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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1916)
THE 3IORNIX6 OREGONIAIT, WEDXESDAT, SEPTE3IBER 27, 1916. FAIR PLAY FOR CAR COMPANY IS ASKED All Charge Purchases Made Today and Remainder of This Month Will Go On Your October Account Payable November 1st. Open a Charge Account Here. S.& H.Green Trading Stamps Given on All Purchases Amounting to 10c or Over. Filled Stamp Books Redeemed in Cash in Our Gift Room on Fourth Floor. Franklin T. Griffith Opposes Grant Petitioned for by Jitney Union. FAVORITISM IS ASSAILED Long Runs, Transfers, Cost of Pav ing, High Taxes, Franchise Ex pense, Bridge Toll and Upkeep of Streets Part of Argument. "For nearly two years jitneys have tieen permitted to operate in Portland on a eut-throat basis of competition with the street railway company. It has been an experiment under the most favorable conditions for the Jitney and it hau proved that the new mode of transportation is unable to replace the street railway. In the Interest of fair play and square dealing, therefore, it is the duty of this City Council to force the jitney into competition with the streetcar on a fair and equal basis and let the fittest survive. Let dog eat dog." Such was the way Franklin T. Grif fith, president of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, yesterday demanded fair dealing with the com pany by the Council in the blanket jit ney franchise now pending before the Council. It was the first time an of ficial of the company has appeared be fore the Council to take any part in the deliberations over Jitney legisla tion, which has assumed various forms uring the last "two years and which has all utterly failed to bring service pr regulation from the Jltneye to date. Unfairness Is Shown. : President Griffith declared that the Situation Is serious, with the Jitneys being permitted to operate as they please only in the close-in districts where short hauls make the business profitable, while the street railway is required not only to go into the un profitable suburbs, but to grant trans fers from one end of the city to the other. "All we ask Is fair play," said he. "If the Jitney is a new and permanent form of transportation it should be able to replace the streetcar. It can only replace it by giving the same, service and operating on the same basis for the benefit of the public. Our two years of experimentation has proved that the jitney cannot do this and keep up the B-cent fare. They have had their own terms and have launched their experiment under the most favorable conditions. Now put us on an equal basis arul let dog eat dog." The talk by Mr. Griffith came at the close of consideration of a few phases of the proposed jitney franchise. The Council had decided to refer to Com missioners Daly and Dieck the proposed Jitney franchise so they can put the routes as applied for in proper shape. The franchise &e proposed would give the Jitneys the right to operate over the same lines as streetcars, but only out to the edge of the thickly-settled districts. Mr. Daly Argues for Jitneys. Commissioners Baker and Dieck sug gested that the jitneys be foroed to serve all parts of the city, but Com missioner Daly protested against this, saying that it cannot be done. "To talk about long hauls for Jitneys or for a - transfer system is ridiculous," said he. . "Yet," said Commissioner Baker, "you argue it is not fair to force the jitney to do this and at the same time the street railway is forced not only to take care of the long run, but to grant transfers as welL" "As a matter of fact," eaid Mr. Grif fith, "there are but very few streetcar lines that show any material profit. These must pay for the operation of the unprofitable lines, of which there are many in Portland. Why cannot the jitney take the bitter with the sweet as well as the street railway? "The Jitneys propose a five-minute service on most of the routes. That is equal to one streetcar , every 50 or 60 minutes. If a franchise is granted this Council should reserve the right to force the company to give frequent Service. Streetcar Costs Shown. "The street railway pays $23,000 a year direct license to the city. It has paved 150 miles of street costing ?2. 