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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1915)
18 TIIE MORNING OREGOXIAX. WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1915. FIRE HYDRANTS ARE LEFT OUT TO SAVE PORTLAND ENTERTAINERS WHO WILL APPEAR AT PRESS CLUB JINKS. "t R KODAK SHOP IS K OW IX OIR S1ITH-ST. BIII.IIIVG ARCADK MAIN KI.OOI , Out-of-Tovvn Mail Orders Filled From This and All Oar Ad If Received Wlthta Three I&ys of Date of publication. Telephone Us Where Quantities Are Limited or You Are in Hurry. We give our out-of-town customer th sam privilege of buyfnic fron our deity advertisements aui those who live In the city. Moreover, our method i ikv. a "mail order system," it U. rather, m ytemat jrd ahoppiriK service which pivel tho per sonal attention of a trained, shopper to the flllli-g of every mall order. Tour order Is atudied and promptly filled with as much "intelligent inLerest If you were here yourself. Should you come In person we will be g;lad. upn request, to have one of our experienced shippers asHlst and conduct you to aa inny ot the 75 different departments as you choose. There is no chars. Mr. Daly Sacrifices Protection of Many Districts to Make Showing. t ia&7 m 1919 The- QjualitV Store or- Portland rVOv. .SixLKj rlorrtoots Alder Sts FIXTURES STAY IN YARDS Construction of Mains Continues but Connections on AYIilch Safety of City Depends Xot Put In Since November. Sacrifice of fire protection In Port land in order that the financial status of the city water bureau might show a decrease of expenditures Is one of the numerous policies adopted by Commis sioner Daly in his endeavor to deceive the people into believing that his wa ter bureau administration has been one marked by economy. Through an arbitrary stand taken by Commissioner Daly there has not been a new fire hydrant Installed In Portland since last November. Prior to that time the water bureau always included In its water main construc tion a full set of fire hydrants. They were purchased and installed at a total cost of $75 each. Since November the construction of mains has gone on the same as ever, but the fire hydrants purchased a year or so ago are stacked up In the water bureau yards at Kast Seventh and East Aider streets. Savins Can Be Heralded. As a result of this "economy" on the part of the water bureau, about bOO new hydrants which otherwise would have been installed have been left out and the water bureau will lierald on the "economy paga" of its report the announcement that a sav ing of from $37,000 to $40,000 has been made. In the meantime many districts In the city are being neglected as far as fire protection is concerned. The mains have been laid and provision has been made for the connecting up of the fire hydrants, but no hydrants have been put in. In 1912 the water bureau put in a total of 940 hydrants at a total cost of about $70,000. This money came from the water funds. In 1913 the total number of hydrants put in was &0i, costing between $37,000 and $40, 000. In 1914 the number was cut down to 338, owing to the fact that during December none was installed. Since then the same policy has been fol lowed. Kronomy Showing Sought. During the first year and a half of Commissioner Daly's term the fire hy drants were Installed, but during the last six months this work has been stopped, so that water financial re ports will show up. This economy is on a par with other alleged savings In the water bureau. To the "economy ledger" has been add ed the decrease In water bills to con sumers. This amounted to about $100, 000 a year. To make this "saving" possible Commissioner Daly issued and sold in February a total of $460,000 In water bonds. The money from these bonds will pay for new water main construction in the water bureau. Heretofore the new construction has been met in part by surplus revenue. This surplus revenue, or part of it at least, has been cut off so as to give the affair the appearance of economy. The new construction -will be paid for by bonds. The bonds will be paid for by the water users. Temporarily, the thing will have the appearance of econ omy to those who fail to look. into it. GRESHAM TO GRADUATE 26 Senator I;ane to Deliver Address to Class Evening of June 4. Senator Dane will deliver the grad uating address to the claes of the Oresham High School the evening of June 4 in. Regner's Hall, and President It. J. Talbott, of the Kimball School of Theology, at Salem, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon in the Dinner man Memorial Methodist Church the evening of May 30. The class is the