The morning Astorian. [volume], September 18, 1905, Image 4

About The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930

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AT THE GRAVESIDE
Obsequies of the Late Colonel
SchencK at Fort Stevens.
LARGE CROrVD PAYS TRIBUTE
Full Military Honors Bestowed on the
Late Commander Fort Columbia
Sends a Detail Gunboat Falke Ar
rives During Service. ,
Tbe post-steamer Major Guy Howard
Itft the O. K. A N. pier at 2 of the
thick yesterday afternoon with quite
a groUp of passengers Umnd for Fort
Stevens to pay final honor to the lute
Lieut-Colonel Schenck.
Antony the people aboard the Howard
wan a delegation of thirteen member
of Cut-hing Post, Xo, 14, of Astoria, con
sisting of the following named gentle
men: Comrade William l.ee, comma uder
of the post; P. B. Allen, August
Scherneckau, Samuel Klmore, Phillip
Taylor, G. S. Wright, V. C. Shaw.
Thomas DValcy, Henry Wilson, B. F. Al
len. T. H. Supple and T. .1. Broemser.
They bore the pot colors, and a beau
tiful tribute of flower to adorn the
rave of their late cvmrade. Rev. W. S.
Short, of Grace Episcopal church of this
city, the ociating clergyman; British
Consul. I L. Cherry and others, includ
ing several ladies were among the
travelers of the Howard.
On the arrival of the party at the
post the ceremonies provided for were
proceeded without any delay, all
things having been made ready for the
moment, and its duties, by tlie officer
of the garrison, and by Mr. W. C. A.
Fohl, the funeral director in charge. All
that was mortal of the commander of
Fort Stevens lay in state in the parlor
of his late official residence, where the
Tiereaved widow and daughter await
ed the clergyman and guests of the hour.
The Want if ul services of the church
was feelingly read by Rev. Mr. Short,
and at its conclusion the cortege as
sembled along the parade way in front
f the house in the following order:
Two companies f artillerymen from
the home fort and one from Fort Co
lumbia, in full uniform under command
of Captain Forse, leading, with Captain
Gardner and his staff and the members
of Cushing Post Xo. 14, of Astoria, in
sequence. Then followed the lamented
object of this insignia of woe, his casket
mounted upon a light artillery cassion
and draped with the flag to which he
had devoted his life and attended by six
sergeants and corporals as pall-bearers,
the black horse upon which he was
wont to ride being lead by an orderly,
the saddle empty and with boots re
revsed in the stirrups, and the post
hacks and the ambulance from the hos
pital Waring the lamily and immediate
friends of the late officer, the rear be
ing closed by a detail of men carrying
the numerous and beautiful floral em
blems contributed br the officers and
men of Forts Canby and Columbia, and
by a host of friends in this city.
Slowly and in silence the sad pro
cession moved over the sand dunes to the
'garrison cemetery, ar.d there in pleasant
; September sunshine, with lared heads,
;the assemblage, now augumented
by a large crowd of people from the
neighborhood, listened to the closing
lines of the churi'h service solemnly in
spiring and yet deeply suggestive of
hope, as they were unfolded by Mr.
Short At the conclusion of the ritual,
the military honor of three volley from
the carbines of a hundred soldiers fired
across the open grave wrs given, and
then the post bugler sounded the ever
mournful "Taps" and, for the time being
at least, the dead soldier was left to
the mysterious silence of his newly
made grave, and those who grieved fur
him turned homeward iu the lengthen
ing shadows of a sad and beautiful day.
It is the intention of Mrs. Schenck
in the near future, to remove the Issly
of her late huhand to the great national
cemetery of Arlington near Washington,
where it will lie given final sepulture
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miii'ii); inr inuiijt uiuir men mf llcu
and died that the great republic might
tlotirMi in pride and strength, among
the nations of the earth.
Another burial took place in the post
cemetery yesterday morning, when Jo
seph Gorman, the laborer, who died
there on Friday last, was laid to rest
under the direction of Coroner Thol,
who will make an effort to find
German's relatives, or friends and ac
quaint them with the fact of his death
and burial.
LOCAL PRESS NEWS
Astoria's -Morning Astorian" Pays
It's Share of the Cost.
