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Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-25
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 No one who read in yesterdays Courant the accurate report of the parallel road hear ing could fail to be impressed wilh the testi- mony of President Starbuck of the Housa- tonic railroad. Those of us who have for years followed the course of railroad events have heard President Bishop and President Watrous and President Clark on the stand before courts and committees, but we none of us ever heard any one of them say "my" road. It wouldn't go down. The whole board of directors of the Consolidated road do not own the control of it, much less does the president, and, though they are supposed to carry to the annual meeting proxies enough to re-elect themselves, they get the proxies from other joint owners of the road who sustain their management.
 But there comes the president of the Hous- atomic and before committee of our legisla- ture he says:
 have brought my money into this State and all I ask is the right to extend my rails own way.
 That has mighty different and a most un- pleasant sound. Indeed, when one man owns a corporation the reason for the corporation | ceases. The purpose of the joint stock ar rsngement is to let good many small sums | come to usefulness in one large sum, and, to | bring them together, the privilege of perpet- ! uity and Responsibility is given them. But | if one person becomes practically the corpo | ration it amounts to an individual conduct | ing business without, as is required of firms | and other individuals, being responsible for l his own debts. Worse than that, those | who are stockholders with him are practical l ly at his mercy. Vanderbilt recognized the | many-sided cost of such situation and
 made it the excuse for selling out much o1 his New York Central, and the market real l izes the same thing in its constant hesitancy
 about buying nything where Gould is tht l recognized owner. It is wrong condition But MT. Starbuck talks of his railroad, hii
 money and his own way as farmer would
 talk of his horse, and he naivsly puts th'
 legislature into the purely personal relation
 of giving s'hinn" ''his" rights. A railroad i
 not usuallya personal matter. Starbuck
 they say, makes poor witness but listen tt the lawyers. Yes, but Starbuck is the road
 It is all he and his.
 So far the only thing that he has positive ly promised is to make hundred Henry o
 Robinsons "squirm like a stuck pig" Thi
 sscrifcial and possibly athletic performance
 might have good deal of dramatic interest
 but the legislature, as we understand it, i
 not being asked to charter a show or
 slaughter-house, but railroad. We doub
 if ''an act entitled an act to enable ME tt
 make Henry c. Robinson squirn like stuc
 pig" is exactly within the province of tn ! general assembly of Connecticut.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-25
Monday, February 25, 1889.
THE PANAMA DIToH.

E KAN "A NA "A NH OHs
 One of the queer things growing out of the collapse of the Panama canal scheme is the impression, which seems to be pretty gene- al in Europe, that American capitalists have been eagerly waiting for de Lesseps' failure and will now hasten to take advantage of it by obtaining the unfinished ditch at low price. A Belgian paper says: "It may be supposed that American capitalists will take up the enterprise if they can acquire it through the bankruptcy of the company and without great cost" And the London Times does not expect that ''any vigorous steps will be immediately taken" to make canal on the Nicaragua route, and remarks that "negotia- tions may be attempted with the view of getting the works Cat Panama) taken over at price by an American company" but ad- mits that the Americans sfmay prefer to work the Nicaragua route."
 This is about as intelligent view of the situation as is generally taken in Europe con- cerning affairs in this country The New York Times thus sets forth what is undoubtedly the real state of the case: The leading spirits in the Nicaragua enterprise are convinced sUas tuSy AoNo OJ Aai tAo OOS0 Aou1o oA0 DAoo their rights in Nicaragua are far more valua- ble now, before spadeful of earth has been turned, than those of the Panama company would be if they could be acquired by them for one dollar. They prefer their route where no excavations have been made to this other one on which more than $250, ,00o, ,000 have been spent. And if the Nicaragua company does not care to undertake com- pletion of the work at the Darien isthmus we may be sure that no other group of Ameri- can capitalists will touch the unfinished ditch. The men who have been deeply in terested in the Nicaragua project for many years do not believe that sea-level canal on the Panama route could be used with safety or profit if it should be completed, and they do not believe it will ever be made. Thsy are of the opinion that the proposed canal with locks cannot be made for a sum on which the earnings would pay fair interest. They prefer their own route ou account of its loca- tion with respect to commercial points to be served, the healthfulness of the region in which it lies, the never-failing supply of water for the smmit level and locks, the com parative low cost of the work and for other reasons.
 The indications are that the Panama ditch will remain failure. It would be bold undertaking for anybody to attempt to 6uish if
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COMMUNICATIONS.
A Business man's Idea.

