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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL,, PORTLAND, -THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1908.
II JGtE SilSfl'S I ANOTHER FINE ENTRY FOR HORSE SHOW
POSTAL AW V ' B: I
Mm if; 'tfrfyiU V-v--
It Numbers 200,000, Travels
730,000,000 Miles and Also
Handles Untold Millions
But Some Things Com
ins: Yet.
Ry FREDERIC J. IIASKIX.
(Copyright, 1908. by Frederic J. H&skln.)
Washington, Aug. 27. Next week
will witness the opening of the nation
al convention season of the people who
tnan the big postal machine of the
Irnlted States. The National Associa
tion of Postal Clerics will meet In Bir
mingham, Ala,, on September 7, and
the National Association of Postmas
ters will meet during the same week
at Chattanooga, Tennessee. Arrange
ments are being made for the meet
ing of the rural carriers a little later
in umana, Neb. The railway postal
clerks will have no convention this
yr, the 11,000 men who hold mem
bership in that organisation having
disposed of their affairs for two years
t their laat annual convention.
The organised forces of the postal
service probably have 100,000 mem
bers. The postal clerks are boosting
for 20,000 members by the time the
annual convention meets, the railway
postal clerks have 11,000, the letter
carriers, the postmasters, and the ruri
free delivery carriers each have a large
organisation, and amoag them can prob
ably muster 70,000 members. They have
all adopted plans of organisation which
enable them to pull together for bet
ter salaries and better working condi
tions In their respective branches of
me service. They have succeeded In
Inducing congress to Klve them an In
crease of pay and except the railway
f'ostol clerks, have got their work down
o the eight-hour basis. Although the
president promulgated an order pro
hibiting them from lobbying in their
own behalf, they generally manage to
accomplish the same things they accom
plished before the order was Issued.
An Army 3 00,000 Strong.
No other branch of the I'nited States
government, or of any other govern
ment, for that matter, employs as
many civilians as the postofflce estab
lishment of the United States. There
arev2,000 postmasters, to begin with.
Then there are nearly 40,000 rural-carriers
and 15,000 star route carriers.
Add to this 17,000 railway postal clerks
.mill letter carriers, as many more
rrt iOJ'xf.1 rsLii' .xtjza
a Beautiful Hackney, Driven by Miss Consldlne of Seattle. This Will Be One of the Con-
"Sensation King,
sldlne Entries In the Portland Horae Show and Will Also Be Shown at Seattle Next Week
postal clerks, besides some thousand
lahorers, Janitors, etc., nd it will bp
pin to appear that the postal eery-ice of
this country employs the biggest civil
army In the world an army not far
from 200,000 strong.
And well It might be a big army.
It has to handle 700,000 letters every
hour of the 24. every day In the year;
It has to Issue and' redeem 200,000
money orders every hour, and regis
ter as many iletters, to say nothing
of the thousands of tons (if nee on J,
third and fourth rlass matter which
demand its attention. It has to pay
out $50,000,000 a year to the railroads
to carry that part of the mail which
must make a Journey by mil. The
trains which the railroads carry it on
make an aggregate distance of 400,000.
000 miles, or the equivalent of two
round trips to the sun with several
lunar side trips thrown in. The star
route carriers have to travel 100,000.-
000 miles a year, and the rural free
delivery men must cover In the ag
gregate at least 240,000,000 more.
Bummed up. the men who carry the
United States mall a full year must
travel three-quarters of a billion miles.
Deficit Besily a Surplus.
