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Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-26
SPORTING TOPICS.
CHARLES DURFEE WILL LEAVE
'@ AGRICULTURAL PARK.
Ia pions Forget Morgan-Notes of Interest
'os About Horses and Dogs.

Charles Durfee, the veteran reinsman,
assured HERALD man that he would
move his string of trotters either to
Santa Ana or Chino in few weeks
Durfee has been fixture at Agricultural
park for years. Under the old pepper
trees such noted performers as Arrow,
Mckinney, Gossiper and others have
been housed for years, and the departure
of Durfee for pastures new will be a great
blow to the horse interests of Los An
geles. Durfee says that he will not
train trotter on the Los Angeles track
until the association put it in good con-
dition. He claims that it is altogether
too hard to take chances On breaking
down valuable trotter.
Joe Waldstein and Will Sharp have
been matched to skate for the one-mile
championship of the coast and $25 a
side, at the Mechanics pavilion. This
race should prove very interesting, as
Waldstein holds the championship and
Sharp has beaten all corners.
The above is taken from the San
Francisco Post. Down in this part OF
the world the opinion prevails that the
coast champion is a resident OF
Los Angeles. At all events the
writer protests against Waldstein and
Sharp skating for the championship.
There is boy in Los Angeles named
Lem Morgan who stands ready to skate
against any man or boy in this state,
from one to one hundred miles for 81 to
800 a side. If any of these alleged
San Francisco champions can be in
duced to meet Morgan for 500 side,
| hr tott % O.,
so that there will be no chance of the
match falling through. Our champion
stands ready to defend the title. How
about the San Francisco champion? Is
he newspaper champion?
A young gentleman just returned from
San Francisco brings the information
that Conrad broke down in his work.
This explains why Mr.. Rose sold the
3-year-old. The new owner will keep
him for stud purposes. 1t is also re-
ported here that Gambo and Jim Duffy
had been matched to run at Hueneme
on New Years day for big stake. Both
horses are 'crackerjacks" over short
distance.
The directors of the Athletic club are
hopeful that the next field day will be
the best in the history of the club. The
members Of the club athletcally in
clined intend that it shall be financial
success. They propose booming up
amateur athletics and are enlisting the
aid of their friends.
Ed Tufts has purchased the only
black and tan pup of the English setter
litter exhibited at the recent bench
show by ii. T. Payne.
Gillas A. Clark is the owr er of suck
ling filly, which is bred on fashionable
lines She is by Radical, a son of Pilot
Medium out of Rosy. by Echo. The
Pilot Medium family is coming to the
front with rapid strides, while the Echo
blood is very much sought after.
There will be ball game this after
noon, between the Los Angeles Athletic
baseball nine and picked nine, Sc
lected by James Morley. The match
starts at 2 O'Clock at the First-street
grounds.
There was football match yesterday
afternoon at the University grounds, be-
tween the Universities and school
team. The latter were vanquished after
a hard struggle.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-26

THE Odd Fellows turned out in fine
style yesterday and their seventy second
anniversary passed off with eclat. The
order is extensively represented in Los
Angeles and in California generally.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-26
A FLOWER SEASON.
NOTES ON NMILLINERY--NEw SHAPES
IN HATS.

The Introduction of the Crownless Hats
Has Been Success-Large Flat Hats
Are Still in Demand-Popular Prices
Quoted-Where to Buy Correct Styles
Cheapest.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-26

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Reuse us
Xtolling the
Xcellence of our
Exceptionally
Xquisite
Xhibits, as we don't
Xtort
Xorbitant
Xcess, thereby
Xhausting your
Xchequer for
Popular goods at
Popular
Prices
Prevail at
JULIUS M. MARTENS,
1O6 s. Spring.
See our window displays.
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Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-26

Eastern Produce Co., 1913 East First St
Best eastern hams, lie and 1870; bacon
lOc, llc and l2c; pork, 1Oc; lard, DC.
Creamery butter, 25c and SOC. Best roll
butter always on hand.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-26