largest graduating from the Gresham High School. It is composed of the following 26 students: Misses Mabel Shipley, Laura Shipley, Katherine Honey, Pearl Ruegg. Mae Dougherty, Oladys Michel, Margaret Burke, Hazel Goger, Laura Davis, Eva Dodd, Gertrude Eastman, Ellen De Haven, Alice Roberts, Dena "Wright and Bemice Hargove, and Glenwood Miller, Guy Jones. Wilbur Stanley, Harry Stanley, Ralph Stanley. Chase St. Clair, Joseph Chiedo, Frank Rogers, Glen Kesterson, Wallace Spence and Kirk Thompson. SIX TEACHERS TO GO EAST Superintendent Chooses Instructors to Be Kxchanged. Teachers who will be exchanged with Eastern cities for the coming year were announced yesterday by Superintendent Alderman, of the Portland schools. They are Miss Ann Chalmers, Chapman School; Miss Frances Heath, Irvington School: Misa Hallie Thomas, Kenton School: Miss Nellie Epler. Eliot School; Miss Nora Greene, Dadd School, and Miss Mabelle Roan, Hoi man School. The nrst two teachers will be ex changed with two teachers from the Winchester, Mass., schools, and the last four will be exchanged with teachers from Brockton, Mass. The exchange of one teacher each with New York City and Minneapolis is also under consider ation, but it has not yet been deter mined whether or not this arrangement will be made. It is the plan of Superin tendent Alderman not to exchange more than 10 teachers in any one year. BACTERIA BY COLONY LEFT Health Bureau Kxperiments Show Danger of Flies. Experiments complete recently by health officers disclose the danger of flies and especially flies that have come in contact with garbage and other ref use, according to figures given out yes terday by City Health Officer Marcel lus. Three flies were caught; one in a living-room of a house, the second out of doors and the third in a garbage can. Each fly then walked over a substance which breeds bacteria and fungi. The Indoor fly wiped from its feet a total of 25 colonies of bacteria and seven colonies of fungi. The outdoor fly left 6 colonies of bacteria and seven col onies of fungi. The garbage-can fly left IIS colonies of bacteria and 10 colonies of funsl. V- - : a I 4 ft fsy? I j til Cv :::svir" Y..- m 6 , S fc tfuwrt wurmnwii mtm ft 4 a-"- PRESS JUS IS NEAR All Theaters Contribute for Programme Tomorrow. CLUB IS IN READINESS Dancing, Vaudeville and Musical Of ferings to Be Interspersed With Special Features; Misses Cha pin and Winn Will Dance. The Portland Press Club's Spring jinks will be given tomorrow night with a programme of unique and clever features. There will be grand opera in miniature, there will be plantation songs, ballet and oriental dancing, vaudeville acts and several other spe cial features. It will be a 12-act vaudeville show. Among the features will be too and solo dancing by Misses Elizabeth Chapin and Marie Winn. Miss Chapin will give the "Cleopatra, dance" and Miss Winn will- appear in the "Faust waltz." Pauline Heintze and Credwyn Evans, as "Just Kids," will present unique musical - and dancing stunts. These four young women are proteges of the Portland Turn Verein and are sponsored by Miss Hedwig Kaspei, who will be the accompanist tomorrow night Miss Freed Shaw, Raymond Cage and Edward Morgan will be presented by Robert Prowell in musical numbers. Miss Shaw is known as Portland's "Dusky Melba." Mr. Morgan is an art ist on the trombone and saxopohone and Mr. Cage is a pianist of unu3ual ability. Grand opera numbers will bo given by Miss Katherine Lynbrook, prima donna of the Lambardl Grant! Opera Company. Miss Lynbrook already has won the hearts of Portland music-lovers by her previous appearances. Misa Helen Buckler, one of Portland's wtli- known sopranists, will sing , special songs. The Musical Storys. vocalists and in strumentalists at the Lyric Theater, are down for some original stunts. Er nest Fielding, of Portland, will give .1 clever portrayal of prominent Portland men with his "cartoonograph." In addition to these numbers, some of the best acts of the Empress and Pantages theaters will be on the pro gramme. Miss Letha McBride, who has ap peared In several previous Jinks, will be at the piano for most of the num bers. " , Miss Leah Cohen, one of Portland's leading- sopranists, and George de Alma, clever banjoist of the Empress Theater, delighted members of the Press Club and their friends at the noon hour yesterday. Miss Cohen sang four songs and Mr. De Alma, not to be outdone, rendered four selections. Both made big hits with the large number present. N. D., registered at the Seward yes terday. Warren Backus, of Rainier, Is regis tered at the Nortonia. Mrs. F. A. Harmon, of