The morning Astorian., February 23, 1908, INVESTORS' AND HOMESEEKERS' EDITION, THIRD SECTION, Page 21, Image 21

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1908.
THE MORNING ASTOIUAN. ASTORIA, OREGON.
Interests of the
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Citiy
of Astoria.
THE ASTORIA ELECTRIC CO. grade of blanket, woolen good ami
No city In the northwest can bont underwear on die Pacific Coast, and
of belter fucllitiei than are afforded ,,,ey earr mot complete Mock of
by the Astoria Electric Company, a Tn Buckskin suit and over-
local enterprise, which acquired, about emt raincoat and men' and boy'
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live year ago, me Astoria g
work, the street railway system, and
the electric lighting ytem, and lin
proved and extended them to furnish
till community with the beit possible
ervlce. Since the organlxalion of the
company the business ha more than
doubled, extension are conntantly be
ing made and last year the company
added a new 1000 horcpower engine
and a 500 killewat generator at it
power home at the foot of Ator
itreet, and i prepared to furnish eleC'
trlcity to every house in the city.
The itreet car ervice i remarkably
good and the company maintain
frequent and regular tchedule along
il entire line from Unionlown to
Alderbrook. The electric lighting er
vice a rendered U excellent both a
to quality and quantity and beside
being lighted electrically mai.y As
torla home are equipped with heat
ing and other electrical device which
largely contribute to comfort ami
healthfulne. The company make a
feature of furniihlng electrical power
in any deircd quantity and the larg
eit industry locating here may be as
tured of obtaining ample power at
lower rate than arc usually obtained
in other cities. The company' invest
ment represent an outlay of between
$500,000 and $600,01)0 and a they
have since put their profit into fur
ther improvement the company has
been a powerful factor in the develop
incut of the city and ii large payroll
distributed to it hundred of em
ployees in Astoria has a far-reaching
effect upon the prosperity of the com
munity. The officer ' include S. 7..
Mitchell, a New York capitalist, prei
dent; S. S. Gordon, cashier of the
First National Hank of Astoria, and
one of our most progressive citizens,
vice-president; C. N. Muggins, active
ly Identified with the Portland Rail
way, Light ft Power Co., secretary
and treasurer; II. L. Knight, a prac
tical electrician of long experience,
acting superintendent; and Judge
Charle II. Page, a well known mem
ber of the bench and bar and a large
owner of really in Astoria, director,
all of whom have done their share to
promote the welfare of Astoria and
to render the city a desirable place
to live in and earn a livelihood.
clothing, making a specialty of the
Alfred Benjamin ready-made suits.
The brothers came here a year ago
and have already won a reputation
second to none in the city, the public
having learned that all garment sold
by them are just a represented, They
are active, energetic business men
with modern idea ami method and
are much pleased with business con
ditions here.
S. DANZIOER ft CO.,
Men's Furnisher.
This firm was established about 22
years ago, and handle the best grade
of men' and boys' clothing, includ
ing the overcoats and suits of the
famous Stein-Iiloch Clothing Com
pany, of Rochester, and a complete
line of the latet style of ties, shirts,
hosiery and underwear, and make a
specially of the popular llawes hats.
In addition to the specialties named
the firm also carries the product of
other high-class tailoring establish
menu and perhaps no other firm in
the city does as extensive a trade
with the best dressed men of the
community as does S. Daiuigcr &
Co, while their jobbing trade with the
smaller stores of the surrounding
country is growing rapidly. S. Dan
igcr, who ha been at the head of
the business from the time of it in
ception, ha increased hit trade from
a small store to its present dimcn- i
sion by good management and well ,utmau ,h,j, nrljstj, ,aicnt ami B00ti
directed effort, and C. M. Ccller, who i tnanngement.
is now (lie active partner in charge
of the business, has been with the
firm about IS year ami a better in
formed clothing salesman would be
bard to find. He give bis entire time
to the business and by careful study
of the latest fashions and investiga
tion, is able to make a wise selection
of his stock and furnishes hi cus
tomer with the best the market
affords at the least cost consistent
with good business policy. A a busi
ness man with modern idea and as a
progressive worker for Astoria C. M.
