Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1915)
It JITNEYS CANT PAY LONG. SAYS EXPERT GREAT FILM COMEDY WILL BE SHOWN STREET THEATER. AT ELEVENTH- April Home Journal Patterns, Fashion Books and "Good Dressing" Now Ready for Distribution j&C Stamps Will be Given on All Charge Accounts If Paid in Full by the 10th of Each Month 0 w9'Twr'-''-' Each Guest to Our Tea Room Will Receive a Ki Pound Box of Societe Chocolates With Their Lunch TODAY Candy Day h - Olds, Wortman & King Reliable Merchandise Reliable Methods TODAY At the Bargain Cirln on the main floor. Vc-lic-ioun, wholesome sweets, of popular v. rieties on sale for one day at radiKtd pric e". Treat the home folks. Nearly Every Driver Losing Money, but Some.Do Not Know It, He Reports. Pacific Phone Marshall 4800 Home Phone A 6231 Double Stamps From 9 A. M. to 1 P. M. CAR CAPACITY TOO LOW THE lORXIXG OREGONIAN. SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915. ; r u t - 5 - I 'V ' t Fcw Make Wages and "one Give Big Knougli Kstimate for Repairs and Depreciation Careful KccorUs Show Earnings. Automobiles as jitneys cannot te operated permanently, at a profit, ac cording to conclusions reached by Mu nicipal Traffic Engineer XirkpatricK who bus completed a study of the rec ord ket by municipal traffic experts on the bridges. Mr. Kirkpatrick bases His opinion as to the failure of the jitneys on an actual Investigation or ail tne liom.i of expense that enter into tne business and the possible earning ca Daritv of the machines. "I have taken the proposition on tne basis of an eiht-hour day. reports lir. Kirkpatrick, "and have figured- on II the costs of operating. I hnd tnat there is so much coat to each mile or oneration that the capacity of the auto mobile is not jtreat enough to take in sufficient number of nickels to make the operation a success. This, 1 be lieve. is true also of the jitney bus as It is being operated In Portland Moat Driver Are Losing-. "The jitney drivers think they are making money. If I should tell them thev are not they would laugh at me, but the fact still remains that they are not making wages. The chances are the man who thinks he is making moncv is actually losing money. "There is a certain cost of operation for every mile an automobile runs. If machine d"es not pay In eight nours operation it will not pay in 16 hours operation or even longer, because in expense goes on just the same. A man, we will sy, puts $400 Into an automo bile. It must be ngurea tnat ne is los ing 4 per cent interest on that money for that is what he could get by placing the amount in the bank. There is fixed charge per mile for repair and a. fixed charge for gasoline and oil and a charge for depreciation. Depreciation la Overlooked "The average jitney driver does not With Cash Purchases Made Today in All Depts.of the Store Women's $1.50 Gloves MARIE DRKSSLER AI CHARLIE CHAPLIS IN "TIL-LIITS PUNC TURED ROMAACE." Marie Dressier and "Charlie Chaplin are starring in the famous Key stone comedy film, "Tillie's Punctured Romance," to be seen at the Eleventh-street Playhouse next week starting tomorrow afternoon. This has been accepted as the greatest comedy feature ever put out by the Keyi--tone or any other company, and upon Its former presen tation in this city turned thousands away unable to gain admittance to see It. The large capacity of the Eleventh-street Playhouse, cor ner Morrison and Eleventh streets, will assure everyone a good seat and performances will be given every afternoon and evening". At $135 Main Floor Supply your Easter Glove needs today and save. Women's select stock kid Gloves in all the very newest shades for Spring standard $1.60 quality all sizes. The pair $1.35 Silk Hosiery, 65c a Pair ' Main Floor Women's Silk Hose in all the new shades, such as sand, putty, Eg greens, grays. Priced special, pair vJiJw NEW CLUB crook-handle Umbrellas for women. Shown in all colors. J?CI Priced very special for only J Toilet Articles and Drugs Underpriced for Today IP'S END TRAGIC Companion of Portland Worn .en Killed Returns. Auto in Which Mrs. Bell and Mrs. Kulo Kodo Talis Over Embank ment in Hawaii Mrs. Bell's Funeral AVill Be Today. ton in figure that it will be only a .hort time before ' -MISS KING NEAR COLLAPSE original investment at that time. That - is the item of depreciation. "Those who are taking into consider ation the depreciation on their cars are figuring the life of the car at five years. Hut there isn't a car in the jitney serv. ire that will stand up for live years under the flcain. Other drivers pay a small amount