The Sunday Oregonian., January 19, 1913, SECTION FIVE, Page 4, Image 58

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4 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND. JANUARY 19, 1913. j
OREGON CITY FINALLY TO BE CENTER OF THE BIG SYSTEM
Portland, Eugene & Eastern Promises to Develop Long-Expectant Section West of Flourishing Willamette Valley Town.
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BY MARK WOODRUFF.
JCST a few minutes' conversation
with any ol.ltlmer around Oregon
City will adduce the information
that It was the panic of 189J that de
layed the electrification of the trans
portation lines of the Willamette Val
ley for. 15 years, giving Los Angreles
and Southern California seven years'
start of Western Oregon In turning im
migration to the land of irrigation
rather than to that where moisture
reaches the soli in the good old-fashioned
way. Ukewise there will be a
few opinions of the cause of that finan
cial disturbance that do not in any
manner concur with statements from
Wall street and the White House con
cerning an act of Providence.
And the same oracles who are cred
ited with knowing the unwritten his
tory of Oreson declare that it was the
scare among financial men of that year
which cheated Oregon City of its op
portunity of becoming the headquarters
of a power system that was to furnish
Juice" for the Oregon Coast, as well
as the city where would center a tre
mendous tntcrurban electric system.
Strakorn's I'laa Anticipated.
It Wis in 1892 that the Portland Gen
eral Electric Company and H. W.J
uoode, its president, orougni out a.
Miller, an engineer, from Iowa and in
structed him to get busy on the loca
tion of an electrical railroad to operate
between Oregon City and Portland. As
soon as the engineer had built that
line he was to carry an extension to
the South, and after entering the Wil
lamette Valley agricultural district
Miller was to survey branch lines to
ery section of the great garden spot.
In fact, it was practically the same
scheme that Robert E. Strahorn. presi
dent of the Portland, Eugene & East
ern Railway Company, is materializing
today. The only difference is that Port
land Is the chief Northern terminal,
with Oregon City one of the most im
portant cities along Its lines.
Some track was built in 1892, a large
general office and headquarters build
ing, with depot facilities on the ground
floor, constructed on the west bank of
the Willamette River (opposite Oregon
City) and 2000 acres of land were pur
chased by the company, all held under
the general title of the Willamette
Falls Railway Company. The big de
pot and headquarters building is stand
ing there today, and of recent years
has been utilized for the entire railway
force of four persons. The land where
a town was tov have been laid out as
West Oregon City has never been im-
proved and has passed to other hands.
All on account of the panic of 1893.
according to the old residenters.
Hlgh-Clau Use Plaaaed. '
Things were moving along swim
mingly with the Willamette Falls Rail
way when financial Hades broke loose
In 1893. The electrical railroad con
struction was attracting attention from
transportation men and Coast visitors
from all over the country. Two splen
did passenger cars had been built
at Philadelphia from special plans fur
nished by Chief Engineer Miller, and
their progress across the country for
delivery at Oregon City was traced by
press dispatches to all the newspa
pers. They were declared by rail
road men to be 20 years ahead of their
time in comfort and conveniences, and
no big official ever came to Portland
without making a special visit to Ore
gon City to look over those cars. They
are there today, have traveled 876.000
miles between Willamette Falls and
Oregon City, and are better than any
reconstructed horse car In operation on
any city line.
Then came the panic Money stopped
coming West for bolstering this enter
prise, and it began to look as if the en
tire investment would be & loss and
that all plans for the future must be
abandoned.
But right there the qualities which
enabled Engineer Miller to find the
first coal measure at Centervllle, Iowa,
and open It up so that farmers of the
neighborhood could purchase their
Winter fuel from himself and brother
caused him to begin figuring on haul
ing wood over his few miles or rail
road to supply the mills at Oregon
City.
Wood Hanled to nun.
The Portland General Electric Com
pany owned a fine body of timber at
Willamette Falls, and in some way
Wizard Miller and President Goode
managed to get a line of railroad to it
Flat cars were built at Miller's tiny
little shop, and those fine motor cars
were put ahead of strings of cars load
ed with wood. In ten years he deliv
ered 300,000 cars of wood to the elec-
tric genlrating plant under the fam
ous falls at Oregon City, and the bills
of the company were not only paid,
but some dividends declared.
By 1898 the woodpile was exhausted,
and the two geniuses who could find
nothing else to haul over their elec
tric railroad began to figure on the
scrap heap for their line and equip
ment. Then President Goode thought
of building a town on the land from
which their cordwood had been taken.
Engineer Miller had discovered a great
spring on the tract. It flowed 20,000
gallons of pure, cold liquid every
hour. The spring was equipped with
a pump and a town was surveyed. It
Is now Willamette Falls. Many of the
employes of the mills opposite Oregon
City purchased tracts of land on in
stallments and settled down for life.
