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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1915)
SCHOOL CLASS PRESENTATION OF "WHY SMITH LEFT HOME" HAS AMUSING SCENES. ARE DUE TO FALL Retrenchment Proposed by City Commission Centers in Few Departments. TOTAL LEVY 8.913 MILLS EMPLOYES' HEADS Bureaus Under Major Albee and 3Ir. Dieck, Composing Minority of Council, Stirrer Most Sliort age Next Year Is Foreseen. 1 ( HAOES TO BE MADE I" CITY SERVICE BY RKASO OF SEW III IX. KT. Public auditorium to be built. Five small automobiles to be provided for police patrol serv ice in residence sections. Fire station at Sixteenth and .Washington streets to be aban doned and building? to be razed. Three automobile street-flushing machines to replace 35 men and 4 2 horses. Grade crossing elimination project to be started on East Side. City to have 19 fewer police men, 12 of which positions now are vacant and seven filled. Detention home for women not to be built. . No new fire stations to be built. Roads in Mount Tabor Park to be macadamized. Lighting systems to be in stalled in Sellwood and Holladay parks. Salary roll of Department of Pnblic Works to be cut down $42,000 under 1915 expenditures. Only a few minor park im provements to be made About 75 employes to be dropped in various departments, principally in street cleaning, en gineering and health bureaus. And now comes the practical, tangi ble visible net results of air this city budget fuss which culminated Friday in the final adoption by the Council of the budget which is to govern the city's expenditures next year. The budget as adopted, presents in black and white the Council's policies for the 12 months commencing December 1. 1915, and end ing November 30. 1916 the city's fiscal year. rtetrenchm.-nt will be the policy in some branches of the city service, but not in all. Development of a few' im portant projects will be the general outstanding policy overshadowing all else. Retrenchment will apply with a particularly firm grip to the public works department, the police, fire, health, parks and the street cleaning bureaus. Most of the others will have the same amounts they had this year or with increases, having escaped the keen-edge pruning knife wielded by the Council majority Baker. Bigelow end Daly. The knife missed some of the bureaus of these three Commission ers, which were classed at the begin ning as over supplied with funds and under supplied with efficiency. It missed nothing, apparently, in the de partments of the Council minority llayor Albee and Commissioner Dieck.. Seventy-five Headn to Come Off. Upwards of 75 of the regular city employes will join the army of unem ployed about December 1 as one tangi ble result of the new budget. Thirty five of these will be from the labor forces in the street cleaning bureau, who will give way to three automobile street-flushing machines to be pur chased soon after December 1 at a cost of $15,000. Seven policemen will go along with two sanitary inspectors nnd several employes in the depart ment of public works. Mr. Dieck has to cut his salary roll down J42.000.' .lust how many men this lets out is a matter for Mr. Dieck to decide, and he hasn't decided yet. The fire station at Sixteenth and Washington streets, declared by the board of fire chiefs to be the most iiii:kic station in me city, will go. -At first it was planned to build a new station here, but later it was decided to move the apparatus to the present station at. Fourteenth and Olisan streets. The building at Sixteenth and Washington streets will be torn down oon after December 1. Fund for Aoditorlnm Provided. The public auditorium will be built The money for this will be from a JS00.000 bond issue authorized in 1911 by the voters. It became a part of the budget by reason of an item of $11 000 havinir to be appropriated next year to pay the interest for six months on tho bonds when sold. Five small automobiles are to fill 19 positions of patrolmen in the police service. Twelve of these position now are vacant and seven are filled. The machines will be used by policemen in patrolling the residence sections. All the police horses now used will be sold No new fire stations win be built. It was planned at first to erect a new building at Sellwood. a new headquar ters station, a new house for the fire boat Williams and a new station at Sixteenth and Washington streets -Ml fell victims to the Council major ity's ajt. Sixty-five thousand dollars was ap propriated for the commencement of work of eliminating grade crossings along the line of the O.