for their ears and figure that by so doing they do not have so great a depreciation cost. What is iravfj in depreciation is made up in the additional repairs by reason of the age of the machine, so that this proposition is balanced "The traffic division of the Depart ment of Public Works has taken the jitney business as a whole In Its in vesication. --We have shown that the average earning of a Jitney In ait eight- Douc day is S2.ai. Earnings bnt Pay Coat. "That will pay the, cost of operating some of the cars, but with others it will not be sufficient. The Jitney people. In commenting on this, say that it is only taking eight hours, whereas the machines operate 16 hours In some canes and get advantage of the rush hours of both morning and evening Our recoras snow mat many cars carry their full capacity of passengers dur ing a day and still do not make money. The increased length of operation en tails increased expense and overloading entails extra cost of operation. "Our records prove absolutely that it Is an exceptional autoist who is makin wages in the jitney business. The most of them either do not know any bet ter, io not care, or are misinformed as lo their earnings and their expenses. They are not looking ahead to the time when their entire Investment will be w-lped out and they -will have to rein ve.tt the full amount to continue in business. "I have absolute tab on every one of the 337 jitneys operating in the city and I do not know of one that ia making money. 1 know of many drivers who !y they are, but they are misinformed. as our records for. the business will fllOW RABBI SCORES CRITIC lGORAT ATTACKS OX RELIGION SPOKEN OF IX SERMON. Harping- on laolated Features la Like Counting; Black Sheep for Flock and la Menace. He Says. The criticism of modern day "soph omores of science" directed against so cial forces was compared by Rabbi .lonah B. Wise in his sermon at Temple Beth Israel last night to the method of a shepherd approximating his flock by counting the black sheep in it and noting if they are the same in quantity as the last count. "The habit of picking out isolated facta and deducing from them the use fulness or menace of an institution gives rise to most of the haphazard criticism as well as the unhealthv growths to which our modern life exposed." he said. "To call such a method unscientific Is superfluous: to call it dangerous is timeiy. One example alone Is most strik ing, the bitter and senseless fight on preventive medicine. The arguments against safeguarding public health, as. lor instance. In the matter of vaccina tion, are along the line of thought suggested by counting a few black cheep. "The same may be said of religion. J-aitn in ood and right to appeal to nls power is a generalization that Is so Inclusive of al human thought that at times It becomes vague. . The critics or religion proceed to ignore the phe nomena of force and purity which are the essentials of faith and attack It from the side which mcst religions have felt called upon to defend, the folk narratives, of primitive religious literature. "Criticism is invaluable to progress, but scattered and vague denunciation, on the basis of ill-conditioned and un organized curiosity, is a danger so grave and at present is so prevalent as to bft a menace." Details of the tragic automobile ac cldcnt on the Island of Hawaii last week, when Mrs. Miles Bell and Mrs. M. F. Rule were killed and the outing party of the maiden voyagers on the new steamship Great Northern was brought to an inauspicious conclusion. were related in portiana Dy .miss Adelaide King. 311 East Twenty-sixth street North, who arrived borne yes terday. Only the fact that there were 200 In the party which took the trip to vol cano House and the crowded conditions caused Miss Kins to become separated from Mrs. Rule and Mrs. Bell prob ably accounts for Miss King's escaping the fate of her two companions. Miss King had intended riding in the auto tphiih wAnt nvoi" th hnnlr Knlffinsr nut the rives of the two Portland women and killing the driver, but she was unable to get to her seat when the car started. Miss King, together with Mrs. Rule and Mrs. Bell, sailed on the new steam ship Great Northern from San Francisco February 16. They arrived in Honolulu February 21 and landed the next day. On February 23 they went to Hilo fn the western side, a little to the south of the center of the' island, to make the trip up the Volcano Kilauea. On February 25 they started from Hilo and went to Glenwood, about three fourths of the way to the volcano, on the train. From there