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4 THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 22. 1908. STEEL TRUST t APPALL Pittsburg "Survey" Results in Disclosing Secret of Corporation's Success Small Wages for Men Who Kisk Lives Every Day. (From a Staff Correspondent.) Pittsburg, Noy. ntutfi from John Bum, president of the local gov ernment board of England, was a fea ture) of the joint opening session here tonight of the National Municipal league and the American Clvto association. Burn lias bean for a lifetime the fore moat labor leader of England, and has bean balled this fall as on of the con servative forces of the present Liberal ministry m dealing with the Important economic problems which are facing the British empire. Ho has visited America and Pittsburg as a member of-various commissions. Burns waa asked what recommenda tions he would make for Improvement :' of clvlo and labor conditions In the Plttaburg steel district . rawer Zooxs of Work. "Six days' work a week Instead of seven," he said. "Three shifts of eight boure Instead of two shifts' of twelve no twenty-four-hour shifts; better hous ing: counter attractions to the saloon: . wore parka and open spaces; , the Im provement of the river front; the hu manising of labor Instead of the brutal lsatloo of toll. There yeu are.. Those are Pittsburg's marchina- orders." . Pittsburg Is on many counts the moat Oisunctiy industrial city la tne coun try. This fact has nlayed a lara-e cart In the makeup of the program of the conventions.' The opening Joint session this evening waa riven up to the "Pittsburg Survey." under this name a close range Investigation of economic and social conditions in the American Steel, district has been carried on throughout the oaat- vear and a half. It has been called a survey because the methods employed have been Ihdse of toe social and civil engineer. , A staff of from ten to thirty persons has been engaged In the field work, In culding physicians, lawyers, sanitarians, draftsman, mapmakers, detective, stat isticians. Interpreters and professional workers In a score of lines of social work. It haa been called the "Pittsburg Survey' not because Its .findings apply solely to Pittsburg, but because the Pennsylvania ateel - Industry haa . been the laboratory where the work haa been dona. The survey has been carried on by the national publication committee, which publishes "Charities and the Com mon a." and It has been financed by the Ruaaell Sage Foundation for the Im provement of Living Conditions. It haa enlisted soma of the foremost national leaders In sanitary and civio work and haa had first-rate cooperation on every hand from the, progressive men and women in Pittsburg. The survey is the first undertaking of its kind for U American city. - Clvlo Problems. ... . Robert W. De Forest, vlee-presideat of the Russell Sage Foundation and for mer tenement . bouse commissioner of New Tork city, presided at the Monday evening aesslon, Robert A. Wood, di rector of South' End house, Boston, ana one of the foremost civic leader of New England, spoke on "Pittsburg's Civic Problem." Mr. Woods sketched the marvelous growth and power of the Plttsbura- district which' has devel oped nnder the "insistent and unoeaalng spur of a world demand for two or three of the fundamental utilities of civilization." He maintained that the "public physical well-being Is coming to the very front as an issue of patriotic foresight" In conclusion 'Mr. Woods said: "We all remember how Chicago, on account of some of the crude moral by-products of ita rrowth. came to be an object of acorn from many sources at home and abroad. By creating the world's fair and by the exceptionally Intelligent or ganisation or civic ana social oener mutt Chlnasa haa coin nailed the re spect of the country and the world. Pittsburg succeeded Chicago as the chosen example of the cynics; Pittsburg is substantially taking to heart these large plans for associated and public enterprise through which alone, as all the world is finding, a twentieth cen tury city's prosperity goes hand In hand with lta honor.'' "City Planning and Housing" waa dis cussed by Grosvenor Atterbury of New xora city, arcnitect or tne mipps tnoaei tenements, who is now carrying on ex tensive experiments In new methods and models for low cost dwellings. He de scribed the cooperative housing move ment which Is spreading like wild fire over England and Germany, under which houses are built in large numbers and held by joint stock companies In whloh the tenants, instead of owning their