THE MORNING ASTQHIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
THURSDAY, JULY 23, '03
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THE WEATHER
Oregon Fair west, showers and
thunderstorms east portion; cooler
except near coast.
A COMPENSATORY POLICY.
It has become a settled and proven
conviction in the minds of the patrons
of the insurance trust of the Pacific
Coast, that the companies are com
mitted to the compensatory policy of
raising the rates whenever it has suf
fered a distinct (ire loss in any given
district; and with such a conclusion
once unanimous there is little to won
der at in the rebellion of the great
clientelle against the very doctrine of
insurance.
There is a case in point, here at
home, in which a great industrial con
cern, after having met the demands of
the insurance people for the instant
rehabilitation of its electric wiring
. plant within the buildings occupied,
had to face a 10 per cent raise in the
rates, and which is even now being
sharply cotnested before the board of
underwriters. Such action is directly
in line with the policy mentioned
above, and is going to do more to
bring the insurance business into dis
repute and negation than anything
heretofore tried, i -
There is a general awakening all
along the line of business life to the
evils of trust methods that will end in
the obliteration of the "combine" pol
icy. The people are no longer amen
able to the imposition and are look
ing for it everywhere; public suspic
ion is agog and inquiry is the rule , of
action on all sides; risk is cheaper
than outrage; and popular rebellion
against deliberate robbery on "busi
ness principles" is afoot. Especially
in insurance matters. And it is high
time.', f' : -
' IT WILL NOT DOWN.
The civic " authorities of Astoria
may as well make up their minds to
tackle and dispose, finally, of the
question of grades in this city, and
meet a live issue once and for all
time; as to continue the present
policy of indifference and inertia will
but add incalculably to the problem
and its solution in the days to come.
There is held in abeyance at this
hour an investment of $150,000 for
the eretcion of a huge department
store building in this city, because of
the turmoil and confusion incident to
the establishment of the proper
grades in the business heart of the
city. That they must be raised goes
without denial here. It is freely ad
mitted on all sides; and the longer the
issue is allowed to pend, the greater
will become the public and private
burden of meeting it.
We suggest the calling, under the
authority of the common council, of
a mass meeting of the property own
ers certain to be effected by the im
perative policy of raising the grades
of the commercial district, to the end
that the matter may be fully and in
telligently aired and understood, and
that a basis may be reached and the
largest civic conundrum of Astoria's
day be solved upon a basis of equity
and perpetuity.
RECLAIMING TIDE LANDS.
The reclamation of 5000 acres of
Young's River tide-lands now under
way at the hands of F. K. Johnson,
as contractor, is a very much more
significant matter than is generally
allowed hereabout. It is a initial
stroke of enterprise in its way and
will prove the basis for a wide range
of such improvement by the time it is
finished. These acres are immeas
ureably valuable in a productive
sense, and as commerce is the logical
issue of all industry, we1 may expect
to see developments of no mean sort
from this beginning. The enhance
ment of values on the land itself in
the early future is no small desidera-
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turn; and the trade, the improvements,
the homes, the faculty of supply, all
are contingent and certain in the
course of the enterprise. No word
nor obstacle should ever be laid in
the way of such schemes as this, and
we are hoping this good work will
lend impetus to scores of just such
sensible and practical movements all
along the water frontages possessed
by old Clatsop.
BISHOP POTTER.
The death of Henry Codman Pot
ter, Epjscopal bishop of New York,
while anticipated for some weeks,
falls with unabated significance upon
the great diocese as well as upon the
American public at large. This man
and priest has, for long years, been a
notable figure in the social and schol
arly life of the nation and its metrop
olis, as well in the church of which
he was an honored and exalted lead
er. He has done a noble duty by the
poor of New York and has done it
as became a prince of the church
with princely resources, ever putting
his duty above place, prerogative and
other precedent. He has cut his own
peculiar niche in the halls of fame and
a grateful church and grateful people
will see to it that the memory of a
good man is made imperishable.
An American in Panama who vig
orously objected to washing windows
with' an American flag was chased
across the border by a lieutenant gen
eral in full uniform and several po
licement. It may be that our marines
at Panama will be needed to prevent
the natives from getting too gay.
Mr. Carmack, who was defeated for
the Democratic nomination for gover
nor in Tennessee, says "the war has
just begun." The Tennessee Repub
licans have a good chance, but it is a
singular fact that they always run a
dead heat with the Democrats in fac
tional quarrels.
The Democratic newspapers that
opposed Bryan in 1896 are still
against him and many of those that
support him are evidently not hope
ful. As to the future he has simply
said that he expects to be good for
four or five more campaigns. The lot
of a Democratic newspaper since 1896
has not been a happy one.
Mr. Kern married an Ohio woman
and belongs to the same church as
President Roosevelt. But as a politi
cal understudy he appears to be hope
lessly handicapped.
Oregon furnished the first political
straw of .the year by giving a large
Republican majority. Vermont and
Maine will come next, but the Demo
crats insist that they don't count.
