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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1904)
PLANS FOR NEW HOTEL PREPARED W. W. Whipple to Submit Pro posal for Construction of Modern Building Which Will Cost $125,000 Will Be of Brick, Five Stories In Height and Up-to-date in Every Particular. BIG HEATER IN CONNECTION iiiMtlliiir AMtorlniiH Tell of Heart. way Tliua Far Mailt to Sup ply City Greatest PrcMMit Need. Th proposal fur a modern hotel has assumed definite shape, and Mm time during tht present week the business men and property owner of Astoria will be Invited to consider the plan which hw been outlined by W. W Whipple. Mr. Whipple succeeded In arousing the aitwrnlll sentiment and he la now endeavoring to more thorough ly arouae the hotel eentlment. For aome motitha past members of tht Chamber of Commerce and other pereona deeply interested In the wel fare of Ator.la have been considering the hotel proposition. Mr. Whipple waa on of theee men, and he decided, fter conferring with a prominent ar chltect In Seattle, to secure from him duplicate plana for a hotel building which I to be erected tn the sound city. "It should be understood," Mr, Whip ple explained Inst evening, "that I m not anxious to force these plnns upon the people of Astortu, but I have se cured them merely as a starter. They will form the basis on which we two' work. Personalty, I believe the plans re sntlsfuctory. When I toured the east recently I mitde It a point to In vestigate nil of the famous hotels of the country, and It Is my hope that we may be able to build a hotel here that will Include the best points of the really palatini structures of the east. If we find It neecaary to mnae ny alterations, the change can be made without the least difficulty. The plans are preliminary.'' Hotel and Theater Combined. The plans call for a hotel and thea ter combined, the theater to occupy a wing of the main building. The hotel structure Is to be bant of brick Clatsop county bWk, If pos sibleand will be five stories in height. This does not Include the hmompnt. which will be below the level of the street. The theater build ing will be three stories In height, with two galleries and a seating ca pacity of about 1200. The hotel building will be 100x100 fA0t at the base. The ground floor will bo occupied by the lobby, the of flees, bar, barber shop, three sample rooms, grill room, kitchen, serving room, freight and pnssenger elevator rooms, and there will also be one room 20x feet for store purposes. , The second, third and fourth floors will each contain 17 single rooms 11x17, and four alngl rooms lxl5, as wall is one suit of two rooms, with bath. In all, th building will have 61 single room and three suite each of two room. The fifth floor will contain a lodge room 42x68, a well e a room for the Chamber of Commerce and other com mercial bodle 42x43, with three offlc room. Th Theater Annex. Th theater annex will b . 68x120 feet on the ground and of three stories. Provision Is made for a commodious lobby, and the slse of th stage would permit th production of practically all of the play which require consider able room. If the hotel building face north, which Is likely, the en trance to th theater would be either east or west, depending on the posi tion of th block, 1 "So far a th theater annex Is concerned, It can be rented, leased or operated by the hotel company Im mediately upon completion of the building," said Mr. Whlppl. "I have talked th matter over with the lead ing theatrical man of th and a you will by h ... he Is anxious to secure a lease of the building. If the stockholders pmfer, the theater may be conducted by the hotel company. This matter, of course, will be decided later. Must Pay From the 8tsrt. "The hotel must pay from the start," continued tr. Wblpplo. "Jt has been the rule that most hotels do not pay for ft number of year, but we mut arrange thing differently hcie. If I should be selected to conduct the ho tel, I would be willing to give a bond that the hotel will pay the Very first month, and continue to earn dividends. There I a Way to do this, and If the stockholders can be shown the way the hotel proposition will certainty carry. Cost About $123,000. 'I estimate roughly, and rather lib erally, that the cost of th , building j would be about I12G.00O. Thl Include furnishings and th outlay up to thr day of opening for business, as well, of course, as th cost of the theater. The sum may seem rather large, but when one stops to consider the cost of other hotels the estimate Is not at all excessive. The Breakers hotel. which was recently burned, cost be tween 160,000 and $65,000, and that ho tel was located on the bench, where It was open for only about three or four months In the year. The Hotel Havel cost 140,000 or more." Meeting to Be Called. The hotel proposition Is not the par tlculsr scheme of Mr. Whipple, but, as stated above, It ha been under con sideration for a long time. At every meeting of the Chamber of Commerce th matter has been discussed, and none know better than members how much Astoria needs a