houses, own stock. The plan haa many: advantages la rapidly shifting Industri al centers. indirect Taxation The function of business bodies. In Im proving clvlo conditions waa discussed by H. D. V. English, formerly presi dent or tne nttsourg cnamoer 01 com merce, who has taken the advanced Kound that bad water, bad sewage, d houstrig and bad air are a species of Indirect taxation on business interests. They not only Increase taxes, but les sen output Remarkable advances have been made in tne last tbree yeara oy the jrittaburg chamber of commerce and the reform municipal administration la laying hold of these problems. In presenting the facta brought out by the Pittsburg survey, the director, Paul u. Kellogg, maraea tne snarp con trast between the superb development of Pittsburg aa an Industrial center and Its development along lines of wellbeing aa a community, with the merging of Allegheny eity, greater Pittsburg has between 600,000 and 600,000 inhabitants. In comparing death rates per 100,000 for a period of five years, with a group of other cltlea comparable In slse Bos ton, Baltimore,' Cleveland, St. Louie he showed that while Pittsburg ranks fourth In deaths from pulmonary tuber culosis, it ranks highest In typhoid, highest in diarrhoea and., enteritis, highest for pneumonia, highest for bron chitis and other diseases of the respira tory system, and highest for violence excluding suloldes. Tenement Census. The lack of adeauate and sanitary housing conditions in Pittsburg has a direct bearing on this health showing. During the past year, the Pittsburg bureau of health haa made a complete tenement house census of the city. Over BO ner cent of the houses now used as multiple dwellings were originally one ramiiy nouses ana nave nettner tne flumbing, the water supply, or the ven llation for the three, four, five and six families whloh now Inhabit them. Conditions In many of the mill towns are eauallv bad. Homestead, for ' In stance, has no ordinance against over crowding, no ordinance requiring ade quate water supply. ' Tne roreigners live in tne second warda between the mills and the rail roads. In 12 eourta atudied in this dis trict, only three houses had running water inside the house. One tiundred BROTHER CHARLES Oil A TOGA CHASE By -Way of 'Qualifying for Race Resigns Offices With Corporations. (United Press XiMsed tf ire.) Cincinnati. Ohio, Nov, Il.-Ult was an nounced today that Charles P. Taft. brother of the president-elect, will sever his connection with the publio service corporations In which the Taft and Sin ton millions are invested. He has re signed the presidency of the Cincinnati Gaa A Electric company and his direc torship In the Cincinnati Traction com- pnj. .'. ....,. rait s move is coneiaerea ouiywi o a formal announcement on nls part if nls aandldacv for the Ohio senator- ship. He Is anxious to have his affalra In good shape to handle the coming fight DECLARES SUN SPOTS MAGNETIC BODIES (raited Pres. Leases WlrO Pasadena, CaL. Nov. II. Dr, George El Hale, director of resarch at the Car negie solar observatory. Mount Wilson, has today accepted aa fact the theory he has held that sun epots are magnetic bodies. The acceptance oomes at the conclusion of three years of research, during which the powerful modern appa- and ten people were found using one yard pump. Fifty-one out of 139 fam ilies lived in one room. Twenty-six of the two room apartments -are used by eight or more people; one two room apartment sheltered It; two, 12; two, 11. A crude reflection of the effect of these conditions la indicated by the death rate In thla second ward. Of every three children born there one dies before It reaches two yeara of age, aa agalnat one In every six In the rest of Homestead. . , A significant array of facts as to Industrial accidents in the Pittsburg district has been brought out by the survey. A' speoial staff of five people, including an engineer and a lawyer and Interpreters, made aa investigation of the 626 men killed during a single year In Allegheny county. IiOng 1.1st of Accident. The accidents fall on Americans aa well as foreigners: 224 were native born. The ranks of steel workers and trainmen suffer most the pick of the workmen In the district It was found that It was the young men of the dis trict who go down In the course of Industry. ' Eighty-two were under 20 years of age, 221 between 20 and 80. Over half the men killed were earning less than $16 a week, a faot which raises the question If the law Is fair In assuming as it does in Pennsylvania, that wages cover flsk. Fifty-ono