PROMISES GALORE
WORRY RUSHLIGHT
Disposition to Hypothecate Of
fices Is Now Causing
Trouble.
SAME JOB ASSURED MANY
Candidate Sllrs Vp Fcollnjt by II '
Tlablt or Offering Position to
Mow Tha a One Open
Town' Polity Planned.
Prodigality of promise and a dispo
sition ti hypothecate every appointive
office he haa to fill are conditlona
that are worryin; A. G. Rushlight In
his randlrtacy for Mayor more than
the hundred anl one d-talla Incident
to Ms earnest qu-st for votrs.
The rral facia are tfiat Kuahllirht.
In Me anxiety to win the Mayoralty
contest, ha mae wholesale promises
In Ma ote-aettlint crasadr.
The truth le that he want the office
and he Is coins the limit to gain It.
This woul.l be all rlsiit and mlRht.
poeslb:y. prodare Uie desired results
If several of those who have received
assttrancee of jruod fet Jobs at the ex
p-nee of the city had not discovered
mat others have been riven the aame
promisee.
North End Stands With lilin.
There Is no disputing the fact that
Ruahiirnt stands for an "open town"
and all that oa with It. Wander
throusjh Hie Nortb KnJ and visit any
of the saloons In the underworld dis
trict and yon mt with an Incessant
rhoras of -RushllRht. I;uhllKht.
ILusnliaht." Tn Im-U frequenters and
hancre-on of these resorts are all for
l;ulillcht- They make no attempt to
disguise their sentiments or to apolo
gise 'or their support of Rushltsht.
lie Is and has been their friend. Nat
urally, la a eplrlt of reciprocity. If for
no other reason, they are supporting
him In the pending contest.
It was only last July that the retail
liquor dealers of the state held a con
vention la this city. At this confer
ence It was voted that the best means
t combat a arrowing sentiment for
state-wide prohibition was to reform
tha saloon buslnees as It was conduct
ed. The result was the adoption of a
resolution declaring for concerted
effort on the part of saloon-keepers
In an attempt to elevate the standard
of tne saloon business.
following this state convention, the
Retail Liquor Ueaiera' Association of
thl city appointed a committee of
five members to wait on the members
of the City Council and solicit the co
operation of that body In furthering
their campaign. This oommlttee wait
ed on Mr. Kushlla-ht. present candidate
for Mayor, and Oeorga L Baker, both
members of the City Council at the
time, and presented their plea.
Reform Atlcmjit Blocked.
Tea committee was very plainly a.1
Ttsed by Kushllght and Baker to "at
tend to their own business" or autfrr
the possibility of having their annual
license Increased to llioO per annum,
la addition to being forced to close
their placea of business at 1 o'clock,
every night. The members of the
committee were given the further
"com fort Ins assurance from Rush
light and Baker that there was at the
tluie pending before tha City Council
a proposition to turn tha liquor busi
ness of the city over to one mas. ac
cording to the provisions of tha
Uotuenberg sjstem.
In otaer words, tha members of tha
committee, whose only consideration
was the etevattoa of tha saloon busi
ness In this city, were positively in
formed they had better "let well
enough alone." - and not try to tres
pass n the sacred prerogatives of tha
City Council.
on a par with Rushlight's attitude
towards the efforts of Uie Ksteil Liquor
Iealers Association In Its efforts to
correct the saloon business of this city
was his position In refusing to revoke
the license of mailer's saloon, one of
the most notorloiui resorts In tha iorlh
Knd. following disclosures that were
made In the Winter of l'.'". a.'ter
a personal Investigation conducted by
A. N. Wills, at that time a member of
the City Council. The appeal of Wilis
that the license of this Infamous resort
be revoked was waived aside by Itush
llsht and other members of the U.iuor
II. erne committee of the City Council
when tha facts were rresenled by
Wills.
I.loruvo I l'ol Through.
Knshllght nilaht explain to an Inter
ested pubile somethtng of his position
with reference to the renewal of the
ll.:ense of tim Maxurovsky. an auc
tioneer at S4J Burnstde street, fienewat
of iasurovsky's license hsd been de
nied repeatediy because of tr-e com
plaints of Die police and Tlctlmtxed
customers. Maxurovsky retained attor
neys to present his rase without aalL
Finally the auctioneer Is said to have
been approached by Councilman field
ing, personal representative of Kush
llKat. and advised to present tit reel to
the Council an application for tho re
newal of his license, after Ile'.dtnc had
a::f.od himself iNat Maxurovsky
would support Kushilght for the Re
publican Mavoraltr nomination In the
primaries. Reference to the records In
the ofM.-e of the City Auditor will lucw
that Maxurovsky s license was renewed
last Spring after It had ben turned
down several times by the license com
mittee of the City Council.
