The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, October 21, 1917, SECTION TWO, Image 30

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Newspaper Page Text6 THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 21, 1917. k - s X- 5 t BUILDING IS SLOW; FEW CITIES GlIN Activity Throughout Country Shows General Decrease in Recent Peripd. PORTLAND IN 76TH PLACE Only 38 of 115 Towns Do More Con struction Tbis September Than Last, "With Actual Decrease or About 2 7 Per Cent. The monthly statement of building permits, issued in the principal cities throughout the United States has re cently acquired a new and more im portant significance because of the in dex it furnishes of the extent in which the so-called "usual business" of the country is being maintained, in the face of the strenuous military and na val efforts which the Nation is making. Viewed in that light, the situation that is presented is not without its comfort in? aspects, that is, the shrinkage is less than might have been expected. If the dismal reports that are made con cerning the building: industries in many business centers were to be ac cepted at par, the condition of things would be distressing. But it is far from being so bad as that. The official reports of the building permits issued during September in 115 principal cities, as received by the American Contractor, Chicago, total $ol,751,484. as compared with $70,980, 3 61 for September, 1916, a decrease of 27 per cent. The comparative decrease in August was 33 per cent, so that by comparison the situation appears to pbe slightly improving. The actual de crease in the volume of work is some what in excess of 27 per cent, however, inasmuch as costs are greater than a year ago. Of these 115 cities 38 show gains, a few of them decisive gains. Among them is New Haven, Conn., where the constructional activities of Yale Uni versity have been very conspicuous re cently. Cleveland shows a gratifying expansion, due to the growth of its in dustries. New York City has greatly reduced the unfavorable showing it has been making in recent months. Indus tries are thriving in the various cen ters, largely to the degree to which they are participating in the manufac ture of supplies used in our National emergency. The total number of permits issued in these 11$ cities for the month was 18.4D1, compared with 27,244 for Sep tember, 1916, a decrease of 30 per cent. The details are as follows: .September 1017. lHlrt. Estimated Estimated Pet. City coat. cost. loss. Akron. O fl.li:i.4nQ $l.s;3.740 SS Albany. N.Y 150.572 IMS, 553 30 Ailentown, Pa... 77.5S0 74,40 4 Alloona. Pa 38.874 t;0.o:; 75 Atlantic City. N.J. K0.7S7 18H.S77 79 Auburn. N.Y ln.n-Jn 17.1K5 JU Baltimore. Md.. 2;io.l:i0 652. 40 58 Bayonne, N.J.... 21,00 326.S42 83 Eeikeley. Cal.... 52,4io l::o,100 r.u Biiighamtnn, N.Y. t5.107 ltfu,319 Gil Jllrralngham .... 137.31B ::02.HU1 f.3 Huston and vic'y. 2,732.000 C, 13:i.000 4ti Bridgeport. Conn. 615.147 547.541 12 Brockton, Maes... 37,160 11:11 0B Buffalo, N.Y l,n4.lnil 1.23.0"0 17 Canton. 0 252.2B0 2A7.400 3 5 Cedar Rapids, la. Hi.ouO 377.0O0 45 Chattanooga. .... 4U.331 7'J.272 4lf ChicaBO 4.334.4110 8.579.55U 4 Cincinnati 7!N,'.t5 MI2.0:lo 7 Cleveland 3.310.075 2.713.7S0 22 Colorado Springs. 3.3;m 23.0S7 S5 Columbus. 0 220.M0 54.OH5 HO Dallas. Texas.... 1.205 741. Of 1 ravenport fS.S70 122.145 45 Davton, O 6o:i.727 84 Denver. Colo.... 654.410 372..".10 7J Ilea Moines 72.025 104. 37 SB Detroit 2.273.7H0 4,fcH.545 53 Dubuque. Ia..... 2S.525 57.1O0 50 Duluth. Minn 342.140 315.00S S Kast Oranse, N'.J. R.23S 4fl:i.02) 78 Kast St. Louis... 175.1'3B 57.235207 EJizabeth. N.J... 82.',20 1B3.W42 50 Krie. Pa 3B.h3 217.311 23 Kvansvllle. Ind.. 3S:i.520 13S.1H!)H2 Kt. Wayne. Ind.. OlS.flO S2.u:0 57 Ft. Worth. Texas. 0B.543 112.303 41 Grand Rapids... 32. 100 10M.4O5 7 Harrisburg, Pa.. 2ol.255 4Mi.u7u 47 Hartford. Conn.. 47S.23B 240.407 94 Haverhill, Mass.. 2.:150 00.25O 51 Habokcn 33.S7.i 471. S-S U.1 ifolyoke. Mass... 17(i.!lo0 7S.700l-3 Huntington. W.Va. 63,343 72.10 12 Indianapolis 603. 