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wm 'M1NNVILUK, Or.. Oct. JO. (Sp
VI c1al.)The pwnt Summer h
I been one cf ry marked activity
In this rttv. both In building and In street
Improvement. While the builders' trade'
tins been replete with something doing
since the town u founded, the matter
of etreet Improvement was considered of
minor Importance, all substantial work
Ions that line having been confined to
the business district.
This year, however, the streets In the
residence part of the city have felt the
touch of progress In the application of
cold steel In the tearing asunder of the
soil, so long given over to the matted
rootlets of sweet-brier and fern outside of
the narrow beaten path throufch the cen
ter. The City Council has just accepted
a completed contract for paving with
hard-surface macadam, portions of four
streets, comprising 24 blocks, at a cost of
more than 130.000 for paving and curb.
The city owns Its road-working machin
ery, consisting of rock crusher, grader
and steam roller, and la prepared to con
tinue the work until all the streets are
Improved and proper grades established,
with a view to a perfect system of -drainage.
The work for the present season
has been conducted by the contractor, T.
P. Goodln, of Hlllsboro. under the super
vision of the City Engineer.
The building operations during the Sum
mer have been largely confined to the res
idence district. During the past 18 months
there has been expended on new dwelling
houses in the city, at a conservative esti
mate, no less than $300,000. Fully 100 new
dwelling-houses and cottages have been
built, at a cost of from J1200 to J1O.O0O
each. It Is worthy of note thaf the dwelling-houses,
are built according to the
styles of architecture that lend an air of
solidity and comfort to their environment,
and that they are modern In their ap-
polntments. and abundantly support the
claim of the fame attained by "the City
Beautiful." The camera tells a true tale
of things accomplished, and of the nu
merous McMlnnvllle homes shown here
with, all except two were completed with
in the past 12 months.
The three-story addition to the Hotel
Yamhill was completed about the begin
ning of the present year. During the
Summer a fireproof brick, for a meat
market, has been erected, costing about
$6009. Th hew Oddfellows" Temple, occu
pying a ground space of 60x90 feet, prac
tically three stories and basement, has
Just been Inclosed with the roof, and work
on this structure is being rushed to com
pletion. The building will cost, furnished,
perhaps $35,000, and is the property of the
local I. O. O. F. Lodge. It is faced and
trWnnied with white pressed brick. The
First Presbyterian Church building is an
other structure only fairly under way,
but being pushed as rapidly as the weath
er will permit. It Is of selected red brick
with buff pressed brick trimmings, and
will cost In the neighborhood of $12,000.
In addition to these, the gravity water
system, owned by the city, the water sup
ply being brought In from the Coast
Range west of town, has been improved
during the year, and the streets are now
lighted for the first time by electricity
conveyed from the municipal power plant,
located in the foothills of the same moun
tain range, the old steam plant being ob
solete. The city has developed a 300
horse water power, and early In the
coming month will furnish a continuous
24-hour light and power cirouit to rfie
citizens of McMlnnvllle. It is not yet suf
ficiently complete to permit the day cur
rent. A large voltage has been contracted
for by the different manufacturing firma
already. .
For the coming year, the event to which
the people of McMinnvllle look forward to
with pleasurable anticipation is the erec-
tlon of the new $40,000 High School build
ing, plansTfor which are now being drawn
and will soon be presented to the School
Board for their approval. The Southern
Pacific Company has given the people of
this city the assurance that a commodi
ous passenger station will be erected.
The local lodge of Knights of Pythias
Is planning the erection of a Castle Hall,
and the plans for two or three business
blocks for next year are in embryo.
These, and the erection of the dwelling
houses already projected, give promise of
making for the new year as good a build
ing record as the year Just closing has
been.
CHICAGO UNITES IN CRUSADE AGAINST 5MOKE
Wten Railroad Refuses to Abate Nuisance, Wnole Population Protests Oary's Election Shows It No Model Town.
Gypsy Smith's Parade Did Harm, NJt Good Ridding City of Parasites.
BT JONATHAN PALMER.
