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PUBLISH!! FULL At VOCIATCD PRESS REPORT
33rd YEAR. NO, 135
ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1908
PRICE FIVE CENTS
NEW YORK HIORS
Unexpected May Happen In Re
publican Nominating Convention
MOST TALKED ABOUT WOMAN
Bible Text For Street Car Passengers
Volcano Expert Foretells Big
Eruption, and Many Other Interest
ing Facta Around the Metropolis.
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NEW YORK. June, .-On the
eve of the Republican national con
vention. there ie a strong undercurrent
of feeling here that an unexpected
and possibly sensational development
will occur next week at Chicago. All
sort of ttorict are afloat the truth
of which it is impossible to determine.
One rumor that will not down is t"hat
the thick-ami thin advocates of
Roosevelt's renomination have laid
careful plans which they are prepared
to spring at the psychological moment
to force the President to head the
party ticket once more. According to
this report, which is given with great
detail, the President knows of this
scheme and has commissioned Senat
or Lodge and one or two other close
friends to act for him when the. emer
gency arises, but what their instruc
tions are nobody seems able to tell.
Another story is that in spite of his
Refusal to consider the Vice-presi
dential nomination Governor Hughe
is t? be forced by the influence of
New York State politicians to accept
second place on the ticket withTaft
as the only means of preventing his
rcnnmiiutinn for Governor which the
machine leaders here arc anxious to
forestall at any cost. There ' are
wl.ispcrs too that the unusual activ
ity that has suddenly broken out
among candidates for the Vive Presi
denttai nomination, a dozen or more
of them have come into the field
within the past few .weeks is due to
the unsatisfactory physical condition
of Secretary Taft and the possibility
that the sirain of life in the White
House will make" another succession
necessary before four years arc up
The friends of the War Secretary
ridicule this idea and point to the
ease with which he has carried
heavy load of work for the past eight
years in proof of their assertions
vWhilc it is difficult to substantiate
any of the , many stories that have
been in circulation here since Con
gress adjourned the fact remains that
among the delegates and politicians
generally there is a feeling that some
sudden explosion or startling turn of
affairs is likely to change the appar
ently cut and dried plans of the con
vention, and consequently it seems
likely that the attendance in Chicago
will be the largest of any political
gathering in the history of the coun
try,
The most talked about woman in
America is Hetty Green who recent
; ly startled New York by moving from
her Hobokcn flat to one of the city's
most fashionable hotels. Giving din
ners off .Bold date, consulting' a
beauty specialist, and otherwise in
dicating an Intention of casting her
line in the fashionable fish-pond. This
, statement as to the amount of com
ment devoted to the lady sometimes
referre'd to as "the female Russell
Sage" is no mere" guess based on the
hubbub her recent actions' have
created. It is an estimate backed by
cold figures and comes from the man
who is engaged in supplying press
clippings to a large number of well
known persons and who recently en
rolled Mrs. Green among his cHents.
Acci
Alic
tip
cording to this authority i Miss
e Roosevelt was the most written
woman in the country for some
time before she became Mrs Lontr-
worth. As a steady recipient of notice
in the public prints, however, he says
Miss Helen Gould has held first place
'for a long time. Mrs. Russel Sage is
another woman who since her hits
band s death, has been a profitable
patron for the clipping bureau. Now,
however, Mrs. Green, whose given
name of Mehitabcl is popularly short
ened to Hetty, seems to have a safe
lead over all rivals. It is said that the
clippings about her which the press
bureau, lias been employed to furnish
amount to twenty thousand, a month
which means that she' must pay the
tidy sum of twelve thousand dollars
a year to learn what is printed con
cerning her.
Bible texts' as a substitute for the
official "spotter" and a reminder to
passenger inclined to ignor the for
mality of handing over their tickets
to the street car conductor is the
novel idea that is being tried by
Fredrick W. Whitrdge, receiver of
the Third Avenue car line in this city,
one of the sections of the big'Ryan
Bclmont transportation system that
went on the rocks of financial insol
vency last winter Mr. Whitridge has
bad posted prominently in all the
cars over which his authority ex
tends big signs reading in flaring
letters "Thou Shalt Not Steal," with
explanations that this applies to con
ductors who knock down fares and
passenger who fail to pay. Inas
much as it is estimated that a high
as ten per cent of the passengers car
ried sometimes fail to yield revenue
to the company for one or the other
of these reason, Mr. Whitridge' in
terest in spreading the influence of at
least one, of the Ten Commandments
it likely to prove a good investment
if those who read the message take it
to heart. The joke of the signs, as
New York sees it, is that this Third
Avenue line has been repeatedly
pillaged by the financial wreckers
and consolidates who have had
charge of its affairs at different times
and the hope is frequently expressed
that some of these financiers may
occasionally ride in the cars and
study the precept displayed there. ,
Among the throngs leaving for
Europe on the crowded ocean liners
this week was one man who is going i ?
on a remarkable and unusual journey.
