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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1909)
Established ISO, Published Daily Eatept Monday by THE J. & DELLINGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year $7.00 By carrier, per month -60 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By suS. per year, in advance......... $1.50 Entered u second-class matter July 30, 1906, at the postoffice at Astoria, Oregon, under the act of Congress ' Orders for the delivering of The or nlace of business may be made Any irregularity in delivery should f ptjbScatJoa. ? TELEPHONE MAIN 661. jvTHE WEATHER Oregon Occasional snow, colder in southwest portion, continued cold over the remainder of the state. TIIE STORM LESSONS. The "ill winds" of the past six day, with all their extraordinary ac companiments of snow and hail and rain and ice, have not blown in vain; they have brought, and left, their les sons, and the lessons have begotten convictions that are likely to prove tJ uable, since they have set men to thinking. We are a thoughtless lot. anyhow; we do not think nearly enough; we think we think, and let it go at that Therefore, a cause and condition that livens ns to an active, healthy, almost abnormal, course of real thinking, is an undisguised bless- irur. With a foot of snow on the levels, and three or four feet of it in drifts everywhere, and still snowing, with ke clamping it all; with nine-tenths of the water pipes of the city frozen be yond all service; with business at a standstill and fast coming to a practi cal basis of simple necessities; with the river services abandoned and the threat of a general tie-np foreboding, afloat and ashore; with all our admit ted nnpreparedness for such a situa tion, thinking becomes the order of the hour! We think of our businesses and how they may be better handled to meet such an emergency; of how we might have conserved this blunder and that, made in the light of far different an ticipations; we think of our homes and women-folk and children; of how they are to meet the deprivations and ' exactions they are so uncsued to, and how they may be made safe and com fortable, and happier; we are forced to think of those who are not nearly so well fixed as we are to grapple with the untoward state of affairs, and wonder how they are getting along, and make some effort to as certain, at the bidding of an aroused conscience; we think of our dumb friends, tbe birds, dogs, cats and horses, and give them an attention and service not always quite so earn est and spontaneous; we think of hundreds of things that might have been thought out long ago, with cred it and success, and the very act and fact of thinking forces us to strike balances long allowed to accumulate on both sides of the mental ledger. It is a good thing, this storm, if only because it has awakened the livelier sense of the real impediments likely to befall us and the worse ones threat ening our friends and neighbors and put us pext to the realisation of pru dence and economy, and that, smooth as things are with us all in the North west, there are exigencies worth an ticipating and which actuate better feelings and more practical prepara tion, as well as stimulating expe diency and fore-thought along all lines for our own, and others' good. FOR FORTY DAYS. I carry the best Loggers' Shoes in town at the low est prices. My stock of men's and boy's shoes is unsurpassed for qua lity. Close buying and low expenses enable me to sell the best qualities at lowest prices. The Legislature of the State of g ! 1 y 111 II L P .smMrjjamwmm jam S. A. GIMRE 43 Eoi:d Stretl iSteiorimi. of March 3, 1879. Morning Astorian to either residence by postal card or through telephone. be immediately reported to the office Oregon is in session. For the next 40 days there will be a general turn ing of popular thought and interest toward the beautiful and important city up in the Willamette Valley whence all that is good, and bad, for the people of the Beaver State, is supposed to come. In the light of our experiences for the past IS years we are, perforce, looking for whole lot of good, this year. Mot because it is ineviiaoie, considering the character of the en semble at Salem, but on the score that it is timely, and in order, that we have relief and surcease from the stupidity and other gross things of the past Just a bit more statesman ship and immensely lew politics, for instance. There is enough, in all conscience, to arouse the last Legislator in serv ice, to do something, to be something, to realize something, for the people who have honored him. If be will but refrain from the making of new laws and give his sole attention to the repealing of a lot of cumbrous and costly statutes now on the books, and to the amendment and simplifica tion of others that need it, we shall call of them blessed when he departs for his home. Never was there such necessity for pruning, re ducing, ousting, and obliterating, as exists right now. We are literally swamped with laws; almost more than we can realize, let alone obey; and, as a