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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1916)
THE 3IORXINO OREGOXIAX. TUTJRSDAT, OCTOBER 12, 1916. 0 WATER BUREAU EXTENSIONS SILL Commissioner Daly Points to Saving in Expenditures of His Department. LESS NEW WORK IS CAUSE Argument of Efficiency loses in Weight When Figures Showing ' Annual Disbursements Are Analyzed. The fact that the City Water Bureau Jiaa had but one-fifth the new conetruc tion in 1916 it had in 1914, and has liad fewer other financial burdens this year than in 1914, is pointed out by City Commissioner Daly as tangible proof of the efficiency of Commission form of government, or at least the Iart of commission government with which he personally has to do. The latest argument for the new form was issued by Mr. Daly yesterday in the form of a letter to each of the newspapers. It shows the bare com parisons of the cost of the Water Bureau during 1914, 1916, 1916, and the estimated cost for 1917. No explana tion is given as to the cause of the reduction, the inference, being, how ever, that it is efficiency. The same tiling is done with the Street Cleaning Bureau. On the face of it the statement looks like the Water Bureau cost has been reduced at a sensational rate. When It is noted, however, that in 1916 the total mileage of new mains laid will be less than eight miles, while in 1914 the total was more than 35 miles, the reason for the reduction begins to, appear. Fewer miles of new water mains were laid by the water bureau in 1916 than for several years, according to estimates prepared yesterday. The to tal cost of new mains will be about J70.000 for 1916, as compared with $275, 242 for 1915 and $380,387 for 1914. The total miles of new mains put in so far this year is 7.119. Of this mile nee, 1.938 miles was of two-Inch pipe, .039 of a mile, four-inch pipe; 1.410 miles, six-inch pipe, and .457 of a mile, ten-Inch pipe. Kxprndlturea Are Reduced. The following statement of expendi tures under the head of fixed, charges explains the reduced cost of operating the Water Bureau: Interest on bonds. Hond funking fund INew construction Interest and sinking: fund on improvement bonds. . . 1914. 1916. 282.7S0 $28,510 54,4BO 14,3S0 60O.0S4 230.OO0 162,608 Total Jl.199,912 9702,890 Included in these items is the matter of payment of interest and sinking fund charges for bonds issued by the city up to 1909 for the construction of water mains. It is shown that in 1914 the total cost of interest and redemp tion on these bonds was $162,608, while nothing has had to be paid in 1916. The comparison as presented by Mr. Daly shows that another decrease will come next year. While it is not stated In his letter, the fact remains that the decrease will come from cutting still further the amount of new construc tion. The budget for next year as pre sented shows not a single change in the number of employes or salaries except in the case of ten-day laborers used in digging trenches, who have been cut out, owing to prospective re duction in constructive work. Another decrease of $15,000 is shown in the Interest on bonds. $14,000 in the sinking fund charge, $48,000 in the purchase of property and $15,000 in the purchase of castiron pipe. Antos Cat Cleaning: Cost. A decrease In the Street Cleaning Bureau as shown in Mr. Daly's state ment is due to the installation of auto driven cleaning apparatus. Use of this equipment became practicable in 1915, when the first of it was put in the service. Since then the old methods of street cleaning have given way to auto apparatus with the resultant paving in the cost of street cleaning. The same has been true in all large cities. Mr. Daly's letter follows: PORT-LAJvD, Oct 11. (To the Editor.) Fir In view of the comment being pub Jislied of late on commission government In U oitland. 