption of a section of the Denver city charter provid ing that the city might maintain a free lodging-house for the use of honest men and women who were out of work and without money. It is his practice to put on a suit of overalls, Jumper, checked shirt and rough shoes, and when thus arrayed mingle among working men out of employment, visit the places where charity Is dispensed and investigate the opportunities which a laborer, without money- may have to keep alive. Tramp Raises Question. "1 arrived in Portland Monday." con tinued Mr. Brown. "My visit was largely Influenced at this time by the receipt of a letter written by a man signing the name of John Murphy and requesting that a reply be sent In care of the Peo ple's Institute. Murphy Paid that the came was an alias, that he had changed it many times, and wanted me to answer the question: "What Is a tramp, and why does a tramp keep on tramp ing?" "On Monday I put on my working suit, and-passing out of the side door of the hotel sought the Free Employment agency maintained by your city. There were 60 men lined up at 7 o'clock waiting for admittance and at 8 o'clock the number had increased to 100 by actual count. On getting inside I found a list of 60 jobs listed on the boapd. Of that number 43 were out of town Jobs requiring that the applicant advance from 10 cents to $5 for railroad fare. Seven of the places were Inside jobs. On the wall were two signs snowing a spirit or n arson ess out or keeping with the character of the place. One of them read: 'Don't loaf in here," and the other, 'Any man who takes a job In this place and fails to report Is a thief. I could not understand the neces sity of reporting to a free employment agency. Free Jobs Scarce. "I walked down to Burnslde street and on the way counted 500 men out of work. Most of them stood In the vicinity of Sec ond and B-urnetde streets. Entering sev eral alleged employment agencies operat ing in that vicinity I found no chance for a man without money. Only In one place would the manager agree to "stake' me to a position until I could earn the money to pay the fee. While wo were talking about that place, which, was a .job as a. porter, . an acquaintance of the manager came along and secured it. XSoing outside, I was approached by a Bohemian who asked In broken English If I could direct him to an attorney who would take his case. The facts related were that the man had been sent to Rainier to work for a lumber company. Discharged after six days' work, the Bohemian found $3.50 coming to him. The company had charged him $3 for poUtax, $1 hospital fee and IS cents for tobacco. I took the man to the Assistant City At torney for Portland. "On Tuesday afternoon I donned my garb and started out to see if I could find a free lodging, or bath or meal. Standing down near the Willamette "I. looked across the river to the great sign of the Salvation Army Industrial Home. Passing over the bridge I climbed a long flight of stairs and found a man cooking a meal. I asked for something to eat and a place to sleep. He replied that the rules of the Home did not permit any thing to be given away. "About 6 o'clock I reached the office of the Associated Charities. It was locked up. Going down to the Rescue Mission. I was informed that they did not run a- lodging-house. At the Peo ple's Institute they did not take care of people, but In the main reading-room hung a sign advising visitors that talk ing was not allowed, so I went on. Commons Denies Admission. "My arrival at a beer depot at Sec ond and Burnside streets was coinci dent with the ejectment of a 20-year-old young man at the hands of a police officer who was performing his duty. The officer advised me to go to the hall of the Holy Rollers for lodging. It did not look favorable when I looked over the hypnotized persons rolling over the floer, so I went to Portland Commons. Admission was denied me because I had not attended the mission Bervlces In the evening. When I asked the man In charge If I could secure a bed, bath and meal by being prompt at services, he stared at me and wanted to know what kind of a place I thought they were running. "At 9 o'clock I was still without a place to sleep, and went to the Y. M. C. A., asking for a bed. for a man who was broke.' The young man behind tha desk was sorry, but their rooms were all full and the bath was locked up. He thought if I came around the next day they might arrange to give me a bath. "Again approaching a police officer, I was advised that I could secure a free bed at the police station without a charge being placed against me, but he advised me to keep away from there unless it was the last resort. I have slept in the bullpen at Denver and in the stockade of . San Francisco, and passed horrible nights In the cells of other jails since I undertook this work, and I thought it was not required that I should go down to that smelly place in order to Interest the people of this city in the establishment of a munici pal lodging-house, where an honest man without means may receive com monly decent food, lodging and baths until such time as he can begin again to earn money. It must provide for the care of women also. Mayor Is Sympathetic. "What I want to do Is to get the city government of Portland to build a mu nicipal lodging-house on modern lines. Yesterday I called upon Mayor Simon and was assured of his hearty sympa- . 