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The herald., 1897-03-26
PARK COMMISSIONERS
There Will Be no Fiesta Float This
Year-Routine Business

AT the meeting of the park commits
sioners yesterday morning, at which all
of the members were present, Superin
tendent Carey reported that the East
Side bandstand had been completed and
was in every respect first-class. The
building committe also presented n
favorable report, when the stand was
accepted and SIS additional was appro-
priated for additional expenses, if
needed
The superintendent also reported that
the water company had agreed to put in
water pipes in Elysian park If the city
supplied the necessary pipe.
A statement was made by Superinten
dent Carey of the trees and plants for
Elysian park now being propagated-
5000 ivy geranums, 500 begonias, $500
verbenas, 5000 marguerites. These are
all for beautifying the park entrance.
On the recommendation of the finance
committee Of the commission it was
decided to grant F. B. Robinson and J. j.
Caulfield a rebate of rents of the East
Side park boating privileges for jan
uary and February, to be paid during
the summer months.
The following communication was read
from John Addison Porter, the private
secretary of President Mckinley:
THE president directs me to acknowl-
edge the receipt of your favor Of recent
date enclosing a copy of the resolutions
adopted at q meeting of the board of
park commissioners of your city. and to
assure you of his hearty appreciation
of the honor you have conferred upon
him."
The letter is in reference to the nam
ing of the highest point in Elysian park
as Mount Mckinley on the day of the
presidents Inauguration. On motion
the communication was ordered spread
upon the minutes of the board.
Requisitions for fifty pounds of blue
grass seed passed; also two dozen chairs:
also for tank for sprinkling the roads
in Elysian park.
The request of the Merchants and Man
ufacturers' association for permission
to close up the park boulevard for two
weeks in order that their work may
be facilitated was granted.
A communication was read from the
Fiesta committee inviting the park com
missioners TO enter float in the floral
parade.
After some discussion ii was decided
that the park department would not en-
ter float this year on account OF the
Strengthened finances, but that the FL
esta committee should be aided wit
whatever flowers and greens the super
intendent thought could be spared from
the parks.
Superintendent Carey stated that the
park float last year cost the department
S206 and received a prize of s25. The eX-
pense however, he said, was asmall item
compared with the trouble.
The following plants have been pur-
chased by the park superintendent for
beautifying the approach to Elysian
park: Twenty pines and sixty palms in
three lots of as many different varieties.
The superintendent reported that he
had appointed a. l.. Wilson as watch
man in Westlake park. The appointment
was confirmed.
The herald., 1897-03-26
City Hall Notes

The special committee of the council
on the garbage contract and Contractor
Franklin have about reached an agree
ment. The contractor has finally offered
to reduce the rate from $500, just about
one-half what 1t costs for the whole city
TO $500 rather than have his contract
Cancelled. and the committee will pre-
sent a report to the council Monday rec
ommending this amount.
The board of public works made its
weekly round OF inspection yesterday af
ternoon.
Fl. l. Millard ct al. protest to the coun-
ell against the construction of a sewer
on Del Monte street, south of Jefferson
street.
Herman de guna, the young pro
moter" who cut quite swath at the
city hall last summer, and succeeded in
securing a telephone franchise. which
he afterwards sold out, and left the
city. again put in an appearance at the
hall yesterday. and paid his respects
to Mayor Snyder.
The herald., 1897-03-26
SAN DIEGO