modern hostelry. Mr. Whipple ha put the matter In tangible form, and during the present week perhaps tonight, but more like ly tomorrow night a meeting of busi ness men, property owner and others will be called to discuss the proposal. In view of the fact that the three Astoria banks carry deposit of about 12.000,000, there ought not be any scarcity of funds, especially In view of th fact thst some outside capital will probably be Interested In the ho tel. ' ' ' . . DESOLATION IN R085WELL, N. M. Floods Cause Great Damage Many Buildings Collapse. Roawcll, N. M, Oct. 4. Koswull Is scene of desolation. The flood that started Thursday night has re ceded. The damage will be over f 100,- 000. ' For days It was Impossible to get In telegraphic communication with outside points. The electric light plant was flooded and the city was In dark ness. Water was three ft deep In the main part of the city and ran In streams through residence .and busi ness houses. So far as known no lives were lost. Th Roswell opera house and about IS business and residence houses collapsed. The dyke that was erected by the city was washed out. Theer have been no trains either north or south since Thursday. The rail road bridges over the Pecos river have been washed away. AFTER ' CITIZENSHIP FRAUDS. Foreigner Acquire Final Papers Too Quickly. New York. Oct 4. Prosecution of mon holding alleged fraudulent citi zenship paper is to be pushed by th fedral authorities throughout the East and all nationalities are to be cov ered. Bogus citizens have been found In great numbers among the Italians and the campaign has now spread to the Austrian. Th first arrest among them wa that of a saloon keeper who had achieved fame by being elected president of th fish peddler associa tion and has secured citizenship pa pers, all, It Is alleged, In the course of only three year and eight months residence In America, WILL DECIDE CHAMPIONSHIP. American League Chsllenges th Na- lonal. New York, Oct. 4. President Gor don, ' of the New York American League Baseball Club, ha issued a formal challenge to John T.' Brush for a series of seven game between the American and National league teams to settle the championship of the base ball world. Th challenge contain the proviso that its effectiveness shall de pend upon the New York American League . team winning th pennant ucNERAL ADVANCE OF JAPS UPON ARMY OF KUROPATKIN LOOKED FOR WITHIN WEEK Frequent Skirmishes Taken to Indicate That Mikado's Soldiers Will Soon Assault Russians Near Mukden. Special Messenger Who Has Arrived at St. Petersburg Declares That Kuropatkin's Force! Are Concentrated at Tie Pass, and That Russian General Will Not Give Battle at Mukden Chinese to Assist Japanese. Frequent fighting between th Jap anese advance guards and Cossack on the south front of Kuropatkin's army reported In the dispatches to the Russian war office Is regarded a Indicative of the near approach of a general 'forward movement of the forces of Field Marshal Omaya. It Is estimated that since the battle of Lino Yang 40,000 guards stationed In western Russia have been ordered to the far east. Nothing more has been received of the condition of af fairs at Port Arthur. fit. Petersburg, Oct. 4. Advices from the far east thl evening describe a series of skirmishes on the southern front of Kuropatkln' army, the only Importance lying In the fact that the Japanese are showing a disposition to press forward. . The activity of the Japanese out posts Is Intended to screen the move ments of their army, and therefore may be regarded a th percursory symptom of final preparations for ad vance, which will probably be begun within a week. A special messenger has brought to the emperor Kuropatkln' full report of the battle of Lino Tang. The mes senger declares that the main army Is concentrated at Tie pass and that It Is not likely Kuropatkln will make a determined stand at Mukden. There were current rumors tonight of the fall of Port Arthur, but they had no foundation. Coal for Baltio Fleet. . London, Oct. 4. The Time states that several , Hamburg - American NO FEAR OF UPRISING. Anti'Fereian Movement In Chinese Province not Alarming. rckln, Oct 4 (afternoon). Further Information regarding the unrest in the northwestern part of Shantung province la of a reassuring nature. The British legation is of the opinion that there Is no cause for anxiety. This opinion Is confirmed by Bishop Favler, of the French Catholic mission, who Is exceptlonaly well acquainted with the Chinese. A dispatch from Shanghai, Septem ber 27, said that the Sho-Tuun Box er were openly distributing pros pectuses couched In the same language as those circulated before the uprls- lug of 1900. , These prospectuses fixed October 17 as the date for the extermination of all foreigners. JAPANESE HEAD ALL NATIONS. In Prevntion of Distai Among Sol- disrt. San Francisco, Oct 4. Among the passenger arriving on the liner Mon golia from the orient was Major Louis I. Seaman, surgeon In the United State engineering branch f th army, who haa been studying Japanese, methods of surgery In the campaign or tnai