PAGE TWO.
THE MORNING ASTORIAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 11 1901.
Morning Astorian
Established IS73. v
DAILY EXCEPT MONDAY.
Dewpy sailed into Manila bay ami sunk or captutvtl
the Spanish flwt in less than an hour. All of tho
world knows of the quick work .Sohloy maifo'of tho
Spanish squadron at Santiago. It in not tlu fault
of nuHlonl onfrinos of war.
RATES.
ail, per year $6 00
B mail, per month 50
Bj carriers, per mouth 60
TUB SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOKIAX.
00
Bj wail, per year, in advance ...... f 1
ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY.
THE STAGE AND PROFANITY.
A Portland theatrical manager announces that
lie will not permit use of the word "damn" on the
stage of any of the showhouses which he is connect
ed with. The article in which the statement appears
does not go into detail and the manager is not given
an opportunity to make himself clear, but we cin sur
mise that he is opposed to vulgarity from the' stage.
As this gentleman ..is connected with a circuit, his
departure will have sweeping effect. j
This theatrical manager ought to be tendered a
vote of thanks. If he adhers to his publicly express
ed determination, he will have taken a long step to
wards decent entertainment, and his .course will be
approved by every theatergoer with a thimbleful of
appreciation. There are mighty fe wof us who have
not attended theatrical performances where lame ac
tors have sought to amuse with vulgarity. "We have
taken our mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts,
and have often noticed the blush of .shame upon their
faces at the coarse jokes of some barnstormer who,
knowing his own professional incompetency, em
ployed profanity as a substitute. With every oath
uttered by this class of actors, the rough element of
the audience gives way to its merriment, to the em
barrassment of the respectable people who have paid
their money to see the performance.
So general has become the practice among enter
, tainers of swearing on the stage that one never knows
what he will have to put up with when he goes to the
' playhouse. It is time the practice were stopped.
There is a very considerable respectable element
which objects seriously to this persistent insulting
of women, and, while respectable people do not ap
plaud as vociferously as those of the rougher class,
performers-should be required to respect their feel
ings. The hobo actor who comes upon the stage and
fails to "get a hand" with legitimate lines immed
iately attempts vulgarity, and is promptly applauded
by those to whom such stuff appeals. It is a villain
ous practice and should no longer be countenanced
If the Portland manager insists upon the obliter
ation of profanity at his showhouses, he will confer
a lasting favor on ladies and gentlemen, and set an
example which ought to net good returns.
PUNISH THE OFFENDERS.
As was to have been expected, we hear complaint
as a result of the arrests recently made at Astoria
of persons who violate the law which forbids anyone
throwing sawdust m the Columbia river. During the
week two livery stabh employes have been appro
bended for this offense, and in the ea!e of one man
a fine of $50 was imposed. The other case is pend
ing.
The complaint is made that the fisheries de
partment is selecting the petty offenders ami overlook
ing the offenses of large concerns. It is alleged the
managers of local saw mills cause quantities of dust
to be thrown into the river, and the belief is f requent
ly expressed that an example should be made of them
and not of the individuals who dump an occasional
load of sawdust into the bay.
The throwing of sawdust into the Columbia has
been prohibited by law because of its bad effects on
the fishing industry. Sawdust wilj not kill all of the
salmon in the river, but it will contribute its share
toward that end, and, with many other such practi
ces, constitute a serious injury to an industry upon
which many thousands of persons depend. The man
who violates the law should be punished, and it is a
matter of small concern whether the start is made in
his case or in that of a saw milling company. The
fish warden is doubtless quite as anxious to detect
other offenders as he has been to cause the arrest of
the two men arraigned this week. Enforcement of
the fishing laws has been left with him, and he has
no sentiment in the matter. We have not the slightest
doubt that all offenders will be promptly arrested,
and we have enough faith in the intelligence of our
courts to know the violators of the law will be pun
ished.
In itself, the practice of throwing sawdust into
the river is one of not very grave importance. Rut
it is prohibited by law, and the law should be rigidly
enforced. Enforcement of the law is especially to be
desired at Astoria, the headquarters of the fishing in
dustry. If the people of this city can not be brought
to realization of the necessity of observing the fishing
laws, it would be folly to attempt to compel observ
ance of the regulations elsewhere. The salmon in
dustry sustains Astoria, and the pepole of this city
should be ever watchful to see that the Jaws are
strictly observed.
ASIATIC MARKMANSHIP.
"So close were the two flotillas to each other
'that our destroyers, the Asashio, Kasumi and Aka
tsuki, nearly touched the enemy's ships and our
crews could even hear the cries of agony of the in
jured men on them."
So reports Admiral Togo, describine to the
mikado his valorious defeat of the Rusian flotilla
off Port Arthur March 10, says the Butte Inter
Mountain. He details further that the battle lasted
30 minutes. Thirty minutes, nose to nose, yet the
total damage done, according to Togo's report, is one
Russian boat captured and another probably, al
though this has not been confirmed, so badly smashed
up that she sank later. Togo's own loss was seven
killed and eight wounded.
