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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1914)
PAQB BIX DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1314. E (Continued from page 3.) portent achievements of this year. It is an enduring piece of construction and with the wing walls which have been constructed bb a part of the bridge, and the fill and riprapping there should be no further necessity for the expendi ture of any money in connection with this particular stream crossing on North Mill creek. The work has been well executed by the contractor and the design is very satisfactory. It is in marked contrast to the concrete arch bridce on Commercial Btreet just be iow. The permanent concrete abutments and redlining walls put in on C'benio keta in.l Kighteenth streets as a part of the street improvements is a very substantial and excellent pieco of work and while the bridgo could not be fin ished in permanent form owing to the lack of money available, nevertheless . the work is in excellent shape and of a permanent nature. One othor excolleut thing which the bridge committee de serves credit for is the ingonius method by which it has rendorcd the Bouth High street bridge a presentable and satisfactory structure and at the same time made it possible for the city to escape tho consequences of a suit for damage by the abutting owners above the grale of the street. I think the wholo cxpenso of remedying this dif ficulty was something under $75. Second. Btroot Improvements. I shall deal only briofly with this and for do- tniled information I must refer you to the engineer's annual report which has just been presented to tho outgoing council. Tho total length of pavement of dif ferent widths including macadam, con crete and bituminous surfaces, laid dur ing 191 :i, duo allowance having been made for pavement laid in 1912, in some of the projects enumerated, in the engineer's report amounts to 44,584 feet or a little over eight (8) miles in length. The total yardage of this pave ment with tho same credits to the 1912 work, the engineer's report shows to be 147,.ri!12.B7 squaro yards and the total cost approximately $200,000. The great er portion of this work has been con crete six inches thick, thirty (30) feet between curlm. Of tho total length a littlo less than 3200 fct has been ma cadam, There has been a little strictly bitumlnoous surface such ns Church Btrcet and two oil macadam streets. Good Work Done. My information indicates that the prevailing price on all of the pave ments laid has boon 1ms than in uuy year hereafter and I think T am sate in saying that the quality of all of the streets laid which have been accepted and pnld for, has been equally as good ns the best laid in any year heretofore, and In Home cases much better. All of the projects begun during the year, except two, are completed and the nssej-siiieiits on all the projects have been levied and docketed. The Market street improvement of oil niiiin.lam is hUII incomplete as well us the South lliuh street job from Hush street to the south city limits mid the pout meters have both accepted with the consent of their sureties, as an ex tension of time to August 1, lill I, to. complete these two streets, Then" lias been simie misgiving ns to both of (hem Imt lis the character of the work I is comparatively speaking, a cheaper ,. class ut' improvement and to seine ex tent mi experiment in this climate, the council Iiiih held bark sufficient money to protect the property owners ill n proper completion of each job and I be lieve, anil I think my belief is share, I by Hie i iiinicil generally which has just gone out of office, that the two streets will lc nil right after the final work is done upon the same next summer during hot weather, At the present time we have two ft rents which lire involved in litigation, South Twelfth street, which Is being attacked by .lulin Albert on the ground (hat the remonstrance which he filed 111 I1,1!:) when the contract was entered into fur the improvement of the street, was Mit'ficieiit to defeat the improve ment, If such is the case when this suit Is finally settled, it will result in thu city being compelled to pay fnv a very considerable purl ion, if not all, tif the Improvement of this street. The Smith High street assessment has also Imwii attacked by one property owner on the ground that his assessment Is partially unjust, and 1 am in funned (hat the Lord estate Is contemplating litigation on the same street but no suits have yet been filed. 1 lot b of these streets nru matters which tins HilininirtiHtion has received from the ndiniuist ration of 11' 1 'J and w. do n t feel responsible for tho condition In -which wo find ourselves with relation to the same, Splstidld Btreet Work. I am of tho opinion that tho chnr- ARROW COLLARS Jf fc,. 1 . acter of the work done on both South Twelfth street and South High street from Mill street to Bush street is very excellent. In fact the thorough reports which we have upon the pavements in dicate that their life will probably be not less than fifteen or twenty years, which is above the average. I am pleased to state that tho Clark & llonry construction company has ex ecuted a bond on Church street from Court street to Mill creek which winds up the Church street job completely. The bond, however, has not reached us as yet. As indicated elsewhere in my mes sage, I desire to say at this point that owing to pending litigation I ;uti strongly of the opinio that it is un wise to undertake any considerable paving contracts until such time as soveral points which will probably be raised in the two suits now pending are disposed of by tho supreme court, uu less the charter can be amended as I have recommended elsewhere. Third. Miscellaneous improvements not by the city. The most important piocc of public work, I think, executed during the past year of a public nature, but not directly due to the expenditure of tho city funds, is that which has been partially accomplished on Front street by the Oregon Electric Railway company under the terms of their fran chise passed during the administration of Mayor Lachimmd. Tho conret) bridge which the railway company has built is a very fine piece of engineer ing work and when the fills on oither end of the same are completed the im provement will make an imposing pioeo of public work. At the present time the work is being