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8 TIIEv OREGONIAX. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1916. BLAME FOR JITNEYS PLACED Of PUBLIC Mr. Baker, After Study, Re ports Problem Vital to Wel r. fare of Northwest. OPERATING COST GREATER Autos Are Patronized lor -Comrort uid Sentiment, Is View Situation in Spokane, Tacoma and Seattle Investigated. The Jitney is the biggest problem now confronting cities of the North west in the opinion of City Commis sioner Baker, who returned yesterday from Spokane, Seattle and Tacoma, where he went last week to make a study of the jitney problem. He says he found the jitney situation In those cities almost identical with the condition in Portland and is con vinced that it is time for the public to cast aside sentiment and. look the proposition square in the face, because of the problem's vital importance to general welfare in cities. 'There is one great outstanding fact In thl3 whole proposition as I have found it," said Commissioner Baker yesterday, "and tha-i3 that the ques tion is being looked upon and dealt with too generally as a thing purely of the present. A great many people are not looking ahead into the future, the time when the real problem is bound to present itself. In this, I express not only my own views, but the views of officials in other cities. Sentiment Believed One Cans. "For this very reafson officials In all cities are having difficulties. I And that the streetcar companies are con demned by certain classes of people and that the jitney is patronized for its comfort and. convenience and for sentimental reasons. "Officials have this to face when they attempt to deal with the question of regulation. They find themselves be ing crucilied and getting into deep water in trying to buck sentiment and shortsightedness. "The stockholders of the streetcar company in Seattle, as an example, con cluded about a year ago to experiment In motor transportation. An appropri ation of J50.000 was set aside for the purchase of small automobiles, 12 passenger cars and 20-passenger buses, and a company was organized to han dle them. The company's experts in traffic were assigned to the experi ment. Permanent Competition Doubted. "For a year the machines were oper ated and a study was made of the re sults. It was found that it costs two thirds of a cent more per passenger mile to operate motor-driven machines than the cost of streetcars. For that reason the company charged off the $50,000 as a loss and gave up the propo sition with the firm realization that the motor-driven car cannot compete permanently with the electric car. "In every city in Washington' each jitney is required to furnish a bond of $2500 for the protection of passengers who may be injtired. This bond costs the operator $225 a year. I have a list of damage suits brought against the bonding companies in which the aggre gate amount involved is $264,000, not Including suits for less than . $100. These suits are confined to King County alone. There has been collect ed in these suits a total of $28,000. Many cases have been settled out of court and many other cases are still pending. "In Seattle I find there are 275 jit neys operating. 70 of them over four lines for 10 cents and 205 on an aver age run of one and one-half miles for I cents. They operate exclusively along streetcar lines. In Seattle they are affiliated with organized labor, as they are in Portland, and they operate indi vidually. Spokane Car Service Cut. "In Spokane there are 72 jitneys operating on seven routes. Here the streetcar company, claiming heavy losses, has cut its service very ma terially in the outskirts of the city so as to compete with the jitney on the short haul. One-man cars have beeo. lnstalled'to curtail expenses. An out standing fact in Spokane is that the jitney operates only during good wea ther. They have heavy snow storms there, and the jitney makes no effort to operate until the car tracks are cleared by the streetcar company. "Tacoma has 35 jitneys. Seattle 275 and Spokane 72. At the time when the jitney first sprang up Seattle had 700, Spokane 253 and Tacoma 200. In the opinion of officials of other cities there is only one ultimate proposition for the future, and that is that the Jitney cannot replace the street railway sys tems and cannot compete with them on equal basis permanently." SEAL SALES ARE S1426 OVERLOOK . IMPROVEMENT CLIB ADDS $ll.m