SAN DIEGO, March 25.-(Regular cor
resnondence) With the aid or O,o0o
pounds of powder 100000 tons OF rock
was dislodged yesterday at the Moreno
dam site the source from which this
city will soon receive its water supply.
Preparationsr have been in progress for
the blast for some weeks past, and yes
terday the explosive was touched Off
with an electric battery. The blast
was a great success, and the rock dis
lodged in the amount and :hape in
tended.
b. A. Woodford secretary of the ad-
visory board of the Southern Califor-
MIA Fruit ascociat ton. is here on busi-
ness connected with the fruit industry.
Mr.. Woodward says he is confident that
the fruit growers will get a tariff OF
three Quarters az a cent on their pro-
duct. but would advise that no EFFORTS
be spared TO accomplish this result.
Today Mr. Woodward went to Lemon
Grove. and this evening adore ssed a
good sized audience at La Mesa Be
fore the close OF the meeting an organi-
zation OF fruit growers In that section
of the county was effected.
The members of the local naval re-
serve turned out in full force last night
to witness the new officers of the divls-
ion sworn In. Assistant Surgeon and
Ensign A. Morgan presented the COM
min,ions to Lieutenant Commander j..
A. Chandler and f. M Shaw. lieutenant
Junior grade, and also administered the
oath. He also presented medals to va
rious members for marksmanship
Yesterday a party of pleasure-seekers
visited the Coronado Islands in search
of saebird eggs. Soon after landing the
nest of an enormous bald eagle was
spied for up among the rugged cliffs,
The herald., 1897-03-26
oCEANsIDE

OCEANSIDE, March s25-(Regular
Corerspondence.) Mrs. Julia A. Fultz.
who moved to Los Angeles last Decem-
ber, for medical treatment for her hus-
band, has returned to her home.
The contest for the silver cup at the
gun club tournament resulted in the
Oceanside gun club retaining the cup.
but must defend 1t once more before
obtaining final possession.
DR.. Warner and family OF Wilkes
barre, Pa, who have been spending the
winter at this place, left for their home
Monday.
Oceanside will enter the race for the
state normal school to be located in
SSH Diego county. Forty acres Of land
Will be donated as the prime indictment
and nature has supplied an unsurpassed
location and balmy air and sunshine.
An enterprising local machinist thinks
he has solved the problem of wave mo-
tor power and expects before long to
make a practical test of his theory, hav-
ing already given it test on small
scale.
The herald., 1897-03-26
The City Census

It is more thar probable that the city
census to be taken under the state law,
as prepared by Postmaster Mathews,
Will be taken independent of the school
census, and that there will be two emu
mera tons This conclusion has about
been reached by the special committee
of the council, after consultation with
the board of education, as they believe
IL will be cheaper than the other way.
The school board wanted the council
to put up $1,000 for lbs share of the ex-
pense, estimating that the census would
mean an expenditure OF $4,000. Council
men believe that the census Will be far
less expensive than that, not costing
over $4,000 in all. Further than that, the
census required by the council is just
a bare enumeration of the number of
people in the city, while the school CEN
sus must contain the name of every
child within the city limits. as well as
the names of parents. guardians, etc.
The school census, If rot carefully COM
piled. might mean the loss of So or SIS
per head per child allowed by the state
funds and s13 allowed per child by the
county fund. Hence the need of getting
this perfect and complete work.
The herald., 1897-03-26
Observation-Disclosures
!: THE RANCH IND ITS PRODUCTS +:
address all communications of an agri-
cultural nature to the Agricultural Editor)


cultural nature to the Agricultural Editor)
The advantages gained by farming
small tracts of land rather than large
tracts, are very numerous. More mon
ey may be earned upon twenty acres or
good land in Southern California, If It
may be Irrigated, than upon five times
as much corn land in the east.
In the first place. time is saved, ana
time is money. The man who culti-
Yates but twenty acres can reach any
portion of his land in a few moments.
He can cultivate his land thoroughly,
because there is not much of it. And
thorough cultivation pays. He can pay
attention TO details In no other busi-
ness does strict attention pay better
than in the care and culture of trees.
Small farms make necessary more ana
better roads, more stores, more school
houses and more churches.
Again, where wheat growing is the
leading industry the farmer gets re-
turns but once year. Upon the other
hand, orchardists who have but ten or
twenty acres generally plant the land
in sucn a way that special crops may be
grown as well as the leading product.
A small patch of alfalfa serves to keep
several horses or cows, and in good soil
vegetables may be grown between the
rows of trees. By keeping a few cows.
some pigs and poultry, and raising a
patch of alfalfa and few berries. the
farmer is enabled to market some prod
uct every month in the year. and thus
pay his grocery bills. depending for
profits upon his principal crop, which
may be oranges, lemons, peaches or
cots,
The herald., 1897-03-26
Sugar Beet Pulp

