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SIMON HASBEGOFEU
OF ACHIEVEMENT
City Has Shown Wonderful
Progress in His Administration.
BIG SAVING IS EFFECTED
Major Caar frlr of Paving to Be
Rrdooed. Establish Children'
rUrrroaods, sad Bay
Bis; Park Area.
Mayor Simons first trnn. Jut draw
lac to a closs. baa barn by far tha most
prosparoua and rsmarkabto two yvara
In tha history of rortland. All records
for achloTament alone municipal lines
har bam broken and tha city today Is
reaarded as tha safest placa for In
rMtnwiiti of any on the Padfle Coast.
A business administration of tha af
fairs by one who has mada of his own
life a areat success baa resulted in
wide-spread satisfaction to tho peo
ple. It will be recalled that Mayor Simon,
In his staientent. to tha electors when
he accepted tha nomination so flatter
Inrly Klren him by almost tOO of his
f-llow cltliens. after he bad declined
to become a candidate because ha
wished to retire to private life, said
there were soma projecte yet Incom
plete which he would like to finish.
That was one of tha reason why ho
decided to allow bis name to rs on tha
ballot fcr re-election, be said. Bat be
nsde no mention of the record of
achievement durlns; hi two years In
cumbency. Taxpayer Are Saved.
It Is difficult to say which of several
Important achievements of Mayor 81
mon'e administration Is most Import
ant. It depends upon tha viewpoint,
farina- to the taxpayers vast sums by
reducing tha cost of par In sr. breaking
the monopoly held for years by the
terra coiia sewer firms and the sand
companies I a feature reaarded by
many as perhaps the leading- ona of his
rerlme.
fLstabllshina; children's playground
throughout the city where but a small
one existed before and purchasing of
Urce park area and the starting of ac
tun I work on a great boulevard system.
1 thought by others to be still more
significant.
There have been many "big" accom
plishments during Mayor Simon's term.
Notwithstanding the great handicap of
working under tha present charter,
which is very cumbersome and tedious
to one accustomed to "doing things.
thfre are actual resulta to record.
Take the hard-surface policy, for ex
ample. Mayor Simon aaw when ha
t'Kk office nearly to yeara ago that
I'ortland had to have good pavements
and plenty of them If tha city was to
teke first rank with tha cities of tho
I'aclflc t'oatt. lie acted quickly, but
he did not forget the people, who must
py for these Improvements, lie called
In the heads of tho paving companies
and told them what rata he would al
low for their pavements. Whereae tha
bltultthlc and asphalt companies bad
been getting 1 1, tl) a square yard, ha
announced that ho would not let con
tracts aa a rata to exceed $1.S a yard.
Millions of dollars' worth of this kind
of work have been done and It wlU
easily be seen how great, has been tba
saving to the people.
Much Patrmrnt Laid.
Portland today Is acknowledged by
experts to have aa good streets and aa
many of them aa any city on the Pa
cific Coast, and the most of this work
has been put through by tba aggres
sive action of the Mayor, who has held
down tho price with an Iron hand. Tha
city baa been put on a metropolitan
basis In this respect, as well aa many
others and nearly every section In
I'ortland can now be reached by way
of hard surface.
Parks, playgrounds and boulevards
have received from Mayor Simon's ad
ministration a great deal of attention.
While tha Mayor refused to purchase
as much land for parks as some de
sired him to. nevertheless Portland haa
a large number of excellent park sites
and much development work Is under
way. When Mayor Simon took ofrice,
t'lty Park was the only large ona that
had been developed. Now thero are
playgrounds with fully equipped apa
ratus at City Para. Bellwood Park.
Peninsula Park, Columbia Park and In
the North Tark Way.
Mayor Simon became very enthusiastic
over playgrounds, and In this he had tha
hearty co-operation of the Tark Board,
consisting of L Lang. Ion Lea la. L. tl.
Clarke and Dr. J. R- Wetherbee. These
men hare labored earnestly to tha end
that Portland might have enough beauti
ful parka and playgrounda to enable her
people to enjoy themselvea. The first
swimming tank In tha city. Installed un
der direction of the municipal govern
ment, was located at Sellwood. ar.v was
dedicated to the boys and girls of tha
city by Mayor Simon's administration.
lloulrvard 1 (iradrd.
