THE BIORXIXG OREGONIAX, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 81. 1912. MORAL RISK SEEN If OWL GAR PLAN State Sunday School Associa tion Petitions Mayor to Veto Ordinance. BOYS' LATE HOURS FEARED : Residents on Trolley Lines Also Ask Executive to Kill Measure on t Grounds That Hourly Rum bling Disturbs Sleep. The Monks "owl car" ordinance call ing for hourly car service between 1:30 and 6:30 A. M. has not yet been . signed by Mayor Rushlight and Is held under advisement, with considerable probability of a veto, partly on ac count of certain defects which he maintains exist in its form and partly because of a storm of protest against It that broke over his office yesterday. The protests, contrary to expecta tions, came not from the street railway comnanv. but from private citizens. Scores of letters were received at the Mayor's office yesterday and Innum erable telephone calls from different persons who objected to the owl car ordinance. Some objections were rrom people whose homes are near the car lines and who are strongly opposed to having their rest broken by the pass ins; cars at all hours of the night Others based their objections on moral grounds. The following letter was received frrvn the State Sunday School Associ ation, setting forth their formal objec tions to the ordinance and asking for the Mayor's veto: Letter Sent Mayor. "We understand that the 'owl ordi nance' is or will be before you for approval. We sincerely believe that it will be for the best interests of the homes and boys of Portland if you should use your veto on this measure, for we fear that the late cars tend to encourage late hours, and while there is a small number of people who have legitimate use for such service, we feel that It would be a greater evil than good, hence take this opportunity to urge you In the interest of a great number of Christian and moral people to veto this measure. "Realizing the very difficult prob lems that you In your official posi tion are continually meeting. we pledge our moral support in all mat ters that affect the social and home life of this city for the better. "Respectfully. "REV. C. A. PHIPPS. "General Secretary State Sunday r School Association, "REV. R. R. STEELE. "T. S. M DAXIEL. "C. W. DE GRAFF. "J. B. RHODES, "SIDNEY G. LATHROP." Other Ordinances Signed. The Maguire "straphangers' " ordi nance, which was passed Wednesday amid the applause of the people who thronged the gallery at that session, was signed yesterday at noon. This ordinance provides for a three cent fare for passengers who are un able to obtain seats In a car, or for a 2-cent fare for passengers pur chasing books of 100 tickets. Two such tickets entitle the passenger to a seat, or if he is unable to obtain one, he pays three cents or one ticket and is entitled to the first vacant seat there . after without payment of additional fare. i Mayor Rushlight also signed the Clyde ordinance, which prohibits the gas or electric companies from charg ing a higher minimum each month than BO cents. Violation of this ordinance is to be punished by a fine of not more than 200. Heretofore the monthly minimum has been $1 regardless of whether the consumer used less than that amount of gas or electricity. BOYS WIN MAYOR'S HEART Playground Apparatus to Be Pro vided at Mount Tabor Park. As a result of a second visit to his office by the children of the Mount Tabor district yesterday. Mayor Rush light has issued orders that immediate steps be taken to supply them with the playground equipment they seek. The delegation yesterday was com posed of boys all less than 12 years of age, under the leadership of Lyle Nichols, 85 East Seventy-first street: Mowbray Tate, 1819 East Morrison, and John Hertz, 65 East Sixty-ninth street. Lyle Nichols was spokesman. "Mr. Mayor," he said, "we come in behalf of the boys of our own age and younger, in the neighborhood around Mount Tabor Park, to ask you to help us get some stuff to make a playground there. "We don't want the city to spend any money this year on the playground you can swipe some of the extra things from the bigger parka in the city and have them make us rope swings and