interofered with by an injunction proceeding which has been argued and submitted and is now under advisement of Judge Calloway in the circuit court. The city looks forward to a favorable decision and the early completion of tho work in tho spring, after which the freight traffic through the center of town now carried on by tho Oregon Electric Railway com pauy will be divorted to Front streot, whore it properly belongs. Another Improvement. Another marked Improvement coin ing to us from the last administration is tho rvsnioval of practically all of the electric light and trolley poles from the downtown business section. This is a very marked improvement and the coinj lotion of tho same during the pas j car i.n j ery materially improved the nppeurni-ce of tho business section of tLe city, i v -'h to commend tho past eounci' for the solution of the auto firo eng.i.o problem and to say that I believe thnt tho city has done a wise thing in the purchase of this piece of apparatus. I believe it will be an economy in the operating expenses of the department and insure a much better protection ns well as covering a very much larger area of territory. This engine should be hero some time during tho month of April if not before. 1 wish to note with satisfaction tho efforts of the fire and water committee in securing fire escapes on, I believe, all of the buildings in need thereof, This is iiu important matter nnd has been one of no small difficulty to ac complish owing to the peculiar condi tions surioiiinliiig til? same, ami I am pleased to note that the school board has cooperu'led with the city in this matter heartily. I also look with satisfaction upon the oiiipletion of the fire cistern on l-'air- nionul hill, whieh will furnish, ns soon as our auto engine comes, adequate protection tu a growing section of the city which has been heretofore desti tute of adequate protection. There are two other matters which are of n public nature whieh deserve mention, and that is the completion of the reconstruction of the fair grounds railway line by the Portland, Kugene & Eastern Railway company atnMhe com pletion of the South Commercial street tracks from Mission street to tho end of the line with heavier rails, Hot u of these pieces of work are a very great public improvement which have b 'c i needed for a good ninny years and a '" of mnteiinl benefit to the city. Future Improvements, Vnder Ibis heading I will treat of a few mutter which T think need attention ns ques tions of policy, Cartings rinns. In the first place the question of a garbage iucineriitoi, I t'cel, Is probably th; most Important. Our present meth ml of disponing of our gnrbage is, I be lieve, at the preMMit tune, reasonably safe from a sanitary standpoint, but is decidedly objectionable to a very conmierable number of people living in North Salem, :ui I I feel that it i oil.- a makeshift method of dispo-cil nnd if persisted i-i for any length of time will beceiin very unsanitary -nil I i U 1 to entail opt u the city the le?s of I fe, the reputation for being a eiciiu Iv city and also ei-luil money kmn" I tM therefore verc much In favor ol I'Miiicillate steps liiug taken tu er'ct :i varbnge Inciii" .a. or nnd disposal plc.'.it and to do away as quickly us P irible with the present dumping tern which we luxe in the clay pin i f V nth Salem, and thereafter to more ri",bily than ever, enforce the sauit.'iy n gu'ations of the city, which are IP. the present time somewhat lux in the nature of the collection and disposal of garbage, although in other repe-ct to sewage and matters of a kindred nature, very well observed, t believe which should not cost a great deal of money, although I believe that it would be a wise plan to secure a considerable area of ground, particularly if it can be located where there is room to make a heavy fill thereby disposing of the burned refuse very largely by gravity. If this cannot be secured, I think that arrangements could probably be made for the location of a plant upon a trackage site and the refuse shipped to some point outside the city where a dumping ground could be secured at a very nominal cost and without objec tion being raised by adjacent property owners. I would recommend that this matter be immediately gone into ami put in proper form for submission to the electorate of the city. Sewers. Tho outgoing council has put under way a few of the most urgent sanitary lateral sewer drainage matters and has about used all of the money available for the presont year for this purpose under the policy laid down in Section 52 of tho charter as passed at the September, 1910, election but I wish the council to be keenly alert upon the question of drainage und to arrange with their constituents to have all sewed drainage matters well in hand and carefully thought out before the end of the year in order that we may know exactly how much money to pro vide in the next year's budget for this purpose, and here, again, I wish to im press upon the' council, the necessity to take care of the immediate noeds of the city and not to attempt to drain or provide sanitary sewage for unim proved land which is likely to be some time in coming on the market. Parka and Playgrounds. While the charter was amended at the last election in such a way as to authorize the council to use a part of the genoral fund for acquiring public playgrounds I am not in favor at the present time of the city spending any considerable amount of money in this work. We are confronted with too much public improvement indebtedness to justify, in my opinion, expenditures along this lino immediately. I am in favor of the playgrounds but just now Salem is not suffering materially from outdoor space for the children to play in and I think with a moderate amount of assistance to secure a little appa ratus and to pay an instructor or two in connection with the public school work along this lino that wo will have done all that is reasonably necessary. Water Pls.ut. At tho beginning of my administra tion I was under tho belief that the problem of owning tho water supply of tho city was a matter in which tho pub lie was deeply interested and accord ingly I undertook to carry forward what I believed to a public question. The experience which I have had in bringing municipal ownership of our water supply about has been very un satisfactory nnd I am convinced that the public is not interested and that tho tmie is not ripe for pushing this matter to a conclusion and unless pub lie sentiment crystalizes and brings the matter to nn issue 1 nm of tho opinion that this council schonld take no fur ther steps to bring municipal owner ship about. 