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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1908)
SECOND SECTION TWENTY PAGES i COVERS THE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA PUBLISHES CULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT 33rd YEAR. NO. 122 ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1908 PRICE FIVE CENTS in ( j PROSPERITY SIGNS ' More Comfortable Feeling In All ; Lines of Business WALL STREETS ACTIVITY New Transit Problem For City Mad Dog Scare Bring! Out New Disease Vessel Launched in New York Street Actor Army Back to Rlalto. - NPW YORK. Mav 30 For the firnt time since the October panic there is general agreement here that the prosperity which ban been so much dicuscd and so eagerly watched for is actually returning. The error which too many of the eager enthusiasts have made here tofore has been in expecting the wheels of industry to resume their interrupted revolutions at full speed immediately. This of course is im possible hut it is evident to one who goes about the city that there is a feeling of encouragement in almost every line of business. Wall Street shows this influence plainly in the up ward trend of prices and Wall Street is a pretty accurate barameter of gen eral conditions. Undoubtedly there has been manipulation by big finan cial operators to encourage the rise, but th very fact that they have se lf the urescnt ncriod for these' trillions shows that they consider jVlic time ripe for the beginning of the i upward turn. The excellent pros pects for good crops throughout the country and the fact that the situa tion in regard to the preidcntal nominations is beginning more set tled are regarded by the financial ex perts of the downtown district as factors aiding the return of confi dence. That New York's streets and street cars will always be overcrowded is the hopeless conclusion of Mr. II. P. Strong, a transportation expert who has been studying local traffic condi tions. Apparently his conclusion is well founded for each new bridge, tunnel or a subway that is opened, while it may lessen the overcrowding at a certain point, creates new ccnt- ters of congestion. The opening of the Williamsburg bridge across the F.ast River did not put an end to the V. daily Rrooklyn Bridge crush which 'Governor Hughes has called the most appalling spectacle in New York. It did provide, however, another crowd center at its dangerous spot in the city. The building of the subway did not lessen appreciably the num ber of straphangers of the elevated trains but its own cars are packed to suffocation at the morning and even ing rush hours. Now a new prob lem confronts those who wrestle with transportation difficulties in the Metropolis In the announcement by Vice President' Rea of the Pennsyl- ' vania Railroad that upon the comple tion of the tunnels which his road is building tinder the North and East rivers 200,000 passengers will be dumped down every day at the new terminal at Thirty-third street. He wants to know what the city authori ties propose to do to carry this army of daily travelers to their destina tions and suggests that a new subway is needed for the purpose. Nobody questions this but the city's debt limit has already been stretched sev eral times to provide for necessary improvements and there is not enough money in sight to care for the projects that have been under taken, to say nothing of new ones. The truth is that New York is out growing its clothes faster than it can buy new ones. Ten thousand per sons, enough to form a flourishing citv by themselves are added to its population every month while the army of visitors increases in size all the time and such expensive require ments as subways and tunnels can not be provided fa.st enough to take care of this increases comfortably. Perhaps when airships become as commonly used as automobiles are J now a comfortable meant of getting j about Manhattan I island will be devel oped. Until then apparently New Yorker must cultivate the prehen nive abilities of their ancestor! by dangling from straps on their way between their office and their home. Following the death from hydrop hobia of a prominent business man who had not been bitten by. a mad dog but had become infected through a scratch on his hand which was licked by a canine pet, New York has had a serious scare which has devel oped a number of cases diagnosed by the doctors as pseudo-rabies. In other words many persons have be lieved that they were afflicted with hydrophobia who had no more rea son for assuming this than for think ing that they had leprosy or bubonic plague. The health authorities have pointed out that rabies is really one of the least of the dangers of life in the Metropolis and that last year there were only twenty-two deaths from this cause. In the city while more than two hundred victims of dog bite were successfully treated by means of the serum discovered as a prevention of this disease. They have called atention also to the fact that this serum treatment could not have been discovered and could not be continued except for vividection experiments which a large number of well meaning people tried to Induce the state legislature to forbid by law last winter. Incidentally the present wave of alarm is having one good ef fect by causing a vigorous effort to rid the city of stray dogs. Steamers of considerable sire may soon be constructed in office build ings in the heart of New York'a man ufacturing district and launched upon the busy pavements, if the precedent established this week catches the fancy of naval constructors. At any rate a thirty foot auxiliary racing yacht has just been constructed in a second story loft in the center of the eat side downtown district and launched, via the windows, not into the briny deep, but instead on to a specially constructed track which bore it triumphantly to the nearest water, which happened to be the North River, about three-quarters of a mile away. This novel aerial launching was accomplished not to the accompanient of the shattering of a champagne bottle, but instead to the breaking of four window frames, the necessary removal of which was incidental to the launch ing of a boat on a city street for the first time in history. The boat to make this novel record was by no means a toy, her length being 35 feet with a ten foot beam and a sixty horse power engine. While no at tempt has been made in the trials so far for any records, it is