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THE MORNING ASTORI AN, ASTORIA, OREGON. SUNDAY, MAY 9, 1909. HIT DAY NEW YORK'S GREAT 116 DAY I fern s. in cw. '.- i Established KS73. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELL1NGER CO. La MILLIONS SPENT EACH YEAR BY 250,000 MOVING FAMILIES FOR EXPRESSMAN.. p 9 1 il fa 11 8161 Mil SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per yew $7.00 By carrier, per month ,, 60 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance $1.50 Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, at the postoffict at As toria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 5, 1879. Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either resi dence or place of business may be made by postal card or through tele phone. Any irregularity in delivery should be immediately reported to the office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. THE WEATHER Oregon and Washington Showers in west portion, increasing in cloudi ness. Idaho Probably fair. THE LAW OF RECESSION. The law of recession is as immut able and the law of progress. They operate separately, and yet together, alternately, and absolutely, one against the other, in obedience to the varying causes that lie beneath and behind thera. One supervenes for awhile and is displaced by the effect of the ofher, though happily for all mankind, the law of progress takes precedence and holds the higher sway and yields the influence of profounder value. The working of these two great, organic agencies is best illustrated in the growth of cities. They advance and recede alternately through th years, according to the impulses that control thera. Take Portland, for m stance and it will be seen that a place of even extraordinary wealth and in fluence may not really govern its own destiny at will. After a period of hot and reckless real estate agitation, in which the last limits of hypothetical and groundless policy have been em ployed to boom her, she is on the wane and the most desperate adver tising cannot stave off the re-actton. She has used the uttermost trick of a flamboyant trade to build herself op and has attained to the end, which Is always fixed by the laws of supply and demand, and she is wrestling mightily and vainly for a continuance of the market that has failed in obed ience 'to the fiat and logic of that end. The speculator has bought of her dis tant and valueless lots not as bargains but on the gamble incident to the quick and ready sub-sale, and the sub sale failing, he has refused to go - further, and holds his risks subject to the chance of selling later, if possible; the home-seeker has bought, and is . up against the denial of the shark that sold him to make good on the flatter ing promises that induced the buy. and the home in the remote suburb is still unbuilt; and it is likely to re main unbuilt so long as the salary-and-income-eating range of taxation to which that municipality is subject shall continue in force with the cer tainty of counteracting every dollar of profit on the investments. Port land has taxed herself into a state of partial paralysis. The only activity in the realty market at Portland is found in the great negotiations for commercial holdings in the heart of the city, and these are not born of any boom but are the incidental expressions of the natural normal growth of the city and the fierce demands of local competi tion. These things occur in every big community, without reference to sea son or extraneous impulse. The re cession is on there, and it is quite as palpable as the empty boom that preceded it. The sham of it has be come manifest and no amount of glit tering advertisements will revive it, no office display and hot air will in flate the punctured Portland boom. It is off. The vast accession of taxes and the certainty of more to come, have much to do with the collapse; it is inevit able that the recession should follow the realization of the tremendous burdens put upon them by the men in authority there. Their own great paper warned them vividly and vitally of the collapse when it waged hot war. on the tax levies that meant nothing short of confiscation; but the warning was ignored and the crash was not forestalled. It is there, and will re main there, until the normal poise of the community shall be regained. This is one of the impulses that make for the backward movements of great cities; and they, cannot be disguised nor disregarded forever; man is not clever enough to disarm the larger and