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' SUNDAY. MAY 31. 1908. THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTOMA, OREGON. i ROYAL IIJ COME By People of Japan to Am erican Fleet SAYS SECRETARY WHEELER Japan's Trade With China Is Suffering Severely an a Result of Chinese Boycott Mr. Wheeler Is on Ilia Way to Washington. SAN FRANCISCO. May 3.-"Tlie American fleet will lie given a royal welcome hy the people of Japan", was the statement made hy I'oot Wheeler, M-ciclary to the United Slates em tunny at Toldo who ha arrivcl here on the Pacific Mail Liner Manchuria. "All the ill feeling toward the United Statei, with the little there wan of it hat died out", said Mr. Wheeler. "The Japanese no longer talk of im migration trouble!, That question hat hecii settled anl there Ik no longer any friction over it." Speaking' of the Chinese boycott on Japanese good, Mr Wheeler said that Japan trade with China Is aut fering severely a a result of It. Mr. Wheeler i on his way to Wash ington, lie is accompanied by his wife who was formerly Miss Halio I-'mcrnie Rives, the novelist. Among the other passengers on the Manchuria was Captain R. W. Von Heinendahl. of the German army, winner of the four hundred mile mili tary ballon race between Herlin and Viena. lie made a tour of Australia and New Zealand and is on his way home. INCREASED ATTENTION. With the Conclusion of the Visit of President Fallieres. LONDON, May 30.-With the con elusion of the visit to England of President Fallieres of France, in creased attention is being paid to the question whether the conversations between King Edward and President Fallieres mid the British and French foreign ministers will lend to the de velopment of the existing entente be tween Great Britain and France into an alliance to which Russia will be a party, At the conference between Sir Kdward Grey, British Secretary of State f.tr Foreign Affairs, and M. I'ielion, the French foreign minister, the subject of a more formal agree ment between their respective coun tries and the coming v'sit of King F.dward as well a Sir Charles Hard inge, permanent tinder secretary for foreign affairs and former British am bassad.jr to Russia, who will accom pany His Majesty, will be able to place before the Russian emperor the views not only of their own country, but those of France with respect to a closer understanding between Great Britain, France and Russia. King -Kdward and the British gov ernment, it is believed, favor a mili tary alliance and the further isolating of Germany; but there is much op position in this country to such an agreement on the ground that it would necessitate an increased mili tary expenditure and possibly con scription, and also would lead Great Britain into continental quarrels in which she was not interested. A majority of the press and of the pub lic are saying that it would be better for Great Britain to let well enough alone and devote her efforts to assur ing the continuance of the entente with France. More News From the New England States. If any one has any doubt as to the virtue of Foley's Kidney Cure, they need only to refer to Mr. Alvin H. Stimpson, of Willamantic, Conn., who, after almost losing hope of re covery, on account of the failure of to many remedies, finally tried Foley's Kidney Coure, which he says was "just the thing" for him, as four bottles cured him completely. He ia now entirely well and free from all the suffering incident to acute kidney trouble. T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. AUTOS VS ROADS Government Makes a Great Num ber c Tests .J MACHINES HARD ON EXPERTS Subscribe for the Morning Astorian, 60 cents per month, delivered by carrier. Department of War and Agriculture Are Trying to Determine Why They Injure Highways More Than the Ordinary Vehicles. A two ton racing automobile mov ing at something in excess of a mile a minute, while an impenetrable cloud of fog grey rock dust hung to the horizon and marked the speeding course of the big machine, was the sight witnessed by travelers on the famous conduit road a dozen miles from Washington on Thursday, April 23. The seemingly pronounced viola tion of the speed ordnance was coun tenanced by two of the Nation's fed eral departments; Agriculture and War; however, the rushing motor-car having been pressed into requisition by L. W. Page, Director of the Of fice of Public Roads, and Dr. Aller ton S. Cushman, Assistant Director, in the effort to determine the effects of automobile traffic upon macadam high ways, and the stretch of thor oughfare was placed at their disposal by War Department officials. While the racir.g car and others of various weights and types made many trips over the selected stretch of a mile and a half at varying rates of speed, from 5 to 65 miles an hour, a corps of skilled photographers, equipped with the most modern de vices for photographing vehicles at very high speeds, made accurate rec ords of the various tests. It has been known to highway en gineers that automobiles were rapidly shortening the lives of the rock sur face roads of the world, and many experiments have been made in the past six or seven years to determine 1 V n a i e m mm mm 1 WOM'SOXFOBDS We never sold women's Oxfords as fait as we are now selling them. Perhaps our Oxfords are the best. We think they are. The styles or the workmanship could not be better. Every woman likes them-so much daintiness-so much beauty about them. Oxfords in patent kid, Corona kid and colt skin. The new Gol den Brown Tans also. Lace, Blucher or Button. 