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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1908)
THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. SUNDAY; JUNE 14, 1008 FOR M OIL ; ANB GA Right at the iVIouth of tlie Columbia River ie i r 36 TONES I That OIL and natural GAS have been discovered in paying quantities across the Columbia River from Astoria at Onieda, Washington, has been important enough to a number of well-known reliable partiesjto cause the organization of the Pacific Coast Gas & Oil Co., with a capital stock of $300,000.. This company has just placed a number of shares of stock on the market at the low price of $50.00 per share. READ ON- What the Company Is The Pacific Coast Gas & Oil Co. is composed of reliable business men of Oregon and Washington whose only purpose is to develop the property to the best of its ability and produce a paying mine of oil and gas that all who have purchased stock may share in its profits. The officers serve with out salary and include among them some of the most reputable citizens of the State. To make the company strong on account of its brilliant fu ture it has secured leases on over 6000 acres of land. It has obtained the highest expert authority on the geological formation of the land, employed the strongest expert work men to operate the drilling apparatus and given such other evidence of good faith to warrant any man making an investment with them. Alex Sweek, president, Portland. Clayton S. Barber, sec and treas. R. A. Wade, vice-president Directors John Nelson, Oneida, Wash.; Geo. I Hutchins, Portland; Wm. Anderson, Deep River, Wash. THIS famous oil property is located on the north bank of the Columbia River directly opposite Astoria, and right at the mouth of Deep River, at Onieda, Washington. The derrick machinery and drilling apparatus is on the ground at work daily, and open to the inspection of the public. Mr. John D. Magner and Fred E. Carl, two of the most competent oil and gas drillers in 'the country are in charge oi tne work. Go and see them drill in the ground. The location of the plant is right on John Nelson's place at Onie da where he has farmed for the past 20 years. He has been using this gas for the past 0 years that this company is now digging down for a plentiful supply. The gas is there because it has been put to practi cal heating and illuminating tests without a break. We want you to see the plant in operation. Look over the exceptional facilities for handling the product, and then form your opinion of those who own stock rn the company. Take the steamer Julia B.or the Gen'l Washington any morning from Astoria and spend an hour at the plant and see it work. You can return in the morning or afternoon of the same day. This visit will prove a revelation. There is nothing like it in the northwest. This drilling outfit is the biggest and most up to date ever operated on the Pacific coast. StocK for Sale For Development Pur oses The per value of the stock is $100 per share, but is now offered at one half ($50) and it Is worth it Th company has already sold a limited amount of stock, equipped the prop erty with the best working machinery in the world and it has plans for a great future. The money secured from the sale of stock will be to push the work. Every dolar will be used to prepare for the best interest of the company. As the drill goes down the stock witl surely rite. The price it is now offered at will only be a short time. A good rule is to let oppor tunity in when it knocks at the door. For an investment there is nothing more tangible, brighter or more surer dvidend paying than this stock, par ticularly at $50 per share. Don't wait until it goes to par, but buy now. It ii really a chance that comes seldom. Further particulars at the addresses given below. Pi Hj f ft y La' V i 402 Commercial Block, Portland, Oregon. Higgins& Warren, Savings Bank Building, Astoria, Oregon, WALL STREET GUARDS How Detectives Haunt New York's Financial District. PROTECTING ITS MILLIONS. There Is No Display of Uniformed Po lice, but the Bags of Gold and the ' Bundles of Bills and Securities Are Closely Watched by Keen Eyes. More millions of dollars are carried through Wall street every day than any other thoroughfare in the country sees In a 'week, and yet to the casual . observer at least the great financial center boasts fewer policemen and de tectives than the average city boule vard. The explanation is in the "boast lug." Wall street Is not obstrusive Jn its methods of guarding its money, but It guards