hammocks and things. I was up in the City Park a while ago and saw a lot of old swings that were not In use." ' "Tou shall certainly have your swings, my boy." said the Mayor, and he forthwith Issued orders to the Park Superintendent to take steps at, once to secure some temporary apparatus for establishment of a playground at Mount Tabor. PERS0NAL MENTION. T. W. Lusk, a Sllverton merchant, is at the Perkins. Ralph Earle, a tourist from New Tork, is at the Oregon. A. H. Williams, a San Francisco mer chant, is at the Portland. George P. Wigginton. of Kalamazoo, Mich, is at the Portland. George Crossfield. a wheatgrower of Wasco, is at the Oregon. G. J. Osgood, a Tacoma business man, is registered at the Bowers. Herbert E. Foster, a tourist of Cedar Rapids, la., is at the Bowers. P. A. Finseth. merchant of Dallas, is in the city on a business trip. W. A. Schaffner, an orchardist of Hood River, is at the Cornelius. D. C. London, a merchant of Carl ton, is registered at the Perkins. Jerome J. Day. a prominent mining man of Moscow, is at the Portland. George H. Crandall. an Oak Point seiner. Is registered at the Imperial. G. I. Hammond, a merchant of Eu gene. Is registered at the Imperial. John .W. Berry, a mine operator of Pittston, Pa., is registered at the Port land. H. C. Wells, a prominent business man of San Francisco, is at the Port land. Patrick Gllmore, local weather ob server at Astoria, is registered at the Perkins. E. D. Ftaley and wife, tourists of Fort Worth, Tex are registered at the Cornelius. H. G.,AIlsopp. a metal manufacturer of Newark, N. J., is registered at the Portland. H. M. Gourley and W. B. Coon, mer chants of Goldendale, are registered at the Cornelius. H. P. Myers and W. F. Howard, busi ness men of Culver, are registered at the Perkins. R. J. Glendennlng, a manufacturer of mining machinery at Salt Lake, is at the Multnomah. L. Van Orden, chief clerk of the St. Francis at San Francisco, is a guest of the Multnomah. C. E. Wolcott. manager of the Cam bridge University Press, Is registered at the Multnomah. Mrs. Lawrence Bogle, of Seattle, and Miss Gladys Amann, of Oakland, are registered at the Oregon. Dr. F. P..Ctos1us and family, of Hood River, are at the Imperial, en route for San Diego on a visit. R. L. Shaw, the Mill City lumberman, arrived at the Imperial yesterday with his family in an automobile. I. M. Glenn, one of the instructors of the University of Washington, is regis tered at the Portland rrom beaiue. C. H. Judson. nresldent of the North west Long-Distance Telephone Com pany, of Tacoma, is at the Imperial. Of arm W. Rice, of the Hawaiian- American Sugar Company, is registered at the Multnomah from San Francisco. W. B. Jennings and I. W. Anderson. two prominent business men of Ta coma, are registered at the Multnomah. E. W. Bannister, the Los Angeles engineer who built the new water system of that city, is at the Mult nomah. B. S. Grosscun. a prominent attorney of Tacoma, and a brother of the former Judge Grosscup, of Chicago, is 'at the Multnomah. Wendell C. Barbour, of Eugene, a 191J graduate at the University of Ore gon, passed through Portland yester day en route to Cambridge, Mass., where he will enter the Harvard Unl virsity Law School. Before taking up his studies he will pass several weeks visiting relatives at various Eastern points. William J. Thomas, well - known smelter man of Great Falls, Mont., will leave today for that city, after passing a year visiting his mother. Mrs. Sallna Thomas, and two sisters, Beatrice and Anna Thomas, of 1221 Gladstone avenue, and brother-in-law, Erich Breitbaupt, of 717 East Twentieth street. CHICAGO. Aug. 20. (Special.) C. A. Brodle, of Portland, Or, Is registered at the La Salle Hotel. BRADY TO PLEAD CAUSE OREGO.V SCFFRAGISTS IXVTTE IDAHO'S EX -GOVERNOR. Rally Is Planned for September. College League Prepares Lunch eon for Cathrlne Countiss. Following on the reading of reports and a discussion of financial matters. the chief item of information an nounced at the executive meeting of the College Equal Suffrage League, held yesterday in the Selling building, was that ex-Governor Brady, of Idaho, would speak in Oregon in September