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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 18, 1914.
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MANY CASES OF CRUEL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS OCCUR HERE
Oregon Humane Society Finds Many Horses Mistreated, Prosecutes Large Numbers of Persons and Relieves Thousands of Suffering Dumb Brutes Each Year Instances Told in Story and Illustration.
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BY LOUISE BRYANT.
CONSIDERING that we must spend
the whole course of our lives In
constant contact with our fellow
'beings, our attitude towards them often
Is fundamentally wrong. Perhaps we
et weary of this put-yourself-in-hls-place
and this do-unto-others business.
We say to ourselves that we can man
age our own lives and if we conduct
ourselves in the proper way what oth
ers do is no concern of ours. But that
Is not so not even for an hour of any
day for our lives are so interwoven
with the lives of others that what we
do and what they do concerns us might
ily. If the man next door burns down
his house; if the woman across the
street, beats her child until our chil
dren cry for mercy; if the driver on
the highway cruelly tortures his weary
horse our attitude changes immedi
ately. We are up in arms. We forget
that we are not moralists, for, after
all, being moral is only another name
for considerate and reasonable conduct
and the secret of making a happy
World is In making a kind one.
Cie of Cruelty Told.
We all live rather busy lives and a
great many things go on all around us
about which we do not know. For In
stance, were you aware that In our
beautiful City of Roses, just a little
while ago. a man tied hay to his
horse's tall and then set fire to if in
order to make him pull a load beyond
his strength? Did you know that a
mother ordered her child to pour boil
ing water on a dog and laughed at Its
agony? Did you, perchance, hear that
another driver drove his knife Into hls
horee until Its moans could be heard
for blocks, and that many of these
poor beasts have to be killed by the
Oregon Humane Society to end their
tortures?
No, you haven't heard about all this
because it was not exactly your busi
ness. You were busy with many other
things ana it really may seem im
probable that they are going on at all.
But they do go on!
Every day calls for aid come in to
the Oregon Humane Society, whose of
tices are open day and night. Some
thing of the tremendous work done is
ehown by a recent report. During the
past is months the Society has an
swered 3576 calls, having traveled
15, 575 miles in the automobile, 4800 by
etreetcars, 2000 by motorcycle and made
many trips into the country by railroad.
It has inspected 16,314 animals. In an
swering these calls 5735 horses have
been inspected, 331 laid off for minor
causes and 66 destroj ed as unfit for
further use.
Thousands of Caars Examined.
The society has examined 1636 mules
and destroyed three as unfit for fur
ther services; examined 1089 cows, BJ
being in poor condition and three de
stroyed; examined 475 dogs, destroyed
175, found homes for and otherwise
relieved 300; examined 1651 cats, de
stroyed 1435, found homes for and oth
erwise relieved 216: examined 1602
hogs, 3001 sheep, several crates of
fowls and small animals; examined 80
barns, found 16 in bad condition.
Twenty-eight cases pertaining to
rhildren were taken care of by re
ferring them to the proper authorities
NEW CITY HALL FOR LOS ANGELES
DEPENDING ON CHOICE OF SITES
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Present Structure Is Entirely Inadequate Electric Light Company Reduces Bate to 7 Cents Per Kilowatt Hour
Voluntarily; Second Reduction in Year Citrus Crop Promises Golden Returns to California Growers.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17. (Special.)
That Los Angeles will have a
new City Hall within the next
year is now practically assured. The
present City Hall situated on Broad
way, between Second and Third streets.
Is entirely inadequate both In size and
In accommodation, with the result that
a. number of the departments have to
be located in other office buildings
throughout the city.
There are two plans before the Coun
cil and other city officials. One is to
move all the departments now located
In the City Hall and other municipal
offices outside the City Hall Into the
old Normal School building temporar
ily on July first. Then to vote $2,500,
000 worth of bonds for acquiring 175
feet of frontage on Spring street ad
joining the present Broadway City
Hall property and erect a new City
Hall on the entire property, 12 stories
high and with two main entrances, one
on Spring street and the other on
Broadway, with & room underneath the
building to keep the city automobiles.
The other plan la to acquire the
property on which is now situated the
Temple block and build a structure
there similar to the one described
above. While that is being erected
the departments would remain in the
came offices they now hold.
. , Muck Feeling Shown.
There is much feeling on both sides
In the selection of the new site. Mayor
Rose sides with those who wish-to
have the City Hall at the Temple
block, but the majority of the City
Council favors rebuilding on the pres
ent site.
