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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1906)
PAGES 9 TO 12. UlLltHKt rULL AttOOIATIO RiPORT UOVCRS THE MORNINQ FIILO ON THB LOWI OOLUMfSlAil VOLUME LXI NO. 2I ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4. 1906 PRICE FIVE CENTS SECOND SECTION. Jtl0ttt!ttji dorian. The Foard & Stokes Hardware Co.Jnc. Successors to Foard & Stokaa Co. HEADQUARTERS FOB Ranges, Stoves, Tinware, Crockery. Graniteware, Glassware, Iron tad Steel Tooli and Ship Chindlt ry. Headquarters for Hardware. AMUSEMENTS. f STAR THEATER P. GEVURTZ, Manager TheHack Swai n Theater Co. presenting tonight the sensational 5-act comedy drama Shadows of a Great City SPECIAL SCENERY Popular Prices; 15c, 25c and 35c BOX OmCE OPEN 7:43; curtaingoes up at 1:15 sharp. ASTORIA THEATRE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6th BEACH & BOWERS' FAMOUS MINSTRELS An All Feature, Preyondeious Aggregation of Min strel Talent, Such as the World Never Dreamed of Seeing at one time. The Show that presents MORE: New Features, Novelties, Sensations, and give a larger, better show than any Minstrel Com pany traveling. Big Baud and Orchestra. PRICES $I.OO, 75c, 50c, 25c FINANCIAL. J. Q. A. DOWLBY, President. fRAXK PATTON, Cashier. . I. PETERSON, vloe -malum. . w. majum&k, Astuutni uwow, Astoria Savings Bank Capital Paid in 1100,000, Burpiue and Cndlvlded Profit $85,000. Tranaaota a General Bunking UuolnoM. lutereat Paid on Time Deposits lt8 Tenth Streat, A8TOKIA, OREGON First National Bank of Astoria, Ore. ESTABLISHED 1880. Capital $100,000 READ ALL THE ADVERTISEMENT ABOUT PAINTS AND PAINTING, THEN COME TO US; WB HAVE A REPUTATION GAINED BY TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF GOOD WORK; WE CAN'T AFFORD TO DO A SIN GLE UNSATISFACTORY JOB. WE USE MATERIALS THAT OUR EXPERIENCE HAS TAUGHT US ARE THE MOST SAT ISFACTORY AND WE STAND BACK OF OUR WORK. WE ARE RIGHT HERE IN ASTORIA, WHERE YOU CAN GET AT US IF ANYTHING GOES WRONG. B. F. ALLEN 8 SON NEW STORE COS. nth AND BOND STREETS. MONEY BEATS PRIDE Morgan, of New York, Outbids King for a Bible. PUSHMOBILES THE LATEST Braaiy New York Letter Tails of Po lioa Oaprlvad of Thalr Blue Silk Nlflhtlee The Lsst Racing Crate All Llva Issues. NEW YORK, November 4. J. Pler pont Morgan has juat broken all rec ord! by paying $4,000 In duty on a alngle copy of the Bible which he re cently purchased! In France at the neat figure of 125,000. The volume In question, which wan sold at auc tion. 1 the original Cluny Bible, one of the nni'Ht works of art In France, It being an Illuminated text on parch ment. It was the work of the Cluny Monks and Is more than 200 years old. King Kdwnrd wanted It too, as a memorial to his mother, the late Queen Victoria, but as he Is only a king with a pittance of a few millions a year, he was forced to give way In chagrin to Mr. Morgan, since the lat ter wss not hampered by the etiquette which would have caused an English subjpet to withdraw under pain of royal displeasure Still England's ru ler has the satisfaction of knowing that even If he couldn't afford It, he made Mr. Morgan pay a record price. stnet at the figure named the Bible Is the most expensive ever Imported to this country. Accompanying the Bible Is an Illuminated copy of the or iginal order for the arrest of John Bunynn on a charge of heresy. But while $25,000 may have looked Inrge to other bidders, It Is only a drop In the bucket to Mr. Morgan, who, It Is asserted, on good authority, hns spent more than $3,000,000 for paintings In the last three months. The costliest single purchase was the portrait of "Miss Fnrren" by Sir Thomas taw rence, for which Mr. Morgan paid $200,000. This painting In 1863 sold for $444, so that the price paid by New York's financier shows an advance of JuHt about 45,000 per cent. The first International pushmoblle race, a direct growth of the Vander- bllt race, has been run, and won in record time. for pushmoblllng Is the very newest organized sport In New York, even though It Is a sport which Is limited to those of Immature years. A pushmoblle Is a wheeled vehicle such ns boys use to push and coast about the city streets. Generally It consists of a board laid on two pair of wheels, the steering being done by the feet or a piece of rope attached to the front axle and the power sup piled by a one-boy pusher who runs behind. Until recently the sport has been In a disorganized state, but of late prominent pushmoblllsts acting together have brought order out of chaos. Elimination