A Business Mans Idea.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 The recent raid upon our merchants for promiscuous advertising in front of their premises was quite proper, so long as it kept within the bounds of justice. But, like many other reforms, it bids fair to go to ex- trenes and oyerstep the mark. The curb stone of building is generally considered 8 part of the building itself, and in many cases is built into and forms part of the founda- tion wall. A small sign upon this curbstone and not projecting beyond it certainly does no harm, and has been permitted in New Ha- ven since it became g city. A committee of the city government is considering the mat ter of having these signs and eurbstones re- moved If it was not serious the whole thj1g would look ludicrous, and it is to be hoped that the result of the investigation will not be such as to bring diseredit upon an ordinance which, when properly enforced, meets the approval of all business men.
 MERCHANT.
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are now slow. Aluminium is as fre-proof as iron. The larger the plates of the metal composing the side of the house, the less lia- ble are they to be warped and curled by in tense heat. A building with aluminium walls such ss we have described-would survive great confagration in which iron structures of existing patterns would wither and crum- ble to the ground. As aluminium never Iusts, house constructed of it would al- ways exhibit a silvery, glistening surface. It would require no cleaning, except as smoke or dust might gradually dim it's na- tive beauty. A sponge and water would bring all that back.
 Whenever aluminium is cheap enough for house-building steamships will be made of it. This will be revolution in ocean com merce. Hulls of aluminium ships will weigh only third as much as iron ones of equal tonnage. They will be as strong and secure against damage from collision as iron vessels now are. Their far greater buoyanoy will be to that extent an increase of safety.
 Passenger cars made of aluminium in light and graceful patterns-including wheels of the same metal-need weigh no more than the wooden cars of our day, and they would be uncomfortable and would not be readily crumpled up or smashed into splinters by collisions. The perils of railroad travelling in the age of aluminium will be much less than now.
 The ductility of aluminium will render it the pest ot all possible materials for bridges The weight of the wire ropes, as also of the bridge itself, for given span, being but one- third that of iron, engineers will perform feats of bridge building now wholly beyond their powers. The age of aluminium will be the age of bridges. They will probably be thrown over the East and North rivers at in- tervals of every few blocks.
 With the sufficient cheapening of alumi- nun may come the realization of the flying machine. One great obstacle to the success of aerial navigation is the difficulty of sup plying practicable motor either to propel or to steer the balloon. The want is still more seriously felt if the design is to dis pense with gas and initiate merely the move ment of a birds wings fsh's tail in cleaving the air. The small weight of an aluminium engine, driven by compressed air, gas or electricity, compared with it's iron equivalent, undoubtedly makes the ultimate success of air ships more probable than be- fore.
 The sources of supply are inexhaustible. Iron, copper, silver and gold are found only in localities geographically small. But one of the most universally distributed materials of the earth beneath our feet is clay, the metallic base of which is aluminium. Hav ing boundless faith in the ingenuity of man to overcome disGculties. we confidently ex- peet him to wrest this now stubborn metal from it's supersDundant combinations, and enable the world soon to enter the age of aluminium!
Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-25
THE ALUMINURI AGE.
What 1t Will be Like-Houses, Boats,
 Cars, Bridges, Flying Ships.

Cafss br10SeSs ElX1n& Snlpss
 From the New York Journal of Commerce.1
 The world has had its ages of stone and bronzs. We are now passing through the iron age. Will this be succeeded by an age of aluminuma We believe that it will. It taxes ones imagination little, we confess, but not ones credulity, to see, in the minds eye the bright and beautiful aluminium re- placing black and ugly iron in most of the latter's present uses.
 Fancy houses built of aluminium instead of iron. The weight of the new metal is only third as much as iron, with equal or greater tensile strength. The girders and the plates could be cast and readily handled in sizes far larger than those to which archi- tectural iron is now confined. Perhaps whole fronts of moderate sized houses could be nodded in 6 single piece. This would greatly facilitate building operations, which
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partially right, and 16 1-2 per cent. were false alarms. Of the hay harvest forecasts, 8s per cent. were entirely successful. and on-
 ly per cent. wholly wrong. These results show a high state of efficiency in this ser-
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what te Leave Out.