Baker, is a guest at the Portland. H. M. Williams, of Ilwaco, Wash., is a guest at the Seward. Dr. L. L. Bechman, a Seattle special ist, is at the Imperial. H. Scott, of Castle Rock, Wash., is a guest at the Nortonia. T. G. Bligh. a hotelman of Salem, is registered at the Oregon. Captain T. J. MacGenn, of Coos Bay, is registered at the Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dunlap, of Cas cade Locks, are at the Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ward, of Mitch ell. S. D., are at the Cornelius. C. H. Leinenweber, of Astoria, regis tered at the Imperial yesterday. T. J. Sharpe. of Calgary, Canada, reg istered at the Portland yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Crane" of Fort Cauley, Wash., are at the Nortonia. F. G. Lucas, of Weston, was among yesterday's arrivals at the Seward. Mr. and Mrs. William C. Orton, of Butte. Mont., are at the Multnomah. George B. Convers, of Clatskanie, registered at the Perkins yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Smith, of Albany, registered at the Oregon yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. R.' S. Strong, of Duluth, registered at the Nortonia. yesterday. J. L. Peede. advance man for "Omar, the Tentmaker," is at the Multnomah. Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Burley, of San Francisco, are registered at the Eaton. Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Charles Sullivan, of Boston, are registered at the Cornelius. J. L. Carman, a furniture manufac turer, of Tacoma, is a guest at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Cochrane, of Roch ester, N. Y., registered at the Cornelius yesterday. A. Bronsgeest, of The Dalles, was among yesterday's arrivals at the Multnomah. G. L. Blair, of San Francisco, super intendent of the Pacific Coast Steam ship Company, is at the Multnomah. CHICAGO. May 18 (Special.) M. H. Houser, of Portland, Or., is at the Con gress today. PERSONAL MENTION. J. F. Ryan, of Seattle, is at the Port land. H. L. Gill, of Woodburn. is at the Eaton. " T. W. Lusk, of Silverton, is at the Perkins. F. S. Fountain, of Seattle, is at the Cornelius. . W. S. Gray, a Salem contractor, is at the Imperial. Ed Dorgan, of Albany, is a guest at the Imperial. Miss May Reeve, of Oregon City, is at the Eaton. Frank Williams, of Salem, is a guest at the Eaton. C. D. Gabriel.son, of Salem, is a guest at the Oregon. Gene Penland, of Heppncr. is a guest at the Perkins. W. H Knapp. of Btnghampton. N. T., is at the Seward. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McQulre, of Fargo, METER PLAN ATTACKED BEXSON SPEAKS AT nOTARY CLUB LCNCHEOK, Free Water for Sprinkling Iloa and Lmni VrKMl as Long aa BJar Snrplna Is Wasted. . . . V S. Benson, responding to an expres sion of praise trom the chairman at the Rotary Club luncheon at the Ben son Hotel yesterday, sharply attacked the plan of Commissioner Daly for in stallation of water meters. The chairman, J. H. Joyce, had just expressed his opinion that Mr. Benson's donation of the drinking , fountains to the city was one of the most important acts for public welfare ever taken by a single individual. . "The mention of the drinking foun tains reminds me of something that I have had on my mind for a long time," Baid Mr. Benson in responding to a call for. a speech. "In no other city in the world is there such wonder ful water as In Portland, and there are great quantities of it running to waste down the sewers and over the spillways. . "Now they want to put meters on it when it is so plentiful that we could not use too much if we wanted to. I would rather see them increase the service mains that are too small now and make it possible for the citizens to uee for sprinkling their roses and beautifying lawns. There is no reason why the city should seek to put meters on the water at this time." The programme of the day was "Good lealth." and J. H. Joyce, of the Hazelwood. who presided, worked out a programme. Dr. W. O. Spencer and a dozen or more members spoke. Mr. DcWitt's Body Sought. OREGON CITY. Or.. May 18 Spe cial.) Search for the. body of Edward DeWitt. 