Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-24
WHAT THEY THINK.
LITTLE TALKS GATHERED HERE
4 AND THERE.
People in All Sorts of Business Talk on
+ All Sorts of Topics in All Sorts of
Ways.

Burdette Chandler-The prosperity
of a country depends upon it's produc-
tions. Fruit is good thing, but am
looking for more money to come to this
country when our vast deposits OF various
metals can be profitably worked. Cheap
fuel will make the working Of these met
ais profitable, and abundant oil will
mean cheap fuel. 1 think that both oil
and gas can yet be developed in abund-
ance. helped develop oil at Puente,
and have now two wells near Whittier
from which expect good yield.
M. G. McKoon-I have been visiting
the beet ranch OF Richard Gird at Chino,
and am much impressed with the pos
sibilities of the beet sugar business.
Mr. sGird's factory will be ready about
August 18th. He has 5000 acres planted
already, which promise to yield forty
tons of beets to the acre. From this
showing think this ranch will excel
any other beet plantation on this coast
In the amount of sugar obtained. Things
look bright for the beet sugar industry.
brought up number of specimens of
the beets, which are at the chamber of
commerce.
Frank Wiggins-WhyA don't people
take more pains to send interesting ex-
hibits to the chamber of commerce
rooms? Don't they understand that
such exhibits are the best possible ad-
vertisement OF the country as we'll as
themselves? If they could see the
crowds who come here and the interest
exhibited by visitors, they would be
| more ready to help, think, We take
| sll the work of arranging exhibits, and
It would bers small thing to send them
in. p
Humane Officer Wright = There
should be more money appropriated
for work they give me to do. am daily
applied to by people who want me to in
vestigate cases of cruelty to children and
animals, who are outside of the city and
must be neglected because of my inabil-
ity to reach them in any ordinary way.
A little more expenditure of money for
travelling expenses would make it pos
sible for me to do great deal more in
this line.
J. B. Slauson-I see that an attempt
is being made to discourage ramie cul-
ture in this state. reiterate the state
ment have so often made, that there is
money in ramie. The fabrics made from
it are superior to silk in strength, and
equal in finish and beauty. The
machinery for working it, while pecu-
liar, is not expensive; the method of
cultivating is very simple, and very
short time elapses between the planting
and the reaping of fairly profitable
crop, while when fully grown the crop is
more profitable than any other that
could be planted.
Herman Kingsley (barkeeper)-Peo-
pie drink too much slush nowadays.
These made. up drinks can easily be
made of poor liquor, but if man sticks
to whisky he can most always tell what
kind of stuff he is drinking, and it won't
hurt him. These fellows who drink
cocktails, ,cobblers and such truck, get
left in the end every time.
Rev. H. Collins-People think I am
opposed to retrenchment in the city gov
ernment because of some of my sermons.
am not, but am opposed to the par
| ticular form of retrenchment instituted
| by the council. Cheap teachers in our
| schools means inferior teaching, and a
| blow is struck at the life of our city.
reduced my own salary 5000 to help my
church this year. Why couldn't the
councilmen do the same?
Charles Benton (manager Twelve
Temptations) Ballet girls? Why, Lord
bless your soul, they are perfect little
devils; no, I don't mean that really,
only as regards a manager. A ballet is
harder to manage than score of prima
donnas or stars. They have to be
will raise old nuts on the stage. Where
| dn thax hn o~1 "
knows, and where they 60 to when they
up of all sorts of girls, but there are
more good, we'll behaved girls in the
business than any outsider would be-
lieve. ff''
Mr.. Ball kSecretary YIN. G. A.)-If
people understood how much good the
Y. M. @. A. gymnasium and bath rooms
would do in this city, in helping young
men and preventing crime, they would
he quicker to help us out. People de-
plore the fact that there is no cheap and
good place of amusement for young men
in the city, yet they will not help out
our plan, because they do not under
stand what good it would do.
Tom Lewis (police commissioner at
Germain's soda fountain Give me an
orange phosphate. These soda foun-
tains are the greatest temperance work
ers in the world. But still back in
| Louisville, you know, we don't have to
drink soda. They make the real stuff
| there.
Education is all right, just so it does
not leave its victim too smart to work
and not smart enough to get along with
out work. Galveston News.
Prices tell. Russets must 60. Gibson
& Tyler 90. are selling . beautiful shoe
at $3.50; reduced from $6.