The postal establishment Is expect
ed to cost the government J223.000.000
this year. Hut of course it expects
to get the bulk of It back. The money
which tthe people pay across the post-
office window this year will probably
amount to about 210, 000,000, leaving
a deficit of lift, 00. 000 to be met by
the government. Jtut while this sort
Of a deficit occurs each year, the peo
ple think the government has no real
reason to complain. They point out
that it geta all Its own individual mail
carried free, and that if It but paid
for it at the same rate it charges the
feople, It would foot up much more
han what It has to pay out to make
good the deficit. In other words. It
Is their contention that even while mak
ing good the dencii me Kovemmeni is
1rlvlnr a. nrettv good bargain. There
are thousands of tons of franked docu
ments, and millions or letters earned
for which nothing is paid except in
the making good or tne annual ae-
flcit-
There have neen many r-opie saying
hut thn establishment or rural free
delivery is responsible for the continu
ance of this annual deficit In the pos
tal operations. Hut rural tree aenv-
ery pleads not guilty. It points out
that the deficit In hardly as murh per
year now as It was when there was no
mm 1 fr delivery. It cites figures
to show that there Is no relation what
ever between the extension of Its
service and the deficit. And then, to
clinch Its argument, it shows that $13.
000,000 a vear Is saved by the aboli
tion of K?nr routes and postofflcea
rhih it T-onHcred no longer necessary.
With this saving and the added business
rural free delivery tirings aonui, enuugn
mrn V In made. It claims, to make It
self-supporting, and It indignantly de
nlM the accusation that it has to lean
on the government at all.
financing ths Bural Xonte.
The outgoing mail from a rural free
delivery route always snows a nig in
crease ana tne same la nue ui me
Incoming mall. Each piece dispatched
means that much more money in the
posfofflce coffers, and each extra piece
received from the higher class offices
has a similar meaning. In the fourth
class riostofflces of the country, and
all the rural offices practically are tn
this class, the government simply goes'
into lartneryhlp with the postmaster,
rivinr him face value for all the I
stamps he cancels In the regular course'
Of business, this to be bis compensu-1
tion fn I'eu of salary In this way all j
Of the mall nispnir nen i urn, unur-,.
never vlelded a cent of revenue to the
Fovernment. it had to meet the
ene of carrying it and supplying the
stamps. I'nder rural free delivery It ,
all poe to the government, and the I
receipts Incoming and outgoing, do not
lack much of supporting the service.
Ths Farosla Post.
Ppesking of the annual deficit. Post
mtf r-Genern! Meyer had a plan for
wiping It out which he urged unon the
last session of congress. He told them
that If thev would provide for a par
cels post It would not Involve sny ap
preciable' extra expanse, while on the
ethir hand the revenues from it would
be more than sufficient to wipe out this
deficit. But congress aia noi ioo wnn
friendly mien upon this, snd so Mr.
Meyer's pet scheme still slumbers in a
not tSOi Spacious piimn-nvn in inrtviin
mlttM room of postofflces and poe:
mails. Meanwhile, tha American "people
still niov the amusing position of be
ing bM to send s parrel to England st
smaller cost than they could mall It
to the next door neighbor. Also, a msn
can aeid an 11 -pound package through
the mails to England, while h cannot
send one of "more than four pounds to
bl friend In the next town. It is a
wonder tbat Ixndon mailorder houees
hara not taken advantage of this oppor
tunity which the country merchant
claims a parcel post would afford ths
mail-order houees. ,
, Oeasrty Kail Boat Map.
Tba map which tbe poatofflca .e
psrtfrtant make of the rountle In
"hlch there is rural fr dellrerr as
well as tbosa et ths various Individ j1 (
routes aro soon to be " of fered to the
public at the cost of printing and, hand
ling. The county maps will be about
24 by 30 Inches and will show allroads
and all residences. They will oost about
60 cents each, and the maps of lndl.vjoj
unl routes will cost about 10 'cents each.
There promises to bo a gj-eat demand
for these maps. Already In some of
the counties where there Is a full coun
ty service, arrangements are being made
to get these maps for schools.
They are regarded as a Valuable ad
Hitinn in ih atlmiilntlon of tho Interest
of tha vniinar mind In geography. Of
course a map of the road to school, with
all of the houses placed onlt will have
more Interest for the rniia laiting ui
first st ens in geography than a map of
the world or of the I'nited States, and
he will the more readily "get the map
Idea into his head. Another use to
nrhlh thov will ha widely PUt TS tO
viiIHa tho 'tourist and other travelers
The counties having full free delivery
service are always progressive, tnicai)
eettled, and wealthy counties, eo that
tk win h ,Yianv n-ho will have oc
casion to use these mnts. It Is proba
ble that it may be arranged so tnat
people- wanting maps can order them
through their postmasters.
