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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1908)
TI1E MORNING AST01UAN. ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER J, im. REMEMBER THE NAME H. C. FRY, CUT GLASS There is none better. Have just received the new cuts. Come and inspect our line and '. . compare prices, ?: : A. V. ALLEN Sole Agent for M. C. Fry Cut Glass Phones 711, 3871." - 1 Branch IV T. 71 S0"E REGATTA DETAILS f P1IC IEREST TREASURER HERMAN PRAEL RESPONDS TO IMPORTUNITY OF THE REPORTER. CAN COUNTRY LIFE BE MADE BETTER COMMUNICATION WITH IN QUIRIES SENT HERE FROM ROOSEVELT'S COMMISSION. 'Perhaps one of the most interest lug communications received n this city in a long time was a letter to the Chamber of Commerce yesterday from the "Commission on Country life," asking for information in rela tion to the well-being of the rural copulation of this neck of the woods. The questions contained therein were of much interest This commission was appointed by President Roosevelt. The plan was also his, and it has attracted atten tion all over America and in the old country as well Probably most read ers are familiar with it President Roosevelt deemed the subject of the condition of the rural population of such vital importance that he suc ceeded in appointing a commission to make a wide and exhaustive research into the matter, and the men , who are conducting the investigation are gentlemen eminently fitted for such a laborious task. Some have prophe sied that long after some of Mr. Roosevelt's more pronounced deeds, f greatness have been forgotten fike the peace lie wrought between Japan and Russia this measure of tis to uplift the rural conditions will te remembered as a great step for ward. The commission .has sent out 12 preliminary questions. The first one in the communication received yes terday asked if the farm homes "are as good as they might be or should be m this vicinity." Mr. Whyte, by occupation and per Baps by generous nature an enthu siast replied to this question by stat ing substantially that the farm homes of Clatsop county cannot be beaten, the wide world over. "Are the country schools training the boys and girls satisfactorily for Efe on the farm?", was another ques tion. Questions . were also asked in relation to the railway service, the telephone service, and if farmers are satisfactorily organized to promote their buying and selling interest. The status of hired men, and of farm labor generally were also asked after. Sanitary conditions and social intercourse were asked after, espec ially as regards the women, and the last question asks what is the most single important thing required to bring about a betterment of condi tions on the farm. It would be interesting if some of these matters could be answered by some of the farmers themselves, and also by some of the farmers' wives. The commission wishes to secure its answers from those who know wnereof they speak, and naturally the best answers could be given ty tarmers who are intelligent and who have traveled, so as to compare their conditions with the conditions of others in this or other countries. that conditions in Clatsop county are, upon the whole, very good seems to be recognized by a!lspecially along , the lines of prosperity, but others who" have perhaps looked be neath the surface aver that much is wanting in the lives of many of the tarmers and especially of the farm ers wives in this county. For in Clatsop county, as in other parts of the country, boys leave the tarm, never to go back. Cirts also leave. In England and some other countries it seems impossible to make those leave the soil who can stay on it, but it is not so here. Perhaps there is something wrong that this is so. some ot the teachers who take the district schools in this county com plain of a terrible loneliness. They feel it, they say, and see its effect in the women folks around them. Per naps mere is something here that can be bettered. Divorces from the country districts in this county are numerous. Other things along these lines might be added, but they are enough to denote that, perhaps, there is real need of some betterment in the lives of the rural population here ntireiy aside from the question of material prosperity, which, after all, may be the least important thing. Is there any real joy, any real content m the lives of the farmers here? that is at the bottom of the inquiries sent out by the commission. In one of the richest districts con tributary to Astoria,' where the far mers are all well-to-do and have much leisure, they seem to take very little pride in their places. Occasional sprees seem to be their one great joy. The boys leave home. The girls may have a piano, but they have no love or knowledge of music. Perhaps after five or six years the commission may be able ,to get at the bottom of some of these perplex ing problems that now seem to add an enormous total to the discontent of the