trials were run for an Internatlonol race which took place Inst week, with many of the characteristics of real auto racing. Rlaid rules for the contest were drawn up, under which no contestant was allowed to weigh more than 110 pounds, and no pushmoblle less than one quarter of Its driver and pusher together. The course was four and one quarter miles In length and was was covered by the winner in the rec ord time of twenty-nine minutes and fifty-six seconds, a performance which won a silver cup. At times it is stated some of the pushmobiles were going at the terlfflc pace of twelve miles an hour. Bent axles and upsets were fre the time at the "hairpin turn." One auent. the latter occur ing most of broken bone was reported and minor bruises were plenty. The name of the winning car Is withheld, but it is known to have had two roller skate wheels in front and two large baby carriage wheels behind. , New York's harbor has of late been substantiating the claim made for It, that it is the richest In the country, -but, unfortunately, its richness in this Instance is not In commerce. In everything else, however, It is living up to its reputation, In that it seems to be a veritable mine of submerged and derelict treasures, all of which hurt its commerce. During the last two months no less than fifteen acci dents have been caused by the timbers and hulks which float around the har hot1, I Thjs week a half submerged canal boat which had been drifting about for no one knows how long was the richest find, but rafts and logs were numerous. Aside from these floating menaces) td shipping, New York has also recently had her eyes opened to the fact that her model har bor Isn't such a model harbor after all, in that it has not a sufficient depth of water to admit the largest ships now building, let alone those which may be expected in a few years. Al together New York's commercial in terests are awakening to the necessi ty of Improving the harbor and for this reason the city Is likely to be strongly represented at the conven tion of the National Rivers .and Har bor Congress In Washington, on Dec ember 6 and 7, when the policy of that organization In behalf of larger ap propriatlons for the Improvement of the country's rivers and harbors will be urged before Congress. President Roosevelt Is known to be heartily In favor of such work, on account of the saving which it will mean In freight rate, and New York realizing the ln ereasc! commerce which will come from Other parts of the country, where the work of congress is receiving en thusiastic support, feels that It Is up to her to send a strong delegation to Washington, if the harbor is to be re lieved from unpleasant features. whether they arise from derelict can al boats or from the fact that the bot tom Is too near the top. No more shall New York's police men, even though they be members of "the finest," clothe their majestic forms in blue silk nighties for the slumber of which popular fancy makes so fond. The force has said so and made it final,, as final as Mr. Murphy's decision to cast aside the suit of stripes with which Mr. Hearst presented him, and to visit his wrath upon any and all who shall depict him In what he considers to be an out-of-date costume. But while Mr. Mur phy's suit was only plctoral and alle gorical, he neveij Having worn the costume prescribed at Sing Sing, the blue silk nighties as a part of at least one policeman's wardrobe is an ac tual fact. The horrible truth over which the whole force is shuddering In mortification was discovered last week. With the general shakeup among the force before the election (In the Interest of purity In politics) Officer Gelssler, who formerly twirled his club and his mustache In graceful nonchnlence In the fashionable Ten derloin, where he upheld the majesty of the law by assisting sllk-be-decked shoppers to cross Broadway, was ex iled to the Coney Island precinct, a somewhat unfashionable district In comparison. When bedtime arrived the other officers who slept In the sta tion house we paralysed to see Gslssler extract from hist suit-case a creation of blue silk, trimmed with lace, and decorated with an embroi dered monogram on the breast. As soon as he was asleep a hurried con ference was held In the Interest of the morals of the force, and as a re sult the offender was aroused and sent forth on a bogus call. When he re turned it was to find the silk nightie rent to ribbons, while the whole room snored peacefully In darkness. But from a dim and distant corner came a voice, "Say, don't