The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-26

riages to rent them out for fty cents
! day. wnlle they we're not using taem
! which was ruinious to the liverv bust
| ness of courss Judge Weed remarked tina
| there was one branch of bus neus we'll pro
tected at least, that is the meat bust
ness. There IS an ordinance that ne
outsider can sell meat upon the streets o.
| Pasadena. As consequence one butcher
runs eight wagons. and has seventeen
horse in use for delivering m at to hi.
customers. There are good many o.
these butchers. This is not one OF thu
number. Evidently they wear out the
streets more THAI all tbe hacks put to-
gether. The ordinance was tabled at the
last meeting and has not been taken ur
since.
number OF property owners interested
in Broadway presented petition asking
that in view of the narfowness OF thai
street between Green and Broadway &c
feet) an ordinance bs passed orbiddi ny
all public conveyances standing on said
street and the receiving iad delivery OF
bag cage or express on Broadway between
the streets named.
Judge Wee thought the matter of TAX
ing care IT the houos and .ramps that
will soon begin to be numerous ought to
be taken up and considered, that they
might not continue to come here and
dodgs the towns that have provided stone
piles for their entertainment. AS ii is
now, Los Angeles, San Bernardino
riverside and other places are stesred
clear of, while Pasadena seems to possess
attractions for the species that are IT.
resistibe No definite action was taken
upon the matter. but something will prob
ably be done soon.
A TEMPERANCE MEETING.
large audience. occupying both audi.
forum ahd gallery, Assem- pled at the tab
ernacle last evening IN union tenn per-
anoe meeting. When the meeting was
called TO order bv c.. c. Reynolds. who
presided. there were seated upon the plat
form Revs. W. NJ. Jones, pastor Of the
Universslist church; A. G. MAXWELL, for
merly pastor Of the North Pasadena
church, who wers the two speakers of the
evening; Revs. Clark Crawl ford, pastor
OF the Methods: church of this city; n.
II g Fife. pastor of the Prespyteria II
church; c. K. TebbettS, pastor OF the
Friends church Herbert ". Lathe, pastor
OF the Congregational church; c. I.
Douglass, pastor of the Baptist church:
Ii. f. Ward, pastor of the Christian
church; Il. l.. Coneer, late pastor of the
uniyersal,st church; and several mem
bers or the TEN pera ice enforcement COM
mittee, including Tilman hobson, James
Campbell. Mrs. Griffith. John Wadswurth,
\. X. Nash and Z. A. Walker.
After opening exercises and some good
music, Rev. Clark era read the fol-
lowing letter from Neal Dow, the veteran
temperance worker. which speaks for it.
self:
PORTLAND, Oct. %, 1895.
Dear Sir have this moment received
your note OF the 2lst and hasten to re-
ply. You wish to know if the statement
of Judpe o. f. Weed is correct. that on
a railroad somewhere In ths east he con-
PEELED me, ny an array OF facts, to a.
tnat more liquor Is sold IN
Maine than Was or would be sold under
b Oh license.
Please say to the Judge and every body
for me tn 1t he is mistaken. l never
said that or anything like it to any body.
my have saii, and probably did
that liquors are sold IN some places in
Maine on the sly in violation o. law, but
the quantity is vastly less than 1t was
before the adoption of prohibition.
In Portland, where | live. the largest
city in the state,it is far within the ficts
to saw that not the one-hundredth part
as much liquor is sold mere now as there
was before the law.
We had in the safe thi.ty-fve distiIl-
cries, seven OF which and two large brew
cries were in this city. These we're run-
MN, night and day all for home trade
Now, there Is not a distillery in the state.
nor has iere been for many years. AT
the same time We itipOr ed for nome con-
5u ptIon a gft at quantity OF West India
m. 1t ca ne To us by the carso-many
)f them every year. Now not nuncneop
s lmpo tied, nor has tbera been in many
years. In more than thre-fourths of our
state with more than three-fbunhs OF our
population, the liquor trade is practically
unknown.
Al entire gen ration of the psople has