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Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21
LOTS GOING FAST
IN MANY TRACTS
DEALERS KEPT BUSY SHOWING
HOME SITES
SEVERAL NEW ADDITIONS
Home Seekers Selecting Lots for
Dwellings and May Purchase for
Investment Near Los
Angeles

Dealers who give special attention to
tract property report that inquiry con-
tinues active for home sites and in
vestments. The reported sales for the
past week make good showing.
AL Bought Lots
Robert Marsh & Co., report the fol-
lowing sales:
In Robert Marsh's Central Avenue
tract. to Reuben E. Watts, $1,000; W. B.
Wood, $3.50; E. NJ Guthrie, $3.50, $1050
500; Thomas NJ Burger. 500; Frank
Ruzicka, ct AL, $1175; r. e. Ballard,
$3.50; A. c. Thorpe, $3.50; Mrs. Mary
Holtz, $780,
In East Jefferson Street tract, to Mrs
Eva Hall, $3.50; A. H. Bacon, $3.50; L.
r. Smith, $500; Morris Lyman, $3.50;
John M. Carlson, $425; Mrs. Ada Bar
tosch, $3.50; Mrs. Fannie Ash, $3.50!
Charles f. Healy, ct al, $14OO; lnga 5.
Robinson, $3.50; Miss Eva Hall, $3.50;
Mrs. Laura Ella Bell, s14oo; William
It. Holland, $425 G. L. Cobb, $3.50;
George H. Jones, $3.50; j. w. Allison,
$3.50: NJ. r. Metz, $3.50; Louis Romigh,
$3.50; Mrs. NJ. NJ. Flowers, $3.50; w.
Walker, $1,000; Davie Varcaro, $1,000;
Lillian Dyer, $25OO
Sales in Nine Tracts
Strong & Dickinson report sales as
follows:
In Gus B. Hills Independence tract
To c.. w Morehouse lot So, $780, Miss
A. Lenox, lot 81, 5000; Miss Stewart
lot IL, $500.
In Strong & Dickinson's Figueroa
Boulevard tract-To Christine Isakson
lot los. S475; Julia V. Humphrey lot
22S $475; A. Z. Henry, lot 204, $475;
Hannah Bloom, lot 65, $475; Flora
strawbridge, lot 1856 $475; Emma M
Eckdahl, lot 1863, $475; Alma w. Hultin'
lots 167 and 16S $3.50.
In Strong & Dickinson's Hollywood
Boulevard tract-To F. Olson, lots 24l
and 24S, 500.
In Marsh's Central Avenue tract-Tc
James Wilkins. lot 10, $3.50.
In Hollywood High School tract-To
]. F. Lingo lot "a, block "G," $3.50; j
p. Badgley, lot 2S, block 3D." $3.50.
In East Jefferson Street tract-Tc
VIM. S. Holland, lot 112, 5000; Fanny
Ash, lot 50, S625.
In Crenshaw's Arlington Heights
tract-To Maggie C. Van Buskirk anc
Mary Cox, lots II and 1S, block al,
$1,000; I. f. and r. B, Morrison, lot 4
block al" $3.50.
In Strong e. Dlckinson's Salt Lake
Railroad tract-To Innocent Ayala
lots 54 and So, $3.50; j, B. Bawms, lots
20 and 21, $1,000.
In Strong & Dickinson's Central Parl
tract-To Sophia Pearson, lot %, blocl
"B." $3.50; Mrs. e. F. Blake, lot s, blocl
"a" $525.
Ten Acres Bought
A. w. Ellington has sold to the Hom'
Real Estate company and w. II. Aller
& Son ten acres on the east side o
Dayton avenue, running from Avenu
1S to Avenue 26, This property is sit
uated on the west bank of the Arroyo
Seco, on the University-G -Garvanzi
street car line and has been subdividec
into sixty large lots. Consideration
named, $4,000.
The new owners have commenced tn
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

Is the parlor, library and side hall for
the Hoover street entrance. OFF the
hall to the left is the large dining room,
and at the rear is the buffers pantry,
the kitchen. lavatory and screen porch,
with provision made also for the ser
wants quarters. The entire lower floor
is finished in golden oak.
bedrooms in polished Tahoe pine; also
dressing rooms, closets and the bath
room and hall.
Heat is provided by the furnace in
the basement
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21
WAGON LOAD OF EGGS
AND POULTRY SPILLED

