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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1887)
ilgl!gls! Czj it gaits Mtwmt. ASTORIA. OREGON: SUNDAY. OOTOBEK 9. 1887 Tons of the finest wheat in the world, says the Telegram, are piled up at stations in eastern Oregon wholly without shelter. The price is so low that it will not pay even to cov er the grain. "Where the farmer is go ing to get his returns for plowing, sow ing, cutting and threshing is a mystery. Certainly not in allowing it to rot in the sacks. A writer to Iron makes a prediction that is calculated to shock sensitive nerves. He shows that if the present reckless boring into nature's gas mag azine goes on at the present rate the time will soon come when a large belt of country through-northern Ohio and southeastern Indiana will be ripped up about 1,500 feet deep and flopped over like a pancake, leaving a great chaBm through which the waters of the lakes will rush down and drown Cincinnati and convert the whole Ohio and Mississippi valley jnto a vast sea. He says it will be the greatest event of the kind since the big overflow whenlfoah ran a menagerie. The formation of trusts for the pur pose of aggregating and carrying on large manufacturing industries is a favorite modern means of neutralizing the effects of competition. This plan has recently been resorted to by those representing several important indus tries, and from the favor with which it has been received it is not unlikely, assuming the success of the experi ment, that the method will in the next few months receive considerable extension. One fact is apparent from the formation of such associations, that the business represented by them is overdone. If there was a greater demand for rubber goods or gossamer garments or straw board than the ex isting facilities in this country could supply, the working of the various manufactories of these materials under a trust system would not bo thought of. Each manufacturer would say that he had more orders than he could fill, and that ho did not see what gain could come to him from turning over a business, which he was abundantly able te manage, 'to the care of any one else. Under such con ditions competition would not be feared, for producers would not spend their time in seeking in what way they could get trade away from their neighbor, when the trade that they al ready had was more than they could attend to. In another column is given an able argument for the recognition of Amer ican merchant marine. Our ship building industry is disappearing and unless something shall speedily be done the American ship will be only a tradition. The English iron vessel has driven the American wooden ves sel from the seas, and is carrying our commerce. The only way for Ameri cans to do is to build iron ships too, if we want to regain a tithe of our lost prestige on the ocean. It is a pocket interest, and is usually discussed from a dollars and cents standpoint There is more than dollars and cents in this thing. There is a part of that beauti ful sentiment that finds fitting sym bol in the stars of our flag. There is a national issue bound up in this, and the sooner America realizes the necessity of extending aid to her ship building interests the better it will be for the whole country. The usual argument grows stale, "Vhv," it is" said, "if these English ships carry at such a slight profit, would it not be well to let them? What more do we want than ships built cheaply and our grain carried at a low figure?" Euu this argument to its logical conclu sion, and we ought to have England take charge of our postofficesjrun our railroads, our banks, our government itselL Why not? That would be economy, just as good economy as to let her run our commerce. In former days our merchant marine was the nursing ground and school for our gallant navy. Where is the American seaman? Gone! and if America wants a navy she can;create-vessels, but can not create patriotism in the hearts of hirelings. In an address to the British society of engineers, P. F. Nursey lately said: "The facts I have brought before you also point to the moral and material progress of the world. 