TUESDAY, FEIRUARY 2V 1901
TIIE MOKtflNG ASTORIAN ASTORIA. OREGON,
THE WORKING ASTORIAN
Establish 1873. ; u' i
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Today' Weather.
Western Oregon and Washington
Tuesday, showers, cooler except nar
the coast.
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GRANTING FRANCHISES.
The Astorlan Is not antagonising any
person. Arm or corporation applying
for a franchise to establish any needed
InJustry In the city, but It la opposed
to granting franchises to persons that
have n. financial standing, for the rea
son that It savors too much of grant
Ing a franchise for speculative pur
poses. Every person applying for a
franchise who has not the means to
carry out its provisions, ought to di
vulge to the common council the par
ties who are backing the enterprise,
and It' should not be from their state
ment. alone, but by some respectable
bank or corporation who will vouch
for the reliability of the promoters and
that there is sufficient capital back of
the enterprise to insure Its comple
tion. The city of Astoria has no franchises
to give away for speculative purposes.
If a franchise Is so valuable that it
can be taken over to the sound and
-hawked around for purely speculative
purposes. In order to make a profit of
a few thousand dollars, the common
council ought to appoint a committee
for that purpose and let the city make
the profit Instead of promoters. If
telephone, telegraph, gas and steam
franchises are so valuable that they
, will command a ready sale in the
money market, let the city of Astoria
derive the benefit, The city neeJs the
money just as bad as do the promoters.
The franchise applied for by W.W.
. Whipple does not disclose that any re
sponsible company or banking insti
tution is behind the scheme. It asks
for a franchise for 35 years, but does
not even agree to complete the con
ditions of the franchise within that
time. It does not even statej that
work will be commenced within any
given time or completed within a time
certain. It promises absolutely noth
ing, and looks as though it had been
drawn with the evident purpose of
misleading the common council ' and
inducing it to grant a franchise with
out a thorough understanding of its
object, possibly with an idea that the
members of the common council ma)
be dull of comprehension and, not give
due consideration to its objects and
purposes. There is no one but would
be willing to grant a franchise to Jlr.
Whipple and Mr. Clinton if they were
assured that they meant business. Botn
gentlemen have friends in Astoria that
are willing and anxious that they bring
capital to Astoria and Invest it In an
enterprise that will redound to the
benefit of the city. Personally th$y are
our frienda, but what the public wants,
what It expects and what it Is entitled
to is, to know who Is back of the pro
"Ject, with a guarantee from responsi
ble parties that the project will eb car
ried out to Its fullest capacity. It mat
ters not whether either of the gentle
men have the money themselves, as
long as it Is known who is back of
them. This has not been divulged.
Last week an application was made
by a prominent syndicate in Portland
whose financial standing has a rating
with Dunn and Bradstreet, and whose
names were divulged to the common
counoil In an application for a fran
chise, for an independent telephone
service. Not only does the applicants
name who is behind them, but they
submit letters from the company stat
ing that if the franchise Is granted
they will furnish the money to put
in the system and as an evidence of
good faith they offer to deposit J50,
000 with the city treasurer as a for
feit if they fail to carry out the pro
visions of the franchise. This Is busi
ness and is the only way that fran
chises ought to be granted.
It will be noticed that there is a con
spicuous absence of any statement as
to who is to supply the funds to carry
out the provisions of the Whipple fran
chise, and absolutely , no provision
wherein the applicants promise to
build or complete the system or when
they will commence work.
For this reason the Astorlan is of
the opinion that, there is something
crooked, and that the city of Astoria
Is being asked to give away valuable
franchises without any consideration
whatever,, The same gentleman w
In Astoria about eight months ago
with a proposition to build a hotel.
H was told by C. H. Page that if he
would deposit 110,000 in some bank a
an evidence of good faith, he. Page,
would consider the proposition. This
meant that If Mr. Whipple had any
faith In the project and was . willing
to back up that fnlth with metallc sub
stance of the realm, that Mr. Page
would guarantee the 'balance of the
money necessary to build the hotet.
Was it done? There is no record of
It, and the hotel project Is as dead
as Hamlet 'a ghost. Applications from
such source then should be looked
upon with suspicion.
There Is no objection to granting a
franchise for an opposition light and
telephone service, but it should only be
granted to responsible persons and not
upon gentle sephyrs with the velocity
of a cyclone. Too many enterprises
have been built In Astoria on wind
and all there Is In evidence of them. Is
a. vacuum In the memory of man. The
Astorlan is unalterably opposed to the
passage of the Whipple franchise ordi
nance in Its present form.. and insists
that If the ordinance la amended, a
condition should be Inserted requiring
derjosit of $25,000 a an evidence that
it 1 not being secured for purely spe
culative purposes.
Anyone that show good raitn ana
business stability, will be granted con
cessions and will receive the support
of the press and public.
