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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1907)
THE MORNING ASTOMAN Establish! ilTJ. kbllahed Dally Except Monday by til. J. S. DILL1HGKR tOMPAHT. STJBSCMPTIOH IA.1VL tj mail, per year 9y carrier, par month. .17.00 WEEKLY ASTOWA1. mall, per year, In adranea. .11.00 Entered m ieo"1 iJZZ 30,1906, at the poetoffloe at Aj orla. Ore groTunder the iolof Congres ot March HrOrttors lor the deUveruc ot TBI Mors odos ot publloattoa. TELEPB.OITX MAD! Mx. nm.ll nnM- nf PlktlOD OOUntT and the City ofAstorta. TEE WEATHEK. . Oregon, Washington, Idaho Fair. . CONFIRMATION PILING UP. The news of the great purchase, bv the Hill interests, of the Flavel and Ham mond properties in the West Side, comes with cheerful and confirmatory assur ance that is full of meaning for this city and county. We forecasted this same transfer three weeKs ago anu ui go to any otner ouyer, u, . - strove, .11 we had contestable the ideal layout tor u. u - -v - , terminals. vvm vue v i . ... . ... . tejuiiuuis. ,,., . ,. .! f- l,vp nlmWrf ntir faith: and ioice in the consummation of tne Dig aeai - r-- - jiwx in hk wu o I , . ,!, J-., not hear too close ing to sharp stricture of the committee for failing to make- good. on ine pre nlane. rather than piling up the additional, and wholly foreign embargo, of "a $200,000 bond to protect me work Ingmen who may be engaged in the con struction of the road". xv - - I It is held by many in the city that if the promotion committee is not capa- i.u nf nlnsliuT 1m a. deal like this, in a businesslike w ay, promptly, and with out nernnttins the intervention ot eimi- lar, though rival interests, in an affair of such moment as this and that if the full committee of nine, is to delegate its influence and authority -to a third of the membership, the sooner the Chamber takes up the pwer it has delegated, the better for all concerned. Mr. Reid came down here prepared to perform the share of his principals in the matter of the money-ana-aeeu-escrow and that was the end of the transaction, o far as it has proceeded, of act, and record. There was no call for the shal low farce of the bond to protect the.men who are to do the construction work; the transparency of the thing indicates that it was a pretext ana a oiun, ana " bears a decidedly inspired look to ievei- hoaded business men about town. Everybody knows that William Reid is not operating, this time, as an actual promoter and builders but i heft-as tne agent and representative of people and interests presumably sale ana respect able. and. until proven otherwise, en titled to full faith and credit. And since he came as an agent and has not posed as anything else from beginning to end. it were the better part of communal decency not to deliberately and pointed- . . ...... ly pile up barriers for wnicn mere is no call nor excuse. That there is a contention afoot as to the prior claim of the Lytle interests in the risrht-of-way, by reason of their having first surveyed and staked out the unbought grade, is beside tne matter as it was presented to this community by the TTawcood DeoDle: that issue is up to the parties themselves to settle in, or . , . I. ..i;wifa tiat it nearuiy on me uup. F- , " I t n('nrl w ... their end the lands la question couhi u. - .. . .. . vuc ,, . 1 an,! aim. t .In BO have to adlUSt that to do was to keep faith with Mr. ReiJ the outcome does not bear too close ... . 1.-1. IV. tMwjuise it ados immensely w mo - , tMXue it . '...' , g.n,l r n ttit. onnrp an far sa we are tige conferred by the entry of tnis great -j " - tranannrtat.inil System into this tem V- f - W tory, especially as it comes with the vast accretion and influence of a sea -terminal, 9, status turn, v.v v-v marine extension and equipment that is certain to be fulfilled at the earliest pos sible moment. Any community that gets a Hill rail - WAV and steamship terminus may count itself wonderfully fortunate, because the spirit that actuates the typical expan sionist at the head of the great proper ties is of a sort that builds always and wisely and never permits the mould of inertia to grow .by so much as an atom upon the work of his brain andv hand. Therefore this master-stroke, which has ' given him indubitable command of an other minerb hiehway from the moun tains to the sea, and athwart seas to the uttermost corners of the earth, will be " made into one of the most notable of t prints of the world. James J ' frill will see to it that , his splendid command of the Columbia Basin suffers nothing for want of equipment; from the