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The herald., 1895-03-22
AUSTRIAN STREET CARS

There are a great many things that are
done better in So called effete Europe than
in so-called progressive America, and a
good example OF this sort, according to
writer in the last Review of Reviews,
is the street-car system of Budapest. The
street cars of that city are operated by
electricity, but no trolley wires appear
above ground. The electric current is
passed through wires concealed in con-
duit underground, and the trolley reaches
them through slot much like the open
ing in our cable car tracks. The original
cost of laying track under these condi-
tions is greater than that of putti ng up
overhead wire, but it is much less than
that of laying a cable system, and the
Disagreement of the street is avoided.
Although the Budapest railway is a
private corporation, its books are entirely
open to the public and it makes known
at intervals its receipts and expenditures
and pays over to the city a certain per-
centage of its profits in return for its
franchise. The road is run to fair
profit, the last annual dividend to stock
holders being eight per cent. 1t is, how
ever, capitalized for its true value. and is
not engaged, like most American roads,
in struggle to make its earnings meet
the unlimited dilution of its stock.
Apropos of improved street railway sys-
TENS, it is pleasant to learn that our own
roads are to receive thorough overhaul
ing, renovation and improvement under
the new regime that is soon to go into
effect. 1t is reasonable to expect that the
Mill ba toll off 6nrinn tho WI in.
ter months, sufficient number of trailers
will be put on to allow people to sit down
in comfort, and five minute service will
be given on every one of the main lines.
The growth and progress of Los Angeles
will be greatly enhanced by these i'm
provements, and the ultimate result will
be great increase in the income OF the
railways themselves.
The herald., 1895-03-22
NORTH OF TEHACHEPI

Sacramento is to have new telephone
company.
A steam carpet-beating house is being
| constructed at Petaluma.
Rev. Henry Varley, the famous English
evangelist, is now at Oakland.
The Library Association of Central Cal
iornia will meet April I'd at San Fran
cisco.
Local capitalists have asked the San Jose
Council for franchise for new tele-
phone line.
They are still selling California prunes
with French labels in San Francisco for
IA cents pound.
There are encouraging prospects for the
Republican National Convention being
held in San Francisco.
A Hanford man has started in to raise
peafowls as an industry. His first hatch
ing has turned out very profitable.
J. NJ. Bassett, the old Nemesis OF Hunt
ington and the new Councilman of Oak
land, has sued the Oakland Enquirer for
libel
AS an escape for the high rates of the
Southern Pacific octopus it is proposed to
put.on line of stages between Santa
Rosa and Petaluma.
W. w. Felts. Sacramento inventor,
claims to have developed a continuous
electric light from primary battery
which is a perfect electrolite and polar
izer combined-a thing that has hereto
fore been considered impossible.
There is a plan on foot to destroy the
Southern Pacific freight monopoly from
Haywards to San Francisco. The plan
is to build an electric road with a termi
nus at Mount Eden. on the bay, from
which freight steamers Will make regular
trips.
A commission house in Chicago recently
purchased in San Francisco a carload.
consisting of 1900 dozen Of eggs. and
shipped them to Chicago. They paid 16
cents dozen, freight was 3Acents, and
they sold the shipment for % cents a
dozen.
A remarkable artesian and gas well was
struck by we'll borers on Captain Boyes
Aqua Rica ranch, Sonoma. Water with
a temperature of liz degrees bursts up
from the bowels OF the earth at depth Of
seventy feet. Accompanying the flow of
hot water are immense volumes of nat
ural gas in sufficient quantities to light a
arpe town.
The herald., 1895-03-22
STRICTLY PERSONAL

NJ. Clemenceau. the celebrated French
duelst, still practices every day in order
to keep his eye in.
Sir Samuel Flower discovered by inves.
tigation in India that the finest and most
delicate shaped noses belong to Brahmins
OF the highest caste.
Ysaye received fee of $1,000 for his ap-
pearance at one of Mrs. Cal Brices musi-
Gales, and Melba and De Reszeke were
similarly paid for appearing at another
The children OF ex-Unted States Sena.
tor E. E. Rollins are soon to present to
the state of New Hampshire his entire
library, embracing several thousand vol.
umes.
Rev. Edward Davis of Oakland, Cal.
is said to be an actor preacher word
painter, a patron of the waltz, IA sponsor
Tor bean" poker and the most popular
preacher in the city.
The Ameer of Afghanistan is certainly
one of the most interesting despots that
ever acknowledged the power of England.
He is about 50 years Old, is built like a
giant, and has a broad and massive face
and sparkling black eyes,
Sunday Rev. George Terbush, rector OF
the Episcopal Church Of Beaver Falls,
Pa, was so i'll that he could not officiate.
AS it was not possible to get supply, As
wife officiated, and preached one OF DR..
IaImage's sermons.
The herald., 1895-03-22
SCHOOLS AND LA FIESTA
K K K