401 StW.IGS 23 Jacksonville 22.S5S 131.450 83 Kansas City. Kan 100.407 51.400 04 Kansas Citv. Mo. U43.2S0 8v2.7n HI Lawrence. Mass.. 40.743 1S1.7D0 73 Lincoln. Neb 124. S55 119. 7HO 4 Los Angeles 013. Mio 013.173 33 Louisville SO. 000 201.510 60 Manchester, N.H. 5.774 138.5:16 57 Memphis 2:.2.fl55 IWO.fiSS '5 Milwaukee 0K0.11S 061.040 "1 Minneapolis 700.7S5 l.l..0.- 50 Newark. N. J. 610.2O7 570.573 N. Bedford, Mass. 113.274 380.300 7o N. Britain, Conn.. 31.". 025 123.000 7 N. Haven. Conn.. 2.741. 7 323.045746 New Orleans. La. 8U.306 20S.54U OS New York City Manhattan .... 3.425.SS9 3,338.511 3 Bronx 302.313 7S0.S63 61 Brooklyn 2,50.74T 2.0OU.40H "1 Viiecua 483. 431 3,123,703 57 Kichmond 440,010 125. 783250 Total 7.BO2.009 8.276.370 8 Niapara Falls. . .. IBS. 410 233.205 30 Norfolk. Va 8.S.150 S2.247 "7 Oakland. Cal 105.716 4:'.o.253 55 Oklahoma City. .. 214.2:15 30,423 12 Omaha. Neb 73R.04O 715.703 Pasadena. Cal.... 74.2O0 103.70S 62 Passaic. N. J 301.510 1 l!i.0S153 Paterson. N. J... 330.020 142.S27 2 Peoria. Ill 127.4:12 201. SS0 37 Philadelphia. Pa. 2.252,75 8.301.310 32 Pittsburg, P 731.0:10 1.4OT.0O4 48 Tortland. Me S4.413 7X.7O0 14 Portland. Or 1S4.2S5 1.31S.7SO S Pueblo Colo 13.440 17.BHO 24 Quini v. Mass 147.0S3 130.605 S Reading. Pa 257. 5O0 303.075 5S Hichmond. Ya. ... O0.7S0 330.453 72 Rochester. N. Y . . 015. S77 604.12S SS Sacra memo. Cal.. 10:1.174 2:;3.057 50 Saginaw. Mich. . . 20.O73 31.720 3 Salem. Mass 37.080 145.605 74 Salt Lake Citv... 335. Ron 340.000130 San Antonio, tex. 32O.0R5 85.055 '41 San Diego. Cal... 55.203 251. 3oo 7S San Francisco.... 1.137,085 1.203.4S3 10 How War Affects Real Estate The block bounded by 78th and 79th streets, Fifth and Madison avenues, New York City, contains 34 lots. It sold in 1852 for $3000, or $88 per lot. Resold in 1853 for $4500, or $135 per lot. Resold in 1S54 for $10,000, or $295 per lot. It resold in 1857 for $40,000, or $1180 per lot, to George Douglas. This was before the -war. After the war, in 1869, $1,250,000, or $36,500 per lot, was offered Mr. Douglas by Mr. Vanderbilt and refused. The figures are quoted from the report to the New York Legislature by the commission to select and locate lands for public parks, created by act of the Legislature of New York, chapter 253, Laws of 18S3. From $1180 per lot before the war to $36,500 per lot after the war that is how war affected lota in New York City. Will it do the same in Portland? Seven thousand million dollars will be distributed among the people of the United States to pay for war supplies. Think of it! Think of the money that will be made and will have to be invested. Everything has gone up in value but Real Estate. Com mon sense tells you Real Estate must go up. Real Estate is now at the bottom. Now is the time io buy it. PORTLAND REALTY BOARD. 'it 4 If (C tun i ;" - J it". :'';;... :m... - ; - "f 1,1 " i a ' i W ' " J Ft-:. wmm FOIH SIX-ROOM APARTMENTS II." MODERN BUILDING. Such extra conveniences as electric washing machines and vacuum cleaners are installed in the new two-story apartment-house just completed by F. E. Bowman & Co., on, the quarter block at East Six teenth and Tillamook streets, in Irvington, at a cost of f 20,000. There are four apartments of six rooms each in the new building. Each apartment has hardwood floors, tile baths, large fireplaces with mahogany mantels, bookcases and sunrooms. The interiors are fin ished throughout in mahogany and white enamel, and the walls are decorated in imported wall coverings and are tinted in soft grays and putty shades. ' The exterior is of cement stucco with black ornamental iron trim, such as flower boxes ana balconies. The entrance is especially attractive and the hall is finished in mahogany and white. Pan Jose. Cal..... Savannah, Ga.... Scranton, Pa Seattle. Wash .... Sioux City. la . South Bend. Ind.. Spokane, Wash... Springfield, 111... Springfield, Mass. St. Joseph, Mo... St. Louis, Mo. ... . SU Paul, Minn. . .. Stockton, Cal Superior, Wis..... Syracuse,. N. Y. .. Tacoma. Wash... Terre Haute, Ind. Toledo, O , Topeka. Kan..... Troy. N. Y ftica, N. Y Washington, D. C. Wichita, Kan Wlkesbarre, Pa... Wilmington. Del.. Worcester. Mass.. Youngstown, o. . 