-W. H. & X. from the head of Sullivan's Gulch to the city limits. This project involves about $7.10.000, of which the city will pay $130,000. Next year's appropriation will finance the city's part of the project, it is said, until the end of the year. Park Projeets Are Small. Sums were appropriated for some minor park work. The drives in Mount Tabor Park are to be macadamized lighting systems are to be installed in Sellwood and HollmJav parks- $150u is to be spent in clearing at Uenson Park, and other small items are to be spent lor park improvements, includ ing grading for playgrounds in Mount Tabor Park, construction of a wading pool in Columbia Park and the con struction of a zoo house at Washingtor Park. Retrenchment will not be felt' par ticularly by the taxpayers, because they will have to contribute for municipal purposes next year a total of $1.41 mor on each $1000 of assessed valuation than was required for the present year This is not altogether the fault of the Council, for the loss of liquor license revenue next year will amount virtual ly to $1 on each $1000 of assessed valu-o-tion. which-inust be made up bv direct taxation. " Dork Lf?r .OI3 Mill. The tax levy for next year has been fixed at 8.3 mills. This U exclusive of the levy for dock purposes, which al ways heretofore has been included in the city levy. The dock levy will amount to .S13 of one mill, which makes the total city levy 8.91S mills, as com pared with 7.3 mills for the present year. There is a serious Question about the - rr'r"' --"--C 'tXi Z-S 7 jey&At sf7n& yZrsr7, Ji council having made the levy inade quate ' for next year. The levy for 1915 was made too low, with the result inat the city will not carry over-suffi .i-ni umancp ai me end or the vear to enable it to meet its pay roll or oiner expenses during February of next year. The deficit is not made up in the 8.3 mills levy for next year, so that the same result is expected to follow In 1917. During 1915 the city has had to ap propriate for emergencies not provided for in the budget a total of $300,000. For next year the total amount that will be available for emergencies will be $12f.000. It is declared by many to be inadequate.' Commissioner Dieck and Mayor Albee stood for a higher and adequate levy. Dut.it was not allowed by the Council, majority. GARS MAYQUiTTWO LINES BSD OK IllnXMIlK VXD MARYLAND AVE.MK SENVICK IS SOIGHT. Company Argu to Council That Serv ice In of Aid to Only Few, and li I'lifn nt Bin I.omh. If the City Council is agreeable, the Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany will discontinue streetcar service on two of its lines, one on Burnside from Fifth street to Washington street, and the other on Maryland avenue from Shaver street to Prescott. Application for permission to abandon the lines was made to the Council yesterday by the company. It is said the Burnside-street line is not patronized, and is of no value to the public or the company. It has been operated for several years at a heavy loss, according to the offiicals FACTS ABOI'T CITY BrDliET AS FINALLY ADOPTED BY COl'iV'CIL. Total amount of budget as adopted for 1918, including docks, $3,254,527. x Total tax lvy necessary, 8.913 mills. Total amount of budget as adopted for 1915, including docks, $3,328.7-41. Total tax levy imposed, 7.5 mills. Total increase in 1916 budget over 1915 budget. $105,936. or 1.413 mills. Increase in budget due to Dock Commission. $20,000, or .066 of 1 mill. ot the companyand at present is of no convenience to residents of that sec tion, because of the proximity of the Washington-street lines. At most, it is said, the line is able to save an occa sional passenger a walk of one or two blocks. The Maryland-avenue line has been operated for about three years. The stub end starts at Shaver street and runs on Maryland avenue to Prescott street, a distance of 1100 feet. In that distance 'it crosses only two streets. It Is said by the company that the dis continuance of the line can increase no passenger's walk more than a quar ter of a mile. This line, it is said, is of no value and is operated at a heavy loss. It -was ..constructed at the time Oeorge K. Keusner was after a fran chise for a line, over Maryland avenue from Kenton to the West Side business district. The Portland Railway. Light & Power Company franchise carried 3 common user, so that both companies NEW PI, AY AXOIiC-F.D FOB. t LVIIIC THEATER. -Sit Frank HarrlBKton, An entertaining, bright and "decidedly humorous comedy from Dillon and King's storehouse of fun and music will be staged for the first time in this city at the Lyric Theater, commencing with the matinee today at 2:45. The. new show answers to the name of- "The Globe Trotters." and from present indications will outdistance any of its predeces sors in the race for popularity. Dillon and king will handle the main comedy roles and will be assisted by Charlie Reilly, Vera, .Lawrence. Frank Harring ton, Grace Allen. Olive Artell. the Ginger Chorus, under the di rection of Teddy LaDue, and- the Columbia Quartet. . 