country. PERSONAL MENTION Anthony Klein, one of the best known shoemen on the coast, was do ing business in the city yesterday. Mr. Klein's home is in Salem. J. W. Casey, the popular represen tative of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, was a business visitor in this city yester day. W. R. HollisteT of Portland spent the day in Astoria among the hun dreds of other visitors noted here. J. W. Viele, of New York, was in the city yesterday on business bent. B. W. "Smithson of Waukesha Wisconsin, spent the day here yes terday on business matters.. Dr. F. J. Friedrich, the well known dentist of this city, will leave tornor- ASTORIA PHIKIIIC SOCIETY Dr. Emil Enna, Conductor. Second Annual Music Festival. Tuesday Evening, November 17. ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION AUDITORIUM Corner Eleventh and Exchange Sts. EMINENT SOLOISTS First Production of Scenes from Emil Enna's New Opera An inquisitive reporter for the Morning Astorian, acting in the in terest of a lot more people quit as inquisitive, and probably a good deal more anxious about it, sought out one of the ofticiils of the Four teenth Annual Regatta of Astoria yesterday, and besought him for an exposition of the affairs of the big committee that might yield some thing tangible to those who are en titled to the nnformation and at the same time placate the absorbing cur iousity of the public so long denied the facts. This gentleman (no other by the way, than Herman F. Prael, the treasurer of the Regatta Com mittee), admitting the equity of the call and cause, and for reasons of his own, which it is not our province, perhaps, as yet, to enlarge upon), at once gave out the following explicit data, which, to its last detail is con firmed and verified by repeated checking with his colleagues of the committee in touch with the financial end of the business; all of which is taken from the report heretofore submitted by Treasurer Prael to Hon. Herman Wise, mayor, and Chairman of the Regatta Committee. This compendium of the cash busi ness of the committee, nas to do only with Mr, Prael's office as treas urer, and, of course, deals only with the receipts and disbursements ofc tual cash, and nothing else, and shows, in solid totals, the following summaries: Cash received from all sources, $8463 83. This total includes the sum of $722.98, balance on hand from the Thirteenth Annual Regatta. Cash disbursements, upon the or ders and signed by the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and Secretary, of the General Committee ..... $8404.03. j And this total includes the sum of $415.55 paid over to the Fourth of July Committee of 1908: This leaves a balance on hand of $58.80; against which there are out five unpaid .vouchers aggregating the sum of $88, the numbers of the on presented claims ' being as follows: Nos. 676, 693, 790, 804 and 809. Thus, it will be seen, there is a very incon siderable deficit in the annual budget, of $33.20, a mere bagatelle in view of the huge undertaking and the ad verse conditions of weather, etc., which prevailed against the water- fest this year. Mr. Prael, of course, has nothing whatever to do with this minor shortage, his relation begin ning and ending with the handling of the cash committed to his official custody as treasurer. Treasurer Prael has handled his task with punctilious care and hat pursued the business just as he dis poses of the affairs of his own priv ate concern; giving receipts to the different chairmen of the committees to cover each item, and depositing the moneys with the Astoria National Bank, or the Astoria Savings Bank. And in the matter of disbursements, all orders were properly authenticat ed by the proper officers before being recognized at all. This gives a fair, general idea of the business end of the last Regat'a, and the same will in all robability,, and the same will in all probability, reports of the associate officers when they shall be ready to report to- the public. The Mountain King" IN CONCERT FORM CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA SOLOISTS Musgrove Robarts . Baritone Frank Eichenlaub .. Concertmeister Mrs. W. T. A. Bushong Contralto Miss Clarina Rogers Cellist Miss Reba Hobson .. .Soprano Miss Laura McCann - Alto Miss Hattie Wise , . . . . Pianist Miss Esther Sundquist ...... ... ..Violinist Trio Mrs. A. A. Finch, Soprano; Mrs. J. T. Allen, Altoj Miss Nellie ( Utzinger, Contralto Miss Anna Campbell and M iss Louise Wise, Accompanists Tickets and Reserved Seats at Whitman's Book Store ADMISSION $1.0C G. T. Markley of Tacoma was in the city yesterday en route to his home via the north shore route row morning for an extended trip throughout the east, and wil be gone several weeks. II. E. Sangster of Boston spent the day here yesterday and went on to the metropolis last evening. C. B. Atkinson of Ashland was here for a few hours yesterday, going hQmeward on the evening express. H. W. Martin of Los Angeles wa' among