1002 Ellsworth street. Port land, who was drowned in the Clacka mas Rapids Sunday, . has been uusuc- All Portland and Vicinity Is Coming to paratory to Opening Our New Store Contract Merchandised Si Ik Islaid" Hose and Groceries Excepted) Crowds Pack the Two Buildings on Every Floor. Never Be fore in the State of Oregon Has There Been a Sale Like It And the crowds that are attending simply go to show that the people realize the importance of this Meier & Frank Removal Sale and attend accordingly. It comes just at the height of one season and the beginning of another just when our stocks are at their best. Offering ISlew TSlerchandise in Seasonable Desirable Great Heaping Quan tities With ISlew Lots Constantly Com ing Forward to Replenish Those Sold. There's such a profusion of bargains thousands of. them that it is rather out of the question to list them, so we mention some of the departments as a reminder: Women's Suits, Dresses, Gowns, Coats, Wraps, Sweaters, Furs, Negligees, House Dresses, Cor sets, Blouses, Undermuslins, Millinery, Gloves, Neckwear, Handkerchiefs, Umbrellas, Parasols, Knit and Silk Underwear, Hosiery, Shoes, Veil ings, Men's Suits, Coats, Hats, Furnishings, Underwear, Hosiery, Boys' Clothing, Children's Dresses, Coats, Undermuslins, Hosiery, Shoes, Articles, Jewelry, Traveling Needs, Ribbons, Silks and Dress Goods, Wash Fabrics, Linens, Linings, Trimmings, Embroideries and Laces, Art Goods, Notions, Cotton Goods, Cameras, Crockery, Glass ware, Silverware, Hardware, House Furnishings, Wheel Goods, Trunks, Suitcases and Bags, Stoves, Fireplace Equipment, Garden Tools, Hose, Toys, Baskets, Sporting Goods, Pictures, Carpets and Rugs, Bedding, Blankets, Curtains, Draperies, Furniture. Baby Things, Stationery, Books, Drugs and Toilet Be here today without fail and get your share of the big reductions. Melba Face Powder 50c It's per f e c t 1 y harmless, as smooth as velvet, and has the sweet est odor. Adds to the appearance of any wom an, no matter how good her complexion may be. Differ ent tints. Melba Face Cream, Jar 50c Astringent in its action, soothing and agreeable to the most delicate skin. Will .not grow hair. Most effect ive. in preventing wrinkles. tilllfr ELOROSE A 50c Jar for 39c You want a cream that is soothing and bland in its action; you want a cream that positively will not injure the skin; you want a cream that is absolutely pure as to ingredients. All these requirements are fulfilled in Melorose. Good for complexion, chapped hands, rough lips. Put up in convenient form, in aluminum jars and reduced from 50c to 39. MELOROSE FACE POWDER 39 $1.00 Box for 79c The perfect tonic and flesh builder used for years by women of renown. Sempre Giovine 29c ( Pronounc ed Sem-pray Jo - ve - nay, meaning "Always Younsr.") The result of a skillful lab oratory process of solidify ing oils that are essential to the health and beauty of the skin. Specially priced for this sale at 29e Dainty Egyptian Face Powder at 39c Delicately perfumed, and of very fine texture. Comes in three tints, roseate, white and brunette. Specially priced for this sale, box 39 Introducing "Depozo"-A New Depilatory at 50c and $1.00 a Package Removes Superfluous Hair From Face, Week and Arms With the present mode in evening gowns, a depilatory is a ne cessity, and women in all walks of life will welcome this splendid discovery. To the woman who goes into society, the actress, the public speaker, "Depozo" is recommended its use will solve many a dis agreeable difficulty. It is absolutely harmless and non-irritating and free from the disagreeable odor that so many depilatories possess. Packed with "Depozo" is a .small package of a special formula cream that obviates any irritation to the most sensitive skin. "STOKE VOI R I'l RS HKflK. i.vsi kino thk.m against fihk, thkft, moths AM LOSS ! cessfuL M. A. Maffone and Coroner Hmpstead dragged the river near the rapids. Mr. DeWitt was thrown from a disabled motorboat when ho tried to stop its course through the rapids by throwing out an anchor. He was catapulted into the stream. Coweenian Jam Partially Broken. KELSO. Wash.. May 18. (Special.) The big Jam on the Coweeman at Jones' j Bar. a short distance from Kelso, was partially broken up yesterday morn ing when a flood of water was let out of the big dam 20 miles up stream. The entire Jam was moved forward several hundred feet and about 1.000,000 feet of logs were freed. There are still 7,000.000 feet of logs in the Jam ac cording to the estimates of loggers. Benton Postpones Good Ttoads Day. CORVALL1S, Or.. May 1 g. (Special.) Owing to heavy rain Sunday and yes terday, the good roads day in Benton County haa been postponed one week. The day was set for Thursday of this week and extensive plans wrre made. A commlt'ee of 16 men had divided themselves into eight committees of two each and were making canvasses of Corvallis. which was divided into live sections, and the towns of Alpine. Monroe and Philomath. County Judge Malone is chairman of the good roads committee and President Ball, of the Commercial Club, is secretary. ,i - v 4 A