Edward White. the well known dairy
man of Monterey county, has been feed
ing beet pulp with very satisfactory re-
suits. He put 140 tons in silo, and Rear
out in water by the settling of the mass.
He did not commence feeding until four
months after tAa pulp had been stored.
The statement that the pulp pile was at
that time free from odor and without
the taste of potash is indeed surprls-
ling one Mr.. White feeds seventy
pounds of pulp per animal per day, and
states that he is making twice as much
butter from the same number OF cows
as he was at this time last year. He
hauled the pulp eight miles, and figures
that the cost of hauling, loss by shrink
The herald., 1897-03-26
Our Artesian Wells

There is no greater nor grander re-
source contributing to the wealth of a
farmer than an artesian well with good
flow. Yet there are, alas! many farmers
in Southern California who have such
and allow thousands upon thousands of
gallons of the precious fluid to flow
away unused to the sea. Gradually, but
none the less surely, the flow will year
by year decrease, unless the wells are
capped and no water allowed to need
lessly be wasted.
a crystal stream of water uprising and
outpouring from the earth. bubDing,
sparkling, pushing, pouring over in a
rounded sheet and hurrying away in a
rivulet day and night, night ani day.
How bounteous it seems. No cessa tlcn
from dawn's first ray to lessening beams
of the dying day 1t is mighty resource
and should be most carefully husbanded.
The herald., 1897-03-26
Fell Dead in Her Pew

For over forty years Mrs. Susan Diet
ering Worshipped in the German Evan
gelical Lutheran church, and Sunday,
listening in her pew 10 the words of the
Rev. John Rudolph, the pastor, she died
The full import OF the sad occurrence
was known TO but a few until Pastor
Rudolph announced it from the pulpit.
Mrs. Dietering was a devout church
woman, always regular in attendance
Lately her health had been poor, and
Sunday of the week before was the first
time in six months that she had been in
church.
Sunday, as she entered the church,
she remarked to several friends that
she never felt better in her life The
service had but commenced, however
when, with a little gasping cry, Mrs.
Detering fell from her seat to the floor
of her pew. First to reach her side was
Mrs. Rudolph. wife of the pastor, who
gently lifted the old lady's head to her
lap and held bottle of smelling salts
to her nostrils.
But the old lady was past aid. She
had died Of heart disease as she slipped
to the floor, so Dr. Frank Nichols, hur-
riedly summoned by a church member.
told the relatives when he looked at the
inanimate form. Then Pastor Rudolph,
who during all the commotion, had pro-
ceeded with his sermon, was told of
Mrs. Dietering's death.
zone of our Oldest parishioners," he
said, his voice choked with emotion,
has died in our midst. There will be no
further service this morning"
Then he descended from the pulpit and
joined those around the pew in which
lay Mrs. Dietering's body. Slowly the
congregation filed from the church, the
dead woman's old friends showing deep
emotion.-New York Journal.
The herald., 1897-03-26

stood that they are practically complete,
and the formal report IL being dictated
10 a stenographer 1t is further stated
that this report is a very lengthy docu-
ment, and II may be several days before
it can be Transcribed and the necessary
type-written copies made. The plans
as prepared are for system that viii
supply water for domestic and other pur-
poses for a population of at least 500, COO,
and will cost from SO, 500, 900 to $4,000 coo.
The plans of course include headworks.
The members of the committee were
very reticent about the matter yester-
day and Engineer Dockweiler declined
to give any information, saying that II
would be improper for him to talk in ad-
vance of filing his report with the COM
mittee.
The herald., 1897-03-26
SAN DIEGO COUNTY

and the task to rob 1t fell to George
Spencer. the most athletic member of
the party When he was within dozen
yards of the nest the male bird, which
was on the. nest at the time, made
descent upon the intruder and carried
off his hat and a portion OF his hair.
This seemed to spur Spencer on to ac-
complish his end. and wrapping his coat
around his head he fought the birds
back until he reached the nest and
took therefrom the two eggs that were
being hatched. The eagles followed him
all the way down the cliff, and his nu-
merous scars show the effect OF their
furious fight. These eggs are very rare
and will bring a handsome price.
The herald., 1897-03-26
DUTY ON ORANGES
A Letter From Washington on the
Proposed Tariffs