it nevertheless. The appar ently idle individual lounging along Just behind a bank clerk hurrying to ward the subtreasury, with a suit case In his hand, is an armed detective. The man loitering on the curb and that other seeming workman riding on the tall of a wagon creaking under its load of canvas bags are detectives and very much alert to what is going on, for the clerk with the suit case is car rying a small fortune in paper money, and the truck's load Is $2,000,000 in gold. Wall street long ago learned that un seen guards were far better than a dis play of uniformed police, for they do not attract a crowd of curious, says the New York Tribune. Moreover, the unknown guards can watch bank clerks as well as bank thieves. Under the present method a bank clerk has the comfortable feeling that a million or two have been Int rusted to him, while at his heels may ti.ead a detective who sees that the money reaches its desti nation in safety; then he is swallowed up in the crowd, and neither clerk nor crowd is aware of his existence. A few years ago an express company sent a large consignment of cash to Wall street In wagons guarded by men carrying rifles. The caravan attracted such a crowd and advertised so widely the sending and receiving of riches that the company never repeated Its experi ment of a show of force. Now mil lions are shipped across the city in open trucks, with only a "helper" on the seat beside the driver. But both driver and helper are heavily armed. and on the sidewalk keeping pace witn the wagon are two or three unobtrusive individuals who are special guards and known for their ability to hit whatever they shoot at In the vaults of the New York sub treasury is perhaps $350,000,000 in money, and yet one sees few guards around the building. But the guards are there and doubly' awe inspiring be cause they are unseen and unknown. A clerk in shirt sleeves lounges for a minute in the corridor while a hand truck piled high with canvas bags is dragged Into the building. The can vas bags are filled with gold, and the "clerk" is an armed detective. Each canvas bag, by the way, weighs eight een pounds and contains $3,000 in gold. A wagon backs up to the curb. It, too, is loaded with white bags, much splash ed with mud from their Journey from some steamship dock. Two or three clerks stand idly on the sidewalk, and a hatless man paces the corridor while the bags are being hauled into the building more gold here and more de tectives, but so unobtrusively is the whole work carried on that no crowd is attracted to the scene. But for all the seeming Indifference the subtreasury Is an arsenal and fully prepared to deal either with the In dividual robber or the collective mob. High up between the Doric columns that flank the Tine street entrance to the building are two apparently small holes. One notices the heavy iron door and the stout iron grille, but not the holes In the masonry. And yet those holes are the real terror to possible thieves or mobs, for they are fitted with trapdoors, and their purpose is to per mit the dropping of dynamite bombs upon the heads of rioters should they storm the building. But these bombs are but a small part of the system of defense. Scattered around among the clerks in the various rooms are open pine boxes, each of which holds a half dozen revolvers. The boxes are so placed as to be with in reach of the clerks" at all times, and the clerks know how to shoot. It is up under the roof of the build ing, however, that the real arsenal Is to be found. It contains at present a hundred .Springfield rifles, twenty of which are fitted with bayonets, and 12,000 rounds of ammunition. Close by are four Gatling guns mounted on their tripods and provided with 20,000 rounds of cartridges. Besides these are. a hundred Colt revolvers, with 1,200 cartridges, and, most awe inspiring of all perhaps, 1,500 bombs are ready to be dropped through those holes ovor the entrance on the heads of any "un desirable" persons who Insist upon en- tenug ine'Duiiaing. j HARVARD'S CRIMSON , I Under the eaves on the Nassau street j j front of the building the windows are Although President Eliot's opposi- 1 emi nned with iM Hlinttnra a il. signed that they may be projected tion to modern college football is well from the-, wall and give shelter to known, he has always been interested marksmen who with the r rifles could ,,, ,. , , . . . i . n.,t xt . I i . sanc athletics, and during hist un- I sweep Broad and Nassau streets clear s i of human beings In a few minutes. Al-dergraduate days himself participated j though these weapons are never used, in college sports. Many a crew has ! they are kept in perfect order. ,. 