One of the planks of Mayor Rose's
platform, when he was elected, was
that Los Angeles should have a new
City Hall to be built at the Temple
block, and to this many people con
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1. Two Old Mules, tn Pitiful Condition, Taken OS the Street and Owner fined.
On Right Is Captain Crate and on Left Robert Tucker, President of the
Humane Society 1, Wild Pony. Caught In Texas Two Years Ago, Show-Ins
What Has Been Accomplished by Kindness 3, Mule With Sore Nrckf Owner
of Animal Was Sentenced to Rockplle for 40 Days 4, Type of Old Horses
Taken Off Streets 5, Galvanized Drinking Palls Hung Out In Summer for
Animals Over City 6, "Hurry-up"' Agent for Humane Society 7, Auomo
bile Vsed In Answering; Calls, Traveling 15,5T Miles in Last IS Months In
Service of Humane Society S, Well -C'nred-Kor Horse, Aged 36, But Looks
Young as Colt) Owned by Ftsher-Thorsen Company u. Type of Old Worn.
Out Home Disposed Of by Society 10, Fountains Which Are Being li.
tabllshed Throughout City for- Horses.
or relieving them. The ambulance an
swered 88 calls to remove sick and
disabled animals (principally horses)
from the streets.
Among other work the Society has
placed 142 galvanized watering pails
throughout the city, which enables the
drivers, with the kind permission of
property owners, to water their horses.
This offers great relief during the
Summer months. Fountains are being
established "as fast as possible.
Streets Are Sanded.
Two hundred and fifty warning cards
have been posted on the grades
throughout the city concerning the
overloading and abusing of animals.
About 2500 streets have been sanded
and the city has taken over perma
nently the sanding of the streets. Sixty
thousand pieces of literature on hu
mane subjects have been distributed
throughout the state. Two successful
work horse parades have been conduct
ed by the Oregon Humane Society and
the Portland Horse Owners' Association
during the Rose Carnivals In June,
1912 and 1913.
Great efforts have been made to es
tributed. For this reason the Mayor I
is uuiuing out ior tn iempifl diock i
site.
Regardless, however, where the new
City Hall will be built, the fact that
the citizens are demanding that Los
Angeles shall have a new municipal
building, and the City Council and
other officers are in favor of the ac
quisition. Is half the battle for it is
the city's most needed improvement.
With a blaze of glory the Hotel
Huntington was opened formally at
Pasadena. The hotel is appointed luxu-riously.-
An ornate garage is at the entrance
to the grounds which has everything
necessary almost to make an automo
bile, and is large enough to shelter
many hundreds of cars.
There is not a speck of gold or gilt
to be seen; all is soft dull ivory, con
trasting with velvet Persian rugs, and
facing the valley are Immense plate
glass windows looking out over wide
piazzas. .
At the north end is a large ballroom,
and it was here and in the dining-room
at the south end where all the gaiety
took place. Nine hundred people sat
down at one time in the dining-room
and by the time the ball started the
guests numbered many thousands. It
was a scene unique in the annals of
Southern California society.
An output of 43,000 cars or more
3000 to 6000 cars greater than had been
predicted earlier in the season and the
second largest shipment in the history
of the citrus Industry in the state.
This is the revised approximation of
the 1913-14 citrus crop of California
conservatively estimated from careful
reports submitted by the various pack
ing associations compiled and an
nounced by G. Harold Powell, general
manager of the California Fruit Grow
ers' Exchange.
Citrus Crop Heavy,
Based on the average price, the gold
en harvest will return to the growers
of this section upward of S30.000.000.
Jjn color, size, texture and eating qual-
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tablish Humane Societies in the towns
over the entire state, but so far only
five have been organized, as it is a
long an8 tedious task.
An important feature of the work
this year has been the posting of cards
throughout the city, directing the driv
ers to better streets and grades, as it
Is found that in many cases drivers go
up steep grades when by going round
one block the grade would be reduced
one-half. The grade measures which
have been taken will be posted on all
the hills, with the grade percentage In
plain letters, enabling the drivers to
pick out easier grades. This is an orig
inal idea of J. E. Rudersdorf, the So
ciety's kindly and efficient manager.
Vicious Persons Arrested.
During the past year and a half 43
arrests have been made for cruelty to
animals. Some of these were for the
most vicious acts. The Humane Society
feels that such conduct affects the
whole community like a malignant dis
ease. We are apt to pause in our hurry
and scurry for the necessities and the
luxuries -of life and speak a pleasant
word to the beggar on the corner. We
lty, this season's output is equal to any
oeiore tne irost.
