THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON.
SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1903.
:30Tonight
First Performance
"Wffl Be Given;
At The
Bijou Dream
684 COMMERCIAL 5TREEH .
BETWEEN FIFTEENTH ' I SIXTEENTH
Moving Pictures
and Illustrated
Songs
PERFORMANCES LASTING ONE HOUR.
1 FUN AND AMUSEMENT FOR ALL
Admission 10c
Children .5c -
PROGRAM CHANCES MONDAY
WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY
The Old Reliable
CHICAGO 'V,
PAINLESS
DENTISTS
Cor. Commercial and Eleventh Sts.
ASTORIA, ORE. ;
Phone 3901
Headquarters
PORTLAND, ORE.
Are equipped to do all kinds of
Dental work at very lowest prices.
Nervous people and those aiSicted
with heart weakness may have no
fear of the dental chair.
22 K. crown.. ........... ....$100
Bridge work, per tooth U9
Gold fillings .. ... ... .. 11X0 cp
Silver fillings.......... SOc to $140
Best rubber plate.. ...... ....$800
Aluminum-line plate 310 to $15.00
I These offices are modern through
out . We are able to do all work
absolutely painless. Our success is
due to uniform high grade work by
gentlemanly operators having 10
to IS years-experience. Vegetable
Vapor, patented and used only by
lis for painless extraction of teeth,
50c A binding guarantee given
with all work for 10 years. Exami
nation and consultation FREE
Lady in attendance. Eighteen of
fices in the United States.
Cor. Commercial and Eleventh Sts,
over Danziger store.
Do You Wear
Shoes?
We sell the kind, that wear longest
and look the best
The Dr. A Reed
Cushion Shoe
We handle a special line of
Loggers' Shoes
Give us a trial.
S. A. GIMRE
GOOD SHOES.
543 Bond St., op. Ross, Higgins & Co.
ASTORIA
DANCING
. SCHOOL
Exchange street," opposite Skating
Rink. Open every dav and evening.
Pupils can enter any , grade from
beginning to advanced classes. Our
weekly social dance, every Wednes
day evening, , has become very popu
lar. Admission, gentlemen, 50c; ladies
fern1 T'." ' ; i
BANANA RAISING INDUSTRY
(Continued from page 3)
lie as it falls, where it. rapidly rots
and disintegrate, adding greatly to
the richness of the soil.
It seems a great pity at first to see
some of the magnificent trees root-
ting on the ground when they appar
cntly have in them great possibilities
as lumber, but the fact is, most of the
tropical trees are almost useless in
that . climate as lumber, and great
trees, five or six feet in diameter will
almost completely rot away, in xtwo
or three years while the smallest
growth will not last one.
The young banana plants sprout
and make their way up through this
fallen tangle as best they can. Of
course, some of the "bits" neved
sprout and after the young plants
show well a gang of laborers go
through and fill in the vacant places
by planting suckers which have start
ed at the base of older plants much
as they do around the sugar cane
stalks in our southern states.
For a time the new jungle growth
has to be cut to allow the young ba
nana plants a good chance to get
Oregon's I Biggest
Event
Annual
Spring
AT,
Festival
THE ARMORY
(P 'and, Oregon.)
April 10-11-12
Chicago Sppbijf
0rchestra--B5
Direction Heir Rosenbecker.
6-VOCAL SOLOISTS-0"
10 Instrumental Soloists
300 CHORUS 300
Friday littt
Grand Orchestra " Concert and
"FairEHi"
By Max Bruch.
Story of "The Siege of Luck-
now" ..
Saturday Afternoon
Popular Orchestra Concert
Saturday tiiglit
Grand Orchestra Concert and
"Ths Swan and The
.Skylark"
By A. "Goring "Thomas.
' Sunday Afternoon
Grand Orchestra Concert and
"The Messiah"
By HandeL
' Simday Night
Grand Orchestra Concert,
Vocal and Instrumental Solos.
MPORTAHT!
...Season Tickets, $5 Each.....
Good for five different concerts
in any location desired.
Prices:
Evenings and Sunday Afternoon
Lower floor....... $2.00, $1.50, $1.00
Balcony . ...... . '. ll . . . .$2.00, $1.50
Prices Sat. afternoon, 25c, 50c, 75c
lail Orders Received
From This City and Out of Town.
