14 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. TORTLAXD, 3IAY 23, 191.'. PROBLEMS ARE NOT SOLVED BY METERS DARING PERFORMERS TO BE SEEN IN SELLS-FLOTO CIRCUS. SETTLERS' RULES BEING CONSIDERED Graduation Gift Suggestions For Boys and Girls Experts Agree Devices Only Delay Time for Laying of Additional Mains. Opinions of Portland Men Re garding Irrigation Claims Sought by Officials. Well Selected Books Most Appropriate Choose from Portland's Complete Stock of the Best Books I COST IS $100,000 A YEAR CHANGE OF LAW PROPOSED ; Money Neccbsary for Mr. Daly's l'roiioscd Citj-AVide Metering I'lan Held Unougli to Fi nance Construction Work. C. Li. Smith, Agriculturist for O.-W. K. & . Company, Suggests More .Cultivation lu Lieu of Kesi dence for Men on Salaries. Through books, as in no other way, you reach the mind and heart of the recipient a great opportunity is yours let us help you use it. Whether the sum you wish to spend is large or small, you will find a most suitable gift in Gill's superb collection of ancient and modern literature. FOR THE GIRL GRADUATE " " .1 i -I i ff f "l J :s TIIK SIBTKR I'RUHLEM IX A MTMIKU,. Mayor Albee, who opposes the I'aly wnter motor scheme: asks, "Why curtail water used on lawns and gardens only to (lump the saving into the sewers at the reservoirs?" Commissioner Dieck, engineer in hydraulics, nays watPr meter plan is ridiculous extravagance. Two-thirds of Bull Itun River KOffl over the spillway at the hoadworkp. One-third jiocs into the pipeline, tine-eighth of this goes into the sewers on reach ing Portland. Commissioner Daly's own fig tires fhuw cost of city-wide meter system will average more than S 100.000 a year for 15 years anil much more- thereafter. All city's water engineers and Commissioner lJaly concur In statement that meter system merely holds off time when re inforcements will have to be made to system of water mains. Annual cost of meters would finance immediate construction of $1. 350,000 In reinforcing mains. . Amount spent for meters will be dead loss, inasmuch as meters wear out in 15 yearn, requiring replacement in that length of time. In short time all the reinforc ing mains said to bo necessary now will have to be built, even if city is metered. Kngineers say all low-pressure troubles could be solved at small fraction of cost of meters. "Water meters do not permanently solve low pressure or water ebortage problems. They merely stave off the time that additional water mains be come necessary. This in effect is the positive statement uttered n many oc casions and printed in many reports nnd other documents by r. r. Clarke, the. city's chief water engineer; by Ed win Taylor, assistant engineer; by all other engineers in the Water Bureau nnd by Commissioner Daly himself. Kven now. in the heat of a meter con- ; troversy, they do not deny that it is a fart. It has been declared by Engineer Clarke that had Portland been metered the need for the second Bull Run pipe line might have been held off for a few years. It would have been absolutely necessary by the present time, meters or no meters, he says. Reinforcing Main Similar. The Name applies to the reinforcing j structed now if the city is not metered. "They will have to be built some time," says Engineer Clarke. "A city wide meter proposition will undoubted- ly hold off the time. But it is true that they will have to be built some time, even though the city is metered." Actual figures have been produced (based upon the estimates of Commis sioner Daly) showing that the cost of a city-wide water meter system in Port land will average more than 5100,000 ;; a year. This amount will be expended to stave off the time when reinforcing mains will have to be constructed. Money Will Finance Work. . This same amount of money each year .would finance the immediate con .. struction of reinforcing mains to cost $1,250,000. It would pay the interest and provide an adequate sinking fund ,. for a bond Issue in that amount. It .. would pay the interest on an issue of $2,500,000 or nearly as much as has , been rfpent for mains In Portland in the last four years, which has been the biggest construction period in the his tory of the Water Bureau. Instead of getUng busy at once and -constructing such reinforcing mains as may be necessary, it is proposed to ex periment with a meter system. It is proposed to expend $100,000 a year to stave otf for a matter of from two to five years expenditures which will have r to be made in spite of the meters. :. Helicf Kanlly Poxslble. The only parts of the city affected j In any degree by low pressure during the record hot spell of last Summer 2! were the Pxmjnsula