general, moving principle of action, "we advise, and plead for, a unanimous and universal clean-up of the code and the exclusion of every concievable new bill that will aug ment the load of useless .trash now burdening an bewildering us. We know the utter futility of such a wish, such a plea; but we feel justified' in making it, if only to plead it later when we are up against the usual con glomerate mass of rubbish that will ensue, tor a Legislature to meet and pass no new laws would, of course, be an anomaly without precedent, but all the same we would like to see old Oregon set the pace, since it would make her famous and infinitely hap pier. The Senatorial question is the larg est thing of the session, of course. We said one year ago that Portland was to send her own man to Wash ington this year; that the man would be T. B. Wilcox; and we spoke by the card when we said it; we have not relinquished an atom of qur confi dence in the authority wherewith we uttered the gauge and while it may not suit us a little bit, we know the atti tude of Portland thoroughly and her resources of wealth and influence and political skill in the long-devised program, and expect to see it carried out, Statement No. 1 and its votaries to the contrary notwithstanding! We shall see what we shall see and see ing, know the real power of Portland as matched against the supremacy of the State. MODERATION. One of Astoria's best thinkers re marked yesterday, in course of a con versation upon the promises of the year: With the rise ot confidence in business circles, and an abatement of the political scares, the coming year should be one of growing indus trial activity. The wise ones, how-ever,-will move cautiously and not in dulge an excessive optimism; the moderate course will be the safest one." Here is a genuine hunch for us all I Mr. Carnegie has not gone so far in profit-sharing as to propose that the system shall be retroactive. Mr. Deb's party in the election of 1908 proved to be stationary. At this rate of progress the Deb's movement will be forgotten by 1920. Fixing the size of the calamity in Italy is still difficult, but it is known to be large enough to call for a gen erous relief movement all over the world. CHAiEROFBCE ADOS 10 HISTORY PRESIDENT SCHOLFIELD RE COUNTS DEEDS DONE AND MAKES GOOD SUGGESTIONS KE ADVISES A DIRECTORATE Behold the Future With Eyes of Phil osophic Optimism and Thinks We Must All Stand Together or Hang Singly. President Scholfield, of the Cham ber of Commerce, presented his report or the past year at the annual meet ng of that organizatioti last night as follows: I will try to set forth as accurately and definitely as possible a resume of the work done by this Chamber dur ing the year 1908, not including that wibch has been done by the promo tion committee. In instances the work of the Chamber proper and of this important committee, has over lapped and intertwined so that there scarcely seems a distinction or dif ference. This is, however, as it should be, especially with such entire har mony and absolute feeling of co-operation as has been uniformly mani fested during my term of office. At the meeting of January 20th the president appointed Messrs. G. Win gate, A. SI. Smith and James W. Welch to draw up a plan for the crea tion of the Port of Astoria. At the specal meeting of January 29th that plan was submitted and according to ne of its provisions, the mayor was requested to appoint a committee of four from the City Council to act with the Chamber of Commerce com mittee. Judge F. J. Taylor was 'at this special meeting appointed as an additional member to the Chamber committee. Mayor Wise, being re quested in accordance with this plan, appointed Messrs. Logan, Kaboth, Henderson and Letnenweber. It was first intended that the proposed Port of Astoria bill should also devise a method for the building of a seawall or bulkhead, but the joint committee was nnable to agree upon the neces sary details, and later the city coun cil members of this committee pre pared an independent bill providing for the construction of that long contemplated public improvement. The chairman of the original joint committee went ahead and prepared the Port of Astoria bill. At the city election held December 9th the Port of Astoria bill became a law, while the bill providing for the corstruction of the seawalt was de feated, although a change of 49 votes wovM have carried it. Through the assistance of Senator Fulton on the 16th day of January we received a telegram from Wash ington saying that the revenue cutter McCullough had been directed to make her headquarters in Astoria. After a long delay the McCullough put in an apearance and stayed two or thrfe days. The commanding offi cer aftei wards reported to Washing ton, so we were informed, that the price of coal was so high here that it was impossible to make Astoria headquarters, and the vessel was ac cordingly allowed to leave. As the price of coal was something over which the Chamber of Commerce had no control there was nothing further that could be done by this body and the