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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 25, 1914. 13
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YOUNG IRISH TENOR TO
SING IN PORTLAND SOON
John McCormack, Styled Greatest Lyric of the Age, Is Booked to Give.
Popidar Concert at the Armory Tehrnary 8.'
TO FIX GAR FARE
Members of Association Will
Proposal Is Up for City to
Duplicate Part of Work
of State Body.
Start Campaign Through
Columbia County.
PEOPLE WILL BE EDUCATED
MR. DALY ADVOCATES IT
VALUATO
SOUGHT
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URGE BOND ISSUE
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Many Speakers to Start Out This
Week and Will Visit in Small
Towns to Explain Benefits
of New Highways.
FACTS ABOUT COLUMBIA COUNTY
BOND ISSUE.
Total issue of IS60,O0 In 20-year
serial 5 per cent bonds.
160,000 to run five years.
100,000 to run 10 years.
9100,000 to run 15 years.
$100,000 to run 20 years.
Annual cost per $10OO of assessed
valuation J1.C8 to retire bonds and
pay the interest.
Plans for a vigorous campaign
through Columbia County in behalf of
the proposed $360,000 bond issue for
good roads have been about completed
by the Columbia County Good Roads
Association, of which Robert Yount, of
Rainier, is president and C A. Nutt
secretary.
The purpose of the campaign, which
Is to begin on January 27, is to educate
the people of the county to the bene
fits to be derived from permanently
built good roads. Meetings will be held
in all parts of the county, at which
some of the best-known good roads
workers of the Northwest will speak.
The plan is for these men to go out
in separate parties in the daytime, each
speaker being taken through a differ
ent territory, speaking at all the towns
through which he passes. All the
speakers and members of their parties
are to unite in the evening in one of
the larger towns for a bi good roads
rally.
In addition to Samuel Hill, other
speakers will include Frank Terrace,
"V. P. Perrigo and Henry M. Parry,
members of the White River Grange,
of King County, Washington. All three
are farmers who have become en
thusiastic advocates of good roads
through actual experience with bad
roads and good roads in their own
communities. Terrace is well known
in many Oregon communities where he
has tpoken on the subject.
Programmes Mapped Out.
Tentative programmes for these
speakers have already been mapped out
for January 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31. On
January 27 Professor Collins and one
man will conduct a meeting at the
town of Qulncy at 11 A. M., while two
other speakers are at Mayger. All four
will hold a meeting at Clatskanie in
the evening.
On January 28 two speakers will
leave Clatskanie for a meeting at Mist
at 1 P. id. Professor Collins, Mr. Hill
and one other will hold a meeting at
Rainier at the same hour. The Mist
party will meet Mr. Hill and party at
Rainier in the evening for an old-time
rally in behalf of good roads.
With two speakers at each place
meetings will be held at Goble and at
Deer Island at 1 o'clock on January
29. All speakers are to meet at Houl
ton in the evening for a joint rally.
Leaving that town at 11 o'clock the
morning of January 80, two men will
go to Tankton for a meeting at 1 P. M.,
while two others will conduct a meet
ing at Warren. At St. Helens in the
evening all speakers will attend what
will probably be the largest meeting
of the campaign.
H. M. Parry Will Be Speaker.
A meeting at Scappoose at 1 P. M.
on January 81 will probably wind up
the campaign. Henry M. Parry, one
of .those who will speak at this meet
ing, is a brother-in-law of the late
Henry M. Stanley, the noted African
explorer and author of "Darkest
Africa" and other books.
- As shown by the official records,
there are 423,680 acres in Columbia
County.
As 220.000 acres in the county are
classed in the records as timbered, it
is apparent that by far the greater
proportion of r the tax will fall on the
large timber owners. The anual cost
per $1000 assessed valuation to retire
the bonds and interest is $1.58. A farm
assessed at $3000 would pay $4.74.
An Increase in valuation of only $1
a year an acre, resulting from the
building of permanent good roads
under the bond issue, would pay this
many times over.
