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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1913)
r, ' , TnE MOUSING OREGONIAN. FRIDAY. MA S, 191.. 1 u 1 1 PLAYGROUND CAPTURED SITE BY TOTS Mount Tabor Children Invade Meeting of Water Board and Win Fight. pealed to ' the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at nan f rancisco. FLOWERS ARE AMMUNITION Cltr Officials Captivated When Lit tle Girls Present Carnations and Division-Street Laud CiTen Up Amid Cheers. With smiles, flowers and cheers a large delegation of children from the East Mount Tabor district yesterday won. hands down, ths aght for a play ground on the tract of land on Division street adjoining- Mount Tabor reser voir No. 3. occupied at present by the supplies of the city water department. The youngsters appeared before the Water Board at a meeting held at the City Hail and. after a demonstration, prot the unanimous vote of the Board to donate the land for a playground. It will be fitted with equipment at once by the park department. The children won a fight which older people have been unable to master (luring the last year and a half. Re peatedly the latter have appeared be fore the city officials and requested that the tract be turned over to the children, but to no avail. It was after the older people prac tically had given up that the children nk the matter Into their own hands. and they won on the first step of their campaign. About 3 ociock yesieroaj afternoon they boarded special street cars, furnished them by the Portland Railway Light Power Company, and proceeded In a band to the City Hall, where the Water Board was In ses sion. Filing Into the Council chamber, they lined up behind Councilman Joy, who explained to the members of the Board the purpose of their presence at the meeting. The Board then took up the question of granting the tract and began a discussion. While this was in progress five golden-haired girls, from S to 13 years of age. filed around the room and presented each member of the Board with a white car. nation. This capped the climax. T. B. T 11 cox. a member of the Board, moved that the request of the children be granted and when Mayor Rushlight put the question to a vote it was unani mously favored. "Three cheers for the Water Board! yelled one boy In the crowd, and the chamber resounded with lusty cheers from throats of the crowd of young sters. They then filed out. leaving some of the older persons present to express thanks to the Board. The tract, comprising three acres, la to be Improved by the park department at once. The equipment is on hand and can be Installed within a week or two. The pipe which is on the tract at present is to be moved to one cor ner, where It Is to be stacked so that It can be moved without interfering with the playground. The little girls who presented the flowers to the members of the Board were Violet Jobelman. 8 years of age: Neva Thomas. 12: Winifred Glass, 10; Ester Beach. 12: Leola Tesck, 13. CLUSTER LIGHTS ON BRIDGE Illumination on Broadway Crossvrajr Kound Sufficient. ' Cluster lights last night illuminated the Broadway bridge for the first time, displacing the strings of incandescent lamps Installed for temporary use. . The West Coast Engineering company, which had the contract for installing the equipment, finished Its work early In the afternoon and the current was turned on at once. Representatives of the city, the con tracting company and the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company In spected the lights last night, and It was the consensus of opinion that the illumination is sufficient. The bridge is as well lighted as any other In the city. There are four lamps to eacn cluster. Dead Heat Run in Street Footrace. Dover Sprinter and Francisco lndT Path Speeder Engage la Fifty-Yard 9rtat for Wager. TIMBER CASE IS PENDING Demurrer Filed In Government Suit Against Southern Oregon Company. The defendant's demurrer In the case of the United States versus the South ern Oregon Company. Identical In its Issues with that against the Oregon A California Ralfroad Company, decided by Judge Wolverton Tuesday in favor of the Government, was submitted without argument yesterday. The lands Involved are those of the Coos Bay Military road grant, given by the Government on condition that a road should be constructed from Rose, burg to Coos Bay. Some of the finest timber lands in Coos and Douglas counties are involved. Judge Wolverton's decision will be rendered Monday. If he overrules the demurrer. John M. Gearin. attorney for the Southern Oregon Company, will file his answer at once. The case, how