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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1908)
TOE MORNING ASTOUIAN, i" STOMA OREGON. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1908. We Have Received Our New Line WHITE AND GOLD Open stock pattern. Sold any way you wish to buy it, by the piece, dozen r set SEE WINDOW DISPLAY 3 A. V. ALLEN pinnae Branch Uniontowh Main 711, Main 2871 Phone Main 713 Sole agent for Baker's Bamngton uw oteei vuw. ULillLlliUUllUlUUHl (Continued tromwg 1) emptied entirely within two minutes. The building is entirely of fire proof material, three million brick and 1500 tons of steel being used in its con struction. It will be seated with opera chairs throughout and will con tain an immense stage which will adapt the building to the purpose of grand opera, festivals and similar en tertainments as well as conventions.. The design of the Auditorium build ing is the Ranaissance style of archi tecture. The walls are of light grey fcrick with granite and concrete trim mings. There is no wood used in the construction of the building except the sashes of the windows. Seats will be arranged with special reference to the delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Ample accommodations will be pro vided for the delegates and alternates and special attention will be given to press section which will contain ac Mmmndatinns for more than 500 working newspapermen. The accous-l tic properties of the building are sucn that the ordinary voice pitched to the tone used in public speaking can be heard distinctly in all parts of the tall. The vast building lends itself ad mirably to elaborate decorative schemes and it is the intention of the management to place the building in gala attire in June in honor of the Erst convention held within its walls. The building was projected several jears ago by the City of Denver and is constructed at public expense. A great number of conventions choose Denver as their meeting place every year, making it imperative that a spacious assembly hall be provided for their reception. Replies to a Letter Sent by Council man BeUand. GREATER NEW YORK The Most Expensive City to Live In. DANGER OF CONFLAGRATION Growth of New World's Most Preco cious Municipal Child Real Estate Values Would Pay National Debt and Run Government Eight Years. Councilman L. O. Belland, superin tendent of the Columbia River Pack ers' Association in charge of the Bristol Bay Cannery received the fol lowing letter from Secretary Oscar Straus in reply to one sent by the councilman expressing his satisfac tion of closing of Wood and Nusha- gak rivers: "The receipt of your let ter of the 21st ult., expressing your satisfaction at the recently order of j the department, closing Wood and Nch? gak rivers, and offering sugges tions concerning the enforcement of this order, is acknowledged. The subject of the enforcement of this order and all the questions raised by you are now under consideration by the Bureau of Fisheries. The De partment will undoubtedly have one or more representatives on Wood river or in the Nushagak Bay region throughout the coming season, and assurance is given yon that the neces sary attention will be paid to the end th t the order be obeved by all par ties. The Department expects that all cannervmen and especially those who have supported the issuance of the order will control their own fish ermen and prevent them from fishing within the closed district The fish- ernment themselves' having through their representatives strongly urged the closing order, will presumably be disposed toward its rigid observance. In ?.ny case, itis the intention of the Department t6 see that it is literally obeyed. Just what equipment will be available for the patrol of the region has not yet been decided, but it is not likely that it will be expedient to purchase a launch at this time. The department thanks you for your offer of assistance, and it is probable that you can be of service during the in vestigations the coming season." We are the people, Our demands should be respected. Give us good homes, plenty to eat and comfortable clothes. Give us education, training and good society. Give us good fathers and mothers. Give us Chamberlain's Cough Remedy when we have coughs, colds or whooping cough. We are entitled to the best and should have it. We are to inherit the earth. Prepare us for this great responsibility by giving us what we demand, and we will become honest, industrious, upright citizens, proud of our ancestry and loyal to our country. FRANK HART, DRUGGIST. NEW YORK, Feb. U.-The most precocious municipal child the world has ever seen that is the title indu bitably conferred on Greater New York on this her tenth birthday, since the consolidation by which the great er city was made a reality took place just a decade ago in 1898. A compar ison of the city then and now shows an undreamed growth never before approached in this or any other coun try. Since 1898 the population has increased 26 per cent until it now stands at 4,500,000 persons. The city's area has grown to 327 square miles, the new metropolis being in this respect twice as large as Chicago, nearly three times the sue of Phil adelphia and ten times larger than cities like Detroit and Baltimore. But as "great as it is this is the least impressive feature of Greater New York's growth in the first decade 'of its existence. During the last ten years have come practically all the skyscrapers, great public