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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1912)
I -Mr Pages 1 to 20 PRICE FIVE CENTS. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1912. 7 I 1 . 82 Pages X jV T V T T V U VrT. YYYT ft 4-1. 1 - i : ES ARE VOTED DOWN Electric FranchiseVic tory Is fmmense. BOTH CHARTERS ARE DEFEATED Public Market Project Only One Successful. CIVIL SERVICE MAINTAINED Rr- Island Project Is Xot Wanted and $2,000,000 for Parks Falls Vote Is Heavy Oregonlan's .( Recommendations O. K.'d. An unexpectedly large vote cast yes terday at the special city election, ac cording to the returns tabulated up to midnight, resulted in the defeat of both forms of commission charter, most of h hond Issues proposed, salary In creases sought; left the police under civil service by a large majority .,.-. ,4 Anvcn with the general ava lanche the proposition to create the office of city prosecutor. The one outstanding favorable vote was that for the Northwestern Electric Company, which was granted a iran in hut lieht and power In Pnrrlanii hv an overwhelming majority. The earliest returns from all parts of the city carried the certainty mat ima measure, which was submittea on rei erendum by the City Council, had .passed and that the new company had received a most hearty indorsement. According: to the returns, incomplete, but believed to be about as nearly ln-rfir-.ilv. of the final result as possible. h. vntln-r Dnbllc yesterday turned out to the extent of not less than B0 per cent and. in casting the ballot, 101- lowed almost In every instance mo u vlce given by The Oregonian. Row Island Project Loses. Notable among the proposed measures which went down to emphatic defeat was the Boss Island project, backed by Mayor Rushlight, the "plan provid ing for a bond isi-ue of 1300.000 for the purchase of thla property. Another measure to suffer severely at the hands of the electorate was the proposed Municipal Public Service Commission, fathered by Will H. Daly. Councllman-at-Large. and which pro vided for three commissioners at high salaries to regulate utility corporations within the city limits. Even the proposed bond. Issue of ?2. 000.000 for the acquisition of parks and boulevards waa snowed under In the general resentment shown by the voters against voluminous bond Issues as presented at this special election. Bridge AaaJa efeate. The South Portland bridge, project met a similar fate, this being the sec ond time It has been defeated by the voters. It proposed a bond issue of 3850.000. A proposed bond Issue of 1100.000 for a new Incinerator was beaten, al though by a less margin than others on the ballot. Disapproval of the proposal for 200. 000 additional bonds for the pur chase of a site for the proposed public auditorium was voiced In no uncertain terms. . . By a good majority the people amended the charter so that the city may now be able to utilize Its own streets near the waterfront for its own uses. Good majorities were also given the measures extending the bonding act to street openings and granting 30 days in which to file applications there under. Public markets were Indorsed by a (Concluded on Far 6.) CAN r r- VTC i VA- ' II I i V S Ev Art I s r--r- W S f V ..VI 'Kt WrB ft.' - ) fSSf-WUI IMIb I I THF I t I ' , l L ii ii i TT Tr--.i-.ii 1 1 iiitiiiii . ! ) . h ,'; '''' ' ' . ':; . . . i VANDERBILTS HOME WITHOUT BABY BOY SIX-MOXTHS-OLD HEIR IS LEFT OX FARM IX EXGLAXD. V Infant Aristocrat "Among Friends" While Parents Take Whirl, at ' Xewport Social Wheel. NEW YOUK. Nov. 2. (Special.) Mr. and Mrs. Alfred O. Vanderbilt returned today on. the French liner La Provence without the Vanderbilt baby boy, who, wat born six weeks ago In Ens-land. Everybody had been expecting taat the baby would arrive on the Pro vence, but they were disappointed, and most especially so was Its grandfather, Captain Isaac E. Emerson, of Balti more, who was at the pier to meet his daughter .and her husband. The baby has been left behind in England on the Vanderbilt farm with friends, as It is too young to stand the rigors of an ocean voyage yet, and It was lucky for the baby that it stayed in peaceful England, for the passen gers of the Province reported a most terrific voyage in heavy weather. No name has been chosen as yot for the boy, said the father, today, coming up the bay. He was told that there Is a report that Captain