ever, may not come to trial until after the decision is rendered in the Oregon at California case, which will be ap- S CORES of patrons of the Portland Hotel and persons on the street were treated to an eacltlng footrace Wednesday afternoon when George Ackerman, formerly a sprinter of Den ver, but now a resident of Portland, and Knight Plerson, of San Francisco, who has won medals for work on the cinders, ran 5.0 yeada to a dead heat on Yamhill street. The men, who are registered at the hotel, got into a heated argument regarding their re spective abilities as runners. "Although I have not toed the mark for years, I am confident I can beat you." said Ackerman. "Why, you don't know anything about racing." retorted Plerson. "Tou probably once thought you were a wonder, and evidently do yet. But if you will go with me to the street I will prove to you that you are the worst kind of a dub.'- "Your proposition is accepted." re torted the Portland man. "with the provision, however, that there be a bet of 120." While the details were being ar ranged scores of persons crowded around the sprinters. G. J. Kaufman, manager of the hotel, and William Hanson were chosen judges and the former was made stakeholder. John Well, of San Francisco, was. made starter. The first start was a poor one and the men were ordered back to the line by the Judges. The men got away to a good start the second time and ran neck and neck until they reached the finish mark, when Plerson fell heavily. He sustained, the loss of a new suit of clothing and a, badly bruised knee. "It's a dead heat," exclaimed Kauf man. Then he surveyed Plerson and the runner's battered condition caused the judge to add, "But after all this man loses a suit of clothing and a good-alsed patch of cuticle." ' HOOD RIVER VALLEY Now a Garden of Bloom. If you have any doubt as to the ar rival of Spring, it is because you have not been to the Hood River Valley since the forerunners of luscious fruit have burst Into prolific bloom. The air Is laden with the . breath of myriad blossoms; the songs of merry birds float on the gentle breezes; pretty homes with happy faces peep from be hind long rows of flower-laden trees: streams, bright, sparkling, carry In their transparent waters an abundance of the finny beauties. All this In a few short hours from Portland on the line of the O.-W. R. A N., which road pro vides a week-end fare of S3 to Hood River and return, 13.30 to Moster and return, and correspondingly low fares to other Columbia River points. In ad dition to this. If you only desire to spend Sunday, a round trip fare of 32 and 12.25 to Hood River and Mosler, respectively, can be had Sunday only. Give the folks and yourself an inex pensive outing. After the long Winter seeing blossoms and nature will make life really worth the while. Phone Marshall 4500 or A 6121. or call at city office. Third and Washington sts., for further information, and begin now planning to spend next Sunday there. v WEEK-END TRIPS To Gearhart "By-the-Sea" are popu lar. Hotel always open. Special party going tomorrow night, many of whom will select sites for cottages in new district Just opened. Call 100 H 4th at. HONOR FALLS HERE Cinderella Shoe Is Worn by . Mrs. McCreedy. DISTINCTION IS SOUGHT All Over Country Trial of Women to Don Dainty Slipper Falls Until Portland Member of Fair Sex Demonstrates Ability. "Rh. nut her foot in it. did she?" This was not a question with refer ence to any demure and dainty miss, nr atM and comely matron getting into trouble over the charter. Not so. by any means. T or ruination asked with great eagerness and a shade of disbelief. coupled, with a tinge of Jealousy, oy Mia. Vlnlpt McMillan, all because Mrs. D. J. McCreedy. of the Ockley Hotel, had earned the right to a couple or tiekota at Pantages because she had a foot that could slip into the Cinderella shoe that the comedienne wears with ease. . Miss McMillan lias the smallest foot In vaudeville, 'tis claimed and every where on the circuit she has been try ing to find some one who could rival her. Not even Chicago could produce fnl contender for the honor. and it has remained for Portland to earn the distinction. For four days it looked as If this ! ... rrn i .1 tr th.'waV flf all fit hpTS. Hundreds found the shoe, by the aid of field glasses, in me cemer ni Knight's shoe store window; hundreds tried it on, until even the genial sales men began to get tired and to give up hope. ' x- . VTI.a 0fmn will re. member Portland and her fair women. and young men won t De in sucn a hurry to bet a pair of mauve silk socks against a five-pound box of candy that their girl is not