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THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1908.
Warrenton, an Important Manu
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PART OF MANUFACTURING DISTRICT. WARRENTON.
Astoria's next-door neighbor in the
municipal line is the snug little city
of Warrenton, situated on the south
shore of the harbor and at the point
where Young's Bay mingles its flood
with that of the Columbia; a clean
bright, well-maintained civic corpora
tion, with 350 live people and plenty
of business.
Its communal affairs are in the ca
pable hands of Mayor V. H. Coffey,
who is ambitiously at work to enlarge
the sphere of Warrenton's commer
cial operations and to keep her in
the forefront of expansion generally
as it applies to the mouth of the Co
lumbia River. In this he is con
scientiously seconded at all times by
his common council, made up of the
following leading business men of
that place, Messrs. E. S. Mcllroy, W.
C Hardie, George Moore, George
Warren and Frank Kelly, each and
all heavily interested there in busi
ness of various sorts. The city at its
last accounting was without debt of
any kind and had a balance of $600 in
its treasury. The departmental offi
cers are: W. C. Stanton, police
judge; E. Erickson, police chief;
J. E. Higgins, treasurer; J. A.
Eakin, city attorney, and Dr. C. E.
linton, city physician.
There is an excellent school of the
tixth grade, with 90 children in con
stant attendance through the school
year, with Prof. J. T. Lee serving as
principal, and Mrs. M. McCready, as
assistant. And three churches, the
Episcopal, Methodist and Presbyter
ian, are in evidence there with large
and interested congregations.
Warrenton is the junction point of
the Astoria & Columbia River Rail
road, the main line going on to Sea
side and the lower county coast
points, with the branch line extending
to Hammond and Fort Stevens; and
is a busy locality at all seasons of the
year.
Industrially, Warrenton has three
big plants in her midst, that mean a
great deal to her and to the section
she stands for, in the matter of giving
year round employment to hundreds
of her people, the Old Oregon Mills,
the D. L. Kelly Lumber Company,
and the machine shop of the Astoria
& Columbia River Railroad Com
pany; all of which she prizes highly
and makes the most of.
Warrenton is flanked on the north
and west by the still smaller city of
New Astoria (formerly known as
Hammond), an active settlement of
250 people, with a corporate organi
zation supervised most carefully by
Mayor Charles Ford. A cozy, bay
side place filled with neat and com
fortable homes and several thriving
businesses; the bulk of the people
finding constant employment, at the
government post and works at Fort
Stevens and the great jetty. .
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aggregate number of children now in attendance,'' 1383, with 32 room
in use, wide from the High School quarters of four rooms.
Tho present school year began on September 23rd, and will close
at the end of tho 10-month term, on June 26, 1908 $ the first semester
closing on February 7, 1908, and the second running from February
10 to June 26, aforesaid. The five fine modern buildings that house
tho children of Astoria are a distinct credit to the district, and this
year has seen a half dozen large rooms added to their capacity, two at
the "Adair," and four at the "Taylor" and at the latter building, the
latest and best approved system of heating and ventilating has been
added, systems that furnish the 400 pupils there with 130,000 cubic
feet of fresh air every hour, and heats the whole establishment to per
fection. And the proven advantages of this system is creating a wide
spread conviction throughout tho community, that common sense and
public economy demand the installation of the same plant in all the
other buildings; the fresh air generated so constantly, contributing
plainly to a minimum of malady, of greater and lesser degrees of
severity and contagious effect
Just as fast as it shall bo expedient, and possible, to adjust it to
the administrative plans now in force, Superintendent Clark intends
to so regulate the work of thtPgraded scholars as to divide it into parts,
so that the children may be classed according to their ability to advance,
thus permitting tho quicker ones to advance as rapidly as they aro able
and at the same time allowing those who are not quite so rapid to ad
vance according to their ability and effort. Such a system would
practically do away with tho failures and each cla-ss would bo promoted
to the point reached in the grade work. At the present tune the work
of the schools is divided intoeight grades, or years; and each year, or
grade, into two classes, each covering a half year's work.
The High School enrolls 112 pupils and employs four teachers.
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I Edudtional Facilities of Astoria $
Among the Best in the We.
OKD uf the marke l, and essential characteristics of Astoria as a
community, is rs iirm and generous adherence to the gospel of
education as exemplified in the public systems of the land. Nothing of
parsimony, nor of ambiguous consideration, hampers the administration
of her schools and the latitude is widening all the time, keeping even
pace with the growth of the clientelle for which they are maintained.
It is counted as one of the distinct credits innnring to the city and
county that nothing is ever permitted to operate adversely to this,
cardinal interest, and the years, and the citizens that are proud to
assert the horae-claim for Astoria, constantly and conclusively prove
the faith that actuates her in this behalf and the adequacy of her ful
fillment of the great trust.