Major Henry I Bowlby, state high
way engineer, discussing the benefits
that would result from building of
such roads, said yesterday:
"There is every reason why the peo
ple of Columbia County should ap
prove the proposed $360,000 bond issue,
and not one against it. Perhaps the
most important reason is that the
thoroughfare would make possible the
farming of more than 100.000 acres of
logged-off land. More than 30.000 acres
of this land is within one mile of the
route of the thoroughfare. '
"This land would be fine for dairy
ing and all kinds of farm produce. The
direct and indirect benefit to the county
from this source alone soon would
more than pay for the thoroughfare.
Route of Road Explained.
"I cannot understand why certain
residents of the county are skeptical
as to the route of the road. It has
been said repeatedly that it would con
nect Rainier, through the Beaver Val
ley, and Quincy. and so it will. It will
pass through the most populous cen
ters of the county and will be pri
marily a market road. 'Beine a link
of the thoroughfare between Portland
and Astoria makes it of the greatest
Importance that it be opened as soon
as possible. The work will be done in
large contracts and most economically.
"All surveying expenses have been
, Borne by the state, and the money de
rived from the bond issu will be used
on construction. There will be easy
grades to the west and south of the
proposed highway which will make it
possible to farm land one mile or more
away almost immediately. The people
of the county by all means should vote
too bond issue.
Lebanon Bank Officers.
LEBANON. Or.. .Tan 9.1 i
At the annual meeting of the Leba-
"wi can, e. j. Stewart was
elected president, A. M. Reeves vice
president, W. M. Brown cashier, and T.
r. O'Brien assistant cashier. The di.
rectors are A. M. Reeves, a C- Stewart,
A. I. Crandall. W. M. Brown, N. M.
Newport. V. W. Leeck and W. L.
Marks. The bank has made applica
tion to subscribe to the Federal Re
serve Bank under the new. currency
law.
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JOHN M'CORMACK.
JOHN McCORMACK. the young Irish
tenor with the buoyant personality
and the enchanting voice, who has
carried the world by storm, has been
booked for one concert in Portland this
season by Lois Steers-Wynn Coman.
This will take place at the Armory on
Sunday afternoon, February 8. Such
an unusual opportunity of hearing "the
greatest lyric tenor of the age" at a
popular Sunday afternoon concert will
be appreciated.
The subtle witchery of Mr. McCor
mack's music lies in the mingling of
Irresistible humor and pathos, the
power to stir the hidden, innermost
depths of human feeling by that touch
"that makes the whole world akin,"
the bright, racy, contagious exuberance
TAILOR SHOPS ROBBED
CLOTH THIEVES SHOW DISCRIMIN
ATION IN SELECTING LOOT.
Detectives Think Three Crimea In Two
Weeks Are Work of Organised Band
Operating In Several Cities.
An organized band of cloth thieves
working In Portland In the last two
weeks has robbed three tailor shops
and stolen suits, patterns and overcoats
valued at several hundred dollars. That
the thieves know the value of cloth is
shown by the fact that they have
picked out the best cut and materials
in each shop, detectives say.
Storms & Silver shop at 44 6 East
Buxnside streets, was robbed January
21. Ten suit patterns, each of three
and one-half yards of fine material,
were stolen. Lewis Rosenberg's place
at 11 East Twenty-eighth street
North, January 22, two suitcases, over
coats, suits and suit patterns, about
20 in all, making up the loot. The
Philadelphia Tailors, L. Tobin, man
ager 325 V4 Everett street, were robbed
January 23. Eighteen suits, two over
coats, six suit patterns, two English
tan raincoats and two unfinished suits
were taken.
The thieves are part of an organized
gang of considerable size. Detective
Captain Baty believes. He has assigned
Detectives Vaughn and Hyde, Coleman
and Snow to the cases.