for suffrage. Brady took a leading part in the Idaho campaign, and is an amusing as well as interesting and logical speaker. The rest of the meeting was taken up with the furtherance of plans for the luncheon in honor of Miss Cathrlne Countiss next Friday, and the comple tion of details for the large rally at Council Crest next Sunday. Miss Countiss, like so many of the other theatrical stars, is a. strong be liever in the right of woman to have a vote, and she will speak to that ef fect next Friday in the blue room of the Multnomah Hotel. Unlike some other famous actresses. Miss Countiss is as brilliant a talker off the stage as on, and already more than 100 people have signified their Intention of be ing present. The luncheon will start promptly at 12:30 o'clock. In addition to Miss Countiss, J. N. Teal will speak, provided his health permits, while Colonel Eramett Calla han, the attorney from Baker, Or., who was a prominent figure at the Oaks suffrage day, will deliver a short ad dress. Lute Pease nas Deen invneu, but ud to a late hour last night, his re ply had not been received. The out-door mass meeting at Coun cil Crest next Sunday promises to be as large, if not larger, than the first af fair at the OaKs .rarK. xne speakers will have the advantage of a special rostrum built for them by Manager Duchamp. Dr. C. H. Chapman and Miss Rirdie Wise, the young lady who won the oratorical prize at the Oregon Uni versity, will speak. Special cars will be run for the occasion. BLANCHARD MUST REPLY BUILDING CONTRACTOR IS HELD TO GRAND JURY. Obtaining Money Under False Pre tenses Is Charge Placed --Outrageous," Cries Page. nittariv irnrtii tv DeDUtv District . . . . To0-. " " nnM nf t h men who aivvi tio; - -- are making the holding of Portland real estate a gamble, M. a. Diancna.ru. , building contractor, was neia in mu Pn,,, vAtArrinv to answer to the grand Jury on a charge of obtain ing money under raise pretenses, nu complainant was C D. Edwards, who charges that he bought a home on the East Side, under an affidavit of Blanch ard's that it was free of liens, and later found claims of workmen to the amount ' nearly 11200. Blanchard asserted that he had acted in tmetA faith and that the liens were contracted by George Jovik. a sub contractor, who, he said, was a fugitive from justice under five indictments for like transactions. Deputy Page drew from the defend- that Via hnd Invested onlv a few hundred dollars in the property, and had cleared up real estate worth $1200 and an automobile by trading his equity. "This is a manipulation in an its oui raereousness." said the prosecutor, "and Portland is becoming infamous for transactions of this kind. This. com plainant, assured by affidavits, buys a home under trie Deiiei tnai no is pro tected, and later is foreclosed on ac n lnro-A ifhti which he did not contract, while Blanchard gets away ith a good pront, manipulated so as cover nis trau. of NEW LOGGING ROAD 10 BE STANDARD Silver Falls Lumber Company Back of Project Which Will Cost $500,000. CONTRACTS HAVE BEEN LET Line. Extends 25 Miles Southeast of Sllverton and Taps Stand of Finest Douglas Fir In Existence. To tap a stand of 12,000,000.000 feet of the finest Douglas fir In existence the Silver Falls Lumber Company, of Portland, will begin immediate con struction of a 25-mile logging road, built on main-line standards, south easterly from Sllverton, at a cost of approximately suu,uuu. Contracts for grading, ballasting and track-laying were let ' yesterday to Flagg & Standifer, of Portland, who J - Wf'' - Lorlng Curtis Palmer, Veteran of Vancouver, Who Marched With Sherman to the Sea, and Died In Mis Recently-Completed Mansion on Columbia River. wi to Barton Farmer's Kneecap Broken. While playing for the Barton base ball team against the Boring nine on the ground of the latter Saturday after noon, Harvey Gibson, a farmer resid ing in Barton, Or., suffered the frac ture of his kneecap. He was on first Just before the accident and in trying to steal second started to suae in, dui his spikes caught and he fell on his knee. It is probable that the two pieces of the cap will have to be wired to gether. will