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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1894)
ASTORIA PUBLIC UBSAM ASSOCIATION. EXCLUSIVE TELEGRAPHIC PRESS REPORT. VOL XLIf, NO. 140. ASTOlilA, OREGO.V, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1891. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. THE SEWING woikmen. The product of the "sweaters" or Chinese never enters our store to our knowledge. Our permanent success depends upon the permanency ot the satisfaction we give in selling Mens' and Boys' Clothing;, Hats, Caps, Boots and Shoes, Trunk3, Valises, etc., etc. Osgood piprmiiE go. The One Price Clothiers, 500 and SOU COMMERCIAL WON ON LAY THOSE TWO FISHING OUTFITS ASIDE. You needn't keep them more than a half hour. We've examined several outfits in liferent stores, and we to want go to another. We saw an outfit in a windmv 1 1 Mil of us want to go and sec it. Thus said two customers to whom we had shown our fisliin,; ackle. Further said they We like your goods, but want to be sure of getting the best value for our money. We'll be back and let you see what we've bought if we like the other outfits better. In less than half an hour back they come and say We don't see anything that pleases us as well as yours." We'll take them. GRIFFIN & REED. CALIFORNIA fine Wines and Mimofs. I have made arrangements for supplying any brand of wines in quantities to suit at the lowest cash figures. The trade and families supplied. All orders delivered free in Astoria. A. W. UTZIjlGEr, Str. R. P. ttlill Leave for Tillamook Every fonv Days as fto as the tueaiher mill permit. The steamer R. P. Elmore connects with Union Pacific steamers for Portland and through tickets are issued from Portland to Tilla nook Bay points by the Union Pacific Company. Ship freight by Union Pacific Steamers. ELHORE, 5ANB0RN & CO., - Agents, Astoria. UNION PACIFIC R. R. CO., Agents, Portland. $2 FOR Afl $80 LOT BY BECOMING A YOU CAN GET A FIRST CLASS rO ASTORIA. LOTS WILL BE NOW IS THE TIME TO PROCURE Liot to Build a ome, for The Packers of Clioice lolumbia River Salmon Their Brands and Locations. ' JUNK. LOCATIOX. I ' fAtorl rk'g Coj - j Astoria Pk'g Co Astoria..- jKmD.... J. Kinnejr- Astoria. ... : I litack , i Oval. Booth A. Fk'g Co Astiria-.. 'a" ColnaiblaRiterl'kgCo Astoria.. , , ... I Mnoli . Elmo,, Snl"" l.lnri. Samuel Astoria. ( y.llleljir . ( Alona Klmor ! i . ! I i George & Crier Astoria. ELtlcmoulZ Coor BartM'A.tarl. t t. O. Htnthorn ft Co. Astoria . J.O.Haii' J G MegterlCo. . UrookDcU... , tag, St. George... J. C Megier BiookfieM Wn 1 i i I i I Fihrmn's. !n, ,v . ! TL-ihcr acu's fkg Co. Kir.s ! ( In the manufacture of cloth ing; and the quality of labor employed depends their wear ing qualities. We handle only the best grades obtain able anywhere clothing Ave know is made by the best Hatters and Furnishers STREET, ASTORIA, OR. MERIT. WINE HOUSE. IWain Street, Astoria, Oregon. E LAHORE I MEMBER OF HILL'S LOT CLUBS LOT IN HILL'S FIRST ADDITION DELIVERED WEEKLY. A J Diamond. ... A. Ilooth & Sous Chletgo .... Cutting 1'kgCo Hn Francisco hrui,Co S. V. Iluithoru .. Astoria - .... FMirrnu - nVi i'kfJJ..- ( $2 1 H till II 1 I I h iiin iiuiu uit Deplorable Sights Along Front Street Described.- THE STILLNESS OF DEATH An Object Lesson With a Moral That Cannot Be Overlooked or Mis understood. Special Correspondence to Astorlan. . Portland, Or., June 14. In the higher levels of the flooded district, Aatorians will be -glad to know that the water fell perceptibly today, giving the .city the benefit of another block in the business centre along Washington, from Fourth to Third. Beyond this fall at the par ticular point mentioned, there is no ap parent decrease, and in all the lower parts of the metropolis, taking in 1' rout, First and Second for several milts, the flood Is still running high. The Dekum block on the surface is just clear, though, of course, many cellars are still loaded to the street line with water far above this point. An attempt was made in t.he early morning to run cars down as far as the Dekum, bilt the asphalt sank in several places, twisting the rails into many curves and throwing two cars off the track. Evidently very Bcrlmia damaire has been done to the lower strata of all the asphalt that has been inundated, causing It to weaken and give way at the approach of any thing like heavy traffic. Water was be ing pumped out of the cellars of the Oregonan building all day, sending a continuous and heavy stream down the culverts in several directions. The pumps were also kept going in all the big buildings above Third street, and plumbers are beginning to straighten matters out somewhat in the higher levels. Karlv travelers were surprised to note tho demolishing of a good deal" of the elevated sidewalk this morning down about Second street, where the water Is still several feet deep. This act of van dalism, ascribed by some to the boat men, had the effect of Increasing the boat traffic very perceptibly. FRONT STREET. Number of firms flooded out.... 334 Estimated losses ...