TO TOTAL. University of Oregon Alumnae Are to Have C'barKC of Booths Today In Many Public Buildings. Proceeds from the sales of Red Cross Christmas seals 'reached a total of $1426.81 last night. It was. reported by the Oregon Association for the Preven tion of Tuberculosis, which is handling the campaign in Oregon. The largest single contribution to the fund came yesterday in the form of a check for $50 from Mrs. Elizabeth C. Good. Seal sales for today in the booths at Meier & Frank's, Lipman, Wolfe & Co.'s, Olds, Wortman & King's, postoffice, Multnomah Hotel. Owl Drugstore, and Woodard & Clarke Drugstore will be conducted by the University of Oregon alumnae, directed by Mrs. John R. Leach. The Overlook Improvement Club had charge of the sales yesterday at Meier & Frank's, Lipman, Wolfe's, Olds, Wort man & King's, the . postoffice and the Oregon Hotel, and netted for the day $66.99. Those actively engaged in the sale yesterday were Miss Harriet Camp bell, Miss Grace Campbell, Mrs. H. C. Raven. Mrs. F. D. Breckenrldge, Mrs. R. A. Willison. Mrs.' E. B. Wheat, Mrs. Trostdorff and Mrs. F. H. Farrar. Mrs. Raven was In general charge. The Shakespeare Club will be in charge of the booths on Friday and the Tuesday Afternoon Club on Saturday. CASCADE BORE IS URGED Campaign Is Begun in Washington by ex-Army Man. SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 6. (Special.) General H. M. Chittenden, United States Army, retired, of Seattle, today sent to every Chamber of Commerce and commercial club in the state a letter explaining further the Cascade Mountains' tunnel plan outlined in his recent article published in Tbe En gineering News and reprinted in the Seattle papers. .General Chittenden asks co-operation in his undertaking. - The general plans a campaign to ob tain state aid for the construction of a great tunnel through the base of the Cascade Mountains to be used in com mon by all transcontinental railroads now running into the cities of Puget Sound from Eastern Washington, to reduce gradients to a minimum and eliminate present handicaps of high op erating costs. With his letter he sent out' two im portant memoranda regarding the tun nel project. One seeks to answer ar guments of those who assert that elec trification of the mountain railroad divisions will eliminate excessive costs of operation and the other outlines the benefits to be derived by the state at laxge from the construction of the low ajtitude tunnel. A feature of the latter memorandum is General Chitten den's advocacy of - what he calls a "ferry" service for handling automo biles and other vehicles of like class through, the tunnel. FORT TABLET REMOVED MILTXOJIAH PALLS OHEQON TRAIL MARKER WRONG. Danshtrr. of American Revolution to Replace Broau Memorial with Another. It Is Said. The bronze tablet placed on a large boulder along the Columbia River Highway in front of Multnomah Falls has been taken down by the officers of Multnomah Chapter. Daughters of the American Revolution, following the protest of Leslie M. Scott, who pointed out that tbe inscription was mislead ing inasmuch as it professed to mark the course of the historic old Oregon Trail. The tablet which was' Installed on the fountain recently with ceremonies is to be replaced with another tablet bearing a memorial to Oregon pioneers. but containing no reference to the Ore gon Trail. The original tablet is to be placed at some historic point along the Oregon Trail, but, as Mrs. Davis remarked last night, the officials of the Daughters of the American Revolution intend to be real sure of their ground before they conduct another Installa tion. Announcement to the above effect was made by Mrs. James N. Davis, re gent of Multnomah Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, following a report from a party of motorists, who believed that the tablet may have been stolen. On last Friday night the little Multnomah Hazelwood tavern, situated alongside the highway in front of the falls, was broken into by thieves, who stole all of the high-priced cigars and chocolate they could get their hands on, during the temporary absence of D. H. Hansen, the man in charge. WOMEN'S TEAM AHEAD CHRISTIE HOME WORKERS Tl'RS IN $1750 AT LUNCHEON. Mrs. J. A. Hamilton Brings $188.11, the Largest Single Amount Outside Clergymen, Send $UO. The women's teams in the campaign to raise a $100,000 fund for the benefit of the Christie Home still appear to do