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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1915)
TAGS BRING AID TO TAG DAY BOOTH AND WOMEN ENGAGED IN TAGGING FOR CHARITY. CITY TAX LEVY MAY MOTHERLESS BABES BEACH NINE MILLS Enthusiastic Workers Gather From Far and Near to , Plead Cause on Streets. PROMINENT WOMEN HELP In rants in Windows of Down Tow n Stores Attract Sympathetic Crowds Tiny Salesgirl Has Busy Day Accosting Throngs. 1387.2a PROCEEDS FROM BABY TAU-DAY SALES. When the proceeds of the Baby Tag day were counted last night it was found that $1587.26 had been secured. This does not in clude the outstanding, districts and the small towns, whose col- lection for the day is estimated at $600. Almost all the money was given in dimes, quarters and half dollars, although several $5 gold pieces were given. How many miles to babyland? No one eeemed to care yesterday. For Port land was the center and from many towns about people interested in the event came to help the willing- work ers of this city. Salem sent six mem bers of the society. Eighteen assist ants arrived in the morning from New berg and remained all day to sell tags. In spite of the damp weather, every one was enthusiastic and success crowned the efforts of the Louise Home and Protective League Associa tion, and Albertina Kerr Nursery Home workers. Many prominent Portland people not only gave liberally, but numerous well known philanthropic women passed all lay on the streets soliciting funds. The city's leading firms donated cribs to show the babies in decerations and conveniences. The automobiles used were donated by the automobile com panies. Telephones. buildings and everything used were given for the day by business philanthropists. Reribboned Babes Interest Many. Tn a little beribboned basket crib lay Baby Margaret, who has no father or mother. With her In the dainty Sixth-street booth were two adorable, tiny maidens who implored the passers ly for money for the 39 babies who Inhabit the Albertina Kerr Nursery Jlome. The Meier & Frank annex building served as the headquarters for the committee. The windows of that build ing were surrounded all day with in terested and admiring spectators. Babies played and swung in one win dow playground. Little Lois was brought to the home by her mother, who failed to call again. She was the prettiest and the gayest of the octette of infants who rollicked in the sand and swung in their temporary playground on baby's tag day. In an other window the wee tiny mites lay In downy white cribs. In one of the three was Baby Clarke, who was abandoned on the street wrapped in a newspaper. Work of Children Exhibited. Another feature of the home nursery work waa shown in a separate win dow, where wonderful fancy work was displayed. This is done by the older children in the home, who learn do mestic science, sewing, lace making and all womanly arts. A little Indian girl from Coos County, who lives at the -Mbertina Kerr Home, had donated her bead and basket work. Little 2-year-old Catherine's nimble fingers had created some rich lace. One of the girls had made a Hardinger embroidered tablecloth, which an art expert appraised at $50. This, too, with all the other dainty things in that window will be sold for the home. In the Louise Protective Home are ?fi mothers who stay there and work so that they may keep their children They. too. will benefit by the liberality of the baby day public. Mayor Albee's wife and daughter were among the many prominent "taggers." Sunday school workers and all were there Little 3-year-old Lucille, one of the prettiest and most energetic of the 'taggers," had sold 50 tags by 3 o'clock. LIVELY SESSION EXPECTED City Council Will Consider Effi ciency Codes Wednesday. The proposed detention home for women, -the proposed license code for the plumbing business, and the city's efficiency code will be the three sub jects of special consideration at the rejcular meeting of the City Council Wednesday. A lively session is looked for on account of the importance of the issues. Mayor Albee will ask the Council to authorize the calling for bids for con struction of the detention home for women near Troutdale. He had the question before the Council a month ago. when it was deferred until this meeting to give members of the Coun cil a chance to look into the city's financial standing. The ordinance pro viding a license fee of $12 a year for contracting plumbers and requiring a $2000 surety bond to assure good work, will be up for final passage. It was passed to third reading two weeks ago. Three proposed efficiency codes will ne up for discussion. The first will 1e that which is in effect at present the second that proposed by Commis sioner Daly comprising a part of the present code, and the third proposed by Commissioner Daly providing an entirely new code. SIGN PLACING IS ALLOWED Council I'cmiits Marking High way Routes Through Portland. Permission was granted bv the Coun cil yesterday to Arch L. Meggs. man ager