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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1915)
THE MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1915. 11 COST OF .METERS WILL RAISE RATES Water Charge Due to Come Down After This Year if .. Present System Stays. SUPPLY HELD PLENTIFUL al types also will be erven. The vocal, terplachorean and dramatic ability dis played by the young people Is said to be particularly good. The programme follows: Part X. Selection by Ladd School orchestra; Dane. The Water Sprites," Maurlno Watts; "Tom Thumb' Wedding," Barbara Harnack. the bride and Bobby Alku. the bridegroom. Part IX. The Carniva 1 of Nations," Charlotte Woods, "Miss Columbia," Charles Berst, "Uncle Sam." Entertainers Carol Anderson, Clara Sherwood, Kdris Noble. Helen Colwell. Ethel Campbell. Ruth Coughlin Blossom Wilson, trances Simpson, Enid Newton, June Wel come, Nina Jones and Gloria Christ. SURFLCS WATER WASTED IS BILL RUN RIVER. Reduction In XT so of Household Ne cessity Could Only Be Made at Expense of Sanitation and Beauty ot the Ctiy. FLORAL BEAITTT, SANITATION AND KISfAIVCIAL WELFARE MBTKR ISSUES. Portland will commence, at the end of next year, to pay off Its bonded water debt. This will relieve the city of the burden of paying & large annual amount for Interest on bonds. If you vote for meters at to day's election you vote to give this money, thus saved, to the Eastern meter makers. If you vote against meters you vote to put the money in your own pocket and let the Eastern meter makers look for business in 'some city that does not make such a strong point of Its excellent and abundant water supply, its re markable sanitation and its floral beauty. You have to use water for drinking, but you can cut down on the use in the bathroom and on the lawn and garden. Sanita tion and flflral beauty will be sacrificed at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars for meters. Therefore, vote 101 X No. Portland's financial welfare. Its flo ral beauty and Its sanitation are the three paramount issues in the city wide water meter measure to be voted upon at today's election. The plan is to put meters in every bouse In the city of Portland in install ments of 5000 meters or more each year. The sole purpose of the meters Is to Tftduce the use of water. The need for reducing the use of water Is not that the city lacks an overabundance of supply, but that a fractional part of the water mains in the city are undersized and cannot stand the strain of sprinkling during certain days of the Summer time. The meters will not make more wa ter. Their only purpose will be to force users to cut down on the use of water. The bathroom and the lawn and garden will be the parts of the homes to suffer. .Sacrifice of the city's floral beauty and much ot Its sanita tion at a cost of several hundred thou sand dollars for meters, is the meter proposition In a nutshell. Meters Only Makeshift. The meters will not settle for all time the difficulty of small mains. As new services are connected to these mains as the city grows the mains, even if all metered, will become inade quate, for the meters will make no more water. At that time the small mains will have to be torn out and be replaced by larger ones. Why not do that work now wherever' it is necessary rather than doing it after the city has spent a fortune for meters? Every small main needing replacement now could be replaced at one-fourth the cost of a meter system. The homes served by small mains are entitled to larger mains. It is due them for their fire protection. Meters will not make these undersized mains larger. If there are 30 users on a small main and all turn their water on for lawn sprinkling at the same time, the strain on the small main is heavy. It is Just as.neavy with meters as without. Saving 3Vot Necessary. Water users are forced to draw water from their taps for drinking purposes. It is possible, however, to curtail on the amount of water used for a bath. for a toilet or for sprinkling a lawn or garden. The lawn and garden even can be cut out altogether. The water thus saved adds to the great volume going Into the sewers at the reservoirs or over the spillway at the headworks. The least a family can pay for water tnrougn a meter la so cents a month, This is the fixed minimum which ap plies If no water at all is used. All over a certain limited amount must be paid for by the gallon in addition to the 60-cent minimum. "r n ...... , . .. . ... 