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THE OREGON' SUNDAY. JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1910.
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SLAPS PLAN TO CLOSE DRAWS. ,
! : OF BRIDGES AT BUSY TIMES
Portland. Or., Jan. I. To the Kdltor
i'tf the Journal: I have been followln
ltlt c-irrnt deal of Interest the con
troversy ovm- rloslnf the bridle draw
for ft rtafx time In the morning- and
fventntrs and have rd ttie letters p-
" jicarlrvir In the different paper barlrr
oil thin subject. At no time has any.
' one appeared In defense of the shipping
end lumber Interests of this city and
1 trust you via rive my statement of
' conditions- from "a river man's stani
Tinlnt. enure in vour Journal, . '
I have lived on the east side of the
river nearly CO years, and have been
- In the- psvuter, freight and towlnjr
;-business .nbotit 38 years; have, held a
master's and pilot's license for 27
Sears, and In the steamboat btisl
jiws before Jhere were any bridges
across, the river st Portland. ' I am
t!ierfore perhaps better qualified t
ppettk on this suhject than soverai
rner. , "v-.--- J; . '' ;- ,
. Kara Just Grievance. . '
, In the frlst place I am willing to
sdm.ll that the people of the east side
1imv a grievance against the present
Inadequate facilities for crossing the
river, but I can see no reason why
the large shipping Interests of Port
land should be penalised for the failure
of the authorities to provide modem
bridges ss the city's grout h made. them
necessary."'. J dt at present the steel
bridge and Hurtislde and Morrison
rtreet bridges are carrying the traTfle
formerly carried by four bridge., which
naturally causes more congestion thaff"
usual. '., , -;! - "' , .- -y
The completion of the new railroad
bridge at Oregon street, and the MadK
Mn street bridge, td" say nothing of
The Broadway bridge. . will allow ' an
Immensely Increased" traffic to cross
the river. The present Hteel bridge Is
mt narrow Jt- is almost Impossible for
1
ars to pass a large truck, and It
necessary for them to. follow this slow-
moving traffic across the bridge. Thl
one thing la responsible for more delay
t l inth actual opening and closing, o
tit draws, ss It-always takes a longer
ttme to clear the bridges than for even
a heavy tow to pass through.
. One other cause of delay Is the prac
tice "of swinging the draws only fine-
fourth the way around and return to
the same position, when If the draw
could swing clear around, making
half circle, the steamers could ap
proach 'nearer the brldgos,. could rome
clear up the draw in fact, Instead
of waiting some distance below the
draw-rest to see which wsy the draw
Is going to swing. The railroad bridges
st St. Johns and Vancouver swing In
this way, resulting in a considerable
..mvlng In time for both the steamer
end railroad trains as well. . .
Ringed Stacks Suggested -
Some one has suggested J hinged
smoke stacks as being a practical solu
lion of the-difficulty. This 'would be
all right If the present bridges were
high 'enough to allow a medium slsed
steamer to go under them. The whistle
of a steamer is required to be six feet
above the pilot; bouse, which. - would
. mAke the height above water of a large
towboat la the neighborhood of 45 feet
To allow a boat of this type to pass
under the bridges at all times of the
year It would be necessary for the
bridges to be at least 70 feet above
rcro, or extreme low water,
Kven a height of 70 feet would en
tail a heavy expense on the steamboat
owners, as It would be necessary for
them to cut down their high posts to
"below the 45-foot level, and to do this
. would mean an entirely different sys
tem ..of bracing InHide the hull and
lower bonne of the steamer., In xnf
npinton this tixlra- Yxpefise weald-bo
cheerfully -borne by the owners, as the
present bridges are almost as much of
a nuisance to -the rtver men as they
are to the- people who are compelled
to use tiiem. n j .- , -,
These bridges are-so low -there are
only a few of the smaller steamers
able to go under them' at an ordinary
stage of water,-' and they are not of
sufficient power to handle the heavy
work ; necessary in taking logs to the
mills 'above the bridges and bringing
lumber-laden , vessels down to the low
er harbor. ; I can call to mind only two
stern-iheel steamers of this- type now
in operation, the Pronto and Wauna,
both being of 'small power and built
very low for this very purpose of goinz
under the bridges without disturbing
overhead traffic. ,
Steamer Specially Built.
When the company In which I am
Interested decided to build the Wauna
. we Investigated the height "of the dif
ferent bridges and found .the Burnside
bridge to be 42 feet, and the Morrison
bri'dge 33 ' feet-, above tero. j We built
the Wauna as low as possible to build
even a small stern-wheeler and allow
room foe her- machinery ; and - ' crew.
