WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1981.
THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. OREGON
FOSTER ROAD JOB
AWARD MADE TO
CONTRACTOR SHEA
man, Genevieve Combs; chief of health
department, Katherine Bennan ; judge
Herschel Wright.
The Foster road improvement project,
originated before the World war put a
quietus on public improvements and re
vived several months ago subject of
some of the most spirited hearings ever
held in the city council chamber
reached the point this forenoon where
the city council by unanimous vote
awarded the contract for the trunk
sewer to J. P. Shea.
This action was taken after City At
torney Grant had presented a report
showing that the litigation instituted by
G. W. Chilson, in which he sought an
order restraining the city from award
ing the contract or proceeding with the
work, had been cleared away.
The question was raised by Commis
sioner Bigelow as to what position the
city would be In if the contract were
awarded and an appeal was taken by
Chilson to the supreme court and the su
perior court were reversed. Grant stat
ed that Contractor Shea has agreed that
he would not hold the city responsible in
such a contingency and that the gen
eral fund of the city would thus be pro
tected ; but it is understood that Shea
later stated that he would expect the
city to reimburse him for such work as
he might have performed prior to the
decision should the matter be taken to
the higher court and the decision should
be adverse to the city.
The contract price for the trunk
sewer, from Sixty-second to Ninety-second
street, is $319,911.49, cr 20.7 per cent
below the estimate of the city engineer,
and is a saving of (18,000 to the prop
erty owners over the original bid of
Shea. This was made when he agreed
to meet an alternate bid put in by an
other contractor. The rate is $15 in
stead of IIS, the original bid, per lineal
foot for the 78 inch sewer.
Shea stated today that he would be
prepared to start the work on this large
project within a month and he expects
to make rapid progress before the rainy
season sets in.
COUNCIL SETS DATES nr
LICENSE BE VOCATIOX CASES
The city council has set 10 o'clock of
Thursday. August 4. as the time for pub
lic hearings on the revocations of the
following licenses:
John Perkusick, card room at Cl North
Third street; Mike Loso, soft drink es
tablishment at 40 North Third street;
Peter and Josie Bosatti, hotel license for
a hotel at Eleventh and Washington
streets; John Conrad, card room at 48 Vj
North Third street; Martin Johnson,
card room at 225 First street ; William
Sawyer, card room at 235 First street;
R. Bruno, card room at 248 First street.
HEW HA DBALL COVET
BEE5d X.AH OUT BY C1TT
A new handball court is being con
structed at the Johnson creek play
ground by the park department and
surveys are being made for the location
of the second baseball field at Pier
park in the St. Johns district. The first
ball field located there has proven so
popular that there is a demand for, fur
ther ball facilities.
Pier park Includes 65 acres of rolling
land which it is said gives opportunity
for the development of one of the hand
somest parks in the city. Picnic
grounds have been cleared and water
piped to them. The nearest point to this
park reached by the streetcars is Meyers
street, on the St Johns carllne, the en
trance of Pier park being about three
blocks from that point.
HARDING TO MEET
DEBS' HEADERS
Washington. July IT. (TJ. P.
dent Harding today had a succession of
appointments with organisations and
persons who have been urging him to
release Eugene V. Data and other
political prisoners.
Announcement of the appointments
followed reports that Debs and possibly
the others convicted of violations of
war-time laws are to be released soon.
Washington Postal
Examinations Set
Washington. July 2C. (WASHING
TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL)
Poatoffice examinations on August 26
are announced for the following offices
in Washington: Carson, Long Beach,
Napa vine. La Crosse and Tenino.
the public works department had agreed
to do the work at actual cost.
CITT COUNCIL TO ACT ON
PUBLIC WOBK ACCEPTED
The city council at its session on Aug
ust 3 will consider the acceptance of the
following public work on which notices
of completion have been filed:
Sewer in Forty-first avenue southeast,
from 130 feet west of Fifty-second street
southeast to Fiftieth street southeast;
Lane St Pasanen, contractors.
Sewer in Saratoga street, from 100
feet east of East Thirteenth street to
East Kighteenth street ; Latta St Kaady,
contractors.
Improvement of Sixty-second street
southeast from Woodstock avenue to
Fifty-fifth avenue southeast. General
Contracting company, contractors.
'Sewer at Forty-second avenue south
east from 120 feet west of Fifty-second
street southeast to Fiftieth street south
east, Lane St Pasanen, contractors.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT BIBS
WILL BE OPENED AUGUST S
Bids will be opened at the session of
the city council August 3 on the follow
ing public work :
Improvement of Humboldt street, from
Denver avenue to Interstate avenue.
