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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1908)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 191)8. 'I'll T MfUIIJ I V A C'I'I IIMAU t V'1't III I nM;u.ti New -York Hews Letter next ;ntcetfiig'of the Federated' wens, umn, M a remit New Wo- NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-1 1 i pro bable tbnC art office unique In the his tory of American cities will toon be created here-nothlng lcm indeed than that of Superintendent of Municipal Automobile. The city government but outstripped sit competitors in hi use of the auto until today it it the possessor of an even hundred icif -propelled vehicle "to cxpediate the administration of municipal mat ters." The number become doubly remarkable becaune of the fact that the city which now is the largest mu nicipal owner of autos In the country had none at all five yean ago. While Father Knickerbocker bai thus shown his progressively the. suspicion hai risen that the all pervading graft is not entirely ibtent In thii matter. The hundred machine are carried on the city's) books at cost valuation of $260,030.38, the cars ranging in price , from $500 in the case of the smallest to tho rather surprising maximum of $6500 for the largest. It is not, how ever, the initial cost which is creat ing the trouble but the bill for "re pairs and depreciation." The , city4 garage bill now aggregates $.100,000 a year which nu-an that more money is charged annually to the repairs of each machine than its original cost. In addition to this the yearly depre- elation is estimated it fifty percent Altogether Father Knickerbocker Is finding his auto t a very expensive luxury' and since It is believed that much of the expense is pure graft New York may shortly have a Su perintendent of its automobiles. Un doubtedly the office would prove un popular, as one of the first duties of its Incumbent would be to stop' the use for private purposes of the city's machines, ' ' ' ' York i in a fair way to b the fire muni Is In a fair way to be the first muni Hs'n other words the lady po- peace unhappy, yet this choice seems liccman. That the arrival of the fe mora than a probability, .To the aver- ,as Uiuecoat is no dream is shown age patient ... It has, seemed of little by tjie fervid resolutions in her fa- moment by whom, he , was cured so VOf by the , Women's Democratic long as he was cured. But now , the Club,, which in the city where Tarn state judiciary Js likely to step In many is chief are net to be despised. AFTER TWO YEARS, with ft dictum to the effect that one these resolutions hold that It is high can.; only be ; cured , witiiin, certain time that the lady do ceman be made a part of the city's police force, al- dO not with I thoilirti it i nnt nrnrmil 1a rlnltie specified limits. -. This . jurisdiction however, will have to the process of curing but , the prac- thi first female minion of the law in . . . i, la .... I . turner, SicK people u wouio seem we habilments-of her male brother may be cured by; an individual but officer.' It is asserted, however, that not by corporation,. This has , no- the terror which the cop inspires In thing to do:witn tne corporation, the breasts of juvenile offenders would such,, Instead it has only, this, curN j ,,. me o tiie "cooes" b,s over ou complication, that -while , two or come by a feeling f' affection,' I is twenty , doctor (lmay , practice f tbeie ttfo ,nat Jh female bluecoat could profession co-operatively and legally, atrract youthful malefactors who fled sucn practice , and, co-operation be- f,om lne t,reCnt officers of the law, come entirely megai u ,tne qociort for i purely business . reasons decide to Incorporate. In other words, the courts are not concerned with the methods of the doctor,-since they might be the same before and after Incorporation, but are only concern ed with the business end, As con senntnee the patient in New York is ar likely to die through the agree ment of courts is disagreements be tween doctors. The point bas been brought into prominence through an incorporation of doctors who pro pose to minister to certain classes for the sum of on dollar year. With the intervention of the courts, how ever, the situation has become inter estlng, and it remains to, be deter mined whether a sick man has a right to eet well anyway or only as the courts prescribe, Whether it is better to die legally or to be cured Illegally is a curious question which is soon to be decided by the courts of this state. To be cured illegally and, then, sued seems only one 'stage betfer than to die in rwrT-"TTTtrrman