they took auto mobiles to Volcano House. Miss Kins; Feared Accident. According to Miss King; her car reached Volcano House about 1 o clock and waited three-quarters of an hour for the other machine to appear. When they did not come, she inquired of one of the men in charge if there might not be an accident. He reassured her. but she was uneasy, and when an hour had passed she Implored him to send some one back to ascertain for sure if I everything was all right. It was 8:30 before the driver returned with the news of the accident. Miss King was immediately taken back to the scene of the accident, where the bodies al ready had been taken from the car and "placed on stretchers. Mrs. Rule and Mrs. ,Bell were riding In the front seat with the driver. There were six other persons in the car, of whom were uninjured. The other two automobiles took the rest of the party in their cars and went on to finish the trip after they had helped to recover the machine and placed the bodies of the two women and the chauffeur on stretchers. Car Topples Over Kmbankment. Miss King said: "The road was of loose, lava forma tion, and the car in attempting: to pass a large truck fell over an embank ment, about 10 feet high. The car turned over, breaking the neck of the driver. The backs of Mrs. Rule and Mrs. Bell were broken and they were killed instantly. "The machine fell into a bower of native flowers and ferns, and the na tives, after covering the bodies of the 1 dead with flowers, carried them on stretchers back to Hilo. Miss King returned to San Francisco on the Great Northern, where she at tended to the transporting of the body I of Mrs. Rule to the East. Mrs. Bell's body arrived in Portland yesterday morning and the funeral services will be held from St. David's Church this I morning at 9:15 o'clock. Burial will be i at Salem. Miss King and Mrs. Rule were em ployed in the Portland office of the United States Forestry Service and had taken the Hawaiian trip for their va cation. Miss King hopes to be able to return to her work next week. Although there were several casos of tonsilitls on, Hoard 4he Great Northern, it was held In quarantine only an hour in the outer harbor at San Francisco, and then all but three patients were allowed to land. The others were re leased the following morning. Five bars Ivory and one l Qg bar of Lurline Soap, today X.OC Above Soap, will not be delivered except with other purchases made in the Drug Department. Limit, 6 bars to a customer. Come early. 15c Pears' Unscented Soap for 120 15c 4711 White Rose Soap at 120 $1.00 Imported Bocabella Castile Soap priced special, the bar, 6of 10c Monkey Scouring Soap at 50 10c Hand or Kitchen Sapolto 70 2oc Massatla Talc. Powder at lie 25c Imperial Talc. Powder at 120 50c Dora Bourjois Powder at 3901 25c Petro,' 1-Ib. jar, special, 100 50c Bay Rum, 6-oz. bottle, at 3o0 25c Denver Mud on sale at 150 50c size 300- $1.00 size at 000 25c Pasteurine Tooth Paste 150 50c Cold Cream in jars now 280 $1 Hair Brushes At 50c Main Floor Extra special offer ing! Rubber cushion Hair Brushes with solid back and double bristle. Regular $1.00 grade, spe rial at low nrice of onlv vt Metal Hot Water Bags. Priced special Metal Hot Water 1 1 CZ 25c Kolynos Tooth Paste at 160 50c Pompeian Massage Crm. 390 25c Ricksecker's Cold Cream 150 50c Swamp-Root on sale at 390 10c Fluff's Moquet, for hair, 50 50c bottle pure Olive Oil at 380 50c Lavoris Mouth Wash at 380 29c Hospital Cotton now at 210 50c Sanitary Napkins now at 350 50c Phenolax Wafers now at 350 25c Tooth Brushes now at 150 15c H2-02 Peroxide now only 80 25c Witch Hazel on sals at 210 25c Lyon's Tooth Powder at 150 25c Corylopsis Talcum now at 120 10c Old Dutch Cleanser now at 70 15c Toilet Paper, 1500 sheets, 100 50 Hair Brushes on sale at 390 $1.50 Hedden's Toilet Water at $t 10c Fairskin Oatmeal Soap at 70 50c Fitch's Hair Tonic now 350 Borden's Milk Demonstration 1st Floor. The National pure food drink good for young or old healthAil, invigorating and nour ishing. Try it. Note special prices: Regular 50c Size Now Only 400 Regular $1.00 Size Now at 800 $3.98 Hospital Size on Sale $2.98 Men's Spring Suits $15, $20 and $25 Men s Store, Main Floor In your travels about lown in search of your new Spring Suit don't stop until you have seen the smart models we are showing. Clothes of style and quality minus the high price. You cannot lose and you are certain to win by seeing ours first. New Spring Suits for men in wide range of models to suit every fancy celebrated makes, in cluding our famous OWK brand. Prices range $15, $20 