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Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1907-10-18
Fiimsy Affair Crashes to tho
Floor with TO Persons.
NOT ONE SERIOUSLY IsJuaID
Mad Rush OF Parents Takes
Place Upon Hearing Cries
OF Children and Oroans
OF Breaking Tlmbers.
The sudden breaking dowr

ADG puduGh Rttohitk NVWh
and crash Of the ''nigger
heaven. a tlimsy ladder arrange
ment used for emergency in case
of a crowded house, was the
cause Of the fall Of about rs per-
sons, mostly children Of tender
years, at the Arrnory hall Satur-
day night. So great was the
strain upon these seats that eve
ming. aided by the stamping Of
impatient children waiting for
the curtain 10 be drawn on Ten
Nights in d Bar Room" that the
timbers tore loose from their
moorings on the wall and its
load Of humanity went down
to the floor with a great crash,
mingled with the groan Of
brs4Aing timbers and screams
Of frightened children. Upon
the outbreak of the first noise
every one in the other parts of
the hall seemed to know the
source Of the trouble and a rush
was made for the back part Of
the hall, mothers and fathers rum
ming to the aid Of their children.
1t was only the presence Of mind
Of a few who held these in check
until the mass Of humanity could
be Strengthened out. Upon being
reassured that no one was ser
iously injured, all became calm
and regained their seats. The
children were more frightened
than hurt and many of the
smaller ones cried as If their
hearts would break. A little
girl was picked up in a fainting
condition but soon recovered
upon being taken out in the
fresh air. Several others re-
ceived small bruises.
That no one was hurt is a fact
that all are thankful for and il
is doubtful whether such ac-
cidents could again occur with
out resulting in some serious or
fatal injury. Although many
had been heard to say before the
accident happened that they
feared the affair would go down
sometime, yet none really thought
the time had come. The fact
that "nigger heaven" had been
crowded every evening during
the past week reassured many,
and the evening of the accident
the hall was crowded to such an
extent that all available seating
room was at a premium and the
ladders overtaxed until a single
person could not have found 8
place to sit. The weight was
tremendous for such a flimsy
affair.
This accident will bring ts
the minds of the people of Con
don that this city has outgrowr
the present quarters where al
entertainments must be held an6
that Condor is in dire need of {
better and larger hall. Every,
one in this city is fond of enter
tainments of some sort and these
can only be secured where ther,
is a proper place to present then
to advantage. AS was seer
during the past week the house
was crowded every evening ane
when it came to the last evening
showing a special attraction
many had to be turned away. |
would be a paying proposition fo
someone to erect a spacious ant
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1907-10-18

Gerald Burns left this morn
ing for his old home in Toledo,
Ohio, where he expects to make
his future home. He has not
been back for three years and it
is said that there are strong at
fractions for him there. Every
one was sorry to see Gerald
leave. He will be greatly missed
in Condor, and especially so dur
ing the baseball season.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1907-10-18

The season for goose shooting
on the Columbia is now on and
the heights along the
river are lined with hunters.
Experts claim that there are and
will be more geese along the CO.
lumbia this year than ever before
and it is a common thing for a
single man to bring in from five
to fifteen in a few hours shoot
ing. Hunters from all over the
state are already on the grounds
and many are going from Con
don.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-13
ANAPALA AND WASHINGTON.