000,000 purely for the benefit of the city. This pavement must be main tained by the company and the interest on this money, amounting to $250,000 a year, must be paid. There are 400 men in the Jitney business. There are 2500 men operating streetcars. Theee 2500 are entitled, to as fair a deal as the 400. "Last year our street railway alone paid xi7B,oou in taxes, ana we paia a cents for each car crossing a bridge, which amounted to $65,329. It amounted to $27 a month for every car crossing : a bridge. Just recently we paid out $50,000 for the lowering of the grade and the paving of Broadway on the Bast Side. As soon as this was com pleted the Jitneys moved in with a route over the street without' paying a cent of the cost. "Assuming that it would take 2000 Jitneys to handle the transportation of the city, and that they paid the city the same compensation as the street railway does, it would mean a tax of $300 a year for each jitney, and no jitney could stand such a tax. The Jitney at best could not handle the transportation on a 5-cent fare basis. "We are required to carry all your fire men and policemen and to give reduced rates to school children. Appeal Blade for Equity. "It is only fair in a Jitney franchise to require them to pave the streets they use. It is a part of our franchise, and every other method of transporta tion in equity must be admitted only on an equal basis. "The average man using a Jitney does not stop to think whether It is operating on a fair and equitable basis with the etreet railway. They feel that is a feature which the Council should attetul to. The man who live close in has no concern beyond his home. He does not think of what cur tailment of streetcar service beyond the close-in Tun means to others. "If the new mode, of transportation . can give the service, give them the franchise, but in heaven's name see that it is on a basis comparable with what is exacted from the street rail way. You owe it to the city and you owe it to the company that employs the largest number or men in Portland, pays the most taxes in this city and county and has been proved to give the best service of any street railway ' company in any city in the United , States, which means the world at large." The Council referred the proposed Jitney franchise for revision. It will be up for consideration at a later date sot yet set. Nemo Corsets New Fall Models We show a complete stock of these popular Corsets in all prices. Ask to see the new Back-resting Nemos, just in by express. Corsets fitted by expert corsetieres. Dept. 2d Fir. TRY OUR SPECIAL 25c LUNCH SERVED DAILY IN THE BASEMENT. . PROMPT SERVICE. Olds, Wortman King The Standard Store of the Northwest. Reliable Merchandise Reliable Methods. ICE CREAM PARLORS AND SODA FOUNTAIN IN THE BASEMENT. SHOE SHINING IN BASEMENT. Boys' Fall Suits $5J00 to $1650 Smart new Norfolk styles in homespuns, tweeds, cheviots, cassi meres and blue serges. Suits that will give satisfactory wear and hold their shape! Boys' Store, 1st Floor. Sewing Needs & SmallWares Underpriced at Bargain Circle, 1st Floor Special Showing Maids 'Uniforms si -i. V..' & Dresses Second Floor We make a specialty of Maids' and Nurses' apparel and show at all times the very newest styles and ma terials in this class of merchandise. For today we offer two special bargains in Nurses' Uniforms. Note them below: Na rses ' U11 ifo rms $1.98, $2.98 Nurses' Uni forms of white cotton cambric. Styled with high collar and full-length sleeves. This is a very practical gar ment and decidedly smart. G"1 QQ Priced very special today atV-t''O A 4- CO r)0 Nurses' Uni- 77 yO forms in several attractive styles with high or convertible collars and long sleeves. Waist has plaits over shoulder and small pockets. Full skirts. Materials are cambric and QQ poplin. Priced special for today at only ipuxO Maids' Dresses $2.50 Up to $5.50 ;4m $1.98 French Maids' Sets, $7 JO and $8.95 Second Floor Maids' Dresses of poplins, soisette, cotton pongee and alpaca. Styled with high or low necks trimmed with white collar, long or short sleeves. Prices range from $2.30 up to $3.50 Dresses French Maid Sets in two models. One of black soisette with organdie collar, cuffs. caD and apron other of gray soisette with plaited collar. Organdie cap and apron. Priced. S7.50 and $8.95 The Great Lamp Sale Continues Unquestionably the most im pressive sale of beautiful Elec tric Lamps ever held in Port land! If you have not seen the offerings, do so today. Still a splendid variety of styles in large or small Lamps for any purpose. Dept. 3d Floor. Women's $1.75 Muslin Gowns At $1.00 Center Circle, First Floor Wom en's Muslin Night Gowns in at tractive styles, trimmed with em broideries and laces. Special lines formerly selling up to Q- CC ?1.75. Your choice at J.UU Women's' $1.50 Camisoles At $1.00 Center Circle, First Floor Wom en's Crepe de Chine Camisoles in beautiful hand-embroidered effects, shown in flesh color and white. Standard $1.50 gar- Q- ff ments priced today for J)-Lv'U Everything Needed For Fall Dressmaking H ere at Special Prices 20c Dress Weights, by yard 12 15c Sanitary Belts, all sizes. 