Her searchlight,' smokestack and king
post are i8 feet above the water, at
which height she cannot go under the
hteel bridge at any time, has 14 feet
cioarance at the Burnside bridge in low
water and only five feet at the Morri
son bridge. . "'.
-, We have always ordered our masters
and pilots to get through the bridge!
without any 4 more d.lay tlind was ab
soiutely. neceasat-r, and ere now build'
Ing a .small proptlier steamer for the
purpose - of 'handling boom- sticks and
other light towing through the hsrbor.
This 'bust, will .be 'low . enough to go
under the bridges at any stage of water,
with the possible exception of the Steel
bridge. ' . . : ' ,-
Th thief- difficulty 'In 'the wsy of
closing' the draws at a stated time, is
one : that probably " never ha occurred
to the avcraifo, rltlwn of- Portland. Ow-
"' to the shallow,-water In, many of
tne sloughs and small streams the log"-
gers dump tln-lr timber into, it Is neces
sary for.tho tow boats, to work oil the
tide la gutting the rafts. Among these
Places are the camps, at Lake river.
Lewis river, Willamette slough. Cow-
llts river, Coal .Creek slough, Heaver,
Ctatskuiiwv , West port' , slough, Eloque-
man, SkattioekHwa, Blind slough. Bven
son, John Day, Deep river. Grays river,
crooked creek, loungs river and sv
eral others of lessor Importance. Thl
logemer with the ' variable.- currents,
winds and mishaps of towing, mske it
Impossible for, a. tow boat to arrive
in the harbor, at any stated time. "
" ' Ho Flaee for Moorings. ,
Should one arrive below the Steel
brldgv, for Instance, with a tow, stretch
ing out behind theni a distance of 1500
to 2200 feet, there Js absolutely no ulace
for- tlicin to tin up and wait for tft
draw opening. This- great. nuts of logs
would at once put .tho ferries out of
commission beside Jeopardising the ship
ping in the lower harbor, as during
part -of the year the tide . floods , Uu
as far as Portland and the wind blows
up stream. , Should a tow boat try to
noia nor tow. below the bridges, the
tld or wind would drive 'the rafts up
onto the steamer, spreading"! he rafts
scrtiKs thu channel and In all probav
uiiny Dreawng inem up, Witli a heavy
loss to the mill -owning them, the steam
er having them in tow, and very likely
consniersoie damage, to the docks and
shipping below the bridges. Practically
tne saino difficulty would confront
Doat'CMtigbt above or between the
bridges during the closed period, and
these same condition would apply to
a steamer coming down, with boom
suegs, during the' a Inter jnonths .when
mere Is a current in the river.
Beside the difficulty to the mills In
getting their Jog supplies promptly, this
unuge closing would result in cons d-
erablo delay to .lumbervessels outward
ooumi. At present ,ihey time their leav
ing Portland .to get through the bridgei
in uayjignt, make tne trip down the
river In the night and cross out aver
the bar early the 'next : mornlna. -; For
a sieamer 10 b held above the bridges.
after being loaded, - with .the - heavy'
charges for demurrage running against
the exporter, would result In consid
erable loss of prestige to this port
-, , , xemedie Suggested. . ,
In regard to remedies to exlstlno- run.
dltions, I would suggest if possible o
arange for the bridges to swing com-'
pletely around so as to allow steamer
to come close ud before slrnalln the
draw. Build no more low bridge. In
sist that all futuit bridges be at least
iU xeet above low water. Portland owes
her rapid rise In population and wealtn
to the river, which makes possible the
immense commerce now carried 'on,'" and
which-is -destined to be immeasurably
lncreasea in the near future. It seem
to me. that anything designed to inter
fere with Portland's splendid harbor or
tn aTiy:Tvaynnterrer: witn shippingris
an extremery nhort sighted policy on our
part, and In the end will prove much
more expensive than the relatively small
amount of money necessary to build the
bridges right in the beginning. . .- . .
Considerable emphasis Is laid on the
fact .that the draws at - Chicago are
closed for short periods In t,he morning
and evening, and this is cited as -an. ad
ditional . reason, why thy should be
closed -at Portland. However, th condi
tions are so much different there la
practically no comparison, as. In the
Chicago river there Is no tides to con-
V.H.MOOREWILLGET:
OF BP
RECORDS
An agreement -a reached yesterday
whereby W. II. Moore and an expert
employed by him will be oermltted to
iena witb ami. very little current at any examine the book of the Oreson Trus
Unside, the Chicago rifcr so A Savings bsnk and the book of Thorn
time.
called la little more than a canal Instead .as C. Devlin as receiver, In order tha
or a. large stream like the Columbia or j Moore may prepare his defense In the
Willamette, and was under state con-(criminal and .civil case charging him
troi until improved and made navigable, 1 with wrecking the bank.
so the Industrie dependent upon It. for' Previously the attorneys had been un
transportation have grown un under able to agree ami Moore filed a Detltion
tnese, conditions and . have ... adjusted asking the court to order Devlin to al
low him to. inspect the books. The mat
Iter wa set for argument before Circuit
Judge Gantenbein yesterday afternoon,
but when the time came it wa : in
nounced that arrangements' had been
mad whereby each; aide was satisfied,
Tlm Wa Uafavorabl. .
