Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, September 21, 1905, TWO EDITIONS, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextDAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1005. 3 The Daily Journal's Great Special Sale Day SATURDAY, ctobcr 7th A Money Saver for Subscribers. Take Advantage of this Great Offer. Our Special Offer JOURNAL SUBSCRIBERS WILL THIS YEAR BE GIVEN A SPECIAL BARGAIN DAY, AND IT IIAB BEEN SET FOR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7. ON THAT DATE YOU CAN CET THE DAILY JOURNAL FOR ONE YEAR, CASH IN ADVANCE, BY MAIL, FOR $3, OR BY CARRIER FOR $5. THIS IS A FLAT RE DUOTION OF dNE DOLLAR, NOT ONLY FOR THE USE OF YOUR CASH, BUT TO SAVE US, AS WELL AS OUR SUBSCRIBERS THE TIME AND TROUBLE OF NUMEROUS PAYMENTS DURINO THE YEAR. IT SAVES US WORK, AND IT SAVES THE SUBSCRIBERS CASH. " Remember the Date Saturday Oct. 7 ALL WnO PAY UP ARREARAOES, IF THEY HAVE ANY, CAN ON THAT DATE, GET THE BENEFIT OF THE OFFER. EVEN IF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION IS PAID UP TO THE PRESENT TIME OR IN AD VANCE, YOU CAN GET THE BENEFIT OF AN ADDITIONAL YEAR ON THAT DATE. IF YOU CONNOT COME TO THE OFFICE ON THAT DATE, SEND THE MONEY IN SOONER, AND THE CREDITS WILL BE MADE ON THAT DATE, OCTOBER 7TIL DOUBLE SERVICE A NUISANCE Fresno City Council Makes Study of Tel ephone System;and Reports Against Second Company Hof er Bros. Notico of Popular Loan. Notico Is horcby givno that school district No. 24, in Marlon county, Ore gon, will on November 1, 1005, soil promissory notes of said district to tho amount of $35,000; said notes axe to bo dntod Novombor 1, 1005, arc pay able on or beforo five years after date, at tho option of said district school board, nro to draw lntorcst at tho rate of four per cont por annum, payable somi-annually; principal and Interest payablo In U. S. gold coin at Salem, Orocon. Subscriptions to said loan will be rocelvod by tho clerk of said district school board, at tho offlco of the Good alo Lumber Co., on 12th street, in Sa lem, Oregon, up to noon of Friday, October 20, 1005. No subscriptions will bo rocelvod for less than $50, and in awarding the notes tho smallest amounts will bo giv en tho preference. Datod at Salem, Oregon, this 18th day of September, 1005. A. O. CONDIT, Chairman District School Board, Dis trict No. 24, Marion Counfy, Oregon. Attest: J. 0. Goodale, Jr., Clerk of tho Board. 0-18-lOt Notico of Laying Sewer in diaries Cartwright'fl Addition to the City of Salem, Oregon. Notico is hereby given that tho Com mon Council by a resolution duly made at an adjourned regular meeting there of, held on tho 8tb day of September, 1005, deems it expedient and proposes to lay and construct a six-inch alley sewer through the Charles Cartwright'a addition to said city, thence across Capital street, thence through lot No. 2, in block No. 86, in the City of Sa lem, to connect with the alley sewer in block 80. Said alley sewer to be so laid and constructed at the expense of the property owners benefited, and the cost thereof assessed upon tho property benefitted thereby as prescribed by the Charter and Ordinances of said city. This notice is published 10 days in the Capital Journal, a newspaper pub lished in the city of Salem, by order of the Council. W. A. MOOBES, 9-lMlt Recorder. Notico to Contractors. Notico is hereby given that scaled bids will bo rccoived by tho City of Salem, nt tho offlco of the undersigned at the city hall in Salem, Oregon, up to 10 o'clock a. m., of September 20, 1005, for tho construction of a rein forced concreto bridge across Mill creek, on State street, between Nine teenth and Twenty-first streets, in said city, to bo built in accordance with tho nlnns nnd specifications now on fllo .in tho offlco of the city recorder. Jiacu uiu must do accompanies py a cortlfled check to tho value of ten per cent of the amount of tho bid submit ted as a guarantee that the bidder will qualify by giving a good and accept ablo surety bond, to bo approved by tho mavor. and enter into a contract with tho city for the construction of of nald bridgo in accordance with said specifications and bid submitted with in six days after having received notice of tho acceptance of his bid, said certi fied check to be forfeited to tho city of Salem in case tho bidder falls to qualify and execute said contract as above. The city of Balera reserves the right to reject any or all bids,, and tho bid of anv person who has bid beforo or contracted for such work and been de linquent therein will not be received. Plans and specifications can be seen at the offlco of tho undersigned at the city hall. By order of tho common council. W. A. MOOBES, 9-15-llt City Recorder. 