districts, a part of Sellwood and 'a few scattered neigb- borhoods on the outskirts of the city or ;'ln the Heights. Reinforcing mains could be built in these districts and !i everywhere else that there might bo '. I a shortage for a small fractional part of the cost of a city-wide water meter system. The entire Peninsula district will be relieved this coming Summer by a 30-inch reinforcing main now be ing built. In addition to two-thirds of Bull Run Ttlver going over the hoadworks in Bull Run Canyon, thus furnishing an over abundance of water, plans are being made for a storage basin at the bead works, whereby 500,000.000 gallons of water can bo stored. This is more than five times as much water as can be placed in all the reservoirs In Portland combined. This storage plant is to be built. Two-thirds of Bull Run River goes over the head works. An eighth of the one-third that is piped to Portland is dumped into the sewers when it reaches Portland. boy needs cycle for job : AsMH-iatrd Charities Makes TMea for !i; Reserving Youth. !? Poor Richard's saying, "For the want tjof a nail, the shoe was lost; for want 2! ot a shoe." etc., has recurred to the It minds of the attaches of the Associated H Charities, and an appeal has been sent ; out for a bicycle for a needy boy, who. for want of a bicycle, will lose his job, and for want of the Job will be ;jin actual distress. ;J The boy has come to the notice of ;;t!ie Associated Charities, and, inasmuch j;as he is deserving, the Associated Charities has askct anyone having a wheel and willing to lend or give it to the boy to call Alain 7051. -::mel g. johnson to wove j: Automobile Healer Will T.ook After ;; Onn Interests In Seattle. Mel G. Johnson, manager of the ; Portland agency of the Howard Auto ; Company of San 1-ranclsoo, Coast dis I I If I1 ' I tributors for the Buick machine, has resigned his position, effective June 1, and will leave soon thereafter for Seat tle, where he will devote all. his time to his own business. He will bo suc ceeded litre by tieorge H. McCutcheou, now in charge of the Oakland branch of the Howard Oomnanv. Mr. Johneon lias been a resident of Portland for four years and a half and is one of the best-known automobile dealers in the city. His only reason for leaving Portland, lie explains, is that the Seattle field offers him- op portunity for developing his, own busi ness. For the last three years Mr. Johnson has been associated in Seattle with A. S. Hldridge as agents for the Buick. in charge of the State of Wash ington and Northern Idaho. . JURORS URGE RETRIAL A. I.. Clark Case to De Heart Soon, Saya Mr. ( oilier. Inquisitors Evenly Divided aud Six for Conviction on Ballot-Kraud Charge Call on Prosecutor. When the jury trying the case of Albln L,. Clark, charged with ballot frauds, reported a disagreement at 1 o'clock yesterday morning, six men stood for acquittal and six for convic tion. They were absolutely deadlocked! members of the jury said, and not one man would budge from his position. The six Jurors who had stood for conviction called on Deputy District Attorney Collier yesterday morning and urged that the prosecution be car ried through. Mr. Collier said he would set the case for retrial next Tuesday, if that arrangement was agreeable to the court. Air. Collier also said .that ' Daniel B. Culhane and James X. Linn, indicted with A. L. Clark, will be prosecuted. "I regard this disagreement as a victory for the state," said Mr. Collier. "If it does nothing else, this prosecu tion will serve as a curb to any other attempts of so bold a nature to . per petrate ballot frauds." Unless Judge Gatens refuses to set the retrial Immediately, a new trial will be started immediately following that of Hazel Tackles on Monday. Mrs. Tackles is charged with shooting at her husband during a trial before Municipal Judge Stevenson in Morals Court on April 29. Mr. Collier said the jurors who called on him expressed their disap proval of the fact that a tabulated list of the ballots cast in Precinct 37 was not admitted as evidence. The list was prepared by Walter V. Geren. special agent of the District Attorney's office. It showed the list of ballots with a mark opposite each altered vote. 7 0 Teachers Guests at Bcaverton. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kvarts W'eed yesterday entertained at their home in Beaverton 70 members of the Portland Educational Association. After view ing Mr. Weed's gardens, the party was served with luncheon on the lawn. If. .1. Smith Is to Lecture. H. J. Smith will lecture at Arion Hall tonight at 8 o'clock on "Is There a Spiritual Side to the Socialist Move ment?" rORTL.tMl 1HMVKSS MW AU RKSIDKNT 4 Y12ARS 'lWSSES AWAY. Kerdinsiid liumrrmau. Ferdinand Zimmerman, promi nent pioneer business man of half a century, after an illness of 24 hours, died Friday at his residence on East Twenty-first street and Broadway. Mr. Zim merman, who saw two years of active service in the Franco Prussian war, was born in Weis kirchen. Germany, and was 68 years old in April. Forty years ago he established himself in business in Portland. In 1876 he married Miss Nina Seelig, of Hof Vrselthal, Ger many, who survives Mr. Zimmer man, with three daughters and a son. They are: Miss Christel Zimmerman. Mrs. J. H. Kloster man, Fred Zimmerman and Mrs. Charles A. Prevost, of Pasadena. Cal. The funeral will be held from the Church of the Made line, in Irvington, tomorrow at 9 o'clock. I r ' it , -. J? I 1 I 1 1 i ... - -w -4 51 3.9v.--.-f jfme JZocf .sos7 CIRCUS HERE TODAY Big Parade Tomorrow to Open Two Days of Thrills. GIRL USES HORSE AS "GYM" Flips and Feats in Air Arc Per formed llish Above Animal's Back Daring Shown by Train ers in Tricks With Beasts. Chamoised, shining wagons, lions and tigers with rosin-rough voices, horses with marcelled manes and tails and contortionists with marcelled muscles: clowns and cornets, tumblers and tubas, elephants and elevated stages, peanuts and padrooms, spielers and splendors all these things added together mean that" the circus has come to town. . And by "the circus," of course, is meant the Sells-Floto circus and Buf falo Bill's Original Wild West, which today sends its fluttering banners atop the "big top" poles out at Twenty-fifth and Raleigh streets, as It takes its day of rest before the ex citement of four performances, mati nee and night, beginning tomorrow afternoon. For tomorrow and Tuesday are to be circus' days in Portland, with every thing from roaring animals to the careening, old Deadwood stagecoach, wobbling around the hippodrome track before the attack . of the wild, be painted Indians and the rescuing Buf falo Bill. Parade to Be at 10:30. And of course there'll be a parade. 'Twouldn't be quite natural without it. So it is that tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock it will come shining and glittering forth from the lot to traverse the downtown streets, with Buffalo Bill at the beginning and the brass lunged calliope at the end. After that Well, after that will, of course, come the opening performance, and accord ing to the promises that have been made, there's much that Is worth see ing this year. Among the exciting things is to be the riding of Rosa Rosaland. who ascends from six to ten feet above- a galloping horse as she turns airsets. somersaults and "flip flops" with as much speed as though she were an acrobat upon the ground. Incidentally, the work of Rosaland is to be made more interesting through the fact that her horses will work in a raised ring, several feet , above the ground. Rosaland doesn't end the attractions. There's a baby elephant and three herds of grown up ones. AO Clowns Arr With lum. There are 40 clwns with Horace Webb, at the head of them. There Is Rhoda Royal and all of his horses. There is Captain Dutch Recardo who bites lions on the ear and then sticks his head in their mouth and dares them to bite him in return. There are Dev lin's Zouaves; and the Nelson Family and the Flying Lafayettes and but why should the list be gone through? They'll be in the parade tomorrow, even to Buffalo Bill b'mself. who is to lead the pageant on its trip through the downtown streets. . ' , As is customary with Sells Fioto. a downtown ticket office is to be opened tomorrow morning at the Owl Drug store, where a special representative of the circus will remain during the two days of the performances here. Tickets are to be sold at the same! Mr n I ! V N N . , .a r: ; 1, 1 xw'-fto X. " ' 11 1 hswe- prices 'charged at the ticket wagon on the showgrounds. BATTERY A ELECTS CAPTAIN Charles Helm Is Chosen to Succeed H. X. Welch, Kesigncd. Charles ' AV. Helm, who has been First Lieutenant of Troop A cavalry, was elected iCaptain of Battery'A, field artillery, at a meeting of the battery Friday night. He succeeds Captain H. IT. Welch, who resigned. The election of Captain Helm was unanimous. Captain Helm has been connected with Troop A since its organization in this city. He has been considered olio of. the most popular officers in the National Guard of this city. Captain Helm is superintendent of the L'nited States Laundry in this city. St. Johns Circle Klects. Mrs. R. G. Brand was elected presi dent of the Central School Parent Teacher Association of St. Johns, at the meeting held Thursday. Mrs. Opal Crecraft. a teacher of the Central School, was elected secretary, and Mrs. W. Moxon treasurer. The president will appoint committees at the next meeting. Alberta anthracite. 