TI1E MORNING AST01UAN. ASTORIA, OREGON,
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER J, im.
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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.
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The holidays with all their festivities will soon
be here, the time when dress clothes are indispeit-
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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
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Such injuries are liable to occur in
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unless the injury is a very severe
one, will cause the parts to heal
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