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- - .n, jh, xxa, , iiu i ujiuun , i;iio, r HARD TIMES COST Tfl niTV ID iMin nnn IU bill IG CIIO.DUO FACSIMILE OF LETTER FROM JOSEPH GARRETT, SECTION HAND, f " 1 WBhW'W'WiayiS mimesrmMM M1 Unemployed Burden Each Win ter of Wilson Administra tion Looms Large. OFFICIAL RECORDS QUOTED Large Sum Reported - Represents Only Municipal Appropriations. Other Public and Private Charities Xot Included. WHAT WILSON HARD TIMES COST PORTLAND DIRECTLY BEFORE WAR PROSPER ITY WAS FELT. Municipal s ou p a rid lodging house at Gipsy Smith Auditorium during- Winter of 1913-14.$ 3,220.83 Relief work cleaning gulches in 1915 2,461.50 Work for unemployed cutting wood at city charity camps in 1915 1916 65,149.30 Relief for unemployed, breaking and furnish ing rock, Winter of 1915-16 14,025.00 Relief work, digging Laurelhurst Park Lake by unemployed men with dependents in Winter of 1915-16 18,741.13 Relief work, removing snow from streets. Winter of 1915-16 10,012.34 Cost of maintaining city lodging-house for un employed. Winter of 1915-16 , 4,995.90 Total $118,606.00 Note. These figures are from the records in the City Auditor's office. It has cost the city of Portland $118. 606 to care for the unemployed in Port land during the Wilson Administra tion and before the effects of war prosperity began to be felt in this city. This money went for the absolute alleviation of destitution. It has been spent for souphouses, municipal lodging-houses and for giving work to men principally men with families at small wages for the purpose of pre venting starvation. The amount spent by the city dorr not include any money spent by the county or state or by private institu tions or persons and does not include items given for charitable purposes. The appropriations for unemployed have been a feature of municipal ex pense in Portland only during the Wil son Administration. Except for the Winter of 1911 and 1912, when $9985.91 was appropriated, there were no ap propriations prior to the first year of that Administration. President Wilson took office in March, 1913. The following Winter Portland faced its first clamor of the unemployed, a problem which grew so serious that a great mob of people went to the City Hall and demanded that the Council give relief. City Hard Hit In 1914. During that Winter the Winter of 1913-1914 a lodging-house was pro vided at the old Gypsy Smith Audi torium and was operated by the unem ployed. Men were given work break ing rock on Terwilliger boulevard for board and lodging. The place was open also to hundreds who did no work, there being a limited provision on the boulevard for men. The men who worked got beds while those who did not slept on the floor. The institution was kept up largely by begging of food provisions from all over the city by the unemployed. In spite of the fact that the unem ployed maintained the institution large ly by public donations the city spent $3220.83 of which $1223.80 was for maintenance of the lodging place and $1996.93 for breaking rock. These items do not include the cost of police pro tection and large expenditures made for safeguarding the health of the men. Also it does not include large amounts Bpent for relief in the form of groceries to destitute families. The men benefited were not tramps. They were for the most part anxious to earn their own living, but were shut out from em ployment by the. Democratic hard times. Conditions Next Winter Worse. The following Winter, 1914-1913, the problem was still worse. The city put unemployed married men to work clean ing rubbish out of gulches, a work wuiun was purely ior the alleviation of destitution. This cost $2461.50. Also during that Winter wood cutting camps .were established at Beaverton nnri inr.ton hv tVi pitw unemployed. The cost of handling this was $65,149.30, and the city sold the wood for $37,820.50, leaving a loss of $27,328.80. Then during the Winter of 1915-1916 Oast Winter), the problem came again. The first work was that of breaking rock by hand for macadamizing of Mount Tabor drives. A tofal of $7500 was spent for this purpose and work was furnished a large number of men. They were paid in souphouse meat tickets and lodging in a new lodging house established by the city at Four teenth and Johnson streets. The rock cost $6525 in addition to the cost of labor for breaking it. Married men with families were given relief work in Laurelhurst park con structing a lake by pick and shovel tactics. Hundreds of men