Columbia river is still wiiliott a revenue cutter. During January and February the matter of establishing an independ ent steamship line from Astoria to San Frtncisco was taken up, especial ly for the purpose of enabling thi lumber mills of Astoria to again re sume operations on full time, th?t suggestion, in fact, coming from As toria lumbermen themselves. During the latter part of January the secre tary made a trip to San Francisco and took the matter up with vessel own ers there, with the result that after continued work, the Richardson steamship line was established, be ing the vessels of the Loop Lumber Company. The F. S. Loop, the R. D. Inman and the Johan Poulsen now make regular trips from San Fran cisco to Astoria about every seven days. The tariff sheet for this com pany is on file in this office and is probably well known to all shippers, with the result that the merchants have been saved to a very consider able extent in transportation charges. In all of these plans for cheaper transportation to San Francisco was the main idea that the vessels who brought freight up could do so cheap er if they were enabled to take lumber i back. This independent company de serves the fostering attention of all our merchants. In This connection it may be pointed out that the Hill railroad interests have announced that they would establish a steamship line from the Columbia river to Col umbia River to San Francisco. jSuch an action may have a most fa TIIE MORNING ASTOltlAN, ASTORIA OREGON. vorable bearing upon the Astoria trade situation. When this special sevice was established the Secretary called on Mr. Clark, the president, and Mr. Adams, general freight and passenger agent of the Astoria divis ion of the S. P. Si S. Railroad and asked if a common point rate would not be made on wheat to Astoria for shipment coastwise. The only ans wer received was an indefinite post ponement until after the bridge over the Columbia and the Willamette riv ers was constructed. Upon the oc casion of the visit to Astoria in Nov ember of James J. Hill, chairman of the executive boaid which controls this road, a memorial carefully pre pared by Chairman Kowlby of the Commerce and Navigation Commit tee and by the Secretary, was hand ed direct to Mr. Hill asking consid eration, being in accordance with the personal letter he had written to the Secretary previous to his arriving here in which he promised to look In to the matter. The announcement of this Hill steamship line may be taken as authoritative and official reply to the memorial in question so far as coastwise business in wheat is con cerned. .': On Wednesday the 8th of April a meeting was held in the Chamber be tweeen Chairman Dowlby of the transportation Committee, the Presi dent and the Secretary and C. B. Aitchison and Rate Clerk Miller of the State Railroad Commission for the nnmose of amicably pushing, if possible, the cause of the common point wheat rate over the A. & C. Railroad to Astoria. Although Mr. Aitchison saw the' officials of that oad personally several times he was never able to get any satisfaction out of them. Later the opinion of the State Railroad Commission was given us that we should proceed legally to make a formal complaint before the Interstate Commerce Commission. It is the opinion of at least one prominent attorney of this city that if we should find the money neces sary to pay for a persistent legal cam paign before the Interstate Commerce Commission we could secure the rate to this port on wheat so much desir ed and which would have been grat ed many years ago had the late Collis P. Huntington lived a few years long er. In March the Department of Com merce and Labor authorized additi onal range lights at the mouth of the Columbia River and off Tillamook Head to aid vessels seeking to enter the Columbia River by night. The Chamber of Commerce sought these aids at the suggestion of our local shipping interests for many months. On Thursday, April 9th. Captain Babbidge made his initial trip in the Steamer R. Miler to Cathlamet, 5ka mokawa and other points in which a number of the members of the Cham ber of Commerce participated, this being the initial trip of a new and imoortant local service, the mer chants agreed to patronize this line continuously and while it has not been a source of great profit to Lap tain Babbidge this organization can probably make it as valuable as pos sible under the circumstances ny giv inor it all their business. . Upon the request of the Roads and Highways Committee, an automobile road from Skipanon to Clatsop Beach was completed by the County Court early in the summer and it is now possible by keeping this road clear of sand for automobiles to use Clatsop Beach for a racing or pleasure course During the past year the good roads committee have done everyming in their power to further the completion of the eood road proposition from Portland, through St. Helens, Vesper and Jewell to this city. Our County Court is proceeding most satistactor- ily with this county's portion but so far nothmz has been done oy me Portland Automobile