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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. FRIDAY1 EVENING, MAY 21. 1903.
PORUMID WOULD
BE JOKE OF WEST
Hotel Men See Evil in Goth-
enberg Scheme or 3k
Kenna Petition.
Popular education emphasizing the
misleading- form of the proposea jmc-
Kenns, amendment to tlie city charter
of Portland will be the central thought
In the aggressive publicity campaign
gainst the "adoption of the measure
-wnlch 1M Deen unoermneu u;
.t til uAsrtr.iatlon.
"Both the Gotbuerg association idea
and tbe McKenna amendment arp4 o
ronstructed as to aecoive me
voter." declared H. C. Bowers, manager
of the Hotel Portland, wnwn represents
nearly $2,000,000 or invested capnai,
''"I'wfl" av point blank that either
measure would he ruinous not only to
the hotel business In I'ortland, but to
the entire city, continued mr. ouweis.
"We are all engaged in boosting Port
land. We believe in the town so thor
oughly that we advertise its good points
"from coast to coast. By virtue of this
advertising: we bring here every year
thousands or people wno leave mum
mnnn In Portland. The Gothenberg as
sociation, or the McKenna amendment
In operation would send ub down nui
again. Absolute prohibition will be bet
ter than either and I would vote for
absolute prohibition before I would vote
ior eitner.
"For under the present day regime
the people who come here expect to be
served with rerresnmenis. iney ao mn
see why it should not be so. The guests
whom we and the other first class ho
tels of Portland entertain are accus
tomed to congenial surroundings. Bare
rooms to drink In or a Darrea winaow
from which to receive their drink does
, not sound good to them. It would make
not only our hotel but onr city a joka.
' The very thought of either amendment
being adopted is absurd. Thousands of
the people will suffer directly as the
result of the Incorporation or eitner one
or both Into the city charter.
TVs make no objection to high li
cense. We are not fighting the battle
of the saloons. I would not d op
posed rather I would be earnestly In
favor of doing away with the low places
gainst wnicn sucn legislation is aimeu.
We would make no complaint to pay
1200 license per year, but we do not
wish to be. nor do we propose to be.
legislated out of business after years
have been spent and thousands of dol
lars used to beautify our hotels. Our
bars are not made attractive to the
exclusion of other features of the hotels.
We aim to do a legitimate, courteous
business and to extend to our guests
Just as nearly as possible the comforts
they have in their own homes. This
Is a business pollcv: it also is the out
growth of a desire to make the lives of
our guests as bright as possible.
. Past these amendments and all the
work we have done to build up our
business and to boom Portland will
have been for nothing. The Hotel Port
land will suffer greatly; so will every
other hotel in Portland. The people of
Portland must read carefully these meas
ures in order to see their danger to the
city, for on the surface they appear I
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BILES' CONTRACT
Street Committee, However,
Uejects Bids on Stan
ton Crossings.
City Attorney Kavanaugh's opinion,
. which was asked by Mayor Lane in re-
frard to the letting of the Stanton street
improvement to Elwood Wiles, was sead
at the meeting of the street committee
of the executive board yesterday, and
the committee decided that the mayor
must sign the contract. However, the
committee rejected all bids for the im
provement of streets crossing Stanton
and a communication was ordered sent
to the council asking that body to Insti
tute new proceedings for the improve
ment of these streets, and to pass an or
dinance which will permit the lowest
Diaaer to take the contract.
Owlne to the cltv charter, it Is not
possible for one contractor to build a
street across one which Is already un
der contract for Improvement without
the consent of the contractor on the
latter street Elwood Wires was award
ed the contract on Stanton street, but
on a number of streets which cross
Stanton he was outbid by other con
tractors. Kavanaugh, however, advised
Mayor Lane that he could not let these
contracts to anybody else but Wiles,
and Wiles was the highest bidder.
Attorney R. R. Dunlway appeared be
fore the committee, and began to scold
the mayor and the other members for
their alleged tardiness in award in a the
contracts on the cross streets. He de
clared that EHls Q. Hughes & Co.. his
clients, and owners of the property abut
ting on the streets, nave arranged with
Wiles to do the paving, and they want
"m to nave me contract, even mougn
his bid Is the highest. - . .
Dunlway said that the committee had
aireaav awarded a contract to tbe high
est bidder, referring to the Holladay fm-
rrovements let to. the Hsssam company,
t was the evident in ten Jon of the law
yer to show that, the committee was not
sincere In its action. Mayor Lane In
terrupted him sharplv with a request
that he confine himself to the truth as
much as he possibly could. The mayor
then delivered a cutting lecture, in
which he expressed the greatest doubt
as to the truth of the statements made
by Dunlway and the benefactorv im
pulses" of the lawyer and his Invest
ment company.
A merchant who fails to advertise
usually fails to succeed.
LIFE JOB OPEN FOR
GIRL AT REED VILLE
Secretary C. M. Rynerson. of the city
free employnifeuv bureau, gets many
queer requests from people who want
pwork. or who want to employ someone
ia worn, out yesterday na was mistaken
for a marriaare azeffcv nromotar
oasnrui youth from the country want
ed to purchase a marriage license. . He
Was flailUtrhHl tr th Mllintv mnr.
bouse. -
One of the unusual rantiMfi rauilvAjC
by the employment bureau was that of
cnariea Morton, of Reedvllle. Or. Nor
ton wrote the following letter: "T hv
a life position for a girl who Is willing i
i c a. rauaesi nome wiin me.
HE
VERY
OF THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL
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LAID ASIDE FOR A RAINY DAY, and WANTS TO GET
HIS HAND IN to a pair of the best-fitting gloves rje has ever had.
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