Llilllillii i ..... ... i. .4 l. ,..M . ) .1 1,111 NOTICE One startling argument which has been added too the thnuiands for which New York is retpomible - in the death of the "Colonel," an aged southerner who for: years has been a well known though unknown figure in the Bowery. In the famous bread lines in that district where the poor are furnished bread and coffee the colonel" for more than three decades ha been noted for bis pathetic sac rifices in assisting the needy. In all his long and charitable career, how ever, his identity has never been re vealed, , Not even a guess has ever been made as to who lie was. lie appeared about thirty years ago not long after the close of the war and while always needy immediate ly achieved auction on the east side because of the sacrifices which he made. When the famous Flcisch- While any man that publicly pin- man's bread line started he was one ches a woman in New York is lia- of its first patrons. But while he was blc to arrest and fine, women of the always the first at the window to re city are strong in the belief that ceive, his piece of bread and mug of women should be allowed to pinch coffee it was early noted that he al men. They are not however, in fa- ways gave away the food which he vor of a Caruso act, but are highly received, a practice which he con- enthusiastic over the appointment of tinned to his death. Moreover, how- female policemen. The Women's ever needy , his condition, this mys Dcmocratic Society ha just pledged terious colonel had always a few nick- itself to'tftke up this question at-the I els and dimes to distribute among his equally needy companions.. His gifts were generally accompanied by helpful advise and the moment be fore hi death he was engaged in ex plaining '.o other members of the bread line how to obtain shoes for the cold weather. It was while wait ing in the bread line that he drop Body Recognizable After Being In Water For Long Time. CHICAGO, Oct. 23.-A dispatch to the Tribune from, Kenosha, Wis., says; ' - The body of John Cillett, formerly probably the best known man in Ke nosha and a son of the late Judge Guedin Cillett, who disappeared Ik January 14, 1207, wes found in tl Kenoiha river yesterday. It is evi dent Cillett walked into the river on the night of hh disappearance and was caught in the refuse at the bot tom of the stream and held there. The river is filled, with .tar from the gas works and with acids from a large tannery and these served as a pre serving fluid to such' an extent that notwlthsandifig the fact that the body had been in the water for nearly two years, it was still possible to recog nize the features. ' A Jeweler Eiperienc ; C. R. Kluger, the jeweler) 1060 Virginia avenue, Indianapolis, , Ind., writes: "I.wa so weak from kidney trouble that I could hardly walk a hundred feet. Four bottles of Foley! Kidney Remedy cleared my complex ion, cured my backache and the ir regularities disappeared, and . I can now attend to business every day, and recommend Foley's Kidney Rem edy to all sufferers, as it cured me after the doctors and other remedies had failed. T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. . .A Healthy Family. "Our whole family' has enjoyed good health- since we began using Dr. King's New Life Pills,' three years ago," says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route I, Guilford, Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you good, 25c at Charles Rogers & Son's drug store. STUPID BLUNDER. oiiiwtiljciiis.o The agency of the San Francisco Examiner is now located at Whitman's Book Store. Price 75c per month delivered. J Subscribers .""not getting papers regularly notify us at once and agent .will call. Quick deliyery guaranteed. ' VALLEJO, Cal., Oct. 23.-Lleu-tenant Edwin It. Dodd, who was in charge of the submarine flotilla at Mare Island when a disastrous gas oline fire ocurred at the station, Sep tember 17, will appear before a court martial next Monday to answer char ges of neglect. If is alleged that Lieu tenant Dodd 'should have taken the submarines into the middle of the i stream before pumping gasoline in- f tri ifi maiflr in nrAflr thnt ih inAim. ped dead. Nothing could be found to jniab,e fluid mi h float aw instea(J throw any light on his identity and of coect. about the float an1 thc there aeenu to be no solution of tbe anchorcJ The fire cot famous mystery. Hi brothers In n h5s. need whom he, has so often aided arc i . - . ... . , ' , . ...... iuu taui w.iuii. a lumft ucuuit . to collect ' a fund for a fitting burial. wiiiiaiiu's book S I ORE VEGETABLE COUfpUUO.f. a film 1 Only All Rail Route to Portland and all Eastern Points. Two daily trains. Steamship tickets via all Ocean Lines at Lowest Rates. For rates, steamship and sleeping-car reservations, call on or address .... ' O. B JOHNSON, Gen'I vgent I2th s near Commercial St ASTORIA, OREGON, I FREE TRIAbAN ELECTRIC IRON baves backs, footsteps; blistered fingers, and facesfuel and tempers. .""'"