East Nineteenth street, from Oregon
to Pacific streets.
East Twenty-second street, from Wy
gant to Alberta street. ,
East Clay street, from East Forty-fifth
to East Forty-sixth street
Sewer in East Clay street from East
Forty-fifth to East Forty-sixth street
Sewer in Forty-second street south
east, from Twenty-sixth avenue south
east to Twenty -seventh avenue southeast
Sewer in Buffalo street from East
Fifteenth to East Thirteenth streets.
East Tenth and Holm an street sewer
system.
SECOND MOM SUM GITEN
IN PHONE BATE HEARINGS
The high cost of hearings before the
public service commission was empha
sized today, when the city council made
its second appropriation of $5000 to aid
in carrying on the present telephone rate
BIDS FOE 1MPEOVEMENT OF
CITT OPENED BT COUNCIL
When bids were opened at the session
of the city council today, the low bid
ders in the following public work were
as follows:
. For improvement of Simpson street
from Campbell street to Interstate ave
nue, Simonsen & Johnson, $4570.75. City
engineer's estimate, $6162.
Improvement of East Seventeenth
street from Lambert avenue to the
north line of Southmoreland, Simonsen
St Johnson, $3586.25. City engineer's esti
mate, $4574.
Improvement of Cora avenue, from
East Thirty-seventh street to Forty
second street southeast Simonsen St
Johnson, $7338. City engineer's est!
mate, $9400.
CHILD SELF GOVERNMENT
INSTALLED; MAYOR TALKS
Mayor Baker, Park Superintendent
C. P. Keyser and Harry Coffin, repre
senting the national safety council, were
the speakers at Mt Scott playground at
4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, when the
children's self, government . council was
ingalled.,; Wr -;
The officials for the new government,
which is the .first of its kind instituted
at the Portland public playgrounds, are i
Mayor, Alvin (Sarretson ; commissioners,
Lucille Hart Maud Tollman, Harold
Benson, Glenn Schenk ; police chief,
Charles Hurd; chief of safety commis-
to the figures presented by Wllliard m
his exhibit ob Tate basts" as the "fair
valuation'' of the properties of the Pa
cific company in this state. There Is a
broad distinction between "fair valua
tion" and "valuation for rate making
purposes." Shaw Insisted, in renewing
to the figures prases ted by WiUard in.
rehearing of the telephone- rata case in
progress before the public service com
mission here.
Wniard agreed with Shaw on this
point and explained that the figures
presented In his exhibit $12. 429.607
represented the valuation of the com
pany for rate-making purposes as fixed
by the Oregon commission, rather than
the "fair valuation'' of the telephone
properties.
LIKE GREEK TO LA THAN
Willard's exhibit on the decrease of
raw' materials entering into telephone
construction was also submitted to a
heavy bombardment with Shaw insist
ing that it was misleading In that none
of the materials listed were used in then
raw state; that labor, freight and other
items must be added in bringing the
product Into a finished state ready for
use in telephone work and that the en
tire exhibit was misleading because it
failed to set out all of these facts to
gether with other information and sta
tistics which must be considered in con
nection therewith.
To a layman the rehearing has re
solved itself into a battle of technical
experts employing weapons of such long
range as to completely overshoot the
comprehension of the humble "rate pay
er, who, by the way, is mostly con
spicuous at the hearing because of his
entire absence, the attendance being al
most entirely made up of engineers anc
attorneys representing either the tele
h.flrinr Tt wslr pTnlftlnMl that th r 1 tv
has several very important witnesses Phon company or the patrons of the
whii-V. it rioairea tr. hrvlrl at tho hparinr cumpany.
When the matter was originally con
sidered by. the council it agreed that if
EINSTEIN THEOBT HOHN8 IN
The high cost .of living and Einstein's
the valuation of the telephone pi sanity
in the state far rate making purposes
CLAIMS SCOPE LIMITED
The order of the commission ai ants
the rehearing. McNary pointed out
limited the scope of the rehearing to the
recent order establishing increased rasa.
McNary Insisted that to permit the hear
ing to run hack to the order of 191
would be unfair to the tolepnrme com
pany, which had not prepared to make
a stand on the question of valuation.