WHOSE FAULT IS IT?
It Is with a degree of dlvidence, usu
ally an unknown characteristic of a
modern Journal, that occasion demands
the "calling down of the weather
bureau. About the only redeeming
feature of this adjunct of the national
government Is the number of sine
cures It provides for Indignant poli
ticians afflicted with itch bacillus. It
Is possible that owing to a superabund
ance of egotism, an Impression prevails
in the weather bureau that its prog
nostications are correct, but the com
mon her of humanity who has been
afflicted with erronious report as to
weather conditions, has formed a
unanimous opinion that the weather
bureau baa been misnamed and that
It is a. misnomer, or department of
prevarication.
An Illustration of the total unreli
ability of the weather bureau, whose
office 1 In some dome in Portland, as
near heaven a the man behind the
gun will ever get, la in the telegraph
ed report to the Astorlan Saturday
night At :46 the following dispatch
was received:
Western Oregon and Washington
Sunady, increasing cloudiness, follow
ed by occasional rains and cooler."
Sunday was one of the most pleasant
days of the year. Not a cloud wa In
the sky, the sun shone brightly every
hour of the day, and the evening was
beautiful. Not a drop of rain, but a
perfect summer day. Among the 5000
subscribers of the Astorlan who read
the weather report the editor was ac
cused of wilful prevarication, some
things that he has never been guilty
of. The fault was with the political
attaches of the weather service of
Portland. The Astorlan simply pub
lished what was sent There Is a sort
of distant rumbling In our think tank,
that the man who makes the weather
in Portland must have procured a
cheap brand of hop, or the booze foun
dry is too close to the weather bureau
to be productive of reliable results.
What the weather bureau knows about
the weather is commesurate to what a
hog knows about theology, only the
hog has the best of the game. Such
reports as are usually sent out are
misleading and conflicting. They are
misleading and prevent a large num
ber of people from making arrange
ments for a Sunday outing. They
are conflicting for the reason that the
reports and the weather are directly
opposite and don't dovetail worth a
cent. ' . f
It doesn't make much difference to
the Astorlan what kind of weather is
predicted, but It doe to Its subscrib
ers. In a circular letter Issued by
the United States postofflce depart
ment, newspapers were denied admis
sion ot the malls that publish "guess
ing contests." The weather reports
are more In the nature of a guessing
contest, with the exception of prizes
for the successful guesser are elimi
nated. Just what effect it will have
upon the .newspapers that publish the
weather bureau guessing contests can
not be stated until an opinion is re
ceived from the attorney general of
the United States.
The weather bureau must, however,
be
given credit for one thing. It
guessed the weather right one day last
eek. and one day in the fore part
r January and It always haa another
guess coming, because if it should ever
stop guessing, the salary would stop
and a probability of this school of
nrevaricatlon and bad weather be
abolished. This brief dessertatlon on
the United States weather bureau is
simply published to Inform Astorlan
subscribers that while the report ap
pear every morning, the management
will not be responsible for the ac
curacy of any of the predictions eml-
natlng from the Oregon branch of the
government weather bureau, even If
it is under a republican adminlstra
tion. -M
OUT Or THE ORDINARY.
Epitome of Annaedote and lnoIdsnH
With Comments by a Layman.
The Oregon weather bureau has
established a weather guessing con
test A ticket to heaven will be given
the man who beat the weather bureau
In the art of prevarication.
Now come the new that Texas has
Indorsed President Rooevelf policy
Lf see, tiow much ' majority did
Teddy get In Texas,
In the east there Is dust on the Ice
cream freexer, and the lawn mower I
setting rusty, but the enowshovel looks
like a washboard that ha been incon
stant use since the year the owners
got married.
The demand for the abolishment of
grand juries In Oregon la almost as
strong a the demand for the abolish'
ment pf grand duke In Russia.
Nan Patterson say she will devote
herself to church work after her next
trial. Nannie may be a little prema
ture. What ahe doe after her next
trial will depend chiefly on the tem
per of the Jury.
You cannot legislate virtue Into peo
ple. There la no man ever any bet
ter than he want to be.
An ounce of performance la worth a
pound of preaching.
While the council I considering the
new telephone franchise. It might take
a day off and find out what has be
come of that hotel project Windy
Willie I evidently trying to become
the father ot twin.
Chief Hallock remarked to a 4-year-
oil Astoria boy. "Why. Johnnie
how much you look like your father."
"Yes'm," answered Johnnie with an
air of resignation, that' what every
body says, but I can't help It."
The air Is full of rumor," says a
St Petersburg dispatch, but what
keep the grand duke In Is that it Is
also full of bomb.
R. M. Guton, at hla stable, No. 105
Fourteenth street offer for sal a
Landla harness machine, on Smith
Premier type writer, on 10 horse
power motar and starter box and 500
good sack. Will be soli cheap.
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