1 believe some figures on the cost .f conducting the Street-cleaning and Water ??r.k." Bur,'r!Lu.? f?e Department of Public Utilities will be both interesting and Bertl nent. i-ollowhiir are the appropriations mada Cor the operation of the Water Works Jlureau for the flijt three years of commis sion government and the appropriation asked for 1017, the fourth, year of the new regime: $l,729.79.0O 3;:.';; 1.280.554.99 ; 1.191.74D.VO 3 ,i ""'ue8e'li S84.721.0O It will be seen from a comparison of these figures that In spite of the growing needs ft the city the appropriations for the Water Works Bureau have shown a decrease each J ear. The appropriation for the forthcom ing year will be $845,075 less than that made In 1914, or a decrease of more than 48 per cent. Appropriations Each Tear. Following are the appropriations made for ach year since commission government be gan, together with the requested appropria tion for 1917, in the Bureau of Street-cleaning and Sprinkling: '!V'4 , $359,714.51 29,341.9 l!!" 258.224.77 3917 (requested) 246.229.92 The appropriation requested for the en suing year is $113,484.39 less than that al lvtd In 1914. or a decrease of more than 81 per cent In the tax levy. This showing in made In spite of the fact that the hard surface area ot the city has Increased more than 10 per cent. The mileage cleaned by the bureau In 1914 was 355. At the end of the coming years this will have Increased to bout 400. Very truly yours, "WILL. H. niT.T Commissioner of Public Utilities. registered at the Xortonia from Bre merton, Wash. C. A. Pomeroy, of Napa, Cal., is regis tered at the Seward. O. Mulligan is registered at the Per kins from Astoria. G. A. Carter, of Warrenton, is regis tered at the Perkins. J. L. Harford is registered at the Nortonia from Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Goodman, of Burns, are at the Washington. S. L. Hausser is registered at' the Seward from St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Cohn, of Pendle ton, are at the Portland. Mrs. A. W. Peters is registered a.t the Portland from Hood River. Mrs. A. J. Ahola is registered at the Cornelius from Goldendale. Mrs. E. L. Lamport, of Salem, is reg istered at. the Washington. Mr. and Mrs. William Land, of Walla Walla, are at the Multnomah. Mr. and Mrs. G. Fpntanals, of Ha vana, are at the Multnomah. PHILADELPHIA FIXAXOER TO TALK H 10,'itK TOI1 A V ON "THE JITXKY PROHLEJL" PD1S0H SALE PENALIZED PROPRIETOR OF HARRI 80-STREET PHARMACY IS FIXED 50. PERSONAL MENTION. T. M. Davis, of Seattle is at the Cor nelius. C. L. Parish, of Tyee, Is at the Im perial. H. D. Scott, of Salem, is at the Mult nomah. C. E. Mills, of Oakland, Or., is at the Oregon. J. B. E. Bourne, of Rainier, is at the Eeward. E. F. Batton of Hood River, Is at the Perkins. E. Ryan, of Tacoma, is at the Nor ton ia. N. A. Faublan, of Chelan, is at the Washington. J. F. Pinney, of San Francisco, Is at the Oregon. H. R. Fishback, of Monmouth, is at the Perkins. Gordon Corbaley, of Spokane, is at the Imperial. J. C. French, of Dufur, is registered at the Seward. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Lovell, of Astoria, are at the Imperial. A. B. Brown is registered at the Ore gon from Astoria. Esther Woodcock, of Washougal, Is at the Cornelius. H. H. Hunt, of Spokane, is registered at the Multnomah. Mr. and Mrs. James E. Groat are C. M. Clark. Owing to the severe illness of Franklin T. Griffith, who was to have addressed the Progressive Business Men's Club at their luncheon today, the talk of the day will be made by C. M. Clark, of Philadelphia, member of the board of directors of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany. Mr. Clark will talk upon "The Jitney Problem" and will have some striking statements to make, as he is interested in transportation companies all over the country which are competing with the Jitney. Dexter Rice and A. F. Sether, of Roseburg, are at the Imperial. J. C Anawa.lt is registered at the Portland from San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Foster, of Manila, are registered at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Kessler are at the Oregon, registering from Banks. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Soleman are regis tered at the Cornelius from Banks. Mr. and Mrs. William Faublan, of Chelan, Wash., are at the Washington. Failure to Label Bottle la Charge Sus tained Unregistered Pharma cist Case Dropped. J. H. Murphy, proprietor of the Har rison-Street Pharmacy, pleaded guilty to violation of state laws touch ing the sale of poison, and was fined $50 by District Judge Jones yesterday. Mr. Murphy was arrested by Deputy Inspectors Robert C. Scott and. W. J. Jeffries, of the State Pharmacy Board. on three different charges, when he allowed J. M. Ryan, an unregistered pharmacist, to sell corrosive sublimate. One charge was the sale of deadly poi son without placing on the bottle the name and business of the seller; the second, the sale of poison by an un registered pharmacist, and third, the failure to place a registered pharma cist in charge of the drug store. Mr. Murphy pleaded guilty to the first of these charges and the other two were dismissed. Judge Jones ruled that the law de manded that the last person to sell poison must have his name and busi ness on the bottle, and that the name of the manufacturer or jobber was not sufficient. A motion to quash the complaints on the ground that the District Court had no jurisdiction was denied. The de fendant secured permission to pay the $50 fine in installments of $10 a week. FOOD SOURING IN STOMACH CAUSES ) INDIGESTION Tape's Diapepsin" Neutralizes Acids in Stomach and Starts Digestion. Five Minutes! No Sourness, Gas, Heartburn, Acidity or Dyspepsia. If what you Just ate is souring on your stomach or lies like a lump of lead, refusing to digest, or you belch gas and eructate sour, undigested food, or have a feeling of dizziness, heart burn, fullness, nausea, bad taste in mouth and stomach headache, you can surely get relief in five minutes. Ask your pharmacist to show you the formula, plainly printed on these fifty-cent cases of Pape's Diapepsin. then you will understand why dys peptic troubles of all kinds must go and why it relieves sour, out-of-order stomachs or Indigestion in five min utes. "Pape's Diapepsin" is harmless; tastes lke. candy, though each dose will digest and prepare for assimila tion Into ' the blood all the food you eat; besides, it makes you go to the table with a healthy appetite; but what will please you most, is that you will feel that your stomach and intes tines are clean and fresh, and you will not need to resort to laxatives or liver pills for biliousness or constipation. This city will have many "Pape's Diapepsin" cranks, as some people will call them, but you will be enthusiastic about this splendid stomach prepara tion, too, if you ever take it for indi gestion, gases, heartburn, sourness, dyspepsia, or any stomach misery. Get some now, this minute, and rid yourself of stomach misery and indi gestion in five minutes. Adv The Climax to the Greatest lerchaeclise Tragedy in the Whole United. States The Southern Pacific has leased our store and has served us with an ultimatum to positively and ab solutely vacate the premises by midnight, Oct. 31 9C nnfl J-rv CCfk find of