TOE MORNING ASTOUIAN, i" STOMA OREGON.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1908.
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Main 711, Main 2871 Phone Main 713
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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.
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' 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,"
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GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Feb. 14.
The government has . sent cable in
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name of Ecuador on the arrival of
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