Judge B. N. Smith of department one
in the superior court received the fol-
lowing letter yesterday:
Washington, March Z. 1897.
Hon. b. \. Smith, Los Angeles. CAL:
Dear Judge: Your letter of recent date
relative to a duty on oranges is at hand and
contents noted.
| think our committee has dealt very
handsomely BY the Pacific coast interests.
Paragraph 257 of the bill reads as follows:
"Oranges, lemons lines, grape fruit, POM
clos or shaddocks. three-fourth of one cent
per pound. and in addition thereto 80 per
cent ad valorem on boxes, barrels or other
articles containing any Of the foregoing"
Paragraph 26S reads as follows: "Orauge
peel. lemon peel. and citron or citron peel.
preserved or candied, or desiccated cocoa
nut two cents per pound Paragraph 26?:
''PIneapples. two cents per pound" Truly
yours, A. j. HOPKINS.
The herald., 1897-03-26
New Sewer Recommended

The sewer committee yesterday report
ed in the matter of the petition from
George Stierien, asking that he be per-
mitted to construct sewer across private
property and through alley connecting
with the public sewer in the alley east
of Alvarado street, recommending that
in lieu of granting the request in it's
entirety that the city engineer be in
structed to present ordinance of inten-
ton for the construction of a sewer upon
Orange street beginning east of Alva-
rado street and connecting with the
manhole in the public sewer at the in
tersection of Orange street and the al
ley first east of Alvarado street.
The herald., 1897-03-26
WATER COMMITTEE
A Short Session to Confer on Engineer
Dockweiler's Plans

There was q brief meeting of the water
supply committee of the city council
yesterday morning to talk over witlFCity
Engineer Dockweiler the plans and es-
Inmates of cost of an entirely new and
independent water system. and to ascer-
tain when his report will be ready for
consideration, in order that the City
Water company may be given an oppor-
tunlty to be present This committee is
composed of Messrs. Nickel, Blanchard
and Toll, but nothing could be done until
the report was ready. Mr. Dockweiler
has had force of men at work in
room in the Phillips block for the past
three months getting up the necessary
plans and estimates, and it is now under
The herald., 1897-03-26
Fell Through q shed Roof

a newsboy named Frank Bilderrain
came to the receiving hospital yesterday
afternoon at 3:15 o'clock and Was treated
for a two-inch cut on the left leg. sus-
tanned by falling through the CORFU
gated iron roof Of shed back of the
Express office on Main street. The lad
was playing on top of the shed when
the roof gave way precipitating him to
the ground and tearing the flesh Of his
leg on the edges of the sheet metal He
was bandaged UP and sent home.
The herald., 1897-03-26

tity of pure commercial fertilizer. II
Is true however. that manure brings
about chemical changes which make
plant food more available. and this fac
tor Is not represented in the result OF
analysis. Barn manure is worth saw
ing and may always be probably ap-
piled unless Ii must be hauled a great
distance. The fact remains. however.
that generally speaking a ton of barn
manure may be represented by three
quart can full Of the properkind Of com-
mercial fertilizer.
The herald., 1897-03-26

the third annual race over this course.
The first was made in May 1894 in II
hours and 12 minutes; the next in May,
1896 in ~ hours and 10 minutes. 1t is
expected to make the run this time in IL
hours or under.
Just 7S of the Knights of the Macca-
bees of Riverside went to San Bernar-
dino last night. on invitation from their
brother knights al that place. The whole
force went over in taliy-hos. The occa-
sion was the comforting of the degrees
The herald., 1897-03-26
SOUTH CALIFORNIA SPECIALS
CONTINUED
CONTINUED

