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SATURDAY, SKIT. 10 ' Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELL1NCER CO, Nature v intended man SUBSCRIPTION RATES. to be happy and By mail, per year By carrier, per month to be able to give WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance .. ..$1.50 THE MORNING AST01UAN. ASTOIIIA. OREGON. I ... .. ' Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1905, a the postoffice at As toria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence or place of business may be made bypostal .card or through telephone. Any irregularity in delivery khould be immediately reported to the office of publicatioa TELEPHONE MAIN 661. THE WEATHER Oregon and Idaho Fair. Washington Fair and cooler in northeast and warmer in southwest. ALL IS NOT TOLD. When the Astoria Council-Charter Committee tells the people that the sum of cost for the sea-wall will be $300,000, and that $300,000 more will cover the cost of filling in the front age, and stop there, there is a feel ing that they are not stating the limit nor making a comprehensive estimate of the probable costs of the enter prise; that they have fallen short in the duty of making clear the wide range of auxilliary expense insepar able from the undertaking. And even the lump-estimates alluded to above are based only upon rough and un expert findings; there is no trained and scientific computation behind ei ther of them, because, forsooth, the Committee "does not need an engi neer to tell it about the cost of driv ing piles," Mere vagrant and flagrant appraisments of this sort are not go ing to satisfy the small group of property owners in this small city that they should enter upon a scheme of improvement costing nearly a round million of money, without the sanction of qualified and adept con firmation; there must be something more -tangible and acceptable than this to bolster so great and essential an effort; the whole array of expendi ture must be submitted with some de gree Of reliability, raised upon find ings wrought from some other source than happy enthusiasm. It is rare indeed that such a pub lic venture has been carried the length this one has; to the very compilation of the bill providing for it; to the very act of public submission; with out the calling in of tried and respon sible engineers; without the render ing of exact and comprehensive es timates of every phase of cost as it attaches, not alone to the original es say, but to the collateral lines of im provement that are indispensable. It is as extraordinary as it is danger ous, and the absence of all these things must prove, long before the work is half done, that haste and ir responsible calculations are of poor avail in so grave a matter, so big a project. We would ask the Commitee to give us some idea of the cost, and neces sity, of changing (raising) the pres ent system of grades, and the con sequent elevation of the streets, and buildings, and sewers, to the new lev els of from two to nine feet, but we are filled to repletion with flimsy rec konings, of the sort, and would much prefer to have the report of a repu table engineer in this instance, as well as in relation to the primary proposition. We do not dare attempt such a calculation ourselves and we doubt if there is nerve enough to compass it outside the enthusiastic coterie of gentlemen comprising the present Charter Committee. None of these things have been provided for, nor accounted . .apparently, in ... the prospectus of the Committee; but they will not down, however persist ently they are ignored; they must be attended to before one single act is done in behalf of the great work of the sea-wall; or posterity will damn us infinitely, let alone the cursing we will all live to realize at the hands of our fellows upon whom we shall im pose so "half-baked" a proposition as a sea-wall in front of a choked sew age system. COFFEE Why doesn't your gro cer" moneyback every thing? Can't get the goods or the money. Tou rroeer return! your money if ft tort Bu ScbiUinr'i Beit; vt pay him No man knows, as yet, what we are to have; of what quality the im provement is to be; whether it is to be a mere bulkhead of piling, a rock way, a cement wall; but these things are immaterial so long as the funda mental questions of grades and sew erage are ignored. And without de precating Xhe scheme itself nor dis crediting the work and ardor of the Committee we beg, for the sake of the Astoria public in general, and its tax payers in particular, that the Com mittee turn its attention to these re qisites and get its colleagues of the Concil to assist it in formulating some plan and estimate touching the new grades which are, above all things else, an imperative basis for the sea-wall itself. TODAY-TOMORROW. We would respectfully remind the