The correspondence which we published yes
terday between President Figueroa Of Salvador
and President Roosevelt may properly put an
end TO the speculation which has been induIged
in concerning the meaning of the recent meet
ing of the three Central American presidents at
Amapala and its possible bearing upon this
weeks Central American peace conference at
Washington. There was scarcely any room for
doubt that 1t was meant to have some bearing
and various theories of its benevoIence or
malevoIence have been put forward. The
Washington meeting was arranged many weeks
ago and long before there was any public hint
of the AmapaIa meeting. Apparently the presi-
dents of Nicaragua, Honduras and Salvador
arranged the Amapala meeting after that at
Washington had been agreed upon and as near
rs possible to the date Of its assembling. Those
circumstances indicate clearly enough in
tended relationship between the two.
The fact that these three presidents have as
reported, settled their recent differences and
agreed upon peace is of course, a good reason
for the qualification which President Roosevelt
so cordially expressed in his dispatch to Presi-
dent Figueroa, and it should materially facili-
tate the work which begins at Washington to-
day. We may assume that the latter was the
object or one object, Of the three presidents
in holding their meeting, and that they had no
thought Of impairing the value or of obviating
the necessity of the Washington meeting. Wei
come and cOmmendable this rTipartlte com
pact at Amapala is, ii cannot in the very nature
of things have the decisive authority that has
been hoped for from the congress of all five
states-with the United States and Mexico as
not insignificant supernumerarieS--a Washing
ton. In fact, combinations of two or three
states. with headquarters at Amapala or else
where have sometimes resulted not in good
but in positive and serious evil, to Central
America. The first trouble arose when Costa
Rica held aloof from the others in their
union with Iturbide's Mexican Empire, and then
a arose between Salvador and Guatemala
In 1899 the three states which have just had
this Amapala meeting formed an alliance
against Guatemala. In 1842 they essayed fed
eral union at Chinadega, and again in 1S4S at
Nacaonle and Tegucigalpa. In 1863 however, Mic
aragua deserted her two allies and Joined Guate-
mala against them. Still another combination
arose. in 1885, when. under the too strenuous Bar
rios Guatemala and Honduras were allied and
arrayed against Nicaragua, Salvador and Costa
Rca- Ten years later the three states OF Mica
ragua Honduras and Salvador had their first
New-York tribune., 1907-11-13
40 MORE PANICSi

The Optimists have called attention 10 the
c0untrys good crops and to the other material
bases Of prosperity that are expected 10 safe
guard us from severe and prolonged financial
depression. but somehow the prophets and com
forters have overlooked Il greater assurance
than even these. We refer to what AIr. Com
perS is doing with his American Federation OF
Labor TO make panicS a thing of the past. II
can judge from his speech at the annual
meeting of the federation. the labor leaders
are doing something more effective even than
would be the putting of panicS on the black
list Therefore everybody may cheer up and
confidence may be restored at once for Surcr
than the guarantee of good hArVeStS is the
determination of Mr. Gompers that wages shall
not come down. He himself explains how ON
former occasions, when shrinkage of inflated
values transpired. its general influence upon
industry was almost Immediately to affect
the real values of production. which in turn
were forced upon the toiIers in the form of
reductions of wages. bringing III their wake
"an Industrial crisis and panic
But this time ii viii be different
II all labor will unfalteringIy adhere to the
determination 10 resist any and all reductions
in wages. we shall not only avoid the misery.
poverty and calamity Of the past but we shall
teach dnanciers, employers ana economists in
general a philosophy of life and industry.
will live for all time.
It is a wonderful discovery and ushers in a
era. Not since medical science ana Sani-
tary organization Tended off from civilized man
the mysterious plaques that perhaps once IN Il
generation swept the world has SO much been
done to alleviate human misery must follow
this prevention of the financial plaques that
also once in a generation have wrought havoc
with humanity. Indeed. it Is a new philosophy
of life and industry, Where scientific paltercrs
have been content To talk about cycles OF bust
ness expansion and contraction, have explained
pancs as psychological and said they were
deeply rooted IN immutable human nature,
whence not only hope but fear springs eternal,
Mr. GomperS like a practical man. has faced
the evil with organization and conquered il.
Its cure is simply resolving not 10 have wages
reduced and presenting united Cionr 10 bust
ness depression. Nothing YET has ever beaten
the organization. How can a panic beat it,
We should like 10 see any 'pSycnologic stat
hitherto invented that wouldn't nave the worst
of il in an encounter with q walking delegate.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-13
Buildings APPROpED.
Municipal Art Commission Passes o"
Plans for Public Structures.