Handsome wreaths of flowers. :. 25c
Superior wreaths of flowers. -. SOC
Elegant wreaths of flowers. 81. 90
The best value ever shown.
Large fiat hats 15c
Large fiat union Milan hats. -. 25c
Large fiat Milan hats. ........... 35c
Large fat lace straw hats 1900. 35c
Large fiat fine leghorn. .. 81. 90
The best value ever shown.
Children's school hats, trimmed. 25c
Children's dress hats, trimmed. 81 90
Baby caps and bonnets from .... 10c9
Lace straw braids .... 26c
Lace straw braids, finer. !. s. :. - :. 35cq
Lace Neapolitian hats ..... 5Oc
The best value ever shown.
Ladies' dress shapes, Milan. $3.50. 25c
Ladies' dress shapes, lace 25c
Ladies' dress shapes, chip. ,.... 81 90
All new and fresh goods.
Hats dyed and pressed. ....... 25c
Hats trimmed 26c
Large assortment of trimmed hats
at. $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 and $500
Mozart's, the leading milliners.
Mozart's, the finest millinery.
Mozart's, the lowest prices.
Mozart's, No. 240 South Spring street.
Mozart's store painted white.
Mozart's, between Second and Third.
Go to Mullen, Bluett & Co. for clothing.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-26

The Excursion of the Season
Will be on Wednesday, April 29th. Cars
to Redlanos; carriage-ride over Red
lands heights to Moreno; free lunch
brass band; town lots in the coming
city of Southern California at auction.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-26

Go to Mullen, Bluett & CO. for clothing.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-26

Before 1t Is Too Late.
Get your pick of a straw hat before our as
sortment is broken. Mullen, Bluett & Co.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-26

Go to Mullen, Bluett & Co. for clothing
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-26

Go to Mullen, Bluett & Co. for clothing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23

be easily worth spending twice the esti-
mated cost on if it were not for one thing
That is that it would give the waterways
connecting the LAKES a depth that could
not be rivaled by any of those leading off
the lakes, except at prohibitive cost.
That would confine the traffic to be bene-
fitted by the Improvement to the lakes
alone, and that is not the way to establish
the standard of highest usefulness. The
proper method is to determine the depth
of water that can be given to all the main
Waterways, and to keep the lake channels
well up to that standard. To build a ship
canal from the lakes to the seaboard, for
instance, twenty-one feet in depth, would
be plainly imprscticable. To build one
fifteen or sixteen feet deep would be more
possible. If the canals of egress from the
lakes were fixed at that depth, the same
depth should be adequate for those linking
the lakes together.
The Detroit convention is also expected
to urge an American canal from the lakes
to the seaboard. This will command the
approval of the supporters of internal
waterways, but it should be made part
of the entire system. The canals from the
lakes to the ocean, and from the rivers to the
lakes, stand on the same basis, and should
work together both in securing their con-
structioh and in their operation when
built.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
A PATENT OFFICE JUGGLE.

The granting of patent on the Ber-
liner application, after it had been kept
hanging in the Patent Office for a term of
years by the pretense of an interference
suit, corroborates all that has been said in
advance of the use of that means to pro-
long the monopoly of a patent long past
the life which it was intended the patent
laws should give. 1t is said that the delay
might have been prolonged still further,
but that the Patent Office officials de-
clared that an addition of fifteen years
monopoly additional to the Bell Telephone
Company was the full extent to which
they would permit themselves to be used.
To balance this there is report that the
Bell Telephone Company has still another
interference" of sixteen years standing
i'm reserve. Rumor also says that notwith-
standing the successful working of the
game, the Berliner patent is open to con-
test both on the ground of prior accom-
plishment of the same purposes and a
European patent to Berliner of some years
ago, which limits the life of the patent in
this country.
BE these things as they may, the import
ant fact is impressed on the public beyond
dispute that the purpose of the patent
laws has, by juggle in the governmental
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23

