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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1907)
THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. & . ' REMARKABLE CASE Brooklyn Transit Company Victim of It's Own Generosity. MAY NOW GIVE FREE RIDES SATURDAY .FEBRUARY 23, 1907. Btrt Railway Baggart liaalf for Pub Ho Tloktt Chop par La it Survivor of Cuitar Maasaors 18,000 , Lawyers Find Business id Naw York. NEW YOIIK, Fub 13. "Wo are the victim uf our own gnrosliy," any a the Pmsldonl of Ino Brooklyn ftapld Transit Company. "Wo liava done ao inmh for the peoplo of Jtrmiklyn thitt wo tuivn Jntrtlrally Imnkruplnd our aclvid." That statement la hold to ex plain auvi'tul advance In th prlea of II. It. T. stock which have bewildered and pnxald more limn one anxloua Wnll airwt broker or np"ultit'ir In the ll f"W ynira when he baa foun1 him self mi the wrong aldo of the market. They have evidently been duo lo the diuli'ly of unknown phllniilhrnplsia lo bankrupt themselves mi l illu poor for Hv mikn of that portion of tlm New York public which riiMdea li the bo rough of Ilrooklyn nnd dm-a bualneaa In Manhattan, All thnl the unifratofu public hna dona In return In thn past yara Ima bnn to -ura the fl. H. T. nnd contrlliuiit 459,t0,9'.! nit-kola tow ard d'-frfiyltiK tlm coot of operation. H ha Juat been denWat rated that tho fere collected annually on the 8,933 car ut illa jd for conveying tlm lini-nxo tri(tl! ver 5000 mllea of track out number tho combined population of China, France nnd A mot leu, and that If every man, woman nnd child In tho United Btates wro to take fiyej-ldea on tho Hrooklyn rnra, they would fall Juat abort of nKKra"iulng the aum to tal of New Yorker who annually uo theao conveyani ca. Now tho start llntr prediction la made by tho engl rieera of the ltiipbl Trnnalt Hoard toot tho traffic between that borough and Mnnlintlan will be Increased by 30,000 paaxenifr or more per hour during tho morning and evening ruahea na aoon aa tflio aouth tunnel from tho Mattery la completed, which will bo In June. Tho offlrlnla of too road aolemnly declnra that their Institution la too ioor to provide additional atrapa and there la even aotno f-ar that It will bo neeea aary to let paaaengera ride freo ao aa to anve tho expense of collecting faroa. John Martin, thn aturdy little ticket t hopnr at the 103 St. Subway atatlon la the aolo aurvlvor of the Ouster maa-Hiii-ro of June 25, 1R76, when the at tack waa made upon Sitting Bull and hla horde of Itednklim nt the Mttle nig Horn. Hy virtue of thla dlatlnctton, Martin wan the gueai of honor when hla old regiment, tho Seventh Cavalry and other military orgnnlxatlona in fSiil uniform attended a "military night" performance of a popular play a few dnya ago. Martin wna a bugler of the Seventh Cavalry nnd rode bead Custer when the attack wna made. After tho charge had been Hounded, Cuater, aeelng that hla ' force wna greatly outnumbered, deapntched him with n mcaangu to Major Reno, who waa atatloned a few miles away, or dering hla forcea 'to be brought up at once. To thla circumstance Martin owea his life; but Reno lost hla wy and Custer nnd his handful of men had been destroyed before assistance could reach them. Now, Martin com fortably ensconced In a llttlo cage of wood and glass which tho Interim rough officials, with unusual thought fullness, have erected to protect him from tho wintry drafts which sweep through the opening to the street, chops tickets nnd smiles cheerfully upon tho crowds of passengers who rush past him morning and evening. On tho Dth of every June Martin vis its West Point, where Custer llos bur led, nnd tho famous bugle which sang Hoots and Saddles ao cheerfully ovor many a forgotten camping ground of tho Seventh Cavalry sounds taps above tho gravo of "Chief Yellow Hair , Klghtcen thousand lawyers are now living more or loss luxuriously off the controversies of Individuals and the by-products of crlmo In the metropolis. Ninety-two more, candidates from the law schools, wore admitted to tho New York bar a few days ago, and there Is scarcely a week In Which a loonlly prominent legal light from some other part of the country, seeking a wider field, and tilffher fees, is not added to the steadily Increasing number. At the prosont time Now York has a popula tion of appromlmately 4,500,000, and thld 'means thai there Is one lawyer io .every 2G0 Individuals. Not a very u one F. No 495 Commercial largo number from which to draw a clientele, It would seem, when tho law yers themselves and those who cannot afford tho luxury of law aro subtracted. Yet tho moat of them have a full-fed, oppulcnt look that speaks eloquently of prosperity and suggests an Inquiry in to the methods by which It has been ueiiulred. There Is the field, of politics, of course, and in New York that takes care of a good many of the poorer law yers, while practice before tho civil and criminal courts of tho city and state accounts for a goodly number of pleaders; but