of the Automobile Trail-Blazing Association, to mark the Columbia River Highway route and the Pacific Highway route through Portland. The marks will be placed on lamp posts or Telephone or telecraph poles at each In tersection along the entire route of the two highways. Mr. Meggs appeared before the Coun cil at the suggestion of R. E. Kremers. chief of the Municipal Bureau of High ways and Bridges. The Council voted unanimously in support of the plan. Anto Driver Gets Ten Days in Jail. For driving his automobile on the sidewalk Thursday night from Hoyt to Olisan street on North Ninth, J. Mc Closkey was sentenced to ten' days in jail when he appeared before Munic ipal Judge Stevenson yesterday. He save notice of appeal. If : . UH$. J?., r- W I.-1 4tln taw. . .. . t 4 - fA vfcr - v.. l" !TT ,i lis.' NSrT". n ; . ay ri V V- seT) -i y I - ' i flra? i' 5r -v ' I" ? !i - ' V,' rfAv- ? ! r r, - ST - Vy'S - 'I fss& ' . .wm s I - ' " - UIHLHIIIIH IHLI3 DLIj lillg i I Nature Study Course for Win ter Being Arranged. WORK LEADERS CHOSEN Lectures Will Treat Particularly Subjects . Tliat Bear Direct Re lation to Territory That Is Visited Most Frequently. "To him who. in the love of nature, holds communion with her visible forms, she speaks a various language." This is the thought that actuated the Mazamas in arranging their course of study for the coming Winter: In order that they may better com prehend the "various languages," whose words will strike against their ears and flash before their eyes as their ex cursions carry them into nature's li brary, they are determined to master at least the primer of a few of these divers tongues. Each Thursday night, beginning October 7, a lecture will be given in the Mazama clubroom. Northwestern National Bank building, which all members are urged to attend. For the first Thursdays in each month, the subject developed will be botany; for second Thursdays, ornith ology; for third Thursdays, geologv, and for the fourth, archaeology and local history. Committee Selection Anno nerd. All the lectures will treat partic ularly those phases of their subjects which bear direct relation to the ter ritory frequently visited by the Ma zamas, thus giving the club members op portunity to supplement their class room study with practical observation In the field. The committee selected to arrange for the study course is composed of the following members: Miss Edith Ellis, chairman; John A Lea, iL, Jb". 11 -Attractive Booth at Sixth and Washington Streets, conducted by Mrs. J. M. Stephens and Monday School Children of the Xaxarene Church. Sales lady. Helen Woodmrd. Kuxae, Ruth Kflgore. Uaby, "Baby Genevieve," a Waif of the Albertina Kerr Home. 2 Mrs. H. R. Albce and Dnuichter, Mrs. Bruce Stewart, AVIn L. Bruck to the Cause of Charity. :t Urn. George Bert Makes a Capture at Broadway and Washington. Few Oot Past Mary Edarett Baker, at Broadway and Morrison, Without a Tag. Harza. Miss Harriett Monroe and Hart K. Smith. They announce that some of the best authorities in the North west have been promised as lecturers, but arrangements have not yet been completed. Each of the four departments is un der the general direction of a leader, upon whom lies the duty of obtaining the speakers for his series. Depart mental Leaders Chosen. These leaders, all active Mazamas, devoted to the club and eager to en hance its value as a means of further ing the understanding of the natural wonders of our district, are: Botany, John A. Lee; ornithology. Jerry E. Bronaugh; geology, H. F. Harza; arch aeology and local history. Hart K. Smith." A large and enthusiastic attendance bids fair to greet this new activity of the club. The Mazamas have ex tended their interests and endeavors in many ways during the last year or two. and Jerry E. Bronaugh, the pres ident, asserts that this course of earnest study is to answer the growing demand of the more thoughtful mem bers for a deeper emphasis of the con stitutional object of the club to dis seminate knowledge of mountains and other features of the vast panorama of nature. Monmouth High Sclfcool Jteoieiis. MONMOUTH. Or., Oct. 2. (Special.) After the graduation of several large classes within tne past two years, Mon mouth High School again opened its doors last week with an increase in its enrollment of 25 per cent. The cen tral school building is crowded and the seventh and eight grades of the City Training School have moved into tne Oregon Normal building, awaiting the completion of the new training school. Investigation In Germany has shown that the partridge ats the seeds of many nox ious wMfiB and Insect destructive to plant Ufa, ihexefors deserves protection. GUARD OFFICER PLACED CAPTAIX TEBBETTS GIVEN COM MAND RGQ11R1X6 LESS TIME. Assignment to Charge of Machine Gun of Third Infantry Is In Rec ognition of Services. Captain Frank P. Tebbetts, founder and formerly commander of Troop A. Cavalry, Oregon National Guard, who resigned that charge owing to business demands, has been transferred to the