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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1909)
SUNDAY, MARCH 28. 1909. HE BELIEVES IH1 DIRT ROAD Jig j ,-IVOutfittcrs THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. 1 Mm UL SALE and (Wednesday F 1 MADE in tlie Window 3.QO SUITS INTERESTING TESTIMONY AS TO WHAT CAN BE DONE WITHOUT ROCK. JAR, BAY, DOCK AND RIVER .st thing in a marine . yesterday, was the the river at 4:45 o'clock vening, of the new and passenger liner H. B. , just built by the Willamette Vorks for Fuget Sound people, . en route to Seattle. An account the vessel appeared in these columns early last week. She is a line craft, with capacity for 1000 passengers on this; Marine Engineer F. H. Coodell, of this city, who has been busy lately setting op the engines of the new Cat lender tag boat Myrtle, has accepted a call to the service of Captain Kerns, of the ouarry-jetty towboat Samson, and will report for duty there on Monday. He does not know yet in just what capacity, whether chief or assistant, but he has been directed to bring a couple of oilers and a brace of firemen with him. if Ha mn. and is to be used summer as a regular boat between! he can get them, hence the snpposi- Bremerton and the Sound metropolis. She is valued at $200,000 and looks to be worth it The Kennedy js a 20-mile boat, and while she did notj make it on her mn to this port, she came down in six hours, and is ex pected to do the limit, daily and hour ly, once she begins her service over there. She went direct to the Standard Oil dock here for more fuel evidently having emptied her star board fuel tanks on the way down, as she had a sharp list to port when the reached this city. Captain Blaine and a few friends who are making the trip with him, made a call or two in the city while the steamer was tak ing on oil, and then he boarded her and went below, with the purpose of crossing out on the evening flood, and in the hope of making the run to Flattery by daylight She is ele gantly furnished with fixed furniture handsomely mounted in dark green leather, easy chairs, lounges, settees; with superb carpets and rugs, and plate glass at all points. - She his a butifnl music room and an elegant ladies' cabin quite exclu sive from invasion by the coarser herd; and a smoking room, done up in polished oak and red plush, that is a marvel of comfort and beauty. She is surely a "cracker-jack" for speed, comfort and elegance, and with the right kind of officers, should be come very popular,- The Kennedy did not get out last night but returned and docked at the Callender until this morning. .- """" ' Last evening Operator "Fuzzy" Ferland, of the United Wireless sta tion on Smith's Point picked up the new revenue cutter Snohomish at a point 100 miles south of Tatoosh Island. This is one of the new ves sels in that service ordered for duty on Puget Sound, and she is bound for Port Townser.d- She left Norfolk, Vireina, on the 10th of December last, which makes her 108 days out on her vovaee around the Horn. All were well on board and she was mak ing excellent time, in a fair sea. tion is reasonable that the Kern fleet will be at work "pretty pronto," on the jetty service. The steamer Alliance will leave the Callender dock at 6 o'clock this morning, for Coos Bay points, and will go with plenty of business, as usuaL The steamer Lurline came down in good season yesterday and was busy all the way down. She took away with her last evening, the following named people: W. S. Hughes, Dr. F- Morrison and N. Harris. There are a goodly number who contend that the natural dirt roads in Clatsop county may be made very servieable, and the expense of rock ing roads is not always ncessary. Some say that the natural roads have never even been given a real trial in this county; that is, dirt roads of the kind that should be built, with high rounding crowns and a perfect drain age. Judge Bowlby is a firm believer in the dirt roads if built properly, and yesterday he brought a clipping into this o.hce from a newspaper in Wash ington county, as follows: "The soil of this part of Oregon is a decomposed balsaltic rock, which when wet and mixed by travel and smoothed and mixed, again smooth ed and dried forms a cement and when rounded up so the water can not stand on it and so treated will make a roadbed nearly as hard as a solid rock. Unfortunately we have rock in this end of the county and the feeble and spasmodic efforts to make rock roads i have been the ruin of our roads. In the first place their basaltic rock is very little of it hard enough for road making. In a very short time it grinds up into mud and the road is a succession of chuck holes and ruts. Next place the county isn't able to macadamize all of her roads and then keep them in repair. Multnomah with an abundance of money and 6X1 or 70 prisoners to help and rock and gravel may do it but not Washing ton with its large area and scant supply of poor rock. "It isn't fair to compare Oregon roads with those of England, Scot land or Germany; for when Oregon has been settled as long and becomes as densely populated as those coun tries she will very likely have just as good roads. Meanwhile let us make the best of the material at hand. Grub out the roots, throw up a good even grade, not so wide than it cannot be kept rounding, put in culverts where the water must cross the roads water, then keep the roadbed smooth and The steamer Daisy Mitchell was among the arrivals down stream yes- . . . , . f . wikis nit waicr iuu?i truss uu terdav morning, lumber laden for the . ., . , . ,. Bay City. She'stopped at the Callen- "" der for a short while and then went ,. r ... .. . . " , u.t u.j v .4,ronlln8 with the log drag. Eternal out at a late hour. ifj?"" !? !l? ?'" of a f?d- ! i wan mi mere are mua noies . ... , 'before starting the drag, but smooth The steamer Northland was among ,vm t- it . . the early getaways