SUNDAY, MAY 16, m.
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THE MORNING ABTORIAN, ASTORIA. OREGON.
CLDEST VICE PRESIDENT
IS LEV! P. MORTON
FOUR OTHER VICE-PRESI-DENTS
ALIVE BUT NOT AS
' OLD AS MORTON.
NEW YORK, May 15. Still fresh
ami vigorous in mind and sound in
hoij, Levi P. Morton, the oldest
living ex-Vice President of the
United States, will celebrate his
eighty-fifth birthday anniversary to-
bwittow. Beside Mr. Morton there
are now living only three other men
who bare held the position of Vice
President of the United States.
Adlai E- Stevenson, Theodore Roose
velt and Charles W. Fairbanks. Not
tdy is Mr. Morton by far the oldest
anons his surviving colleagues, but.
with one exception, he has already at
tained a greater age than any other
former Vice President The only ex
ception was John Adams, the first
Yk President of the United States,
who died in 1836 at the ripe age of 90
3feara .
While Mr. Stevenson has reached
the age of seventy-four, the other two
arming colleagues of Mr. Morton
arc- still comparatively young men,
Mr. Roosevelt being SI, Mr. Fair
banks 57 years old. Of his predeces
sors who have joined the silent army
nly John Adams lived to be older
than Mr. Morton is now. Thomas
Jefferson died at the age of 83. Han
nibal Hamlin at the age of 81 and
Aaron Burr at the age of 80. The
latter holds the record in one respect,
nowever, among "the deceased former
Vice Presidents; he survived the end
ef his term of office by thirty-one
Tears, a longer period than shows the
record of any other deceased former
Bolder of that office. Mr. Morton
will have to live until he is 100 years
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old to surpass Burr's record.
Levi P. Morton is a New Englander
and the descendant of a family of
clergymen. It may be due to a srat
extent to that fact that he has retained
his health and vitality to such a re
markable degree. His family was
founded in America by the Rev.
George Morton, one of the conspicu
ous members of the Pilgrim colony
of England. He was the financial
agent of the Pilgrims and raised and
conserved the funds which fitted out
the expedition on the Mayflower, al
though he was not a passenger on
the initial voyage. He arrived in
America in 1623.
Levi P. Morton may have inherited
his taste for finance from that treasur
er of the Tilgrim band. His father
was a Congregational clergyman. Rev.
Daniel O. Morton, still remembered
t'in Winchendon, Mass., and in Shore-
ham. Vt The father of Levi P.
Morton lived in Shoreham when his
son was born. May 16. 1824. Before
the boy had obtained his meager
education the minister removed to
Winchendon. There the future vice
president was wont on Sunday morn
ings to ring the bell to summon his
father's congregation to service, and
he also acted as sexton of the edifice.
In that church there is now a memor
ial window given by Levi P. Morton
to commemorate the services of his
father.
When, at the age of sixteen years,
he saw no hope of realizing his ambi
tion to go to Dartmouth college, Levi
P. Morton entered a country store at
Enfield. Mass., where he worked until
he had enough to start a modest
establishment of his own, at Han
over, N H. In 1849, at the age of
twenty five he came to Boston and
became a partner in a small dry
goods house. Five years later he
went to New York, where he joined
a dry goods firm. i
He failed a few years before the
outbreak of the civil war. but im
mediately started a banking business,
appreciating that the rebellion would
mean a great demand for financiers
to handle the government loans. Mr.
Morton founded the banking house of
Morton, Bliss & Co. in New York and
Morton, Rose & Co, in London and
dealt largely in government bonds.
Just before the close of the war,
when he had accumulated a fortune.
Mr. Morton gave a dinner to the
creditors of his former dry goods
firm. Every one found under his
plate a check for the amount still ow
ing to him with interest. Mr. Mor
ton's first essay in politics was in 1878
when he was elected to Congress
from a New York district. He might
have been President if his loyalty to
the wishes of Senator Roscoe Conk
ling had not made him refuse the
nomination for vice president on the
ticket headed by James A. Garfield
in 1880.
President Garfield made him Min
ister to France in 1881 and Mr. Mor
ton made a fine record. He was elect
ed vice president in 1883 on the ticket
with President Harrison, but was not
renominated with the President in
1892. In 1894 he was made Governor
of New York. Since his retirement
from the governorship in 1896 Mr-M-orton
devoted himself to the direc
tion of his large financial interests
and to extensive travels abroad.
While in this country he spends most
of his time in New York or Washington.
LOVE FINDS A WAY.
NEW HAVEN. Conn., May 14
A wireless dwpatch was received here
by Francis S. Pat"- of Brooklyn, ?.
senior in the SlK-ffk-ld Scientific
school, saying that a classmate,
Thomas H. Prosser, of Brooklyn, had
hidden in a closet on bard the
steamer Hamburg last Tuesday when
it sailed and had accompanied his
finance, Miss Gertrude Willetts of
Roseland, L. I., to Europe. Miss
Willett's father, Samuel Willetts, a
retired merchant is with her. Pros
ser asked Page to announce his en
gagement to Miss Willetts and also
the fact that he would not be back
for commencement.