-V njS-.j.j'u. vf .-'..it'J '.4. "Pi A' 1 ' 11 "III III f Il - -vl I1"-::'! iv- :'' With the office-boy problem in creasing in seriousness every year, and now a close second to the ser vant problem, New York is about to have a longfelt need supplied in the shape of a unique schools-nothing less indeed than a training school for office boys. The novel undertak ing while it is a work of the Child ren's Aid Society is not entirely phil- t U . M.ntla ttrl.lt. Ki.ci. aiiiui vjjiw, o.hvw vtfv ttis.? mivvv f ness men have let loose of late Over their inability to obtain office boys with the intelligence of even a fence post, has awakened a sleeping gen ius to the possibilities of teaching the young Idea how to act as office boy. In the new school which is be lieved to be? the first of its kind in the country future presidents will Jbe' t... I iL. ........ . i 1 ' .,..( ! kirch irum me mci'ii anu insirucicu .,i . ... . in such complicated matters as the m ta M,Qrld hM received such i rudiments of reading, writing and ar- wide-spread , b& , titjqualified, en-J ithmctic. They will also be set on dorsement u has tydia K Hnk- the path toward commercial success ' h&m'i Vegetable Compound, made by instruction iii the system of lick-, If3iatl,ve PS.1 herbs " No other medicine has such ng stamps, tilling and copying letters and looking up trains on timetables. ! The first thing.' which a youngster wiH be taught, however, is to" do just what he is told to do. There will ak sq; be classes in the geography , of New York City and its transports tion facilities, telephoning and the keeping of simple accounts. The course will be , conducted at night and will, last twenty-one weeks. ; You feel no electricisy attach to any descent focket- low .expense would prise you let us explain to 'YOU ASTORIA ELECTRIC - CO. . iv can sur- Married Man In Trouble a niarriea mas who permits any member of the family to ' take any thing except Foley's Honey and Tar, for coughs, colds and lung trouble, is guilty of neglect. Nothing else is as good for all pulmonary troubles. The genuine Foley's Honey and Tar contains no opiates and is in a yellow ii.iikaffe. T. F.' Laurw. Owl Drug Stoic. Are You Only Hall Alive? People with kidney trouble are so ftvnk and .'exhausted that they are only half alive. Foley's Kidney Rem edy makes healthy kidneys, restores lost vitality, and weak, delicate peo- ile are restored to health. Refuse :niy but Foley's. T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. , ; ' ' " record of success for woman's dis eases, or sttch' hosts 6f grateful friends as has Lydia E. Ilnkham's Vegetable Compound. ;; rn P fox more than SO years it has been caa standard, remedy for feminine ills, Inflammation, Ulceration, and consequent Spinal Weakness. , It has relieved more cases of Back, ache and Local Weaknesses than any other one remedy. It dissolves and excels tumors in an early at&sn of development s-i.i N , ; ',t f Irregularities and periodic p.ias, Weakness of the Stomach, Indica tion, Bloating, Nervous Prostration, Headache, General Debility, quickly yield to it : also deranged organs, i causing pain, draprdnsr. sensations! fcnd backache. Under all circum- tanoes it acts m. harmony with the female system. -! ' It removes that wearing feeling, xtreme lassitude, " dont care "and want to - bo - left - alone " feeling, excitability. irrita.Mlity,nervousness, dizziness, faintness, . sleeplessness', flatulency, melancholy or theblucs. llieso are indications of Feminine disorders, which this medicine over comes as well as elisht derangement cf the Kidneys of either sex. ., - Women who are sick and want to get well should refuse to accept any substitute for Lydia E. l'inkham'a Vegetable Compound. 1 T'- Y" ' Unferiaentcd Grape Juice absolutely non-alcoholic Concord Coc quart Catawba,, Coc .quart Welch's Grape Juice Nips ...10c ATiEPJCAIJ EIBORTIIIS CO. tf Jelia Fa, Pre. ' F. L. tkbop, Sec : Astoria Uvlan Ci-.- r . helaoa Trortr, Vice-Frea. and Snpt jA'n'"lRON WORKS- DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTUSI OF THE. LATEST IMPROVED , Cannisf BlacMncir, Marine -Engines anil Delias - - COMPLETE CAKNERY OUTHTS TU'EJTI'ZIZD. Correapondence Solicited. . - , . Foot cf Fonrti trti. 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