$220,000 Length deluged (miles) 21-4 The above is my estimate of the ac tual Front street loss. This morning I started in a boat from the lower end of this thoroughfare and went right up to the Taylor street crossing, where the flood line now ends. In order to sim plify the account of this trip, the render must bear in mind that It deals with only this one streets I leave First, Sec ond, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Glisan. the cross streets, and East Portland for fu ture reference. Making the Southern railway trestle a starting point, the first thing in the lino of vision Is the top of the long Union passenger depot. Just here it is all Wil lamette river, with only two big slop ing roofs like wings of some sea bird to show that man has ever built anything In tho locality. Twenty-one box cars belonging to the various companies He round promiscuously, one of them rest ing across the top of a dismantled wagon, and all more or less battered and demolished. The old straggling, Union Pacific freight sheds, never handsome in their palmiest days, next come Into view. They are tilted into a dozen shapes, the roof presenting a series of switchback curves, with 'the underpin ning of the building all displaced and lying In the wat.3r alongside the main bulk of the structure. At the corner of Gllsarr street, deep in many feet of water, is a Front street car all broken up, and a few yardB away, enclosed in a board fence that now bobs up and down and floats In the tide, are a num ber o&Southern Pacific cars, all more or less dilapidated. The whole sidewalk originally Joining First, along Glisan. has floated up bodily, and now lies like an enormous raft at an angle across the centre of Front street. This Is flanked by a large number of lengths of Iron rails and railway metal of various kinds sticking up over the water and making navigation unpleasant. At the triangu lar Junction of Front, First and F streets Is one of the worst tangles In the whole of the flooded district, and that Is saying a good deal. The whole triangle is thoroughly Inundated, and sidewalks, fences, shacks, lumber and green trees are tangled up everywhere. This open lake extends past the Grand Central hotel, on Third, and runs over eight blocks, with nothing but an occasional Chinaman gathering logs on a raft to break the dreary view. It is a veritable Slough of Despond. The Bofs saloon, Southern Pacific Oo.'s thre-atory offices, and the Oregon Transfer Co.'s building stand at the river end of this vista, and their condition may be Imagined. The officials of the 8. P. gaze out of the third-story windows onto the dreary wast In the Intervals of typewriting and sigh for "the pood old days gone by" when there was dry land and no malaria. In front of the Boss saloon (l3ois no longer) ore tho remains ot a flno; billiard tuble, with the cloth all peeled off and the legs rotted. Tough food for the fishes, indeed! The next notl'v-alilo destruction Is In tho big pile of brick buildings owned by the Port land Gas Light Co., and built in 1858. The. boiler room is flooded right out, arid three-fourths of the machinery Is rusting and spoiling under water. With the aid of a supplementary set of en glnes, the superintendent told me that Portland would be supplied with gas again by Saturday afternoon. ITe also said that the company's loss would be $10,000, and asked what I thought of the appearance of the. buildings. They look truly deplorable, and it will be several weeks before the large force of men em. ployed In clearing away the debris there will have effected much Improvement The coke department, on the opposite side of the street, is a. two-story build lng. Only one story Is now visible. The Detroit machine works, a little farther on, has suffered much loss by the rust ing of dozens of large Btoves and ranges. On the ground floor of the Zeta Psi building is B. Gobbl's wholesale liquor house, adjoining the factory of the Ore gon Cracker Co. In Gobbl's warehouse everything Is turned upside down, and all the front windows are completely demolished. In the offices of the Crack er Co. the water has insinuated Itself everywhere. "Our machinery has been silent since the 30th of May," said the manager, "and the oidy product we have been turnad out since that data Is a varied assortment of water bis cuits." They hope to get the fires stori ed next Monday by raising the boiler out of the water. Hundreds of orders have been cancelled since the flood started. Opposite the Zeta Pal warehouses Is Callert & Lewis' big wholesale depart ment, and here was the only sign ot life on the whole street. It was like a city of the dead for over two miles, with nothing but the constant flapping -of the water against first-story eaves to break the solitude. In front of this store, however, was a barge, onto which were being tallied various groceries. The voice of the tally clerk echoed along over the wutcr distinctly for several hundred yards. The warehouse Is proppeJ Aip with heavy timbers, as are most of the other places on the thor oughfare. At the corner of Front and C comes the well known five-story ware house of Blckle & Co. This Is one of the sights. One end of the ground floor Is empty, save for the water that flows In half way up