THE OKEGONr DAILY JOURNAL, POItTLAXI), TUESDAY . EVENING, DECEMBER 29, " 1903."
SCIHOOL TAX LEVY
HEAVY NEXT YEAR
Children. Are Housed Between' Brewery and Gas
PlantManual Training and Kindergartens 1
Proposed Comparisons with Portland
"For once, at least, let us put the ra
uponslbllity of the schools on tins shoul
' deta cf the .taxpayers,'! sald jChairman
Wittenberg of the board of education
yesterday during a diacuRslon of the
question of what action the bard should
take in connection with the Improve
ments to school buildings. ,
"I think that now Is the time to make
these repairs and Improvements,", ex
plained Mr. Wittenberg, "fpr unless
prompt action is taken the Job will grow
! io monumental proportions; , The Atkln
. son school, for lnntanc-e, in my opinion,
has long outlived its usefulness and the
locaticn is extremely bad. There should
be a new school in a new location. At
present the ch.idren are housed between
a brewery and a gas plant, and It is In
imical to their health to be cooped up
in sue- quarters," -
' Other Buildings as Bad. -Director
Williams Interrupted to say
that he belleVes the Couch and Failing
buildings to be Just as bad as the At
kinson, and the chairman urged that as;
another point in favor of letting the
people decide, the question to suit them
selves, "I ..ilnk we would be derelict in our
. duties to the people, and to the schools
if we did not do so," he urged again.
"If we let the people determine just
what they want, we will not be respon
sible for any mistakes, but if wo fail to
take that course, the blame can Justly
be laid to our doors. I think we ought
to recommend to the people that these
talked-of improvements should be made.
Then, I have no -doubt, they will adopt
our suggestion." Vv.y.
; .Oppose Expensive Policy.
Directors Beach and Williams ; ac
knowledged themselves to be among the
conservatives When It came to" consid
ering a policy of expensive school Im
provements, and while not actively pro
testing, they nevertheless failed to ac
qulesce in . the chairman's suggestion
about recommending . such a ' course . to
"the taxpayers. . ' -
"If we can get along without any big
expense, I think we should do it," ex
plained Mr. Williams. This elicited the
reply that if the board didn't take some
action now, when the buildings could be
' repaired one at a time, , they would have
, a .whole lot of school buildings ow their
hands at one timet It was further point
' ed out mat tne situation was as yet well
In hand, and' (he schools could be looked
after without any great expense, com-
; paratlvely speaking, but If things were
allowed to go on as they had done, some
'day in the future 'the people would be
called upon to face an enormous ex-
pense. : i" . ,
The directors are divided, and on the
one Item of expense. To make additions
'and alterations considered necesary by
: some would require In the neighborhood
of 1175,000,- while the conservatives see
In this an expense that Is hot absolutely
required. They want to get along with
Just as small expenditures as can be fig
ured t. -.', -r-
. , JtJicrease in Salaries . '
Yesterday' session was mainly de
voted to the consideration of routine ex
Angelica, very
Muscat, very
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A
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Tf
penses In the Items of the estimates sub
mitted. .'.There will te, an Increase made
for. both teachers' andJanitors' salaries,
but the actual figures were npt made'
public. " "!
It was decided to hold another session
tomonow at S'clock, and alsd to post
pone the taxpayers' meeting, which was
scheduled for 'thatevening, until Janu
ary il or 12. The Complete reports and
estimates will be published - some , time
In advanceAQ tne cltlsens may have a
chance to absorb all the information pos
sible concerning the condition of the
schools and funds before - making up
their mind as to what action- to take If
the bonding proposition oroes up.
Atkinson Will Be Kebullt.
Without taking Into consideration the
matter of general Improvements, there
seems hardly . any . doubt that a new
school will be tree ted to take, the place
of the Atkinson building, and on a new
location in the district. A .. committee
from the board and a committee .from
the Taxpayers' league are making an In
spection of the structure this afternoon,
and tne complaint" have been so- long
continued and numerous 'that the board,
it is thought, can hardly do otherwise
than agree upon the plan of putting up
an entirely new school. The arrange
ments of the building aro defective, and,
In the words of a board member, -'lt has
long outlived' its usefulness." : - " --. .. v
Chairman Wittenberg's annual ad
dress, with the exception of the para
graph devoted to advocating the bonding
plan for the schools, was as follows:
: Onalrmaa's Annaaf Address.