ENORMOUS TELEGRAPH TOLLS
How the World's Newt la Gathered
What ia Court Laid Down at Every
one's Door for a Paltry Two-Cents
Daily.
School Times
Mere
BUSTER BROWN
gives you your School Outfit for the season if you
wear his Stockings.
For ten days, beginning Saturday, Sept. lGth, we 5
sell Buster Brown Stockings for Boys, and Buster
Brown Sister's Stockings for Girls, with the following
phenomenal offer:
With every purchase of four pair at one time
during this sale we will give you
FREE FREE FREE
1 Scholar's Companion, 1 Ruler, 1 Lead Pencil, 1
Penholder, and Pen, 1 Rubber Eraser, and
1 Tablet of Writing Paper .
A complete outft for School use.
In addition to the above, we give you a ticket
showing you have made this purchase. This ticket,
presented at our Hosiery Counter at any time during
the first session, entitles you to your needs in school
of all your Stationery, Pencils, etc., without any ad
ditional purchase or cost to you.
NOTE: The purchase must be made of four
pair of Stockings during this sale to entitle you to
the above.
Parents should realize the saving this means to
them for an entire season.
25c per pair
THE FOARD & STOKES CO.
Astoria's Greatest Store
Some days ago a well known Astor
ian. quite without the pale of the local
pre, but an appreciative reader of the
news columns of the Morning Atorian
as they reach him every day, concluded
that he wa not getting quite his share
of the current war and peace-conference
data, and dim-ted an inquiry to
the head quarter otliee of the Associated
Press in relation to the short comings of
that great purveyor of world wide in
telligence; and tor answer received
letter referring him to the latest num
ber of the Telegraphic Age, the organ
ot all the big news agencies of this con
tinent, which contained a comprehen
sive story of the herculean task taken
on by them in putting the news of the
whole world at the door-step of every
American cituen at the dawn of each
succeeding day; and the curious Astor
ian was satisfied that he was getting
his share of the press jMivender. And.
that his sen- of compensation may lie
made uniform and general among its
thousands of readers upon a subject
in which they have as definite an inter
est as the A-torian itself, this paper
oiler the finding of the Age referred
to, with the suggc-tioii. that the Morn
ing Atorian pay its full share of the
great bill of cot in this valuable and
unfailing supply of new. The Tele
graphic Age has the folowing to say in
ttii behalf:
"For business reaon. if fur no other,
newspaper publishers should lie lovers
of ea-e. liecaue war new comes high.
Melville E. Stone says in the Century
that the Associated Pre Ment 0U0
'for cable tolls alone to rejmrt a single
naval Kittle. The association spent
:.1i,0(i0 in all to cover the Spanish war.
The meagre account received of the
great battles in Manchuria have cost
fortune, and the newspapers obtain no
increase in revenue to counterbalance
the expenditure for war new. Mr.
Stone in discussing the work of the As
soeiated IVess, dcscrilws the ordeals of
the war core-iKindent at the front, and
ays: "When the battle has been fought
and the correspondent, at great hazard
ha written hi story, hi trouble have
only fairly begun, Much deta-nd ujion
the character and intelligence of the
censor. It is only fair to say we have
found the Russians very reasonable.
They have shown for more wisdom than
did the American censors during the
Spani-h war. Next the messages must
be transmitted. The corresjiondent
must be "fir-t at the wire' or his work
will all come to naught. Here, again,
he mu-t exercise tact, otherwise a pet
ty telegraph official, who is often a very
monarch in hi field, may spoil every
thing. And all along the long line for
the telegram is retransmitted half a
dozen times before it reaches San Fran
cisco or New York the cable olhcial
must le friendly and pain-taking and
intelligent., or the news will fail to
reach it destination promptly and in
the form in which it wa sent. Delayi
in transmission are Inevitable, and it
ieak volume for the efficiency of
modern telegraphy that they are so in
frequent. 1'us-ian 0ieratir. Danish
operator. Japanese operators, r renin
oicrator all handle and transmit
thec me-sages, often in bad chirogra
ph',, in a language which they do not
understand, and they seldom make a
serious mi-take."