labored there through the Winter. There was spent for relief along this line and for labor constructing a drive in Washing ton Park, a total of $18,741.13. Silver Thaw Provides Work. In midwinter with thousands of men demanding work, the snow and after ward the big silver thaw came and opened the way for employment of thousands. While naturally the snow condition was an emergency that would have required a big force to handle it at any time, regardless of labor condi tions, there were so many men In dire need that the city had to handle them in shifts of a few hours each so that ail might share in the money spent. For days thousands of men were em ployed by the city and thousands more by the Portland Railway. Light & Power Company cleaning snow off the street car tracks. Before this and later great crowds were kept at work removing snow from the business streets ti,.. )also worked in shifts. Work tlong this line cost $10,012.34. The maintenance if the city's lodging-house cost an ad ditional $4995.90. On top of these expenditures by the city a citizens committ nnnrotn Roup and lodging-house in the old Troy Laundry building on the East Side. The unemployed sawed wood for board and lodging. The city made some ap propriations for this institution. Also another organization conducted a soup and lodging-house in the North End, and hundreds of unemployed lived there. These institutions were during The Oregonian received via the U. S. mails the above letter on October 27, 1916. The terse and blunt recital of Joseph Garrett's story appears to have stirred up much excitement in Democratic circles and it is heatedly said that there is no such person as Joseph Garrett. The Oregonian vouches ab solutely for the fact that this is the authentic letter and that it came unso licited to this office; and it has no other information about this particular writer. But it knows that his case is illustrative of thousands of other section hands. On the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railroad they get 18V cents per hour, or $1.85 per day of ten hours. There are many section hands who are trying to rear families on this pitiful sum. Just as Joseph Garrett says he is doing. Through a deal with the President of the United States, the railroad brotherhoods are to be the beneficiaries of a law purporting to make eight hours a full day's work and to increase their wages 25 per cent above present high standards. But the $1.85 section hand the man with the pick gets no advance and will get none through the political or other activities of the brotherhood chiefs. All the milking of the railroad wage cow that is to be done will be dons by them for their benefit, and not for any humble $1.85 section hand or other unorganized worker. the hard times of the early part of the Wilson Administration. Last Winter the city bore most of the brunt of the unemployment burden. RINK LEASE IS FORECLOSED Land Lessor Obtains Judgment Against Ice Hippodrome. Foreclosure oi lease on the prop erty occupied by Portland Ice Hip podrome, at Twenty-first and Marshall streets, was decreed by Circuit Judge Morrrow yesterday, who awarded dam ages of $6500, estimated cost of re moving the Hippodrome building in 1920 an accepted proviso of the lease to Marry H. Couch, lessor. In the meantime the Portland Ice Hippodrome is involved in bankruptcy proceedings in the Federal Court. The judgment for $6500 is a first lien on the property. There wasdifficulty in assessing the removal cost in 1920, but contractors testified before Judge Morrqw that the reinforced concrete building and the maze of pipes under the ice rink might be cleared away for a total cost of $6500. Failure to pay rental since March, or any taxes this year led to the forelosure proceedings. The rink, it is said, will open as usual about Novem ber 20, despite the legal entanglements surrounding the ownership. WOMEN'S BOARD MEETS CHRISTIE HOME LAUDED BY DR. CALYIV S. WHITE. ELKS ENTERTAIN TONIGHT Unusual Programme Is Arranged for "Homecoming." This will be "homecoming" night for members of the Portland lodge of Elks. It is the 27th anniversary of the lodge's institution and the members propose to celebrate appropriately. A dollar dinner at the Multnomah Hotel will feature the entertainment. The dinner will be for Elks only, visiting members having been invited by the Portland Elks to Join with them in the festivities. An attractive programme of enter tainment has been worked out by the committee. Instead of the regulation "after dinner" speeches the dinner guests tonight will witness a series of novel and original stunts and harmless practical jokes some of them at the expense of prominent lodge members. i AD BY SINGING MAY GO Proposed Ordinance Would Keep Business District Free of Music. Advertising by use of music or sing ing is prohibited within the main busi ness district of .the West Side in a proposed ordinance which has been prepared by City Attorney LaRoche. The measure creates a district bound- H Hv Tin L-i I ii Civtnn.w i i streets and the Willamette River, in ""'"I ii. is maae uniawiui "to operate or play any piano, graphophone, auto matic piano or other music or sound producing device or to sing or call out so the sound may be heard on the Street rT RiHonrallr m-lt-K v. j - - - ' ... ...v.. vms, lUtCUHUII of attracting the attention of any per- uu wie siuewaiK or street or to cause persons to congregate thereabout." REED DEBATERS TRY OUT Team to Meet Washington Univer sity Is to Be Chosen. In preparation for the big dnal in tercollegiate meet between Reed Col lege and the University of Washing ton, the Reed debaters are trying out for the official teams. The next of the series of debates will be held in the Reed chapel on the even ing of November 6. Speakers will be Lloyd Ilaberly, Glenn Kleinau. Jack Levin, Kocheng Chung, Horace Miller and Samuel Weinstein. The subject will be that selected for the debate with the Washingtonians "Resolved, that intercollegiate athletics should be abol ished." Dr. W. T. Foster is the coach. AValnut Growers Hear Speakers. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Nov. 2. (Special.) Speakers today and this evening before the Walnut Growers' Convention were: Mrs. Wallis Williams and H. P. Varmilye, of this city; Charles Trunk, Dundee, Or.; President Cooper, McMinnville, Or.; William Johnson, horticulturist Of t h A rnnsvlnn nrr.Hfi.Ha Visiting members were take nfor a! tour of walnut groves and nurseries this afternoon. Plans Made for Campaign and for Ban quet to Be Served on De cember 4. A meeting of the women's auxiliary board was held at the campaign head- auariprn. narlnro anil n rr v. T .- land Hotel, yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The following women were in attendance: Mrs. J. A. Hamilton. Miss Alice stenneK, Airs. James Laidlaw, Mrs. Wilber Coman.y Mrs. John Magin nis, Mrs. M. W. Daly, Mrs. George W. Brown, Mrs. R. B. Sutton. Mrs. H. R. Moore, Mrs. W. J. Smith, Mrs. M. P. O'Donnell, Mrs. T. Dinneen, Mrs. It. A. Kirk, Miss Marie Chambers, Miss Elinor Roe, Mrs. James P. Cooke. Mrs. W. A. Elvers, Mrs. N. Bissaillon. Mrs. E. C. "acs, Anarew kj. csmitn, jvirs. it. J. Reilly, Mrs. F. D. Bishop. Mrs. T. H. McAllis, Mrs. E. B. Gambee, Mrs. C. W. McKenna. The women present, on motion of Mrs. Wllhni- ("'nmn n ni-wli..! n V. 1 ,1 Abe banquet in the Portland Hotel on iiiui hv r. v f ri i ri f i ior Ann rtA 'i-sxaw agreed that Monday, November 27, was iuo near xnanasgiving and that very little effective work could be done by the team workers the last week in No vember. At the request of the women's board. Dr. Calvin S. White was urged to ad dress the meeting. He commended the institution and its work most highly, closing his remarks with the tribute: "I know of no place in the world where I would rather trust my little girls than I would at the Christie Home." The women also heard a speech from Dr. Andrew C. Smith, who commended the plan of campaign outlined by F. A Doggett, saying that it was a plan which could not fail. Mrs. Wilber E. .Coman, chairman of the entertainment and banquet commit tee, has appointed the following women to assist her: Mrs. J. Alex Mayer, Mrs. T. H. McAllis, Mrs. Frank Dooly, Mrs. Natt McDougall and Mrs. Felix Ish erwood. The next meeting of the women's auxiliary board will be held next Thursday at 3 o'clock in parlors E and F of the Portland Hotel. DoIIville Reception Elaborate ' Affair. Wonderful Showing- Made In Con test at Meier & Frank Store. NEARLY 3000 dolls, mother's dar lings every one of them, are as sembled on the fifth floor of the Meier & Frank Company's building for the 15th annual doll show. There are baby dolls, character dolls brides with marvelous trousseaux, tiny mites of dolls and great big beauties They represent every station in life and every nationality. The entries are made by children from every section of the city and by many charitable institu tions and churches and for the best dolls in each department there will be prizes awarded amounting