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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-03

Washington, Jan. 27.-Regulation
of the prices of food through the tariff
is sought in bill introduced today by
Representative SABBATH, Democrat, of
Illinois. The bill places such articles
of food as sugar, flour, eggs. vege-
tables and meat on the free list. The
bill will go to the ways and means
committee and is likely to remain
there.
Representative Boutell, of Illinois,
declared in the house today that time
would prove the truth of President
Taft's assertion that the Payne act
was the best tariff law ever passed by
congress.
A determined effort is being made
by representatives from Pacific coast
states to secure an appropriation for
building feet of submarine torpedo
boats for station on the Pacific coast,
and the movement is under way to get
an appropriation in the pending navy
bill for ten submarines to be built i'm
mediately, all of them to be used on
the Pacifici coast.
The postal savings bank bill, drafted
by Senators Carter, Dolliver and
Owen, a subcommittee of the commit
tee on postoffices and postroads, were
perfected today and was introduced in
the senate by Carter.
1t was referred to the postoffice COM
mittee and probably will be reported
back to the senate tomorrow.
Unless the Ballinger Pinchot inves-
tigating committee makes radical
change from the mode of procedure it
has adopted, its work will be INTERIM
Unable. One committeeman declared
today that at the rate of progress set
at first session, it would take l9 years
10 complete the inquiry.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-03

Already more than zoo different
types of soil have been encountered in
the 20 states in which soil surveys are
being made by the government.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-03

Washington, Jan. 28.-The postal
savings bank bill was favorably report
ed to the senate today from the senate
committee on postofices and post
roads, virtually in the form submitted
by the subcommittee. Senator Carter,
who will have charge of the measure,
will seek an early opportunity to Sc
cure consideration of it by the senate.
The house committee on public lands
voted today to report favorably the
Mondell bill, admitting to entry the
sur face of coal lands in the United
States. The measure affects about
80, 900, 900 acres Of land in Wyoming,
Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, North
Dakota, Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
The bill makes it possible for actual
settlers to make entry on the surface
of coal lands under the homestead act
or the desert land entry law and also
makes possible withdrawals under the
reclamation act. The United States
would issue a patent to such lands,
but would reserve all rights to coal
on the land as well as the privilege of
prospecting, mining and removing the
coal.
Suggesting the creation of commit
tee on the budget to determine at the
beginning of each session of congress
the list of appropriations by each COM
mittee of the house, Representative
Douglas, of Ohio, today insisted that
only by such method could military
expenditures be kept down in the in
terest of larger allowances for agricul-
ture.
On point of order the house elm
mated provi ion authorizing the sec
retary of agriculture to purchase and
destroy animals suffering from pluero
pneumonia.
The senate spent more than two
hours in an academic discussion of the
tariff with especial consideration of its
effect upon the present high prices
of food Droducts.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-03
RIVER SEINE
FLOODS PARIS
Highest Water Ever Known Has City
at Its Mercy.

Subways Filled, Sewers Burst. Streets
Torn Up and Buildings ToppIinu
to Ruin-ManY Rescurers Drowg
Whole Country Submerged and
Waters are Still Rising.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-19

Sacramento Valley Fruit Growers ars
complaining bitterly because of the lack OF
buyers for fine early fruit which they have
been shipping 10 Kansas City. Chicago and
other markets. Unusually cold weather
throughout the East has almost killed the
demand for fruit, and the result is that
the choicest California cherries. apricots
and plums have had poor sale. This Is a
keen disappointment to California growers.
as owing to the late frosts in the East they
expected TO get high prices for all fruit
Hamilton Hall. the stage singer. is serf-
ously Ill here He tainted in the street this
week When he gets stronger he will go
to Arizona 10 recover his health Hall has
recently been singing on the Considine cir
cult. and persisted in keeping ENGAGEMENTS
when suffering from pleurisy.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-19

fortunately crowded condition of his own
house that the very best FRANCOIS can offer
is table in the inmost dining room, no
sunlight it's true, but extremely select,
quiet and recherche. Which means,
stripped of politeness and Verbiage, the
bows and apologies of FRANCOIS. that the
smartly clad folk must chafe in unnoticed
obscurity or else move on.
You see. FRANCOIS knows his automobile
patrons Just as he knows the frequenters
OF the big Fifth avenue restaurant he
directs in the winter. The careless, ordi-
nary looking motorists happen TO be among
the socially elect; their patronage is worth
thousands, through not only their own gen
erous supper accounts but the scores of
friends they have added to the esta bfsh
ments clientele. On the other hand, the
smart Alecks are nobodies. They have
some money, 1t is true, but are fonder OF
spending it amid the glare Of the Broadway
lobster palaces than in less noisy, more con-
ventional Fifth avenue. Seated at choice
New-York tribune., 1910-06-19