Broken eggs and flying chickens
marked the course Of a runaway at
noon yesterday. when a horse driven
by Joseph Snyder of 2O56 Santa Fe
avenue, became frightened at a piece
of paper at Elizabeth and Date streets,
and ran several blocks before being
stopped.
Snyder, with his seven-year-old
daughter Louisa, was driving to market
with load of eggs and poultry and as
the horse ran down the street, trail
of broken eggs and frightened fouls
was left behind.
Both occupants of the wagon were
slightly scratched, but neither was
seriously hurt.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21
sales during the past week:

safes uuTIIIB IHt PdSt "V0IN'
A. L. Chancey to \. D. Butt loI
on the south side of Fourth street.
about sixty-six feet east of Wall street.
5Ox1O5 feet, improved with frame cot
tage. Consideration named. $1S,25O.
w. p. Mcintosh to j. B. Chaffey a
lot on the east side of Main street, sixty
feet north of Sixteenth street, Sox15o
feet. unimproved. Consideration named,
S925O.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21
INVESTMENT
PROPOSITIONS
VAL LIABLE PROPERTY BOUGHT
AND SOLD
CORNER BUSINESS LOT TAKEN
Comments of a Chicago Man on Local
Stuation-contnue Activity
in Los Angeles Close
in Holdings
CORNER BUSINESS LOT TAKEN

Those who keep in close touch with
realty values in Los Angeles must
consider with special interest the
course pursued by those who buy
property solely for investment. Valua-
BILE property may be kept off the mar
l1et for months and years, or may go
begging for a buyer; but when at last
some party or syndicate with the cash
makes a purchase that will cause lag
CARDS to sit up and think, talk is plen-
tiful and regrets multiply.
An Illinois man who has been in Los
Angeles nearly a year said, yesterday:
Il know something about real estate
values in Chicago and in many of the
more important cities in Illinois, where
at different times I have invested cash.
have been noting realty prices in Los
Angeles. l have not invested yet, but
have been here long enough to realize
that l might have realized handsomely
if had acted as my Judgment
prompted six months ago. Los Angeles
is certainly a growing place. 1t is a
of capital"
Valuable Corner Sold
One of the more notable sales of
business property during the past week
was closed through C. ]. Hyler COM
pany, who sold for Matson Hill to a
local investor the southeast corner of
Second and Hill streets, 115 feet on
Second, 12O feet on Hill. with one-story
brick store building of nominal value.
Consideration named, s165,OO0 The
purchase was made as an investment.
o. M. Souden's Purchase
Among the houses the Jones & Ryder
Land company have lately sold to o.
NJ. Souden, vice president of the United
eleven-room residence situated at the
southeast corner of Twenty-seventh
street and Raymond avenue. The
house has Just been completed, and
embraces several quite unique features
among which is "Rathskeller" and a
sunken garden. Size of lot 75x155 feet
The consideration was $4,000.
Bought In Westlake
Mrs. Virginia Milbank has purchased
from Dan Murphy. through Barlow &
Bragdon, the property on the north
west corner of Wiltshire boulevard anC
Coronado street, having a frontage OF
1O5 feet on Wiltshire and 225 feet or
Coronado. The consideration was $45,'
OOO The lot is improved with seven
teen-room residence that formerly was
the home of Judge c. N. Sterry.
c. S. King has sold to Mary B. Ian
ming, through Charles o. Goodwin 6
Co. and w. II. Obear. lot on tho
southeast corner of Temple street and
Grand avenue, So feet on the formel
and 1876 feet on the latter, improved
with a three-story frame business
building, having three stores on thu
first floor and forty rooms on the uppel
floors. The price for this property wa
$50, ,OOO-$17, 900 in cash and the remain
der by the transfer OF income produc
ing ranch property in one of thu
productive districts of Southern Cali
fornia. u
W. b. Merwin reports the following
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

