The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-01-16
TALKS WITH Travellers
Physician and Biologist on the
Treatment of Disease
THE RAILROAD LAWYER
Found Fishing Discusses Entertainingly
Fat Fees
THE RAILROAD
Manufacturing Chemist on Fruit Syrups
and Extracts-A Naval Officer on School
Children and the Watch Below

Nnildren ana the watch bel0W
DR.. Otto Lichtenberg, famous physician
and biologist who has been touring South
and Central America and Mexico, is in the
city. Biologic treatment for the cure OF
disease is being rapidly discarded by the
more advanced schools. he said. The adj
ministration of OK brain extracts and other
animal preparations have no merit. ]
hoped very sanguinely at one time that the
hypodermic injection of the juice of the
thyroid gland of freshly killed lamb or
the organ administered as food inter-
nally, would prove specific for myx9-
dema, but failure has resulted in many
cases from septicemia, while in others the
physiological disturbance was SO severe
that treatment had to be abandoned. l
am paying this visit to some old acquaint-
ances and to see whether garden or farm
for the cultivation of medicinal plants, like
that at Jalapa, Mex, for example, could be
profitably started in this part of the
country.
Being asked what was new in his native
city of Vienna, he replied: 1.-THE clever
achievement of Professor Routgen is caus-
ing some stir. Through vacuum glass
pipe of the Crooke's kind, an induction
current is passed and rays of light are
emitted which photograph. using ordinary
plates, the inside of wood, flesh and nearly
all organic and inorganic substances. 1t
will prove of inestimable benefit in the
study of pathology and in making per-
fectly accurate diagnoses"
CD. Crossman New York railroad
L.. Al
II come here every winter for few weeks
when it is possible to get away. What
splendid sport it is, and what an almost
endless variety there is of game, TOOTH
some fish," Being rallied on his wonder
full get-up, which would bring down the
house if the astute old lawyer played the
lone fisherman, he retorted with all sorts
of undeserved chaff about the modest I'M
obtrusiveness of reporters. Some badinage
then ensued as to the fat fees he and his
confreres had gotten awarded them by
Judge Caldwell at Topeka recently, in the
matter of the Santa Fe receivership, the
modest sums of 500, 200 to Wheeler II.
Peckham, the allowance to each Of the re-
ceivers of the nice sum of $4,000 year
each, and the fact that Judge j. B. John
son, in addition to the receipt of an honor
arium of SIS 900 for selling the road, was
paid monthly salary of $3.50, making a
total of $4,000 as his share of the cost of
the receivership. At this torrent he laughed,
got into his boat and was soon pulling out
to sea.
During the past twenty-four hours tour
lists and business people have been pouring
into the city in such numbers that the prin-
cipal hotels are crowded. Many guests
who occupy front rooms complain of the
street orators. A gentleman from Denver,
who is very sick, said: After sunset till
nearly midnight it is almost impossible to
have quiet; reading is out of the question,
and even conversation is unpleasantly in
terrupted. These people, some few of
whom are really sincere, should have some
thought for the sick and gather their audi
ences far away from the hotels and apart
ment houses. A prominent Chicago law
ing by day and night No alarm is
sounded and it is dangerous to the sick and
infirm. In all large cities such thought
lessness is punished by fine.
A. S. j. Mendoza, a fruit man of Mexico,
is visiting friends near Ventura. At the
Natick yesterday he said: This is my first
visit to the orangeries of Southern Califor-
mia. The fruit is very fine, especially the
navels / saw at Riverside. I have tasted
some seedlings of as fine a flavor as any
we grow, and, he laughingly added, taken
altogether ours are the finest on EARTH
Our crop ripens two months sooner than
yours, but this year the crop was below
liiS average III quhulty anu cOlOF, anu
shipments to points east of California
were much delayed in consequence of the
almost incessant cold rain in November
and december. The crop is now marketed.
Your orange growers must use incessant
watchfulness against rust and smut.
f. ID. Zimmerman, manufacturing
chemist of Indianapolis, said: Los Angeles
is wonderfully we'll situated for the obtain
ment of fresh fruits for the manufacture OF
pure fruit syrups and extracts for phar-
maceutical purposes, every fruit and nut
in the armamentarium of the physician
being SO abundant and of such perfection
as to quality. am seriously thinking of
either starting laboratory here myself
or sending out one of my SONS. The
growth of this beautiful city in the last
| fifteen years is astounding.
A venerable looking gentleman, a retired
| naval officer, in pleasant chat at the Hol
enbeck, said: Los Angeles has many at
| tractive and beautiful sights, but to me
there is none SO beautiful as the troops OF
bright-faced, manly looking lads anG
| wholesome looking, clean-skinned girls
, meet as take my afternoon walk. VIVA
crowds there are when the schools and col
leges close for the day! AS look at then
think of the splendid inheritance which
| is theirs, and of the part they will play il
the great future of this country, when it il
| our watch below.
Charles W. Morton, special representa-
tive of w. L. Smith & Son, the great Phila
delphia carpet and rug manufacturers
said: There is a marked improvement il
| business, and expect to see a still furthe
demand as the year advances. Trade cas-
of the Missouri river is excellent, and tbs
current will run this way. Los Angeles il
all right, and is one of our best towns.
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