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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1915)
16 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND. 3 1 AT 16, 1915. METER DEFENDERS IT THEY ERRED Engineers Who Call Mains In adequate Are Ones Who Laid Out System. ANOTHER MISTAKE LIKELY Sir. Dieok, Who Has Expert Knowl edge, and Others' Astcrt Mr. Daly's Scheme Would Cause Only Vsclcss Expense. WATER-MBTBII 1SSIK IN KUT MIICLU Two-thirds of Portland's avail able w-atf-r supply goes over Bull Run hcadwork: spillway. City never lias been able to use within 17.000.000 gallons of i ip daily capacity of tho pipe line?. Initial cost of Daly's city-wide water meter system would bo J352.60O. with additional Invest ment of $25,000 a year for new services. To read meters in Portland would take 16 men at a cost of about 1 17,000 a year. Only purpose of meters Is to curtail 'use of water for lawns, flowers and baths and turn U into the tiewcrs instead. Five million ;;allond of water j?oes Into the sewers at reser voirs dally. Water KnKineer Clarke, who built the system, says meters will solve only temporarily any shortage problem Portland may face. Increased water mains will be necessary with or . without meters, he says. Mayor Albee is opposed to city wide water meters because they would cause useless expense, h" says. Commissioner Dieck. hydraulic mutineer, says Portland needs no city-wide meter system. Commissioner Daly admits In his annual report that water shortage problems were solved last Summer with an alternate sprinkling dale system. Big trunk main now being con structed will solve all low-pressure troubles on Kast Side. Commissioner Daly has announced that he favors the $500,000 city-wide water meter scheme because he has been advised by his engineering force that meters are necessary. These en giners argue that the city needs meters not because of any water shortage, but because of s?mall and inadequate waer mains in some parts of the city. These Fame engineers have had complete charge of laying Portland's water sys tem for more than 20 years. In their stand they admit that they built the system improperly .and now they wish to correct these enginering defects at a cost of $300,000. The question is being asked, If these engineers on whom Mr. Daly relies, were wrong in their work during the last 20 years, is there not a chance of their being wrong in the meter propo sition? Mr. Dlcrk Seen -Ne eed of Plan. Commissioner Dieck, who is recog nized as a well-informed engineer in hydraulics, having had years of ex perience in the up-to-date water de partments of Philadelphia and in the Philippines and elsewhere, has said in effect thut Portland has about as much need for a city-wide meter system as an automobile has for five wheels. On account of the personal fight which has been precipitated by Com missioner Daly against Mayor Albee, because the latter voiced opposition to Mr. Daly's water meter scheme. Com missioner Dieck has refused to enter into the controversy. He said yester day, however, that he is not in favor of city-wide meters at this time, and lias not changed his views from those he expressed when the meter fight was before tin City Council a year ago, when Commissioner .Daly and his "double," "Me Too" Blgelow, carried the day by winning over Commissioner Brewster. Meter Culled lrle. Expense. At that time Commissioner Dieck, who Is the only member of the City Council with enginering knowledge, declared that he opposed city-wide water meters becausc their purchase and Installation would be a useless ex penditure. He declared that while meters do curtail the amount of water used in a city there is no occasion to curtail the use of water, except, possi bly, in a few places in the heights of tho lity. He said he favored the pur chase of 2000 meters to use in metering the services of "water hogs" and per sons who use great amounts of water. He said the investment of several hun dred thousand dollars in water meters would be adding an unnecessary amount to the capital investment of the water system. . Mr. Dieck at that time declared that he was opposed to meters in Portland for business reasons purely. He said Portland may see the day when city wide meters will be necessary, but he contended that there is no need of the city carrying the big expense of a -ity-wide meter system during the year.? between now and the time a meter system will be necessary. MORE HORSES ARE WANTED J'air Per Cent or Northwest Animals Meet l'Ycnch Army Ilcquiremcnts. Keports from various parts of the Inland Empire to the effect that North west horses are not meeting the re quirements imposed by the French gov ernment in buying animals here tor wax purposes are denied by Paul Klop etock. of New York City, who Is in charge of the purchase of horses on this Coast. Mr. Klopstock is at the Mult nomah Hotel. Referring