Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-25
DISCOVER FLAW
IN FRANCHISE
NATIONAL CITY REsCINDS ITS
FORMER GRANT
NEW APPLICATION is MADE
sale to L. j. Wilde Found to nave
Been illegal and the Board Of
Trustees orders Read
Vertitement
NEW APPLICATION is MADE

Special to The Herald
| SAN DIEGO, April 24-The National
city board of trustees has rescinded its
recent grant of street railway fran
chise for that city The franchise had
been awarded to l.. j. Wilde of this city
for 1925, but 1t has been discovered that
the proper legal interval had not
elapsed when the bids were opened. A
new application has been made and re-
advertisement ordered
At the city council meeting this even
ing committee from the chamber of
commerce appeared to ask that the
action relative to the establishment
of new water plant near the old mis-
sion be rescinded The claim is made
that If the new plant is established the
El Cajon project will be considered un-
necessary and bonds to carry 1t
through will hardly be voted by the
people. The council took the request
under advisement
The effort of the Central Christian
church to clear off its debt on Easter
day met with good success. Fifteen
hundred dollars was the amount raised
and it is hoped the remaining $500 will
be secured before the time of the an
nual meeting of the church in June.
Members of the Grand Army and of
the Womans Relief corps are making
early preparations for the observance
of Memorial day.
The recently initiated mobiles of AL
Malaikah temple of the Ancient Arabic
Order of the Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine are enthusiastic over the propo-
sition to invite the imperial council to
meet in Los Angeles in 1906.
Self denial week for the Salvation
Army brought over $500 to it's treasury,
of which SIS is by stipulation to be de-
voted exclusively to hospital work in
this city.
Last Saturday a council of the degree
of Pocahontas was instituted in this
city. Wives, sisters and mothers Of
Redmen are eligible to membership in
the degree, which has large charter
membership.
Schiller Centennial
The German people and other San
Diego admirers of Schiller. the great
German poet, will on Sunday, May Z,
at Turner hall observe the centennial
anniversary of his death. The cere-
monies will begin in the afternoon with
music, chorus singing, recitations of
some of Schillers poems and eulogistic
addresses, one in German by DIR. A.
in ich hy
Carter. In the evening some of the
principal scenes from Schiller's mas
terpiece, William TELL" will be pre-
sented.
San Diego delegates to the grand
court of Foresters of America will leave
for Watsonville the latter part of the
week The delegates are Samuel Nc
Convey, David S. Wilbur and George
E. Bowles of Court San Diego, John
Neil Joseph Schachtmeyer and Herman
C. Fritz of Court Silver Gate and
Montgomery M. Moulton of Court Palo-
mar. Mr.. Moulton has been elected
chairman of the delegation.
DR.. Henry Pickering Bowditch, pro-
fessor of physiology at the Harvard
medical school for nearly a third of a
century, is late arrival at Coronado
hotel for short rest.
The death of Mrs. Elizabeth Star
buck Newcomb postmistress at Coron-
ado for some time past, occurred yes
terday morning. She was a native of
Falmouth, Mass, where she was born
in 1S45.
Invitations have been received local
ly from the committee of arrange
ments of the San Francisco Press club
to ladies' social session to be held on
Thursday evening.
The schooner Lucy, which has been
on the marine ways for the greater
part of a week, was lowered into the
water and will sail for the north to-
morrow. She went on the bar at the
mouth of Umpqua river on the north
ern coast and stayed there for three
days. She has the record of being the
only vessel that ever came off that
bar and succeeded in reaching a dry
dock or marine ways.
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