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TIIE MORXIXG OREGONIAX, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1912. 10 AUDITORIUM BOARD THREATENS TO QUIT Rather Than Build Inferior Structure Commission Would Resign. CHEAP SITE IS NECESSITY Since $200,000 Additional Bond Is sue Failed to Pass, Members Withhold Action Exposition ' Grounds May Bo Solution. Unless a suitable auditorium site can be secured by the city at such a figure that only a very small part of the $600,000 bond Issue authorized by tiie people for an auditorium building- will have to be ex pended, members of the auditorium commission will resign from their positions and let the Mayor appoint another commission of men willing to take the responsibility of erecting; an Inferior building. This was made clear yesterday at a meeting of the com mission at which the auditorium problem was considered in detail. All fonr members of the commission pres ent at the meeting said they would retire rather than authorize the erec tlon of the building on an Inferior site or the erection of an inferior building, Jlm an outcome of the meeting Archi tect Frledlander, of New York, is to be called to the city as soon as possible and Is to look over sites which have hm recommended bv commercial ami bnslness organizations of the city. If the eholce of the architect can be secured by the city without the ex penditure of much of the $600,000 the auditorium will De ereciea Dy tne pres ent commission. If not the present members will throw up their hands and give the project up as hopeless be cause of lack of funds. Election Result la Cause. The whole difficulty has been brought about by the refusal of the people to vote an additional issue of $200,000 bonds at the special city election No vember t. That left the only avail able site the market block on the West Side, which the majority of members of the commission declare is not sun able. Two members of the commis slon said they would resign rather than authorize the building to be erected on the Market block. Two other sites. either of which the commission con eiders suitable, are the old exposition site on the West Side and a site com prising two blocks between Grand ave nue and East Seventh and Holladay avenue and Hassalo streets on the East Side, but both are considered prohibi tory in price in the face of the failure of the additional bond issue to pass. T. B. Wilcox, chairman of the- com mission opened the discussion yester day with the announcement that the bond issue as proposed by the com mission had been voted down. "In the face of this," he said. "I am in favor of proceeding slowly. I think we should call our architect Into consulta tion with us and decide what kind of an auditorium we can build for less than 1600.000. We must have a tract more than 200 feet square. Where can we get one suitable which will not cut our auditorium bond issue down to a point where we cannot build a suit able structure. Besides the amount to be expended for a site we must figure on a shrinkage of about $40,000 on our bond Issue because of the price we can get for them Personally, if we have insufficient funds I'd rather retire from the board and let someone else take the responsibility and the cursing. I believe we can endure the reproach of proceeding slowly better than what we will get if we expend $600,000 un wisely." Opinion on Sites Differ. W. D. Fenton declared that he con sidered the Market block as the logi cal place for the auditorium. "The people at the last election." he said, "voted in favor of the street vaca tion proposition which opens the way for the use of the Market block. Per sonally I know that if we spend any thing for a site we will not have enough left to build the kind of an auditorium we want. If we cannot build on the Market block or some other that will not require us slashing the appropriation the Mayor can have my resignation." The same opinion was expressed by Hugh Hume, Mr. Wilcox and Phil Metschan, the other members of the commission. Mr. Metschan declared that ha did not favor the Market block, and would resign rather than take the responsibility of allowing the structure to go there, B. P. Laurence, Hy Ellers, Walter Holt and others appeared In behalf of the site as selected by Municipal Archi tect Bennett in his Greater Portland plana. In recommending this site, Mr. Laurence made a suggestion which may offer a solution to the problem by placing the structure on the old expo sition site on Nineteenth and Washing ton streets. He declared that business people of Washington street and others would subscribe the greater part of the amount required to purchase the ex position site. "I know they will," he said, "because I