THE MORNING ASTOltLAN. ASTORIA. OREGON.
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Washington, Oregon and Idaho
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OUR PECULIAR PROVINCE
There is not a single tenable rea
son why the Port of Astoria bitl
now pending for adoption by the peo
ple of Astoria should not be voted
for by every citizen here It docs not
carry the spending of a single dol
lar until the people are ready for its
legitimate expenditure and does not
entail a single burden that may not
be dispensed with until : propitious
season and reason; and its incorpo
ration in the charter may have, prac
tically, no other effect than TO SET
UP THE LEGAL STATUS OF AS
TORIA AS A RECOGNIZED
AND ACTUAL PORT with due au
thority to claim and fix its rights as
against any interference from outside
agencies. This is the substance of
of the plea for the adoption of the
amendment, and its is quite enough
for the time b?ing.
Tillamook has her port charter
from the State and is making excel
lenn use of it, in the way of setting
Op improvements and carrying on
the work of disposing its shipping,
and its authority is recognized and
respected by all who come in con
tact with the provision behind it;
and if Tillamook can afford the ad
vantage, Astoria, with her immense
marine province and prerogative,
may surely assume the right to con
trol and govern it under specific and
appropriate law.
The Port of Portland is stretching
its long and powerful arm down the
Columbia, armed with extraordinary
faculties for negativing our position
and rights as a marine establishment,
and it is our duty to entrench our
with that corporation; and to do this
we must possess the indisputable
right to act and fight with a sure
footing and an honest claim. To vote
for the Port of Astoria bill will do
no injustice to any man, and yield
patent advantage to the whole com
munity. Vote "YES" when you come
to it, on the 9th of this month.!.
PROVEN INCAPACITY.
If, to plunge & city into vast nnd
unwarranted debt exceeding not on
h its charter latitude in this gravi
premise but transgressing the nor
mal credit of the community and in
volving the integrity and business
acumen of this people, then, indeed,
the 'Citizens' administration has
done excellently well.
If, to inaugurate and prosecute a
long string of arbitrary and confis
catory street improvements, in a
reckless and irresponsible man
' ner, with a fair share of them show
ing distinct and indisputable evidence
of having been deliberately, negli
gently done; if the coming record of
a thousand deeds in delinquency on
these improvements and the illimi
table difficulties that will ensue in
and titular snarls beseting the city!
on this account, then the 'Citizens'
administration has done excellently
well . .
If, to have increased the public
debt of Astoria from something less
than $86,000 to a rise of $316,000 in
16 years, without anything to show
for it, that was not to be expected
with the normal growth of the city
in that time, is among the signs of
approved municipal management,
then the 'Citizens administration has
done its duty very cleverly by this
community.
If, to attempt to triple that indebt
edness, by committing the city to
the building of a seawall and com
mitting themselves to the program as
a prelude to asking for re-election,
it a sign of political wisdom and
civic sagacity, then the 'Citizens' ad
ministration should be endorsed and
bolstered back into office and given
'carte blanche to finish its work of
fiduciary ruin, (Not that they will
need the authority to follow out the
program of despoilment, for they
will do as they please, anyhow.
We declare, in the name of popu
lar government, that these things, so
done, and of record, by the 'Citizens'
administration, are indubitable signs
of its proven incapacity to properly
govern this city.
OREGON INSURANCE.
,The Morning Astorian, having
been among the very first of th:
Oregon papers to rebel against the
unbearable and arbitrary processes of
the Board of Fire Underwriters, at
Portland, in the matter of its wilful
and ceaseless dickering with th:
rates and its specious advances up
on all sorts of pretexts, takes a good
deal of pleasure in the uproar that
has arisen all over the State and its
effect in the removal of some of the
trouble-makers and the promise of
reform and relief. It is high time the
trust was busted.