X.ess Dead Letter Mail.
T-,ni oro irrndunllv learning to exer
else more care in the addressing of
mnii mutter. Everv year the number
of pieces of mall reaching tho dead
letter office has decreased. In proportion
to the number of pieces handled. Dur
ing Julv of the present year there were
101 42 "fewer pieces to reach the dead
letter office than during the correspond
ing month of last year. There were
still H33.983 pieces that did reach this
morgue of the mail, however, which
nrgues that there Is still plenty of
room for improvement. Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster-Oener.al DeGray is still
fighting for better addresses and still
trvlng to persuade writers to put their
own name and address on the outside of
their mall, and to the growth of this
practice he attributes the decrease of
the business of investigating the dead
and sending to the porter's field of
malldom those which cannot he Identi
fied. Growth of Postal Business.
RED HOT WORDS PASS AT
CITY COUNCIL MEETING
If the people continue for the next 1 f
veers to Increase their pntronnge of the
malls as rapidly as they nave in tne
oast seven years, the receipts would
then amount to over half a billion dol
lars a vear. Thev lumped from $60,000.
000 lr."lR0 to $102.0(10.000 in 1900. and
from that to $183,000,000 in 1 907. The
postal establishment of no other coun
try in the world . shows half as great
gains In the business handled. Yet. the
American system is behind some of the
others in many things, especially in the
matter of parcels post and postal sav
ings banks.
The whole world recognlxes that hab
its of saving Instilled into the hearts
of the poor constitute tne nest insur
ance there can be. against poverty. So
ciological statistics tend to the, con
clusion that there are but few people
who have not spent enough Idly and
uselessly to have kejt them from even
needing the alms of their fellow-men.
The postal savings bank's principal mis
sion Is to lead the poor to save and
through that agency to largely banish
poverty. .
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Councilman Cottel Intimated thnt
Councilman Heldlng was dallying with
the truth In yesterAiy's council mee
lng and Councllmen Wills and Kellaher
indulged in personalities that would
make Fourth of July pyrotechnics seem
tame. None of the councllmen got to
the point where they had to be re
strained from striking one another.
The Beldlng-Cottel Incident arone
over the discussion of Vellaher's resolu
tion instructing the proper authorl
tiea to proceed against the Schwartx
child ft Sulzberger company for op
erating a slaughter house within tin
city. Beldlng Insinuated that Kellaher
and Cottel were actuated by the l.'nlon
Aleat company and that they were only
ineir masters.
FIST MILE OVAL
III HOTWEST
Track of Country flub De
clared to e Perfect
by Experts.
Today marks the completion rf the
Country club race course, hy all odds
the finest one-mile oval In this port of I
the country, and declare 1 by experts
who have Inspected It to be as speedy
as any in the west. The construction
of the trsck has cost In the nelKhbor
hood of $26,000 and work lins been go
ing on for nearly a whole ear. In or
der to securs the exact results desired
In the way of view, curvature, jiunt,
width and drainage It has been .ir-.-es-
Sary to move between 65,000 and 70,000
yards or esrtn. in soma places the
track la built up 30 feet and In others
cuts almost as deep have been made.
The track Is 45 feet In width lnlie ,
back etcetoh and 60 feet In the hou,
stretch. According to Superintendent I
Brooker the track is an absolutely per I
feet pleee of engineering work, ami tiie
club directors 'declare that there Isn't
another course In this part of the ruun I
trv. which at fi feet from the nosl s
one mile to the Inch. The tape has been i
laid to the track several times and the
distance verified to a nicety. I
Through seoreiary t:. ts. Yanneu or ,
the Seattle chamber of commerce, an
Invitation has been extended to the di
rectors Of the Country club to attend the
horse show at Seattle next week, wltn
a view of bringing over some of the
swell turnouts for thd stock show as
well as for the horse show here two
weeks later. It is highly probable that
a delegation of local horsemen will visit
Seattle not only ror tne norsa n uui
for the harness race meet In the north
Pacific circuit.