100 15c Binding Ribbon, black, at 100 15c Sanitary Apron, special at 100 5c Binding Tape, put up 4 yards to the piece. Special today at 20 5c Wire Hair Pins, two pkgs. 50 10c Bias Folds, Nos. 1 to 6, at 50 Hair Nets, with or without elas tic, put up 5 in package, for 100 5c Bone Collar Buttons, 2 doz. 50 25c Fancy Hose. Supporters at 150 10c Hair-pin Cabinets now at 50 5c India Tape, the bolt now at 30 Small Cubes Ironing Wax with handles, priced special, dozen 100 10c Shoe Trees, priced special 70 10c Collar Supports, special at 60 25c Can of Machine Oil now 170 10c Middy Braid in red, white and navy. Priced,, the yard for C0 Silk Middy Laces in red and navy. . At the low special price, each 50 10c Washable Silk Tape, bolt 50. 10c Euclid Trouser Hangers at 70 5c Curling Irons. Special at 40 15c Bone Hair Pins, all sizes, in shell and amber. Priced at 110 10c Queen Stocking Darners at 70 15c Infants'-and Children's "Hercu les' Stocking Supporters for 100 25c Large Kid Curlers, special 140 10c Cube Pins, black or white, 70 5c Carnation Curlers. Special ;J0 5c King Basting Cotton now 40 5c Wire Coat Hangers, 3 sizes, 30 5c Trouser Hangers, two for 50 10c Gold-plated Collar and Cuff Buttons; set of four. Special 50 5c Safety Pins. Special 2 cards 50 10c Featherstitch Braids, bolt 70 25c Snap Tape at, the yard, 1J? 25c Sterling Skirt Markers at 10 Odds and Ends in Sanitary Aprons, values to $1.00, now 250 10c Bolts Ric-Rac Braids, blue, red or pink. Special today at 70 25c Frilled Elastic at, yard 1C0 10c Vassar Lace Pins now at 70 35c Shopping Bags now for 210 100-yard Spool Silk in black, white and colors, per spool 50 5c Hooks and Eyes, 2 cards for 50 8c Twilled Tape, 8-yard bolts 50 10c Folding Coat Hangers at 70 10c Belfast Hair-pin Cabinet 70 Demonstration of OMCXDress Shields Notion Department, First Floor Step in and let MLss Parker, the 6hield expert, advise you as to the proper shield for your new Fall gown, and explain the many superior features of OMO Shields. Note these special prices for Wednesday: OMO DRESS SHIELDS 1Q- I 27c No. 3 OMO Shield, pr. 210 No. 2, regular 24c kind 30c No. 4 OMO Shield, pr. 230 C. M. C. and Clark's O. N. T. Crochet Cotton in full assort ment of wanted colors and sizes at the Notion Counter. Crochet Hooks and Knitting Pins of bone or steel, priced 50 each. Pearl Buttons Worth Up to 15c a Card We have just received a large shipment of Pearl Buttons which will go on sale for Wednesday at the above price. Various styles and sizes. Put up 1 dozen on card. Worth up to 15c a card. On special ET sale today at low price of OC Klcinert's 50c RUBBER APRONS At 41c These are especially adapted for laboratory and household use. Made of first quality rub ber. Standard selling price 50c On sale Wednesday at A 1 the special price of only TC-LC ANNO UNCEMENT EXTRA ORPIN AR Y ik Sixth Anniversary Sale in Our Basement Store Extensive Extra Purchases Were Made for This Great Event On Account of Great Quantities of Merchandise the Sale Will Continue FOUR DAYS Unusual preparations have been made for this Annual Sale. The Birthdav of our Basement Store is an occasion- of interest to all tiJm have hfiipiittd ! . price system employed. Our Basement employes look upon this sale as a Gala occasion. It is the great annual event in the life of our Basement Buyer, who has just returned from Nezv York, where he made extensive extra purchases for this sale. The goods are all in marked and readv for your inspection at the sound of the y o clock gong. ALL THE LIBERAL POLICIES OF THE OLDS. WORTMAN & KING ORGAN17 ATION A I?F F.rtmvrn ii OUR BASEMEN 1 UNDERPRICE STORE. WE DELIVER WE CHARGE TO THOSE WHO HA VE ACCOUNTS WF SFMn rtnnn? n r n WE GIVE S. & H. GREEN TRADING STAMPS WITH PURCHASES AMOUNTING TO 10c OR OVER UNSURPASSED STORE SERVICE. LIQUOR 'CURE' GIVEN Buttermilk Is Prescribed by Municipal Judge. SUCCESSFUL TRIALS CITED J. W. Meyers Sent to Drugstores and Shown to Clerks, Who Are Or dered Not to Sell Him Any More Alcohol. To vou know the latest cure for the alcohol habit? Just plain' buttermilk. At any rate that is the prescription which is being given by Municipal Judge Langguth. "And that is no Joke." declared juage Langguth yesterday, after he had urged Mrs. J. W. Meyers to teach ner nus- band to drink buttermilk. "FYiur different men." declared the Judge, "who were constant visitors in the Municipal Court because of their inability to let liquor alone have been drinking buttermilk all Summer. They are now cured or ineir cravius liquor." Th .Tiiflt-e declared that