THE MOItXIXG OREGON I AX, FRIDAY, JAXUXET 2, lOllI BANKS OPEN TODAY INTERIOR OF NEW QUARTERS OF NORTHWESTERN NATIONAL BANK AHD PORTLAND TRUST COMPANY, WHICH WILL BE OPENED TODAY. Today Our 1248th Friday Surprise Sales and Annual January Clearance (See Advertisements in Yesterday's Papers) Worth western National and Portland Trust Company Will Hold Reception. NOVEL IDEAS INTRODUCED (ouiiiing-Koom Ornate With Marble anil Mahogany, Light Is Indirect and Accommodation Provided for Employe and Patron 29 111 GORGEOUS HOME Headquarters of the Northwestern National Bank and the Portland Trust Company are established now In the magnificent new rooms just completed in the Northwestern Bank building- at Sixth and Morrison streets. The books, bonds, papers, valuable documents and currency of both insti tutions were moved yesterday from the old quarters at Third and Oak streets. The two banks will be open for busi ness today, as usual, at 10 o'clock. For mal opening ceremonies have been dis pensed with, but patrons of the banks and Portland people in greneral are In vited to call and inspect the new quar ters. In moving from the "downtown" sec tion of the city to the "uptown" dis trict, the Northwestern and Portland Trust Company have established them selves In what doubtless Is one of the finest banking- homes on the Pacific Coast. Both banks are quartered in the same room. In the east end of the first floor of the new 15-story building that ex tends on Morrison street, from Sixth to Broadway, 60 feet wide. The interior is finished In marble and mahogany. The tellers' eagres are of bronze. The ceilings are ornamented with gilt. Massive chandeliers cast Indirect light over the rooms. White is the predominating: shade. Ample Space Provided. Every official, clerk, bookkeeper and employe has ample space to perform the duties attending- the conduct of the business of these two institutions. A spacious mezzanine floor. Bur rounding the Interior lobby, with ade quate outside light, is devoted to the use of the bookkeepers and clerks. It can accommodate 75 persons. The first floor Is exclusively for the officers' quarters, tellers' cages and ac commodations for the public. The of ficers' desks are Immediately to the left of the main entrance, which is reached by seven marble steps leading from Sixth street. Connecting' with the officers' room is a small committee room, which also may be used by pa trons of the bank. Miss Moorehouse, who has charge of the women's department, has a private office to the right of the entrance. A special room for accommodation of women patrons is provided, with lava tories attached. Drinking fountains, with running Bull Run water, are lo cated at points convenient for the use oi employes. New Features Introduced. An innovation In' equipment of tel lers' cages is the use of "battleship linoleum" on the counters over which the currency is handled. This Is em bedded in the mahogany and, while durable, will not scratch nor show sip-ns of wear. Revolving signature cases also are provided for protection of the tellers. This will enable a teller to leave his cage temporarily, lock It and keep his cash and accounts un disturbed, yet permit his neighbor, re maining in his own cage, to transact business for him by turning the algna ture case on Its axis until the card drawers face the opening between the two cages, through which they can be extracted. The directors' room Is on the mez zanine floor. This also is finished In mahogany. Elaborate decorations will be provided. Private elevators connect the lobby Immediately facing the street entrance with the mezzanine floor, the elevator haft opening next to the dl rectors' room. This same elevator also, win convey patrons or the safety de posit department from the counting room to the vaults in the basement. An other private elevator operates between the mezzanine and the basement in the rear and will be used to convey books and papers between the "work rooms and the fireproof vaults. In which lat ter place they will be stored each niprht. The private telephone exchange over looks the central lobby and all the of flees. It is located on the mezzanine floor. Lighting Throughout Indirect. Indirect lighting is used throughout. i. luhting for the tellers' cage comes from glass encased globes in the par tuioiis