Cellar is usually found where he can
be counted on to do effective work,
ALLEN WALL PAPER ft PAINT
COMPANY.
This company carries a splendid
line of up-to-date wall paper, em
bracing the latest design a found in
first-class establishment in any of
the big cities of the west and a com
plete line of paints, painter' supplies,
artists' materials, house mouldings
and glass. Well appointed office:
and salesroom are occupied at Elev
enth and Horn! street where an ex
tensive stock i carried.
The house was established in 1886,
and for many year wa conducted
under the name of I). P. Allen & Son.
Early in the year P. M. Cross, the
foreman, who ha had nearly 20 years'
experience in the business, purchased
11. V. Allen's interest, and the busi
ness has since been conducted by
I). II, Allen, who had 10 years' ex
perience with his father, and by Mr.
Cross. The former attend to the
wall paper department and the man
agement of the store while the latter
devote himself mostly to the paint
department and outside work. They
have been employed to paint and
decorate the exterior and interior of
many of the handsomest home in the
city, and their workmanship being
neat and artistic the business has
more than doubled during the last
two years and they are engaged on
work as far away as St. Helens. Con
tracts are taken for house painting,
paper hanging and interior decora
tion; from 15 to 20 skilled workmen
being employed. Both partners are
thoroughly interested in their work
and business success ha come
8TEEL ft EWART,
Electrical Contractor.
This firm, established in Astoria a
year ago, in July moved into larger
quarter at 426 Bond street where
they have more room for display of a
complete (lock of electrical supplies
and fixture. They do wiring in homes
and business blocks, and supply all
kind of electric or combination fix
lure. The member of the firm arc
acknowledged a the most expert in
thi line in the city and stand well
in Portland and other cities, being
sent for from all parts of the Slate
on important work. They are now
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wiring die new cuun iiuiisg nu vmn
kirge buildings and manufacturing
plants in Astoria and can handle any
size contract. Charles J. Steele has
had 12 year practical experience in
electrical work in England, Portland,
and elsewhere, and Dale S. Ewart has
been doing electrical contract work
in Spokane, Los Angeles and other
cities in the west and in Astoria, for
II year. Both members are live,
energetic electricians and their suc
cess here is due to skill and work
manlike methods.
LUUKINEN ft HARRISON,
Men' Furnisher.
Thi firm, composed of J. II. Ltiuki
ncn and W. A. Harrison, was formed
about three year ago, when they
opened with a complete stock of
boots, shoes, men's clothing, and
hats at Ninth and Commercial street.
Both members of the firm have had
years of experience in similar stores
and are especially adapted for the
class of business they are engaged,
in. They have both resided in As
toria for about 20 years and have a
large acquaintance with the Finnish
people who deal with them exten
sively, and their stock is in every re
spect new and modern.
THE ASTORIA ABSTRACT
TITLE ft TRUST CO.
Established about 20 years ago this
company is composed of authorities
on real estate and reality titles and
for those desiring information as to
titles, realty in Astoria, timber lands
or other investments here the Jong
experience and excellent standing of
the company is a guarantee for fair
dealing. Commodious quarters are
occupied in the Northern Hotel build
ing where are provided large iron
proof vaults for protection from loss
by lire and ample room for complete
recqrd of every transfer of real es
tate and every deed, mortgage or lien
filed in Clatsop county in any way
affecting property. The company is
also extensively engaged in the pur
chase and sale of real estate and have
platted and placed on tale several
well known additions in and around
Astoria aiding greatly in the develop
ment of the city, their acreage near
Warrenton, Clatsop Plains, Gearhart
Park and Seaside comprising over
2500 acres of unusually fertile land
which they will plat and sell in tracts
of from 10 to 40 acres for fruit rais
ing and gardening. They also operate
in timber lands on a large scale and
during the past 10 years have inter
ested many large investor in the
timber resources of thi lection
J. N. Griffin is president, E. Z. Fergu
son secretary, and D. M. Stuart vice
president, all men of high repute
whose advice is lought by real es
tate operators here who have met
with greatest success.
