The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-08-02
AT SANTA MONICA
THE COST OF sPRINKL1No AND
LIGHTING THE RESORT
Exports and Imports for the Last
Month-Rip Van Wrinkle Bach
man Awakes

of bills was ordered paid at this afternoons
meeting OF the board Of trustees, among
them being a bill Of $3.50 for street sprink-
ling for the month Of July. The cost to the
city for light and water for the streets dur
ing the summer now runs close to $1,000 per
month.
Work on the sewer laterals between Third
and Fourth and Fourth and Fifth, for
which Frick of Los Angeles and Powell Of
this city received the awards, was begun to-
day.
The book circulation of the public library
reached the figure Of 1888 volumes for the
month Of July, as against 2603 for the same
month of last year. The circulation for
July exceeded that Of June by 500 volumes.
Shipping News
A recapitulation Of the business Of Port
Los Angeles for the month of July shows
the imports TO have been 7S5, 597 feet OF lum-
Der, SO,727 ties, 7O19 tons cement, 1149 tons
merchandise, 6S6 tons sulphur and 1888 piles.
The exports amounted to D1 tons merchan-
disc Twenty-seven steamers, three ships
and one barkentine were the arrivals and
the same number of steamers, two ships
and one barkentine the departures. Three
hundred and eighty-one passengers landed
during the month and 563 departed.
The steamers Alcatraz and Greenwood
departed for northern points today in bal
last, the latter to return about August Sth
with a load Of ties.
The Santa Rosa landed 120 tons of mer-
chandise and forty-five passengers from
San Francisco this morning.
The ship City of Athens from London,
loaded with cement, Is now due. She Is al
days out.
Bachman Believed
Captain Bachman of the good ship Peru
assas, just arrived, 17S days out, dined at
Eckert & Hopf's on Saturday evening with
the senior member Of the house for his host
In the course of the dinner the captain
was asked by his host what he thought of
the war. 1.-THE what? queried the captain.
thinking his ears must have belied him.
1.-THE war;" said Mr.. Hopf. "Our war with
SPAIN" "Oh, you can't fill me, If am an
old salt" said the yet undisturbed captain.
After considerable insistence on the part
of Mr. Hopf and confederation on the part
of his son, without effect, the genial Bob
Eckert. who always finds way of proving
things, was called in to lend his voice. to-
ward convincing this doubling Thomas.
"Aber, sic sind langsam!" spluttered Bob,
when the case was put before him. "Vats
de matter nit de paper? Das is how you can
show him." When the big headlines Of the
Herald's front page struck the captains
eye, dinner and all else were forgotten and
every paper in the hosiery for weeks back
was searched out and for hours the captain
devoured page after page of war dispatches,
wondering more and more how he had
missed meeting some of Spain's battleships
that did so much travelling.
Brevities
Thomas Mcpherson Cough attempted to
take walk on the new pier at the foot of
Railroad avenue on Saturday evening
against the wishes of Night Waterman
Roberts. who. after warning him Off put
him off, and in such an ungentle manner
that it gave Mr.. Cough disfgured counte-'
nance. He had the Waterman arrested for
battery and the case will be tried before
Judge Guidinger tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock.
J. w. williams and Hans Rasmussen were
arrested yesterday for conducting a nickel
in-the-slot game at their shooting gallery
on Ocean avenue.
DR.. Fred Waite has sold his dental prac-
tice u LIZ LluQSdy anu Nul sU u NltAlCO
the latter part of September to locate In
Mazatlan. His family will remain here.
Personal
John Miner and family have come down
for the rest OF the summer. They are at
240 Ocean avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Clark left today for
Minneapolis in response to a telegram an
nouncing the serious illness of the latter's
mother at that place.
Mrs. Vision of Arkansas, formerly Mrs
f. A. Ray Of this place, is the guest of
Mrs. A. B. Hotchkiss Of Knob Hill.
Mrs. N. A. Roth and her mother re-
turned today from Wheeler's springs, the
former so Ill that she Is now confined to her
bed.
William Bosbyshell and family returned
to Los Angeles today.
Mrs. T. c. Hartley and Mrs. Henry
Randall of Los Angeles spent today with
Mrs. Truman Reeves and daughter of San
Bernardino, who are summering on Bay
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. Rinehart of Los Angeles
spent the day here.
Rome Angel is here from San Francisco
on visit to his mother. Mrs. l. d. Rich
mond. He is accompanied by Dick Reid of
the same city.
Miss Carrie Alkire Of Riverside is stop