Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-05
FORMALDEHYDE IN
PASADENA MILK
DRUG IN BOTTLES TAKEN FROM
DEALERS WAGONS =.
Fruit Growers to Hold Meeting To-
NIGHT to Discuss Question Of
Municipal Control Of
Water Supply
Special 10 The Herald.

PASADENA, Jan. Announcement
is made tonight that DR. Medici de
Biron, the active agent for the Humane
society who has been quietly investi-
eating the milk supply Of the city,
found the deadly formaldehyde in three
bottles taken from milk wagons yester-
day Careful chemical tests were made
today and i'm each one of the bottles
there was found the poisonous preserv-
ative. one contained sufficient to i'm
jure seriously weak or slckly baby
or little child. Today a number of
samples were taken from other dealers
about the city and further tests will
follow Tonight ii is stated by DR..
de Biron that the whole matter has
been placed in the hands of the city
attorney and Mayor Vedder. Arrests
are expected tomorrow. The humane
officer also makes complaint that many
of the milk dealers are not making the
tubercular tests, as required by the city
ordinance The whole matter Will be
looked into by the city authorities at
once.
Ranchers Fear Municipal Water
While the local orange and fruit
growers do not necessarily oppose the
idea of municipal ownership of water,
still there has been considerable ques-
tioning over the probable treatment of
the ranchers by the city in the matter
of irrigating water, and call has been
issued by c.. A. Day, the prominent
fruit grower and horticulture commits
sioner for this county, for a general
meeting to be held tomorrow night at
7:3O in the board of trade rooms. In
explaining his personal position Mr..
Day says that if he should not be al
lowed for irrigation under the city
ownership as much water as under the
old companies, then he must neces-
sarly cut up his large ranch into town
lots. Many others would have to do
this same thing, and it would very
shortly put a stop to the prosperous
orange industry in this locality.
High School Girls Gymnasium
For two years or more there has been
more or less talk of the necessity of
gymnasium work at the high school
for the girls, and tomorrow tempo
rary gymnasium will be established in
the southeast room of the basement.
with Miss Livingstone, a graduate of
the Los Angeles Cumnock School of
Oratory, in charge
Chicago People Married at Maryland
The Thatcher-B Barr wedding was
solemnized at the Hotel Maryland to-
night The principles are both promi-
nent Chicago people and their bridal
rarty of about twenty people is made
up entirely of intimate friends and
relatives all from Chicago, most of
whom have been spending the winter
at Avalon.
The groom is William &. Barr, the
general freight and passenger agent Of
the Chicago Terminal and Transfer
company, and the bride is Mrs. Luella
Il. Thatcher of Jackson boulevard
Chicago. Mrs. Thatcher is a prominent
figure i'm Chicago society and is espe-
cially interested in the West End Wo-
mans club of that city.
Obituary
Miss Louise Gates, charming girl
of seventeen years who has been Wis
iting her uncle, Peter Gates of Mon
terey Road, South Pasadena, died sud
denly this morning about $50 Heart
failure is given as the cause for the
sudden death Mr.. Gates, the uncle
is anxious that his niece shall be
buried on his beautiful grounds, but
the authorities would not consent
and the interment will be in Mountain
View cemetery. The girls home was
in st. Louis.
While sitting reading a newspaper
this morning, Elmer E. Dale, a leading
business man of Toledo, died very
suddenly at his temporary residence
on North Raymond avenue. With his
wife and two children Mr.. Dale came
here from Toledo some two months
ago. Mr.. Dale was Mason and
Knight of PythiaS. His body will be