THE MOitMING ASTORlAK, AS'j OIUA. OltECtotf.
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Enormous Sum Received Yearly
by Gotham Properly Holders.
THURSDAY, MAY ijt 1907.
Comfort
The combination of
hot meals tnd a cool
kitchen hat ilwajri
eemed in impossi-
set mm a
bilirv. vet rhii hannv
mult is obtained wherever there 'i a New Perfec- ?
Son Oil Stove in the kitchen. The blue flame
produced by the
, VM Dine Flsme Oil Coo!i-S!ove
' dm quickest and beet resulta. Tk New Perfection ii different
from tdf other oil itore. Cuts fuel expense in two. Mid in
three eta Bewjr stove warranted. If not at your dealer,
writ but Manet agency tor oeecrfpavt circular.
JXl, : v; ! 'I. ' , . wwiitHebest
v4 mw3 lilHround houM lamp made. Give a
dear Keadv light Brail throughout and beauii
fully nickeled. Equipped with the latest improved
burner. ,,Hndiome ttmpleeatiefactofy. Every
lamp warranted. Write our neareit agency If you
cannot get it from your dealer.
STAND A PI) 0O. COMPANY
i STEEL a EWART
ELECTRICAL
CONTRACTORS
I In Easiness for Easiness and Your Satisfaction.
vVemake it our aim to do first class work at
reasonable prices.
222 Twelfth Street. Next to the Astoria Theatre.
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BIG REDUCTIONS
Wall Paper
36 PER; CENT OFF
2 On'accouat of the large new spring stock coming and
to make room in our store we oner oU per cent
off for the next few days. Buy your
wall paper now while it is cheap.
Eastern Painting & Decorating Company,;
Commercial Street near Elohth.
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Mandolin, Guitar and
Piano r olios
HERMIT IN POPULOUS CITY
Almost a Billion Dollars Paid Yearly to
City Unfllorda-CityHermlt Lives
49 Tears la One Boon-Cost of Ss
forming Cmin-Dialog a Sea Lao
NEW YORK, May 22,-Alm(t a bil
lion dol)r-MJO,(xio,00O annually, or
"5,000,000 a monthIs ths estimated
sum tlmt New Yorker pay to th tot
tunat owners of metropolitan real s
tl for the privilege of living and doing
business 4lhln ths city's limits. Exact
figures are a little difficult ti obtain;
but by dividing the population, whicl
exceed 4,000,000,. Into 800,000 families
of Ave persons each, and disregarding
the elite who ocmny homes of their
own, an approximation u readily ob
tained. There are probably 60.000 fain!
lie In the metropolis who pay an aver
atrs of $1,200 a year for private bouses
and apartment of the better class
which equal an outlay of $00,000,000.
About three time a many families pay
an average of WHO a year for flats of the
ordinary class, which account for an
other. $72,000,000. Then Iheru remain
600,000 famille living In tenement and
the cheaper grade of flats at an average
annual expenditure far rent of $180.
This make a total of 20,000,000 a
year for bousing alone. Downtown In
Manhattan, however, where the sky
scraper grow tall ad close, rent are
enormously greater, frequently running
as high as five dollars a ijiiare foot, and
the rental of stores and offices of all
sort swell the golden flood pouring into
the coffer of the landlords by another
000,000,000. The population of the city
la growing at the rate of 200,000, a year,
which meaoa another 40,000 families
who pay an average rental of $300 el
year, or a total of $12,000,000, and there
la an annual ineree in busines wiucn
yield at let $i!4,000.000 mors.
One of the mot populous sections of
a great city would seem a strange place
foe a rectuoe to find an undisturbed re
treat; but the experience of John
Armittrunir Illustrate once more the
saying that there is no other lonellnes
tike that of great -crowd. When 49
years of age he came to New York from
Indiana, which was all the information
be vouchsafed concernm himself, Aroi
strong's first cere was to obtain an abi
ding place in which he would not be dis
turbed
Forced to Leave my Present Quarters, I Will Sell
all Clothing, Rubber Boots, Men's Furnish
ings and Oil Clothing
At
ouesi
Mom
: Pricos I i
25 Per Cent Off on Men's and Boys' Suits
$5 Sweater for $3.50
$4 Underwear for $3.40
$3 Underwear ' $2.25
$2.50 Underwear $2.00 '
$J Underwear .80
2b'c Cashmere Sox 20c, three pair for
50c Working Shirts for 40 cents.
$4
$3
Apron Overalls,
$3
$2.40
65c
50c
This is Your Chance
To Buy Goods Cheap
The Wdrkingman's Store
Is going to move, June 1st, to first door west of Ross,
Higgins'& Bond street.
Chas. Larson, Prop. 557 Commercial St.
ture are fully carried out and 1,000 boyi
provided for, there will still be a fur-
ther reduction in the expense, no email
part of which will be due the boy
themselves through the product of the
This be found In a i by nine Industrial training School During the
"We receive all the new publications in this form
every month. You can secure from ten to fifteen
of the latest hits bound for from 25c to 50c per vol.
See! the Show Window
E. A. HIGGINS CO.,
MUSIC - BOOKS STATIONERY
TME 'GEM
CF.AvisEe'Prop.
Choice Wines, Llquore ' " " Merchant lanck From
and Cigars t 11:30 a. m. te 1:30 , a
Hot Lunch at all Hours ' v ' ' Cents
Corner Kivsnth and Commerdal .
ASTOIOA
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Sherman TrMsier Xo.
