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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1915)
THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, SATTJRDAT, OCTOBEK 16, 1915. 9.5 ILL LEVY IS ESTIMATE FOR CITY If All Special Appropriations Are Eliminated One Mill May Be Clipped Off. LEAN MONTHS ARE FACED License I,oh About $150,000 and Too Low Provisions for Current Tear Blamed for Necessity Now Confronting Council. Out of a total of 3,44S,139.S9 asked for by the various city departments for peration during 1916 a total of $131. 812.28 has been cut out so far by the Council, sitting- as budget committee. This leaves the total 13,316.827.11, or $02,607.85 more than was allowed for the present year's operations. It in cludes special appropriations approx imately equal to those for the present year. The total expenditures allowed in the 1915 budget for all purposes were $3,224,219.26. So far three of the principal bureaus, where large cuts are possible, have been bonsldered. These are police, fire and health. The other big bureaus where heavy cuts are possible are the parks, street cleaning", engineering and incineration bureaus and the depart ment of public finance. These will be taken up by the Council next week. No budget session was held yester day, but the work will be resumed this morning at S o'clock, when the water works budget will be taken up. This bureau Is financed by water revenue, and not direct taxation, so that the outs made in this will not affect the total to be raised by taxation. Cut t Date Less Tham Half Mill. As the budget stands now, the total tax levy for next year for city pur poses would have to be 9.6 mills. The Council so far has cut off a trifle more than four-tenths of 1 mill. The tax levy for the present year was 7.5 mills, which shows that, with three of the biggest bureaus already trimmed, the cost to the taxpayers for next year for all city service would have to be 2.1 mills more than for the present year, if all present items should remain. As the figures stand, no provision has been made for overcoming the shortage occasioned by an inadequate tax levy imposed by the city this year. It has been found that a levy of 7.5 mills was insufficient to provide a balance at the end of the year to carry the city over until the first tax money will be received in March. 1916. Last year the city carried over $840,000. The Council is not expected to carry over more than $300,000 this year. Deficit Faced in Spring-. To run the city between December 1 and March 1 will require $710,000, according to the estimates of City Au ditor Barbur. With only $300,000 on hand, the city will face a serious prob lem. Unless the Council this year makes n additional levy to make up this shortage, the same conditions or worse will exist at the end of 1916. In addition to this shortage, due to the undercutting of the levy for 1915, there will be a dropof about $400,000 in license receipts: $350,000 of this will be due to prohibition. Due to this, there will be shouldered on the tax payers next year an additional 1.3 mills. Should the Council cut out all pro posed special appropriations, the tax levy for next year might be held down to 8 mills. This would allow for mini mum operation expenses only. It would not allow for making: up this year's shortage. To make up the shortage and make the city easy financially would require at least another 1.5 mills, which would make the total tax levy for 191 !).5 mills, or $9.50 on each $1000 of assessed valuation, as compared with $7.50 for the present year. . WEST NOT IN RAGE rot,ni:ssioAb aspirations de nied BY EX-GOVKRXOn. KathuNjaNm in Work for Ilrnurrt-ction of Xeirlected Irrlcatioa Proj ects I Declared. Despite the persistent reports that he is to be a candidate for Congress from the Third district, ex-Governor Oswald West insists that he is not seeking Congressional honors, and says that ho is engaged in the more impor tant work of aiding in the ressurection or soma of the neglected irrigation pro.1oct In Central Oregon. "The announcement has been made," said the ex-Governor yesterday, "that I am to be a candidate for Congress against Mr. McArthur. "However, I am not going to he 'a candidate. I have no more intention of running for Congress than I have of joining the troops in the trenches. You couldn't run fast enough to give me the job. "I am too busily engaged in a work that is of far more importance to the people of Oregon than is the question of who shall be Representative from this district. The work of which I ipoak is that of putting new life into several of the all but dead irrigation projects of Central Oregon. We have Just about