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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1915)
BALLOT MURES HIGHLY IMPORTANT Water Meter Proposal Para mount Issue Before Elec tors, Garbage Second. GREAT EXPENSE ENTAILED Jitney Regulation Also or Wide spread Interest, Wliile Major ity of Other Questions Are of Relative Insignificance'. In but few previous city elections have the voters been called upon to settle such a number of Important is sues involving large expenditures and such a number of measures involving important municipal policies, as were decided by the election yesterday. The measures dealt directly with large ex penditures to be spread out over a long priod of years and with policies to pre vail in Portland for many years. The paramount issue was the ques tion of water meters, which measure appeared on the ballot under the refer endum. This involved the question of metering every service in the City of Portland at an expenditure of several hundred thousand dollars. The ex penditure and the question of the pro priety of water meters for a city with an overabundant water supply natur ally attracted a large vote. Interest in the measure was developed not only by its apparent importance from the standpoint of a municipal policy, but also by reason of a vigorous campaign waged both for and against the meas ure. Garbage Measure Important. The second measure in importance was the question of establishing a gar bage incinerator in Portland to be op erated at the expense of the taxpayers instead of on the fee basis as at pres ent. This measure attracted attention because of the fact that it involved an expenditure of $75,000 for establish ing the system and $200,000 for the erection of an incinerator to take care of the added garbage which naturally would come from a free collection sys tem. In addition to these expenditures there would be -large annual amounts necessary for operation of the incin erator and the garbage collection sys. tem and for the payment of interest and sinking fund on the bonds so is sued. This measure was opposed by many clubs and other organizations because of the expenditures involved. It was generally contended that of all times the present is the poorest for increas ing the taxation to the extent of nearly $200,000 a year to maintain the inciner ator and the garbage collection system and the payment of interest and sink ing fund charges on the bond issues. This measure was put up by Commis sioner Daly. Jitneys Attract Wide Interest. Undoubtedly the third measure in im portance was that involving the ques tion of regulating Jitneys. A lively campaign conducted for and against the measure created considerable in terest in it which naturally brought out a strong vote. At present the Jitney is unregulated except for the regulation which applies to all other vehicles. The measure as it appeared on the ballot had as its prime features the subjection of the Jitneys to definite schedules, of service, to inspection to determine their safety and to license for the purpose of pay ing a small part of the cost of street maintenance. This measure as pre sented was declared to be the mildest jitney measure enacted in any city where the jitney has had to be dealt with in a rgulative way. Of the other measures on the ballot, all were of comparatively minor im portance from the standpoint of the voters, although they involved de cidedly Important questions of policy. These measures may be explained briery as follows: Decision Affects Employes. Civil service amendment A charter amendment submitted to the voters by the City Council to change the system of reappointing civil service employes who are laid off. The measure as it appeared on the ballot provided a change in the wording of the charter so that in case of two employes be ing reinstated in the. service after having been laid off. the first to go back to work should be the one who had been longest in the service, rather than the one laid off first. The pur pose of the measure was to correct a technical defect in the charter. Grade-crossing elimination measure A charter amendment submitted to the voters by the City Council to facil itate the handling of grade-crossing elimination projects by enabling the Council to put through a series of crossings as one project, thus doing away with much engineering detail work and other 'red tape necessary to handle each crossing as a separate project. Dog-pound measure A charter amendment submitted to the voters by the Council to give the Council power to turn over to the Oregon Humane Society upon terms to be fixed by the Council, the operation of the dog pound. More humane management of the pound was the principal plea in behalf of the measure. Economy Aim of Change Bancroft bonding act amendment A charter amendment submitted to the voters by the Council to change the system of handling street and sewer assessments. The principal change called to the attention of the voters was the collection by the city of in stallments and interest on bonded as sessments