. "To the Taxpayers of School District
No. 1, Multnomah County, Or. Ladles
and Gentlemen As - chairman of the
b6ard of education, I deem it a matter
of duty to present to you a few ideas
and suggestions which might be of some
benefit to you In our, efforts to further
Improve . the present efficiency r of our
public school, as well as, . possibly, to
And a way of meeting any additional ex
pense with the least posnlble""hardshlp
to the taxpayers of this district "
"For your Information I .would state
that singing and music Is not now be
ing taught, in, our public schools; nor
has it been for the past year. In my
opinion, this is not ' a wise plan, and
music and singing should again be re
instated in the schools. :
- "I believe that manual training would
be a splendid addition in various grades,
and would ' lead to- a development of
Ideas of the pupil which would be a
great benefit in after, life. All schools
of the most modern type have Introduced
manual training, ' and we should not be
behind the times. ,
ravors nbllo Kindergarten-
' "You are also aware that the kinder
garten department has not In any way
been connected with the public school
system. I believe that anything that'
will- take the little waifs and children
off the streets., and out of some of the
abodes which are called homes, is often
a benefit to the child. And, as the foun
dation of character is often laid in the
earliest years of the child, for that rea
son, in my opinion, the kindergarten Is
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NEUBERGER'S FULL MEASURE HOUSE,
a splendid adjunct to the public school
and should be made a part of same,- and
serious consideration should be given to
this matter. -
"Another improvement' which,' in my
judgment, would add greatly to the ef
ficiency of our schools, would be to di
minish the, number of pupils assigned to
a teacher for instruction. - This number
,is greater" in Portland than in most pro
gressive cities, and is shown by their
reports, and while we save in the amount
expended for teachers' salaries, we do so
by sacrificing the Interests of the -children.
... ,1 :'. -y. : ''t--Vv'"- it.
Lacking in Manual Training.
"I desire to call your attention to the
large number of private schools existing
in ouri midst . In my opinion, the real
reason for this la that our public schools
are not up to the standard demanded by
a large number of oulr people. We may
feel that our public . schools are '; the
best in this country, but, as a matter
of fact, such is not the case. We are
lacking , in a great many- directions in
efficiency and equipment. Two of the
principal7- items X have already men
tioned, being- kindergarten and manual
training. ' , .
-. Baths in Hew York Schools.
'In New, York today new' schools are
being built with baths attached for the
poorer children; also lunch 'rooms, and I
begto call , your attention to 'the fact
that even in the old . country there are
public schools which, in my opinion, are
superior , to our own. In Stockholm,
Sweden, is one of the largest schools
in the world, accommodating 2,870 pupils
and in the basement are 100 bath rooms
where children Brev requited to bathe, if
the teachers think that they are not
taught cleanliness at home. . Soap -and
towels are furnished free by the city
and a wholesome dinner is furnished -to
the poorer children at noon, if .they need
it. This same custom prevails in Nor
way.' This insures every child, at least,
one warm meal each day.
Hot a Towel In the Softools. ' .
"How does 1 this compare with our
boast of superiority? Certainly, we have
nothing of this kind; In this city. Not
a towel can you find in our- schools, for
the use of the children, furnished by the
district' Even the convenience, of toilet
paper is being objected to, and was not
In use in any of our schools up to the
present term, and was only -introduced
in three schools a short time ago. Con
veniences of the kind that I have men
tioned in the foregoing drive children to
the private schools, making . a double
burden of taxes on parents, who pay
their school taxes to assist in main
taining the pubic schools and at. the
same time pay tuition to private schools.
Let us improve the efficiency of our pub
lic schools so as to make it unnecessary
to make use of thevprivate schools and
the high Ideal of our ptrblic schools will
have been reached. , ..
"For the coming year. In my opinion.
it will, be absolutely necessary to levy
a tax of mill for building purposes
alone. Next year will certainly be fully
as much to keep up with the large in
crease of population. Therefore, the tax
levy will be heavy for building purposes.
My plan would be to issue from $500.
000 to II. 000,000 worth of ' 6 per cent
bonds running for. 30 years. The direc
tors to be empowered to sell whatever
amount of bonds would be necessary for
the construction of new school build
ings and the purchase of. necessary
grounds. In this way Portland could be
supplied with the proper buildings for
housing its children, and the - yearly
burden would be reduced to an amount
that would not prove a hardship at any
time to the taxpayers, as my plan would
be to each year levy a tax of not to
exceed 1 mill for the retiring of a portion-
of these bonds. This would dis
tribute the amount of payments in such
a way as to make it a very light load to
carry - as compared with our - present
plan."-. V '-: . s ' t
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Hock, 50 - .