Snake River to Clatsop Spit, he will have all that the huge new highway, de mands for its widest development. ' Elevators, docks, warehouses and all the elements of traffic and cargo handling will be in evidence just as each are re , quired for service, and the end of the coming year will see an incalculable chance everywhere on the long route Especially will this be proven at the sea end of the system. For it goes without saying he has not bought 2200 acres of waterfront land to lie barren and useless ' at the mouth of one of the treatest riv era in the world, while he commands the rail mileage to the uttermost reaches tf the interior, alonar its course. The effect on Astoria and her county ' cannot be measured in terms nor dollars. Thin is a matter of rich and constant ' development, and all that may be said in dependable fashion at the moment is, that it will have a tremendously stimu latintr results in the realty market, with out forcing it to an altitude at once ridiculous and dangerous, but yet, com mensurate with the incontestable ad ' vantage that such news as this war " rants. It gives new impetus to hundreds ' of dormant energies and industries and ' opens up the local field to outside, as ,' well as to home capital, in a myriad ways that would not have been attempt I ed with anvthincr less assuring. It is altogether good and gratifying; and deeply as all Astorians feel on the prime nueation of the hour, it will not be per- mitted to overwhelm us to any degree of idiocv as too good a thing to be frit- w tv tered away in Tabid, speculative plans, and will he usea as tne greatest, most tflnrriWp. and effective basis this section ever possessed, for sensibly and,honestly xploiting the advantages ot tne port, the city, ana tne county. concerned. What Astoria wants is more railroads. It does not make any difference who brings them in here, so they come; ana it is the plain duty of the biggest com' mittee in the Astoria Chamber of Com merce to see to it that their coming is assured in so far as the people of this city can assure it. Jot man, nor tnree, are qualified or commissioned to arbi trarily set up barriers against Mr. Reid, nor anv other man. duly sent here to trea,t with this community; and the nine members of the promotion committee may not do it either, if the policy is directly antagonistic to the public good. It is not a Question of what Mr. Reid can or will do, but what his principals will do: and as much Is known ot tnem and their purposes as is known of Mr. Lytle and his. We have certain mings to offer and certain compacts to make and keep; and our communal honesty is not to be ieopardized at the behest of any antagonistic interest, in nor out of Astoria, and the sooner this is under stood, the better for all in touch with public matters of this sort. "BUSINESS IS BUSINESS." There was no lack of critical comment on the streets yesterday morning when it became , known that the promotion committee of the Chamber of Commerce had" passed another baffling proposition im tn William Reid. on the right-of-way deal which he had come down here to close on the basis of the original under standing between these factors in the PnTtlATid-Oreeron & Seacoast Railway negotiations; the general tendency be- suit. EDITORIAL SALAD. An aored Connecticut man says he has j - waited over eighty year for his auto mobile. But then, it's better to wait for trouble than go looking for it. A Kansas City wife complained that she never received a cent of his eigni- dollars-aweek salary. He must have been a high roller then! Senator Tillman is said to be a great lover of flowers, till he cannot pluck many from bouquets thrown at him Isn't it about time or the goose-bone or chestra to give us music suggestive of a long, cold Winter T - o The Jananese will soon trust , us im plicitly enought to let us bid for their next loan. Prosperity's watchword for the fu ture should be: "Natlonlize the M.W- sissippi." Hint, is defined as a chance of occu pation. But this is not definition of rest that represents the side of the bears as they lope through Louisiana cauc brakes. - iRecrfitarv Taft is the first war min ister to go around the world and talk Deaoe. The Hague Conference may ac complish nothing, but the Taft mission is doing well. of A novelist is said to fee the mother 1io mnat hpantifiil riri Of 14 in Enffland. The critics will all be com plimentary for once when they review this sort of authorship. Harry Thaw proposes to appeal to the Supreme Court because his trial is delayed. 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