the swarms of visitors on the streets of Astoria yesterday. State Factory Inspector Charles Gram leaves this morning for Seaside. ARRANGE FINAL PLANS FOR THE GLUB TO PURCHASE FURNITURE AND GYMNASTIC APPARA TUS AT ONCE. At a meeting of the directors of the Athletic Club yesterday after noon the committee on purchasing furnishings for the club rooms wa authorized to go ahead and huy the turnitiire, billiard tables and other articles as selected. It is proposed to furnish the club house in the best of shape and tins expense alone will probably amount to considerably over $-000.'" The Athletic committee was also authorised to make all the expend! tures requisite in thoroughly fitting out the gymnasium. This means that the gym is to be fitted out in first- class manner with the best of appa ratus. The directors also screed that manager for the club house shall be employed, though who he is to be has not been decided upon. It' was also agreed that the physical director to be employed must be of the best, and the directors are willing to pay a first rate salary for the right man. The manager of the club house will be expected to take care of the build ing, to keep the accounts, to care for the billiard tables, the reading room, and the like, while upon the shoul ders of the physical director will fall the real burden of making the club a success. He will be the instructor in gymnastics, will lead tne classes, and gencratly will be the one to de velop interest and enthusiasm. For tunately there are many such men- in the country now, who ac trained for such places, and it should not prove a dimcult task to get the right man, in time at least. The directors yesterday also hired Oliver McCIure to act as janitor of the building.. On the first of December the Ath letic club house will be opened to members, and already there is a membership of, nearly 300. While it had been announced that, the $5 in itiation fee would be continued for three months after December 1, it is now said that this may be raised to the regular $10 at almost any time. Those who wish to join would per haps do well to get in their applica tions at once. The Athletic Club's building is really a fine one; the interior is handsomely finished in dark stain. The windows are large, and the building is well lighted. A casual view of the place would indicate that will prove a fine place for the young men ot Astoria, though per haps none too commodious for the large membership expected. Yet that it will be large enugh seems assured, and the city should felicitate itself upon having such a fine club house for its young men. It is said the run ning expenses may aggregate ap proximately $6000 annually, and this! fact will tend to show that it is I planned to have the institution of the' very best. If the directors are for-! tunate enough to secure the right j man as physical director from the start it would appear as if the club to commence its existence under i Z the most favorable auspices. Those in the meeting yesterd were: O. L. 1-niton, president; Prael, vice-jresident; Harry Hoefler, treasurer, and F. G. Johnson, Wil- iam Eigner and A. V. Allen Jr. E. R. Blair, who had been elected treas-, urer, resigned as he is to leave the city, and Mr. Hoefler was selected in is stead. -4 vjf - I vCi t'i X 7V I It V' I I i ' 1 ,1 " Yfcy ctihl nil . (:;, J I v 1 I MADE IN NEW YORK V C-'-S U fctesz Pull Dress Talk ! The holidays with all their festivities will soon be here, the time when dress clothes are indispeit- sible and no gentleman can attend any of the many functions in our city without one. Wear a BENJAMIN and you may be certain of one thing, that you have on exactly the same clothes that will be worn this season at the great balls, the opera, the plays, dinners and dances in New York, the fashion center of jthejjvorid for men's clothing. In other words, these BENJAMIN dress suits are correct in every detail. Or course you can go to some village tailor and get a full dress suit that will fit, but so will a union suit fit, but where is the style. Our prices for, full dress suits are from $40 to f HrdFy l $75. Call and let us show you at our expense, f JUDD BROS., The Woolen Mill Store, f 557 Commercial St., Astoria, Oregon. rr What Would You Do? In case of a burn or scald what would you do to relieve the pain? Such injuries are liable to occur in any family and everyone should be prepared for them. Chamberlain's Salve applied on a soft cloth will relieve the pain almost instantly, and unless the injury is a very severe one, will cause the parts to heal without leaving a scar. For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. NEW ARRIVALS Imported Malaga Grapes Northern Spy, Jonathan and King Apples. AcmeGroceryCo. NEW BOOKS. HIGH GRADE GROCERIES 21 COMMERCIAL STREET - PHONE 081 John Fox, Pres. '' ; F. L. Bishop, Sec. . . Astoria Saving B- Treas Nelson Troyer, Vice-Pres. and Supt. 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