a Cinderella. NEW PRESBYTERY WANTED New District Asked to Be Created In Coos and Curry Counties. BANDON. Or.. May 1. (Special.) Rev. H. C. Hartranf t. of the Presby terian Church of Bandon, and Rev. A. Haberly. pastor at Langlols. have re turned from the meeting of the South ern Oregon Presbytery at Med ford. At the meeting of this Presbytery a resolution was adopted to be forwarded to the general Presbyterian assembly which meets at Savannah, Ga.. this Summer, calling upon the general as sembly to create the Coos-Curry County Presbytery- Coos and Curry counties are a sepa rate entity so far as the territory is concerned, on account of their lack of ready connection with the outside part of the state. . The Presbyterian pastors In the two counties are: Rev. W. S. Williams. Myrtle Point; Rev. H. C Hartranft and Rev. A. Haberly, Bandon; tev. j. a.. Burkhardt and F. H. Adams. Coqullle: Rev. D. A. McLeod. North Bend, and Rev. J. H. Hoyt, Gold Beach. There are several communities that are call ing for pastors, which this new Pres bytery will endeavor to supply. POLES IN ROADS MAY GO Ordinance Drafted to Pnt Cost on Phone and Light Companies. it an nrrllnnne nrenared yesterday h riv A ttnm.v Grant meets with the approval of the City Council, the elec tric light and telephone companies of Portland will be required to move poles on streets where they Interfere with private driveways and to pay for the cost. The ordinance Is aimed to change the practice of the companies charg ing property-owners 310 for the remov als. Many complaints have been received by City Attorney Grant regarding poles being eercted In places where they In terfere with private garage, or wagon entrances to private property. If the ordinance passes the property owner may complain to the Executive Board against the location of a pole and the board may order the pole re moved at no cost to the property-owner. Failure to remove the pole Is punisha ble by both fine and imprisonment. FURTHER HEARING ORDERED Freight Rates to "Willamette Valley Points Still Unsettled. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion has ordered a further hearing in ,h. pnntpnvarav nv.r freiarht rateS from Eastern points to the Willamette Valley, which has been pending for some time. Traffic Attorney mwhto M. Cousin, who has charge of the ship pers' Interests, says he has not been advised Just what further informa tion the Commissioners desire to en able them to proceed. Some of the is sues have been disposed of satisfac torily, but othera are Intermingled with the tntermountaln cases. The Harrl- man merger is said also to be involved. Man haarins-s And volumes of testi mony figure in these cases with Intri cate traffic problems put up to the Commission for solution. CONTRACTORS HEED NOTICE Work on Neglected Awards Starts In Response to Warning. The notice sent out last week by City Engineer Hurlburt to various paving contractors ordering them to get busy on improvements which have been con tracted for, has brought results. The companies have begun operations in several parts of the city already and will push the work through to com pletion as rapidly as possible. Jeffery & Bufton commenced yester day the work of paving Corbett street from Julia avenue to Nebraska street, and the Oregon Independent Paving Company began paving on Nebraska and Virginia streets in the Fulton dis trict. Several contracts on the East Side have been begun this week or will be started within the next few days. CHUNG CONFESSES KILLING Chinese Later Denies Murder of Japanese Woman. 1 a nfx.inn hv Chung Shut, a Chinese, that he killed the woman. later his denial of the crime ana tnen v. -, nBmA ti murderer bV the Coroner's Jury, were the developments In the murder of Miss Uyida, the Japa nese woman who was slain April 28 at Fourth and Flanders street. The confession was made to a Sister of Charity at St. Vincent's Hos pital, In the presence of Patrolman Pressy, his guara, ana juaepu nmo. and Harry Kepper, patients, as Chung i... -.