4 f 1 J?-. - "5, I .,11 v tsj LI I ' ' - r I flit'' v '. irrr Large audiences witnessed the pre edy. "Why Smith Left Home," by Feb urday night, at the Jefferson High Sch lently trained cast brought "Smith" th ments with high honors. The role of J Harry Kenln, who helped make the th ever held at the Jefferson High School. As the wife of Smith, Mary Town Billetdoux was portrayed by Reuben G comedy. Anna Matin was Mrs. Billet Bagley. Ralph Grabler. Gladys Blue, H Lafferty and Florence Greene. sentation of George Broadhurst's com. ruary, '16, class, Friday night and Sat ool. A large, well-chosen and excel rough the series of 'amusing predica ohn Smith was admirably played by ree-act comedy one of the best plays send was fine. The laughable General offier, who created an abundance of doux. - Others in the cast were: Ferris eston Williams, Blanch Strong, Zenobla would have used the tracks. The Port land Railway, Light & Power Company originally planned to extend this line further north, and at one time had a franchise for that purpose, but the plan was abandoned, and it is argued now that the stub-end line i3 of no use. The petitions for the abandonment of the two lines has been submitted to Commissioner Daly and referred by him to the City Council. They will b4 considered by the Council on Wednesday. LUMBER BATE IS TOPIC CARLTON OPERATOR CRITICISES Portland Mlllmrn. . their head and not permit this country to be involved in war. Aanertion Made That Parity of Tariffs Is Sot Aim but Preferential That Will Choke. Competition. That Portland millmen, instead of seeking a parity of rates over the Southern Pacific, with the mills of the Willamette Valley, are endeavoring to bring about a. rate adjustment that will put the valley mills practically out of competition against them, -was the assertion made by W. B. Dennis, of the Carlton Consolidated Lumber Com pany, in his address before the Civic League at its luncheon yesterday. The attitude of an afternoon news paper in advancing the claims of the Portland millmen. he declared to be misguided, and said that the apparent plea of the Portland mills for a parity of rates was false. He read a complaint from the Port land millmen. asking the Interstate Commerce Commission to- fix a 40-cent rate to I'tah from the valley, leaving the Portland rate at 37 H cents. -Either that is a lie." he said, "or the Portland millmen are lying when they publish the assertion that all they want is a parity of rates with the val ley mills. "There is a legitimate foundation for an inequality of rates between the valley mills and the Portland mills, and the water route open to Portland shippers more than, offsets any dis crimination in rates that may be ap parent." C E. S. Wood declared trtat the only equitable manner in which they could be settled would be for arrangement to be made for freight to be paid on a basis of the absolute service of the hauL( Edward Berwick, acting president of the National Peace Society, in the ab sence of David Starr Jordan, spoke for a short time at the opening of the programme on the subject of peace. He urged that the chief duty of the American, people at this time is to keep CHURCH RALLY DAY IS SET Young People's Federation of LrcntS Plans Work Demonstration. The 'Youhg People's 'Federation of Lents, comprising the union of Friends', Baptist. Evangelical and Methodist Churches of that district, will hold a raI'y at the Evangelical Church . t - - ... .1 1 . ji. c'. A. SECRE TARY ACCEPTS POSITION - AT Et'VENE. t - - ....! 