Jakn Fox, Pres. F. L. Bishop, Sec. Astoria Savings B. Trcnj
Nelson Trover, Vice-Prei. sad Supt
ASTORIA IRON WORK
DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
OF THE LATEST IMPROVED . .
Canning-Machinery, Marine Engines and filers
' ' COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFITS FURNISHED.
CwtTMpondence Solicited. - Foot of Foarth Btrtat.
PRESIDENT TAFT WILL
VISIT THE SOUTH
WILL LEAVE NEXT TUESDAY
ON HIS FIRST TRIP SINCE
HE WAS INAUGURATED
WASHINGTON. D. C. May 15-
President Taft will leave Washington
Tuesday night on his first trip to the
South since his inauguration. At
Petersburg, Vs.. Wednesday, he will
be present at the unveiling of a fine
monument at Fort Mahone to the
Pennsylvania troops who fell in the
fights during the famous siege of Gen.
Grant. From Petersburg the Presi
dent will go to Charlotte, N. C, to
attend the celebration there of the
anniversary of the signing of the
Mecklenburg declaration of inde
pendence. The fifteenth annual meeting of the
Lake Mohonk Conference on Inter
national Arbitration will assemble at
the Adirondacks resort Wednesday
and continue in session three days.
Prominent among the participants
will be Gov. Ansel of South Carolina,
ex-Gov. Montague of Virginia, Presi
dent Faunce of Brown University,
the British, German and Braiilian
ambassadors, and the diplomatic rep
resentatives of several of the repub
lics of South and Central America.
If the conditions are favorable th-:
Government tests of aeroplans and
other flying machines will be resum
ed during the week at Fort Myer.
The. tests will continue a month or
longer and will include demonstra
tions of the Wright aeroplane, the
Berliner type of helicoptic flying ma
chine and several other varieties of
the so-called heavier-than-air ma
chines. The taking of testimony on behalf
of the defense in the Government's
suit against the so-called powdr
trust is scheduled to begin in the
United States court at Wilmington.
Del-, Monday. On the same day the
case of H. Clay Pierce, under indict
ment in Texas on the charge of fahe
swearing in the suit to oust the
Waters-Pierce Oil Company from
that State, will be called at Austin,
but it is understood that the trial will
be postponed until fall.
The election of a new Assembly in
the Republic of Columbia, which is to
be held next Thursday is of some in
terest to the people of the United
States, owing to the efforts of Presi
dent Reyes and his Government to
have elected an Assembly favorable
to the convention recently concluded
between Columbia and the United
States, which must be ratified by the
Assembly before it can come ino
force.
' The annual Presbyterian general
assembly will be the important
gathering of the week. The Northern
Presbyterians will meet at Denver
and the Southern Presbyterians at
Savannah, beginning their sessions
imuhaneausly Thursday morning.
President Taft and the British am
bassador, Mr. Bryce, will be thi
principal speakers at the national
conference on city planning, which
will assemble in Washington Friday
for a session of two days.
the welcome of the visitors, the an
nual reports of officers, appointment
of committees and other business.
The sessions will be continued an !
concluded 'tomorrow. Business an J
pleasure are combined in the pro
gramme. Included among the feat
ures of entertainment wiU be a.i
automobile ride to Port Arthur, ag
excursion on the Nechcs river and a
grand ball tomorrqw night
RETIREMENT OF GEN. KERR.
WASHINGTON, D, C. May 1S.
Brig. Gen. John B. Kerr, one of thi.
best known officers of the army, was
retired for age today. Gen Kerr la
from Kentucky and was graduated
trom the West Point academy in 1873
Most of his service wa in the cavalry
army and he commanded the 12th
Cavalry for five years. He was
awarded a medal of honor for distin
guished bravery in action against
Sioux Indians on the White river,
D. S., in January, 1891. Until recent
ly he was in command of the Mount
ed Service School at Fort Riley, Kansas.
RISE O FA SOUBRETTE.
CINClNNATlTa, May 14,-Mn.
Uriet, wife of Leopold Markret. May
of of Cincinnati, expests til, return to
the stage. aftrr an absence of almost 20
years. Not bnly does she hope to
return to her old art, but It I her
ambition to star in a play of her ow,i
composition. Before her marriage to
Col. Markbrlet she was Bertha Fie
bach, She began her career as a
souhrctte and later achieved success
in emotional roles. She retired from
the stage on her marriage.
HOT ON HIS TRAIL
MANILA, May 14-Captain
Rhodes, commanding two troops of
the Sixth Cavalry struck a portion of
the band of outlaws headed by Jikiri
inear Bamno last Wednesday, and
in a fight that followed, five of the na
tives were killed. One of these was
Jamnang, noted as a trusted lieuten
ant of Jikiri.
