THE OREGON DAILY JOtJRNAL, PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1909.
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BRIDGE NUISANCE
ANGERS PUBLIC
Work-Bound People Held Up on
Madison-Street Structure
Unreasonable Time.
BRIDGE ENGINEER
LOUDLY CENSURED
Officer Offer to Arrest Him If Any
one Will Swear Out Warrant East
Siders Will Demand That Their
Rights Be Not Ignored.
Incoming- cars over the Madison
Street bridge this morning at 745
o'clock, the hour of rush travel for
people who must set to their work in
the city, had a hard time reaching their
destination, and did not arrive until
:S2. The cause was attributed mainly
to a river pilot i.nd a bridge engineer.
The Oregon City train, a motor oar
and trailer crowded with people, was
stopped on the east aide of the draw
bridge by the opening; of the drawspan
without apparent cause. Passengers
who got out 01 the cars to inquire were
told - that there was a boat coming, and
looking up the river they saw two
steamboats, one towed by the other, op
posite the mill of the Portland Lumber
company, half a mile away.
Loud complaints and indignant pro
tests were hear! from delayed passen
gers, but they did not npach the bridge
engineer nor the river pilot, who were
separated by Ions stretches of water
from the scene of Indignation.
Offer to Arrest Bnglaser.
"If anybody will swear out a warrant
I will arrest the bridge engineer," said
an officer who stood In the little waiting-room
at the oast end of the draw
span. "This is a plain case of need
lots obstruction of a public highway."
Even the bridge tender st tb oast
end was Indignant. He said:
"It's an infernal outrage."
His sentiment were reechoed by the
delayed passengers. They hold their
watches on the two boats to see how
long the holdup would continue, and
waited to learn the names of the boats.
When th latter came within seeing dis
tance tt was found that th towboat
was the Sara Dixon, and its tow was
the big steamer Bailey Oatsert. It
proved to be Just nine minutes from
th time th boat had whistled for th
bridge until it passed the center of the
draw. By that time the Madison street
bridge was filled to both ends with
street car and teums. Just before ar
riving at th Madison street bridge the
Sara Dixon whistled a commend for the
opening of the Mtrrlaon street bridge,
ani the same delay was repeated tb,
but th Jam on the bridge was even
greater, as that bridge carries sn Im-
mense amount of traffic at th hour
between 7:39 and 8:S0 a. m.
Bridge Engineer Kelly said: ,
"I opened the bridge shead of time
for the reason that I have been having
trouble with the gear on this bridge,
and it had to be examined. The bridge
has not been working right, and we
hav been trying for three day to gt
it flxeiL I have given the people the
best of It on this bridge all along. I
do not want to open tb bridge until
It has to be done, at times like the rush
hour tlfl morning. Some of the steam
boatmen are unreasonable. They whis
tle too soon, and if we do not open
the bridge they whistle two or three
times.'
Question Oao rough Oat.
About a year ago th open draw
bridge question was fought over be
tween street oar patrons, seat side Im
provement associations and th river
captains, with the county court as um
pire. It waa demsnded by th people that
the drawbridges be kept closed an hour
In the morning sad evening, when the
rush of travel was heaviest by reason
of working people going to and from
their place of work. The court was
at first disposed to accede to this de
mand, but after repeated sessions with
committees of citizen sad river men.
It waa decided that a set of rule
should be posted, and that so long
the rule were obeyed by the river
pilots the drawbridges would not be
closed.
Among these rules two of the prin
cipal points' fought for by th people
were a follow: No drawbridge should
bo opened unless the boat demanding
passage was st a point reasonably near
and ready to pas through: no draw
bridge should be held open longer than
necessary and for but one boat to pass
through at a time. Th court gave In
structions to bridge engineers to Ignore
signals from boat that were unreason
ably fair away from the bridge.
The people say the rules are being
constantly violated, and that a number
of th river pilots have apparently for-
gotten them. It is said that if there
la a continuation of th trouble at the
drawbridges a movement will be inau
gurated to keep the draws closed, as Is
don In Chicago, Cleveland and other
places, during th busiest hour of travel
morning and evening, and that the east
side people will not denial until their
contention Is granted by the county
court.
'"THE JOURNAL will pay $150
in gold to the people sending
the correct, or nearest correct, lists
of answers to the "Who, Where and
What" Contest opened in yester
day's Journal. Plenty of time to
secure the first payment. The last
list to be received may be the only
correct one. Lists must be in by 5
p. m., Monday, October 8th.
If you have not sent in an an
swer get yesterday's issue of The
Journal and try for one of the cash
payments. '
A Suit of This Style
ST. JOHNS ENJOYS
ANOTHER HOWL
Business Men Object to Discrim
ination in Matter of
Switching Charges.