Mail Orders for Season Tickets
Received March 20. For One,
Two or More Concerts (not sea
son), Received March 27. Regular
Window Sale Opens April 3. -.
How to Order Seats
Address letters and make checks
and money orders payable to W.
T. Pangle, manager Heilig Thea
tre, Portland, Oregon.
Inclose a self-addressed stamped
envelope to insure safe retura
SEASON ORDERS take pre
cedence over all other orders.
Musical
started, but after the banana growth
is once well started it is jq dense ..that
it completely shades the land and
almost discourages the growth of
anything else.5' 't --p
' When the, banana growth becomes
well established it requires very little
in the way of cultivation and ! care.
A banana plant begins to bear in
from one year to fifteen months after
planting,, but does not reach its max
imum bearing power for two or thre
years. An acre of bananas will yield
from one to two hundred bunches of
fruit a year. Perhaps one hundred
and fifty is a fair average although
there are many plantations that do
better than this average.
At Port Limon the small planters
who are shipping through the United
Fruit Company, were getting twenty,
twenty-five and thirty cents per bunch
for their fruit, delivered to the Fruit
Company's cars or boats. If the
average yield is one hundred and
fifty bunches and the average price
per bunch is twenty-five cents, it is
easy to see that the planter selling
thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents'
worth of bananas per acre is getting
far more than the" average for the
best farming land in the United
States for any crop that requires any
thing like the small care. The land
is worth from five to twenty dollars
per acre and if the clearing and plant
ing costs fifty dollars more it still
looks like an excellent investment
The bananas arc cut when from
two-thirds to three-quarters grown
and at that time they are very hard
and can be handled much like cord
wood. Two men with machettas do
the cutting while a third with a mule
carries the fruit to the tracks or boat
landing. Four bunches at a time are
slung across the back of the mule
with canvas or burlap slings.
There are three common methods
of loading the ships. Where there
is a good wharf and the trade is not
very large the bananas are carried
abroad by laborers, who march in an
unbroken line, each man with a bunch
upon his shoulders, up one gang
plank delivering the fruit to a "man
who passes it into the hold, and down
another to receive another bunch,
and so they pass in endless proces
sion until the cargo is complete. In
places like Bocas del Toro where
the ships must be loaded in the har
bor away from the wharf, the fruit
is brought along side in lighters and
is handed abroad from them. '
At the larger shipping places where
the wharfage is favorable, a steam
loader is used. This consists of a
long endlesa belt upon a frame reach
ing from the wharf to the deck of
the ship. The line of men carry the
fruit from the cars or trucks and place
it upon the moving belt which con
veys it to trie deck. I have seen a
cargo of twenty thousand bunches
loaded with the help of two of those
machines in eight hours.
The fifteen thousand acres banana
farm of the United Fruit Company,
with its forty miles of railroad track,
thirty or forty gasoline launches
used for towing the lighters to the
sloops, is a sight worth going a
long way to see and the trip up the
Changuinola river which is lined for
fourteen miles with the magnificent
growth of bananas is one to be long
remembered. ,
Some idea of, the amount of this
fruit that is shipped to the States
may be had from the fact that the
present output from Limon is about
million bunches a year and from
Bocas del Toro about nine hundred
thousand. .
Santa Marta, which , a few years
ago was shipping a small cargo once
in two weeks, now ships at least a
full ship load each week.
Large quantities of the fruit are
shipped from Jamaica and nearly
every port on the "Spanish Main"
sends its quota, still the market is far
from glutted and there is still plenty j
of room for this great industry.
A severe cold that may develop into
pneumonia over night, can be cured
quickly by taking Foley's Honey and
Tar. It will cure the most obstinate
racking cough and strengthen your
ungs. The genuine is in a yellow
package. T. F. ' Laurlin, Owl Drug
Store. ' . ,!; " "
Constipation, or irregularity, Is very
often the cause of sick-headache. Lane's
Family Medicine is the great preventive
and cure of headache. Druggists sell it
for 25 cents. , .
GOVERNOR GUILD BETTER.
BOSTON, March 26,-JThe news
from Governor Guilds' bedside to,-
night are more favorable. ' Dr, Wins-
low stated that the Governor's condi
tion had improved slightly since yes
terday. There is nothing else "just as good"
as Kemp's Balsam, the best cough cure,
and the other kinds cost just as much
as this famous "remedy. ' J i :
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
HELP WANTED
WANTED A GIRL FOR GEN
eral housework. Apply Mrs.