have talked with many of them. I believe they will con tribute at least $200,000. This, with what you are able to spend from the $600,000, ought to make up the amount required for the purchase of the site. Crista Is Faced. "The exposition site offers every advantage for- the building. If neces sary Morrison street to the south of the tract can be swerved around a lit tle so as to make more room. As a member of the board which Judged the competitive plans for the structure, I can say that we favored that site I am speaking now, however, as a mem ber of the Greater Portland Plans As sociation. We feel that the auditorium question presents a crisis In our Greater Portland Plans movement. We lost out on the library site and now If the audi torium Is not placed In accordance with the plans we feel that we may as well quit our fight for a City Beautiful. "If the expense Is in the way I would suggest that the building be erected so that features could be added from time to time. It does not require the com pletion of the entire structure at once. It Is my opinion that the exposition rite Is the only logical and available one.". Hy Ellcs declared that he considered the exposition site the proper place for the building. "If necessary," he said. "Morrison street can be vacated or can be swerved around. In sort of a curve. This would take a small piece of land from the grounds of the Multnomah Club. I am sure that institution, which Is public-spirited, would donate the piece of ground necessary for this." G. E. Welter and representatives of the East Fide Business Men's Club spoke in favor of the East Side site. They declared that the ground could be secured for probably-$130,000. Members of the commission expressed doubt about this. The East Siders were asked if they could not take up a subscription and purchase the East Side tract and they declared they could not. The meeting came to a close with the adoption of a motion postponing action of the entire auditorium question , until the situation can be gone over by Architect Frledlander and recommenda tions as to sites made. This, it is thought will require more than month. After Mr. Frledlander com pletes his Investigation another public meeting will be held at which an at temnt will be made to take som tangible action. STUDENT MAY GO FREE II. Lloyd Miller's Frankness Likely to ltcsalt in Liberty. 1 With two sets of. prisoners held ten tatively as those who committed two htzhwav robberies in the Northwest section of the city Saturday night, po lice and detectives are at sea to de termine which shall have the charges nrpiH nimlnitf them. Aubrey White, with a bad record from British Columbia, has been identi fied positively by the two victims, yet the officers hesitate to place a charge against him and the two boys who are held as his companions, one oi inese la H Llovd Miller, a student in the University of Washington, who. with White, "has confessed to the possession of drugged liquor, to be served to some The frankness of the youths on this point, their penniless state, and the fact that one of them had pawned his overcoat, increase the belief that they are not the highwaymen. For the same crime Detectives Loie man. Snow. Goltz and Craddock are holding three men and a woman, all with criminal records. The gang con sists of T. E. Blanchard, a counter feiter; Lottie Hatfield, who appears as his wife: Elmer Parsley and toy r. Miller, but have nothing to connect thm dlrertlv with the robberies.' Oonrce H. Fields, brother-in-law of Miller, last night came to roniaou w a the vounar men. He was not al lowed to see the boys last night, but will stav over in Portland tin toaay and take the boy home after his case comes up in court. Mr. Fields says that Miller stands highest In the pharmacy class in this year, the senior, at the University, and up to the present has never been en nil in anvthing at all wrong, nor associated with such as the confessed bureiar. young Wilson, with wnom ne umr father. Mr. Fields says, is retired and is the owner or several farms In the Palouse country. Eastern Washington. Mr. Fields Is a manu W. Jacobson. one or tne victims oi th. . Satnrriav niirht crimes, does not live at 194 North Fourteentn street. the address given at the time or tne robberies. BREWMASTERS ARE DINED Visitors Are Guests of E. Mueller. Mr. Wessenger Principal Speaker. Following an adjournment of the an nual session in Portland of the North western Brewmasters' Association a banquet was given in honor of its mem bers by E. Mueller, head brewmaster of the Weinhard Brewery, in Moose Hall, Seventh and Alder streets, and partici pated In by 60 brewmasters from Ore gon, Washington. Idaho, North Dakota and British Columbia. Under