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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
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THE WEATHER
Oregon, Washington
Clearing, warmer.
and Idaho
UNCLE SAM SAYS IT.
Your "Uncle Samuel" says, through
his trained and expert agents, that
there is a channel across the Colum
bia river bar 6000 feet wide and 25.S
feet deep at mean low water. This
means that at high water on that
barrier, there will be from 311 feet to
34J feet, according to the make of the
tide, over a mile in width, for the
reception and despatch of the fleets
of tht world.
There are men in the Columbia
River Bar Pilots' Association, who
affirm that they cannot find that
water, nor anything approaching it;
some go so far as to say flatly "there
is no such water on the bar." And
there you are. It is the same old
story, told and re-told, year by year;
but the progress of the jetty, and the
word of the Government must hold,
because the are the guages of popular
desire and authority and mean too
much to be disbelieved; therefore,
with all the world-marine, we will
cling to the mathematical fact Uncle
Sam has given out, and trust to luck
and the skilled pilots of the bar to
find the mile-wide channel and the
new commercial depths. It is essen
tial that they be fonud and used, for
the good of the Columbia valley and
especially this end of it Every addi
tional foot of channel-way-water
across that bar has a wonderful sig
nificance for Astoria, whatever it may
ipean to the hardy and well-informed
men who cannot find it
We cannot tell either the govern
ment nor the pilots their business in
this grave relation, but we can tell
them both and all, that the truth .is
what the people want; and the old,
old divergency between these two
authorities simple MUST be settled,
wherever the discredit shall fall.
the contemptuous talk on the train.
and left no sort of doubt in the minds
ot the disappoined drummers as to
why their orders went to San Fran
cisco instead of up the river.
This goes to show how even the
adroit and up-to-date drummer will,
at times, make grave blunders. These
men had no figures from their houses
to. placate these Astoria merchants;
they simply lost out, and the home
coming tradesmen did a distinct serv
ice to the city when they refused to
give the business to the "long
tongues." Happily all drummers are
not so unwise, and we inclined to the
belief the men in question have learn
ed a lesson they will not soon for
get, nor repeat
Astoria is no place to cast aspers
ions upon, in a commercial sense; she
trades heavily with the wholesalers
and pays her bills; this is the limit of
comment and conjecture, from a busi
ness standpoint; outside that issue,
her short-comings and long-goings
are purely local concerns and not
amenable to reckless and semipublic
gossip at the hands of those who
profit by her trade. This is a good
town, a busy town, and progresses
with the exact ratio of her oppor:
tunity; she has a welcome for every
body, even those who are foolish
enough to disparage her; she is sound
financially and making distinct and
creditable headway, year by year,
along all avenues of development, and
has fewer commercial failures than
any city on the coast.
M0T
A THE COAST ELECTRIC
The Morning Astorian insists that
it must not be charged with any dis
position to "knock" the Astoria, Til
lamook & Seacoast Electric Railway,
or any other laudable project, the oil-and-gas
proposition, the seawall, good
roads, "common-point" rates, a 35
footbar, nor anything else that means
success and prosperity. Each and
every one of these things are vital
to the real and early development of
the city and county and the entire
section around the mouth of the
Columbia.
But Astoria has had her fill of
failures, and she wants her new pro
jects to be launched upon safe and
equitable lines. She has given up
good money, from time immemorial,
only to see it transmuted into assets
that innured to Portland or some
other place, and the story is too old
for any re-telling. This is the reason
the Morning Astorian is becoming
hyper-critical, and the attitude is
taken at the behest of genuine PUB
LIC SENTIMENT.
We want the electric line to the
coast and Tillamook as much as those
who are in the lead, the promoters,
want it, and we will do all in our
power to secure it, urge it, commend
it and prize it; but the experience of
the past, along this same route, is
warrant for our insistance that the
matter shall be prosecuted on the
best and safest basis; given that,
there will be no carping nor question
ing, but only good-will and all the
aid we can render. It is too good a
venture to be lost for the want of a
word of caution.
THEY LOST OUT.
A group of Portland drummers
boarded the evening express at that
city for Astoria the other day, and
on the way down two or three of
them indulged in some pretty free
comment on Astoria and its relation
to Portland, alL of which was, to say
the least of it, uncomplimentary to
Astoria. Two local merchants hap
pened to be in the chair-car and took
it all in, one of them expressing him
self, then and there, in unqualified
terms of rebuke. .
ELECTRICAL FLASHES
j Peru is to have a wireless system,
j A new type of metallic mirror has
! ben invented for electrical search
lights.
A new hydro-electric power plant
of 4,000 horse-power is to be erected
on the Trinity River near Big Flat,
California.
Walter J. Willenborg, of Virginia,
a 14 yea old school boy, has con
structed a wireless plant at his home
and invented a small portable wire
less aparatus which he carries about
with him in his pocket.
One manufacturing plant turns out
5,000 telephones every day. '
American engineers have construct
ed a trolley road to the pyramids.
Albert Wrensch, of Pleasantdale,
N. J., hatches chicks in an electric in
cubator. He says a greater percent
age of eggs hatch under electric heat
than by any other means.