1 By no means is all the gold of Wall ,lstenc'1 to ms interesting experiences 1 street kept in the subtreasury. In the of tlic-c days when Harvard pulled fU,l8 iD b,rment tht eut oars and Yale six-a time al i Stock Exchange building are stored ( millions of securities, and twice each 'wancc usually being given for the : day, in the morning and again In the difference and when the crew met ; evening, trucks back up to the curb, professionals and raced for prize and trunks filled with bonds and se- tnoncv which cot the crew out of (Uht entitles of all kinds are carried out of But of M, wag pflrt ()f ,,ig (jcsire or Into the building. In order to guard to keep up his physical, mental, and aoiply against accidents making it im- nioral hcaIth He ,lcvclo , 10 one possible to open the vaults, there are . , , 1 . two doors, one at the Broad street end set of musc,cs 01,1 of a11 proportion to and the other at the New street side of anot,,cl'.' ai1(i unquestionably he be- the long room, each door having four Hevcd then as now in a sound mind time locks. Each of these giant doors and a sound body. weighs twenty tons and cost $30,000. He likes to tell of the origin of A lieutenant of the New York po- Harvard's "crimson". In 1858 the first lice has charge of the financial de- it 1 . tectlve bureau, composed of twelve or ard "w,ng shell wa, put on the fifteen central office men, with head- watcr 1 hree mcn'' ' wllom Alcxan- quarters in a room on the fifth floor of ('er Agassi was one, got together the Stock Exchange building, Wall and bought it. street side. These men are on duty "We had not paid for the boat" from 9 a m. to 4 p m and make it Said President Eliot, when asked their business particular y. to watch i ,. lU- 1 1 the transfer of valuables to and from boMt th,S' and we Icpen(icd 0,1 our safe deposit vaults early and late In flrst pnze moncy P"y for it. Well the day. They stroll through the dis- tne day before the race, it appeared trlct comparing notes with private that there were to be thirteen or four watchman in banks and looking out for teen boats in the race and we said to crooks who may dare to Invade the cach other, 'How are our friends go-1 ing to know m in the regatta?' We rect the carelessness of messenger lads h!lvf 1,0 umfortri. nothing at all to who come down the steps of the sub- distinguish us. We had rowed in our treasury counting a bunch of hundred various underclothes up to that time. dollar bills; they unobtrusively follow So 'Ben' Crowinshield and I went Sherman Transfer Co. HENRY SHERMAN, Manager. Hacks, Carriages Baggage Checked and Transferred-Trucks and Farsitart Wagons Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped. 433 Commercial 8trcet . Mils Phono 121 THE OEM C. F. WISE, Prop. Choice Wines, Liquors Merchants Lunch Frtm and Ctgara 11:30 a. m. to 1:30 f. m. Hot Lunch at All Hours. 1$ Cents Corner Eleventh and Commercial , ; ASTORIA, - . OREOOJNf THE TRENTON I First-Class Liquors and Cigars 602 Commercial Street J Corner Commercial and 14th. . ASTORIA. OPRnAM 4 ,,. tMttlllMniMHM HIHMimimilHMMtHi t porters with valises of greenbacks and stand by to make an arrest when a Pinkerton has gathered evidence against a dishonest employee. It is the boast of the financial squad that not a dollar has been stolen, by profes sionals In the district since Inspector Byrnes mapped the dead line. ' Not 80 Bad. Mr. Subbs (after engaging cook) There's one other thing 1 suppose you should know. Miss Flannigan my wife is a chronic invalid, confined to her room. Miss Flannigan That's fine. I wor down to Hovey's and bought six red handkerchiefs just about that color (picking up a flower, from the "tabic) and we tied those handkerchiefs around our heads, and that, gentle men, is the origin of the Harvard red. Here is the kind of silk handkerchief that was worn a few years later (showing a handkerchief). It was not the right color. The trouble was that magenta came in and the Harvard color was magenta for a few years; but that handkerchief is a poor ani line dye. This (showing an American A FEW SPECIALS SOMETHING EXTRA FINE Cresta Blanca Sauterue (Chateau 60,c Cresta Blanca (Red and TC White). Chianti.. OC Cresta Blanca Sparkling or Burgundy. Nips. 30C areera- sne mignr De wan iv thim bcanty ro,e f , . , . - chronic kickers that ar-re confined f A. , . ,,y , , ' tv kitchen, begobsl Pack. , v " w,w, zme. AMERICAN IMPORTING CO. 589 Commercial Street