and $25. Many stylish models for young fellows in plaids, Newport checks and fancy mixtures. Imported models with ath letic vest and patch pockets. See these Suits. Priced for this sale 910, $12.50, $15, $20 $2.50 Shirts $1.29 h It i.Vfi- J I Men's Store, Main Floor Practically half price for these excellent Shirts to clean up several odd lines from our regular stock. All are of standard makes and the styles are those most wanted right now. Plain bosoms with stiff or soft cuffs tub silk bosoms in manv handsome patterns and smart mush room effects. Shown in beautiful patterns and best fit of materials. Shirts selling formerly J f Ofl at $2.00 and $2.50. Priced special at pAaWl7 Men's Linen Handkerchiefs, 3 for 25c Showing New Hats for Men Main Floor Again today we will Fell "those excellent linen Hand kerchiefs for men at three for twenty-five cents. These are of fine, sheer, quality and are fin ished with neat hemstitched bor der. On account of the low price not more than 6 sold to O a customer. Three for Main Floor Spring blocks in the celebrated "Schoblc" and "Shed rain" Hats now ready for your selection. Shown in smart soft styles in black and newest colors. Also in stiff styles. Step in today and try them on. Triced ut $:, $3.50 and $1.00. New lines of Men's Caps just received here. Boys' $6.5Q Norfolk Suits at $4.95 Boys $1.00 Corduroy Pants 79c Main Floor New Spring styles in boys' Norfolk Suits, with two pairs of Pants. Shown in hand some woolen fabrics and attrac tive patterns. Pants full lined with double - taped G?i Q CT seams. $6.50 Suits P iVaJ Double Stamps .Main Floor New shipment of boys corduroy Pants just received. Shown in all sizes for boys; 6 to 17 years of age. Splendid wear ing quality, easily worth $1.00 the pair. Priced Special rJCkf for Saturday, the pair ivC Today from 9 A. M. to 1 P. M. with cash purchases in all depts. MR.. ALDERMAN INDORSED Clubwomen Adopt Resolution Asking Retention as Superintendent. resolution has been adopted and submitted by the bureau of social equity of the Council of WoiAen Voters, to the School Board, urging that Saper- nteiidcnt R. Alderman be retained in his position, pointing out that the schools of the city have made unparal leled progress under his administra tion and urging the need of continuing the policy which he has pursued. The bureau of equity is composed of the presidents and representative mem bers of the most important women s clubs hi the city -and the resolution re ferred to the School Board by this bu reau implies tne packing oi a great force of women's votes. Business Block Incased. The two-story building located on the northeast corner of Sixth and Alder treets has been leased by the Won- er Mlllinary Company, now in busi ness at Fourth and Morrison streets, for a period of five years, dating from ulv 1. Before the building is occu pied by the millinery company it will be extensively altered and repaired at an expense of about $10,000. This work will be done under the direction of Architects MacNaughton & Raymond. The building is owned by the Lang Investment Company, which is made up of the Joint heirs of the Lang and Jacobs estates. The lease was ar ranged by W. H. Webb. INCREASED STABILITY IS PROCLAIMED IN MERGER S. C. Pier Says Linking of Commerce Bodies Means Greater Impetus to Affairs of State and -Greater Power Than Expected. Michigan Society to Meet. The Michigan Society of Oregon will meet Mondar night at Masonic Temple. There will be a literary and musical programme. All former residents of Michigan and their friends will be made welcome. CONSOLIDATION AI.K NO. 11. ttrr HE Portland Chamber of Com- I .. .1,- Dn.tlan rAm merclal Club are organizations that are not local to Portland, nor even to the State of Oregon." saya S. C. Pier. sales manager of Marshall-Wells Hard ware Company. "While primarily they stand for the progress and uplift of the citv and state, the influence or tnese bodies Is far-reaching for they are pos sessed of a power that is recognized throughout our country. It is a rare occasion when so much earnest thought is given to a project of this character, but in .this consoli dation our citizens, men and women alike from business as well as from the social walks of life, even though they are not enrolled members, have evinced a keen interest in this 'come together' movement that speaks well for the perception and Intelligence of our people. "The "go-lt-alor.e idea has been tried is fast being ventilated and has been found wanting. The linking of the Chamber of Commerce and the Com mercial Club can be likened