army against the Russian. In his opinion Japan 1 far ahead of an tier aation of the world In th or ganization of her aanltary branch of th army, and ha been the first to anticipate and take measure against th fact that th greater number of death in war ar caused, not by bul let, but by dieaae. Condition I Worse. Walmer Castle, Oct. 4, 10: JO a. tn. Th morning bulletin announcing Lady Curxon'a condition says: "Her ladyship passed a disturbed night and . Is not quit so well today in consequence." ' -v ,. steamer ar about to take Welsh coal at Aden, Zanzibar and Singapore for coaling th warships of the Russian Haltlc fleet ' JAPS DONT BELIKVE IT. Satisfied Vladivostok Cruisers Ar Not Prepared for- Raid. Toklo, Oct 4. T navy department discredits th report that the Russian cruisers Rossla, Gromobol and Boga tyr hav been repaired at Vladvoatok and are about to descend upon another raid on the Japanese coast The navy department further expresses the be lief that the Bogatyr has been com pletely dsabled. CHINESE HELP THE JARS. Bandits Fight With Them on West Flank of Army, London, Oct. 4. According to the Post' correspondent at , Mukden, Chi nese bandits have organized into regu lar troops and are fighting daily side by Bide with the Japanese on the west flank south of Slnmlntln. Japs to Take Defensive. Berlin, Oct 4. Colonel Gaedke, the Tageblatt' correspondent In the far east telegraphs from Mukden that the Japanese are apparently no longer ad vancing, but are preparing for defen sive operations. Report Is Denied.' London, Oct. 4. The Japanese lega tion has Issued a denial of the state ment that 57 Junks carrying ammuni tion for Hun river were burned by the Russians. RATES GO UP. Big Jump in Insurance on Vessel Car rying War Material. New York, Oct. 4. Marine under writers here are putting up rates on steamers carrying railroad material for Japan, The rate recently current has been three-quarters of one per cent. This, premlnura has now been raised , to two and one-half per cent, for steamers tot go by, way of the Capo with rails and locomotives on board. This change in the Insurance situation Mis caused several of the China and Japan .lines from this port to announce that they will omit Japan altogether or refuse railroad material! If the steamers make Japan ports. WILL-! ADOPT GOLD STANDARD. Commissioner 8ays China Will Make Reform. San Francisco, Oct. 4. Prof, jf W. Jenks, commissioner on International exchange, who was sent by the presi dent to China to study the monetary systems of the orient and suggest the needed reforms, returned on the steamer Mongolian. Although disin clined to talk on the subject of his In ventilations until he had submitted his report to the president the profes tor declared his belief that In a very short time China would formally adopt the gold standard and thus place her self upon a level with the leading na tlon of the world. MILLIONS IN TAXES. In Lin at Four. O'Cloek In th Morning. New York, Oct 4. All records for the amount of taxes paid to the city in one day have Just been surpassed. Those who went to the tax receiver's uflce In person were so eager that official applied to the police to hold them and their money In line. The city treasury , was nearly J 15.000,000 wealthier when offlc hour were over than it had been In the" morning. I thought that Including the piles of checks and currency which there was not time to enter, the total receipt were not far from $20,000,000. The earliest taxpayer appeared at 4 o'clock In the morning arid Inside of a few hours more than 2000 persons were In line. The largest amounts received came from the New York City Rail road Company and from the Vanderbllt family. These amounted to 1400,000 each. ..- ' " i " J , DEMAND FOR WORLD PEACE. Keynote of th Session of th Inter , national Congress. ' Boston, Oct 4JOeneral supplication coupled with demand almost, for the Institution of peace by the nations of the world, was the keynote today of the first deliberative session of the 13th International peace congress. The leature of the opening session was the receipt . of an elaborate report from the International peace bureau for 1904, dwln D. Meade, chairman of the organ Izatlon committee of the congress,"' de llvered the opening address at the meeting, speaking an earnest word In favor of reduction of great navies and general disarmament among the nations. BORED BY DIVER. Belief that Submarine Attack Mad en Conneeicut ', Was New York, Oct. 4. That the latest attempt to Injure or destroy the bat tleshlp Connecticut was, acordlng the Herald, made from the outside, has been established to the satlsfac tlon of the officials of the navy yard. It 1 believed that the hole' which reseulted In flooding one of the water' tight compartments of the ship was bored by a divr. NEW MEXICAN SHERIFF KILLED. Was Leader of a Faction in Poll , tics. Las Vegas, 'N. ' M., Oct. 4. Sheriff Mendez, of Mora county, has been shot and killed as the result. It is said. of a political quarrel. Sheriff Mendez was one of the leaders of a dominant factien In Mora county , politics, and was widely