overhead. Hanging lights or Ktands are not used, eliminating all possible interference from this source. Indirect lights also serve the custom ers' desks in the lobby. The safety deposit vaults In the basement are embedded In solid con crete. Accommodations are provided for 6000 separate boxes, in addition to huge trunk and silverware cases. Bach of the two banks has Its own coin vault. The door to the main vault weighs 66.000 pounds, yet Is so per lecuy Daiancea mat a child can swing it. W. O. Haines will have charge of tne sarety deposit department. . M Keith will be his assistant. A meeting room for the men em ployes is provided In the basement. It will be finely fitted and elegantly fur msnea. Officers of the Northwestern Bank are: President, H. L. Pittock; vice presidents, John Twohy, K. W. Lead better and Lmery Olmstead; cashier, Kdgar H. Sensenich; assistant cashier, Charles M. Hemphill. The Portland Trust Company's off! cers are: President, H. L. Pittock vice-presidents, F. W. Leadbetter an J-.mery Olmstead: secretary. H. W. Hawkins; assistant secretary, C. IV. De Directors of both institutions. In ad union to tne executive outcers, are J. D. Farrell, I B. Menefee, A. S. Nich ols. Charles H. Carey, W. D. Fenton and" A. D. Charlton. Mr. Olmstead Is managing director of both banks. HOOD RIVER - BUDGET CU City Levy Will Be 25.9 Mills i Against 0.5 in 1913. HOOD RIVER, Or., Jan.' 1. (Special On protests from numerous source the County Court last week clipped the Hood River County budget for the coming year to the extent of S1T20. Th sum of $1000, asked for an exhibit at the Panama Exposition, was denied, as was J500 to equip an assembly-room at the Carnegie Library building. Ttfh salary asked for the deputy bounty Cleric was cut from S1020 t 900 and the deputies for the Sheriff and Treasurer from $500 to $450 eac The city tax levy for the comin year will be increased to 25.9, against 20.5 last year. " ' - M -T'Ia.. Mi1, j v - ' ' ' - i i vue f z. "- ? v - - r -,-c - ' ? h i --'m ,, -SOl if- -AJ ,kr r.vTtTwi" Uf n i TCTv "F- L ' -f r.M '- 1. ! - - i " "J, . ' " ' v , - vv ' ;. 7;. . f- - .-l r.r- . . ' . . T y-y' . - VIEW OF MAIX LOBBY FItOM I" NT II A NCR, .SHOWING OFFICERS' Q.TJA RT ERS AT LEFT AND TELLERS' CAGES. LIZA, SIM AND ADDISON BENNETT GO FOR CALLS Dressed Appropriately, Trio Bring Rabbitville Custom to Portland, Drink Tew Non-countable Cans of Amber, but Keep New Year's Vows. BY ADDISON BENNETT. rOU might have noticed us going down Washington street shortly after noon yesterday or going up Morrison soon ofter. you wouia have known us, for we were attract ing a lot-of attention, being in full evening dress. The youngish female with me was Liza Liza, from the glo rious old town of Rabbitvllle. Liza came down expressly to see me, and with me to endeavor to re-establish the good old custom of making New Year calls, a custom still In vogue in the best circles In -Rabbitvllle and other up-to-date cities, but almost for gotten in Portland. Liza was a swell looking lassie. Her costume was according to that estab lished by the bong tong, the upper circles, of Rabbitville. Her drees was of the finest grade of black alpaca, her shoes were cut low with bars across the top showing on ner yel low silk hosiery to the very best ad vantage. She had on a. splendid opera cloak at least she said she had but the day being lowery she had over It a magnificent red sweater, and on her head she wore a stunning nat. &ne had plucked every tall feather out of her old Domlnicker rooster before leaving home and every feather deco rated her hat. Gee, it was stunning! My costume was also swell and yet picturesque. My silk hat was once worn by General Arthur soon after the Civil War. That Is, he tried It on after reception one night and found it three sizes too small. But he had it on. and with such associations I still prize and wear It on state occasions. My sweater was green, my pantaloons were of the finest white duck But Just here who should we meet up with but . our old fellow townsman, Sim Dlpp. Of all persons he was the most welcome we could have met. Sim, of course, joined us, and his coonskln cap, with three talis dangling down his shoulders, his finely polished high logging boots and a swallow-tail coat over a pink sweater geewnmiKins, but Sim looked like a four-times