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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1916)
THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, JAN, 1. 1918. FIVE W. W. Moore Has Big Stock But Bigger Faith in Salem Business Has Been Good With This Firm the Past Year Prospects for the! Coming Year Are Par Better Says' Mr. W. W. Moore. MHwwpuiiL.iijmiiwuaii-iiMii - iif lrliT-Vtrn--iMWit1rii'iUi mwin I ml Someone remarked in tlio remote Jiast : (hut ''it would lie great boon to lu-: inanity if good health liucl been miule contagious like some diseases." No body will venture to quarrel with the statement. However if yon l:ve any : doubts about it, and are feeling, blue and out of sorts over bigness matter,, just drop into W. VY. Moore's fiiiniHire establishment on l.ouil sircct, rub up against him, hear him and see him just , bubble over with optimism, and before i you know it you wilKJre inoculated : with the cheerfulness germ and you ' will see tlio pink. ,ins belief in a 1 business boom coming, spread them- ( selves over the indigo shades of the financial skies. -V Capital Journal man dropped in i there yesterday just to get a pointer i as to what he thought about the out- look for business in Ji)l(i, and ten', minutes later he started for the office ' feeling like, he owned a garage and a tank of oil. .Mr. Moure came here from Arlington,1 Kansas, where he owned and conducted j a big department store, in 1010. He j bought an interest with Mr. Josse and, under the firm name of Josse &. Moore conducted the business until about aj year ago when he purchased the inter-1 est of his partner and is now sole owner. lie carries a big stock of everything in the house furnishing line, and keeps it up to date. Asked what ho thought of the busi ness outlook he snid: "Tho best answer I can give to that is that I hare ordered a carload of ranges, to bo here sometime early in February, had to order to get in be-j fore the raise, for they are going up. i I have also ordered big supplies in all j lines, in order to be ready for the ; trade I feel sure is coming that is, bound to come. 1 am' going to sell this! si off too, and then some." "Mr. Moore has a splendid stock, and of all kinds from tho very best to! lower grades for hard, everyday use. j Tables, iron anil Class bedsteads, ranges, desks, chairs, bedroom sets,; carpets, rugs, mattings, and tho bnii-J dreds of dainty und useful things tho housewife delights to have. j Since purchasing his partner's in ' forest he lias not onlv increase, I thej stock but iuis also added to the store room. This gives opportunity for a better display of wares and enables the purchaser to gel a look at. everything! before making selection. Tho display of tables is large and artistic, and cer-. v aried, and the big array of j ranges Unit greet '-"M as you enter the store just makes the little woman want to gel a fire going in one of them and! try it out by getting up n big dinner j with cakes, pies and all tho trimmings that require Ihe use oi a range in their preparation. As was remarked in the beginning of this Utile story it will do you good lo call at Moore's, for. though you might purchase nothing you will go away! with a higher view of life, and a more ; cheerful think tank. Vou just catch it. Trv it and see. w e wish you all a Happy a Prosperous New Year We will welcome your business in 1916 as in the past--and will extend the same courteous treatment to all pi Railroads, Telegraph and Other Utility Companies HI J A.1I III I ft I . 