the walls. All over the rest of the building and down in the cellars as well are stored big heaps of miscellaneous stuff, from kettles to grand pianos, and all are hulf burled under water, smashed, peeled and dis figured In every possible way. The 1obb In this place must be very great, and cannot possibly be yet computed ac curately. All along the next block the same scenes aro repeated, and the Royal Insurance Co., New York hotel and Price Baking Powder Co. have all had to abandon their quarters and seek refuge elsewhere. In the ofllce3 of the Carlos Una Co., dealers In brooms, bas kets, etc., things were considerably mixed up. Clothes baskets In profusion were floating around among the eleva tor ropes In the middle of a lot of mis cellaneous rubbish that looked like a ton of Boaked stationary. Adams & Grant's large machinery depot hiui gone through a hard time, and here, too, there has been a considerable amount of loss that Is not yet computed. After passing sev eral more wholesale houses, all show ing the Bame scents of wreckage and damage to valuable material, the next stop brings us .to the Intersection of Aukeny street, where the Bank of Brit ish Columbia stands. The scene of con fusion Inside Is almost Indescribable. You can row a. boat along to the top of the first-story windows and make a sur vey without any difficulty. The water has floated and overturned massive ma hogany desks, and laps gently through the cashier's windows and the deposit railings. An innumerable assortment of papers of all descriptions litters the Bur face of the stream," while in the midst of It all are the hundred and one articles that go to make up the furnishings of a first-class bank, sailing about In sev eral feet of tho Inky, slimy fluid. All the fine fittings of the manager's office are gone In the general flood, and when the officials get back Into their old quar ters they will have several' weeks of hard work straightening matters out. On the opposite corner are the offices of the General Electric Company, and here, too, the flood has worked great havoc. The floor of the building occu pied by Chas. H. Dodd & Co. and Flelschner, Meyer & Co., 13 In.a fearful condition. Just Inside the portico of the former's warehouse Is the cashier's win dow, temporarily hidden from view by a large stationary engine that Just raises It head above the water. The ground floor is half full of handsome safes, nearly all badly rusted and other wise Injured by the action of the water. A few of these were lifted In time to save them from destruction, but the la hor Involved was so great that only half a dozen could be got out of the (Continued from Third Page.) HVW AM J Teller's Motion to Restore Mc Kinley Kates Defeated. GRESHAM'S LATEST AMBITION The Sub-Committee on Banking Eloctcd-Tlie Treasury Ucticlt Nearly 5110,000,000. Arsociated Press. Washington, June 15. The first vote on the wool schedule wa3 taken at 3 o'clock today upon Teller's motion to restore the .McKlnley rate on wool. It was lost by a vote of 29 to 37 a party vote Stewart voting yea, Peffer and other Populists nay. Peffer offered an amendment chung lne the McKlnley rate of 11 cents to 7, and McKlnley rate of 12 to 8. The amendment was defeated by a vote of 31! to ou. 11111 refrained from voting. Allen, PeiTcr, Kyle and Stewart voted aye. m GRESHAM FOR THE SENATE. To Be tho Illinois Populist Candidate. Chicago, June 15. The Inter .Ocean this morning publishes the following: "Secretary of State Walter Q. Gresham Is said to be a candidate of the Illinois Populists for United States senator to succeed Senator Cullom. This news reached Chicago the same day that Sec retary Gresham arrived here. The co incidence is striking, but what Is still more striking Is the fact that the Illin ois Populists' scheme in regard to Judge Gresham comes from no less a Populist leader than H. E. Taubeneck, the chair man of the national executive commit tee of the Populist party. THE NEW BANKING SCHEME. Tho Sub-commltteo Elected, and the Originator Not On of Them. Washington, June 15. Tho house com mittee on bunking and currency today elected the members to "prepare the currency and bonk measure. Cox, of Tennessee; Cobb, of Missouri, and Cul- bertson, of Texas, Democrats; Hender son, of Illinois, and Haughen, of Wis consin, Republicans.' TREASURY STATEMENT. . ' A Deficit of Nearly Eighty Million Dollars. Washington, June 15. As the end of tho fiscal year Is only 15 days distant, the treasury officials are about to give a fairly accurate estimate of the not results of the treasury's operations for the year. Up to this time the receipts have aggregated $282,204,721 and the dis bursements $356,11)7,337, leaving a de ficit for the last eleven and a half months of $74,902,016. It is thought by treasury officials that the total for the year will not be materially greater than it is now, nnd that $75,5000,000 will prob ably more than cover It. While the cash balance today reached 115,01)5,182, and the gold balance $07,804,972, the loweBt point since the January bond Issue, the situation Is causing but little uneasiness at the treasury department. THE SUGAR INVESTIGATION. Tho Committee