There Is also current a report, which
sales credence from the fact that the
North lliul hMtrr are lovally sip
portti.c him. that K ishilsM. If e:ecte..
will etMisn a "restricted" district in
ttiA vl. Inltv of Prion avenue and Kl
Morrison street aid cvtrTvlInc north
erly. TMs wo iM Include a building at
the northeast corner of I nion avenue
and Fast Mcrrtseo which Mr. Kusii'.lgl'.t
purchased a few jears ago.
niON MN IPHOI.DS SIMON
Carl W Inirre Pet-Iarra Ku-lililit I
Itatlland t'antliitalr.
Mere Is another laborlnc nun. a
union man. to, who cannot swa'low
Rushlight and what he eian.'s for in
raanlclpal affairs. This Insurrent
among the workmrmen Is Carl Win
ters, who. In a letter to Wtilla-n K.
Woodward, chairman of the cltlxens'
committee, yesterday said, among other
thlr.ss:
"I see that you have been se.eeted
chairman i'f the committee of loS to
roacase Joseph Simon's camrlKn for
layor. I do not know you or anv of
t.;e other memhers of the committee
but I have met Mr. Mmon and know
Mm to be the Ideal man for the posl
tlcn. I aave knocked around Portland a
great deal. I have been all through
tha North End and have seen what Is
going on la resard to the Mayoralty
con tut. In both the North and the
fouth Er.ds they are going to move
heaven aud earth to elect Rushlight.
Let a stranger go into cither of these
two districts of the city and It Is only
a short time until It bed as to talk
Rushlight to him. They tell you with
out znlucing words what It means to
them If he is elected; what he Is going
to On for them.
"Mr. Rushlight Is not the laboring
man's candidate, lie Is the candidate
of the green-cloth briRade. If o. decent
law-abiding union man can show any
reason for supporting Rushlight I
would like to have him come out and
give his reasons."
SIMON IS LOGICAL CAVIMDATE
Roscoe C. Xe-lMu rralsoe, Ability of
Present Major.
Among the scores of Indorsements
of Mayor Simon's candidacy, accom
panied by assurances of - support,
reaching citizens' headquarters In the
Railway Kxcbange building yesterday,
was a letter from Roscoe C. Nelson, of
the firm of Beach. Simon at Nelson.
Jn hie letter Mr. Nelson gives bis un
qualified Indorsement of Mayor Simon
In the following terras:
"Uased on an Interest of long;
standing In municipal government, and
from observation of Its workings in
various sections of this country. I am
free to say that I do not believe there
Is a cltr In tiie t'nlted States which
ha a Mayor of the caliber and char
acter of Mr. Simon. Conceding to Mr.
Rushlight an unselfish desire to serve
the city and conceding to him further
freedom from intangible alliances of
questionable character, still with , the
best of motives ro Rushlights could
not reader to the City of I'ortland the
quality of aervlco which has been so
loyally and conscientiously afforded to
Mr. bimon.
ACTOISTS ARE BACKING SIMON
Policy of Improving- Streets Appeals
to Tbetn.
It Is not surprising that tha auto-
mobtlistfl of tha city are supporting
Mayor Simon for re-election. Re
sponsive to the demands of the prop-erty-owners.
Mayor Simon, during bla
two-year term of office, has been In
strumental In awarding contracts for
the Improvement of over 100 miles of
streets In this city. Other streets will
tie Improved, and the general progress
of the city will be promoted through
the re-election of Mayor Simon.
Where there prevailed a demand for
the Improvement of a etreet. and tha
estimates for the Improvement were
within reason. Mayor Simon has alwaya
assent-d to the Improvement This will
be his policy If re-elected Msor next
Monday. primarily. Mayor Simon
stands for everything thst will tend
towards upbuilding tha city. A review
of his official record supports this
statement, and at the aame time af
fords proof that In considering these
and other questions of public concern,
Mayor Simon always haa proceeded
with due consideration for tha Inter
ests of the city and tha Interested
property-owners.
