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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1915)
16 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIATf, PORTLAM) OCTOBER 10,. 1915. MR. BAKER DENIES HE'S WITH COMBINE Budget Economy Plan Not Bound by Agreement, Says Commissioner. COMMITTEE IS NOT, NAMED counts in the Public Works and other departments, which cost much money, but are cumbersome, and do. nobody any good, and cutting- down the em ployes in the Public Works and other departments to a hard-time .basis, would save much money to the tax payer and make commission govern ment a real. economy, but this will take backbone. "This is no time for raising salaries, when-other cities on the Coast, due to hard times, are reducing salaries. There arc plenty of people ready and willing to take the places of city em ployes who quit. It, therefore. Is not DUAL ROLE TAKEN BY BAD-CHECK IN Meetings Begin ' Tomorrow Stormy Sessions Are Anticipated Pro posals to Eliminate Certain -Positions May Cause Row. A report to the effect that Commis sioners Baker, Blgelow and Daly have combined to go down the line for econ omy in the 1916 municipal budget of ex penditures was denied yesterday by Mr. Baker. He declares that he has formed no combination and has no intention of following such a plan, not even to the extent of joining in on a "gentlemen's agreement." "This talk about a combination is without any grounds," said Mr. Baker yesterday. "I have not made any agree ment and do not intend to do so. I have collected data and propose to go down the line for economy on my own accord, regardless of what the others may do. I have every reason to expect support in the plan, But it is not be cause of any understanding or agree ment on the subject with others. I hope to win on an economy plan be cause I think the data I have collected will Justify this end." The Council begins tomorrow after noon at 3 o'clock to tear into the bud get. The Council and citizens' advisory committee will m-et at that time and organize and prepare for the series of meetings at which the budget of each department will Le considered. Just who will comprise the official budget committee this time Is uncer tain. Two years ago it included the Council. City Auditor Barbur. Purchas ing Agent Wood and the secretary of the Municipal Civil Service Board. Last year the purchasing agent and civil service secretary were cut off. Wheth er or not Auditor Barbur will ' be on the committee this year is a question which may stir up a fuss at tomorrow's meeting. Stormy Sessions Expected. Stormy sessions are anticipated be cause of the great need of holding down expenses, both to make the city's finan cial ends meet in 1916 without an ex orbitant tax levy and to make a show ing for commission government, which o far has cost more than the old form. It is expected the Mayor's department, that of public safety, will be considered first. There will be a squabble over the question of purchasing five police automobiles, as proposed by Mayor Al bee, and there will be a move made to cut down the force by 20 positions, ten of which are temporarily vacant now and ten of which are filled at present. It is very doubtful whether appropria tions for new firehouses will be al lowed. FOBltiona May Be Eliminated. In the health bureau there will be a fuss over increasing the salary of City Health Officer Marcellus and others. An effort may be made to eliminate one or two or the existing positions. In the water bureau there will be a fuss on the question of retaining about ten men engaged in sending out water bills to flat-rate water users, who formerly got along without bills because of their knowing -when the bills are due and knowing the amount, which is the same each time payment is due. Commissioner nieck's department, of public works", will be one center of at tack. An effort will be made to lop off some of the positions and some of ti.e salaries of higher-ups. This plan may succeed, particularly in the cases of men doing speclc.l work. The ques tion of paying city laborers a straight $3 a day will be subject of discussion. A plan is to be presented to have a graduated scale o: wages ranging from $2.50 a day to 3 a day on the basis of the ablltty of the men. If City Auditor Barbur is on the bud get committee he will go down the line on his established plan of refusing sal srv increases to employes receiving $100 a month or more. mean kcoxo.my de.maxdeu Kat Side Business Men Vrgc City to Drop Many Kmployes. A special committee from the East Bide Business Men's Club, appointed to suggest where the city commissioners might prune the budget and cut the tax levy, through the chairman. L. M. I.eppe. has prepared its report, which has gone to the commissioners for their consideration. Many unique sugges tions are made, especially in the mat ter of inspection, and the paper asks that all inspectors be dismissed and their work be placed on the shoulders of policemen and firemen. The report says they have ample time for the pur pose. "Why not abolish all inspectors." says the report, "and train the police officer on each