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THE MORNING 4STORIAN. ASTORIA. OREGON. rpnimunAV A TTlTTcn .v I The Store M F&M- Ladies for w L'r? Women BEEfHIVE Outfitters i MILLINERY FALL DRESS GOODS In the new weaves and colorings. . Kenyon Rubberized Raincoats The only guaranteed rubberized silk raincoat on the market every one has label. REPORT S FROM DOCK AND DECK BRITISH S. S. STRATHLOYN ARRIVES IN OUT OF THE FOG SPENCER BRINGS DOWN 300 CHILDREN-OTHER NOTES. The swift steamer Spencer, came down the river yesterday with her glad rags flying, having on board about 300 Sunday school children with their parents and teachers, sent out on a day's excursion by the Asso ciated Sunday Schools of the metrop olis. The youngsters seemed to en joy the trip hugely and made the streets of Astoria some livlier with their laughter and active interest in the scenes so new to them. The Spencer had about 28 tons of local freight and went back on time with good business on both decks. The British steamship Strathloyn, from San Francisco for Portland, ar rived in port yesterday, after a ted ious trip up the coast of four days, with a 24-hour tie-up off the bar, all owing to dense fogs. Captain Mc Kay says he picked up the fogs 600 miles south of San Francisco, and has" held them ever since, in port and out, and will be glad to get to the Willamette where he supposes they cannot longer envelope him. The crew of nine men belonging to the American barkentine Wrestler were paid off at the custom house yesterday morning, the sum of $1200 being required to fill the respective demands of the occasion. The Wrest ler will now be hauled into obscurity and negation - inseparable from "Bryan's Boneyard" up Young's Bay, along with the other mourners al ready there. r - 41 - The steamer Yosemite finished loading her Nehalem lumber cargo at the Parker dock yesterday and went below to meet the Benson log raft which came down on the hawsers of the steamers Dixon, Henderson, and Schaffer during the early afternoon, and" will leave out with the monster for San Diego the instant the Colum bia bar is amenable and the fog rises. Portland-Astoria run and swelling her business both days. She was on time yesterday, and Harry Blanchard is getting thin from the strain of work Jack Moran is doing in the freight line. The handiest craft on the Colum bia, the steamer , Harvest Queen, came down the river yestetday with a big load of local freight and went back with all she could carry, leav ing considerable she could not get away with. This committe made an investigation The steamer Alliance, always re- of the sliding ground and after con- liable and on time, came in from Coos sulfation with W. A. Goodin, the yesterday afternoon, and made a contractor, yesterday made an ar brie stay at the Callcnder pier, de- rangement with him whereby he is parting for Portland with plenty of to give up the work and accept ccr- Council to Meet Tonight on the Irving Avenue Fill CONTRACTOR HAS STOPPED THE WORK AND SPECIAL COM MITTEE RECOMMENDS A COMPROMISE WITH HIM-SCOW BAY FAMILIES ARE ALARMED AND ONE OF THEM WILL MOVE OUT TODAY. traffic on all decks. The stout little motor schooner Condor is loading out for the lower coast and will probably get away this morning. Ihe oil steamer .Maverick came down the river yesterday morning and proceeded directly to sea, for the California coast. The steamer Eureka was among the departures yesterday sailing for the port she was- named after, with good business above and below stairs. The steamer Homer came in from San Francisco yesterday morning and went directly on to the metropolis. Miss Virginia . Lane of New York City, and lately of San Francisco, Cal., arrived yesterday on the State of California and has taken up a posi tion as the head trimmer in the Mil linery department at- Taloffs. Miss' Lane brings with her the best of ref erences ' from New York and San Francisco as a capable and thorough competent trimmer, and has held positions in the largest millinery es tablishments in the Union. Her work in this line is unsurpassed, and un doubtedly will be appreciated by the patrons of JalofFs Millinery Store. For Sale. Twelve shares Northern Oyster companies stock, one hundred and thirty dollars (130) per share. Apply Imperial Restaurant. 