The morning Astorian., July 17, 1908, Page 2, Image 2

THE MORNING ASTOHIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1908.
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THE WEATHER
Oregon and Washington Fair and
warmer except near coast
SHIP TO CARGO L
The fundamental object of high-sea
transportation, as in all other sys
tems of public carriage, is the cargo,
the traffic, and the quick despatch of
these. The deep-water ship never
leaves the sea farther than it has to,
as an organgic principle of ocean
voyaging, and the ascent of rivers to
inland ports is the exception, not the
rule, of marine traffic. Not that it is
not right and expedient to do this if
it is virtually necessary, but there are
elements of danger and cost insep
arable from the course, that, as mat
ters of sheer business, are deprecated
by the owners of deep-water tonnage,
the world over. The nearest, safest
bay, or roadstead, is as far as the
ship, sail or steam, is supposed to go
for cargo, and all shore transporta
tion is founded, so far as export and
import business is concerned, upon
the hypothesis of reaching the sea
and maintaining terminals there. The
doctrine of the ship going to the
cargo is pleaded by all cities remote
from the sea, and by no one else in
the business, and the plea is, under
stood and appreciated; but the hazard,
the cost, the delay, are always there
and may not be abated however they
are minimized.
Portland is one of these inland
' cities that istever making the struggle
to maintain maritime prestige 112
miles from the sea and up two rivers,
with a few river-reaches, narrow, in
efficient, cramped, yet dignified with
the title of "harbor," the limitations
of which have recently been found by
the grain fleet, and which must be
admitted as utterly inadequate if the
tonnage of the "port" is ever greatly
-amplified.
Of course, she will claim the whole
of the Willamette (this side of the
falls), and the Columbia river, down
as far as Tongue Point, as a "harbor,"
if it shall become necessary; and she
cannot be blamed for pursuing the
traversty to its last limit of business;
but the day must come when the farce
will end and the real facilities for sea
commrce, lying dormant at Astoria,
will be taken over by Portland capi
tal in lieu of the hazardous and ex
pensive regimen now in vogue. It is
an unescapable transition.
' Portland has spent well . over two
millions to maintain her channels and
fte 'government has paid out enough
jiore to bring the total to about $4,
100,000. Now she is about to bond
Lerself for $500,000 more in this be
half. All of which goes to show how
llrofoundly she believes in the doc
t ine we have quoted. Had these mil
li )ns been spent in sending the car
g. es down the river, by water, or-rail,
th iy would have been saved to the
ship-owners in river-pilotage, towage,
an I principally, in the incalculable
co,rts chargable to the delays incident
to the inland haul In other words,
$10,000,000 is, and will be, spent to
beat the railways. The policy is sure
to re-act some day, and that day will
dawn when the inland farmer and
the tax-paying Multnomahn shall
realize the fierce burden thrust upon
them by the transportation companies
that connive with the Portland ship
pers, in this gigantic and needless
farce.
Where does the saving come to the
farmer, taxpayer, ship or shipper, if it
constantly takes fresh millions' to
keep open the highway, from the
valleys to the sea-board?. The an
swer, favorable to Portland, might be
readily made, if there was not a mag
nificent haven at the coast-gates of
the Columbia traffic, susceptible of
handling any volumne of commerce
for al time to come, and only denied
the chance in order that Portland
may aggrandize herself at the ex
pense of every field, farm, business
and industry, and the owner thereof,
as a "seaport," forsooth!.
"1 Riorum,
"BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT."
Just as is the public complaint
against the old-fashioned and inde
quate telephone service in this city, it
were well if all hands took sharp
cognizance of Davey Crockett's warn
ing to "be sure you're right, then go
ahead!". Whatever move is made to
compel the existing company to
mend its service, must be made with
the thorough realization that that
company is one of the most powerful,
adroit, well-knit, and resourceful com
bines on all this Pacific Coast; trained
to every phase of contest and opposi
tion; rich, influential, with experienc
ed and able attorneys and field opera
tors and agents of every sort to with
stand assaults or circumvent them;
with franchises strategically framed
to resist all encroachments and baffle
all revocation and abridgement; with
expert representatives always alert to
ward against just such reactionary
steps .as we are about to take; and al
most immune from successful attack
in every field they occupy.
The Pacific States Company knows,
far better than we do, just how vul
nerable, and invulnerable, ita is, to
public regulation, and is always en
trenched against such processes. Our
sense of injustice may drive us hard,
but we must regulate our pace and
line to the safest and surest courses
of action or suffer further injury and
deieat at the hands of the people we
are complaining of. There is no use
in wasting time nor energy in volatile,
ineffective proceedings, the mis-carriage
of which will but make the sub
sequent efforts all the harder. We
must know what we are doing, be sure
we are right, and then go at the task,
honestly, conservatively, yet aggres
sively, upon a clear and sound basis.