72.B55 22.240 123.303 441.800 254.430 82.2O0 40.040 3 52.2S2 380.255 25,210 858.102 200.4U2 .-.7.0B3 39.137 329.002 1 02.308 31S.0BS 650.027 3 80.980 105.1RO 231.600 773.B45 20H.04O 1J,7R 75.104 247.702 2S7.040 74.071 1 52,624 58 70.04S 74 620.140 2S 183,750 "38 3 96.741 58 163,422 75 77.850 96 412.615 56 48,005 48 1.704,770 52 442.410 4 31.550 84 144.769 73 542.290 39 142.692 28 44,127170 670,836 3 42.601346 34.010473 164.110 41 1,009,744 30 87.815136 100.257 74 181.425 CS 587.050 5S 395.245 27 Totals .754.434 f70.880.181 27 KEAIiTY BOARD SUPPORTS IiOAX Total of $10,500 Already Subscribed to Bonds, and More Expected. Members of the Portland Realty Board have already subscribed a total of $19,500 to the second liberty bond loan, and they expect to make even a better showing in the final drive. At the Realty Board luncheon held at the Benson Hotel Friday, $1650 was subscribed in five minutes after E. J. Adams. State Highway Commissioner, and Frank McCrillis had made stirring talks on behalf of the bonds. The special committee from the Realty Board that is obtaining liberty bond subscriptions from members of the board is composed of FrankL.. Mc Guire, president of the Realty Board, chairman: George Englehardt, O. V. Badley, O. 'W. Bryan, R. Ij. Yote. I. G. Davidson. C. "W. Barders, George T. Moore. Herman Von Borstel, H. H. XJrdahl, H. L. Idleman and H. W. Goddard. GRAXGEVILXE TjAXD IS HIGHER Record Established by Sale ot 160 Acres at $120 an Acre. GRAXGEVILLE, Idaho, Oct. 20. (Special.) The record sale price of land on Camas Prairie was announced this week in the transfer of the old Bittner place of 160 acres a few miles west of Grangeville, which has just been sold by William Mulhall for $120 an acre. James L. McHugh purchased the farm, which is practically all good plow land. The place was purchased less than two years ago by Mr. Mulhall at a re ported price of $80 an acre. The price set by today's transfer is several dol lars higher than any other sale of land previously reported here. Mr. McHugh will farm the place himself. FARM LANDS ARE IX DEJUXD Albany Realty Agents Say Agricul ture Is Stimulated. ATBANY, Or., Oct. 20. (Special.) Two-dollar wheat is creating an ac tive demand for farm lands in this sec tion of the state. While there is lit tle trading in city property, real es tate men report that there is quite an active demand for good farm land. Several sales have been reported in this vicinity within the past two weeks and it is said that many more are in prospect. All available land in this section of the valley is being utilized for agricultural purposes and consid erable stump land is being cleared. Even small tracts which have lain idle or been used for pasturage will be cultivated this year. NEW IRVXXGTON APARTMENT-HOUSE COSTS LfU; n l3bHf&&6& JONES HERE BRIEFLY INTERSTATE REALTY ASSOCIATION BEAD MAKES CALL. Conditions Improving, He Says, and Return to Xormal Market Sure to Come Soon. Frank K. Jones, of Spokane, presi dent of the Interstate Realty Associa tion, which takes in the realty associa tions of the four states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana, was in Portland briefly last week. He was entertained at dinner Thurs day night by the Portland -members of the executive committee of the Inter state Realty Association. They are Paul Cowgill, secretary, and Frank L. McGuire, president, of the Portland Realty Board: Fred Taylor, Frank Cro nin and Frank McCrillis. The Interstate Realty Association now has 700 members, and Mr. Jones is confident that the membership will be increased to 1000 by the first of the year. All the signs point, he said, to increased real estate activity through out the Northwest. "In Spokane, conditions are very good right now, and the trend is up ward," he said. "In Seattle and Taco ma, where the shipyards' strike has in fluenced