known. Owing to the fact that floods have Impaired means of comunlcatlon, no further particulars have been obtained. - BOUGHT THE VOLCANO. New York Capitalists Will Market Sul phur From Popocatepetl. Mexico City, Oct. 4. Popocatapetl, the volcano with Immense sulphur de ooslts. haa been transferred to New York parties; An American company with a capital of J5.000.000 .will operate the deposits. The company will con struct a cog Tailway from the village of Ammecca Meca, at the base of the mountain to the summit Circular Was Unauthorized. Trinidad, Colo., Oct. 4. John Simp son, secretary of district 13, United Mine Workers of America, when Inter viewed concerning the circular, sent out by a committee of Italian miners In the city, In which appeals for help are made and John Mitchell is attack ed for withdrawing the support of the strike in this district, declared the let ter war entirely without any author ity o fthe United Mine Workers in the district. Bryan Has Busy Day. Hartlngton. Ncb Oct. 4. William J. Bryan closed a busy day with I speech at Hartlngton tonight. Dur lng the day Bryan traveled In north eastern Nebraska, making a number of speeches. The speeches generally were delivered on state . issues, al though he jrelterated his position on national Issues. . Signed Without Authority. London, Oct 4. D'patches from the L'Hassa expedition state that the Chi nese Am ban signed the Anglo-Thlbe tan treaty without having received the necessary permission from the Chinese government The expedition, these ad vices say, is undergoing great hard ship tn Its march towards India. Senator Hoar's Suooessor. Worcester, Mass., Oct 4. The Tele- gram tomorrow will say: Governor Bates will, tn all probability, at the next meeting of the governor' council appoint Attorney-General William H. Moody, of Haverhill, to ucceed Sena tor Hoar. Before his death Hoar com municated to the governor hi wish that th attorney should succeed htm. NEW YORK IS : CLAIMED BY DEMOCRATS National Committeeman Say , Empire State Will Give 75,000 ,! to 100,000 for State' and ' Presidential Tickets. Polls Have Been Completed by Unferrified in Doubtful States, but Result Is Withheld. : FAIRBANKS ON HIS WAY CAST With Senator Fulton, Il Speaks . at Several California Towns, ' Coneladhigr Last Night at Sacramento. New Tork, Oct 4.-Norman E. ISae keef- member from New Tork of the national democratic committee today claimed that the democrats would ry New Tork. He said: . "New Tork state will return a Jorlty of 75,000 to 100,000 for both the national and state democratic tick ets." Polls have been completed by Ujb national democratic committee In aU the doubtful states and the resuSta have been reported to Judge Psrkec Three polls have been made In Indi ana and it is announced that It to now possible to take an accurate poll In one day. '.; '-; ';-..--....:. Further than the statement that the polls show a condition most saiisfac- tory, nothing could ; be obtained at . Judge Parker's headquarter concern ing the results. NOMINEES ARE NOTIFIED. - Higgin and Assooiates on Ticket Ar ' Formally Apprised.- Olean, . N. T Oct 4. Lieutenant Govefhor Frank W. Higglns, the re publican nominee for governor, and associates on the ticket were today -notified 'of their nomination. The ceremonies took place at the home of Lieutenant-Governor Higglns this af ternoon.' It bad been previously ar ranged to have this part of the pro gram carried out at noon, but Che wreck of a train on the Erie railroad delayed part of the committee and number of prominent republican tram the eastern part of the state, so the notification was postponed until Jthejy arrived. Other Important events .of -the day were a reception ana luncheon at te Higglns home and a mass meeting at the publio park in the afternoon and parade and ratification meeting In the evening. Among the speakers at the mass meeting were Senator De- pew and ex-Lieutenant-Uovernar Woodruff. , . I FAIRBANKS STARTS HOME. With Senator . Fulton, He Makes Sev eral California Speeches, Sacramento, Oct 4. Senator Fair banks started today .to return from the Pacific coast but, although a consid erable distance was covered, he did not get far on the way. Stops for speeches , were made ; at Palo Alto, Sanr J&e and Stockton. Senators Fairbanks and Fulton made speeches at all .these points, as they did also here last night ATTACKS PANAMA POLICY. '''' : , David ' B. Hill 'Scores president ' Jia Speech at Albany. Albany, N. Y Oct 4. David B. HUI made the first speech for the democratic campaign here tonigbtW- fore the Albany Constituency Club aft general attendance of Albany 'demo crats. The speech was .devoted to M attack upon the course pursued by President Roosevelt in connection lrjti the Panama canal treaty and the rev olution which resulted on the secessios of Panama, ' . ' VI Lathers in Convention. East St ""Louts, 111., Oct 4. The In ternational Union wood, . wlr and metal lathers are In session her and Will continue during the week." Mayor Cook delivered an address of, welcome which was responded to by Lyke ,lc- Klnney, of Trenton, JI. -J.