youse ring in no more o them moll dresses. They may go In the Tenderloin, but not here. Stick to the kind your mother used to make. See." The oming election promises to bring forth certain new features which while they are undoubtedly a step in the right dlreciior, do not appeal to certain "political" citizens of the East Side. In the place of the former watcher nt the polls, who not Infre quently know whom not to watch, stu dents ct Columbia and Yale unlveisl- ties, of whom there are large num bers In the city, have in many cases been called upon to fill these posi tions'.. T'io rady acceptance of the effe:- shows a grst'iylng interest In th--t f ovpti.m; . of thi city on the r-ot of students and graduates, who are ofln so Si.atril'e In such mat ters, but It has entirely failed to please the prominent East Side citizens and members of "De Ate" before referred to. "Half Soles" Merrlgan voiced the disgust of many of his fellows over what he chose to call the "nolve of them stoodents," in taking away a poor man's Job. Incidentally Mr. Merrlgan characterizes the campaign as the worst ever, statinlg thfit It is too ladylike, and bewailing the fact that campaign funds are as rare In WASHINGTON ITEMS Wireless To Be Used for Saving Ships at Sea. CUSHMAN'S LATEST YARN Money Stringency And the Various Ways It Is Accounted For Demo crats Want Presidential Can didate from th 8outh. WASHINGTON. D. C, November 2, The United States Weather Bureau looks forward to the furnishing of weather forecasts to vessels on every ocean by means of wireless telegraphy. "We need an International law com pelling every vessel to carry wireless telegraph apparatus and requesting them to take daily observations, to transmit them as soon as taken and to receive and forward such messages to the nearest station," said Professor Willis Moore, Chief of the Weather Bureau, in discussing the matter. "It .will take time to accomplish this; five years, or possibly ten, but In the end it will come, because by this means loss of life at sea will be reduced to a minimum. At present we axe furnish ing forecasts to vessels along the At lantic and are receiving daily observa tions from a number of trans-Atlantic liners. We also receive readings from several stations we established In the Azores, the Bermudas; th Baha mas, the north coast of South America, and a score of points in the West In make out fairly accurate maps of the storm centers and furnish the data to vessels within the reach of the wireless stations along the coast When we get dally observations from vessels all over the world we will map out the storm centers and cover prac tically the area of the ocean. This Information we will send to ships within two hours of the time they send their readings and they will have an opportunity to steer clear of the storm centers. This system will be of immense value to vessels and owing to Its simplicity and Inexpenslveness It Is bound to come." The death of the widow of the Pres ident of the Confederacy recalls the fact that she and Mrs. Grant met for the first time Just previous to the hos tllitSes between; this country and. Spain. The meeting took place at St Louis where the widows of the two distinguished men arrived at the hotel on the same day. Both were passing through St Louis on visits to their relatives and each was ignorant of the presence of the other in the hotel, although they were the center of a group of friends In adjoining parlors connected by sliding doors open to view A newspaper reporter was the means of the meeting of the two wid ows. He had gone to interview Mrs. Davis, at the conclusion of which he noticed the widow of General Grant and advanced to meet her, and ad vls. Mrs. Grant immediately ex vlsed her of the presence of Mrs. Da pressed a desire to meet the widow of the President of the Confederacy and the introduction was arranged by the newspaper man. It Is not known whether the two ever met again. . Representative Cushman, of Wash ington, Is quite a story teller. The following Is one of his latest. "Once there was a young man who got into the habit of drinking too much. He would go out most every night and get filled up with red-eye, and a young friend of his would be obliged to bring him home. This friend got tired of piloting that fellow home night after night. One night he was bringing him home in his customary condition and was delivering him a his part of the city as grass. "It's the long whiskered yaps up-state that's getting the stuff," remarked Mr. Merrlgan gloomily, his hand