20 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 10. 1923 SPIRIT OF ASTORIA SPELLS BIGGER GIT! Men, Fortunes Gone, Begin to Lay New Foundation. COURAGE IS UPPERMOST Adjutant-General White Belieyes Reconstruction Will Require Much Outside Help. "The spirit of Astoria citizens will solve all problems growing out of the disaster, and a' greater As toria for the future is evident to anyone who has been in Astoria the last 24 hours." This was the estimate of George A. White, adjutant-general of the state, last night upon returning from Astoria, where he went Fri day with two carloads of relief sup plies and a detachment of cooks and supply experts from the Oregon national guard, who established emergency kitchens, all restaurants having been destroyed. "I saw many cities in ruins abroad during 1918, but in every case the population seemed to be in a daze or semi-panic," said he. "Astoria people, in the face of their appalli: z disaster, are neither excited nor downhearted. I heard men say, laughingly, that they had been re duced from comfortable means to less than $10 over night. There are scores who have lost everything and must start over again often men past 40. The spirit of these citizens, and I talked to many of them, is wonderful. They are -busy with the problem of immediate relief and pro tection. But they are already lay ing the foundation of plans for a greater city. Optimism Rating Spirit. Optimism and a spirit of hearty, courageous determination to push ahead, dominated the citizens of As toria today and with such a spirit as that there can be not the slight est doubt as to the future. Today was a day when pessimism might have been expected, along with dis couragement, if such things were in the Astoria makeup for the leading men had had little sleep since the disaster swept in upon them and many had worked up to the point of physical exhaustion." General White expressed the opin ion that Portland and the outside world have rushed in ample sup plies for immediate relief needs of every kind, and said that there was plenty of provisions for the present care of everyone. "The citizens were very grateful, as well as surprised, at the way the response from outside reached them," he said. "Supplies of every kind, including cash, were in sight today for a considerable period. Pos sibly more than was needed went into Astoria Friday, but it can all be stored and used, and in the mean time a survey of the exact problem faced by the city was being com pleted and the work of further relief successfully organized. City Appears Shell-Razed. "The extent of the disaster is riot fo be minimized. The business cen ter, from one end to the other, is a smouldering mass of wreckage. The entire section of town facing the harbor has the appearance of a town razed by shellfire. It is a sight to try the souls of meri whose life work lies in those ruins. But I had man Mfter man point complacently to a section of the smoking ruins with the remark that it was his place." People who have no urgent busi ness in Astoria ought to keep away, he said, as their presence there merely adds to the problem of sup ply and is an added burden to the rqmmittees in charge of the work when the visitors insist on giving suggestions. "Astoria faces two problems," he s-.-jid. "the first is that of relief and -this is well in hand. The second is tl at of reconstruction, and that will require weeks of sustained effort v.Uh help and confidence from out side in the way of credit. The city has no easy problem ahead but the vay in which that problem is being f;:eed spells certain success and a greater Astoria in the end." RELIEF SENT TO ASTORIA (Continued From First Pagp.) utile chamber of commerce, received by W. IX B. Dodson, announced that that city stood ready to do any thing necessary to aid the peopte of Astoria. In line with the relief work inau j-jurated by the relief committee the rooms of the Oregon state exhibit and the Oregon tourist and informa tion bureau on the first floor of the Oregon building, Fifth and Oak streets, were thrown open for the receipt of clothing and supplies for the relief work. It was announced that this headquarters would be kept open all day today and every day following to take care of this work. Wrapping of Packages Important Those in charge suggested that all bundles be securely wrapped and tied to 'facilitate handling and transfer and to p-rotect donations from the weather. AH donations of clothing, shoes and supplies will be torwarded to Astoria as rapidly as possible by those in charge. Committees appointed by the spe cial relief committee at yesterday morning's meeting to take care of the various relief activities included the following: Flour and cereals N. A Leech. D. A. Paitullo and F. L. Shull. Groceries Edward Bhrman, Frank "Woodward and