Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-08-10
THE ASTORIA CuANBER OF
C0MMERCR.
Historian. !

iAstorian.l
Oar Chamber of Commerce Is com.
posed of representative citizens and
business men of Astoria II doesu'i
make any difference whether man was
here in 1876. or whether be came here
yesterday: If he has public spirit, he
wants TO see Astoria 90 ahead. il be Is
in favor of progress and of securing
many tb Ings that must be asked for to
be obssined. he is welcomed in the
Chamber of Commerce.
Few similar organizations in any city
has better practical record. The Ques-
ton that arises in all matters is what
has a man done, what has a society &C.
cOmplished? We all judge by results.
Among the many things that our Cham
Der of Commerce aided in securing for
Astoria, the mouth of the Columbis,the
adjacent coast and the lower Columbia,
may be mentioned the life station at
Fort Candy the similar service at SbOal-
water Bay, the lighthouse at Point
Adams, the lighthouse at Tillamook
rock. the new life station to be built
this season at Fort Stevens, the lighting
of the lower Columbia, the laying of a
cable across the Columbia to the Cape.
NAO oRRtORAAdliOa OI NOukECco kAC
board of visiting engineers, which has
at last resulted in an inltiatory appro-
priation for the improvement of the
mouth of the river, the increase of mail
facilities. and twenty other improve
ments that would not have been secured
IN the next ten years had II not been for
a few determined men ID the Chamber
of Commerce.
The matter of forfeiture of unearned
land grants was one of the subjects that
The Chamber of Commerce took hold
of IN the most determined manner; il
pushed the fight into Congress and made
that body listen to it. No Journal in the
United States was oftener quoted in the
last Congress than the 4storiaR; no Con-
GRESHAM but what had laid ON his desk
again and again Communications and
plain Statements of patent facts from
our Chamber OF Commerce, and no
measure Except the great question of
the tariff attracted as much attention
from the last Congress as the forfeiture
Of the Astoria land grant.
Our Cham Der OF Commerce has had
no money, no fund, no sources of in
come. Its members, one aud all, give
their time and money for the public in
terest. Whenever money has been
needed il has always been forthcoming,
and to the credit of Astoria let it be said
that there never has been the slightest
difficulty in promptly securing enough
10 go on with the work in band.
Our reason for writing of the Chamber
Of Commerce is this: There is not any
too much public spirit in Astoria; We,
none of US. are at all too apt to injnre
our respective spines in aiding our
neighbor to carry his burden, and n Ger
tain amount OF Conference, of philaR-
thropy, of zeal for the advancement of
our common prosperity, is necessary in
this community just AS much as in any
other. They find it so in San Francisco,
Portland, Seattle, Tacoma aud else
where, and anything that tends to help
along a joining of interest, combina-
ton of good Intentions and excellent re-
suits, deserves to have the sphere of it's
usefulness recognized and increased.
There Is nothing in this world SO cheap
rs a sneer-nor are there many things
more worthless. Any one can find fault
and criticise and pull down. 1t is al
ways easy to tell Just how things ought,
DR. could, or would, or should, or might
De, but it is quite different thing to
stand in and give tt ings shove along
IN the right direction. This showing
things along in the right direction is
what the Astoria Chamber of Commerce
mas been doing for several years past.
Theirs has been no idle talk. There is
no direction in which one looks but he
will see how materially that body has
helped our little city, and its members
are to be commended for their public
,pirit, and congratulated on the success
hat has 40 uniformly crowned their
honest and intelligent efforts.