WATER SUPPLY BETTER
MT. SCOTT FOLK OVERJOYED BT
BILL Kf.N PRESSURE,
Mayor and Hoard Receive Many
Congratulations Upon Pnrcbase
of Wood mere Plant.
When Mount Scott people got out of
bed yesterday morning and turned on
the water In their faucets, they were
greatly pleased to discover that there
a as much mora than the usual pressure.
They soon discovered that the Water
Board had turned in the Bull Run supply
and that they at last had city water at
city rates.
Mayor Simon and members of tha
board, as well as Superintendent Dodge,
received numerous congraftilatlona from
Mount Scott residents throughout tha
day for their action In purchasing the
private plant of the Wood mere Water
Company and taking It over as city
property. There was great rejoicing all
over the district because of the fact that
a permanent Improvement had been
made, with prospects of much better
service as soon as the board could lay
larger mains throughout the territory.
At a meeting of the Water Board yes
terday afternoon Superintendent Dodge
reported to Mayor Simon and the mem
bers Oat ha had turned on the supply
of ltu.l Run water In the Mount Scott
district, and he said that he hsd reports
from there that the people deeply appre
ciated the action of the board.
It had been hoped thai a report would
be ready concerning the private water
plant In the ood stock district, which Is
soon to be taken over In the same man
ner as the Wood me re plant. The people
there have Insufficient supply and the
pressure Is low. Mayor Simon said that
he beiieved the purchase or tnia plant
was certain and that. In bla opinion, tha
Bull Run supply wouid be turned on
there by July I.
EQUESTRIANS END RIDE
.MAN AND WIIT3 ARRIVE HERE
FKOM KLAMATH FALLS.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Jackson Make
Trip on Horseback and Advertise
Southern City.
Dusty and tired, two horseback riders.
A. 11. Jackson and Mrs. Alma Jackson,
his wife, hsve arrived In Portland af
ter a 4 --mlle ride from Klamath Falla.
Ther h ft that city May 19 under agree
m.nt with the Klamath Falls Chamber
of Commerce to ride to Portland, boost
inn the city and distributing literature
on the stay. They camped out most of
tn time nt nights and camo through
virt-out chjncuic horses.
Mr. and Mrs. Jackson will represent
Klsmath County at the Hose Festival.
Clad In their cowboy rldlng-costumes
thuy will take part In the parades. On
the way they passed through six Inches
of snow In the CajcaJe Mountains
above Ashland.
Mrs. Jackson Is a small and. exceed
ingly Ktr!t;h-looking woman. When
t-!:e aa'.ked lnio the Orcsoman office
la.t nlch: and spoke of tne Mrs. Jack
son about whom news had been tele
graphed from Klamath Falls. It was
some t.me before her auditor became
aware of the fact that she waa refer
ring to herselt.
Mr. and Mrs. Jackson will go from
Portland to The Dalles and bak to J
Klamath Kails by way or tne uescnuics
River and Crater Lake.
Vnasnal 11h Cangtit.,
NEWPORT. Or.. June I. (Special.
An unusuaL catch was made Friday by
Gordon Martin, who hooked a species of
starush, bavlng II star points. Tbs
fish Is 1 Inches across from point to
point.
PAVING PLANT IS
HELD WASTEFUL
Million Dollars Proposed Is
Many Times Cost of Pri
vate Equipment. '
POLITICAL SCHEME SEEN
BuiltlUis l"p of "Machine" Disaster
to City Four Concerns Now Op- '
crating With Investment of
Less Than $180,000.
Students of city government and men
versed in the paving business agree
that If Portland next Monday votea in
favor of tha Issuance of 1.000,000
bonds for the establishment of a mu
nicipal paving plant. It will be taking
action that Is without a parallel In
the history of city governments In tha
United States.
There la no city In tha country hav
ing a law prohibiting the contract sys
tem of paving. It la proposed under
the Initiative measure to be voted up
on next Monday that tha "City of Port
land shall itself proceed to make tha
required Improvements" In paving.
Political Machine Threatened.
It is asserted that the act Is revolu
tionary and dangerous to tha perma
nent welfare of tha city and that It
will result in the building up of a po
litical machine from which the city
will be unable to free Itself In years.
There are paving repair plants In la
cities In the United States and Canada.
Boston haa the moat expensive one.
which cost $7i.00i), and waving la laid
at double the cost of private contract.