CHICAGO, Oct. 30 (Special.) Polltlca,
the -rice crusade, the Gypsy Smith re
ival. the "Jury-fixing" sensation and the
plans for a general assault on the saloons
of Chicago have been thrust temporarily
Into the background by the demand that
the smoke nuisance shall go. once and
for all. To use an unpleasant but forc
ible expression, Chicago has been "throw
ing Ills" since the directors of the Illi
nois Central at their annual meeting
announced there would be nothing doing
at present in the electrification of their
lake front system, Yleione of the "city
beautiful" have gone glimmering. Two
collars a day In future, as in the past,
will be the order. From the top of the
Masonlo Temple, no matter how lovely
the day otherwise. Chicago will continue
to look like a city afire. Smoked gjass
to peer at the sun will be a useless
equipment for high school and univer
sity students. Nostrils and eyes will be
outlined with black as usual and lungs
win furnish the old. old harbor for tu
berculosis germs.
The Illinois Central's refusal to get
busy wma looked upon by the smoke
fighters as pert and defiant. In view of
the fact that the women's clubs, com
mercial organisations and art bodies, to
say nothing of the doctors and the press,
have-been pleading, coaxing, cajoling and
reoolving" for years. To show their sin
cerity, women In One gowns have been
going from house to house getting sig
natures to petitions for abatement of the
nuisance. The list of names, printed one
after the other, would cover several
miles of the Central's right of way.
All Join In Anti-Smoke Chorus.
This week there were ward meetings,
precinct meetlngs,'club meetings, school
bouse gatherings and church assemblies
In protest, the whole ending with a
grand mass meeting In which smoke and
the smoke-makers were denounced from
every possible angle. The City Council
took up the fight In a deadly earnest
never before exhibited by It. the smoke
Inspectors girded up their loins to new
efforts and the Chicago Association of
Commerce sent letters to tta, members
asking them ta go on record. Specific
esses of 'smoking" occupy first page
pace in black type, hundreds of citi
aens appointing themselves committees of
one to go after the delinquents. Local
directors of the Illinois Central, as well
as stockholders who share In the divi
dends, are having uncomfortable hours
explaining. Lucy Pago Gaston's war on
the cigarette is to this war as the. paper
pipe Is to the eight-driver locomotive.
Gary Is Model Bloody Town.
Gary, Ind.. has been called "the model
town." Lately It has hardly shown Itself
to be a model worthy to be copied. They
been killing and stabbing men and
"shooting up the town" down there as
an exciting accompaniment to the mu
nicipal campaign now In progress. Gary
lifted itself out of the category of towns
Into that of cities the other day. true
to the forecast made in a dispatch to
The Oregonian several weeks ago. Here
after It will have a Mayor Instead of a
Town Board President. In the dramatic
and spectacular character of Its politics
and campaigning It is putting New York
In the shade and giving the first ward
bosses in Chicago something to think
about.
The Mayoralty contest Is a three-cornered
affair, with one regular Democrat
and one regular Republican In the field
and an Independent Democrat to furnish
sest. "Tom" Knotta, who has been Pres
ident of the Town Board, wants to be
the first Mayor of the city. He baa the
police force with him and a lot of the
chaps who would like to run a wide
open town. If the campaign gossip be
correct, Mr. Knotta Is "in bad" with the
United State Steel Corporation, which
founded the town, and with the Gary
Land Company, which Is a subsidiary
company of the steel corporation. These
two concerns are believed to be favorable
to the election of John A. Brennan, the
Republican candidate. As they make the
Gary payroll possible, naturally they
wield a big Influence. Mr. Knotta says
they are wielding entirely too much
power and that Gary Is in danger of be
ing a victim of the "paternalism that
ruined Pullman."
"orelgners Are Thirsty.
About 90 per cent of the population of
Gary Is made up of foreign-born persons
who like to spend their Sundays as they
see fit and to take their drinks of beer
and whiskey whenever the thirst calls
and the pocketbook permits. Mr. Knotts
believes In giving the majority what it
wants and he is willing to stretch the
law somewhat to do it. That Is why he
did not get busy to put the "blind pigs"
out of business until forced to do it. He
admitted as much himself. He did not
see why 200 voters should be allowed,
as they were under a peculiar twist of
the law, to deny aa many thousand vot
ers their drinking privilege. Many of
the steel plant laborers felt the same
way. six hundred of them left the plant
and many others made It a daily prac
tice of working In Gary and of going
to surrounding towns to spend the night.