CANNOT COMPETE WITH
RIVAL PORTLAND FIRMS
NEWPORT AND YAQUINA BAY
Summer Excursion Tickets Still on Sale.
Th date of sale of summer excur
sion tlokets to Newport and Taqutna
bay have bean extended to October 15.
with a final return limit of October 11.
Demand to Know WhyHbolishment
of 'All Switching Pees Does Not
Include St Johns Concerns Inside
Limits of Port of Portland.
Bast Bid Department.
St. Johns manufacturing planta and
which will enable thoae who have not bualness lnteresta generally are incensed
already been to this delightful resort to
take the outing at the reduced rate of
fered during the summer. Full particu
lars in regard to rates, etc., by calling
at City Ticket Office. Third and Wash
ington streets, Portland.
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NOTICE OP REMOVAL
Customers are requested to observe that the offices of the
company are now located at the northeast corner of First
and Alder streets, at which place sll bills for lighting must
hereafter be paid.
at the failure of the Harrtman system
to Include St Johns territory In the re
cent order abounding switching charges
In a greater port of the east aid manu
facturing and wholesale district. The
' alleged discrimination fall heaviest on
J the manufacturing concerns along the
' St. Johns river frost.
A. K Job of the Jobea Milling com
! pany In talking of the matter this morn
j log said: "Why, the Harrtman roads
should discriminate against th manu
facturers in th lower Portland harbor
i la mor than wa can understand. With
; thla new order ' abolishing switching
i charges on th east side from the In-man-Poulaen
mill to the Portland Floor
ing mill we can not ship a carload of
! flour nor receive a car of wheat wlth
1 out paying a witching' charge of not
j less than 16: and frequently It I flO.
Under this order vie csn not compete
; with other Portland manufacturer of
flour. The St John water front Is
within the Portland harbor line. It
seems to me that the just and fslr
! thing to do would be to abolish the
' charge for switching along th entire
east side water front That would give
us all a fair chance."
The management of the St Johns
Lumber company bitterly comptaln of
thla switching chsrge handicap.
"We hav to ship our lumbar to th
same markets that the Portland mills
ship to. but in competing with them
we start out with a $6 handicap, which
is s good big slice out of the profit on
a car of lumber."
T. J. Shay, manager of the Marin
Iron works, s St. Johns enterprise, ssid:
"We were arranging to Increase the
rapacity of our plant In fact, we hav
ordered a lot of new machinery, but
with this arbitrary discrimination in
the matter of switching charges we
shall go a little slow until we know
where we are. If we ship a carload pt
boilers to San Franclsoo we pay a ft
switching charge, but if a similar ship
ment 1 mad by a Portland concern no
such charge Is made. If the same ship
ment is made to the Sound the char-
Is 110, but the Portland shipper still
pays nothing for switching his car. Do
you think we can compete for business
with such s handicap?"
Th shipbuilding company Is another
St. Johns enterprise that it I said will
suffer because of the switching charge
order. The St. Johns Commercial club
will discuss the question st its meeting
tonight. The whole town la aroused
over what they consider an unjust dis
crimination agiinst their manufacturing
enterprises.
Ing of th sasoclatton last night, Whit
ney L. Boise, chairman of the franchise
committee, reported that he had ar
ranged tor a conference with Manager
O'Brien on th subject, and he thought
It probable that a new franchise ordi
nance would be prepared in time for th
council meeting tonight. Mr. O'Brien
said that if a new ordinance wens pre
sented. It would contain a common-user
clause end other amendment along th
lines suggested by Mayor Lane in his
veto message. He fait confident, he
said, that a franchise could be drawn
that would meet the requirements of th
mayor and council and at the same tiro
be acceptable to the Haniman lnteresta
Th rumored sale of th Inman-Poulsen
company's mill sit to a railway com
pany was discussed; and while the own
ers of the property denied the sale, the
opinion wa expressed that there was
some truth in th report
The announced purpose of the Har
rlman system to establish a freight
) center on the east side was warmly
commepded-by several speakers.
The long dormant subject of an all
east side car service wa revived, and
the committee on street car service was
instructed to urge the Inauguration of
th service. The effort of the Wood
stock and th Mount Scott Improvement
club to gat a better car service for rne
southeastern part of th city was taken
up, and th assistance of the associa
tion was promised.
W. L. Boise, Thorns Hislop and
C. H. Raffety were appointed to con
fer with the school board relative to
th opening of East Washington street
to the full (0-foot width, between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, thus
giving u good approach to the new
high school grounds.