4, , ,,aa+i,p Of the Municipal Art Commission
Yesterday Robert W. de Forest presiding plans
for an extension to Raymond street jail IN BROOK
rvn 70 cost S3.o0I0 were approved. II will BE
Of tho same design the present building
The architects are D'Oench & Yost. Bird : Coier
tbe Borough President OF Brooklyn. was present
and approved the plans
The commission also favored the preliminary
drawings for the Nurses Home and Training
school or the Kings County Hospital. 20 cost 80
coo This will be an imposing structure five stories
high, fashioned Of Harvard brick. trimmed with
terra Gotta and white stone
Plans were approved for administration build
ing in Geological Park. in The Bronx 10 cost
$4,000 II VIII be built in the style of the monkey
bird and lion houses, and, with them. Will hll a
square
Action was postponed a proposition Of John
II Starin and others build in the park at Canal
and West streets heroic bronze statue of Samuel
Sloan. Ii said that this statue was executed
twenty years ago and has been in warehouse
ever since. as Mr.. Sloan was unwilling to have It
put lip in his lifetime
Commissioner Hebberd OF the Department Of
Charities submitted a plan for a grouping of the
buildings in the city hospital district the east
end Of RIackv-cTs Island. which approved
The commission received designs for the
Hudson Memorial Bridge, which is To be built
across the mouth of the Harlem River parallel
with the Hudson and. connecting Manhattan with
The Bronx. will he continuation Of Riverside
Drive. The old designs. submitted more than a
year ago, were rejected by the commission because
they not handsome or beautiful enough. how
ever admirable they might be from an engineering
point % view.
According to the new designs. the bridge. which
will cost g 10000 and be OF reinforced concrete
800 long and 1s3 above the water will be-
far the span is concerned twice the size OF
any other in the world. II will be a double decked
bridge. consisting of roadway top. eighty feet
wide. including sidewalks. and beneath another
roadway. with places for four subway tracks.
There viii be four tall towers eighty feet above
the roadway. surmounted by large globes. On each
side of the main piers will be sculpturaI decora-
tions OF ships Provision is also made for "a sub
way station In each pier. Action the designs
will be taken by the commission at its rext meet
New-York tribune., 1907-11-13
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-King Edward and Queen Alex
andra entertained the German Emperor and
Empress at a state dinner at Windsor Castle;
speeches expressing desire for most cordial
relations between the two countries were eX-
changed. = The Peruvian government dis
avowed the seizure Of Tabatinga, informing
Brazil that the action. of troops the frontier
was unknown 10 the government at Lima ==
Cubans approve the governments plan to lend
SJ,O00,0O0 TO the banks, misunderstanding x
gardin6 interest charges having been removed.
There was a debate on Morocco in tEr
French Chamber of Deputies NJ. Pichon reply
ing TO attacks on Frances policy. - Rus
sian officials report japanese raid on the seal
rookeries on Copper Island. the invaders using
3-inch guns driving off the guards and taking
away several thousand skins. =-- The United
States bought over S2,0O0.G00 III gold from tho
Bank Of England; the carryover charge for
Americans on the Stock Exchange was from 20
Ger cent. == one hundred and twenty
three lives were lost the fishing season which
ila. Just ended at st. Pierre -Miquelon.
DOM ESTIC-The President. in receiving Luis
anderson. chairman Of Costa Rica's delegation
q tee Central American peace conference. which
att4 os1en Tomorrow, expressed hope that the
i1-e'.lg viii result in lasting peace. -=--- Gov
"rof Guild Of Massachusetts presided at the
'f.'sing. in Columbus. Ohio. Of the national con
renee on state and local taxation: Lawson
"lrdy. Of New York, of the speakers
-ifIng the. outline Of what he regarded as
H16oe3 system Of taxation -- An army retir-
lnE board. headed by Brigade General John NJ
X Davis met in Washington 20 examine seven
teen officers above the grade OF captain who
iaiied 10 quai4fy Tor the riding test ordered by
the President. =- General Alexander Mac
kenzie, chief of engineers of the army, gave out
AT Washington estimates of appropriations ag
gregating 1894 .S11 for fortifcation work dur
ing the fiscal yea1 1909.
CITY.-Stocks Were weak The Hotel
Castleton, at St. George, Staten Island, was
burned to the ground, causing a loss estimated
at SlOe0O00. - More gold arrived from
abroad. and there was a strong demand for cur
rency from other cities =- Timothy L. Wood
ruf requested more time in which 10 collect the
notes discounted by the Thomases and still due
90 the Philadelphia syndicate which attempted
to buy control of the PrOvident Life. -
Colonel George r. Dyer told his side Of the
charges made by John Macrea, who caused the
arrest Monday of Thomas D. Dixon, a
private detective - The Duchess of Marl-
borough, with Mrs. Mackay, went to the Tombs
10 investigate conditions existing there. ==
". F. Baker. IL IS now said. died from alcohol
poisoning - The works of the American
and Federal Sugar Refinery at Yonkers were
shut down - II became known that the big
insurance companies had lent millions of dol
lars On policies 10 large poIcyholders at per
cent. as a result OF financial stringency.
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-day:
Cloudy and occasional rain The temperature
yesterday: Highest, 43 degrees; lowest, Sc
New-York tribune., 1907-11-13