the local markets, the con dition is much the same, I should Judge, as it is in Portland. "But with the strikes adjusted and war orders ever becoming larger, there is bound to be a betterment in condi tions, and that very soon. Realty val ues are now at rock bottom, and they will not go lower. "To the contrary, there is sure to be an increase in prices and 1 look to see a return to the normal in very short order." While In Seattle, Mr. Jones attended the banquet of the Seattle Realty As sociation. He was in Portland on his way back to Spokane. APPLE BOXES PLENTIFUL Yakima Growers Suffer So 111 Ef fects Through Shortage. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Oct. 20. (Special.) Fears early in the fruit sea son that there would be a shortage of box material and fruit wrappers, and that the storage facilities of the val ley would not be sufficient, have proved to be ill-founded. There is ample stor age for all needs, and stocks of boxes and paper are sufficient. The only shortage is that of experi enced orchard labor. This shortage con tinues to be acute in some parts of the valley. Nevertheless, the fruit is being handled successfully, and unless there is severe freezing weather, the loss will be small. So far 2650 cars of apples have been shipped, chiefly Jonathans. Apples yet to be shipped are esti mated at $000 to 6500 cars. TWO BIG FARMS PURCHASED Jackson. County Ranches Will Be Csed to Harbor Stock. GOLD HILL. Or., Oct. 17. (Special.) Two important sales of farm proper ties took place in the north end of Jackson County last week. H. E. Dun can, a Klamath County stockman, pur chased the William Haberman 200-acre ranch on Applegate, together with al of this year's crop, stock and imple ments. This is an irrigated alfalfa farm, which the new owner will devote to stockraising and dairying. Mr. Dennis, of the Sacramento Val ley, has purchased the O. S. Boyer farn on Evans Creek, near Rogue River. This also is an irrigated alfalfa farm and the new owner has shipped Jersey cattle from California to stock it. Companies Change Names. A telegram haa been received by George H. Tyson, of Portland, from New York City, Informing him that the German-American Insurance Com pany of New York has applied for au thority to change its name to "Great American Insurance Company," and the German Alliance Insurance Company of New York has made a similar applica tion to change its name to American Alliance Insurance Company." Both of these corporations are purely American institutions, organized many years ago. Mr. Tyson is their Portland general agent. Normal Chapel Xearly Ready. OREGON NORMAL SCHOOL. Mon mouth, Oct. 20. (Special.) Tentative plans have been made by the Oregon Normal School for the dedication of the new chapel, work on which is be ing rushed in order that the structure may be occupied at early date. Pres ident P. L. Campbell, of the University of Oregon: President W. J. Kerr, of the Oregon Agricultural College, and members of the Normal board of re gents have sent word Lhey will At $20,000. I . V, .-f ... T tend the ceremonies. At present dally assembly is being held in the gym nasium. The new senior girls' cot tage also will soon be ready for oc cupancy. YAM H ILL ASSESSMENT BIG 1917 Tax to Be Made on $19,050,' 315 Worth of Property. - McMINNVILLE. Or.. Oct. 20. (Spe cial.) The summary of the assessment roll for Yamhill County for the year 1917. as equalized by the Board, shows an increase of 4,373,035 over the total for 1916. exclusive of public utilities. which are assessed by the State Tax Commission. The totals this year are 19.056, 315. against $14.6S3.280 for last year. The increase in valuation was made on all classes of property alike. There are 133.127.99 acres of tillable land valued at $8,438,005, an average of $63.38 per acre; 257.844.69 , acres non tillable, valuer! at 13,507.745. an aver age of $13.60 per acre. Other Items are: Improvements on deeded or patented lands, $1,567,275; improvements on lands not deeded or patented, $28,645; town and city