A memlicr of the Postal Telegraph
os-iating stalT at the Portsmouth con
ference contribute the following:
"The peace conferem-e at Portsmouth,
N H., brought together the largest and
mo-t cosmojiolitan aggregation of jour
nalists that has ever met at one time
and place in the history of the world;
newspaper repreentative la-ing present
from Tokio, St. Petersburg, Rome, Jier
lin, Paris, London and other distant
places.
This great nnmlier of correspondents
necessitated a large file of foreign and
domestic pre-,. The Postal Telegraph
Cable company's facilities were such as
to make it posible to handle promptly
all matter filed with it. The Hotel
Wcntworth, the jioint from which most
of the business was tranmiled, wa
connected by an cightccn-wire cable to
the main otliee in Portsmouth, thus giv
ing the former almost instant communi
cation with Tokio, St. Petersburg and
other foreign and domestic points.
The Postal olllce at the hotel was in
charge of Charles A. Richardson, man
ager of the Ronton ollice, witn George
VV. Downey, as chief operator, assisted
by Operators V. V. Kstabrook, J. V.
Walker, D, J. Sullivan, W. A. Connor,
U F. Collins, John tiOgan, J. P. Glynn,
A E. Johnson and J. II. Dickson of Cou-
ewfd, X. 11.
At the Portsmouth main office, Mr.
.1. P. O'lVnohue, electrician of the first
district, was in charge, assisted by J.
A. Coghlan, Manager of the Broad
street branch, Boton; It. J. Smlthwlek.
night traffic chief of the Boston main
ollice i G. K. Morrill, manager of the
Portsmouth otliee, and Operators Mrs.
Ten Eyck, Messrs. Gould, OIcn and Oil
ley. This office was the "power station."
The equipment of the two offices was
most complete, and included six port
ante quad, three dynamos, a tifty-wire
switchboard and Skirrow arm resona
tor. lu the room of the Ruian envoy,
llcrmaun F. Wood Mas In charge of the
Itaqi, and in that of the Japanese, Harry
II. Cooper. It. .1. Smitliwiek looked
after the affair of the Postal at the
conference building in the navy yard.
The Postal also furnished a wire for the
Assoeiated Piesv, .1, ,. Hate of the
New York ollice, olliciatiug.
Mr. Frederick ANbury Pirle, repre
sentative of the Commercial Cable com
pany. New York, has W'cn present
throughout the conference, and hi fa
miliarity with all branches of the cable
biisines a well a hi abilitic a a
linguist, rendered his service valuable.
The Commercial Cable ollice at Can
so and all the outlet stations have liccn
alert, rendering excellent sen ice, shown
iu the manner in which the at amount
of foreign and domestic mutter has
U-cn handled.
Mr. M. M. Davis and .1. r. Skirrow,
traffic manager and electrical engineer
of the cmnpany, respectively, came on
from New York and had a watchful eye
over the service for the first few days
ot the conference.
The way iu which the operator read
the handwriting of the Ruian, Ger
man, French, Italian and other corres
jHindent would amaze a Philadelphia
lawyer. It did not bother them a bit,
and some of it would have been just as
easy if it had la-en written upside down.
The fact that no complaints have been
registered i proof siitne that every-
FREE
A Watch, Guaranteed a Good
Timekeeper will be Given
FREE
With Each Boys' Suit Bought
From Us Between Now
and Oct 1st.
These Suits comprise all that is New
and Stylish in Boys' Wear
Cheviots, Casslmeres, Plain and Fancy Worsteds
AT
$2.50 to $10.00 Suit
and s WATCH FREE with
every Suit from now till October 1st.
A Stokes Suit tf
means
AtGood Suit
or
MONEY REFUNDED
P. A. STOKES
Jg X5he
beeShive
OUR FALL
GOODS
Are coming in thick and
fast.
NEW SUITS,
NEW COATS FOR LADIES' HISSES
AND CHILDREN.
NEW SHIST WAISTS GALORE.
All Kinds and Stylet From
75c to
$3.95
NEW SILK SHIRT WAISTS.
We are ready for the Children's
School Opening.
BOY'S SUITS.
BOY'S AND GIRLS SHOES.
Remember Our "76" School
Shoe, It Can't Be Beat for the Rainy
Weather.
body was thoroughly satilied with the
service H'rformed."