In detail, the figures of the estimate
are as follows:
Total output north of Tehachapi, 4500
to 5000 cars.
Total output of Southern California,
38,000 to 40,000 cars.
Total California crop of lemons, 4000
cars; navels, 25,000 to 27,000; Valencias,
9000 cars; miscellaneous, 3000 cars.
George B. Farrand, of Ventura, who
has represented the citrus Industry in
the lemon rate hearing and other im
portant legal matters, has been select
ed as general counsel for the California
Fruit Growers' Exchange at the board
of directors' meeting.
Mr. Farrand was formerly associated.
witn tne late A. t: call In a number of
rate hearings before the Interstate
Commerce Commission. He was largely
instrumental in securing the low blan
ket rate on oranges and lemons from
California to Eastern points.
He is alsfe general counsel for the
California Walnut Growers' Association
and the California Lima Bean Growers'
Association.
Electric Rates Reduced.
A reduction in electric rates from 8
to 7 cents a kilowatt hour for Los An
geles, Riverside, ' San Bernardino.
Orange and Kern Counties, but not in
cluding the city of Los Angeles, effect
ing a saving to electric consumers of
approximately S250.000 a year, was de
clared last week by the Southern Call
fornia Edison Company.
The reduction Is the second made by
the company, the first being declared
about a- year ago, when a maximum
rate of 8 cents was declared, reducing
the rate from 9 to 10 cents per kilowatt
hour and effecting a saving at that
time to consumers of about $240,000 a
year.
The Southern California Company has
ruea a schedule of the reduced rates
with the State Railroad Commission in
San Francisco to become effective
March 1.
In Los Angeles city the rates are
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are apt to stop and pat the grocery
man's overworked horse or call In the
pitiful, wistful cats from our back yard
fence and give them a saucer of varm
milk. But are we not a trifle incon
sistent to forget them again?
Our brains never prompt us to give
pennies to beggars on tne streets. It
is only our unreasonable old hearts that
tell us to do these facile, sh
for we all know there is so much ore
good to be done in societies that arc
striving to ease the sorrows of the
poor and needy by doing the systematic,
difficult, unselfish tiling all the yeai
around. So try and remember the Ore
gon Humane Society and its earnest
wish to help those who cannot help
fixed by the Board of Public- Utilities.
These rates, according to General Man
ager Russel Ballard, of the Southern
ianiornia bdison Company, are at
present lower than those specified in
the revised schedule filed with the
Railroad Commission.
"he first reduction was made as a re
sult of Informal negotiations between
the electric company and the Railroad
Commission. The second one declared
last week was entirely voluntary.
LODGE INSTALLS OFFICERS
Ancient Order of -JTnited Workmen
Asks Concession on Dances.
Industry Lodge, No. 8. Ancient Order
of United Workmen, installed officers
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PORTLAND YOUNG FOLK
GUESTS IN NEW YORK
Misses Veda and Margaret Marshall, Formerly of This City, Hold Recep
tion Oregon Furnishes Share of Gifted Musicians."
6T ARTHUR M. GEART.
EW YORK. Jan. 17 (Special.)
The Misses Veda and Margaret
Marshall, formerly of Portland,
gave a reception at their home on
Thirty-seventh street during the holi
days, at which a number of the sub
debutantes and their mothers and a
few college lads, all from Portland,
were tpresent. Among these were Miss
Helen Honeyman, from Miss Spence's
school, and her mother, Mrs. J. IX
Honeyman; Miss Helen Wortman, from
Miss Baldwin's school, near Phila
delphia, and her mother, Mrs. H. C
Wortman; Mrs. (Helen Good) Marescl,
Mrs. Marquam, Miss Emelie Francis
Bauer, - Miss Margaret Mears, from
Dana Hall, at Wellesley Colege; Miss
Louise Caswell, from Mrs. Wheeler's
school at Providence, R. L; Miss Helen
Ladd, from Westover, Middleburg,
Conn.; Miss Elizabeth Jones and her
mother. Mts. William Jones; Miss Sarah
McCully and Mary Stuart Smith, from
Oaksmere; Miss Ruth Teal, from Miss
Spence's school, and her mother. Mrs.
J. N. Teal; Miss Catharine Russell,
from ' Miss Finche's school, and her
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themselves. It is a common-sense work
they are doing, for surely a little more
justice to those "poor relations" In the
animal world will help us a long way
toward a happier life and an under
standing heart.
Tuesday evening, as follows: Leon
Hurlaux, master workman; E. A. Free,
born, past master workman; H. E.