Reaconsfeld, Mr. Gladstone and Lord
Goschen. it becomes even still more so
when the employer happens to be either
the sovereign of some great power or the
President of an equally grand republic.
Oueen Victoria is credited with having
fore his marriage, to fulfil the duties Of
her principal private secretary. with the
object of relieving her Of much OF the
detail and the routine work Of SOW
areienty and at the same time of ini
tiating him into the problems and duties
of monarchy, but it is asserted that he
declined. and that she never forgave him
the refusal.
Her priyate secretaries after that were
General Grey, General Sir Thomas Bid
dulnh. General Sir Henry Ponsonby and
colonel Sir Arthur Bigge. Edward VII
bsd Lord Knollys as his private secre-
.orv for the last twoscore years Of his
avtstence. and Sir Arthur Bigge has
haar since the death of Queen Victoria
tho private secretary of the present
King.
,,ast priyate correspondence constitutes
hu, a small portion of his work. There
&c. scarcely q government office Of i'm
,ortance which does not send every day
IN the palace where the King may be
residing boxes Of documents. orders,
New-York tribune., 1910-06-19

table near the entrance, these blatant folk
would prove a sorry advertisement for
Francoiss exclusive hosiery, and so Fate
that is, the head waiter-decrees that they
must be effaced.
The fortunes of the most successful res
taurants, both city and country, are made
by sedulously building up distinctive class
of patronage, the head walters principal
business being to please the steady guests,
to sort out the unwanted and to keep the
volume and tone of the business up TO the
top notch. Over the week end. particularly,
the number of visitors is so great that the
esta blishment is obliged to pick and choose
At the best places all the tables are re-
served forty-eight hours in advance Of the
expected Saturday and Sunday rush.
The summer restaurateur's job is tick
lish one. The maftre dhotel. for one thing.
finds it difficult to obtain trustworthy.
capable help. On account Of the shortness
of the season, higher prices must be
charged on the bill of fare or the sizes of
New-York tribune., 1910-06-19

hotels in New York City. The hotel man
ager cancelled the account, alleging that
the quality was not up to the standard
My friend did little quiet detective work
He found the cause Of the many complaints
was In the simple fact that the servants
coffee urn stood handy to the dining room
and the walters as they came in poured
the guests coffee out of the help urn. Now.
the coffee provided for guests retailed at
10 cents a pound, while that for the en-
ployes is worth about Is cents a pound.
the cheapest grade of Rio. 1t was an easy
matter when the graft was discovered TO
remove the help urn to the other end Of
the house, thus forcing the walters to give
the guests what they had ordered. And my
friend got back his account with the thanks
of the mana cement"
Help, indeed, seems to be as difficult a.
problem for the restaurant as for the home
In the big city are thousands of floating.
irresponsible walters, here to-day. there to-
morrow. taking a transient summer job II
they can get ii. in the spirit of grafters.
with the sole aim of gouging the summer
sucker" When the summer maitre
d'hotel seeks fifty or hundred walters IN
a batch, there's rarely time or opportunity
TO hunt up references. The goats and the
sheep are herded together. and the result
is that one table is excellently served and
the diners at the adjoining one perhaps
are outraged by bad service, drunkenness
or insolence.
The distinguished men who meet in high
concleve on the second floor Of the Thor
oughfare Building hope to mend this. Their
aim is TO check UP walters as closely as
they check up the knives and forks or the
portions from the kitchen Each efficient
sub waiter in good standing receives from
New-York tribune., 1910-06-19

