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16 . THE3I0RXIXG OREGOMAX, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 37, 1913. 1 L OF BABIES URGED Doctor at Milk Show Begs for Youngsters Needlessly - Fed on Bottles. CLEANLINESS IS SLOGAN More Than Thirteen Thousand VU' Itors Hear Experts' AdTlce Re garding Dairy Product Xnrses to Direct Show Today. Th attendance record at the Milk Rhnw belnar held this week in the Meier & Frank building was broken yesterday when it reached 13.792. All afternoon the booths continued to at tract attention and both school chil dren and housekeepers were in attend ance with their notebooks Jottins down fart for future reference. The City Laboratory chemists made their regular tests ana answerea in numerable questions. Their message to the public is to teach them the great value of good milk ana to leu inera that "all bacteria is not dangerous, but all filth and dirt carry dangerous bac teria." "Clean milk, clean meat, clean bread" was the slogan adopted by J. D. Mickle. Oregon Dairy and Food Com missioner. In his speech in the lecture room. Mrs. Frederick Eggert, presi dent of the Portland Woman's Club, presided. Extension of Education Urged. Mr. Mickle said in part: "The dairy man is not the only man who needs Instruction. The owners and employes of slaughter-houses, bakeries and ice cream factories must be educated. For tunately in Portland we have a good condition of affairs, but I have seen men. while making icecream, dump the sugar into the mixer right out of the dirty sack In which it had been in the dirty box car. I have found, in a country town, men making icecream where flies were swarming and a liv ery stable, in a filthy state, was nearby." Dr. Kittle Plummer Gray gave an ad dress on "Methods of Protecting Milk." She gave many practical suggestions and urged the housewives to spread the doctrines of cleanliness and sanita tion. She mentioned the dangers that lurk in utensils with seams and in leaving the milk bottles exposed to dirt and germs. "Keep milk clean and cold" was Dr. Gray's text. Dr. Frederick M. Rossiter empha sized the need of a simpler form of life. He deplored the fact that the present conditions of society made it necessary for so many babies to depend on artificial feeding and urged the en couragement of the natural manner of feeding babies whenever possible. Rich Babies Bottle Fed. Dr. Rossiter quoted a statement that tmonc 1000 mothers of .New YorK, 600 of whom were of the poor and 500 of the rich classes. 450 of the former gave their babes the food nature intended and only 82 of the latter 500 so fed their children. All the others were bottle babies. The Visiting Nurse Association will be in charge of the programme today. Mrs. R. L. Dieck will preside. Dr. E. A Pierce will speak on "The Relation of Milk to Tuberculosis In Human Be Ings." Dr. E. J. Labbe will discuss "Relative Values of Milk for Infants Compared with the Advertised Substi tutes." "What the Inspectors Do and Why." Is the subject assigned to E. C. Callaway. Chief Milk Inspector. The Baby Home's real live examples of modern bottle feeding of the best kind, continue to attract the admira tion of the public Little Joe, the red headed baby who has been so much ad mired, will be entered by the home in the eugenics contest at the state fair next week. HORSE THIEVES CAPTURED Yonths Wanted at Dallas Held Here and Make Confession. Jack Kayonner and Charles W. Katz schmann were arrested yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Beckman and brought to the County Jail on a charge of horse stealing. Both confessed to their guilt after they had been locked up. They will be turned over to the Sheriff or Polk County, who is expected to arrive today to take the youths back to Dallas, where they are wanted, for trial. Nei ther of the prisoners is of legal age. Telephone information was received here Thursday that horses had been stolen from a rancher near Dallas and the Multnomah County officers were re quested to look out for the thieves and horses. Deputy Beckman was en route to the good roads meeting at 8t. Helens, in company with the County Commis sioners, when he saw the two boys riding horses. He gave pursuit and captured the young rustlers and brought them to Portland. PEED NG PERS0NAL MENTION. Kay McKay, of Seattle, is at the Ore Ron. R. J. Allen, of New York, is at the Annex. C. W. Springer, of Seattle, Is at the Carlton. C. M. Davidson, of Corvallis. Is at the Cornelius. A. J. Quick, of Santa Ana, Cal, Is at the Annex. I. D. Driver, of Salem, is registered at the Cornelius. S. L. Ives