The local thefts likely will be dis
posed of in other cities, the detectives
believe, because of the fact that sam
ples offered at Portland stores by per
sons tne orricers believe are part of
the gang have not been identified as
loot stolen here. The detectives believe
the goods were brought into Portland
from other cities. The same plan, the
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IL Dundore. First Vice-President, Jacob Kamaler, President, Harold C. Jones. '
There was no contention for any of the offices at the election of the Progressive Businessmen's Club
a week ago last Thursday, with the solo exception of two candidates for secretary. R. Fulton Risellnsr
w ilt!J "maIi f"fla by L. a Hewitt The excitement was at the nominations the week be
lt olootlon of trustees it was different. There were la nominations, out of which TfivV were
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of youth that always strikes fire and
brings an answering note of wild joy
ousness even from the grouchiest man
living. .All these qualities vitalized by
a voice of enchanting beauty, capable
of a thousand tender, glamorous
changes of tone and mood make John
McCormack the most popular . and
eagerly sought lyric tenor living in the
world today.
London .went wild over him. Other
cities in turn capitulated to the charm
of his voice and radiant personality
until ne broKe all records, earning the
greatest receipts in the history of the
concert stage. In New York City alone
he made over $58,000 in 12 concerts. His
last appearance in the great New York
Hippodrome brought over 6000 Daid ad
missions, the gross receipts for this
iareweii concert being $7100.
detectives believe, will be pursued in
regard to Portland goods.
Detectives Coleman and Snow got a
trace of the supposed thieves Friday,
when they offered samples to an East
Side clothier for inspection, saying that
they had part of a bankrupt stock of
suiting wnich they wished to sell. Be
lieving that the goods were stolen, the
clothier called the detectives, but when
tney arrived-the men had left.
Each store was entered by using a
"jimmy" on the front door, the small
tailor shops being generally in small
ana unprotected buildings. In several
cases imported cloth which had been
brought to Portland by the proprietor
of the store for his own personal use
was stolen, with the best of his other
stock.
Elks Will Spend $35,000.
PENDLETON, Or., Jan. 24. (Special.)
Local Elks are planning the expen
diture of $35,000 this Spring in. the re
modeling of their temple in this city.
The plans call for a two-story addi
tion to the present two-story building
and a complete change in the present
quarters. The lower floor, as at pres
ent, will still be leased for business
purposes but the three upper stories
will be fitted up for lodge purposes and
all the conveniences to be found in a
modern lodge home will be included.
It is proposed to commence work on
the improvements early in the Spring
and to have them completed in time for
the Round-Up.
Walla Walla Bank Sues for Money,
WALLA WALLA, Wash.. Jan. 24.
(Special.) The Baker Boyer Bank yes
terday started suit in Superior Court
against F. M. Hosklns, a well-known
farmer, to recover $17,631 alleged due
on three notes. The foreclosure, of a
mortgage given to secure these notes
is asked. The bank states two notes,
one for $10,000 and another for $6506
were signed December 26, 1912, and
that a third note for $600 was signed
January 15, 1912. It is claimed none
wa.8 paJdi
THE PROGRESSIVE BUSINESS
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Commissioner Says It Is Necessary
to Obtain Independent Fignres
to Submit to Commission
as Rate Basis.
Although the State Railroad Commis
sion has had a crew of 10 men at work
for the last six months on an appraisal
or tne property of the Portland Rail
way, Light & Power Company, the City
Commission, by the terms of an ordi
nance now pending, proposes to obtain
additional information on the same sub
ject and present it to the State Com
mission for consideration in its efforts
to determine reasonable rates for light.
power and transportation servicer fur
nished by the company.
The State Commission's survey was
undertaken primarily to enable it to
fix light and power rates; the City
Commission's proposed survey is to fix
streetcar rates within the city.
wniie the two inventories will cover.
to a great extent, the same ground.
Will H. Daly, City Commissioner of
Public Utilities, who initiated the move
for the survey by the city, says that
the additional survey is necessary to
procure a proper appraisal from the
standolnt of the municipality.
Hiring Expert Proposed.
"Wo propose to hire an expert who
has had past experience in appraising
public utility property for municipali
ties," said Mr. Daly. "We shall co-op
erate with the State Commission. Our
figures will be submitted to the State
Commission at the time the hearing on
the general valuation is held."
The State Commission virtually has
completed the most difficult part of its
work. The quantitive survey is fin
ished. The Commission has verified
the existence of the property the com
pany previously listed in its own sur
vey, which was made under the direc
tion of W. H. Hagenah, an expert for
merly In the employ of the Wisconsin
Public Service Commission.
