17 Sir MEASURES OH BALLOT; FOUR PENO Bonding Changes, Water Me ters and Garbage System Big Issues of June Vote. TWO FIRE PENSIONS ARE UP THE SUNDAY OREGOTiTAN, - PORTLAND, APRIIi 23, 1913. Closing or Grocery Stores on Sunday Also Among: Questions to Be De cided by Voters Jitney Regu lation Likely to Be Vp. SUMMARY OK MEASURES TO UK O.V BALLOT AT JUNE KLBCTIOSi, McuNnrra Submitted. Referendum ordinance provid ing for meters on all water serv ices in Portland. Referendum ordinance provid ing lor the Sunday closing of grocery stores. Initiative measure by Council amending: Bancroft bonding: act to make street and sewer assess ments payable by property own ers semi-annually. Initiative measure by Council granting pensions to C. XX Shane and W. H. Whitcomb. disabled firemen. Initiative -measure by Council amending charter changing man ner of reappointing city em ployes. Initiative measure by Council providing for municipal garbage collection system to operate at expense of taxpayers. Measures Pending:, Initiative measure by Council changing charter to give Council power to turn dog pound over to Oregon Humane Society. Measure providing for annex ation of. St. Johns to Portland. Measure providing for pension system for police. Referendum involving regula tion of jitney buses and automobiles. Six important measures already have been placed upon the ballot at the city election June 7. and as many more probably will be added before May 22, when timo for presenting such meas ures by the Council expires. Iinportaut issues regarding future municipal policies and important char ter amendments, along with the elec tion of officers, promise to make the election a lively one. Probably of first importance is the measure regarding the installation of water meters on all services in the city. This measure will appear on the ballot under the referendum, the City Council having passed an ordinance for the purchase of meters a year ago and persons opposed to the universal-meter plan having invoked the referen dum, thus leaving the decision in the matter to the voters. Need far jHeter Disputed. Should the measure be passed, it wlU Involve an expenditure of $500,000 for the purchase and installation of water meters. The money will be raised by eale of bonds, for which the city will pay 4 per cent interest each year and, in addition, will have to- provide a fcinklng fund for the redemption of the bonds when they become due. Need for meters is disputed. Com missioner Daly says they aro necessary to eliminate the water-shortage prob lem during the Summer months. Oth ers, including officials of the water bureau, declare that the question, of shortage already has been solved by the adoption of the alternate sprinkling-date system during the Summer and the addition of a large supply main to the northeastern part of the city where the only shortage was re ported last year. Of next importance on the ballot probably will be the measure to close grocery stores on Sundays. An ordi nance closing the stores was passed by the Council a year ago. The refer endum was invoked on this by small gioccrs, who contend that they cannot exist without the Sunday business. They also contend that the measure is unfair because it does not close but cher shops, bakeries and delicatessen establishments, cigar stores and other places of business. llondiK-Act Change Provided. Property owners will be much in terested in the measure to be-submit- ted by the Council providing for changes in the Bancroft bonding act, under the provisions of which property owners are able to finance their street and sewer improvements. The Council has prepared changes so that the in stallments and interest on bonded liens of property owners must ba Aid semi annually. At present the payments are made annually. The city takes liens on property and on the strength of these sells bonds to secure money to pay street and. sewer rniilrnptors. The amendments as pro posed open the way for the payment of interest in any rate tne vouncii may propose up to 6 per cent. The act now allows bonds only at tne per cent. An imnortant measure is that pro posed by Commissioner Daly for the establishment of a municipal garbage collection system. The voters author ized the issuance of $76,000 In bonds for Kiich a. system several years ago. The bonds as authorized ' never have been issued. They provided only for ih initial establishment of the plant Operation expenses were to bo met by a fee for garbage collection. Commissioner Daly proposes to change the measure so that the bonds mav be used for the establishment of the system, and the operation will be paid for by general taxation. This means that if the measure carries the taxnavera will have an item of abou $150,000 in the budget each year, for garbage -collection. Pound Change Proposal Fends. There is pending before the Council now a proposal for a charter, making it nosslble for the City Council to con tract with the Oregon Humane Society for tho handling of tne municipal dog Dound. The question of a ballo measure anexing St. Johns to Portland also is pending before the Council There is a possibility also of a measure being submitted to provide for a pen sion system for the police bureau slm ilar to that now in operation in th fire bureau. Tho Council already has submitted a proposed amendment to