Is registered at the Carl ton from Dayton. J. 11. Booth, of Roseburg, a banker, is at the Imperial. E. L. Howe, a fruit raiser, of Mosier, is at the Multnomah. A. F. Schefenberg. of Everett, Wash, Is at the Multnomah. W. J. Wilson and wife, of Pittsburg, are at the Multnomah. G. D. Abels, a lumberman from Ho .Ulam. is at the Oregon. George Martin and wife, of Wallace, Idaho, are at the Carlton. J. A. Eakln. Circuit Judge of Clatsop County, is at the Imperial. M. T. Wright, of Union, a banker. Is registered at the Cornelius. A. B. McCadden and wife, of We n a tehee, are at the Oregon. F. S. Stewart and wife, of Billings, Mont., are at the Cornelius. L. Morris Is registered at the Carl ton, from Livingston, Idaho. H. M. Welch, of Vancouver. B. C, and Mrs. Welch, are at the Oregon. H. S. McGowan, a canneryman of Mc Gowan. Wash., is at the Imperial. C. F.. Paige, a jeweler of Clatskanlne, and Mrs. Paige, are at the Annex. J. B. McLane and wife and daughter, of Pittsburg, are at the Multnomah. p. L. Campbell, president of the Uni versity of Oregon, is at the Imperial. F. G. Sanborn, manager Bancroft Whitney Company, of San Francisco, is stopping at the Tortland Hotel. Dr. C P. Elwert, born in Portland but now a practicing physician In New York, ia registered at the Annex. Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Hyman, of Ray mond, Wash., and Mrs. F. Levy, of Ban Mateo, Cal., are at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah B. Stafford are registered at the Portland from New Orleans. Mr. Stafford is a book puo Usher. Mr. and Mrs. George F. Kiger. of Til lamook: James H. Nichols, of Baker Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Vial, of Prindle. Wash.: C. L. Houston, of Astoria, are stopping at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Twohy, of Spokane, Wash., are at the Portland. Mr. Twohy Is one of the members of the firm of Twohy Bros. Co., railroad contractors. Mr. and Mrs. Twohy are on their wed ding trip, on their way to California. Louis L. Collins, of Minneapolis, city editor of the Minneapolis Journal, was In Portland yesterday on a trip arouna the world. He left Minneapolis two months ago and spent some time in th PORTLAND MAX IS MOURNED BV RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. Lloyd Welch Hardman. Lloyd Welch Hardman, who died August 27 at Tillamook, was born near Lebanon, Or., March 31, 18S4. At the age of 10 years he went to Albany to live, his father, D. F. Hardman, having been elected to the office of County. Recorder of Lynn Coun ty. Lloyd attended the public school. Albany High School and Albany College. In 1902 the Hardmans came to Portland to reside. As an ac countant he was in the employ of various well-known firms in this city and in August. 1911, he became a deputy in the Auditor's office, which position he held until his death. Mr. Hardman left a widow, his 5-year-old son, Ralph Lloyd, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Hardman, two brothers and a sister, to mourn his loss. Yellowstone, before coming on west ward. CHICAGO. Sept.2S. (Special.) The following from Portland, Or., are reg istered at Chicago hotels: Congress, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sellers; Great Northern, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Bowman, John L. Acheson. JEWISH WOMEN GATHER COUNCIL- HEARS SERIES OF TIMELY ADDRESSES. Member lately Returned From Set' tlement Work In Gothum i Makes Report. The Council of Jewish Women held a meeting yesterday in their club- rooms in the Selling-Hirsch building. Mrs. Simon Selling, president of the or ganization, gave an address of welcome and outlined the work of the club. She spoke of the Neighborhood House as a center through which all the interests of the locality, philanthropic, civic and religious, may flow, as a place of study of the family groups. The improve ment of industrial and recreative con dition of these groups is the real work that the Council 'is trying to carry on. George Nathan Black, of Los Ange les, gave an address on the "History of Early American Politics" and as an interlude Mrs. Elfreda Heller wein stein sang "The Jewels of the Madon na" and responded to an encore. Miss Ida Lowenberg. who has Just returned from a tour of the East, told of her experiences in settlement work. She described her visit to Ellis Island, where she watched the immigrants ar riving. Then she traced the work of The agents of the Council of Jewish Women and told of the newcomers' struggles for existence. The Thurs day evening fish market, under Will lamsburg bridge, was described. "I found