S9s50000o OF this total sugar valued at $50
10000 came in from Hawaii and sugar valued
AT S14.J00.000 came in from Porto Rico No
duty is collected on Hawaiian or Porto Rican i'm
ports, that are still levying -. so and 100
per cent Of the Dingley duties on sugar valued
at S72O0OO00 nearly twO-thirds of our inn
ports and probably half of our consumption.
The Philippines sent us in the nine months
cnded September 30 sugar valued at $6SCOO, on
which - per cent of the Dingley rates was
paid. If those duties should be removed there
would still be Il consumption here of S12OO0'Ho
every nine months. 10 be supplied by Philippine
sugars before he Cuban and other foreign sug
ars were driven from our market. II would be
many years. however before the Philippines he
gan 10 supply more than Il modest fraction of
that amount. At the rate at which our Consump
lion is increasing the domestic sugar interest
has nothing whatever 10 fear from generous
concessions to the Philippine growers rs are
now made TO the growers of Hawaii and Porto
Rico
New-York tribune., 1907-11-13
THE RUSSIAN REvoLuTroNrsT.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: I amazed to observe in a newspaper a
day or two since that Russian revolutionist had
arrived here who purposed 10 lecture in some OK
principal cities on the revolution IN Russi IT.
ferentally he favored assassination. and proclaimed
that the Gar had been marked upon the list OF the
revolutionists the first victim
Does this foreigner assume that Americans ap-
prove of the assassin? He should know that the
very idea Of assassination IS abhorrent 70 the
American mind and conscience. Two notable IN
stances OF the murder Of two of Presidents ~
the assassin's hand have only intensified the sen1-
nent. and the advocates Of the fendish means
should learn that this country is place for them
We have laws precIuding anarchists and crirn'-
nails of any kind from enterinE Should We not
have laws for their speedy deportation Wnen
known? ''SEVENTH-SLN
New York Nov. Il 1907.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-13
DIR TROPICAL IMPORTS.

One feature in the steady expansion OF our
import trade which deserves consideration from
those who contend that we cannot afford to
treat the Philippine Islands as literally as we
treat Porto Rico and Hawaii is the marked in
crease from year 10 year Of our purchases Of
tropical products. According TO figures pre-
pared by the bureau OF statistics of the Depart
ment Of Commerce and Labor imports of trop-
icaI and sub-tropical products for the calendar
year 1907 will exceed se00OOo.0O0 in value
being nearly half the total of our imports from
al quarters Since 1885 this country has dou-
bled its demand for the foodstuffs and raw mate
rials for manufacture which II draws from coun-
tries nearer the equator. and there is every in
dicatIon that its consumption of tropical foods
and staples win continue TO increase at an only
slightly diminishing ratio.
Our people cannot get along without coffee
sugar tobacco, cacao, india rubber, raw silk
and other fbres, fruits and tropical woods, and
our requirements are so great that the demand
for those imp0rtations is always buoyant. Most
Of the products named cannot be grown to any
extent the mainland OF the United States,
and Of none of them. even sugar or tobacco,
does our home production promise ever to be a
controlling factor in the domestic market. We
therefore sensby admit non-competing articles
free and impose a duty-partly for revenue and
partly for protectiOn--on those which can
grow in some measure at home or In our insular
possessions. Those overapprehensve cham
pions of the domestic sugar and tobacco inter-
ests who opposed free trade with Porto Rico
and Hawaii, objected TO reciprocity with Cuba
and have prevented the removal or reduction of
duties on Philippine products maintain that our
market is already sagging and that any conces-
sion 70 the planters In the Philippines would cause
a giut In sugar and tobacco and break prices
here and throughout the words market Yet
the figures gathered by the bureau of statistics
show that, far from being oversuppIed, the
United States is constantly extending its de-
mand for sugar, tobacco and other tropical pro-
ductions.
In the nine months ended September 30. 1907,
the cane sugar brought into the United States
was valued at s1120oo0oo, against importations
fer the first nine months of 1906 valued at only
New-York tribune., 1907-11-13

