8UNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1908.
TIIK MORNING ASTOHIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
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Astoria Has Strong;
Financial Institutions
Astoria't financial Htatim may be
afcly measured by tlie (our leading
fiduciary concern known a the Firt
National Hank, the Astoria National
Dank, the Astoria Saving Hank and
the Scandinavian -American Saving!
Dank: four at sound, ably conducted
and ucccful Institutioni a ever in
vited the coiifulciice of a given pub
lic: A (act attested by the tingle
circunutanre that at the clone of the
late, lamented 'Stringency" not one
of the house wa disturbed In the
leant by ft presumably anxious clien
tele and opened their doori to what
was rated at leit than normal bui
nc demandt and with an immediate
arceia of deposit that wat notable
at ch i juncture. While thii may
not have been peculiar to thii city
and Hi banki, the merit of the mater
it inclusive in the general attitude
with which the bankt of Oregon dis
posed of a very threatening condition
and Indicative of the perfect confi
dene in wh'ch the home depositorlet
were held.
With nearly four million! of money
In their hand! thete banki have al-
wayi Been raiea among me munutn
in the Northwett and are truly re
nrrseutative of the people and terri
tory for which they Hand. The lev
eral group! of responsible men pon
toring these concernt are a followt:
First National: Jacob Kamm, preti
dent; W. F. McGregor, Vice presi
dent; S. S, Cordon, cathicr; J. R. A.
Dennett, ailant cahier, Core
pondentt: National Park Bank, New
York; Firt National Dank. Chicago;
First National Rank, Portland. Ore
gon. Astoria National: Ceo. II. George.
preident; Ceo. W. Warren, vice
president; J. K. Higgin. cashier; C.
R. Hiiuin. assistant cashier. Cor
respondent: Flrt National Bank,
Portland. Ore.; Bank of New York,
N. B. A. New York; Continental
National Bank. Chicago; Crocker
Woolworth National Bank, San Fran
cisco, Attoria Saving: J. Q A. Bowlby,
president ; O. 1. Petcrton. vice prei
dent; Frank Patton. cahicr; J. W.
Garner, assistant cashier. Corre
tpondentt: Chase National Bank, New
York; Bankers' National Bank, Chica
go; Merchant'! National Bank, Phil
adelphia; Seattle National Bank,
Seattle; Canadian Bank of Commerce,
San Francisco; Bank of California.
Portland; United State National
Bank, Portland, Oregon.
Scandinavian-American Bank: Gust
Holme, president; C. G. Palmbcrg,
vice president; J, M. Andenon,
cashier; John Nordstrom, assistant
cashier. Correspondent: Scandinavian-American
Bank, Portland. Ore;
San Francisco National Bank, San
Francisco; Seaboard National Bank,
New York; First National Bank, St.
Paul, Minn.
Attoria i deemed to be one of the
Roundest banking center! in the coun
try and the policy of itt bankers in
carefully conserving the financial in
terest of the community and wisely
disposing of the funds committed to
their hands, justifies the admirable e
timate in which her fiduciary busi-
! ! nrrnunted abroad.
Astoria Has Finely
Equipped Fire Dept.
For nearly 40 year Attoria hat
been carefully building her fire de
fenses and now possesses a depart
ment that matches anything on the
coast for celerity and certitude In
fighting fire, population and limits
considered.
At this time she hai on call two
fine hose wagon, each with 900 feet
of 21-inch hose and 200 Icet f 11-inch
hose, with two chemical extinguish-1
ers, and 40 feet of ladders; one com-;
bination chemical and hose wagon
with 800 feet of hose, a 60-gallon tank j
and 200 feet of chemical hose and 40
feet of ladders; one double 60-gallon
chemical engine with 300 feet of hose 1
and 40 feet of ladders, besides five
extra hose wagons with 3000 feet of
hose stationed at convenient points in
the milling and business districts. At
department headquarters she holds in
reserve two steamers, an Amoskeag
and a Silsby, and a 55-foot Hayes
extension hook and ladder truck.
The smaller apparatus meets , the
larger emergencies of fire, owing to
the fine hydrant and water-pressure
service, the heavier vehicles being
used only in extended engagements;
the hydrant ' furnishing , from 60 to
110 pounds pressure at the hose
nozzles, as may be required.
This line of apparatus la In charge
of a paid department consisting 22
men, chief engineer, four drivers,
one chemical man and 16 extra men;
all highly trained through long serv
ice and all Imbued with spirited pride
in the minimum record of Ins and
damage which they have made for
the city ami the department, Four
splendid team are employed by the
department to haul what of the ip-
with the owner and master of
oinc of the bay steamer for the use
of their powerful pump for water
front fire when they hall occur.
This, with the building and equipping
of two new iaiion at the eastern
and western cxtremitie of the :ity
at an early day will place the com-
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ASTORIA FIRE DEPARTMENT IIF.ADOUARTF.RS.
paratut may be needed; and through
out the most rigid system of training
and action is enforced.
The water service in this behalf it
to be augmented during the present
year by the building of salt water
main through the heart of the city
and the chief engineer hat arranged
munity in a position of practical im
munity from serious loss by fire.
The call syMem it modern and ad
mirable for present need and con
list of 12 alarm boxes electrically
served, with gongt and indicator! at
the four principal fire house! ; and in
a short time thii end of the tervice
will be extended by the introduction
of a transmission box at headquarter
to be ued in conjunction with the
telephone fire call, upon receipt of
which a character wheel is thrown
Into operation advicing each outlying
siaton of the exact location of the
fire, and will crvc principally to call
up the men and apparatui at they
shall be needed during the progress
if a fire.
The basis of action in the Attoria
What Our Rating Is
(Concluded from page 17.)
(which are 1000 feet Jong by 200 feet
in width); the Callender docks, the
Fisher, Flavcl, and other of lesser
dimension; while all the great lum
bering plants and cannery plants,
each maintain their own piert and use
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ENGINE HOUSE NO. 1.
fire department, it the use of at little
water a possible and thit it con
served by every rule at present in
force; the theory being that quite at
much damage may often be inflicted
by a deluge of water at by the flame
themselves; and the idea is as popu
lar at it i successful.
them constantly for their own and
the general commerce of the harbor.
The interior country town that
have any touch whatever with the
Columbia river via its tributaries, are
in daily communication with thit port
and steamer traverse every stream
in Oregon and Washington that it at
all navigable, to and from thit city
at all timet of the year. There art
fine river fleets running on ewlft
schedules between Attoria and tha
metropolitan city of Portland, day
and night, in addition to the rail
schedules alway maintained. All tht
coast lines of iteamthip running out
of Portland, at well at the trana
Pacific liner, touch here regularly, la
and out, for freight and passenger,
and the city is almost hourly in touch
with every port between Juneau,
Alaska, and San Diego, California,
beside being in direct inter-communication
with all foreign linet issuing
from San Francisco and Victoria.
Astoria it, therefore, in the very heart
of marine commerce on the Faclfta
and her importance is growing tre
mendously all the time.
Another year will tee this import
ance greatly enhanced, when tha
plant of the Hill system have takeft
definite shape and the tcope of ita
engagement are known and lend aft
impetus to every other venture and
enterprise now pending; an accett
that meant that Astoria it to be rated
amng the realy great ports of the
coast, if by reason only of its huge
grain exportation, a feature that is,
in time, to transcend even the splen
did recordi of Portland, Tacoma and
Seattle, since the bulk of breadstuff
from the Inland Empire is to find it
ocean transportation from this port
ASTORIA, AT THE SEA-BASE OF ALL COLUMBIA BASIN GRADES.
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