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THURSDAY, JUNE 13.
THE MOHXIXG ASTORIAX. ASTORIA, OREGON,
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THE WEATHER
Western Oregon Cloudy; probably
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THE LOCAL TAXPAYER.
While all minds and energies in
Astoria are bent to the prosecution
of the essential improvements here
about, it is well to bear in mind the
taxpayer of Astoria and Clatsop, and
so urge and achieve things as to
make them as fair and light for him
and her, as the possibilities of each
case admit
When it comes to the issue of real
effective justice, the taxpayer is the
only one who should have the final
word in the launching of the big
projects for which he is the pay
master direct; the mere voter, with
out property is not qualified by inter
est, exact and potential, for the or
daining of big things that cost noth
ing save his vote; while the man and
woman who pays the tax and cost of
everything, is logically equipped to
weigh and pay, while the propertyless
man takes over the benefit and enjoys
the gratuity. "
We believe in the old New Eng
land public meeting. The assembling
of those who are next and nearest
the subject of popular discussion and
enterprise, who are responsible for it
from start to finish; and a close ad
herence to the major wish as ex
pressed there. An organic adminis
trative body like the Common Coun
cil, or the County Court, or the civic
commissions, may have a latitude of
power that exempts them from the
need of reverting to the people they
stand for, and may legally do things
that are not altogether equitable in
their outcome. There is a tendency
everywhere, and at all times, to dis
count the taxpayer upon the simple
predicate that because he is a tax
payer upon the simple predicate that
because he is a taxpayer he is able
to bear the brunt of whatsoever may
be imposed; but this a cardinal blun
der, and is the cause of endless
trouble to communities and their
municipal agencies who have failed
to conserve the rights of their tax
payers. The equities of the Astoria
taxpayer do not vary from the rule,
and it were well to give them all the
honest consideration due, and thus
avoid issues, complications and de
feats inseparable from the reaction
that travels hot-foot on injustice.
THIS IS "MUSIC" DA1
AT ASTORIA
NEEDED RIGHT HERE!
There is a plain and patent lessons
to be drawn from the presence of the
United States transport Sherman in
these waters, and that is the crying
need of a marine hospital at the
mouth of the Columbia river. We are
not saying it should be erected and
maintained within the corporate limits
of Astoria, nor even open this bank
of the Columbia, though, naturally,
we should be glad to have it where its
influence and revenue might be dis
tributed directly for, and in, this city,
but we are asserting the entire exr
pediency of the establishment of a
large and modern concern of the
kind here at the mouth of the river,
where just such cases as the Sher
man's may be disposed with celerity
and comprehensive success.
The Public Health and Marine
Hospital Service of the United States
is incomplete, for want of just such
an agency in the Columbia; the mat
ter is of state-wide significance and
value; Portland should stand pat on
such a plea and proposition and con
tribute her best influence in the secur
ing of it. It will prove a ready solu
tion of the vexed question of sending
such vessels to San Francisco, simply
because there is not efficacious equip
ment and service here, and put the
Columbia on a par with all other
ports on the coast.
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SPLENDID CONCERT BILLED
FOR TONIGHT AT THE
HANDS OF HER NEWLY
FOUNDED PHILHARMONIC
SOCIETY.
This is "Music Day" in Astoria!
This is the day upon which her
newly founded Philharmonic Society
will demonstrate to all men, the
merit of its organization and the
plentitude of its talent The Astoria
theatre will be literally crowded to
night at the initial concert given by
and under the auspices of, this no
table organization. All that fine
voices, devoted culture and illimitable
rehearsal can do to make a charming
success, will find expression this
night in Astoria; and the poorest
hope that can be entertained is that
the day may find annual and ampli
fied success as the years go by, be
cause of the sheer excellence of the
art as a refined attribute of the com
munity. Dr. Emil Enna, the well known art
ist, has given of his best to the up
building of this local institution, and
to him is due the first credit for its
existance and primal success. He
has been loyally supported by the 60
ladies and gentlemen constituting the
membership of the Society, and to
their faith and unquestioned talents
is due the splendid outcome that is
due to fall tonight.
The house will be jammed with
friends and the critic will be absent.
There will be nothing to criticize,
save by way of honor and the grate-
sentative of this important branch of
the federal service at this port, savd
us the mortification of seeing the
Sherman cross out within a few hours
of her arrival from the Philippines,
all of which is thoroughly appreciat
ed here and at Portland, and which
but accentuates the necessity that he,
and the department he serves, be giv
en every element of advantage in the
transaction of the grave tasks thus
arising. The Columbia river is quite
important enough to engage the in
terest of the government in this be
half, and we hope to see the matter
take immediate and tangible shape
and receive the impetus of general
and cordial endorsement, all over the
state. It is a state matter as well as
of the United States.