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NEW CAPTAIN AT NAVY YARD.
NEW YORK. May 15.-Captain J
B. Murdock, who commanded the
battleship Rhode Island in the cruise
around the world, took command of
the New York Navy Yard today, re
lieving Rear Admiral Goodrich, who
has been assigned to special duty as
general inspector of all the navy
yards. The transfer of the command
of the navy yard was accompanied by
the usual ceremonies.
ine new commamiant, who was
born in Hartford, Conn., in 1851
graduated from the Naval Academy
m 1870- During his career of nearl''
forty years in the navy he has seen
duty in all parts of the world, was
engaged in the coast survey service
for four years and has been an in
structor at the Annapolis academy
and at the Naval War College. Dur
ing the war with Spain he served as
eecutive officer on the cruiser Panther.
FOR THE POOR KIDDIES.
CHICAGO, May, !4.-To make the
Klnsie school building the recreation
center for a thousand children from
the congested district about it is the
plan of Miss Asele IV Reynolds, prin
cipal ftf the school. In order to do
this. Miss Reynolds, will serve with
out pay. Otto Schneider president of
the school board laid before 'the
school management committee
communication which he had receiv
ed from, Reynolds. The committee
thought so well of the plan that Miss
Reynolds request was granted.
FAMOUS VESSEL ARRIVES
NEW YORK, May 14-With a
cargo of salmon, wine and scrap iron
the big brig Aryan, the last of the
great wooden square vessels to built
in America arrived here from San
Francisco late yesterday having taken
2S days for the voyage. On the deck
of the Aryan, which was built in
Bath, Me- in 1893 was a pole of Ore
gon pine 90 feet long which is to be
come a flagpole on a municipal build
ing in Maine.
Whooping Cough,
"In February our daughter had
the whooping cough. Mr. Lane, of
Hartland, recommended Chaihber
lain's Cough Remedy and said it
gave his customers the best of satis
faction. We found it as he said, and
can recommend it to anyone having
children troubled with whooping
cough," says Mrs. A. Goss, of Dtt
rand, Mich. For sale by Frank Hart
and Leading Druggists.
Morning Astorian, 60 cents per
month, delivered by carrier.
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"An honored cltixen of this town
was suffering from a severe attack
of dysentery. He told a friend if he
could obtain a bottle of Chamber
lain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, he felt confident .of being
cured, he having used this remedy in
the West. He was told that I kept
it in stock and lost no time in obtain
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M. J. Leach, druggist, of Wolcott,
Vt. For sale by Frank Hart and
Leading Druggist.
LETTER OF THE LA
MANILA. May 14 -F.sucbio Burial
and I.ucio Aldea. who were convicted
of the murder of Anna Hahn, a school
teacher in the Batangas district, were
hanged in Bilibid prison this after
noon. The execution was private.
The crime, which was committed In
January 1908, (had robbery for Its
object. A strong effort was made to
secure a commutation of the sentence,
! but Governor Smith and Vice Gover
nor Forbes declined to interfere.
Biliousness and Constipation.
For years I was troubled with bil
: w
jmade life miserable for me. My ap
petite failed me. I tost my usual force
and vitality. Pepsin preparations and
cathartics only made matters worse.
I do not know where 1 should have
been today had I not tried Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
The tablets relieve the ill-feeling at
once, strengthen the digestive func
tions, purify the stomach, liver and
blood, helping the system to do its
work naturally. Mrs. Rosa Potts.
Birmingham, Ala. These tablets are
for sale by Frank Hart and Leading
Druggists.
FINANCIAL
First national Bank of Astoria
DIRECTORS -
Jacob Kamm W. F. McGrkgok G. C. Flavel
J. VV. Ladd S. S. GorduN
Capital II W0
Surplus i , 25,000
Stockholders' Liability 100.000 '
ttrt'l'AIII.IMtllCl) 1NN4I,
STATEMENT OP THE CONDITION OF THE
SCANDINAVIAN - AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK
ASTORIA, OREGON. APRIL 28, 1909
Securities nad loans $Uo,420.35
Fixtures 4.457.(59
Cash and due from
banks 31.712.74
$182,590 79
Capital 1 50.000.00
Surplti 3.500,00
Undivided profits ........ 1.07080
Deposits 128.019W
$182,590.79
J, Q. A. BOWLBY, President J. W. GARNER, Assistant CasWti
O. I. PETERSON, Vict-Presldent FRANK PATTON, Cashier
ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS
1242.003
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BEAUMONT, Texas, May 14.
Commercial travelers, "knights of the
grip," took Beaumont by storm todav
on the occasion of the fifteenth an
nual convention of the Texas grand
council of the United Commercial
Travelers- More than 2S0 . delegates
and visitors filled the Kyle Theater
when the gathering was called to
order. They came from Dallas, Gal
veston, Fort Worth, Houston, Fl
Paso, Sherman"; San Antonio, Pales
tine, Abilene and other leading cities
of the State.
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