' 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
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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
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the actual cause of the damage done.
To understand how the soft broad
tires of the modern motor car can
work an injury to a surface that not
only withstands, but improves under
the constant passing and repassing
of vehicles with iron tires, one must
be apprised briefly of the theory on
which, first Tresaugct of Limoges,
and later MacAdam of Ayr, worked
when giving such highways to the
world. 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
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