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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1912)
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTE3IBER 20. 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LII-XO. 16,174. CHANCE MEETING NEW LIGHT SERVICE AKED REPLIES TO TAX COMMITTEE TO FIGHT SINGLE TAX PEACE CONGRESS. IN HEATED TUMULT WORLD SERIES TO UNITES BROTHERS CHARGE WITH STORY TAFT DECLARES 8 PORTLAND MAX FIXDS RELA PASTOR QUOTES IRISHMAN IN BROACHING OF ITALIAN VEN TURE STARTS UPROAR. TIVE HE NEVER SAW. DEFENSE OF FISHING. NATION PROSPERS BEGIN OCTOBER PROMISED MARCH Northwestern Electric Gets Franchise. STREET WORK OPENS N3Y. 15 Two Big Buildings Will Erected in Portland. Be COST OF EACH $300,000 President of Power Company Says $3,000,000 Will Be Expended In Xext Five Years In City Maxi mum Rate to Be 9 Cents. "By November 15 we are Koine fo have' men working on the streets of Portland and by March 1 will be in a position to furnish the citiiena of this city and its environs with the most modern and up-to-date electric service in the country at prices as favorable as any." declared Herbert Flelshhack er. San Francisco banker and power magnate, last night. The Northwest ern Electric Company, of which he is president, was granted a franchise by the City Council yesterday, placing it in the Portland field as a power and light rival of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company. Two large buildings will accrue to Tortland at once as a result of the Council's action yesterday. One will be a $300,000 sub-station and another a large downtown office and depart ment building, to cost more than $300. 000. from which the business will be directed. The Immediate outlay is placed at about $1,000,000. Portland Public Thanked. "We wish to thank the Portland pub lic tor Its confidence in us, expressed this morning when a franchise to op erate in the city was awarded us by the City Council." said Mr. Fleishhack er. , "ffe are going to reciprocate lm " mediately by putting forth every ef- fore to give its citizens a splendid service by early Spring. "We have 1000 men working on our White Salmon River plant now and ex pect to have it completed, with a 20,-000-horsepower energy capacity, by February. With two other properties on the White Salmon River, one on the Clickltat and one on the Lewis River, we have 100,000 horsepower available for the needs of Portland and its trib utary territory. Work is to be commenced immediate ly on the most modernly equipped pole line In the Northwest. Surveyors will be sent out in a few days and follow ing their work the installation of a 86.000-volt line will be commenced. "In Portland we shall build a sub itation at a cost of approximately $300, 300, while a building for our own use in the business section will cost us more than that. Within a year the to 'al expenditures of the company in this city will be over $1,000,000, with three times that much as the outlay for the coming five years. We are look ing for sites, and will make a choice within three or four days for office building and sub-station. Local Manager. Sought. "One of the first steps we shall take for the handling of the Portland serv ice will be the appointment of a local manager acquainted with conditions in this section. I am not in favor of im porting outsiders to do the work which can be better handled by a man on the ' Job." Herbert Fleishhacker, president of the Anglo and London-Paris National Bank of San Francisco; his brother, Mortimer: W. H. Crocker, of the Crocker National Bank, of San Francisco, and a numben of Portland people are back of the venture which plans to tap every section within a wide radius of Port land. The Fleishhackers are prominent California power men, their concern, the Western Electric, now having un der construction a plant on the Feather River which will supply energy of 300, 000 horsepower. Tbe franchise granted by the City Council by a unanimous vote a keen surprise to all interested parties yes terday morning, is for 25 years. For this franchise the Northwestern Elec tric Company agrees to pay a yearly rental of 3 per cent of all power sold, put up a $100,000 bond to be forfeited to the city if $300,000 worth of work Is not done on the company property within two years, permit the use of Its poles for the city's fire alarm system and give the city power to condemn all its physical property if It should sell out to a competing concern. .Maximum