1 . .Via vrifwarrt t T Virm . - .. range meetings with several pf the women's clubs, the labor assembly and other institutions which I find to be in terested, and will be glad to receive callers in relation to the subject. "It Is my contention that fully 90 per cent of the men who are Idle are hon est, and that It is our duty tp assist them to get started In the world. A tramp keeps on tramping in this world because there seems to be no place where he can get a permanent foothold. "I am paying my own expenses In this attempt to do some good in the world, but I want to remove the im pression that I am a millionaire.. I am spending a small Income. The chief item of assistance which I have re ceived has come through the Interstate" commerce Commission, which allows railroad passes to be Issued to me when I can get them." Mr. Brown believes that a municipal lodging-house could be built in Port land at a cost of J200.000. TALESMEN "SEEfJ," LAWYERS CHARGE Suspicions Expressed and Im plied Mark Jury Selection in Moore Trial. SINGLE TAX MOONSHINE Correspondent Supports Crusade of Mr. Fels, Soapmaker. PORTLAND, March 15. (To the Edi tor.) In The Oregonlan of Monday ap pears a characteristic tirade of my friend George Washington Dixon as to Joseph Fels and the latter's donations to extend the Idea of the single tax. Mr. Dixon abuses Mr. Fels for making his money from soap, and then accuses him of making it from real estate specu- BOTH SIDES ARE AROUSED Attorneys for Defense Insist Selec tion of List Irregular; Prosecu tion. Declares Detectives Have Sounded Prospective Jurors. Suspicions expressed or implied yester day by attorneys for both the prosecution and the defense upon matters relating to ADVOCATE OF MUNICIPAL LODGING HOUSE IN PORTLAND DE CLARES CITY JAIL IS ONLY PRESENT REFUGE OF DESTITUTE. .34 :.... tc V i fry - ;:VS::'S-i:iS:K:: 4 m A t V? r St i I ..: f:.: t EDWIN A. BROWN, DENVER. HITMAN ITARI AN, IN BUSINESS DRESS AND IN HIS DISGUISE AS WOR.K.INGMAN SEEKING LODGING FOR NIGHT. latlons. If Oregon obtains any. consid erable approach toward the single tax. It will only be by the will of the people. probably repeatedly and deliberately ex pressed. It will not drive American citi zens from Oregon to Canada because they are already going there by many thousands, and some students of econ omics believe It is because in the West ern provinces there are already strong steps. In practical operation, toward the Blngle tax. It will not depopulate Ore gon because the practical testing of it to a considerable extent in New South Wales, 200 German cities and various other localities In the world, has demon strated beyond question that it a tracts population and investment of legitimate capital and discourages speculators. Mr. Fels Is contributing like amounts to other countries as well as to the United States; to Missouri as well as to Oregon; to Australia and to Canada. The pros pects are better in some of these other states than In Oregon. A very attrac tive campaign is now being carried on In Manitoba for advancement In taxa tion along the lines in which Mr. Fels is Interested. He has a right to do so, just as much as he would to contribute money to any missionary society, library or school. Mr. Dixon will' have to combat the single tax with something more than contradictory abuse and assertions. If he expects to down the matter in 1912, for its advocates will then appeal to the reason and to the financial interests of the great mass of the people. Until then. George Washington Dixon can "keep his shirt on." . ALFRED D. CRIDGE. NO WATER FOR PLAY PARK Commission. May Abandon Proposed Playground Plan. Because there is no water to be had in Peninsula Park, there is danger that Mayor Simon and members of the Park Board will abandon the proposed con struction of a children's playground there. Councilman Ellis has made an unsuc cessful effort to secure signatures to a waiver for an eight-inch water main. Unless the people in the district take some favorable action and lend their as sistance, it is probable the project will be dropped and the money used elsewhere. NEW CORSET STYLE. The world extends its admiration not to those who accomplish what no one else attempts, but to those who do best what others do well. In years gone by corsets have been designed which gave the wearer a cer tain degree of comfort others were produced which though possessing fashionable lines. Inflicted upon the wearer such discomfort as to make the horrors of various instruments of torture of the . Spanish Inquisition seem mild In comparison, until with many it became quite the accepted opinion that if correct style and beauty of figure were obtained, comfort must De sacrificed or vice versa. While rapid strides have been made, never before have style, comfort and health been so ably safeguarded as in the Modart "Improved Front Laced" Corset. Front lacing Itself Is not new, but front lacing the Modart way Is, and the beautiful body curves created by this exquisite corset have hitherto been unapproached. The chief aim of the manufacturers of the Modart Corset has been, and is, to offer a corset which Instead of hid ing woman's greatest charms of figure