1 am of the belief that the sewer bond issue which we now hnve to meet is probably in a large measure, responsible for the cooling of public I sentiment toward this project aside from the fact of the bitter opposition which the project met with when it was about to be consummated a couple of years ago. Misgivings on City Ownership, and the only solution whieh I see is to amend the charter to accomplish the desired results, and in this connection I may state that the city records dis close that during the administration of Mayor Bodgers, this very same problem was a perplexing one and a charter amendment was submitted to the peo ple and was voted down. The reasons why it was voted down, if I am cor rectly informed, were not that the pro posal was not one of merit but that it was involved with other issues which wore not expedient and did not have the support of the public and that it was defeated along with the rest of them. I am inclined to believe that public sentiment has changed and I would recommend that every one of the councilmen make it a point of consult ing with his constituents upon the sub ject and if the sentiment is found to be in favor of such procedure as I have indicted, to take steps to bring the mat ter before the people either at a special election or at the next regular election which I believe would be better as it would then not effect the present in cumbent in office and raise any em barrassing questions of politics as to a desire upon the part of the adminis tration and the public to punish or oust anyone from office. Two Matters of Concern. There are two other matters of very vital concern to the city which I feel I ought to touch upon. One is the ques tion of our street assossment procedure and the other the matter of re-assessments for curing defects in assessments ments levied. Both of these matters have been be fore the voters and both have been de feated. The measure which was sub mitted to the votors at the last election covering street assessments was a very moritorius measure and had it beon understood by the public at large there is no question in my mind but that it would have carried by a handsome ma jority. It was not given the publicity and explanation that it should have had from its merit and it was defeated, in my opinion, very largely by reason of the public being suspicious of it under the demand from the council at a time when the public mind was very much exercised and concerned over tho outcome of tho sewer bond problem. I feel that it should be resubmitted either in its present form or along the same lines if it can be improved upon. The other matter is that of re-assess ments. A measure along these lines wus submitted at the regular election December 2, 1112, which originated with the council and was drafted and submitted with the lesson of the South Salem sower case in mind and was de feated, I am informed and believe, very largely by reason of the public ngita tion over the sewer question and be cause tho electorate was suspicious that it was some subterfuge to defeat the purpose of the sewer bond measure which was then before the people. Such a provision should be in our charter ami if the charter commission now at work does not provide for the snuie it' should be submitted to a vote of the people at nn early date. Respectfully submitted, IS. h. STEEVES. vc4 ' u y t SEVEN Or SEVENTEEN DEMANDS ARE GRANTED I UNITED rilFISS 11ASED WIRE. Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 7. Seven of seventeen demands of the Players Fra ternity were granted yesterday nt'ter noon by the National baseball commis sion. Other ileinriuds were deferred for I think the same remarks which j j "' n'on ny minor leagues, have made with relation to the water Tht' "10!,t ''"l'ortniit request was that plant apply equally tu tho movement.!'1 1'l:l-v,'r' ",,l'r tlM1 Vl'nnt "v'''0 which wus tnll.,.,1 .!' .( ,.mi. int., .1,., n.a.tor leagues, snail tie given Ins nn that a serviceable plant can be erected electric light business, nt least to the extent of supplying the citv's needs and ii t Jess this matter is brought to the council by a stroug public senti ment, 1 would advise against under taking the project upon the council's initiative. Personally, 1 am in favor of a water plant but hnve serious mis givings about an electric light plant municipally operated. In this connection I wish to call your attention to the fact that the contract with the Portland Railway, Ught & Power Co. for lighting the city streets expires Pocotnber III, 111 1 4. At the present time the city is paying approx imately $1.1,00(1,00 a year to the electric company for service upon the streets and in ils various public buildings, 1 believe that sum Is too much money for the service which we are now get ting, and I think that if proH-r steps are taken a materially better contract an be secured for the city. The ex act details of the mutter should lie verv thoughtfully and carefully gone into and 1 sincerely trust thnt the lighting committee, or whoever may be deemed advisable to be put in charge of tho matter, may promptly and thoroughly handle the matter so that at the end of the vear We may turn over to our successors an outlook for very much more satisfactory street lighting ser vice than we have at the present time, roltce Matters. Puring the past year I have given (he police question a good deal of con sideration and I am led to the conclu sion that the only proper t-olntion to an efficient and vigorous police adminis tration for the city is to make the chief of police and the whole police adminis tration of the city, entirely dependent upon the executive power of the mayor. An attempt was made to accnmplish this result Indirectly at the beginning of this year but owing to the condition conditional release if no major league team desires his services. The com mission also grunted the request that every major league park in the country be equipped with a dark green blank wall behind center field and another in lin- with the pitcher's box and home pinto of sufficient size to afford a background for a pitched ball. 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