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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, IMS.
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Official paper of Clatsop County
and the City of Astoria. , .
THE WEATHER
Western Oregon and Washington
Fair. Eastern Oregon and Washington,
Idaho Snow.
THE LUCKY IRISH.
1 On the night of St Patrick's day
next, in New York City, the lucky
Irish of that old Dutch town, are to
sit under the brilliantly banked wis
dom of three of the foremost men of
the nation Secretary of War Taft,
Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, and
Governor Hughes, of New York, each
and all in line for the presidency, and
each a notable and honored figure in
the government and business of the
American people. These are com
manding personalties and liable to be
profoundly entertaining on such an
occasion, and a' they are to eschew
politics altogether, ' there will, un
doubtedly, be a literal "feast of rea
son and flow of soul" that will satisfy
the ardor even of an Irish audience,
the. which rarely gets its fill of sheer
, entertainment The Friendly Sons of
St Patrick, the hosts on this occasion,
are the envy of the land, and espec
ially of the ultimate west of Clatsop,
in Oregon, far enough away to growl
with safety, at the denial forced
upon us.
SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN
SAV. BANK
Courteous and Accommodating
Liberal Methods. . .Conservative Management
A NATION'S LESSON.
one or more, be put in every building
of the district; that hydrants, and
hose in ample lengths, be installed
at, and in, each building; that fire
escapes be constructed everywhere,
and that drills be thoroughly mid con
stantly prosecuted by the teachers, in
this especial behalf. With her 1500
children housed in two, and three,
storied structures and none, or prac
tically none, with the common ele
mcnts of aid and safety enumerated
above, she stands a fair show of
making such another presentation of
communal stupidity and criminal neg
ligence as is heralded from the Ohio
town. The nearest fire-call box in
this city, is one block away from the
school building next to it, and in the
cases of the other five, they are from
two to four blocks distant; every
building in the district is above the
common traffic level from SO to 100
feet ;and time is of the essence of
this paramount question. . !
Be it understood there is nothing
of reproach in these lines: They are
written in the spirit that makes for
the real progress of the Sity and mean
nothing but good to all concerned
and especially the helpless children
that are, primarily, the chiefest con
cern of our lives, our homes, of our
government and all its institutions,
first and always.
' ... A MYSTERY.
H.w Mother's Questioning Struck He
Son WHIiar junior.
William junior bml boon cautioned
by his mother not to do a number of
things, too many for brief mention,
but all very dear to him, and he bad
promised. However, after dinner his
mother, happening to look out of an up
stairs window, saw htm In the midst
or a transgression and reserved the
matter In her memory, i r
That evening she detained Wllllum
by her knee aud questioned, as moth
re do. .
"Have you been a good boy all day,
winter
"Yes, ma'am."
"Real goody
HY-yes, ma'am."
"And not done any of those things
mat mother tola you not to dor
"Y-y-yes, ma'am." ; , ;
"Not a single oner ;
William looked at her sharply, bis
moutn open.
"Are you me?" he demanded.
"Why, no." ,
"Are you God, then r
"Certainly not",
"Then how did you know I was slid-
In' down that board r-Llpplncott's.
The American people are aghast at
the terrific news, from Cleveland, of
the death of 170 school children in :
suburban fire-trap pf a school build
ing, and sickened with the pitiful de
tails of the holocaust It is one of
thsoe glaring horrors that leap out
of the very Heavens, as it were, to
stall and stupify the people, and on
the rally make them think hard, and
. sensibly,, all down the line, of the
conditions that are confronting their
own little ones in the schools at
home. It is safe to say that in all
America today there is not a parent
but is putting up peremptory and
anxious inquiries as to the conditions
of the buildings where their children
are housed during the School hours
of the five-day week; and one good
" that will come out of the miserable
"slaughter of the innocents," is this
sharp and inspired investigation and
the changes for good that shall en
sue. The physical safety of congregated
children takes precedence over the
whole category of conditions in which
they figure publicly, and privately, and
the most assured conditions, in this
particular, should obtain at air times
and in all places, even if what follows
in their behalf, be abated in cost and
scope of service. The life of a single
child should be placed above and be
yond the range of cost of any scien
tific provision that can be devised
and utilized for its safety; and the
safety of the faithful teachers who
must stand by them in all perils; and
until this principle prevails every
where in the country, we may look
for just such frightful surprises as
this.