directly to a report from Caldwell. Idaho, to the effect that many horses were examined and only a small percentage were bought, he 'said that half the number inspected, 2SS, were taken. He says that an average of 80 per cent of those examined within the past 10 days have been purchased and it is his intention to secure between F.000 and 10,000 horses in the Pacific Northwest. PIONEER'S PASSING NOTED John T. M. Harrington Closely Linked With Oregon History. In the death at his old home at Craig Tlew, Alnwick. Northumberland County. ADM; April 15, there was noted the departure of a pioneer who helped make Oregon history. Coming to the Columbia River over seas about 45 years ago. Mr. Har rington settler near Kkamokawa. Wash., trading with Portland in hides, salt, salmon and produce, by means of & small schooner. With the firm of Everding & Farrell, Mr. Harrington built the Pillar Rock cannery in 187S. He made an annual visit to his home in England. Along the Columbia River he was familiarly known as "Red" Harrington, owing to a florid complexion. Generous to his friends and fellow men. Mr. Harrington Helped many Oregon fishermen to weather a rough Winter. He retired five years ago with a fortune. Mr. Harrington was 75 years old and leaves a wife and two children in Kngland. His father was Thomas Harrington, a coast guardsman. John Harrington was born in the County of Cork. Ireland.- When he was but 13 years of age he enlisted in the navy and sailed on the Blenheim during the Crimean war. A medal was awarded him for this campaign. On leaving the navy he came to America, trying hi3 hand at gold min ing in California befo?- coming to Ore gon. He married Miss Annie Beal while on an annual trip to England. In Alnwick Mr. Harrington was known as the "Salmon King." He was a great traveler and there were few parts of the world that he had not visited. Every year, when the fish were out of season, he took a holiday of three or four months and invariably SOME OF THE PERFORMERS " f i. & w : & finished up at Alnwick. He was al ways accompanied by his wife. His funeral took place at Alnwick Cemetery. MRS. KELLET DUE MAY 26 FIRST DAV l.V CJTV TO BK ACTIVE ONE, WITH MANY ADDRESSES, General Secretary of National Con- lumcrs' League to He Guest at Luneheou of Women. Mrs. Florence Kelley, of New York, general secretary of the National Con sumers' League, will be In Portland May 26 and 27. A fitting entertain ment is being arranged for her while she is in the ciiy. Mrs. Kelley will be the guest of Mrs. Wlnslow Ayer. While the programme for Mrs. Kelley's entertainment has no t been completed, her first day in the city will be an active one. At S:40 o clock in the morning she is scheduled to speak at Heed College on "Third Class Children." At noon she will be the guest at a luncheon to be given by the Portland Professional Women's League. The luncheon probably will be at the Hotel Benson, and Mrs. Kelly will talk on "The Texas Cotton Field Children and Oregon Women." On the evening of May 26 Mrs. Kelley will address an open meeting in room A of the Library on "Courts and Con sumers." The programme for her second day in Portland will be completed within a few days. PACKARD OUTPUT GROWING More Vehicles Shipped in April Than In Any Other Month in Career. More vehicles were shipped during April byHhe Packard Motor Car Com pany than in any other month of the concern's 14 years of existence. The shipments represented a total value of 2. 4 2 3,000. Simultaneously with this announce ment comes one to the effect that new buildings and extensions, now under construction, will add 15 per cent to the present 38 acres of floor space. The enlargements extend from the forge and foundry through tho manu facturing division to the final assembly departments. A six-story building is included among the additions. The building activities precede a re ported big increase in Packard pro duction for 1916. Tb'is no doubt means that the Packard Company is getting ready for a largely increased volume of business. . CARRIERS TO GIVE DANCES Setcral Affairs at Council Crest Arc to Itaisc Funds for Trips. To raise funds to enable . them to attend the biennial convention of Let ter Carriers in Omaha. Neb., next Sep tember, the letter carriers' and postal clerks' band has arranged to give a series of baturday night dancing par ties, beginning May 22, at Council Crest In the pavilion. The floor has been put into condition for the parties and extra car service has been arranged. The parties will be strictly invitational affairs. The com mittee in charge is composed of A. C. Townsend. George Steele, K. W. Knox and Richard Manning. The band is the pride of the Portland office and it is anticipated that many delightful affairs will be enjoyed dur ing the Summer. SHADED UB SHOWS CIRCUS IS COifiG Sells-FIoto Press Agent Tells of Coming Attraction. SHOW TO