a representative of Lang & Co. Coffee R. B. Bain and a representa tive of the Dwight Edwards company. Crackers, cookies, etc. A. J. Bale and V. A.. McDonald. Butter, egjrs and meats B. C. Darnall. Potato? and fresh vegetables A rep resentative of Beil & Co. Ciothin? Nathan Straus, C. S. Cal houn, Julius I,. Meier and Max S. Hir?ch. Bread A representative of tha Mas ter Bakers' association. Coa: Harry Beck with. " ' I'aper sacks O. W. Mielke. Finance Committee Meets. The special finance committee, which is to have charge of the work of raising money in the city to take care of the relief, met yes terday afternoon at the Chamber of Commerce to outline activities for the campaign. This committee is composed of Jay Smith, Julius L. Meier, H. B. Van Duzer, S. M. Mears and Fred N. Strong. At the meeting of the relief com mittee yesterday morning A. H. Johnston, who Friday night sent 250 pounds of coffee and a large quan tity of food for the relief work, was voted a member of the relief com mittee. The Hirseh-"VVeis Manufacturing company offered the use of 2000 cots and uuantities of blankets to care for the homeless, but it was 1 f announced by the committee that they would not be needed. j The Salvation Army contributed p Portland's quota in the relief ! activities yesterday by sending $500 ; worth of groceries and a large t quantity of clothing. Brigadier and Mrs. J. W. Hay, Captain M. Upton and Ensign E. L. Graves of the Portland Salvation Army organiza tion went to Astoria Friday and participated in the relief there. 'A; meeting of the advisory committee of the army was held yesterday morning to take care of relief ac tivities. Bishop W. T. Sumner of the Epis copal diocese of Oregon announced yesterday that the board of church extension of the diocese would act in the emergency as the special As toria relief committee. Committee Is Appointed. The bishop also appointed the fol lowing additional members of the committee: Rev. Thomas Jenkins, Very Rev. H. M. Ramsey, Rev. W. R. Everton. Rev. T. F. Bowen, I.' A. Lewis, W. J. Burns, A. M. Ellsworth and C. F. Adams. It was announced that this committee will hold a spe cial meeting tomorrow. J. W. Leth aby went to Astoria yesterday as the special representative of Bishop Sumner and will make a report for tomorrow's meeting. It was announced by the finance committee of the relief organization yesterday that checks and cash con tributions should be sent to room 609, Oregon building. Checks should be made payable to the "Astoria Relief Fund." It was announced that W. D. La- tourette turned over to the use of the relief work the fund which Oregon City had raised to celebrate the opening of its new bridge. Steamship Line to Help, The Luckenbach Steamship com pany will transport any amount of relief supplies free of charge, ac cording to word received yesterday by J. G. Euson, local manager, from H. C. Cantelow at the San Fran cisco headquarters of that company. Funds raised in Portland, it was announced, will be handled through the local committee. It was urged, however, that outside cities and or ganizations raising money for re lief send it directly to Chaplain W. S. Gilbert at Astoria or the Astoria citizens' committee.. It was .announced yesterday that F. J. Lonergan, supreme" director; P. J. HanleV, state deputy, and James McNeil, grand knight of Ore gon City, will go to Astoria today to represent the Knights of Colum bus in relief work. William J. Mc- Ginley, supreme secretary, has tele graphed Mr. Lonergan authority to act for the supreme council. oVew Meeting Booked. It was announced last night that another meeting of the finance sub committee of the 'Astoria relief com mittee will be held this afternoon at the Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of receiving a detailed re port from Frank E. Andrews, per sonal representative of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, who is due to arrive from the stricken city to day. He has been making an investi gation and will j report what is needed by the destitute there. DEBIUS WILL BE CLEARED Chamber Members Name Commit tees to Facilitate Rebuilding. ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 9. (Special.) Members of the Astoria Chamber of Commerce met today and ap pointed various committees to fa cilitate the work of rebuilding the larg-e business district that was completely wiped out by Friday's conflagration. Although aware that civil author ities are not working in accord the members of the chamber are going forward with plans. Committees to prevent the entrance of outsiders who might attempt to take advan tage of the present situation by es tablishing themselves, to confer with insurance men on future plans and to map out a plan of rushing the clearing of debris have been appointed and meetings are sched uled tomorrow. At a meeting held in , the courthouse this afternoon Lee D. Drake, acting president of the chamber, called for the appoint ment of a nominating committee to name the -various committees. The assemblage, which consists of the majority of property owners and merchants whose holdings now lie in ruins, agreed to a joint commit tee composed of both property own ers and merchants. The location committee, organized to facilitate the removal of debris and the rebuilding of the citv, is made up of R. W. Skallerud, C. V. Brown, J. H. Shaner, A. Morrison and A. J. Dayton, representing the merchants, and F. H. Sanborn, R. R. Caruthers, 8. W. Lovell, A. D. Brown, and W. P. O'Brien, for the property owners. The committee appointed to con fer with insurance men and build ers with a view of reconstruction for lower insurance rates is com posed of J- T. Allen, A. Osborne, J. D. Strauss, Amos Brix and J. E. Wicks, for the property owners and O. A. Smith, G. A. Hellberg, Peter A. Cover and W. H. Felman, for the merchants. The license committee that will urge the authorities to withhold any permits from any ex cept those who suffered losses v composed of L. D. Drake, J. Erick son, E. E. Wold, E. R. Keefe and J. H. Luukinen. Building Permits Increase. SALEM, Or., Dec. 9. (Special.)- Building permits iSsued in Salem during the first 11 months of this year aggregate more than SI. 100, 000. This is a substantial increase. when compared with the figures for the entire year of 1921. r4locipedes Tubular3all-Bearin$.LarieHre. IKhGradc,aaHrens Vehicles OverAMiffionlnUse Sold By All Toy Stores SIDELIGHTS AND INCIDENTS OF GREATVASTORIA FIRE Army Field Kitchens and Tables Are Set Up to Feed Victims of Blaze Everyone Smiles and Makes Plans for Future. ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 9. (Special.) , - Lo veil's garage has been transformed into a central ; headquarters for the handling of sup- ; plies. The field kitchens of the Ore gon national guard have been fitted: up, tables erected to care for sev eral hundred people at' a time, and barracks established bo that beds are available for all. ' Major Joseph Schur is in charge. Mayor Bremner declared tofday that, after the council is assembled Moaday night adjournments will be taken so that the body can -meet every day or twice a day if nec essary. - . Throughout the city a spirit of optimism exists, while men and women: who , a few days ago had every luxury that money could af ford, were today without funds and were depending upon the relief bu reau for temporary succor. Despite this, no complaints were heard. On all sides the sufferers were smiling and making plans for the future. "Where are you conducting your business?" was a question put to Chris Jager, cigar dealer whose store was consumed by the flames. "Out in the open, where God ex pected man to conduct business," was the answer of this man who was using his automobile as a tem porary store. - Business men and property own ers of the city are taking no cogni zance of the differences that exist among the politicians and are going full speed ahead on plans for re building the city. . Isot only is it the idea of the majority of business houses that the work of rehabilitation should begin as soon as is possible, but every ef fort will be made to rebuild the business section of the city so that insurance rates, which have been higher here than anywhere in the northwest, will be lowered. To this end a committee of mer chants and property owners belong ing to the Astoria chamber of com merce has been appointed to confer with insurance agents and repre sentatives of property owners. "Unless Astoria can be recon structed in auch a way as to lower insurance rates, many of the mer chants will be unable to re-establish their business," said Lee D. Drake, acting president of the chamber of commerce. "Everyone is determined to get back into the game and see Astoria a better city than ever, bo there is no doubt that . plans for proper streets and structures will be evolved." Several hundred safes, large and small, will not be opened for at least five days. Should the strong boxes be opened now there is danger that t: e papers inside will burn. The Purceil Safe company telegraphed suggestions for delay in opening the safes and announced that two rep resentatives would be here Monday to consult with the safe owners. The Stutz pumper of the local fire department was stranded . on the Callander dock. Firemen guarded the engine throughout the night. Firemen from headquarters division passed most of today attempting to locate their scant belongings which were moved from the burning sta tion by friends. G. A. Hellberg and Frank Berg, local pharmacists, who have oper ated a drug store in the west end of the city for the past two years, purchased the Owl Drug company, Twelfth