the Markets' Best Merchandise $D,UUU 10 pDU,UUU Assembled for Quick Slaughter WE MUST GET OUT! Over 200,000 Garments and Articles and Yards of Dry Goods, Clothing, Ladies' Ready-to-Wear, Furnishings, Notions, Shoes, Hats, Millinery, Etc., Must Absolutely Be Sold OUR LIFE IS EXTENDED FOR TWENTY DAYS and in that time must come the end to the greatest mercantile salvage store on the Coast. A fortune of merchandise to be sold, so to speak, in the wink of an eye. SALE BEGINS Today A.9M. $2.50to$3.50 Ladies' Low Shoes 19c Sizes 2Yi to 5. One big lot of dif ferent styles and leathers. $3.00 Ladies' Shoes One big, fine lot to choose from. Sizes 2'i to 5. Good qualities. Southern Pacific Company PACIFIC ITSTOI A-354. poBTu.mo8Boo.0ct. 5th, Oregon Salvage & Mercantile Co. , 131 Fourth Street, City. Gentlemen, Referring to Qon-rereatlon with your VxLeavitt in regard to the occupancy of the atjove narced epace. Thie will confirm the nutual understanding with Vx. John B. Yeon arid the undersigned, that you icay occupy this epace until October 31st, I916. It should be understood, however, that under no-xircuastances, will it be possible to grant an extension beyond that date. Our contractor will be in readiness to make the necessary "alterations on Kovember 1st, 60 that -we icay occupy the building for .Ticket Office purposes at the earliest possible date,. thereafter. 0X9 truly. $4.00 Ladies' Shoes Tan or black. Elegant styles, in cluding welts, kid or patent? LADIES' SUITS $15 Ladies' Fine Suits $12 $20 Ladies' Fine Suits $3 $25 Ladies' Fine Suits $7H $ 5 Ladies' Raincoats 98c $10 Ladies' Raincoats $3 $10 Good Wool Coats $P $25 Good Wool Coats $7 $3.50to$5.00 Men's Patent Leather Oxfords Go at $4 to $5 Men's Shoes Come in gunmetal calf, tan or pat ent leather, all sizes. MEN'S SUITS $10 $15 $20 $25 $30 $10 $15 Men's Men's Men's Men's Men's Men's Men's Suits Suits Suits Suits Suits $ 2.25 $ 4.69 $ 7.80 $11.29 $13.85 0'coats$ 4.19 0'coats$ 6.18 DRY GOODS 2o Jap. Crepe, new tripe,19i. Tragedy Price... H-V.5C 15 Outing Flan neL Tragedy Price $1.2o German Linen Napkins, TragedyOQ Price OUC 25r "White Pique. 1 C, Tragedy Price, Yd IOC $1.00 German Table Damask, Tragedy OQ Price, the Yard .xJZC 23 Romper Cloth, dark colors. Tragedy "1 A Price 1tC 3e Wool Dress Goods, diagonal 6 tripe. Tragedy Price JC fio Wool Storm3gc o0f China Silks, in dark colors. Tragedy 1 Q Price, Yard IOC 20f Eden Cloth. 5 pieces only, Trag-QA, edy Price, Yard 774C "Or) Galateas in plain tr,pes-llC colors and Tragedy Price 20 Colored Dress Lin ings, 36 inches wide. Tragedy Price ......... 9c 30 Pillow Tubing, 42 inches wide, Trag-OO edy Price, yard ...... ssC JioC Sateen Ticking, best quality. Tragedy O Price, Yard A1C WMI..IM II ,.L.II III II I I II II I I I I IH I II I """' " '' ''! 1 I 1 1 SB II .III. II I I III l.lll.l... II I, p., ,. mmmwm - C c y t' s rl- I v f 1 I y 10c Outing 25c Wash 25c Farmer's 40c Dress $1.50 Silk 20c Indian H'd 39c Mohawk 15c Towelings Flannel Goods Satin . Goods Poplin Dress Goods 8-4 Sheeting: Go at 4c 5c 12c 19c 70c 11c 22c 7V2c 18c Large 75c Bungalow 5c Ladies' $2 Ladies' 10c Pearl $2 Corsets 10c to 15c 25c Laces Towels Aprons Handkerc'fs Handbags Buttons Go at Laces at Go at 9c 40c 1c 45c 2c 68c lc 2c 50c, Men's $1 Wool $1 Men's $3 Men's Wool 50c Athletic $5 Loggers' $1 Dress $1.50 Men's Rib'd Und'w'r Mixed Und'r Union Suits Union Suits Underwear Shirts Shirts Sport Shirts 29c 46c 29c $1.47 15c $2.89 45c 59c 35c Em- Arrow 10c Canvas 10c Socks $8.50 Jumbo 25c S.uspen- 10c Men's $1.50 Flannel broideries Collars Gloves Pair Sweaters ders, Pair Handkerc'fs Shirts 3c 5c 3c 2c $3.89 10c 2c 79c Street Woolworth's Old Store Bet. 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