Riesling , ..50 ,1.00
Sauterne, quart ... - .4. .60
Haut Sauterne, quart .........65
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- ' Quarts. Pints
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Claret ". ' .75 50
Zlnfandel 75 50
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Sauterne l.OO . 50
SHOT BY VAN HOUTEN
Continued frbm Page One.)
Mrs. Minnie Van Hou ten, wife of the
man now in the city. Jail charged with
murder in the first degree.
Friends of Van Houten yesterday said
that they were more than surprised that
the irate liusband did not take the Ufa
of his wife. They said that he was so
Insanely-Jealous, so maddened by what
he thought to be the wrong inflicted upon
him and his family by Young, that he
might ' have been expected - to": commit
wholesale murder. 'v. ?
Before the shooting Sunday night Van
Houten called upon his wife at the
place where she .works. . He asked to
see her but she happened f to. be out
with ) her cousin at - the f time. ? Van
Houten, during the . last twq months,
since Mrs. Van Houten took her present
position, has called upon her aeveral
times. But it ia. against the rules of
the house - f orwomea- mployea-to-re-
celve male company, and Van Houten
was ordered .away., Sunday night he
appeared nervous. . - - r
. ; : A Hette and An. Affidavit.
A", letter,' supposedly . from Young to
Mrs. Van Houten, and an affidavit, made
by a resident of Aberdeen, Wash., in
flamed Van Houten' s mind until he was
Insanely desperate,-say' his friends.The
affidavit was presented to District Attor
ney Manning, but it showed that a
crime, if there was any. -was committed
In Aberdeen. It sets forth that in Oc
tober, ,1902. Young, who was then keep
ing a saloon in the. Gray's Harbor city,
roomed over a certain dance hall. At
the .time there lived, a .woman professing
to be his wife and the affiant states that
in every particular she answers the de
scription of Mrs. Van Houten; , -
i The. letter, which appears to have
been read and reread -until the paper is
frayed and worn at the edges, was writ
ten at.Aberdeen'Aprll 21, last, and, was
received at the postomce at Marshfleld,
Or., by the husband, although the mis
sive was Intended for Mrs.-Van Houten.
The letter follows:
"My Dear-1 Minnie I have Just re
ceived your most kind and welcome let
ter, Minnie,, at the same time, Dave
came in just wild, hunting for you, talk
ing fight all the time.' To convince him
I hat to show him every room in the
house to satisfy him. He accused you
of being here with me. i I changed his
mind before he left. He accused m of
sending , you ah express package, which
I did not own up to. He said he got
posted in. Portland about you being here
with me. I think he 4iaa changed his
mind now ahont-lieklrlg me like Lindsay.
I had no trouble with him whatever.
Talked very nice to him and tookhlra
up to Lulu and she told him the last
letter she got from you was from Marsh
field. . He was a little quieter after that
Now, Minnie, if he goes to see you. he
may try and tell you I told him that you
lived' here with me. Do not let him get
anything out of you for I throwed him
oft on 'everything. , Now, my. dear, if I
was you, I would go to Portland and
get your divorce-at . once, for he may
cause lots of trouble" for us both. I
know you know how to handle him with
out me telling you.-.
"To show you now excited. he was, he
never saw your picture on my vest He
thought to scare me right on the start,
but I would not scare . for Jilm, so he
changed his mind. When 1 see you 1
will tell you the whole. . Now 1 am
writing you right away,- s to post you
when he goes. . ,. J
"Now, dear, he wanted to know if I
ever was to his house in Portland. I
told him I was not. Well, that was no
lie. That was not his house, was It?
I was just aasmart as him. X am glad
you got that bracelet' Do not tell him
who sent it to you. Tell-him it -was
Lulu. Do not let him get any catch on
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25 " fO.50
35
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50 s - 1.00
us. I ; am going to- try and see imiu
and tell her to say she sent it . He claimed
he , had his fortune told and you : was
here with me and that I sent you the
package and that J was a married man
auu , wna Keeping you. : iuv. , iu wn?
bound I should show him my wife. I
told him he was up against tho wrong
thing now and someone was making -a
fool out of him, which is the truth.
Now,-' honey, try and settle the affair if
you can. ' After the divorce I will show
him' that,' not write now.; :'! wilt , close,
hoping ; to .hear from you. noon. ,; I re
main as ever, your old fellow. , .
"Lots of love and kisses,
;-:-.--r;-:- :' . . . -, "AL.W -
Mrs. Van Houten's Story.
