THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 22, 191&.
WEALTH, CIVIC PRIDE AND ENTERPRISE SHOWN IN MEDFORD
Nearly $2,000,000 Spent by City in Four Years and Buildings Costing Almost $200,000 Rise in Five Months Surrounding Country Bids Fair Soon to Produce Millions.
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IMPROVE-
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M E.N'TS,
20 mites pavement $1,000,000
30 miles water mains...
27 miles sewers
2 miles storm sewers..
27 miles concrete walks
23-mile mountain water
gravity system .
250,000
204,000
25,000
100,000
275,000
Total city Improve
ments in last four
years $1,854,000
New rtuilrilnBs in 1913.
Page Theater 50,000
Bonded warehouse 50,000
Concrete brldgre 40,000
Haniey block, Mealey
block and others 35,000
New residences 22,000
Total building In five
months $197,000
I EDFORD, Or., June 21. (Special.)
Medford Is a boom town no
more. The boom has passed, and
the place now is a healthy, progressive
city of about 11,000 people, growing
consistently atid steadily, with civic
pride, enterprise and wealth of natural
resources, the quality of which cannot
be excelled In any part of the country.
City Improvements have continued.
real estate has been active, and new
residences have been and are being
built steadily.
In round numbers there are 4000
acres of bearing apple and pear or
chards contiguous to Medford, and 58,
000 acres of orchard coming Into bear
ing, making a total of 62,000 acres,
or approximately 4,000,000 fruit trees.
vhlch, if not another acre Is planted,
will mean that In seven or eight years
Medford will be shipping out at least
60.000 cars of fruit.
While the passing of the boom has
discouraged promoters and land sharks,
It has placed not only fruit raising, but
all lines of business upon a sound and
substantial basis and has put land
values where they belong at a figure
which will invite the man with money
to invest and who wants stability,
outdoor life, recreation and a substan
tial and steadily increasing income on
his investment.
And speaKing or recreation, a cursory
exposition or Medford s resources can
not be given without calling attention
to the wonderfully healthful and de
lightful life which Is open to the res
Idents in this district.
at generally is conceded among
sportsmen that the finest trout fishing
in tne state is to be had in the Rogue
Kiver, wnicn can Re reached by an
hour's drive from the Hotel Medford.
Not only can the river be reached, but
the best fishing holes. While cut
throat and rainbow trout can be caught
readily in Butte and Bear Creeks -and
adjoining lakes the steel head trout
fishing is the greatest snort and at
tracts fishermen from all parts of the
country during the Summer months.
In the Fall bear and deer hunting
.and quail and duck shooting, which
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But when the pleasures of day-to-day
life are considered, hunting and fish
ing do not exhaust the subject. Med
ford's climate is ideal. The average
rainfall is from 26 to 28 Inches a year,
the thermometer rarely reaches freez
ing from one year's end to the other,
the Summers are warm, but nights in
variably are cool, there are no mos
quitoes, thunder storms or cyclones,
and the deth rate is but nine in 1000.
This may have the familiar tingle
of "booster" talk. Nevertheless, these
are cold facts, which can be verified
by referring to the report of the Ore
gon State Board of Health.
Furthermore, with a splendid golf
and country club two miles from the
city, with a university club, gun club,
woman's club, horse club, auto club
and tennis club, the social side of life
In the valley offers opportunity to all
people, whatever their personal tastes
or inclinations.
This year Medford has completed Its
paving contract, which makes it the
best-paved city of its size in the coun
try. Within the city limits there are
20 miles of asphalt-macadem paving.
A new $40,000 concrete bridge has Just
been opened over Bear Creek, which
divides the city, and the $50,000 Page
Theater, accommodating 1200 people,
was opened May -19. The new $50,000
bonded warehouse, built by George M.
Anderson, the moving picture magnate,
is open for business, having been com
pleted last April to accommodate the
Increasing wholesale trade.
Last week ground was broken for
the new Bullls interurban electric line
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making Medford a commercial and in
dustrial center. Ground has also beep
broken for a half-mllllon-dollar cement
plant at Gold Hill, tributary to this
city, to 'be known as the Portland
Beaver Cement Company.