residents of the New York slums to be the most heterogeneous. ignorant and degraded persons ever assembled since the days of Imperial Rome and Chicago also is bad. Let us do all In our power to prevent such scenes as I witnessed," said Miss Low enberg. "Let us louR after our hous ing conditions and be sisters to the weak and lowly." LENTS MAKES DEMANDS Delegation of 1 2 Assured by Mayor That Request Will Be Considered Additional police protection, better fire protection, more water mains, more street lights, more playground facili ties, extensivo street improvements, a change in the numbering and naming of streets. This is a partial list of the things wanted by the people of Lents following their recent admission to the city of Portland. A delegation from the district ap peared before the City Commission yes terday and explained their needs in a systematic manner which showed con siderable prearj-angement. The delega tion was composed of about 12 persons. Each one httd a certain request to make. The chairman called on each member of the delegation, who, in turn. presented one of the requests. Mayor Albee assured the delegation that the commission would do every thing possible to accommodate the dis trict but asked that consideration be given the fact that the city is not well off financially. Mrs. Cale to Be Buried Today. The funeral of Mrs. Addle Cate, wife of W. D. Cate, a well-known rancher of Harrisburg, will bo held at Salem today at 2:30. Mrs. Cate died at her home In Harrisburg. Wednesday aft ernoon aged 60. She leaves a family of three sons, Grover, Claude and Burson, and a daughter. Mary Cate. all gradu ates of the Oregon Agricultural Col lege. Use common sense, buy StlDerior coaL 1 ' ' ' V ' T h- I y V f' J ' .-i..'.T.fi.irtMlt,Y-,lwt ii-iiAilBf1! fS a ton. Main 154, A 1541. Adv. . iFLOUR CARGO HEAVY September Exports Aggregate 73,996 Barrels. OCTOBER TO RUN 70,000 With Increase of Ratc9 by Regular Lines Tramps May Bo Chartered, but rresent Bujins Is Con sidered. to Be Speculative. Flour exports to the Orient this month, aggregating 73,996 barrels, may be equaled during October, according to the estimates of millers, who say that approximately 70,000 barrels will move and that there is virtually no business for the regular liners In sight for November and December, because the rates will be 50 cents higher during those months. The Hamburg-American line will have the steamer Uckermark sailing October 8, and she will have about 5000 tons of cargo, mostly flour. The Den of Crombie, of the Royal Mall fleet, will get away about the same time and a major portion of her load will be flour. The Japanese steamer Hudson Maru, now due at San Fran ctsco with coal from Japan, Is looked for here about October 10 to load wheat and flour, there being 500 tons of the latter so the bulk of her cargo will be grain. She Is under charter to W. M. Strachan & Co., limited, of Kobe. For three days there have been no inquiries from the other side of the Pacific for flour, say exporters, and while a small amount of business is being done, they declare that Japa nese buyers speculated on higher freights and bought largely for September-October delivery. The threa tened chartering of tramps to carry flour and wheat across the. Pacific, in retaliation for the rates having been raised by the regular lines, has not come to pass, but it was insisted in shipping circles yesterday that tramps were yet available on a basis of 3 a ton to Japan, while the present tariff Is 3.50 and 34 will be the charge after November 1. Exporters say they have not aban doned the plan to charter. During the coming month steps may be taken to secure - vessels so orders may be closed for on a basis that will permit them to ship to the Orient independent ly and below the established tariff. RICHMOND ITINERARY OCT Captain Bridgett to Have New Tank er at San Francisco Christmas. Captain George E. Bridgett, formerly master of the Standard Oil Company's tanker Asuncion and now sltlpper of the flagship of the fleet, the Richmond, said to be the latest In tankers in point of capacity and comfort. Intends to have the ship within the Golden Gate Christ mas. He has written to a iriena here that after sailing from Boston. Septem ber 22, the plan was to place her on drydock at New York, then proceed to Baton Rouge and load for Campania, on the River Platte. He estimates that the tanker will be at San Francisco De cember 20. The new ship is 435.4 feet long, with a beam of 54 feet and depth of hold of 31.6 feet. She is said to have an oil capacity of 55.000 barrels. The El Se- gunda. another recent addition to the Standard Oil Company's vessels, sailed from the Columbia yesterday with barge No. 91 In tow. It Is reported that the Union Oil Company has chartered the new steamer John A. Hooper for seven years and intends converting her nto a tanker for the Coast trade. The Hooper has a lumber capacity of 2.250. 