Mrs. Van Houten, prostrated and al
most distracted, was unable to see any
one until late yesterday.. She left her
place -of - employment last evening and
went to her; aunts home in East, Port
land. She indignantly denies all the
charges made against her. accuses her
husband of extreme ; cruelty and says
that she knew-Young simply as a pass
Ing friend.-' "She asserts that ? her hus
band wanted her to agree to a. scheme to
blackmail Young and became angry be'
cause she refused. . '
At the time site is alleged to have been
In Aberdeen with Young Mrs.. Van Hou
ten says she was sick in bed at the
home -of her cousin at Marshfleld. She
says It was then he went to Aberdeen in
an ; attempt to blackmail -, Young. The
couple, was married in February, ' 1894,
he being then 28 and she 16. - They have
never . llv4 happily, according to her
story. ' She says that Van Houten is a
spendthrift, high temperedoverbearing
"and quarrelsome. She asserts that he
has often abused and threatened to kill
her, and once said he -would kill both
Young and herself. : . ' '
For two months after their marriage,
they lived at Mount TaBor; . in Yamhill
county Tor two and a half years, at Ore
gon City for an equal Jength of time and
finally came to Portland. ; Mrs. Van
Houten kept a rooming house here. Al
most a year ago she left Portland for
San Francisco and at the time says she
gave her husband $600. He followed
her to the Bay City and in a month they
returned to,. Marshfleld. . Van Houten
went "broke," she asserts, and then she
gave him 1200 more. While at Marsh
fleld the wife says her husband, drove
her into such a, frame of mind that she
attempted suicide hy taking poison. Sev
eral weeks ago he again induced her to
give him 2100 but lately she determined
to sue him for divorce, .
Tan Houten's Story-
"For my children's sake I could not
stand the disgrace," said Van Houten as
he impatiently walked the corridor of
his cell at the city Jail yesterday. Whfle
he refused to discuss the matter he in
timated that he had nothing to repent
and did not fear the consequences, be
lieving that he had righted a wrong.
Attorney Dan J. Malarkey has taken
up Van Houten's case.
One of the best known lawyers In the
city yesterday said: "Men who . break
up families and lose their lives at the
hands of distracted husbands seldom get
much sympathy at tha hands of -a jury.
In the, present case the fact' that the
husband followed his wife from one
place to another, begging her to return,
and then went to her supposed compan
ion asking for an account of her tended
to show that he wanted to do what was
Just , Getting no satisfaction he went to
the district attorney, but there got no re
dress because there was no evidence of
wrong doing In this- state. With the
compromising letter -frayed "and worn
constantly knifing' his heart and dis
tracted by the thought of , the disgrace
falling upon his - two . little daughters.
Van Houten, it will be argued, was
driven to a state of mental Irresponsi
bility"1 " . "
The shooting of Young recalls a mys
terious killing which occurred less than
a year ago at Twenty-fourth and Thur-
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man streets, two blocks from where
Young was slain. In this case Henry
Myers, a saloonkeeper, waa the victim of
an unknown assassin's bullet Toe mur
derer was never caught In his dying
statement Myers stated that thugs at
tempted to hold him up but they were
never brought to Justice.
Beady to-Escape.
Sergeant Hogeboom and Acting De
tective Vaughn, who arrested Van Hou
ten at his barn In Montavllla, has Infor
mation that Van Hopten seoured a horse
and buggy with which to make hia es
cape following the shooting.
' After running from Young's saloon
Van Houten made a roundabout tour of
the northern part of the city. He final
ly reached a bafn. whf-rea friend loaned!
him a horse and buggy, at nta lor sev
eral hours, it Is said, and about midnight
started to drive across to' Montavllla,
reaching - his house between 1 and 2
a. m. ' -
The two officers arrived on the scene
about 3:45 a. m.. and then lay in wait
for a chance to capture their man.
Vaughn heard voices in the house. He
recognized Van Houten's voice, but he
also knew that other men .were with him.
Fearing that the slayer might have
friends armed and might escape in the
dark, the officers "concluded to conceal
themselves In the barn. During the cold
morning hours they kept watch of the
house to see that Van Houten did not
escape. , '':
. In the barn were 13 horses, all the
stalls being filled. At 7 o'clock Van
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Houten appeared, accompanied by four
teamsters living In the same house. Bft
fore the murderer had time to saddle on
of the horses and escape, aa he intended ;
to do, he was placed under arrest -During
the time he waa in the house
Van Houten told the other men about
shooting Young, but watt no't awara b.9
had killedhlm. :
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