The ground-floor, detached school
room, with out-bearing doors on all
sides, heated from a central and de
tached cellar-way, is the ideal of
safety, health, and comfort; and its
additional cost a sheer begging of the
prime question. Once it is adopted
and heralded, the plan will supercede
all others, and become the standard
in city and country. .
Astoria may well begin to look into
the conditions prevalent here; and
,, take such steps as may be necessary
to reduce the peril (rarely thought of
except at the unsuspected moment);
apply such additional sources of safe
ty as common-sense (not parsimony)
may suggest; put the whole system
of buildings, and even their separate
rooms, in instant touch "with the fire
department, by means of call boxes
electrically equipped; that telephones,.
CLATSOP-TILLAMOOK.
The county court is taking care of
the proposed opening up of the inter
county highways that are to connect
us with our southern neighbor, and it
is safe to conclude that by the Fall of
1909 we shall be in ready and tra
versable touch with the Tillamook-
tans, who are engaged on the same
popular quest and doing their share
to form the junction, via the sea line
and through the interior. .
It will be a good day for all con
cerned when the roads shall be open
between the county capitals arid there
will be business doue over them un
dreamed of .now; besides the impetus
it must give to railway construction
over the parallel territory. It may b
a bit costly, primarily, but it will pay
us handsomely in the long run and in
a hundred ways. Push it, gentlemen!
THE PARCEL-POST.
It is right and expedient that the
people of the United States be put
on a level of advantage with all the
civilized countries of the world in the
matter of the parcel-post service. It
has been fought for years by the ex
press companies of the land, but their
long success in heading it off, is about
to end. The demand for this popular
and rational service is almost uni
versal and the sooner it comes the
better. What of popular service is
good for the slower nations abroad
must certainly hold something of ex
cellence for this up-to-date people,
despite the cry-down of the express
people who monopoloize the advantage
for the last half centurv or more.
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May and D.e.mb.r.
PRECIOUS GEMS
General Electric Company Large
Users of Them.
."Yes, ipadam, I am going to marry
Watklns."
" "Why, be is old enough to be your
father!"
" "1 know he Is, but unfortunately be
doesn't seem to care for mother!"
Meggendorfer Blatter.
EDITORIAL SALAD
The night riders of Kentucky have
put the nightmare on the shelf as a
weak invention.
The Democratic party hears little
now of the crime of 73, but there is
little prospect that it will ever escape
from the Bryan scoop of '96.
If Kentucky had never been cursed
with Goebelism it would have escaped
10 years of bad government for which
the cure is now slow and difficult.
A fleet of modern battleships at an
chor off shore must be a great spec
tacie to a people unaccustomed to
anything more majestic than a Peru
vian bark.
. Marseilles is shipping beans to Bos
ton in British ships, which suggests
that Faneuil Hall should speak and
let the world know what is going
wrong.
It would be an easy matter for the
Missouri mule to reach Paris over
land by way of Siberia. But the au
tomobile is doing pretty well for a
modern introduction. ;
Cultivating th Power of Observation,
"How many seed compartments arc
there in an apple?" he asked. No one
answered. "And yet." continued the
school inspector, "all of you rtt many
an apple to the course of a year and
see the fruit every day-probably. You
must learn to notice the little things Id
nature."
The talk of the inspector Impressed
the children, and at recess the teachei
overheard them discussing it A little
girl, getting her companions around
her, gravely said:
"Now, children, Just suppose-1 air.
Mr. Robinson. You've got to know
more about common things. If you
don't you'll all grow up to be fools
Now, tell me, Maggie," she continued,
looking sternly at a playmate, "how
many feathers are there on a ben?'-
Woman's Home Companion.
' Tho Force Accounted For.
"Where's tho editor?"
"Bunnln' a race with the sheriff to
git warm."
"And the foremau?" " '
"Trylu to git the stove red hot with
rejected poetry."
"Well, Where's the office boy V
' "Tryln" to mortgage the paper to buy
a snow sbovel."-Atlanra Constitution.
Ten years in prison will do for Gen.
Stoessel. , Remembering the kind of
army he commanded, the Russians
ought to be lenient about one' part
justice and two parts mercy. !
Tha Retort Venomous.
"So this Is your widely advertised
dollar table d'hote dinner, is It?" said
the indignant , would be diner as be
pushed , nslde an entree which , he
could not masticate, "Why, this Is the
last place In the world I would recom
mend to friends." '
"Don't blame yoc, sir," said the sad
faced waiter. "Send your enemies
here." New York Press.