Passenger Service Begins.
The company established passenger
train service over its line, and then,
when Its old president brought about
the merger of electrical interests of
this part of the state the Willamette
Falls Company passed to the control
of . the Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company. It was of no bene
fit to the latter concern, all of their
interests being on the east side of the
river.
In November, 1912, the Willamette
Falls Railway Company and its nine
miles of track, including the engineer
who has handled the ."standard rail
road Joke of Oregon City" for 20 years,
passed to the control of the Portland,
Eugene & Eastern Railway Company,
and after reconstruction the- track will
become a portion of the main line,
which will reach from Portland to Eu
gene, -with feeding and connecting lines
reaching Into every nook and corner
of the big valley;
That this change of ownership,? will
cforTtCtS
mean much to Oregon City Is assured.
Its first material benefit will be seen
in a revival of river transportation to
a considerable extent The paper and
pulp mills at Oregon City use 60.000,000
feet of logs annually. Heretofore these
have been carried to St Johns, below
Portland, by water. There they were
loaded on the cars of the Southern Pa
cific Company and hauled to a point a
few miles south of Oregon City, re
consisned to the water and then floated
down to the mills.
Under an arrangement now agreed
upon, the logs will be towed up the
Willamette River to a point below the
Oregon City rapids, where they will be
hauled from the water and delivered
to the mills by the Portland, Eugene
& Eastern.
Dream May Come True.
And it would not be Improbable that
the dream of a large city on the west
bank of the Willamette will come true,
that great steel bridges will span the
Willamette within the coming five
voars and that streetcar connections
will serve the interests of the two
halves of Oregon City. It is certain
that 100 passenger trains will pass
through or - find a terminal at West
Oregon City every day after the Port
land, Eugene K: Eastern shall be In
operation by January 1, 1914. Many of
these will carry the people and prod
ucts from the Molalla Valley, that
splendidly rich portion of the Willam
ette which breaks away to the east
Just nine miles south of Oregon City.
The Molalla country has been treated
well by nature and poorly by capital
and Industrial captains. No section of
the Willamette Valley harbors- better
lands or acreages more suited to diver
sified agriculture. In the nature of
things thousands of farmers will find
locations In there, towns will come as
needed, but Oregon City occupies a
commanding position for sweeping the
entire district with her mercantile
guns. The same might be said of the
Tualatin Valley. A portion of the old
Willamette Falls railway tracks al
ready extend up that valley. It is
probable that they will be extended to
accommodate other farming communi
ties than it is that they will be aban
doned. Then directly west of the big
bridge at Oregon City lies one of the
finest fruit and garden districts in the
state. It has ideal drainage, the best
of soils and Its farmers will be only
"30 minutes from the markets" in 1914.
And there is not much danger of a
panic In 1913
OWNERS OF NEW YORK REALTY FIND
TAX INCREASE OUT OF PROPORTION
Julias Harburger Is Active Champion of Tammany Leader Wlom He Acclaims as Great Philanthropist High
School Fraternities Knocked Again Penal Institution Liberal Bar Association Puts Check on Judges.
BT LLOYD F. LOXERGAJf.'
NEW YORK, Jan. 18. (Special.)
The year 1912 has been a poor
one for Xew York City real es
tate. The number ' of transactions
throughout the city, the number and
cost- of new buildings, the number and
amount of mortgage loans, all forming
the real pulse of the real estate situa
. i - v. t -nn,A in,, frnm 1911. a vear
of no especial note, especially in those
parts of thecity wnere me oik umiu
is usually done.
ThA avartta-o tCLTnflVPr in this City
feels that he is subjected to too much
unnecessary expense, trouoie ana
Ha fiivri that instead of taking
only measures to promote the welfare
of him who pays the city's bills, his
Interests are being jeoparaizca uy m
establishment of bureaus and commls
... n,t,iK -tlv increase the tax
rate, and their powers being uncertain
all property is legitimate prey.
The increase in salaries of city em
ployes has brought the total yearly
salaries up to $93,000,000, an increase
over last year, and that at a time
when the tax rate Is increased by 11
nnfnfa o rA tasI atJ!ta assessments
show no increase aside from the actual
cost of building operations, txtrava
gance in the conduct of the city gov
ernment does not end, however, with
the salary list Based on an estimate
of the borrowing capacity made three
years ago, the Board of Estimate has
gone merrily on its way, pledging 31.-
000,000 here and $2,000,000 or more
there for improvements, which easily
could be deferred, all of which means
a larger amount of interest on bonds
In every' forthcoming budget, and a
larger amount for the redemption of
bonds. Finally, the matter resolves it
se" into an ever-increasing tax rate.