the butter milk should be taken in large quanti ties and consistently. "V.nu have trot to keep at it every day," said the Judge. "The buttermilk acts to change the blood and get the craving for strong drink out of the system." J. W. Meyers was in court yesterday for the second time within less than a wte- with an alcohol lag. In both in stances he had purchased the alcohol from leading down-town drugstores. Mrs. Meyers, wife of the prisoner, was called in and urged to use her in fluence to keep her husband away from the liquor. Meyers was sent to the drugstore where he had purchased the liquor and exhibited to all the clerks who were warned to sell him no more alcohol. He was fined 10. Edward Wall and Thomas White, both of whom have been constant visi tors at the court on drunkenness charges, signed agreements yesterday to accept 30-day sentences in case they appeared in court before December 1. Hugh McGettigan was sentenced to Jail for one day on a drunkenness charge and T. K. Cochran was fined $10 on the same charge. Burns Fatal to Woman. CLATSKANIE.- Or.. Sept. 26. (Spe cial.)-j-Mrs. Lake, wife of Engineer Lake, employed at the Sunnyside camp ten miles below Mist, on the Columbia NehaJem River Railroad, received seri ous burns Sunday, which resulted n her death a few hours later. A can of distillate used to start the kitchen fire was the cause of the accident. The un fortunate woman had been married only six months. ELMAN. PLAYS TOMORROW Violinist Said to Have Range That Other Maestros Lack. Mischa Elman. whos violin recital opens the Steero & Coman season to morrow at the Heilig. will give a pro gramme designed to show his genius in all its splendor. The concertos will open the programme, a largerse of riches. The one in G minor by Vivaldi will be followed by the great Ernst concerto which has attracted so much attention from critics and connoisseurs when given by Elman in New York. This is work that few concert violin ists dare give, and Elman's playing of it is said to produce a veritable sensation. Following is the programme in full: "Concerto. Cr Minor" (Vivaldi), Alle gro, Adagio, Allegro: "Concerto, sharp minor. Op. 23" (Ernst), Allegro moderato: variations on a theme by Mozart (Scolero), a. "Arioso," J. 8. Bach (Arranged by Sam Franko): b, "Caprice, E Flat Major." Wieniaweki Kreisler; c, "Nult Demal," Michiels Elman; d. "Country Dance," Weber Elman; v, "Zigeunerweisen," Sarasata. 55 RECRUITS ENLIST Harvest Interferes With Work of Enlarging Army. POSTMASTERS GET SOME JOBS AWAIT GUARDSMEN Adjutant-General Has Slore Places Than Applicants Now. The men of the Third Oregon, re cently mustered out of the Federal service, are being supplied with Jobs as fast as they appear before acting Adjutant-General Walter W. Wilson. "We have more places to fill than we have men so far," said Major Wilson. Major Wilson is working in conjunc tion with N. F. Johnson, director of the public employment bureau, and Jacob Kanzler, secretary of the civic bureau of the Chamber of Commerce. Major Wilson said yesterday Mr. John son had places for 20 men in one man ufacturing establishment alone. Por land firms are co-operating in finding places for the men. Myrtle Creek Woman Dead. ROSEBURG, Or., Sept. 26. (Special.) Mrs. Elizabeth Howard, aged 59 years, wife of Rev. James Howard, pastor of the Myrtle Creek BaptUt Church, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. O. H. Pickens, here, yesterday. Mrs. Howard was a native of Oregon, having been born at Elk Prairie, Lane County. Be sides her husband, she is Burvived by six daughters, Mrs. J. D. Baker and Mrs. A. F. Simmons, of New Pine Creek; Mrs. L. E. Millege, of North Bend; Mrs. J. C. Broili, of Reno, Lev., and Mrs. O. H. Pickens and Mrs. Samuel Ward well, of Roseburg. 73 Applicants at Portland Offices Are Rejected Because of Physical Defects and Still Others Are Dropped at Vancouver. Recruits for the United States Army enlisted this month at the Portland re cruiting offices in the Worcester build ing numbered 55 men. Many of these were brought to Portland from small outside cities where postmasters are re cruiting officers. Last month the num ber of recruits was 76. The low total for September is abecribed to the fact that this Is the busy harvest season and many activities are calling for men of good physique, such as is necessary to pass the Army examinations Postmasters at present are slow to attract men from employment to en listment in the Army. It is expected that within a. short time, when the Winter puts a stop to many outdoor activities, the number of men enlisted in the service by postmasters will In crease largely. In