2Uffi&zfo OlHXiDREN CRY FOB FLETCHER'S CARTORI- .-- o A Pleasant Way to Travel, rhe above is the usual verdict of the traveler using the Missouri Pacific railway between tho Paeifie coast and tho east, nnd we believe that the serv ice and accommodations g.ven mem this statement. From Denver, Colora do Springs and Denver there are two through trains dally to Kansas City and 8t. Louis, carrying Pullman's lat est standard electric-lighted sleeping ears, chair ears and up-to-date dining cars. The same excellent service is operated from Kansas City and St. Louis to Memphis, Little Rock and Hot Springs. If you are going east or south, write for particulars and full in formation. W. a MTORIDE, Qen. Agfc, 124 Third St, Portland, Ore. Notico for Bids, Notico is horcby glvon that tho dis trict school board of school district No. 24, in MnTion county, Oregon, will rocoivo bids nt tho offlco of tho undor signed, in Salem, Oregon up to 1 o'clock p. m., of Saturday, September SO, 1005, for furnishing to said dis trict ono lot of school furnituro as fol fel fol eows: 250 singlo desks, with seats. 40 eight-foot tablot-arm sottecs. 150 tablet-arm chairs. Bids will bo rccolvod for all or any part of tho lot. Each bidder must sub mit samples of furnituro bid on, and oach bid must be accompanied by a certified check for 10 per cent of tho amount of bid. All furnituro must bo delivered to tho board at the high school building, in Salem, Oregon, on or beforo Decomber 1, 1005, froo from charges of all kinds, and will be paid for upon accoptanco by the board. All bids will bo oponed at the time and place nbovo montionod. Tho board re serves tho right to reject any and all' bids. Datod at Salem, Oregon, September 18, 1005. A. O. CONDIT, Chairman of District School Board, School District No. 24, Morion Coun- ty, Oregon. Attests J. C. Goodnle, Jr., Clerk. M8-to-30. Since application has been mndo to Salem's city council for a frnnchiso for another telephono company, tho following from tho Fresno, Calif., Dnlly Republican of September 0th, may be of considerable, interest: The city of Frosno, ns represented by the board of city trustees, docs not want a doublo telephono system. Last night tho frnnchiso cotnmittco report ed against granting the application of 1. Kerr lligglns for a home telephono company. This report was unanimous ly ndoptcd, and thus tho present board took the snmo position ns that reached by the former board, ns to a duol tele phono service. Tli 6 franchise commit teo of tho old board based its report upon n pcrsonnl investigation mndo in towns whero thcro nro two telephono systems. Tho frnnchiso committco of tho present board found a unanimous sentiment among business men ngainst two telephone systems. Tho report of tho frnnchlsc commit tco adopted last night is ns follews: To the Honorable, tho Mayor and Hoard of Trustees of tho City of Fresne: In regard to the application of P. Kerr Higgins for a frnnchiso to con struct, erect, mnlntaln and opcrnto a telephone systom in this ctiy, said np tho assistance of another connect with nny subscriber, nnd this greatly facil itates tho service. Whilo wo wcro nt Los Angeles wo interviewed a great number of persons, from tho smallest corner grocery to bank presidents and tho heads of the largo department stores. Xnturnly our interviews wero mostly with persons who subscribed to both tho new nnd tho old telephono systems. Somo few of theso wero in fnvor of two systems, and ovcnthoy said thnt if tho sorvico wero good, they favored