great group of men in Washington and Oregon nearest to the salmon fisheries, that there is a tomorrow in the industry as well as a today; that today's patience, foresight, restraint and admirable good sense,-is tomor row's capital in the business; that pitiful jealousies and foolish acts, in the name of the law, or beyond it, will not compensate for a ruined en terprise or make good wanton losses. Tomorrow is the -most essential consideration in this behalf. Today we can meet the weight of discomfort, denial, loss, if we do it so we may devise against its repeti tion. That is the main end in view with all interested in .the Columbia fisheries, or should be; and it were well for the men holding the prepon derance of influence in the craft to exercise it promptly, even to the re fusal to buy and pack fish. It is go ing to take heroic steps to avert trou ble and the sooner they are taken the sooner the crisis will be reached and, possibly, circumvnted. Tomorrow we will need the great industry as much, or more, than to day, and folly never fore-stalled a saving, in this nor any other"' behalf. There are none to measure the losses in this connection so accurately as those upon whom they shall fall, nor are there any to move with more cir cumspection and . effectiveness than they, the fisherman, the canner, the packer, the broker, the men next and nearest the great business. If they cannot save it to themselves and the country, perhaps it were better to let it go; since the spirit that will calm ly witness the disintegration of a fine industry is unamenable to its rights and profits. But this we do not be lieve. DECIDE YOURSELF. The Opportunity Is Here, Backed by Astoria Testimony. Don't take our word for it. Don't depend on a stranger's state ment " ' . t ' ' : ; Read Astoria endorsement.'' Read the statements of Astoria citizens. . ' ' '", And decide for yourself. Here is one case of it: J. Pedersen, a longshoreman, living at 613 Commercial street, Astoria, Ore., says: "For 20 years I was af flicted with kiddney trouble. I suf fered a great deal from pain in the small, of the back and was continual ly tired and nervous. I had occasion al headaches, and also a blurring of the eyesight. Every time I took cold it settled in the kidneys and added to my troubles, the secretions at audi times being irregular and containing sediment. 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With a re cord of a score of incendiary blazes a day in localities all about town dur ing the pat week, the fireman is straining at the tap of the gong and the policeman is, at his wits end to capture the bold band of pyromaniacs. While every New Yorker knows that no braver, better men ever stood in shoe leather than the fire laddies of his crackerjack force, the memory of the shameful handicap of rotten hose which politics has imposed on them is still fresh in the public mind. No one can tell to-day what extreme this fiery carnival may lead; but every one is eager for the capture -of the mys terious fiends whose work it is. Enveloped in a cloud of dust and mortar, the disfigured facades of ex clusive Fifth Avenue are a sorry sight to-day as the city has finally begun its gigantic task of splitting a few feet wider the famous thoroughfare of fashion. Pillars, porches, bal conies, railings and steps that for merly made up the ornate decorative scheme of the fronts of the oldest and most handsome buildings in the me tropolis are being ruthlessly knocked into ugly heaps of brick and brown stone. The neat curb that for gener ations has outlined the greatest pa rade of fashion in the world has for the first time been broken to bits and strewn with the sidewalk flagging back toward the base of the dismem bered house fronts. Select Fifth Ave- nue to-day has begun to bear a close resemblance to a waste of brick yard and it will be many a long day before even a show of return to its old order can be restored. To reshape the mile of structures so pitilessly shaven and shorn it is conceded will be the work of a whole winter. . Pumpkins, poultry, preserves, pigs and pies are only some of , the real farm products which rural Gotham is to-day exhibiting with pride at the county fair in the limits of the me tropolis. Over on Staten Island, where there is plenty of farm land miles within boundar'es of Greater New York, the city-country inhabi tants have this year set up as genuine a fair as can be found within the slate. Trotting, judging and exhibit ing is going on briskly within a twen ty minutes' ride from Wall Street and side shows swarm the crowded fair Smile All the While Look at healthy children look at excesses of life to-day food drink braces up strengthens the body and enthuses the brain into perfect activity besides it pleases the palate, too. 30 cups of a delicious drink 25c ground