Negotiations have been started
through F. M. Fauvre and W. H. Eng
lish, prominent Indianapolis capitalists,
for a $5,000,000 'electric power plant on
the Rogue River to rival the California
Oresron Power Comnanv. and .the sur-
which Medford people believe will do vey for the Crescent Clty-Medford rail-
mucn towara aeveioping the valley and I road to the Coast has been - completed.
INDEPENDENT FORCES PLAN TO BOOM
GAYNOR IN ADVANCE OF TAMMANY
Business Men's Committee of 1000 Hard at Work to Thwart Hall's Action If Whitman Proves to Be Fusion
Choice for New York Mayor New Taxicab Law Thought to Have Broken Backbone of Exorbitant Bates.
BY LLOYD F. LONEROAN. I
NEW YORK, June 21. (Special.)
While it is generally thought
that Mayor Gaynor will be re
nominated by Tammany Hall this year,
the Mayor's many friends among the
independent voters are working hard to
secure Independent indorsement before
the machine places him at the head of
its ticket.
The Business Men's Committee of
One Thousand, located at B01 Fifth
avenue, has been hard at work obtain
ing signatures for the petition neces
sary to get Claynor's name on the bal
lot in the regular election this Fall,
and it Is said that they have consider
ably more than the 4000 names re
quired. The Committee will not enter
the lists as a political factor, but the
Municipal Democracy, which includes
many prominent Democrats among Its
members, will be the official sponsor
for Mayor Gaynor.
The Municipal Democracy Is the
same organization which launched the
Gaynor boom four years ago, and its
emblem on the ballot at that time was
a picture of the City Hall. It is un
derstood that this emblem will be used
again this year.
A number of independent bodies have
made overtures to the Committee of
One Thousand, for the purpose of start
ing a fusion movement to promote the
Mayor s renomlnation.
While Tammany will be very will
ing to nominate Gaynor if Whitman
proves to be the fusion choice, there
is a possibility that If the District At
torney is not chosen the Tammany
leaders will be tempted to select as
their nominee a man of less lndepend-1 demand will continually lower them,
ence of character than the present
Mayor. In that event there may be
thre tickets in the field, which would
make the result on election day very
hard to forecast.
On August 1 the new taxicab ordi
nance will go into effect, and in the
meantime the Mayor's Commission on
Public Conveyances is Dlannlnar an en
larged inspection bureau and discuss
ing the changing of taximeters for the
new rates.
The rules and regulations reauired
by the ordinance will be arranged by
tne Bureau of Licenses, but the Mavor's
Commission is helping the department
in its work. The regulations for the
most part will follow those in force in
London, which are considered the best
in the world.
William P. Eno, the traffic ex
pert, is assisting the Commission and
the Bureau of Licenses In the prepara
tory work. His system is now operated
in Paris and London, and he is at pres.
ent also engaged upon a traffic regu
lation plan in Washington.
"I believe that one of the best meas
ures of reform that has been passed in
this city is this cab ordinance." said
Mr. Eno. "I know of nothing that was
more needed, except the further regula
tion of congested traffic While it will
take some time for the public to realise
the benefit, it has certainly broken the
backbone of exorbitant rates and lax
laws. It Is bound to create a bigger
and more popular service. I am confi
dent that If the prospective regulations
are strictly adhered to from the outset,
the dishonest driver will be eliminated.
"As to rates, the law of supply and
and it is no idle prophecy that the
day is not distant when the low rates
enjoyed in cities of Europe will be in
vogue here."
Mr. Eno said that the two-tariff me
ter might make a little confusion at
first, but that if the public insisted on
Its rights when using the cabs and
caused offending drivers to be punished
tne problem would soon be solved. He
believes. that after the system has been
thoroughly tried out and Imperfections
corrected. New York should enjoy a
taxicab service equal to that of
the average European city, where a
high standard is accepted as a matter
of course. -
Mrs. George C. Heye - is suing her
husband, a prominent banker, for di
vorce, and asked for an annual alimony
of $78,000 to support herself and her
two little children. Justice Aspinall
could not see what Mrs. Hey wanted
with all that money and allowed her
temporarily a measly $15,000. together
with a lecture on New York society
women who work their husbands for
highballs, cigarettes and poodle dogs.