fateful agencies that work these : revulsions, and certainly Portland is , not strong enough to resist or qualify i them. And her impotence in this r direction is to have another raw illu , stration in the defeat that awaits her in her venemous and vicious fight against this seaport in the matter of i the common point rate on grain be fore the" Interstate Commerce Com mission in the near future. Even a city may make a beast of itself, and the "Portland hog" is of the beastliest persuasion we have ever been up against, but we fear it no longer. ture in the city of Portland by well established families in this city of Astoria. This upon the statement of people who know whereof they speak. There is something very disloyal in this. Even if this market did not afford the exact lines desired (and they must have been of a peculiarly odd nature) at least the home mer chant could have been commissioned to make the purchase after the selec tions had been made. It is not a ques tion of prices, either, that lies beneath this action; it is a wilful perversion of the policy of dealing at home for those things that can be obtained near at hand in a more fashionable mart, a market where swells are supposed to buy, and for the reflected credit (God save the mark), of buying where the top-notchers buy, even though we do not pay the prices not buy the same range of articles they do. Aside from any hypothetical rea; i sons for the wrong to the home mer chant, there is the plain and significant j disloyalty of buying away from the home market and contributing dollars to the crippling of the home dealer. NEW YORK, May 4.-Instead of a festival to be celebrated by dancing round a beribboncd Maypole, the first of May has come to be the most dreaded date on the calendar to large proportion of New Yorkers be cause it is the annual moving day when from a quarter to a third of the city's population changes its abode. Re turns from real estate and rental statistics show that not less than 1, 250,000 persons seek new places of residence in aiiis annual culmination of the restlessness which so pervades the city that nearly one-third of its population moves once a year or of tener. Out of all New York's mil lions there are hardly a thousand families that have occupied the same house for twenty-five years. About the only thing permanent in New York's residence habits indeed is the steadily-growing tide flowing to the suburbs. How greatly the "back to the country" movement has grown was instanced recently when at Pel hamwood. a newly opened Westchest er residence park, nearly a quarter oi a million dollars worth of lots were sold in a single day to people who had decided to quit paying rent in New York. But, fast as thousand may leave the city, there are other Every man is supposed to have the . thousands to take their places and the interest of his home place at heart if expressmen and the moving-van com ne is any son oi a gooa citizen at an. He cannot expect his fellows to pros per by his deals abroad, nor can he hope to share the prosperity he is building somewhere else. What is needed in this man's town is a move ment to counteract this disloyal ten panics continue to reap their semi annual reward estimated at $7,000,000 for the single month of May. During that busy period it costs about three times as much to move as in mid summer. The other great semi-an- YOUR CHOICE OP ANY SUIT IN THE STORE FOR dency and to build up a sentiment nual heigra occurs at the beginning that shall have Astoria for its objec-jthe beginning of October when the tive at all times, to make it first, and j moving van barons become once foremost in the business world, and i more malefactors of great wealth to do our simple duty by the men,n, ,1,. , ft,,;, .,. around us who have placed their all I ; on h rfd on the venture of this city's advance-1 . . . . , , . ... ment nH ,rif A ,a just about on a level with honest soirit of lovaltv .t hr h,.ilt , n o( r05es for Christmas or up here and followed sincerely to its j vio,ets for Easter. One curious re best ends. It is bad enough that of the city s perennial restiessnr Astoria has to do her wholesaling at , is the rapid disappearance of the old San Francisco, rather than at Port-: fashioned house cleanine period- Na land, but Portland has compelled the 'tenant expects to move into quarteri discrimination oy ner persistent.! coarse and shameless attitude toward Born there, June 20. 1673. and treatment of Astoria, and the i 1763 Pontiac attacked the fort at present venemous work she is doing , Detroit to defeat us m the greatest commer-! 