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.MISS MARY K. CONYF.R,
Mezzo-Soprano.
ful sense of abundant pleasure. That
is the note of interest that will be
sounded and maintained for many a
day. It is to be a great day for thi
city, one that will be marked bril
liantly in its social and artitic chron
icles and reverted to with pleasure
for many and many a year.
"Green and White" is the color
scheme of the day, the Philharmonic
colors ;the green signifies the peren
nial ardor, the vivid, lingering, un
failing quality of the organic end of
the design; and the white stands for
the purity of the mission served, for
music is chief among the graces and,
arts which this society intends to
perpetuate.
We will meet you at the concert,
tonight!
And this is the delightful program
Chorus.
Preislicd (Paraphrase)
Wagner-Wilhelmj
Valse dc Concert Musin
Mr. F.ichcnlaub.
Were My Songs With Wings Pro-
vided . ..........Hahn
A Little Winding Road Ronald
A Birthday Cowen
Mr. Montcith.
At the Cloister Gate Grieg
Solo, Chorus and Orchestra.
Soprano solo Mrs. Finch
Alto solo Miss Conyers
GEORGIA HARPER.
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The cartwheel hat worn by Georgia
Harper in the third act of Nell
Gwynne," naturally leads on who is
not acquainted with the history of
AND MORE TO FOLLOW.
At this writing there are just 30
schemes of street improvement on
foot in Astoria, at various stages of
progress; but all stand for the genuine
improvement of the highways involv
ed, and most of them meaning new
auxilliary streets and thoroughfares
to the heretofore inaccessible parts
of the city. The character of the
work, being as it is, limited to the
consent and participation of the
.property-owners directly involved,
indicates a degree of public spirit not
altogether measured by the dollars
of cost engaged; it stands for some
thing beside contract prices, and
takes justifiable place in the records
of real local enterprise and a desire
to see the city forge ahead in utility
and beauty and general service.
There are not many cities in Ore
gon, of Astoria's size, that can boast
such a line of specific endeavor of a
quasi-public nature; and, we are glad
to make the chronicle that reflects
such distinct credit upon the indi
vidual owners responsible for it, as
well as the administrative aid given
by the council and the civic officers
charged , with thp,,.JyfjltiP7it of .the
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Composer, Artist
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and Director.
that will be unfolded for the host that
will gather there:
SOLOISTS
Mr. John Claire Monteith, baritone;
Mr. Frank Eichenlaub, violinist; Miss
Mary E. Conyer, mezzo-soprano;
Mrs. A. A. Finch, soprano; Miss
Eeatrice Hidden, pianist; Mr. Harold
Bayley, concertmeister; Miss Anna
Shistad, accompanist, organist.
PROGRAM.
From the Garden of Flowers. .Denza
Solo, chorus and orchestra.
Alto solo.'... Miss Conyers
Quartet r-' Miss Eessie Reed, Miss
Nellie Utziger, Mrs. J. T. Allen
and Miss May Utzinger.
Chorus, The Morn
"Rise up, rise up .this happy morn I"
Alto solo, Lovely Rosebuds... .
"Lovely rosebuds, wet and dew."
Chorus, Summer Breezes
"Over the hills and over the plains."
Quarter, Good Night..,;
"The weary .streamlet, bubbling on."
Chorus, Garden of Flowers..........
"Garden of flowers so fair."
Airs Russe Wieniawski
Mr, Eichenlaub.
My Ships That Went Sailing... Lohr
King Charles .....White
, Mr. Monteith.
Variations gerieuse (D Minor).. Enna
Fantasie .Norwegienne .' .Enna
. Dr. Enna.
England to believe that Nell has sud
denly become modern in her ideas
and affected the much talked of
"Merry Widow" style. The famous
hat worn by Miss Harper measures
in ciivi iifereiKe and is edged with
alternating white and black ostrich
plumes and is identical with the one
worn by Mrs. Siddons in her famous
characterization of this part and also
the one worn by Nellie Stewart, the
distinguished Australian actress, as
the story of the play runs, after Nell
becomes the favorite of the King.
Among her newly acquired positions
she become the leader of fashion and
she invents the style of the enormous
hat, but the "Nell Gwynne" hat was
in vogue many years before the
"Merry Widow" hat.
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