Club or coium hia Countv. This is one of the enter nrises that could be pushed through Airinir the coming year witn me proper and earnest co-operation of Columbia County and tne roruano Automobile Club. nr. L F. Hawley. organic chemist from the Forest Service of the Agri cultural Deoartment at Washington, arrived here in May at the request of this organization and atter several weeks experimenting made a report uoon the bi-oroducts that may be found in the stumps and trees of this locality. His report has been pub lished by this organization and sent to the various commercial ybodies throughout the Northwest and to the newspapers and periodicals, being in fact, the first and only authoritative knowledge on this subject ever furn ished by the federal government. During he last session of congress and during the present session, with the aid of Senator Fulton, a united effort has been made with other com mercial organizations in the North west to secure a dredge for the month of the river. Our agitation has been such that we believe it is Jikely we shall secure the dredge before the present session of Congress adjourns. A letter was also written to James J. Hill asking him to co-operate with us in securing the speedy and permanent imnrovement of the mouth of Ihe mouth of the river that would furnish a 40 foot channel. A memorial from this organization was sent to the Senate and to the House and Senator Fulton has writ ten saying he believes the dredge will be forthcoming. In this memorial it was shown through letter from our pilots that the dredge Chinook, while in service for the short term of sis weeks upon a former occasion deepened the channel fully four feet; and that the pilots themselves im provised a harrow dredge and within a few weeks deepened a channel about eiiht feet. AH of the congress men and senator from the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Cal ifornia and nearly all of the commer cial organizations of those states are assisting in the work of securing the it-edge, while the Oregonian has come out editorially In favor ot the proposition. In May the proposition of estab lishing a Mewmhip line to Alaska was taken up and an endeavor made to co-operate with Alankan and Port land parties to that end but it seemed impossible to accomplish this purpose without the raising of a large sum of cash money. This proposition had practically the same purpose and end as the one taken up in December 1907 with William It. Garland ot Portland. It U very certain from investiga ionsmade that there are products that could be brought from -Alaska to Astoria, among which might be mentioned coal, and that passengers, flour and groceries could be taken from this Port to Alaska with profit. The subject deserve further consid eration during the coining year. At the meeting of May 25th, F. I. Evans who had beeu in correpond ence for some time with the the Pro motion Committee first appeared be fore us to begin work in promoting the electric railway enterprise from here to Seaside and Tillamook. A local corporation has since been form ed which has completed the survey and is now securing right-of-way, Mr. E. Z, Ferguson is president of this corporation which is entitled the Oregon Coast Railway Company. At this May 25th meeting a measure for consideration at the next legislative assembly providing that counties may have a special tax for advertising and promotion work was first brought up for discussion and since that time this bill ha been placed in the hands of every member ot the legislature and a number of those who will be in the Salem law making body thi winter expressed themselves favorably upon It. This bill was taken before the Pacific Coast Admen's Convention held in Portland in May and there given fa vorable consideration. This Chamber ordered, prepared and submitted to the voters at the city election held December 9th, a bill providing for a special tax of ap proximately one and a half mills for the carrying on of the publicity and advertising work for the coming year, as the legislature could not in case it was so disposed, provide for a county tax for this purpose to be levied dur ing the coming year. This measure however was defeated by a decisive majority. On the 20th of May the United States battleshin fleet visited the mouth of the river according to ar rangements made by the Chamber of Commerce, and a special ship, the Roanoke, was chartered to take the citizens out across the bar and alto gether the occasion and event was a success. The Mayor declared a holt day and practically every man, wo man and child in the city were en abled to see the battleship fleet with out the expense of taking a long trip. In July this organization took up the matter of securing a better tele phone service and after failure to se cure satisfaction from the Pacilic lel eohone & Telegraph Co., through Mr. G. E. Waggoner, secured a franchise from the City Council for an auto matic telephone system, and after an attempt was made to raise sufficient local capital to finance the new sys tem, the old telephone company