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THE MORNING ASTOHIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13
Established 1873.
Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO.
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Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, a" the postoffice at As
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of publication.
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THE WEATHER!
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Oregon Fair, except showers
extreme eastern portion.
Washington Fair, except showers
in extreme east portion.
Idaho Showers and thunderstorms.
DIFFERENCE IN METHODS.
It has been plainly apparent during
the current year that the O. R. & N.
Company has determined to make a
strenuous tight for the cream and bulk
of the Portland and interior summer
travel to the Washington beaches
within touch of its coast system and
river route, and to this end, has not
Only framed up a quick and direct
schedule out of Portland, via Megler
(their new river port opposite this
city), but they have flooded the In
land Empire, and the press of both
States with fine advertising matter of
all kinds, so that it is almost impos
sible to escape it wheresoever one
goes; and what is more their river
scionable years of waiting, simply de
mands that she put on the proper
basis with Salem. It is claimed that
Salem has double the patronage of
Astoria, but it is not claimed that
this fact is ground for denying usjof the law
cent lamps nunle from the rnre metal
ttivc nearly half as much more light
for the same cost the ordinary
lamps.
The electric furnace is "twice as
hot as Hades" Riving a temperature
(if 7,2W degrees. Compared to this a
bar of red-hot iron is cold.
An enterprising inventor has
brought out an electrically-heated
bath robe. This garment is heate
by a large number of tine wires woven
in the cloth which become warm when
connected with the electric light
socket. A switch in one of the
pockets controls the heat.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
is to install telephones for train dis
patching.
The Grand Rapids-Muskcgon
Power Company has raised the volt
age of its transmission lines to 125,-
tit HI volts the highest in the world.
In northern California a run of eels
in the rivers ami creeks completely
blocked the turbine water wheels in
several power plants. No way was
found to get rid of the pests until one
of the engineers caused a wire screen
pardon, 14 years will pass before he to be lowered in the water and charg-
is again a free man. et no officer led with several thousand volts. The
HE FACES FOURTEEN YEARS
William McCarty Broke Hi Parole
Several Years Ago and Now His
"Conversion" Leads Him Back to
the Penitentiary in Indiana.
.iMv.w, juif it mn. .vie-
Carty, 40 years old, is going back to
Indiana State Penitentiary at Michi
gan City. Unless his sentence is conr
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imueu y u-gisiauve action or a
the oest office and held equipment
that can be had. It is frankly admit
ted that the business of Astoria justi
ties the last advantage that can be
given her in the way of modern ap
pointments and despatch in telephon
ic communication; and this is what
we are going to have if
we have to get it from other sources
than the Pacific States Company.
Nor is there any particular desire
to get it from any other source; it is
simply a matter of geting it. Patience
has ceased to be a virtue and an ex
pedient ,and business is the cry from
this day on.
accompanied him on his dead eels were hauled away in wag-
SPEAKING OF HOTELS I.
One of the notable, in fact, glaring,
delinquencies besetting Astoria, is the
craft and trains and the north beach j absence of a first-class, modern hotel;
resort hotels are literally swarming there is nothing in her business align-
witn delighted tourists and summer
ers," who seem to think there are no
other coast resorts anywhere near
them.
On the other hand, the Astoria &
Columbia River Railroad Company,
. which has even a finer resort objective
on the Oregon coast, from Astoria to
Seaside, and with swifter, equally as
direct, and splendid service out of
Portland, and from the "North Bank"
and Northern Pacific lines, from the
interior, seems to have utterly aban
boned the program of advertising its
summer havens and schedules for
which it was famous two years ago,
and has allowed the travel to the
Clatsop resorts to diimnish notably
this year. It rivals its rival in every
detail, save that of skilful and attrac
tive advertising, and the people of the
coast country are wondering and
complaining of this laches, of which
the A. & C. was never guilty before.
The service they put up is ample
and as fine as any in the country for
the lineage and territory, and why the
advertising has been suppressed no
one but the management can say. At
all events the travel is markedly less
and is commented on here and all
along the line, as a remarkable de
parture by a company, which in re
cent years has done some of the best
and most attractive advertising
railway annals.
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"HOW LONG, OH, LORD?."