Charles Brinks, ISth and Lexington.
FOR SALE.
WARRENTON.
WANTED AN YONlSi WANTING
. to buy, sell, or ; lease (free of
charge for camping purposes) prop
erty in Warrenton, to, write or call
on Warrenton Trust Co., Warren
ton, Oregon! ' ' ' '
FOR SALE 7-ROOM HOUSE
and lot on Kensington ave., be
tween 14th and 15th streets. In
quire of John Quinn, Astoria Hotel.
FOR SALE-TWO LOTS, 75x150
feet; in Chinook; will sell for $1500;
a bargain. Address Chas. Eklund,
Chinook. 1 3-15-2w.
FOR SALE-FURNITURE OF A
5-room house; all ready to move
into; low rent; centrally located.
WESTERN REALTY CO.,
...,'.,.., . -,r.r 172 Tenth St
FOR SALE-THE STOCK AND
fixtures of a general store located a
few miles from Astoria; very clean
stock, and will invoice about $7000.
Particulars at 1 ,;'.. J ,.,.
WESTERN REALTY CO.
ONE HUNDRED-ROOM HOTEL
for sale; doing a splendid business;
good opportunity for a first-class
hotel man.
WESTERN REALTY CO.
FOR SALE-ONE-QUARTER OR
one-half interest in a summer re
sort hotel doing a fine business; over
100 rooms and always engaged 'way
ahead.
WESTERN REALTY CO.
FOR SALE-THE FURNITURE
.of a large lodging house; rooms
always full; low rent
WESTERN REALTY CO.
FOR ROT.
FOR RENT-ROOMS, CENTRAL
ly located, suitable for housekeep
ing for small family. Apply to Van
Dusen & Co., 119 11th st.
FOR RENT 9-ROOM FLAT ON
Commercial street. Inquire at 179
Ninth street. 3-25-6t.
FOR RENT Furnished rooms to
let; Mrs. Ingleton, corner 15th and
Franklin avenue. Enquire at Milli
nery Store. 3-25-3t.
FOR RENT OR FOR SALE-NINE
room house, cor. Jerome and 17th
streets. Apply to Capt. Ferchen,
330 17th street. ( 2-2tf.
FOR RENT-FURNISHED FLAT;
3 rooms; ground floor; fid per
month. 116 Eighth street.
PROFESSIONAL CARD).
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
CHARLES H. ABERCROMBIE
Attorney-at-Law
City Attorney Offices : City Hall
JOHN C. McCUE
Attcrney-at-Law
Deputy District Attorney.
Page Building S'lite 4.
HOWARD M. BROWNELL
Attorney-at-Law
Office with Mr. J. A. Eakin, at 420
Commercal St., Astoria.
DENTISTS
DR. VAUGHAN
Dentist
Pythian Building, Astoria, Oregon
DR. W.C. LOGAN
Dentist
Commercial St. Shanahan Bldg.
business DiBEOTOBY.
RESTAURANTS.
TOKIO 'EESTAUBAHT.
351 Bond Street.
Opposite Ross, Higgins & Co.
Coffee with Pie or Cake 10 Cts.
FIRST-CLASS MEALS
Regular Meals 15 Cts. and Up.
TJ, S. RESTAURANT.
434 Bond Street ;
Coffee with Pie or Cake, 10 Cts.
First-Class Meals, 15 Cts.
HOUSE MOVERS.
FREDR1CKSON BROS.W make
-:a specialty of house moving,-car-pentcri,
'contractors general jobbing!
prompt attention to alt ordei.T, Cor
ner Tenth and Duanc streets, V
OSTEOPATHS..
! DR. RHODA C HICKS
' Osteopath
Office Manaell Bldg. Phone Black 2061
S73 Commercial St., Astoria, Ore. '
LAUNDRIES.
Those Pleated Bosom Shirts
The kind known by dressy men in
the summer, are difficult articles to
launder nicely, Unless you know Just
how to do it, the front pleats won't
iron down smooth, and the shirt
front wilt look mussy. Our New
Press Ironer . irons them without
rolling or stretching. Try it.
TROY LAUNDRY,
Tenth and Duane. Phone Main 1991
MASSAGINO.
Massaging
IN ALL ITS BRANCHES; WARM
baths if necessary; thorough com
petency is assured. ..
n , MRS. M. HEYNO,
87 W. Bond Street, Astoria.
FURNITURE.