Th meeting of th St John council
last night was th tamest gathering
cf that ordinarily strenuous body sine
th announcement of th appointment
of ex-Mayor Valentin to th local
postmastershlp. A small bunch of red
fire waa set off when the ordinance de
creasing th area of tb fir limits
came up for final passage. The new
fire limits are so drawn aa not to in
clude th site of the new city hall. This
so incensed Chairman Baser of th
building committee that he announced
hi intention to oppose the erection of
any building whatever for city hall pur
poses. A majority of th council dis
regarding the threat of Councilman
Rsser. voted for the passage of the
ordinance.
City Attorney Greene, by request of
the council, gave a written opinion sus
taining th expenditure of the 110,000
voted for city hall purposes. In the
erection of a structure to be partially
completed. If a city hall I built th
$10,000 Will be used as far as It will
go, and then another Issue will be made
to complete the structure.
Jeffrys A Lemon, attorney of Port
land, representing C. A. Hyland. pre
sented a demand for $5,000 damages.
Hyland contend that because of negli
gence on the part of the city officials
he fell over an embankment and was
seriously injured. The city attorney waa.
Instructed to investigate the matter and
report the fact, together with written
opinion as to city's liability, to the
next meeting of th council.
Ordinances ordering the Improvement
of Hayes, Charleston and I van hoe
street were passed. The South Jersey
street Improvement was accepted.
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Residents In th vicinity of the gravel
pit st North Mount Tabor complained to
Councilman Kellaher yesterday that
their homee were being damaged by
the steam shovel cutting away the
banka The Pacific Bridge company,
which has several fill contracts on the
east side, get most of It fill ma
terial from these gravel pits.
The steam shovel In use for loading
th company' oar ha out away several
acres, in places to feet deep. The own
er of the adjoining property are
alarmed over the prospect, and ere de
manding that some action be taken to
put a stop to the excavations. They'
claim that these huge holes and gashes
are Unsightly and are destroying values
In that part of the city.
Councilmen 'Kellaher and Bennett
have agreed to make a personal In
spection of the condition with a view
to remedying it If possible.
MOTOR CARS TO
SPEED FOR CUP
Eighteen Swift Automobiles to
Participate in Vanderbilt
Contest Saturday.
Th stretch of track between Bast
First street and the carahop of th
Southern Pacific hss been laid with
heavy eteel rails and ballasted with
crushed rock. Whore the line cross
Clinton street it wss lowered so ss
to conform to th street grade, thereby
draining and permanently doing away
with the lake that gather at th Inter
section of East Twelfth and Clinton
street with the coming of th fall
rains.
BAY STATE DEMOCRATS
MAY NOMINATE M0RAN
Boston. Msss., Oct, t. On th eve of
th Democratic state convention, which
Is to assemble In Tremont Tempi to
morrow. District Attorney John B.
Moran seems assured of the guberna
torial nomination. Mr. Moran hss al
ready received the nomination from the
Independence league and his nomination
by the Democrat will mean another vic
tory for the Hearst organisation. His
csndldacy has badly disrupted th
Democratic party In Massachusetts Th
oonservatlvn element, headed by Joslah
Qulncy, chairman of tb tat commit
tee, has hsd difficulty from th start In
finding a suitable candidate to oppose
Moran. After casting about for several
weeks the conservatives dsclded upon
Henry M. Whitney. ' Mr. Whitney with
drew from the field some time ago after
it had been Intimated that former Gov
ernor William L. Douglas might be In
duced to accept th nomination. He
later reconsidered his withdrawal and
announceu himself Willing to accept tb
nomination, but he baa mad no contest
to secure 1C
(Journal Special Service.)
New York, Oct I. Eighteen of the
swiftest motor car In th world will
stsrt In tb Vanderbilt cup race on Long
Island next Saturday, and with possibly
few exceptions evry machine in th
race will ' be "doped" In much the same
manner as a race horse or a elz-day
bicycle rider la "doped" for a race. In
this way more power 1 added, and In
stead of a racer being endowed with 120
horsepower, aa stated on 'the official
program, it will generally be found that
that power is many tlmee greater be
cause of th "dope."
The racing rules or th American Au
tomobile association places no penalty
upon owners for "doping" their cars.
There is absolutely no difference In tb
action of "dope" on th automobile and
race horse or human being. The "dope"
used Is a liquid called "picric," which is
mlxqmwlth th gasoline It make th
oil faT more powerful and the engines
throb' and tremble from th pent up
fore. Often the cylinder crack be
cause of the added strain.
Twelve Took Bar
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
Salem, Oct. . The 12 candidates for
admission to ths Oregon bar who took
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Prime Rib Roast Beef, per Ik. . .
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Loin Roast Mutton, per lb
Loin Mutton Chops, per lb
Pork Roast, par lb
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Veal Cutlets, par lb
Pressed Cooked Corn beef, per lb.
Ham, choicest quality, per lb. .
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Boiling Beef, per lb.
Beef Stew, per lb. 5
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Aberdeen. Oct. I. Postmaster R. P.
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