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The Astorian has refrained for
some time to echo the widespread and
justifiable complaint of the home pub
lic against the quality of the tele
phone service in this city, for the rea
son .that it wanted to give the tele
phone company a chance to gather it
self together after its trials and tribu
lations incident to the San Francisco
earthquake and expose and find its
working level again, in the hope that
Astoria; as the second city in Oregon
and the most patient, as well, might
be remembered and dealt with as it
deserved; but the radical and uncom
promising attitude of the Chamber of
Commerce, in this regard, leaves the
paper no alternative but to get
squarely behind the movement for an
improved service, and stay there until
it shall have been established.
Nothing that shall be said must be
attributed as reproach to the com
pany's present manager, Mr. Brunold;
he has always done what he might to
placate a very disagreeable situation,
and at the same time sustain his com
pny and accommodate its thousand
and more patrons here. The trouble
lies beyond his gates and grasp; from
100 to 500 miles beyond. For five
years, the city of Salem, the running
mate of Astoria in population and
importance in Oregon, has enjoyed
the service that is due this city. She
has the best the company could devise
and install, and is quoted all over
the Northwest as erfjoying an ideal
system. Now, Astoria, after uncon-
ment that is so broadly missed and
commented on; and so general and
uncomplimentary has the passing
criticism on this score become, that
Astorians are beginning to ask perti
nent questions about the plans and
purposes of the Weinhard Estate
with regard to the site it controls
here and has primarily improved for
hotel equipment of this sort. Inquiry
at headquarters elicits the vague and
poor comfort that "the plans are be
ing prepared and that as soon as they
are submitted and approved, the work
will go forward." This is the sub
stance of our prospect in this line.
save, fo course, that the fine site at
Twelfth and Dtiane streets has been
improved with fine foundations and
filled to the proposed cement base
ment floor.
It is conceded always that there are
good business reasons for delay in
such an enterprise as this; but those
reasons ought to be made manifest to
a curious public, that in default of
them construes the delay as indiffer
ence and neglect. It may be there is
a shortage of money, but this is not
an acceptable theory here, where the
wealth and financial prestige of the
great estate is a matter of common
knowledge and appreciation; what
ever the cause for delay, we hope it
may be soon obviated and that some
thing will be done to demonstrate
that another season is not to pass
with this rank deprivation hanging
over this community. The projectors
of this fine improvement certainly
have their rights, but the people also
have rights and interests that are not
wholly negligible.
NO TETANUS THERE
NEW YORK, July 14.-The health
department has not received the re
port rff a death due to tetanus from
Fourth of July explosives, and there
have been no reports of cases that
may develop into tetanus, ihis is
regarded as remarkable by the repart
ment physicians.
Pains in the back and side may come
from the kidneys or liver. Lane's Family
Medicine, the tonic-laxative, and a great
kidney and liver remedy, will give relief.
Twenty-Five Cents is the Price of
Peace.
The terrible itching and smarting,
incident to certain skin diseases, is
almost instantly allayed by applying
Chamberlains balve. Price, 25
cents. For sale by Frank Hart and
leading druggists.
COFFEE
Your grocer must sell
poor coffee; we can't all
be comfortable; but he
needn't sell it to yoi .
Your grocer returns your money H you don't
like Schilling's Bent; we pay him.
trip across the state line yesterday on and buried.
and the railroad ticket on which he On the British battleship Dread-
came from North Yakima to serve naught, which has created so much
out his sentence was bought out of discussion and speculation, the elec
his own earnings. McCarty was trie outfit is unusually complete. At
"converted" recently at a Salvation the top of the foremast, and immed
Army meeting in North Yakima, be- iatcly above the forward funnel, is
came convinced that it was his duty the tire control platform, upon which
to return to the prison from which arc placed the range finders, for lo
he had escaped when on parole and eating the position of an enemy or
set to work earning money for his target at sea. In the turrets and on
passage. (his platform is installed a new auto-
Several years ago, he had gambled matic system of range finding and
away his money one evening in Mont- gun elevating, by means of which the
pelier, Ind. Then he became intox- range as read will be electrically
icated, broke into a store and stole transmitted to each gun position,
$500 worth of surgical instruments where, by the use of synchronized
tf. fl t. s ... -
wmcn ne soiu later tor $io.5U. lie motors, the elevation of the guns
was caught and sentenced to from will be steadily and continuously
one to fifteen years hard labor in the changed to correspond with the in
Indiana state penitentiary. creasing or decreasing range, as re-
After serving two years he was corded by the range finder on the
paroled and given a job on an ice platform. This method is said to re-
wagon. For weeks he did his work move all possibility of error in the
well, then he became intoxicated transmission of information as to the
again and hit a man over the head ranges and in the manual elevation of
in a street fight This, he was told, the guns, and leaves to the gun crew
would end his parole and he fled from merely the duty of traversing the
the state a month afterward. After guns, and thus keeping them fixed on
serving half a dozen jail sentences the enemy. The lofty fore topmast
and living like a tramp, he drifted places the fore truck fully 200 ft
into North Yakima, began attending dx-ve the water line. A sho.t mam
Salvation Army meetings and after a mast is carried in the usual position
time he joined the army. I mainly for the support of the antennae
boon after his "conversion Mc-0f the wireless telegraph equipment.