3 c I " Ulk-Ll "hit " You will find every piece of Furniture In our store priced according to values. Our stock is new and clean, shipments arriving almost daily. See some of the beautiful patterns we have in Bedroom Sets. Prices the most reasonable. We have very pretty designs in Dining Room Sets No matter what kind, style, pattern, or finish you wish we can furnish you. You should see our line before buying or you will never be satisfied afterward. rnum Una. mm You may have planned to Buy That Range This year why not do it now and get the full year's benefit from it. It will save the wife days of worry. Do not live without the Comtorts of Life Another year. If you need that Chair, Davenport, Bed, Carpet, Rug, Clock, Stove, in fact any kind of Furniture, see us, we will make the price and terms to suit. The ninth annual report of the l'ub lic Service t'ominission is just off the press, and is n very full clear and in some wavs interesting report. This is a rather broad statement to make about such a thing as a statistical report, for tuey generally are far -from intereet iug. It is far too voluminous for more thau its outlines to be given, so we condense some portion of it that show what the railroads, telegraph and tele phone companies and other public, util ity eorporutions are doing. There are owned in the state, oi "steam" roads, main lines, branches and spurs, 2,!US..r7 miles. Tho electric roads have, with their branches and spurs .'MM! miles, and tho industrial ronds own and operate by steam some 20 miles. These are most ly logging ronds. There were z,vn.oi nines 01 sn-um road operated with revenues of $20, 54:1,43$, operating expenses $14,752.1 and ft net operating revenue, less taxes of $4,750.ft:iL The traffic statistics on theso roads shows they curried passen gers one mile, 278,775,8114. nnd at a charge or u trine less man ..n ciui.-, a mile, The freight, ton mtles, was IW2.1.1J, 41(1, at a trifle more than 1.20 cents a mile. It will be seen from this thnt it costs a little more than twice as much to carry a passenger as to haul a ton of freight, the same distance. The electric roads and street rail ways are grouped together. The total operating revenues of these was $4, (lii:t,;iR8.5l. The tot nl operating ex penses $:t.l)ll,254.l5, and the net oper ating revenue, less tn.cs was .$025,2:15. 01. The total operating revenues of nil roads in the state was $25,2ti4.2!i:i.:i8, the total operating expense $17,:tS7, 814.51 and the net. operating revenues, $7,87(5,4 7Wi7. The year with the rail road us with all other business ml the eonst has been considerably below the average in every way, showing a de crease in everything, except taxes. This is shown by the following compari son of business with that of -1014, which itself wns below normal,. Comparison of 1014 and 1015 Business Tho results of business of all rail furrier for Ihe I'iscul year ended June HI), 1015, may be cninpurod with re sult of the transportation system in Oregon for the preceding fiscal year a follows: 1011 1015 Av, mil. op. ,174.58 lUiil.OS Oper. rev. $28.:i7o.704.02 $25.2114.20:1.88 (Iper. exp. lli.:!H!.70l,.n0 17,587,8I4..H Net op. rev O.()5:i.0O.0:t 7.870.4 70.57 Taxes 2,152,205.811 2.2on,ii.s:i.27 Net oper, rev. less taxes (1,0111. 701.117 5,li75,70i'i..'K The fixed capital in electric utilities was I.Oli4,04l. with an operating in come, or profit of $2.21 1,000, or nbout 50 per cent on money invested. On ntilttie had fixed capital of $12,70(1,8114, with i;7l,127.K4 income, Telegraph companies had capital of 1.100,r,i2.08 and hud n Ins during of the yenr of $7,207.45. Telephone hail a fixed capital of iM7,2t:i,l!:til.:tl) and operating income of .nV.ln.H2.17. Water companies hud capital of $5. Im1..i:il.72 and net income of 1 2-1,-702.3.'l. In addition to these were joint oper ating statistic incapable of segregation tiotwpcn .tntes on electric, gas and nth t'r utilities with which they are enm- ' billed. These total I2:!,SMI,2II7. The whole, eliminating the joint crutions pav taxes amounting to .