Other cities having repair plants not
paring plants for tha constructing all
of the paving of a city are Brooklyn.
New Orleans. Kansas City. Fulton City.
Gl, Calgary. Indianapolis. Columbus,
Ohio. Denver, Detroit. San Francisco,
Seattle. Ppokane, Dayton. Ottawa. Cin
cinnati. Pittsburg, Nashville, Wilming
ton. Del.. Montreal and Toronto.
In no Instance haa the establishment
of these plants cost anything like the
sum proposed to be Invested in the
operation of the new municipal paving
plant In Portland. It Is asserted that
the total Investment In plants and or
ganisation by all tha paving concerns
bow operating In Portland dyes not ex
ceed 1150.00. Students of the situa
tion wonder what will be done with
tha hundreds of thousands of dollars
of surplus if the bonds should be voted
and the city should decide to go Into
tha faring business. Tha measure's
chief effect, it Is declared, will bo to
give employment to a large number of
men nnder tha gnldance of the City
Council, thus perpetuating that body
tn office.
Pas-Ins; Investment Small.
Tne leading paving conoerns now
operating in Portland employ 100 men
In the height of the season. They are
tha Warren Construction Company, 700
men. plant worth liO.OOO;. Barber As
phalt Company. TOO men, plant worth
JiO.OOO; llassara Paving Company. iOO
men. plant worth t-0.000; Independent
Asphalt' Paving Company, 400 men;
plant worth tlO.OOO. These concerns
last year paved 1.E0O.00O cubic yards
and no munlclpally-owned plant ever
paved more than 100.000 cubic yards.
It Is asserted that paving Is being
done as cheaply In Portland as In any
other city In the United States. There
Is no city in the North, where the same
labor conditions prevail. In which pav
ing is laid as cheaply. Asphalt Is laid
for $1.80. Ilassam for $1.75, and bltu
llthlo for 11.85.
It Is asserted by the promoters of the
measure. Dan Kellaher. T. C.
Humphrey and A. T. Beach, that Buf
falo has a paving plant, but this Is
denied In a statement tn which it Is
said:
-In the City of Buffalo, certain mem
bers of the Council periodically agitate
the purchase of a plant and In July,
110. tha Aldermen's committee on
streets proposed a resolution directing
the Commissioner of Public Works to
draw plans and specifications and ad
vertise for bids for a municipal asphalt
repair plant, sufficiently equipped to
do the work required by the city, and
also for bids for a site on which to
locate It, said site to have railroad con
nections, but this Is as far as the mat
ter has ever gone."
Municipal Work Costly.
Some Idea of the tremendous cost of
paving under municipally operated re
pair planta may be gathered from the
statistics gathered as to the cost of
the work In New Orleans. This city
has a small repair plant, quite capable
of doing work, that cost something
like $50,000. The Engineering-Contracting
News, of November 29. 1S0, gives
the cost of 8400 yards of asphalt, 6-inch
concrete, as follows:
Sij.Yd.
Materials, asphalt and concrete 1.4(4
Special charses pro rated -'15.
General charses pre rated
Other labor "
Total I4.4T3
Repairing In Brooklyn last year cost
a cublo yard. Brooklyn Is fre
quently mentioned as an example of
work dona cheaply unaer municipal
direction. The same work In Portland
costs $1.25 a yard.
The Engineering News of April 15,
IS 11. says of the work done in San
Francisco:
The municipal asphalt plant at San Fran
cisco during January produced 11.564 cubic
feet of wearing surface and S04O cubic fset
of binder. th cost of the material at the
plant being $S14.16; Tl.&Sl square feet of
pavemant ware laid at a cest of 14.43 cex.ts
per square foot. The unit cost is made up
of S.64 cents for material delivered from tiie
r!ant an.1 5.79 cents for labor and teaming,
tad weatner reduced the number of work
Ins days to about Is.
This is a cost of $1.2 cents a cubic
yard, as compared with tha cost of
tl.Xa In Portland.
AUTOS CRASH, WOMAN HURT
Mrs. J. W. Reynolds Injured la Ac
cident at Centralia.
CENTRALIA. Wash.. June 1 (Spe
cial.) In an automobile collision be
tween the machines of bastard Hitch
and J, W. Reynolds, of Tacoma. last
nlpht. Mrs. Reynolds was Injured by
broken glass and both automobiles were
damaged.