60 cents a month. The lowest possible rate inese people could get with meter would be 50 cents a month. And that would not allow for any more water than Is absolutely necessary for culinary purposes. All used in excess would be paid for by the gallon. Supply Admitted Plentiful. There Is absolutely no claim made by the meter advocates that Portland faces a water shortage. There is no claim made that meters will perma nently cure the low pressures due to me small number of undersized mains Portland will commence at the end o next year to reduce its bonded debt for water main construction. Thi3 wil relieve the city of the burden of paying a large annual amount of interest on bonds. If you vote for meters today you vbte to 'give this money to the Eastern meter makers. If you vote strains meters you vote to keep the money in your own pocket and let the Eastern meter makers look for business in some city that does not make such a strong point of its excellent and abundant water supply and its remarkable sani tation and floral beauty. George Knight; "Sweden," Esther McDougal and Herbert Wilbur; "tTance, ' ttuoy nar row and John Bonbel; "Spain." Marjorle Turner and Melbourne Hageman; "Ireland," Edith Mosler; "Germany," Maudie Fryer and Tom McMullen; "Italy." Lemmie Lavo dis and Charles Kingsbury; "Holland," Nel lie Meaae ana erune Masters; scouana, Frances Harnack and Edith Emmett; "Rus sia," Florence Sherwood; "China," Louis Schilt and George Phillips; "Japan." Jennl O f i Ifjo nr i g anu jtui t vug. spatial lesiurei manors nompijw. VetevA Wakefield will be the accompan ist. n . i i .i r" " r 4 ' y 'i v f f , , v t t i, i " : t ' , '-"',- P J' v ' I t ? ' ' . ' , " ; I " ""hi. -..V' V' i t -J I st ' kV ' J ) X - C $ ' ' l"-(,i X 4. , . : t M f I i JS I View of river below headworks showing pipelines crossing high over the river on their way to Portland. WATER SURPLUS BIG Commissioner Daly Admits No Shortage Is Likely. MAYOR OPPOSES METERS Good-Sized River Flows Away After oPrtland Vecs All Wanted and Capacity of Pipes Is Mucli Greater Than Needed. MAYOR A LB EE SATS VOTE AGAIN SX METERS. Mayor Albee. the city's chief executive, advises the voters to defeat the water meter measure at today's election. He says the measure involves a needless ex penditure of a large amount of money and will bring about no better results than the curbing of use of water on lawns and gar dens and for baths. He says It Is foolish for Portland to sacrifice its lawns when more water is going to waste than Is used, and particularly to do so at a large annual expense. Vote 101 X No. VOTERS, REMEMBER THESE METER FACTS TODAY. LADD PUPILS PLAN PLAY WSDS TO BE RAISED FOR ATHLET ICS AND PLAYGROUND WORK. EntertaisuneBts to Be Given at Llncela High Auditorium Tomsrroir ana Tuesday Klffht. . To raise funds for athletics and play ground work, the pupils of the Ladd School will give "The Carnival of Na tions." a cantata, and "Tom Thumb's Wedding," a pantomime, at the Lincoln High School auditorium this afternoon and Tuesday night. In "The Carnival of Nations," "Uncle Bam" and "Miss Columbia" will dispense hospitality to representatives of all the chief nations who will sing songs pe culiar to that country. Native dances , aad Imitations of characteristic nation- The meter issue is whether the city shall put a meter on every house in Portland. It is proposed to meter at the rate of 5000 homes or more each year. The meter system, to cost hun dreds of thousands of dollars, will be built at the expense of the. water user. There is abso lutely no other source of reve nue for the water fund. . .. . Of the total initial outlay of $352,000 for 43,000 meters, a total ern meter makers. J After many years of high rates, due to paying interest on large outstanding bonds. Portland will begin to pay off bonds the end of next year. Shall the reduc tion in expenses thereby be used to reduce rates or shall it be squandered on meters? , All large water consumers are metered now. All curtailment in water use, therefore, will be at the expense of the small house holder. Eighty per cent of the water mains In Portland are over four inches in size. Twenty per cent are under four inches. All the mains now inadequate can be re placed with eight-inch mains at a fractional part of the cost of meters. Large mains afford permanent relief from' low - pressure trou bles. Small mains, with meters, are a temporary expedient. Meters make no more water. Therefore, small mains must be replaoed ultimately, with or without meters, as services are added to mains. Commissioner Daly says "Port land faces no 'water shortage." Why. then, curtail the use of water? United States Govern ment records show his claim of abundance of supply is correct. Meterttes say meters will curb the waste of water. They say it cannot be done without meters. San Francisco,- without meters, has stopped