TE. B. HaskeIl to the Boston Edltors
 What to leave out? That is the most im- portant question of journalism. Good old Dr. Peabody said that he took the---be- cause it left most of the news out. will not name it, but it is not @ successful news- paper. Of course much must be suppressed,
Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The London Times will probably continue to "thunder" usual, but its laundering will not be very impressive for awhile.
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a very persistent delusion.
 The railroad hearing at Hartford is inter fering with other busi ness, but it is as i'm. portant as anything before the legislature. Since the investigation paused some attempt has been made to break the force of the rev. citations which the Housatonic managers have been compelled to make, but the fact re- mains that the parallel scheme has received a bad, not to say fatal, set back at the start.
 Ballot reform in this country is late. Says the Christian Union: What is known as the Australian system has been in operation in that remote country for 30 years; Great Britain has been working under it for 16 and Canada for A years. Ten years ago its lead- ing features were introduced in Belgium. Even the grand duehy of Luxembourg has introduced the system in it's municipal elec-
 tions, while Italy and Norway have substan- tially embodied its chief features in their own system.
 The British Medical Journal takes radical ground in discussing unhappy marriages. 1t says: The remedy seems to us to lie not in weakening the stringency of the bond, but in providing that it shall be entered into with an adequate knowledge of all the con- ditions attached to it and willingness to sub- init to them. For this some amount of physiological teaching is indispensable, and there need be no difficulty in imparting it without the slightest damage to innocent minds. We are firmly convinced that if unions were arranged in accordance with well understood scientific principles more often than they now are, we should hear less of the unhappiness or failure of marriage. Chili is maintaining her reputation as the most enterprising nation in South America. Her latest progressive move was to contract l for 10, 900 ties and large quantity of timber | from the region about Puget Sound. This \ material is to be used in constructing trans ! continental railroad through Chili and the ! Argentine Republic, and for building several ! new lines in the mining region and one uI ! the coast into Peru. To make sure that the | work will be well done the government ii ! said to have engaged number of American | civil engineers and practical contractors When the new lines are completed they will ! connect the silver mines of the Andes and the business centers of Peru with the princi | pal paths of South American commerce.
 Everybody knows that the government
 weather prophet in this country is not yer!
 successful in his predictions. In Great Brit
 ain the work of the Meteorological office is ol
 the whole pretty successful. During the las
 year, in every hundred forecasts, fifty -thre have been exactly fulfilled and thirty on
 others have proved more than half right, g
 nearly right, at any rate, as to be of practice
 value. Of the remaining sixteen, ten wer
 less than half right, and six were altogethe | wrong Of the storm warnings issued, 6 \ 1-2 per cent. were justified; 26 per cent. wer
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NO. AZ

but the public demand must be kept in view, and if one does not meet it another will. One cannot run a newspaper on the plan of the New Hampshire boarding house keeper. Glow did you manage to make the summer boarders pay!" asked a curious friend. "Wall," said rural philosopher, 'I found out what the boarders didn't and fed lem on it'' As a matter of busi- ness, the newspaper publisher cannot afford to violate the law of supply and demand, whatever mistakes may be made under the fierce heat of competition. sPitiless pub licity," is valuable conservator of public morals. It does not create crimes, it ex- poses them, Serving the same purpose as lights on the public streets.
 The newspapers necessarily contain much that you do not care to read, some things that make us cringe little, some that seem needlessly cruel to torn and bleeding hearts, but even in such cases there may be conn pensations; society may gain, though the individual suffers. In my experience the most frequent and feeling complaints of pub- licity have been made by w1ongdoers.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-25
SILKS.