lin one word. who could become their
alter egos-they would save themselves
no end of worry. mental strain and un-
necessary work Indeed, a good private
secretary. who is able to appreciate men
and things from the same point of view
and from the same social level as his
employer, not only relieves the latter Of
the necessity of giving specific tnstruc-
tions except in matters Of great i'm
portance. but is able, naturally, TO do
his thinking for him, and to act as
species of living and perambulating
memorandum book. The private secre-
ory of his chief.
So fully is this recognized abroad that
almost every public man in England, as
well as on the Continent Of Europe, may
be said to have worked at some time OF
his career as a private secretary, ana
were to be asked to indicate the surest
road to fame, future and en1inence in
Great Britain / should unhesitatingly
declare that il was TO be found in the
fulflrnent Of the very delicate and multi
farious duties of private secretary TO
some statesman.
Thus Lord Croner first won his spurs
and laid the foundation of his brilliant
career as private secretary 10 his COUSIN
Lord Northbrook, when the latter was
Viceroy of India So great was the IN
f1uence which he exercised in that ca
pacitv that he came to be known as the
Depi1ty Governor General" and L nave
IL civ amusing ac
count of the extraordinary range OF his
duties in those days, when at one mo-
rnent he would be consulting with MIN
listers or giving directions TO admins
traitors of provinces, While at announcer
moment he would be bolting from MS
seat at q viceregal banquet at Calcut'a'
lust in time to bar the entrance lhto
the hall Of servants bearing some poiIeo
ham or roast pork, the appearance OIL
which would have given mortal offence
to the great native rulers and potentates
present.
Lord Currie, who rose to receive
peerage, the Grand Cross Of the order
of the Bath and the office of English
Ambassador at Rome. was for years ana
years the private secretary or the late
Lord Salisbury. Another former private
secretary now in the House OF Lords is
Viscount Milner, who spent more thah
a decade in that capacity with the late
Lord Goschen. Lord Welby, one or the
greatest authorities on government
ensnce in England. was long the private
secretary OF Mr.. Gladstone; while the
latter's great opponent, Lord Beacons-
Geld induced Queen Victoria to reward
the services Of his faithful private secre-
tary. Monty" Cory. with seat in the
House of Lords as Lord Rowton-
Important as is the office Of private
secretary to statesmen such as Lou
New-York tribune., 1910-06-19

the portions must be cut down. There must
be musical entertainment provided just as
in winter. and besides that. amusements
out of doors, including tennis, golf. polo,
yachting and the like. Tact and diplomacy.
skill in the kitchen and deftness and agil-
itv in the dining room are all big factors in
success.
OF far different order from the gather
ing places of society are the so-called
crooked houses" still occasionally to be
found at beach or inland resort. The
"crookedness 1t should be explained, is
Of catering and cash. not of social morals
1T happens like this said a square
head waiter the other day. when mouse
is poorly managed or when the conditions
of work for the help are impossible, the
raftre d hotel is unable to employ decent,
self-respecting walters, and the KIND that
he can get steal from everybody WATERS
rubber pockets a myth? Don't you believe
it. Why, at the Pan-American Exposition
at Buffalo the walters had to climb four
New-York tribune., 1910-06-19

warrants and directions, requiring the
roval signature and immediate atten-
ton.
To convey some idea of the number of
documents submitted to the King every
day ii may be mentioned that the aV-
erage number of papers which he Is
called upon to sign amounts to over two
hundred per diem. All these have TO be
read before receiving the royal sign
manual and each one of them neces-
sarily passes through the hands of the
sovereign's private secretary, as do
| COPIES Of all important dispatches re-
ceived at the Foreign Office and every
paper Of any moment in draft for royal
approval before being sent abroad by
the Secretary of State for Foreign At
| fairs.
It was thanks to this practice that the
late Queen Victoria was able radically
| to change, in a conciliatory sense. the
draft of the dispatch to the United
States government about the Trent DIM
Guilty in 1861, which if forwarded in It's
original form would have inevitably re-
srlted in war between this country and
Great Britain.
The private secretary. by virtue of his
office as we'll as of the trust reposed in
him, possesses undoubted influence with
the sovereign, who naturally turns to
him before any one else for explanations
and suggestions concerning the docu-
ments submitted.
A considerable portion Of each day Of
the private secretary is spent IN seeing
visitors. in communicating to them the
monarch's views and intentions and in
procuring from them the points of in
formati on which his majesty desires
to be posted previous to receiving them
In audience. The private secretary Is
also often charged with messages for
statesmen in and out of office, and the
late General Sir Henry Ponsonby, when
private secretary, conducted IN penaI
of his royal mistress. the late Queen VIC
toria. the delicate negotiations with Lord
Salisbury and Mr.. Gladstone at the time
of the formation of their last admin
istrations, conveying to them her views.
her fears and her prejudices. And then
after returning home, tired and eX-
hausted after the close Of some labori-
Gus and intricate negotiations upon mat
ters of the greatest national Importance.
Sir Ienry was just as likely as not to
find himself called upon to write letter
In the Queens name. but in his own
handwriting, for the purpose of sending
the customary royal gift of three guineas
TO O. poor woman who had presented the
nation with triplels.
Colonel Sir Arthur Bigge, who can
now. as Privy Councillor. prefix the
highly priced words right honorable
to his name and who is the private sec
rotary of the new King, is the son o. a
New-York tribune., 1910-06-19

