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THE SUNDAY OREOOSIAy, POItTLASP, 3IAY 7, 1911. "
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SEATTLE CANAL WORK
AT LAST TO BE BEGUN
Court, Quoting Portland Cue; Takes Judicial Notice of Public Demand for
, Improvement Trlends Are Confident of Outcome.
THE GREATEST DISPLAY OF FISH EVER SHOWN IN THE CITY OF PORTLAND
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SEATTLE. Mar - (Special.)
Actual work is about to begin on
the Lake Washington Canal, after mora
than 20 years of acttatlon and effort,
during- wblch Seattle'! pet scheme has
a-reatly resembled battledore and shut
tlecock. It has been tn the courts on
almost numberless counts and It has
been batted back and forth between
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and
the War Department at Washington,
from a time hereof the memory of
the oldest Inhabitant runneth not to
the contrary. Since the decision by
Superior Judge Pykeman. the final le
gal obstacle has been thrust aside, t'n
der an unexpended balance of I1M.P00.
Holt A Jeffries will begin excavation
May 15 on that part of the channel be
tween Lake I'nion and Salmon Bay.
The preliminary work will iro for
ward, although operations on the lock
at Salmon Bay. for which the last
rivers sad harbors bill contained an
appropriation, will be withheld until
the War Department has passed upon
certain legal phases set forth In a re
port made by I'nlted States District
Attorney Todd. The essential fart
which strikes borne to the average
resident of Seattle Is that work Is
actually to begin.
Portland Case Cited.
Judge Dykeman's decision was to
deny an application for an Injunction
and to dismiss a suit aimed at the bond
Issue of fl.T50.00O authorised at the
general election November S. ltlO.
known as the harbor bonds, with pro
visions as follows: For straightening,
widening and deepening the Duwamlsh
River. I-500.000: for excavating the
Lake Washington Canal. I750.0OO; for
turning Cedar River permanently Into
Lake Washington. 150.000: for the ac
quisition for docks and wharves. 1350.
000. It Is a rather curious circum
stance that In supporting the bond Is
sue Judge Dykeman drew a parallel be
tween Seattle and Portland. To that
end be quoted from the Supreme Court
of Oregon !n the case of Cook vs. Port
of Portland. 17 Pac. 2S. where a con
dition similar In principle existed:
It ts a fart, of whlrh the court will take
Judicial notice, that the i'orl of Portland,
a district which Is now the City of Port
land, la the commercial metropolis of ihe
Plate of Oncn. If not ff the wh'e Pa
cific Nwthweau It la the timer of trade
and commerce for a tl sertion of coun
try, simply because here the commerce of
laad and aaa meet, and throush this city
the country trade alth the world at large.
It holds communication with the sea. a
sreat hl(hway of commerce, rjr the Wil
lamette and Columbia Rivers, and can only
maintain Its commercial supremacy by the
maintenance In theae dyers of a ship chan
n-1 of sufficient depth to enable t:i large
.-A-going vessels t find anchorage at Its
whaxeea. Its present prosperity Is due !
the fact that It la a renter of trade and
- commerce, which tt would cot re were these
tivtrs closed, and which. In all probability
It will not remain If the Improvement con
templated la not made.
Necessity i Found.
Applying the Portland argument to
Seattle. Judge Dykeman found that
there was necessity for the expendi
ture provided In the bond Issue, ob
serving that while the necessity and
expediency of vast public Improve
ments are questions pertaining to the
executive and legislative departments,
rather than to the judicial, the court
could not close Its eyes to important
facts. As rn the- Portland rase, he
took Judicial notice of the fact that
the Improvement had been agitated for
a quarter of a century; that the people
believed the canal .necessary to main
tain commercial supremacy, and that
at the election SO per cent of the voters
favored the plans submitted. It would
be manifestly " unfair.- observed the
court, "to allow an unwilling minority,
on a mere technicality, to thwart tie
will of such an overwhelmtnir najor
Ity." There will be an appeal from Judge
Dykeman's decision, but the friends of
the canal are entirely confident. For
that reason work will begin as stated.