The recent Vanipalgn for ' the timing
the opening ' and closing of - the' draws
could not have been chosen at a tlm
when a mote unfavorable showing would
be made by . th' bridges, as the mills
anpve were entirely out of logs, such
shortage being caused by the freshet
In the Willamette and not being tho
fault of, the- mills or towboat compa
nies. The boats delivering 'rafts stored
near the mouth of tne Willamette, nec
essarily caused much more delay to the
car traffic than banal, and I venture the
prediction that If the timing was don
now when condition are normal,-not one
hair the delay would be reported.
The early completion of the, Madison'
street bridge will go far toward Mmedy
Ing present renditions, and with the new
railroad bridge and lirosdway. bridge.
m-hlc-h should be ready In one arid two
years, respectively, Portland will be
well provided for until such time as the
growth of the city make a tube a ne
cessity, :, .i '.-' , j :
In conclusion I wish to say that In my
opinion the proposed closing, of - the
draws Is: a menace to very Interest' lit
Portland, as the keynote to '"greater
Portland'" with It vast ' lumber and
hipping Interests, Is in the, continued
Improvement, of Its great natural high
way,: Instead of It further obstruction.
' ' ' . - . . J. W, SHAVKn.
VALE HOT SPRINGS TO
- BE COMMERCIALIZED
" (Speelll Dhpatoh to The Journal.) .. . --
Vale, Or.. Jan. 8. Articles of lncor
poratlon qt the Vale Hot Spring com
pany were filed last week, with a capl
Talks on Teeth
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Mr Deaf Woman, Zf Ton Would Only
uae jcr. rotter- wainut-xint Hair
Stain, A X Do, Ho On Would ever
Know Ton Btaiaad Your Balr. .;
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have a nice, rich-brown head of hair,
such as all .admire. Stains only th
hair, doesn't rub off. contains no pois
onous dye, sulphur, lead or eoiaper. Ha
no odor, no -sediment, no grease. One
bottle, of . Mr. Potter' Walnut-Tint
Hair Stain should last you a year. Sells
for f lia ootti at iirst class drug
gists.. We guarantee satisfaction.) Bend
your name and address on a slip of
paper, with tills advertisement and In
close 8o -cents- (stsinps w ooln V and -we
will - man you, cnarges, prepaid, a trial
package, in plain, sealed wrapper, with
valuable book on - hair. Mrs. Potter's
Hygienic Supply Co., 142 Qroton Bldg.,
Cincinnati. Ohio.- ,
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Mrs,
Potter's Walnot.TInt Hair Mala- la
recommended and fur sale in Portland hy Wood.
ard-Clark Drag Co. Wbbleaalera A Betallarai
Graaell's Pbarmacr,' 29 Mnrrlaon 8t: 8. Q.
Bhldmor Co.. lfll Third St.
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WITHDf 0UB GATfiS
Dr. B. 7. Day, Chicago, Ill.Although
I otrcasionajiy - practice my - profession
surncient to retain the title of M. D
1 must admit that . I never could have
made a living at It. I discovered that
soon after I graduated. However, an
offer was wade me to sell county and
state rights in a now Invention oh
commission, and th first year I made,
exclusive or an expenses, over 15000.
then, decided .that D didn't care much
for a title, anyway. The man wjto is a
nuent talker and ha plenty;. of tact
;7x;sn't . need-a business or profession
4iis tongue is collateral enough.
1,
rranK jj. Pagett. Dixon. Wyo. Cattle
sioaung, wrucn has been the only source
of Income of perhaps a hundred men
for the past 80 years ou the Snake river
in Wyoming, is becoming less prevalent,
... and the amall stockraiser Is beginning
iv. ,.o uwt or getting a levF head of
v-anis lor nis own. The well organized
gang of cattle and horse rustlers seems
1 to have moved to another field, with the
wAieneion o ua sneep industry In Car
, i bon tounty, - - f . - - .
a. v. eirang. AUburn, Cal. Placer
cuuuiy suirerca more from the cold
n irniucr mu winter than -' for ma-
years, and i hjok a though there
ivu4u uii ue coiuer weather. Th nr.
ange crop suffered materially.' althm.-h
there wa considerably more than half
a crop; notwlthsUndlng the contradlo-
Cold and Fog at Aberdeen.- v
Aberdeen, Wash., Jan. . S. -The cold
weather wa broken with rain yester
day. It is colder again today with a
! avy fog. , ?