O. F. MORTON, REAL ESTATE.
Few men have figured more promi
nently in the real estate business of
Astoria than O. F. Morton, who came
here from New York, making the trip
by way of Cape Horn, and landing
in Astoria from the steamer George
W. Elder on March 28, 1880. Mr.
Morton has strong faith in the future
before Astoria, and has exerted his
best efforts to promote her interests
and render her the greatest commer
cial and shipping port in the north
west, being convinced that the ad
vantages of the city as the only good
harbor reached by a down grade
route through the Cascades must
soon be recognized, and that invest
ment opportunities here are abund
ant and surely will be profitable. His
advice is conservative, and he deals
only in legitimate transactions, pre
ferring an honorable reputation to
wealth acquired through sharp prac
tices. Mr. Morton is a respected
member of the Chamber of Com
merce, and acting commander of
Cushing Post No. 14, G. A. R.( and
his influence in the community has
been felt in many helpful ways.
JAMES W. WELCH,
Real Estate and Insurance.
Mr. Welch came here with hit par
ents in 1846, hit mother being the
first white woman here and hit home
the first in what it now Astoria, He
attended local schools and then col
lege in San Francitco engaging in
fishing and salmon packing until he
was 33 when he wat deputy collector
of internal revenue for - Washington
territory, with headquarters in Walla
Walla. Upon the death of hit father
fie returned to Astoria and with asso
ciates built the Welch Hill Water
Work which subsequently were pur
chased by the city. He hat served
on the school board for 12 years and
several terms in the city council, and
in 1890 was elected to the State
Legislature and i an active leader
and ex-president of the Chamber of
Commerce. For several yean Mr.
Welch has been engaged in the pur
chase and sate of real estate and also
represents several of the strongest
fire insurance companies. Hit it one
of the handsomest hornet in the city,
and he it also the owner of many resi
dence lots and valuable business
property.
prices are reasonable and the business
of the firm ha grown rapidly and or
der come in sometime as rapidly at
they can be filled.
JACOBS ft GIMRE,
Planing Mill
The old C. E. Bain planing mill at
Eleventh and Exchange streets estab
lished 25 years was acquired by its
present proprietors, Julius T. Jacobs
and Peter Gimre, about five years
ago. The firm manufacture all kinds
of moulding, frames and ceiling, and
turn out a large amount of scroll
work and posts and other pieces of
turned work. A specialty it made of
windows and doors for steamboats
and other boat material which is ship
ped all over this section, and the firm
has a reputation for doing the best
work of that character of any house
in this section. Both of the mem
bers have been residents of Astoria
for about 19 years, and have been en
gaged in similar work nearly all that
time. Orders are filled promptly and
ASTORIA LUMBER COMPANY.
This modern plant was established
three years ago and it doing a pros
perous business in lumber, shingles
and building material used chiefly in
Astoria. About 20 men are employed
and 10,000 feet of lumber and many
thousand shingles are manufactured
daily from logs purchased in the open
market F. Johanson, a practical busi
ness man and an able salesman if
president; C. B. Allen, secretary; A.
V. Allen, the well known, grocer
treasurer, and N. Bille, one of the
best posted lumber men of this lec
tion, manager. The success of the
company hat been satisfactory and
much of the lumber and building ma
terial used in the locality of the mill
is manufactured and sold by them.
ine enterprise it oi great vaiue to
the community at it enable! the pur
chase of building material at the low
est possible cost and it doing much
to aid in making Astoria a city of
homes. '
FRANK J. DONNERBERG,
Watchmaker and Jeweler.
Frank J. Donnerberg, who recently
opened a handsome jewelry store at
574 Commeicial street, has won a'
reputation that has brought him what
is perbapt the best trade in the city.