only ono, but tho largo majority stated emphatically that tho dual tolophono servlco was n nuisance, nnd thoy proferrod tho singlo system, To Illustrate.: Ono subscriber out of a Inrgo number with whom wo conversed, a prominent business man, said: "Ui dor tho old system wo had n. privato oxchAngo nnd employed n girl to an swer calls. When tho now systom was Installed, wo wcro compolled to put in nnothor prlvnto oxchnngo nnd employ nnothor girl, nnd tho cxpenso was about doubled." From our investigation at Los An golos, wo nro satisfied that a largo ma jority of tho porsons who uso both telephones, opposed tho dual telephono system, but felt compolled to go to tho oxponso of having both. Most pllcntlon hnvlng been referred to this subscribers to both systems, whilo nd Commencing September 1st Tho Southern Paciflo will sell special tickets to Portland and return, account Lewis and Clark exposition; rate: Ono and one-third faro for round trip, $1.85. Limit: Thirty days, but not later than October 31, 1005. A. L. CRAIG, 8-20-tf Qen. Pas. Agt. More than $15,000,000 of gold from tho Alaskan and Klondike fields has al ready been deposited in tho United States treasury this season, and, based on tho output of prior years, It is probable somo $7,000,000 or $8,000,000 additional will berecelvod beforo tho close of navigation. NNYR0YAL PILLS .Ti..':v::r."?..fcn"X3;riJi7 U UKM u4 tM MUllta Usm awlrl ftltDtw.Uu- CkUkAALft CbMUlC. KMOMUbwf. M41a Hun. tltlH 1'X. Pf committee, wo dosiro to roport ns follews: After discussing tho ndvlsablllty of having two sopnrnte telephono sys tems, among ourselves and mnny of tho business pcoplo of our city, wo nro of tho oplnfon tho majority would bo bet ter satisfied with ono system than two, as long ns they rccclvo first-class ser vice, which, so far as our inquiries ox tend, seems to bo tho state of affairs at tho present time. Wo do, there fore, under tho circumstances, recom mend thnt tho franchlso nppliod for bo not granted nnd that tho applicant bo notified accordingly. Very truly yours, A. E. SUNDERLAND, JAS. M. COLLINS, J. Q. ANDERSON, Franchise Committco. '.Tho report of tho former commit too, going more exhaustively into tho subject ns follews: To tho Board of Trustees of tho City of Fresno Gontlemon: Wo tho undersigned, your commit tco on franchises nnd public utilities, to whoiu was rofered tho potltion of I. M. Holllngsworth, for a telophono frnnchiso, mnko tho following repert: A former application for a telophono frnnchiso wns reforred to us. At thnt time wo mado a thorough investigation into tho desirability of having two telephono systems, notwithstanding this wo have again mado a careful In vestigation of tho matter, for if our former position was incorrect, wo were willing to bo convinced. In our Inst investigation wo inter viewed many people, In fact wo havo listened to every person who had any thing to say for or ngainst the proposi tion and have gotten Information from mining that excellent servlco wns given by. both companies, complain of tho nnnoyanco nnd emphatically de clared tho dual system to bo n nuis ance. It must bo remembered also that tho dunl systom In Los Angeles is just In its infancy and was viewed by us in its most fnvornble aspect, for it is highly probable that the incon vcnlcnco now complained of, from tho exporlonco of other cities, will becnuso bis neighbor did. Ono is driv en to the conclusion thnt tho telephono business, is an nbsoluto monopoly nnd cannot bo successfully, conveniently and cconomlnlly optrntcd, oxcept ns a monopoly, nnd should bo owned by tho municipality. For If two telephono systems in competition arc good for tha city, why thrco or four would bo etlll bottcr. As said In our former report, a second telophono system In n city is na useless as a clock witli two pendulums. Our objections to tho dunl system may bo briefly sumnrked ns folewa: 1. Tho oxponso that would bo sad dled on tho buslncs community, for all buslncs houses would bo rcqulrod to subscribe, to both systems. 