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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1907)
rnE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, JIAKSHFIELD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1007. - ' -J- ikj M i i WILL HAVE GOOD HOTEL Guerin House at Myrlle Point is Being Greatly Enlarged by Addition. READY IN A MONTH When Completed Will Ilo One of the ltcst Hotels in This Section. (Times Spccinl Service.) Myrtle Point, April 23. The Querln hotel in this city will soon bo one of the most up-to-date houses of its kind In this section. A three- ctory addition 40x30 feet Is rapidly nenring completion, and will proba bly be ready for occupancy in about n month. The lower floor of the new struct ure Is to be used for two store rooms, while the two upper stories will be UBed as a part of the hotel. The por tion to be utilized by the hotel will be divided Into suites, with a private bath in connection with each. The entire hotel will bo modern. IS TROUBLESOME IN ONE COUNTRY Italy Has Not Found Government Ownership of Roads nn Easy Matter. The following regarding govern ment ownership of railroads appear ed In the London Times and has been reprinted extensively throughout this country. Milan, March 9. Senator Colom bo has written a long letter to the Corriere delta Sora, in which he points out that the government, while admitting the necessity of deal ing effectually with the chief defects of the railways usually postpones the remedy indefinitely and contents itself meanwhile with palliatives. In tho case of communication be tween Bologna and Florence, for In stance, the commission appointed to report upon tho matter had plainly stated that electric traction would only meet the deficiency up to about the year 1915, and that the necessary alternative wus a. new road with easy gradients and a 10-mllo tunnel, which would take seven years to make and would thus barely be In time; but the authorities merely talk of adopting electricity, and have shelved the question of the Improved track sine die. Tho trafflc between Milan and Genoa, again, is increas ing at a rate that makes it much more likely that It will be doubled in 1903 than in 1920, while, even according to the most sanguine es timate, the direct line Indispensable under such circumstances could only be ready, If begun at once, In 1914. Yet here ,in Jlke manner, the govern ment proposes half measures, such as electric traction or a shorter line between Itonco and Voghera. The excuse is that the Bums required for through treatment are too large to be decided upon off hand; but the senator replies that the ministry, as far back as 1905, admitted tho neces sity of making new lines from Milan to Genoa, and from Bologna to Florence, without further delay, that private capital is ready to furnish the 9,440,000 pounds required for the former, and that it would be better to spend 5,000,000 pounds on the latter, which is the main rail way artery of Italy, than to divide the whole of tho 36,400,000 pounds voted into a number of small sums, none of which will effect any serious Improvement In the present state of affairs. Statistics furnished by the Corriere della Sera show how serious this is. Taking Genoa and Venice as examp les, It says that the former has been furnished with 11,835 wagons less between October and January than during the corresponding period last year; the Railway Administration, which pleads the increased calls upon it in extenuation of Its failure to meet them, having acted, on the contrary, as if these calls had dimin ished. Hence not only tho docks and quays, the lighters and other vessels, but all the old hulks that can'be found, are filled to overflow ing with goods of every kind, and even the sea Itself has been laid under contribution to eke out the Insufficiency of the available ware house accomodation, timber being chained together and anchored down In tho water. The merchandise awaiting transportation at Genoa is estimated at 600,000 to 1,000,000 tons, and of this thero are at least 280,000 tons, nn accumulation daily increasing by about 8,400 tons. Horse traction has begun to be re sorted to, and some 65,000 tons have thus been carried out of the town during the past month. Venice, too, has been treated by the railways as if her traffic had been halved. And ns an instance of this it may bo stated that between the 10th and 25th of February that city was furnished with 2,533 coal trucks more than was applied for. Among tho results of this treatment of tho Italian port is that coal is being sent into Italy from Germany, Instead of by sea, and that Trieste is beginning to supplant Venice as a landing place for goods sent to the Venetian re gion. The Corriere says that one great cause of inefficiency Is the creation of unfamiliar conditions, which began when the government, In order to light the Southern (Merldlonalo) company, changed tho routes by which tho goods had always been sent, and which was made worse when tho "Medlterranea" and "Adrl atlca" personnel and rolling stock were consolidated. The men havo to deal with signals and regulations new to them, while tho repair of en gines and other vehicles in work shops where they are a novelty leads to a chaos better imagined than de scribed. The twenty-one subdivisions of authority at headquarters, all In dependent of one another, are a fur ther constant source of delays and contradictory orders, and the wonder is, the paper concludes, that trains run at all. COPIES Of SCHOOL I LAWS ARE LIMITED Stntc Superintendent Is Running Short of the Much Wnnted Printed Mntter. DO QUICK WORK. Myrtle Point Fire Department Is a Good One. The Myrtle Point fire department, in making a trial run a few days ago, had all connections made and were throwing water through over four hundred feet of hose in one minute. Salem, Ore., April 23. All appli cations for copies of the new and revised school laws made to the de partment of public instruction will be given a deaf ear because tho num ber of copies printed is not sufficient to supply the demand. Many re quests for copies of the Bchool laws havo been made but they cannot be granted as the last legislature was decidedly economical In its ap propriation and voted to publish but 5000 copies of tho laws, where here to fore it has printed a much larger number. Originally tho bill called for 11,000 copies of the school laws. It passed the house but in tho senate the number was cut to 5000 copies and since there are 2174 school dist ricts in the state, tho state depart ment of public Instruction will have to bo very careful In the sending out of these laws throughout the state. Superintendent J. H. Ackerman has decided that since there Is but a small number of copies available he will first supply tho various county superintendents and send but one copy to each of the school districts throughout the state this year and next year send another copy to each of the boards. Heretofore the department sold copies at 25 cents, but all applica tions this year will have to be re fused as the supply of copies Is not sufficient. Teachers however, who desire the laws may be supplied as heretofore from dlrerent sources. Professor R. F. Robinson of Port land, superintendent of the schools for Multnomah county, and who biennlaly been publishing a pam phlet entitled, "Leading Facts of Oregon School Law," and the Ore gon Teachers Monthly, published In this city, will publish tho school laws In full. California and Oregon Coast Steamship Company. Steamer Alliance KELLY, Commanding. -SAILING FROM- COOS BAY to Portland and Return The Steamer GEO. D. GRAY a CO., General ngents, 421 MaTket St.. 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