Stoughton, foreman; J. C. Sauvain.
overseer; F. A. Brown, recorder; H.
Claussenius, financier; J. E. Werlein.
receiver; Wolf Haufman, guide; J.
Libak. Inner warden; J. Kiernan, outer
warden. The retiring master, E. A.
Freeborn, was presented with a hand
some gold scaYf pin.
A committee was appointed to wait
on the City Commissioners with regard
to a modification of the dance ordi
nance as far as fraternal organizations
are concerned. The lodge adopted
resolution requesting the Grand Lodge
to appropriate sufficient funds to ad
vertise the benefits of the order In the
dally press. Arrangements are being
made for a visit from Grand Master
P. H. D'Arcy, of Salem, early next
montn.
mother. Mrs. Lewis Russell; Miss Vir
glnia Burns, Jack Burns. Wallace and
Roscoe Ashley and Herbert Hill, all of
whom are attending Yale; Fred Fail
ing, who Is at Kingsley, N. J., and
Henry Good.
Mrs. H. C. Wortman sailed for Eu
rope on January 8, to return next May.
Victor Salvatore is making a marble
bust of Miss Helen Wortman.
Three Portland girls, Misses Mary
Stuart S nith, Sarah McCully and Lean-
nette Ferguson, are attending Oak
mere School, New Rochelle.
Oregon Musicians Busy.
Oregon is furnishing her share of
gifted musicians who now are study
ing under directors and teachers in
New York City.
Miss Constance Piper, of Portland,
for the second Winter, is studying pi
ano under Eugene Heffley. and har
mony under Marion Bauer. Tom Dob
son, of Portland, who passed the Sum
mer studying in Paris, Is now at work
under Byford Ryan in voice, and How
ard Brockway in piano and composi
tion. His mother, Mrs. Amy Dobson,
is with him. Miss Lila Prosser, grad
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uate of the University of Oregon in
1911, is studying voice under Cam-
panari. who was the chief baritone at
the Metropolitan Opera Company for
20 ve.irs.
William Ladd. Jr.. of Portland, is a
sophomore at Physicians' and Sur
geons College of Columbia University
snd. Judging -from the reports of fel
low students in the medical depart
ment, is maklncr an enviable record
in his courses.
James Alger Fee, son of Judge J- A.
Fee, of Pendleton, Or., who trailed the
winners over the high sticks as a mem
ber of the Whitman College track
team a few years back, is a senior in
the law department of Columbia Uni
versity and a member of the Board of
the Law Review, which is chosen on
a scholarship basis each year. Mr. Fee,
as inspector for the Honest Ballot As
sociation at the Fall election, insisted
so vigorously that no man should cast
more than- three or four votes In the
same precinct, tnat tne Tammany cap
tains had him arrested in order to get
him out of the way. He is a brothef
of Chester Fee, the high-point winner
on the University of Oregon track team
last season, who Is also one of these
scholar athletes. As member of the
Board of the Law Review, Mr. Fee has
been offered a good opening with one
or the large New lork law firms and
may not return to the West to prac
tice. Dr. Xoyes Makes Reputation.
Dr. Allen Noyes, a graduate of the
Cnlversity Of Oregon Medical College,
in the class of 1912, has just completed
o. four months' service In the Lying-in
Hospital of New York. He has had ac
tive charge of the patients on one of
lhe floors of this hospital. Under his
supervision from 175 to 200 lives were
ushered Into the world each month. An
Inspection of 50 or 60 of the babies un
der his care as they lay In their bas
kets, each marked with a number on
a band around the wrist, found them
all contented and happy and evidently
enjoying the holidays, all of which
speaks well for Doctor Noyes. For the
next few months he will engage in the
outdoor service in the Lower East Side.
He plans to return to practice In Port
land.
George Otten, of Portland, member of
the 1911 class at the University of Ore
gon. is studying landscape architec
ture at Columbia University. Through
recognition for good work. Mr. Otten
has become associated with Ferruclo
Vitale, of 527 Fifth avenue. New York.
Mr. Otten recently has accompanied
Mr. Vitale on a careful inspection of
the garden of Mr. Hall, part owner of
the Eastman Kodak Company, at Great
Barrington, Mass., which is' one of the
wonders of New England, and which
Mr. Vitale considers to have been his
greatest achievement. During last
Summer Mr. Otten worked a while on
the estate of Miss R. S. Hoyt and Hen
ry K. Hoyt, the sister and father of
Mrs. Harry Ladd Corbett, of Portland.