the direction of Mrs. E. Muel ler and Mrs. Frank Pflanger the hall was appropriately decorated and the dinner was prepared and served under their personal direction. The menu lartrclv consisted of historlo German dishes and the only liquid served was Weinhard Columbia beer. A. Mueller, manager of the Star Brewery of Vancouver, Wash., and an honorary member of the association. acted as toastmaster. The principal address of the evening was made by Paul Wessenger, of the Weinhard brew ery. This waa largely on ' technical questions with reference to the brewing business. PERS0NAL MENTION. Dr. B. L. Sears, of Hlllsboro, is at the Seward. - J. B. Anderson, of Hood River, is at the Seward. Leslie Butler, a Hood River banker, s at the Perkins. W. A. Marsh, a Mosier applegrower. s at the Perkins. Dustln Farnum and wife, are Stopping at the Multnomah. O. H. McDonald and wife, of Seattle, are at the Cornelius. G. Albers, a Seattle miller, is regis tered at the Imperial. Thomas W. Tebb, a Tacoma lumber man. Is at the Oregon. L. G. Wilson, a coal operator of Cen- tralia, is at the Oregon. C J. Neligh, a lace Importer of New York, is at the Oregon. Carl Adler, a Jeweler of Baker, is reg istered at the Portland. Charles Hoberg, a stockman of Haines, Is at the Imperial. C E. Vest, a lumberman of Mexico, s registered at the Oregon. R A. Booth, a lumberman of Eugene, a registered at the Imperial. D. L. G. Ross and wife, of St. Helens, are registered at the Seward. G. W. Dye, a merchant of The Dalles, s registered at the Perkins. Mrs. T. Glasgow and Miss Glasgow, of Spokane, are at the Multnomah. F. E. Grimes, a merchant of The Dalles, Is registered at the Perkins. E. G. McGlauflin, a Hoqulam lumber man, is registered at the Seward. Richard Ramsdell. a Seattle stock broker, ia registered at the Portlaild. William A Pinkerton, the famous Chicago detective, is at the Portland. H E. Stewart, connected with the Everett Paper Mills, is at the Portland. Charles S. Morris, a cigar manufac turer of New York, is at the Portland. Will Wright, State Bank Examiner, s registered at the Oregon, from Salem, Wilbert Croft, a merchant of Inde pendence, is registered at the Perkins. A. V. Johnson, a mining man of Deer- ing, Alaska, is registered at the Cornelius. A. W. Thornton, an Insurance ad juster of Seattle, is registered at the Oregon. R. F. Oakes, an electrical engineer of San Francisco, and Mrs. Oakes are at the Multnomah. George T. Myers, a Seattle salmon packer, is at the Multnomah, accom panied by Mrs. Myers. William Norman, proprietor of the Hotel Spokane and Hotel Tacoma, is registered at the Multnomah. J. H. Nightengale, secretary of the California Tobacco Company of San Francisco, Is at the Multnomah. Mrs. Carry Bridewell Benedict, a grand opera singer, is registered at the Multnomah, from New York. George H. George, president of the Columbia River Packers' Association, is at the Portland, accompanied by Mrs. George. C. A. Donaher, of Tacoma, and Mark Norris, of Grand Rapids, with large timber interests in Oregon, are regis tered at the Portland. Dr. Andrew Kershaw, of Wilhelmina; Dr. Louis Dechmann, of Seattle; Dr. A. Fulton, of Astoria, and Dr. J. A. Rosenberg, of Prlneville, are registered at the Imperial. S. B. Stewart, the Portland lumber man who has been making his home at the Seward, left yesterday for Honolulu, where he will spend the Winter for the benefit of his health. CHICAGO. Nov. 1L (Special.) The following Portland persons were at Chicago hotels today: At the Congress, W. Kleiser: at the oreat Northern. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Smith. GRANT GIVES ADVICE City Attorney Tells What "Tin Plate" Lav Includes. PRIVATE HOMES AFFECTED Wherever Rooms Are ' Let Covered by- Ordinance Is Instruction Sent to Mayor Letters Inch High . Considered Small Enough. Complete instructions for the inforoe ment of the tinplate ordinance passed recently by. the City Council were sent yesterday by City Attorney Grant to Chief of Police Slover. The ordinance which was signed by Mayor Rushlightr will become effective November 26. The instructions for Its enforcement, as Kiven bv Attorney Grant, follow: "This ordinance provides that the owners of any building used as a noiei, apartment-house, rooming-house, lodg ing-house, tenement-house or saloon shall maintain at the front of every such building a sign bearing the name and address of the owner, and that the letters on such sign shall be of such size and distinctness, and shall be so placed that the name and address tnere on can be easilv read by persons pass lng along the street In front of such entrance. The ordinance does not spe- clflcacally fix the size of the letters or characters required on the