We hope the contemplated legis
lative program for the adjustment of
insurance conditions in Oregon, both
as to rules and rates, will be' prose
cuted to the limit of good business
sense, and that such a lesson will be
taught this class of high-binders as
will, never be forgotten. And chief
among the departures on the path of
relief we pray for the abandonment
of the fool deposit law and the
throwing open of the insurance field
to every company on earth, board,
and non-board, upon whatsoever base
of rates any of them shall see fit to
adopt The $50,000 worth of bonds
and securities filed in this State may
be exactly that much guaranty
against loss by failure of the com
pany putting it up, though there is
always a chance the stuff will not
realize the measure of its full ac
counting in case it is broached for
redemption; and it is surely a means
of arbitrary exclusion and the direct
cause of combinations in restraint of
business and of the despotic tariffs
WASHINGTON', D. C, Dec. 1
W'nller Page, Director of the Offu'e
of Public Roads of the United State
Department of Agriculture, who
named by President Roosevelt
head of the American Commission
to the recent International Road
Congress at Paris, returned to Wash
ington a few days since, firm in the
belief that in some of the more scien
tific branches of highway construc
tion the United States has nothing
to learn 'from the Older Nations,
though he was willing to concede
that those countries surpass this to
an amazing degree in the percentage
of improved road mileage and in the
jealous care with which their splen
did highways are maintained.
Among the many things which es
ecially impressed Mr. Page during
this European trip were the meth
ods for regulating automobile traf
fic in France and England; the be
lief of a majority of the delegates in
the Roads Congress that the automo
bile running at average speed is not
detrimental to highways; the splen
dor of French hospitality; the dis
covery that many miles of very sat
isfactory highways in England have
been constructed by mixing lime
stone and granite after the methods
set forth in publications issued thru
the United States Office of Tublic
Roads, and the amusing discussion
now being carried on by English au
tomobilists against horse traffic in
city streets and upon surburban high
ways. It is his belief that from the Con
gress itself at least one big result
will flow and credit for that must
go to America. On a suggestion by
Mr. Page, it was determined to cre
ate an International Bureau of
Roads, similar jn some respects to
the International Bureau of Naviga
tion. This body will consist of two
or more delegates from each of the
that, in the end, far transcend the
sum of any loss likely to innure from
failure. As between fire and failure
any normal, man will quickly choose
the hazard of failure; but to
be robbed, openly, brazenly, with
out either of these climaxes, simply
in course of payments made on a
business basis, and because other
and ameliorating companies and
canditions are barred from the State,
is an outrage that will not be coun
tenanced here very much longer.
AT1THE
BAKERGNIAN I
Coming Sunday Matinee
oeie
Fate J
Something funny Come and laugh with us
One of the Comedy Acts of the Season.
Miss Francis Gray
' n in Pictorial Songs
i Admission 10c. - - Seats Free i
Mr. Rockefeller's theory of his mil
lions is that, like Topsy, they just
growed.
The kaiser is adding to his laurels
by showing that he can be a good
listener.
The latest estimate of this years
products on the farms is $7,500,000,
000. Does farming pay? If not, why
not?
Our consular agents in Greece re
port that the olive crop is small.
Uncle Sam's domain will fill the gap.
The American olive is rapidly im
proving. The publication of campaign con
tributions after an election will at
tract little notice. Their publication
during a campaign can be used as a
basis for slanderous misrepresenta
tion. So far as America is concerned,
Count Borri de Castellane has great
ly prejudiced the case of the duke of
Arbruzzi. In matrimonial affairs the
scion of some noble American alfalfa
domain is preferable to any lord or
duke.
When is an interview not an in
terview? It is hard to tell in the kai
sers case. Nothing material that he
wanted to say seems to have been
suppressed.
Porto. Rico reports the most pros
perous year in its history. From the
first landing of Uncle Sam this is
land seems to have resolved to wear
a smile that Won't come off.
2 governments represented at the
Congress. Its purpose will be the
collecting of alt possible information
en road work, the passing on it by
a Committee of experts, and its dis
tribution throughout the world.