believed that this aerially built boat will make over twenty milest an hour. In view of the success of this first attempt at launching boats into the city street, the builders is now preparing to con struct a much larger racer in a fifth story loft more than a mile from water. That part of Broadway known as the Rialto, which extends from Her ald Square to Longacre, has resumed its wonted summer appearance. That is to say it is thronged with actors and actresses -thousands of them who have been released by the clos ing of the season for most of the road companies and are back at their favorite rendezvous. For the present they are occupied chiefly in telling ! one another of the adventures, suc cesses and failures that they have encountered during the past season. It is estimated that there are thirty thousand persons actually engaged in the theatrical business, the major-' ity of them making their headquar ters in New York, and on pleasant afternoons it seems as though most of them were in evidence along upper Broadway. According to the man agers the season just closing has not been a profitable one although they I agree that the latter half was much beter than they expected, following the panic of last fall. As the the ater is regarded as an accurate indic ator of business conditions this is accepted as evidence that the country generally was not seriously affected by the financial flurry. , WASHINGTON NEWS Capital City Has Had Strenuous Week CHICAGO C0NVERTI0N TALK Interest Centers Whether Senator Burrows Will be Temporary Chair man or Not President Planning to Take His Outing About June 20. WASHINGTON, Mav 30. -The Capital City has seen some strenuous days during the month of May, for it has been lively work following the doings of Congress, the Governors' and various other conventions, and the operations of the sundry candid ate for the Presidential nomination at the hands of their respective part ies. However, Washingtonians are fortunate in having had with them for some seven years an able instruc tor in the game of being strenuous, and hence they have managed to give a good account of themselves. Many and diversified have been the topics discussed in Washington during the last few weeks, but at the present time everything else practically has become dry and uninteresting, and speculation and interest center around the selec tion of Senator Burrows as tempor ary chairman of the Republican na tional convention and its possible out come. 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Therefore it is that when a piece of shrewd politics or a brisk factional fight is scented, every body here sits up and takes notice, intent on letting no detail escape them the while speculating freely and mak ing all sorts of prognostications. The big question that is agitating the pub lic mind right now is, will the two branches of the G. O. P. give a Twentieth Century exhibition of the Damon and Pithias act at Chicago next month, or will they "get together in another sense and lock horns for a preliminary test of strength? If there is anyone who feels sure he can fore cast this matter, the $315,000 residents of the District of Columbia are of one mind in hoping that he will keep his knowledge to himself, as they prefer to be kept guessing; they must have something to tide them over the dull summer and the dog days, and politi cal guessing is certainly fascinating these days. President Roosevelt is planning to make his annual "get-away" along about June 20. Unless his present plans miscarry he will, for som months after that date, direct the af fairs of government from his sum mer home at Oyster Bay, L. I. The Chief Executive is said to be eagerly looking forward to this last official vacation, for it marks the last mile- EVERY GARMENT OF THE FAMOUS TT T1 if Guaranteed Clotfekg' For MEN and YOUNG MEN Is hand tailored by skilled union workmen in our own clean sanitary workshops. We can you PREHISTORIC JAPAN The Japanese Race Three Thou sand Years Ago BY DOCTOR N. 6. MONROE The Prehistoric Japanese is Not the Japanese of Today Any More Than the Prehistoric American Indian is the American of Today. SAN FRANCISCO, May 30. Three thousand years ago and more Japan was exclusively peopled by the Ainu, the long bearded, now almost extinct aborigines still to be found in the far north of the island. This interesting declaration is made by Dr. N. G. Munro, a physician, an author and member of many anth ropoligical and scientific societies who has devoted the past few years in- stone in his Presidential career. Ere another vacation-time rolls around he will once more be Citizen Roosevelt, care-free and at liberty to indulge his every fancy for strenuosities-geo-graphical, zoological, or, mayhap, political. Mrs. Roosevelt and the children probably will precede the President by some days, for it is likely that preparations for the com ing convention and campaign will pre clude his leaving before the date mentioned. vestigate and investigations and ex tensive excavations at his own ex pense to determine what manner of beings occupied Japan in prehistoric times. The Japanese of to-day, he says, are a mixture of Mongolian in vaders from Malaysian and Negrito settlers from the south and a small tincture of Aryan stock, probably Persians with a blending of the original Ainus. The prehistoric Japanese 13 not the Japanese of to-day at all, any more than tthe prehistoric American, the aboriginal Indian, is the American to day. He has wholly different feature and skull conformation. Dr.Munro's more recent unearthing of two complete prehistoric skeletons, about three miles from Yokohama, together with five or six skulls, which show bony characteristics identical with those of the Ainu, a long bearded peculiar type of aborigines found n jwhere else on the face of the earth and gradually disappearing from Japan. EN ROUTE TO WASHINGTON. SAN FRANCISCO, May 30-John S. Leech for seven years director of printing at Manila, has arrived here en route to Washington where he is to assume the duties of public printer, succeeding Chas A. Stillings who was suspended some time ago by order of President Roosevelt SOLDIER SHOOTS HIMSELF. A private in 16th Company of Coast Artillery. SAN FRANCISCO, May 30.- James Black, a private in the sixtieth Company 0' Coast Artillery shot him self at the Presidio yesterday and died later from the effects of the wound. Black who was 25 years of age, was bom in Burlington, Iowa.