The first mile of boulevard In the great
estem that la mapped out to link the
parka and playgrounda together la now
being graded and put rapidly Into condi
tion under orders of Mayor Simon and
the members of tha Park Board. It was
J.-natet by the Terwllllger heirs, and
runs through South Portland.
Portland is soon to have Ita new pipe
Una to Bull Bun River, the source of
the City's water supply. This Is being
built, together with a series of giant
reservoirs at Mount Tabor, to augment
the supply. It will be completed this
!ummer at an approximate cost of
1. ;" Double that amount waa au
thorised, but It will be saved for other
purpose, and can now be used as the
Water Board directs, under a law passed
by the people at the earnest recom
merdstlon of the Msjror and members
of the Board, as well aa public-spirited
citisens.
The Water Isoard. composed of Theo
dore Bt Wilcox. J. C. Alnsworth ard.W.
B. Mackay. haa done more toward fur
nishing an adequate supply of Bull Run
water to the suburbs than can be told la
a trw words. While the corporate lim
its have been extended a great deal, the
Board has. by dint of hard work and
application to business, managed to
keep well abreast of the growth. It was
but recency that tha Board purchased a
private plant In tha Mount Scott dis
trict. In order that the people there
might have city water at city rates, ana
that they might have plenty of It for all
purposes. It la the aim of tha Mayor
and members of thla Board to give to
the outlying sections a full supply of
water, and they have accomplished much
In that direction.
City I Now Cleaner.
Maror Simon has also, with the co
operation of the Board of Health, ac
complished much In tha lino of making
Portland a cJ-aa city. P-ra. George B.
Story. R- J. Ctilpman and Alan Welch
Smith, comprising this Board, have done ,
a great deal la a quiet way to better I
conditions. Something that was needed
for a long time waa a crematory, and
thla administration has caused to be
built one of tha best of the kind In tha
Northwest. It will be put Into first
class running condition by July. It l
beileved. and will enable the city to
burn lis garbage much more cheaply and
satisfactorily than at present.
Tha Board of Health, backed by tha
Mayor, secured pure milk legislation,
which baa dona much along that Una.
It also recommended a municipal gar
bage collection system, for which tea
people are asked to vets ITS.O bonds
thla coming- election. The city baa been
very free of diseases of tha contagloua
ayor Simon recognised tha harbor as
tha chief asset of tha city. and. upon
recommendations of arb?rro"i!f
Ppeler. ordered all scow from tha river
front early In bis term. For tha first
tlma la tha history of tha city tharlrer
within the city limit babeen
scows and acow-daellera. A modern and
fully organised harbor police system waa
formed, and a flrst-clas patrol boat
provided during; tha first year of tba
Mayor' term-
These are aome of tha larger accom
plishments of tha Simon d"n',rlo.n'
All department hava been n srged to
cope with the growth of tha city Sev
eral new fire angina htroaea hava been
purchased and put Into commission, and
The first aotomoblla apparatus ever in
stalled baa been bought and will bo in
service In two weeks.
Efforts ara now being directed
,h. building of a f.rat-cl. steel flra
boat for os en tha river. It Is probable
Contract for thl. wlU be let bef-a tha
end of tha present term. It will cost
TSSftA for which a bond Issue is pro-
TMy thing, that go to
great city hava been done. uch as la
ETlUng I "white-winged" .quad on tha
downtown streets to keep the pae
mant dean: Introducing flush ng of
hard-etirfaee street, and the ol.lng or
Mayor Simon saw when be
m"Sam streets, instead of us.nr tha
old water sprinkling aystem.
LABOR TIES MAY HELP
MOST SOCIALIST CAS DI DATES
AIXIFJ WITH rXIOXS.
Nominee. Express Certainty Thai
Manr Worklngmen SympaUilgera
Will Support Thrm at Poll.
-W fully expect that the BodaUst
nominees, from tha candidate for Mayor
down, will poll between 6000 and 7009
vote, on municipal election day. " .aid
r w. Robinson, chairman of the party
for the CMy of Portland, yesterday.