Ilildebrand & Gor
HOUSE-CLEANING TIME.'
We sell Liquid Veneer, Jap-a-Lac,
Linoleum Varnish, the three greatest
furniture and floor renovators known.
Go-cart rubber tires renewed. ' Cur
tain stretchers sold or rented 5 '
HOTELS.
HOTEL OXFORD
Sixth and Oak Strs., Portland, Ore.
A strictly modern hotel In center
I of business district; suites with or
without private baths, running: hot
and cold water in every room; plenty
of free baths
$2.00. ;
Rates $1.00, $1.50 and
VICTOR BRANDT, Prop.
HOTEL PORTLAND
Finest Hotel In the Northwest
PORTLAND, ORE. -European
Plan Only.
H. C. BOWERS, Manager.
CABINETMAKERS.
New Upholstering
Shop
First-class work guaranteed. Up
holstering and cabinet work nicely
and neatly done. Furniture of all
kinds repaired. Prices right
164 8th St., bet. Com! and Duane Sts.
. J. H. BOWLSBY.
FISH MARKET,
77 Ninth St., near Bond.
Fresh and SaltedlFish.
Game and Poultry "
Groceries, Produce and Fruit
Imported and ' Domestic
Goods.
P. Bakotitch &feorProprs.
Phona Red 2183 ;
WINES AND LIQUORS.
Eagle Concert Hall
v ; : (320 Astor Street) - . "
Rooms for rent by the' day, week, or
month. Best rate's iri town.
P. A. PETERSON, Prop.
PLUMBERS.
it, i
PLUMBEBi
"J 1
Heating Contractor, Tinner
-AND-
. i : . ..."
Sheet Iron Worker
Kit WORK GUARANTEED
425 Bond Street
Seattle Fisi Market
n . II HflMTftlMCnV,
II t I H Mil l llfllliiirHI
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, X, Priscoll1 ,
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BOATBUILDING AND REPAIR
INO A SPECIALTY, '
22nd and Exchange Street
UNDERTAKERS,
J, A, G1LUAUOU &CU ,
Undertaken and Knibftlntor.
KxperlfiicoA Lady AmsUmut
When indirect.
Calls Promptly Attended Day
: or Night. ' "
Tatton lids;. 12tb Rod Duane 8ts
ASTOltIArOIlE,OON
Phone Main 211 1 .
TRANSPORTATION.
The "K" Une
PASSENGERS ' ' FREIOHT
Steamer Lurline
Night Boat for Portland find
Way Landings. "
Leaves Astoria daily except Sunday
',. "at 1 p. m. '
Leaves Portland Daily except Sunday
at 7 a. m.
Quirk Service Excellent Meals
Good Berths
Landing Astoria Flavel Wharf. 1
Landing Portland Foot Taylor St
O. B. BLESSINO, Agent
Phone Mtia 2761
TRANSPORTATION.
CANADIAN PACIFIC
EMPRESS" Line of trio AtiSntio
LESSTHAN FOUR DAYS AT SEA
During the summer season, - the
Empresses sail from Quebec to Liver
pool; fast and luxurious, Nine hun
dred miles in sheltered waters of the
St. Lawrence River and Gulf. Short
ocean trip. Use this route and avoid
sea sickness. fc
Summer sailing lists and rates now
ready.
Apply to any Ticket Agent or
James Finlayson, Agent, Astoria, Or.
DAIflHG POWDER.
mwtPmft i flntsrFIiver,
CLOSSETuDBITJ
Unpreceucntsd I
Suootsses'of '
DH.fi.fiH P
THE GREAT
CHINESE DOCTOR
- Who is kaowa
thrbnghoutthe United '
States on account ol
jkls wonderful mrws,
No po!on5 or drugs used. He guars
teei cur catarrh, ttthm. inn.
throat trouble, rheuma-tism, nervousness
tomih, liver and kidney, feml t0o
plalats and all chronic diseases.
SUCCESSFUL HOME TRXATMEU T; '
' If you cannot call write for symptom
blank and circular, Inclosing 4 cents It
itampt ; :j :i i h.'
THE C. GEE WO MIDICTNI CO a
1 1624 First St, doner Morrison, i
PORTIARD, OREGON.
Please mention the Astoriaa.
BOAT BUILDER,
Ni l , in. , rmrm.n,mm Mn.S'
1 mi, ..MIS" " " " " """i