It Is apprehended there will be lively
doings at the election next week.
Did Gypsy Smith Io Good?
It is still a moot question in Chicago
whether Gypsy Smith, the evangelist, did
more harm than good by leading 26.0(0
marchers from a' relagloua meeting Into
the heart of the "red light district" st
eleven b'clock at night, singing hymns
to the musto of a band. Mr. Smith has
been kept busr defending the invaaln"
and he does not yield an inch of his
ground. Dr. Guniaulus and other min
isters, together with almost the unani
mous press, condemned the proceeding as
spectacular, senseless and without moral
value. A vote of the city on the question
probably would be overwhelming against
the evangelist.
When the revlvsllst column wheeled
Into the district In a blaze of torches and
blare of brasses from the band. It was
confronted with a crowd of red light
habitues and morbidly curious persons
ten time aa big as any other crowd ever
seen in the district. From eight o'clock
In the evening until eleven every resort
and every saloon was packed with pat
ron a Pianos were banged as never be
fore, songs were more ribald dancing
went on with a greater abandon and
liquor flowed until the eye of the regu
lars bulged with surprise.
Young Initiated In Vice.
True to the orders of Chief of Police
Steward, lights went out when the
marchers appeared, blinds were drawn
all the way, resorters kept within doors
on pain of arrest and the songs oeased.
As a result the religious column did not
see the district In Its normal aspect. The
marchers found the' situation little dif
ferent from that of any other street,
save for the crowds. And that is where
the rub comes.
In the throng that gathered from eight
till eleven were thousands of men.
women and even' young people who had
never thought before of going Into the
vice district. There were girls In their
teens, respectable folk In carriages and
automobiles and boys who should have
been In bed at nine. They saw the dis
trict at Its worst and observed for the
first time how the places of Iniquity are
patronized. The question arises, how
many of them, fascinated by the novelty
and excitement of It. will go back.
Among the net results on his side Gypsy
Smith tells of letters from two girls of
the district who "wanted to be saved."
of a millionaire's son and a society
woman, both unnamed, who confessed
they had been led by the demonstration
to lead a better life, and of a few others
who said they had been "convicted of
their un worthiness." ,
How fb Get Cheaper Meat.
Samuel W. Allerton. long conspicuous
as a man of millions and as livestock
dealer, proposes a way to get back to
cheaper steaks. In his premise he calls
attention to the fact that prime cattle
reached the nine-cent mark here last
week and range cattle aix cents a hun
dred pounds. Farmers east of the Mis
sissippi, he says, do not raise cattle any
more because the land is too valuable.
He calls upon Congress to Investigate the
jtviaahllitv of leasina million of acres
of western lands that It owns for graz
ing purposes.
"There Is no water to irrigate much of
this land," said Mr. Allerton, "so It Is
only fit for raising cattle and sheep. If
the Government would lease these rough
lands to cattle-growers and. allow them
hto build the necessary fences, millions of
cattle could be raised thereon. The
leases should cover 6000 and 20.000-acre
farms and should not permit transfers.
Congrees, In my opinion, should take up
this matter this Winter. If it does not.
cattle will become scarcer and higher
each year. Texas has commenced to
sell Its calves and Texas has always
been a great cattleproducing state. This
makes the situation all the more serious.
The Government ordered all fences to be
taken down In the western states, and to
raise cattle In ' Dakota, Wyoming and
Montana the land must be fenced.
In the National convention of the
packers, held here, there was no hope
held out of cheaper meats. There were,
however, assurances that packing-houses
are conducted on a higher sanitary plane
than ever before. The visiting delegates
were surprised at the flowers. the
patches of grass and various evidences
of cleanliness at the stock yards. Ex
Mayor Harrison, in a speech to the pack
ers, said he went to the stockyards re
cently and found that they were "almost
too effeminate." This observation by
the ex-Mayor waa In line with another
expressed some years ago that smoke
and dirt are the outward evidences of a
busy and prosperous city. (
Rid Chicago of Parasites.
Chief of Police Steward has set out
to rid Chicago of Its human parasites.
