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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1906)
THE MORNING ASTOWAASTOMA, OREGON. TUESDAY, JUNE ti, igofl, 2 THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1I73. Published Dally fcy Til J. S, DELLINGEK COMPANY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mall, pr year t7.00 By mail, per month...... .10 By carrier, per month CS WEEKLY ASTORIAN. mall, per year, in adTano..1.0Q Entered a seeond-elas matter Jane 83, IMS, at the pootofflce at Astoria, u re ton, under Iks act of Congress 01 March 8, ISJa, urontort for tfc. dUrruMt of Thi Hon Bts mtoajax to aithiw rtaideoos or plaos ot btttlaeaa nar iMde by postal card or tkittturb teloeaoa, Ar breularitr ta do liMrahnuWI he rmmadktetr reoorted to tb offioeef pobUcatkxa. TELEPHONE MAIN 66t. Offlcial paper or Clatsop county and tkaClty of Aitorla. . 1 WEATHER. Western Oregon and Washing- Western Oregon and Washing- ton Showers. Eastern Oregon and Washing- ton Showers and thunder storms EVERYTHING PROPITIOUS. Mercantile groups have no trouble in affiliating for the purpose of controlling a local market price upon given commo dities within the purview of the group's line of business; there is no tangible, nor legal row raised over such schemes, until they become utterly unbearable; it is the very thing the insurance com panies have done, in the matter of the 25 per cent advance in the western rates of insurance, and against which the mer chant and every other man of affairs and property is kieking vigorously; what is sauce for the insurance goose is sauce for the uninsured gander" , and there never was a more propitious moment for the application of the retaliatory prin ciple ;the law makes it possible, or, at least, it does not forbid it in terms. Therefore, it is wise to set about the organization of mutual insurance circles in this and all other local spheres where the advance bears with undue weight ,if only to prove that men of integrity and snap can and will carry the burdens that move others to rob. Think it out, for a while ,and call a mas meeting. There is wisdom in numbers! EDITORIALETTES. Stand from under! This is the season for appointing charter committees! There is a swinging differences in As toria under her clouds and Astoria flood the other with an intensity not applica ble to all places. There are towns on this blessed coast that even the sun shine cannot warm nor liven. 0 The Columbia bar is not as sociable as some bars we know of, but it is dread fully lonesome these days when the Sea men's Union of San Francisco is butting in so successfully on the fleets that are wont to pass it with regular frequency. 0 There is a patent need of more public music in this city. A fine band, with some degree of permanency, would be a God-send. There is such a thing as starving for music; it is as much an ele ment of human indulgence as thousands of things that are worse. If there is a "citizen" in Astoria who deprecates the utter "wide-openness' of the city for which he strove so hard last fall, we will give his name all the prominence it deserves. But we forget; there are no "citizens" left since the laBt democratic rally. ,f 0 All that Astoria needs just now is a new charter, a seawall, a modern hotel, the common point rate on wheat, some flour mills and an elevator, a few steam ship lines terminating here, some more people and business to match, and a re publican common council. She can wait a while for the larger things, and things harder to get. ' 1 0 This is, aparently, a dubious season in the fishing world about here. Seven drowning fatalities, and practically no fish running to date. But the average fisherman has all the pluck and endur- atrce of bis calling, and will be brave under all conditions It is a mini's trade. OPTIONAL SUFFRAGE FOR WOMEN. Owing to the wide divergency of opin ion as to the feasibility nut) necessity for woman-suffrage, why not put it up on an optional basis, Allowing those who really desire it, to take out their papers, even as the alien dvs! That would take the ouus of its constant le feat from the shoulders of the men who are doing the voting on the question, and leave it exactly where it belongs, with the women themselves. There are hun dreds who desire the franchise and thousands who would not use it if it were thrust upon them. The law of op tion would, it strike us temper the situation to a point of toleration and fulfillment that would cover the whole ground of favor and disfavor .and fix the responsibility where reproach would not reach anyone save through the con science of the user. At least it could be tried, and if it were to grow to be of general usage- it would do so through the agency of those most nearly affected. and vice versa. COUNCIL CANNOT DISCRIMINATE. The fool story that the common conn cil of this city will discriminate against the upper wards because they went "dry" at the recent election, and de prived the city of a certain amount of revenue, besides compelling it to refund a certain portion of saloon license money, is an insult to that body. Street im provements paid by the abutting prop erty has no possible bearing upon the situation, and if such was the cae, the council would not be so idiotic as make a deliberate case of reprisals against a community for expressing its own cor porate desires under the terms of a law made and provided for that express purpose. The council will do its entire duty by that and every other section of the city without regard to such matters. And if it did not, it would soon hear from the people discriminated against, as well as from all other citizen who stand for fair play. 0000000000000 00000 0 EDITORAL SALAD. O 00000000000 0000000 Is it realy necessary for the American people to lose their heads in order to protect their stomachs. 