Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, November 01, 1911, Image 14

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Newspaper Page TextTTTE MOHXIXO OREGOyiAy, WEPyESPAT. NOVEMBER 1. 1911. 14 PRICES TUMBLE I'P U SUGAR MEN'S WAR Portland Jobbers Announce Cut to $6.55 a Hundred, Effective Today. CALIFORNIA TAKES LEAD Benefit to Consumers Seen In More Bern by Reflnera Price Shad ing In Month Past Is Given Sodden Impetus. A sugar war of large proportions ! h re wins among the local Jobber. The price cutting will begin this morning and there l no telling how far It will go. It cannot go too far to ult the consumers. For some tlms past. It Is said, the wholesalers have been shsdinc their open quotation, the has la of which Is the price ma! by the refineries In California. One of the Jobbing houses now announces It will make a cut of S cents a hundred under the fixed or prevailing; open market price. Yester day a decline of 10 cents a hundred was announced by the California re finers and the Jobbers of Portland and every other Coast city Immediately readjusted their price lists. The decline put standard granulated sugar at a Jobbing price of $7.50 a hundred, less the usual discount for rash. This waa the second decline Ir. October, the market having dropped SS cents on October 14. The hlKhest price of the year, I7.S5. prevailed from September 23 to October 14. Iurln that period the price of sugar waa Just IIS a hundred above the low mark of the year, which was In last February. lan la Rapid. When prices bn to drop last month It waa thought the decline to the normal level would be gradual. 10 or 10 cents at a time. A Portland firm however, has upset the calcula tions and given values a decided shove In the downward direction. -Wednesday morning we will bo to the retailers with a flat price of l 5S a hundred, less a quarter discount for cash " was the announcement made last night by E. J. Hall, of T. W. Jenkins Co, wholesale grocers. The other Jobbers for some time have been shad ing the price of sugar by making- re bates and otherwise. They have com pletely demoralised the trade In their effort to put the smaller Jobbing houses out of business. It Is In order to pro tect ourselves that we have decided to mn.ks this cut Ceaaaaiera te Reap Be sell. Tomorrow morning we will go out to the retailers with a flat price of it lb a hundred for granulated sugar. We do not know what the other Job bers will do. but we certainly mean business. We are going to give the re tailors cheap sugar." The consuming public will welcome thla lightening of the high cost of Uv Ing burden. It Is probable the Jen kins price will be met by all the other Jobbers. It Is believed many of them are carrying stocks of speculative sugar, which will enable them to sell materially under the refinery price and still not lose bv the war. COOS BAY OYSTERS GOOD Fish Warden Want Tldclands Set Aside for Culture. To find If tldelands at Coos Bay are adaptable for the propagation of East ern oysters Fish Warden Clantoo Is Investigating, and from results so far obtained It Is said that section affords better opportunities than Wlllapa Har bor or Yaqulna Bay. where the Indus try thrives. Two yesrs ago J. O. Kelly trans planted young oysters from Ixing Island Sound to the Coos Bay tldeflats and followed the usual methods In cul tivating them. Now he has a larger product and one equally aa succulent as any transplanted- oysters on the Pacific Coa.t. Deputy Warden Gor returned from Coos lur yesterday with samples of oysters, which were Inspected and commented urn favorably by the ex perts of the Klsli Warden's office. It will be necessary for the Legisla ture to declare the Coos Bay tldel.tnds suitable fur oyster culture before tide land beds can be set aside. Such a step will be recommended by Mr. clan ton la his report to the next Legislature. MODJESKI VIEWS BRIDGE Engineer rind Broadway nan Is Making Good Progress. Ralph Modjeskl. consulting engineer for the city In the construction of ths Broadway bridge, arrived from Chicago yesterday and immediately made an txaminatlon of work .on the substruc ture and found that it Is progressing wslL He Is assured that this portion ef the brldfc-s will be completed by Jan uary 1. ilr. Modjeskl said that bids would be opened In tbls city for the super structure lecember 1 and that a few weeks later a contract would be let. One of the conditions of the contract will be that the bridge must be com pleted within one yer after the con tract Is signed. From Inquiries received by Mr. Mod jeskl he Is assured that half a desen will bid for the bridge work. Mr. Modjeskl will leave this morning to in spect the Celllo brilge. which he Is constructing for ths .Oregon Trunk and which will be completed by Chrtstmaa. PERSONALMENTION. Ralph Modjeskl. of Chicago. Is reg istered at the IVrtlaci M. Oorman. of Stella, Is at the Im perial. T. Bt. Ores, cf Fralo. Or, Is at the Lenox. W. C. Titus, of Seattle. Is at the Cor nelius. E. C Shearer, of Spokane, Is at the Ramape. V. C. Newell, cf Be res. Is at the Oregon B. A Hamnergsr. ef Seattle, la at the Carlton. A. a Harknesa. ef The Dalles, Is at the Carlton. A. R Bullock, cf Sheridan. Or, Is at the Perkins. F. J. Woodward, of CresswelL Is at the Portland. B. T. McMalna. cf Oregon City. Is at the Carlton. H. B. Jordan, furniture manufacturer of Grand Rapids, Mich, la at the Ore gon. Paul Funderraan. of Wllhelroina, is at the Perkins. Dr. W. C. Logan, of Astoria, Is at the Cornelius. 