FRIDAY, MARCH 1B, 1907,
A
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A FEW SUGGESTIONS
Broiled Mackcral 2oc per tiu.
, Kippered Herring 25c per tin.
Snow White Halibut 2."c per tin.
Fancy Prepared Codfish. 20c box.
Fancy English Bloaters "c each.
EXTRA SPECIAL
" Salted Salmon Tips 20c per lb.
Salt Herring, Mackerel. Salt Salmon.
Just Received A fresh shipment of Bakers
THE MORNING ASTOR1AN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
A. V. ALLEN,
CHECK TO BUSINESS
Harriman Believes Railroad De
pression will be Further Felt
WOULD NOT BE UNMIXED EVIL
Stowing Up Would Mean Curtailment
, of Expenses, And Increase of Surplus
of Roads Would
and Money.
Cheapen Labor
CHICAGO, March 14. A dispatch
to the Tribune from New York says:
Beyond the slightest doubt Inner
Wall Street believes a check to general
business has resulted from the railroad
situation and that this check will grow
more apparent. The activity of State
Legislature' has aroused thoroughly
the large railroad interests of the
country. The cost of borrowing money
has been Increased, and there will be
a marked reduction in expenditures.
In an interview given by E. H. Har
riman yesterday, on certain features of
the railroad situation, he said that two
kinds of courage are needed in devel
oping and directing the affairs of a
great railroad system. One Is to make
large expenditures when times are dull
and the business outlook poor, and
thus secure labor, money and material.
at low cost
The other kind of courage, he said,
is to be able to discontinue the ex
penditure of funds and the making of
improvements when business is good,
money dear and labor high. This kind
of courage, he said, would enable the
railroad by waiting two or three years
to make Improvements at a reduction
of 20 per cent In the cost of labor,
money, and materials; He considered
such a saving a good profit for share
holders. When Mr. Harriman was subse
quently asked what would be the effect
on general business of the withdrawal
of the railroads from the Iron and steel
markets, he replied:
"I do not wish to nnawer that ques
tion. I have been asked It before."
"Would a check to business be the
worst thing that could happen?"
"It ought not be nn unmxled evil,"
Mr. Harriman said. "The railroads
now have more business than they
can handle. A slowing up would mean
the curtailment of expenditures, an
Increase In the surplus of the roads.
It would mean also a lessened day for
labor and " a reduced demand for
money. These in consequence would
become cheaper.
"There are three things entering Into
railroad expenditures the hire of
money, the cost of material which Is
largely the hire qf labor, for It is
labor that produces the materials, and
the hire of labor. If more must be
paid for the hire of money, then there
must be a reduction in the amount
paid for the cost of the material or
the hire of labor.
. "There is so much money to be
spent and the increased cost of one
item means a decrease In the other
two. The railroads must hold net
earnings and, a' I have tried to make
plain, the total costs are bound to be
distributed.
"A check to business is of course
better than a full stop," Mr. Harriman
said, "but what would be applicable to
a full stop would be measurably true
of a slowup."
When Mr. Harriman was afcked for
a solution of the National problem, he
said:
"We want the Sherman anti-trust
law repealed so far as it relates to the
railroads. I believe it was not in
tended that Its provisions should em
brace the railroads. It was so asserted
at the time the measure was under
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discussion prior to Its enactment, in
the trans-Missouri case tried under
the Sherman anti-trust laws, It was
finally held that all agreements be
tween railroads were In restraint of
trade. What the rallroa.li desire is
that they be allowed to make agree
ments' under the regulation and super
vision of the government. This would
allow the railroads to do an Inter
state commerce business.
"If reasonable rates and agreements,
approved under the proper authori
ties of the National government could
be inaugurated, then legislation by
states so far as It related to interstate
traffic might become null and void. We
believe that If the National govern
ment should approve our ratetf as be
ing reasonable, the action would be
reflected in the State Legislatures."
FREE EYE GLASSES.
Reeeommended by Superintendent Af
ter Investigation.
, NEW YORK, March 14. A school
cenaus, Just completed, shdws tha,t
there are 688, 427 children attending
schools In Greater New York and that
853,485 perflon between K and 18
years, the school age, live here. The
number of foreign born children en
rolled, 113,740, Is more than 18 per
cent of tho entire registration of the
fc'chools.
Probably the most Interesting thinf?
Is the statement that out of r.S.948
children, whoee eyes were tested, 27,
928 were suffering from defective
sight.
Superlntendedt Maxwell, head of
the school board, rceoltnmendH that
the city supply glasses to poor chil
dren who cannot afford to purchase
them.
STOLE SLICE OF PIE.
PRI30NERS SIGN PLEDGE.
New Method of Drunks Spreads to
England.
LONDON, March 9. The authori
ties: at various places In England and
Ireland are trying to adopt the plan
used by Judge Pollard of St. LoulK,
Mo., of discharging prisoners arrested
for Intoxication, on their taking the
pledge tp abstain from drinking and
the National Independent Temperance
Society la advocating Legislation along
this line.
In sevaral places markedly good
results have followed the application
of the method. In one instance, in
Leicester, a confirmed drunkard hns
become a teetotaler, and been reinsta
ted In a position from which he had
been discharged because of intemperance.
Jamoi Brown Gets Year in the Peni
tentiary For Pastry Theft.
LOH A NOBLES, March U.-James
lirown was sentenced to one year In
. the I'oNom penitentiary In the Super
ior Court today for stealing a piece
of pie which ho did not eat. Drown
was caught carving a piece of mlnco
pie In a Long Bench cafe whore he
had gained entrance by stealth. It
was shown that he had served a term
In prison once before for burglary and
had employed the pie excuse at his
former trial.
8TILL VERY ILL.
Seriously 8iok With Peritonitis
Cleveland, but Bettering,
at
NEW YORK, March 14. Frltzl
Scheff, who had to abandon her tour
:wlth "Mile Modist," at Cleveland, for
, treatment, Is serloutfy III with perlten
, ltis, at the Hotel 8t. Regis. Her man
ager, Charles B. Dillingham, announ
ced biHt night that ahe was' resting
easily. At the St. Regis hotel last,
night it was said that Mis Scheff'fl
condition on Tuesday night was
olarmlng, but that she was better yes-terday.
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