To the Editor of The Herald: Surely
Professor Search misunderstands the rul-
ing of the Board of Education regarding
the time of drilling the school children
for Fiesta parade. The resolution adopted
by the board says among other things,
that all drilling shall be done after school
hours. But the Superintendent lnjects 1T
right into the middle of the forenoon.
His directions to the teachers are that
the fifteen minutes usually devoted to
alisthenics-though calisthenics is not
practiced daily, because the teachers can
not find time for it-shall be put with the
regular recess time. The regular recess
utes, inclusive, going out and coming in.
From this on until Fiesta week, the
school shall be dismissed at 1915, drill
twenty-five minutes and the remaining
five minutes shall be given to getting
drinks of water, etc. How 800 children,
which any eight-room building holds, can
accommodate themselves in five minutes
is "a question to which the answer will be
that still more of the school time will be
consumed before they all get back to their
seats again.
a Now, there will be many who will not
participate in the parade and who will
want their fifteen minute recess time in
play, and surely these should not be pre-
vented from leaving the ranks and anus
ing themselves as they please, yet dong
SO will interfere with the success of the
practice. Since the schools close for the
day at p. M, what necessity is there
for drilling before that time.
In the petitions against the parade, the
strongest point made was that such out
side matter thrust into the school work
causes distraction of the mind from the
studies. In view of the proposed early
closing of the schools, it is especially in
advisable to interrupt the work in any
way.
individual study" has already in every
respect completely demoralized the condi-
ton Of our schools; let us not permit an
other injury. and which is SO absolutely
unnecessary. 1t is against the ruling OF
che Board of Education and it is against
the wishes of large majority OF the
patrons of the schools.
The herald., 1895-03-22
A CINCH ON GRAVEL
BUILDER

To the Editor of The Herald:-In the
proceedings of the City Council. of yester-
day it will be noticed that the exclusive
right to take sand and gravel from the
official bed of Los Angeles River was
granted to a Mr.. Metcalf, for which said
Metcalf is to pay the city cents per load,
and he is permitted to charge those using
the sand or gravel 25 cents per yard
thus yielding net profit of at least II
cents per yard to Mr.. Metcalf. Now it
may be asked, in all reason. why should
this especial privilege be granted to Mr..
Metcalf? Has he been such public bene-
factor that the privileges heretofore be-
longing to every citizen should be con-
ferred upon him without investing dol
lar or any effort whatever save the collec-
tion of the money and pocketing nearly
three -fourths OF it?
Ii the city desires revenue from that
source let it tax those who use sand or
gravel cents load direct. and appoint
some one to attend to the matter of the
amount taken; but the better policy un
doubtedly is to let the matter remain as
it is, and let those who improve have the
benefit of obtaining all the sand and
gravel they want for the taking of it; the
river-bed is in good condition and has
been since it was bulkheaded on both
sides.
1t would seem impossible that the
members Of the Board of Public Works
and of the City Council contemplated the
magnitude OF this stupendous ''cinch"
upon the enterprising citizens who are
building up this city A very conserva.
tive estimate OF the amount of sand and
gravel taken from the river bed last year
would be 1000 yards; at IS cents per
ward there would be the handsome sum OF
S25, 900, or net income OF at least $17, 900
to Mr.. Metcalf, without the investment of
a single dollar or effort on his part, ex-
cept to get the measure through the
Council. uHtsyHY
This would be a direct tax upon those
building up and improving the city and a
manifest injustice to the community. for
the benefit of one man. The City Coun-
Gil should aid and encourage the citizens
to build up and improve by all the friend
ly legislation possible, and frown down
and dscountenance any attempt OF pri-
vate parties to control the air we breathe,
the water we drink or the sand and gravel
we take out of the river bed to build up a
CITY and our homes.
The herald., 1895-03-22
THE FLORIDA FREEZE