'The bee that hummed its busy hour through the bowers of paradise,' wrote Sydney Smith, 'fashioned its hexagon with the same mathematical precision which it does now and here. Six thousand years have added nothing to the sagacity of the horse or the in telligence of the dog.' But how wide ly different with man. He com mences as a fira worshiper and rises to a Newton, a Faraday, a Stephen son, a Siemens. He tempts the river in a few fragments of bark lashed to gether with thongs of rawhide, and crosses the Atlantic in an iron steam- er of 22,500 tons burden. He burrows in the earth, and then builds a city with 4,500,000 inhabitants. He sticks a dry reed in a lump of fat to light his mud hut, and carbonizes 2,200, 650 tons of coal per annum to illum inate London. He takes weeks to send messages on sticks to Montezu ma from the coast, and at last reports in London the details of a battle fought in Soudan the same morning. He slays his foe with a sling and a pebble chosen from the brook, and meets the enemy with a machine gun firing 600 rounds a minute by means of its own recoil. He lays siege to a city with a balista throwing a fragment of rock, and finally attacks a fort with a gun weighing 110 tons, projecting a steel shell of 1,800 pounds with a charge of 806 pounds of gunpowder. These are the beginnings and endings of science, but they are the endings of science as regards the present only. They are by no means final, as science never stands still They are but the landmarks of our times, which, as Emerson puts it, are 'trivial to the dull: tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of to day is building up the future.' " REMARKS FROM WILLIAM NYE. He "Writes a Short "Piece' on Hotels America has made many gigantic strides, nside from those made at tho battle of Bull ran, and her people spend much of their time pointing with pride to her remarkable progress, but we are prone to dwell too mnch upon our ad vantages as a summer resort and our adroit methods of declining tho presi dency before we are asked, while we for get some of our more important improve ments, like tho elevated railway and tho American hotel. Let us, for a moment, look at tho great changes that have been wrought in hotels daring tho past centnry. How marked has been the improvement nnd how won derful the advancement. Everything has been changed. Even the towels have been changed! Electric bolls, consisting of a long and alert wire with an overcoat button at one end and a reticent boy at tho other, have taken the place of tho human voice and a low-browed, red elm club. Where onco we were compelled to fall down a dark, narrow Btaircase, now we can go down tho elevator or wander down the wrong stairway and find ourselves in the laun dry. Where onco wo were mortified by being compelled to rise at table, roach nine feet and stab a porous pancake with our fork, meantime wiping tho milk gravy out of a large yellow bowl with "our coat tails, now we can hire a tall, litho gentleman m a fall-dress suit to pass us the pan cakes. Even tho bar rooms of American hotels are changed. Once the bartender waited till his customers ran all his remarks into one long, hoarse word, with a hiccough on tho end, and then ho took him by tho collar and threw mm out into tno com and chaotio night. Now tho bartender gradually rises on the price of drinks until niH cusvuniur js iru-eu. uui, uuu while he has gone to tho reading-room to borrow some .more money tho chemist moves the bar somewhere else, and when the guest returns he finds a barber shop where ho thought ho left a bar-room. One hundred years, on their swift pin ions, have borne away the big and earnest dinner bell and the sway-backed hair trunk that surprised a man so when ho sat down upon it to consider what clothes he would put on first. All these evidences of our crude, em bryotic existence are gone, and in their places wo have electric bells and Saratoga trunks wherein we may conceal our hotel room and still have space left for our clothes. It is very rare now that wo see a United States senator snaking a two-year-old Mambrino hair trunk up three flights of stairs to his room in order to secure a labor vote. Men, as well as hotels and hotel soap, havo changed. Where onco a cake of sonp would only Ipst a few weeks, science has como in and perfected a style of pink soap, flavored with vanilla, that will last for years, and a new slipperyelm towel that is absolutely iraprevious to moisture. Hand in hand, this Eoap and towel go gaily down the corridors of time, welcoming the coming and speeding tho parting guest, jumping