1795 The first copyright under the cial movement we have ever made. : United States law, was granted to But it is not of Portland only we are I William Patten, of Newport, R. I. writing; the principle of loyalty and 1 1804 The "Richmond Inquirer" aisioyaity involved, covers all other i appeared at Richmond. Va. centers we may deal with, as against I 1810 John Brougham. famous the true and safe policy of always : actor, born in Dublin. Died in New doing our first and best for the home ! York. Tune 7. 1880 city, before turning elsewhere. Every j 1829 Transylvania .University. uouar spent away lrom here is a loss 1 Kentucky, destroyed by tire at nome. WING SHOTS. For the sake of common decency, if you must spend your money away from home, don't spend it in Portland where the harshest of adverse spirit dwells always against this city. Don't feed the meanest of our enemies with the best of our dollars. That is treach ery to home interest, sure enough ! 1864 Battle of Spottsylvania Court House continued. j 1885 Gen. Middleton attacked and captured Batoche, a rebel stronghold on the Saskatchewan river. The death of young Johnson on the A. & C. bears a profound lesson to every young son in Oregon, and to vhe parents who train young sons, as well. It pays to be a good boy, and it pays to be a careful' and fairly severe father and mother. "THIS DATE IN HISTORY." 1502 Columbus sailed on his fourth voyage to the New World. 1690 The Port Royal expedition sailed from Boston. 17 Sir John Dalrymple, famous has been made a privy councillor and British diplomat, died in Edinburgh, director of the Berlin art acedemy. "THIS IS MY 66TH BIRTHDAY." Anton V. Werner, one of the most noted German painters of the pres ent day, was born May 9, 1843, at Frankfort-onthe-Oder. His art studies was conducted in Berlin. Paris and other European centers. In recent years he has devoted him self principally to historical painting, and the famous galleries of Berlin contain a number of his pictures illus trating important events in the hist ory of Germany. Mr. Werner is the painter of the Hohenzollern family. Many other honors have come to him, including honorary membership in the art academics of Berlin, Mun ich, Dresden, Venice, Rome, Copen hagen and Antwerp. In addition he HOME PATRIOTISM. Within the past 10 days there has leen practically $5000 spent for furni- 4. i J eom ma in- All j-arments bought at Jaloffs closing out sale and now being al tered, Must be tatten out not later than Weduesday, May the 12th at 3 p. m after which time we will not be responsible for any un redeemed garments. FOR THREE DAYS ONLY DAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY All Thisf Season's Stock of Best Makes of Clothes THE WOMINGMENS STOKE CHAS. LARSBN, Prop. which are not in good condition and they are now only 6000 "Chinks" in! One fact which has caused the keepers as a result the janitors and caretakeu the district which harbored twice that I some anxiety is that while , the male instead of the housewives now raise number two years ago. Of the 300 J white swans share with the females the annual dust. This, of course. add American women in this city who are j the task of keeping warm the eggs to the expense of Moving Day which the wives of Chinamen, only about 'the male black swan refuses a similar in various ways now takes about $25. IXX1.000 each year out oi the pockets of the movers. There is a practically unknown actor in New York who has appeare.l before more people in the past te,i years than any stage favorite who even trod the boards, and yet, in that time, has not uttered a single line or faced any audience except a camen. He was one of the first men to make specialty of posing for moving pict ures, a line of work which now, with the rapid spread of this form of enter tainment, affords steady employment foj hundreds of persons. Another peculiarity of this "dummy" actor's career is that although he never takes a drink he has appeared before millions of persons in an inebriated condition. One of the favorite weap ons employed in anti-saloon crusades in recent years has been the moving picture entertainment which always draws a crowd and at the same time can be used to influence spectators by showing exhibitions of brutality due to the supposed influence of John sixty still live in Chinatown. The efflux began with the long riots two years ago. Peaceful Chinamen be came frightened at the frequency with which pistol bullets pattered