Prof. A. L. Clark, as city superintendent of the Astoria schools,
and as secretary of the Board of School Directors for the district, is
among the ablest and most conscientious of his colleagues 'in Oregon, in
the field that absorbs his time and interest; and he, with his 36 teachers
and co-assistants in the noble work, leave nothing undone that shall
contribute heartily and healthily to the perfect development of the
work that is theirs in this city. From the office and records maintained
by Professor Clark, the following comprehensive data has been com
piled and has the seal of authenticity to recommend it to those to whom
it shall be of interest at home and abroad; and their name is legion.
At this writing there are 1271 pupils in the grades, attendance at
the five handsome and roomy structures devoted to this department, the
"Alderbrook" school, with 4 rooms and 89 pupils; the "Adair" school,
with 8 rooms and 332 pupils; the "Shively" school,wjth;,6 rooms and
294 pupils; the "McClure" school with 6 rooms iad 277 pupils; the
"Taylor" school 8 rooms and 279 pupils; and the High School, housed
in the "Taylor" building, with 4 rooms and 112 pupils, making the
While small in numbers, it has a curriculum as strong as any high
school in the West. It demands more work than most high schools for
graduation. The graduates are received into all the colleges of the
Northwest without examination, and many of the larger colleges and
universities accept their work for entrance credit.
As is the case everywhere the Astoria school system has its needs
as well as its ambitions, and as fast as possible each are being met and
gratified, to the common good of all concerned, and that means the
last man, woman and child in the city.
While the High School is pretty well equipped for a high school,
it still needs some additions to its paraphernalia in the lines of science
and art. A commercial department should be maintained in Astoria,,
and the public would receive the greatest benefit from it if added to
the High School. Many young men and women go to Portland to
attend business college, which they would not do if one were added to
the High School. The time is rapidly approaching when the public
will demand trade departments in the public schools, so that a person
leaving the school after having completed a course, will be able to enter
immediately into the work and responsibility of the community in
which he finds himself.
Recently, the voters of the district, at the special school meeting
for the purpose of levying school tax for the coming year, voted two
mills extra for the increase of salaries. This will enable the Board to
offer a salary sufficient to bring the most capable teachers into the
district.
her citizens, everywhere In tho county. Those important intercsU' lie
in tho capable and faithful hands of Miss Krama 0. Warren, who, as
superintendent of tho county system, lends her flno personal equipment
and years of sterling experience to the causo entrusted to her, with a
culture and devotion, that finds its best expression in the unvarying
progress of tho system throughout tho county everywhere and which
is readily acknowledged on all sides.
The county is divided into 33 school districts, and tho entire
enrollment at present shows 2104 pupils, with an average daily attend
ance of 11)110, the school year averaging seven months.
The average salaries paid to tho men teachers is $73.75 per month,
and to the women teachers, $17.83. And yet it is a famous fact here
about that even this variation has no effect on the relative Interest
manifested by the ladies and gentlemen in charge of the schools, the
snmo devoted care and pronounced success innnring from tho schools in
common throughout the entire county.
Nearly every school district in Clatsop makes a special levy cuoh
year for school purposes, thus augmenting the allotments from the State
fund and advancing tho "status of the several schools steudily and
notablyj and every school in the county has its own library attached,
a source of pleasure and value to scholars and teachers alike.
For the most part, the building! and play grounds throughout the
county are in excellent condition, and are kept so continually, the
value of pleasing environment having become a demonstrated element
of the curriculum prevailing here; and this is enhanced by the care
taken by the county court, in its steady improvement and development
of the public highways leading to, and past, the schools; a feature that
also makes it possible to lengthen the terms year by year.
Very many of the Clatsop young people have come up from the
outer schools to the high schools of the towns of Clatsop, and many
others have passed on to the colleges and universities of this and
neighboring States, where their preparation for their life-work will be
completed; and everywhere ono turns in old Clutsop the fact is borne
in on one's interest that tho cause of education is growing widely and
wisely throughout tho entire county in very palpable shape.
At tho presenting writing there are 50 young people from the
schools outside the City of Astoria, in this county, who have passed
the eighth grade examination, and their diplomas give thera full en
trance into any of the high schools of tho State, without further
examination, a prerogative valued as it should be and one that speaks
plainly for the quality of the schools that put them forth, as well as
for the meritorious ambition of the pupils themselves.
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Warrenton,
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School System of Clatsop
County Up to Full Standard.
Under the splendid system of public education fostered by the
State of Orecron. Clatsop county and the City of Astoria are most
thoroughly and amply equipped and each maintains the best, and
largest, facilities possible, in this behalf. The county o Ulatsop in
rmrticularlv fortunate in having perfected a fine group of schools in
all the fastnesses of her rugged, mountainous domain, and is again
fortunate in the steady and voluminous response made to the call, by
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