Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-22
FOREST EXPERT
IS TRANSFERRED
HON. 7. P. LUKENS GOES TO
LOS ANGELES
Eleht-Foot Trail and Monster Auto
Truck to Carry Freight Up
Mount Wllson--other
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asadena Agency,
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81 North Raymond Avenue.
Telephone, Main lIOS.
PASADENA, Nov. 21.-Hon. T. p.
Lukens Of this city, who Is enrolled on
the register Of the United states forest
service as forest expert and who has
Immediate charge of the thriving forest
nursery at Henniger's flats on Mount
Wilson and the tree planting in the
San Gabriel reserve, assumed charge
today OF the Los Angeles office of the
service. The order from Washington
was little unexpected but is intended
to be merely temporary and relieves
Inspector r.. II. Charlton in order that
he may do some special work under the
direction Of the bureau. Mr.. Lukens
for the time becomes supervisor of the
San Gabriel and San Bernardino forest
reserves, a work which his years of
service and his splendid research pc
culiarly fits him to perform. 1t is not
expected that the change will be per-
manent, although there is probability
that the appointment may cover several
months. George w. Peavey, forest
agent in charge of the nurseries at
Santa Barbara arrived in Pasadena to-
night to take up the work Mr.. Lukens
has had to drop.
Efforts which are being made to inn
prove the means of reaching the sum-
init of Mount Wilson are of consider
able interest, the government nurseries
at Hennigers fats being along the line
of the new trail up the mountain. Mr.
Lukens has therefore been much in
consultation with Prof. Hale of the
Solar observatory, and William Staats,
head Of the company which Is putting
so much money into the hotel and cot
~, he a
Joining the observatory. The trail as
1t now is does not permit of certain OF
the heavy machinery needed at the OBJ
seryatory being carried to the summit
except by piecemeal. 1t has been vart-
ously proposed to run a mountain rail-
road to the peak, an inclined railway
or new trails, but these have been man.
ifestly out of the question. Still what
to do has not been determined upon.
Prof. Hale is greatly desirous of having
some easier way of reaching the obser-
vatory not later than June 1. Here is
the plan which seems likely to be
adopted, although, as has been said, 1t
has not been actually decided upon. 1t
is proposed to widen the present new
trail which winds it's way along the
sides Of the mountain some eight miles
to the summit, to seven and one-half or
eight feet throughout with longer turns.
This will cost considerable money, al
though, according to certain Los An
geles contractors who have looked the
ground over, the cost will not be pro-
hibitive Then the observatory people
will have built a 45-horse power auto
truck, weighing probably near 5000
pounds and so constructed that 1t can
be run either backward or forward at
will This truck is expected to be
capable of carrying five-ton loads with
absolute safety, and truck and widened
trail are intended to solve forever the
problem of carrying freight for the OBJ
servatory to the summit. Whether this
giant truck will be allowed to entirely
supplant the long trains of patient
burros or force them into the passenger
carrying business exclusively only the
future can determine.
Council Pays Munson
At its regular meeting today the city
council voted to pay CITY treasurer
Munson the salary held back by Audi
tor Kernaghan because the city treas
urer refused to make daily reports of
his collections to the city auditor But
the action was not taken without a
heated discussion in which the mayor
and Councilman Crandall vigorously
defended Auditor Kernaghan, several
~
determined to administer a mild rebuke
to that gentleman. City Attorney Fitz-
gerald poured oil on the waters and the
motion to cenSure was Withdrawn.
number of South Fair Oaks avenue
property owners appeared before the
council to protest against the proposed
narrowing of the street when it is
paved, with the result that the de-
sired improvement was again post
poned.
Sneak thieves entered the store OF
A. r. Christensen some time during
yesterday and stole a box of private
papers and about $3.50 in money. Mosl
of the papers were found In one ol
the public parks and returned to tbs
owner, who had no intimation that he
had been robbed until the papers were
brought in.
Pasadena Brevitles
Throop institute and Los Angelo:
high school Will contest for state hon
Crs in football at Tournament park
Saturday afternoon.
Contributions are desired for the an
nual Thanksgiving dinner for the oc-
cupants of the Pasadena Children S
training school.
North Pasadena is organizing a
Tourists club similar to the famous
one in Pasadena and will secure
grounds for a meeting place for tour
lists.
A number of attempts at, burglary
are reported from South Pasadena. The
latest attempt was at the residence ol
Thomas Clifford. Mr. Gifford's son saw
the burglar and fired at him, but the
man escaped.
The funeral service of the late II. NJ
Hamilton will be held tomorrow after
noon from the residence on California
street. The remains Will not be taken
east until Mrs. Hamilton is able tc
accompany them. Final interment will
occur at Ottawa, ILL.,
Burglars Cause Costly Fire