THE MORNING ASTOH IAN, ASTOMA, OREGON.
THURSDAY, APRIL v 2, 1908,
This Week
"WALNUTS"
15c Per Pound
A. V. ALLEN
SOLE AGENT FOR BAKER'S BARRINGTON HALL STEEL
CUT COFFEE.
PHONES 711 AND 3871 BRANCH PHONE-713
GOOD TIMES AT SEA
Sailor's Society Sights End Near
f Hard Season.
REPORTS RECEIVED CHEERFUL
TENDERED
A
DINNER
Mrs. Humphrey Ward Dined by
Playground Association.
AT WALDORF ASTORIA HOTEL
Congratulatory Letters Were Re
ceived From President Roosevelt,
James Bryce, British Ambassador,
and Lord Grey, of Canada.
NEW YORK, April l.-Mrs.
Humphrey Ward was tendered a din
ner by the Playground Association
of America last night at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel on account of her suc
cess in obtaining play ground facili
ties for children in England. The
Ductless of Marlborough was among
the speakers, and letters were re
ceived from President Roosevelt,
James Bryce, the British ambassador
and Lord Grey, governor General of
Canada, praising Mrs. Ward for her
work.
The Duchess of Marlborough for
merly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt was
one' of the most applauded speakers
at the dinner. In part the duchess
said:
"Having had the opportunity of
coming into touch with work done by
women in England I hoped I might
be able to say a word of encourage
ment to my own country women who
re devoting their lives to bettering
the social condition of the poor in
this city. In England, as you know
the influence of women has permeat
ed every field of human endeavor,
political and philanthropic no less
than social and artistic.
"The results appear in the really
splendid achievements of associa
tions formed to guard and help girls
who toil in factories and shops; to
provide employment for the wives of
convicted criminals; to care for the
fatherless and orphans and to make
play grounds for little children. -
"And here I can mention a private
Tenture which will comend itself to
this association. It is for owners of
bnd near the village school to lend or
give the school a number of acres
where the children can have their
own plots and are taught gardening
under institutions.
"Society demands an adequate ful
fillment of these necessities. It is
the sense of obligation that I ven
ture to think we American women
should foster and develop. Does not
the mere privilege of citizenship in
volve responsibility and place it on
a far higher plane; that every citizen
owes to the mother state in suchi
ratio as his influence, his intelligence
and his capacity to help certify is a
very old maxim, but one not always
brought into the sphere of enterprise
"It is not possible for the women
citizens of this great republic to rec
ognize that personal obligation on its
ethical lines and to turn it to ac
count in practical workings.
"The amelieration of the social and
educational conditions under which
the children of the big cities are be
ing brought is in a trust a worthy be
ginning. Surely this is a woman's
work; surely a womans duty and I
should like in passing to pay a tri
bute to the executive ability of Ameri
can women. One can not help but
admire the way they manage their
various hospitals and charitable in
stitutions.
"If women can do it so well, why is
it that a greater number do not in
terest themselves in philantropic and
educational work? It is believed it is
as Ihave said because of the person
al obligation to the community has
not yet been developed.
"The moment the women of this
country recognize this claim, which
to me seems so pressing, so needful,
so appealing, I feel sure they will
take it up with all their wonted en
ergy and capacity and they will re
cord their good citizenship in works
that will live to commemorate the
awakeing of that great sense of per
sonal obligation to mankind which
lies embodied in our religion and
our ethics and finds expression in our
best and noblest work.
Jack Ashore Has Barely Weathered
Idle Winter Every Prospect
Pleases Samaritans and Shipping
Sages In Sixteen Ports.
SHE DIED LAUGHING.
NEW YORK, April l.-Overcome
by laughter at a joke told by a mem
ber of the company at a party, she
was attended, Mrs. Annie Ferrier, a
widow 42 years old was unable to
stop the laughing paroxysm, she fell
to the floor and was lifted back into
her chair, grasping for breath and
before the horrified guests realized
that anything serious was the matter
she was dying. Before a physician
arrived she was dead.
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NEW YORK. April l.-That the
end of hard times for the sailor is
already in sight at every American
port was asserted here today on the
basis of special reports which have
just been received at the hcadquar
ters of the American Seamen's Friend
Society from its sixteen branch sta
tions along the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts. Where a month ago stranded
seamen lay thick over the floors of
their shelters each night, sadly want
ing work, food and lodging, berths
are today being found in steadily in
creasing numbers among awakening
shipping interests, the society's
agents declare. Every prospect ex
ists, in the opinion of these trained
maritime observers, for returning
prosperity to the sailor man who has
barely weathered his hardest Winter
in many years.