have a full complement of men and equipment on the ground before the end of the week. Operation of the logging camp that will be- opened as soon as the railroad is completed will be on an extensive scale with tire intention of cutting 500,000 feet of timber daily as long as it lasts. At this rate it will take 80 years to move it. The company, .which is composed of Portland, Texas and Eastern capital ists, will not go into the milling busi ness, but will engage exclusively in logging. Contracts already have been made with the Southern Pacific to handle the logs to the main line at Sll verton, from which point they will be brought to Portland and dumped ready for disposition to any of the various mills in operation here. Road Will Be Standard. As the line between Sllverton and Portland eventually will become elec trified, the logs will be brought to Portland under electric power. In preparing its specifications, the company has departed from the usual methods of logging road construction in that they demand grades, curvature and rails that will permit operation of standard equipment. In the 25- mile line the road attains an elevation of 2700 feet, but does not use a grade in excess of 3 per cent. The prevailing grade Is 2 per cent, with a maximum curvature of 10 degrees. This will permit the, use of standard M. C. B. flat cars. The Southern Pacific has made a rate that will permit the use of its own cars ovor the logging road. This will preclude the necessity of un loading the logs from the logging train to the regular Southern Pacific cars at the junction point. Logs will be loaded on the railroad cars right in the camp and brought to Portland without change. Construction Will Be Costly. The road will pass through a. pic turesque country. It will be a con tinuous succession of fills and cuts. One piece of track, one-half mile long, will be cut througn a wall ot solid rock and will cost in excess of $50, 000. The aggregate amount of trestle work will be 2500 feet. There will be no tunnels. Flagg & Standifer will build the road completely and expect to turn it over to the company early in the new year. The line follows the course of Silver Creek, but leaves the level of the stream and at its terminus reaches tne high divide between Silver Creek and Abiqua Creek. The Silver Falls Lumber company has offices in the Corbett building. Among the Portland stockholders are L. B. Menefee and F. C. Knapp. He- gardt & Clark, of Portland, are engi neers for the company. J. B. KERR TO DIRECT PLANS Portland's Entertainment for Scient ists Made Known Soon. The European scientists who are to arrive in Portland September 14, on their way to Crater Lake, will be given rousing reception by Portland resi dents, according to plans now being formulated. To arrange tor tne enter tainment of the noted guests a meet ing was held at the Portland Commer cial Club yesterday. Among those present were representatives of various foreign countries. J. B. Kerr, of Carey & Kerr, was selected as permanent chairman, and he will direct the plans for the enter tainment of the visitors. He was au thorized to appoint special committees on arrangements, automobiles and finance. Announcement of the per sonnel of the committee will be made soon. Those attending the meeting were: A. R. Vejar, Chilian 'Consul; James Laldlaw, British Consul; C. Henri Labbe, French Consul: Voldemar Lidell, Swed ish Consul; Carlos Maximo Barreto, Peruvian Consul: Endre M. Ceder burgb, Norwegian Consul; J. Wi Matthes, Consul from the Netherlands; Morizo Ida, Japanese Consul; Carlo Vesetti, Italian Consul; J. L. Tarnall, member of the house committee of the Commercial Club; E. B. Piper, president of the Commercial Club; J. B. Kerr, F. A. Olmstead, A. D. Charlton, W. C. Wilkes. W. H. Jenkins, E. A. Beala and A. C. Martin. JOHN WANAMAKER SAYS: "The difference be tween tbe clerk who spends all his salary and the clerk who saves part of it is the difference in ten years between the owner of a business and the man out of a job." Sit down and think it out right now. Every day counts. Some day you'll want a business of your own. The money you need has to be saved now. By