The ultimate benefits of so far
reaching move cannot now be es
timated, but the world will some day
carry a heavy debt of gratitude to
the government whose highway rep
resentative conceived the. thought
of such a Bureau,' anil brought to it
support the delegates of every civil
ized country on the globe.
Credit must go to Mr. Page for
the proposed erection of a memorial
to M. Tresauget, the great French
highway engineer who" was the ori -ginator
of the modern French sys
tem of road maintenance, and who
began the building of the incompar
able system of highways that has
made France famous as a road-building
Nation. The resolution to that
effect was introduced by Mr. Page
and unanimously adopted; the Sec
retary General being empowered to
receive contributions with which to
carry out its provisions.
Asked what plans France had made
for the visitors, Mr. Page said that
he had been amazed at the manner
in which the Republic had planned
for the comfort and the entertain
ment of the delegates.
Among the functions was an ela
borate reception at the Elysee Pal
ace where the National delegates
were receivd by President Fallarier-
es. The sessions of the Congress were j
held in a vast auditorium at the Stir
bonne; the various sections meeting
in rooms especially furnished for
their comfort and convenience at the
Salles du Jeu de Paume in a corner
of the beautiful garden of the Tuil
eries. Beside the official reception at
Elysee Palace, there was a special
theatrical entertainment given at
which a famous French actess re
cited a poem specially written for
the occasion; a reception at the pal
ace of the Minister of Public Works;
another at the magnificent Hotel de
Ville; side excursions to Fontain-.
bleu and Nice; and a luncheon at
the beautiful Palace at Versailles.
This latter function was of spec
itl interest to many Americans be
cause of the historical associations
lingering about the magnificent pal
ace. The luncheon was served in the
superb orange room, and when the
delegates, to the number of over 750
had taken seats, the fountains which
form the great decorative features
of the superb apartments, were set
playing, a tribute by, France to the
visitors, for it is only on rare occa
sions that the water is turned inti
this chain of basins.
At the reception at the Hotel de
Ville the visitors were also treated
to scenes of splendor foreign to Am
erican ideas of simplicity. A regiment
M the picturesque uniformed Chas
seurs of the French army were de
tailed to stand at attention, one on
either end of every step of the grand
marble staircase down which the del
egates passed; and thence to double
' rows to the state dining rooms and
'grand saloons. Gratifying and imprc-
sive as were these examples of al
imost royal hospitality, the chairman
of the American delegation found
more of interest in the perfection of
the system of roads with which the
Republic is provided and inthe sys
tematic method of maintaining them
to the highest degree of efficiency.
He was told that on the magnificent
road leading from Paris to Versail
les 5,000 automobiles pass either way
on each fine day, but he noted that
it was in such pcYfect condition that
it was practically as dustless as the
carefully swept asphalt street of a
large city. '
No better macadam roads are built
in France that can be and are built
in this country; but the maintaining
of these roads is attended to with
the utmost care, and for that reason
the highways are invariably in such
splendid condition that they excite
the envy of American visitors.
Prior to his arrival at Paris, Mr.
hige spent some days In Englair!
in the company of some of the fa
mous highway engineers of th Em
pire, examining roads throughout
England. It is his belief that Eug
land has arrived as near to the sol
ution of dustless roads the resent
day problem of wll highway engi
neers as any nation, llcr engineers
have given the use of bituminous ma
terials for spraying macadam roads
the utmost thought and cure. Spray
ing highway with such materials af
ter science has beeuHUtllcd to the aid
of the highway builder, hat a ten
dency to preserve the solidity of the
roads and prevent the formation oif
dust; and England has made such
progress in this branch of road study
that many miles of surburban roads
are as free from the disease-breeding
dust nuisance as the best kept
streets of the principal cities of the
world.