The franchise ror tne u. it. iv to
lay a' number of sidetracks and spur5'
from the main line near Montavllli
onto the Country club grounds, became
a law yesterday without the mayor's
signature. This fact has held up tne
work of laving the temporary tracas
hut General Manager O'Brien has neti
n
You can smoke
Imperiales Cigarettes
all day long if you want to
jff there will be no after effects.
That's because Imperiales
v,ifjditiics die nuiueui iuc ticancst,
purest tobacco obtainable conscien
tiously selected and j udiciously blended.
You can get Imperiales everywhere
their distribution is perfect
serving
Cottel sorsnir to his feet and snlrt
that if Beldlng, "Says, Insinuates or
contends that I ever took anv money
from the Union Meat company', or that
they or their representatives' ever paid
me, bought me an automobile or ro-
numerated me In any way for anything.
ne is a liar.
The council was In nn unroar. Coun
cilman Annand. who was presiding,
pounded with his gavel to secure order
and from the noise finally emerged
the voice of Councilman Beldlng who
said in reply to Dr. Cottel:
"You are the only person so far as
I know, who says that the T'nlon Meat
company ever paid you or bought you
an automobile. 1 never said It."
Words After th Meeting.
Roon after the council adjourned and
I he two belligerents were making tln-ir
way out of the council chamber when
Dr. Cottel again took up the cudgels
of war and s.-i.kl : "It's a dirty coward
ly thing- to Insinuate."
Belding replied that if the shoe
pinched to tke It off, that he would
stand by anything he said.
Kellaher and Wills became involved
in a display of language over the or
dinance raising the liquor license fee
of restaurants from $300 to $S0O. Wills
asked what fee is charged grocers for
selling liquor. Then he proceeded 'o
roast Kellaher who Is In the grocery
business.
"It looks to me," said Wills, "thit
any grocer who sells liquor to fam
ilies; that Is. liquor that goes to the
homes where the young boys and girls
learn to drink It. Is stooping pretty
low and engaging In pretty low bus
iness.
Wills said more but thst was enaugh
for Kellaher who said In replj- hat
Wills had openly confessed In the coun
cil that he had seen the law violated
at the Oaks and had never reported
It. Kellaher then said:
"All such talk as that coming from
a man who admits he saw the flaw open-i
ly violated at the Oaks, saw young'
men and women ruined, and failed to fled President Reed of the Country club
report it. comes with mighty poor J?,,W W.r
grace. Such an attack as he has made o lav down this spur and within two
on me does not matter, but when a wenks the livestock will begin to ar
man comes here peddling hot air of the ,ive here for the Pacific national meet
kind that Wills has lo peddle simply -rho lines have been set for the tempo-
because he was elected on a reform ,ur., atrootoar lino and the material
ticket and has failed to live up to that w-lll be on the ground by the first of
m-nt-i, we Mil Know wiihi ii is Qune. i n,x L week
lor.
we an Know that v Ills has a po
litical bee buzr.ing and of course his
ordinance providing for saloons with
four walls and a celling Is but an at
tempt to redeem himself In the eves
of the people in his ward. He has
failed to deliver the goods. With one
breath he Introduces n reform measure
and then in the next breath says t!..it
he saw the law violated at the Oaks
and never reported It and now he wants
to grant the Oaks a regular liquor
license. What do you know about that?
But the people will puncture his little
balloon so hard in June that you will
be able to hear It down to Astoria."
That was the end of the debate.
Kellaher's resolution to close up the
pacKing piam was defeated and
DR1KKS CARG0L1C
measure to Increase the restaurant li
cense was laid on the table until the
next meeting.
AFTER QUARREL
Fearing that his wife would never
return from their native land, Norway,
August Miller, a blacksmith, became.de-
the spendent, neglected his work and hegar
ADM IKES POKTLAXI)
MOST OF ALL CITIKS
From Dnlly Herald of Tort Huron,
Mich. Professor J. J. Schmidt has re
turned from n two months' trip through
the west, leaving Cleveland. Ohio, June
20. accompanied bv Professor A. .1.