Carty s conscience began to trouble At the recent test of the new tungs
him. Early in June he wrote to Gov-ten incandescent lamps one was burn
ernor Honlcy of Indiana telling him e(J continuously for 3537 hours.
of the circumstances of his escape Capital to the amount of $.18,031,
from the state and of his intention to ix)0 is invested in electric railways in
return and serve out his sentence. I Michigan
Go ahead , wrote Governor Han- The leading trucking companies of
ley, in reply. Your broken parole K'ew York City are using heavy
will mean a sentence of 14 years, but electric trucks instead of hbrse trucks,
you have made me a promise. Now vot ony ,0 these trucks carry three
ulfill it." times as much as the old ones but
There was no word of a pardon or thCy do the work much quicker. The
i mitigated sentence. Within a few storage batteries hold enough power
weeks McCarty had earned enough t0 d0 tCn hours of hard service,
money to pay for the long trip to The Danish inventor, Professor
Jfichigan City and last Wednesday he p0lSOn, has succeeded in sending the
started. He reached Chicago yester- km, viCe. 2fM miles bv wireless.
A New York chicken farmer fattens
his chicks by electricity. The hen
houses are all brilliantly illuminated
with arc lights and at intervals dur
ing the night the lights are turned on
and the misguided fowls, thinking it
. is daylight, fly off the roosts and eat.
Wireless telegraphy, has lately been This plan is also said to coax an
improved to take down messages extra cgg or tw0 away from the de-
automatically. Heretofore a man had wi( hens.
to be in the receiving station to take Electric cranes are now being ex
down the messages as they came tensivfly used for dock and harbor
along. Now the receiving machine is work,
fixed to give series of sparks which Two years ago the Chinese govern-
are recorded on a slow moving photo- nlcnt i,a,i a system of 22,149 miles of
graph film. telegraph lint? and a submarine cable
Arc lamps for store lighting arc be- 0f 945 nljic.S( a,j 379 offices,
ing superseded by the tungsten chist- , regular service of electric omni- j
ers. The tungsten incandescent lamps buses and electric cabs has been
while cheaper than any other electric established in Mexico City. The
light, also give the nearest substitute Lminbuses go to parts not reached
for sunlight as all colors can be )y the electric cars and the cabs do
matched under the clear, white rays. a general passenger business.
By grouping six or eight of these Lightning is practically the sole
tungsten lamps under a ceiling diffu- cause of interruptions to long-distance
ser' the General Electric Company electrical transmission. A new alum
has produced a new lamp for ilium- jnum ceu lightning arrester has been
inating stores and other places of invented by a General Electric En
business which is far ahead of all arc gjneer which is said to greatly reduce
lights for this purpose. the lightning annoyance.
It has long been the dream of naval Work on the big hydro-electric de
men to find a substitute for the glass velopment on the Ocmulgce River in
mirrors in searchlights. The heat of Georgia is well under way. This
the arc and the concussion of the plant will cost scyeral million dollars,
guns often shatters these mirrors. Over 12,000 horse-power of elcctri
N'ow a new mirrow is being made for cal machinery has been installed in
this purpose by the electrolytic the El Oro mining camp of Mexico
process. A thin silver him is ue- m two years. All, of the principal
posited on the convex side of a glass mines of the camp are now equipped
mould. This is put in an electrolytic with electricity.
machine and copper deposited on the
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la boat 10c. ana lie, with lull dlrccltoM
freedom and independence. The
tyranny of the ice-wagon and the
monumental summer ice schedule
must go, This is not another Celest
ial "long-war" but an electrical de
velopment which will be heralded
with great delight by every house
holder and also with great conster
nation and regret by the Ice trust.