Light Rate 0 Cents. As for rates, a maximum of 9 cents per kilowatt hour Is established for lights, with from 5 cents to 1 cent the rate tor power, according to the quan tity. The exact rates for Portland con sumers are not yet known, Mr. Fleish hacker declaring that this matter Is one for the future, when the company Is In a position to rater to the needs of the city. A party of Portland people will ac company the Fleishhackers on a trip to the White Salmon plant today, leaving on the North Bank Railroad at 9:30 this morning. The plant Is a few miles above Underwood, Wash., on the White Salmon River. Mayor Rushlight Is believed to be favorable to the franchise, although he refuses to commit himself. He said yes terday afternoon that he must study the franchise carefully before deciding whether to sign it or veto it. as the Councilmen had amended it in many places. . E. J. Watts Overhears Introduction at San Bernardino and Search of 30 Years Is Ended. SAN BERNARDINO. Cal- Sept. 26. (Special.) "Are you a son of R. A. Watts, of Salt Lake City?" Inquired Edward J. Watts, of Portland, Or., to day of a man he had never seen be fore. "I am," said Albert G. Watts, qf the Rose Mine Company, and a pioneer of the desert. "So am I," said Watts, of Portland And the' two brothers shook hands. The meeting ended a search of SO years that has been carried on by R. A. Watts, of Salt Lake City, for his son. Watts, of Portland, who had not yet arrived In the family when hlB older brother left Salt Lake City more than 30 years ago, chanced to be in a cigar store when a! G. Watts, who, as fate arranged it, also chanced to be in the store, was Introduced to another man. When Watts, of the Northwest, heard the name "Al Watts" mentioned In the introduction the reunion followed. DEBATE EXPECTED TODAY Traction Company Attorney's to Fight Planned Legislation. Portland's much-talked-of "strap hanger" legislation, together with that fixing a minimum gas and electric light rate at 0 cents, will be the subject of much debate this morning, attorneys for the PorUand Railway, Light & Pow er Company and the Portland Gas A Coke Company expecting to appear against City Attorney Grant at 10 o'clock In the United States Circuit Court Mr. Grant has been working for sev eral days preparing papers to uphold the validity of the ordinance against which the temporary injunctions have been secured. The storm will center about the 3-cent fare ordinance lor those unable to secure seats In street cars. Councilmen Maguire and Clyde, tne respective "parents'" of the "straphang ers" and the minimum-rate ordinances, are confident that their pet measures will be UDheld by Federal Judge Bean. Maguire says he will fight the matter as a private citizen and has retained W. C Benbow to represent him. No move developed at the City coun cil meeting yesterday to rescind action on the 3-cent fare ordinance, although It has been rumored for several days that an effort would be made to erase the statute from the ordinance map. 10,000 PENNIES RECOVERED New Coins Stolen From Bank Found In Pile of Sawdust. LONG BEACH, Cal., Sept. 25. (Spe cial.) Driving a shovel into a pile of sawdust. C. H. Pouters, a teamster, prodded something thatwaa not saw dust. He uncovered a big canvas sack, bulging with heavy contents. Untying this he found inside ten coin sacks, all full, and in each 1000 bright new Lin coln pennies. . A subsequent and care fuJ count confirmed the first hurried appraisal, exactly 10,000 pennies, $100. The coin was stolen from the Long Beach Bank several weeks ago, but how Is a mystery. It is presumed that the thieves believed when they seized the sackfuls that the contents were gold and that when they discovered their loot was so little they hid it temporarily. OLD GAINSBOROUGH FOUND Resemblance of Copy Leads to DIs- . covery of Original. LONDON. Sept. 25. (Special. A portrait which has hung for years in a back room of a house at Newport In Monmouthshire and whose value never had been guseed, turns out to be Gainsborough's picture of the Duke of Tork, which was painted for George HI in 1784. The owner of the painting on seeing Benjamin West's reproduction of a pic ture of the Duke of York, was struck by the resemblance ot the two faces and this led to the discovery that the portrait at Newport was the original. Gainsborough's signature is on the right hand corner. MOON IN ECLIPSE TONIGHT Shadow on Face of Earth's Satellite " Best Visible in West. WILLIAMS