THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
SUNDAY; JUNE 14, 1008
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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.
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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
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First-Class Liquors and Cigars
602 Commercial Street
J Corner Commercial and 14th. . ASTORIA. OPRnAM
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tMttlllMniMHM HIHMimimilHMMtHi
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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
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chronic kickers that ar-re confined f A. , . ,,y , , '
tv kitchen, begobsl Pack. , v " w,w,
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AMERICAN IMPORTING CO.
589 Commercial Street