work twice as effective as the teams of the men, it was indicatd in the re ports turned in at the rally luncheon at the Portland Hotel yesterday, on the second day of the campaign. The total amount brought In by the teams was $1750, the largest amount being from Mrs. J. A. Hamilton for $188.11. The women's team now leads the men by about $527.50 total. Donations were received yesterday from the Rev. Francis Black for $50, and the Rev. A. Hillebrand, of Oregon City, for $10. Following is the standing of the teams in the lead in the campaign: Women. Sirs. Jtmei P. Cooke $404.83 Mr. Andrew C. Smith n8t 00 Mrs. J. A. Hamilton lfcS.ll Men. Andrew C. Weber $206.73 Peter Van Koomlssen SO. 00 Oscar W. Home 50.00 LIQUOR CARRIER FINED Taxi Man Delivering Package Is Sur prised by Contents. BAKER. Or., Dee. 6. (Special.) How an unsuspecting taxi man who delivers packages may be guilty of bootlegging was revealed by N. G. Wattles, a re spected citizen, when he entered a plea of guilty in Justice F. L. Hubbard's court today on the charge of acting as a go-between for the purchaser and seller. He declared money was given him to pay for a package which he took to the individual furnishing the money. Neither1 of two gave him any idea of what the, package - contained, he said, but he did not. reveal the names of the men. He paid $25 fine and costs. Joseph Speelmah was arrested this morning jm a charge of bootlegging. His brother, Frank, was found- guilty yesterday. COW IN ELECTION BOOTH Member of Herd Being Driven Through Sheridan Inspects Polls. SHERIDAN, Or., Dec. 6. (Special.) A fleer-eyed Jersey cow, one of a herd being driven through Sheridan streets Monday, suddenly left the ranks and made her entrance into the polls of one of the voting precincts where a city election was being held. She quietly scanned an election notice that she ob served on one of the walls and an peared to be perfectly at ease in the environment of the potls. Her owner. A. ' J. Bewley, a local stockman, der dared that, although the animal had been properly registered, he had no faith in the vote of the suffragist, and bossie was summarily ejected from h building, in spite of her apparent in terest in anairs municipal. Ashland Students to' rGive Play. ' ASHLAND, Dec. 6. (Special.) The high school anniversary play, "The Elopement of Ellen," a three-act com edy, will be given at the gymnasium December 8. The cast includes the fol lowing: Mrs. Ford. Fern Murphy; Mr. Ford, Merrill Throne; June Haverhill, Charlotte Chappell; Dorothy March. Bonis Jennings; Rev. Mr. Hume, Verne Blue; Max Ten Eyck. El wood Hedberg: Bob Chaplin, Leith Abbott. The pjay ers are being coached by Miss Grace Lilly, Instructor In the English depart ment. Unoccupied Land to Be Used. LONDON, Deo. 6. To secure food supplies more readily. King George has signed an order-in-council empowering tne Doara or agriculture to take over unoccupied or occupied land for the purpose ol cultivation. RUNAWAYS GO HOE Juvenile Tramps Are Tired of Life of Road. QUARTERS ARE CONDEMNED Prosecutor Aroused byXecessity of Placing Lads In Poorly Kept Sec tion of Jail and Will Ask for Parental Home. Four 16-year-old boys, riders of the brake-beams and engine tenders, picked up at the Union Depot Sunday, were started on their way home yesterday by Deputy Probation Officer Evans, of the Juvenile Court, when taken to Vancouver, Wash., given $1.25 each and bidden godspeed. Two live in Spokane, one In Tacoma and the fourth in Hartford, Wash. The presumption is that they will make their way homeward by the same means by which they arrived in Portland stolen rides. All are runaways who have tired of tramping and. want to go home, they say. Since Sunday the boys have been quartered in the County Jail in poorly lighted, ill-kept cells in an isolated part of the Jail. There was no other place to put them. There " was no charge against them in the Juvenile Court, to whose care they had been re ferred by the police. Place Considered Filthy. They could not be sent to the Frazler Detention Home. They were not wards of the court, the home has no provi sions to prevent-the escape of boys their age, and the home is crowded. Portland has no parental home. Hence, they went to Jail, the same as do all of their age, pending dismissal of charges filed against them in the Ju venile Court or their sentence to the State Training School. x "The place these, boys were kept in is filthy," said