semi-annually instead of annually. This was a measure in the interest of economy. Firemen's pension act amendment A charter amendment submitted to the voters by the Council to provide small pensions to W. H. Whitcomb and C. D. Shane, firemen who have ben deprived of pensions from the firemen's relief and pension fund by reason of techni cal flaws in the pension fund law. Fire-stops measure A charter amendment submitted to the voters by the Council to give the Council power to construct on the assessment plan such concrete walls or fire stops on the waterfront as might be necessary to prevent the spread of waterfront fires. FREEDMAN LEFT $200,000 Son Files Petition for letters of Ad ministration. The estate of Samuel Freedman, who died May 9. was worth $210,000, accord ing to the petition for letters of ad ministration, which was filed in County Clerk Coffey s office yesterday. From this amount Mr. Freedman received an annual income of only $2000 a year, the petition said. The estate consists of $10,000 worth of personal property and $200,000 worth of real estate in Multnomah, Grant, THEATRICAL MAN, EX-COUNCILMAN, APPARENTLY ELECTED TO CITY COMMISSION. 9 5 r -'Jtf .VSfc:: GEORGE Harney and Malheur Counties and in California. A- son, H. S. -Freedman, asks to be appointed administrator. The other heirs are Rachel Holcberg and Anna Hairis. -daughters, in Chicago; and Lena and Gertrude Brody, daugh ters, in Die Moines, Iowa. Suffragists to Be in Parade. Great interest is being taken in the Rose Festival entry "of the Congres sional Union for Woman Suffrage. Six ELECTION-DAY SIDELIGHTS "H EL4L.O, Hello! Say do you know where I can bet $2500 that Baker or Bigelow Will "be elected?". said a decisive voice-over The Oregonian telephone, about noon yes terday. . Not being able to get . the desired information or money from The Orego nian. the decisive voice obligingly left his telephone number : with .the re quest: "If you find anyone who wants to bet $2500 on it. have 'em call, me up will you?" whereupon he hung up. Less than ten minutes later another telephone call interrupted the city editor: "Did someone just call you up and try to place a $2500 bet on Baker or Bigelow?" "Yes." ' replied the city editor. "Well, will you please disregard the request. That call -came from "one of our patients. This -is the sanitarium on Mount Tabor." ' - If anyone tried to pull any "rough stuff" at precinct 43, across from the Cornelius Hotel yesterday, he would have required more nerve than a crow. The election judges and clerks of the day and night boards contributed to a pool, rented a dressmaker's model, face and all, and fixed up a' dyed-in-the- wool scarecrow. - Across the coat Mrs. J. DeV. Johnson, chairman of the night board hung a placard "Watcher." No distress or disturbance was. reported from the precinct. Ed Jasper, clerk of the day board at precinct 70, Twelfth and Market streets, had a little fun yesterday when voting was painfully light just before - noon. Although there are 455 registered in the precinct, only eight had voted when an elderly workman came plodding into the basement booth, which is a little dark and a fine place for a little elec tion shenanigan, if things were like CITY COMMISSIONER, WHOSE WITH FINAL v4--' ): WZm& 4- V. A. THE MORNING . ..'.wy- . I s K m f J r - a-1 mjm mm m m s !. BAKED. automobiles have already been lent. These automobiles, gaily - decorated in the Congressional Union colors, will carry groups of enthusiastic suffra gists to the fields and woods to bring back flowers. So hearty is the re sponse of members that the entire work will be done by volunteer help. Mrs. ' Lee Davenport, who has been noted in the East for her beautiful entries, having taken the prize four times in New York, will direct the work. they were in the days of old when poli ticians were bold, etc. "How's the vote?" asked the elderly one. "Pretty light, we're sellin" votes three for a quarter today guess we' won't use . up all these ballots at that." The elderly workman surveyed the 400 and more unclaimed ballots on the table, glanced furtively around the basement,' saw it empty, and much to the surprise of' the election - board, sidled off with a beckening shrug to Mr. Jasper. When Mr. Jasper recovered he realized that the elderly man actually had begun to dig down into his pocket for apparently a piece of money, when the joke manifested it self. and he did a flip-flop. "I guess I couldn't let them fellers pull anything on me," chuckled the old fellow as he left the booth. ; Arid now -Ed Jasper is trying to con vince Phil Harris, and Mrs. Caroline Raneld, and Charles Sawyer and Miss Grace Roach and Miss A. S. Gibbs, members of the election board, that the joke was not on him at all, at all. Inasmuch as election in Portland might fall in June again, future pros pective brides and bridegrooms might profitably , bear in mind that every election Judge is vested with all the rights and prerogatives of a regular Justice of the Peace. In fact, he is vested with the same considerable au thority. Paul Harris and Charles A. Sawyer, of Precinct 70, delved into the fact yesterday morning. "The point is this: We can marry couples without a question of a doubt," said Mr. Harris" as a work-worn and worried-looking individual lugged his way into the booth, with a fluffy, be-hoop-skirted "thing of beauty and a Joy forever" hanging on his arm. "Yes. we can marry 'em and we won't charge anything," winked Mr. Sawyer, who is an ex-newspaper man. The young fellow grinned and blushed and finally executed his ballot. When RE-ELECTION MAY RESULT RETURNS, Miiiii BIGELOW. OREGONIAN. TUESDAY, Immlr ,i .