Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-29
SANTA MONICA.
An Antt.seyver Meeting at the hoard
of Trade Rooms.

chants, property hoiuoio ohN An"on'A''
citizens assembled in the Town Hall las
night to make final arrangements for the
fight against the sewer bonds on Friday
Mr.. E. ]. Vawter, the Chairman OF thu
anti-sewer organization, took the chai
and Mr.. J. J. GARLIC assumed the duties
of honorary Secretary. The meeting wa:
opened with a speech by MIR. G. W
Knox. of Los Angeles, who went over il
detail the situation and pointed out very
forcibly the death blow that Santa Mon
ica would receive if the bonds were car
ried and she became the dumping grouno
for the filth of Los Angeles. Then allud
ing to the glorious future that Santa
Monico had If her prosperity were moi
crushed by the forcing on her OF the out
fall sewer he concluded with rigorous
appeal for one and all to arm for the fight
on Friday, for, although victory was Ger.
tain for the Anti-Sewer party, yet II
would be foolish to throw the weapons
of war aside.
Judge Morgan next made few re-
marks to the effect that Santa Monica
should combine and strike as one man,
and his address was indorsed in few
logical words by Mr.. W. II. Shinn. II
was then decided to appoint committee
of ten to raise funds so that Santa Mon
ica could pay her share of the election
expenses and the following gentlemen
we're named by the Chair: w. H.
Shinn, J. ]. Garlic. G. A. McElfresh, T.
A. Lewis, A. E. Ladd, A. Kinney, G.
Grimminger, G. B. Dexter, III. A.
Winslow and J. w. Scott.
a subscription list was then started in
the hall, and those present soon sent the
amount up into the hundreds, showing
that Santa Monica has plenty of enter
prise when the occasion calls for it.
With three rousing cheers for Santa
Monica, proposed by Mr.. Knox, the
meeting then adjourned.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN.
Arrivals from the old caiion this morn
ing report that the earthquake was felt
very perceptibly there last night, and
advices from Ballona are similar in de-
tail. In Mohen's drug store here the
shock set all the bottles rattling and up
set couple of we'll filed graduate meas
ures.
Miss Fannie Davenport and her hand
some husband, Melbourne Mcdowell,
have discovered, like the majority ol
people who come to Southern California,
that this is the only part of the country
worth living in, and yesterday they pur-
chased the Bryeon place, on Ocean ave-
nue., north of Utah. The figures of the
deal have not yet been made public, but
they are believed to be in the neighbor.
hood of 81 600, as there is handsome
one-story cottage on the property. Mr..
and Mrs. Mcdowell state that they will
in future pass their summer vacations
in their new home by the sea, for they
are charmed with Santa Monica and her
surroundings. Their first intention was
to purchase vacant lot near the Jones
place and build on it, but $40, 900 was
asked for the land, and they declared it
too much.
John Hansen, a young Swede hailing
from Denver, arrived here short time
ago and took up his residence at Mr..
Walton's place, on Fourth street. Some
thing is evidently queer regarding the
new arrival, for last night Mr.. Walton
swore out complaint against his guest,
stating that Hansen was insane and dan
gerous to be at large. Judge McElfresh,
therefore, this morning ordered the de-
fendant to be taken to the Superior Court
at Los Angeles for examination.
Manuel Gomez, resident here, is also
in hot water, for a complaint was this
morning entered against him on charge
of depositing the carcasses of dead ami
mails so close to town as to be nuisance.
The members of the Fire Brigade give
another entertainment in Steere's Opera
House tomorrow evening. The pro-
pramme is to be as follows: Overture
address by Judge R. A. Ling; trio,
either, guitar and flute, Messrs. Hopf,
Chandler and Macaire; sketch, "Hop
Lee Laundry" Messrs. II. M. Boehme,
Ed Huie; song, Miss Kate Hodge; Cor
net solo, Prof. Schilling; farce, Boa and
Coz, Messrs. F. @. McKinnie, Jno. Sum-
merfeld, Miss Kate Hodge. At the
conclusion of the programme the chairs
will be cleared away and social hop
given.
interesting entertainment is to be given,
consisting OF display of Japanese day
light fireworks. The pyrotechnics will
commence at II a. M, and will last
continuously until p. m. A novel
feature of the show will be the throwing
of loaded bombs into mid-air, where
they will explode and scatter their con-
tents of cakes, candies and dry goods
into the throng beneath 10 be scrambled
for.
A nine.foot long shark, weighing 300
pounds, was caught yesterday out at sea
by Fishermen Maxwell and Kelsey, and
was brought to shore.
The scattering to their homes of the
tennis players and delegates leaves the
Arcadia today with vacant rooms for the
first time this season.
Miss Rose Coghlan, the actress, ac-
companied by J. T. Sullivan, of her Com
pany, came down today, and had surf
bath, stroll on the sands, and drive
to the cafion.
Mr.. H. w. Hellman, wife and family,
who had been passing summer vaca-
ton here, have returned totheir home in
Los Angeles.
Mrs. G. T. Bridges and Mrs. d. b.
Sullivan have returned from their trip to
Catalina.
Mrs. w. Pridham was down today, ac-
companied by Miss l.. Shankland, Mrs.
J. A. Graves, Mrs. F. III. Mccormick,
Mrs. Clay M. Green, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Wheeler and Mr.. F. Shankland.
]. R. Burnham intends to pass the re-
mainder of the summer in tent on
North Beach.
e. R. Ellis, w. G. Weld, D. @. Hough,
E. G.. Norton, M. o. Grady, G. Robin.
son, Mrs. J. Mcleod, Mrs. r. M. Walker,
g. r. Petrie and wife, are among the ar.
rivals at the Arcadia today.
The Misses Winston are in town.