beat and let him .do that work? Abolish all health in spectors, building inspectors, market inspectors, sign inspectors, sewer in spectors, sidewalk inspectors, smoke Inspectors, waterworks inspectors, dep uty superintendents, deputy sidewalk Inspectors, assistant sidewalk inspect ors, inspectors of sidewalk inspectors, fruit inspectors, scale inspectors and assistants of all sorts. "By mapping out and systematizing the wcrli of the Police Department, the policeman on each beat could cover his district In all these respects and do all this inspection work on his dis trict just as well as not. Tt would keep him alive, make a better police man of him and make him of some value to the community compared to present conditions. School the police to do the work of inspectors and save many thousands of dollars paid out for inspection alone. "Such system would cut the public works expense one-half. It would re duce the health office expense one half. And in the cut-districts, by hav ing the firemen in their fire districts perform the dual work of police and fire patrol, it would give the firemen the needed exercise. By systematizing the . patrol the police force could be reduced considerably and at the same t'me familiarize the firemen thorough ly with their districts. Kadi fire sta tion could be made a sub-police sta tion, and why not? They are all city employes In the s ime departments. The "Fire Department would be made bet ter and police expense reduced. Par ticularly, thl plr n could be co-ordinated with Mayor Albee's proposed nuto-police patrol. Rarely can a police man b" found on his beat anyway." In closing, the report says: "By simplifying the accounting sys tems at the City Hall, the paying sys tem, purchasing system. water ac rou.its. cutting o"t a great mass of needless and useless statistical ac- : - - s-Vt lit : (c-t i , fvv l ; - , 4 i ' f JrJ v I I- - . v ;y &-''; A Hvl A! x t V- V J ; Si Jack Graham, Believed to Be t Check Swindler Operating on J , Jekyl and Hyde Deal Person- I WOMAN COMPANION HELD Jack Graliana, Believed to Be Check Swindler Operating on Jekyl and Hyde Dnal Personality. good business to raise salaries when the business depression is on, but the tax- levy should be kept to the lowest practical limit DENTAL CLINIC IS SOUGHT Health Officer Recommneds Kreo Daily Children's Treatment. Xeed of maintaining? a fr;e dental clinic for poor school children every morning during- each week of the school season instead of only on Satur days is pointed out in the monthly health report of City Health Officer Marcellus, sent to Mayor Albee yester day. The report shows that of 15,265 school children examined by medica inspectors lost month, 500 had defect ive teeth- It is said by Dr. Marcellus that the maintenance of the clinic every morn ins would enable the performance of a great deal of work which is not now done because of the inability of the city's dentist to handle it by working only one day a week. The expense would be but little greater, he says. COLOR PICTURES OFFERED Members of State Societies Invited to See Artistic Slides. As guests of the Chamber of Com merce the members of the state clubs which form the Federated State Socie ties have been invited to view the Won der Color Photos, presented by Henry Berger and Frank i. Jones. The club are invited to the Chamber of Com merce Thursday evening at & o'clock, The "Berger pictures," as the Won der Color Pictures have heretofore been known, have been one of the fines attractions that have been presented Portland visitors during the Hummer. Mr. Berger has so far perfected color photography as to be able to reproduc scenes in their natural colors. Hi slides embrace all sections of the Co lumbia River Highway, Crater Lake an many other scenic wonders of the state, Seizins the Advantage. Chattanooga News. "What are you boys making such racket down there for?" "Why, we re two big nations gone to war." "But what are you both pummelin; poor little L reddie for? "Oh, he's neutral, so he can't fight.1 . Graham, Posing as Honor able Laborer and Heidel berg Graduate, Arrested. of Printers Suspicions When Blank Cheeks Are IMOXKKR OV I'MVKIISITY PARK SKCTIOX IS I.XlD TO R EST. : j - I-Ti lit C. Hart. Eewitt C Hoyt. whose funeral was held October 6. was one of the pioneers of University Park, having been identified with the prowth of that section from the beginning. He settled there more than SO years agro. when Univer sity Park was practically noth ing but forest. Air. Hoyt was born in Wal worth. Wis. He served through the Civil War as a member of the Twenty-third Wisconsin Volun teers. He was a member of Gen eral Compson Post. O. A. H.; Peninsula Lodge. No. 128. Inde pendent Order of Oddfellows, and the United Artisans. No. 3. He leaves a widow. Mrs. Nellie Hoyt. and six children. Mrs. Hattie Wolfe, Mrs. Mlna I.elgh. Mrs. Ethel Reynolds. Karl C. Edgar L. and Verne C. Hoyt. Aroused Sought and Detect It es Make Capture When Flight Is Planned. ' Like a modern Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, one hour posing as a working- man with an honorable discharge and a pay check to be