will on the contrary accentuate the same with full regard for her comfort and health. The other important re sult that of obeying fashion's dic tates is attained at the same time. for a corset which will at once con serve and reflect wpman's natural graces produce the very effect which style seekers desire. In this age people think and act more understandingly than ever be fore about the different prerequisites of dress and find that the closer they get to nature's lines of beauty, the more satisfying the result. No sculptor ever took greater pains to produce perfection than did the de signers of Modart Corsets and the end justifies the effort, for new as it is. the Modart Improved Front Laced" Corset Is widely known and loved by thinking women. A grand exposition sale of these celebrated corsets, with fittings by a prominent corset expert, is scheduled for two weeks, commencing Monday, March 21st, at the store of Tull A LGibbs, Ino, . the trial of Walter H. Moore, who. as president of the defunct Oregon Trust & Savings Bank, is accused of permitting the bank to receive a deposit from one Minnie Mitchell after banking hours on the afternoon of the day before it sus pended payment, and who is being tried before Judge Bronaugh in Department No. 1 of the Circuit Court, enlivened the second day's efforts to select a jury which Is to pass upon Moore's guilt or innocence. Deputy District Attorney Fitzgerald Implied throughout the day by questions put to the talesmen examined that the defense had resorted to the practice of employing a private detective for the pur pose of sounding out the entire list of jurymen from which this panel is to be selected with ' a view to aiding them in selecting talesmen to comprise the jury who might be leniently Inclined in their viewa toward Moore. In retaliation for this and following upon their formal objection of the first day of the trial to the selection of the Jury list upon the ground that it was drawn from the personal assessment rolls solely and not from both the personal and the realty assessment rolls as they Insist it should be in order to give a represent ative list, the attorneys for the defense asserted that the drawing of the list had been connived at. McGinn Slates Charges. Henry E. McGinn, of counsel for the defense, who on tha first day was unable to attend the Moore trial but who joined Charles W. Fulton yesterday, asserted at the close of the session yesterday after noon that the drawing of the jury should be investigated. No further progress was made In the case. At the close of the first day 11 talesmen had been passed ' and the Jury panel stood in exactly the same condition yesterday afternoon, the day having been passed by the examination and chal lenges of prospective Jurymen who had already formed - opinions of Moore's guilt or innocence and were excused by Judge Bronaugh because of these set opinions. , The opening of i the hostilities began when Mr. Fitzgerald, of counsel for the prosecution, pointed out a private detec tive sitting in the courtroom, who is al leged to have gathered Information for Moore's attorneys about the Jury list, and demanded of the Juror if he had been approached by the detective and talked to about this case. The juror said that he had not. Not Approacned, Talesmen Insist. "Have you been approached by anyone who wanted to discuss this case without or who wanted to feel you out as to your opinion about Moore's guilt?" Mr. Fitz gerald next propounded. The Juror said that he had not. Each of the talesmen subsequently questioned by Mr. Fitzgerald were quizzed closely along these lines, but the answers of all showed that the detec tive had not spoken to any of them about the case. "I am confident that In some way effort has been made to learn the feelings of this Jury list." At the opening of the morning session 11 men were In the box who had been passed by the defense. After these had been catechised by Mr. Fitzgerald, for the prosecution. William Trevor, man ager of a mining company in this city with offices in the Allsky building, was selected. Temporarily the full jury seemed to have been completed. At this point, however. Judge Bronaugh excused H. G. Utely, a .traveling salesman for the Slmonds Manufacturing Company, who Insisted it would injure his business po sition to be kept away for so long a time as the trial of this case seemed to prom ise. Several of the men drawn from the Jury box were employes of the Portland Rail way, Light & Power Company and it was at this Juncture that Mr. McGinn arose in court and walking over to where the clerk was taking the names out of the box, asked some questions as to the list. Each of the men examined following the excusing of Utely were challenged and excused, with the exception of y. L. Rob inson, a cornicemaker, living at' 964 Mon tana avenue, on the Peninsula. Mr. Ful ton challeged him, but the challenge was denied. Besides Robinson, H. D. Port wood,, a conductor for the streetcar com pany, who lives at 765 Savior street; E. L. Pettis, of the firm of Pettis & Gross mayer, insurance agents In the Board of Trade building, who Uvea at 739 Wasco street, and Fred Amacher, who works In the bottling department of the Gambrlaus Brewery, and who lives on East Seventy fifth near East Glisan street, were passed upon to take the place of three men peremptorily challenged, and one man ex- TURKISH SLCND Just as aging makes wine rich, so mellowing makes tobacco savory. And the tobacco in Fatima Cigarettes has' been aged and mellowed two years. It is blended of the finest Turkish tobacco made fragant and pleasing to particular palates. In a neat, inexpensive foil package, with ten additional cigarettes. Pictures of popular actresses now packed with Fatima cigarettes. 