This is an age of horseless wagons,
houses without chimneys, wooden
stoves and why not the iccless icebox?
A new automatic artificial refrigerator
has been invented which works in
dependent from the iceman and his
diminutive sample of crystallized!
germ-water. This entirely up-to-date
machine produces its own coldness.
The new refrigerator is operated
by electricity and works automatically.
In place of ice a "cooling liquid" Is
point a tiny electric device start the
electric motor which circulate the
cooling liquid. A soon as the temp
erature drops to the desired point the
same device, cull1 a thermostat.
tops the motor. The automatic de
vices control the apparatus indefini
tely and there is no waste of electric
power. So simple is the new refrig-
erator that it requires practically no
attention except an occasional oiling
of the electric motor and the com
pressor. In many cases the amount formerly
spent for ice would pay for the new
refrigerator and the amount saved by
keeping vegetables, meat, milk and
other things in the icebox will more
than compensate for the cost of keep
ing a private ice plant.
The "iccless icebox" finds its irreat.
circulated by a small motor-driven jest field of usefulness in meat markets
pump. The scheme for keeping the, hotels, fruit stores, creameries and in
refrigerator cool is the same as used jail wholesale and retail houses where
to make artificial ice. With the Iperishablc goods are handled
motor-driven pump ammonia is com
pressed to the point at which the gas
li(uilies (for pure amnfonia is a gas)
and the heat generated by this com
GAVE HIM NO HELP
NEW YORK, July M.-Ushed to
day, had a long talk with Colonel
French, territorial secretary 0 the
Salvation Army in Chicago, and then
went 011 to Michigan City.
FLASHES.
pression is extracted with water jack-'a pier in front of Mrs. Frank Gould
ets. This liquified gas is conducted Residence at Greenwich, Conn., Dom
to the cooler through a pipe and alynick Bond, superintendent of con
lowed to expand in a coil. Of course struction on a sea wall being built,
as the gas expands it absorbs just as J was left to die by his workmen who
much heat from its surroundings as .believed him drowned, Bond had
was generated in .compressing it. j been in swimming and was taken
This lowers the temperature of the with cramps. He sank twice and
interior nearly to the freezing point., when he came up unconscious, some
From the expansion coil the gas is 'of the men, believing him dead pas
conducted back to the compressor' sed a rone around him and tieit him
ready for another cycle.
The beauty of the electric refrigera
tor is that it works absolutely auto
to a nearby pile while they hastened
for assistance. Bond was dead when
assistance came. It is believed he
matically and with the perfection of could have been resuscitated if
economy. When the temperature in 'proper measures had been promptly
the "ice-box" rises above a certain taken.
FINANCIAL
J. 0. A. BOWLBY, President
O. I. PETERSON, Vice-President
FRANK PATTON, Cashier
J. W. GARNER, Assistant Cashier '
Astoria Savings Bank
Capital Paid in $115,000. Surplus and Undivided Profits. 1100.000
Transacts a General Banking Business Interest Paid on Time Deooili.
FOUR PER CENT PER ANNUM.
Eleventh and Duane Sts. Astoria, Oreg ea.
A ,f A DAY :
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A Small Savings Bank.
A Small Savings Account.
. An Examplefiu Thrift.
A SmallFortune. A happy home.
silver until it reaches the desired
thickness, then the glass is removed
caving the metal mirror.
Tantalum, the metal used in the
new tantalum incandescent lamps, is
10 hard that a diamond drill revolv
ing on a sheet of the metal for three
days barely left a mark. Incandes:j
THE ICELESS ICEBOX
Throughout the tropical and tem
perate zones the Iceman is king and
lord-over-all during the hot summer
months, but now it is an open secret
that there is1 rebellion in the kingdom
and electricity has opened a. way to
THE BANKING SAVINGS AND LOAN ASS'C'N.
1G8 10TH ST. Phone Black 2184
First National Bank of Astoria
DIRECTORS
Jacob Kamm W.F. McGregor ' G.;C.JFlavel
J. W. Ladd S. S. Gordon
$100,000
P.1?8--" ;:;. 25,000
stockholders' Liability , 100,000
ESTABLISHED 18,
SCANDINAVIAN-A AER I CAN
SAVINGS BANK
ASTORIA, OREGON
OUR MOTTO: "Safety Supercedes All Other Consideration."