Kaston. He visited Chicago, Kaosus
CI'v. Denver, Colorado Springs. Sslt
Uake Pity, Uos Angeles, Snn Francisco.
Seattle, Portland. Victoria. Vancouver,
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth. com
ing from the latter city to Detroit on
the steamer Northland. In all the cit
ies he visited. Mr. Schmidt was ihe
most favorably Impressed w-lth Port
land, Or.
to drink. When his wife did return
two weeks ago she found a very differ
ent man from the industrious husband
she left. A quarrel ensued. Yesterday
afternoon Miller drank carbolic acid
rtnd was dead in a few- minutes.
Deputy Coroner J. J. Dunning Inves
tigated the circumstances of the sui
cide, and decided that no inquest was
necessary. Miller had threatened to take
btS life sevcraJ times before he actually
did fo. and had bought three bottles
of carbolic acid from three drug stores
to prepare for (lie deed. Miller was 31
vears old, and his wife nine years
younger,
street.
They lived at ,rli2 14, First
are rolled in thin mais paper crimped, not
pasted. This insures cleanliness and tobacco
taste only you don't taste the paper.
The month piece Imperiales afford the
ideally cool smoke.
The men of the West smoked cner I2,
000,000 Imperiales Cigarettes in I0O7.
And the fame of Imperiales is
steadily spreading throughout America
the sales prove it.
10 for 10 cents
THE JOHN BOLLMAN
COMPANY, Manufacturer
San Francisco
Record Breaking List
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FOR -BARGAIN FRIDAY i
WOOD ALCOHOL:
X0B0DV BLAMED
(United Press Lenned Wire
Seattle. Wash , Aug. 21. Coroner Par
roll has conducted an impicst into th"
death of Captain James K. McKelvev.
former chief of police of St. Cloud.
Minn., who died Monday from the ef
fects of wood alcohol, taken internally
from a bottle on which there was a
grain alcohol lHhel.
No responsihtllt v was fixed. The
1ury was unable to determine from ti e
evtdence where the wrongfully labeled
bottle of medicine whs purchased.
f. (Hiking for Nejrro Hurglars.
'T'nlted PrpM Leaned Wire.)
St. Dotils. Mp Aug. 2J Two negroes,
whose names are not known, forced en
trance to the home of Virgil Hassett, a
streetcar motormnn, during his absence.
seized tils young wife and locked her
In a closet hlle they ransacked the
house. Then thev set fire to the place
and fled. The flames aroused neigh
bors, and Mrs. Bassett, almost over
come by smoke, was rescued. The po
lice are searching for the perpetrators
of the outrage.
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GRAND CLEAN UP OF ODDS AND ENDS OF
LINES THROUGHOUT THE STORE.
BROKEN
Archbishop Klorxlan's Birthday.
(Spwlnl PIspMc-h to TTie Jonrnnl.
San Francisco, Aug. 27. The Most j
Key. Patrick W. Riordan, archbishop or i
San Francisco, was 66 years old to- .
day, having been born In New Hruns- !
wick. August 27. 1842. Next month his;
grace will celebrate the silver Jubilee !
anniversary of his consecration hh nn !
' archbishop.
Ladies' Ready-to-Wear Dept.
OATS -Medium w
$15.
K SKIRTS Beautifully t
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You like toasted corn flakes, do you?
Well, you don't know how good
toasted corn flakes can be unless you eat
EIPJ MIS
The E-C process of steam -cooking retain?
and emphasizes in E-C Corn Flakes all the
natural flavor of th&corn, and the E-C toast
ing process makes every flake dainty and
crisp, the most delicious morsel of corn food
anypne ever tasted. You'll say so, too. No
artificial flavoring is used in E-C
At Your Grocer's, 10 Gents.