000 feet and has made several voyages between Grays Harbor and San Fran cisco. AFTER 1 8 YEARS VACATION DUE Stcamboatman to Take Rail Journey Through East and South. Steve McDonald, superintendent of The Dalles. Portland & Astoria Naviga tion Company, is planning his first va cation in 18 years and expects to eave during the coming week for the Eist, visiting St. Paul, Chicago and New York, returning via the Southern route, and will include Los Angeles in his itinerary, if time permits. Mr. McDonald worked-with the orig inal fleet in the days when the old steamer Telephone, the fastest stern wheeler on the globe in her time, was operated between Portland and Astoria and though the White Collar line changed owners he remained. It has not been given out what disposition will be made of the steamers Bailey Gat- zert and Dalles City, the remaining ac tive vessels of the fleet. A rederal law becomes effective in July 1914, that prohibits a railroad from controlling a water line paralleling its tracks. TWO STEAMERS CHARTERED Portland Has 15 Tramps Listed For and 1 1 Loading in Portland. As the Norwegian steamer Terrier has reached San Francisco from Nome the American Trading Company will load her there and at Eureka and probably the Columbia River for Aus tralia. The Norwegian steamer Horn elen, another well-known trader, has been fixed at 5 shillings 6 pence, to load coal .in Australia for either San Francisco or Honolulu and take lum ber for the return. The British steamer Bessie Donar was an arrival in the river yesterday from San Francisco and will load lum ber at Kalama.for China. There are 15 tramp steamers yet listed for the Columbia River, also five carriers of the Hamburg-American and Royal Mall Lines, and 11 tramps are In port. The list of sailing vessels coming has not been augmented for a few weeks, but in another month there will be a larger representation In port of that fleet. BALFOCR, GUTHRIE TO MOVE Slost Maritime Corporations Collect ed In Business Center. Balfour, Guthrie & Co. will today shift offices and headquarters from the Board of Trade building to the Balfour, Guthrie & Co. building, which has been completed at the northwest corner of Park and Oak streets. It is a two-story tructure and all space is occupied by the firm. The neighborhood or shipping rirms has moved uptown since the early days of grain exporting, for in former years most of them were in tne vicinity or Front, First and Second streets and orth of Ash. Only "bnug Harbor" and Lime Juice Corner" remain there now. The uptown trend first took them to the neighborhood or nrst ana Becona and Stark streets. The Custom-House moved to Third and Oak, In the Alns- worth building, and then to the Custom-House building on Its completion at Seventh and Davis streets. Space was so allotted there that Federal de partments having to do with vessels nd maritime details were assemDiea under one roof. The Merchants' Ei- and shifted to Stark, near Second, mov ing from there a few years ago to the Board of Trade building. Other mari time firms are located within a radius of two or three blocks, and it was gen erally felt they would be permanent until Balfour, Guthrie & Co. took steps to secure a home. Captain Dollar Sees Bandon. BANDON. Or., Sept. 26. (Special.) Captain Robert Dollar, president of the Dollar Steamship Company, .left Ban don for San Francisco yesterday. The Captain has been here for the last few days looking over the marine situa tion. He expressed himself as well satisfied with the success of the com pany's new boat, the Grace Dollar, which was built expressly for the Bandon harbor. Captain Dollar said that, with the formation of the Port Commission at Bandon, he felt confi dent that Improvements to the harbor, which would redound to the benefit of the town, would be effected at an early date. Marine Xotes. Aboard the steamer Damara. which is at Linnton to load lumber for Bal boa, are shipments of salmon and flour' from Tacoma. The vessel was In the river in March, 1911, but since was damaged and steps were taken after her repairs to bring her under the American flag, she having formerly had a British registry. She will com plete her cargo with piling at Stella. In gathering wheat she is loading for the United Kingdom the British