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Drastic Ordinances Aimed to
Make Electric Company
Add More Cars.
COMPLAINTS ARE GENERAL
Citizens From. All Sections of City
Say Recent Iegislatlon Is Result
of Rising Indignation Against
Power Firm's Attitude.
Better streetcar service rather than
unreasonable or unfair legislation is
what the majority of citizens. Includ
ing members of the City Council under
stand to be the purpose of the ordinance
passed by the City Council last Wed
nesday requiring the Portland Railway,
IJght Sc. Power Company to establish
a 3-cent fare for streetcar passengers
who are required to stand. Expressions
of opinion from members of the Coun
cil and from patrons or tne car com
pany are to this effect. Following are
short expressions gleaned from patrons
and Councllmen since the ordinance
was passed:
Councilman Magulre In preparing
and fighting for the passage of this
ordinance I had in mind a better car
service. The complaints have been
general in almost every part of the
city for years" that the company is not
doing what is right In the matter of
accommodating the public I have In
vestigated the conditions carefully.
Time after time I have counted more
than 100 persons crowded into cars with
seating capacities of 34 persons. This
condition I have found on the Alberta
cars for years. The other day I went
to Woodlawn. When the car I rode on
arrived at Alberta there was some
track trouble and the passengers were
required to transfer to another car.
On the first car there were four per
sons standing and every seat was taken.
This carload was required to push Into
another car which had a load equally
as heavy. what we want is better
service. The present E-cent carfare
seems all right and there Is no kick
about it, but there is a kick against
the service.
Better Service la Demand.-
Councilman Clyde I consider the
matter of better car service one of the
most important in the future of the
city. Conditions are absolutely deplor
able at present. What the people want
is more cars and better service. If the
company was giving a reasonable serv
ice there would be no complaint. There
is no desire on my part to force unfair
legislation onto the company, but there
Is a desire tJ force the company to give
better service, which the company has
refused to do to date.
A. W. Lawrence Take a ride on the
Ft. Johns cars after working hours In
the evening if you want to be convin
ced of the conditions. When night
after night working women and men
are required to hang to straps while
the cars slowly wind their way through
the business and residence districts, it
Is time there was a change. The com
pany does not seem willing to give the
service so why not force them to?
A. D. Cridge Better service is de
manded in almost every part of the
city. There is no reason why the com
pany should not give It.
J. B. Ryan Anything for better car
service. I haven't had time to look
into the merits of the new ordinance,
but if it will bring improved service
I m In favor.
Standing Hard on Drunks.
John Shillock I don't mind standing
In cars myself night after night the
year 'round, but I hate awfully to see
drunken men who are not able to
stand have to hanar to straps.
W. E. Flnzer I would rather stand
up In a streetcar than to be passed up
and have to wait for the next car be
cause all the seats on the first car
were taken. There's chance for lm
provement in streetcar service.
Martin Hillock I don't believe in
the clamor of the masses for something
that Isn't practical or possible, but I
do believe in a public service corpora
tion being reasonable with the masses
and granting something that Is prac
tical. The streetcar service in Port
land is not practical or reasonable at
present.
Councilman Schmeer I don't believe
in legislation that Is untair to com
panies. If there is any way of regu
lating public service corporations for
the good of the people without inflict
ing unreasonable or unbusinesslike
conditions upon them I am in favor of
it.
W. D. Llndqulst If it Is within the
power of the City Council to bring the
Portland Railway, Light & Power Com
pany to terms on the question of rea
sonable service I think no action that
may be taken can be too drastic
Company to Blame, He Says.
W-. E. Crockwell When a streetcar
company tells us that If we don't like
its service we can walk I think it is
time we were taking hold of the reins
ourselves. That is what the company
has told us. That attitude was what
caused that public demonstration at
the last Council meeting.
Councilman Jennings What I say is
to be fair and reasonable with the
company but let the plan be mutual be
tween the city and the company.
A. H. Kingly We who have to ride
on the Fulton car have had our share
of troubles with car service. For this
we do not blame the car company ex
clusively. We do blame the company
for crowded cars, however.