lots. $1,332,815; improve ments on town and city lots, $1,803,615; steamboats, manufacturing machinery. etc., $183,210; merchandise and stock in trade, $641,075; farming implements, automobfles, etc., $317,090; money, notes and accounts. $91,410. There are 4265 shares of stock valued at an average ot $68.52 per share; 6776 horses and mules valued at an average of $70.28; 14,569 cattle averaging $18.94; $858 sheep averaging $5.01; 6972 goats averaging $1.05; 5235 swine averaging $7.57, and 905 dogs averaging $10.60. BRIDGE COVERING OPPOSED Drivers of Sleds Want Roads Kept Open for Snow in Winter. HOOD RIVER, Or., Oct. 20. (Spe cial.) The residents of the Upper Val ley and Dee Flat community have pro tested to the County Court against the coverings placed over new bridges just constructed over Hood River at Dee and Trout Cerek. Ranchers say that the coverings keeping the snowfall from the bridge floors, will make it impossible for them to cross the struc tures in the Winter months with loaded sleighs. During the Winter months traffic for weeks at a time is all by sleigh and bob-sled. The Dee Flat people In their com plaint further declare that the wooden covering of the Dee bridge will be In constant danger from sparks from the refuse burner . of the Oregon Lumber mill located nearby. Cowlitz Starts Digging Potatoes. KELSO. Wash., Oct. 20. (Special.) The frosts this week have killed off the potato vine tops and farmers of this section are starting digging this week. Although the freshet drowned out large acreages of potatoes on the bottom land, there is a big crop in the diking districts and up the Cowlitz Valley and on the bench lands. C. F. Kletsch. who planted a second time after the freshet, will harvest a partial crop. J OLDEST CHtfRCH IN OREGON, . FIRST METHODIST. EPISCOPAL CHURCH. OP OREGOX CITY. AS IT WILL BE5 VCHEX ADDITIOX JS COMPLETED. A least was concluded last weeHat Oregon City between Price Bros., merchants of that place, and the First Methodist Episcopal Church, whereby Price Bros, lease property 65x120 feet for a period of 15 years. Part of the consideration is the construction of a new two-story wing to the church, the first rioor or which will be used by Price Bros. These storerooms will adjoin storerooms now occupied under the church structure Itself. The stores under the church, however, are to be remodeled In connection with the con struction work, and the entire street fronts will be new. ,x. The Sunday school rooms for the church, which is said to be the oldest In Oregon, will be In the second tory of the new wing. They will connect with the church auditorium. Some years ago, in order to preserve the old church, its members had it raised to the second story and the first story built under it. It is this first story that is now to be remodeled. , Tourtelotte & Hummel, architects of Portland, have prepared plans for the new building ana tne re modeling of the old. Their plans call for hollow tile and pressed brick construction. The cost of ths new building will be approximately $15,000. and that of remodeling the church building about $7500. TOP FLOOR LEASED 5000 Feet in Old Ladd & Tilton Bank Building Taken. TERM IS FOR THREE YEARS Arcady Press & Mail Advertising Company Closes Deal With Ladd Estate for Quarters Long Va cant Other Realty News. A. lease of the entire second floor of the old Ladd & Tilton bank building, on the southwest corner of First and Stark streets, was concluded last week by the Ladd Estate, owners of the building. The lessors are the Arcady Press & Mail Advertising Company, Inc.. of which Joseph R. Gerber Is pres ident and George Jackson secretary treasurer. ' The lease is for a period of three years, with the privilege of renewal. The quarters now occupied by the Ar cady Press & Mail Advertising Com pany were vacated by the Ladd & Til ton bank when it removed to its pres ent quarters in the Spalding building, five or six years ago. It has been used since only for storage purposes by the Ladd Estate. The Arcady Press & Mall Advertising Company has been formed by the con solidation of the Arcady Press and the Oregon Multigraphing Company. The space leased by the firm com prises 5000 square feet. The Grant Smith Company, Inc., has purchased from Carrie B. Dudley, of Cleveland. O., block 4, James Johns Addition. The property is 200x200. ac cessible to the' track of the O.