tramp Colia shifted yesterday from Irvinir dock to Columbia dock No. 2. The British tramp Craighall was shifted through the bridges from In-man-Poulsen's to the bunkers last ev ening and will complete her lumber cargo at St. Johns. Not the least of improvements un dertaken in the harbor this season is the repainting of the cylinder piers of the Burnslde-street bridge, which are being given a dark coat to hide rust that has accumulated for several years. M. Talbot, manager of the Port of Portland, has returned from his vaca tion and is again wrestling with prob lems involving dredging, towing and piloting and such details. Work of raising the sunken stern wheeler Beaver, at Clatskanie, is under way and it is possible she will be afloat tomorrow, providing holes ' in her hull can be patched. A diver was engaged yesterday and it was thought by battening down hatches and Inclos ing the fireroom with a sort of a temporary cofferdam she could be pumped out, . Captain John Finding has been signed as master of the tug Oneonta, relieving Captain C. E. Anderson. C. L. Teeling has succeeded Ernest W. Steers on the gasoline launch Truth. It is intended to finish loading wheat on the British steamer Bcllucla at the elevator today. ...... Cable experts have been sent to the lower river to locate the line connect ing North Head with the Oregon shore, as it has not been In commission since September 9. Movements of Vessels. POrtTLAND, Sept. 26. Arrived Steamer Yosemite. from San Francisco: steamer Da mara. from Tacoma; steamer John A. Hooper, from Los Angeles. Sailed Gasoline schooner PatFy, for Bandon. Astoria, sept. 2G. Arrived at 7:15 and left up at U A. M. British steamer Bessie Dollar, from San Francisco. Sailed at 8 A. M. Steamer O. M. Clark, for San Pedro. Sailed at 8:15 A. M. Steamer El Segundo, with barge No. 01 in tow. for San Francisco. Sailed at 4:'M A. M. Steamer Multnomah, for San Pedro. Sailed at 8:30 A. M. Steamer Alliance, for Ooos Bay and Eureka. Arrived at 0:.'i0 A. M. and left up at 1:10 P. M. Steamer Atlas, from San Francisco. Ar rived at 11:30 A. M. and left up at 3:1.1 P. M. Steamer Yosemite, from San Francisco. Arrived at 2:30 and left up at 4 P. M. Steamer John A. Hooper, from San Pedro. San Francisco, Sept. Arrived at noon Steamer Bear, from San Pedro; steamer liose City, from Portland. Sailed at 1 P. M. Stiamer Yucatan, for Portland. Lalled last night Steamer F. H. Leggett. for Portland. San Peiro. Sept.- 23 Arrived Steamers Merred and Shasta, from Portland. S.nn Dieso, Sept. 26. Arrived Steamer Geo. 'Vtr. Fcnwlck with log raft In tow, from Columbia Klver. Victoria. Sept. ?3. Arrived British steamer Harlow, from Portland, for St. Vincent. Tatoosh. Sept. 26. Passed in at 8 A. M. British steamer Earl of Elgin, from Port land, for Comox. Astoria. Sept. 25. Sailed at 6:05 P. M. British steamer Colusa, for Panama, via San Francisco; at 6:40 P. M. British steamer Earl of Elgin, for Cork; at 8:30 P. M. Steamer Quinault. for San Pedro via South Bend. Seattle, Sept. 20. Arrived Steamers Umatilla, from San Francisco; Jefferson, from Skagway; Argyll, from Port San Luis; barge Elweil, from Chatham. Sailed Steamers President, for San Francisco; Brl gavia (German), for Hamburg; Delhi, for Southeastern Alaska. San Francisco. Sept. 26. Arrived Steam ers Adeline Smith, from Coos Bay; Sierra, from Honolulu; Rose City, from Portland; Bandon. from Bandon; gunboat Yorktown, 6TEAMEB INTELLIGENCE Due to Arrive. Name. From. Date. Beaver Los Angeles. . In port Breakwater. .. .Coos Bay Sept. 27 Sue H. Elmore. Tillamook: Sept. 28 Yucatan. . .. . ..San Diego. ... Sept. 28 Bear. ...... Los Angeles. . SepU 29 Alliance Eureka .Oct. 3 Rose City San Pedro. ... Oct. 4 Roanoke .San Diego. ... Oct. 0 Co' Depart. Kamev For. Date. Harvard S. F. to L. A.. Sept. 27 . San Ramon .... San Francisco Sept, 27 Yale S. F. to L. A.. Sept. 2 Beaver Loa Angeles. Sept. 2U J. B. Stetson. . .Los Angeles. . Sept. 29 Yosemite San Diego. ... Bept, SO Sue H. Elmore. Ttllsmook. Sept. 30 Breakwater. .. -Coos Bay Sept. 30 Yucatan San Francisco Oct. 1 Bear Los Angeles. . Oct. S Alliance Coos Bay Oct. 5 Rose City Los Angeles. . Oct. ' 8 Roanoke. ..... .San Diego. ... Oct. 8' European and Oriental Name. From. Uckermark. . . . Hamburg. . Den of Crombie London. . . C. Ferd Laelsz. Manila. ... Den of Glamis. .London. . . Service. Date. .. Oct 2 . . . Oct. i . . . Nov. 4 . . Nov. 8 . Dec 4 . Dee. 81 . . Jan 2 . . Feb. 1 Date. . Oct 8 Andalusia Hamburg. . Sfthonla Hamburg. . Den of Airlle. . .London. Monmouthshire London. . v. Name. For. Uckermark .... Hamburg. . Den of Crombie