A. I. MASON ANSWERS
GOOD ROADS CRITICS
Ee Declares Loss of Appropriate Laws at Last Legislature Was Due to
Treachery and Misrepresentation to Governor West.
HOOD RIVER. Or.. May 1 (To the
Editor.) I have before me a copy
of a booklet entitled "Behind the
Scenes" at Salem. Or., during the Leg
islature of 111. ' This booklet Is bolng
distributed all over the state (for the
profit In It) and were It not for the
fact that It so misrepresents the work
done by the executive body of the
State Grange and that It makes a per
sonal attack upon myself. I would not
waste valuable time In answering it.
In the preamble of this booklet, the fol
lowing language Is used: "It has been
the aim of the authors to follow facts."
If their aim was such, they surely had
a very poor gun or It was loaded with
treacherous ammunition. For xthey
have positively missed the mark. -
Their title lines on Good Roads leg
islation say: "Rural Suspicion Kills
Oood Roads." This assertion will cer
tainly bear Inspection for truthfulness,
the last Legislature parsed four good
roads bills. Of these, two were very
Important, vix the state highway com
mission bill and the county bonding
bill, the latter standing paramount to
them a!L 1 only wish that every voter
in- Oregon could have a copy of each
of them to read and study. But who
killed these good roads bills? None
other than "the-dog-ln-the-manger"
fellows of Portland, who masquerade
under the title of the "Oregon Good
Roads Association.
It was through their efforts In mis
representing these bills to Governor
West that they were vetoed.
We could give testimony, favorable
to these bills, from hundreds of prom
inent taxpayers In Oregon, besides the
majority of the 90 legislators who voted
for them, but at this time we desire to
call to the witness stand some members
of the State Wood Roads Association
who were on the ground and assisted
materially In bringing about the com
promise which gave us the four good
roads bills that passed both Houses
of our last Legislature.
Judge Webster Quoted.
Judge Lionel R- Webster, the man
who has done more to educate the peo
ple of Oregon on the necessity of bet
ter highways than any other man In the
' state, the man who has been the paid
representative, as well as general man
ager of the Oregon Good Roads Asso
ciation since Its organization: the man
who represented the association at the
last Legislature more than any other
member, and the man to whom tbe
Good Roads Association of Portland
Intrusted the -fate of its five good
road bllla. recently said at a Portland
banquet:
"Tbe Good Roads Association made
the greatest possible mistake when Its
members urged upon Governor West
the veto of the highway bills, and the
Governor made a great mistake when
he vetoed those bills. The gentlemen
destroyed the finest piece of legisla
jioa we have had In this slate for
and It is expected will be prosecuted
vtrorously until the Improvement Is
finished.
Seattle's Carnival Association, which
Is promoting the "Golden Potlatch
Is making; headway despite unforseen
obstacles. It has received assurances
of support from near-by towns. In par
ticular Bremerton, which proposes to
come to the front handsomely for this
city's midsummer fete. There Is a good
reason why Bremerton should take an
active part, for the Navy Yard town Is
a local center for tourist travel. Dur
ing the Summer excursionists flock by
thousands to that point, the warships
and great docks being the attracUon.
and Bremerton by a little finesse and
publicity will be able to double that
profitable trade.
Potlatch Buttons Counterfeited.
President Douglas, of the Carnival
Association, was In a real quandary on
May day. which the supporters of the
Idea had proposed to make a red-leter
occasion by selling 100.000 Potlatch
buttons at $1 each. The scheme prom
ised well. Booths were scattered all
over town, and comely young women
did a thriving trade In the emblems of
the coming event. But the Potlatch
button was not copyrighted, and all at
once the depressing discovery was made
that counterfeits were In circulation.