90 per cent car bor. no soot, is real good coal. Adv. POHTL.UO KX-MILITIAMAN tiOEH TO KI"T " lilHOPK. r ft fj it - , t J . John T. Kramer. . "We sail from Halifax' tonight for Liverpool If a torpedo don't get us first." Thus wrote John T. Kromer. of 6605 Fifty-fifth ave nue Southeast. Portland, just be fore he boarded a British trans port at Halifax, X. S.. May 1 as one of the Canadian volunteers bound for the front in Europe. The letter -was sent to Dr.- M. B. Marcellus, City Health Officer. , Mr. Kromer, who formerly was a Sergeant of the first class of sanitary troops of the Oregon National Guard, Is well known in Portland, having lived here many years. Remaining: behind him to spend many anxious days is his wife and other relatives residing in Portland. Mr. Kromer joined the Oregon National Guard several years ago. when the sanitary troops first were organized. He was honorably discharged last year and in September, 1914, he en listed in a company of Canadian vo'.unteer3 at Esquimalt, B. C. Plans for removing pome of the re strictions surrounding se'Iers on Gov ernment irrigation projects now are under consideration by officials of the Interior Department at Washington, D. C. who are seeking advice on this subject from interested persona in Port land. It is proposed, if possible, to amend the present law so that actual resi dence will not be required of .settlers. However, it is expected that some other requirements, in lieu of residence, be enforced, and it has been suggested that this take the form of additional cultivation or other improvements. A. A. Jones, First Assistant Secretary of the Interior, has written to ". I. Smith, agriculturist for the O.-W. It. & N. Company, for advice on the subject. Mr. Smith, among others in Portland, believes that the present requirements are too severe and that they actually prevent settlement of the land instead of aiding it. In response to the question, "Is a residence requirement under the recla mation law, for the purchasers of water for private lands, desirable?" Mr. Smith replied as follows; Salaried Men t'onnMrred. a However desirable it may be to have a residence requirement for settlers on reclamation projects. 1 am satisfied that developments -would be much more rapid and the actual residents on such projects -"materially benefited if some provision were made whereby Individ uals of limited means, holding salaried positions, vould secure units on the reclamation projects looking toward fu ture occupntioir as homesteaders. Such claims should be limited to a single unit and the claimant be required to make certain anntial improvements in the way of crops, buildings, fences, etc. These regulations should be somewhat more exacting with non-resident than with resident claimants." The next question askett by Mr. Jones was, "Should the residence require ments regarding homesteads be re tained?" and Mr. Smith replied that final proof should be made only by actual residents. In bis next question Mr. Jones aked. "If residence should not be required at the time of signing a water right con tract under the reclamation act, should it be required at a later period?" to which Mr. Smith replied aftlrmatively. "If the residence clause should be abolished, would It be desirable to have an additional requirement as to culti vation?" was the next question, and Mr. Smith answerou likewise, in the affirmative. Railroad Officials Consulted. He amplified his answers with the following statement, which he prepared after consultation with officials of the company and th'jr Portland persons who are inteersted in the further agri cultural development of the state: "There are a great many people of limited means occupying salaried posi tions who. if tbey could secure a unit under the reclamation projects, whether by making -monthly or quarterly pay ments, and bring the land generally un der cultivation, could at the end of three to five years have the place in such condition as. to provide a livelihood for themselves and families. "The labor of improving such claims could be done largely by residents, to whom the money received for such labor would be of material assistance in developing their own holdings. It would be no hardship on such claimants to have an additional requirement aa to cultivation to offset the handicap of actual residence, until such time as the claim had been brought under cultiva tion. "While I believe that final proof should be dependent upon actual resi dence. I can see no objection to