to a wed lock of mature years, which will result in practical and broader ideas which in its union will ripen into a. fruitage that should give the affairs of Oregon ar impetus that will stand for more and give us greater power and strength than we have ever even dared hope for. Co-operation' is a much-UHed word these days, but here is a Joint effort that will create enterprise and give fcf: ' m 1? v4i ill 1 I I f I I' ll Hamuli' ! W;iTi W1 li'.i i New Spring inery Special Showing Today in Millinery Salons SS If you want to know what's to be in vogue this season visit our Millinery Salons today and view the newest models from Eastern style centers. Everything that's smart and up to the minute will be found in this won derful collection. New shepherdess sailors, English sailors, poke bonnets, etc, in all the latest shades. Trimming features include flowers, ribbons, fruit, celluloid novelties, quills, etc. Don't fail to see these new models. Special Showing of New Pattern Hats MODERATE PRICES We Give S. & H. Green Stamps. Women's Leather Hand Bags $1.00 Main Floor Women's stylish new Handbags in "Melon" and other popu lar shapes. Genuine leather with in side fittings. Exccp- T t ff tionally good Bags, at vIUl $3.50 Combs at 75c Main Floor Fancy Combs, EareUcs, Braid Pins, Etc.. in great variety of styles. Plain and rhinestone- n ' CZ. set. Worth to $3.50, choice GIRL SEEKS JAIL CELL PARENTS DISLIKE HUSBAND AND DOLLY ST. DENIS" ASKS REFVGE, fused she demanded to be placed in Jail. Whether ner request will be granted or not is not decided, but the girl prob. ably will be released if thoughts of suicide can be driven from her mind. "My folks objected when I was mar ried to him, and they simply won't like him." the girl said tearfully yesterday. "so I just want to get away from it all for a while." The women's department is endeavor ing to trace her Identity, for the name she gave is not believed to be her own. The girl says that she lives on the out skirts of Tortland, but refuses to give her address. She admits that her par ents also make their home in this city. The young woman Is of medium holtjhl, has brown eyes and dark hair and la apparently of a melancholy tempera nli:iit. She said that slin had once at tempted suicide but that It had failed. Th nM In Soulh Amrlra hav btn known to construct a tunnel lhr niiUa la Request Made for Police Captain's Gua an( Suicide Threatened Identity Is Investigated. Because her relatives cannot become reconciled to her husband, a pretty wo man of 24 years, giving her name' as Dolly St. Denis, has appealed to the Women's Protective Division of the De partment or Public Safety, to be plaeed in the women's quarters at the City Jail for 30 days. She made her appearance at, police headquarters late lnursaay night when she asked Police captain Circle to lend his gun to her that she might kill herself. Upon being re- stability to every movement in the on ward march of 'Wonderful Oregon.' " ONCE FOR ALL TIM K no backache no blistered hands no stalited clothes no broken turf. Mors fun than fishing. Operated automatically. A child can pull 'em up with the SIMPLEX WED PULLER (Pat. U. S. and Canada.) ' The only genuine Weeder on the market. All otnera meroiy cm off or break the tops, leaving the roots to grow two heads where but one grew before. INSIST on the, SIMPLEX It pulla 'em up by the root. They can't come 'back. It eaves time, monev and tiodlly discomfort and will afford the wife and children a world of fun. If your dealer hasn't it, we will supply you. Mailed to any point In the U. 6. for Jl.OOk postpaid. Guaranteed -Money back if not touud more than attUftfactory. THE SIMPLEX CO., 3l:S I logo Bldg.. Seattle, Wah. Dealers and Agents wanted. .haMaMiMTr mmm Poor rwrndfrtsabrc fnlGK4TardJltGroondChKUte:two enpfuta uffv;oncttptal milk; butter th .! aS mall hen 'a eer one teatRioonfol vanilla: twA liMM lanoo extrict BoiltJmarar. uttrrn mi!V tvai.b ai riri chocolate: cook until thrwd RIM wtico tried; then add extract and take from fire. tirrm until lemrly cold or become bus ax 7. Turn on a well buttered dia Ghirardelli's Chocolrte FUdAe near aad cut ia aqui This recipe makes tb best fudge you ever ate This is but one of the dainty goodies that can be made with 1.5 GUIS Ground Chocolate As a. beverage it is beyond compare. There's no'thing(so good nothing so economical. Ghirardelli's Ground Chocolate is as old as the state. Its purity, strength and healtbfulness is retained in hermetically sealed tins. Order from your giocer to-day. D. GHIRARDELLI CO. San Franciaco Sinca XUt fiW-