-W. R. & N.. and adjoins the Grant Smith ship building plant. The consideration was $o750. The sale was negotiated by Mr. Geiser. Two other cash sales were made by Mr. Geiser last week. One was the sale by the George D. Hibbard estate to J. H. Lichty. of lot 9. block 16. AiDina. The lot is 50x150 feet, on the south side oC Knott street, between Union and Garfield avenues. The sale price was $1400. The third sale was that of lot 1, block 2. Ravenswood, on the southwest cor ner of East Thirty-sixth and Division streets, to W. M. Seward, of the Se ward Hotel. The consideration Is with held. A, R. Johnson, for the past year and a half saiesmanager lor ine Oregon Home Builders, has retired from that organization and become associated with Thomas Dodson, tinder the firm name of the Johnson Dodson Company. Their offices are in the Northwestern Bank building. The new firm will handle city prop erty, farms and acreage. This is the second time that Mr. Johnson and Mr. Dodson have been associated in bust ness. Eleven years ago they formed a part nership in the real estate business un der the firm name of Johnson & Dod son. They were together for seven years. , Mrs. Elizabeth Ella Winter has sold the northwest corner of East Seven teenth and Siskiyou streets. 100x100, and Mrs. Agnes Beebe has sold the 60x100 adjoining to L. Enderud. the joint consideration being in the neigh borhood of $5500. The sale was made by E. J. Daly and J. J. Flynn. LONDON FIRM HAS BRANCH Apple Buying Concern Opens Offices at Hood River. HOOD RIVER, Or., Oct. 20. (Spe cial.) The main Northwestern office of Dan Wuille & Co., a London firm of aonle buyers, who have handled sev eral hundred carlots of mid-Columbia fruit daring the past several years. Has been established here with Ira L. w ill iams. a local orchardlst, in charge. A. E. Woolpert. of White Salmon Wash., is the Northwestern buying ne-ent for the big English concern. Mr. WoolDert says he expects that -ship ments of American apples to England will be permitted when the domestic supply Is exhausted, shippers being lim ited to a percentage of their tonnage of last year. "We have already shipped apples to American markets, says Mr. Woolpert, "and find them strong. We have made shipments to Australia and are expect ing to supplv some fruit to South American markets." Double Force to Cut Shingles. MARSHFIELD, Or., Oct. 20. (Spe cial.) The Hull shingle mill on Tsil coos Lake, between the Umpqua River and the Siuslaw, on tne Willamette Pacific Railroad, is being prepared by Its owner. W. D. Hull, lor operating night shift. Arrangements include the addition of an extra camp where cedar will be cut to supply the second force of sawyers and packers. The mill is located in the center of a fine cedar belt and the timber is located in close proximity to the manufacturing plant. Phone vour want ads to The Orego nian. Main 7070, A 6095. NOW ON SECOND FLOOR OVER DAY SCHOOL ROOMS. WIDOWS' PENSION LAWS ARE BIG PROBLEM IN 29 STATES Emphasis Laid on Fact That Even Small Policies of Life Insurance Would in Most Cases Have Obviated Necessity for Public Charity. . THAT the problem of providing aid to widows and children In cases whr the heads of families have been removed by death Is one of mo mentous importance is emphasized by the fact that in New York City alone there are more than 4000 men apd women employed professionally In or ganized social work: in unofficial phi lanthropies. There are in all 368 organ izations, employing' 1111 men and 2S37 women social workers, to which must be added the employes of nearly 100 or- ganlzations about which no informa tion is at present available. Since the enactment of the widows' pension law in New York State the Child Welfare Board has ascertained that the average allowance per family is rising steadily and reached $26.98 In March. The average allowance per child has increased to. $8. 