from this port ,Anv tnn ,. . , ... . yesterday morning, leaving out at an dng be fi,led by ,he scraper early hour. .L . directions ar (nlUvirA ami nn 'place left on the road for the water The steamer South Bay is due to , s,an(i aml then ;.,, arrive here today from San Fran-j wagons and yoa wilj find youf foad CISCO. ofitUntr Hrtr cucrv vr mA wouldn't trade it for any rock road The steamer Eureka is among the ev" buiU in Q"g"" coasters due in here today, from the i port of that name. ! Notice to Mariners. i Notice is hereby given that Outside The steamer Argo was due in from Bar Bell Buoy, Humboldt Bay En- Tillamook last evening, but had not 'ranee was reported capsized this shown up at 8 o'clock. She is likely morning. It will be replaced as soon to enter this morning. , practicable. John McNulty, nauti- ,cal expert The steamship Rose City got away : shortly after daylight yesterday morning, with plenty of business for the Bay City. I The steamer Wellesley was among the outward bound fleet yesterday, going to San Francisco with a big Iload of lumber. CASTOR I A for Infants and Children, ! ta Kind Yoa Have Always IzztX boat th Slfcuntura frWtilHfMHttMIMHMMMHtMtMMH4IMWMHMmtWtWmH Department Store. Ninth and Commer'l A Few More Thing's Added to Our New Line of Dry Goods The latest thing in veiling per yd. 15c and up Lisle Gloves 25 and 50coair Fancy Toweling 10to50cyd Colored Indian Head Linens 20c yard Silk Gloves 50c to 1.25 pair Ginghams - 8 and 15c yd. Galatea Cloth - 18c yard Pongee Suitings - 10c yard Colored Linen Suitings 50c the yard The above are fouAd in our Dry Goods Department, Visit our Kitchen ware and China Department Trade at the store that puts the right price on goods and save receipt checks they are worth money. is what you use when you purchase a 'Kfcr jf)(i- -as. :v;.-' A'm i yum I ' 'a, -a .'..4. H 1 ) f IF 12 11 You don't find any other clothes with quite the style and finish and smart ness of fashion You must no fail to see the new goods just in. W TO HO 1.00 H.rt Vlunnti l Mus You can get WALKOVER SHOES $3.50 and $4.00 1! Home of H. S. & M. CLOTHES Home of H. S. & 11 CLOTHES 3Qk NEW LINE TO THE PACIFIC CHICAGO. HI., March 27.-The latter part of the coming week, if present arrangements are carried out, the ceremony of driving a golden spike will take place a few miles from Missoula, Montana, to mark the com pletion of the Tacific coast extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St- Paul railroad. The new line is the latest of the transcontinental roads to be built and will afford another through route between Chicago and Seattle. One hundred millions of dollars is the estimated cost of the road. The total length of the extension from the Missouri river to the coast is 1400 miles, and by the time it is opened the total mileage of the St. Paul system will have reached 9000 miles. The construction of the ex tension to the coast has occupied only three years, which is something of a record for quick work in railroad building. The completion of the $1,000,000 bridge across the Columbia River is alone a great engineering undertak ing. Altogether the construction of the road required the building of more than twenty miles of perman ent bridges. ' The new road crosses the Missouri River about 100 miles due west of Aberdeen, S. D., and then parallels the State line through the Standing Rock Indian reservation and swings into North Dakato, touching several towns on the Little Missouri River, I Thence it proceeds to Terry, Mont-, 1 on the Yellowstone River, following ; this stream to Miles City, where large ' division terminals are being built. At Lombard the new line crosses the Northern Pacific and them climbs the great continental divide between Piedmont on the eastern side of the Rockies and the city of Butte on the west. At an elevation of 6350 feet the road pierces the mountains at the head of Pipestone pass. The sum mit work includes two tunnels res pectively 2268 and 1148 feet in length and three steel trestles over ravines from 100 to 160 feet deep and from 40Q to 600 feet wide From Butte the road passes by way of the broad and fertile Deer Lodge . valley to Garrison and Missoula, ! Mont., and at llanagan will begin the long climb over the Bitter Root mountain ranae. At the summit it, passes through the famous Taft tu nel of 8751 feet, and after crossi the St. Paul nass at an rlevatio A , er r l . . . , i- if t- -JS tiwj icei, passes inrougn inc 'aYgj Cocur d'Alone district. They . stretch of the road passes tjr 8 the virgin timber lands of ,''V IIM1V t (IM III lilt V(.tl,(Hlt IV ty ... ... .i i :Joi Se aim un ij inc pijput'nis u attle and 1 acoma. TRIP NOT PANGEROUS Another Of The Variety 01 Opinions About Africa. SAN FRANCISCO, March 27. Theodore Roosevelt will have the easiest and safest experience of his life on his African hunting trip, says John R. Farrell, chief engineer of the Tanganyika Mining concession in Africa, who has returned to his home here on the steamer San Juan. Mr. Farrell has been twice over the route that the ex President and his party are to travel In search of big gam and he states that the course is ph tically free from dangers and dilEul-' tie that are commonly supposed to beset the vay. "Roosevelt will probably get some very good burning" said Mr. Farrell,, " but he will nov get much else in the way of excitement" Farrell added thtt the district was practically free from malaria and other tropical diseases. Th climate, however, is trying to the nerves, he said. SEEK AMENDMENT ...WASHINGTON, March 27.-L. Munoa Rivera, Eugenlo Benetei and Gay Cm hi, members of the lower houje of the Porto Rican Legislature, who are in Washington to urge Con gress to amend Foraker Act in which the Insular government was created, have arranged for s conference early next week with President Taft, Speak er Cannon and Vice-President Sherman. 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