"Our rule la no compromise and our
ticket will b voted atralght down tha
line. Do not be surprised If .oma
of our men are elected.
-Two year, ago we had I due-paying
members In the party. Today there
are over 1090. Thla by no mean Indi
cates our full strength. There ara thou
sands of laboring men In sympathy
with our movement although they ara
not due-paying member and they will
register their votes for our candidate
on election day. '
-The Socialist party 1. not a political
party In the same sense aa tha Demo
cratic and Republican partiea. Rather
It la a fraternal and educational Insti
tution, and only those are regarded a
member, who Join the organisation and
pav the duea of 60 centa a month. So
when I refer to tha Socialist party hav
ing a etrength of 1000 In the city I
do not Include our thousands of sym
pathizers among all classes of people.
A fact which Is expected to lend
atrength to tha Socialist ticket In tha
present campaign la that tha majority
of tho candidate running under tha
party's banner have labor union affil
iation Charlea II. Otten. tha Social
ist Mayoralty aspirant, la secretary of
tha Socialist organisations of the State
of Oregon, but previous to tha tlma ha
withdrew to devote his full time to
tha party, he waa a member of organ
ised labor.
Two ex-Labor Officials.
D. W. Robinson, candidate 'n the
Socialist ticket for Councllman-at-Large.
la secretary of the Central Labor
Council and also foreman for hla father,
W. K. Roblneon. painter and decorator.
Mr. Robinson polled 5000 votea when
be ran for State Senator last Fall. Hla
personal strength la great. It la ex- j
pected that Mr. rtooinson. aunuugn m
declarea there I no connection between
hla labor union and Socialistic affilia
tions, will be able to carry a great deal
of his atrength to Mr. Otten. the Mayor
alty candidate, for whom a special ef
fort Is being made to elect. Joe Foley,
also a candidate for Councllman-at-Large.
la a plasterer and only recently
resigned the position of business agent
of his union.
"The only way the Socialist and
their sympathiser can ever hope to
gain anything la by Ignoring the can
didates of tho old Una partiea and vot
ing for their own men. declared Rob
inson. "We may not win, of course,
but Just look as the way our vote haa
been growing In recent years. Dis
couragement la a backward atep. That
la the reason the Socialists have es
tablished the Ironclad rule to vote for
their own nomlneea only, no matter bow
mall their apparent strength.
Captured Meeting; Pleases.
"Each of our candidate baa signed
a power of attorney In the Intereat of
the party and baa also algned bla resig
nation In. blank. Should any of our
men be elected and then fall to atand
Arm for the prlnclplea which secured
bis election all the party will have to
do la to fill In the resignation and file
It with tha City Auditor. Another
blank agreement which we algned. also
In company with the power of attorney,
gave tba party the right to withdraw
our namea before May 20. tha last day
on which wlthdrawala were possible.
If any reason considered by a majority
of our members sufficient had arisen."
Socialists were exultant yesterday
over the newa that Floyd C. Ramp, the
perty'a candidate for Municipal Judge,
captured an open-air meeting being
conducted In the Interest of George 11.
Thomas. Democratic candidate for
Mayor, at the corner of Fourth and
Alder atreets. Friday night. Mr. Ramp
listened to the addresses of Mr. Thomas,
E. S. J. McAllister. W. W. Campbell
and other Democratic orators and then
eked permission to address the audi
ence from the Thomas automobile. It
waa given and he spoke for the Social
ist ticket from top to bottom, carrying
with him the audience of several hun
dred people, most of whom were work-
Ingmen.
D. W. Robinson, the Socialist chair
man, sees In the large registration of
the last few daye sinews or war for his
party, contending that the majority of
the worklntitnen who registered did so
Ith the Intention, of voting the So
cialist ticket.
Fifteen In Field.
Tha Socialist candidates for the
various municipal offices are:
Mayor. Charlea H. Otten: City Audi
tor. Henry Hlnck: City Attorney. Ira
M. Payne: City Treaeurer. O. A. Hins
dale: Municipal Judge. FloydjC Ramp;
Counctlmen-at-Larga. Allen fteDonald.