sign or Dlate and you request advice on this question. Ordinance Ia AmbljErnona. "PersonB possessed of normal vision can easily read, at a distance of 20 reel. a sign having letters or characters thereone one-half inch in size. Per sons nossessed of normal vision can easily read, at a distance of from 40 to 60 feet, a sign having thereon letters or characters one inch In height. As the ordinance is somewhat ambiguous In this particular I would be of the opinion that the language used therein, namely, "can be easily read by persons passing along the street before sucn entrance" should receive a broad inter pretation, and that the letters or char acters on said sign or plate should be not less than one inch in heignt so that thev could be easily read by per sons possessed of normal vision from any point in the street. "Various persons interested are be sieginsr this department for opinions as to whether or not this ordinance win be enforced against certain buildings, and in this connection will say that the ordinance applies only to such build ings as are specifically mentioned in section 1 thereof, namely, hotels, apart ment-houses, rooming-houses, lodging houses, tenement-houses and saloons. A hotel has a well defined meaning; an apartment-house is a building used as a dwelling-house for several families, each family living separate and apart from the others in a suite of rooms which is a dwelling-house in itself, havlnir a separate hall and bath, each separate family using the main halls or a separate hall for an entrance into tne building. White vs. Collins. 81 . r. Supp., 434; a rooming-house, in my opinion, would be any bullaing wnetner used as a private dwelling or otherwise where rooms are let to persons for hire, in other words: a lodging-house and a rooming-house are synonymous, and has been Judicially defined as ap plied to a house containing furnished or unfurRished rooms, which are let out by the week or month, or with or without meals, Cromwell vs. Stevens, 2 Daly 15; Llnwood Park Co. vs. Van dusan, 63 Ohio St 183; hence persons renting furnished or unfurnished rooms in the City of Portland in private dwellings, flats or other buildings, as distinguished from hotels, apartment houses or tenement-houses, are subject to the provisions of said ordinance; a tenement-house is a term wnicn comes to us from Eastern cities and is gener ally understood there as meaning a house where three or more families live independently of one another and do their cooking on the premises, and having more than two families on a floor, so living and cooking and having common right to the nans, stair ways, etc. Tenements Are Dennea, Webster says that a tenement-house Is often, In modern usage, an interior dwelling-house rented to poor persons; a tenement-house, says the Internation al Encyclopedia, Vol. 15, page 1861, com monly speaking. Is the poorest class oi apartment-house, they are generally poorly built, without sufficient accom modations for light and are usually overcrowded, the middle rooms often receiving no outside light and it is no uncommon thing for several families to be crowded into one of these dark and unwholesome rooms. The combined words, 'tenement-house, have been Judicially defined and signify and mean a house With aisiinci renemenm ui room, that separate families occupy as homes, not merely a boarding-house or hotel. Musgrove vs. faherwooa, bi wow. Prac. 311. In the City of Portland I do not believe we have what is strictly termed tenement-houses and here that word would be construed synonymously with aDartment-houses. Any house that is occupied by two or more rami lies in separate rooms Is subject to the provision of this ordinance. "You are further aavisea tnai wner- ever any building used for the purposes mentioned in section 1 is owned by one person and the land on which it is sit uated is owned by another, that either the owner of the land or the owner or the building is compelled to comply with the provisions of the ordinance re specting the maintenance of the sign. "Whenever the title to any property is held in a representative capacity the name of the person, co-partnership, cor poration, estate or association uusxam lng this representative relationship to the property shall have such name dis played upon the plate or sign. HON MAY NOT W1TJ LATE KETTJKXS INDICATE STATE SENATE LOSES DEMOCRAT. Lorlng V. Stewart, Republican Can didate From Grant, Harney and . Malheur, Makes Gains. Later returns Indicate that the Democrats in the late election did not elect to exceed one State Senator and they may lose that official by the com pleted official count. With the count unfinished. James F. Mahon (Dem.), last week had a slight lead over