The attempt to develop the sale on a
grand scale brought out the sensational
feature that Japanese cheap labor had
entered the field with a button that
could be bought for a nickel. It Is
rumored that some of the official sell
ing booths had stocked up with these
bogus buttons, with great profit to the
energetic but conscienceless saleswom
en. An even more alarming reature nas
appeared In a boycott of the button,
and presumably of the Potlatch, be
cause the button Is alleged to be the
product of non-union labor. It Is a
fact that laboring men all over town
scout the Ides of wearing a button for
the sufficient reason that" It Is "un
fair." The carnival managers report
the sale of buttons to have been un
satisfactory, and yet. despite the hos
tility of organized labor, every other
person In town seems to be wearing a
button.
Estimates of Seattle's population
have been revived by tbe appearance of
the new directory, with a total of 1J4,
60 names. By using the multiple of
U Instead of I1-. as previously, the
population Is estimated to be 280.485.
This Is a reduction of 2S.890 from the di
rectory census of 110. when the total
was s-lven as 311.51 on a basis of 124.-
37 nsmes and a multiple of- 2H- The
Increase In Individual names Is 23. and
the population under the old multiple
would have been estimated at su.bdv.
Previous EMlmates Too High.
The reduction of the multiple Is an
acknowledgement that the estimates
hitherto made' have been too high. T ne
directory people stoutly maintain that
the multiple of itt. which is employed
all over the United States. Is conserva
tive. The Federal census gave Seattle
a population of 237.194. or 42.291 less
thnn the estimate Just completed.
"The publishers, says E. J. Loranger.
president and manager of R L Polk &
Co.. "have no desire to discredit the
figures of the Federal census, for It
"will be readily seen why this dlscrep
sney must Inevitably occur when the
men employed, the territory embraced,
the methods of conducting the canvass
and other farts In this connection are
considered. The. directory canvass Is
made under a duplicate system, where
by the names are taken at both the
dwelling and the place of business, so
that It one has an occupation of any
kind there are two chances to enumer
ate him. and the work Is performed
by experienced employes, thoroughly
trained to such work, who follow it for
a living. The Oovernment'censue Is the
result of a single enumeration of the
residences." ,
Since the results of the Federal
census were generally disappointing.
Seattle will welcome the chance to
spring the figure to the directory total
of 280.435.
years and gave nothing to. take Its
place." '
Banker J. H. Albert, of Salem. Or, a
man who was Identified with the good
roads movement and In whom the sup
posed good roads people of Portland
placed the utmost confidence during
the entire Legislature, haa this to say.
In The Oregonlan:
"The fact that Oregon today haa no
system for the building of permanent
roads, no authority for the appropria
tion of one dollar toward the building
of such roads, no power to create an
Indebtedness for the building of them
under the . provisions of the recent
amendment of Section 10, Article II
of the constitution and no power to use
convict labor, either state or oounty,
on such roads la due to treachery on
the part of the so-called Oregon Good
Roads Association or of certain parties
wrongfuly claiming the right to rep
resent that body.
"Every one of these four bills passed
by the Legislature could have stood
alone and did not depend upon the
provisions of any other bill. Tbey were
all slain In the house of their friends.
Their blood Is upon the hands of the
Oregon Good Roads Association. Tou
cannot wash out the stain. All the
perfumes of Araby cannot sweeten
them."
Farmers AVer Fearless.
I could quote many similar public
expressions from many members of
the Oregon Good Roads Association,
who are sincere In obtaining better
highways and who wanted our good
road bills to become a law, especially
the county bonding act- The author of
this booklet accuses us farmers of not
understanding the five good road bills
which the Portland "dog-ln-the-man-ger"
fellows wanted. That we were
full of fear, prejudice and suspicion.
Tbe fact Is we were fearless, unpre
judiced and fully understood tbetr
scheme and were so well posted on
good road legislation that we were given
credit of being a factor In securing
the four bills vetoed by the Governor.