waste with inspec tion service. Portland can do the same. San Francisco, with adequate inspection and flat-rate sys tem, consumes a fourth as much water per Inhabitant as many cities 100 per cent metered. Government r e c o r ds showing that Portland consumes 112 gal lons of water per inhabitant per day, as compared with 300 and 400 gallons for many other cities, disproves the statement of lavish waste of water in Portland. mm Between 1906 and 1913 Portland cut down the consumption per Inhabitant from 210 gallons ' to 112 gallons, thus proving that, - even with inadequate Inspection, Portland has stopped waste. Curtailment of water use is pos sible with adequate inspection at a quarter the annual cost of meters. The best of engineering records show that the cost of maintain ing meters, including repairs, is $2.60 a year for each meter. This means an item of $125,000 a year for Portland, if fully metered. After the two big open-mouthed in take pipes at the Bull Run headworks gulp up all the water Portland can use there roars down over the spill way a good-sized river. During most of the year it is so deep a person could not wade across It without being washed away. At its lowest stages In Summer it grows smaller, but never so small that it loses its rank as a large mountain stream. The overabundance of Portland's wa ter supply was seen recently by the City Council when a special inspection trip was taken to the headworks. Pic tures were taken showing the stream aoove and below the headworks. These prove conclusively that Port land faces no water shortage, so con clusively, in fact, that Commissioner Daly has openly admitted on several occasions that the city faces no danger or water shortage. Slayer Opposes Meters. The overabundance of Portland's supply was one of the things that caused jaayor Albee to come out publicly against Commissioner Daly's city-wide water meter scheme, which is to be voted on at today's election. The Ma yor says meters are necessary only when Portlands water consumption measures up to the supply or in other words, when there Is actual need to curtail the use of water. He stands bitterly opposed to me tering the city before -metering is ne cessary because of shortage of sup ply. He stands for the enlargement of undersized water mains to give the wa ter users the benefit of Portland s unlimited water supply rather than curtailing the use of water and there by making undersized mains serve ( stinted consumption until new services added to the mains again overtax them and require the construction of new larger mains. The United States Department of Ag riculture records show that Portland has an unlimited water supply. The two pipelines have a capacity of 67, 000.000 gallons a day. Portland uses only 40,000,000 gallons in a day. The two pipelines never have carried all the water they are capable of carrying because Portland could not use the wa ter. It would be nearly twice as much as the city is able to use. Eighth of Flow Goes te Sewer. Under present conditions the two pipelines run at half capacity because the city cannot use any more water. One-eighth of al! the water that goes into the pipelines is dumped into the sewers, on reaching the reservoirs in Portland. Mayor Albee makes a strong point of the indisputable fact that whatever water Portland saves by stinting its consumption is - merely added to the big stream going over the spillway at the reservoirs or at the headworks. . Portland as compared with other cities is moderate in its use of water. Water Bureau records show that the consumption each day is 112 gallons of water by each inhabitant. In Wash ington, D. G, the per capita consump tion is 220 gallons' a day as against Portland's 112 gallons; In Buffalo, it is 880 gallons; in Bridgeport. 200 gal lons; In Pittsburgh, 260 gallons; In Al bany, N. T., 202 gallons; in Jersey City. 149 gallons', in Fresno, 300 gal lons; in Allegheny, 237 gallons; in iew Orleans. 400 gallons; in Baltimore, lis gallons; in Cincinnati; 130 gallons; In St. Louis, lis gallons. Every member of the City Council says the vote tomorrow' is on a city-wide meter system. Do not be deceived by statemen that the issue is 5000 meters and no more. w j Present water rates are ade quate only to pay for mainten ance of water system. How can expenditures be increased and at same time rates cut? How can the city help raising rates? VOTE 101 se. Gale S. Hill. William Eagles. Harry BchloSser. Fred Dawsoa and A- W. Bowersox. all past exalted rulers of Albany lodge of Elks, of which Mr. Dannals was also a past exalted ruler. Beautiful floral tributes evidenced the high regard in which Mr. Dannals was held. ARTISANS TO