cashed, and the next setting: himself tip . as a debonair Heidelberg graduate, parading in styl ish clothes and living with a pretty woman in one of the most fashionable apartment-houses of Xob Hill, Jack Graham, a bad-check man wanted in San Francisco, who confessed that the police of Los Angeles, Omaha and Salt Lake City were looking for him, was arrested yesterday afternoon as he left the Meier & Frank store. He had taken fright at the alertness of em ployes who had been warned of hi; coming. So cleverly was his double characterization carried out that au thoritles believe the woman in the case does not know of his check operations. Graham is a German by birth. graduate, so he says, of Heidelberg. In appearance he looked the wealthy young man he posed as, and, had he not been trailed for several days by de tectives who had been on the scent since last Thursday, would never have been connected with the roughly clothed workingman who had bogus pay checks in his possession. Eight checks, ranging in amount from $35 to S8o, were on his person when he was arrested. He admitted planning to cash them after the banks had closed yesterday and leaving the city at night. on the chance that the hoax would not be- discovered until the checks went to the banks Monday morning. Woman Also Held. Manager Francis S. Alkus and oper atives of the Burns Detective Agency, acins: with City Detectives Tlchenor. Cahill, Royle and John Moloney, made the capture. The woman, who gave the name of Mrs. Mildred Thomas, was arrested at the apartment-house, where she was posing as the wife of Graham. who was there known as J. M. Bar rett." Both were held at the City Jail last night, Graham for "investigation and Mrs. Thomas on a vagrancy charge. Graham, which may not do tne man s real name, used the following aliases. H. W. Gorham. J. B. Barrett, Frank Matirer. Paul Hart, and Paul Gray. Mr. Alkus. of the Burns Agency, working in the Interest of the American Bann ers' Association and the Oregon Asso ciation, considers it a very important catch. "C. A. Schmltt" was the name signed as an officer of all the companies on which Graham obtained pay checks. Countersipners were also fictitious. From local printing offices, Graham, representing himself as agent for the American Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association, got pay-check blanks oi the Oregon Electric Company, Timms, Cress & Co., and Roberts Brothers, among other firmsN Suspicion of Printer Aroused. Graham came to Portland Wednes day from San Francisco, where he had succeeded in cashing checks of $32.60 each on the Emporium and White House department stores. Thursday his inquiries about check blanks, letter-heads, envelopes, vouchers, etc., at the offices of the Kublli-Miller Company aroused suspicion. . and the Burns Agency was notified. From that time on. Graham was shadowed, day and nitht. It was found that he was living at 3. fashionable apartment house, paying $30 a month advance rent. Letters of recommendation, signed C. A. Schmidt, were ordered at public stenographers and checks were type-written. . His mode of operation was to show the let ters proving an honorable discharge, if Questioned, when he presented tb check paid him when he "left employ." "Working" Suit Donned. Yesterday afternoon he was followed to his apartments, and was seen later to emerge in a cheap suit and a blue flannel shirt. He took a streetcar to the center of town and went , to Meier & Frank's. Detectives swarmed about bv that time, clerks were too ; lert, and he became suspicious. After present ing the check, he changed his mind frnd left the store. He was arrested out side. "I felt that something was wrong and nlanned to leave the city to-night he said at tne jail laier. ne aomuiea that his plans included a swift de Darture if he succeeded, in passing tin checks. The woman, so far as Is known, took no direct part in the check passing schemes. In a confession made to Detective Captain Baty and Mr. Alkus, Graham said that he had lost $800 in the res taurant business in Chicago a year ago. since which time he had been living on his wits, passing checks in Omaha, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles. San Francisco and other cities. He is well educated and of pleasing appearance. FAN IS WORTH $15,000 Dowager Empress of Japan Gives Present to American Woman. SAX FRANCISCO. Oct. 7. Having in her possession one of the most val uable fans in the world, valued at $15, 000 and a present from the late Em press Dowager of Japan. Mrs. Charles Burnett, wife of Lieutenant Burnett. United States Army, has arrived home from a trip to the Orient. Mrs. Burnett is one of the most noted Japanese scholars in the world. She has translated many of the older Jap anese poems and prose works, artd it was because of translations done for the Empress that she received the fan. She was accompanied home by her sister, Mrs. A. S. Hanlon. syimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir WhatH araenedtoTTCiat a d - tt Rump? -iiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiij We saw it were braced for the shock and nothino- hannpnprll