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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
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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.
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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. Despite the fact that most
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headquarters are political eunuchs,
great interest always is manifested
here in politics, and especially Presi
dential politics not that any one of
them are so vitally concerned over
the result of the quadrennial contests,
but principally for the reason that
when Congress adjourns and every
body who can goes home, there's not,
for those who perforce remain, much
left to talk about. 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-
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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.