8-9-tf. tain payment for what has already been accomplished. Inasmuch as the committee has no power to make any binding contract the object of the meeting tonight is presumably to have the council pass upon the mat ter and formally accept and endorse the action of the committee. City Attorney Abercrombie said yesterday afternoon that he had talk ed with various residents in this as sessment district and that they were apparently delighted with the out come of the matter as proposed by the committee. The salient features of the agreement projected with the contractor are as follows: That the work be stopped at once. (The work was actually stopped Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock and within IS hours thereafter the fill had sunk three feet.) That the term of the contract should be extended one year. That the contractor, Mr. Goodin, should be paid in full for his services for the Irving improvement, except for the work done between Eigh teenth and Nineteenth streets, where the trouble is. For what work he 'has done be tween Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets he should be paid "80 per cent of the difference between the original estimate of the amount of dirt required to complete the fill, and the amount still required," according to a new estimate now to be made by the cify engineer. time the whole matter may be o served and studied. Then the highly important am A special meeting of tlje common That the job be left to lie idle dur council has been called for tonight to ' llie wintr rai" J,ri8 which consider' the report made by the special committee on the matter o the Irving avenue improvement Mayor Wise signed the call for the special meeting yesterday after noon anJ each member of the cotinci has been, or will be, notified of ii through the office of the chief of po lice. The subject to be considered at me special meeting is the vexatious problem of the shifting and sliding ground between Eighteenth and Nine teenth streets. The matter was referred by the council at its meeting on Mondav night to a committee consisting of the street committee, of which Councilman Hanson is chairman, and the city engineer and city attorney. seemingly valuable suggestion made oy tne committee that it ad vises lowering the grade between Eighteenth 1 and Nineteenth street (with other contigous changes that are thereby rendered necessary), the grade to be lowered in the bad place a depth of ten feet. The committee further recommend that the council take steps to lessen the danger to property in the vicin ity, meaning thereby the Scow Bay properties. The object in lowering the grade is to remove the immense burden rep resented by those ten feet resting on the slide. in oriet, the committee recom mends that the contractor be paid for all of the work in full, except that he be paid 80 per cent of the amount that would still be required to fill up to the grade at the bad place, if it were to be filled. This should leave the contractor in fairly good shape; probably he doesn't stand to lose on .the job in any way, Of course it leaves the street incom plete. The property owners would evidently have to -meet the cost of any additional work that is to be done in constructing the thorough fare. Probably the legal aspect of the matter has been fully considered. hough it is not apparent just how the council has the right to divide or ap portion a contract which was made as a whole after the manner and in the forms laid down by law. Nevertheless, it seems to be agreed on all sides that some action is im perative at once. That litigation may follow is hinted, but it would follow, if at all, in any event, it is said. Residents of the Scow Bay district feel themselves in imminent danger, at least some of them do. Their troubles are not imaginary. Three or four of the houses have already been caught in the "maelstrom" of surg ing ground, and two or three of them are so badly twisted and tip ped that the water pipes have been bent and broken. Another house is standing on an angle. If the whole hillside should come down the re sults might be of a very serious nature. Today one of the families will move out because of the danger and it is probable that other families I will follow soon. We have a complete Stock of Fruit Jars Jelly Glasses Jar Tops and Rubbers Our Prices Are Right Acme Grocery Co. HIGH GRADE GROCERIES S21 COMMERCIAL STREET PHONE 681 tire absence of the slightest thing ever partaking of the nature of on fairness or grumpmess of any kind i . .... it was a clean, friendly contest. Friends of both the young ladies, and not forgetting the friends of the "also rans," all worked hard for their favorites. Hardly had the big blackboard been placed in position in the store window of Hoefler's last night at 7:30 o'clock before