Over the obstruction we went as if on wings." This surprise comes to all who first ride in a Mitchell. Later you get accustomed toythe fact that all roads are smoothed out under the tremendous swing of this new "Mitchell SIX of M6." One enthusiast on Mitchell comfort say 's the overwhelming success of this new car is due to its easy riding qualities., This is the first car built in which the passengers in the rear seat ride as comfortably as the driver. Another ascribes it to the Mitchell action the quick getaway, the instant stop. Other owners enthuse over Mitchell appearance: long, sym metrical lines suggesting power and poise. , The Mitchell is the greatest car value ever offered. It answers the demands of all the family: style and easy riding for the "womenfolk," speed and "snap" for the boys; and the long life and strenuous service which all practical needs demand. This all-around usefulness accounts for the fact that "every 'SIX of '16' car sells another." See the Mitchell distributor at Portland or any Mitchell Dealer in the Northwest for Demonstration. Drive the car yourself. "Get the Personal Touch." Three-Passenger Roadster $ Five-Passenger Touring Car Seven-Passenger Body' $35 extra n Frio i.oi. Rmctna Demountable Sedan Top, making all-year-round car, $ 1 Q S extra Racine. Wis, U.S.A. Oemr Eighty Yman of Faithful Smroic to ths AimWcon PwhBm MITCHELL-LEWIS & STAVER CO. A SIX OP '! AT YOm DISPOSAL SHOW ROOM. EAST MORRISON AND FIRST. PORTLAND, Oil. piDiuuir iiiiiiffliniiiiiiiiiiiiiw WIFE SUES RICH IN Millionaire Said to Have Smashed Furniture. SOCIETY MATRON STRIKES CHILEAN CHAPLIN CAUGHT Penguin's Walk Immediately Sug gests Name to Spectator. NEW TORK, Oct. 3. You can now sea Charlie Chaplin in the movies or you can see him in the aquarium it you happen to be in New York. The "Charlie" in the aquarium has just arrived from Chile, where he was caugrht on a fish hook by W. O. Swat ridge, chief engineer, of th steamer Santa Cruz. As soon as he waddled across the floor of the aquarium everybody knew what to name him. He Is a, pensuin. . - Mrs. Edith I'raneke, Xew York So cial Belle," Alleges Wealthy Sugar Importer Kcquested to Leave Hotel in Havana. XEW YORK. Oct. 3. Mrs. Edith E telle Francke, a well-known society matron, has filed suit in the Supreme Court for legal separation from Dr. Pedro Francke, retired physician and millionaire sugar importer. -According to Mrs. Francke's allega tions, she. and her husband went to live at Far Rockaway, and it was not long before the. doctor began to . drink heavily. . Slie says he used violent lan guage and broke up the furniture. Mrs. Francke avers her husband hit her in 1910. The wife declares Francke KXilVKKR WHO RESIGNED FROM CITY SERVICE. t was treated by Dr. Louis Lambert. and when he recovered she accom panied him to Cuba, In the hope that he would give - up his drinking. In Cuba. Mrs. Francke alleges, she and the doctor lived with her husband's brother, but it was not long before the doctor was requested to leave be cause of his drink habit. They went to the Hotel Ingleterre. Havana, where the doctor became vio lent. Mrs. Francke alleges, so that the hotel management requested him to leave. She and her sister, the wife continues, finally persuaded the doctor to leave Havana, and got him to go to Dr. Armstrong's sanitarium at Katonah. New York. "I was implored on April 12 last year." Mrs. Francke says in the suit, "to return to him, and I consented to the reconciliation, and we sailed for Cuba. In the steamer stateroom he be came violent, and hit me with his fiBts. It was necessary to call the ship's physician." The most serious attack on her oc curred last Summer. Mrs. Francke alleges. She declares she escaped him d- a ruse and arranged with Dr. Fred erick Peterson, an alienist, to have francke sent to Dr. Browns training camp at Garrison. N. Y. Mrs. Francke says that she has been compelled to borrow money from friends to support herself since Jan uary 1. She says her husband received $500,000 from a brother's estate, and is also possessed of a fortune of his own. Dr. francke married his nresent wife In Toronto, two years after he was divorced. His first wife La living with ner two cnuaren at 10 i;a;t Fifteenth street. Since his retirement he has been connected with the Francke-Hijos Sugar Company at 88 Wall street. . ROW BRINGS SPITE FENCE 4 J. IV. Lee. J. W. Lee. for nearly tour years an engineer in charge of removal of dirt slides, grass and weeds and street and sewer work, ten dered his resignation from the service yesterdaj- to go into the concrete pipe business in Salt Lake City. He will quit the city service on Wednesday. Mr. Lee got a civil service ap pointment in 1912. at which time he took up sewer and street work under the City Kngineer. A year and a half ago he was placed in charge of the bureau for the removal of weeds, grass, dirt-slides and other nuisances. Commissioner Dieck has not de cided upon a successor. St. Louis - Families Obdurate Quarrel Started by Boys. in ST. LOUIS, Oct. 4. Building Com missioner McKelvey has been-asked to decide on the legality of a spite fence as a