erection of several cottages on this
property. Street work is all in and
paid for. The property is adjacent to
the manufacturing section and the
Southern Pacific railroad shops and
freight offices. Lots are held at from
$3.50 to $3.50. The sale was made
through w. H. Allen & Son.
New Home Tract to Open
Dr.. West Hughes and w. D. Wool
Wine through Robert Marsh & Co.,
have sold to Mrs. Pearl p. Arbuclle
twenty-four acres of land on the north
east corner of San Fernando road and
Pepper avenue for 100000. Robert
Marsh & CO. will Immediately subd.
vide this acreage for Mrs. Arbuckl.
into about zoo lots, 4Ox1OO feet. The
Improvements for this subdivision
have commenced and the contract for
the work on ten houses, to be started
within a week, has been let.
Walnut Park-New Tract
Edward Coulter has sold to Emil
L IL III d lI3CI VI twenty dCitS Cll lllc
southwest corner of Moneta and Ver-
non avenues The land is covered with
large soft shell English walnuts in full
bearing. The purchaser will subdivide
the property and put in high-class
street improvements The Moneta
avenue car line is completed to Vernon
avenue and will soon be in opera ton.
The tract will be known as Walnut
Park.
Sales at DogeviIIe
Louis Prang of Boston has purchased
through S. ]. White & Co. eight lots in
subdivision six at Dolgeville; consider
alton $4,000. The purchaser who is the
celebrated photographer, now in the
Soth year of his age. will make his
home in Southern California.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

Mrs. C. II. Grimwood, a two-story
frame at 1O11 Sunset boulevard. $1,000.
A. d. Porter, builder.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21
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Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

when you have spare moment, try
Las Palmas cigar.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

Everythink you want you will ma In the
Ilaaained pages = modern sncyclopsdia
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

"Our city has moved It's center OF
business distance Of three blocks in
the past twenty years and in my
opinion the center OF business will
remain at Fourth and Spring streets
for many years to come The history
of other cities are that business may
continue to grow in all directions for
blocks each way without changing its
center. All in all Los Angeles has
reason TO feel proud of the fact
that here are men of large capital
who are investing the greater portion
OF their fortunes in the upbuilding Of
greater Los Angeles"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-10-20
New York Mutual strl on the Rack.

Failure on the part of Richard a. Nc
Curdy. president of the Mutual Life In
surance company, to answer questions at
the insurance inquiry Tuesday and his
defiant attitude caused spectators to jeer
at him. 1t is explained that his proffer
Of another witness alone prevented steps
toward his indictment. These facts We're
brought out: Mutual employed literary
bureau to furnish the press news articles
favorable to company.
Dividends to policy-holders have in
many cases been cut, some dropping from
S55 to SO. Mutual, through Field, legis-
lative worker at Albany, paid counsel to
oppose Senator Brackett's bill.
II was shown at the session Wednesday
that two state senators had lived in the
house kept by the Mutual at Albany.
There were a number Of instances of re-
markable lapse of memory, and in the
case OF a voucher and a telephone forgery
or perjury appeared. The house at Albany
was maintained 10 years by Andrew c..
Field, the company's legislative agent,
and the large expenses of conducting 1t
were charged to legal service account.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-10-20
Woman's Club Items.

The Brattleboro Womans club held a
largely attended meeting at the Brooks
House Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. c. NJ.
Lamson of Auburndale, Mass, spoke on
"The Early Poetry of the Bible and
there were selections from Elijah: A solo
by Alfred S. Thompson and trio by Miss
Gregg, Mrs. Eric Landry and Mrs. r. C..
Bacon. Mrs. Lamson's address showed
the most careful research in the poetical
books of the Bible, but dwelt especially
on the gems of literature found in pas
sages not generally considered poetry.
She touched upon the study, known as
higher and lower criticism, and defined
poetry in its strictest sense, giving IL
Illustrations of the styles by quoting beau
tiful passages from the Bible. Keeping
in mind that our very oldest literature is
poetry. Mrs. Lamson carried her audi
ence back to the days of the worlds first
people and recited with feeling verses
from the first chapters of Genesis. She
gave the poems of Moses in a rarely SYM
pathetic manner and impressed upon all
the pathos of his story. Taken altogether
II was delightful afternoon and many
availed themselves of the opportunity of
meeting the speaker.
Plans are being made for an advanced
sewing class, with competent teacher,
for the pupils who took the elementary
work last year.
These officers were elected at the recent
state federation meeting at Barre: Pres
ident, Miss Susan E. Clark. Brattleboroi
vice president, Mrs. Rebecca Fairbanks
St. Johnsbury; recording secretary, Mrs
o. d. Mathewson, Barre; treasurer, Mrs
Josephine Arms, Bellows Falls; auditor
Mrs. Edward Kirkland, Bellows Falls
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-10-20
sRATTLEsoRo PERSONAL.