24 inch Black Failles at $1.e0 per yard. Please compare with anything to be found at $1.25.
 Black Peau de Soies at all prices; special values at $1.25 and $1.50. 24 inch Black Gros Grain Silks at 9sc ger yard, worth $1.25. Only few pieces left of those Black Surahs at 50c per yard; regular 65c quality. 60 dozen-all we could get-5S All Linen Napkins, full selvedges, 8715o per dozen. One bale 16 inch All Linen Brown Crash at 6Ac per yard, IS inch do. at 7c per yard. GREAT HIT Our Ladies' Jersey Ribbed Vests at 13c each or for 25c; have re- cOivsd 9 cases more. Can supply our cus- toners now.
 Turkey Red Fringed Cloths at bargain, 1X yards at 75c, 3 yards for SIC and 211 yards for $1.
 Our usual quality Ladies' Fine Merino Vests and Pants in Medium (Spring) weight at 500, just received. Vests are in both short and long sleeves.
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Edison is truly wonder. He is to have eight thousand square feet of space in the Paris exposition solely for the display of his inventions
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A new Jennens association has been formed for the purpose of claiming and get ting the Jennens estate in England. This is a very persistent delusion.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-25
Nea Haven Window Shade Co,,
 68 10 72 ORANGE STREET.

District of New Haven. ss. Probate Court,
 February 21et, 1889 { TNSTATE of ELIZA M. AYRES, late of Orange, El in said district, deceased.
 ITnon the application of Charles K. Ayres, nrsyinR that letters of administration may be grantee on said estate, as per application on file more fully appears, 1t is
 ORDRREb-That said application be heard and determined at Probate court to be held at New Haven within and for the district of New Haven, on the 2Sth day Of February A. D. 1889, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. and that notice be given of the prndency of said application and the time and place of heariug thereon by publishing the game three times in some newspaper having a cir culatiou in said district
 fe92 St A. HEATON ROBERTSON, Judge
Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-25
COFFEE MAKING.
A Right Way Is Rather Cornplicate
 Hut Sure.

Hut Sure.
 From the Baltimore Telegram.l
 'To make good coffee," writes an expert on the subject, "we must have the proper or pure article. What is called Mocha cof- fee, that is the best kind in this country. has only an imaginary relation with pure and other Arabian districts. Compared with the prices of coffee in Turkey or Ara bia, pound of pure and unmixed Mocha must at least be sold from $1.so to s1.5o. "Cefe making is a more complicated af- fair than tea and could not be easily con- veyed in receipe. The coffee must have brownish color, which is gained by the proper process of roasting. A roasting ket- tie must be a kitchen utensil in every family. as it is in Turkey. The fire must be moderate so that it might be roasted very slowly and must be taken away when it assumes an amber brown color, and imme- diately spread on table or cloth. Coffee must be roasted day by day or at least once in two days. If, after roasting, it is kept long, the flavor will most certainly dissipate. Therefore, when yet slightly warm, it must be reduced to impalpable powder, not by grinding, but by powdering in mortar-a stone mortar always preterred-the powder must De Kept ar tlSn6 III Jar, noG HI paper bags.
 'In making coffee we must obtain two things-strength and flavor. It is evident | that to obtain the first it must be boiled, but by hard and long boiling the flavor i. | lost; this difficulty must be surmounted I then by double process, one thorough l cooking and one slight; by the first strong l infusion is obtained, and by the second the I same Infusion is favored. Take little tin l or coffee pan, according to the number of l cups you want to make. Put in this pan a l good sized teaspoonful of the pounded coffee | for each cup, and place it over slow fire without water. Let it fume moment; pour on this, without taking away from the fire, boiling water; in a few moments the froth l rises, take it from the fire instantly, turn into the cup and drink"
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District of New Haven, s., rroDase Court, }

February 21, A. D. 1889. HESITATE of JAMES R. AYRES, late of Orange, El in said district, deceased.
 TTDon the application of Charles R. Ayree, uravine that an instrument in writing pur- porting to be the last will and testament of said admitted to probate per application on file more fully appears it is
 ORDERED-That said application be heard and determined at Probate court to be held at New Haven, within and for the district of New Haven. on the 18th day of February, A. D. 1889, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, ahd that notice be given of the pendency of said application and the time and place of hearing thereon, by publishing the same three times in some newspaper having cir cdsssiSn fss st 'n sa A. HEAToN ROBERTSON. Judge
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-05
The County Fair.