Emerson is having a special herd of selected cows Installed In a brand new dairy on his farm for tha bab. Mr. Vanderbilt opened his eyes In "Why should It need a . ' - dairy?' he asked. . "- v The Vanderbllts will stay he. , ntil Christmas. They left the pier to ft f their suite in the Vanderbilt Hote.. Part of the time they will spend with his mother in Newport. BROWNSVILLE MAN LOST John C. Morgan Missing in Cascade Mountains. ALBANY, Or- Nov. 2. (Special.) John C. Morgan, a prominent resident of Brownsville, aged 67 years, has been lost in the Cascade Mountains for six days. Though 100 men are now searching, no trace of him has been found. Morgan was hunting with two other men on Green Mountain, near the Cala pooia River, eight miles east of Holley They started out alone last Monday morning and have not been seen since. Seventy-five men have gone from Brownsville to engage in search, many from Crawfordsville and Holley. Mor gan had had heart ktrouble recently, so It is believed he had an attack of heart failure and died. - HEIRS GIVE CASH TO BABIES Ross Winaus' Benericlarles Tresent 9500,000 to Prince's Children. BALTIMORE. Nov. 2. (Special.) Documents filed today In the Orphans' Court disclosed the fact that the bene ficiaries under the will of the late Ross R. Winans have agreed to sur render J500.000 from their legacies to Beatrice and Gaston de Beam, Infant children of Prince Henri de Beam, who was Mr. Wlnan's son-in-law. No pro vision was made for the De Beam chil dren In the will. Most of the 1500,000 will be given by the residuary legatees and the re mainder will be given by Miss Dorothy Bateman, of Newport, to whom was left $500,000. The other legacies. It Is said, will be paid In full. CANDIDATES GET REFUND Saving of $1078 Made on Printing of Pamphlets to Voters. sjitm Or.. Nov. 2. (Special.) A refund of S1773 will be made to those -v. onntrihnterf under the law $70 a page for space In the initiative and referendum pamphlet. The nampnlets this year were printed at an expense of $45 a page as com pared to the $60.43 a page charged in 1910. Those who submitted matter were compelled to make a deposit of '0 a page to guarantee tne cost, as provided by law. The entire refund ill be $1775 and the saving maae amounts to $1079.95. THE i 1 . .km,?: r im - m a - Mss Nathan m$j ELECTION RESULT STILL DOUBTFUL Forecasters See Pos sible Changes. 'SILENT VOTE" MYSTIFYING Managers of Three Parties Profess Confidence. LOCAL SITUATIONS COUNT Trend of Opinion Favors Wilson as Probable Victor, but Unknown Elements Are Regarded as Unusually Numerous. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. The general election of 1912 has been turned over to the voters of the United States, In the language of leaders of the three principal parties. A cessation of ac- u.-ity in the respective camps tonight. a recouping of strength tomorrow for the final onslaught Monday, and an effort Tuesday by each faction to "get out Its vote'- mark the termination of a campaign conceded tefhave few par allels In the history of the Nation. , Throughout the country polling places will open Tuesday with the at tention of the entire Nation focused upon them. There are few states out side the "Solid South" where results are conceded to be one way or anoth ed. Confident claims by Democratio leaders of a sweeping victory are met by emphatic assertions from the Re publican and Roosevelt Progressive managers that they expect success, re spectively, for their Presidential can didates. The President and Vice-President, the House of Representatives, the United States Senate and the local govern ments of many of the most populous states hang In the balance of Tuesday's election. Elements of Doubt Knter la. From the beginning of the campaign the advantage has been with Woodrow Wilson and the Democratic party, for, while there have been Democratic fac tions,' the party has held pretty well together on the Presidential ticket and it has seemed that desertions from the Democratic ranks would be largely made up by recruits from the Repub lican or Roosevelt Progressive parties. Moreover, Democracy this year is fac ing the Republican party and the third party, which has drawn almost exclu sively from the Republican ranks. The oretically, atjgast, the Democracy need do no more than hold Its own to win. There are certain things that douot over the result ofju'ser Dartmouth