buildings like the new $5,000,000 Custom House, and the new Astor library, the sub ways, the tunnels and dozens of great hotels and theatres. Ten years ago the assessed valuation of taxable real estate was $2,460,000,000. Today has reached the total of $6,240,000,000. Sold at this valuation Father Knick erbocker's real estate would bring enough money to pay all the public expenses of the United States Gov ernment for eight years. Or it would J pay the national debt and leave (enough over to purchase all the prop- jerty in Maine, New Hampshire, Ver niont, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. In the first decade of its history Greater New ' York's t cent, now numbering more than two thirds of a million and the item in the i city budget for school expenses has j increased from $7,000,000 annually to ioinnnnm Th nni;,- an.i fir far. j ,v'v,vw. ..v r " " - ' ra rtav inrriafrl ahnnt 5fl nrr fflnt Jand it is a significant fact that the ' $13,000,000 which it costs the national I government every year to run its legislative branch would not pay for ; this city's firemen and policemen It is interesting to note in this con nestion that the city is no better or f worse than it was in 1898, judged by the number . of arrests. These for last year totalled 189,202, an increase of 26 per cent over 1898, or exactly the same ratio of increase as shown by the entire population. Ten years ago New York had one bridge operation, valued at $21,000,000. To day the value of bridges erected since then and in the course of construe Hon is $S4,5UU,im City improve ments under way, planned, and con tracted for, total about $100,000,000 exclusive of the $162,000,000 to be ex pended for the new water system, Big and large every dollar's worth of value in 1898 has grown to four dol lars now. In all this the New Yorker finds much to fill him with pride There is another side of this amazing growth, however, which he cannot view with complacency, and this is the staggering increase in the ex pense of running the city. While the population has increased 26 per cent in ten years the city's budget has in creased 209 per cent, exceeding today those of London, Paris and Berlin combined. As well as being the big eest and the most precocious and one of the youngest cities in the country, Greater New York today is also without doubt the most expen sive to live in that the world has ever seen. unpleasant but extremely grave. The manager of one of the largest lire in surance companies characterises the whole fire fighting system of Man hattan as being far below the neces sary standard, citing the last report of the fire underwriters which label led the fire alarm service as fundam entally wrong in design and in state of such physical decay as to be liable at any time to such a failure as to render it wholly useless to the fire fighting department in the time of greater need. More than three quar ters of the fire alarm cable system nc- ording to this report was in a hope lessly defective condition and had gone beyond repair. The lire alarm boxes, it continues, are largely of an anti quated type dating back to 1869. In April, 1905, the accidental severance of a single cable disabled twenty-five per cent of all the firm alarm stations in Manhattan and the experts have reoprted that the troubles which often occur in the system in a single day are more than should properly hap pen in several years. Expert report characterizes the whole system as be- ng so thoroughly bad as to be be yond repair or any further patching, Naturally under these conditions which the public appreciates st little as it does the danger of a fire bigger than any in history, fire insurance companies are decreasing their liabili ties. One high official is quoted as describing the condtion as one in which not .only might all lower New York be wiped out by flames but as a result all the insurance companies suffer financial ruin. Of course New York likes to do things in a big way, but in this case especially after the recent loss of several lives in fires because of defective and rotten ap paratus it appears as if Father Knick erbocker was not anxious for a rec ord of this sort. Meantime the inves tigation to place the responsibilities for this rotten hose goes merrily on with all sorts of charges of "graft." Is New York in danger of a confla gration even greater than that which devastated San Francisco after the earthquake? This question aston ishing as it may seem is one which is now receiving much serious, if quiet discussion, as evidenced by the reduc tions of their insurance by practically all" the big fire companies in Down town New York. The public demon stration of the inefficiency of the water pressure and the rottenness of the antique fire hoBe which burst even under the light pressure put upon at the recent $1,000,000 Parker build ing fire has led to an investigation by the fire underwriters which shows up the city's service in a light not only II ear," P Oa' i -1 rjr .mtm.i.i. r , r. ! This May Interest You 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. For sale by T. F. Laurin. 0 ALCOHOL S PER tIKNT. AVcflelublelVnaraltofl&rAs-sirallailitiiterWantllWiii fln(J Uic SuimariB atullkwls aC P omo (es Di'ttonKf frfy ness awl tet.Cotttilnj ncfihr Itoiuni.Morphlne MrNtatraL A. isi. .' I lea . Sour SSoatacluUtarthoa, V prnw .Minis row V a? tttftl Her: w.'.i Lu5jvu' jw- kew'yohk. For Infanta and Children. 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