BE HERE IN WEEK lVrtT Clowns, Buffalo Bill. Ele phants and BIood-S"vcatin;j Be hemoth Are Features -of Big Annual Wild West Event. O-dds bodkins! All of which has nothing to do wit the story. It was simply the way in which the press agent started his re cital and since this has to do with press agents and elephants and blood sweating behemoths and other things of the wild animal type, the expression is allowed to remain. The real point at hand is that the IN SELLS-FLOTO CIRCUS THAT p q fei ty aforementioned press agent and other animals soon are to come into their own in Portland. In a week more, just seven lays from today, there will roll into Portland the long, gaudy painted cars of the Sells-FIoto circus and Buffalo Bill's Original Wild West, for a two days' stay, with everything from 40 clowns to the original and only Buffalo Bill and his Deadwood stagecoach. Circus la Institution. The Sells-FIoto circus is a sort of institution in Portland, a sort of hap pening which is bound to come, just like the Spring rains and the sunshine and other things of the type. Two days always are played here, and this year brings no exception. The show will give two performances a day. display-ing-g-g-g-g wondrous and marvelous depictures of discernation and- disin tegritous Beg pardon? Yes, by accident, the press agent was being quoted. It shall not occur again. To speak things calmly, tho circus this year promises many features. Among them is a wonderful girl rider, Rosa Rosaland, who turns flip-flops, airsets, front and back somersaults from the back of a horse that in turn trots upon a raised ring .the first one In the circus busi ness. Buffalo BUI Is Feature. Then, too, there will be Buffalo Bill, with his Indians and his other features of a AVlld AVest end of the entertain ment, which he personally lias super vised. Colonel Cody is to appear per sonally with the show, to lead the pa rades and to appear in the perform ances, where lie gives his famous salute from the saddle. And of course there'll be the 40 clowns and the blood-sweating behemoth and Lucia Zora, the "bravest woman in the world," and Captain Riecardo, the "man of a thou sand sears." and a hundred or so other exciting things, lending zest and zing, spirit and splendif erousness, wonder and .woundrousness, massiveness and magnificence, daring and defiance to deatlj. and disaster It's no use. There goes that press agent language again. The circus is to exhibit here at Twenty-fifth and Raleigh streets. Of course there'll bo parades, led by Buf falo Bill himself. The show is to ar rive early next Sunday morning front McMinnville and will rest here a day on he lot before Its performances. 1. BULGIN LOSES SUIT ARCHITECT SECTHES fl25 JUDG MENT FOR PLAX9. Pastor Is Ordered to Pay for Elaborate Sjieclflcatlons for Home He Is Said to Have Ordered. Judgment for J135 against Rev. E. J. Bulgin, who conducted revival servtces In Portland last Winter, was awarded yesterday to J. B. Chambers, an archi tect, by District Judge Dayton. The bill was for plans and specifications to a $15,000 residence which the evan gelist said he was going to build in Laurelhurst. Serious complications threatened for a time during the trial of the case. Rev. Mr. Bulgin was not present. A deposition, made In Denver by Mr. Bul gin. was presented by his attorney, Ci. Evert Baker. The architect's attorney, Bradley Ewers, objected to the intro duction of the evangelist's deposition. He declared that Baker had opened the deposition and read it prior to the case coming to trial. This would be a flag rant violation of the law, for the depo sition is supposed to be addressed to the court, and opened only when the case is called. Baker admitted that he had read the deposition, but said Kwers had given his consent. Judge Dayton admitted the document, but warned the lawyers MAP OF PROPOSED EXTENSION OF COVRSG TO BE TAKEN BV HIGHWAY FROM KlLLI.GSWORTH ATEJllB that the premature opening of court papers would not be tolerated. The trial developed the fact that Rev. Mr. Bulgin had ordered Mr. Chambers to draw up plans for a somewhat elabor ate residence which he intended to build in L,aurelhurst. The house was to con tain a billiard-room, tiled floors, and was to be finished throughout in Cir cassian walnut. Mr. Chambers esti mated that it would cost more than $15,000. When the plans were completed Mr. Bulgii? had changed his mind about building the house, and refused to pay Chambers. Judge Dayton awarded the architect the full amount of his claim, and court costs besides. . LOW COST R0AD IS PLAN Partition Is Proposed to lleduce Amount of Hardsurfaciu;. Paving at a reduction of 33 1-3 per cent in cost is the goal sought by M. W. Wllkins. 