BAT, Wis., Sept. 25. Professor Barrett, of the Terkes Ob servatory here, today said that a par tial eclipse of the moon probably would be visible tomorrow morning about 6 o'clock. "The obscuration will not be great," said Professor Barrett. "Only about one-eighth of the moon will be hidden. - "If weather conditions are favorable an observer looking ' toward the west ought to get a fair view of the phe nomenon. "In the Far Western portion of the country the chances to view the salient features of the eclipse will be much better than In the vicinity of Chicago." BRAKEMAN MEETS DEATH Corvallis Man Killed While at Post, Switching Cars. CORVALLIS. Or7ipt. 25. (Special.) Marcus A. Darby, brakeman on the Corvallis & Eastern Railway, was killed on First street In this city today while assisting in switching cars. He was swinging from a rapidly moving gravel car with his body ex tended outward, when his head struck a woodpile that was near the track. He fell on the rail and the wheels crushed the top of his head, killing him Instantly. Darby was 33 years old and leaves a widow and child, who are living here. Contrast With Civil War Time Is Drawn CROPS LARGE, WORK PLENTY Individual Happiness Averages Higher Than Ever. HILLES TO JOIN PARTY Plans Made for. Conference With Republican Leaders in New Eng. land After Arrival at Summer White House. ALTOONA, Pa.. Sept. 25. President Taft was the principal speaker today at Altoona's celebration of the .50th anniversary of the meeting here of the loyal war Governors, who decided that Abraham Lincoln and his war policy had been upheld and his call for more troops should be met promptly .. with volunteers. Through that meeting and those which followed, the President declared, there entered .into the soul of Lincoln the conviction that the country was behind him in his effort to end the war and to bring the South back Into the Union. The 14 loyal Governors who supported Lincoln in the dark days of '62.-the President called heroes who did not advertise the deeds they were about to do, who made no use of buts" and "lfs," but who said: "We will see you through." HUlea Going to New England. The -President's speech dealt almost entirely with the conferences of the war Governors, but he reserved a sen tence or two for prosperity talk. The President left late today for Beverly. He Instructed Chairman Hllles. of the National committee, to board his private car at Harrisburg and make the journey north to help him. discuss New England polities with Republican leader there . The President spoke today within the' canvas walls of a big tent. "One hundred millions of people; 90, 000,000 between the oceans and 10,000, 000 In our ocean dependencies," he said, "constitute our population and today we are garnering crops that make pos sible the greatest prosperity that ever faced this country and we are today where every man and every woman can have work if they will; when wages are the highest and the Individ ual happiness of everyone averages higher than ever before. "I dwell on that fact today because this Is the 50th anniversary of a day different In respect to the happiness of our people and of the prospect be fore them as day is from Jilght." iU! aSi i sly "What Do You Suppose I' Was Out There For?" Answer to Sab ' bath-Breaking Accusation. ' "Dr. -Aked, the people of Portland are interested in knowing whether or not you" believe that it is wicked to fish on Sunday and whether or not you were actually seen fishing on Sunday when on your vacation in Southern Oregon last Summer, as reported?" This statement was addressed to Dr. Charles F. Aked, an eminent pulpit orator of San : Francisco,, formerly John D. Rockefeller's New York pastor, upon his arrival in Portland yesterday.! "Ha! ha!" and a pleasant smile were the first replies. "Have you ever heard the. story about the, eccentric Irish man who got a bishop out of bed after midnight to marry him? Well, when the marriage ceremony reached that stage where the officiating minister asked the bridegroom, 'Do you take this woman as your, lawfully wedded wife?" the Irishman peeped up at the bishop with a. puzzled fret upon his countenance and, still serious, said 'Bishop, what do you s'pose I yanked you out of bed at this ungodly time of night forr .' "Those were the - Irishman's words. The Identical sentiment, more mildly expressed, would apply in the instance of my fishing episode. I was caught out in the woods one Sunday with fishing tackle