1 . a,. t A. SECRE- 4 t TARY ACCEPTS POSITION . I i t "r ' ' " i x 1 1 , t if A -: -li A. It. Ciray. - Photo by Cuthbert. A. R. Gray, for seven years a secretary of the Y. M. C. A., has resigned from the Portland asso ciation to become general secre tary at Eugene., vice E. Kinney' Miller, -who goes as general sec retary at Tucson. Ariz. For several years Mr. Gray has been in charge of the food sup ply department of the Y. M. C. A., after a term in charge of the em ployment bureau. He also has been general secretary at Canyon City, Colo., and assistant general secretary at Houston.. Tex. He is a graduate of Chicago University, and is considered a master of ad ministration details. - ' 5 J A. v -zmr v if w m AS(W$&m DELUXE CRUISES SSraSirr rZ&A BETWEEN ai 9 .vitii SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES (San Pedro) one fares Portland to San Fran- cisco, $8, $1250, $15, $17M, $20, including meals and berth. Round-trip rate of $30 expires No vember 30. , AND Hilo and Honolulu Stopover at Hilo to See the Famous Living Volcano Kilauea "me "i r-iernai nre" by Uay and by Night. ttUn, "S. S. GREAT NORTHERN" From SAN FRANCISCO. FRIDAY. NOV. 26. 4PM From LOS ANGELES (San Pedro), NOV. 27, 4 P., M. Later Sailings Dec 16, Jan. 5, Jan. 23, Feb. 14 "ciui" jjucci, xiunoiiuu to csan Francisco FARES FROM SAN FRANCISCO: $130 ROUND TRIP- $65 $45, $35 AND UP, ONE WAY. PORTLAND-SAN FRANCISCO SERVICE SS. "Korthera Pacific" and "Great Northern" Same time and rate as by rail. Sailins-s TJnv n ic on .-j .-.-r o , ' y .u, I. Al.r""J?."1.-,"er Xorlh Bank Ticket Office. Fifth nnd Stark. Phonci. Broadirar Kill A 67I. Also 34H Wanhlnicton. Third nnd ilorrl- w i mru ) i.. im i n I ru st. C. U. Stone, G. T. M Great Northern i'aciric r.s. Co.. 6i5 Market St., San Francisco. Wednesday night. December 1. under the leadership of President J. S. Fox. An interesting demonstration of the work as carried on by the Young Peo ple's Societies will- be given. At 7:30 o'clock the home mission department will conduct a short service on Main (Ninety-second) street. Lents, durjns? which time an exact presentation of the mission work, as performed on nlKht a month at the Portland Com mons Mission by certain -members of the federation, will be given. Then the members and friends will retire to the church for the remainder of the pro gramme, which will be presided over by the heads of the various depart ments. Music will be a special feature. A cordial. welcome is extended espe cially to. strangers, as the present aim of the federation is "One Hundred New Members on December 1st." . . several meetings in Seattle, where those who went -with her will attend officers' meetings. Miss Booth then will go on to Spokane and the East. The Salvation Army workers who are in Seattle will return to Portland Tuesday. MISS BOOTH GOES NORTH delegation of Portland Followers Is Kscort to Seattle. ' Miss Eva Booth, leader of the Salva tion Army in America, -was accompa nied to Seattle yesterday by & number of prominent Portland workers, among whom were Captain John Andrews, Ensign Florence Togue and Mrs. Fan nie Gale. Friday night Miss Booth addressed a, meeting at the White Temple, and yesterday morning left Portland at 11 o'clock. A large number accompanied Miss Booth to the train. She will hold BEST FOR LIVER, BOWELS STOMACH HEADACHE, COLDS They Uven the Liver and Bowels and Straighten You Right Up. Don't Be Bilious, Constipated, Sick, With Breath Bad and Stomach Sour. Tonight sure! Take Cascarets and en Joy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever experienced. Wake up with your head clear, stomach sweet, breath right and feeling fine, tic rid of sick headache, biliousness, constipa tion, furred tongue, sour stomach, bad colds. Clear your skin, brighten your eyes, quicken your step and feel like doing a full day's work. Cascarets are bett-r than salts, pills or calomel be cause they don't Bhock the liver or gripe the bowels or cause inconveni ence all the next day. Mothers should give cross, sick, bil ious, feverish children a whole Cas caret any time, as thev cannot Indira tie. thirty, leet of. tender bowels- Adv. j , Toledo Has Two Vires. CENTRALIA, Wash., Nov. 13. (Spe cial.), The new country residence of Isaac Koisti. two and a half miles northeast of Toledo, was burned to the ground Thursday by. fire that appar ently started in the kitchen. The flames had gained such headway when they were discovered that there was no chance to save any of the house hold effects. The home of William Leach across the river from Toledo, was threatened by fire Monday, but prompt work by neighbors saved it from destruction. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to our manv iJIf."?" 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