staff of the Third Infantry, where his dities will not be such as to interfere seriously with his business. He has been appointed captain of the new machine-gun company of the Third Regi ment. The assignment has been made by Adjutant-General White, and is in the nature of recognition of the services given by Mr. Tebbetts in organizing the cavalry. The duties of the new assign ment are important, but will not take as much of Mr. Tebbetts' time as the cavalry work did. The assignment of Captain Tebbetts also reveals an attitude of one of the big Eastern insurance companies to meet "half way" the military prepara tion plans of the various states. Mr. Tebbetts is one of a number of its em ployes interested in the Xationa! Guard work, and instead of asking him to relinquish all active work in the Guard has enthusiastically sanctioned his takng a charge that would take less of his time from business. Under Captain Tebbetts the machine gun company has been almost fully recruited, and, according to Adjutant General White, has become an estab lished unit of the Guard service. Fully recruited, the company numbers 49 men and three officers. Inadequacy of Provision for 1915 and Loss of Liquor Revenue Is Blamed. ASSESSMENTS ALSO CLIMB Heavy I ncreaee in Cofet Over Old Co unci 1 mail! c Form of Govern ment Indicated, but Budget for 1016 Only Tentative. If the assessed value of your home is $1000 you probably will be cajled upon to donate 99 next year for tne maintenance of the city government. For the present year you contributed $7.50 tor the same service. In 1312 under Councilman. e government you contributed $6. SO for the same service. The increase for next year is de pendent, of course, upon what is done with the budget of expenditures for that year. If the salary roll stands the same, expenditures for general purposes are the same and special ap propriations are held down to a mini mum and the Council makes up the deficit which has been found this year because of too small a levy, the tax for next year will be $1.60 higher on each $1000 of assessed value. Any in creases in the budget over what was allowed for the present year will mean, of course, even a greater increase in the amount to be exacted from the taxpayers. The Council held the bud get for this year down, to what it considered the minimum. Many In creases declared necessary are pro posed for next year. AMCMments Also Go I p. The theory of the Portland system of taxation is that assessed values will increase so that the tax levy will not have to be increased to gain addition al revenue as the city grows and municipal expenses prow heavier. Hut the municipal government has Jumped the tax levy up and at the same time the assessed valuation has gone up. For the present year City Council members in their efforts to make a showing for Commission government cut the tax levy down to 7.5 mills, which means $7.50 on each $1000 of assessed valuation. The pruning was so extensive that the city may be hard pressed for funds before the next tax money is received. Levy for llMI Inadequate. The Council levied an insufficient tax levy for the present year. This means that the surplus of funds at the end of the year will be only about $300,000, as compared with J 8 40.000 balance last year. This will neces sitate makinp up next year the defi cit of this year amounting to between $300,000 and $400,0u0. A surplus of $710,000 is needed at the end of each year to carry the city over until the following year's taes are paid in. To make up :his deficit means $1.50 on each $1000 of assessed value. To make up the loss of liquor license revenue means another $ 1 on each $1000 of assessed value. To provide for what Commissioners hold is the minimum natural increase necessary in the city service will require additional money. If the Council allows all ex penditures which are provided in the tentative budgets for next year the tax levy will be $4.50 higher on each $1000 of assessed value. While the budget matter is still unsettled owing to the fact that the Council has not taken up the figures, one thing- is certain and that is the taxes for next year for city purposes will be much higher than they have been for the present year. MILITARY MOVE WAITS HIGH SCHOOL TRAINING 11. AN BRINGS OIT VARFED VIEWS. TeacneiH Committee Yet Considers Ad visability of Scheme and Recom mendatlona Are Delayed. Communications are coming to the School Board favoring and opposing the placing of voluntary military training in the Portland high schools. The ad visability of such a move is still be ing considered by the teachers' com mittee and ' recommendations to the Hoard will be made at a latr dute by Dr. Allen Welch Smith and S. P. Lockwood, who form this committee. This committee will not hold an other meeting until next week. The members say they have not as yet re ceived a definite programme, save an oral statement, from the military prop agandists and until they have some thing more definite before them they will not be