$: 75(i.4l. The showing as to what has been done by the railroads in the state dur- i ing the year follows: Southern Pacific Company Infective .Inly I, 1015. Southern Pa cific company took over the operation of Corvailis & Kastern railroad com pany, (Salem, Falls City t Western railway coinpiny, 1'ortlnnd, Kugene & Knstcra railway company, Coos Hay, lioseburg & Kastera Uailway & Nnviga- 1 tiou company, and Pacific Uailway & Navigation company, Those railroads 'appear for the last time as separate entities in this report. Tin' line of railroad being construct- j ed from Eugene to Cons Hay, lll.'l miles in length, by Willamette I'aeifie railway company (a subsidiary of Southern Pacific company) is Hearing completion. Important addition and betterments made by Southern I'aeifie company dur ing the year were the replacement of 1H miles of 75 pound rail with new 00 ' pound steel rail on the main line; the application of crushed rock ballast in lieu of gravel ballast on .'10 miles of j main line at the cost of .$85,(11111; filling of 0141 lineal feet of wooden trestle, 14:14211; protection of S grade crossings with warning bells. 11111(1; renewal of .steel bridges, $10,11011; construction of 14 shelter sheds, $2(10(1; paving of citv streets, i)i2iiil00. Pacific Railway & Navigation Co. Various minor improvement aggregat ing .$55.0011 were made during Ihe fis cal year. I Salem. Falls City & Western Rail way Co. Additions nnd betterment, I aggregating .$12,000 ,vere made to in crease loading capacity of the line. I Corvailis Jc Eastern Railroad Co. A total of .."."i,(ioii was spent on additions ' nnd betterment to the physical prop erties, ! Oregon-Washington Railroad & Nav igation Co. Kxpeuiiitures aggergating $200,011(1 were made on (hi nstruc- tion of the new line from liiverside, I Mulliciir county, west .'I.",. ill miles. It is estimated that, .$720,(101) will be re (piired to complete the line. A change of line between llermislon und Ki'lm f was compleleil at a 1 os id' $.:0(l,oiill. A new line wns constructed from Coyote , to a connection with tTie line change j between llerniislon .und Dcho with 11 I total expenditure of approimalely $(100.01111. New terminals were con structed at Pilot Hoek nnd Tin' Dalles, at an estimated expenditure of 2H0, 000 011 each project. Sixty-five thous and dollars was expended oil 21 miles j of fock ballast upon the main line be tween Hood River und The Dulles. Ad- ' ditions to the water facilities at I'ma- I tilla cost .$1000. . . . Other Roads I California & Oregon Coast Railroad Co. An extension was made from Wild- I erville to Waters Creek, 4.50 miles. The line was ballasted from (Iraiits Puss to Water Creek, and a station building I erected nt Waters Creek. 1 Benson Timber Co. lessee of Clatn kanie & Nehaloin River Railroad. An I interlocking plant was inslnllcd at the grade crossing with the Spokane, Port land Seattle railway company nt Cliistkanie Junction. Columbia It Nebalem River Railway CO. A railninil 20 miles in lelnth uns 'placed in operation from KcTry on the I Columbia river to 11 point 011 the Ne Our satisfied patrons for the past year is our guarantee. Oar increased business speaks for our Methods. 11 JfclMllMM.fi-ilIWi halem river in the western portion of Columbia county. While this is prnnar-; ily intended to provide transportation for forest products, the standard of i construction is high, and the comple-, tiou of the line will provide transpor tation facilities for the upper Neha- lem Vnlloy a section which has here- tofore been obliged to haul its products to the Columbia river by teniii. j Great Southern Railway Co. Minor improvements have been made in the! station buildings at The Dalles, Diiful, : and Friend, nnd the engine house at; The Dalles has been completed. t Mount Hood Railroad Co. Additional i ballast to the amount of $1500 and a: track scale cost ing .