Deputy District Attor ney Robison yesterday. "The cells .are not fit kennels for thoroughbred dogs. Yet the county will spend hundreds of thousands for roads and deny the Juvenile Court $5000 necessary for the establishment of a parental home capa ble of caring for 14 boys." Mr. Robison said he would go before the Commissioners at the taxpayers' meeting December 23 and pread for a parental home. . $5 Given to Lads. F.' N. Clark, E. B. MacNaughton and E. S. Jackson, witnesses in a Circuit Court case Tuesday, were taken about the Jail by Mr. Robison at their own request. When shown the quarters oc cupied by these boys they expressed great surprise that such conditions ex isted and that no better provisions had been made for detained Juveniles. Mr. Clark gave $5 to Mr. Robison for the lads. That money was divided among them when they started on their way home yesterday. , Mr. Robison dubbed that section of the County Jail "Portland's Parental Home." He said that such detained Juveniles have had no better quarters than these for four years. The boys who started homeward yes terday were: Arthur Sheldon, 1201 North Oak street, Tacoma; Paul Patter son, 3612 Longfellow street, Spokane; Dolph Winters, Hilyard suburb, Spo kane; and Roy Stearns, Hartford. Wash. Herbert Guth and Harold J. Hatch. 17-year-old delinquents, are also occupying cells in this portion of the Jail. FIVE RELATIVES ELECTED Western Star Grange Names Hus band 3Iaster, Wife Secretary. ALBANY. Or., Dec. 6. (Special.) Five of the 14 officers chosen by Western Star Grange, located near tils city, in its annual election this week are named Hulburt. All are related and are members of a prominent fam ily. R. A. Hulburt was elected assistant steward; Emma HulDurt, chaplain; W. H. Hulburt, treasurer; Alden Hulburt, gatekeeper, and Grace Hulburt, lady assistant steward. Another coincidence is that a husband and wire were caosen master and secretary, respectively, the two leading offices in the grange. Wal ter 45. Hense is master and Lottie Hense secretary. Other officers chosen in the annual election are William Laubner, overseer; Winnie Ohling, lec turer; E. O. Newport, steward; Helen Roberts, Ceres; Emma Laubner, Po mona; Rosa Newport. Flora, and Al- vilda Blevins, organiet. Read The Oregonian classified ad.. December, 1911 In five years 19,000 telephones have been added to the system of The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company in Portland. This con tinuous growth is of great benefit to Pacific telephone users, as the num ber of people you can communicate with is constantly increasing. If you are without a Pacific telephone, place your order now and avail yourself of this service during the Winter months. The Undersigned Directors of BILL AT STRAND VARIED SMARTLY DRESSED LADS GIVE BJ R LESQtD ON HULA HI LA. , , Otber Acts on Programme 'lever and Weir-Chosen, With Film That . . . Holds Interest. The new bill at the Strand is nicely balanced and offers plenty of variety for either movie fan or vaudeville fan. Downs and Willis, a team of smartly dressed young chaps, breezy and buoy ant, sing new songs and step into new dances. They give a novel and scream ingly hilarious travesty on the Hula Hula, burlesquing all the accepted variations in this native dance and send ing the audience Into gales of mirth. The two are really excellent dancers, and their teamwork Is accurate and in close harmony. Adeline Carr Is a saucy, merry lass from the land of the blarney stone and shamrock. She offers patter, of an optimistic cheer-up strain, with a story or two, and sings in a big pleasing voice. She ..understands vaudeville audiences, too, and has picked her songs to please. A clever duo are Hall and Guilda. a man and a maid, who appear in at tractive costumes and present "fancy THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE and TELEGRAPH COMPANY PENH SHIPBUILDING COMPANY TP XTEND a Cordial Invitation to all citizens of Portland and vicinity to be present at the Launching of the Deep-Sea Auxiliary Schooner "Alpha" from its ways at the Company's Yards, foot of McKenna Avenue, at 3 o'clock P. M., Thursday, Dec. 7th; 1916 J. Q AINSVfoRTH PETER AUTZEN JAMES B. KERR T. B. WILCOX dances." They revive the always de lightful old Cakewalk and make it as popular as ever it was. The Von Zants are excellent enter tainers. They have a high-class bal ancing and acrobatic act, and both the athletic man