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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1908)
MUIlW'M'liaWllWIl'IWIltl''llli'lililiiWillW. MWMIMH IWWIWHIW THE MORNING AST01UAN. STOMA. OREGON. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 19M. We are at last enabled to fill our orders for FERN DISHES Have just received a large assortments in MATT GREEN Exceptional values offered In our new line of fancy Jugs and Tankards. SEE WINDOW DISPLAYS A. V.ALLEN Phonxs Branch Uniontown Main 711, Main 2871 Phone Main 713 Sole agent for Baker's Barrington Hall Steel Cut Coffee. ; BOXES (HUSTLES Use of Electricity in the Action Me chanism Allows the Instrument to be Played With an Even and Light Pressure on the Keys. BOSTON, Feb. 7. Uncle Sam's bulletin on the manufacture of mus ical instruments, just out, shows that the largest and most expensive and most perfect of all instruments for the production of harmony, the pipe organ, is peculiarly a product of Mas sachusetts. The continued supremacy of the eld Bay State in this department of instrument making, which, of course, particularly concerns the churches of every American city, is right in line with the traditions of American mus- them in Boston and the nearby sub urbs. The aggregate value of these was SS-HcW, representing about 25 per cent, of the value of all made in the United States, and by far the largest percentage of high priced organs, since two other states, Illin ois and Ohio, made as many pipe or gans but ot a tar smaller average value. The church and concert or gans that come out of Massachusetts work-shops averaged about $3800 each, while the average for the whole country was only $2200. Behind the making of these pipe organs in the Bay State there is long line of trade traditions dating from the first American church organ built in Boston in 1745 by Edward Bromrield Jr. This man, only an amateur at the business, planned an instrument of 1200 pipes but, dying at the early age 23, he left the work only partially completed. ProfeS' sional organ building in this country ical history. Pipe organs were intro duced for the first time in North J began at Boston in 1752 in the shop America at Boston, and, as was the ' of Thomas Johnstone. way in olonial times, vigorously! To guide the efforts of the earliest opposed, since there was still large ' American organ builders good mod- debate among Puritans as to whether els were already at hand. Pipe or music was of God or of the Devil, i gans "boxes of wnustles," as the The running fight that lasted for a century or more in communities of New England and the Middle States as to whether the church organ might r might not be properly used in wor ship seemed somehow to be based on such misconceptions as that of the worthy mechanic who complained to a Scotch clergyman, "I have no objec tion to the organ, but I understand whenever the organ is brought in there is to be an attack made on the doctrine of the atonement." As late as 1762 a subject for public discus sion at Harvard College Commence ment was "Does music promote sal vation?" and although the matter was decided in the affirmative the decision was not reached without much bitter ness of spirit Despite or perhaps because of intensity of the feelings engendered by such arguments the leadership in the manufacture of pipe organs seems Scotch called them were brought to these shores long before they were made here. At Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is still played the oldest church organ in the United States, one that was imported from England in 1708 by Hon. Thomas Brattle, noted citizen of Boston and one of the founders of the Brattle St Church. It was left at his death in 1713 to the church bearing his name with the condition that if this Puri tan body did not accept it, the instru ment was to go to King's Chapel, then representing theChurch of Eng land in New England. Brattle Street politely but firmly refused it, and the organ was instal led in Boston's Episcopal church, later to be sold to a chapel of the same denomination at Newburyport, and finally to be set up in St. John's Chapel at Portsmouth where during the Peace Conference it pealed forth to have been preserved by the New j its notes of "peace and good will to England capital from early days down to now when, in the year 1905, according to the census bulletin just cited, 137 pipe organs were construct ed in Massachusetts, nearly all of men." It is only a little organ, of course, as compared with the big ones of today an affair eight feet two inches high, five feet wide and two feet seven inches deep but it was illSlllfll ' :i Ij.i : ' ' " " - .... facts V?0 ma ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. AVegelablePreparalionfirAs similaiiii$tteFoodMdRegtia. tingtlieStomactisandBcwclsflf Promotes DfeestionflieerfuH ness and Rest.Contains tteitftir OpiiniuMorphine norMiocraUl JtCT Narcotic. IkhtlcSJ:: Air :.:! .'tu,:,.; '.Siti Ai2.