per, cent of those killed were married men with families to support; an additional 80 per cent were single men partly, or wholly, sup- ?ortlng'the family. It was shown that he greatest losses are not due to the spectacular accidents, but to every day causes. In the 'steel Industry, for in stance, 42 deaths were due to the opera tion or electrlo cranes, 11 to the opera tion of broad and narrow gauge rail roads in the mills, and yards, and 14 to falls from a height or Into pita, vats, tc. "Pittsburg has stamped out small pox' said the speaker, "Its physicians are fighting tuberculosis; the munci pallty Is checking typhoid. Cannot en gineers, foremen employers and work men come together In a general cam paign to reduce accidents T Tatus of the Mount Wilson observatory has been brought Into use ana photo graphs o the gun spots taken, almost On June 1 a photograph of a sun snot shows a great mass of hydrogen being sucked a distance of 87,000 miles tot its center. The magnetto power of the sun spot is terrific These photographs show the hydrogen 87,000 miles away.- and 10 minutes latex It waa drawn. within the a pot , GUKB0AT BENNINGTON IS TO BE REPAIRED (United Prees Lekeed Wire.) i Vallejo, CaL, Nov. tl. Orders- were received today at the Mare Island navy yard to take up work on the gunboat Bennington, which haa been out of com mission since the disastrous -explosion at San Diego four - yeara ago. This j task will be commenced Immediately 1 after the collier Prometheus la launched, December 6. The Bennington explosion entirely wrecked the engine room and It will be necessary to put- In new boll era at a cost of several hundred thou sand dollara The vessel will then be renovated throughout The Vicksburg. which la now under repairs at the navy yard, will soon be turned over to the treasury department to be fitted up aa a revenue cutter. ; ( tfANCE O'NEIL IS -"SEEING THINGS" Boston, Mass., Nov. 21. ranee OTTell, the California tragedienne, la preparing today to leave her magnificent country home at Tvnaboro near here because she says Its hallway and rooms ar in habited by a family of spooks. The actress declares emphatically that their antics caused creepy sensa tions to pervade the entire household knd that finally she became so fright? ened that ahe sold the place. The purchasers are the Sletera of the Notre Dame academy, who are reported to have . paid 116.000 for- the estate which la -valued at t7.00: The house haa 22 rooms and five bathrooms, and la surrounded by 880 acres of woodland, "CAMEO KIRBY" :; M 'Z WINS SUCCESS '-"' (United Prees teesea Wire. Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 81. Nat Good win Is hailed aa-the creator of a new role, following' his success recently at the Great Southern theatre in the title role of "Cameo Kirby," a new play by Booth Tarklngton and Harry Leon Wilson, dealing with Mississippi river romance. :. . - Goodwin played the role with a -dash that made a decided hit rortravln the cnaraoier or cmre-iree gamoisr, He was avr-ported by,Maude Fealy, hit newadlna lady. ' "- ' . Mrs.- Goodwin, formerly Edna Good rich, sat in a box and Joined In the ova tion given, her husband. 7 - ;i r .' " - : ' , f ' ' ,' '. .Sotfiern to Tour South. ; : '' t Beginning tomorrow E. H, , Mothers will start on his first tour In three yeara of the aouthern states. From New Orleans Mr. Bothers will move toward San Francisco, eomin huk frim ti coast In January, opening in an en gagement la. Chicago the teat- week of. , -- " v uva mm York during the spring season. . y . VPben a 18-foot python in a Chicago amusement park became chilled while hatching 40- eggs the Uvea of the mother and her young were saved by the use of electrlo heating pada and aa electric radiator. . . , Hol May Presents To be sent to out-of-town relatives or friends should be selected early.' In so doing you not only avoid'tho. great rush and jam in the express and postoffice, but you have first selection of the new fresh stock which we have received by express and now : have : on display. NECKWEAR Our showing includes the very finest exclusive pat terns in Four-in-Hands, me dium arul wide reversible and folded styles; also the newest Pure Silk Mesh Ties. 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Mattresses of All Kinds at Cost Pure Silk Floss $7.00 No. 3752-6 Rocker j- s Quartered oak s frame, golden or weathered finish, genuine leather, $5.00 ' v. isj-.-w iffiissis4 No. 756, Couch Quartered Golden Oak Frame; Covered in Velour or Verona, $11.25 -: . 55 WS ; 55 North Frol Street . ' ' . Corner Davis