No Option.
Barber (pausing In the mutllatlonV
W11I you have a close shave, sir? Vic
tim (with a gasp)-If I get out of this
chair alive, I shall certainly consider
It a very close shave.
The supreme excellence is slmplkift.
-LongfstW. ' ,
COFFEE
A middling steak and
first-rate coffee are, better
than middling coffee and
first Tate s t e ak. Con
sider the cost, . . . .
Your groew niuroi your Bonr if to doo'l
Kk Scbillioi'i Bait: wt par kin.
One of the most interesting fea
tures of the great industry conducted
by the General Electric Company is
its trade in precious stones. In the
course of a year the company uses
many thousand dollars worth of dia
monds and sapphires which are being
constantly shipped in from Australia,
Holland, London, Pari, Braiil and
New Zealand. ;
True, the diamonds tuken separate
ly are not worth so very much as the
are small, and the sapphires are worth
even less. . Nevertheless, the quantity
used in aggregate cost amounts to
large sum as it takes but a small tube
an inch long to hold $200 worth, i
The stones are used for bearimrs in
eiectnc meters such as, are employed
to register the number of kilowatt
hours of energy used in the home.
In order that the meters shall be ac
curate there must be practically n
tnction in the bearings, The mech
anism of a meter turn in proportion
to the amount of lights burned or
energy used. The7 wearing parti
must be as hard as possible that con
stant use wil not wear and create
additional friction, consequently dia
monds and sapphires have to be utd
in the shafts bearings. The diamond
the hardest substance in the world
and the sapphire ranks a close second.
The bearings made of these precious
stones have a very long life and
though they originally cost more,
they are cheapest in the long run.
It is the electric company and not the
customer that loses when the meter
registers inaccurately, so in the large
meters for factories, stores, etc., the
lamonds are used for all the bearings
and the common house meter bear
ings are made from sapphires. As
hard as the sapphires are they will
begin to wear after a few years.
The General Electric Company re
ceives its sapphires by express sewn
I up in a stout canvas sack. They are
sent in the rough just as they come
. from the ground in far away Ceylon.
The sapphires in the rough are al
ways six sided and the first task is to
cut them down to the proper shape
for the meter bearings. Of course
the only thing that will cut a sapphire
is a diamond, so the sapphire are
stuck fast to a smooth surface and
then held against a fast revolving
wheel. The rim of this wheel is ham
mered full of small particles of dia
monds. Each side of the sapphire
is polished until it is perfectly smooth
and the size is much reduced. A
small cup is made in one side and the
gem is ready for , its duties in the
electric meter.
Before the diamonds reach the
company they are polished on one
side. This work is usually done in
Holland where the stones are first
shipped from the mines in Africa and
New Zealand. The cup is made in
this side with the use of delicate ma
chines and diamond dust.
The work of preparing the precious
sioncs is very delicate and requires
the service of the most skilled work
men. Scores of employees in a large
room sit before the machines getting
the diamonds and sapphires ready
for use. Each workman is given 100
stones and after he has polished and
cupped them he hands the stones to
an inspector. The inspector takes a
fine needle and a powerful magnify
ing glass and carefully examines each
one. If he finds the slightest scratch
or flaw the stone is sent back to the
to be finished over. The cup must be
absolutely perfect so that it will not
retard the meter shaft and cause in
accuracies in the statement of cur
rent used. The inspector's sense of
touch must be acurate and his eye
trained to note the most infinitesimal
imperfection. If 20 out of a hundred
stones are perfect the employee, who
does his wark by the piece, is lucky,
The rest are worked over until they
are also right. ! J ' , 1
Visitors to this department always
ask if the diamonds are not occasion
ally stolen by the employees. In the
first place the workmen are honest,
skilled and tried men. Secondly, it
would be quite impossible for them to
get away with a single stone so care
fully is the system kept. Each one
of the gems is kept track of by a
card system. The head of each de
partment knows just how many
stones were turned over to him and
has to account for every one. He in
turn gives a certain number to each
foreman and they have to account for
every gem. The foreman gives eaci
employee a hundred at a time and
holds hint individually responsible fcjr
their safe keeping. If a single stone
out of the many arriving every day by
registered mail were to be missing jt
could be traced in a few minutes to
the person having it last. :
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