He is Mr. F A, Prrret, an American
scientist who lives in Springfield,
Mass., and whose name is much more
familiar to students of physicial
science than it is to readers of news
papers. Mr. Perrct may be described
as a volcano and earthquake expert
for he has devoted himself to the
study of these great disturbances id
the earth's interior and undoubtedly
knows more about the character and
habits of both than any other man in
the country. Mr. Ferret has discov
ered that it is possible to forecast the
occurrence of both earthquakes and
volcanic eruptions by certain astron
omical computations and he is An his
way to witness the eruption of Mount
Etna which he foretold last year,
This volcano resumed its activiey a
few weeks ago and the scientist says
that its action will become more vio
lent during July and August. In
order to add to .his information on
the subject he is going to spend these
two months in the observatory on the
mountain close to the crater where
hewill miss nothing that goes on,
with only two or three guards and at
tendants and possibly one fellow
scientist for company. Mr. Perret be
lieves that with the careful study of
volcanic phenomena it will be pos
sible In time to prevent great dis
asters and loss of life from this cause.
A, relic of the days of the Tweed
ring scandals of forty years ago came
to light the other day in goiugg over
the city's accounts. It was In an item
of nearly three-quarters of a million
dollars charged on the debit side of
the city .ledger on account of the
erection of the. New York county
court-house, the city's unsightly
monument to graft, It seems in build
ing the" court house the plunderers
were not satisfied with the pickings
available from the appropriation but
overdrew it more than seven hundred
thousand dollars. The city eomptrol-
ers refused to make good the amount
but the' banks in which the amount
was deposited dedncted it' from other
funds of the city in its keeping and
the entry was made in order to bal
ance the city's books. l!
NAMES COMMISSION
To the International Road Xon
jressat Paris. .",
TO BE HELD OCTOBER 11
United State Will be Strongly and
Officially Represented Says Presi
dent Roosevelt, Logan, Waller,
Pag Director With Excellent Staff
WASHINGTON, June I3.-Pres.
Roosevelt has directed that this Na
tion be strongly and officially repre
sented at the International Road
Congress to be held at Paris the week
beginning October 11, and credent
ials have been issued naming Logan
r.n- n . . .
vvaiier rage, uirccior 01 me umce
of Public Roads of the U, S. Depart-,
mcnt of Agriculture, Chairman of the and or ov" a century and a quarter
Commission. The other members tl)e so-called macadam road did every
named are Colonel Charles, S. Brom-j thing that the famous French and
well of the United States Corps oftSc0,c highway engineers claimed it
Engineers, now serving a Superin-1 capable of. It came to be the ideal
tendent of Buildings and Grounds of.'0 for suburbantections, and thou
the District of Columbia, and Clif- sands of mi,cs wre bui,t France t0
ford Richardson of New York, an date. has spent $6,000,000 on her
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world's acknowledged authorities on
bituminous road building materials.
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THE LAST PRACTICE
Before the American Olympic
Athletics Make Trip
CHAMPIONS MEET CHAMPIONS
Every Event Will Be Handicap Af
fair With The Champions Starting
From Scratch Will Be At Least
A Dozen Western Athletes.
- NEW YORK, June U-For the
last time before their trip to London
where they will battle with the world,
the American Olympic athletes will
be seen in action this afternoon.
With few exceptions the men who
competed in the try-outs at Philadel
phia last Saturday, will compete in
the events at the Eighty Annual
Games of the New York Athletic
Club which will be held at the Club's
summer home at Traver's island.
Besides the easterns there will be at
least a dozen western athletics of
whom athletic supporters east of the
Mississippi know only through pub
lication f their feats.
In nearly every event champions
will meet champions, but while the
wide fame will battle for more hon
ors, the lesser lights will have ample
opportunity to win applause and
trophies. Every event will be a handi-
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; On the field events the one which
will probably furnish most interest
will be the contest between A, K.
Dearborn of New York Athletic
Club who recently established a
world's record at the Philadelphia
try-outs, hurling the discuss, and
Martin Sheridan, the Irish American
champion whom the former defeated
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and allow their opponents big handi
caps. In the pole vaults, Gilbert, Dray,
Nelson and Cook are among those
entered. Shaw, the Darthmouth col
lege champion hurdler, will again try
for a record in the 120 yeard high
hurdle event
In the quarter mile, Harry Hillman
of the New York A. C. will meet J.
B. Taylor, the University of Pen
nsylvania speed marvel on terms.
James Rector of the University of
Virginia and Law son Robertson, the
Irish American Athletic Club giant,
who finished inches apart in , the
Olympic .try-outs will meet in the
100 yard dash.
from the honor marks in their respec
tive marks are:
Melvin Shepard, Fred Beilars, Ray
E wry, Harry Porter, Cook of Cor
nell in the broad jump. Matt McGrath
John Flanagan, Halstead and Sulli
van. HEAVY RAINS FALLING
KANSAS CITY, June 13, 3:30 a. m
Rain is falling in torrents over the
whole Kaw watershed, making high
water in the Kaw and lower Missouri
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