$2000 were in stalled. I Novada-Californla-Oregon Railway. A new stock yard was constructed at! I.akeview. Northern Pacific Terminal Company of Oregon. A rearrangement was made' of the yards at Portland, und upproxi niately' 0000 feet of additional liucUage., was added to take care of the increas ing business, A modern electric inter- 1 locking plant, wns installed at the south' end of the yards. New industry spurs ill steel shed for the transfer of the, j mail, concrete house for crossing flag man, one story brick building for elec trical machinery, nnd remodeling of the; j public facilities in the interior of the; ; depot comprise other additions and bct- torment nimle to the phvsical propel'-: (ties of this company. Their total ex I penditure was .$50,018. Oregon Electric "Railway Co, Minor additions and betterment nggregatcd i $;i:t,soo. j Pacific Power Jc Light Co. (Street j railway at Astoria). Additionul track age to the amount of 1.(11 miles in 'length wns constructed at 11 cost of ; $18,01111. Twelve hundred dollars was (spent for mblitioiial electrical i'ipiip- incut for the ears. . Portland & Oregon City Railway Co. ; A new electrical line of rnilrouil is un der construction final Portland to Voola Clackamas county. This couiptiny plans to make use of the common user clause in the franchise of Portland, Light jc Power company, and Oregon Klectric linilway company. I'tiited Jtnilwnys company, ami Southern Pnclfie compa ny in crossing the Hawthorne bridge and reaching the western side of the .Willamette river in the cilv of Port land. Portland Railway, Light & Power Co, Minor additions nnd betterments to road and eipiipment aggregated ap proximately! Id. 5u0 in cost. St. Helens Lumoer Co. A modem electric, interlocking plant was con structed and plneed in operation at the crossing of the Spokane, I'ortlnnd Ic 1 Seattle linilway company in South j lloiiltnn. I Southern Oregon Traction Co. The property of the Uogue Hivcr Valley 1 Uailway company, formerly operated 11 ft steam railrotul between Meilford mid j Jacksonville, w as purchased by this company. Moetnricnfinti is now under wny. Two miles of track has been built by the Southern Oregon Traction com pn 11 y. Bumpter Valley Railway Co. Minor iiibliliou and billeruieiis aggregating $22.00(1 in cost were tnnil". Willamette Valley Southern Railway Co. $ii:!5,00(l has been expended in building his road from Oregon City to; Mount Angel. Operation started Jan-! nary 30, 1015. Uy trackage rights se-1 cured from the Portland Light ct Pow er coinpuiiy, the trains of this compiiny; now operate from Portland to Mount 1 Angel without change. United Railways Co. Uy order of the commission in case No. F-270, (See l!Hl! report, p. HO) this company was per-' initted to increase certain passenger; fares which were found to be so low! as not to cover the cost Thereupon Ihe c.ountv court of .Mult nomitli county entered an order for feiting the franchise of this company to operate upon the St. Helens road. The company neipiiesced in the order of forfeiture, removed its trucks from the road in question ami has abandoned: freight and passenger traffic, between! I'ortlnnd and l.innloii in rouscquc ucc. j Utilities The reports of the utilities indicate considerable rebuilding of lines and re-j placement of equipment, in addition j to extensions into new territory. ! During the year Julyl, III 14, to ,Tune HO, I III 5, extensions, additions and bet-; torments, us evidenced by the reports of the various utilities, have been made : within the state of Oregon ns follows: electric, ..",:!. 