starting to-day you'll be just one day nearer to owning your own business. $1 opens a savings account. At this bank your money earns 4 interest, Merchants National Bank Under Government Supervision Founded in 1886 Washington and Fourth Streets national reputation as v the director of public speaking, will deliver a free ad dress in the auditorium or the Port land Young Men's Christian Associa tion tonight at 8 o'clock. Mr. Kleiser has volunteered his services to create interest in a public speaking club that the Y. M. C. A. proposes to form this Fall. He is the author of several textbooks that are widely used and has personal charge of a large public speaking club in New York City. LORING G. PALMER DIES WEALTHY VANCOUVER VETERAN STRICKEN BY PARALYSIS. Grenvllle Kleiser to Speak. Grenville Kleiser, who has an inter- Man Who Marched With Sherman to the Sea Succumbs1 in Mansion on Columbia River. VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 20. (Spe cial.) In less than two years after re tiring wealthy from the lumber busi ness, in which he was engaged at Bri dal Veil, Or., Loring Curtis Palmer, 66 years old and a veteran or tne Civil War, died at his beautiful home over looking the Columbia River, three miles east of Vancouver, early today. He has not been well for six months, when he suffered a paralytic stroke. Mr. Palmer was born in Clinton Coun ty, Iowa, June 9, 1846. When but 17 years old he joined the Third Wiscon sin Volunteers. Infantry, in 1863, and served until peace was declared. He fought in many famous battles, includ ing Resaca. Kenesaw Mountain, the siege of Savannah, the fall of Atlanta and was with General Sherman on his march to the sea. After the war he went to the Dakotas and married Mi3S Catherine A. Judd and came to the Coast, locating in Van couver in 1880, later going to Bridal Veil in 1888, and founded the Bridal Veil Lumber Company, in which J. S. Bradley and J. M. Leiter and others later became interested. 'About six years ago he sold his interests. and came back to Vancouver two years ago and built a man sion on the north bank of the Colum bia River, three miles from Vancouver. He had just completed this and was beginning to enjoy his declining years when he wa3 taken ill. He is sur vived by his wife and six children, four daughters Mrs. W. R. Hudson, of Van couver; Mrs. G. W. McMilan, of Willa- mlna. Or.; and Misses Elvie and Hazel Palmer, and two sons, Clarence and Faust Palmer, at home. He left a good sized estate. The funeral will be held from the home Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. E. B. Collier, of St. Luke's Epis copal Church, officiating. Interment will bo in the city cemetery. UNHAPPY PAIRS PARTED Judge McGinn Grants Seven Divorces for Various Causes. Rfivpn unrnntefttnd divorces for sun dry causes were granted Monday by Judge McGinn, presiding in the Circuit Court. The following were releasee from wedlock: Hazel A. from William A. Stevens; Ezra T. from Dora P. Doug las; Martha from Robert G. Duggan; Laura from John R. Draughon; Henri etta A. M. from William W. Bates; Ed na from John L. Cooper; Belle from Harry W. Peck. It took Mrs. Belle Peck just two and one-half minutes to secure her decree. She alleged desertion and non-support and asked the custody of her 13-year-old child, which was granted. At the close of the court sessions Monday afternoon Judge McGinn turned the affairs of the present term over to Judge Morrow, who will act as Presiding Judge in the absence of Judge Kavanaugh until September 3, when he will become the regular Pre siding Judge for a term of six months. Governor Honors Winstock. Melvin G. Winstock, general man ager of the People's Amusement Com pany, lasbeennarnedbyGovernor E TIME TO BUY N0WS.TH THAT PIANO OR PLAYER PIANO REED-FRENCH PIANO CO. Positively Quitting Business LEASE EXPIRES AUG. 3 1 That's why our entire stock of pianos, and elegant player pianos, and splendid Knahe, and Lin deman, and Schubert, and Howard, and Starck, and Haines Bros., and others-baby grands, and all, must be sold at once, regardless of the sacrifice. Closing-Out Cost $500 Player Pianos.. -.$297 $525 Player Pianos. ............. .i?317 $565 Player Pianos. ....,.,. 