GIVE PLAY Cast Numbering More Than 60 Will Perform All Week. Members of the United Artisans will present "A Night in Fairyland" to the Portland public tonight and during the rest of the week. Dancing and ballet talent from 21 different United Artisan organizations will appear in the cast. The dances are said to be entirely new. Some of them will illustrate the rhymes and fables of Mother Goose. For several weeks the members of the cast, who number more than 60, have been rehearsing faithfully in the Pittock block under the direction of M. Christensen, who directs the ballet; H. A. Webber, who arranges the music and instructs the players, and Walter Gilbert, stage director of the Baker Theater. The proceeds derived from A Night in Fairyland" will be used to send a drill team to San Francisco July 17. BOY, SHOT IN ERROR, DYING Fiancee of John Keefe Arrives at Bedside. LA GRANDE. Or., June 6. (Special.) Surrounded by his father, mother and two brothers. John Keefe, of Moscow, Idaho, is making a valiant fight for his life in a local hospital tonight, but to all appearances is dying of the wounds received when he was shot by Sheriff Hug at Union Junction Friday night. Keefe has been sinking all day. Late last night when his relatives as sembled at his bedside he seemed to rally. Physicians have practically abandoned hope. Today his sweetheart, whom he was going to visit at Baker, arrived. Mercury Goes to 89 at Albany. ALBANY. Or., June 6. (Special.) A maximum temperature of S9 degrees was recorded by the'Government ther moraeter here this afternoon. This ties yesterday's mark for the warmest day of the year here. BLACKFOOT BRAVES DUE PARTT FROM GLACIER PARK TO REACH PORTLAND TODAY. Indiana, Guests of Louis W. Hill, to Have Headquarters at Festival Center aad to. Clve Dances. More than a dozen Blackfoot In dians will reach Portland today from Glacier National Park to take part in the Ninth Annual Rose Festival. The Indians are coming as the guests of Louis W. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railway. . The Blackfoot braves, with their women and children, will make their headquarters at the Festival center. William Blonder, special representative of the Great Northern, telegraphed Lloyd W. McDowell, publicity manager of the Festival, that he would be in Portlanfi Tuesday. The Indians have a Drivate car. Tribal dances each evening will be one of the attractions offered by the Blackfoot chiefs. Several Indians who have never been off the Glacier Park Reservation will be in the party to visit Portland. They Include Boss Ribs Big Spring and Heavy Breast and family. While the Indians are irt Portland they will hold a reunion with the Glacials, an organization of newspaper men of the United States who have visited the park as the guests or Mr. Hill. Portland Glacials Include C. H, Dickson, Clark Leiter, J. L. Wallln, W. P. Strandborg, Henry Dickson and Lloyd W. McDowell. ELKS CONDUCT SERVICES Hundreds at Albany Pay Iast Trib ute to Late O. P. Dannals. ALB ANT, Or., June 6 (Special.) Hundreds of people this afternoon at tended the funeral of O. P. Dannals, one of Albany's most prominent men who died at his home here Friday morning. The services were held in the Elks" Temple, and were conducted by the officers of the lodge, assisted by Rev. Franklin H. Geselbracht, pas tor of the First Presbyterian Church of Albany. The pallbearers .were Mayor Curl, PORTLAND NOT AW EXTRAVA GANT WATER-tSER. Portland is not a water-wasting city. Engineering records show that the average daily water consumption per inhabitant in Portland is 112 gallons. En gineers agree that 150 gallons a day is a proper average. Many cities use four times the water per inhabitant that Port land does. Buffalo, N. Y., for ex ample, uses 380 gallons per in habitant daily. Washington, D. C, uses 220 gallons; Bridgeport. Conn.. 200 gallons; Pittsburg, 260 gallons; Fresno, 300 gallons; New Orleans, 400 gallons. Why all this talk about water waste in Portland? The records disprove It. Why, then, save at the water tap and waste at the reservoir? Vote 101 X No. PRfllFPT IS PflQT vSave Green Trading Stamps rnUULUI IU UUUlLI Choose Beautiful Premiums Free of Cost Garbarge Collection System Would Impose Burden. FACTS SHOWN BY FIGURES Issne of $275,000 Worth of Bonds and Tax' to Raise About $C00, 000 Involved; Economy Calls for Defeat ot Plan. In the interest of economy and rea sonable taxation, the voters of Port land should defeat in today's election the measure providing for a municipal garbage collection system. It involves the issuance and sale of bonds aggre gating 275J)O0 In amount and the levy ing of an additional tax to raise annu ally a