1117 East Market street, who has just completed a plan for the con struction of an automobile road that he says will be from one-third to one half cheaper to construct than the or dinary hard-surface road. Mr. Wilkins has applied for a patent on his plan and has constructed a model to show his method of construction. His plan of construction is to make the roadway of concrete divided in the center by a partition six or eight inches WILL SOON BE IN PORTLAND. 8 J?a&a tenet, n in height. Each half of the roadway would be made just wide enough to accommodate automobiles and auto trucks. By this means only that por tion of the roadway where the wheels of the machines would pass would be made strong, and the remainder of the paving would be made merely thick enough to accommodate bicycles and motorcycles. At regular intervals, according to Mr. Wilkins' plan, places would be con structed where the fast machines could pass those not making such good time. Mr. Wilkln6" plan is to make the paving corrugated on the bridges and hills to prevent the wheels of the machines slipping. He asserts that such a road way could be constructed at a cost of $7500 a mile. ART EXHIBIT IS OPEN Sixth Display of Portland Associa tion Being Made. The sixth annual exhibition of the work of the students of the School of the Portland Art Association is now open at the Museum of Art. The ex hibit includes cnarcoal studies, water color, pastel and oil paintings, pencil and pen-and-ink drawings. The de sign classes show both abstract and practical problems in black and white and color, and applications of design to weaving, block printing, pottery, etc. The advanced painting class exhibits still-life studies, portraits, out-of-door sketches, compositions and life studies. The evening classes show charcoal drawings, principally of the figure, and the morning sketch class quick drawings of action poses. The regular hours of the museum are: Weekdays, 9 to 5 o'clock: Sundays, 2 to 5; free the afternoons of Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sun day. , Sellweod Let Brings SHOO. Martha C: Tjeruberg purchased the east half of lots JO and 11, block 75, Sellwood, from W. Q. Venator for $1100. The Hammond Manufacturing Com pany purchased the east half of lots 4. 5 and 10, Alameda Park, from Myrtle U. Callan for $1500. In River side Addition William I.indberg pur chased lot 22 in block 5 from the Vic tor Land Company, the consideration being J700. GREELEY STREET ON EAST S r - e .O x x i. IDE. D WHOLESALE STOCKS T7 and Men's Furnishings WILL BEGIN THURSDAY, MAY 20TH YEON BLDG. - COR. 5TH and ALDER For Further Details See Wednesday's Newspapers BIG PROJECT NEAR Proceedings to Be Begun to Extend Greeley Street. $300,000 TO BE INVOLVED New Section, From KillingsworUi Avenue to Delay Street, to Give Route From Broadway Span to Outer Peninsula. Proceedings will be started this week by the Municipal Department of Pub lic Works for the extension of Oreeley street (Willamette boulevard) from Killingsworth avenue to Delay street, a distance of nearly two miles. The project, involving an expenditure of about J300.000. is one of the biggest yet attempted by the city. Extension of the highway has been proposed for years as a means of open ing up that section of the city, fur nishing a direct and quick route for vehicles and streetcars between the Broadway bridge and the outer Penin sula districts and furnishing a pic turesque driveway along the crest of the high cast bank of the Willamette River. Plans Are Completed. After several months of work Mu nicipal Engineer McMullen has com pleted the plans for the project. Sur veys have been made, appraisals of property have been fixed and the work ing plans are ready for filing as soon as the City Council takes steps to start the legal proceedings under the pro visions of the city charter. The cost o the project will be borne, according to plans, by assessing a total of 14. 450 lots In that end of the city. The assessment district, as proposed, follows the city limits on the west and the north. On the east It passes through the Kenton and Gammans ad ditions, along Boston avenue, and thence in an irregular course south by east from near the Portland Flouring Mills to Delay and Russell streets. The Willamette River and Mock's Bottom form the south line, excepting in one small part, where Russell street is the south line. Exchange of Land Proposed. The land needed for the street is valued at J110.000. It Is proposed to give the owners the land now occupied by the old St. Johns road In part ex change for their property. An addi tional 160,000 will be required. It is proposed to make the street 30 feet between curbs and to build a side walk on one side. Room will be pro vided for streetcar tracks. The street will have a maximum grade of 4 per cent. This grade will prevail for 4000 feet out of a total of 9774. the length of the extension. The design is so ar ranged that other streets can connect up with the new street. Those which can be extended without Impossible TO