8. O. Wynne, of Sioksne, Is staying at the Lenox. E a. Phlpps. a Kelso merchant. Is at the Perkins. O. O. Foss. of Spokane. la stopping at the Portland. O. P. IIofT. State Labor Commissioner. Is at the .Imperial. Mrs. Roy Gllbet. of Salem. Is stay ing at the Oregon. Gtorrs V. Nelson, of DIUey. la regis tered at the Lenox. William Vogt. of The Dalles,, la regis tered at the ImperlaL W. H. Keooyer. of Chehalls. Is regis tered at the Perkins. T. S. Hamilton, an Ashwood ranch er. Is at the ImperlaL H. M. Crooks, of Albany, Or., Is stay ing at the Cornelius. Robert Schults. of Corvallls. Is regis tered at the Carlton. A. Dunham, of Bandon. Or.. Is reg istered at the Ramapo. C. M. Leonard, of the Leonard Con- DOWELL NOW CHIEF Mayor Selects New Head for Fire Department. MEN'S FAVORITE IS NAMED e ' - V . a . B. F. Dewell. Who W aa Appointed chief of Klre Uepartmeat by Mayor flashlight. structlon Company, of Chicago, la at the Portland. George B. Lovelace, of Olyrnpla, is registered at the Oregon. George E. Sanders, of Grants Pass, la registered at the Portland. Will Wright., State Bank Examiner, Is registered at the Oregon. B. J. Johnson, of Fergus Falls, Minn , la registered at the Cornelius. B E. palmer, a Northern Padflo of ficial ef Tacoma. la at the Portland. Harry N. Nolson. a Seattle manufac turer, la registered at the Perkins. J C. Clinton. Clerk of Catsop County, was In the city yesterday. Llpman Holts, of Rochester. N. T, a brotner of Aaron Holts, la at the Port land. W. M. Kapus has Just returned from a three weeks' business trip to New Tork. B. O. Whltehouse, who was lately retired under a pension by the Port land Gas A Coke Company and who has been 111 at his home with rheumatism for the last three weeks. Is able to be around but not yet well enough to be at his desk. CHICAGO. Oct. 81. (Special.) The following from Oregon are registered at Chicago hotels: From Tort land At the Great North ern. W. F. Hidden: at Hotel Sherman. L. & Frank. From Eugene At the Great North ern, A. C. Dixon. OF SHE FEARED BOARD TO TRY TO SAVE GOV ERNOR'S PARK. Extension of Street Through Place to Be Considered Todays City May Buy Adjoining Strip. Rnhl1sht Turns Down Battalion Chief Young Favored by Insur ance Firms for Place Ap pointee's Service Long. B. F. Dowell. for 15 years a member of the Portland Fire Department, was appointed Chief of the department yes- terday by Mayor Iluphllght. to suc ! ceed David Campbell, who was killed June 25 In an explosion at the Union OH Company's plant on the East Side, The choice of the Mayor for the head of , the department was flrst announced to the tire committee of the Executive Board at a special session and as there was no objection to tha appointment. It ' wss made public The new Chief said I be will mako no startling changes. I The appointment brought to a close a i lively struggle between Battalion ' Chiefs Dowell, Young and Stevens, the ellglbles for the position. All three ' passed the Civil Service examination I and have been campaigning for the place for the last three weeks. Of 1 the three Dowell and Young were the most active workers for tho position, Dowell having the support of the fire men of the city and Young having the support of Portlund Insurance Bgents. The fact that Dowell was to be ap pointed was made apparent Monday when the Mayor told a delegation of Insurance men that he would not ap point Young. Kxposltloa Tost Held. Chief Dowell was flrit appointed to the Fire Department July 19, 1898, when he entered the service as an extra man on truck No. 1.' He resigned from the service. September 80. 1896, in the general walk-out of firemen which resulted from tho dismissal by Mayor Pennoyer of David Campbell, their Chief. When this trouble had cleared away, Dowell went back In the service In the same capacity, serv ing until May, 1900, when he was ap pointed captain of truck No. 1. He was appointed Battalion Chief of the truck house stationed at the Lewis and Clark Exposition. February 13. 1906, which position he held until Novem ber 15. Ho then resumed his cap taincy at No. 1 and served until March 81. 