it is to tho enormous vol ume of business transactions' that the greater number look for support Ma ny of tho great financial and commer cial Institutions have prominent law yers at their heads and' all of them ore equipped with one or more salaried employes whoso legal advice Is Indis pensable In transactions involving, us they frequently do; millions of dollars. In addition to those sourcos of income there were more than 115,000 transfers of real estate last year, Involving something like $1,345,000,000, and most of them provided a handsome fee for a lawyer on either side of the transac tion. President Roosevelt's pardon of Cap tain George D. Boynton, "gun runner" and revolutionist of three continents aria both hemispheres, has broufht, to light 'a life history of adventure and strife which reads like an old-world romance transplanted to a prosaic one of buslnoss. ' Captain Boyntaii's car eer as a soldier of fortune began at 19 REAL ESTATE, INVESTMENTS. Street. Near 11th. Phone Red 2241. years 'of age, when he ran away from home to join a New York regiment in the Civil War, where he earned a cap tain's commission for headlong daring. With an appetite whetted for further adventure, Captain Boynton busied himself for another four years with tho affairs of tho South American Re public and then hurried to Cuba to tnke part In the revolution of 1S68 as a blockade runner. Becoming Idsgusted with the Ingratitude of his allies, he left the Island to Join In the Franco Prussian War, afterwards he ran the blockade in the interest of Don Carlos, tho Spanish Pretender, followed that emperor with a few campaigns against the Turks in the Balkans, and then re turned to South America and the West Indies, where they serve revolutions piping hot at a moment's notice. It was tho devious and unfamiliar ways of business which flnaly laid tie doughty captain by the heels In Black well's Island prison, to which he was committed throe months ago for trying to pull off in New York, apparently with the best intention in the world, the usual scheme for financing a South American revolution, which consists In turning a small amount of silver bul lion Into coin of the country to be rev olutionized, purchasing therewith a much larger quantity of bullion, and continuing the process Indefinitely. ( The heart of New York's Chinatown was officially wiped out at a recent meeting , of the Board of Estimate, when a new park to cover the acre and a half block bounded by the Bowery, oyers, Pell and Mott streets was au We have for sale at the above figure one of the best dairy farms in this vicin ity located on( Gray's River. This farm contains over 100 acres of level pasture land easily worth $100 per acre, 100 acres of heavy timber and about 95 acres of light timber. Timber is worth about $3,000. Has two dwelling houses, a large barn 50x100. All kinds of good outbuildings. Also 20 fine cows, several head of hogs and lots of chickens. All kinds of new farm' mplements, also a new 700 pound pressure cream separator. Within J 00 yards of store and boat land ing where boat leaves for Astoria every morning insuring easy access to the market. Near school. This is a bargain that won't last long and anyone interested will have to hurry. For full particulars call at our office. Easy terms. thorised. Most of the property la owned by Chinese firms and Individu als and includes the Chinese theatre, in which several Chinese were recent ly shot to death in a highbinder war. the Chinese Joss House, and all the other Oriental features which have mado tho locality the most picturesque plague spot in the city. Before the year is out, most of the inhabitants will have removed to Brooklyn, where they are now establishing a new Chi natown, and the narrow, crooked streets around Chatham Square are affording their last picturesque specta cle to the "rubberneck' tourists in the I celebration of the Chinese New Year I which Is now on. All the business transactions of tho past twelve months have been ("losed, every Chinaman has paid his honest debts, all the prayers have been said, and the advent of the New Year, which occurred on the morning of February 12, has been fit tingly celebrated by the explosion of thousands of firecrackers, which a special ordinance of the Board of Al derman, passed at the Intercession of "Little Tlm Sullivan," who ranks next to Confucius In the Chinese calendar of saints, permitted to be hung In ropes and festoons from house to bouse ao cross the treets. Now, togged out In their brightest native garlands, the In habitants of the quarter are making the customary New Year calls and im bibing much good rice liquor. So far not a "Chink" has been killed, howev er, and In that circumstances is read the sad fact that the glory of China town has departed. J. Q. A. BOWLBY, Preaidant. 0. L PETERSON, Vioe-Preaidant Astoria Savings Bank Capital Paid in JlOOOO. Surplus and Undivided Fronts 155,000. 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