While all the early reports from Florida
as to the results of the recent cold weather
in that state were uniformly to the effect
that the orange trees were killed. yet such
reports must be taken with a very large
grain OF salt An orange tree of mature
growth Is pretty hard thing to kill by
either cold or neglect, and recent observa-
tions made in the Florida groves by ex-
perts show that the bark has not lost its
color, nor is it shriveling as it would GER
tainiy do if the freeze were fatal In the
older groves tests have been MADE by cut.
ting into the inner bark, and the green
ness of life is still observable in many
thousands of trees which were subjected
TO an abnormally low temperature for
many hours. The trees were undoubtedly
almost without sap when the cold wave
caught them, and when the period of sap
flowing is developed by the warm weather
now prevalent in Florida, many orchards
will take on a new lease of life. South
The herald., 1895-03-22
MEDICINE VS.. PRAYER

| Elsewhere is chronicled the sad case Of
a possibly sincere, but none the less GRIM
| inal, disregard of the ordinary remedial
measures used in illness, which resulted
in the death of Mrs. Samis at Whittier.
despite the attention of the Christian
Scientist doctor whose prescriptions
were prayers According to the account
given, there appears to be need of a most
searching investigation, and ii it is pos
sible, the responsible person should be pun
ished. There is room, however, for con-
siderable argument as to the point where
disregard of medical lore ceases to be
matter of personal right and becomes
crime, for the science of medi-
cine is so beset with contradictions and
shortcomings as to make. at least a thor
oughly healthy person distrust all schools
and believe that physic is only good to be
thrown to dogs. Medical men, however,
are courageously striving to extract truth
and exactness from the constant success
sion of perpleXities and mysteries they
meet with in their practice, and the best
of them are not indiscriminately con-
demnatory of practitioners who follow
some other path The tendency in
JliIS, dS III dii pTOIeSSlOliS lOt tuS VoNSipP-
ment OF specialists in place OF the old
time physician who would treat tooth
ache, cut off leg or prescribe for four
diseases at once with equal self-posses-
sion, is indicative of more precise and
harmonious progress in medicine.
In the case of Mrs. Samis there is no
doubt that if reputable physician had
been employed the chances are thousand
to one that she would be alive today. and
the persons who are responsible for her
terrible torture and death would be free
from the burden they must ever have on
their minds and consciences.
On the other hand the occasional vacil-
lation noted in medical deductions is in
stanced in the account in another column
of the insanity proceedings in the case OF
Eli Eyraud, who on Wednesday was pro-
nounced insane by two doctors and on
Thursday declared sane by five.
The herald., 1895-03-22
THE NEW LOS ANGELES WOMAN

The new woman is numerous in the
city and of late has made her influence
felt in diverging but commendable ways.
The presence of those admirable actors,
Mr. Frederick Warde and Mr.. Louis
James, has caused large contingent of
the women who have an idea above a
washboard or baby carriage to listen to
Mrs Galpin's series of lectures on Shake
speare's tragedies, and the consequent
amount of poetico. tragico. historico
eruditlon shows that the Los Angeles
new woman is no whit behind her sisters
in the East.
But she does not confine her aspira-
tions to the purely intellectual and
altrustic; she has gone in for the
latest DEVELOPMENT in the art of bread and
soup making, and beef roasting, under Mrs.
Ewing's guidance with the same happy
enthusiasm shown in her study of the
character of that gentleman of bad NOR
ais and ungainly person, Richard III, or
the antics and depravities OF merry, bad
old Jack Falstaff. This failure to divorce
herself entirely from the domestic and
practical is most pleasing; she does we'll
to study Shakespeare; and for her hus-
band 5 and children's sake she does bet
ter to learn the almost forgotten art of
bread making, and how to prepare dishes
that will rejoice the stomach of an ap-
preciative eater. In fact. she is showing
herself, as she always mas done, pro-
gressive, intellectual and considerate.
Unlike her prototype elsewhere, the new
woman of Los Angeles does not forget
the old man, and remem bers the fact that
he admires most a woman who can talk
Shakespeare or a cook book with equal
facility.
The herald., 1895-03-22
DECEITFUL TAN

The man had obtained the lady's con-
sent by promising to eternally abjure to-
bacco, says the New York World, and at
the church came the bridal party, and all
went as merrily as the proverbial wedding
bell until it came time for the bride
groom produce the ring. The little
clrclet was not to be found, though both
blushing bridegroom and anxious best
man hunted from pocket to pocket. Fin
ally the clergyman finished the ceremony,
using ring which one of the ushers wore
on his watch chain and which had been
his mothers wedding ring. Shortly after
the ceremony, however, the ring was
found-sately hidden in the bowl of a
meerschaum pipe in the bridegroom s
pocket.
The herald., 1895-03-22
SOUTH OF TEHACHEPI
Straw berries at Pasadena.