Mrs. Heye is trying to have her case
transferred to another court, as she
feels that Justice Aspinall does not ap
preciate the situation properly.
Fifteen thousand dollars looks like a
lot of money to most people, but Mrs.
Heye says that it is pitifully Inade
quate. She said that $200,000 a year
was the annual expenditure of the
Heye family for the last three years.
Mrs. Heye explains that her apart
ments at the Hotel Langdon cost her
$10,000 a year. She has her own wait
ing maid, chambermaid, personal maid.
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a nurse for her 4-year-old boy, and a
French governess for her 8-year-old
daughter Mildred. She also has to do
considerable entertaining, for if she
dropped out of society her daughter
wouldn't have any friends when she
grew up. Figuring all these expenses
and Including the $10,000 for rent, Mrs.
Heye estimates her living expenses at
about $30,000 a year. But this isn't
all.
The children's education will cost
about $5000 the coming year, for be
sides the regular private schools, the
children must have lessons in riding,
dancing, swimming and other extras,
as all the children they know take
them. Two cars are necessary to take
the youngsters to school, and a garage
and chauffeurs must be provided. The
cars last only about two years, so Mrs.
Heye figures cost of automobiles at
$10,000 a year.
Mrs. Heye takes pride in the fact
that she spends less than $25,000 a
year for the clothes for herself and
i two children, but says that it is be
cause she knows how to buy. Many
women extravagantly inclined will buy
a dress for $500, while Mrs. Heye waits
until there is a sale and. gets the same
dress or one as good for $375. Chari
ties, doctors, dentists and other bills
are quoted by Mrs. Heye to show that
her request for $78,000 is a perfectly
reasonable one, and. she Is so explicit in
all her statements that any family of
more than three which lives on an in
come of less than $78,000 can well
congratulate themselves upon being
economists of the highest legree.
Mrs. Blanche Gallinger, who is su
ing her husband Edward, for separa
tion, has not asked for $78,000 a year
alimony, and It is evident that the fam
ily lived in far different circumstances.
She claims that her husband refused to
buy clothes for her and gave her from
$1 to $2 a week, to purchase food for
the house.
The husband's mother, according to
the wife, caused considerable trouble,
and when Mrs. Gallinger spent 30
cents for sheet muslo the mother-in-
law told her that she should have
bought Edward's luncheon with the
money.
Mrs. Gallinger has asked for the cus
tody of her year-old son.
The husband has not filed his answer.
PRISONERS' FOOD IS PLAIN
Fare in Parisian Jails Far From
Being Luxurious.
PARIS. June 21. (Special.) It is a
popular fallacy that the model prison
at Fresnes, which Is certainly a com
fortable prison, provides its inmates
with a dally bill of fare which is far
too luxurious for men who are living
at the taxpayers' expense for crimes
which they have committed. The in
mates of Fresnes are sufficiently fed.
but by no means luxuriously. Each
prisoner, at 6 o'clock every morning,
gets a roll of brown bread, and at 9
o'clock a bowl of soup vegetable soup
for the most part. In addition to this,
each prisoner gets only one meal a day.
and the meals never vary. The meal is
served at 4 o'clock.
On Mondays he gets lentils, on Tues
day white beans, on Wednesday pa
porridge, on Thursdays Irish stew with
more potatoes than meat in it, on Fri days
boiled rice or macaroni with
gravy sauce, on Saturdays red beans,
and on Sundays thick soup with a
piece of meat and a few vegetables.
From this list, which is repeated from
one year's end to another. It will be
seen that the prisoners of Fresnes are
not better treated in retirement than
is the French soldier during his mili
tary service.
The criminal's bill of fare, though, Is
more varied than that of the soldier,
who gets beef or mutton every day
throughout the year, or rather a small
piece of beef or mutton in a bath of
soup, with some potatoes.