So many foreign diplomatic repre
sentatives have left Venezuela that
Castro begins to feel lonesome for
somebody to worry. A chronic tor
mentor feels that he is living in vain
when reduced to a state of isolation.
It seems that the latest Canadian
transcontinental Pacific Railroad will
cost $200,000,000, or $80,000,000 more
than the estimate. London bankers
of late have advised Canada to slow
up in its zeal for new transportation
facilities.
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New York
NEW YORK, July r.-Water of
any kind for every use is to-day coin
ing seriously near the famine point in
the heart as well as on the outskirts
of this city. Six long rainless week
under a torrid sun have parched ev
ery iuch of ground for miles around
and pinched to far below normal the
great water sources upon which a
half a dozen millions of souls depend.
Day by day each square foot of dy
ing lawn and sun-baked pavement has
been lavishly deluged from every drain
and hydrant in town, and foot by foot
the big reservoirs have sunk under
the strain. To meet the force of the
sun in this record hot spell enough
water has been tapped to fill the en
tire bay. If days of steady rain do
not soon set in, it is expected that
the authorities .will call a halt to the
threatening drain on their treasured
water resources. Already water fa
mine has touched Statcn Island and
the pressure in the pipes at other
spots has lowered alarmingly. St.
Switliin's Day has just passed clear;
but no one likes to think what a forty-day
drought must mean.
AFTER ATHLETICS. ,
The news of Uncle Sam's winnings
in the course of the Olympic Games
across the Atlantic has to-day roused
athletic interest to fever heat through
out town. In ordinary times the
talk of the track is left largely to the
regulars of the big athletic clubs, who
are alweys intent oij developing a
crew of record performers. Since
the American team has gone into the
heart of Britain to wrest athletic hon
ors from all the world, however, ev
ery man, woman and child here has
appeared to pick up the furor of the
sport. Day and night every foot of
space in all the enormous club houses
of the athletic associations has been
jammed with eager rooters, hanging
on every word of cable news from the
Stadium in London. No champion
ship baseball series, no college con
test, has ever called .forth an enthusi
asm greater or more general. Every
branch of athletic sport has for sev
eral years boomed steadily here, and
(his meet of the nations will do much
to advance track athletics with the
public.
PLATT'S PLACE.
For the first time in the memory
of the old guard, Tom Flatt has failed
to pass'hjs birthday on the piazza of
his favorite hotel at Manhattan Beach
surrounded by a retinue of old-time
friends.. This week the retired vet
Laws Will Save Redbreasts in
Louisiana
MILLIONS WERE KILLED
Persistent Efforts on the Part of the
National Audubon Societies Finally
Brings a Victory for the Friends of
the Winged Songsters.
NEW YORK, July, 22.-After four
years of desperate lighting the first
battle for Robin Red Breast has to
day been won in Louisiana, the heart
of the section where this favorite
American song bird is butchered by
the million for the market. That the
robin has at last been removed from
the list of game birds by the legisla
ture of the Creole State was announc
ed to-day at the headquarters of the
National Association of Audubon So
cieties. As the first fruits of a per
sistent campaign of education in the
south, the officers of 'the association
declare, their victory will mean the
saving of dollars worth of crops for
each tiny carcass spared is a tid-bit
for the gourmand.
By a close vote the law makers of
Louisiana have repealed the old game
bird law in which the robin was class
ed as game and have decreed no open
season for the wholesale destruction
of the sightly species a million mem
bers of which were butchered for
their mouthfuls of meat last year
alone. Only Texas and Alabama of
all the southern states now possess
similar statutes, though it is declared
that sentiment in the South is becom
ing generally aroused against the
slaughter of these favorite birds of
the country while they winter in low
er latitudes.
That successful agriculture in this
country would become inpossible and
vegetation soon be destroyed if the
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THE ROBIN
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eran of the political ring was discov
ered in a secluded Long Island cot
tage on the eve of his seventy-fifth
anniversary. If any of the hundreds
of public men who always (locked to
pay their respects on these occasions
came down to shake the trembling
hand of the dethroned boss they were
not seen. Time was when these ve
ry men begged to have their names
printed as delighting to honor the
"easy boss" at these birthday celebra
tions. To-day no one of all of them
apparently cares to be quoted ns re
membering the once-memorable date.
As a lesson in the bitterness of poli
tics a look at Tom Piatt's birthday
solitude, last Wednesday would have
been well worth while to any of the
younger brood of aspiring politicians.
CHORUS CLOISTER.
As the sensation of the silly svason
about Broadway the rumor that a
regular hotel is to be bought and op
ened exclusively for ladies of the the
atre chorus is to-day startling all ac-
tordom. Stripped of the many em
bellishments of half a dozen theatri
cal press agents, the basis of the sto
ry appears unusually near fact. A
real firm appears to be backing with
$100,000 real money the purchase of
this "Hotel Mary Anderson" where
three hundred rooms will always be
at the sole disposal of members of
the "merry-merry." That just such ac
comodation is needed by hundreds of
theatre working girls is undisputed,
but whether or not the subjects them
selves will see the need is as yet much
in doubt. The promoters assert that
the bachelor girls who require such
surroundings are numbered on the
stage by the hundred. Everyone is
anxious to watch the scheme work
out.