From Seattle, where the workers of
the society have resorted to emer
gency relief, measures to keep 400
idle sailors alive since last Novem
ber, it is reported that the tension
has already begun to slacken in view
of the opening of a brisk Alaska
trade. Relief camps and lunch coun
ters have been filled by these refu
gees irom stagnant shipping at this
port all Winter. Now signs of re
turning life in the seaman's trad
are at last promising to put an end
to their labors, the agents at this Pa
cific branch declare.
In Pensacola, at a diagonally op
posite corner of the society's nation
at system of working stations, only
twenty sailors arc today reported to
be still looking for work. Within
week every man jack should be
shipped, according to present indica
tions. From Jacksonville, Tampa
Mobile and New Orleans a small
army of sailors have poured into
Pensacola looking for a chance to
ship all Winter. Many of them
walked barefoot and arrived half
starved and in rags. This sad influx
of unemployed seamen has complet
ely stopped, the local agent of the
society reports, and apparently his
hard siege of providing food, shelter
and help for the marooned merchant
men of the Southern ports is happily
ended.
Only two-score seafaring men arc
today looking for work at Galveston
and few of these will be lacking a
berth by the end of Spring. From
New Orleans about the same report
has been received. The branch of
the American Seamen's Friend So
ciety at Newport News sends the
word: "Prospects good; have been
bad all Winter." The same message,
with details of the heroic measures
which had to be taken to tide the
sailor through the winter, is coming
from other branches of this organi
zation in Norfolk, Charleston, Sa
vannah, Port Townsend and Port
land.
While every seamen s shelter in
this city has throughout the Winter
been crowded with the unemployed
it was declared by the shipping of
fices, "crimps" and officers of the
sailors' labor organization here today
that conditions were beginning to
change and new berths open for the
sailor along the water front. With
the opening of the lake trade, the
yachting season and the steady cn
livenmcnt in shipping circles, every
man of the sea is assured of plenty of
work. At the headquarters of the
American Seamen's Triend Society
in this city it was asserted, on ex
perience as well as these reports,
from both coasts, that hard times for
the sailor had today come to an end
I am inclined to believe that the
Sumcmr shipping will again return
to normal," said Captain Charles B
Parsons, cxpresident of the Mari
time Exchange and a trustee of the
American Seamen's Friend Society,
todav. "I feel very optimistic on
the outlook for the immediate future
in shipping circles."
our industrial activities. Uncertainty
wil lcrmtimic from the time the con
ventiotis resolve upon revision until
revision is an accomplished fac
Even' if it were certain that the Re
publican party would retain contro
of both branches of Congress, as w
believe it will, with an assurance that
revision would be effected after the
fourth of March, strictly according
to the principle of protection, tin
certainty and hesitancy would prevai
nevertheless until the new schedule
were enacted into law. Revision
made immediately following the com
ing election has the ndvan
tnge, and it is a distinct ndvan
tage, over revision after the incom
ing of the new administration. I
will reduce the period of disturbnnc
some tour months, llus is a con
sidcrable gain at any time, but it i
especially important now. Busbies
conditions admonish us to reduce the
factors of doubt and uncertainty so
far as possible, and to bring the
forces of the business world as
speedily as practicable to a condi
tion of certainty and repose. This U
the part of wise and patriotic states
manship. It is good politics and it
is good business also. There is one
potential fact which must not be o!
scurcd, and it is when revision oc
curs it must be along protective lines
Furthermore, revision must be made
by those who arc firm in the protec
live faith, to the end that adequate
protection shall be given to Amert
can industry, American labor and
American capital. The principles of
protection which have given such
tremendous impetus to our trade ami
commerce, must be carried into any
revision which is undertaken.
'We should bear in mind the fact,
also that there are many of the
schedules in the present tariff law
which do not require change. They
are only reasonably protective and
business for ten years has adjusted
itself to them. .The schedules where
changed conditions have rendered al
teration advisable are not so numer
ous as to require as long considera
tion was given to the appropriation
of the present law. In short, with
regard to many items of the sched
ules there is no demand for any
change. Congress can address itself
to the consideration and modification
of those which are subject ( criti
cism and which should be changed in
the interest of a sound economy de
tion. We would be enabled by this
method not only to guard against the
contingency of a revision with a
Democratic House, but we would put
an end to apprehension in the busi
ness world much sooner than would
otherwise be possible. So long as re
vision is undetermined and yet im
minent, it will be a powerful deter
rent influence in the resumption of
ma ml with 'reasonable despatch. It
is not wise to enter upon the work of
wholesale demolition, nor is it wise
to make changes where they are not
required by good business or some
well louncled public demand. Very
sincerely yours,
"CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS."
To Jesse Overstrcet, Chairman Re
publican State Convention, Indian
apolis, Ind.
POPULISTS
PROTEST
Wilt Not Admit Bryanltes to Their
Ranks.