1908, when he became Battalion Chief of No. 1 district, embracing the seven fire stations on tho West Side south of Morrison street- He held that position until last night when he took charge officially of the entire depart ment. Chief Dowell Is the son of the late B. F. Dowell, one of the best known of Southern Oregon settlors, who came to Oregon In 1850. settling at Jackson ville. Dowell. Sr., died In Portland 13 years ago. Chief Dowell has been In Oregon all his life. Dowell Ftreasea's Choice. The Mayor In making the appoint ment said he believed he waa giving tho department the best man of the three ellglbles. A feature which en tered into the Mayor's decision was that of the firemen being In favor of Dowell. Between last Friday and yes terday no fewer than 150 firemen ap peared at the Mayor's office and spoke a good word for Dowell. Dowell. when notified of his appoint ment said that ho would make no particular changes In the department. Several minor changes In some of the stations will be mado. ha says, but only as they are needed for the good of the service. He says his policy will be the same as that of David Campbell. The appointment of Dowell has left vacant the position of Battalion Chief of district No. 1. This will be filled by appointment from a list of ellglbles resulting from a Civil Service exami nation to be held In the near future. Captains and lieutenants will be per mitted to take the examination. About 1! man In the department are arrang ing to undergo the test. PAVING CONTRACTS LET The Park Board today will endeavor to straighten out a tangle in the neighborhood of Governor's Park in the southwestern part cf the city, by de rMlmr what to do with the park. It Is proposed to acquire a strip of land j adjoining the park and If practical d- i velop it at once to prevent it ana me park from being cut up by streets proposed In a general street system. The main question to come before the Board will be that or granting a request made by resldenta of Daven port street for a street across the park from Davenport street to Crown ave nue. This street Is necessary. It Is said, and may be granted. It Is feared by the Board that granting of this street extension will be followed by the extension of other streets, which will cut the five-acre park into four small pieces and ruin It for park pur poses. The Foard ha under consideration the purchase of a strip of ground 00 feet Ions- and SoO fret whle In a ravine adjoining the present five-acre tract I and running to the head or me n-nin street ravine. If this Is purchased the proposed streets of the system. Instead of cutting through the park, will have to be changed so that one branch will run to the Davenport thoroughfare and the other around the opposite end of the park. Beyond the park are parts of Grover and Carter additions, which formerly had a gridiron system of streets. These svrrets were vacated to make way for a winding system of streets following the slopes of the hillsides. In this new system Governor's Park la coursed by t two streets, which, with that from i Davenport to Crown avenue, makes , three which divide the park into lour small parts. The question cf how the city's park fund shall be spent will also be con sidered by the Park Board. The Board j la in receipt of a long list of petitions f and letters from the various sections or the city where parks have been pro posed. One of the parks particularly favorable. Judging from the number of petitions and letters received by the Board. Is that adjoining the Woodstock school grounds Nominating Petitions Filed. WOOPBl'P.N. Or.. Oct. SI. Spe claL) Nominating petitions have been fled with the City Recorder for officers to be voted upon at the regular city election to be held November T. as follows: For Msyor. O. A. Nendel: for Recorder. C F. Whit man, and for ' Councilman. George Beach. The organlxed "wet" forces have failed to place a regular ticket In the field. In opposition to the ticket named by the ma meeting held Octo ber !5. but It Is generally conceded that the above named candidates, though running Independent, are sup ported by the oppostUon to the present administration. Bur racing Need Forces Acceptance of Non-Competitive Bids. Setting aside Its action of last Fri day the Executive Board yesterday in an adjourned meeting granted con tracts for the laying of pavement at once In Ash street, between Front and Third streets: In East Thirty-second street from East Burnslde to East An keny streets, and In the Intersection of East Forty-first street and Woodward tveniie. The aggregate contracts amount to 81S.OO0. The Executive Boayrt at Its last meeting rejected the bids as made be cause, they were, not competitive and therefore did not mset the requirement of the Ellis amendment to the old charter providing for competitive bids. W H. Fitzgerald, a member of the board, declared that the Improvements were badly needed and that Inasmuch as the people demanded thorn and were willing to pay for them they should be granted and work