-. ai tn a : "following an at- ;Lrrrr " . ward. The denial was made to Deputy District At- torney Hammersley. r.hnnar told the Sister of Charity that the woman spurned his love. GRANT OPPOSES PAYMENT Railway Company Wants $2563.29 for Conforming to New Grade. t n nnlnlon filed yesterday with City Auditor Barbur, City Attorney J-..... .AAmmAniia that the CitV refuse an application of the Portland Railway, Light & Power company tor in' pay ment of $2563.29, -the amount the com pany alleges It lost in transferring poles and other equipment in cnangmg grades for the Broadway bridge. Mr. Grant says the city -is allowed to change grades at any time and that the franchise held by the company does not require the city to pay for the cost Incurred by the company to conform to the changes made. QUEEN OF MAY CROWNED Ajbany Students See Miss Mary Bryant Receive Scepter. ALBANY, Or., May 1. (Special.) With beautiful and elaborate ceremo nies. May day was observed at Albany College. Miss Mary Bryant, a popu lar member of the sophomore class, was crowned queen of the May, receiv ing her scepter from Miss Keith Van Wlnkle,t queen of last year's festivi ties. The exercises occurred on the college campus, the queen and her attendants occupying a throne and platform erect, ed In front of the Administration building. Following the exercises, which included several special musical numbers, 24 co-eds wound the Maypole. Salem Firm Gets Mohair Pool. ALBANY, Or., May 1. (Special.) Eddyvllle mohair pool, containing more than 32,000 pounds was sold Tuesday to W M. Brown & Company, of Salem, for 34 cents per pound. LOMBARD'! OPPONENTS are making a desperate effort to show that because he is fighting the vicious and dangerous charter now offered the people he is an enemy of commission government. This is unfair to Lombard, whose attitude on the true and tried commission government that-has proved a success in other cities is unchangeable That Mr. Lombard's protests against this dangerous substitute for a commission government charter, or even for the old charter are well-founded is shown by the following opinions on the charter now before the people: The Evening Journal says: "It abolishes the direct primary." The Evening Telegram says: "A general indorsement of the principles of commission government will aid very little in carrying the commission chart ;r that is now before the people of Portland. What they require is specific statements dealing, not with commission government in general, but with the pro posed Portland charter in particular." The Portland News says: "It has tucked away in its insides a lot of petty larceny thief provisions." The Oregonian says: "Defeat of the charter, if defeat it be. will not be a decision -against com mission government It will be due to the interference of visionaries in drafting the charter." Attorney John F. Logan. Civil Service Commissioner, says: "Closer study of the document makes certain wherein I erred in the first instance.. Instead of pointing out. one isolated instance as being pos sibly detrimental to. the public interest. I should have damned the whole document as the most unintelligible absurdity ever scrawled together by ten disinterested statesmen of this or any other city. time, place or age. It is not a charter. It is a hodge-podge. It is not an organic law guaranteeing to the people funda mental and inalienable rights and granting certain pswers to those whom the people choose as public servants, but rather a mass of impracticable vagaries denying to a community of free Americans even the right to protest, and granting to any aspiring benefactor who can get 100 sponsors and sufficient first, second and third choice votes of those who do not know them, the right to apportion our substance as pleases their inclination." Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway says: "I warned and am still warning the women voters against voting for a measure laid before them in such a way that nrf one man or woman in a thousand can tell what it means." Next to Mr. - Lombard's attitude on the charter, the most common form of attack leveled against Mr. Lombard is that in which he is accused of robbing the city through a bonding company. Acting Mayor Baker made such a fizzle in his attack on Lombard at Alberta Tuesday that Mr. Rushlight, tem porarily recovered from his indisposition, at Montavilla Wednesday dragged out the old bonding com pany lie, accusing Lombard of receiving vast profits in writing paving bonds. The actual earnings of the bonding company of which Mr. Lombard is a minority stockholder and which was formed for the purpose of keeping in Oregon money then being sent East for premiums, on paving bonds written between April 10. 1910. and April 20. 