the firemen pension act providing for the granting of pensions to J. 1. Shane and W. H AVhitc-omb, firemen, who became per inanently disabled in the fire service before the pension act was adopted. An amendment is proposed also to th civil aervice provisions of the charte providing for the reappointment employes in tho service in the orde of their seniority in service instead o In the order of their dismissal, as a present. Under the present system old employes oftentimes lose out in th . Vilt :iy ; DR. E. PARKER X' S MISS C.L.CAMPBELL MISS CECELIA CASEY DR. E. H. PARKER r ,..iS0Mf, . DR.THE0. GOTTLIEB DR. ALFRED 5WENNE5 MISS LOLA RUBLE MISS MARY STOLL OR.V A. FITZGERALD DR. L.S.WILSON I f V-. i DR. A.B. STILES DR.FRAHK A.BRYAMT MISS THELMA ROBINSON MISS ETHEL HAWKINS MISS CARRIE BR0U6HT0N HARRY GREATREX RflD. JAS.GREATREX P.M.D. I 3 MISS SHIRLY FRYE MISS LOUISE PRATER ItlSS KATHERINE CADWEIL RUSSELL F. BRADLEY RM D. DR.0.J.J0HNS0N J IMJiilJi service in favor of men who have served only a short time. An important issue will be that of regulating jitneys, provided the jitney interests are successful In getting the required number of signatures to ref erendum petitions now being circulated. If the referendum is filed it will hold up the enforcement of the jitney ordi nance, as passed recently by the Coun cil, for two years. The Council pro poses, newever, to repeal the ordinance as passed and pass another measure and submit it to the voters' at the June election under the initiative, if the ref erendum is invoked. A curious law point as to areoplanes has been raised in France. A landowner brougnt fcult to compel a manufacturer of aeroplanes not to paas over -his land at a height of less than 6UU fttet, alleging that tho aeroyianes frfshten away his same, were likely hy lund- n to injur, his crops, and might endanger mors la toe iieiu. "FIRST FOR THIRST" WINS Prize Awards Made in Celro-Kola Contest, Naming Xew Drink. "First for Thirst" is the prize-winning name for the new soda-fountain drink just introduced' by the Celro Kola Company, of Portland, this name having? been selected in a prise contest. I open to all residents of the state. Will iam Hahn, 233 Kleventh street,' won ao by submitting this title. . "The Fountain Favorite" was sub mitted by William Milne, Keystone Confectionery, and took second priae, $15. The third priae, $10, was won by Miss Edith I. Itytenic, Klamath Falls, who suggested "The Liquid Lure." The Celro-Kola Company was Incorporated six w-eeka ago by well-known Portland men. The remarkably large number of people who entered the contest was a surprise to the sponsors of the new drink. Westminster Bonds Sold Here. In face of competition from several Eastern financial bouses the Lumber men's Trust Company of Portland has just purchased $431,000 of three-year 6 per cent short-term notes issued by the City of New Westminster, B. C. The notes are redeemable at the office of the Bank of Montreal in New York City, Toronto and New Westminster, This is the first issue of Now West minster securities to be soii ir the American market. Previously the city had sold its municipal paper in London. British marine, interned in Holland are receiving 10 cents and non-commissioned officers 23 cents a day as pocket mooei". EARLY SETTLER IS DEAD Mrs. Mary A. Brown, 4 6 Year. In State, Passes at Age of It. Mrs. Mary A. Brown, a resident o Oregon for the past 48 years, died Fri day at her home, 724 Vanderbllt street, on the Peninsula, at the age of 71 years and 10 months. Mrs. Brown came to Oregon in 1868, first settling at Butteville. where she resided until eight years ago, when the family moved to Portland. Mrs. Brown is survived by her widower. E. M. Brown, and the following children: F. Brown, of Castle Rock, Wash.: Mrs. C. F. Yergen. New berg, Or.; Miss Nettie Brown, Mrs. A. M. Cone, and Mrs. A. F. Tabor, Port land. Mrs. W. Iller, of Portland, is a sister, and Clark Stephens, o Portland. and Addison Stephens, of Courders, Penn.,.are brothers. Funeral services will be conducted from the family residence this after noon at 2 P. M. - Rev. C, L. Hamilton will officiate, and the Peter A, Porter Circle,, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, will hold services at the house. The body will be sent to But teville. Or., Monday, for interment in the family plot. CLUB DANCE, IS TUESDAY Irtsli American Fellowship "ro- gramme Is Arranged. The Irisli-Anierfcan Fellowship Club will give an entertainment in the new Hibemia' Hall, 310 Russell street. Tues day night. A musical and literary programme has been arrangt-d. George 8. McHrlde will speak on "America's Deht to Ireland." Vocal aoloe will We given by Miss Frances McCarthy, Miss Uenevieve Clancey and K. U. Henney, and there will be a violin solo by Carl Senn. The-Kmmert children, well-known impersonators, will enliven the enter tainment. The Baker Buwk company and the Lyrio Theater will lend sev eral numbers, Uancing will be the diversion aflT the enterte inment. The committee having the affair 1n charge Is composed of M. F.. I.ilH". i'ranoi Mallon. Tim Holland. t. W. Lane, and W. P. Lillis. A N ,- -v-cian r'l'T.tist l'. nftvanreo1 tiie Uii-ory I'ldt atiTn'i rlnip are cie'-trlcai Tihftirtiv j.ij. ur'iriut-od by the i-ndiatlon if :uirin.rs nartic frorr the planet, whlcn cuuisieut'y icuews them. , (I