After To mil neon had assured the com
mission that it was not proposed to at
tack the valuation of the company's
property but that it was merely desired
to analyse the report for the purpose of
comparison. Chairman Williams permit
ted Willard to introduce his exhibit on a
rate basis which shows a valuation of
the company In 1916 of 8i2.429.MS of
which approximately $1,000,000 was in
tangible assets
QUALIFICATIONS QUESTIONED
James T. Shaw, attorney for the tele
phone company, devoted his effort la
cross-examination of WiUard to under
mining the claims of the witness to rec
ognition as an expert on telephone valu
ations. Willard admitted that his engi
neer inx experience had not Included tele
phone plants except in connection with
light and power punts, street railway
and interurban systems and other public
utilities, which experience, Shaw insist
ed. did not Qualify the witness to expresi
an expert opinion on matters affecting
the telephone business.
Two more witness are to be
called by the city of Portland and sev
eral valley patrons of the company are
exnected to testify regarding service
this afternoon, alter w n i c n me
hearing will be turned over to the tele
phone company, which has a uosen or
more witnesses on hand ready for In
stant action, with many more said to be
subject to call If their testimony should
be needed.
derstood the rate extracted from the
npaay had
t AB de
clared that t they should use their tele
phone to call the heads of their fannies
bill
Portland and nothing
wice a day their total
would run M from M to It a
four-party line or
necessary an appropriation - of $10,000 J JL1 "V? "na
ZuTL mi. theory of relaUvity afforded ground for
PARKING MEASURE THURSDAY
a lively battle of wits between Shaw
and Willard this morning with Assist
ant City Attorney Tomlinson frequently
The city council has fixed 2 :30 o'clock coming to the rescue of his floundering
Thursday afternoon as the time for a I witness and Chairman Williams inter
hearing of the Portland Automotive I rupting the cross-examination in an
Trade association relative to parking I effort to clear the atmosphere in time
of . automobiles on Broadway. The new I for the noon adjournment
ordinance provides for a limit of park- Willard's exhibit showtnx the relative
ing to 30 minutes on the northerly por- position of the cost of living and wages
tions ot Broadway, where many auto paid employes of the telephone company
concerns are located. The association between April. 1917. and the present time,
desires a time limit but wants it ex- Presented the excuse for th worriv at
tended to two hours.
gum en t which hinged upon Willard's
authority to start the two factors at a
common point four years ago.
ATTACKS CHART
In spite of Willard's repeatedly uttered
contention that his chart was merely
prepared for comparative purposes.
Shaw persisted in his declarations that
it was an "engineering absurdity,"
false comparison, and meant absolutely
nothing at all.
The chart, which was evidently ln-
CONTRACT FOR TWO FIRE
ENGINES GRANTED BT CITY
The city fire fighting equipment is to
be increased by the purchase of two
triple combination fire engines. On
recommendation of Commissioner Bige
low the city council this morning award
ed the contracts for these engines. The
price is to be $13,000 each, and one
contract for an American La France
engine was given to the A. G. Lonr
company, while the other, for a Stutz I tended as an argument for a reduction
OSWEGO CLUB OET8 ATTORNEY
TO FIGHT HIGH PHONE RATE
Attorney G. G. Smith of Portland has
been retained by the Oswego Lake Hy
droelectric club to represent the Oswego
Lake district in the telephone rate hear
ing.
Abolishment of the toll system and
long distance service and reestablishraent
of the direct service system which the
community has always enjoyed, vi
stressed at a meeting of the club held
Monday night Also attention was called
by one speaker after another to the ab
surdity of. paying a $2.25 telephone rate
for what was held to be a valueless
privilege of telephoning tree to neigh-
Dors wno live upon me u ttcrea
which Oswego is located.
One merchant staged that the present
rates, including tolls, had jumped' his
telephone rate to considerably In exec
of his combined taxes on his store
property and stock. Another man whose
telephone Is used solely to communicate
with his business house in Portland.
ported an increase of from $1.50 to $9
a month. One speaker said that he un
engine, went to the Stutz Fire Engine
company.
COMMISSIONER MANN ON
DEFENSIVE, BUT WINS OUT
City Commissioner Mann, under whose
supervision comes The Cedars, had an
uncomfortable few minutes at today's
council session over an Item of $1122.90
expended for a septic tank and conr
nec tions at this institution, which ' he
had constructed without having obtained
authority therefor from the city coun
cil. Mann won out the council agreeing
to pay ' the amount from the general
fund.
Mayor Baker read the riot act de
claring that no commissioner, must make
expenditures of this character without
having first secured the approval of the
council. Mann's defense was that an
emergency situation was created which
demanded immediate attention and that
93 ALARMS IN JUNE
The report of Fire Marshal Grenfell
for the month of June shows that the
fire department responded to 98 alarms,
of which 35 entailed losses amounting to
$141,672.82. There were 3468 inspections
made and 814 hazards abated. Two ar
rests were made for violations of city
ordinances.
of wages 'of employes of the telephone
company as one means toward reduc
tion in telephone rates, shows that
whereas wages have increased 80 per
cent since 1917, the cost of living is
today only 41 per cent higher than it
was at that time, due to sharp declines
in the past few months.