able to make recommenda tions. Meanwhile tha Board is receiving recommendatioi s from organizations of various kinds and from individuals who are interested in the proposed innovation in the Portland school sys tem. Generally, the letters are favor able to the plan. The Portland Chap ter, American Institute of Banking, has forwarded a resolution in favor of the new training and the Multnomah Bar Association has a resolution on the way to the same effect. Individuals, too, are writing favorable letters on the subject. In sharp contrast to these messages Is the letter, accompanied by a reso lution, from the Central Labor Coun cil, signed by Eugene E. Smith, E. J. Stack and G. W. Stanley, the commit tee, which protests strongly against the proposed military training in schools. It is declared that militarism and war are inseparable and that to teach a child that wholesale murder is right is to develop a man to whom murder Itself Is justifiable. It is de clared that the working people of the Nation are asrainst military Instruc tion in any degree in public institu tions of learning. O.-W. R. & N. PARTY LEAVES Officials to Attend Lexington Cele bration Over Artesian Well. Officials of the O.-W. R. & N. left last night for Lexington in Morrow County to attend the celebration over the artesian well that recently was struck there. In the party were: F. V. Robinson, assistant traffic man ager; H. E. Lounsbury. general freight agent; H. C. Oliver, traveling freight agent, and C. L. Smith, agriculturist. The people around Lexington are highly elated over the discovery of the water "gusher" as they believe its presence Indicates a reservoir of water underlying all that part of the county. With a good supply of water such as is indicated by this well, the irriga tion problem, which always has been a serious one in that - seclion, will be solved. The O.-W. R. & X. Co. is preparing to co-operate with the railroad In develop ing the water supply to the fullest pos sible extent. Co mm ercial and Transient Rates Also Reduced Be ginning Today, Oct. 3, 1915. For Example: FOR TRANSIENTS, a well-furnished, outside room with bath, per day at $1.50 or, for 2 persons.. 2.00 Corner rooms with bath 2.50 or, for 2 persons . . 3.00 FACILITIES FOR THE COM M ERCIAL MA N the largest, well-equipped, perfectly lighted, combina tion sample rooms, 18x22, per day $2.50 NOTE: All service maintained on the basis that "a satisfied customer is one's greatest asset." Inquiries and reservations invited. VOYAGE HAS PRECEDENT EARLY TRAVELERS MAKE M'ESAT CHEK TRIP BY ROWBOAT. Reeent Journey Recalls Puw(e Made by HndBOB'a Bay Compaay Bat teanx Years Aro. A recent item telling of a trip from Portland to Wenatche on the Colum bia by rowbont. said to be the first time such a trip has been made, brings a communication from Ed C. Ross call ing attention to ihe fact that the trip was frequently made in the earlier days by fur traders, although In re cent years it has not often been at tempted. "More than 100 years aso," says Mr. Ross. "It Is known that the American Fur Company was making that trip, and much longer ones, on the Columbia between Astoria and points further up the river than Wenatchee In rowboats. F"or nearly half a century thereafter the Hudson's Bay Company and Its predecessor made the trip hundreds of times by rowboat "At Vancouver in June, 1843, I saw half a hundred such boats pulled up on the beach Just above the present landing of the Vancouver ferry. In this kind of boats the whole traffic of the Columbia River Basin had been carried on between the sea and the foot of the mountains, far above and beyond Wenatchee. "The boats were called "batteatix." and according to my remembrance, they must have been about 30 feet long by "even or fight feet wide, were flat bottomed and pointed at stem and stern. They were usually manned by a crew of six oarsmen and a steersman, made up of Canadian Frenchmen, half breed Indians and.sometimes full-breed Indians. "The color line was not closely drawn between these toilers at the oar. for the early arriving white man. no dif ference what his station, was usually a mixer." Portland Man Buys. Clarke Ranch. RIDGEFIELD, Wash., Oct. 2. (Spe cial.) A "large real estate deal was consummated last week when M. T. Sherrett and H. C. Sherrett disposed of their big 610-acre ranch and dairy farm on the east fork of Lewis River, to W. M. Aschenbrenner. of Portland, for a consideration of $48,000. The new owner paid part of the purchase price In cash and the balance in Portland and Forest Grove business and resi dence property. In the property trans ferred was a fine residence in Rose City Park, and also one on Portland YOUR NERVES ARE NOT UPSET AT THIS DENTAL OFFICE DR. B. E. WRIGHT I do all work personally. A guaran tee agaioat bungling; Inexperienced youths or men not adapted to the profession. For 20 yean my worlc bas stood the test In Portls.net. It is at your disposal at moderate price. 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