If there Is any truthfulness In the
write-up tn this booklet on the good
roads legislation. I presume It la la the
list of those who voted "Aye" and
"Nay." However, I cannot Touch for
the accuracy of this, for I have not
the records of the Senate and House
with wblch to make comparisons. Tbe
accusation that we were grange lobby
ists perhaps Is true, but we were even
more than that, we were the watch
dogs of tbe farmers' Interests, and
Judging from the rumpus we made, we
surely did our duty well.
An answer to the personal attack in
this boklet made upon myself Is not
of much Interest to the public, but suf
fice to say that their statements are
exaggerated, misleading and untrue. A
personal attack Is the last argument
of a coward.
f fully realise that I was not their
Idaal of a man for I fought against
soma treacherous measures of their
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A most interesting exhibit of fish s made at the Alder Market, comer First and Alder streets, last -eek, which attrac ted thousands of visitors. It as, without exception, the larg
di& of all fish; halibut, sturgeon, shad, black bass, striped bass, flounders, sole, salmon trout, catfish,
int.? Thid th? Ir. .el! f; loTto ! 35c, thS 'on the Atlantic Coast have to pay from 25c to 75c each. I think that we in Oregon, and especially Portland, have much to be thankful for,
"tME - -U a the meat apartment, is fitted with the latest sanitary equipments. There is always an
appealing display of meats, fish, poultry and cheese at this modern market.
friends. The authors of this booklet
were too closely connected with those
who wore playing road politics to give
a fair and truthful statement of the
work "behind the scenes" at Salem
during the last Legislature.
Had I rone to Salem, said nothing,
done nothing and seen nothing, per
haps I would have caused them less
trouble. For my acts I have no apol
ogy to offer. I did my duty In perform
ing the work Intrusted to me. If It
does not please those good roads people,
who are in It for ulterior purposes. I
care not. I desire, at this time, to set
the public right upon one misrepre
sentation In the public press.
The Oregon State Grange and Farm
era Union legislative committees, who
were at 8alem during the entire Legisla
ture watching the making of laws that
affect the farmers, were at no time
opposed to good rosd legislation. The
public press has branded us as antls,
obstructionists, etc.. but we were sim
ply opposing some well laid good road
political schemes that we thought de
served defest and we accomplished our
desire, and for doing this the "dog-ln-the-manger"
fellows of Portland asked
the Governor to veto the good road
bills that the Legislature passed, and
then they say we are to blame for no
good roads legislation. "Consistency.
Oh I thou art a Jewel."
We farmers made no fight on three
of the five good road bills presented by
the Oregon State Good Roads Associa
tion. The state aid bill was a Jest
throughout the entire Legislature. It
was used as a wlll-o'-the-wlsp. The
Multnomah delegation In the House
never Intended It to become a law and
us farmers only smiled at their wasted
energies In trying to make us believe
they were philanthropists. We knew
It was donn for a purpose. '
We offered substitutes for both the
highway commission and county bond
ing bllla At the last of the session,
after the most objectional features of
their highway commission bill had been
corrected by both houses, we were then
forced to a compromise and accepted
their amended highway commission bill,
In order to obtain our bonding bill.
This Is the other system of lawmaking
In Oregon upon which we hear but lit
tle comment. To say It la vicious is
putting It mildly.
Fight Was for Good Roads.
Our whole fight at Salem on good road
Iglslatlon may be summarized as fol
lows: They wanted the Governor to
appoint a highway commission of three
members from different parts of the
state. We wanted to save this -expense
and put It on good roads. They wanted
this commission to appoint a highway
commissioner. Wo wanted the State En
gineer to appoint him. They wanted
the highway commissioner to be a dic
tator. We wanted him to be an adviser.
They wanted him to be "well versed In
road building." We wanted him to be
a civil engineer and a practical road
builder.
Instead of the highway commissioner
being a dictator to our County Courts,
we wanted him to hold the same rela
tion to them that our State School Su
perintendent holds to our Public School
Boards an instructor.' educator and
statistician.