succeeded in adjusting the affairs of one project and we hope to see construction started within the next Vit days. "As kooii as work is started on this projerl we hope to have good news to announce as to another one. I am fa miliar with the details surrounding the affairs of most of these projects, and I know of no greater work that one rould do than that of assisting in put ling new life into those now lying dormant." "OPEN HOUSE" IS PLANNED rrofrrummo Being; Arranged toe l'riilay Kvcnt at V. SI. C. A. Dormitory men and members of the social committee conferred last night st dinner over the programme that will l-e sriven on "Open House Night" at the "V. M. C. A. next Friday, when both men nd women will be the guests of the dwellers in the association building. Each of the four floors of the dormi tory will have a programme of its own, competing with the other floors in novelty of the "stunts." The quarters Mso will te decorated for the visitors. More than 500 guests are expected. MRS. SCADDING REPORTS Surgiral Dressings Made and Thanks Given Contributors. Through the chairman. Mrs. Charles tcadding, the Surgical dressings com mittee has issued a report of the first three days' work, dona by the organiza tion. In part the report follows: "The Multnomah Hotel gave to the committee three large, airy rooms and equipped them with tables and chairs sufficient to accommodate 60 workers. Lipman, Wolfe A. Co. donated two sew ing machines. The models for the dress ings sent from New York: are-faithfully copied. "The appeal for material, called the 'National rag campaign,' met with gen erous response. All the white rags sent in must be washed and ironed. Of the softest scraps, 500 handkerchiefs and 1100 'wipes' have been made." The bakers have sent 500 clean flour sacks, which have been made into frac ture "pads. Six pieces of unbleached muslin. 500 yards of surgical gause, three bolts of outing flannel, one bale of oakum, two bolts of flannel, 225 yards of gauze, 2000 safety pins and 50 yards absorbent cotton -have been donated. These have been manufac tured into 300 absorbent pads, 100 slings, 100 T binders, 125 abdominal binders, 500 flat dressings, 300 rolled bandages, 100 gauze drains, 1100 wipes, 500 handkerchiefs. More material is asked for the next week. The commit tee expresses gratitude for past favors The assistance of Reed College stu dents is also appreciated. The mate rials needed for Monday are: Raw cot ton, outing flannel, unbleached mus lin, surgical gauze. No. 3 safety pins. COMMON RATE FAVORED Gl'V W. TALBOT ADVOCATE! CHANGE I3f TARIFF TO ASTORIA. Portland Declared Benefited When Any Point on River Gets Trade Away Kress Seattle. "It is high time that the people of Portland demanded common-point rates to the mouth of the Columbia River," declared Guy W. Talbot, president of the Portland Gas fc Coke Company, in an address before 148 Portland citizens at the weekly luncheon meeting; of the Portland Realty Board yesterday. "We shouldn't bother ourselves guessing what point along the river will get the shipping so long as it doesn't go to Seattle, as now seems to be the case. "As a matter of fact, I believe the ultimate terminals will be about 30 miles down the river from Portland. It is there, at a point between Kalama and a place opposite St. Helens, that tho means of rail and 'water trans portation come together. I predict that this will become a transfer point only. But even if a rival settlement does spring up, all of the development of points between here and the mouth of the Columbia River will be for the best interests of Portland. "I believe if the Chamber of Com merce takes action on this great ques tion that it should put its case directly before L. C. Gilman. president of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railroad. I have much faith in Mr. Gilman and I urge you to give him an opportunity to help us." Among those who spoke during the informal discussion were: E. L.. Thomp son, V. W. Cotton, C. W. Fulton, C. Lewis Meads and J. S. Dellinger, of As toria. A delegation from the Progres sive Business Men's Club was present to assure the Realty Board of its full support in the campaign for an elimin ation of the present disparity of freight rates which are said to discriminate grossly against the Columbia River points. MRS. VV. STONER COMING MOTHER OF CHILD "PRODIGY" W1XI, LECTURE IJ PORTLAND. Winifred, Jr., Ased 12, Speaks, Reads and Writes Various Laaeuagea and Passes College Examinations. Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner. founder of the system of "natural edu cation" of the child, and mother of Winifred. Jr., aged 12, who is known as the "normal prodigy," will be in Portland within a few days to lecture. Mrs. titoncr Is now in California and will be in Portland on her return East. Mrs. Stoner believes that "self-control and the joy of service" is the key to successful education of the child and a belief in that doctrine and a strict adherence to her 10 command ments, applicable to bringing up the child, will, she says, result -in just as extensive an education as her own 12-year-old daughter possesses. Here are some of the accomplish ments, as they would generally be termed, of the child Winifred. She can speak fluently French, German. Italian, Latin, Ksperanto, Japanese and Eng lish. She. is able to write nine other languages, among them Chinese. She successfully passed college entrance examinations at the age of 9 years. She translated her mother's book on "Nat ural Education" into French, and at the age of 4 years she composed a rhyme on whooping cough, from an attack of which ailment she had just recovered. Despite the fact that Winifred is so intensively educated at such a tender age, she is healthy and normal in every particular. She is a lover of all out door sports. Winifred has been able to gain an extensive knowledge of most of the "ologies" found in the catalogue of any American college or university, and she says that her knowledge is besti re tained through the medium of rhyme. That fact has been one of the secrets of her abnormal store of knowledge. The safest soap for babies is Resinol This is so, First because it is one o the no soaps which contain no free alkali that harsh, drying chemical which so frequently causes eciema.or other skin irritation. But, even more important, it contains the soothing, healing Resinol medica tion to keep the delicate skin soft, clear and beautiful. You can safeiy trust your baby's skin health to Resinol Soap. Sold by all drusjrists. For trial site cake free, writs to Dept. 2-1', Kcsinol, Baltimore, Md. Prescribed by doctors, for over 20 years, in Reaiaol Ointment, to heal skis affections. Hallowe'en Novelties for Pranks and Parties Favors, Invitations, Cut outs. Seals, Caps, Masks, Skulls, LanternstCats,Ghosts We Are Exclusive Portland Agents for "Lackawanna Twins" Underwear for Children and Gossard Front-Lace Corsets Artistic Picture Fra.ming Koartb Flew Bring In your holiday work now and have it over with before the rush begins. We have an exceedingly attractive assortment of the new mouldings and all work is guaranteed first-class. Olds, Wor tman & King Reliable Merchandise- Reliable Methods Pacific Phone Marshall 48QO Home Phone A 6231 Home Journal Patterns Fpeelal Weekly Service. I'atterns issued in New York every Saturday are on sale at our Pat tern Counter every W e d n e s day morning. Take advantage of this up-to-date and very unique service. DoubleTrading Stamps Today With Cash Purchases of Men's and Boys' Clothing and Furnishings Is t Floor Women's Raincoats $5 to $35 Featuring the Very Latest Styles, Materials and Colors ORIGINALITY of designs and superior 'workmanship char acterize these garments you'll note this the moment you see them. Our showing this season is by far the most complete -we have ever had, embracing a wide range of models for both women and misses. Especially at tractive are the many smart coats shown in the new belted effects with full-flare skirt, storm collars, deep cuffs and large patch pockets. Most all styles have large, roomy raglan sleeves. The materials are cravenettes and new tweed mix tures in great variety of patterns; also plain black, tan and navy. All sizes. Prices from $5.00 to $33 New Wool and Silk Sweaters and Coats Department, Second Floor Fashionable garments for ice-skating, etc. New Sweaters and Sport Coats of Angora, Shetland Wool, Shetland An gora, etc.,' in plain and fancy weaves. These are the new medium-weight garments with shawl or sailor collars also standing and roll collars and patch pockets. Some have sash to match others, popular belted styles. Smart New Suits and Coats For Intermediate Girls Department, Second Floor We make a specialty of Suits, Coats and Dresses for the intermediate girl and small miss. Many mothers know how difficult it is to get garments that fit girls of 14 and 15 years prop erly. These new Suits and Coats are designed especially to meet this demand and are exceptional garments in every way. Suits are to be had in mixtures, serges, diagonals and velvets, trimmed with belts, pockets, military or roll collars and new full skirts. Coats are shown in any num ber of smart models for dress or street wear in all wanted materials. New Tailored Suits and Coats for Intermediate Girls $12.08 to $26.50 Exquisite New Dresses for Street