his Republican opponent, Lorlng V. Stewart, for Joint-Senator from Grant, Harney and Malheur, but the latest in formation is that Stewart is gaining on Mahon and may win by a small ma jority. The first returns from Union and Wallowa apparently gave the .election of Joint-Senator to John S. Hodgin (Dem.). but rhe completed count of the two counties indicates that Edward E. Kiddle (Rep.), has won by a plurality of four. It has been intimated from La Grande, the home town of Mr. Hodgin, that he may contest the result Final returns have not been received PILES . Quickly C u r.ed Instant Belief, Permanent"Cure Trial Package Mailed Free to All in Plain Wrapper. We want every man and woman, suf fering from the excruciating torture of piles to Just send their name and ad dress to us and get, by return mail, a free trial package of the most effective and positive cure ever known for this disease, Pyramid Pile Remedy. 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Peirce (Rep.) and W. H. Meredith (Dem.) Is not known here. The incomplete figures gave Peirce a lead of less than 40 over his Democratic opponent and he is be lieved to have been elected, although the completed returns might give the election to Meredith. If both Stewart and Kiddle win for State Senator In the Eastern Oregon counties, and Peirce retains his lead over Meredith for Joint-Representative from Coos and Curry counties, the net result of the election to the Democrats so far as the Legislative ticket is con cerned will be the election of six mem-. bers of the House of Representatives as follows: J. K. Howard, of Douglas; C. L. Reames, of Douglas, and Jackson; Verd A. Hill, of Polk; Thomas W. Brunk, Lincoln and Polk; R. W, Hagood, Multnomah, and W. F. Homan, Harney and Malheur. GUESTS PREPARED FOR COMMITTEE WILL ENTERTAIN CLUB DELEGATTS, Mrs. Duniway and'JIrs. Wade Will Extend Greetings Luncheon at Commercial Club. So that the stranger , who comes within our gates for the convention of the Oregon Federation of Woman's Clubs may be made to feel at home. the hospitality committee of the. Port land federation will establish head quarters at the Imperial Hotel for the three days of the meeting, which opens tomorrow. Mr. J. W. Tifft is chair man of this committee, wnicn win have charge of the placing and enter tainment of the visiting delegates. The convention will open tomorrow at 10 A. M. at Women of Woodcraft Hall, -Tenth and Taylor streets, when It will be called to order hy Mrs. Sarah A. Evans, president of the State Fed eration. The invocation will be de livered by Rev. Dora Reed Barber, of Forest Grove. "America" will be sung, and then Mayor Rushlight will deliver brief address of welcome, and the entertaining Portland clubs will de liver their greetings through Mrs. Al len Todd. Mrs. George uernnger, president of the Dallas Woman's Club, will respond, for the federation. A feature of the session will be greetings extended by Mrs. Abigail Scott Dunlway and Mrs. C. B. Wade, honorary presidents. The report of the credentials com mittee, the president's address, re ports of officers and announcements ! ;;-'-. . .. - . ' - : : : " ,y x-v:.-- : ,- - -. . :vSv: . Alice and her company, in cluding Jose Mardones will present The B of S arber evme in addition to regular concert programme at the ffeilig Theater Wednesday Evening, November 13 Alice Nielsen and Jose Mardones make records exclu1 sivel7 for the Grafomol These records are wonderful in tone and workmanship. You are invited to listen to these Columbia Double-Disc Records at your nearest dealer's. Columbia Phonograph Co. 371 WASHINGTON STREET will occupy the remainder of the morn ing session. Luncheon will be served at the Com mercial Club at noon. Delegates, those taking part in the programme, as well as officers and chairmen of standing committees may procure lunch tickets by applying to the en tertainment committee and presenting thAir orertentia.1 cards. Other out-of- town visitors, alternates and Portland delegates may buy tickets from tn ciTTiA committee The time limit will be adhered to In the rendition of the programme. 1 ree ritaiia1nn In Invited, on everv tODlc. and club members, whether they are delegates or not, will be given the privilege of tne noor auring aiscus sions. Vale Anxious to Be Host. VALE, Or., Nov. 11. (Special.) Vale Is beginning to make preparations to entertain the members of the Oregon State Woolgrowers' Association, which will meet here January . 3 and 4. At the close of the session at Baker last Spring it was voted to accept the in vitation extended by the citizens of Vale, and from all reports at least BOO visitors will attend the meeting. George W. 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