After sixteen years' experience in the
large jewelry and watchmaking stores
of San Francisco and Portland. Mr.
Donnerberg came to Astoria and
opened a small place at 110 Eleventh
street, confining himself largely to
repairing watching, and carrying a
small stock of jewelry and watches.
His customers found him a good
watchmaker and discovered they were
given fair treatment and patronized
him liberally, enabling him to in
crease his stock rapidly. Mr. Donner
berg is a broad-minded business man,
and his up-to-date stock includes all
the newest styles which he purchases
from New York and San Francisco,
wholesalers, and his establishment is
a credit to the city.
P. A. STOKES,
Men's Furnisher.
The interior arrangement of the
P. A. Stoke store at 552 Commercial
street impresses one that here is real
merit. The well filled cases display
the latest novelties in neckwear, and
the crowded tables contain a vast
selection of everything in men's cloth
ing and furnishings. P. A. Stokes
established the business in 1886 and
Has ever since maintained an estab
lishment of high character. He makes
a specialty of Dunlap hats and Hart,
Schaffner & Marx suits and over
coats. No more modern men's furn
ishers are to be found in the North
west. The ttock is large and up-to-date
and this establishment would be
regarded with as high favor in New
York or Chicago at it is in Astoria.
HAUTALA ft RAITANEN,
Tailors,
Prominent among the representa
tive custom tailoring establishments
of Astoria is the firm composed of
H. Hautala and John Raitanen, estab
lished three and a half years ago,
both partners having had many years'
experience in the same line in the
cast. They make clothes to the
measure of their customers and guar
antee a perfect fit, The best trim
mings are used and there is an indi
viduality about their suits which is
lacking in the work of tailors possess
ing lest knowledge of the art. Their
establishment is at Eleventh and Bond
streets and their customers are among
the best dressed men of Astoria.
Work the Astoria Chamber
of Commerce Is Doing.
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BROWNSVILLE WOOLEN
MILLS STORE.
The house conducted by Judd Bros,
at 557 Commercial street, handles the
utput of the Brownsville Woolen
Mills, manufacturers of the best
PRIDE OP ASTORIA CIGAR
FACTORY.
Gus Schoenbaechler hat demon
strated by a prosperous business of a
number of years that cigar making
can be profitably conducted in As
toria, Being a skilled cigar maker
he has devoted his time to the manu
facturing department of his business
and his leading brands are the "Pride
of Astoria" and "La Veras" cigars,
his store and factory being at 379
Commercial street, where he employs
four expert cigar makers and uses the
best grades of Havana tobacco. There
are few houses in Clatsop county
carrying high grade cigars that do
not recommend the cigars made by
this Astoria manufacturer as they are
in every way equal to many imported
cigars sold for higher prices and
Astoria and the towns in this vicin
ity provide an ample market for all
the product of the factory.
91 S WE atand on the threshold of a new year it may be said looking
X2 backward in retrospect that Astoria is making excellent headway
because guided by the voice of the will of her citizenship expressed
with a unity of thought and purpose.
This yenr will go down in the history of the nation as an epoch
marking date. Some will probably in the future say that the year 1907
marked the breaking of the tensions which bound an age to the relics
of a financial system entirely outgrown ; or it may be that the wise of a
generation to come will refer to this momentous year and say that the
people then living had not yet been educated up to a proper under
standing of the laws of finance.
But after all that may be said concerning the 'financial significance
of this year even of greater portent is the awakening of the people both
national and locally to higher business and municipal ideals.
The people of this nation are learning to love that liberty born of
the truth which is God, that liberty which consists in doing what we
choose so long as we do not choose to interfere with the rights, the hap
piness of others.
A great deal is said from time to time about moral waves that sweep
over a community or a nation. Such an expression implies the belief
in the man who gives it utterance, that there will be a reaction and
that the last stage will be worse than the first. Such is not the truth.