meeting at Amapala, where they organized the
Greater Republic of Central America" which
in 1898 was nominally Joined by Guatemala and
Costa Rica at Managua in the United States OF
Central America" 1t was on November 1, 1898,
that the last named confederacy was established,
with its capital at Amapala, and it was exactly
four weeks later that it was dissolved sine die.
Something more than triple leagues at ANA
pala is needed for the peace and union of Cen
trail America. The recent friendly settlement
among Messrs. Zelaya, Davila and Figueroa is
to he regarded with approval, but it can scarcely
bc thought to have taken the place of the con-
ference at Washington to have accomplished
the ends which the latter has in view. For more
than eighty years those five states have been
wrestling with the problem of peace and union
without solving IT, The only hopeful course now
is to undertake the task afreSh on an entirely
basis and with the benevolent aid OF the
two great neighbors which, long ago and not
without much effort. solved the same problem
for themselves
New-York tribune., 1907-11-13
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
IFrom The Tribune Bureau

The Tribune BuTeaut
yashinrton Nov 1.-The President received TINS
afternoon the Mexican Ambassador and Mrs Creei'
Baron Rosen and Luis Anderson, Minister OF FOR
eign Affairs of Costa Rica. Mr. Anderson Is del
egate 10 the peace conference of the Central Amer
ican republics which is TO meet here Thursday-
The American Ambassador to Italy. LLOYD =
Griscom, was the Presidents guest at nncneoh TINS
afternoon.
Ex-senator Alice. of Delaware, called to tell the
President that the Republicans of his state are aN
ious for the President to become candidate aga
Representative f. E. Vreeand. A. T. Fancher
and n V V. Franchot. of New York, visited She
White House take up ith the President the SUI
iect of oil land leases in the Indian IerrltoIS
After his conference with the Executive MI Nree'
land discussed the political situation in New forA
State.
Callers at the White House before the CaplIie'
meeting included Senator Clark. of Wyoming rep
resentative DENLY, Governor Curry of New MeNlcO
and Colonel w H. H. LIewellyn. United states
District Attorney of the same territory ana tf'iol
Pinchot, national forester The Caolhet mt a. -
a m and adjourned at 1:l5 p. m
New-York tribune., 1907-11-13
SAVE HUDSON SCENERY.
4 Suggestion to NezC York Clao
TVOm6H.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir. As chairman of the first Interstate Psi-
sades Commission, appointed by Governors Fooss-
Welt and voorhees, TO devise plan by which tss
two states could cooperate in protecting the Pail
sadas NJ the Hudson from the DETACHMENT which
threatened irreparabIe injury 20 those reInarNaois
headlands. was impressed with the Importance OF
the work done by the Federation OF women's Cluns
of New Jersey in getting that state TO assume aer
rsnonsibIlitv by adopting the scheme Of protection
which has so fortunately been successfully carried
out
Il was mainly due 70 the two women members
Of the New Jersey commission that Il was brought
into accord with the views Of the New York cou-
missionerS with the result that the present meas
ures of protection we're eventually passed By tbs
Legislatures OF both states and the safety Of the
Palisades was assured.
As New Jersey is no longer IN any way respousi-
bIe for the protection OF the shores Of the Hudson
River the northern boundary OF that state ter
rninating al the Palisades the duty to extend tur-
ther the ways and means OF preserving the natural
scenery of our river rests entirely upon the people
of New York
Is IL not a good time for the OF this state
10 take as active part in stopping the vandalism
Of the quarrymeu the highlands above as thetr
sisters in New Jersey did in saving the PaIsadest
As already proposed. the formation OF a Hud-
son River league from their various clubs and 90
cietIes along the Hudson Valley, under the aus
pices Of the city and state federatons. would gvs
us IN organization effective in saving the pict
,lresque scenery of the upper Hudson as the Fed
GRAFTON of Wornen's Clubs OF New Jersey was in
th. Palisades It is 70 De hoped that the women
will take up this question and lend their vau-
abla aid F W DEFOE
New York Nov I2 1907