the sidewalk be gan to fill up with curious onlookers and from then on until the final count was made the crowd remained. The best of it all was that as the count proccded there was not the slightest indication as to what the result was to be, and the size of the final vote surprised everyone. When the vote was taken at 9:30 o'clock the high figures were in the neighborhood of eight and eleven thousand. Then it was that the real work begun. One check for $400 was put in. Another heck for $250 was placed in the hands of the committee. Counting the votes of Miss Wise and Miss Shivety, and all the other votes cast for the half dozen other candidates who received over SO votes, there were upwards of 150,000 votes cast, which means that the regatta com mittee will have its funds augmented by nearly $1500. The committee having the count in hand consisted of Fred Simiiiaton. chairman, Herman Prael, Fred J. ohnson and J. H. Whytc. They handled the count quickly and in ex cellent shape. And now it is for As toria and Astoria's regatta to do honor to Queen Hattie. NEW TO-DAY All Things Modern. "The Modern," the beautiful ton sorial establishment of Arthur E. Petersen, at 572 Commercial street in this city, is unquestionaWy the real resort for the most perfect treatment in this behalf, and the most critical finds nothing to criticize there, how soever often he visits the place. Morning Astorian, 60 per month. The Clean Man. The man who delights In personal cleanliness, and enjoys his shave, shampoo, haircut, and batb, in As toria, always goei to the Occident barber ihop for these things and geta them at yheir best New Grocery Store. Try our own mixture of coffee the J. P. B. Fresh fruit and vegetables. Badollet & Co., grocers. Phone Main 1281. TO RAZE OLD HOME. There are no new developments in the case of the wrecked steamer Minnie E. Kelton, now lying sub merged at the upper end of the O. R. & N. piers. She is practically in pos session of that company and her fu ture has not been even hinted at since she was salvaged by the Tatoosh.' The faithful her customary old Lurline is doing daily stunt on the Sunday Excursions to Long Beach. Steamer Nahcotta leaves O. R. & N. dock at 6:45 a. m. daily. Round trip fare to any point on North (Long) Beach, $1.00, Sunday's only TEA The way to buy tea is in packages; somebody is responsible for it Tour grocer return yoor noon? K t '! Ms Schilling' B"'t we pir Um Come In and Inspect Our New Fall Suits 9 and Millinery Now on Hand Miss Hattie Wise Is Chosen Queen of Astoria's Regatta TO HER IS ACCORDED THE SPLENDID NUMBER OF 81,208 VOTES, WHILE MISS KATE SHIVELY IS SECOND WITH 51,652 VOTES-WAS INTERESTING CONTEST. Jalof f s, The Style Store I 537 Commercial Street Miss Hattie Wise, daughter of Mayor Wise, is to be the gracious Queen of the Regatta of the year 1908. There was a veritable shower of votes for Miss Wise at the very last minute last night, and when the count was taken it was found that she had won with the splendid showing of 81,208 votes. Miss Kate Shively was second in the contest, and she made the most excellent showing of 51,652 votes, a result that any young lady might be well proud of. These two young ladies were so far in the lead of all the others that there was really no one else "in the running," and for several days past there seemed to be an indefinable feeling in the air that the contest was to be between the two whose names so easily led all the rest. Friends of both the young ladies were in attendance at the vote in Hoefler's last night and there was subdued excitement in the air. A crowd hung about the sidewalk in front of the store all evening long and watched the blackboard with eager curiosity, and as each change of figures came there was were murmurs of applause and expressions of regret or delight according to which contest- j ant had temporarily . jumped to the front announced Miss Shively was seen to be in the lead, and up to the very last minute the outcome was entirely a question of doubt. The uncertainty kept the crowd and the devoted work ers for both the young ladies on the qui vive, and there wasn't anyone who was willing to express with any air of assurance just what the final returns would show. In accordance with the custom of the Astoria regatta queen contests, members of the regatta committee last night called at the home of Miss Wise after the count was completed and formally announced to her the outcome of the contest. Hardly had the clock struck 10, the hour when the contest was advertised to close, when the telephone bells in the Astorian office began to ring and ring, feminine voices wanted to know." "Did' Miss Wise win? "Yes. "Oh, my, that's good. Or again it might be like this: "Who won did Miss Shively? "No; Miss Wise in the Queen.' f'O-h-h, is that so well, thank you ever so much." That was the other side being heard. House Where Grover Cleveland Lived Will Be Replaced. NEW YORK, Aug. 19.