deftly out of tho hands of the aristocracy into the hands of a receiver, but always calm, smooth and latherless. A great many droll characters and bright, shewd men aro met with among hotel proprietors wherever you go. Mr. Griswold, "The Fat Contributor" was lecturing once in the state of Kentucky, and had occasion to take dinner at n six-bit hotel. After tho meal Mr. Gris wold stepped up to tho counter, took out a bale of bank-notes, which ho had re ceived for his lecture the evening before, and asked what might be the damage. "Three dollars," said tho blue grass gentleman, who had buttoned his collar with a tenpenny nail, while ho looked at "Gris" with a pained expression. "Yes, but a man ought to bo able to board here a week for $3. The whole house didn't cost more than $10 or $45. What's your idea in charging mo S3 for a wad of hominy and a piece of parched pork?" "well, sir," saiu the arbane landlord, as he put out tho fire at a distance of twenty feet by emptying his salivary sur plus on it, "I need the money!" The frankness and open, candid man ner of the man won Mr. Griswold, and he asked him if he thought $3 would be enough. .The landlord said he could get along with that. Then Griswold opened his valise and took oat a large brunette bottlo of liniment marked "for external use." He passed it over to tho landlord and told him that he would find this stuff worked as well on the inside as it did on the outside. In a few moments the lini ment of the "Pat Contributor" and the lineaments of the landlord had merged into each other, and a friendly feeling sprang up between the two men which time has never effaced. I have often thought of this and wondered why it is that hotel men are not more open and cordial. with their guests. Many a time I have paid a large bill grudgingly when I would have done it cheerfully if the land lord had told me he was in need. I had intended to speak at some length on the new rope law, by which every man is made his own vigilance committee, but I feel that I am already encroaching on the advertising space and so will have to omit it. La conclusion, I will saytihat the American hotels are far preferable to those we have in Paris in many ways, and not only outstrip those of England and the continent, even as a corp3 do ballet -outstrips a Toboggan club, but they seem to excel and everlastingly knock the ancient hotels of Carthago, l$ome and Tie Siding silly. aiABBIKD. At Astoria, October 8th, 18S7. at the residence of W. W. Parker, by Rev. Dr. Garner, 3Ir. James A. iaKln to .Miss uianbel Auams. 'NEW TO-DAY. To The Ladies. Go to Mrs. Gates' Art Rooms, next door to Mrs. Malcom's, for all the Late Novelties in Embroideries Lessons Given and Work Made to Order. Hair Chains and Jewelry, and Ladles' Hair Dressing and general hair work done to order. Also, for saie, the largest Si Stamping out fit on the Coast. CAPITAL STOCK - - S500,000 THE NORTHWEST IF1!!? c3 HVTfi-FiLm. INSURANCE CO. T. E. Beach Presldent J. McCracken .. J-Yice President J. Lowenberjr..... . Treasurer R. P. Earhart Sec'y and Manager DIRECTORS. J. Lowenberg J. .K. Gill, II. L rittock. F. K. Arnold, F.M.Warren. J.MtCracken, T. E. Beach, D.D.Oliphant, T. Eggert No. 33 Washington street, Portland, Or. R. L. BOYLE. Agent. Astoria. Orecon. omce at I. X. L. Packing Co, Report of the Condition OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ASTORIA, At Astoria, in the State or Oregon, at the close of business, October 5th, lSsT. RESOURCES. I)ans and discounts.......... $32 977 30 Overdrafts . . 3S18 34 V. S. Bonds to secure circulation 12.500 Other stocks, bonds, and mortgage 33.032 S3 Due from approved reserve ajeutsT 9,'U3 Due from other National Banks . 5.-124 S3 Due from State Banks and bankers. 14.941 02 Furniture, and fixtures..... i.ooo Current expenses and taxe3 paid 055 20 Premiums paJd...... ......... 3,023 Bills of other Banks . Go Nickels is 13 Specie 20,bOO Lejral tender notes w. CO Redemption fund with U. S. Treas urer (.1 per cent, of circulation) 5C2 30 Total 51S7.C70 31 LIABII.1TIK?. Capital stock paid in . $V),C0i) Undivided profits 7,314 91 National Banknotes out standing . lliilo Individual deposits sub ject to check $92,015 i Demand certificates of depoMt 2C95 00 Stt9.0u3 91 Due to State Banks and bankers- ri 4C Total $18;,070 31 State of Oregon, lc County of Clatsop. J I. S. S. Gordon, cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above .statement is true to the best of my knowl edge and bolicf. S. S. GORDON, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this St h day of October, 1SS7. J. O. BOZORTIT. Notary Public Correct Attest : .TOHN A. DEVLIN. GEORGE FLA.VEL. J-nirectors. L. l G. C. FLAVEL. Auction Sale of Steamboat. milE UNDERSIGNED WILL SELL AT 8. public auction, the 5teamer Annie, on .Monday. Oct. 10th, 18S7. at 2 o'clock P. M at the wharf of tho Astoria Iron Works, In this city, J.G.MEGLER. 