upon some applicants of the San Ber-
nardino tent. The Riverside team exem-
plified the work. The Cotton tent was
also present in force. After the degree
work was finished banquet was served
by the San Bernardino brethren and a
pleasant social season passed.
T. d. Mott. jr., of the firm Of Davis &
Mott. attorneys. Los Angeles. was in the
city today on business before the SUPER
ior court. (,
The herald., 1897-03-26

r. II. Woodbine, an assistant In the
master mechanics office of the Illinois
Central railway at Mattoon, ILL.,, came
in yesterday via the Santa Fe. Mr..
Woodbine Is en- route to Fresno on .
visit to relatives.
The herald., 1897-03-26
To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. 25c.
The herald., 1897-03-26

Latest style of wall paper at A. A. Eek
stroms. 324 South Spring street.
The herald., 1897-03-26

Cutlery at Furrey's, 159 N. Spring st.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-25
TAMMANY AND THE SCHOOLS.

There is considerable speculation in the air as 70
the intention OF the Tammany rulers with regard
TO the School Commissioners whose terms 90 not
expire with the end Of Mayor Strongs administra-
ton. The Commissioners have little doubt as 10
the outcome OF the struggle II Tammany should
attempt remove them before the expiration Oh
their terms. but IL the attempt should be maze
they will endeavor to have the matter settled with
little hinderance to the operation OF the schooi
machinery possible.
Samuel Untermyer. the partner Of Randolph Gug-
genheimer, president-elect Of the Council, admits
that he has been asked for opinion as to the
probable result OF attempt to GUST the Commits
sioners but he will not admit that Tammany
asked the opinion that 1t was asked by any per-
son now holding a city office. There Is no doubt
that Tammany contemplates the attempt 10 get RIG
OF the Commissioners. and will base the attempt, IL
It Is made. upon the act which gave Mayor strong
power OF removal for six months AFTER appoint
ment. Whether the charter gives this power
70 Mayor Van Wyck is the question that Is DOUBT
full IN Tammany's mind.
The School Commissioners not anxious to re-
tain their seats for personal reasons. but they
know what 1t means TO turn the Tiger loose upon
the school system, and they desire TO deler tha'
evil day to the last possible moment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-25
A FESTIVAL FOR SEAMEN.

a Christmas festival was begun ast night In the
home OF the Seamcn's Christian Association, at
Washington and West Tenth SITS, and u VIII be
continued tonight. The festival was largely at
tended There was song service and short ad-
dress by the Rev. Dr.. Henry Wilson. the president
Of the association. which was followed by refresh
rnenis. Each man received comfort bag con-
ialnIng various articles handy 10 have when At
sea lag OF candy and other presents.
Donations Of money. fruit and cake Will be gladly
received for this evening" festival when II IL e1-
pected that there will be n large attendance
The association Is worthy one, and merits sup
port The men who frequent It's rooms arc mostly
from the steamship lines along the North River
a reaIlug-room Is maintained. where newspapers
and magazines are provided. and there are Writing
materials for tho OF the seamen. As soon as
the mon reach port they go 10 the rooms 10 receive
and write letters. Services are held IN tho even
ing and they are well attended The association
also holds services board the ship In the spring
and summer n assists sick sailors ana helps
thoe, In The association IL non-sectarian.
ana Is supported entirely 10y voluntary contr!bu-
tons 1t has endcwmonts and no debts. and
mono Of ~" officers or manlg receive any com
pen satIon lnbors. The officers are; Presi-
dent tho Rev Or Henry wilson. secretary. Miss
Emma VI Bangs. treasurer wainwright Hardle
All contributions % money. clothing etc. should
10 sent 70 the treasurer. No ~ Pine-st. Cortrtbu
tious IN aid Of the present festival should DO sent
10 the ncsOca tons home.