REAL RELICS.
Half a dozen burros are today
plodding the pavement of the East
Side under the direction of thousands
of the 'children of the Tammany
henchmen for whom they were
brought from Denver. While the alkali-stained
leaders have by this time
settled back to the simple life once
more, these living democratic em
blems bid fair to form a perpetual rel
ic of the strenuous days of the con
vention by Pike's Peak. A donkey
is a rarity in the Bowery districts and
crowds follow every step of the am
bling little brutes. Tammany has
been much taken by the West and the
little burros find equal favor with the
younger generation.
robin and his brother birds were exter
minated has just been 'asserted by
Professor Henshaw of the Biological
Survey, ami the Audubon authorities
declare that his warning may come
too late if this victory for the robin
is not' followed by a general campaign
to preserve and even increase every
such race of birds. Scientific exami
nation of hundreds of robins has
shown that almost half of their diet
is composed of the insects that bean
sure destruction to the treet and
crops of the land. These very in
sects, it has been proven, damage the
country's crops to the extent of $5(KI,
0IX),(X)0 annually, while their added ra
vages of woods and stored crops, it
is calculated, rob the land of nearly
a billion dollars each year. Though
insect pests are known to be increas
ing, their natural destroyers, the birds
are being gradually exterminate d at
an alarming rate, it is declared.
To open the eyes of the public to
this crucial situation the National As
sociation of Audubon Societies has
been exerting its utmost resources for
years in a general educational cam
paign. Encouraged by the results of
this work for the robins in Louisiana,
the officers of the association declared
to-day that every means at their com
mand would be used throughout the
country, to rouse the people to the
value of the dying birds.
"This is a time of great emergency
an dthe people must act at once by
preserving their bird resources, be
fore it is too late," said William
Dutchan, president of the association,
at its offices, 141 Broadway, to-day.
' "I know that some few people real
ize the gravity of the situation, for I
am receiving contributions with let
ters asserting that this work is second
only in economic importance to for
est preservation. We are trying to
reach every man, woman and child in
this broad land with the story of our
commo ndanger, and we want every
bird lover, farmer merchant and citi
zen of any walk in life to help us
push lite enormous task we have un
dertaken for the economic good of
every American,"
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REMORSE KILLS HIM
New York Police Officer Had
- Killed a Young Man
JEERED BY THE PUBLIC
The Shooting Wat Greatly Miiunder-
stood And The Officer Wat Con
stantly Tormented And Hounded
By People Passing By.
NEW YORK, July 22.-Policeman
Alfred Shuttelworth of Brooklyn is
dead. Although the physicians cer
tificate will give paralysis as the cause
of Shuttclworth's death, all who know
the facts tell a different story. They
say Shuttelworth died of remorse and
of a broken heart.
Ten months ago he shot and killed
a boy who was resisting arrest. It
was an accidental killing, Shuttel
worth insisted, but he was indicted
by the grand jury, suspended from du
ty, shunned by his old friends and os
tracized by bis neighbors.
Vindication came last May when
Assistant District Attorney Elder af
ter a thorough investigation of the
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facts moved for a .dismissal of the in
dictment. Restored to duty Shuttelworth took
fresh heart but by strange, ill luck or
bad judgement, Shuttelworth was as
signed to the very post on which the
tragedy had ocenrred, Isaac Jeffcy,
the 19 year old son of a wealthy man
ufacturer, was the boy whom Shut
tleworth shot. , The shooting occur
red at the entrance of Saratoga Tiirlc
and at. the time eye witnesses, insisted
that Jcffey's only offense was walking
m the grass. But later evidence put
a very different light on the tragedy.
Shuttleworth had heard a girl's shriek
for help and nulling to the spot found
himself surrounded by a crowd of
jeering rowdies who bad been tor
menting a young girt with insults,
Shuttleworth scattered the crowd.
but only managed to make one cap
ture. His prisoner was young Jef
fcy. Railing to his rescue the crowd
attacked Shuttleworth, tore his club
from his hand and beat him mctciless
(y, Jeffcy broke from him and fled.
Then Shuttleworth drew his revolver
and fired. lie meant to fire in the air
but the bullet passed through JefTey's
head, The boy fell dead.
To go back to the post haunted
with bitter memories of this tragedy
was hard but Shuttleworth did it with
out a word of protest. He never
told ,f what really happened. Day
ifier day as lie walked his post men
.tnd women would point him out as
"the cop who killed a boy." Every
body had heard the original version.
I'cw knew the true facts. So day
after day Shuttleworth was tortured
by pointing lingers, muttered curses
and the jeering of boys.
On June 12 he reported hick and
never left his home again. Physicians
were called but could give no aid.
Shuttleworth, broken hearted was be- ,
yond reach of medicinal skill! One
stroke of paralysis was followed by
another, and death. Shuttleworth
leaves a wife and six children.
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