-Workmni will soon begin to tear down the ousj at No. 12 West 51st Street, the last New York home of the late Gro- Clcvcland. The property has been purchased from E. O. Benedict and is to be replaced with a modern residence. Grover Cleveland, in Ap ril of 1892 leased the house of Mr. Benedict. Mr. Benedict and Mr. Cleveland made frequent excursions in Mr. Benedict's yacht, the Oneida, Extensive alterations were made in the house for Mr. Cleveland. Soon after leasing the Benedict house, Mr. Cleveland and his family left the city for the Summer and that fall he was elected president of the United tSates for the second time, After that he had little use for the house and soon afterward gave it up for the White House. Mr. Cleveland never thereafter had a permanent residence in New York. Andrew Carnegie lived just across the street from Mr. Cleveland's home which was within a stone's throw of the Vandcrbilt house. GOOD WOOD. If you want a good load of fir wood or boi wood ring up KELLY tht WOOD DEALER. Tht man who keeps tha PRICES DOWN. Pbona Mih 2191 Barn, Cor, 12tb and Duane. The very best board to be obtained in the city is at "The Occident Hotel." Rates very reasonable. Tha CommtrciaL One of the coziest and most popu lar resorts in the city it the Commer cial. A new billiard room, a pleasant sitting room and handsome fixturea all go to make an agreeable meeting place for gentlemen, there to discusa the topics of the day, play a game of billiarda and enjoy the fine refresh ments served there. The best of goods are only handled, and this fact being ao well known, a large business is done at the Commercial, on Com mercial street, near Eleventh. Subscribe to the Morning Astoria, Tht Palace Restaurant An phase of hunger can be daintily gratified at any hour of the day or night at the Palace Restaurant. The kitchen and dining room service are of the positive best. Private dining looms for ladies. One call inspires regular custom. Try it. Commercial street, opposite Page building, SOLDIERS GOING HOME. One of the best features of the When the count at 9:30 was contest was the good nature and en- Disgraceful Scenes At Springfield Are Probably Over. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug. 19.- Convinccd that the danger of a re newal of rioting is remote, Governor Deneen last night ordered home the First and Fourth Regiments of Mi nois militia. There still remain 2000 troops to keep watch over the city. Private Joseph B. Klein of Com pany, A, is tne only mcmDer ot tne First regiment who regrets the end of the field service. As soon as his active service ends he will be liable to arrest and trial in the civil courts at Kankakee on a charge of murder, the result of the fatal stabbing of Earl Nelson.' It is possible attorney Gen eral Stead will defend Klein. An at tempt may be made to arrest Klein when the train passes through Kanka kee on the way to Chicago. There was no violence of impor tance in Springfield last night, the disturbances being limited to vandal ism and several fist fights, In one of these a small cowd of white men and boys jumped upon a negro arid beat him severely, lie manaueA in hrnlr , - . " iway and is said to have left the city. PREPARING A WELCOME. Olympic Athletes, However, Are Still In Europe. JJEW YORK, Aug. 19.-Wi!liam T. Jones and Matt, Hatpin, who were ap pointed a committee to arrange for the speedy return of the American Olympic Athletes now in Europe, have cabled Lawson Robertson to return with his party before August 29. Mr. Jones received a postal card from ' John B. Dolan, secretary of the Irish American Athletic Club, who is in Europe with the athletes, convening the information tha? the men would return on or about August 31. As this is two days after the date for the parade, Mr. Jones sent the cablegram to Robertson. The athletes with Lawson Robert son represent fully one third of the winners of the Olympic champion ships. John J. Hayes, the Irish-Am erican runner who won the Marathon race at the Olympic games, is due to arrive in New York on the Oceanic. He will be tendered a rousing wel come, v Subscribe to the Morning Astorian, 60 centa per month.