-f.2ci Rsiwilv forConsfipa- tier. , iiOv-i 'JLcH3di.D'iarrtBea Vorir.s,Ccir,a!;i&:,fcvcris!i- "--''2 Sijnaiure of NEW YORK. For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears Signature Exact Copy of Wrapper. Af a if' In W For Over Thirty Years TMf OINTAUH HWMT, ( TOW OITT. , ' - ;n,,r,nn- hli "rrwr i in 'i""" well made originally and it has had good core. It is probably more often examined by curious slght-secrs than any other musical instrument in the United States, for everybody who goes to Portsmouth wants to see the first specimen brought to this coun try of the glorious instrument which Abt Voglcr invented. Another very famous pipe organ from abroad was installed in New England at a much later date and a time when American manufacturers were doing creditable work, though not equal to that of the Germans and the French. About midway in the Civil War Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, whose interest in music was very keen, wrote an enthusiastic ami often quoted description of the first big concert organ to be set up in this country, one which was made for Boston's new Music II all by a famous German firm. That installation in 1863 was the begining of American interest in the pipe organ as used for other than church purposes. Since then large concert organs have been put up in New York, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and many other American centres of musical activity. The original one in Boston had an eventful history. Through the later years of the Civil War and those succeeding it was fre quently used. Many of the most famous of American musicians of the seventies delighted to play on it, though it had its defects. When, however, in the early eighties the Symphony Concerts began to crowd Music Hall, the organ was found to take up too much room. In 18S4 it was sold to Hon. William Grover who presented it to the New England Conservatory of Music, then occupy ing its historical quarters in Franklin Square, where Lillian Nordica and many other famous musicians re ceived their training. The Conserva tory management found that the largest of American concert organs was more or less of a white elephant. They had no hall big enough for it, and as there were some technical ob jections to its mechanism, no good reason appeared for building a hall specially to shelter it. Finally, the metal and lumber in the big organ, which was in reality as far ahead of its time as jvas the Croat Eastern among the steamships, were sold to local instrument makers and reap peered doubtless in smaller and more suable iustrments. The New England Conservatory undoubtedly benefited by not attemp ting to keep the famous instrument for when a few years later a removal took place to the admirably equipped conservatory building on Hunting ton Avenue, one of Boston's mer- nt princes, Eben D. Jordan, equip ped for the uses of the school and of he visiting musicians who find in ordan Hall th finest American con cert hall, one of the largest and most complete pipe organs ever put to gether. This instrument, built in Boston and provided with every pos ible facility for musical expression, tands at the modern end of the long ine of pipe organs that have been constructed in America since Brom- eld's iniitat'on of an English pipe organ tirst scandalized the more rigid Puritans. It was built in the ntelligent technical way in which the census bulletin just out states tnat 'almost every pipe organ is practi cally built to order to accord with the architecture or acoustic qualities of he room or auditorium in which it is lesigncd'to be placed." The same nstitution of musical education has 'iltogethcr fourteen pipe organs in aily use by pupUs and teachers. Phis is more than double the number of organs contained under any other ingle roof in the world. i Musicianship on "the Devil's bag. pipes," as Calvinistic divines called them, has naturally been somewhat centralized where the organs arc made so that the history of the devel opment of American organ music is concerned very largely with Boston, just as the history of grand opera in America has been largely connected with New York and New Orleans. In spite of early complaints that "the service to God is most grievously abused by the piping of organs, ring- g of bells and singing and trowling if chants from one side of the choir o the other, with the squealing of chanting choir , boys and such like 'nominations which arc an offence to the Lord," much of.our earlier Ameri can music was written for the pipe organ. Particularly since the unvcil- ng of the great concert organ in Boston Music Hall in 1863 a long ine of famous American organists of many American cities have had their training in the New England capital. John Knowles Paine, a pro fessor for many years at Harvard, began as an organ virtuoso, as did Horatio Parker, now professor of music at Yale, and one of the most famous of American composers. Dud ley Buck, whose fame and popularity were certainly national in the days when merf wore Dundreary whiskers, Great