It Is not necessary to be a Teal es
tate expert to realise that the greatest
malady from which business la suffer
ing right now is Internal. Perhaps it
is only a slight Indisposition after too
hearty a meaL which soon will pass
away. The one redeeming feature of
the relation of the city authorities to
real property interests is the improve
ment of the rapid transit situation dur
ing the. past year, but even yet al
though routes affecting all five bor
oughs were approved nearly six months
ago, almost nothing has actually been
accomplished toward construction, and
the real estate revival that was to have
followed the affirming of these routes
has not resulted, because builders and
Investors are still lacking in confidence
In the city'a integrity.
Julius Harburger, New York's Sher
iff, is a busy little speaker, and a
loyal adherent of Charles F. Murphy
as well as an ardent Tammanyite. It
seemed to Mr. Harburger that at the
recent Sulzer dinner at the Waldorf the
speakers did not make sufficient men
tion of Mr. Murphy and his organiza
tion, so at a meeting of the Albemarle
Association, an organisation fathered
by Mr. Harburger, the Sheriff told the
members Just what he thought of Mr.
Murphy.
After the usual cheers, the Sheriff
told his audience that Tammany was
like a big army and that Mr. Murphy
resembled a great general.
"I have known him personally and
intimately for 20 years," said the Sher
iff, "and his leadership has so far
progressed that he is today the Demo
cratic leader of the state. He is a man
of remarkable grit wisdom and po
litical sagacity. He Is honest He is
determined. He is the greatest lis
tener in the world. When his word is
once given he fulfills It to the limit
"Besides this Mr. Murphy is a phil
anthropist. But he does good secretly.
The good deeds that he has done, fi
nancially and otherwise, will perhaps
never be generally known. It was
only through chance that I have found
out how his hand is always in his
pocket and that he is constantly help
ing those who are deserving and
worthy. No representative of any creed
or demonination has ever appealed In
vain to him."
. The Sheriff said after the meeting
that nobody has asked him to praise
Mr. Murphy, but that like a great
many other New York Democrats who
went to the Sulzer dinner, he felt It
was time Tor some one to speak right
out on the facts concerning Mr. Murphy
and Tammany.
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The much discussed high school fra
ternities have been abolished, the Board
of Education passing a resolution to
that effect
The resolution forbids the formation
or continuance of any secret society,
club or organization - in any high
school, and explicitly provides that all
meetings of any school organization
must be open to the principal or some
one else In authority.
It also provides that the proceedings
of any such organization be subjected
to the inspection of the principal of
the school, and that no pupil shall join
any such organization making use of
the school unless such organization is
conducted In accordance wjth the
resolution.
There was ho opposition - to the
resolution.
Judging from stories told by persons
who declare they know whereof they
speak, the inmates of the county jail
at Rlverhead, L. I., must have had far
from a Joyless time during their in
carceration. It Is said that the prison
ers left the Jail, in small batches to go
to the ball grounds, a half mile away,
and, after enjoying the games, returned
to the Jail, and readmitting themselves.
No objection apparently was raised to
these excursions until Esther Harris
calmly walked out of the jail last De
cember and did not return.
The grand Jury Is Investigating the
conditions at the Jail, and It is rumored
that the Sheriff will be absolved, but
that the grand Jury will recommend
that every one connected with the jail
in an official capacity under hlra be
forthwith dismissed.
The nearest thing to a time clock
for the various Judges of the Supreme
Court In this city is now in effect, as
the clerks in the trial parts of the Su
preme Court are keeping a record of
the work done by the judges. The
record is a printed form about two
and a half feet square. It contains a
line for every case heard by the Judge
In each trial term of the Supreme Court.
' Among other things, the record will
show the number "f cases heard by
each judge, the successful litigant, the
number of disagreements, defaults, dis
missals and discontinuances, amount of
the verdict and the number of opinions
written by the judge.
While the keeping of these records is
done through an order made by the
Supreme Court Judges themselves, it is
done at the suggestion of the State Bar
Association, which passed a resolution
to that effect at its last session.
It has been openly charged by
lawyers that certain judges loafed"
and that they could hear many more
cases If they worked as much as the
judges in other counties.
A compilation from these records will
be submitted at the next' meeting of
the State Bar Association.
the
The Modern Idea.
Judge.
"Jones went to church yesterday,
first time In twenty years.
"Yes?"
"And they sang, 'Is My Name
ten ThereT "
"I see."
"And after the service was
Jones went home and looked
book to see if his name was written
there."
"You don't say! What book, did he
look in?"
"Bradstreet's."
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