Under the supervision of Vitale, they
are creating a large shooting: preserve
and Summer home at New Marlbor
ough, Mass. Mr. Otten will take up his
profession in Portland after another
year of study and experience in New
York. He is now attending the annual
convention of the Phi Gamma Delta
fraternity at Atlantic City.
George Merrit, formerly a student at
the University of Oregon, from Jack
sonville, Or., is the National literary
secretary of tho Boy Scouts' of America.
He also is lecturing on vocational sub
jects before high school boys, with a
view to aiding them in choosing their
life work. In addition, Mr. Merrit is
continuing the study of law. which he
partly completed at Columbia Univer
sity. Miss I. McCully. of Jacksonville,
Or.. Mr. Merrlt's aunt, is visiting him
in New York.
Ferdinand Struck, University of Ore
gon, 1911, of Hood stiver. Is taking
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graduate work In Teachers' College at
Columbia University.
H. P. Bersman, a Portland boy. Is
studying architecture at Columbia Uni
versity. He will return, to Portland to
practice his profession this Spring.
Whittlesey "Making Good."
Walter Whittlesey Is one of a num
ber of Oregon men who are making
pood in th active life of New York
City. Mr. Whittlesey Is the manager
of the department of economics of the
American Telephone Company. He
graduated tj-om the University of Ore
gon in 1901 and formerly was a resi
dent uf Portland.
"The Madcap Princess," a creation
of Victor Herbert, is the best musical
comedy on the billboards in New York
this Winter. If you do not believe it,
ask any of the Portland, Or., colony.
All ?.i-9 proud that Anne Swinburne,
"the Madcap Princess." for whom the
play was written, hails from Portland.
Cecil Lyons, a gr&.duate of the Uni
versity of Oregon, una a Rhodes schol
ar from Oregon at Oxford, was a visitor
in New York from Clark University.
where he now holds a fellowship.
Miss Mabel Cooper. University of
Oroon "08. of Portland, is at the Co
lumbia Library School.
Miss Lucile Abrams, of Eugene, who
was graduated last June from the
University of Oregon, is studying draw
ing and painting at the Art Leage and
alo is continuing her study of the
violin In New York,
Neal Malarkey, son of Dan J. Ma
larkey, of Portland, is at Newman's
school at HackentiacTc. N. J.
SKELETON MAY EE SHOWN
Move on to Exhibit Remains of Co
lumbus at San Francisco.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 12. A plan to
remove the bones of Christopher Co
lumbus from San Domingo through the
Panama Canal for the Panama-Pacific
Exposition has received Senatorial
backing. The idea is to place the re
mains on the battleship leading the
pageant at the opening of the canal.
Senator Ashurst said: "I believe a
Senate resolution should Invite San Do
mingo to take part In the naval pa
rade." ALMOST CRAZY WITH
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Began On Wrist. Kept Going Up
Arm Till Near Elbow. Came as
Rash. Itched So Almost Wild. Cu
ticura Soap and Ointment Cured.
Estabrook. Colo. "My father's trouble
began on his wrist and kept on going up his
arm until near his elbow. It nrstcaine as a
rash and itched so he was almost wild with.
It. Then I thought I would try Cuticura
Soap and Ointment and it seemed like the
f.rst application relieved him so much. Be
jre that he was almost crazy with the burn
'ns but when I used the Cuticura Soap and
inttnent it stopped lt. I had to keep his
rm done up in soft cloths so as not to rub
and make it itch more. I got two cakes
r Cuticura Soap and two boxes of Cuticura
i:itment and they cured him." (Signed)
.Irs. Cora Boegel, July 4, 1913.
ECZEMA ON FACE BURNED
1035 7th St., Denver, Colo. "My son's
face broke out two years ago with eczema,
out we did not pay much attention to it.
it gradually got worse. It was in red spots
something like rash and it burned and hurt
him and felt as if 'the skin was all drawn to
gether. I sent for a sample of but lt
broke out more and burned so bad j- he would
not use it. I read of Cuticura Soap and Oint
ment and sent for a sample which gave relief.
He used the Cuticura Soap and two boxes of
Cuticura Ointment and after using the first
box his face was clear; the eczema is cured."
(Signed) Mrs. L. Zesch, July 5, 1913.
Cuticura Soap 25c. and Cuticura Ointment
50c. are sold everywhere. Liberal sample of
each mailed free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Ad
dress post-card "Cuticura. Dept. T. Boston."
E?"Men who shave and shampoo with Cu
ticura Soap will find lt best for skin and scalp.
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