allow ing an assignment of claim, subject al ways, however, to actual residence of the claimant before final proof could be made." Kcv. C. X.. Cline to Speak. Rev. C. K. Cline. of Portland, will de liver a lecture on "Abraham Lincoln" today at 11 A. M. in the Gresham Methodist Church. He had given this lecture before the students of the Ore gon Agricultural College. State Univer sity and elsewhere. TiZ" FIXED MY' SORE, TIRED FEET Bse "TIZ!" Don't Have Puffed Up, Burning; Aching Feet ' or Corns. Ab! what relief. No inu-2 tired feet: no more burning feet: no more swollen, bad smelling, sweaty feet. No more pain In corns, callouses or bunions. No mat ter what ails your feet on what under the sun you've- tried without gelling relief, just use "TIZ." 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Judyre KavanauRh made bin attitude on this subject clear in a statement rroin the bench yesterday morning, lie urged leniency and "forbearance, in view of existing conditions." Judge Kavanaugh taid: 1 fetl It my duty in give mowial intention In these times to the entry of tWduIt de cree, especially in the cse of foreclosure of mortgaifeK and tlte vtnet forecloHure. of contrma for the purchase of real property. 1 recognize that these are turns of great strees for many poor people who are huy- ins noiTies ana nave Deen able to pay only a part of the purchase nri:e: ITnon in vH- gation of tome cases I have found that om unionunaie people liavr. Buffered defaults to be entered axitinit them because Hiy had no money to pay counsel, or to provide for an appearance In court; and in some cusf were about to Buffer the loss of considerable equities in their property. So I am constrained, by reason of the con dition of theye tima, thy difficulty of DENTISTRY IS ALL PAINLESS NOW The Only DR. E. G. AUSPLUND. Mgr. All the dentists in this office are given a definite salary, which is more Can they could make run ning a single chair for them selves. Our specialties are treating Pyorrhea and making teeth with out plates if you have two or more roots in cither jaw. We also make plates to restore expression and prevent shrinking gums. By our Analgesic method we can extract, fill, crown or remove live nerves without pain. lectr o-Painless Dentists i IN THE TWO-STORY BUILDING COR. OF SIXTH AND WASHINGTON STREETS, PORTLAND, OR. to li.O1) to tz.oo to IJ.O'l to IS.O to 7:..: i0c bound and brimming 7 jc t 7 to !.' to .no to n.'.o to $1.73 curm v employment, u nd the Ik y htirdrMin tht many arc retjutrwd to I'ir, to ihmKo a Personal tnetlf?attan, if possible, of ul! lliew vjtnrn t-frc the parties ai roiU'lurt'O by the entry of a default. I would like Co say to counsel that tlny. loo, have a duty to be especially Informed of the conditions existing in eaili cane. to t hut wIumi iin att ribution is made for default thy may b abit to advise me more fully of (h- con ditions undT m hit li t bo K-fe tidants at laboring. l'erro'i who hold mortsaireft should exer cise forbearance in lew of the ettttiK con ditions; and 1 feel it my duty now to arivt you in advance that I Hhul ex(Mct ample advice when an application for d fault is made, and in the. exercise of discretion I In tend to withhold entry until I mio advlnd that the parties have no Intent ion to imtkM an u pprarance. When pro pert y is sold at a lorrc Insure sale, it seldom bi inKfl the trui market value, and the- dfcndan:s may. in such circumstances, lose an equity th;tt particularly valuable to t hem, nd which miffht be preserved If a Ttttlo time and op portunity were Riven to dispose of the prop erty at private sale. Jcnts Young IVopIc J'ilc-c-l. Tlur rent.s Yotinj; People' K idr-ration, made up of aocltiet of the Methodist. Kvangelical. Kriends and Baptist churches of I-ents, ha elected J. Sanger Fox president. II. M. FJlacV: ice-prcHi-dent. Ed wl n Norene necretniy. J. Nt rent treasurer, and Minn Kva Bii-choff publicity manager. Uniel Swanson was appointed chairman of the public met !ng committee and 11. M. Hlat-k chnir man of the nocial committee, which will have charge of the join t picnic to be held July 4. The officer tt th federation will constitute the executive committee. There s always something ailing about trc timid hponge who demands ;t mcdh'Hl excuse for his boo.e. Painful Part is payinff for it, these hard times. We are making that very easy for you by our Kxtra Special Reduction on all work. This will enable you to have A LI, YOUR TEKTH FIXED FOR VERY LITTLE MONEY! We Give a 13-Year Guarantee Written Dentists came and go. but the Old Reliable ELECTRO j PAINLESS is always with you. Don't forget that. 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