or Party Wear at $7.oO to $21.00 Girls' New Plush Coats Special $9,85 Girls' Corduroy Coats at $5.98 Second Floor Girls' New Winter Coats made from Salts' high-grade plushes with deep cuffs, high turn over collar and wide belt all round. Shown in black. Ages 8 up to 14. Excellent $12 Coats 20 on sale today, only pSCDij Second Floor These splendid Coats are made from the fashion able new wide-wale corduroys in colors, navy, green and brown. Styled with high collars and belt in front. In ages 6 Oi? to 14. Special today PiJi70 Girls'$8.5QRubberizedRaincoats$3.98 Reuben's Shirts for Infants 98c Second Floor Only a lynited num ber of these coats. Good grade of rubberized tweeds in tan and gray mixtures. Sizes 6 to tf Q H Q 14. Usual $8.50 Coats POZfJ Second Floor Reuben's Silk and Wool Shirts for Infants. Sizes up to 4. These usually sell up QO to $1.30. Saturday at onlyf Odd Lines Infants' Shoes, pair 190 Drugs and Toilet Articles Special Offerings For Saturday 5 bars Ivory Soap, 1 bar Q Lurline Soap today only Limit, six cakes to a customer and no deliveries except with other purchases made in Drug Dept. 15c 4711 White Rose Soap at 120 25c M. & B. Mouth Wash for 120 15c Williams' Talc. Powder 1O0 15c bottle of Petro. Jelly at 80 10c Hand or Kitchen Sapolio 60 15c Pears' Unscented Soap at 90 50c Hinds' Honey and Almond Cream, special low price of 330 25cMassattla Talc. Powder 110 25c Colgate's Toothpaste for 200 $1.50 Heddin's Toilet Water 1)80 15c Exposition Toilet Paper 1500 sheets to the roll, special at 100 29c Absorbent Cotton now at 180 50c Lavoris Mouth Wash at 4O0 50c Bay Rum, 16-oz. bottle, 350 25c Lyon's Tooth Powder at 150 25c Williams' Cold Cream at 100 $1.00 Fitch's Hair Tonic for 690 50c Liquid Tar Soap at only 370 Household Rubber Gloves at 350 50c Guaranteed Scissors now 250 $1.50 Hot-Water Bags and Syr inges on sale now at only $1.00 15c Tooth Brush, all styles, 1O0 Hand Scrub Brushes, asst'd, 250 10c Soap, large assortment of odds and ends, on sala at only 50 $1 Rubber-Cushion Hair Brushes, with double bristles? on sale 500 Hot-Water Bottles, now .$1 to .$2 16-oz. bottle Witch Hazel at 210 35c Fletcher's Castoria only 230 50c California Syrup of Figs on sale Saturday at low price 350 25c bottle Castor Oil, now 180 Pebeco Tooth Paste at only 390 25c Babcock's Corylopsis Talcum Powder Saturday for only 130 Demonstration Borden's Milk You can't improve on BORDEN'S the experience of half a century at dairy and condensing plants, together with a fixed purpose of supplying only the best, have re sulted in BORDEN'S, the original malted milk. Try a glass at the demonstration booth, Drug Dept. 50c Size Borden's Milk Now 400 $1.00 Size Borden's Milk at 800 $3.98 Hospital Size, Now $2.98 Men's $1.50 Shirts at 95c Men's $1.50 Underwear 98c Main Floor Special Saturday sale of Men's Shirts 500 of them in this notable offering. Soft or stiff cuff styles with plain or plaited bosoms. Made from splendid grade materials in neat colored patterns; also in plain white. Usual Q E? 1.25 and $1.50 Shirts only 4- Main Floor Men's heavy cotton Union Suits at a big reduction in price for Saturday's selling. Many men prefer these garments for Winter wear. Elastic ribbed cot ton in ecru color sizes from 34 up to 46. Usual $1.50 crra.de. rk f special, the garment, onlyi-'OC Mens 50c Heavy Black Wool Socks, Saturday, three pairs for $l.QO mens $1.50 Blue Hannel Shirts, sizes 14 to 17'.; special now at 980 Men'g Medium-Weight Flannelette Gowns, special now at, each 500 'Candy Day9 Every Saturday is "Candy Day" at the Bargain Circle on the Main Floor. Delicious sweets of all kinds on sale at REDUCED PRICES. $1.10 Fruit Baskets At 89c Third Floor Fancy Fruit Bas ket, as illustrated, and many other styles equally as attrac tive; U6ual selling price $1.10. Buy these Saturday OQm special price of onlyOiC Other sizes in various styles, ranging from 75c to $1.50. Ot-J tt" v JU "SH yF'il 4 A Trimmed Hats ft Made to Sell at $7.5Q, $8.50,$10,$12.50,$15 On Sale Today at Only Ll SEE MORRISON-STREET WINDOW! Wonderful were the hats we sold last Saturday at this price, but we can assure 'you the models in this assort ment are equally as attractive. Beautiful hats for evening and afternoon wear, charming models for street wear in a multitude of new shapes. Hats of velvets, plush vrlour de norse etc., mostly in black, although there is a good sprinkling of the favored colors. High crowns, low crowns, medium crowns, smart sailor shapes, back rolls, turbans, side rolls, etc. Ex quisitely trimmed with ostrich plumes and fancies in white and various colors also beautiful tinted pompons, ostrich novelties, gold, silver and steel ornaments and a