Our substitute bonding bill, which.
LpasssA both, houses and was vetoed by
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the Governor, would have solved the
whole good roads movement, had It be
come a law. But the "dog-in-the-manger"
fellows of Portland would not
permit It, and whyT It can be told In
one sentence. They could not control
the location of the roads upon which
the bonded money was to be Spent.
People Ones to Rale. ,
We asked that the people, who vote
for the bonds, shall have the power to
say upon what road or roads the money
shall be spent. Is there a man In Ore
gon who dare say that this Is not right?
It would be most Just, most practical
and most satisfactory. This one power
In the bands of the people was about
the only difference between their bond
ing act and ours. For fighting for this
principle we were accused of saying
the County Courts were not honest. Is
a county official dishonest because we
compel him to give a bond? No: but
for fear we may get one who will be
dishonest, we use this protection. Just
so with locating the road or roads upon
which we desire to spend our money.
Ws desire to name them for fear we
night get a County Court who oould be
Influenced to betray a publlo trust for
selfish purposes.
As my article Is already too long, I
must close by asking every voter to
study these or the future good road
bills carefully and, also. Investigate tbe
motives and character of work done by
the legislative committees from both
the Farmers' Union and the State
Grange of Oregon during the last Leg
islature. Our record Is an open book.
We worked for good roads legislation
with all our "might and main" and will
continue to do so until we obtain laws
that are free from political trickery and
that will permit us to build rural roads
unexcelled In any country. Tours re
spectfully, A. L MASON.
BLOOMING ORCHARDS LURE
Hood River Section Attractive to Ex
cursionists From Outside.
Hood River's famous apple orchards
now are In full bloom and present an
alluTlng sight to those who never have
seen a rare spectacle of this kind. For
the next few days the trees will appear
their handsomest and many Portland
people will be attracted there for the
mere purpose of feasting their eyes
and Of contemplating the wealth In
fruit that the fragrant blossoms will
produce.
J. H. Fredrick, agent for the O.-W.
R. A N. Company at Hood River, has
been trying to Induce local officials
to make a trip to that city to se them.
J. P. OTSrlen. general manager; J. D.
Stack, assistant general manager, Wil
liam McMurray, general passenger
agent, and Frank W. Robinson, general
freight agent, had planned to compose
a Hood River party yesterday but other
business Interfered.
Overland Route Being Promoted.
MARSHFIELR Or.. May . (Special.)
The promoters of the Coos Bay Wil
lamette Traction Company are offering
for sale preferred stock in the company
which, was organised to build aa over
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WAS TAKEN AT THE ALDER
land route out of Coos Bay. It is said
that if 150,000 of stock subscriptions, pay
able after the system is completed, are
obtained in this . county and Douglas
County,. the system can bo built. The
plan Is to use river boats to the head of
Coos River and storage battery cars on
tracks over about 20 miles of the moun
tains, to connect with automobiles for
Oakland or Roseburg. Later on the sys
tem would be made a standard road.
AUTO IN CROSSING SMASH
Vehicle Damaged In Effort to Avoid
String of Freight Cars.
For the second time within a few
weeks, an automobile met disaster at
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the intersection of Hawthorne avenue
and the railroad tracks on East First
street, early yesterday morning, when
a taxlcab, in getting- out of the way
of a string of freight cars swerved
from the roadway and smashed Into the
base of the gate stand. The accident
Is attributed by Patrolman Arnold to
the practice of withdrawing the gate
tender after street car traffic ceased.
W. H. Franklin, a chauffeur, of 311
Ross street, was taking C. L. McKin
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to cross the trackswhen a switch en
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paratus, doing damage to the car to
the extent of 60. and putting the car
out of commission. Neither he nor his
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freight switching is done and when
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Saloon License Increased.
MARSHFIELD. Or.. May 6. (Special !
The license for conducting a saloon in
Marshfield will hereafter be $800 a year
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