-a npMlrzLii imm ' : . - : The Touring Car The Roadster r it n n it . e. n lie me Mterest o Not an Announcement, But a Statement of Facts Ye Ye s! s! e Y es: But! What Thee Is the Listen For years we have devoted our time, our energies and our best thought to the manufacture and refinement of "FOURS." We know "FOURS." We believe in "FOURS." We are prepared to build "FOURS" the safe, simple, cheap-to operate, thor oughly tried and proven CHEVROLET (VALVE-IN-THE-HEAD) "FOURS." In the interest of the consumer, we recognize the fact that the retail dealer must work on a narrower margin, the distributor must work on a much nar rower margin, and the manufacturer must work on Northwest A 4959 Broadway 887 he had finished, he picked up the book, opened to the election laws and read in section 3321 all about the authority of election Judges. "We have been hoping we might find some young couple that wanted to get married," said Mr. Sawyer later in the day. "but no luck yet. Inasmuch as some of the booths are in church base ments, being married by an election judge wouldn't . be so much off-color, would it?" "I will be glad when this election is over," said Frank, the' barber, yester day. "'For a week now I have been read ing nothing but water meters. I wake up in the middle of the night and see water meters spinning around. In my dreams I see these fiendish meters and the taxpayer struggling along with an immense burden on his back. "Believe me, it will be a relief when election day passes. Relief is in sight for the meter arguments will lose their prominent place in the papers." a When Oliver Fatton, a judge in Pre cinct 55, appeared at the polls yester day morning in an alleged bibulous condition. Mrs. Harry HoWen, who also was a member of the board, refused to work with him. Patton declined to 'go home. City Auditor Barbur was called by telephone and instructed the chair man to appoint a substitute. Deputy Sheriff Christofferson was summoned and Patton was taken to his home. It took all the speed and power of the big red fire machine driven by Battalion Chief Holden of the fire bu reau, to get one of the precincts in the outer Mount Scott district open on time. At the last meeting it was discov ered at the Auditor's office that the ballot box and supplies had not been sent to tills polling place. It was 15 minutes before time for the polls to open. Battalion Chief Holden volun teered to make the ride. He opened up his siren and turned loose. And 15 minutes later the polling place opened as though the ballot boxes had been on hand for a week. A new field for the jitney was seen yesterday in connection with the elec tion. City Auditor Barbur had planned to send the ballot boxes to the polling plaees with policemen, but at the last minute it was found that there were more boxes than policemen. Auditor Barbur dashed into the street and com mandeered a flock of jitneys and sent them speeding out to deliver the boxes. Over in precinct SO there was con siderable of a fuss about how many rirst choices could be cast for the two Commissionerships. The board stood JUNE 8 1915. We have Doubled and Re-Doubled and are again Re-Doubling our manufacturing facilities and our production. This greatly increased production enables us to purchase mate rials at very low prices. Factory organization, special machinery, large capital and intelli gent direction all contribute to low cost. The above is not alone sufficient for radical price reduction for 1916. H-4 "BABY GRAND" Touring Complete With Electric Lights and Starter F. O. B. Flint, Michigan. H-2 "ROYAL MAIL" Complete With Electric Lights F. O. B. Flint, Michigan. IMMEDIATE Chevrolet Northwest PORTLAND, OREGON C. M. Menzies, Sales Manager five to one in favor of allowing only one first choice vote. The lone official contended that inasmuch as there were two Commissioners to be elected there should be two- first choices allowed. The question, after mucn fuss, was re ferred to the Auditor and the ione man won. This shows that at times even the majority may be wrong. JOHN T. LUND IS TO WED Portland JlusinesMiiaii Takes Out License at IOs Angeles. John T. Lund, secretary-treasurer of the Northwest Iead & Machinery Company of Portland. took out a license yesterday at Los Angeles to marry Miss Anna W. K. Kies, also of Portland. W. F. Althoff. president of the con cern, professed great surprise last night, when asked about Mr. Lund's matrimonial intentions. "It is all news to me, he