1913. were $7556.57. of which Mr. Lom bard's share for the three years was approximately $700. It would require 30 years at this rate to amass a sum as great as that which represents the difference between the highest bid and the lowest bid made on the fire equipment contract that Mayor Rushlight is attempting to let to the highest bidder. This campaign of misrepresentation on the part of Mr. Lombard's enemies is near the end. and in the closing hours more poison may be spread, but should be avoided by all fair-minded voters. Mr. Lom bard has nothing to conceal, either in his commission charter record or in his unprofitable Oregon enter prise, the surety , company, and respectfully asks the voters to weigh the evidence before rendering a verdict. (Paid Advertisement.) JANITOR HELD FOR FIRE GEORGE XAXGLE MUST FACE , GRAND JTJRT. Circumstantial Evidence Connect Former Employe With Blaze at Buck Apartments. . r ..t.4,ioA anHpnlv r.lriimatn.nttal. George 'Nangle, formerly janitor at the Buck Apartments on North Twen- I J -1 1 1 n L Dlltll, T, no ,'-.-. ...w Da ...... jury, in Municipal Court yesterday, to answer to a cnarge ui boiumb i 1 1 J I nn ( . a orrn onrl ,- dangering the lives of some 60 occu pants. Before the case went to trial an ef- . . A -A nnl,, t V, a with. 1UI , v&o urnuc iv hi r, " " " ...w ...... drawal of the prosecution. Mrs. Down ing, proprietor of the house, said that Nangle, trembling and In great ex citement, was present within 10 min utes after the fire, and Patrolman Stanton, who first pointed suspicion at him, said that he saw the man lurk Ing In a doorway a few minutes before the officer saw the , flames and turned In an alarm. Nangle told several persons at the fire that he heard the alarm while in streets, and hurried to the place on an owl car. xne aiarm wa neui uy tel ephone and was not turned in until eight minutes after the saloons should have been closed, and then Nangle would have had to travel more than a mile to reach the fire. The defendant was discharged from her employment, after a stormy scene. last February, said Mrs. Downing, and at that time, she said, made threats. Detective Mallett told how the defend ant pleaded drunkenness when arrest ed the following day, and could not account for hla movements. No testi mony was offered by the defense. TTPT.Tft ATTfiff or PTTTT.TiR WHO WON THE HEAETS OF THE CITY WATER BOARD AND SECURED A PLAYGROUND FOR EAST MOUNT TABOR. . MMaaiMIW: SffiSSWMITS. ,sS3i? lSl JKSatSB8SS& , ot-t--.i-iiiiiisi m Mt-iiaut-'" 1111 t"" ' 'v - s - . 3rj.! " I . - - 1 . ? h iz. f 13 -VX - Mi . . v. i . - - 4 MjA -fifv? 1 GRANGE WILLH0LD FAIR Prizes to Be Offered for Juvenile Competition at Pleasant Home. PLEASANT HOME. Or.. May 1. (Spe cial.) At the last meeting of Mult nomah Grange No 71. Patrons of Hus bandry, it was decided to hold a dis trict grange and juvenile fair in Orient hall September IS. the week before the county fair opens at Gresham. It wan decided further that Multnomah Grange will have a booth and display at the Gresham Fair, made up of the best display at the Multnomah Grange Fair. The exhibit at Orient hall will not be confined to members of this grange, but will be made a community affair. Suitable prizes will be offered for the Juvenile display to encourage children. The baseball park here will be opened Sunday with a game between the Cres cents, of Portland, and the Pleasant Home Tigers. W. A. Proctor, a banker and millman of Sandy and Boring, has purchased a lot here and will start erection of a,, home soon. W. E. Markell also has purchased a lot on Margaret street. PARTY OFF FOR FESTIVAL Representatives of City and Rosar ians Go to Xorth Yakima. It was a lively and happy party of business men that left Portland last, night for North Yakima to represent the city and the Royal Rosarlans at the Blossom Festival now In progress there. The party was not as large as had been expected, owing to the pre-election campaign. In the party were: Frank E. Smith, chairman; C. C. Chapman, Frank C. Riggs, O. C. Bortsmeyer, E. Shelley Morgan, G. W. Priest, R. H. Crozler. C. W. Cornelius. J. O. Elrod, George Young, N. G. Pike and William F. Rows. YOUSO FOLK FOSIXG FOR THE OHEGO.MA.V PHOTOGRAPHER, AFTER THEIR VICTORY. Put Your Valuables In a Place of Safety 33 Valuable papers, deeds, insur ance policies, negotiable instru ments and jewelry are easily lost, misplaced or stolen and should be placed beyond possibility of loss or destruction. Our individual safe deposit boxes are convenient, safe and econom ical. Access may be had any time during business hours. Private booths, accommodation rooms for men and women patrons and free telephone service is maintained. Inspection Invited Open from 9 to 6 P. M. Irani SAFEBEPOBif &TRUST CO. 284 OAK STREET 5" HENRY BUILDING What Beautiful Glasses Where did you get them? At ftm, STAPLES THE JEWELERS. I think he makes the nicest glasses Lnr -3 ' in the city. Makes them? Yes. S"t $S He has his own grinding de- partment. and grinds all his own JSs. 'W lenses. They must be very ex- f3 mjrni" ;'K pensive. 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