number trimmed with fur and para dise. This lot of hats represents a very special purchase and the price at which we offer them is much less than cos of making of many in the assortment. Hats which would ordinarily 4Z J! sell at $7.50, $8.50, $10, $12.50 and $15 SATURDAY are placed on sale at low -price of P4UU Any Trimmed Hat ih the Basement at $1.98 H&fJFiJSHEi!. C.H0ICE 0F ANY TRIMMED HAT IN THE BASEMENT SATURDAY AT ONE NINETY-EIGHT! Many Hats which were marked heretofore to sell at $4.50 and $4.98. Great va riety of styles, from small, close-fitting turbans and tricornes to the large sailors. Trimmings of os trich plumes, gold and silver novelties, flowers, velvet winged bows and other fancies 7 T O Every desirable color and black in all the new Falland Winter shapes; worth to $4.98, at J XJo Colonial Hams 18c Lb. Grocery Dept. 4 th Floor. T h e 8 e come in m e d i u jn sizes, ranging from 10 to 12 lbs. Very choice Eastern sugar-cured hams put up by Ar mour & Co. ex pressly for this store. On sale at 18c the pound. COLONIAL BACON, strip or half strip, the pound at"" CANNED SHRIMP 15c " f small can for low price of "t 25c large-size can now for 190 TUNA FISH tastes like J fk chicken 15c can for only J- w 25c large-size can now for 190 SLICED BOILED H A M O CTn on sale Saturday, pound Out LJ Colonial) ? Women's Knit Underwear Special Lines on Sale at Reduction of Va I Center Circle, First Floor Wom en's Vests, Pants and Union Suits, special lines in well-known makes and "irregulars" with slight imper fections, on sale REDUCTION. $1.00 Pants and Vesta now at 670 $1.50 Pants and Vests now $1.00 $2.00 Pants and Vests now $1.33 $1.25 Union Suits now only 830 $1.75 Union Suits now only $1.17 $2.50 Union Suits now noly $1.67 $3.50 Union Suits now only $2.33 $5.50 Union Suits now only $3.67 The Basement Underprice Store Women's Sample Suits and Duplicates in the Season Best Styles $20 to $35 Grades HIGH-GRADE SUITS from makers whose names are known from one end of the country to the other names that stand for superior tailoring, depend . able fabrics and correct styles. . The great majority of these suits are entirely new models, never having been shown elsewhere in the city this season and, being sample garments, there are but one or two of a kind, although the diversity of styles allows of splendid choosing. Another point, too, every garment is beautifully finished and perfect fitting "-greater care being. necessary in this re gard because of their use as samples. Practically all the new Fall and Winter styles are included, from the serviceable plain tailored to the more fancy cuts. The, materials principally used are broad- "I O O CT cloths, serges, gabardines and mixtures. Suits made to sell at $20, $25 and $30.- Priced at V -A-OsOO $5 and $6 Shoes $3.85 One Style as Illustrated Shoe Department, First Floor Fashionable new Fall and Winter Footwear for women. Smart models of patent, dull calf, kid, satin and craven ette. Lace and button styles with fabric or kid tops, narrow and round toes, Louis Cuban, spool or straight Cuban heels. Footwear of quality such as you expect to pay $5.00 or JQ O " $0.00 for on sale Saturday at, pair VUiOO Girls9 $3 Shoes at $2.48 Main Floor Shoes in comfortable "Ortho" last, especially designed for big girls. Dull calf, button style. Sizes 2V4 (PQ AO to 6. $3.00 Shoes on sale at PW)'0 Save Your S. & H. Green Trading Stamps! Men's $6.00 Shoes $4.48 New "Blackstone" Last Cloth Tops Shoe Department, Main Floor Men who have seen this classy new model are won on the spot! Made of "mahogany" calf on splendid new ast that for style and excellence of workmanship is second to none. Also a new dull calf shoe with Oxford gray cloth toppings, flat heel and pointed toe, and smart lace Shoe of gunmetal calf with comfortable toe and flat heel. Many other styles are also included in this offering for Saturday. Complete assortment of JJ5 widths and sizes. Standard $5.50 and $6.00 Shoes, pair xr.rtO Ai-'j. if Its- -jtk ft 35c Fancy Ribbons 19c MM alii 75c Grades 49c Dept., Main Floor IBBONS for fancy work ; Ribbons for hair bows and trimmings Ribbons for every purpose in this re markable sale Saturday. Stripes and floral effects in every conceivable color combination. Checks, plaids, figures, dots, etc. in great va riety. An opportunity for church so cieties and individuals planning the holiday articles to buy the necessary Ribbons at a substantial great saving. Ribbons Worth to 35c 19c Yd. Values to 75c 49c Yd. 3 October Sale of Bedding Third Floor Reduced prices on Wool Blankets, Cotton Blankets, Com forters, Pillows, etc. Also special offerings in Brass and Metal Beds, Mattresses and Springs.