and other of the nimrod Daraohernalla upon my person and poised for business. Now, what in the world do you Imagine I meant by trudging out there with all that fish lng impedimenta?" - WENATCHEE VALLEY AIDED Signal Benefit Given Apple Growers by Great Northern. SPOKANE. Wash., Sept. 25. (Spe cial.) One of the most signal benefits ever received by the fruitgrowers in Wenatchee Valley and the Okanogan County Is announced at Wenatchee to day in the way of a concession from the Great Northern Railroad. The transportation company has granted free storage to fruit In transit. This means that apples brought to Wenatchee from the up-river country will be stored free while waiting ship ment to Eastern markets. It was through the Instrumentality of the We- natche Fruitgrowers'- Union that the concession was granted.- ' A.-: VETERAN MARCHER DEAD Soldier Seen In Score of Grand Army Reunions Succumbs at 71. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25. John H. Savage, aged 71, a veteran of the Civil War and a unique figure in more than score of Grand Army conventions, died today of pneumonia. Savage marched in many Grand Army parades at the National reunions, carrying a stuffed goose perched on a long pole with a banner bearing the inscription: Everything is lovely and the goose hangs high." He came to Los Angeles irom nis home In Cerro Cordo, 111. - - 18 IT POSSIBLE? State Legislative Body Goes On Record. PUBLICITY IS TO BE WEAPON Voters Urged to Support Ra tional Tax Reform. GOVERNOR SANCTIONS PLAN Funds for Prosecution of Campaign to Be Raised by Subscription. Secretary of Committee Will Direct the Campaign. SALEM, Or., Sept. 25. (Special.) Going on record as unalterably opposed to the graduated single tax and exemp tion amendment and the., single tax measures proposed for Clackamas. Multnomah and Coos counties, the leg islative tax committee, which includes members of the State Tax Commission and several members of the Legisla ture, at a meeting here today decided on a propaganda of publicity anq. a fight to the finish on the measures mentioned. The resolution, which was introduced by George Neuner, of Douglas' County, to oppose such tax measures was unan imously adopted after a short discus sion. All of the members present de clared themselves as opposed to sin gle tax, but there was a slight differ ence of opinion as to whethes it would be best openly to fight the single tax or whether the Commission should con fine itself to advocacy of the measures which have been placed on the ballot by the committee and which establish the groundwork for rational tax re form in Oregon. Fels People Are Active. The single tax advocates and writers of the Fels single tax fund have brought every gun that they have to bear on the State Tax Commission, and the legislative tax committee, and the majority of the members favored an open war on the single tax propaganda. Tax Commissioner Eaton declared U was essential that what he termed in iquitous features and the vicious re sults of the single tax plan, should it carry, be pointed out to the voters of the state. He asserted that, regardles'. of assertions to the contrary, the coun ty tax amendment of 1910, the opening wedge for the single tax programme, was passed through the means of the poll tax "Joker"; that the amendment destroyed the comity between the coun ties and the comity between th coun ties and the state; that it paralysed the Legislature in attempting any taxation (Concluded on Page 5.) MUST Bis THE Morocco Question Stirs Germans and French Christian Society Causes Another Disturbance. GENEVA. Switserland, Sept. 25. Great tumult and a display of temper marked today's session of the Inter national Peace Congress. Questions connected with Morocco and Tripoli occupied the attention of the congress and the criticism, by Dr. Gobat, president of the International Peace Bureau, of Germany's attitude in Morocco brought the German dele gates to their feet In heated protest. Dr. Gobat was obliged to make a semi apology. Representatives of the French Chris tian Society of Peace said they thought some of the blame might be attached to France for Intervening In Morocco. This caused another uproar and the subject finally was referred to a committee. When the Italian adventure in Tripoli was broached in the discussion, such an uproar arose that the speaker was obliged to suspend his remarks. COAL PRICES MOST VARIED Government Pays $27 Ton While ; Nome Gets It for $12.. TACOMA, Sept. 25. In the trial of Charles F. Houston and John Bullock, accused of conspiracy to defraud tbe Government on coal contracts, the prosecution today produced its star witness in the person of H. J. Douglas, of San Francisco, now manager for the American Audit Company and formerly auditor for the Northwest Commercial Company, one of the coal companies involved in the case. It was soon after Douglas had placed the Attorney Gen eral's office In possession of alleged facts within his knowledge that Cap tain B. H. Jarvis. manager of the Northwest Commercial Company com mitted suicide In Seattle. Douglas testified that he had often seen Captain Jarvis and Bullock in consultation over bids to be presented for Government coal contracts and had overheard their conversation a number of times. He said he had been sent to ' make an investigation and had sought employment with the - various companies, but had not stated at whose Instance this course was taken when court adjourned W. J. Mathews, of Seattle, who sue. ceeded Bullock as president of the John J. Lesnon Company, admitted on the stand that Invoices showed the cost of .4000 tons of coal delivered at Nome, Alaska, at only $12 per ton, while the same coal was sold to the Government on contract at $27 per ton. Numerous documents tending to bear out the Government a contention of collusion in coal bids were identified. Judge Cushman decided, over objec tions by the defense, that books of Captain Jarvis shuld be brought from the vaults in Seattle. SCHOOL STARTS ROMANCE Albany Maid Meets Husband-to-Be Through Aid of Official. ALBANY. Or., Sept. 23. (Special.) When County School Superintendent Jackson today signed the affidavit for the issuance of a license for the mar riage of Virgil L. Calavan and Miss Vida C. Nanney, of Albany, he assisted in the completion of a romance which he had indirectly assisted in inaugurat ing. When Miss Nanney completed a nor mal course at Albany College about four years ago she asked Superinten dent Jackson where she could secure a position as a teacher, and he recom mended her to a school near Jordan. It was the school district in which Cala van's parents reside, and when Calavan who was then teaching in the Jordan school, returned home, he met the new teacher. The acquaintance then begun resulted In the wedding at the home of the bride's parents in this city to day. Mr. Calavan is a native of unn coun ty, and for the past few years has taught with success in various Linn County schools. After completing a course in pharmacy In the Oregon Agri cultural College he opened a drug store In this city recently. Miss Nanney is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Nan ney. of this city, and has resided in Albany almost all her life. She Is a graduate ot the - Albany High School and of Albany college. BAND0N SOCIALISTS FAVOR Governor West's Actions Approved by Organization. BANDON. Or., Sept. 25. (Special.) Governor West has found a friend In the Socialists of this place, for at a meeting here recently action was taken commending tne state .Executive ana his methods of governmental procedure. The local also heartily approved of West's present " efforts to rid society of the social wrongs by exposing the same, and punishing the offenders. The resolution passed Is as follows: Be It resolved, that Bandon Local Social ist Party of America express to Governor West and to the citizens of the State of Dragon, that we heartily Indorse nts stand with reference to the criminal ele ment. Especially do we Indorse the Gov ernor's determination .to punish "offlicals" and "Interests" responsible for crime rather than the victims tnereoi, ana we nope nis future years may reserve to him the unwa nrlnc confidence of the eltixens of the State of Oregon and that his Indefatigable labors shall not cease, to the inte.it that his future years shall be the unfolding of the eternal purposes, which by divine ap pointment .shall serve to bless his age and generation. ARCHBOLD IN SECLUSION 1 Three Men Stand on Guard at Cabin Door Against Interviewers. SOUTHAMPTON. England, Sept. 25. John D. Archbold Is sick of being both- red about political exposures, he de clared in a brief interview here today, before sailing for the United States on the Majestic He declined to add anything further and three men were placed oa guard at the door of his cabin to keep off interviewers.. . First Game Will Be in New York. PLACE TO ALTERNATE DAILY Stringent Methods