through the narrow streets at night and they began moving to other cities. The shooting incidents resulted in a flood of policemen and detectives bciiit? sent into the district and the constant police espionage of the past year and a half has grown irksome to the cel estials. Then came the proposal to turn the district into a public park. Landlords, anticipating high 'prices for their property, immediately put up their rents, and after the project fell through, rents staved no. This also contributed to the exodus, for th Chinaman is nothing if not frugal. Many of the Chinese are fleeing across the big bridge to Williamsburg where a new Chinatown is growing. But it will have little of the pictures qttences of the old district with its odd, dark alleys and narrow, crooked streets. The Italians will swarm in and fill the tenements left vacant by the retiring Chinese, who many years assistance to his mate. She is being J --i.-i.Ji. i j ijiiLx wem closely watched, however, to that if sho shows any tendency to neglect her duty artificial meant may be im mediately adopted to insure the hatching of the mon valunble eg on record. THE TRENTON I First-Class Liquors and Cigars ' M2 CommtrcU! Street Corner Commercial and 14th. . ASTORIA, OREOON T JALOFFs THE STYLE STORE X RnriWrnrn With th nntn-rfaM perance agitator this device takes the ,,,,,vc ",B V"i "'" place of the "horrible example" who used to be exhibited in person on the nlntfnrm Ttiic narfinilnr linrrihtp example has led a regular Jekyle and has b" sct hcreand with on Hyde existence for while he was sit ing quietly at home with his wife and children he was at the same time be- ng portrayed on dozens of screens as reeling brute engaged in beating his family nr rntihifiCT ttim nf fnnH to gratify his imaginary appetite for thf fact that, hcy are 'hc drink. Most of those who saw these of a b,ack swan wl,,ch are a,most as srrn AonooA lv,M ,wr r,n1- 8farcc a hens Various offers ... nf t 1 (in it'iiri (nr tVi tUrn nmre tiriv isted that the chief actor was anything r eR . ncrn receive! . nm rni narie nmnoriT- ' to be. This business of camera faking ,cs havc rL'fu,ctl ,hcm a"' B,ac to meet any required purpose has swans are. worth from ?300 t0 $50,) been developed to such a noint bv i each' aml " has aor,ll"K'y been dc- cinco to ict rars, swan set on tne fcggs at stifiKj a dozen is rather a high price, even for New York. Nevertheless that is the record which a quarter of a dozen of the expensive eggs available at that. The eggs, however, are not the product of the great American hen, but of the swan which makes its home in one of the lakes of Central Park. Their value Sherman Transier Co. HENRY SHERMAN, Maimer. Hacks, Carriage.-Baggage Checked and Transferred -Tmclct art Kuratta. Wagont Pianot Moved, Boxed and Shipped. 4SI Commercial Street . Utia Pf-imr ii FINANCIAL. First National Bank of Astoria . DIRECTORS Jacob Kamm W. F. McGregor G. C. Flavki J. W. Ladd S. S. Gordon Capital $100,000 Surplus v 25,000 Stockholders' Liability ...... 100,000 KHTAltLIHIIKI) 18H0, developed to such a point certain dealers in moving picture views that they can turn out anything from a nursery scene to a battle be tween opposing armies on a few hours notice. Chinatown, that mazy tangle of yellow mysteries which has long been one of the principal attractions for Xcw York's visitors, bids fair to dis appear in a few years, to the regret and loss of the opreators of "rubber neck" wagons. According to Paddy R-thcrty, "Mayor" of the Bowery, eggs in the hope of some ebonv cygnets. Accordingly for more than five weeks there will be anxious wait ing, since there is no means of pre dicting whether or not the birds hatched from the valuable eggs will be black. If they are not the specula tion in eggs on the part of the park ! authorities will be worthless since $25 a pair is a fair price for young swans of the ordinary kind. If one egg pro duces a black swan the speculation will break even, while any further success will show a handsome profit. SCANDINAVIAN-A AER I CAN SAVINGS BANK ASTORIA, OREGON OUR MOTTO: "Safety Supercedes All Other Consideration" J. 3. A. BOWLBY, President O. I. PETERSON, Vice-President J. W. GARNER. Atsittant Cashier FRANK PATTON, Cashier ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK CAPITAL AND SURPLUS - $9A9.ilftH Tansacta a General Banking Business Interest Paid on Time Deootlts. SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS. "Pi. Four Per Cent. Per Annum Eleventh and Duane Sts. - . . . . Astoria, Oregon