COXEY TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN
A Mass of Resolutions Has Been
Showered Upon the Committee
Which Is Preparing the Platform
Delegates Loaded With Them.
ST. LOUIS. April 1,-4'ricnds of
W. J. Bryan made an unsuccessful
attempt today to influence the action
of the Populist National Convention,
which will meet here tomorrow, The
Populists refused to class Bryan as
anything hut 11 Democrat, who has
no right to participate in the councils
of their party or receive any consid
eration at its hands. Everywhere re
pulsed, the llryanites will carry the
tight into the convention as n Inst
resort. What the uryanite demand
is a postponement of the convention
until after the Democratic and Re
publican conventions are held. Gen
eral Jacob S. Cuxey has been chosen
upon for n temporary chairman, and
Frank Erichey of St. Louis for the
permanent chairman. A mass olJ
resolutions have ben showered upon
the committee, which is preparing
he platform. Every delegate is
oaded down with them lind they
range from the national currency
down .o a plan to prevent New
York's "Four Hundred" from smug
gling diamonds through the custom
house. 1
DEFIES HER FAMILY.
Mme.
Anna Gould Determined
Marry De Sagan.
to
NEW YORK, April I. -Thai
Prince Helie de Saunn is a suitor for
he hand of Madame Anna Gould is
nnounced by the Prince himself in
statement in which he says that
Mine. GouliLwill sail for France very
soon after hi own departure, which
set for April 9. The Prince's an-
otincenient was made coincident
with the circulation of reports that
Mine, Gould has quarreled with her
family because, of her determination
to marry do Sagan, Mme.' Gould li
quoted as naying that she shall no
"longer be oppressed and ruled by
her family," that at last she has al
iened herself and "ahull abide by
her own decision," ; ! 1,
Maritime Gould lint left the home
of her sister, Miss Helen Gould,
with whom the had been staying
since her arrival from France more
thuit a week ago, and is living with
Mends at the Hotel St, Regis.
Not only In sentiment but money
as well involved in the break between
Madame Gould mid the members of
her family. The will by which Jay
VHMIUI WiniM'BVll Wl llffl ll IMIIV Hill-
tained a codicil which may have a
prominent part if development!
nhould follow a prolongation of the
family trouble. This codicil provides
that any of hit children who should
marry without firm getting the con
sent of the other sons and daughter
should forfeit one-half of hi or her
lnlcret in the estate. In Madame
Gould's case the one half interest Is
variously estimated at between $6,
000,000 and $8.01)0,000. It Is said to
be the contention of Madame Gould,
however, that this provision of the
will was abrogated a far as she is
concerned when the consent of her
brothers and sister was given to he
marriage with Count Bout de Castcl
lanc, Having taken this position, she
is said to have retained a prominent
firm of attorneys, with large Interest
both in New York and Paris, to have
informed her relatives at the last fam
ily conference that she is prepared to
fight if necessary for what she re
gards as her right to her entire share
of the fortune left by her father.
Madame Gould is ill in her apart
ments at the St. Regis, and the date
of her departure for Europe is believ
ed to be largely dependent upon the
rapidity with which she recovers.
No definite date for her sailing hat
yet been set, so far as can be learned,
hut it is not believed that it will be
dehiyrd longer than 10 days or two
weeks,
DONE BY DEED
W. C. Smith and wife to J. E. '
Hall, lots 1 and 2. block 36.
Plwa $500
Hammond Lumber Company to
II. E. Hanson, lot 2. block 14.
McClurc's Astoria 10
3
SNAKE RIVER DAM.
WASHINGTON, April 1. The
passage of the bill authorizing the
construction of a dam across the
Snake river in the State of Washing
ton, and the consideration of a meas
ure for adjusting the claims of the
States against the government on ac
count of the disposition of the pro
ceeds of the public lands, occupied
nearly the entire session today.
FAIRBANKS ON REVISION.
(Continued from page 1)
plete the work of revision before tk'ef
inauguration of the next administra-
DECLINES T OATTEND.
NEW YORK, April l!-W. J.
Bryan telegraphed from Lincoln to
night that he will not consider at
tending a dinner to rival The Jef
ferson Day dinner to be held under
the auspices of the National Demo
cratic Club, April 13. Bryan was in
vited to attend the club's dinner, but
was not asked to deliver a speech.
I. P. Huber, of Springfield, Mo., of
fered $1,000 toward the expense of
celebrating Jefferson's birthday if
Bryan would speak at a rival dinner
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CUT WAGES AGAIN.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aprill
As the result of a conference between
the members of the New Bedford
Taxtile Council and the Manufac
turers Association held last night the
wages of the 25,000 operatives will
be reduced ten per cent on April 13,
one week later than originally intended.
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