and woman who offer the daring maneuvers are post-graduates in their art. The picture part of the show is a Bluebird film, entitled "The Sign of the Poppy." It is a mystery picture, featuring a Chinese tong war with twin American brothers arrayed against each other. The Oriental atmosphere la apparent and the story is full of thrills and interest. GRANGE OFFICERS ELECTED Damascus Members Present Mrs. Marian Dallas Witli Emblem. DAMASCUS. Or., Dec. 6. (Special.) At the regular December meeting of the Damascus Grangeheldhere Satur day the following officers were elected to serve one year: Master. George Dallas, re-elected; lecturer, Mrs. Sarah Dallas, re-elected; chaplain, Mrs. J. D. Chitwood, re-elected; treasurer, Almont Newell; secre tary, Mr. Coulter; overseer, Mrs. Wood; Ceres, Mrs. Thompson; Pomona. Mrs. Coulter; Flora, Mrs. M. Dallas; steward. Faith Young; steward, Mr. Rankin; gatetteeper, Seth Young; organist. Miss Hazel Chitwood. At this meeting the BOth anniversary December, 1916 49(P)(D)(0) The SULA F. C. KNAPP W. M. LADD A. L. MILLS of the Grange was celebrated. A beau tiful gold Grange pin was presented to Mrs. Marian Dallas by the Grange, in token of her faithful service to the order, having served as secretary for seven years. CONNELL FARMER WEDS William IT. Welch, and Miss Coordes, Walla Walla, Arc Married. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Dec. 6. (Spe cial.) William Henry Welch, a well known farmer of Connell, Wash., and his bride-to-be, Miss Katie Coordes, of Walla Walla. Wash., arrived, today to begin their honeymoon trip from here. With J. W. Welch, his brother, they obtained the marriage license, and the ceremony was performed by W. S. T. Derr, Justice of the Peace. The couple left at once for a trip through California and when they re turn will live on the farm near Connell, Submarine Sinks Northwest Apples. SPOKANE. Wash.. Dec. S. Seventy carloads of Northwest apples were sent to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean last Friday as a result of the operations of a German submarine, according to word received here today. The fruit was being shipped to England. The name of the vessel that was sunk was not given In the message. The apples were insured. RHWM MAKES YOU FEEL OLD Pains and Aches Yield to Sloan's Liniment, the Family Friend. When your joints become stiff, your circulation poor, and your suffering makes you irritable, an application of Sloan's Liniment gives you quick re lief kills pain, starts up a good circu lation, relieves congestion. It Is easier and cleaner to use than massy plasters or ointments, acts quickly and does not clog the pores. It does not stain the skin. You don't need to rub It penetrates. Certainly fine for rheumatism, stiff neck, sciatica, lame back, toothache, etc. For sprains, strains, bruises, black and blue spots. Sloan's Liniment re duces the pain and eases the soreness. Its use is so universal that you'll consider Sloan's Liniment a friend of the whole family. Your druggist sells It in 25c. 60o and $1.00 bottles. MEAT CAUSE OE KIDNEY TROUBLE Tate Salts to Flush Kidneys if Back Hurst or Bladder Bothers. If you must have your meat every day. eat It, but flush your kidneys with salts occasionally, says a noted author ity who tells us that meat forms uric acid which almost paralyses the kid neys In their efforts to expel It from the, blood. They become sluggish and weaken, then you suffer with a dull misery in the kidney region, sharp pains in the back or sick headache, diz ziness, your stomach sours, tongue is coated and. when the weather is bad. you have rheumatic twinges. The nrlne gets cloudy, full of sediment, the chan nels often get sore and irritated, oblig ing you to seek relief two or three' times during the night. To neutralize these irritating acids, to cleanse the kidneys and flush off the body's urinous waste, get four ounces of Jad Salts from any pharmacy here; take a tablespoonful In a glass of wa ter before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with 11th la. and has been used for genera tions to flush and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralise the acids in urine, so it no longer Irritates, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts Is Inexpensive; cannot in jure, and makes a delightful efferves cent lithla-water drink. Adv. J I S niaa fwtthin 1 tt fha i I Tlwrt'i nothinr bttr trtca WEEKS' BREAK-UP-- COLD TABLETS