smaller cities where there are no recruiting offices the postmasters are performing good work in obtaining en listments. That they may have an in terest in doing so the Government pays $5 for each man secured. This is given only after the applicant for enlistment passes the rigid examinations. Upon enlistment in the outside cities the re cruit is brought to Portland, and ex amined. About 75 per cent of applications made at Ahe Portland recruiting office are rejected, chiefly because they are unable to pass the physical examina tions. On being accepted they are sent to Vancouver barracks, where a small percentage is rejected on examination there. The first recruit in this state under the postmaster enlisting system was signed up last month in Newberg. It is thought this man was one of the very first to be enlisted in the whole United States under the new plan. through her excellent showing in the Juvenile exhibit at the County Fair at Canby. REPLATTING PLAN LIKED Kealty Board Approves Proposal to Straighten Out Streets. At the request of the municipal street extension bureau a committee of the Portland Realty Board has investigated the proposed replatting of Hudson's Addition. Fairvlew Addition and Mead ow View Addition and reported that the replat plan of the city in equitable and desirable throughout. The report was asked for by the city because of some opposition in the additions. The plan has been for all the prop erty owners to turn over their deeds o a trust company, after which the streets will be realigned and each owner given back a piece of property equal to that held originally. At pres ent the streets are irregular, and many of them have blind ends and are of varying width. The replat plan would make them all regular and straight. The Realty Board committee comprised H. G. Beckwith. Frederick H. Strong and Dean Vincent. GUARDSMEN KEPT BUSY Day Devoted to Arranging Arms and Equipment In Armory. The 10 companies comprising the Portland units of the Third Oregon, United States National Guard, yester day passed the day in arranging their arms and equipment in the Armory. Only nine companies were stationed in Portland before the troops were called to Mexico, but Company G, for- Damascus Girl Wins Trip. DAMASCUS. Or., Sept. 26 (Special.) Miss Annie Mullenhoff. a seventh grade pupil of the Damascus School, is one of the four pupils of Clackamas County who won a free trip and ad mission to th Stata Fair at Salem r f A A flrstwheat- food with a real taste Krum bl e s All W h e a t A Joy to Eat. 10o Look f op this signature AH Wheat Ready io Eat merly at Oregon City, will hereafter be stationed in this city. Company G had little facilities for drilling and storing equipment in Ore gon City. The hall used before leav ing for the border has been rented, and the transfer to this city was made to give drill room. Temporarily they are occupying the quarters vacated by Troop A. Colonel" McLaughlin will be at his headquarters the next 10 days finish ing the routine work attached to the transfer of the Oregon National Guard to Federal administration. Night Domestic Science Class Likely. KELSO, Wash.. Sept, 26. (Special.) Arrangements have been completed by the Kelso Board of Kduoatinn for a night domestic science course. Miss Eva Keatley, domestic science instructor, has volunteered her services for this week and the first meeting of the new class will be held tomorrow night, when organization will be effected. Candidate's Title Kept Off Ballot. DAVENPORT. Wash.. Sept. 26. (Spe cial.) Because the County Auditor has said he will not certify anything but the initials of names on the election ballot. Dr. R. P. Moore. Democratic candidate for Coroner, has threatened a mandamus suit to compel the official to designate him on the ballot as "Dr. R. P. Moore." The Auditor maintains that the title of doctor is not a part of his name and that its use on the bal lot is intond?d for political advantage. 4 3 Go East Through the Canadian Pacific Rockies Minarets and mountain peaks at luxurious Banff in the very heart of this mountain fairyland.' At Banff are all the fine touches of social life, good table, good serv ice, every possible comfott at moderate cost. From the stone pillared verandah or from the wide windows of the hotel, lias spread the great panorama of Alps and river. Reached only by the world's greatest transportation system the Canadian Pacific Railway which maintains hotels at Banff Lake Louise Field Glacier Balfour Everything Canadian Pacific Standard Nona Better. For further Information call, tnle- Dhone or write for Tour No, W-20 t 1 r rm'- f4 i i : BB-vmmi' iw - v a T w - v