The work for the Oregon Commis
sion has been in charge of Professor R.
H. Dearborn, head of the public utilities
department of the Commission and
head of the electrical department at
the University of Oregon.
The state's crew now is working on
the depreciation survey and next will
take up a survey of the unit cost of the
various items of property.
Mr. Hagraak's Survey Followed.
In all its work the state is follow
ing the general survey originally made
by Mr. Hagenah and his corps of men,
although it is obtaining independent
figures of its own. The state is net
ting the figures on the initial cost of
property from the records of the com
pany Itself, and is verifying those fig
ures by price quotations obtained di
rect from manufacturers. It also has
had access to the statistics of the
Washington State Commission in esti
mating the unit cost.
The company owns approximately $8,
000,000 worth of real estate in various
parts of the city and state. The State
Commission has appraised this prop
erly and segregated it into two classes,
that actually needed for operation of
the business and that held for invest
ment. After all this appraisal is completed,
the State Commission will detail ex
perts to the task of segregating the
units of cost and applying them re
spectively to the several departments of
public service in which the company
is engaged lighting, power supply and
transportation.
City to Step In.
It is at this point where the city
proposes to step in and protect its
interests, according to Commissioner
Daly.
"It may be found," says Mr. Daly.
"that an undue charge is made against
the streetcar service so that the light
and power service may be operated at
an apparent profit..
"The company now has competition
in the light and power field. It may be
that its light and power departments
are operating at an actual loss and
that this deficit is being made up from
tne railway service. I do not think
that this la the case, but am making
the supposition merely to point the
need of the city's investigation. If the
supposition were correct, that certainly
would be unfair to the streetcar
patrons.
"We propose to appropriate $7500 to
conduct the survey and if we get the
facts in the case, I think the money
will be well spent."
Commission Merchant Dies.
Oeorge Herreh, a Portland commis
sion merchant, who for 14 years has
had his place of business on Front
street, died at 4 o'clock Friday at his
residence 127 East Twelfth street. He
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Formerly the "New Oregon
Now Open Under New Management
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Atmittant Manager
Is survived by his wife and one son,
Melville Herren. The funeral service
fill be at 2 o'clock Sunday in the
chapel of Skewes Undertaking estab
lishment under the auspices of the
Christian Science Church and there will
be a service at the crematorium, at
which Woodmen of the World, Camp
77, will officiate. Mr. Herren was a
native of Oregon and was nearly 69
Announcement
Hotel Multn
The management takes pleasure in announcing that
two famous soloists have been engaged Miss
Susanna Re mi, a noted soprano, and Senor Bollino
eri, one of the most celebrated tenors in America.
These artists, after February 1,
will, in conjunction with Professor
Heller's renowned orchestra, en-
tertain you during dinner and
after the theater in the Arcadian
Garden. Also Sunday nights in
free concerts.
Dine Tonight
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lent table d'hote dinner and appreciate the mnsio.
Six until eight.
Grand Concert tonight in lobby
from 8:30 until 10. Come and
bring your friends.
L. P. REYNOLDS, Asst. Mgr.
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Delicious
Our noonday luncheons are the best ihat
the chef, long skilled in the preparation of
savory dishes, can produce. The warm,
well-ventilated dining-room is a most de
lightful place to enjoy luncheons so good
as these. You are courteously invited
every weekday, 11:30 to 2.
A TABLE D'HOTE DINNER
aa served at the Portland provides for every
desire of the appetite; truly, a wholesome
feast, fit for the taste of an epicure.
Served from 5 :30 to 8 in the dining-room.
Weekdays, $1.25 Sundays
Afternoon Tea
After-Theater Suppers
in the Grill
Music
The Portland Hotel
G. X Kaufmans, Manager.
X. K. Clarke, Assistant Manager.
MODERN, fire-proof
convenience and equipment.
Pending reorganization the
dining-room service will continue as
heretofore. The Hotel Benson will
be conducted on the European plan.
Carl Stanley
Managing Director
years- old. He was a son of the late
W. J. Herren, a pioneer of 1845. Last
September he had a breakdown from
caused his death.
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