70 per month. The board has now under its imme diate supervision 8277 children under 16 years of age. If mothers and wage- earning children were added to this it would reach a figure of 15.000 indi viduals who are benefited from the al lowance granted by the board. Twenty-nine states have now what Is called "mothers' pension laws," and the amount of the various allowances, according to a recent report of Hon. David Tilley, a member of the Massa chusetts State Board of Charities, are as follows: "The maximum allowance for one child is $2 a week in Iowa, $3 a week in Michigan. It is $9 a month for one child, $14 for two children and $4 for each additional child in New Jersey; iu a month lor each child in Minne sota and Nebraska; $10 a month for one child, $5 for each additional child-In Idaho. Missouri (i. e.. Jackson County). New Hampshire and Utah: $10 for one child and $7.50 for each additional child in Oregon: $12 for one child and $4 for each additional child in Wisconsin (amount may, however, be temporarily increased in cases of sickness or un usual conditions); $12 for one child. $20 for two children. $26 for three children and $5 for each additional child in Pennsylvania: $12.60 for each child in California ($6.5 a month by the state and a like amount by the city or county): $15 for one child and $5 for eacn additional child -in Washington: $15 for one child and $7 for each addi tional child in Ohio and South Dakota; $15 for one child and $10 for each addi TIBER COMPANY LOSES! WEYERHAISER INTERESTS JUST MEET HIGHER ASSESSMENT. Supreme Court of Oregon Reverse Clackamas Court and Vpholda Board of Equalisation. OREGON CITY, Or., Oct. 20. (Spe cial.) The decision of the Supreme Court of Oregon was received Friday by the Circuit Court in the case of the Weyerhauser Land Company against the Board of Equalization of Clack amas County. The Supreme Court re verses the decision of the Circuit Court and orders that the decree be amended accordingly. In 1914 the Board of Equalization assessed -the holdings and timber of the ' Weyerhauser Land Company, ac cording to the figures obtained from the timber cruise, which the land com pany claimed were too high. The Circuit Court decided in favor of the Land Company and the Board of Equalization appealed the case through District Attorney Hedges to the Supreme Court. . TOWN POTATOES LARGE EV-Recorder of Linn County Raises Spud Weighing 2 s Pounds. ALBANY, Or., Oct. 20. (Special.) A potato weighing 2hb pounds. was dug yesterday in the garden of Grant Fro man, ex-County Recorder of Linn Coun ty. It measured 26 inches around. Mr. Froman had splendid crop of po tatoes in his garden here this year. While potatoes grown on non-irrigated land were small this year, be cause of the long-continued dry weath er, gardens where water was available produced unusually large yields. The combination of dry weather and irriga tion appeared to bring especially good crops, better than the average year. PROJECT IS NEARLY READY Only $26,000 Left In Wlsbkah Fund at Aberdeen. ABERDEEN, Wash., Oct. 20. (Spe cial ) The Wishkah water project fund ot $400,000 has only $26,000 left, but the project is so near completion that this will be sufficient to see it through. The cost of construction is still $41, 700 under the estimate. Despite the fact that $30,000 was spent for a wa tershed, a purchase not contemplated when the project was started, and de spite the increased cost of materials STORE BUILDING, TO ADD SUN- i tional child In Illinois (not to exceed, however, $50 for any one family). In Colorado. Nevada and Massachusetts no maximum is set, but the amount must be sufficient to care properly for the children, with the restriction In Ne vada that it may not exceed what it would cost to maintain and educate the child in a county or state home. In Oklahoma the 'school