Time was when the horrors of warfare, with
great Deicning steel guns and crackling small arms
that can throw scores of shells a minute, "rapid-fire"
shells, piercing three inches f armor, were painted
in ochre by the war specialist. It was said that each
, invention made war more like that famous summer
resort to which General Sherman likened it. Yet after
a dozen or more engagements and bombardments
the total casualities in the present struggle, allowing
i for exaggeration, fall short of a thousand, and a large
jmrt of these result from inefficient handling of guns
and explosives, as when the Yenisei ran upon one of
her own torpedoes.
But perhaps, after all, it is not the fault of the
modern engines of war that the struggle, drags on.
Asiatic marksmanship is not to be considered. In
the majority of the naval engagements thus far, the
Japanese have been the aggressors. In their numer
ous engagements off Port Arthur an din the bombard
ment of Vladivostok, they hurled, without exagger
ation, thousands upon thousands of shells into the
Russians' forts. Yet few were killed and compara
tively little damage done. Which is easily understood
when it is explained that as a nation, the Japanese
are nearsighted.
Which leads to the prediction that unless the
.powers intervene the war will drag wearily on.
ADVERTISING ABUSES.
AH through the United States people are real
izing as never before the need of checking the very
serious evil of most of the advertising on sign-boards
and dead walls. Municipalities and railway com
panies are taking the matter up in earnest and the
movement for the suppression of this form of public
nuisance seems to be acquiring at last a strength
that was hardly hoped for a few years ago, says the
Post-Intelligencer.
We Americans have become so accustomed to
looking out of our windows to be struck full in the
eyes with a twenty-foot red and yellow horror adver
tising Flor de Cabbagio cigars, we have for so long
. i - i i i i .
seen so muen oi our most neauiuui scenery uctace
with nightmares calling attention to Peerless Pants
and in the more thickly regions have so often made
our railway journeys between interminable walls of
bill-board monstrosities, that we have almost come
to look upon this course of daily life as part of na
ture's plans.
The Pennsylvania and Boston & Albany rail
ways are making every effort to have the signboards
along their lines removed. Massachusetts has passed
a law prohibiting advertising signs in, or in sight, of
public parks and parkways or in public places.
ennsylvania has adopted the rule as tq public places.
Cities all over the country have passed or are con
sidering stringent municipal regulations as to adver
tising signs and bill-boards and private societies by
the hundred are keeping up continued agitation on
the subject.
The movement should enlist the hearty sympathy
of everyone who is not utterly callous to ugliness in
his surroundings. The courts of England and Mass
achusetts have held that a thing may be a nuisance
jecause it offends the sense of sight just as much
as if it offended the sence of smell or hearing, and
as it offends the sense of smell or hearing, and
doubtedly good law. -
In Paris not an advertising sign can be erected
even over a man s own store until Tiermission has
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been granted by a municipal commission which al-
ows nothing which in size, color or shape may deface
the appearance of the street or mar the skyline. As
a result one can ride from end to end of Paris with
out his eye being once needlessly offended.
That is probably far too radical a rule for this
country,' although, only because Americans are not
ducated up to it, but as regards bill-boards or any
sort of advertising signs in public places no city can
afford not to take a civilized stand and forbid them
utterly. Private sentiment can in time be educated
to a point where a man who allows his land or7 his
barn or the dead walls of his building to be defaced
will be looked upon as a thoroughly bad citizen and
where he himself will feel the impropriety of his
act. ' ' ' I
T Prevent Tuberculoid. , ,"'
Ctilottiro. 'Maroh 18. Th National
AnthTutHTCulnHla Ar-oclntlon hue
ht-en 1iiWrKrii!Hi Itv SirliiitnUl by
in. V. V- Weu'tilf, ri C. W. Hun
f.ird, the Rev. Frank M. Ctirmm, W. t.
MoUorouKh and" AlUriimn Hutter
worth, of Chicago.
The object of the orifaiilxiitlon In to
prevent tubcrculoatu, by leKlslntlon
ami through h citmpalKii of oituctitlmt.
According to tht Incorporator the
u.4oclntIoii Is purely philanthropic
Correct; Clothes tor Men
Aids to Navigation.
pttowa. Out., March IS. A dclin
Hon from the Dominion NRtrln Amhic
intion hits whUhI upon the nilnlnlir
and deputy minister of marine and
ni ranged for t lt conformltory of nil
tight und Hljrnnli for navigation be
twemi Montreal and the grout luktm
whether In Canadian or t nlted ytuU'
waters.
"1 ANY men still
clintf to the ex
pensive private
tailor, not www
in $ that there is
at least one Kind
of readytowear
iL.l I. I I-
vwru m .. mai is cquai in
every detail to Tine custom-made
and costs onlv about half. The
Kind we refer to bears this label
NYxv York. March If. The work of
rot-in, the nunken Ruiwlun emitter
Ynriug In Chemulpo harbor In pro-
eroding rapidly,' cables the Harald'n
correspond nit. by means of a complete
wrecking out lit brought from Jupan.