to the delight of the metrop olitan agriculturists. The entrance grounds, where touring cars are pack ed thickly by the hundred, are the on ly clue to the comedy of the affair, which New Yorkers are finding much more to their taste just now than all the' amusement of the Great White Way. In spite of the few remaining hard times croakers, the splendid showing of labor, employed and sturdy, on its annuo 1 parade is regarded to-day as a sure sign of mending business, Rank by rank and squad by squad, New Yorkers have watched as big and hearty a body of wage earners step in view as has ever been seen on any Labor Day here. Someone must have work and wages for this great army of contented looking laborers, it is argued, and every group of them must mean some flourishing industry. The much-heralded demonstration of the unemployed felL flat, for the im pfe reason that the men with jobs out numbered the men without, a hundred to one. Labor lias taught a lesson to the reviving metropolis by this parade and each day confidence increases by leaps and bounds. Now that the Foley Feast is over, the women and children of the tene ments have lost interest in politics 'till next year. This great gathering of the lower East Side crowds, as guests of the open hearted Sheriff Fo ley, has for years been the one bright spot in the lives of a host of mothers and children of the poorer quarters. "Big Tom" is worshipped as friend as well as boss of his people, and to all who will apply Jie has as usual doled out ice-cream, entertainment and cheer with a lavish, hand. One glimpse at the beatific faces of the weather-worn families, of the slum after their day with the "big feller" is convincing every one that their are some things in politics that are really well worth while, . THEIR BIG SKYSCRAPER. Chicago Association Of Commerce Will Have $700,000 Building. ... CHICAGO, Sept. 18. The next skyscraper building to be erected in Chicago will be the $700,000 fourteen story Chicago Association of Com merce building at the Southeast Cor ner of, Jackson Boulevard and Ply mouth Court. This announcement e voked prolonged cheering from the 957 members of the Association gath ered in the banquet hall of the Audi torium Hotel last night in celebra tion of the fourth grand rally of the organization. ' . . . The announcement was made by David B. Morgan,- chairman of the special committee to determine a ite the healthy wards off the ocoa the system :7 . for a permamcnt home for the Asso ciation. The Iim floor will be give.) over to shops and Mores, the second floor to offices, the third and fourth to large banquet halls, capable of seating 600 persons each; the fifth floor will be the headquarters of the association of Commerce the sixth the committee and club room of the organization and the remaining upper floors to of fice and various other purposes. FOR COAST DEFENSES. NEW YORK, Sept. 18,-Two mine planters may be sent to' the Pacific Coast to augment the Coast defences there, according to the present plans of the war department. The mine planters tentatively selected are Gen. Henry Junt, now at Fort Wadsworth and Colonel Geo. Armistcad at Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook. Brig, Gen. Ar thur Murphy, chief ot Coast Artillery, is here to arrange for their departure. They may leave with the fleet of the lighthouse department next Saturday. UPHOLDS OLD LAW. LANSING, Mich., Sept. 18.-An opinion filed yesterday by the Michi gan Supreme Court sustained the con stitutionality of the maximum freight law of 1872, which has been ignored by the railroads as absolute and dc nontinced by them as unjust, unrea sonable and confiscatory. The law provides a fixed rate for carrying freight in carload lots for short dis tances, a rate of eight dollars for transporting a car ten miles being provided regardless of the character of the freight. ALL FOR THE BIRDS. ' REDDING, Cal., Sept. 18,-By an order of President Roosevelt, about 70,000 acres of land adjoining the Oregon-California line is to be set aside as a reservation' for the propagation and protection of all native birds. The order includes all land not suitable for agricultural purposes and prohib its the taking or destruction of nests or the killing of native birds of any description. The land described is pro bably the greatest breeding ground in the world for water fowl of many species. ; ' , TO CONTROL APPLE MARKET Fruit Growers of Walla Walla Valley Meet and Regulate Prices, Etc, WALLA WALLA, Sept., 18,-For the purpose of organizing the apple growers' combination, which is cal culated to advance the present price, of Walla Walla Valley apples and to successfully combat any advances in transportation rates, a special meeting of all fruit men from this valley will be held here Pn Monday. Morning Astorian, 60 cents per month