thrust in his empty pockets. The campaign has had one striking peculiarity In that it scams to center around the names of Hughes and Hearst entirely None of the candidates for other offices re ceive any attention and it is prob able that not one man out of fifty could mention half the names on any ticket. lecture on morals en route. They had turned a corner and directly In front of them was a big distillery In which the night force was at work. The structure was lit up with electricity from basement to cupola. Just then his friend said to him Harry you ought to have sense enough to know that you can't drink up all the whis key that Is manufactured.' At this the Intoxicated Harry took another reef In his legs and pointed his un steady finger up toward the distillery, and said: Well, I call (hlc) your at tention to the fact that I am making them work nights, all right" The money stringency has occasion ed a good deal of worry to the admin istration as well as to the great finan cial centers, and the recent meeting of the bankers discussed the advisa bility of securing some more elastic currency. The unthinking are apt to lay all the money stringency to the door of Wall Street speculation, but there has not been any great amount of over-speculatlcn for a number of months and any other causes must be south for. The Wall Street Journal says that three things have operated more than anything el.e to bring about the present tightness in the monejy market. Speculation in real estate, the high price of labor, the movevent of the immense crops, the Journal adds that the last two are legitimate, but the first needs to be guarded against Statistics show that in nearly every city of the coun try there has been great activity In real estate for many months, and that we have been having an era of high prices The volume of real estate bus iness In Washington has been Im mense during the summer, and it still continues at high tide. Senator Raynor, of Maryland advo cates the nomination of a Southern Democrat for the Presidency In op position to Editor Hearst "If It were possible to nominate a Southern man for the Presidency we ought to do it he said "It would be the delight of my life to canvass the country for Major John W Daniel, of Virginia, my colleague In the senate and my old college mate, or for Joe Blackburn, as noble a man as there is among them all, or John G Carlisle, who though living In New York, Is a Kentucklan by birth, and a man who would be a tower of strength among us. No one can tell who the candidate will be, Bryan is not pressing bis candidacy, but If the party wants him and Hearst should be the next Governor of New York and his opponent for the nomi nation, whom will we take? I have the greatest respect for the President personally and officially,' said Mr. Raynor. "He Is a man of charming and attractive presence, and one of the most wonderful men in the country. But I am opposed to the means and methods by which he reaches his accomplishments, and pro pose at the next session of the Senate to take up the subject." Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania, has been in the city consulting with the President and others on legal and po litical matters. As Attorney General Mr. Knox prosecuted' the Northern Securities case and the President has the highest esteem for his legal acu men. Senator Knox has recently re turned from an automoblllng trip through Switzerland and other Euro pean countries and) Is enthusiastic over the method of seeing them, He was absolutely confident of the elec tion of Mr. Stewart as Governor of Pennsylvania, Attention has been focussed on the Panama canal to such an extent that most of us have overlooked the Brit ish Mexican Tehuantepec Railway which traverses the Isthmus of Tehu antepec at the southern extremity of Mexico. This railway was practic ally completed a year . ago and final touches are now being given to Its terminal ports, Coatzacoalcos and Sa llna Cruz. On the opening of these ports this railroad will compete, un der advantageous terms, with the Pa nama railroad, for the traffic now go ing around Cape Horn, or via the Pa nama route. It Is claimed the use of the Tehuantepec route will save 1250 miles and as the ordinary freight steamer makes only about 250 miles per day It means about four days ad vantage for this route over the Pana ma, allowing a day from steamer to steamer. The Investors In this rail way hope It will be able to compete with the Panama canal Itself. At any rate it will be open long before the canal. ,