2. Tho inconvenlenco of two tolo phono books nnd tlid confusion of telo phono 'numbers, whilo this latter could bo to somo extent obvintcd by both companies using tho snmo numbors, this could not bo mndo universal. Many business houses advertlso their tolo phono numbors, nnd where there was a difference In numbors, It would load to confusion. 3. Tl)p inconvonlonco of two tele phones' on tho desk in tho room, nnd tho extreme difllculty of distinguishing botweon tho bells of each. In fnct, this annoyance is so great that whero good service is rendered, most sub scribers would prefer to pny moro for ono telephono wlicro wns a single com pany thnn for two telephones from different companies. 4. Tho public sticets nnd sldewnlka nro already encumbered by electric light, telephone, strcot enr and tolcp graph poles and wires nnd a now frnn chiso would mean n duplication of poles and wires without it correspond ing benefit to tho public. Theso poles nnd wiros nlrcady present serious ob struction to tho firo department in caso of fire. 5. Thoro is a general Impression that if n now company wero glvon n fran chise tho old company would bo com polled to connect with tho lines of tho now company, .nnd thnt subscribers of tho now company would hnvo a right to communlcnto with any ono on tho old line, but that la certainly erroneous ns tho city could not compel tho old compnny to mnko connection and tha oxperlcnco heretofore has bocn that neither compnny will do so, ond tho re milt 1 thnt eneb subscriber is limited to tho subscribers of his own company, nnd if ho wants to comimwlcnto with tho subscribers of both, ho must sub scribe to both telephono systems. An company will linvo no long distance lines, nnd subscribers to tho now corn- within tho next tow years incrcaso rather than diminish ns tho systems otncr mportnnt Item is that tho now expand. Had Wo favored tho dual sys-piiny ,nlgt linvo )Mi telephones or go tern, an inspection of tho practical working of tho two systems at Los Angeles would havo changed our minds nnd convlncod us thnt two telephono systems in tho snmo city nro not to tho best interest nnd convenience of tho public. - In San Joso thcro is only ono system to tho offlco of tho old company to tolo phono nt a distance. 0. A now system would not materi ally, if nt nil, reduco tho price of tolo phono rentals. Tho cheapest rato pro posed by tho appllcut is $2 for pri vato residences, whilo tho present rato is only $1. It is true this is on n ton- In AnAnilnn lull" (intAn1 i'infa (1 ttn n ., ' . ,., . , i party line, nnd tho npplicnnt proposes competing systom was established, and ' , , . . , ., t u ' I...I it i., n.. ir., t0 ,lftV0 onb' Inlo wire, but that would nocossarily mean tho cumbering it resulted in n complcto failure. Hero uIho wo mado a canvass among buslne men to lonrn their ideas on tho matter, and did not find n singlo person who favored It. Tho general reply was that of tho streets with moro wires, sud tho old company, under its franchise, would put in moro wires to mcot this service nnd tho streets would bo n per- it wns n nulsnnco. Snn Joso Is a city ,,.,-, . , m, ,, ., , ,, -r, , i. feet network of polos nnd wires. Thcro considerably lnrgor thnn Fresno nnd if 4 , . ' ,,,.. ,L . ,. .. ,. . ,, ., .seems to be nn iinproeslon thnt tho new It wns n falluro thoro it would almost ' i i. ii i n i t . company will only chnrgo 00 cent por Inovltnbly bo n falluro in Frosno. ' " to . !.- . ....... ...i '-month for tolophono rentnl, which Ii In Sacrnmonto thoro nro now and, ' ' , , , , . . ... nn error, ns tho lowest proposed rato havo beon for several years two telo-l . . , l.i t tut by tho petitioner Is $2 por month. phono systoms in oporntion. In that. ' , ' .., .... ' ' , , . , . i. ..i. A enrofui analysis of this petition oity wo also intorvlowod many buslnes , , ' ' , , , ., , ...'shows thnt is has 038 signatures, Of men in reguru 10 mo succtwa . "..,, , , - ,, , dunl system. Hero wo unnnimity of sentiment found n llko! "''" numuor n0 (,r ' addrew Is given thnt tho dou-i to ,112 of ,ho "'K""'"'4. not cvcn Fr8- overv nvallablo source at our command, boon found and wo think thnt wo have not omitted of opinion of tho business community any olroumstanees thnt would enable was dooldodly adverse to tho doublo us to arrive I a correct uuuuou . jcicw, no oity, though many of thorn do reside in tho oity. Out of tho 083 names signed to tho petition, SCO do not np- .