Professor Albert C. Geyser, of the
Cornell Medical College, has produc
ed a device called the Cornell Tube
which will absolutely eliminate all
danger connected with the use of the
X-ray.
On the first day of the opening of
the tunnel under the East River from
New York to Brooklyn 140,000 pas
sengers rode through the tube, Even
this enormous amount failed to make
any perceptible difference in the
crush at Brooklyn bridge. j
Denver has adopted the plan of
lighting every dark alley in the city
with arc lights. Since the municipal-!
ity adopted this scheme law breaking
after dark has practically ceased.
Fewer policemen are needed and the
residents claim their homes and prop
erty are safer. The city streets are as
light as day, almost, on the darkest
night and there are no dark corners
for toughs to hide in. '
Electrical exports have fallen off
considerable from last year's report.
The total of electrical machinery and
instruments for the eight months, in
cluding February is $10,946,814, while
th ecorresponding period of 1906-7
gave $1 1,169,989. This might well be
explained by the drop in copper, but
as an actual fact, the loss occurs not
in heavy machinery, but in the minor
apparatus where copper does not cut
much figure. The export of electrical
machinery for the month (March)
rose from $561,672 to $844,047, but the
export of apparatus fell from $579,
855 to $479,779. An investigation of
the figures shows that in apparatus
the demand from the United King
dom fell off from $1,237,363 for the
eight months to $467,830.
The turbine steamship Mauretania,
of the Cunard Line, has the distinc
tion of being equipped with the larg
est electrical plant afloat. It com
prises four turbo-generator sets, each'
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Men's House
Men's woolen hose, light Summer,
weight. The pair lOc
Men's fancy hose. The pair 15c
Ladles' Department
' We are closing out our entire line of ladies' shoes below cost.
Prices from , cr j0 jj en
Ladies' 25c hose 5C ' Ladies' lichose",. IJg
The WorRing'men's Store
Chas. Larson Prop. gjg Bond
These merchants had the oppor
tunity the next day of turning down with a normal rating of 375 Kw. This
the men who had done the most oi ooat is me largest ana lastest ocean
steamer in the world.
The new instantaneous electric
water heater removes all danger or
possibility of fatal effects from suffo
cation in small bath rooms. During
the summer months when gas heat
ers are commonly used to heat the
water for the bath there is always
danger of suffocation if the room bej M
small and closed tightly, as the flame lyOrtlhl
exnausts tne oxygen in the air. A
number of deaths occur anuually in'
this way. But the electric heater
does not vitiate the air and is not at
all dangerous.
The annual report of the General
Electric Company showed a gross
business of over $70,000,000. This
gives some idea of the extent of the
electrical business in this country.
The length of all the trolley lines in
Germany is 2332.3 miles. The total
number of cars for 1907 was 51,52
which will seat 160,427 people. There
are 47,667 permanent employees.
The Italian government is to under
take the enormous task of draining
the Pontine marshes at a cost of $2,
000,000. A certain amount of hydro
electric power will be available.
Dispatches from London state that
M. Hans Knudsen has perfected a
wireless device will set tvne nn
5 linotype machine in Paris by wire
less waves sent from London. He al
so claim.s to be able to send photo
graphs by wireless.
Two new wireless stations have
been established in Vancouver, Can
ada. It is reported that over five million
horse-power await development in
the rivers of Italy. Rome has recent
ly utilized 25,000 electrical horse
power and Naples 16,000 horsepower.!
The electric railways of Pennsyl
vania are capitalized for more than
$300,000,000.
The business depression is not re
flected in the electric light and power
development. The McGraw electrical
directory shows a total of 220 new
plants for last year up to September
and 265 from that time to April 1908.
This makes a gain of 485 new electric
light and power plants in this coun
try for the past year and a total of 5,
498 up to the present time. It is evi
dent that the gain during the past
year of business inactivity is greater
than during the year of strenuous
prosperity of the year before. The
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A man who is in perfect health, so
he can do an honest day's work when
necessary, has much for which he
should be thankful. Mr. L.. C. Rodg-
ers, of Branchton, Pa., writes that he
was not only unable to work, but he
couldn't stoop over to tie his own
shoes. Six bottles of Foley's Kidney
Cure made a new man of him. He
says, "Success to Foley's Kidney
Cure." T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store.
FREE TRIAL
Of any Household ELECTRICAL DE
VICE including
SMOOTHING IRONS HEATING PADS
TOASTERS " CHAFING DISHES
TEAPOTS i COFFEE! PERCOLATORS
FRYING PANS
SEWING MACHINE MOTORS
YOU call us up WE will dojthe rest
ASTORIAHBUECTRIC CO.
W. R. Ward, of Dyersburg, Tenn.,
writes: "This is to certify that I have
used Orin Laxative Fruit Syrup for
chronic constipation, and it has prov
en, without a doubt, to be a thor
ough, practical remedy for this
trouble, and it is with pleasure I offer
my conscientious reference." T. F,
Laurin, Owl Drug Store.
capitalization of the new
amounts to about $75,000,000.
plants
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tea, and a time for good
coffee; there is no time for
poor either.
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OREGON
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