Taken to Block Ticket Scalpers. ADMITTANCE PRICES FIXED Giants Gain Right to Have Opening Game at Home and Permission to Delay Start One Day Boston ' to Handle Own Ticket Sales. NEW TORK, Sept. 25. Play for the baseball championship of the world will be begun on the Polo grounds in New Tork at 2 o'clock Tuesday after noon, October 8. The second game will be played en Boston the following day. Play will alternate each fair-weather day between the two cities until either New York or Boston has won the four out of seven games necessary to give It the 1912 title. Boston will conduct its seat sals practically In its own way, with pref erence being given to ail the season's patrons of the game who have been canvassed. The sale in New York will be in the hrnds of Secretary Heydler, of the National League, and 30,000 of the 38.000 seats will be held for sale at the entrance to the Polo grounds, and one to each purchaser, on the days of the games. Four Umpires Selected. The umpires for the series will be O'Loughlln and Evans, of the Ameri can League, and Rlgler and Klem, of the National League. These are the principal features of the arrangements perfected today by the National Baseball Commission. The meeting virtually was a series of contests preliminary to the cham pionship and resulted in the New York Nationals twice winning over the Bos ton Americans, in the American League here defeating .the National Commis sion and the National Commission de feating effectually, it is believed, any possibility of a repetition of the ticket speculating scandal In this city, which marred the series last year. Advantage of opening on home grounds was lost to Boston, when, with the toss of a coin by Mr. John son, President Brush, of New York, called "tails" and President McAUer, of Boston, chose "heads." The coin fell tails. Series to Start Tuesday. The Boston club desired to start the series Monday, October 7. President Brush regarded Monday as a poor day for an opener in New York, and prob ably he foresaw an advantage In giv ing his team an extra day's rest after their probably late clinching of the pennant title. He wanted the gimes to begin Tuesday. On the toss of a .coin Brush won. Determined to abide by his declara tion that the Boston Americans should handle the sale of tickets In their own way, President , Johnson, or tne Amer ican League, has come to ' the meet ing to fight it out. The American League president was backed virtually by an ultimatum in the form of a resolution adopted by his league last Winter declaring that it never would again engage in an Inter-league series unless Its clubs were given control of the ticket selling in Its city. Patrons to Get Tickets, On the strength of this determination Secretary McRoy, of the Boston Club, early in July began plans for handling , the tickets by canvassing all the regu lar patrons of the game. In whose hands he purposed to place the much coveted world's series admission cards. Mr. Heydler was delegated by the commission to have complete chargo of the sale in New York, taking it out of the hands of the local club officials, but it was said, with the approval of President Brush. The commission believes it has at last checked the ticket scalper by the. following programme for the sale or tickets for the New York games: Ot the 38.000 seats in the Polo Grounds 13.000 bleacher seats t unreserved) will be sold at 81 each; 17,000 lower grand stand seats will be sold at 82 each; 8000 upper grandstand seats at 83 each, and boxes seating four persona at $25 each. With the exception of the, upper grandstand and the boxes all the tickets will be held for sale at the Polo Grounds on the days of the games. One ticket only will be sold to a per son and purchaserers will be required to enter the grounds Immediately after buying. Graadatand Seats to Be Held. The block of 8000 seats In the upper tier of the grandstand will be disposed of at public sale on a date to oe an nounced later, with an allowance of two seats to each purchaser. In Boston, where it is hoped to pro vide for 30,000 spectators, the prices at Fenway Park will be 60 cents for cepterfleld bleachers. $1 for the other bleachers, $2 for seats In a new cov ered stand built along the third-base line, 83 for seats in the steel and con crete grandstand and $5 each for box seats. All reserved seats win De soio. In advance by preference to regular patrons, games. They will be good for three A rebate will be made in case games.