Very interesting news is often obtained
by going away from home; but nothing
more striking in that line has been pro-
duced in long time than some informa-
tion which comes to Pittsburg by the route
of special telegram to the New York
Post. 1t is that a movement is on foot
here by which the iron and steel manu-
facturers will make concerted assault
next year on the Amalgamated Associa-
tion with the intention of wiping that
powerful union of iron workers from the
face of the earth.
This, if there were the slightest reason
to give any credence to it, would promise
some exceedingly singular proceedings
next year. 1t would necessitate the iron
manufacturers voluntarily courting pro-
longed suspension of work during season
in which all the indications promise an
active demand for their products. 1t
would represent them as willing in politi-
cal contest, where the policy of protection
was under discussion, to engage in a
national assault on organized labor, and to
belle the claim that protection is for the
purpose of maintaining the wages of
labor. Finally, it represents them as ready,
simply from antagonism to one of the fore
most and, at the same time, conservative
unions in the world, to turn prosperity
into stagnation, and not only lose their
own profits but to create general discon-
tent, which would be most injurious to
their own interests.
All of which is a possible view to be
taken by a rabid free trade journal, but to
anyone who knows the iron and steel in
dustries of Pittsburg, it is nothing more
than ridiculous. The majority of the iron
masters of Pittsburg prefer the uniform
and reasonable settlement of wages which
is made annually by negotiation with the
Amalgamated Association to the constant
succession of disputes which would arise
under any other arrangement. There are
examples of mills which on account of
especial disputes have been made nom
union; but while these examples have ex-
listed in some instances for years, there
has not been any general tendency to fol-
low it. There is also an element among
the iron manufacturers who annually de:
clare that they will fight the scale; but as
this declaration has been invariably fol-
lowed by signing the scale at the ap-
pointed time, that sentiment cannot be re-
lied upon to undertake any such gigantic
fight as the one rumored.
1t is safe to say that the above story is
wholly without foundation, and that un-
less unforeseen complications arise the
scale of wages will be settled next year
with as little friction as it was last sum-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
PIrTsBURG, MONDAY. NOV. %. lssl.
THE BOND QUESTION.

A correspondent in our Mail Pouch
column asks some questions. concerning
the proposed bond issue, which led him to
2 conclusion against the issue 1t is by the
discussion of Just such questions as these
that intelligent action will be reached on
that subject.
The first question is, how those people
will be affected who have already paid
for street improvements sin case there is
on issue of the bonds and the curative
legislation is not favorably passed on by
the courts" They will be affected exactly
rs they will in case there is no issue of the
bonds and the curative legislation is not
upheld Under the peculiar construction
of our laws, the man who pays his assess
ments to the city promptly, says good bye
10 his money whether the law under which
ne pays it is upheld or not. That this
places a premium on delaying and holding
back the payments, and imposes penalty
on those who are quick to pay up, makes
no difference to the legal logic by which
This conclusion is reached If the curative
legislation is not sustained the man who
has paid for his own improvements will
have in addition to pay for the improve
Tnents of others. The only difference that
the bond issue win make to him is that if
the bonds are negatived he will have to
paw the whole sum in the years in which
fhe PAYMENTS fall due: while if they are
voted he will have the payments extended
over series Of years.
To the question as to what time next
year and the year after these payments
fall due, we answer that they are scat
tered at various dates, the payment on
each contract being fixed at two years
after its completion. Our correspondent
thinks that there is margin of time which
will justify the postpOnement of the deci-
sion and suggests the $1,000, 900 should not
be placed in the hands of the city govern
ment NEARLY two years before it is
needed" As the proposition forbids any
bonds to be issued before the payments
become due, this argument is inapplicable.
The enforcement of that provision is in
the hands Of officials who can be relied
upon TO carry it out honestly. There
might be, as our correspondent suggests,
some room for procrastination; but is
there any better course than for the peo-
pie to decide in advance what course shall
be taken?
The whole question turns on whether
The people prefer to pay what has to be
paid by one or two heavy tax levies and
have done with it, or by payments ex-
tended over a series Of years. The latter
course involves the payment of interest
hut that consideration is softened by the
fact that, on a great share of the bonds
and perhaps all that will be needed, the
city can pay interest to itself by investing
the sinking fund money in the bonds. If
the people Will bear in mind that the ques-
ton is simply between one or two big
payments and an extension of the pay
ments over a series of years, they will
decide the matter rightly. For nothing
can be palmer than that the way the
majority Of the people wish to pay this
money is the right way to have il paid
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23