The truth is that this country is steadily advancing towards the highest
ideals that have ever been set up in a nation of ancient, medieval or
modern history. The nation which possess the highest ideals is the
nation that shall grow and assume the greatest proportions.
If Astoria has accomplished nothing more during the past year
than to set a higher mark for civic virtue, then indeed the year has
been well spent
The virtue of a family is no better than the virtue of the individuals
which comprise that family. The virtue of a nation is no better than
the virtue of the people which constitute that nation. In exactly the
same way that man, that woman, is an integer, a unit of the family, so
also are men and women the units of the nation.
It is probable that nations occasionally backslide, that is depart
from their ideals, just as individuals take false steps. And nations
sometimes become so steeped in iniquity that they disintegrate and their
citizens become the servants of a more powerful and better nation.
But this nation has learned that we must have high ideals in govern
mental affairs, whether local or national, and this lesson has been
learned by Astoria during the past year of 1907. This city is not yet
perhaps a model of virtue" but it has purified itself so that now the most
introspective citizens can truthfully say, "Astoria is a good place for a
stranger to come, make his home, and rear his family."
Astoria through the Chamber of Commerce during the year closed
has executed an advertising campaign, the first in the history of this
city that has put it before the people not only of the entire United
States but of Canada and Europe as well. This advertising is the
ground-work, the foundation for innumerably better things to come.
The business man who is used to advertising will tell you that its results
are not direct results. But he will also tell you that it is impossible in
this day and age to carry on a large business without advertising. The
man who advertises grows larger than the man who does not, until
finally the man who does not, falls by the wayside.
While there has been a financial shadow over the entire com
munity, something that the wisest man perhaps could not entirely fore
see, and while the plans of the Chamber of Commerce have necessarily
been altered to fit new conditions, yet Astoria is prepared to keep well -m
the advance column of the cities of the Northwest which are striving
for commercial supremacy.
The most important accomplished fact of the past year has been the
completion of the North Bank line of the Northern Pacific-Great North
ern Railroad system. This brings Astoria much closer to the important
wheat-shipping points, in fact being now but 31 miles further distant
from them by rail than Seattle, and as Astoria is only 12 miles from
the ocean while Seattle is 150 miles, therefore being 94 miles nearer the
ocean by rail and water haul combined than Seattle.
It seems to be one of the fundamental principles of the Christian
religion, the most powerful system of philosophy ever originated, that
when once you begin a work there shall be no looking up or turning
back without incurring the displeasure not only of Providence but of
your fellowmen as well This conception was recently most tersely
expressed by a man very high in public life when he said, "God Al
mighty hates a quitter." And Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of
salt because she looked backward.
The work that the Chamber of Commerce is doing is to build up
the city in every possible way. The greatest benefit that this organiza
tion can do aside from advertising and the results that accrue from that
advertising, is to make the organization a clearing-house for the execu
tion of the most sensible ideas that can be advanced by its various
members. It often occurs that in this publicity work the most valuable
idea offered during the course of the year by any member of the or
ganization is furnished by some member who is not prominent in
business, judging from the standpoint of some of his more successful
neighbors. Therefore, it is well that citizens meet together, if for no
other purpose than to exchange ideas and to get these ideas into such
a shape that they may be executed.
During the five months and twenty days our advertising has been
in operation the Chamber of Commerce has received more than 6000
letters from all parts of the world and these have each received indi
vidual replies. The consequence is thai there are now working through
out the world more than 6000 people each having literature from the
Chamber of Commerce and each making a personal advertising cam
paign for A.storia which not only increases in a geometrical ratio but is
actually increasing in such a ratio multiplied by 6000. . '
We have prepared a land list in which there are nearly 100 pieces
of property and these are being sent out to those who have inquired
concerning land. It would seem that both direct and indirect results
from this advertising campaign must presently assume considerable
proportions.
Among the important things that the members of the Chamber of
Commerce are considering here at home is the building of a seawall and
the filling-in of that part of the city built on piles. It is not improbable
that within a short time members will consider the building of a new
structure to be called the Chamber of Commerce building.