The authorities expreit the hope that
the ship will be placed In eommlxon
within a few otoliths .
jlfirSd Benjamin 5
MAKERS ft NEWVORK
the symbol of perfect style, fit,
fabric, and worKmansmp in reaay
for-service apparel.
Equal to fin tuitom-muh In all but
prkt, Tha tnalfrt' guaranttt, S4
our, with tvtry girmtnt. Wa art
Exdudvs DUWbuton In thU dry.
BLACKSMITH! ISO.
CARIUAUE AND WAGON M'lLlttN'U, FIRST-CLASS HOKSK
SHOEING.
Logging Cnmp Work.
All kind of wagon materials in stork for ante. We guarantee the bent
work done in the city. Price right.
ANDREW ASP.
Corner Twelfth ami Dunne NtreeU. 'Phone 211,
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PHYSICIAN AND SUHQEON
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,.. Acting AHlntaiit8ut-((!ori
U.S. MurlDe HoHpltal Hrvlco.
Office hours: 10 to 12 a,m. 1 to 4:30 p.m.
477 Commercial Street, 2nd Floor.
Dr. RIIODA 0. HICKS
OSTKOPATHY '
Mannoll Bldg. 673 Commercial St
I'HONB BUCK SW
C. J. TRENCIIARD
CoinmlRslor. and Shlnolna.
CUSTOMS HOUSE BROKER.
Insurance,
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gent WeUs-Fargo and Northern
Pacific Express Companies.
Cor. ELEVENTH and BOND STS.
ASTORIA AND COLUMBIA
RIVER RAILROAD
lbaVb
1:00 am
7:00 pm
PORTLAND
Portland Union Dt
pot for Astoria and
War Points
AniUVB
"iuoTm
l:Q a
T:48tmj
1:10 p m
A8TOHIA
For Portland
Way Points
and
U:Wn
BBJAfllDB DIVISION
t:lStm
tl:tm
1:60 p m
Astoria for Wartn
ton, Flavtl 'Fort
St a vena, Hammond
land Seaside
7:40 a
4:00pm
nO:4Ut
116 am
.am
1:10 p m
Seaside for War
rsnton, riavsl,
Hammond, Fort
Btevsna A Astoria!
7:80 pa,
t:!sam
'Sunday only
All trains maks tUm connections at
Oobls with alt Northern paolflo trains
to and from the East and Bound points.
S. O. Mayo,
Oensral freight and Pass. AtwiL
xUo LitSo ii lo
OREGON
Siiortr line
and Union Pacific
70 hours from Portland to Chicago,
No chongs of ears.
Itiwrt
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Worth, Oinulm. Kku.
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Alinntln
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. i. mi. i . rni, iiinnim, Kan
vi mini- una I lly, mi UmU.
lu(Un t lih'Mjo it4 lb Kiwt
Ht. htul
( not Mull
J;6p. in.
via Spokane
alia Walla. I !.
tii, nimhan. Minna.
'aix.lu Hi j'.ul, UulutlJ
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and fowl
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1(0 pm
OCEAN AND RIVER SCHEDULE!
From Astoria
All sailing dates subject to chant.
Fw Frandaco every flv day
liallyn- Columbia KWer to am
Mun fortlaml and Wa Daily .1.
iny aiTam UikIiuki ' wpiJtoa
Steamer Naheotta leaves Astoria 0a
tide dally except Sunday for Ilwaco,
connecting- there with trains for Long
Oeat h, Tioga and North Beach points.
Returning arrives at Astoria same
evening.
Through tickets to and from all prln.
clpnl European cities.
0. W. ROBERTS. Agent,
Astoria, Ore.
NORTHERN PACIFIC
Time Card oi Trains
PORTLAND.
Leaves Arrival
Puget Bound Limited. 7:14 a m l:tt p m
Kansas Clty-St Louis '
Bpeclal u:l am pm
North Coaat Umlted l:M Dm 7:00 a a
Tacoma and Seattle Night
Express 11:45 pm l:0 pm
Take Puget Sound Limited or North
Coast Limited for Gray's Harbor points
Take Puget Sound Limited for Olym
ola direct
Take Puget Sound Limited or Kaa
sas Clty-St Louis Special for potnti
on South Bend branch.
Double dally train servlos on dray's
Harbor branch.
Four trains dally between Portland,
Tacoma and Seattle. .
A DIRECT LINE
to Chlcaaro and all points east; Louis
ville, Memphis, New Orleans, and all
Points south.
Bee that your ticket reads via tha
Illinois Central R. R. Thoroughly mod
-M-n trains connect with nil transconti
nental lines at St. Paul and Omaha.
If your friends arc coming west let us
know ands will quote them direct,
tho specially low ratis now In effect
from all eastern points.
Any Information as to rates, routes,
etc., cheerfully given on application.
B. II . TRUMBULL, Commercial
Agent, 142 Third etreet, Portland, Or,
. J. C. LINDSET, T. F. ft P. A., 141
Third street, Portland, Or.
P. B. THOMPSON, F. 4. P. A.,
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