and Commercial streets, less than a week ago for a consid eration of $40,000, according to re ports. The drug store and contents were completely destroyed. Something of the pioneer spirit which is Astoria's heritage was evident in meetings of the relief committee yesterday. White-collar men, ministers, doctors, lawyers, sailors, fishermen, woodsmen, log gers and .mill owners were repre sented on the body. Slickers, old army and navy coats, flannel shirts and hip boots havo brought, all these committeemen to a level, a man's level. Red tape and the usual gab" that characterizes public meetings hae been dropped as a mask is dropped. Plain words, facts to back them, and' intentions undoubted are accepted at their face value. ' Astoria is fighting for its exist ence as it did almost 100 years ago, and has discarded personalities, creed and class. The Ross & Woodman Furniture company, which opened operations We Have MOVED! Do not look for us at the old lo cation. We will not be there! You'll find us in larger and finer quarters, furth er uptown. We'll be expect ing you to drop in and look us over. Note the new address. NICOLLTfoTkik WHIRRGSS0NS Oscar M. Smith, Manager 385 Washington Street Pittock Block in Astoria two weeks ago, suffered an approximate loss of $15,009.- Chris Jaeger, . proprietor of the Jaeger confectionery, appeared on the streets this afternoon in a bor rowed automobile, laden with a large cash register and a small bas ket of "sweets." Pohl & Gilbaugh, local undertak ers, have opened for business in the Gilbaugh apartments. Two local business men who lost practically everything in Friday's fire were seen this noon using their traffic mirror as a guide for the slashing work of "Mr. Safety Razor." - Mayor Bremner attempted to enter his office at the city hall Sat urday night, reports have it, but was denied the privilege when con fronted by a muzzle of a gun in the hands of a navy guard. Standing alone, like Noah's ark on Mount Sinai, is the vault of the Bank of Commerce. Fire failed to crumble the foundation. s - Operators at the local telephone exchange were working day and night keeping the long-distance wire hot along the entire coast. Relief Committee. Chairman Gil bert's stenographer passed hours opening and answering telegrams from cities over the entire United States. Cafe owners forgot for the time being their losses and groomed themselves in aprons and caps to noia down regular places at out door kitchens. Foodstuffs of all varieties were arriving at the local relief station during the night. . - Smoke was still pouring from the jriant chimnev of the AalnHo Mo tional bank tonight. The walls were Daaly crumbled during the fire, but the huge stack remained intact. AUTO LICENSES 243,157 Washington State Reports In crease of 31.311 Cars In 1922. OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec. j.(Spe cial.) An increase of 31,311 sets of automobile license plates in 1922 over the preceding year is shown in a statement issued today by the state license department. The 1922 total was 243,157 sets of plates as against 211,846 sets for 1921. Licenses for private cars in creased from 154,239 to 176,074. Trucks increased from 27,739 to 31, 941. For-hire licenses decreased tfrom 2454 to 1945 and stages from Mil to 756. Dealers decreased from 811 to 712 and motorcycles from 3913 to 3846. Transfers of licenses during the year increased from 13, 233 to 19,869. Trainload of Cattle Shipped. HALFWAY, Or., Dec:. 9. (Spe cial.) A trainload of cattle sold by W. A. Gover to a Los Angeles buyer left Robinette today for Los Angeles territory. Twenty carloads con sisting of 500 head of steers, mostly feeders, made up the train.' More than 300 -head included in the same contract were delivered earlier. Mr. Gover is said to be the owner of the greatest number of cattle of any in dividual in Oregon, and has about 4000 head left. A short time ago he shipped in two carloads of purebred Herfords, bought at the- Portland stock show. HI BUY SERVICEABLE XMAS GIFTS OF FURNITURE at January Sale Prices I 1 fftiMF.k -TO-FIFTH ST. Mahogany Wing Rock ers and Chairs, with cane seats and backs: S29.70 Quality -.$22.50 $35.00 Quality ..27.50 $39.75 Quality ..