London. C. Ferd Laelss. Manila Den of Glamis. Xondon . , . . Andalusia Hamburg. . Sithonia. . . . .. .Hamburg. . Den of Alrlie. . .London. .. . MonmouthshlreLondon. .. Oct. . .Nov. 10 8 . Nov. IS . Deo. 10 . Jan. 7 Jan. 12 , Feb. 10 from Topolobampo: City of Pu?bla, from Victoria. Sailed Steamers Avalon, for Ray mond : Niagara German), for Woo &ung; cruiser Galveston, for Asiatic station; Fi ne Id. Speedwell, for Bandon; Yucatan, for Portland: Colonel K. 1- Drake, barge 5, for Puget Sound : Saginaw, for Astoria; Santa Monica, tor WiUana, Taku. Sep 116. Arrived previously Steamer Thor, from Portland. lxtt Anpeles. Sept. L'6. Arrived Slskl vou. from Bellinsham; Wlllapa, from Grays Harbor. Palled William Chatham, for PugeL Sound; San Jacinto, for Grays Harbor. Tides at Astoria Saturday. HiEh. - Low. 10:3S A. M. i.6 feet'4:4n A. M O.l foot 10:47 P. M. . ..4 feet.'-:02 P. M 2.3 feet NIGHT SCHOOLS TO OPEN Registration Indicates Increase in Attendance, Says Principal. Although the Portland night schools do not open until next Monday. 150 students have registered for work In the hlgth school branches, it was an nounced last night by W. C. Alderson, principal of the night high school. Mr. Alderson said that he will be at the Lincoln High School from 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock tonight to register additional pupils. "Last year we had 250 high school pupils." said Mr. Alderson, "and we are expecting at least 300 this term." 1 nc only n.u vtamwivu Is in Mosco- I i , - " i The Emergency Value of Big THE AND RATE FIGHT L Oregon Electric Will Oppose Reduction to Garden Home. 5-CENT FARE 'PROHIBITIVE' Company Declares That Concession to Suburban Point Would Neces sitate Revision of Tariffs as Far as Eugene. t iit of Garden Home and in termediate points take their petition for a 5-cent fare to and from Portland Jo the Btate Railroad Comm Ion, as thev threaten to do, officials of tne Oregon Metric will be prepared show that the rate would be unreason abGtrd"n mmeTi miles from the NoGrS Bank depot, from which point the rate applies. 'i""-' -;:,... flat cash fare raie oi -"".-; Garden Home and m- to Portland, uney P- - -. Linnton, which is o.o rt preseestoHome which are 20 cents on "' and 7 cents on a commuu...."" Jifirlmina tnrV. It is declared that conditions govern ing tne rate on the United Bailwaj. to Linnton differ so greatly from con ditions governing the rate on the Ore gon Electric to Garden Home, that they hardly admit of comparison. in the first place the United Rail ways and the Oregon Electr o are owned by separate corporations in the eyes of the law, although the interests back of them are identical. Linnton Fare Compulsory. The United Railways track between the Portland city limits and Linnton is built on a public highway. In con stderation of the use of this highway the railroad franchise requires that a 5-cent fare be charged. Construction and operation between Portland and Linnton cost little contrasted with the Oregon Electric, which is built on a costly private right of way. The United Railways is built on a water grade, the Oregon Electric over steep hills. In which both construction and opera tion are items of much expense. It might be inserted, parenthetically, that the United Railways' annual re ports show that the company actually is losing money on the business be tween Portland and Linnton. The road is not making operating expenses. A study of the respective tariff sheets of the United P.ailways- and the Oregon Electric discloses that the dif ference in communtation fare is not so great after all. The United Railways sells a 30-ride ticket for purchaser or family, good for 90 days, at an average f 17 cents a mile. The corresponding ticket on the Oregon Electric is good 1 ."".".v.. i ., . .i ror bu noes in cents . whlrh the Garden The rate against which tne aroen rr n.nnle seem to complain most ,nT.' about is that of the ine ov-iiuc. individual ticket. The average rate on this is only 1.02 cents a roue. Rate D-lred Ion by Cootrant. Contrasted with the rates on subur- ban roads in other parts of the coun- trv this is a low rate. The Central Railroad, of New Jersey, and the Chicago & Northwestern fre- quently have been referred to by the Interstate Commerce Commission as models in their respective communities for handling- suburban traffic. Now both of these roads sell 30-day tickets but they contain 60 rides and the average price per mile is 1.2 cents and higher. Patrons "of the Oregon Eleceric. therefore need make only 25 round trips a month to obtain the low rata, while patrons of the Eastern