flights of stairs with the food from the
kitchen TO the dining room: they were
worse off than hodcarriers, and the way
they trimmed the house and the guests was
a caution
"One busy day, by actual count, two hun
dred porterhouse steaks were served, but
only thirty were checked out from the
kitchen. Whered the other hundred and
seventy steaks come from? All, that was
the walters graft. They got the hot plates
and the f1xings from the kitchen all right.
and in the pantry they brought forth mys-
teriously like Hermann or kellar a choice
piece of broiled chuck steak from some
place or other, which they then served with
all the garnishings of porterhouse. 1t
turned out that the walters had an under
ground railroad connecting with a cheap
hashery next door that sold chuck at 10
cents q portion. A hot water arrangement
kept the steaks warm until served, and
the walters pocketed the entire amount OF
the hill (and the tip) for each extra por-
terhouse.
.rYes'' continued this garrulous waiter,
ST remember the old days at celebrated
sea beach hotel when there was constant
FIGHT TO get served and you had to lay a
silver dollar under your glass In plain view
Of the waiter to attract that lordly servf-
tors attention. In that particular sea-
side Decentralization often cleared 10000
in q, season-it was not so much outright
chea ting as 1t was poor management and
An undermanned staff of walters. But
there were all sorts of tricks. too. and you
had to keep sober brain in your head 10
watch out against check-rafslng, abore-
waited portions and substituted drinks.
"A friend of mine who sells coffee had
60 oo0 account with of the biggest
New-York tribune., 1910-06-19
So Says Ex-Affdcbe.
Wbo Quotes E-
am . les TO
Prox,e IL.