Examines the Finance Committee. Washington, June 15. In the sugar trust investigation today each member of the senate committee submitted to be catechised In a most comprehen sive manner as to whether he knew of any corrupt propositions mado relating to the sugar schedule, or whether he hod been Interested In any way In the speculation In sugar stocks. The de nials were as sweeping as the Interro gations. After recess Senators Aldrlch, Allison, Bale, Berry and Blackburn were put through the same catechism. Each member of the senate will be asked to testify. BRADSTREET'S TRADE REVIEW. New York, June 15. nradstreet's Re view of the State of Trade will say: "An examination ot the recent statis tics regarding the available supplies of wheat In the United States In this and preceding years points to the probabili ty of tho United States having at least 140,000,000 bushels of wheat available for export for the year ending July 1, 1X55, A TE Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report. ABSOIUIELY FUn5 compared with about. 108,000,000 bushel.i exported In the preceding 12 months. There were 227 failures reported In the United States this week, against 207 lust week and 332 In the second week of Juno, 18il3. In the west and northwest there are few. If any, evidences of Im provement In business to be perceived, except those telegraphed from Omaha, Chicago and Detroit. A NEW JUDGE . An Addition to Bo Made to the Ninth Judicial Circuit Washington, June 15. Senator Mitch ell, of Oregon, has secured the passage of a bill providing for one additional jude for the ninth! Judicial circuit, which includes California, Oregon, Ne vada, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Al aska and Arizona. The appointment Is expected to go to Borne prominent Cali fornia Democrat. THE UNION PACIFIC DEBT. . Washington, June 15. Representa tives of the Union Pacific Railroad Company will not accept the proposi tion to pay interest on the funded debt at 6 per cent and to run 50 years. They claim the company could not pay Buch Interest and make payments of princi pal, as called for In the bill. THE OREGON PIONEERS. Portland, Or., June 15. The Oregon Pioneer Association held Its 22d annual reunion this afternoon. Public exercises wero held at the exposition building. Tho annual address was delivered by Hon. Thomas II. Tongue. WIMAN CONVICTED. New York, Juno 15. The Jury found Wlman guilty, with a recommendation to mercy. . THE LIBRARY "TEA." One of the Social Events of the Season. Commencement week la Astoria, ns In univemlly towns, seems replete with good times. Literary In Its object and by no means tho least enjoyablo was the Library Tea given yesterday afternoon nt tho residence of Mrs. Samuel Elmore. By universal consent Of the hundred or more guests present, It was conceded to be one of the social events of the sea son. The unrivalled tasto of the ladles ap pointed to decorate, and the wealth of blossoms so bountifully furnished them, combined to transform the rooms Into fragrant bowers of beauty. Ferns, mari golds, panstes In unlimited numbers and of unparalleled beauty; roses, equal In hue and size to the boasted ones of California; hawthorn and snowballs all boro testimony to the natural advant ages of Astoria as a flower garden, as well as to the taste of the ladles, whose skill In horticulture these blossoms proved. The prevailing color In the hall given by the marigolds so daintily entwined with ferns along the balusters, was car ried out alBo In the dining room, by a dish of gorgeous eBchseholtzlas and marigolds as a centre piece for the table. (En passant tho golden hint was gen erously heeded, resulting In a goodly sum, far beyond tho expectation of the ladles, for the library fund.) Tho refreshments were a very appe tizing, though vanishing evidence, that the ladles of Astoria are as thoroughly skilled In housewifely arts as Imbued with esthetic tastes. A very enjoyable feature of the after noon was the rendering at Intervals of piano duetu by Mrs. Theo. Olson and Miss Polly McKean; a vocal solo, re vealing a naturally rich and sympa thetic voice, by Miss Alma Hellborn; a piano solo, smoothly and gracefully given, by MIhb SuhIo Elmore, anil a guitar solo, tastefully given, by Miss Louise Tallent. Mrs; Olson, In her usual gracious man ner, accompanied the singers, and also skillfully rendered a brilliant piano solo. Mis. Charles Fulton added greatly to the pleasure of the guests by two songs, wh(e exquisite vocll rendition was greatly enhanced by tho charming will ingness of the singer. Khali we flatter the gentlemen, or give them a deserved reward, If we reveal to them how thoroughly the ladles of tho Library Association appreciated their presence, aid and evident Interest In the success of their endeavors? It Is an un usual and striking evidence of self sacrifice In a good cause, for them to. li-avo their all absorbing business to favor an afternoon tea with their pres ence. The clergy wan represented by Rev. Wni. Short and Rev. J. W. Bushong. Ho successful In all points was the Tea that a number of ladles have offered their residences for similar entertain ments. Salting