lines must make SO round trips. If they miss a day they lose the tickets for that day W. P. Skinner, traffic manager of h 'nrnn Klectric has. sciven much detailed personal attention to the re- quests of- patrons for a reduction in rates and a few days auo addressed a lengthy communication to the commit- tee in charge of the petition, setting forth his views on the subject and his willingness to do anything possible to WHEN a real catastrophe happens to a telephone system; when a fire destroys an exchange and the terminal apparatus, or a storm lays low the pole lines, the value of a big organiza tion is quickly shown. When a conflagration swept the city of Chelsea, Mass., it burned the Bell telephone exchange and destroyed the telephone equipment. The next day a temporary central station was established, amid the ruins, and the service restored. With similar promptness telephone service was re-established in Baltimore, San Francisco and Bangor, and after the more recent disasters in the Middle West. To meet great emergencies, complete switchboards and apparatus valued at over $100,000, are kept at Chicago and New York, crated and ready for shipment whenever the call for help comes from any part of the organization. Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Station PACIFIC TELEPHONE TELEGRAPH COMPANY adjust the rates to satisfy the com pany's patrons. Ho has reiterated, from time to time, his Inability to grant a flat 5-cent fare between Port land and Garden Home, pointing out that such a rate would Involve every rate on the Oregon Electric between Portland and Eugene. General Redaction Feared. The present through rates allow 20 cents for the haul between Portland and Garden Home. Were the Commis sion to grant the reduction the rate on every ticket would bo reduced 15 cents. No effort ever has been made by those who are leading the movement for a 5-cent fare to negotiate with Mr. Skinner. He has pointed out his rea sons for not granting the 6-cent rate. Now it is probable that the case will be carried before the State Railroad Commission. MRS. GRASTER CONVICTED Jury of Business Men I'lnd Guilty Woman Once Acquitted. On evidence precisely similar to that on which she was acquitted by a jury September 23, when charged With being a vagrant, Mrs. B. Graster, also known as Beatrice St Clair, was convicted yes terday in Municipal Court of having run a disorderly house at 15 Eleventh street, North, by a jury, chiefly com posed of business men. Patrolman McCulloch, who made the arrest September 1, testified as to the reports received and evidence gathered about the place after four women of the locality had protested to the police. The Jury was composed of E. Hippely, Robert G. McPherson, Ben Trenkman, J. P. Lipscomb, William Albers and John M. Mann. Its deliberations were confined to signing the verdict, which was unanimously guilty on the first ballot. 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It seemed weak. I had much pain and I was not as regular as I should have been. The Compound has cured these troubles and I recommend it to all my friends." Mrs. Bertha Dierksen, Box 102, Dixon, Iowa. If you liave the slightest doubt to Lydia E.PinkhamMedicineCo. (contidentla I) Lynn.iHa ss., for ad vice. Vour letter -will be opened, read and answered by a woman, and hold in tri:t confidence. Advertising Is the Best Policy Retailers no longer consider it a question as to whether or not ad vertising pays. The question Is horr to advertise so that tho greatest number of people may be constantly informed of the ever changing and interesting store news. Retailers agree that the best me dium through which their advertis ing may be circulated is through newspapers like The O r e g o n I a n, newspapers with an influential home circulation. Advertising in newspapers has be come to be such a recognized factor in all shopping transactions in this vicinity that many of our readers would actually resent it. and the paper would lose a great part of its value, if we should suddenly stop printing advertisements. Good retailing develops advertis ing Advertising develops good re tailing. Adv. NOTICE Classified advertisements, to re :olve proper classification In the next day's issue of The Oregonlan, must be In The Oregonian office be fore 10 o'clock at night, except Sat urday. Business office of The Oresonian will be open until 10 o'clock at night, as usual, and all classified advertisements for the next day's issue received too late for proper classification will be run under beading TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. II 4