We will win in the end, and the end
will be wrought very much sooner if
we scan the route and weigh the
pleas that we are to take and make in
this fight.
A MERE SUGGESTION.
Just for the sake of assuring those
next and nearest to the propositions
of gambling and dance-halls in As
toria, that we are altogether onto the
program, we merely suggest that the
second floor is just one remove from
the first floor, and does not, in a le
gal sense, qualify the breach of the
law, but makes it a shade easier for
the banker and the player in one case,
and the keeper and the dancer, in the
other instance; the only thing we are
a bit shy on, is the ground for per
mitting one, or several houses to in
dulge these prohibited things, and
denying the privilege to others in the
same line of business. Of course
'there is a reason that is easily guess-
able, for this raw discrimination, but
we await advice of really authorita
tive character.
TWO ARE RELEASED
CHICAGO, July 16.-Edward
Thompson, husband of Mrs. Francis
Thompson who was slain" in a room
at 1242 Michigan Ave. was released
from custody last night. Guy Thomp
son, a brother, who was arrested yes
terday at Stevensport, Wis., where he
is a student at normal school, also
was released after convincing the
authorities that he had no connection
with the tragedy.
Steamer Nahcotta leaves O. R. &
N. docks at 6:45 a. m. daily. Round
trip fare to any point on North
(Long) Beachi $1.00, Sunday's only.
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COFFEE
You can buy something
called "coffee" at 10c lb
with 3000 miles of R R
freight from the roaster;
don't
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BETTER
ROADS
Meeting to Be Held in Portland
in August
COMMERCIAL CLUBS TO ACT
Invitations Will be Sent to All Parts
of Oregon Inviting Participation in
the Good Roads Movement Port
land Takes Initiative. 4
PORTLAND, July 16.-"Good
Roads" seems to have become in re
sent months the subject of almost
every conversation when a group of
citizens get together. During the last
two weeks there has been more dis
cussion of good roads among mem
bers of the Portland Commercial
Club than there has about the great
political campaign that is before us.
When dairymen get together they
discuss good roads; it is the same with
fruit growers, while automobiles own
ers have become veritable cranks on
the subject t
An insistent demand, coming from
every section of the State, has been
made upon the Portland Commercial
Club to call some character of rep
resentative meeting to discuss a prac
tical plan whereby all Oregon may
have better highways. President W.
K. Newell, of the State Board of
Horticulture, has written to the Club
asking that action be taken without
delay: A simiiar request also comes
from Hon. J. W. Bailey, State Dairy
& Food Commissioner on behalf of the
dairy interests, and the bankers of
Portland and other cities and towns
of the state are of one mind on the
subject Many of the cities through
out Oregon are building high class
hard surface pavements, and every
where you go you find men talking
"Good Roads".
A a result of all this it has been
determined to hold an "Oregon Good
Road Conference" in the Convention
Hall (6th floor) of the Portland Com
mercial Club, Tuesday August Uth,
with morning.afternoon and evening
sessions. No interest in the state
seems to be more anxious to have a
part in developing the good roads
sentiment into a realization than the
railroads, and as a result a rate of a,
fare and third has been made for this
meeting; tickets will be good the day
before and the day after the meeting,
so that it may be extended over the
second day if necessary.
An interesting program will be pre
chwarzscliilt
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ASTORIA
pared, but there will be no long-winded
theoretical speeches practical men
will be secured mid practical ques
tions will be discussed. The good
Roads Associations of Oregon and
Washington will be .asked to co-operate
in milking the meeting a success.
The basis f representation will be
ftiinonunced within a few days, but
all commercial and industrial bodies,
county judges, county commissioners,
editor and mayors will be authorized
to appoint delegates and urged to
have a good representation present:
Hon. James R. Garfield, Secretary
of the Interior and Hon. F. H. Ne
well, Chief of the United States Re
clamation Service, spent Thursday in
Portland.
Oregon communities as represent
ed through their commercial bodies
and other agencies for advertising,
should commence at once to take ad
vantage of the one-way colonist rates
which will be in effect from Septem
ber first to October thirty-first. No
state in the union has received great
er benefit through these colonist rates
than Oregon and at no time in the his
tory of the State were more people
expressing a determination to come
here to make their permanent homes.
Hon. John Sharpe Williams, recent
ly elected United States Senator from
Mississippi, and prominent nationally
as the leader of the Democracy, while
Chautauqua Association, was tender
ed a reception at the Portland Corn
here to fill an engagement with the
mercial Club Friday night
Boy's Life Saved.