'It costs a bit to negotiate for inter
national ieav. All other items aside,
the telegraph and cable tolls alone are
a heavy draft on the two set of en
voy now at Portsmouth The cipher
messages to and from St. Petersburg ag
gregate fully twenty-live hundred words
a day, and the Tokio service is equally
voluminous. That means U0 for M.
Witte to '(). K." every day ami fltt-t
daily draw 11 from Huron Komiira'a cx
clioiucr a total of $172.1 that the tele
graph, and cable companies are gather
ina in eeiy day directly from this
lii'tory-tiiasing cuufeieiice lu our Kitten-
limy ard. I'o this must lie added
the cot of the regular and special pies
eitice to tusa. Japan, Ureal Itritain.
Fiance, le-iinany, Aiistila, lliair.it, Ar
' ntiiii, ( liinn. India and the foreign
ci mtiici in general, and that of the do-iKf-tic
pre s scniic l' III regular and
special. No less 1 liit ti tlfly thousand
words are nt out over t'.ic wile, at
111 - end of the -e-sion uf t'.ie conferee
eae!i dav.
A tonic that makes rlh, red blood.
Brings strength health an happiness to
the whole family. Nothing equals Hoi
lister's ICiM-ky Mountain Tea as a ton
ie. 3fl cents.
j
CREDIT DUE AND GIVEN.
It dce!op. (lull ill tlie IinbI iKniMlll
tendered in this pajicr yesterday morn
ing, silent the mishap al tending the
baikentine Arago, on l'latop Spit, (the
facts as given, having been taken di
rectly from Captain Semsen. of the dis
tressed ve-sel.) no credit wa given the
life saving crews at the mouth of the
Columbia for the timely and valuable
aid given the stranded Vessel; aid
which involved six hour of hard work
in the spit surf without anything to
eat; and to which the captain and crew
of the Arago owe the .aires with which
hawers were pacd from her to the
tug that 1111 1 Id not, alone reach lii-r
wild their line. It may be enough to
ay that 110 iicli detail were furnished
I lie reenter of the Morning A-1 01 inn lv
Captain Scmsen. nor by any one else, or
jtiit-y would have aps-arcd in the ac
count gien a a true and logical part
of the hi-torv 4 the disaster,
Children's School Caps in
great variety. We have
what you want at prices
that are lower than ever.
' J XohG ULl
BEElliHIVE
Accordion. Sunburst
and Knife Pleating
To Order
STEAM PROCESS.
No Hot Irons. No Burning of Goods.
Miss O. Gould
Eighth Floor, Marquam Building.
PORTLAND.
Prompt and Careful Attention Given
to all Out-of-Town Orders.
STAMMERING AND STUTTER
ING CURED
For Particulars AJdrrts
THE PACIFIC SCHOOL FOR STAM
MERERS 1201 east Yamhill Street.
Portland, Oiegoii. .
The
Astoria
Restaurant.
(1001), CLEAN
MEALS
EXCELLENT
SERVICE
OPtN ALL NIGHT
399 Howl St., or. Ninth
PERSONAL MENTION.
A. F. Alleiton and wife are the guests
of the Occident,
I. P. Fahy of Cardincr, wa iu lb-
city yesterday.
Jas. Klder of San Francisco, is regist
ered at the Occident.
It. Ijichteg and wife of San Francisco
spent the day in this city yesterday.
P. liobcr ami wife of Creston, Wn.,
are visiting friends in this city.
(ieo. Hibhcrt of Chinook, Wn., was a
city visitor yesterday,
.1. Maniblock is registered at the Oc
cident. A. Oppenbeimer of San Francisco is
in the city on business.
A young woman can earn her liv
ing expenses in Portland while study
nig at the Holmes Pusinest College.
For particulars, address the Principal,
Holmes Itiisincs College, 25 33 Y. M.
C. A. Building, Portland, Ore. .j.
Hats Trimmed,
Hats Cleaned,
Feathers Curled
Free of Charge.
Mas. R. Ingleton has
opened a nice line of La
dies' and Children's Fall
and Winter Hats.
Mrs. R. Ingleton
WELCH BLOCK,
Opposite Budget Office.