$29.00 $48.00 Quality ..36.50 Dining Tables $64.00 Queen Anne, 54-inch top, $.00 $77.00 Solid Walnut, 54-in. top, 8-foot, Sgf-r.75 $90.00 Solid Walnut, 54-in. S...:....67- $90.00 Solid Walnut or Ma hogany, 45x S7.50 60 top . Ol $48.00 Solid Walnut finish, 48-inch top, $O.00 Queen Anne. . OO - Best Gift of all a Combination Range with 2 ovens and "broiler in all white, gray or two-tone at jobbing price. Some under $100 net. ALWAYS YOUR -MONEY'S WORTHnra - - f ' ... ' CHAMBER OPENS OFFICE PORTLAND ORGANIZATION GIVES AID SPEEDILY. Relief Activities Co-ordinated Into Central Agency ; 1 1 Cars of . ! Provisions Arrive. ASTORIA, Or.. Dec. 9. (Special.) Three hours and 45 minutes after the jobbers and manufacturers of the Portland Chamber of Commerce had held their meeting to rush aid to the fire-raked city of Astoria, rep resentatives of ih chamber were in Astoria establishing headquarters in the office of the mayor to" aid in the work of organizing the relief for the various agencies of citizens, merchants, etc. Frank E. Andrews, vice-president, immediately upon arrival was in consultation with the Astoria emer gency committee, Acting President Drake of the Astoria chamber of commerce. Chaplain Gilbert of the citizens' committee and others. At this meeting it was decided to co crdinate all plans for relief into one central agency. In the evening an other meeting was called at which 50 of the representative citizens of Astoria were present to arrange a ten-day ration for the so-called ref ugees. At this meeting Hal White, Mayor Baker's representative, and Frank E. Andrews and B. N. Weinbaum of the chamber immediately telephoned into Portland for the necessary sup plies to establish a commissary for the feeding of people and distribu tion of foodstuffs and clothing. A train of 11 cars, arrived tonight j at 9 o'clock which was consigned to the Portland Chamber of Commerce in care of the relief committee of Astoria. This train consisted of provisions, clothing and coal. The Portland Chamber of Com merce will have an office at the As toria city hall through the courtesy of Mayor Brenner for the next sev eral days, and will be in touch with Mr. Dodson's office of the Portland chamber. 1 FIREFIEHTERS HAMPERED STREETS BUILT OVER PILING ACT AS FLUES. Astoria Men Put Up Game Fight, Says Portlander, but Cards Were Against Them. Portland firefighters who helped to check the disastrous blaze at Astoria returned to their homes yes terday, some, on the gasoline pumper which the A. G. Long company. sent to the stricken city and others on railway trains. All agreed that the Astoria blaze, from the fireman's point of view, was one of the worst conflagrations in the history of the northwest. The streets, built on piling, simply acted as flues for the fire, and the force was absolutely unable to cope with the situation. "The Astoria firemen put up a game fight," said H. H. Beaumont of engine company No. 1, "but the cards were stacked against them. Once the fire got started "it ran along under the streets. The cre osoted piles and the asphalt cover ids of the street added fuel to the flames. It was impossible to get hose on the fires under the streets. "We arrived there about 10 o'clock Friday morning. " There were five of us from the Portland bureau Arthur Gaylor of engine 3. C. H.. Tucker of engine 6, A. J. Foss and Chester Buchtel of truck No. 1, and I. - "Pressure was pretty low and the Astoria men were having consider able trouble getting water on the blaze. We hooked up our two steam pumpers, one an 1100-gallon and WMNISHEk Red Cedar Chests, all kinds, reduced as fol lows: ' $ 8.00 Chest $16.00 Chest $24.50 Chest $28.00 Chest $39.00 Chest S 5.95 $12.50 .$19.50 $22.00 $30.50 Windsor Chairs and Rockers $ 9.00 Quality $14.00 Quality $22.00 Quality $24.00 Quality $26.00 Quality $ 7.50 $11.00 $18.00 .$19.50 $20.50 3-piece Overstuffed Suite, velour cover, high-grade web construction, $342.00 SM:.....?258- the other a 1000-gallon engine, on hydrants and went to work. Mr. Long placed his gasoline pumper down near the bay and commenced pumping sea water. We took along 6000 feet of hose, most of which we used. "Our men didn't get into what you could call action. We 'stayed at our engines and supplied the streams. The heat was so intence, though, that nobody could hope to enter a building once it caught afire. When the flames broke out in a. building that building was gone. "The low pressure was caused by so much water running from the broken mains and pipes in the fire zone. Another thing that permitted the spread of the fire was the lack of experienced firemen. The Astoria chief had considerable trouble in getting help. The people were sort of dazed; they stood around and looked on send didn't know how to fight fire." The local firemen lived on coffee and sandwiches while they were in the stricken city, and when Mr. Long announced his intention of driving back to Portland with the gasoline engine late Friday night, the local firefighters climbed aboard. Some deserted the vehicle in other Columb'a river cities, secured lodg ing for the night and finished the trip by railroad train. The two Portland engines arrived in the terminal yards late last night and will be unloaded today. ' 'u JUL, a'ilw flit VL?i - v .",.;:-:-' f-Jjf-v 2M??sit' flwi I t : - MM Wt . 'li;- .;' (if- I ! (bIfSW -- fl ill -Jl lis. i ilVSS?' i 2ifw-? 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