DELAY STREET. SECTIONAL OF THE (IT T 7 IT ktat liaMftiW tWi'iirrV, naWWUnvnk nflntsnaMnvsnnk grades, cuts or fills are Tenn street, Going street, Humboldt street. Alberta sireei, numner sireeL ana tmerson street. The highest grade on any of these streets would be 8 per cent, tola and Kllla Necessary. The extension of Greeley street would involve . series of large cuts and fills. Between Alberta and Hum boldt streets is a fill 60 feet deep and 300 fdpt nrrnflji at IhA ton Annthpr folc fill will be at renn street. It will be 75 feet deep and 350 feet wide at the top. These fills will cross canyons. A short distance south of Penn street will be a cut la zeet in height. Arp-nment mnHt fnr thn n ml i.cf hv those backing it are to the effect that it will furnish a main artery to a vast district in the outer Peninsula. It is said It will shorten the streetcar time between Portland and St. Johns at least 15 minutes. PHILIP KAMM PAYS FINE Speeding Across Steel Bridge Also Costs $20 to Cliauffcur. Pleading guilty to a charge of speed ing across the Steel bridge I'riday aft ernoon. Philip Katnm, who with his brother. Walker, grandsons of Mrs. Jacob Kamm, appeared In Municipal Court yesterday, was fined J20 by Judge Stevenson. E. D. Newton, driver of a machine with which the Kamms were riding, was also fined 20. Both arrests were made by Patrolman Ilirsch at the west approach of the bridge. Other fines for speeding were: L D. Hunter. $20; Francis Darney, 2o; lid Burkhardt, $25: Charles Dunham, -.", and George Alex, $25. E. E. Seabrook. aged 16, and Wayne Stuart, urfed 17, were held to the Juvenile Court fur speeding. MONDAY EXCURSION. The steamer Bailey Gatzcrt will make special excursion trip to Hood River Monday. May 17. leave Alder street dock at 8 A. M. and return about 8 P. M. $1 one way; $2 round trip. Adv. See the Expositions See America Now! On Your Way to Eastern Cities Let us suggest an ideal circuit trip for you! Go to CALIFORNIA, the New tie Luxe Way, North Bank Rail and 26 Hours' Delightful Ocean Sail, on the Magnificent Ship "Northern Pacific." Meals and Berth included in fares at sea. Stopover at the Exposition; thence onward by choice of various routes. Return by one of the National Park routes Glacier or Yellowstone. Or go direct east over the Matchless North Bank Road to Spokane, return through California. Have your ticket read Great Northern Pacific SS between Portland and San Francisco; and Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry. between Spokane and Portland. ROUND TRIP FARES Daily to Sept. 30th Portland to Atlantic City $131.00 New York 128.20 St. Paul 84.25 Chicago 90.00 Montreal . . . 122.50 Kansas City 77.50 New Orleans 100.10 St. Louis 88.10 Boston 127.50 Other places in proportion. Consult agents OREGON ELECTRIC RY OR NORTH BANK ROAD. PORTLAND Ticket Office. 5th Avenue. SAN FRANCISCO 663 Market St. 1 Mr RESCUER HOW IN NEED F.I,Ml;il KDIBKRLIX HAS JOB, BIT IS WITHOUT FARE, , Man Who Paved Many I"rom Willam ette Promises Trip to Fair If Tempo rary Aid Is blven at Present. i Elmer C. Kimberlln. volunteer lif saver of Portland, whose heroic aehtr , -ments in Willamette River accidents has placed him in the eligible line for relief under the Carnegie hero pension fuiul, lias secured a Job, but he is having difficulty in getting to it. Mr. Klmberliu disabled himself in lii rescue work in the river, and us a result Is able to do only certain kinds of work. The scarcity of this work In Portland hs left him In ptraitcned con ditions at times, but recently the posi tion of watchman or Janitor at the Oregon building in San I'ranclsi-o was offered him. Jt costs about $30 for him to get there. "I haven't the money, and T ought to leave Monday night," said Mr. Kim berlln yesterday in trying to figure out a way. "The public knows my integrity, as letters from the Ma yor. Governor and a score of other worthy men will testify. I am now looking for some one with means who will advance tne tiia tiececsary $30 to get down there and live for a few days. I will pay it bark in .10 days out of my first pay, whicli will be $7" a month. In addition, to show my good faith In the matter, I will promise anyone who helps me get to this work now, a trip to tho Im position late in the Summer, say some time ilk August or opternber. I ofTer this In absolute faith as I know I will be able it provide it in that time." Mr. Kimberlln may be reached through the office of Attorney B. A. ('rum, 422 Chamber of Commerce build ing. s. s. NORTHERN PACIFIC Sails Steamer Train 9 A.M.I May 19, 23, 27, 31 OREGON TRUNK UY, and Stark. SPOKANE 819 Spraguc Arcrtrdinr ! P.sr.on. th number of rtomcillr animal In Aricntlna at tlie fiid of 1t14 was B follona: l,rnf! cittl. lI.:.'o HMi: horru. l,70" ofi: nuile. .".ostoft; h-4, :t4'.QOO: h.p. b",'l'lO,0iO; cuats, 4.021.yuwj plKi. .'to'.o.nnn. England, of John T. M. Harrington ou