Shelf- Clearing Sale OF WALL PAPEE Odd Lots, Remnants and Odd Stock, Going at Prices that Will Aston ish You. We MUST Have Room For Our NEW Stock. Therefore we give our customers this golden opportunity. Many patterns will be soli at less than cost. Join the processions and carry away some of the many bargains. AllenWall Paper & Paint Co. Comer Eleventh and Bond Streets A N was one who delighted in the oppor tunity afforded by the big blow pipes in Music Han SUES ON NOTES. VANCOUVER, Wash., Feb. 7. George A. I.nrrabce has commenced a suit in the superior court against O. O. Walling and a number of oth er defendants to secure a judgment of a total of $383.57. Of the amount claimed, $58.95 is for a lumber bill, while the remainder is on a number of assigned notes. SUIT FOR LOSS OF FINGER. OVERCOMES ALL THE . RHEUMATISM EASILY PREPARED AT HOME FORCES THE KIDNEYS TO FILTER URIC ACID AND WASTE FROM THE BLOOD. A large New York health publi cation tells its readers of a number of simple and safe prescriptions that can be made at home. The follow ing, however, for the cure of rheu matism and kidney and bladder troubles receives the greatest praise, viz., Fluid Extract Dandelion, one half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. These simple, harm less ingredients can be obtained at any good prescription pharmacy at little cost and are mixed by shaking well in a bottle. The dose for adults is a teaspoon ful after each meal and at bedtime, drinking a full tumbcrful of water after each dose. It is further stated that this prescription is a positive remedy for kidney trouble and lame hack, weak bjaddcr and urinary diffi culties, especially of the elderly peo ple, and one of the best things to be used in rheumatism afflictions, re lieving the aches and pains and re ducing swellings. A well known local druggist states that this mixture acts directly upon the climinative tissues of the kidneys; cleanses these spongclikc organs and gives them power to sift and strain the poisonous waste matter and uric acid from the blood which is the cause of rheumatism. Cut this out and hand to some suf ferer which would certainly be an act of humanity. ,....'. , ' i PORTLAND, Feb. 7.-In Judge O'Day's department of the circuit court a jury is hearing the suit of Oscar Ncwquist, against the Willam ette Iron & Steel Works for $1500 damages for the loss of a finger. Ncwquist alleges that he was em ployed at llwaco, Wash., to assist an employe of the defendant company, natmd Rogers, to place new tubes in an upright boiler. While engaged in this work, say Ncwquist, Rogers carelessly dropped a tube, which bruised Newquist's forenger, necessi tating amputation, PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Pils in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c. terday on the Pacific Mail liner In diana to report another failure. Johnstone said yctscrday that 4h pumps upon which he depended to suck the golden harvest from the sand and rotted limbers had proved failures. He is disappointed but not discouraged, and he and the eastern capitalists interested with him will fit out another expedition and late In the fall will be at Maiuanillo ready to have one more try, Wbmen with good complexion ara never homely. Good blood make toi complexions. Lftne'g Family Medicine make, good blood. AH druggist tll It for 25 cents. FRANCO IN GAY PAREE. BORDEAUX, France, Feb. 7-Ex-Premier Franco-and family left the "South Express" here today and took up their quarters at a hotel near the" railroad station, where it is said they will remain until tomorrow. 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"Everybody should lie. tuudo to work iu this lifo," remarked the political economist. "I don't agree with you," answered Miss Cayenne, "There are so many pcoplo who, when they try to work, merely B'j',,',d In setting In the way." Washington Star. Foley's Honey and Tar cures the most obstinate coughs and expels the cold from the system and it is mildly laxative. It is guaranteed. The genuine is in the yellow package. BURIED TREASURE. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7. -An-other attempt has failed to wrest from the sands of the Mexican shore line the treasure supposed to be lying with the bones of the steamer Golden Gate, which was burned off Manza nillo in 1862. The Golden Gate, bound from here for New York, car ried a great shipment of newly dug California gold. The steamer took fire and to save the lives of the pas sengers was run ashore. At frequent intervals since then at tempts have been made to recover the treasure, The most persistent of the treasure hunters has been C. W. Johnstone, of Boston, who makes an annual effort to recover the Golden Gate's gold Last year a storm swept away the pier on which he had in stalled his wrecking gear, He fitted another expedition but returned yes- When you need cough cure you need one that will eune your cough. KempX. Balsam, tli. beet cough cure, will do It. All druggists sell it for 25 cents.