Joe Foley. D. W. Robinson, Otto Oest-
rich and J. M. Hoykaa. the latter two
to nil the unexpired terms of Gay Lom
bard and Thomaa C Devlin: Council
man First Ward. Jack Burke: Council
man Sixth Ward. George Dabrlts: Coun
cilman Seventh vVard. Kugene D. Kauts;
Councilman Eighth Ward. Francla J.
Mcllenry.
Tha Socialists, said Mr. Robinson, ex-
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SMALL PARKS ARE FAVORED
Corvallls Tract Receives Indorse
ment of Sfajor Simon.
A petition, bearing several hundred
signatures, has been presented to May
or Simon, asking him to purohase fr
park purposes 40 acres of ground In
the extreme southeastern portion of
the city. It is known as the Corvr.ills
tract, because It Is owned by people
living in Corvallls. It 1 said it can
now be purchased for $2000 an acre.
"I will give this subject my earnest
consideration." said the Mayor yester
day. "I have already looked over tha
plat, and can say I am favorably Im
pressed with the proposition. I tlilnk
the section of the city concerned should
have a park. I have favored small
parks during my term, but I do not
like to buy a lot of tracts Just now,
with mv tenure of office drawing to a
close, it la my aim to have affairs In
such condition that the succeeding ad
ministration will not be burdened with
a large amount of incomplete projects.
Should I be re-elected. I would have no
hesitancy In heartily recommendlig
the purchase of this tract without de
lay, as I regard it as a proper thins
to do."
FRUIT TOPIC TUESDAY
Mass Meeting at Brownsville to Dis
cuss Industry. .
At Brownsville next Tuesday night
under the auspices of the Brownsville
Commercial Club, a mass meeting of
farmers and fruitgrower will be held
to discuss ways and meana of produc
ing better frutt and more of it. The
question of marketing will also be
given attention.
Kenneth Gordon, general manager of
the Kenneth Gordon Preserving Com
pany. Limited, of Lewiston. Idaho,
which purchased a fruit cannery at
Brownsville recently, was instrumental
in having the me.jlng called. Mr. Gor
don, who was lay I'ortland yesterday,
saya that the company could use a great
deal more fruit than it Is able to obtain.
Telegraph Co. Wants Right of Way.
A ault In which the Transcontinental
Telegraph Company, formerly the Pos
tal Telegraph-Cable Company. Is seek
ing to condemn a right of way along
tha line of the Northern Pacinc from
Portland to the boundary between
Multnomah and Columbia counties, was
transferred Friday from the Multno
mah Circuit Court to the Federal Court
by an order signed by Judge Kava
naugh May 13. The telegraph company
recites that th railway company la
asking an excessive price for tho right
to build the line, and asks the court to
fix the damages. It is also recited that
the Transcontinental Telegraph Com
pany owns Jointly with the Pacific
Slates Telegraph Company a. pole Una
which runs along the railway right of
way, and the statement Is made that
the telegraph company Is willing either
to build a new pole line or utilize the
one in which it already owns an undi
vided half interest.
Lang & Co. Start Cannery.
Lang Co., wholesale and manufac
turing grocers, operating branches at
Seattle. Belllngham. Medford. Baker
City and Lewiston. Idaho, have leased
the three-story building on the south
west corner of Burnside and Front
streets, adjoining their premises, and
are now installing a sanitary canning
plant. It is understood that the Cali
fornia canning trust has succeeded In
getting control of the canning industry
and haa boosted prices. This move
will bring about competition for the
raw products, and result . in higher
prices to the growers.
Candidate Rot on Ballot.
Bruce Wolverton. who thought himself
a candidate for the office of Councll-
man-at-large to succeed Gay Lombard,
Is not on the ballot, it developed yes
terdav. He was nominated by the
Prohibition Party at its convention, but
was not present at the time and, it
seems, did not formally accent the nom-
inatlon. Mr. Wolverton called at tha
City Hall yesterday and discovered
that his name doesr not appear on the
ballot. He had caused carda to be
printed and was getting ready to make ,
a campaign in his own behalf.
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