Jennie Shaw Edwards entertained sew
eral children at her home Monday after
noon.
Miss Elizabeth Marshall started Monday
for months visit in New York city and
New Jersey.
Mrs. j. f. Willard came Monday from
Springfield, Mass, for a visit Of week
or more In town.
Andrew March OF ShelbuTne Falls came
Wednesday to spend few days with his
brother, Hal March, .---
Louis X Willis, the we'll known singer
formerly of Brattleboro, has received the
Democratic nomination for representative
in the Massachusetts, legislature In the
district in which he lives in Pittsfield.
Mrs. Angelica B. Shea and daughter
Miss Mary Ritter Shea, who are accom-
panied by William NJ Jefferis. archdea-
con Of the Little Rock diocese, sailed Oct
II from Yokohama, Japan, for Honolulu,
where they will remain two months. They
expect to return home about Dec. is. They
started Nov. 12 last on a. trip around
the world, and expected TO return last
May, but they found life 50 pleasant and
interesting In Japan that they have re-
mained in that country since April.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-10-20
WEST BRATTLEeoRo,

Mrs. ]. L. Barney is critically i'll.
Guy Stockwell has finished work for
Howard & Yearly. He will be employed
by c. II. Davis during the winter.
Mrs. II. F. Weatherhead returned We'd
nesday from Canton, n. Y, where she
was called to attend the funeral Of her
sister.
Frank Prefountaine has been sent to
Orange, n. j., by the Estey Organ COM
pany to make some changes in a pipe
organ which was installed there some
time ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Dunklee kindly
opened their home to the academy
students Monday night. About 40 young
people enjoyed a straw ride and corn
husking, followed by music and refresh
ments. The merry crowd returned home
at late hour, having spent a very en-
joyable evening.
West Brattleboro Baptist church, Rev.
]. A. Mitchell. pastor Services Sunday
as usual: Morning worship at 1880, with
sermon by the pastor; 11.45, Bible school
6 p m, regular service of the Christian
Endeavor society; Z o'clock, evangelistic
service with short sermon by the pastor.
Good music Strangers will always find
a cordial welcome to these services.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-10-20

That no serious accident occurred in
the automobile races for the Vanderbilt
cup at Long Island Saturday was but
little less remarkable than the time
made over the country roads by the great
cars Hemery, the winner, maintained
an average speed Of over GO miles for four
and one-half hours. To the man who
has never seen such a race the railroad
is his only standard of comparison, and
it is impossible for him to picture to him
self an adequate conception of the tre-
mendous feat accomplished by two men
in machine. tended and handled by
themselves, in guiding IT over a country
highway lined with humanity, vehicles
telegraph poles, fences and houses as fast
as the fastest scheduled railroad train
ever ran with its own right of way and
on rails. For an average Of So miles an
hour over the Nassau County course, with
its ten laps and seven turns IA each lap,
with its several difficult curves with the
necessity of slowing down to pass COM
petitors or to take particularly difficult
places, and with the dead stops for oil
and water, repairs and adjustments,
means that at places the speed was at
least 90 miles an hour and no regular
train has ever gone faster. II an auto
mobile and the fastest express train out
of Boston should start at the same time,
and the automobile keep the pace set by
Hemery Saturday, the machine on the
road would arrive in New York before
the engine on the rails had touched
Bridgeport.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-10-20
Bank InsoIvent-cashIer a Suicide.

After an investigation OF the books of
the Enterprise National bank OF Allegheny,
Pa, had disclosed that the institution was
insolvent, T. Lee Clark, cashier, went
to his home, took poison and shot himself
through the head. He died in a few
hours. An hour before the announcement
of his death was received at the bank
a telegram came from the controller Of
the currency at Washington to close the
doors, and appointing John B. Cunning
ham, bank examiner, receiver. Fred
Gwinner, sr., president of the bank. an
nounced that Clark had lent thousands Of
dollars and that he himself had indorsed
a note for $50, 900 Tuesday for Clark, end
ing with the statement that II the short
age was only 100000 he would gladly
pay IL himself" The bank has state
deposits which will amount to about $780,
600, OF which $3ss, 900 is in the checking
or active account and the rest is state
sinking funds.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-10-20