1 88 1 . 1 887. Skating! Skating! Reopening of the Roller Skat ing Season Will begin next Saturday Evening, Oct. 8th. and continue every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evening, and Saturday afternoon. Evenings, from 7 v. m. to 10 v. m. Afternoon .. 1 r. m. to 4 i. si. At Ross' Opera House. This is Uie seventh season Ross Bros, have managed Roller Skating in Astoria, Admission, Gents... ............ .2-c Skates . 15c Admission. Ladles ............ Free Skates ...... ...... 25c G. W. & A. E. BOSS. Propr's and Mg'rs. Carnahan & Co. SUCCESSORS TO I. "W. CASE, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Comer Chonamus andJCass streets. ASTORIA OREGON WHson&L Fisher Ship Chandlers, HEAVY AND SHELF HARDWARE FARM IMPLEMENTS, Paints, Oils, and Varnish. LOGGERS' SUPPLIES. PROVISIONS AND MILL FEED AGENTS FOR SALEM PATENT ROLLER MILLS Portland Roller Mills, FAIRBANKS' SCALES. . AbTORIA. OREGON. J. O. CLINTON DEALER IN CIGARS AND TOBACCO. FRUITS. NUTS, Candies. Smokers' Articles, Etc. New Goods Received Dally. Opposite City Book Store. R. Y. LONG. Fresh Fruit, Fin Cigars, CONFECTIONERIES. Fresh Milk received dally. A full line of CHOICE GOODS. Opposite Spexarth'a GUh Store. A. V. ALLEN, WHOLESALE AND KETAIL DEALER IN Fine Groceries, Provisions and Mill Feed. o Crockery, Glass Plated Ware. o The Largest and finest assortment of Fesb. Fruits and "Cogetables. Received fresh CITY BOOK STORE. - THE Finest and Largest Stock OP- Books and IN THE CITY. Headquarters for Ammunition. THE BEST IN THE WORLD. The Winchester Repeating Shot Gun, $25.00! A Fine Side Snap Marline Made Twist, Double-harrel Shot Gun, Box Shells and Tools. $17.50. Sporting UoodH, Ammunition and the Famous Swedish Razor Our Immense New Stock, Consisting of -1 CAR T.OAHS of fine Artistic and Plain Furniture, Carpets, Oil Cloth, Madras-Silk LACE AND PORTIERE CURTAINS, Dado Shades, &c, Has Arrived. These goods were purchased direct from Eastern Manufacturers and shipped before the recent advance in freight, tho bonefits thereof we propose to share with our customers. Call and See Us. The New Model Range CAN BE nAD IN ASTORIA, ONLY OF E. R. HA WES, .Agent. Call and Examine It ; You Will be Pleased. E. It. Hawes Is also Agent for the Buck Patent Cooking Stove, . AND OTnEIt FIRST CLASS STOVES. Furnace Work, Steam Fittings, Etc., a Specialty. A Full Stock on Hand. School Supplies -THE STORE, Headquarters for School Books. A Complete Line of the Official Text Books. Prices Guaranteed Satisfactory. The New York Novelty Store. BOOTS AND SEOES! Of Best Quality, and at LOWEST PRICES, AT THE SIGH OF THEJOLDEN SHOE. Van Dusen & Co, DEALERS IN Hardware and Ship Chandlery, Pure OH, Bright Varnish, Binacle Oil, Cotton Canvas, Hemp Sail Twine, Cotton Sail Twine. Lard Oil, Wrought Iron Spikes, Galvanized Cut Nails. Agricultural Implements, Sewing Machines, faints, Oils, Grooerleisi Site. Hhw lift MM every Steamer. - Stationery GB.XFFX2T & HEED. CHAS. HEILBORN. Look Here Boys. It you want a neat fitting Suit o Clothes, goto J", JE3, BOSS, Merchant Tailor. Having Just received a complete assort ment or Foreign and Domestic Suitings. Something Entirely New. I ant prepared to make up Suits cheaper than tho cheapest. (itve me a call and be convinced that I mean what I say. J. E ROSS. Corner Snuemoqua and Hamilton streets, east of C. H. Cooper's. Willamette University. DEPARTMENTS. I College of liberal arts. IIACollego of medicine. Dr. E. r. Fraser, dean, ill College of law. Judge Wm. Bamsey. dean. IV Woman's college. Mrs. C. C.llawley, dean. V Conservatory of music. Z, M. Parvin, director. VI University academy. VII Art department, Miss Marie Craig, instructor. 360 Students. 