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
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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.