0 If the muck rakers ever reach the whisky trust there will be things doing to delight the bromide makers. 0 A movement has been started in Philadelphia to raise a fund of $100,000 with which to carry on a campaign for just automobile laws, a fair field and no favor. Local inspection by Chicago officials tends to confirm the suspicions of the president that the hog pens at the stock yards are not the pinks of propriety in cleanliness. The home merchant should be patron ized by the home people and he in turn should patronize his fellow tradesmen when in the market for goods not carried in his own stock. Snow flurries and chilly winds in June may be unseasonable, but they are high ly preferable to the sunstrokes and cyclones which are seasonable in some of the states of this glorious republic. 0 - Secretary Taft is clearly right in his contention that the Panama canal never can be completed in an eight-hour work day. At the rate of progress thus far it cannot be done in an eighty-year day. In his message to the Cuban congress President Palma said that in four months in Cuba there had been 22,252 births. The people of the new republic do not appear to have yet reached the race suicide stage in the march of pro gress. 0 Congress has passed more than 2000 special pension bills during the present session. Probably 1000 more will be passed. This legislation has occurred as a rule in eases highly meritorious, but which have been deferred, be cause of technical defects. A Favored InatrameBt. The story is told of a newly rich wo man who on the occasion of her daugh ter's wedding gave a large reception, tor which music was furnished by an orchestra of twelve pieces. The leader of this orchestra was a violinist who had achieved a social as well as a pro fessional success, and the rich woman evidently wished to recognise this fact and make clear her knowledge of it When the evening was half over the butler approached the musicians, who were having a short Intermission, and to his loftiest manner he said after re ferring to a paper in his hand: "The vlolffl t-ats in the dining room; the rest of the instruments eats In the pantry." COMMON SENSE NEEDED. Able Revie w of Fire Insurant: Business, ""rom San Francisco. With tare tolerance, mid n perspicuity horn of careful research, and experience of the largest sort, right on notable giiiuiid. the San Francisco Chronicle speaks as follow of the present fire in surance break for advanced rates: "The one thing which the people of this il'-y will not endure from insurance companies is dirking and sneaking. However hard the companies have Wen hit there is but one honest thing to do and that is to face the wituation squarely and honestly. That U the essence of insurance and the corporation which, by refusing in for nra tion to owners of burn ed policies, ntiing technical points as to forms of proofs, time or place of filing or any other trick and device known to unscrupulous insurance lawyers thereby proves it unfitness to be called an in surance company and should lie driven out of business "The insurance companies have no reason to find fault with the insurance business. In the mituiv of things there must from time to time occur great ca lamities whose resulting Io may wipe one the profits of two or three year, but even then there is no reason for com plaint for in ordinary years the profits of insurance are very large. The aver age rate of dividends of American com-i parries for the kist ten years has lieerr 10 per cent. The Boston Transcript re- j (entry printed a list of twelve com panies whose average dividend rate has been 17 per cent, one company having paid an average dividend of 40 per cent for the last ten years. Tire value of the business is made evident by the anxiety of the companies to retain it and con tinue in existence. And the way to do that is to act honorably in the face of disaster. "This calamity discloses a fundamen tal defect in insurance financiering in that exorbitant dividends are paid while making no adequate provision for a surplus to provide for a calamity. The company in the list printed by the Bos ton Transcript which had divided 40 per cent annually for the last four years.. has a capital of only $500,000 and a sur plus of brrt 1334,000. It has been doing an enormous business on insufficient cap ital, and dividing the profits. If the dividends of insurance companies had been confined to a reasonable rate and the remaining profit put into a surplus fund which is the practice of some companies the San Francisco losses could be paid from that fund without causing the companies to pass a dividend. The disaster in this city has not changed the conditions of insurance or made it any more risky. There i no occasion for any increa in premiums, here or elsewhere. What is needed is better in surance financiering. And that will have to come if tlte busines of fire insurance is to escape such an overhauling as the life insurance business has received. SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOLS. How It Is Proposed to Continue the Service and Put Up Buildings. The San Francisco School Reconstruc tion Committee consisting of the mayor, board of education and superintendent has organized a bureau for the disemi nation of information regarding the widespread movement to rebuild the schools of San Francisco by the contribu tions of the school children and teachers of our land. Through the assistance of thirty-five pupils of the Commercial High School personal letters have been sent to all the leading educational people in the United States Articles have been written by the teachers of San Francisco for the educational publications of the country. Printed matter has been pre pared carefully suited to the different grades of the public schools, with illu strations of the tent schools in Golden fiate Park and other interesting features of present conditions in the school de partment Through California and the Pacific slope the feeling of sympathy for and Enormous Dividends to Shareholders Limited Allotment of stock now offered 12 per cent guaranteed. Will pay over 30 per cent when stores are established. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. COL. J. B. FULLER, President (Ex-California Commissioner). CAPTAIN E. E. CAINE, Director (Capitalist and Ship Owner Sttl Wish ) HON. TRUMAN BEEVES, Sec. and Treat. (Treasurer of the State of Call- T. K. STATELER, Director (General Ajent Northern Pacific' R. 8 ' forna). WILLIAM CROCKER, Director (San Francisco). 50 Stores Now Being Established on the Pacific Coast Managers Wanted Who Can Influence Capital. Share of Profits and Salary to Right Party PACIFIC SYNDICATE STORES COMPANY, incorporated HEAD OFFICE: UNION SAVINGS BANK BUILDING, OAKLAND, CAL. PROSPECTUS AND INFORMATION FREE. WRITE TODAY. the desire to help San Francisco is mor ' natural than anywhere ele, Certain states s Missouri, Oregon, and Maine, hirve expressed their intention to erect buildings to be named after the respec live stwtes raising the money, The further idea lia been advanced that where a county, or a community do not rale a sufficient, amount to erect an entire building (heir gifts he ap propriately recognised by tablets iir the different class rooms. One can readily imagine the close relationship between the children attending their daily recita tions iu n room built by a certain county and the children of that county. Let ter would be interchanged between these children. Counties would rival each other in the attempt to lw flrt In sending fruit blosHorrrs for the purpose of decorating the class rooms In which they were particularly Interested each year. Visitor in Sim Francisco would j have their attention called to these counties and the generosity of their in habitants in rebuilding school for the children of stricken Sari Francisco. In many states a "San Francisco School Day" has Wen set aside for the gathering of the children's offering to help the children of San Francisco In their quet of education. Vever ha the world seen so great and o practical demonstration of the truth that ll man kind are brothers. An Example at Hand. To those who ara bitterly opposed to the encroachment of the fire insurance companies' new 25 per cent advance rates on Astoria ri-ks, it nuiy le comforting to know that one of the great industries of the north west, namely, the lumlrer and mill men, are carrying their own insurance, in a well organized mutual company of their own and have, for the past two years, lorne each other out, losses included, upon a rate not exceeding four p-r cent; a line of business that would have cost them six per cent if covered by the old-line companies; and what is more they have done this while saving up a surplus, now on hand, of a sort that is likely to bring about an early re duction in the four per cent rate. Of course this was done only by the appli cation of the strictest and most careful business methods, but that would not he lacking in any other business line that should adopt the mutual policy of carrying each others' risks, Think it over a bit! Improving All the Time. The Clatsop Milling Company has started the build ing of its new drykiln and whim it shall have been completed proliably In an other month the company will have a dry kiln capacity of fMr.OOO feet per day. the last addition contributing 30,000 feet daily. The company is also install ing two new 72-ineli boilers to their power batteries, this for additional pow er to drive the new sash and door ma chinery. On a double-shift, daily, the company is now turning out 1,"0,000 feet of merchantable lumber each dnv. COAST BASEBALL SCORES. Pacific Coast League. At Oakland Oakland 1-2, San Fran cisco 7-1 (two fjanies). Northwest League. At SpokanetJray'a Harbor 3, Spo kane 6. At Butte Butte 4, Tacoma 5. Deadly Serpent Bites are as common in India a are stomach and liver disorder with us. For the lat ter however there is a sure remedy: Electric Bitters j the great restorative medicine, of which S. A. Brown, of Ben nettsville, S. C says: "They restored my wife to perfect health, after year of suffering with dyspepsia and a chroni cally torpid liver." Electric Bitters cure chills anod fever, malaries, bilious ness, lame back, kidney troubles and bladder disorders. Sold on guarantee by Charles Roger, druggist. Price 60c. Morning Astorian 65 cents per month. mi 15 0000000000000 ,xx)xx)ax)coocoaccoooo w AN Saw Mill Men, $2.25 per day. Yard Men, $2.00 per day. Ten Boys, Over J 6 Years Old to Work . In Box Factory. TONGUE POINT LUMBER CO ASTORIA, ORB. ooooooooooooo OCOCX)CXXDOOCC First National Bank of Astoria. Ore. KHTAHLIHHKD 18K0. Capitol ASTORIA IRON WORKS JOIINi FOX. Pres. V I BISHOP. Secretary Designers and Manufacturers of THE LATEST IMPltOVEO Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers Complete Cannery Outfits Furnished CORRESPONDENCE SOliCITED. Foot of Fourth Street. J. Q. A. BOWLBY, Prtaldant. 0. I. PETERSON, Viw.PwsId.ot Astoria Savings Bank Capital raid In 1100,000. 8urplu .nil IrauiMCl a General Banking BuId, i T.nth Str.., einhard's SJSS SCOf BAY IRON ASTORIA, IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS Up-to-Date Haw Mill Machinery 18th and Frank lln Ave. Sherman Transier Co. HENRY SHERMAN, Manager Hacks, Carriages-Baggage Checked and Transferred Trucks and Furnltura Wagona Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped. 433 Commercial Street Phone Main 121 Celt T ED $100,000 Nelson Troyer, Vice-Pres. and Supt. ASTORIA 8A VINOS DANK, Treat r'HANK PATTON, Cathler. J. W. GARNER. Aulitant Casblar. Undivided front M.OOO. Inuri'nt I'uld m Tim tpolt ASTOKIA, OREGON & BRASS IflMS OKKUON LAND AND MARINE ENGINEERS I'romjit Mllcntlnnm n lo nil rrrntr work Tel. Main 2481 Stores