20 -for 15 cents THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY cueed. A. H. Faber, an architect who had been passed the day before, was peremptorily challenged by the prosecu tion, while George E. Boos, a carpenter, and Robert L. Pollock, a contractor, and formerly a private detective, were per emptorily cliallenged by the defense. Talesmen Form Opinions. Among the talesmen who were exam ined and excused by Judge Bronaugh because challenged for cause were: A. L. Stevens, an agent for the Pacific Coast Coal Company, who lives at 735 Johnson street, and who formerly worked in the Commercial National Bank; A. L. Levy, a partner In the Amalgamated Film Com pany, of Fourth and Alder streets; J. W. Euston, a bookkeeper for the Inde pendent Coal & lee Company; P. S. Reeder, a logger and timberman who lives at 1119 East Tamhill street; John Urle, 79 years old, a retired dyer, who lives at 628 East Harrison street; Fred D. Flora, a jeweler at 191 Morrison street; Otto W. Metschan, son of the proprietor of the. Imperial Hotel; and E. J. Coffin, a conductor for the streetcar company, who lives at 410 Dover street. Nearly all of these men had formed opinions as to the defendant. 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Here you have the most favored climate, as well as social advantages and the like. In this connection the following Item clipped from The Oregonlan of March 9 will be of interest. . "COYOTE CUTOFF AUTHORIZED "Money Appropriated! Route AwaltH Rlitht-of-Way Adjustment. "Work onathe Coyote cutoff of the O. R. & TJ. in Eastern .Oregon Is to begin as soon as right-of-way Issues can be adjusted. Authority has been given for the construc tion of the road and the money has been appropriated, according to J. P. O'Brien, vice-president and gen eral manager. "The present route of the O. R. & N. follows the Umatilla River from Echo to the Umatilla and then turns at right angles down the south bank of the Columbia River. Coyote is a station 16 miles west of the Umatilla, and the cut off runs In a straight line 'across lots' to Echo. The cutoff will be 23 miles long and will reduce the mileage of the main line 12 miles in addition to eliminating- many degrees of curvature, Part of the right of way will cross lands re served by the Government for reclamation purposes, and it will be necessary to have the maps ap proved by the Interior Department. Work will begin just as soon as this approval is given." The analysis of the soil shows it to be superior for fruit than that of our now famous districts. We are now prepared to take contracts in five and ten-acre tracts up. When you know what this land is you will be surprised at the ex tremely low price and the easy terms at which it is sold. Don't fail to get at the bottom of this opportunity, the PREMIER Irri gated land of the world. For all facts, write or call on TEEPE & SMITH 414 Hepry Bids., Portland. Government Owns Lots at Fort George The British Columbia govern ment owns one-quarter of the lot3 at Fort George, selected from our townsite. Their lots are not for sale at present. The lots which we offer for sale are from one-quarter mile to one mile and a quarter from where the railroad terminus will be located. There are no other lots to be had except ours nearer than two miles from the railroad terminals. The nearest railroad now in op eration is the C. P. R., which is 320 miles distant. Seven lines of railroad, includ ing the main line of the Grand Trunk Pacific are building, and projected to Fort George. The first railroad will reach Fort George in 1911. "When this railroad reaches Fort George it will make capable of de velopment the immensely rich ter ritory along the 1000 miles of navi gable waterways at the junction of which Fort George is located. Three lines of steamboats now ply on these waterwa3'-s. More steamboats are building. The future of Fort George does Qot depend on the whim of any one railroad. These railroads must build along the waterways or keep out. Fort George is at the junction of the waterways. The railroads must come to Fort George. We have already spent $50,000 advertising Central British Colum bia and Fort George. "We expect to spend five times that amount. Because every well-posted man who has made a study of condi tions in Central British Columbia knows that Fort George will, in a very few years, be as large as "Winnipeg, Vancouver or Spokane are today. Lots which we offer today for $150 to $300 will then be worth $20,000 to $100,000. Our terms are $10 down and $10 per month, with 10 per cent, discount for cash. Title to lots insured and guaranteed by the Province of British Columbia. Only those who act quickly will get in at these prices. Maps, plans and full informa tion on request. Natural Resources Security Co., Ltd. 413 Winch Bldg., Vancouver, B. 0.