400 Graduates. Thirty Teachers. Day board for yonne men 81,50 per week. Ladies' board In "VVoman'a college hall, 32.50 with unfurnished room. First term be gins September 5. Catalogues and informa tion sent free. Address THOS. TAX SCOY, President, Salem, Or. Magnus C. Crosby Dealer in HAHDWABI, fflON, STEEL. Iron Pipe and Fittings, STOVES, TINWARE AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS SHEET LEAD STRIP LEAD SHEET IRON, Tin AND Copper. ECONOMY And Solid Satisfaction Are Guaranteed IF YOU TRADE AT THE EMPIRE STORE LATEST STYLES Suitings and Trimming Velvets. A Fine Line of In fants' Dresses, Cloaks and Worsted Shirts, Ladies' Calico Wrappers, Cotton, Wool and Muslin Underwear. l oom:eIj:e2t:e: stook. Of Quilts and Blankets, Gents' Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, Trunks and Valises at the Lowest Cash Prid s at the Empire Store. W. T. PARKER 3ML3Wa.C3-3SHL, BL Bi PARKER, DEALKK IK Hay, Oats, ani Straw, Line, BricK, Cement, Sand, and Plaster Wood Dellrered to Order. Drafing, Teaming and Express Business. TEK apply to the Captain, or to Frank I. FIH HUES Promptly Delivered AT LOWEST PRICES IN ANY PART OF THE CITY. Fruits and Vegetables In .Season. Everything Warranted" as Represented. Cornei- Chenamus and Benton Streets. INSURANCE. capital stock, $500,000 Celumbia: MAMIE INSURANCE CO. FRANK DEKUM" President W. H. SMITH. Vice-President JOHN A. CHILD . .Secretary No. 1G0 Second St., Portland, Or. I. W. Case, Agent, Astoria, Or. Deposits! in Orepn, $300,00(1 ASSETS, $S5. 8Q1. 2 8 3. Royal, Norwich-Union and Lancashire Com- hlnation Joint Policy. Union of San Francisco. Gerraanla of New York. Stato Investment of California. Anglo-Nevada Assurance Corporation, MARIXE .IXSUB1NCE COVERED BY OUB OPEN POLICIES. Elmore, Sanborn & Co. Asents. Elmore, Sanborn & Co. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Fire Insurance AGENTS. Representing the Largest and Most Relia ble FIro Insurance Companies. All Business promprlynd accurately trnn acted. Flavels Wharf , - Astoria Oregon. $67,000,000 Capital Liverpool & London & Globe. North British and Mercantile of London and Edinburgh. Hartford of Connecticut, Commercial of California Agricultural, of Watertown, New York, London & Lancashire of Liverpool, Eng.. Fire Insurance Companies, Represent In a capital of 967,000,000. B, VA 1USEX. Agent. a'PA 'I'VE! INSURANCE COMPANY, CAPITAL, $100,000.00. The Farmers' Company, Of Salem, Oregon. THE LEADING COMPANY OF TIIE PACIFIC XORTHWJEST. Private Dwellings and Farm Property, a Specialty. J. W. CONN, Agent. Astoria. Furniture and Upholstering, Mattresses Made and Repaired, Paper Hanging, Carpets Sewed and Laid. Furniture Sold on Commission! Shop, corner Main and Jefferson rears MARTIN OLSEN. MILLINERY ! Latest Styles : : Lowest Prices DRESSXAKIXa LT ALL ITS BBAXCITES. MRS. W. J. BARRY, (Eaton &Carnahan's Former Establishment) iTLADIES ABB I2TVTXED TOCALL- And Examine Goods. A Perfect System of DJRES8 FITTING. t STEAMER' CLARA PARKER Eben P. Parker, Master. 3&Ssa?!S&z0& For TO WINQ, FREIGHT or CllAK- U. U. PARXElt. Parker. i I ASTORIA Planing Mill. HOLT & CO. Proprietors. Manufactures of MOLDINGS, SASH DOORS, BLINDS. RAILS. BALUSTERS. - NEWEL POSTS, BRACKETS. Scroll and Turned Balustrades, Boat Material, etc. Orders solicited and Promptly attended, to. Satisfaction Guaranteed as to StyleQoall ty and Prices. Mill and Office cor. Polk nnd Concomly streets. Astoria, Oregon. Astoria Iron Works. Concomly St., Foot of Jackson, Astoria. Or, OcHoral inists si Boiler ISM. Land and Marine Engines BOILER WOBK, Steamboat Work and Cannery Work A BPECIAI.Tr, Castings of all Descriptions Made to Order at Short Notice. ... .PiMldent. ....... SscreUry. ..........Treasurer. .Suwrinteident, J. Q. Hustler, . I. W. Case, JOHN FOX.......... -THE- DIAMOND PALACE! GUSTAT HANSEN, Prop. A Large and Well Selected Stock of Fine At Extremely Low Prices. All Goods Bottg&t at This EatablUkKeat 'Warranted Genuine. Watch aad Clock Repairing A SPECIALTY. Corner Cass and Squemoqua Streets. City Livery Stable. SHERMAN & WAKD, .Proprietors. Stylish Turnouts, Comfortable Carriages and Buggies By the day or hour at very reasonable rates. Saddle Horses for Hire. Everything new and first class. Our alni is to please our patrons. Horses Boarded by the day, week ormontb. Stable and office two doors west of Thk Astobiax office. Boat Building. JOE LEATHERS Is on deck and prepared to build boats thathewlllruaranteeasto work and dux- gbUity. Beiers to all who have used boats of Is construction. All work guaranteed . FITS 1 Dmmonfls t Jewelry ?