rushed. Mayor Rushlight declared that lit the future he would oppose. the granting of contracts of the kind unless thoy were competitive. NEWBERG TO BE VISITED Realty Board Will Be Brick. Com pany's Guest Saturday. Members of the Portland Realty Board and the Portland Architects' Club will Join in sn excursion to New berg Saturday afternoon, where they will be guests of the Newberg Brick & Tile Company. The special train of three cars will leave the depot, at Front and Jefferson streets, at 1:15 P. M, and returning will leave Newberg at 4:10 P. M.. arriving In the city at about 6:30 o'clock. The visitors will be met at the depot at Newberg by city officials and mem bers of the Newberg Commercial Club. After they are escorted through the properties of the brick company they will be taken In automobiles through the producing districts near Newberg. H. W. Fries, of the Portland Realty Board, who Is In charge of the excur sion, announces that arranpements have been made to accommodate 160 persona Loo Xenstadter Returns. Io Neustadter. special representa tive of Lealle's Weekly and Judge, re turned yesterday from an extended trip through Eastern Oregon and Idaho. Mr. -Neustadter visited a number of the larger towns In Eastern Oregon and reports business conditions promising. Everywhere Portland was spoken of In the highest terms. It waa declared to be the most beautiful city In the Wast. THREE SUIT SPECIALS At Gevurtz' Today, Thursday and Friday That Cannot Be Equaled All $17.50, $20 and $22.50 Suits Comprising a mulitude of black and blue serges, mix ture and mannish materials, excellently tailored, lined with guaranteed satins All $25, $27 and $30 Suits Embodying the last trend of fashion thought, faultlessly tailored, reflecting the elegance and snap of the made-to-order garment; cheviots, mannish materials and fancy weaves All $35, and $40 Suits Iland-tailored garments that are perfect in fit and workmanship and bear the hall mark of the latest ex clusive Fall models; lined vdth Skinner's and other guar anteed satins; a wealth of fabrics, including broadcloths, chiffon broadcloths, diagonals and mixtures In Each Case the Opportunity Is Distinctly Unusual Enabling the Portland Women to Get Some Very Rare Bargains $12 1 1 m t j 7 f mi ' i m : j j mm JJ If FIRST, SECOND AND YAMHILL STREETS ACOUSTIC FAULT VEXES ATTORNEYS ASK PRECAUTION IS WEST COCRTHOUSE WIXG. CarpeW Now Cover Marble Floors In Completed Section to Prevent Jumbling of Sound Waves. A committee of attorneys, headed by John Hall, yesterday afternoon Inter viewed County Judge Clee,ton and Com missioner Llghtner relative- to the ad visability of devising ways and means of ' preventing a repetition of the acoustic fault In the west wing of the now Courthouse, now under construc tion, that exists in tho east half of the building. The attorneys have be come tired, they said, of having to huddle together In the east courtroom In order to hear the statements of witnesses, each other and the Judges. The Commissioners will take up with Architect Whldden the question of making certain changes In the plans of the west wing so as to diminish the probability of sound-carrying Irregu larities. It Is probable that the mar ble floors wlU be sacrificed, say the Commissioners, aa It e necessary now that they be covered with carpets In order to assist In retaining sound. Car pet that has been put down In J&S Oantenbeln's courtroom has made It possible to hear much better and It la probable that the floors of all the courtrooms will be carpeted. . At the suggestion of County Clerk Fields It also has been decided to get rubber tips for the chairs In use in the oourtrooms. NEW ST0REC0NTRACT LET Hurley-Mason to Build Woodard, Clarke & Co. 6tructure- The contract for the construction of Woodard. Clarke 4 Co.'s building at the northeast corner of Alder and W est Park streets was let yesterday to the Hurley-Mason Company. The contract price was not announced. The structure will contain nine stories besides a basement and sub basement for machinery and the heat ing plant. The building will be of class A construction of steel columns and reinforced concrete. It will oc cupy 60x100 feet. - Work of wrecking the present build ings on the property will be started tomorrow. It Is expected that the structure will be completed and ready for use by June 1. 