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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1905)
THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1MS. THE MORNING'ASTORIAN, ASTORIA OREGON. r ihree Routes to the East !.i -,' : ,v '.i-, ; 1 1 j V'1 ' ' Central ' or Bcenic, . by way of Colorado, thence to Chicago, Kansas City or St Louie via Rock Island System. . -,, Southern, by way of. Lot Angeles and El Paso, thence to Chicago,' Kansas City or St. Louis via Rock Island System. . , f Northern, by way of Minneapolis' and ' St. Paul, thence to Chicago via Rock Island System. :-y , .. Notice the three eastern gateways. Direct connection in Union Stations at all three, for si! important points in Eastern and Southern. States. '. " . . t , ' -. . , FuB uformatlon, with folder "Across th Conusant , la TourUt Sleeping Car," nt on request. a h. McDonald, , w 0nral Agent, Rock Island Systta i - " fir ' 140 Third Street, Portland, On. .....!,.I1.L-... JJJ ,, 1MLU..L,- til 111 UUJ! I. I"UI:U..!.-!X..' ...JJiJ ! Has always ia stock a ' J " fine assortment of 1 0 e 0 0 ' ' o BALL .BRAND (RUBBER BOOTS. J 0 o vau ana dcc. uona Direct. 0 G I M R I Boots and Shoes r The, Astoria Restaurant. If jo4"want a 09l,?clean jneal or if you are in a hurry you ihoulJ , ' goto the .,, . ; . Astoria Restaurant This fine restaurant is thoroughly up-to-date ia every detail. ., EXCELLENT MEALS. V ' EXCELLENT SERVICE ASTORIA IRON ;WORKS JOHN 0, Pre, and Suyt. F L B1S1IOP. Secretary A.L.FOX,Vlorrea. ASTORIA HAVINGS BANE, Treat Designers and Manufacturer of THE JLATEST IMPROVED Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers, Complete Cannery Outfits Furnish CORRESPONDENCE SOUCITED. Foot of Fourth Street. Astoria, Ore Scow Bay Iron 8 Brass Ms I :.' . UtsftttsrerseQ'.''- Iron, Steel, Brass and Bronze Castings. , Qenera) Foundrymen and Patternmakers. .'vv " Absolutely firstclasa work. Prices lowest; , hcne245fi . Comer Eighteenth mi Franklin H O T B U PORTLAND , The Finest Hotel In the Northwest ;P0RTLAN D OREGON. Reliance Eliectrical WorKs We are thorouglily prepared for makln'f eetiinatoa aud executing orders for ' all kinds of flleotrjcel installing an! repairinfr?. Supplies in atock. - We tell the Celebrated BHELBT LAMP, ' Call up Phone 1161. H.W.CYUCe, ' Mf' 428 BOND STREET Sherman Transfer Go. HENRY SHERMAN, Msnairef Hacks, Carriages Baggag 1 Checked and .Transferred Trucks and Furniture Wagons- Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped. 433 Commercial Street Phone Mala 12) ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK t Capital Paid In 1100,000. Surplus aud undivided ProDts 35.00t Transacts a general banking business. Interest paid on time deposits. XQ.A.HOWLBY. O. I. PETERSON, FRANK PATTON, J. W. OA NER. President . Vioa President Cashier. Asst. Cashier . J AS1 TENTH STREET, ASTORIA, ORE. PROMINENT PEOPLE Men Who Have Made the World "famous by Their Works, j HAVE, ACHIEVED GREATNESS Brief Hietory of tome of the Notable Men of th Country and What They Are Doing to Benefit Human Raoe an4 in the Line ef Invention. st'' mr'J- c 1 5 ' J I r j THOMAS A. lOiSOjr. T a dinner given by to Magnetic club in New York recentl la honor of Thomas A. Ediaon it d reloped that Mr. Edlran was th flrxt man to nss "Hello r u the opening word of "telephonic con rersatlon. In the earlj dys of, the speech ' carrrld wire' those woe employed it greeted each oth er with the awk ward phrase, "Art' yon there V One day Edison had occtaloa to step to a telephone instrument lor bis flrat ac tual as of it oaul4e the laboratory. As in reply to his own ring the signal cam back from th other line be call ed out "Hello r and hi a tnarvvloosly brief tiro th new word bad been ac cepted all orer the drlliaed world. At th same dinner Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gvneral P. V. De Grew, who as a Western Union telegrapher year ago was one of eight men picked by Mr. Edison to help blm in certain xperimenta. the object Of whkh was, in telegraphic parlance, "to . get the bugs out of the wires," told how be attended Mr. Edison's flrat experiment in public with the just invented pbono arauli. two of thoee present being Bern Cos and the late Senator Dock. As th i Inatrument reeled off a popular tuns Senator Beck wm heard to loan om to Cox and aa'k Lira what I tbooght, and the latter was beard to reply: - "Oh, begorra, mas, he's tbrowln' hi role, th