Passed here today. have cast a the approaching election. In the first place, it has been and even now Is as sumed that the democratic party will hold together and that few Democrats will desert the party this year. This, however, is only surmise, bolstered up by hope. It has been demonstrated that there is no considerable . amount of Democratic enthusiasm in the cam paign this year, take the country as a whole far less enthusiasm than was to have been expecte Moreover, there has been considerable apathy among Democrats, and there is no certainty whatever that the full Democratic vote will go to the polls. Wilson, as the party candidate, has not made the bril liant campaign that was expected of him. In fact, there have been many weak spots In his personal campaign, and many flaws in the management as conducted by the party chairman and campaign managers. These things ren der uncertain the size of the vote Wil son will poll on Tuesday. The greatest element of uncertainty (Continued on Page 12.) ILLUSTRATED STORY OF T OREGONIAN ELECTION RETURNS Bulletins Downtowns Signal Lla-hta From Tower j and Elcctrlo-I.lKht Signals In City, Salem, Oregon City and Vancouver. On the night of November 5 Tha Oregonian will flash election re turns on a screen at Sixth and ' Aider, beginning at T P. M. Com plete returns will be received by Associated Press and special wires, and the entire Nation will be covered rapidly. For the benefit of those who. do not come downtown. The Orego nian will riash signals from a light mast above the tower of The Oregonian building, with the following code of signals as soon as the result is known: ONE RED LIGHT INDICATES , TAFT'S ELECTION. ONE WHITE LIGHT INDI CATES R O O S E V E LTS ELEC TION. ONE RED LIGHT AND ONE WHITE LIGHT TOGETHER IN DICATE WILSON'S ELECTION. ALTERNATE FLASHES OF RED AND WHITE LIGHTS AT INT E"it V ALS OF 30 SECONDS, RESULT IN DOUBT. The, Oregonian has also ar ranged with President Josselyn, of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, for a code of signals to announce the result In the residences using electric lights in Portland, Vancouver, Wash.; Salem, and Oregon City. The signals will be given by turning out the electric lights as soon as the result Is known, according to the follow ing code: One dash (five seconds of darkness) Indicates Taft's elec tion. Two dashes (two intervals of darkness of five seconds each) indicate Wilson's election. Three dashes (three in tervals of darkness of five sec onds each) indicate Roosevelt's election. Four dashes (four In tervals of darkness of five sec onds each) Indicate that the re sult is in doubt. The first signal will be given as soon as the result is known If the returns are decisive before 11 P. M. But. at any rate, a signal will be given promptly at 11 P. M.. or as near 11 P. M sharp, as possible. ' MISS JEFFERSON WEDS Granddaughter of Actor Married to Morristown, Ji. J., Man. BOSTON. Nov. 2. (Special.) In the .prej&ejaepf, a few. jptlmatje friends and relatives. Miss Lauretta Jefferson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jef ferson, of Buzzards Bay, and grand daughter of the late Joseph Jefferson, the actor, and Charles H. Raymond II, of Morristown, N. J., were married to day In All Saints' Episcopal Church, Brookline. . Owing to professional engagements In the West, Thomas Jefferson, father of the bride, was unable to be present at the service. British Warship Off for Levant. niRRil.TAR Nov. 2. The British TDOUDQ lor HID uevttlll.. x lie liiku ua....c squadron will arrive early tomorrow from- England and will proceed east ward after a stay of only one uour. VOTERS' HANDY REFERENCE. The Oresonlan's Recommendations CondruM-d, General Election, Tuewdar, November S. . Vote No. Vote Ves. 319 30 fit S02 SJ1 301 33; 33 5 30S 337 S12 339 314 35.'. 320 . 357 ' 359 350 33 353 35 ' 3S7 373 377 87 7t 383 No Advice: 310-311 344-345 322-323 84S-347 324-325 360-361. 