Prominent singers of Brattleboro re-
hearsing for the coming performance of
the "Chimes of Normandy" to be given
under the auspices Of the Murray Club
Ever attend a full rehearsal of a comic
opera?
First act" Mr.. Macomber calls out
and the noise quiets down and all scurry
to their respective places; the opening
chorus is tried over and over again; then
come the coachmen and gardeners, who
are kept for half an hour marching and
cracking their whips until every movement
is done to exact time to the music. One
OF the prettiest numbers in the opera is
the fair scene and the ladies are kept
going backward and forward with the
music, time after time, until at last the
conductor is willing to acknowledge they
are getting on fairly well. They say,
Just look at this, just look at that"
until the picture is so photographed in
their minds that they cannot possibly
forget it. This scene has been dubbed
THE bob" and must be seen to be ap-
preciated. Then the little dancing steps
have the attention OF all and the director
sets a pattern for all to COPY.
This opera is especially noted for its
graceful action and pretty stage work.
and the actors are hard at work daily, to
bring II to perfection.
This gives but faint idea Of what a
rehearsal means, and the hard work rep
resented to get an opera into good shape.
From the unusual interest manifested,
large audiences are assured, and. rare
treat is in store for all who attend; those
who fail to attend will miss one Of the
best musical and dramatic events ever
given in Brattleboro.
Sale of seats for subscribers viii begin
Wednesday morning, Oct rs, at 3 O'Clock,
at the box ,ofiice.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-10-20

Several transactions have taken place
recently in the coal fields which tend
to bring the combination of producers
and shippers into closer union. Coke
Brothers, the largest independent pro-
ducers outside of the coal roads, have
sold their business to the Lehigh Valley
railroad, the Central railroad Of New
Jersey is negotiating for the Lehigh Coal
& Navigation company's mines, rail-
roads and canals, while the wholesale
firm of Burns Brothers of New York is
arranging TO take over the business Of
the Communipaw and Hudson Coal COM
panies. The Boston Transcript. in dis
cussng the recent developments in the
coal situation, says: Heretofore. the coal
roads have always had TO reckon to some
extent with the Independent coal pro-
ducers. who, while they mined only a
fraction of the coal produced. yet were
able to relieve the market by throwing
their product anywhere at any time 1t
was most needed. During the coal strike
of 1902, however, the independents en-
tered into a combination with the coal
roads, by which the price OF coal was
maintained at level which pulled some
OF the coal roads out OF impending bank
ruptcy, and put others on a present div
idend- paying basis OF twenty per cent.
The coal roads, and the coal companies,
did not lose money by that strike. They
have been able to make more than $780,
OOO,O 900 from the consumers OF the country
by reason of the increased price Of coal
and yet pay the miners the higher sum
for wages which they secured in settle-
ment of the strike. The consumers OF
the coal have paid all the bills. 1t is
but natural. therefore, that they should
look upon any combination of coal roads
and independent producers with sus-
picion."
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-10-20

The Remedy.

Whether any of the actions of the Of
ficers of the three great life insurance
companies now under investigation have
been such as to render them liable to
criminal or civil prosecution remains to
be seen, but one thing is perfectly sure
that in the case of the mutual companies,
at least funds which were practically and
in fact trust funds have been handled
recklessly and irresponsibly for the en-
richment of the officials and of those VINO
were "in the deal" and not for the benefit
of the poiicy-holders from whose pockets
these millions of funds originally came
1t seems entirely safe to predict that out
of these astonishing revelations there will
come an entirely new basis on which the
life insurance business of the country will
be done in the future. Is 1t not also per-
fectly safe to say that compulsory pub
licity is tho one remedy thai would have
saved this playing fast and loose with
other peoples money in the past, and
that will save like scandals In the future? =?
Does ony one suppose for a moment that
any S150,OOO salaries would have been paid.
or that money would have been dealt out
literally by the hundred thousand dollars
for Legislative" expenses and no ac-
count kept of 1t. or that the McCurdy
family would have gathered in money by
the million dollars as commissions, or
that there would have been a constant
succession OF syndicate deals for the
joint enrichment of insurance company
officials and large banking firms. If these
great companies had been compelled to
file year by year an itemised statement Of
their receipts and expenditures?
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-10-20
A Wonderful Saving.

The largest Methodist church in Geor-
gia. calculated to use over 100 gallons Of
the usual kind OF mixed paint in painting
their church.
They used only so gallons OF the Long
man & Martinez L. & M. paint mixed
with "a gallons OF Linseed oil. Actual
cost of paint made was less than S1.2O
per gallon.
Saved over eighty (ss00O) dollars in
paint, and got big donation besides.
Every Church will be given a liberal
quantity whenever they paint.
Many houses are well painted with
four gallons Of L. & M. and three gallons
OF Linseed oil mixed Herewith.
Wears and covers like gold.
These celebrated paints are sold by
Robbins & Cowles,- Brattleboro, Vt.