The collision occurred when me ma
chines met at an angle leading from two
streets. It was almost dark and no
lights were carried. Mr. Reynolds, who
Is a wealthy retired capitalist, has fig
ured In more than one automobile mis
hap, the most marked of which being
Ms accidental killing of a cyclist In Che
halls two years ago. He was acquitted
of criminal culpability, but waa obliged
to pay $uto damagra to the wtdew of the
killed man.
GREAT EXPANSION
AND CLOSING OUT
Of all our Sample Cloaks, Suits, Skirts, Waists, Petticoats,
Kimonos. Muslin Underwear . House Dresses; all must go.
We are not going out of business but going to enlarge our
store to almost three times its present size. It is our inten
tion to open the new store with an entire new stock of the
worlcTs newest and best merchandise at the lowest prices.
Sample "Wash Dresses,
slightly soiled, values
to $6.00,
?1.49, 91.98, $2.49
2000 "Waists, values to
$2.00, slightly soiled,
39, 69, 98
Fancy Gowns
and Waists
Values From $40 to $400
Half-Price
Tailored Linen Suits,
values to $15.00
$2.98, $4.95, $6.95
Messaline Silk Petti
coats All colors, deep
flounce, values to $5.00,
. $2.98
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$12.95, $18.95, $24.95, $29.85
These prices give you about 500 Suits and 200 Coats to select
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200 Silk Dresses val
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RELIEF IS ONLY PARTIAL
STREET-CLEAXrXG LKVY WOCI-D
BE INSUFFICIENT.
Proposed 'Amendment Would Hit
Effect of Increasing Tax Bur
den by One Mill.
Should the people vote to authorize
tha levying- of a tax or 1 mm lor ma
treat-clcanlna- and api-lnkling aeparc
meat. It would not provide aufficlent
money to do the neceasary wok, ac
cording to figures obtained at the City
Hall. The fund for this branch of the
city government this year la $275,000.
present time, one mill would yield
only $::.ooo.
The amendment, which la to be voted
on next Monday, if adopted, would
nerve only to relieve the general fund
to a certain extent,, so far as that
feature Is concerned; It would not en
tirely take from It the great burden.
It la from this fund at present that
all of the money for street-cleaning
must come.
It is probable that the superinten
dent of the Street - Cleaning and
Sprinkling Department will ask for at
least $100,000 more next year than was
-a thi wa r This will be be
cause of the rapid Increase In the
hard-suriace area, ii mese . irmi
are to be cleaned with approximate
remilarlty. It probably will require
$400,000 to do the work.
It will thus be seen that the adoption
of the proposed one-mill tax amend
ment would serve only to relieve the
general fund. It would have another
tt lnere&slnir the
burden of the taxpayer to the extent of
one mill, enouia me uouncu mim ad
vantage of the authority granted by
the people. The yield from this levy
would be taken directly from the tax
iBvAra fnntpad of coming from the
general fund, as heretofore.
Rev. H. T. Green Named Pastor.
Rv. H. T. Green has been appointed
by District Superintendent McDougall
to fill the pulpit of the Westmoreland
Methodist Episcopal Church, the mem
hen of which are now worshiping in
the building of the Midway Improve
ment Association, corner of Milwaukie
street and Sixth avenue. The erection
of a permanent church for the con
gregation will be one of tha first
duties of the new pastor. A Sunday
school has been formed under the
supervision of George H. Barnes, and a
Young People's Society Is In process of
formation.
CHICAGO, June 1. (Special.) Port-
land arrivals at Chicago hotels today ;
were: At the Congress, Mr. and Mrs.
B. 'Ball. At the Auditorium, Mr. and -Mrs.
J. C. Aiken, Miss Florence Aiken.
At the Great Northern. F. B. Solomon.
M. G. Thorsen. -' -
X ceatlv twx t a Hohrvw Bible, owrid
h, m. I :rtn,n ,o,mmt!'t which a few
rf r aro rriieu tn fope a eatr ot -
::i.ooo tor it I
More and More
People arc Finding Out
That it pays splendid re
turns in health to quit cof
fee, which contains a drug
caffeine; and in its place
use a food-drink made of
wheat, which is known to be
pure and wholesome.
P0STUM
is such a beverage!
It has done good honest
servico to humanity for
years. Millions use it, and
the number is steadily in
creasing. "There's a Reason"
Poctuxn Ccrttl Ok. IA&
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