win ner. Perhaps you noticed us again, the three of us. No? Then you missed a rare sight for style and aplomb. Aplomb is a French word meaning en regal. For the moment I forget what that means. But whatever it means, we were it, and then some. Having all. sworn off,- all being on the wagon since 12 midnight the eve ning before, we Were not looking for liquid refreshments, though Sim was spitting cotton. I was. rolling a mar ble over, and under and arpund my tongue, and Liza was ' chewing gum as if she was in league with the gum trust. :. So we sauntered out on our round Of calling, each of us provided with a swell deck of visiting cards -which were -printed at the Clarion printing office" in Rabbitville. These cards were somewhat worn, but the backs had been laundered pretty nicely.-The spots and pictures had been scraped off of the obverse side, meaning the other side, and thereon our names were printed. Quite a novelty, but at tractive and recherche, as Liza ex pressed it. The first house we came to was in the fashionable quarter, not so very far from the great hospital. - It was a fine mansion, standing well back among the trees with a fine lawn sur rounding; I touched the electric button,' and soon a man appeared, dressed just like the other waiters at the big feeding establishments. As he appeared we each handed out a card and told him we would like to see the main squeeze and the refreshment table, as we were making our annual round of New Tear calls. I furthermore told him to get hustle on himself, as we were in no mood to be kept waiting. V Just a moment, please." he replied, 'just a moment: step right into the vestibule, right in this way, the main squeeze will see that you are all prop erly pinched." Then he laughed and left us. . In about five minutes he reappeared and just thea we heard a gong ring ing outside. "Step right this way, my friends, right this way," he said, "right out to the refreshment tabe: we are not re ceiving today, but I have called a tax icab and have ordered the driver to take you where you will be properly and hospitably entertained." The next thing we knew we. were in the hurry-up wagon bound for the city bastile, where we were taken be fore hisoner, who looked us over, laughed, toyed with a little mallet ly ing before him and said: "I might give you each 10 days, but this being New Tear's day, I will let you off by fining you a dollar, enough to pay for that taxicab." Then we held a council and decided we would try calling in the .poorer quarter of the town, in the district where we would not mistake the house owner for a waiter. The first place we ran up against was a rather shabby house; the old-style bell was out of gear and we had to knock. Immedlatey there appeared .a buxom old German woman who did not, even wait to look at Our cards. "Come right avay In," she remarked, "come right avay in," dropping into her vernacular, "come ride avay in anut set yourselfs down vile I send Fritz der sthreet down to meet his fadder and told him to bring anudder dime's worth, for we are all celebrating the happy season." Pretty quick in came Fadder and the girls and boys, and then in came Fritz with a 10-pound - lard bucket filled to the brim with something which overran the froth down the sides of the bucket. t "Beer!" said Sim. "Beer!" quoth Liza. "Beer," I muttered, wondering how we could side-step the offering and still keep our vows. By a look at each. into the face of each, then at our host and hostess, we decided that hospitalty ana true friendship forbade refusal and each of us muttered lowly to the other: "This once don't count." Five minutes thereafter Mrs. Fadder and Liza were the best of friends. Fad der and Sim and I were like triplets and quickly Sim had thrown aside his swaiiow-tail, Liza had divested herself of a shoe that was pinchine- her corns and I was' making good time towards tne piace wnere tne amber flows from a keg haviog taken two lard buckets in place of one. Out came the Sweitzer cheese, pretz els, sauer kraut - and the cold roast. Also a neighbor or two dropped in, the room became a palace, - all formality was lost, or forgotten, the lard buckets were like a shining silhouette as they raced to and from the groggery and as the clock chimed 10, three bedrag gled but happy citizens, meaning Sim, Liza and myself, carrying our coats and sweaters, Liza waving her doml nicker feathers like a color-bearer in a battle. These three ambled home to declare that not for worlds and worlds would we break our vows to forego all drinks stronger than coffee during the coming year, and agreeing, without a dissenting voice, that the few palls of beer consumed should not count. Maybe you saw us coming up Wash ington street? CLACKAMAS LEVY IS MADE County and State Taxes CO Mills; Oregon City to Pay 38. 