The County Fair.
The Sixth Annual Fair of the Los An.
geles County Agricultural Association
will take place at Downey City, on Tues
day, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
of next week and the prospects are that
it will be the most successful ever given
by the association. The officers of the
association are: President, H. L. Mont
gomery; Vice-President, J. II. Cooke
Secretary, II. A. Scott; Treasurer, 7. j.
Kerns; Board of Directors, j. A..
Mitrovich, H. L. Montgomery, G. A.
Coffman, 7. J. Kerns, 0. P. PASSIONS, s..
@. Ruddock, James Quill, A. S. Gray, H.
A. Scott, James Stewart, J. II. Cooke
and G. B. Walter. The Division Super
intendents are as follows:
Division A: Horses, Mules and Jacks
B. Walton, Compton William Caruthers,
Downey, Assistant. Division B: Cattle
Frank Coffman, Rsnchito; G. w. Col
tron, Compton, Assistant. Division c.:
Swine-C. A. Coffman. Ranchito. Di-
vision D: Sleeps. @. Ruddock,
Downey. Division E.: Poultry-L. M.
Order, Downey; G. w. McGary,
Downey, Assistant. Division F: Farm
Products-R. B. Arey, Downey; H.
Hood, Downey, Assistant. Division g.:
Fruits. w. Gate, Ranchito; James
Stewart, Downey, Assistant. Division
n: Trees, Shrubbery and Flowers-S. G.
Hammer, Downey; Miss Matte Coff
man, Ranchito, Assistant. Division /
Agricultural Implements and Machinery
John Townsley, Downey. Division j.:
Domestic Manufactures and Fine Arts
]. II. Strine, Downey; Mrs. A. M.
Sproul, Norwalk, Assistant.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-05
SANTA MONICA.
An Important Subtitle FiremeR-A
Social Party.

An Important Subtitle EiremeR-A
Social Party.
Before Justice Twichell quite an i'm
portant case has been brought, and the
evidence is now being taken. 1t is a
claim on the part of ranchers and bee
men for damages against those who
started the recent disastrous mountain
fire in this section. Property to the
amount Of from So 900 to 81 900 was de-
stroyed, one apiarist named M. Luy
alone losing sixty stands of bees, with
the appurtenances of honey-house, ex-
tractor, etc. The blame of the confs-
grafton is laid at the door of Superintend-
emit Goodale, of the Soldiers Home, I'M
der whose direction it is said the en-
ployees were burning brush, and thus
started the big fire. Mr.. Goodale is the
defendant in the case now pending.
At the meeting of the Fire Brigade last
night, the resignation of Secretary f. Nc
Kinnie was presented, the reasons being
insufficient time to attend to the duties
of the Office. Mr.. W. W. Waller was
appointed temporary Secretary in his
stead, and will remain in power until the
December election.
Mr.. H. A. Winslow gave very pleas
ant whist party on Wednesday night in
honor Of Mr.. II. B. Lockwood, who left
for his Riverside home today. The
gathering was q most enjoyable one, the
following gentlemen being present
Messrs. Mcdonald, Tomkinson, E. j
Vawter, E. Templer-Allen, E. G. Wood
house, g. L. Waring, John Machell, w
H. Young, J. B. Proctor and E. II
Grasett.
The flagstaff was placed in position al
the Soldiers Home yesterday.
| The headquarters for all amusement
tickets have been transferred to Gillis
drug store since the retirement Of Mr.
Mohen from business.
] Mr.. J. w. Scott, Of the Arcadia, re-
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-05
A Presentation.

On Thursday evening Charles Ste
phens, the foreman in the Street Super
intendent's Office, was presented with a
handsome gold watch by the men in the
department. who appreciate his efficiency
and kindness. The presentation took
place in the Rose block and Andrew
Dugan told in plimentary words the
reasons why the token of esteem was
given. Charley was surprised, but he
managed to express his thanks in ap-
propriate terms and for an hour or more
the party assembled made merry at his
expense.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-05

turned last night from trip to Riverside
and Arrowhead.
Now is the time for moonlight excur-
sions to the beach.
Colonel MARVEL, Colonel F. A. East
man, Miss Ethel Brandon and Judge
Levy were among the Arcadia's visitors
yesterday.
Mr.. Fl. B. Lockwood returned this
morning to his headquarters at River
side, having passed a pleasant summers
vacation at the Arcadia.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lazzarevich, who
have just returned from Europe, are at
the Arcadia. II.
October 4, 1889.