1912. The contract for the seven-story lOOxloo-foot building for the Holts department store at the northwest cor ner of Fifth and Washington streets was let yesterday. The frame building now occupying the site was vacated last night and work of raxing the building will be started at once. Executor Sues for Damages. ASTORIA. Or, Oct. II- (Special.) Judge Eakin convened an adjourned session of the Circuit Court this morn ing and made an order directing that tho petit Jury be summoned to report for duty next Tuesday, when the case of Delmer D. White, administrator ef the estate of Charles B. Avery, de ossssrt. against the Borenaon Logging Company, will be called for trial. This action was brought to recover damages for the death of Avery, who was killed August 13, 1907, by being struck by a locomotive, while at work on the de fendant company's logging railroad. THREE EDITORS TO SPEAK Ad Club to Bo Told of Newspaper's Place In Society. The place of the newspaper In mod ern society will be discussed by editors of the three leading Portland news papers at the weekly luncheon of the Portland Ad Club at the Portland Hotel today. Edgar B. Piper, managing editor of The Oregonian, will talk on the "Duty of the Community to the Newspaper," John F. Carroll, of the Telegram, on the "Responsibility of the Newspaper to the Community," and C. S. Jackson, of the Journal, will speak on "Publlo Interest." Fred Iocklay will be chairman of the day. QUICK APPEALS SOUGHT Movement on to Block Schemes of Persons Convicted. On the ground that the worst ob stacle to Justice In the Portland courts Is the practice of appealing cases sole ly for the purpose of wearing out wlt- nesses or getting them out of . the city, efforts are made to have right-of-way given such cases in the upper courts, with trials within a few days after the appeal Is taken. The movement has the support of all the policemen con cerned In the handling of such cases, and Is a repetition of a similar attempt, made several months ago. Presiding Judge Gatens has made an order that cases in which girls are held as witnesses shall be brought up on appeal promptly and It Is desired to extend the rule to all appealed cases where witnesses of the floating ele ment are Involved. It has been pro posed that one department of the Clr- cuit Court be assigned exclusively. If necessary, to these cases to dispose of them within a short period after the appeal is taken. Overall Out for Good. SAN , FRANCISCO, 6ot- 81. Orval Overall, former star pitcher of the Chi cago Cubs, who assisted that team in winning the world's championship baseball honors, arrived here today. He has renounced the diamond forever, he says, and will devote his attention to mining lnteresta. Overall said that Mordecai Brown, the "three-fingered wonder" of the Cubs, would Join him here next week. Stops a Cough Quickly -Even Whooping Cougti A Wholo Pint of ths Qulokest. Oureat Coegh Remedy tor 60a. Money Refunded If It Falls. If yoa hare an obstinate, deep-seated eongh, which refuses to be cured, get a 50 cent bottle of Plnex, mix It with home made su gar syrup and start taking It. In side of 8t hours your eongh will be gone, oi very nearly so. Even whooping-cough Is aulckly conquered In this way. A wfoent bottle of Pin ex, when mixed with home-made sugar syrup, gives you a pint a family supply of the finest cough remedy that money could buy, at a clear saving of t& Very easy to prepare full directions in package. , . . . Plnex soothes and heals the lnnamea membranes with remarkable rapidity. It stimulates the appetite, is slightly laxa tive, and has a pleasant taste children take It willlniily. Bplendld for croup, asthma, bronchitis, throat tickle, chest pains, eto., and a thoroughly successful remedy for incipient lung troubles. Plnex Is a special and hlghy concen trated compound of Norway White Pine extract, rich in guaiacol and other healing pine elements. It has often been Imitated, though never successfully, for nothing else will produce the same reeuita. Simply mix with sugar svrup or strained honey, in a pint bottle, and it is ready for ubb. Anrono who tries Plnex will quickly understand why it is used in more homes in the U. S. and Canada than any other cough remedy. The genuine Is guaranteed to give absolute satisfaction or money re funded. Certificate of guarantee is wrapped in each package. Your druggist has Plnex or will get 1 1 lorrou. If not, send to The Plnex Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind. Plnex la fully guaranteed by Laue Davls Drug Co. (distributers), Portland. BEST 10c CIGARS IN THE WORLD Formerly made in HAVANA, but now made In CLEVELAND to save $7.00 PER HUNDRED for the SMOKER. SAVED SS5S HUNDRED DUTY. MORE AD VALOREM. The duty on raw material is only about one-tenth that of the" finished product. This is why the RIQ OLETTO is as good as any Havana. The manufac turer paysTnore for the tobacco in the RIGOLETTO than he did in Havana, when his cigars sold as high as $1. The tobacco is better and the cigar is better. The best tobacco grown is put into RIGOLETTO CIGARS. Cents Smoke one today and you will need no further argument. Made in four shapes PERFECTO, EXTRA CLUBHOUSE, PANE TELA ELEGANTE. Sole distributors for Oregon. SIG SICHEL & CO. Wholesale Main Store 92 THIRD STREET. Branches, Third and Washington. Sixth and Washington. Retail 'Agents for leading cigars and candies of the world. ;