3 Mills. OREGON CITT, Or., Jan. 1. (Spe cial.) The County Court has deter mined on a 20-mlll levy for county and state purposes on an assessed valua tion of about T30.000.000. . For state purposes, this county will contribute $154,000. The original fig ures as given by the office of the state commission erroneously called for J170.000. In addition, the special taxes that have been voted by the people In the various cities and districts will amoun l j. wency-eignt aistricts through the county have voted special taxeB for good roads and a large num ber have increased the available funds at the disposal of the schools by special levy. Oregon City will pay 38.3 mills for all purposes. The City Council has made a. levy of 10 mills, the school dis trict calls for 8.3 mills, and the state and county 20 mills. DAIRYMEN ARE TO QUIT MILK BUSINESS IX MULTNOMAH CO tJXTV BRINGS COMPLAINT. W. AV. Cotton Sendi Herd Away From Mountain View Farm and Gresham Sapplr la to Be Cat Off. The milk business in Eastern Mult nomah County is somewhat demor alized. Several dairies have gone out of business in the past few months. and two more are to cease at once. The most extensive is the Mountain View Farm owned by W. W. Cotton, of Portland, which has been in opera tion for 15 years. The fine herd from the farm, the largest In the county is being sent to Mr. Cotton's island farm in the Willamette River. P. J. Neurrurer, who has bee'n sup plying Gresham with milk, will go out of business, which will leave that place "dry." His 19 cows will be sold. Wil liam Tremble and H. R. Kane will sell out their herd of cows. These men give as a reason for retir ing that they cannot make the business pay, owing to the high cost of feed and the expense of hired help. They say that if a dairyman can raise hi own feed and does not have to hire many men he can make it pay. An effort was made to unite the milkmen last Spring and promote cheese factory which would take the product of Eastern Multnomah County but this failed at the llth hour. Many Seek Lost Money. It pays to advertise. For the truth fulness of this often-repeated state ment. Head Janitor Simmons, of the City Hall, can vouch. Wednesday he picked up some money on the City Hall floor, and having a George Wash Every Article Reduced Except Contract Goods and Groceries Store Opens at 9 A. M., Closes at 6 P. M. Including Saturday Tonight, Last Opportunity to Visit the Kodak Exhibition at the Armory Complimentary Tickets at Our Kodak Dept. 1887 lngton sort of a feeling, went Into the boilerroom and painted a sign. Monev Found." He placed this near the entrance to the elevator on the sec ond floor. f As a result, Mr. Simmons says he sons lost money in the City Hall Wednesday. None, however, has been able to Identify the particular amount of money found by Mr. Simmons. The sign Is still up and Mr. Simmons still has the money, the amount or nature has learned that upwards of 200 per- of which Is kept a secret. MAKE IT A CUSTOM TO DINE AT THE HOFBRAU-QUELLE ON SUNDAYS The Hofbraa-Quelle is always the place to find con genial people. They are always there, for one knows that one will always find a restful, harmonious atmos phere, prompt, efficient service, well-cooked viands and a delightful musical and cabaret entertainment a com bination that makes dining at the great German restaurant of the Northwest exceptionally pleasant, especially on Sundays. Reservations May Be Made by rnone Table d'Hote Sunday Dinner TT?m.T K -o.n TO s P. M. Plivf One Dollar Entrance on Alder and on Sixth Street WE ARE OPEN FOR BUSIN AT In Our New Home SIXTH AND MORRISON WE PAY Four Per Gent Interest - FROM JANUARY FIRST ON ALL SAVINGS DEPOSITS MADE ON OR BEFORE MONDAY, JANUARY FIFTH WE ARE OPEN SATURDAY EVENING FROM SIX TO EIGHT ............. i NORTHWESTERN NATIONAL : BAN PORTLAND TRUST COMPANY K 6