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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
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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.
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