Vibro-Vacuum Institute.
We treat all diseases, hyperenle treat
went " Glvfi .trial treatment free Satur-
days only., to 12 m. 4IZ-413 lienrr
bilUUlilg. , ; . ,
-Tomorrow (Monday) Is positively the
tst qsy for discount on west elde gas
i-i.ix jtaii cas Tii't. ,
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If I had perfectly sound but tiglv
i"n ana wss otnerwise beautiful, good
looking or passable and I could be con
vinced that 'the Ilex Dental ra. or mnv
other dentist could make the part of
inT win Knar annw. tinaiitirni ...1...
able and natural looking, recardlcaa of
the cost If 1 had - the money or could
ft Itj I would certainly have It done.
Who - Would . not nrefer a IwaiitrViil
servlcetl get -of false teeth of partly
fsise oian ugly set of natural onos.
Ne tell )'AU tllltllf 111! V BnA r nrnv.
and will guarantee that we can take a
set of Irregular, dectfyed. discolored. In
i"l in ukiicsi srt'nr teetli a iH make
out of them the most beautiful set
more beautiful than the best of nsture's
product. There Is nothing so repulsive
as a set of ugty teeth except diseased,
filthy ones. Jf some of the teeth are
missing entirely makes no . difference.
V will replace them perfectly.
In a msjorlty of our advertisement
we lay areat stress nn our ar-niait
Alveolar dentistry, replaclnr mlssliur
teeth without plate - or so-calhi
Dnuge-wora. ana the curing of Pyorrhea
(loose teeth! d I sensed gums. The work
Is so remarkable In its character that
It is ant to overshadow .. those other
cases ; tfhlch come to us the simple
cases. We don't want the idea-to ob
tain that we are. Alveolar specialists
alone. We are that, but' something
more general practitioners of the first
class,- . Wn do rlontlntrv tn all it
branches from the simple piece of. fill
ing up and our charges are reasonable
more so than thst of tha inn rim-
class dentist. If you are nnahl. tn
make us a visit now, send for our book
let, ''Alveolar .Dentistry,'; It Is re for
the asking. . sX - v , " .
rollowina la from on nt tha vuitiii.
f st and best known business men of
thl city.- Name given to persons call
ing at our office and Interested:
"Rex Dental fn. .fitv n.nt.m...
Heplying to your inquiry regarding the
Alveolar work you did for me will say
that it la entirely satisfactory In every
way, I would not part with them for
ny amount of mnnev. nniinr ...
daughter's teeth, can only say that yoi
have made her the most beautiful set
of teeth that I ever saw,-out of one-of
1 V. "S-'irri mriB insi i ever saw. '
P. S. -The daughter had all ' 'her
natural teeth except one, and they were
gOOd. SOUnd teeth , hut Irraa'tila l n..
Itlon. twisted and crooked. . The. fathef
nu uui ieein iij upper gum and 6
in .lower, all loose- when he came to
us. We replaced - all those that were
missing, upper and lower. We have
ample of all our work in. the -of flee,
and an army of the best people In this
city to prefer to, whom we have treated.
TKB BEX . SinVTAX, CO, XE VTXSTS.
311 to 314 Ablngton Bldg-., 106V 3d St.
KEEP OUK ADDRESS. . ,
i.i .sj.s.t L.'.'-'-i..'jt-Jx...'j.-i . j. rv
tal stock of $100,000. . T. W. IlollldaT
was el-(d president; M. O. Hoje, vh-e
president: Tom Jonea,' fei.-retary, '. am)
L W. ' Hope, treasurer, , .
The -company will erect the 'finest
sanitarium In tho west, and a natato
rlum In connection. They will 1mo pipe
the . water into th city for heating the
houses, and this will allow the residents I in the stale.
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to have the-mineral, hatha in their
home. , ' "
, The analysls.'of the water-Is almost
Identical with that of the famous hot
spring of Arkansas, and are said to be
highly radioactive and have a tempera
ture of VJi degrees; and are the .hottest
High School at Newberg.
' (ftpoclal Mipiitrh to Tlie JonrnrT)
Newberg. Or., Jan. 8. Honds for I,t0.
000 hive been voted by the school ols
trlct for' the purpoise ot erecting a hlgll
school building. Kleven different sit?
have been offered ranging In size from
three and a half acres to six acres.
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