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They reasoned that a road surfaced with bits of stone would improve under wagon traffic because the iron tires of the passing vehicles would constantly crush the stones and form rock dust particles; that those rock dust particles would not merely fill in all the interstices be tween the stones but would also form a surface dust binder; the wettings and rollings tending to cement the dust into a shell-like surface and thus make the entire road one traffic-withstanding, water-shedding mass. They reasoned well and wisely. The macadam roads lived up to the theories of their inventors and im proved with the passing years until the advent of the automobile. It was but a short time after it came into vogue that highway engineers in all civilized lands learned that a new con dition was confronting them and that established customs were being men aced. The trouble was quickly trac ed to the automobile and it was studied. It was soon noted that the menace. It crushed no rock itself and therefore contributed no quota of the needful surface dust binder, while the tremendous tractive force of the rear wheels drew up the dust made by the iron tired wagons and sent it whirling away over adjacent lands. Those who witnessed the experi ments of Thursday near the National Capital could not doubt for a mo- j ment that the various road experts all over the world are correct in the opinion that very rapidly automobiles are rapidly tearing up the surface of the macadam road, for not only were huge clouds of dust lifted into the air and blown off the road, but care ful examination showed that the material under the wheel tracks of the machine was distinctly loosened and ravelled even during the short period of these tests. . No such effects were noticeable after the passing of iron tired vehi cles; the series of tests beginning with the passing of a horse drawn vehicle. This was photographed as it moved along and also as the wagon tires passed a given mark. 'Then the automobiles were sent over the course. The first was a heavy weight touring car moving at five miles an hour. A series of pictures was made of that car on its many journeys at varying rates of speed until its max imum of 45 miles an hour was attain ed. Then the work was taken up by the huge racer, which tore down the road first at a speed of SOmiles an hour, then at 55, 60, and finally at 65. It fairly lifted the road surfacing ma terial as it sped along, regular ridges of rock dust rising in front of the rear wheels and floating away in blinding clouds. Other tests were made and other pictures taken of various types of heavy Limousine cars and runabouts. It was plainly noticeable and was commented on that the automobiles when moving at the slow rates of speed equal to the speed made by horse-drawn vehi cles made very little dust, the theory that fast speeding automobiles are responsible for road surface destruc tion being pretty thoroughly sub stantiated by these means. The result of this interesting bit of J road work will be carefully studied and put together in a paper or papers to be presented to the International Road Congress which will meet at Paris on October 11; for so far reaching are the ravages of the auto mobile on the wonderful roads of France that the country has urged highway engineers of all lands to as semble at her gay metropolis in the fall to take up the problem and strive for a solution of it. ELEVATE THE STANDARD. every case of liquor selling to minors that comes to the attention of the criminal court. If it be a worthy case they lend the court all the as sistance in their power to prosecute the offending saloon-keepers and to revoke the leases of those who have violated the law. As the brewers own a large percen tage of the property in which saloons are held in that city their power in this direction is considerable. To show that they are in earnest in this new movement the brewers recently drew up a circular setting forth both the regular state statutes regarding the sale of liguor to minors and the provisions in the juvenile court relating to the same subject A copy of this circular was sent to every saloon-keeper in the city and county and notice served that the brewers proposed to see the law en forced to' the very letter. They also employ secret agents to make inves tigations of .their own account, and if they find any saloons that are not running in accordance with the law they put them out of business. Similar work is also beinjr done bv the state organization known as the Brewers Board of Trade. In New Jersey a similar plan has been adopt ed and there is now some talk in Mil waukee of having some of the larger brewers serve as probation officers. The plan is also under consideration in New Orleans where it is to be put into effect in the near future. Brewers Said to be in Earnest to Re form the Saloons. MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 30. In line with the new policy of the United IStates Brewers' association to elevate the standard of the saloon business of plan recently adopted in Cincinnati is to receive some atten tion at the national convention to be held here June 8 to 10. In the Ohio metropolis several of the leading brewers have been sworn in as pro bation officers of the juvenile court of Cincinnati, and they are taking active part in the prosecuting of mnmrtmm IN ONE OR MANY COLORS LARGEST FACILITIES IN' THE WEST FOR THE PRODUCTION QF HIGH GRADE WORK tATES AS LOW At USTEU HOUSE!