HENRY SIlEltMAN, Manager
Hacks, Oarriages-Baggage Cheeked "and ' Transferred Trucks ad Furalturi
Wagons Piano Moved, Boxed and BhJpptl
Main Phoae 121
433 Commercial 5treet
cubbyhole in the Interior of the centu- J summer of last year the communal
ry-old Fifteenth Ward hotel, which was 1 "arm, wnica is worked in small plots
m iiilcrably lighted and ventilated as I by the boys as a part of this system
to afford the practical assurance that! of education, produced a value of $3,152
no one ele would be wllina; to pay rrom seed furnished by the United
even the elcht dollars a month which IStatce Department of Agriculture. Pre'
the room cost him. Into this he moved vious to removing, to the country, the
I with hi treasure, which consisted of average cost of caring for 1.000 boys
fifty or more suit of the mott aristo-1 was $130 each per year; but the results
cratio clothes of the period and a great obtained unaer we present ytem, even
number of pictures. Chief among the at the increased expense, are so far eu
latter was a bla oil portraft of Lincoln, perior that a number of similar insti-
whenee irrew thO rumor that he had tutions nave already moved into the
once been the friend" of the great war country or are preparing to do so,
president in his early backwood days.
Five successive proprietors or the noiei Jus(. 0utiaK the Narrows, in New
had respected his rights that no one York harbor, 'the giant suction dredges,
should enlef the room, not ecn to wise to he CSIUfti 0berver looking like pow
care of It, and by obtaining his mwilsLrfui battleships as they crawl slowly
I in the cheap resiaurani oi mat vkiu.- oyel. th, gurfaee 0f the lower bay,
ty, Armstrong made his isolation as epontliw tufts of inkv smoke, are en
complete ' a if he had hidden in the igagefr Upon the greatest channel dredg-
heart of a forest. Law week, however, im unilertnkimr of modern times. The
the ruthless hand of progress reached I work consist of widening and deepen
out to demoIHi his home, ana loading jnj. Ambrose Chanuel into great sea
his effect into a light wagon, the old h8ne which Will shorten by five miles
man of ninety-five drove away the be- j distance and hour in time the pres
loved portrait of Lincoln lying across ent narrow and tortuous entrance to
hi knees, to pass his few remaining the ereatest nort of the world
years 'nt the country home of the last These twin monster were built cs
proprietor of the hotel, ' ; i pecwlly for the work by the United
According to the last annvml report state government and equipped with
of the New York Juvenile Asylum, an the very latest dredging apparatus at
Institution which has nad more than . 4 of $500,000 each. From day
half a century of experience In caring break on Monday morning till noon on
for the small sprigs of humanity com- Saturday, when the dredges return to
mitteH to its charge by the Children' the city for supplies, not on hour is lost
Court and the various children's sod- jn the prosecution of the work, which in-
eties, the cost of transforming the aver- vovea the removal of a block of sand
aire street gftmiri into a useful member men muc, ong, 2,000 feet wide and 20
of .onintv Is about MM. At present the thiolt rr oon Ono cubic yards in
Asylum occuple,a village of sixteen Ru or 80,000,000 tons of sand-'Which
separate cottages on the Hudson about nulSt be lifted and dumped back Into the
25 miles from New lork In which 820 e again three miles outside bcotiand
boy are cared or, at a per capita cost Tight. Under the suction of the pow
of 924T.00 a year, of whkh -$50 is con- fnl eentrWuiral oumos. 10,000 cubic
tributed by private charity and the re- yards of sand come over the side of each
mainder Is made up by Mie city, ine Uredce every twenty-four hours, togetn
boys remain with the institution an er wjth a perfect Niagara of sta water
average of ti months before they are wiiich finds its way back to tne ocean
released or sent to homes la the West. in . roarinB flood through the overnow,
By a carefully prepared estimate it nas jjot m interesting than the woric it
been determined that an increase in the RPu the curious acsrecation of ob
capacity of the village o 500 boys heets which is found on the surtace 01
will reduce the average yearly coat to tl6 wi1(,re the bins hove been nued
I $205.32, and that when plans for the fu-1 and the nmniis stopped. Fish there are
THE TRENTON ;I
First-Class Liqtiors arid Cigars
602 Commerdal Street.
v-orner U)mmercal and I4th. . , ; , ( ; Astoria, Oregon. 2
in abundance. Sections of eteel rail
have been found; coins, key, lead sink
era and baggage check by the score
cheap jewelry, too, stickpins and brooch
e of brass, engagement rings with in
itial engraved upon them, and wedding
rings of the same material; and once
piece -of real jewelry was found i
child' gold ring with a little stone set
in it.
Of all the fruits that are In the land
That grow on bush or tree, '
I would give up the choicest ones
For Rocky Mountain Tea. f
Frank Hart
Wonderful Eezema Cure.
'Our little boy had ecsema for 'five
yeara," writes N. A. Adams, Henrietta,
Pa. "Two of our home doctors said
the case was hopeless, his lungs being
affected. We then employed other doc
tors nut no benefit resulted. By
chance we read about Electric Bitter;
bought a bottle and soon noticed im
provement We continued thla medi
cine until several bottlea were used,
when our boy was completely cured."
Best of all blood medicines and body
building health tonics. Guaranteed at
Charles Rodgera's drug store. 50o.
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TBeOwrConcert;IiaIl
formerly the LaTosca
The Leading Amusement
House in Astoria
Good music
Everybody welcome.
Chu. Niemi,, Proprietor
J Aetoria, street
Eagle 't't
320 As tor Si
Hall
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The leading amusement aoose.
Agenoy for Edison FbMotrrsnns aki
Sold Moulded Beeords.
" P. A, PETESS0N, Frof. ,