be gan making some changes and im provements such that the new com pany was not financed. It was shawn however, that the old company had about exausted the patience of the people of Astoria. During the month of July a con centrated effort on the part of the commercial exchanges of the Nort west was made to insure for Seattle the next annual convention of the National Lumber Manufacturers As sociation. These efforts were suc cessful and the next convention of this association will be held in Seattle next June. We asked all of the local lumbermen and others to write to the secretary of the National Associa tion calling attention to the fact that this part of Oregon is the largest soft wood producing section of the world and asking the members of the Na tional Association to visit Astoria on their route to Seattle next spring. This is a matter that will be pushed and it may be that the National As sociation will visit Astoria in June if we will continue to work intelli gently to that end. Throughout the year interest ha been taken in the Rivers and Harbors Congress and the Chamber ha for warded $25.00 to that organization as usual, while Mr. Samuel J',lmrr mat. an additional donation of $'() for that organization. In August the Good Roads Con voli tion was held in Portland and vr.n argely attended hy Astoria and Clat sop County citizens. Th SMtstry of this orjrafiiatK.n wat mad' Sec retary of the C'rft'crifiofl and a ti4 wide movement f'f n'A tmA was org!Uiifl with County Judge Scott i of Salem a state lecturer and slnoe that time he ha been lecturing throughout the state on behalf of the good roads movement which will soon be considered before the legis lature at Salem. In September the War Department was petitioned by this body to In crease the accompaniment id soldier at Ft. Stevens to five companies which is the number th lrt is cal culated to accommodate. ' In October several meetings were held to discus and if possible finance a Chautauqua program for till city, all other details having been complet ed, It wa piesumed that about (IU0.GQ would be necessary tor the pur pose but at there termed to be a lack of ncresary interest In the wib ject at the time nothing definite was done. The Chautauqua would he of great advantage to the county in many ways and would be a success even if it were taken hold 01 by par tie who could make It a private- bul nc entenriie. However, It seem difficult at this time to find just udi parties and to make It a public en terprise ha not so far been possi bility, In November a pennant to the new fih patrol boat "Astoria" was pre sented by thi organiitation, ,,ln November considerable interest was taken in an effort which thi or sanitation put forth to make head way in the clearing of land by lea- ing them for a long period of years to any one who would put them in state of cultivation. A letter ha been written to Norway on thi sub- and an advertisement started calling attention to the fact that logged-off land will be leased giving all pro duct raised for a term ot ten year to the man who would clear it. Altogether it will be seen that thi organisation has been a busy one dur- ins the past year. There lit teen t good quorum present at each of the 24 meetings held. I would like to offer thi tuggetion however before closing this annual report Take It and consider it and if t is good act upon It. It seems to me that this Chamber should be reorganised with board of directors of say nine members. I believe a great majority of onr busi ness men would prefer this mode. One' annual meeting of the full mem bership would, it seems to me, be sufficient and satisfactory witft the provision that a special meeting of the membership could be held at any time upon a petition to the president of say five members. Such a form of organization seems to be in con sonance with that of nearly all simi lar organizations everywhere. A live Chamber of Commerce Is an institution that can accomplish great good in any community while the amount of good it may accomplish lepend upon the support given it by the citizens. I am pleased to call at tention to the fact that the membership of bis orgsnization is now larger than it ever has been before in the Cham ber's history, there being 297 names on the rolls. I wish to thank the members and officers for their uniform courtesy to me throughout my term and most heartily express my wishes for the organization's future success and wel fare. Respectfully Submitted, W. T. SCHOLFIELD. President. January It, 1909. A Religious Author's Statement Vnr vrral vi-ar I wa afflicted with kidney trouble and last winter I w i,Hrtrnlv itrieken with a severe pain in my kidneys and was confined to bed eight days, unaDie to get op without assistance. My urine con tained a thick white sediment and I passed same frequently day and night I commenced taking Jroieys Kidney Remedy, and the pain grad ually hater! and finally ceased and my urine became normal. I cheer fully recommend Foley's Kidney Redemy. Owl Drug 5tore, T, V. Laurin, Prop. 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