Egrg-O-See fcereal Company,
CHICAGO
Lrest fUnnUctnrm ef FUked Cereal Foods la tfct WorM
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X
2 !1 OC FOR LADIES' AND MISSES' COATS Medium weight X
J)l.7t covert and fancy plaids; values to $15.
AC FOR LADIES' PANAMA VillLE J
i Jt4,UO trimmed, mostly $S.(H.) arid $1000 values
rtIK .ML sui.n riv.n.ir.ir. nr. iviuni
GOWN'S Elegant soft materials, well made, values to $1.69. T
FOR LADIES' NEAR SILK CN'DERVESTS Pink, b!o,
salmon and white, values to $1 50.
FOR LINED LADIES' SHIRTWAISTS Choice of the J
whole stock; former price was tip to $2 00.
rumrr nir inr.ii.r.stni? T ivr np s h I w TW aists
Beautifully emh'dered linens, China silks; values to $4.50. 2
. T - , . T 1 1 I T I ' nr"'T-TTA 11' . t . ' 'I" C XT 1 II. .( . .
4) and cardinals; values to $6.50.
r FOR LADIES' BLACK TAFFETA SATEEN SKIRTS
X uOC Deep pleated ruffles; regular $265 values.
Cj For 'ots "dds and ends slightly mussed Shirtwaists; values
T $2.50
t 8c
50c
For Ladies' fast black
15c hose.
Household Goods
Grand Clean-Up, Towels, Table Linens, Covers, Bed-Spreads and
Curtains; About Onfe Fourth Former Price.
1 AA For an elegant line Lace Curtains, Bed-Spreads, Table
J 31.UU Cloths, pairs of line Sheets, etc.; formerly sold as high
as $4.00.
J 5 for Htick and Turkish Towels; fine 15c values.
H. nrt F.ir Men's $100 and $1 50 TTndi.rwa
For Men's 75c to $1 50 Negligee Shirts.
For Men's Ties, worth 50c, 75c and $1.00.
For Men's Suspenders, values, 50c, 75c and $1.00.
For Men's Work Shirts, 50c and 65c values.
For Men's President Suspenders.
Ft Men's fast color, black and tan, hose, I2l$c values.
Fi-r Men's Canvas Gloves, regular 15c values.
For Boys' Suspenders, regular 25c-value.
F"r Men's heavy Rockford Sox, regular value 15c
F..r Men's Set Vld Plated Collar Buttons, 50i values.
For Men's 10, . 15c and 25c Linen Handkerchief.
For Men's Silk Arm Bands.
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! $15 Men's Suits Special $15.00 $
i $4.85
For ai! odd and broken lines Men's Suits stock, odd
sires These suits are all to be sold rrrespecti u'. former
J price, bargain Friday only. $4 85'
$1.85 for $5.00 Pants
$1.85
X etc. All
Shoes for Men and Women
$1.75
Everv odd pa:r of pant- in the house on spec:?! faleBAR
tVMN FRIDAY About 10i) rairs--Cord;ir..y, Casifneres,
eo tomorrow. BARGAIN FRIDAY, at the one popular-
price, f 1.85. Sues 30 to wa-sts; to J3 lengths.
$1.00
For choice of V-.ree 'ire odds and ends Men's and W'o- '
men's Dress Sh rs -Thre hoes are special sale tomor-
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row. HAKlj.AI . rmi'.Ai . ;.ieit irx.ur fiRe l fJ.W, BAKLiAlA a
FRIDAY ONLY, fl.7. -
For all odds and ends Bovs' and Girls' Sthool Shoe; val- 2
ues to $2 75. BARGAIN FRIDAY ONtAV - I
CI AH or a 'ne lin Men'.ind Women's Sample lrobre'Ia,
OlwU fines: Gloria Silks, beautiful Uver plated snd lutunl X
handles, silk covers; regular values $4,25.
NOTE These specials are for one day onJy tomorrow. BARGAIN
FRIDAY, and are bound to daw many buyers, to don't delay, rom
early and avoid disappointments, c!y one advertised article to the
customer, no alterations at these prices; no pbent or r.:l e r ;,
no money refunded or food escfcanged. J
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