said. "Mr. Lund went south on a business trip last week and expected to go to Los Angeles. I didn't even know he contemplated get ting married." Mr. Lund has been connected with the Portland concern for the past year. TO PEOPLE WHO ARE LOSING WEIGHT Any unnatural loss of flesh and weight, even though gradual, should be regarded with alarm. Unless the result of actual illness it is a certain indication that the flesh and strength giving elements in your food are passing out of your body as waste instead or going to the blood where they belong. Vou can quickly correct this condition and win back from ten to thirty pounds of healthy stay there fat by eating a little Sargol with your meals. ARC THE J FLESH BUILDER sold by all leading druggists every where on a positive guarantee of weight increase or money back. Con tains no alcohol or dangerous drugs. ftSii Real R a very much narrower margin, enabling the con sumer to secure for himself an honest and service able car at so near 100 per cent value (figured dollar for dollar) that he may no longer be submitted to the violent shrinkage in value of his car when the "announcement period" arrives, which so unfortu nately comes in the very middle of the natural driv ing and riding season. The above frank statement and the effort to meet the conditions are the most real reasons for our 1916 prices and note, the cars have not been cut a single hairline in quality. Roadster $t7 and Starter ft " DELIVERY Motor Car Distributors and has made his home at the Mallory Hotel. Creamery Law In Effect. LA GRANDE, Or.. June 7. (Special.) Beginning today and lasting through tomorrow, every creamery or shipping station that buys milk or cream on a butterfat basis must hnve a rep Drastic Pleasures to Save Prominent Local Firm I can take my choice between going out of business to meet retiring stock holders' demands or cutting and slash ing prices to try and raise the money. On the .one hand I will have noth ing left. On the other, I will still retain the good will and the friend ship which I have built up through years of honest dealing. This is an actual asset which I cannot afford to sacrifice. I can get more pianos to stock up with after these are gone. And I can sell them, too, at the regular prices, because the people of Port land and Oregon have found that here is one piano house which is just as strong and reliable as the best bank in Portland. Now then, to get right down to brass tacks and pay off these stock holders that want their money. I have a fine but old Steinway that I will sell for only $100, and a fine NEW Knabe that you can have for only $325. This piano would ordinarily cost you'several hundred dollars more. I am really selling pianos at unheard of prices. This is not a sale of the sensation order, with ' bombastic claims which cannot be lived up to. But if you want a brand-new, latest and fully guaranteed player piano, let me show you what I will sell you for only $230. Or if you want to save over $100 on a fine, new upright, let me show you the regular $275 pianos that you can have now for only $145. If you know what a good piano is and want one at an enormous bargain, you are the man or woman to whom I want to show . my . big assortment. 9 ? eason Company Broadway at Couch St. resentative in La Grande' at a test for butterfat and must comply with the new creamery law now in effect. Claude C. Cate, county farm expert, is conducting the tests. In Western Oregon examinations are given at Oregon Agricultural College, but in this region all Eastern Oregon creameries must take the test in La Grande. If you are inexperienced in the selec tion of pianos, bring a friend who un derstands. All I ask is full investi gation. If you ever intend to buy a piano, you will buy one of these after you have examined these and realize the unusual opportunity. Should you want something of higher quality, I can save you $275 on fine new grands. I have several regular $900 instruments that I will be glad to get $625 for. I must raise $40,000 and do it right away. There is only one way to get quick action and that is to make the price so low" that you will buy. It is money I need regardless of what I put into these instruments. All I ask is for you to come and inspect. The stock is big and complete. There are many fine Sohmers, both pianos and players, many famous Behnings, players and player grands, likewise cut many hundreds of dollars. Here is an unusual opportunity. What must I say to get you to inspect? It seems to me that the strongest thing I can say is that I am "satisfied to abide by your decision if you will visit every place in Portland, judge most carefully and then buy .where you see you can get the best piano for the least money. The many people who have purchased during the past week ana assurea me oi ine careiui se lection they had made before buying convinces me that all I need is your unbiased examination and compari son. E. H. HOLT, President E. H. Holt Piano Co., wholesalers, 333 Morrison St., just below Broadway. Northwestern Bank Bldg., Portland. 20