1 72, gas $455,414, tele-; graph ,$l!).S()0, telepl $1,21(1,721.' water $X,5(I2, total $2,720,072. Famous Salem Cherrians Uniformed Booster Club Acting us- an os fr Hie ipioen of Ihe Cherry fair. July .2nd mm, I :'.i,l. and lis a receiitioii comniitteo lOl.i The feeling tliul Salem should iiuve 1 gani.al ioa got down lo basno'is July have a booster organization especial- I, lOI.'l, by selectin- tieorge I', Ifo.lg, Iv to promote fhe interests of Oregon, era, King King, and holding lis in.-.l 'i... w:i 1 ..it.t Villi, v 11 11 1 1 SmIcoi in I drill. of operation. ; . . ,,..... .. , ,i ' j ..,,., f li t nail The Pendleton Kouud-up was the maiiv 01 the leaning citizen 1 1 - r" ,.. ,...., ... ...v u,,l, ,, nrmiii 'ntinn. oronintiM i III 11 ou.iy nun III uiimoimi, aimosi ine lllahcc Sarah llernhardt. says she is fit a I'iildleaiiil an old one, nt Hint. - I of i ioiu !'. L. Dick, president o. the club to call ft meeting June 21, I0LI. And from this meeting grew the Cher rians. the Salem booster organization that captured the first prize i'or the best uniformed organization at the 1015 b'ose festival at Portland and the first prize for the best drilled club in the state. To draw up by laws und a constitu tion, a committee of three, Walter '', Wiuslow, A. II. Cook ami S. A, lliirloii huh apiniiiited nt the first meeting, June II, 1011. This eomnnttee re ported nt the second meeting, June 27, called to order b" M. L. Meyers, the constitution und by laws were a iloptcd, uniforms adopted and the name Clieriaus selected as most lippro priiite for aa organizal ion t'rom i cherry city, as Having selected the by lnws und Islitution, uniforms nnd inline, the Utteuding, Septein- We Wish You A Happy and Prosperous New Year MAKE OUR STORE YOUR HEADQUARTERS THIS YEAR Brick Bros. State and Liberty Sts. Salem, Oregon entire membership her II, I0IJ. At the invitation of the Kev. Har ry L. Marshall, the 'licnin lis attend ed services at Ine First llaplist church Seoteinber 28, 10IJ, and on Oc tober I, made their first appearance to the state in general by attending in a lio.lv, the slate fuir. Tlie first annual banquet was held January 0, 101 1. At this time Dr. II. II. (dinger wus elected King lliug, but he resigned si Iter holding tho of fice one inoiith, when M. L. Meyers was elected I'or the remainder of the year. Kvery ( lierriaa is proud of the word Coerriungo, and it was at Hid meet ing held .March LI, 101 1, that this 1 1. . . ... ...... 1 1.. 1... II 11 ill 1- w an loiiqnru I'll 110; SIHIM lu o' given by the Cherriaiis April II and m,. I 15. Thai this show was one of toe ,.. -greatest, home laleiit affairs ever hold in the city is attested from the i'act !tliat $11011 real money wns cleared and Ipul in liie coffers of the organization, and the naiiie ot I lierriugo is still dear lo every loyal ( lierriun. Tlio itose IVstiwi! was attended ill Portlnoil, June 101 I, and Inter the I ( lien inns alien. led the Lane comity 1 fair lit Liigene. The next enterprise, Ihe 1 berry lair, held ill July of 101 I. wus a great micccs from aa artistic laud social slaudpoiut, but. Ihe liunu eiul end of this event brings u feel ing of suilness over Ihe Clicrrinii who , labored for its success. I Again the ( lie 1-1 i 11 iih attended the ; stale fair in a body, and for the sec ond lime, atleniled services in iiui- form lit the first llaplist church, Do- ! cehiner 27, Hill, Having voted for an annual Christ, inn tree in November, the tree on the court house lawn was nppropii nlely decorate.!, mid the disl libiit ion of 'presents made with appropriate exercises, Dec, 25, 101 I. January II, 1015, at the second mi nimi I. illiquid ami iiiitiiilioas held lit the Min ion hotel, saw the elect ion of Tlios. It, Kay