A reduction of 10 per cent in wages
would mean a saving of approximately
$300,000 in operating revenues to the
company and should be reflected 'in re
duced rates to the telephone subscribers,
it has been argued.
COMPANY CRITICISED
Insisting that to begin at a common
starting point in 1917 was grossly mis
leading. Shaw reminded the witness that
nis company naa Been bitterly criticised
at that time because of the inadequacy
of its wage scale which had resulted in
a strike of telephone employes, and had
been called before the commission, to
explain the condition.
If the chart were made to show the
true conditions at that time with wages
CITY'S DATA AROUSES
IRE OF TELEPHONE CO.
(Continued Prom Pas One)
pany this morning proceeded to lay down
a barrage of technicalities in an at
tempt to batter down the facts and fig- I below the cost of living, Shaw Insisted,
ures presented by Willard. I it would not now show the wage line
Sharp exception was taken by Sha,w I as having crossed the cost of living curve
at an ana wouia leave no room tor an
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Whether your journey leads you to mountain shade or
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BEN SELLING
Leading Clothier
Morrison Street at Fourth
argument for lower wages as a means
toward lowered telephone rates.
Willard was still on the stand under
cross examination when the hearing ad
journed for the noon luncheon, ,
PORTLAND FATS HIGH
With the exception of Atlanta, Ga
Portland pays a higher Tate for
telephone service than Is paid in
any other of a group of 20 cities in
the United States, ranging in population
from 200,000 to 500,000, according to an
exhibit presented by Willard at Tues
day afternoon's session. i
COMPARISON' MADE
The cities listed in Willard's exhibit
include Milwaukee, Washington. Newark,
Cincinnati. New Orleans, Minneapolis,
Kansas City. Seattle, Indianapolis. Jer
sey City. Rochester, Denver. Toledo
Providence, Columbus, Louisville, St
Paul, Oakland. Akron and Atlanta.
In Portland the exhibit shows the sub
scriber to a main line business telephone
service contributes a total of $123 a year,'
toward the support of the telephone com
pany. In Atlanta, Ga., this class of serv
ice costs $120 a year, but in all of the
other cities the rate Is lower than in
Portland, telephone users in Columbus,
Ohio, paying only $66 a year for this
service, while those in Akron, Ohio, pay
$72 a year.
No figures are quoted In the case oi
Milwaukee. Providence. Louisville and
Oakland, while in Washington. Newark
and Jersey City telephone patrons pay
for service according to the amount.
DECREASED COSTS CITED
Willard. whose testimony and cross-
examination consumed the entire after
noon, introduced In all eight exhibits.
Including one on materials used in tele
phone plants, ana others showing the
fluctuations in wholesale prices, de
crease In the cost of living and wage
reductions throughout the United States.
Commenting on the latter Willard de
clared that a reduction of 10 per cent
in wages of the employes of the Pacific
Telephone company in Oregon -'ould re
sult In a reduction of $300,000 in the
I operating expenses of the company
which reduction, he intimated, should be
I directly reflected In lower rates to pat
rons of the company. Such a decrease,
he explained, would leave the wages of
telephone employes at a point fully 10
per cent higher In buying power than
were the wages received In April, 1917.
MEASURED SYSTEM ADVOCATED
Replying tr a question from Assistant
City Attorney Tomlinson, who Is con
ducting the rehearing for the city of
Portland, Willard declared that the
measured service Is the most equitable
method of handling the telephone busi
ness, for the reason that in this way
every user of a telephone pays for exact
ly what is used. Institution of such a
service, sn admitted, woutd probably cost
the big user more, but It would mean
cheaper telephone service for the small
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TANCOUTBE TOCTH BIBS
July 1. John
TTtgdsu Joy. son of Mr. and Mm T.
Joy of tm Mast R street, died
m Portland, aged IS. He hi
by his parents and two stotera. Mm, A.
M. Arnold and Miss Blanch Joy, both
of Vancouver. The body Is hold at
bar's sartors.
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Into telephone plant construction, are
shown In the exhibits entered by Wil
lard, who contended that these decreases
should bo reflected in reduced rates to
patrons of the telephone company.
Strenuous objection was interposed by
John McNary. associate counsel for the
telephone company, whan tt appeared as
if the petitioners for a rehearing of the
t si iip. nan rats case were going to at
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