To accomplish the task he Invokes the
vagrancy law. Ho purposes having a
sort of card Index of the men who live
without working. The police are In
structed to gather the data. Men who are
honestly seeking employment will be
given every chance. Past records more
than present appearances will be consid
ered, to the end that no Injustice may
be done. Chronic loafers, hangers-on
In vice resorts and known criminals will
be dealt with summarily. They will be
prosecuted and punished. Others, accord
ing to the circumstances of each case,
will be given days of grace to make good
as citizens. If they fall to come up to
the mark, they must go.
Now that the Chief of Police has in
stituted his "directory" system, the
question is being asked why it never was
done before. It has been done before,
but not In a centralized way. Corrupt
poHcemen have had "directories" of
their own. which they used for selfish
purposes. Their information was utilized
as a club In holding up criminals and
vagrants for spoils. Likewise under Mr.
Steward's system It is foreseen that the
data obtained might be put to base Uses
by an unscrupulous administration or by
political bosses. Mr. Steward's plan has
been highly commended by press and
publlo. Rightly employed. It Is believed
It will work wonders in ridding Chicago
of an undesirable element.
From an executive v4ewpolnt. the Na
tional City Bank of New York, the big
gest Institution of Its kind In the Na
tion, Is rapidly becoming a Chicago con
cern. Frank A. Vanderllp, Its president,
used to be a newspaper reporter in the
Windy City before he went to Washing
ton as the private secretary to Secretary
Lyman J. Gage. Of the six vice-presidents,
half are Chicago men. They are
John E. Gardin, Samuel McRoberts and
Joseph T. Talbert. J. H. McEldowney,
assistant cashier, also is a Chicago man,
and P. A. Valentine, who formerly was
with Armour & Company at the stock
yards. Is a director. Max May, vice
president of the Guaranty Trust Com
pany, and Frank I Kent, vice-president
of the Bankers' Trust Company, hail
from Chicago aa the seat of their bank
ing experience.
The National City Bank Is not coming
to Chicago for officers because of any
superior knowledge of banking matters,
but because It seeks thus to extend Its
influence Into new fields with whicn
Western men are more familiar.
Immense Us of Telephones.
- Interesting figures have Just been made
publlo regarding the use 6f telephones
In Chicago. Exclusive of Immediate su
burbs, there are 200,000 instruments op
erated by a single company. Including
suburbs there are 254.000. The number
has doubled In exactly four years. In
the city proper half the phones are of
the nlckel-in-the-slot variety. The sur
prising statement is made that there are
42,000 branch exchanges. The largest of
these is in a widely known department
store, which operates 100 trunk lines and
employs 12 operators In business hours.
Speaking of department stores, the
"Fall openings" brought something new
In the way of marble Instead of wax
figures used In show windows for the
display of gowns, wraps and furs. Only
one house tried the experiment. While
the sculpture was of a high order and
the figures In themselves were worth
going to see, It Is questionable If mar
ble Is as effective aa the wax figures
in setting off the beauties of women's
apparel. '
How Barker "Trimmed" Jesse.
Jesse Wilklns. who halls from Shreve
port La., holds the barber' shop record
for Chicago. He dropped in to have him
self "tended to." It cost him $8.20 for
service inside the shop and when he got
outside he was held up and robbed of $50,
Jesse admits he absorbed a lot of Infor
mation from the barber, who seemed
amazingly well advised on any- topic
brought to the fore. This was the menu
and the price list handed him when he
was ready for a stroll on the rlalto:
Newport hair-cut. $1; Parisian shampoo,
$1; hair singed. New York style. 85c;
shave, Berlin fashion. 75c; hair combed.
SSo: hair tonic. 35c; shoes shlned, Lonr
don style, 66c: hat brushed. 25c; face
massage. Christlanla style, $1.
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, Chicago's new
woman school superintendent, haa sud
denly come Into urgent demand as a
speaker on educational topics. She has
Just told St, Louis, Philadelphia and
other cities some of her ideas about pub
lic school work and surprised her audi
ences with the breadth of her Informa
tion and experience. Mrs. Young, In the
few months of her Incumbency, has
proved herself to be an executive who
executes. She states her policies con
cisely and positively and backs them up
with reasons of a practical sort. There
is no apologetic attitude, no wavering or
half-heartedness In her method of go
ing at things. As yet she has not fur
nished what the newspaper men call
"hot stuff for copy. -all of which argues
for her sanity of administration, say her
friends.
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