Councilman Monks We want better
service. I have always been opposed
to the company falling to consider the
public needs for seats in car. The fall
uro of the company to keep Its agree
ment to run late cars on all lines was
the direct cause of my Introducing the
ordinance which passed last Wednes
day requiring the company to maintain
an owl service.
GIRL MAKES PLEA
Municipal Laundry, Not Dance
hall, Needed, She Says.
PRACTICAL IDEAS ARE GIVEN
Young Woman 'Who Knows Ways of
Cheap Lodging-Houses, Small
Wages and loneliness Tells
Better Uses for Money.
SCHOOL FUND CASH GONE
State Treasurer Sees Entire Clean
Up by October 1.
SALEM. Or.. Aug. 17. (Special.)
Money in the school fund will be en
tirely cleaned up by October 1, or the
starting of a new quarter, according
to a statement made by State Treas
urer Kay.
This has been a principle adopted by
his office and the State Land Board
since the new administration has been
in power, he says, and as a result the
state is realizing interest from the
funds.
During former periods the money
which was lying idle In the school fund
mounted to as high as I700.UOO at one
time. In many cases drawing no Inter
est whatever and in others drawing
only 2 per cent from banks.
Now the money is lent on first mort
gage real property at the rate of 6 per
cent, realizing large sums in Interest.
CAHD OF THANKS.
Mrs. R. T. Gove and family desire to
express their thanks to the-r many
friends for their kindness during the
illness and death of husband and
father, Isaac H. Gove.
Stronger in its effect than any com
plaint which has yet been made against
the proposed erection cf a dance hall
In Portland on the lines of the Seattle
Dreamland pavilion. Is a letter sent to
Mrs. Lola G. Baldwin, superintendent
of the Municipal Department of Public
Safety for Young Women, by a work
ing girl who calls attention to the cry
ing need for the erection of places In
which girls employed in stores and
business houses can do their washing
and ironing and sewing.
She claims that the municipal au
thorities or any of the private indi
viduals who have stated that their
only Idea is to ameliorate the conditions
of this class of worker can do far bet
ter work along these lines than by the
erection of dancing pavilions and other
such places of amusement.
Mrs. Baldwin forwarded the letter to
The Morning Oregonlan along with an
explanatory letter from herself. Both
of these are printed:
"Portland, Or., Aug. r5. (To the
Editor.) I have received a letter from
a working girl, who has suggested some
excellent ideas brought to her mind by
the controversy over establishing again
a large dance hall in Portland. This
letter calls attention to the fact that
some of our business girls are more
in need of necessities and some of the
ordinary comforts than they are of
means of recreation.
Private Homes Open.
"The Municipal Department of Public
Safety for Young Women is ready to
estab.lsh and carry out Bome of the
practical things which are suggested
by this girl's letter, as soon as the
money can be provided. In a very small
way we have been helping to furnish
places where a girl might do her wash
ing, and there have been private homes
In this city open where working girls
have gone in the evening to enjoy set
tubs and electric irons in the basement,
and the privilege was greatly appre
ciated. It may seem a very small mat
ter to the ordinary housewife or to the
girl who lives at home and is accus
tomed to all these conveniences, but to
the girl who lives in one room, the fact
of free hot water, soap and electricity
has meant not only comfort, but a cer
tain self-respect which comes from be
ing well groomed.
"If some way could be provided where
by we could have a sewing-room with
free machines I believe we cot'ld
demonstrate that many a wage-earning
girl would he glad to make use of
them, as many girls prefer good ma
terial and careful sewing to the cheap
and oftentimes shoddy, ready-made gar
ment, which is the only one her means
will permit of her purchasing; and it
would also be a safeguard against buy
ing her clothes upon the Installment
plan.
"A woman s hotel or lodging-house
ought to be established at once, and
there is a splendid opportunity in Port
land at this time for a project of this
kind.
We sincerely hope that this girl's let
ter will reach the eyes of someone who
nas not only the disposition but the
means to Inaugurate some of these
practical suggestions.