tcopy-5ght, 1910 by the Brentwood Company
Among the very first honors OF the
new reign in England has been the be-
stowal t-v King George Of memberships
Of the Privy Council upon Colonel Slr
Arthur Bigge, who has been his private
secretary for the last nine years. aho
upon Lord Knollys. who served Eo-
ward VII in a similar capacity Tor over
forty years. The grant Of these dlstinc-
tions, which has net with universal ap-
proval in England, has coincided with
the appointment OF Charles Dyer NOR
ton. the Assistant Secretary Of the
Treasury to be the private secretary TO
the President Of the United States.
AL three nominations may be regarded
as recognition of the enormous i'm
portance Of the role Of private secretary
an office which receives in this coun-
Try, as q general rule. far less considera-
ton than abroad. Americans are for
the most part content win the services
Of g mere stenographer and typewriter,
Without attaching any weight to any
other qualities beyond those OF Ordinary
honesty and discretion. They DO not
seem 10 appreciate the advantage OF
selecting their secretary from the same
social grade education and bringing up
es themselves. Consequently, ne Is
rarely in fun sympathy and understand
NAg with the views, the prejudices. the
tastes and the ethics of his chief. More
"FeT. he cannot be expected TO possess
'e@ same savoir faire. the graceS OF
. manners and the tact Of his principal
"2d is therefore unable TO relieve ms
oAef Of much that the private secre-
'Sfy abroad is able 70 take upon hln-
Self
That President Taft has become alive
- thls-has been taught it, indeed by
sVmewhat bitter experiments SHOWN
- ms selection Of man Of the cahpre
- ole former Assistant Secretary OF the
ehated States Treasury for his private
cretary ia lieu of the very worthy
ieo Carpenter, who had served him Tor
many years as stenographer ana
T. but who could not boast OF the
s2lsite equipment for the task or pri-
0'e secretary to the chief magistrate OF
VIC OF the great powers Of the world
we're other Americans Of less exalted
i'efes Of activity to seek their private
elaries from among men of their
breeding and standing, Of whom
can make q confidential associate
Than confidential clerk-faen,
New-York tribune., 1910-06-19
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clergyman. was a classmate and chunl
of the French Prince Imperial at the
Woolwich Military Academy, was sent
home from South Africa with the
princes body, afterward escorted En-
press Eugene on her pilgrimage to Zu-
luland to visit the scene of her sons
death, and on her return to England
was so warmly recommended by her to
Queen Victoria that the latter attached
him to her household, first as equerry
and then as assistant private secretary.
He became one of her great favorites.
and furnished her in her old age with
no little entertainment by his powers of
mirnicry and by his skill in organizing
amateur theatricals. in which he usually
took a leading part.
The Kaiser's principal private secre-
tary, Rudolf Won Valentino, is, like
Colonel Sir Arthur Bigge in England. a
member of the Privy Council. which in
Germany carries with 1t the predicate of
excellency. His family Is of italian
origin, as may be gathered from the
name, but has been settled in Germany
u
and has furnished many distinguished
officers to the German army. one of the
best known Of whom was General
George Won Valentini. who was for many
years director general of military in
struction in Prussia and the author of
the volume Lessons OF War;" which re-
mains to this day a standard work, re-
garded as such both in Germany and
abroad.
Rudolf Won Valentini was educated for
the magistracy and was Governor of that
portion Of the kingdom of Prussia
ters at Frankfort-on-the Oder, when he
was called upon by the Emperor, first
of all to assist and then to succeed the
late Baron Won Lucanus as private sec
retary. Valentini is known at Berlin as
the EmperOr's "Blackie Man." by rea-
son of the fact that whereas the re-
mainder of the Emperor's suite are al
ways in naval or military uniform. he is
usually seen among them In a black
frock coat.
Moreover, 1t is the private secretary
who is invariably intrusted by the En-
peror with the unpleasant duty OF con-
veying TO a minister or Secretary of
State the intimation that he has ceased
to enjoy the confidence of his sovereign
and that his resignation is expected.
Consequently, whenever Rudolf Won
Valentini. arrayed In his sornbre garb.
is seen driving to call upon minister
the people who catch sight OF him i'm
mediately exclaim. There goes the
Kaiser's Blackie Mani" and take 1t for
granted that the official career OF the
statesman upon whom he is calling Is at
an end.
Ex-ATTACHE
New-York tribune., 1910-06-19

The supervisors granted q franchise this
week for a street railroad in Cough street
from McAllister 70 Market. A J. Pom was
the man 70 whom the franchise wA0
granted. but as the United Railroads will
build this spur track of six blocks II IS fair
10 assume that they Will operaoe IL 10 re-
lieve the congestion on the Fillmore street
line and will give transfers. There was
strong opposition to granting the fran
chise among the opponents OF the United
Railroads, because this corporation does not
recognize union labor
New-York tribune., 1910-06-19

The recovery from threatened tubercus
Iosis of T. e Kruttschnitt. son OF the vice
president and director OF maintenance OF
the Southern Pacific Company. will restore
an enthusiast to railroad work. Krutt-
schnitt has strong liking for the work, IN
which his father has risen 10 a prominent
place. and IL his health does not fail he
Will become a valuable factor in the de-
velopment OF the Southern Pacific system
New-York tribune., 1910-06-19
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
San Francisco Tenement House
Law Declared Void.
rBy telegraph 70 The Tribune ]


San Francisco. June 18-The new act res
quiring tenement houses with two front.
ages 20 have a clear space Of twelve feet
between two parts OF the building has been
declared void because its provisions are
unreasonable. The law copied similar acts
in large Eastern cities. where the tene-
ment house builders are compelled to
furnish proper light and air, but here no
dwellings OF that class are constructed
All apartment houses must be furnished
with air wells Of liberal space or rooms
cannot be rented. The act just declared
void prevented owners Of lots from build
ing apartment houses such as are in great
demand now. and its repeal will mean the
immediate construction OF a large number
of buildings for which plans have been pre-
pared.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-19

Southern California capitalists this week
purchased the big MOulton ranch. opposits
the city of CoIusa, for 81. 100000 The ranch
comprises eighteen thousand acres. part
being in orchards About half of the ranch
is OverfOwn in winter. and the purchasers
plan to reclaim this land and grow alfalfa
and other crops. This Is one of the Iarg-
est deals in Sacramento valley land in sew
eral years.