Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-05-19


The down train was three hours late
yesterday, owing to the accident at
Ravena.
Will Beach has purchased the stock
and fixtures of the Grand Hotel at Pasa-
dena aud will open it out in elegant
style.
j. M. Griffith weut TO San Francisco,
yesterday. He is delegate to the An
ti.Riparian Convention, and holds prox-
les for all the other delegates.
The Holored citizens Of Los Angeles
will hold meeting in the County Court
House tomorrow evening to discuss
matters of interest to their race.
The warm spell did not last very long.
the fog coming in from the ocean on
Monday night and putting wet blanket
on the scorcher Of the previous day.
The sales Of real estate yesterday
amounted to about s29O,O00. That will
do for one day, but only part Of the
transfers were entered for record on that
day
The Trustees Of the Pasadena school
district have selected the plans Of Arch
itect Stewart Of san Diego. The plans
were only known rs the point within
olroe' to the Trustees.
There will be meeting Of property
holders on the line Of First street at
the Council Chamber next Friday night
to discuss the grading oi that thorough.
faie. All interested parties should be
on hand.
The great pavilion at Long Beach is to
be enlarged so that 1t will have seating
capacity OF 1000 persons. The work is
to be completed in time to accommodate
the G.. A. X. visitors on the iirst of Au-
gust, and also the annual camp meeting.
The l.. A. & S. q. V. R'y is busy with
their extension east OF Lamanda Park.
II is important TO get down to the new
town OF MOurovIa as soon as possible,
TO haul lumber in for the great improve
ments to be initiated at Baldwin and
MonrOvia.
The grade Of the street at the inter
section Of Spring and Second streets has
been allowed to go at some six inches
above the level established by law. The
new street being made there is ON the
proper grade. The car track will have
to be lowered to the grade.
The Sixth Street Railroad Company
have removed the switch opposite the
plaza, to a point on Upper Main street.
Just north OF Marc hessault. Here the
car stopping can see nearly to the other
switch at the Capitol Mills, better ar
rangemeut than it was before.
A lot Of steel rails for the L. A. & s.
G. V. h. X. are expected to arrive this
morning. The track of this road was
yesterday extended across the Downey
Avenue bridge, along the levee. This
movement is necessary to make room for
the rapidly increasing business OF the
road.
Men are in the field taking the school
census of the city. 1t is a good period
to get low estimate of the population,
as already many families have gone into
the country, the mountains and to the
seaside. The Board should make ar
rangements for many more children
than their census will show.
A Spanish yara is 2.7sl feet. A Span.
ish league is 1905 feet. This is the
distance from the center Of the plaza to
the outer limits of the original Pueblo OF
the city. 1t is not three miles as gen.
orally supposed. Three English miles
is Is, $40 feet. A Spanish league Of land
is 4444 acres,
Oranges are moving rather slowly at
present. A train of about ten cars went
out last night. The S. p. Co. will send
out train about three times week
hereafter. The fruit is at present COM
manding large prices, aud all in the
country will be shipped. There is said
to be 20 cars still in the San Gabriel
valley.
The HERALD acknowledges the re-
ceipt of an invitation to the Grand In.
vitation Turner Festival at the Arroyo
Seeo May 23d. This entertainment will
be conducted by the active Turner sec.
ton of the Turnverein Germania for the
for prizes at the State funniest at Peta-
luna.
Mr.. L. j. Walton, successor to A. Il.
Hoyt, announces in the HERALD his
place OF business at 10 South Spring
street, here he will be happy to see all
his friends and others whom he hopes to
be his friends hereafter and supply them
all with domestic furniture, including
stoves, furniture and house furnishing
goods of all kinds at bedrock rates.
Mrs. G. H. Penning has returned from
a visit to Boston, New York, Bridge
port, Connecticut, and other Eastern
cities. She has spent ten weeks in her
trip, visiting about 100 relatives in the
Atlantic States. She fortunately es-
capped the cyclones that devastated many
portions OF the interior with flood and
cyclonic destruction, and is glad to get
home again.
Every day there are free advertise
meuts put in the HERALD of undelivered
messages in the Western Union Tele-
graph office, when the messages are, at
least half of them, addressed to we'll.
known citizens, occupying public posi-
tons, who could be readily found by
consulting directory OF the city.
Ii it is too much trouble in the tele-
graph office, where the work is paid for,
TO open a directory, why should the
printer and proof-reader and publisher
be bothered to set up and publish the
matter for nothing! Perhaps the mat
ter has been overlooked by the EN-.
ployes of the telegraph office.