scholarship" Is the equivalent of the wages of the child. In the City ot St. Louis the maximum is $3.50 a week, which may be Increased temporarily on account of sickness or other exceptional condi tions. Superflicial observers are inclined to believe that mothers' pension laws are extremely salutary in their effects, but there are many social workers and economists who believe that such pro visions unwillingly force upon mothers and children charity which ordinarily they would not care to accept. Very naturally, too. a certain percentage of breadwinners, knowing that the state makes certain allowances for the care of widows and children, will make no effort to provide a fund of their own by means of savings bank accounts or life insurance. This point was recently illustrated in New York City by a so-called "acid test" of the various bread lines by the police department, co-operating with the Salvation Army. As a result of the investigation the Salvation Army sus pended its bread line in Cooper Square. Leroy Peterson, in charge of the police department's bureau of unemployment, offered 300 jobs paying from $1 to $3 a day to men in the bread line. Only 5 men out of several hundred were will ing to go to work. The men who re fused work either advanced the plea that they were unable to work or bra zenly laughed at the offers of employ ment. From this it is evident that men ot independent spirit who are unwilling that their widows and children should be the objects of state charity eventual ly become taxed to provide funds which support the widows and children ot many men who deliberately refuse to provide for those who would be left behind them at their death. Widows' pension laws, on the surface, seem to fill a necessary economic need, but at the same time they point to the fact that the necessity of state charity could be almost entirely avoided by SvnsmaU policies loflife insurance. nd of labor, the work win he rnm- pleted by City Engineer Kelsey under the estimate. The city will realize several thnnnj dollars from the sale of machinery and loois used in building the new water system, which should be completed some time next month. SPECIAL ELECTION SOUGHT I Petitions Asking for Irrigation Dis tricts Ready to File. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Oct. 20. (Sn- cial.) Petitions asking that an elec tion be called to organize an irrigation uiairici on rords and Waunch's prairies probably will bo presented to the Lewis County Commissioners No vember 5. About 60 per cent of the property included in the proposed dis trict is represented by the signatures to the petitions. Newell S. Wight, secretary of the Centralia Commercial Club, who left last night for Wenatchee to attend the state convention of Commercial Club secretaries, will visit irrigated sec tions of Eastern Washington. Oregon and Southern Idaho to secure data as to the best method of procedure in the local project. Cottage Grove Has Heavy Frost. COTTAGE GROVE, Or.. Oct. 20. (Spe cial.) One of the heaviest frosts ever known here so early in the season oc curred Tuesday and all forms of vege tation sensitive to frost, such as po tato vines, were killed. There was practically no loss, however, as all kinds of vegetables had attained their growth and most of the crops had been gathered. New Road to Be Built. ROSEBURG, Or., Oct. 20. (Special.) Bids will soon be asked for by the County Court for the building of about 11 miles of road on the Pacific High way to eliminate the Roberts Moun tain road, eight miles south of this city, which is one of the most dan gerous pieces of road in this section of the state. Flier to Go to France. ABERDEEN, Wash., Oct. 20. (Spe cial.) Steve Connor, who enlisted some months ago in the Canadian fly ing service and who will leave within the next few weeks for France, prob ably will be the first of Grays Harbor's many, airmen to reach the other side. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Connor, of Montesano. 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