The Daily Morning Astorian

ASTORIA'S FOURTH
ANNUAL REGATTA

Is Destined to Eclipse All of the
Events of Previous Years.

THE
YEAR
OF ALL YEARS

When Astoria Seeks a Fete for Entertainment
of People of the State to Help
Celebrate Her Triumph

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The Regatta will be the regatta of
regattas. The committee are all working
hard on the proposition, and are
arranging for unique and interesting features
in connection with the regular water
sports. That the affair will be a
success is assured. When Astorians wake
up to a situation nothing can stop the
accomplishment of the object of their
undertaking.

At the meeting of the managing committee,
yesterday, Captain Gregory resigned
as chairman of the committee on
aquatic sports, because his duties as
superintendent of repairs on the Manzanita
make it impossible for him to give
the necessary time to the matter. Edward
Hallock was appointed as chairman
in his place. A number of new
features for the entertainment were discussed
and adopted. In the evening the
press committee held a meeting and
took steps to notify the members of the
press throughout the state of the coming
regatta, sending them invitations to be
present, and soliciting their aid in
making the affair a state gala day.

Portland had her big Fourth of July.
Tacoma her rose festival and lumbermen's
excursion. Seattle's carnival, and
Astoria does not propose to be left behind
in the matter of public entertainments.

A crucial period has arrived in the history
of Astoria, and the thinking men
and wide-awake business men realize the
situation. Of all years in the history of
the city, this is the year in which a regatta
is needed. Every man, every
property-owner, every storekeeper, hotel-
keeper, manufacturer, hotel-keeper, restaurant-
keeper, lawyer, doctor, judge, clerk
and errand boy should give according to
his means to the cause and work with
all his might to make the regatta the
grand success which it can be made if
all pull together. This is the year which
will see Astoria joined by steel bands
with the Interior of the state and the
far East. This is the year of big
crops, the shipment of which to foreign
ports will, during the season, be made
through her gateway. This is the year
in which many mortgages thus obligations
will be paid from the profits in Oregon
soil. This is the year in which a successful
growing of flax in Oregon has
been demonstrated. This is the year in
which will be born great enterprises of
the manufacture of Clatsop county's
timber into lumber for foreign shipment.
This is the year in which Oregon wheat
will be ground into flour at the gateway
of the state and transported to the
markets of the world. Of course Astorians
want the citizens of the state to
see where these events are to take
place, and to join in a celebration commemorative
not only of the prosperity
of the little town at the mouth of the
Columbia river, but, what is of greater
importance, the prosperity and increased
richness of the state at large and her
principal cities.

More important than appears on the
face of it, is the holding of the fourth
annual regatta in Astoria. People are
wanted here. There is room for people
with brains and money. There is business
here to remunerate such people.
They don't know it. Let them come
and see for themselves. Each man who
will visit Astoria during regatta week,
though he only comes from within the
confines of the state, has a number of
friends East, and if properly entertained,
about the first thing he will do will be
to write home about Astoria harbor and
what he saw on regatta day. Just about
that time there are usually numbers of
excursions to the coast from Eastern
cities, and many will be attracted here
by the announcement of a regatta. The
ocean and aquatic sports are always a
first attraction to the average man or
woman. Out of the hundreds who will
visit here, ten per cent will go away
with the idea of coming back again
and of spreading abroad the news of what
they witnessed. Let it be regatta, then,
first, last and always, and '97 will go
on record as a red letter year.