336-327 368-369 340-341 380-381 342-342 A CANDIDATE, WITH POWER FRANCHISE WINS BY BIG VOTE Northwestern Electric Told to Come In. WELCOME IS A DECISIVE ONE Company Prepares to Hurry Plants to Completion. SERVICE BEGINS MARCH 1 Strong Financial Support Is Behind Company That Will Give Light and Power Competition in Port land City Retains Rights. Now that the franchise for the Northwestern Electric Company has been passed by a decisive vote of the people, officers of the company -reiterate their declarations that they are ready to establish service and. enter the light and power field in Eortland In competition with the Portland Railway. Light & Power Company as early as the physical conditions surrounding the erection of their plant will permlt- G. F. Herr, of San Francisco, repre senting the Fleishhacker interests, who are financing the Northwestern Electric Company, has been in Portland for the last few days. He was naturally pleased last night, when the returns assured him that the franchise had carried. "We are ready to proceed with our plant in Portland at once." said Mr. Herr. "While we never had any doubt that the people would grant us the right to do business In the city, we con tinued our activity right to the eve of the election, to demonstrate our good faith in the project we are advancing. The fact that we are actually at work on our power development plant on the White Salmon River is probably the best indication of our good faith. I understand the plant there Is 20 per cent completed. Sen-Ice to Be Rushed. "We 'are under heavy bond to carry out the provisions of our franchise, and now that it has been granted and that we have heavy investments behind it. we are as eager to begin actual service as the people are to procure our serv ice." ' . The Northwestern Electric Company has financial support of the strongest kind. Its two principal backers are Herbert and Mortimer Fleishhacker, of San Francisco, presidents respectively of the Anglo & London-Paris National Bank and the Anglo & London-Paris Trust Company, of that city. They are Interested in extensive elec tric, nroiects in California, with a huge power project on the Feather River that will develop 500,000 horsepower. Associated with them in the Northwest ern Electric Company are other Cali fornia financiers, including William H. Crocker, of the Crocker National Bank; Antone Borel, of Antone Borel Ai to. bankers, and others. t'lnlik Set for March. Long before the Fleishhackers asked for a franchise In Portland last Spring to give active competition In this city in the electric light and power busi ness, they had begun development work in a quiet way at their plant on the White Salmon River, in Washington, about three miles above the town of Underwood and 72 miles from Portland. After very heavy preliminary work, which included the driving of four tun nels through solid 'rock in the canyon of the White Salmon RiVer, through which to divert the stream from Its bed, while construction was in progress, the building of a great concrete dam 400 feet long, 123 feet high and 100 feet through at? the base was begun this (Concluded on Pago 9.) A VERY, VERY SAD ENDING CLERICAL BOYCOTT DELAYS WEDDING MILLIONAIRE CAVXOT GET MIN- . ISTER FOR CEREMONY. Xewport and Providence Pastors Re fuse to Act for Man Whose ' Wife Divorced Him. NEWPORT, R. I., Nov. 2. (Special.) Edward R. Thomas, millionaire bank er, turfman and autoist, failed In sev eral attempts here today to get mar ried to Miss Elizabeth Flnley, the ar tist. Because Thomas was the guilty party in a divorce suit recently won by his first wife, wno was the beautiful Linda Lee of Kentucky, three clergy men of three denominations refused to perform the ceremony. Efforts are now being made to se cure a Providence minister to offi ciate. It was said the marriage would be performed, If possible, on Wednes day. It was at Lands End, the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. Livingston Beekman, the latter a sister of Thomas, that the ceremony was to have been held. The bride and bridegroom had obtained a marriage- license. The ministers of Newport have an agreement not to marry divorced per sons unless under exceptional circum stances, and several of them said today they felt positive Thomas would not be married here by a Newport clergy man. HORSE TRAVELS DE LUXE Vanderbilt Drops Tear as He Parts With $150,000 Rocksand. NEW YORK, Nov. 2 (Special.) A horse which will be watched as care fully as the $60,000,000 son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and which will re ceive fully as much attention, sailed on the Minnewaska today for France. A tear dropped upon August Bel mont's red necktie as he bade farewell to the horse, Rocksand. which he has Just 'sold to a French syndicate for $150,000. Three hostlers In eight-hour shifts will watch Rocksand every mo ment of the passage as tenderly as ever a millionaire's child was watched by nurses. The stateroom of Rocksand Is far re moved from the vibration of machinery and Is floored with six-inch-thick matting, on top of which Is a layer of moss. The walls are padded with bur lap and cotton. Rocksand's precious legs are ban daged with cotton all the time and twice a day a veterinary will change the dressings. He is insured with Lloyds for $150,000. J. G. STUBBS TO MOVE UP Nephew of Prominent Railroad Man to Be Promoted. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2. (Special.) John - G. Stubbs. nephew of J. C. Stubbs, formerly director of traffic of the . Harriman lines, is slated to suc ceed the late E. H. Rising as general freight . gent, of the Southern Pacifi-3 in this city. Mr. Rising dropped deaJ of heart disease at his desk in the Flood building several weeks ago. Mr. Stubbs is general freight agent for the railroad company at Los An geles, where he has been stationed for several .years. He entered railroad service upon, the advice of his uncle and has risen rapidly. His appoint ment will be announced from the office of Freight TrafAc Manager Luce next week. 3000 WHALES ARE KILLED Single 'Company Operating Ten Ves sels Has Catch of 1000. VICTORIA, Nov. 2. Ten steam whal ing vessels, owned by a company oper ating off the Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Island coasts, killed more than 1000 whales in the season just ended. Other companies operated steam whalers off the Washington. British Columbia and Alaska coasts during the season,, and it is estimated that more than 3000 whales were killed. OF TURKS 10 KNEES AWAITED Powers Take No Steps to Limit War. SERVIANS .STILL ADVANCING Reports of Massacres by Otto mans Piling Up. LAST BATTLE SEEMS NEAR European Sentiment Favors TerrI torlal Ambitions of Balkan Allies if Austrian Aims Can Be Satisfied. LONDON, Nov. 2. After the four days' decisive battle of the war, there Is calm for a few hours. Constantinople officials still refuse to permit messages dealing with the Turkish deteat to be sent out of the capital. How far the Ottoman army will be able to pull itself together, and whether it will make a stand In the forts outside of Constantinople are questions unanswered. Servian Advance Continue. The Servian advance toward Saloniki continues. The Greeks say they are pushing steadily forward, but the Turkish messages insist that the Greek army has met with a repulse, that the Crown Prince ran away and that the Greek position Is precarious. Adrlanople and Saloniki are sur rounded by enemies. The Turkish army in Macedonia Is ut off on all sides. Servians hold all of 61d Servia and are administering the government from the ancient capital, Uskup. Re ports of massacres by, the retreating Turks, with barbarous details, are pil ing up. Final Hatlle Awaited. Diplomacy has done nothing In thf direction of stopping or limiting the war. The powers now await the ex pected final battle which will force tha Turk to his knees. The allies proclaim their determination to hold all they conquer. European Bentlment cer tainly English sentiment appears to Indorse their ambitions. If Austrian in terests can be arranged. - All the sailors of the British de stroyer and submarine squadrons on leave have been ordered to return. The action of the British admiralty has caused a stir, but it may have no re lation to the war. BATTLE RAGIXG ON PLAIN Heavy Losses Reported in Saloniki Dispatch to Constantinople. CONSTANTINOPLE. Nov. 2. Dis patches from Saloniki, dated November 1, say heavy fighting continues on the Plain of Vardas, and that the Greeks are sustaining heavy losses. The Turk ish troops are said to have captured 25 Greek cavalrymen and two field guns. British and French cruisers have ar rived at Saloniki. The price of bread has risen here, but the supplies of wheat, flour and meat continue to come from Russia, Roumanla and the Anatolian Provinces. The German gunboat Loreley, bring ing ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid from Sa- lonil:!. arrived here today. Abdul Hamld and the women of the harem are to be placed for the present In Beyler Bay Palace, on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus. Red Cross to Appeal for Funds. WARHINQTON. Nov. 2. Appeal for funds for the sick and wounded of the Balkan war will be made by the Amerl- (Concludd on Page 8.)