to $288. But the names of the winners will not be made known to the children until Sunday. The greatest secrecy regarding the Various Forms Of Headache la necessary In order to treat head, nones properly to understand the causes wblch produce the affection" says Dr. J W Blockton, Ala. Continuing, he says. Physicians cannot even begin the treat ment of a disease without knowing what causes give rise to It. and we must remem ber that headache Is to be treated accord ing to the same rule. Wo must not only be particular to give a remedy Intended to counteract the cause which produces the headache, but.we must also give a remedy to relieve the pain until the cause ot the trouble has been removed. To answer this purpose, antl-kamnla tablets will be found Smost convenient and satisfactory remedy, ne tablet every one to three hours gives comfort and rest In the most severe cases ot headache, neuralgia and particularly the headaches of women." w.e haJ2 Patient subject to regular JiSc.kV lk headache, we should caution iiiS, k.eeE bowelt regular, for which nothing is better than "Actolds," and when he feels the least Mgn .of an oncoming at JfiS?: h.8 "bom? take two A-K Tablets. Such patients should always be Instructed to carry slew antl-kamnla tablets, so as to nave them ready for Instant use. These tablets are prompt In action and can be depended on to produce relief In a very few minutes. Ask for A-K Tablets. 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Regular 25c 7 -T Special HC D o (OE IOC IOC aoi o 10 identity of the exhibitors is maintained and the awards will be made with im partiality. Merit will be the only determining- point with the judges. "Mother, can't I kiss my dolly good night?" asked one of the little grirls who had left her beat beloved in "DoII ville." The remarks made by the little people who attended the show yester day were entertaining enough to furnish even the most blase with love for toys and children. Mrs. J. B. Mont gomery, a visitor at the show, who has traveled extensively, was one of the many prominent women who enjoyed picking- out the dolls of various na tionalities and who commented on the excellence of their dress. Dolls entered by the charitable or ganizations for the 50 cash prize are among: the most interesting and they stand proudly on their table as if they knew how much depended upon them. Woodland Hears ltepubllcan. WOODLAN'n, Wash.. Nov, 2. ( Spe cial.) George A. Lee, of Seattle, can didate in the last primaries for the nomination for Governor. of Washins ton. spoke to a large and enthusiastic audience here at the Kagle Theater last night in the interest of the Kepublican ticket. His address was well received. This will probably be the last demon stration by the Republicans at this lace before the election. Tbree men require six months to mnka a cashmere shawl, which la worked from 10 goat' fleece. Oregon-Built Ships Owned by Oregon People Will make Oregon payrolls. Bring to Oregon the freight money. Gives work to our logging camps, steamboats, sawmills and shipyards. Provides a carrier for our lumber.- 80 per cent of the cost of a motorship remains here for labor, lumber and material. sEvery motorship uses 1,250,000 feet of lumber in its con struction. t Puts our timber into cash and brings to us the freight earnings Subscriptions now being received. CALL AN & KASER, Fiscal Agents 413-15 Oregon Building Portland, Or. Telephone, Broadway 330 WOMAN A PHYSICAL WRECK Tells in Following Letter How She Was Restored to Health by Lydia EL Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Milwaukee, Wis. "Before taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- , pouna i. was a phy sical wreck. I had been going to a doc tor for several years but he did me no good. A friend told me about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound, so I decided to give it a fair trial, and it gave) me relief from bear ing down caina which had been so bad that I would have to lie down. I also used the Sanative Wash and it has done me a great deal of good.and I am not troubled with a weak ness any more." Mrs. P. L. Brill, 1299 Booth Street., Milwaukee, Wis. The most successful remedy for wo man's ills is Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound. It has stood the test for forty years, which would be impos sible if it did not have genuine merit. For special advice, free, 'write to Lydia K. I'inkham Medicine Co. (confidential) Lynn, Mass. 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