My little boy, four years old, had a
severe attack of dysentery. We had
two physicians; both of them gave
him up. We then gave him Chamber
Iain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
remedy which cured him d believe
that saved his life. WiMJ&TH. Strol
ling, Carboi. Hill, Ala. There is no
doubt but this. remedy saves the lives
of many children each year. Give it
with castor oil according to the plain
printed directions and a cure is cer
tain. For sale by Frank Hart and
leading druggists.
Over Thirty-Five Years.
In 1872 there was a great deal of
diarrhoea, dysentary and cholera in
fantum. It was at this time that
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea" Remedy was first brought
into use. It proved more successful
than any other remedy or treatment,
and has for thirty-five years main
tained that record. From a small be
ginning its sale and use has extended
to every pari oi ine united aiatcs ana
to many foreign countries. Nine j
druggists out of ten will recommend
it when their opinion is asked, al
though they have other medicines
that pay them a greater profit. It
can always be depended upon, even in
the most severe and dangerous cases.
Ior sale by Frank Hart and leading;
druggists.
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II. S. Govt. Inspected Meats
Columbia Hams and Bacon
What Uncle Sam guarantee! sound and wholesome It free of suspicion.
The only meat concern In Oregon The Union Meat Co., of Portland
that operate under the Federal law for wholesome meat la now auppy
ing Astoria. '
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spected?" Take No Other
IS AWFUL RECORD
Railroads Earn Millions and
Slaughter Thousands
FRIGHTFUL LIST OF DEATHS
In One Year the Deaths and In
juries Number no Less Than 122,
855 on American Roads But Net
Income is in Billions.
WASHINGTON July 16.-A net
income of $449,461,188 available for
dividends or surplus, 873,!X)5,13.1 pas
sengers carried and 1,7, 336,659 tons
of freight , hauled, track mileage of
327,975, employes numbering 1,672,
074, equipment including 55,388 loco
motives, 43,973 passenger cars and 1,
991,557 freight cars, and 122,855 per
sons killed or injured is the showing
made in the Interstate Commerce
Commission's report yesterday for
the year ending June 30 1907. In
these figures neither cars used in the
company's services or commercial
private cars are included. The mile
age of tracks of nil kinds increased
10,802 over the previous year. Rail
mads owning 2,811, miles of line were
reorganized, merged or consolidated.
There were 29, roads in receivership.
Nearly all locomotives and cars in
the passenger locomotives carried
automatic couplers, only a little over
one per cent of the passenger cars
lacked automatic couplers and of 1,
991,557 freight cars 1,901,881 had train
brakes .while 1.972,804 of them had
automatic couplers. F.mployers aver
aged 735 per hundred miles ol line, a
substantial increase. The total wages
places with only
Sulzberger
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OREGON
and inliirlet paid was $1,072,386,427.
The passenger traffic' exceeded the
previous year by almont 76,0O0,Q0Q
perHons. The freight traffic increaied
almost 165,000,000 torn or 69.718 torn
per mile. The passenger revenue per
mile averaged 2014 cents and both
pansengcr and freight train earnings
per train mile ihowrd an Increase.
The gross earnings front the opera
tion of 227,454 miles of line for which
substantially complete returns were
rendered were $2,589,105,578, being
over $263,000,000 greater than the
previous year. Operating 'expenses
were $1,748,515,814 or considerably
over $211,000,000 Increase. The In
come from operation or the net earn
ings of the railways were $840,589,
764, exceeding' the previous years by
706 income on railways embraces net '
earnings and income from leases, in
vestments and miscellaneous sources.
Dividends declared aggregated $308,
137,924, leaving $141,323,264 as sur
plus from the operations of the year
as against the previous year's surplus
from operation of about $29,000,000
less.
In 1907 one passenger was killed
lor every 1,432,631 carried and .one
injured for every 67,012 carried, a lit
tle worse showing than that of the
previous year. One passenger was
killed for every 45,000,000 odd passen
ger miles traveled and one injured for
every 2,125,493 miles.
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy Would Have
Saved Him $100.00.
"In 1902 I had a very severe attack
of diarrhoea," says R. N. Farrar of
Cat Island, La. "For several weeks
I was unable to do anything. On
March 18, 1907, 1 had a similar attack,
and took Chamberlain's Cholic, Chol
era and Diarrhoea Remedy which
gave me prompt relief. I consider
it one of the best medicines of it
kind in the world, and had I used it
in 1902 believe it would have saved
me a hundred dollar doctor's bill."
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