fellow 1!" A atrennoua life baa been the lot of th Rev. Dr. Cyrua Townaend Brady, who was recently called to a promi nent Episcopal church in Toledo, O, and whose recent atory, "Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer," baa been much prataed. Although .clergymen often en gage In literary work, It la the excep tion when a mlntater la a succeea as a writer of romance and alao In his sa cred calling. Dr. Brady la recognized aa both a aucceMful writer of Action and a brilliant preacher. Ilia addressee from the pulpit posacas an esrneet noes akin to the dramatic force of hla romances of war and colonial and mediaeval blatory. Dr. Brady comes naturally by a love for writing of war, for three of th au thor's forefathers fought In th Revo lutlon, th younger at th battle of Oer mantown fighting over th body of bis . enrcs fowranvo father until be him- - bsapt. elf was wounded. Another ancestor was a major general under Scott, and Captain Bam Brady of border warfare fame Is still remembered In western Pennsylvania. Dr. Brad, who was born la th Keyston Stat forty-four $ ' s is MATOa SCHMITZ. years tg wfttTk caact T.t r.e rrr:;l fftates Naval academy at Annapolis, where h learned naval tactics. Later la his career be was chaplain of t regi ment la th Spsnlsb war. As a mis sionary In the west be rod bucking bronchos, swam rivers to keep mission ary appointments, fraternized with cowboys, was caught In. blizzards and experienced other vicissitudes. Yet the author ear a, "My life baa been ratber uneventful, though full of hustling pov ertysod fun." j - Eugene E. Schmltz, th labor mayor of Baa Franclaco, has pronounced views on the subject of th "yellow peril," whkh have recently brought his nam into ; print - Mayor Bcbmits think th Immigration of Japanese into th United States ought to b pre vented by even more stringent lawg than have been adopted la the esse of th Chine. He base this opinion on the effect a large Influx of the Japanese might have on the condition of the American worklngman; "W may say that th Japanese Is enlightened," says Mayor Schmltz, '"and, this being trse, 'bis education prompts him to adopt American ways and tbua, with his cheap la bor, dig at th foun dation upon which rest the welfare of our people. Where a Chines will work upon a farm at starvation wages a Japanese baa the ability to acquire th property Itself." - ' Mr. Bcbmits was elected mayor of San Franciaco as the candidate of union labor. II ia forty years of age and has bad unique career, Aa a youth be began the study of medicine, but after two years gave It up becauH of ill health. Being of mualcal taatea be entered a theater orchestra. For aom years he was musical director of the Columbia theater, Kan Francisco, and president of th ooatdans' union. He became connected with a gas engine company and went to the Klondike in Its Inter est, where he mad considerable money. Mayor Schraitx likes to tetl bow be once performed st an enter tainment in Dawaon, which waa tbs grandest event of th mining season, with seata at S20 each. He bad put on a dlagulae and was introduced by an old miner named Billy Bard as fol lows: "Ladies aud gentlemen, the next thing on the programme will b a fid-, lie solo by a miner who bas worked for tue all whiter; at leant be says be bas. Il's a tour dough aUff by th aarae of Smith. If be can't play better ban he can mlue I'm sorry for th audience." " But th violin solo made such a bit that Schmltx waa recalled again and again, and one auditor was beard to tetnark, "Tht cove had. bever oujjht to gone In the mining business " Judge Edward F, Dunne, who waa recently choeen mayor of Chicago, oc cupies a unique poalUon In that be was elected on a platform declaring in the moat poeltlve terma for municipal own ership of public utilities. Party lines were lost sight of in the contest, and the eenUmeut in Chicago against all compromise with the traction compa nies resulted in a majority of nearly 25,000 for Judge Dunne. Th new mayot waa born in Water vllle. Conn in 1S53, but most of hli life has been pass ed in tfi state ol Illinois. His par ents removed to P orla. 111, when b waa an infant, Hi was sent to Trinity, college Dublin, and on returning to America studied law. He begnn its practice in Chica go in 1878, waa elected judge, of the circuit court of Chicago in 1802 and re elected in 1807 and In' 1003. In 1881 bejnarried ' Mia Elizabeth " J.'JKelly, , ... I JAKES O. HrrAXn .. CSX ,-;L j.. , JXTDOI X. T. DCHJtE. fiiirl Tie hnppy totiirld lave Ia"l IL!? teen chlldien, Uia of whom are now living. When Judge Dunne went U the polls to rot aom cm asked him what ho would do If h were not elot ed mayor. He replied: "Go back cm th bench. If I am elected I get tbs same aalary I am bow recefring for two years. If I am defeated 1 will ret my salary u Judge for. four fears and tnr teoat&s." Tb American public M rurally take an interest in any on who is descend ed from th great Main statesman. the late James O.Bialn. A young mac now prominent in the, younger social circles in New York and Newport is JameeCLBIaln III. He is the grandaon of the statesman who so narrowly missed the presi dency and a son of James O. Blaine; Jr. A aeparatlon took place between th latter and tU first wife, and the after ward married Dr William Tililnghast BulL James O. Blaine III. Uvea with bis mother in New York city and is cow at school. He is an expert tennla player and when Mrs. Bull is at New port spends moch time on th casino courts or on tb lawn of hi xaothrs country resldenc. Brigadier General Peter C. lis in. TJ. 8. A., retired, who baa been, appointed on th reorgantacd Isthmian canal com mission by President Booserelt, has been connected with many cxtenstv engineering tmdertakinga in th course of bis career. He did Important work as a member of tb commission which, during tb Initial stage of th enter prise, bed charge of th project of a waterway to connect tb ocean. Gen era I Halns waa born In Philadelphia in 1840 and graduated from tb Unit ed States Military academy at West Point in 186L B served as an en gineer officer dur ing th civil war vand received three; brevets for gallant service.' Daring the Spanish war . he waa a brigadier general of volun teers, and In 1903 b became a briga dier general of the MtroAorni oenn- regular army, go al p. c. haiss. tug on tb retired list In July of that year.. On of tbs important engineering achievements with which he' was connected was the reclamation of the Potomac (lata at Washington. President McKInley ap pointed him a member of th Nicara gua canal commission In, 1S97, and again in 1809 named blm aa a member ofjbe Isthmian canal commission. He was engaged for several years In sur veys and other calculations to deter mine the best rout for a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific and now will participate In tb execution of the project ; . M. Rokovsoff, the Russian minister of finance, recently challenged any one to prove the Inaccuracy of his state ment about the condition of the gold reserve of bis government He de clared he would give an opportunity to ,duly authorized rep resentatives of cer tain Journals which ' had criticised the Russian finances to take a look into th strong rooms of the Bank of Russia and see for themselves that the reserve waa there. In these apartments I kept th gold constitut ing th treasure by. which tb credit of th government is sustained. Accord ing to Russian law, only a small part of tb xeaerv ma be diverted for war purpose, . "' '. '; " 'AW'' yf - f .1 A f i . 4 ' COUNTf s$ Or ROSSUYN. ' "v " .. i - " i AmwUmm A ri r Wh Has Marrlr lata Earllak Artmtfnry. A new "international alliance" is that between the Earl of Rosalyn and Mia Anna Robinson, aa American actress. Tb earl Is a peer of Scotland. Hla most noted achievement,' however, " to a method for breaking th bask, at Moot Carlo, So far it has not mad A"V no cocKTzas or bosbltv. the earl rich. With his title be Inhere ited a fortune of 11.500,000, but squan dered it and became a bankrupt Then be worked as a clerk for $10 a week was a correspondent in South Afrte during: the Boer war and at various times tried acting as a means of aub atotenc. A few seasons ago be ap peared on the stage in New York. Hla marriage to Miss Robinson took ploc in London a abort time ago. Tb Countess of Rosslyn, as Miss Robinson Is now known, was born In Minneapolis, Minn., where her mother kept a boarding house. She became an artist's model and later , went on the stage. Her best known role was that of Ruth In "A Temperanoe Town." Of recent years she bas lived in Londoa and Paris, winning money on th turf and entertaining the gay set ' Park and Washington, Portland, Oregoa The School f Quality" MODERN, PRACTICAL, COMPLETE Ope an the rev. 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