Portland State University PDXScholar Portland City Archives Oregon Sustainable Community Digital Library 12-1-1898 Mayor's Message and Municipal Reports of the City of Portland, Oregon 1898 Portland (Or.). Office of the Mayor Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/oscdl_cityarchives Part of the Urban Studies Commons, and the Urban Studies and Planning Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Portland (Or.). Office of the Mayor, "Mayor's Message and Municipal Reports of the City of Portland, Oregon 1898" (1898). Portland City Archives. 20. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/oscdl_cityarchives/20 This Report is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Portland City Archives by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. INDEX Mayor's Message 15 Report of Auditor 19 Report of Treasurer 63 Report of City Engineer 93 Report of City Attorney 145 Report of Health Commissioner 157 Report of Inspector of Plumbing and Drainage 169 Report of Municipal Judge 171 Report of Chief of Police 173 Report of License Collector 201 Report of Fire Commissioners 205 Report of Secretary Firemen's Mutual Relief Association 307 Report of Chief Engineer Fire Department 221 Report of Corporation Yard Keeper 295 Report of Superintendent Fire Alarm Telegraph 296 Report of Water Committee 311 r OFFICERS OF THE CITY GOVERNHENT Mayor William S. Mason (Died March 27th, 1899.) Auditor A. N. Gambell Deputy Auditor Sigel Grutza Deputy Auditor T. C. Devlin Treasurer Frank Hacheney Deputy Treasurer E. Werlein City Attorney J. M. Long Deputy City Attorney R. R. Duniway Deputy City Attorney W. M. Davis City Engineer W. B. Chase Chief Clerk, City Engineer William Kapus Draughtsman, City Engineer A. Reuter Draughtsman, City Engineer Seth Catlin Deputy City Engineer William Braden Deputy City Engineer J. W. Brown Deputy City Engineer A.M. Shannon Deputy City Engineer Ge^rgs Bodman Deputy City Engineer Robert Austin Deputy City Engineer E. W. Paget Deputy City Engineer John Baker Deputy City Engineer Jesse Hannon Municipal Judge Frank Hennessy Chief of Police D. M. McLauchlan Superintendent of Street Cleaning and Sprinkling E. Ryan License Inspector S. C. Beach Deputy License Inspector Philip Rogoway Inspector of Plumbing and Drainage M. P. Fleming Deputy Inspector of Plumbing and Drainage W. Adams Health Commissioner J. P. Menefee Parkkeeper CM. Myers Harbor Master O. Jones Pound Master E. Robinson COMMON COUNCIL President of the Council W. A. Storey First Ward W. A. Storey Second Ward John A. Martin Third Ward J. D. Meyer Fourth Ward Geo. L. Baker Fifth Ward Wm. Showers Sixth Ward J. C. Luckel Seventh Ward H. A. Belding Eighth Ward Geo. J. Cameron Ninth Ward Fred W. Hanson Tenth Ward J. C. Jameson Eleventh Ward N. D. Beutgen STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE COMMON COUNCIL WAYS AND MEANS. Meets Monday, Council Week. Wm. Showers, Geo. J. Cameron, Geo. L. Baker. ACCOUNTS AND CURRENT EXPENSES. Meets Tuesday, Council Week. J. C. Jameson, Wm. Showers, W. A. Storey. STREET CLEANING AND SPRINKLING. Meets Thursday preceding Council Week. Geo. L. Baker, W. A. Storey, J. C. Jameson, Fred W. Hanson, J. D. Meyer. STREETS. Meets Saturday preceding Council Week. J. A. Martin, Geo. J. Cameron, Wm. Showers, J. C. Luckel, Fred W. Hanson. SEWERS AND DRAINAGE. Meets Friday preceding Council Week. W. A. Storey, J. D. Meyer, N. D. Beutgen, H. A. Belding, J. C. Jameson. PARKS AND PUBLIC PROPERTY. Meets Wednesday preceding Council Week. Fred W, Hanson, J. A. Martin, J. C. Luckel. HEALTH AND POLICE. Meets Friday preceding Council Week. N. D. Beutgen, J. A. Martin, J. C. Jameson. JUDICIARY AND ELECTIONS. Meets Monday, Council Week. Geo. J. Cameron, Wm. Showers, J. C Luckel. STREET LIGHTING. No regular day of Meeting. J. C. Luckel, W. A. Storey, H. A. Belding, Geo. L. Baker, J. D. Meyer. LICENSES. Meets Tuesday, Council Week. J. D. Meyer, Geo. L. Baker, N. D. Beutgen. COMMERCE, LANDINGS AND WHARVES. Meets Tuesday preceding Council Week. H. A. Belding, J. A. Martin, N. D. Beutgen. WATER. Meets Tuesday, Council Week. H. A. Belding, Geo. J. Cameron, Fred W. Hanson. LIQUOR LICENSE. Wm. Showers, J. A. Martin, Fred W. Hanson, N. D. Beutgen, J. C. Luckel. Regular meetings of Common Council on 1st and 3d Wednesdays in each month. The Common Council and all Committees meet at 2 o'clock P. M. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS W. S. MASON, Chairman (deceased). A. N. GAMBELL, Clerk. Frank Hacheney. J. M. Long. W. B. Chase. HEALTH DEPARTMENT W. S. Mason, Mayor (decsased) ... D. M. McLauchlan, Chief of Police Board of Health N. D. Beutgen, Councilman .. .Dr. C. H. Wheeler, City Physician ..I. P. Menefee, Health Commissioner POLICE DEPARTHENT .James E. Hunt .. Geo. W. Bates Board of Police Commissioners N D. Solis Cohen .D. McLauchlan, ex-offlcio President James E. Hunt Secretary Louis Rau Municipal Judge Frank Hennessy Chief of Police D. M. McLauchlan ( Robert Holman Captains of Police •, f S. J. Hoare Clerk of Police Department James Roberts Humane Officer J. L. Wells REGULAR HEETINQS OF THE COMMON COUNCIL First and Third Wednesdays of Each Month, at Two O'clock, P. M. COMMITTEE HEETINGS COUNCIL WEEK. Monday Ways and Means Monday Judiciary and Elections Tuesday License Tuesday Street Lighting Tuesday .' Accounts and Current Expenses WEEK BEFORE COUNCIL MEETING. Tuesday Commerce, Landings and Wharves Wednesday Parks and Public Property Thursday Street Cleaning and Sprinkling Friday Sewers and Drainage Friday Health and Police Saturday Streets Committees meet at 2 P. M. BOARD OF FIRE CO/iniSSlONERS H. S. ROWE, President. Wm. FLIEDNBR, RICHARD EVERDING. OFFICERS: David Campbell Chief Engineer M. Laudenklos • Assistant Engineer (District East Side.) Lee Holden District Engineer (District North of Morrison Street.) John Young District Engineer (District South of Morrison Street.) *M. Laudenklos Acting District Engineer Geo. J. Walker Superintendent Fire Alarm Office of the Board of Fire Commissioners: CITY HALL. MILTON WEIDLER, Secretary. Regular meeting of the Fire Commissioners, fifth day of every month. Office, City Hall. FIREHAN'S MUTUAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION • OFFICERS: H. S. ROWE, President. WILLIAM FLIEDNER, Treasurer. MILTON WEIDLER, Secretary. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: H. S. ROWE, WM. FLIEDNER, RICHARD EVERDING, DAVID CAMPBELL, MILTON WEIDLER. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Chief Engineer and Assistant Engineers. Meetings are held the fifth of each month, at office of Board of Fire Commissioners, City Hall. WATER COMMITTEE H. W. Corbett, R. D. Inman, J. Loewenberg, G. W. Bates, S. E. Josephi, C. H. Raffety, J. C. Carson, R. B. Knapp, H. S. Rowe, C. A. Dolph, C. Kohn, H. W. Scott, J. E. Haseltine, W. M. Ladd, J. N. Teal, C. H. Hill, L. A. Lewis, L. Therkelsen. H. W. CORBETT, Chairman. L. A. LEWIS, Treasurer. FRANK T. DODGE, Clerk. SUB-COMMITTEE ON CONSTRUCTION. C. A. Dolph, J. N. Teal, H. W. Corbett, J. Loewenberg, L. Therkelsen SUB-COMMITTEE ON WATER WORKS. C. H. Raffety, W. M. Ladd. Frank T. Dodge, Superintendent and Accountant. D. D. Clarke, Assistant Engineer. Regular monthly meeting of the Water Committee on the third Tuesday of each month. MAYOR'S ANNUAL MESSAGE Mayor's Office, Portland, Oregon, January 3, 1899. To the Common Council, City of Portland: Gentlemen—Complying with the requisitions of the charter, I here- with submit to you my annual message and report: RECEIPTS. 1897. 1898. Taxes $248,044.71 $ 227,836.57 Taxes, delinquent 35,885.53 114,243.55 General licenses 123,163.95 123,587.80 Municipal court 3,436.80 2,166.00 Miscellaneous 6,093.51 16,333.99 Sale of bonds ($430,000.00) and premium 536,774.73 $416,624.50 $1,020,942.64 EXPENDITURES. Expenditures $599,187.09 $ 566,126.96 It is very gratifying to yourselves and to the citizens of Portland that the credit of our city stands as high as it does. The charter authorized the City of Portland to sell $450,000.00 of 5 per cent, bonds, to run for a period of thirty years, for the purpose of taking up the outstanding warrants that had been issued and not paid for want of funds. Your Committee on Ways and Means advertised for bids on the bonds. The high premium offered gave the city money enough to pay the outstanding warrants by issuing but $430,000.00 of the bonds, instead of $450,000.00. Almost all of the outstanding warrants have been paid; the remainder will be taken up as fast as presented to the Treasurer for payment. The payment of these warrants will clear off the last dollar of floating indebtedness, and put the city on an actual cash basis; and by the provisions of the charter we are compelled to remain so, as no debt or liability shall be incurred unless the money is in the funds to pay the same. Economy must be exercised to enable the different departments to give efficient service on the amount allotted for their support. 16 MAYOR'S MESSAGE. THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. Is in our city an experiment. Many cities which have transferred to a Board of Public Works the charge and execution of all improvements and the charge of all bodies in the city, the execution of whose duties requires an expenditure of money, have been highly gratified with the trust reposed in that body; the legislative branch of the city gov- ernment remaining in the City Council, who inaugurate improve- ments and must legislate on the finances, authorizing all expenditures, are relieved from the burden of letting contracts and carrying out in detail the execution of the same. I am satisfied when our people become conversant with the working of the different departments they will be well satisfied with this provision of the new charter.