result of an objection made to the Complaint Board by J. C. Estes, of oo2 laoanua avenue, superintendent of the Mermod. Jaccard & King Jewelry Company. The fence is owned by S. C. McCormack. president of the McCor- mack-Combs Construction Company, wno resioes at das cabanne avenue. McCormack said the fence was built as a result of trouble between the .two families, but he would not go into de tails. sirs. .stes said the trouble arose over a quarrel between her 8-year-old son, Chilton, and Carson McCormack, son of her next-door neighbor, who is the same age. As a result of the row the police have been called in on three occasions. The light is cut off from three rooms of the Estes apartment. McCormack declares he built the fence to force the Estes family to move. Estes and his wife declare they "intend to stick." Mrs. Estes said the trouble arose laat May. when Carson McCormack and het son quarreled and young McCormack threw rocks at her son. She said she complained to the elder McCormack and he told her to keep her boy out of his yard. She said that last July, when she had just returned to her home from a hos pital and was ill. young McCormack visited a family in the apartment she occupies and jumped up and down on the floor, causing her much annoyance. This charge the elder McCormack de nied Mrs. Estes asserted she complained to the elder McCormack and then tele phoned to Chief of Police Toung and asked if he could not prevent the boy from disturbing her. A policeman went to the McCormack home, and Mrs. Kstea a a AlcCormack, - told- him lie Obese (Fat) People After 15 years, we have secured one of the Electric Obesity Machines, discovered by M. Bergome, Paris, France. Absorbs from 20 to SO pounds a month no pain, no heat, no starving, no danger. Investigate. Free consultation. The finest Electrical Office in the city. 312 Swetland Bldg. Main 5574. would not keep his boy from annoying her, and told the policeman the Mayor was a friend of his. McCormack says he refused to talk to the policeman. McCormack says he consulted his lawyer and had the fence erected in July. It is built of sheet iron and is built almost directly against three win dows of the Estes apartment. According to Mrs. Estes' story, she obtained a screwdriver and punched a hole in the fence. McCormack saw her and called the police, but no arrest was made. A few days later she worked the fence with wire cutters and cut an opening to admit light and air to one of the rooms. This resulted in an other call for the police, and she was told not to disturb the fence further. The fence still remains in place, though damaged in some places. Mc Cormack maintains it is legal. The Estes family declare it is Illegal. Estes made objection to the Complaint Board, and his letter was referred to Build ing Commissioner McKelvey. The Com missioner replied he would make an in vestigation and abate any nuisance that might be found. Please, bother says she's much bet ter of the complaint wot you gives "er quinine for. but she's awful ill of the disease what's cured by port wine and chicken broth. Chronic. London Tit-Bits. Small boy (to charitable lady) Humphreys' Seventy-seven For Grip, Influenza, "There's nothing so bad for a Cough as Coughing." Coughing is like scratching a wound; so long as it is done, it will not heal. When tempted to Cough, draw a long breath through the nostrils; hold it until it warms the air cells. The nitrogen thus refined, allays the desire to cough and gives the throat and lungs a chance to heal. The use of "Seventy-seven" will aid nature in her efforts to recuperate. T.Tc sr.4 sl.or. mt all rtrusit or mslli Humphreys Houmo. Medicine Co., 138 Wll Uua Btroot, Js'ew York. .. BIG EATERS GET KIDNEY TROUBLE SAYS AUTHORITY Take a Tablespoonful of Salts to Flush Kidneys if Back Hurts. Omit All Meat From Diet if You Feel Rheumatic or Blad der Bothers. The American men and women must guard constantly against kidney trouble, because we eat too much and all our food is rich. Our blood is filled with uric acid which the kidneys strive to filter out. they weaken from over work, become sluggish; the eliminative. tissues cglog and the result is kidney troubles, bladder weakness and a gen eral decline in health. When your kidneys feel like lumps of lead: your back hurts or the urine is cloudy. full of sediment or you are obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night: if you suffer with sick headache or dizzy, nervous spells, acid stomach, or you have rheumatism when the weather Is bad, get from your pharmacist about four ounces of Jad !alts: take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and oi:r kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juire. combined with Ifthia. and has been used for generations !o flush and stimulate clogged kidneys to neutralize the acids In the urine so It no longer is a source of irritatV'n. thus ending bladder dis orders. Jad Salts is inexpensive; csnnot in jure, makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water beverage, and belongs In every home, because nobody ran make a mistake by having a good kidney flushing any time. Adv,