- t .1.- 1.4 ..It.. .M...tn... nt nil in operation in Sacramento for several 'u"r, u vuo " "' ? "- - -... -.i i... i.n.i n fl, t,ii. nnd hns ' VovAUy o.no of those have arrived JVMIO ..."-., -. "- wanting. The consensus bio system was a nulsanco nnd imposed nn unreusonnblo burden on tho bust- new community. The systom hns- boon to what would be the best interest to tho city at large, From nil tho ovideneo that wo have beon ablo to obtain and after a por- To better enable to oomo to nn in-(g0nnl inspection of the actual working tolllgent deaision on the merits of tho much debated advantages or uisau vantages of a doublo telephone system, and to bo perfectly fair to tho appli cant, wo visited San Joso, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Franeisco, to judge for ourselves by personal Inspec tion on tho ground of practical work ing of the system. Both Los Angelas and Sacramento havo the double system in operation. At Los Angeles the new system has just been installed, and it is tho big gest doublo system in tho state. Hero we spent sevornl days and made a thor ough investigation. Wo visited the central offices of both companies, and wo find that though both companies havo been hampered to somo extent by tho linemen's striko, they aro now giv ing excellent service. Both companies nso tbo multiple switchboard. By this arrangement each operator has beforo her every telephono number In tho system. She, of tbo doublo system, wo seo no reason to change tho opinion thnt wo ex pressed when the matter was first be fore us. In faet wo are moro firmly convinced than ever that the dual sys tem is not only impracticable and in convenient, but useloss, nn imposes unreasonable burdens on tho business community, and tho public at large. A oompetlng tolephone system for loeal uso Is a loglaal absurdity. Thcro oan bo no competition except in tbo effleleney of tho scrviee rendered. The community at large favors ono or more competing light, power, Ico or coal companies, bauso they compete with eaeh other. It is immaterial to "A" from "B" procures his light, coal, or iee, but it is material and important to "A" if "B" has a telephone, that ho can communicate with Mm, which he could not do unless both wero sub scribers to tho samp or both companies. No one would favor competing gas. lelectrio, ice, water or eoal companies, i.wr. la onlv reauired to answer if .vorv nerson tnat uses euner oi calls from a limited number of wb- theso commodities were compelled to acrlberi, but she can without calling In take tho same servieo from two or more slnco tho publication of the directory and permanently rosldo here, but it cannot bo thnt thoro Is such a largo numbor. So it would nppenr that moro thnn one-third of the signatures nro thoso of poople who nro either trnnsl onts, rwddents of the country, or now arrivals. The loeal tolophono compnny now has 2700 telopho'no subscribers, nnd out of the 084 signers to tho peti tion thero nro only 161 who now sub eerlbo for telephones; In other words, only 151 out of the 2700 subscribers to tho present telephono system hno re quested the granting of the new frun ehiso, Thero is one noticeable feature of tho petition that is very marked, and that is how surprisingly few business men and buslnow houses, upon whom would full tho oxtra expense of pn mg for two telephones, hnv signed the pe tition. Wo think it proper to state for tho in formation of tbo board end tho publlo at largo that while in San Francisco wo had an interview with President Sabln end Vico-President Glass, of the Suniot Telephono and Tejograph Company, in which they personally assured us that a new building would bo constructed at Fresno, tho system practically re built and a multiple switchboard put in at Fresno just as soon aa it could bo done, and that wo would havo as good T.fjT'''""iii'2i!i -i;. -- .Jl V" 'T1 iffiiTiBS . k. a. . Mu 4ktM