| Strawberries at Pasadena.
Tucson will soon have a street railway.
Horseracing at Tempe, Ariz., Sunday
afternoon.
Esconddo has had rainfall of 1855
inches this season.
Seventy settlers at Tempe, Ariz.. have
jumped school section.
A good crop of hay is expected in the
neighborhood of Redlands.
1t is rumored that Bisbee, Ariz., will
soon have another wedding.
Ontario will probably have splendid
float in La Fieta procession.
Riverside is extending her two street
car lines farther into the country.
A petition is being signed asking Sun
set for night telephone service in Red
lands.
At San Luis Obispo. the saloon license
has been raised to $500 year, payable in
advance.
The new railroad from Durango, Colo,
to San Diego will cost between $4,000, 600
and 81. 0O0 900
The San Diego Chamber of Commerce
has moved into handsome and commo-
dious new quarters.
It is expected that the Santa Fe. Pres
colt and Phoenix Railway will soon be
extended to Calabasas.
Four Italian and two Mexican miners
were killed by giant powder explosion
at Minas Prietas last Thursday.
The Bear Valley reservoir at Redlands
has forty y-eight and one-half feet OF melt
ed snow in it and more is still flowing in.
The National Mexican Exposition of
Mexico will be held in 1896, and promises
to equal even the Worlds Fair at Chi
cBgo.
taProfessor Hilgard has found the soils OF
Riverside deficient in phos pahte, while
those of Perris valley are very rich in
that chemical.
The Rev. E. P. Kip of the English ave-
nue. Presbyterian Church of Cleveland.
has received call from the First Presby-
terian Church of San Diego.
B. +. Devine of Riverside has discov-
cred new way to cure lemons. 1t con-
sists in packing the fruit in large bins
and covering it with almost green alfalfa
The latter sweats the lemons and makes
the rind pliable.
The herald., 1895-03-22

superintendent of Schools Search has
shown considerable diplomacy in the way
he has endeavored to get the opinions OF
the city teachers on his individual
methods of instruction. AS the Superin-
tendent is virtually the executive of the
school system, those teachers who do not
approve of his innovations are naturally
reluctant to express their adverse ideas,
while those who do will be open to the
suspicion of insincerity
The herald., 1895-03-22
TO DETECT FIRE DAMP

A new method of detecting fire damp
by sound has been invented by NJ. Hardy
and approved by the French Academic
des Sciences, says the New York Sun;
II is based on the fact that the sound
emitted by an organ pipe varies accord
ing to the density OF the air supplied.
M.Hardy apparatus consists OF two small
pipes, the size of penny whistle one OF
which is connected with the air in the
mine and the other with the ventllator
shaft. The presence of the fire damp pro-
duces discord at once between the two
sounds, which increases with the guam
tity of gas and can be measured. BY this
contrivance the presence OF one part in
500 of fire damp can be detected.
DRINK Sha sta Water. WOOllacOtt, agent.
The herald., 1895-03-22

ern California is safe, beyond doubt, from
such freeze as visited Florida, in jan
uary, but it is not safe from Florida COM
petition in the orange markets of the East
except as to the decidedly superior quality
of our fruit and the lateness of ripening
The herald., 1895-03-22

A mongrel pup in Buffalo is to be used
as witness in a murder case. He be-
longed to the dead man and if he recog
nzes and is friendly with two people who
are accused of the crime, it is expected
that the jury will find them guilty. At
any rate the authorities need not be wor-
ried about his accepting bribes.
The herald., 1895-03-22
Ready for the Event

First New York City Official Have
the police been called out and placed in
fornaton?' 40 N
Second Off,cial-'.Yes, SIR"
First Official And the Governor has
notified you that the troops are in readi-
ness?'
Second Otficial-''Yes, SIR"
First Official l-"Well. then, send your
men to the scene at once and notify the
minister 10 go ahed with that helress'
Weddiug.'
The herald., 1895-03-22
smother

The dispatches say that Lii Hung Chang
has been given to understand by the M
peror of China and his mother that unless
he succeeds in inducing Japan to agree to
peace, he need not return to China.
After the way in which he has been
treated of late, one would think he might
be glad to get out Of such country and
tar
The herald., 1895-03-22