a King King, us the Al bany ( 'oiiimerclnl club wished In oigau i.e a repiesenlative club similar In Ihe I hen in us, an invitation was ac cepted ami January 20, a body nf Cliorriuu weal to Albany and assisted in the organization of the Albany Pliensaals, 1 The Salem Military lined was vol : ed In 11 part of Ihe Chen bins May ,'l, : 1015, to be known as the Chcrriuu 'Concert baud. The member of the blind were iprovided with I heriiiiu . uniform und nceoinpanied the boys to ' Portland In June wncn the orginiizir 'tion captured two first prizes for be. iug the best uniformed and for being I the bet drilled organization competing at the Hose foil mil. lor visitor, the Chen in n l. H.. selves useful, und again as a reception committee during the short visit of the Liberty bell. At the election held December (i. 1015, ihe offieei.s for the coming year cere elected as follow: King Itiog, K. (i. Dockebuch; Lord (iovenior Kood, W. II. Lereheii; Keep er of the Orchard, D. W. ICvre; Chan cellor of the Kolls, A. K. W'iison; Dnke of Lambert, S. Ilynoii; Karl of Wal i!o, Luiry J Holer; Marquis of Mar ischino, tieorge tlrnves; (Jitocrr Anne Consort, Jus, II. Viung; Kings .lo-lor, llul D. Putton; Archbishop of lib k reiill, Kev. Harry K. Marshall. The third uuiiuiil banquet and initi ations will be held at ihe Million hotel next Monday evening, January It, 101(1, when 10 eauilidates, ull having ben tried and voted on according to; the staadanls of a Clierrian, will be duly and truly initialed according to the established riles of Ihe Cherrians. This privilege will be extended to mini- J. Ili'o's. ('ml D. (lulu lolson, S, A. Stone, Ted 1, 11, llato W. P. Powers, William (ialilsdorf, A. .1. Kgan, A. J. l-'ox, Hen ry I , O. II. Luck, Ivan li, Mc Dan iel, Walter K, Keyes, Dan. J. Fry, Jr., William J. Liljquist, It. II, tlooiiiu, J. O, I in i ley und Arthur Wallace. The euuilidales will be duly prepureil in 1111 ante-iooui and will be led into the presence of the gathered Choi Minis promptly at 7;:iO o'clock nt tho Million hotel. On account of the num ber of eauilidates who will each, re ceive personal attention, the rii.-ativ tic work will begin promptly it I in! I pasl seeu, William Leiclieu und Prod S. I'.j 1:011, who wertt iiieuibeis of the iuilia-tio'i committee I wo years ago, have be"'i working I'or the past two weeks pre paring something entirely "new, end like l-'orbos-lloliertsou, nre positively milking l.heir last appeal a nee us orig inator of original initiatory stunts. The origiiial'uieiubershiii of tho Choi' rians was Inn in-live and 50 honorary but this bus I u incrcnscil In includo lot! active lueiiibcrs will) the 50 hon orary, Arlhor It. Wilson was electi'l secretary for the year I0HI, the only oll'icinl over elected to succeed him self. The tneiuliersliip of liie Clierriiius is as follows: 1 rl Alliums, ('. I). A 1 1 i 1 1 , .1. I'. Alli son, Kui'l II. Anderson, I'. S. Ilarton, T. L. Ilillingsley, It. C. Ilishop, Cif foul Drown, (leo. C, llrown, W. II. Ilnrglianll, Jr., Prod llyuou, Dr. P. W. t ty i.l, Itiissoll Callin, John D, Caughill, Curtis II. Cross, Dr, W. II, Durhv, P. C. Deckel Ii, O. K. DeWitt, C. L. Dick, W. C, Dver, X, D. Klliotl, S, II, L'lliolt, Dr. II. i'. Kplev, W. D. Kvans. I). W. Lyre, Hay L. Farmer, Dr. D, M. Field, ( iuis. II. Fisher, C (,'. Foieiuan, P. P.. Fullerlon, Carl D. tlabrielson, I', K. riraber, A. Hush, Itnv D. llnint, (leo. 11, llinvcs, C, S. Haniiiton, W, M. Hamil ton, K. K. Hinges, L. F. Ilofcr, It. II. Houston, D. I. Howard, August (luck ostein, I'uiil Johnson, Thus, II, Kay, ( K, Knowlund, S, A, Kozer, J. II, Faint einiiio, W. II. Leiclieu, J, It. Linn, Flunk Lovell, Fred Mnngis, Kev. II. K. Marshall, M. L. Meyers, liu.v II. .Mills, (Ooutiniied on Pane Three.)