East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-06-06
NEW YORKLETTER

that feeble health generally had made 1
him thin. attenuated man. just fit |
ting the living skeleton cartoons that |
had become the standard works cf |
publishers and readers of the illustrat- |
ed papers.
Many people found much comfort |
in believing in Rockefeller's dyspep-
sia. We hain't the money: neither
had we the dyspepsia. But here comes
DR.. Allen. Rockefeller's family physi-
citn for many years. who declares that
Mr.. Rockefeller has never been sick
man and particularly has not had
dyspepsia and that, instead of being
a skeleton. he is man Of 1870 pounds
weight. which. by the way. is within
about so pounds weight of what Sec
retary Taft has after long series of
treatment reduced the figure at which
he tips the scales. DIR. Allen is sup
posed 10 know what he is talking
about. and his declaration just shakes
our belief in anything. II we can no
longer have a thin, dyspepsia haunted
Rockefeller. what can we believe in?
New York's Water Reservation.
anything 1t gets It. no matter who suf-
fers by 1t. In reaching out after d
vast addition to its water supply II
will wipe out several small towns in
Ulster county. 100 and more miles
away and supposed to be reasonably
secure from any interruption to their
placid rural life. and miles OF large
railroad, the Ulster & Delaware rail-
road, for which these very towns
bonded themselves heavily to build
will be moved from one to four miles
from its present bed. sometimes out
side the limit of the towns which paid
for It. Nineteen miles of the track
of this road will be thus treated.
The largest of the towns and villages
to be thus upturned and wiped out
is Shokan. 1t has a population of
1000 persons, and West HudTey, near
by. has half ms many. other villages
are Ashorn. Glenford, Browns Sta
| tion, Olive Branch. Stony Creek and
West shokan, all containing about g.
! 600 population. These towns of late
years have had a large summer
/ boarder business, being in the shadow
OF the Catskills. and great favorites
of the lovers of pure air The city
works viii cost s16O0Oe. 900 and 49,
200 men will soon be employed in
work that will take many years to
| finish.
Yet the rights of the great city are
supreme. as her citizens are entitled
to get supply of the element that is
absolutely necessary to existence. And
SO desert has first to be made in
order that water may be secured to
be drank 100 miles away.
CoId-StOrage Skyscraper.
Everything ofCconsequence. nova
days, as soon as It reaches large pro-
portions. has to have its skyscra per.
And so the coId-storage people are to
have theirs at a cost of two millions.
The entire upper part of the building.
embracing about two million cubic
feet Of space. VIII be equipped with a
modern refrigeratfng plant. All the
fruit and vegetable Industry will be
accommodated with facilities to keep
their products in good shape. store
and Easements being located in the
building for these trades, cold stor-
age pipes being put I'm such places as
are demanded by the necessities of
dealers.
New York's Gas Fight.
The gas fight is the greatest one
the city has had on its hand in a long
while. The legislature passed a law
reducing the price OF gas to 80 cents
a 1000 cubic feet Of gas but the COM
panies resist this. declaring II is not
constitutional and while the suit is
pending they are undertaking to col
lect this full amount 81 per 1000 as
heretofore. Resistance is being made
by consumers to this procedure and
legal aid has been secured, and or
ganizations have been formed to sup
port the contention that the COM
panies are to be paid 80 cents on their
bills, and If refused put the refused
| money away in a safe place with proof
Of the tender.
The fight will be bitter one. and
; those interested wish to largely ad.
vertise themselves as champions OF
the people, and VIII make all the trou-
BILE they can to the gas companies
> There are banded together in the Gas
Consumers league over half million
consumers of gas. and their advisers
purpose to attack the franchises ot
the gas companies II they do not con.
sent to the demands OF the people
I one of the methods of opposition. pro
posed Is for blocks of ten thousand
consumers to get out injunctions from
the state courts restraining the ga
companies from either taking ou
gas meters or shutting off the suppl,
of gas from the premises of those re
fusing to pay the rate that has beer
outlawed.
Prominent lawyers declare that tn,
Legislature was within its rights wher
It arbitrarily fixed the rate of gas a
so cents, and that the legislature hai
the power to disfranchise the com
panies and pave the way to the city,
condemnation of their property ant
: purchase thereof This has squin
:. toward municipal ownership.
l The Hotel Carleton, London, hai
become a large purchaser in New
York, OF refrigerated game, meats
l fish and oysters, canvassback ducks
Virginia hams, mallard ducks, dia
, mond backed terrapln, and all the
! delicacies that are obtalnable I'm thi,
| market Of the finest possible quality
} The goods are stored away In square