The refunding bonds: were carried at
yesterdays election by a large majority
in light vote. The result should be a
material saving to In" taxpayer, but some
how these economical measures never re-
suit in any reduction of the tax rate. The
money that is saved in one way the
bureaucrats take good care is spent in
The herald., 1895-03-22

The mining interests of Southern Cali
fornia have been added to by a reported
discovery of rich gold ore near Acton.
As matter of fact the output OF mines
in this part OF the state is only excellcd by
the horticultural products. The aurifer-
Gus riches of the lodges is but second to
the returns from the golden orange.
The herald., 1895-03-22

President Barrett, of the Commercial
Travellers association, says that 300 men,
bers of that body will take part in La
Fiesta. This will be magnificent show
ing and will be great thing for Los An
geles. Commercial men are very liberal
set of fellows, and it is low estimate to
say that during Fiesta week they will
spend at least $780, 900 in this city.
The herald., 1895-03-22

The mail steamship Alliance has started
on another trip. No danger of her being
fired on by Spanish man-of-war this
time.
The herald., 1895-03-22

The Park Commissioners appear to be
awakening to the fact that Elysian Park
is one great possibilities that should
at once be turned into actualities.
The herald., 1895-03-22

Senator Seymour's reception on his re-
turn to San Bernardino will doubtless be
warm one. All he has is credentials.
No Office this time.
The herald., 1895-03-22

If Tennyson wrote The Charge of this
Light Brigade just after receiving his gas
bill, he was perfectly justifiable. Texas
Slftings. 81
Blobbs--why do you call one Of your
relatives Aunt" and the other "AwntPg'
Slobbs-Well, the other has money. 4
Philadelphia Record. Z
The man who boasts that he works with
his head instead of his hands is respect-
fully reminded that the woodpecker does
the same and is the biggest kind of a
BORE Waterloo Courier.
Visitor-And is your mistress so very
think she will die today?
Manservant-She be very bad mum;
but she can't die today. This is cook d
day off. Boston Transcript.
whats this parrot saying?" asked the
sound like Polly wants a cracker. No.
its "Polly wants beam" I'm educating
the bird for a Boston lady. Washington
Star. &
In 1995-"You'll do just as tell you, =
shrieked the husband of the advanced
woman. WHAT" shrieked his wife. II
mean it'll" said her husband. "Pd have
YOU understand that | wear the skirts in
this family. Chicago Record. X.
Grocer--What have you been doing
the cellar SO long?
Grocer's Apprentice have been clean
ing out the treacle measure. 1t was so
choked up that il didn't hold more n
half pint.
Grocer-Oh, that's what you've been
doing, have you? Well, you take your hat
and go home, and tell your father to put
you into the Notwithstanding business.
you amt fitted for the grocery trade. y
Tit Bits.
The herald., 1895-03-22

1t is matter of considerable interest to
the silver states whether the proposed in
demnity of $3.50 900, 900 that Japan will de-
peace may be restored, is paid in gold or
silver. China will have mighty hard
time, raising such an amount in gold. If
Japan is willing to accept silver it ought
to increase the price of that metal, which
would of course help out the people in
this country who are mining it.
The herald., 1895-03-22
Tying the Knot

Tying the knot, as referred to marriage.
probably comes from an ancient Babylon
IAN custom. The priest always tied y mot
in threads taken from the garments of tbo
bride and groom.
The herald., 1895-03-22

Some of the city officials may have to
scratch gravel in their attempts to
explain that monopolstic contract with
Mr. Metcalf
The herald., 1895-03-22

What bonanza for the lawyers is the
Fair will case?
The herald., 1895-03-22
THINK THEY'RE FUNNY

If Tennyson wrote The Charge OF ths
Light Brigade Just after receiving his gas
bill, he was perfectly justifiable. e.-Texat
Slftings.
The herald., 1895-03-22

A young woman in Milwaukee was EN-.
ployed by a stranger to make some
changes in typewriter copy of specif-
cations. In the course of time law suit
grew up over this change and the young
lady became witness. When questioned
in court as to the manner in which she
could identify her own work, she said
that she had read some of Conan Doyle's
detective stories, and had followed some
of the methods employed by Sherlock
Holmes. 1t wouldn't be bad idea for a
good many men now being paid as detec,
lives by the various cities in this country
to read those books of Mr.. Doyle and pay
some attention to the Sherlock Holmes
system of inductive reasoning. Certainly
they could not by any chance become any
more stupid than they are at present.