335 $600 Player Pianos..,.,..,.-., 362 $800 Player Pianos...... ,...477 Etc., Etc. Closing-Out Cost $200 Pianos 96 $250 Pianos 129 $300 Pianos 168 $350 Pianos 207 $450 Pianos . 283 Etc., Etc. OPEN EVERY EVENING PAY CASH OR BY THE MONTH REED FRENCH PIANO CO. OPEN EVERY EVENING Established Since 1906 SIXTH AND BURNSIDE STREETS West as Oregon delegate to the Amer ican Prison Association sesssions at Baltimore, November 9-14. motinca- tion has been sent by the State uepart ment to J. B. Hyers, general secre tary. . , ROBERTS' APPEAL DENIED Supreme Court Puts Question of Ex ecution l"p to Governor. SALEM, Or., Aug. 20. (Special.) The action of the Supreme Court today de nying a writ of probable cause in the case of H. E. (Jack) Roberts, convicted of the murder of Donald Stewart m an automobile holdup near Portland, will result in compelling Governor West to either issue a proclamation reprieving Roberts or letting him hang. Attorneys for Roberts attempted to secure an appeal. They contended that the court which convicted him had no Jurisdiction and that the court erred in instructing the jury. Both of these contentions were overruled, it being held that the prosecution can be con ducted in the county where the victim died, as well as where, he was shot, and that the instructions said to be er roneous were without prejudical error. Forest Fires Are Out. PENDLETON, Or.. Aug. 20. (Spe cial.) State Forester Elliott and wife. reached Pendleton today, en route to Salem, after more than 1800 miles cov ered In the last 30 days by automobllp. In an inspection of the various forests throughout the state. He reports no fires in progress at this time, which Is possibly the first time in many years, this being usually the season when forest fires are rampant. Prompt ac tion of deputies and patrolmen is large ly responsible for the splendid condi tion, though the Summer has been un usually rainy. E. W. Beany, solicitor for the Canadian Pacific railway, stated before the Domin ion Railway Commission, that the company had ordered 2M new engines and 12..VK) cars. It is believed that this Is the largest amount of rolling stock ever placed on order at one time In Canada. FACE DISFIGURED BARBER'S ITCH CAUSES SCARS TREAT IT PROMPTLY. Try ThU Remedy at Onr Risk. When little, yellowish pimples or watery blisters form on the hairy por tions of the face and body, it is a sign of barber's itch, which is very con tagious and, if allowed to become chronic, is painful and produces per manent scars. This disease is caused by a tiny parasite, and when treated with Saxo Salve, our new skin remedy, which permeates and saturates the skin, these parasites are killed, and the skin made healthy again. Saxo Salve is wonderfully healing In all kinds of skin diseases and erup tions, such as salt rheum, tetter, eczema. Ivy poisoning, etc., because it penetrates the skin and carries its purifying and healing ingredients to every portion of the diseased tissue. It Is guaranteed to satisfy you per fectly we cheerfully give back your money if it does not. Woodard, Clarke & Co., Druggists. Portland,' Oregon. I THE SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL ASTO GATT A THE GREAT PACIFIC COAST WATER CARNIVAL ASTORIA, OREGON, AUGUST 26-27-28-29 CHAMPIONSHIP RACES BY FASTEST MOTOR AND SAILING CRAFT ROWING RACES AND SWIMMING EXHIBITIONS GRAND MARINE PARADES Round Trip Fares ASTORIA August 25-27-28-29 Return Limit Sept. 2 Clatsop Beach EVERY DAY i Stop -Overs at Astoria ADMIRAL'S SPECIAL TRAIN tT,b ASTORIA REGATTA 1 A . oCtL Leave Portland 4:00 P. M Monday, AllgUSt ZOtil Arrive Astoria 7:00 P. M. This train will carry the Admiral, staff and party. Portland people are invited to join this Official Regatta Train. Daily trains leave Portland for Astoria at 9:10 A. M. and 6:30 P. M. Returning, leave Astoria morning and evening. "All trains carry observation parlor cars and large coaches SPLENDID OUTING AND ENTERTAINMENT FOR ALL 100 MILES ALONG THE COLUMBIA RIVER , Parlor car and excursion tickets, schedules and details, i City Ticket Office, Fifth and Stark Streets. North Bank Station, Eleventh and Hoyt Streets.