total of approximately $200,000 to conduct the garbage collection sys tem, to operate the new incinerator which will have to be built, and to provide for interest and sinking fund on the bonds. Portland has an adequate garbage collection system operated by private concerns on the basis or a nxea tee per month. The city burns the gar bage free of charge. ( Cost of System In Doubt. The measure on the ballot at today's election would abolish the private gar bage collection system and shoulder the expense onto the taxpaying public The system would be enlarged so as to spread out all over the city. Just ex actly what the cost would be is un certain, but it Is estimated at $150,000 a year. That is considered a modest figure for the service. Interlocked with the garbage-collection plan is the proposed erection of a new incinerator. The present plant is operating beyond Its capacity, with the limited collection system. An additional plant la proposed to handle the extra garbage, if the garbage measure goes through. The garbage-collection system in volves the issuance and sale of $75,000 in bonds for the purchase ot wagons and other equipment. Interest on these bonds at the rate of 4 per cent an nually would amount to $3000 a year for SO years, and to provide an ample sinking fund to redeem these bonds when they fall due would cost $2500 year. S 150,000 Is Additional. Thoan amounts would be in addition to the $150,000 for the operation of the collection system. To handle the additional Duraen oi garbage incineration, it is proposed to erect a new incinerator. This would be financed on a $200J00 bond Issue. The present incinerator costs $26,000 a year to operate, and the new plant would cost approximately the same. This would be an additional burden. To meet the interest on the incinerator bonds would -require $8000 a year, and to provide a sinking tuna lor tne re demption of the bonds would cost $6666 a year. - All of these amounts would come from the taxpaying public, for there Olds, Wortman & King Dependable Merchandise June White Sale Every White Article Reduced Except a Few Restricted Lines Visit This Store Daily and Share in the Extraordinary Bargains Offered Throughout the Various Depart ments. Supply Festival Needs Here and Save. Sale of Women's $48.50 to $90 Gowns Garment Salons, Second Floor Women's and Misses high-grade Gowns from our regrular stock all copies of imported French models, made by America's foremost artists. Beautiful crea tions of chiffon, taffeta, charmeuse, moire silks, silk nets, all over lace, filet nets combinations of chiffon and lace taffeta and nets, etc. This is unquestionably the greatest bargain in Gowns Portland women have ever been offered. Only one of a kind and exclusive models not shown elsewhere in the city. Low neck, short-sleeve effects, with trimmings of laces, silk bands, beaded bands, silk and velvet ribbons, etc Splendid assortment of colors. Gowns selling here- C0 0 CZfk tofore at $48.50 up to $90.00, on sale at only POsS5 ! is no other source of revenue. Tae garbage collection and garbage incin eration would be fee-free. At present garbage is collected on the fee sys tem and is incinerated free by the city. "GOOD" STREET DAYS" SET Citizens of Tenino Will Give Own Time and Labor to City. CENTRALIA, Wash., June 6. (Spe cial.) Following a resolution adopted gust as "Good Streets day," when the residents will be expected to get out and work on the town's thoroughfares. The days in question will be June 23. July 21 and August 21 and will be holidays. E. E. Engle, A. D. Campbell and L. A. McLain have been appointed as a committee by the Tenino Club to work out the details of a "Sales day," at which time farmers In the vicinity of the town may assemble their surplus stock, implements, etc. for sale or trade. They Look Alike But The average cup of coffee contains about 22 grains of caffeine, a subtle, poisonous drug. 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FOLGER & CO., San Francisco Up Cool Trails into the home of mountain loveliness Tfre Canadian Rockies Snow 'is on the peaks, but June has carpeted the slopes with briuamt flowers. Ponies for the tourist, Swiss guides for the Alpine climber. Mountaineer in comfort from any of the Canadian Pacific hotels at ReveUtoke, Glacier, Field, Lake Louise, Banff. Take a circle tour including the picturesque Lake Kootcnay boat trip. Reached only by the Canadian Pacific Railway Same trip may include deliehtful 16S nile boat trio on Pug-et Sound. Write or call for Booklet 11SL Takm thm J.OOO Mil Mamka Boat Trip. Write or call for .Booklet 1500. J. V. MURPHY. O. A. P. D., Canadian Pacific Railway 55 Third St, Portland, Oregon