In these figures there is a general refu-
tation of the theory so actively preached
by the free traders, that the Mckinley act
was universal raising of the tariff duties
for the purpose of shutting out foreign
trade. Not only has the total of foreign
commerce not been diminished but it has
been somewhat increased, and the most
salient feature of the increase has been an
expansion of S122, OOG, 600 in the imports
free of duty and a decrease of S1O7, ,00O, 900
in the dutiable imports. In other words,
the effect of the tariff act is exactly
that which THE DISPATCH has always
held up as the true American policy-the
enlargement of foreign commerce on the
staples which cannot be economically sup
piled at home; and the enlargement of the
domestic production of those which can.
This effect is actually more pronounced
than is shown in the figures. The totals
include the imports of sugar for the
six months during which they were duti-
able Taking SIS, 900, 600 from the dutiable
goods and adding them to the goods free
of duty, on account of the change in that
staple, and we have the result of an in
crease of SIS, ,000, 600 in the free list, and a
decrease of S165, 100000 in the dutiable
goods.
This gives very different picture of the
Mckinley act than that which is drawn by
our friends, the free traders. Whether
the portrayal of the statistics or of the
free trade imagination is the most accu-
rate the public can decide for itself.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23

Office, and by the knowledge, if not the
connivance, Of the Government officers,
been defeated and reversed. The purpose
Of the patent laws is to stimulate in
vention and promote Improvements.
But here is case in which an important
improvement was delayed and held dor
mant solely by the machinery of the
Patent Office, in order to prolong the
monopoly of an already immensely
wealthy corporation. The purpose of the
patent system is not only defeated, but
the governmental Office, supposed to be
established for the service of the people,
serves instead the corporation which con-
ducts the scheme.
This is not, as THE DISPATCH has here
tofore said, the only example in which the
patent laws in actual operation defeat the
purpose for which they exist in theory.
But it is enough to demonstrate the ne
eessity of radical reform in the patent
system by which such incongruities and
contradictions shall be uprooted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
WATERWAY PROPOSITIONS.

Two ship canal propositions have re-
cently been given prominence before the
public, which indicate az once the import
aDce which that general subject is assum-
ing in the disposition in some quarters to
undertake the task at the wrong'end.
One Of these propositions is that of pro-
viding an internal waterway along the
coast. Stating the project in its broadest
form, this project would contemplate staN-
ing the sheltered coast route at Boston, to
connect Massachusetts, Bay with Long Is
land Sound by a canal in the neighborhood
OF BuzZard's Bay, thence by New York
harbor and ship canal to the Delaware
river, and from the Delaware to Chesa-
peabe Bay by another canal From Chesa-
peake Bay, probably by the Elizabeth river,
= connection must be crt to the North
Carolina Sounds, thence from the Cape
Fear river TO the Southern lagoons with a
canal across Florida. The other PROPOSE
tion is that TO he urged by convention of
lake carriers, called at Detroit, to meet
December Il, viz: the deepening of the
connecting waterways on the lakes, such
as the Sault ste. Marie, the st. Clair river
and the channel in the Detroit river to 81
feet The cost Of this work is estimated
al less than SS,500,000
Each of these propositions has its merits;
but the trouble is that in systemized
scheme Of waterways they would come
far behind Others The coast line scheme
would of course he immensely costly, and
as COMPARED with the building of ship
canals to connect the rivers and lakes, it
is far interior in Importance. 1t is urged
or two grounds, first to afford route to
commerce sheltered from ocean storms;
second to secure to small war vessels the
means Of transfer from one point to an
other without coming in contact with the
ocean war vessels of an enemy. The first
purUOse is minimiZed in Importance by
the fact that the broad ocean affords to
commercial carriers more roomy and
cheap route than any canal can furnish;
while the work of the photographic and
Signal Service reduces the danger OF
ocean storms TO coastwiSe carriers almost
10 a minimum. The strategic value Of
tiIe route is much decreased by the fact
that if would be. open to the enemy S
fleets at suoh points as Massachusetts, Bay,
Long Island Sound, Chesapeake Bay, and
so on down the coast. Moreover, neither
the commercial nor naval purposes to be
attained by sUCh route equal in magni-
tude those to be served by the no more
costly canals connecting the lakes with
the Ohio and upper Mississippi rivers or
with the seaboard.
The project to be urged at Detroit would
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE

MRS. SCHLEY, mother of Captain w. s. Schley,
of the cruiser Baltimore, died at her home in Bal
timore Saturday. She had been ill for several
weeks.
GEORGE MosELLE, a well-known resident of
Steubenvile, died suddenly Saturday night ofheart
disease. Deceased was a native of Germany and
leaves a wife and five children.
JAMES F. BROOKS, prominent citizen Of Staf-
ford Springs, Conn.,. whose health had been fail
ing for several months, is dead, aged 75 He held
the patent on the Brooks road roller, which Is sold
in ali parts Of New England.
MRS FRANCIS A. CROOK, daughter Of Rev. DIR.
Ebenezer Brown, prominent Methodist clergy
man, died at her home in Baltimore Friday night,
aged 81 years; She was connected with many
CHARITY and church organizations, and was the
frst President Of the Woman s Christian Temper
ance Union of her city.
PETER WILSON died at Charlestown, Mass, Sat-
urdsy morning. He served in the United States
Navy 45 years, and also in the Texas Navy before
the annexation ofthe Lone Star State to the Union.
He served through the Mexican War and the
War of the Rebellion, and WAS pensioned . few
years ago for long and meritorious service.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
OUR MAIL POUCH.
A Good WAY to Give Thanks.

ooou way 10 OlSC AAA
To the Editor Of The Dispatch:
Can you find space in your valuable jour
nal ior suggestion of one way to celebrate
a oay which this year should be for US, as
Americans, peculiarly one OF thanksgiving !?
our harvests have been phenomenaliy plen-
tiiul, and our tables, in accordance with the
grand old custom handed down to us by our
ruritan ancestors, will shortly be spread
WIN Dountiful repast. Throughout the
length and breadth of our land this feast
VIII De laid, to which practically all will in
some way be invited, the poor as well as the
rlcn, tne prisoners and outcasts even, as
well as those more favored.
On the other side Of this little world of
ours, in Russia, that grim land of terror,
there are to-day, not thousands, but millions,
famine stricken; trying to keep their little
spark OF life by devouring pounded grass,
stubble, anything, and winter-a Russian
winter-at their door.
They have appealed to their Government,
the Gear listens, it will cost, he says, 4o,o0o.-
600 roubles and over, he heads a subscrip-
tion, his guard du corps give up their cham
payne, and tnen-he turns to France and
raises an enormous loan for-his army, even
while the pitiful cry is coming from mill
ions, it is hard to grasp, millions Of men and
women and, saddest of all, from the little
ones begging their parents Tor the food they
have not
We have so much, cannot we, the youngest
yet the richest Of all nations, stretch out our
hands in brotherly love to the starving.
Cannot each State raise fund for food: cam
not we spare the gleanings OF our harvest
for those who have none? Cannot some
society, like those great-hearted ministers
in time of war and pestilence, the Red Cross
Society, be persuaded to add famine to their
mission, and take charge OF the grain SUBJ
scribed that it may reach the sufferers.
1t matters not from whence the cry of dis
against the dying and not do something for
them in His Name. \.
PIrTsBURG, November 20.