MRS. LOLA G. BALDWIN,
Superintendent Municipal Department
of Public Safety for Young Women.
Girl Cites Real Needs.
The letter from the girl follows
"My dear Mrs. Baldwin:
"Though a comparative stranger in
Portland I have been rather interested
In the newspaper accounts that you, as
the head of the Department of Public
Safety for Girls,, are against a dance-
hall proposition.
"I wonder if you would care to know
the ideas of one of the class of women
the city wants to provide dancing
places for? Personally, I don't dlsap
prove of dancing; like It very much, In
fact, but speaking from the viewpoint
of a wage-earning girl (and wages of
110 a week), I think there are very
many more opportunities at hand for
the city or anyone Interested to make
assured the safety of young girls In
a city than dancehalls.
"Why has no one suggested a munici
pal laundry for working girls? The
laundry bill of a girl who is at all par
tlcuiar as to her appearance can't be
cut down to much less than 80 cents
and this Is exclusive of gauze under
wear, stockings and handkerchiefs,
which she can 'do' in the rooming
house. Being clean gives a girl a
feeling of "grit" to a large extent, and
personally I know of no more severe
strain on one's cheerful disposition than
a pleasant Sunday spent indoors with
the week's odds and ends of laundry
strung on a pink string from the win
dow casing to the closet door. Many
girls, I'm sure, would appreciate a
place where, for a. reasonable sum,
they could have the use, some stated
evening each week, of tubs with hot
water, and an electric iron.
"Better than dance halls, too, would
be some attemut toward dormitories.
The Y. W. C. A. has rooms for transient
girls, but not nearly sufficient accom
modations for the large number of girls
who apply. True, they have a list of
Investigated rooms, but one must walk
and walk, and out of about 10 addresses
visited two were vacant, one was im
possible for a person of refinement to
live In and would have driven a lonely
or homesick girl Insane; at two, re
peated rings at the bell brought no re
sponse, some were filled up, and one
took no women In only men.
Glrls'Clnb Suggested.
"Better than a dance hall, why can't
the city take one good-sized room or
hall, and by aid of a matron keep it
'clean,' where young people can get
acquainted, through this matron, - and
where admission can only be gained
through membership, as to a club, after
applicants are investigated. Any one
wishing could send in books and maga
zines, the city could Install a piano
(preferably with a player attachment
for tha sake of those who like good
music), walking clubs could be organ
lzed anything to relieve in some way
the loneliness of those who have no
home life and feel the heartbreaking
need of "some one- to talk to," that
eventually creates the state of affairs
that makes the department you head a
necessity.
This is a long letter, but I hope it
won't go into the basket until it has
carried a few suggestions from a wo
man who knows her sutject from the
Inside, the practical side. Why can't
the city have free, or even cheap, sew
ing classes, or even have machines in
a large room, where a girl can come in
evenings, rent one, and make her own
clothes? Why can't they have cooking
classes not domestic science, with the
intricacies of calorics, etc. Just plain
cooking, such as the poorest "green
horn" learns as soon as she gets to
America? Couldn't they, if they had
dormitories (or if they didn't), have a
big rom with rows of gas plates as
cooking schools have, each one with a J
meter and a locker, where girls could
get their light meals?
"There seem to be so very many prac
tical, humane ways that the city could
look after the women within its gates
that It seems too bad they should waste
their time on dancing. Perhaps this
letter has taken up valuable time, but
if the knowledge of what one who has
liwid for years in rooming-houses has
as to the urgent needs of the average
working woman, to keep her, in some
decree, happy and safe, will help
you or the girls a little bit In your
problems, won't It be worth while? The
city would be the gainer In the long
run, I should think, for giving a girl
an opportunity to live comfortably on
her small salary will surely do her more
moral good than giving her a dance
hall, which calls for more clothes, later
hours, excitement and doubtful com
pany.
"I am almost ashamed to sign this
outburst, but it would lose its weight
if anonymous, I suppose."
(The signature was omitted by Mrs.
Baldwin, who has preserved it for reference.)
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