So firm are the highway scientists
in the demand that these conditions
not merely maintain but improve,
that the first light against the horse
has been taken up by the autotnobil
ists. When the motor car began to come
into use, the teaming interests of the
world were strong. They berated the
automobile in unmeasured terms;
said that it was menace to thrpub
lie and to the horse; that in endan
gered life and limb; in fact advanc
ed every argument against it that
from time immemorial has been ad
vanced against the advent of every !
great invention or civilising influ
ence.. Mr, Page was especially Impress
ed by the laws regulating automobile
traffic in practically all portions of
Frame and England. Unlike the laws
prevailing in nearly every section of
this country, the motor car restric
tions of those countries arc framed
for the purpose of stopping reckless
driving and the officers responsible
for their enforcement are not re
stricted as are American officials. No
speed limit provisions are incorpora
ted in the laws of France or England.
If in the judgment of an officer, s
motor car driver is reckless even if
proceeding at lets than eight miles
an hour, he is subject to arrest. If
on the other hand he is proceeding
at express speed on a broad thor
oughfare, free from other traffic, and
is not endangering the lives or the
property of others, he is well within
his rights and may not be interfered
with.
A Few Suggestions For Xmas
Ladles' and Genii' Watches,
Fancy Hathroom Fixtures,
Fancy Lamps,
Xmas Candles,
Banquet Candles,
Thermometers, "
Revolvers and Air Rifles,
Fishing Tackle,
Carpet Sweepers,
Bread Makers,
Meat Choppers,
Cake Mixers,
Hoys Wagons.
6 o'Clock Tea Kettles.
Tea Sets,
Alcohol Stoves,
Fancy Baskets, of all kinds
Thermo Bottles, ; ,
Flash Lights, -
Corn Razors,
Watch Charms,
Pocket Knives,
Table Knives,
Carving Knives,
Plated Wart,
Table Cutlery,
Nut Picks and Cracks,
Chafing Dishes,
Coffee Percolators,
Rasors and Rsior Sett,
Scissors and Shears,
Sehnor in Cases,
Manicure Sets, . , .
Serving Trays, 5
Crumb Seta, 1 ;
Fancy Table Cutlery,
Berry Spoons,
Gravy Idles,
Pocket Traveling Flasks,
Shaving Mugs,
Slftviiig Brushes,
Watch Chains,
A large assortment of the above will be found at
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AMUSEMENTS,
..Astoria Theatre..
Than, and Friday
Evenings ,
Dec. 3 and 4
The Comic Opera
H. M. S.
PINAFORE
Martin E, Robinson.Director
Benefit of Astoria High
School ,
Sung and Acted
IN COSTUME
by
GO Leading Singers of As
toria 60
Prices, 25c, 50c and 75c
Seats at box office
AstoriaTheatre
F. M. Hanlin, Lessee and Manager
One Night Only
SUNDAY, DEC 6
The Theatrical Sensation
of the Season
"TMOEIIL"
Management, The Blunkall
Co.
Special Scenery Strong
, .. Cast. .
it- - -
The Dramatic Treat of the
Season.
Prices, 25, 50, 75, $1
....PORTLAND....
Evening Journal
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FINANCIAL.
swsi.svaMssaJsa
First National Bank of Astoria
DIRECTORS m
Jacob Kamii W. F. McGregor G.TC. EfeAVKX.
J. W. Ladd S.S.Gordon
Capital $100,800
Surplus 25,000
Stockholders' Liability 100,000
EHTAHLI8IIKO 1NH4V
J. Q. A. BOWLBPMsTdem J. W. GARNER. Assistant Cashier
O. I. PETERSON, Vice-President FRANK PATTON, Cashier
ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS - $232,009
Transact General Banking Easiness Interest Paid on Tim Deposits
Four Per Cent. Per Annum
Eleventh and Duane St. . - Astoria, Oregon
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SAVINGS BANK
ASTORIA, OREGON
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HENRY SHERMAN, Manager.
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