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Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
EVERY VOTER
SMOKES TWENTY
CIGARETTE STATlSTICIAN Fig
.. URES 1T OUT
In Los Angeles Half Million "Cof-
fin Nails" Are Consumed Daily.
Cigar Sales Suffer From the
Competition, Say Dealers
+ ! $3.50

"If every voter in the city of Los
Angeles were cigarette smoker and
| each got his proportion of the cigarettes
| smoked every day in this city he would
have twenty to smoke daily" said Ed
ward Atkins, an amateur statisticiar
from Boston who is spending the win.
ter in Los Angeles at the Angelus
hotel.
"A conservative estimate of the num-
ber of cigarettes smoked every day in
Los Angeles is 497,5O0. which number
gives every voter his twenty coffin
nails per day, if he chooses to get his
fair proportion" continued the figure
manipulation.
"In estimating the number of cigar
cites used in Los Angeles over a dozen
Of the cigar stores were questioned in
reference to the number of factory
made cigarettes sold daily by them.
"Then the number of packages of
Durham, Gold Crumbs and other
cigarette tobacco was asked. This null
tiplied by forty, the number of cigar
cites contained in one package. gives
the number of cigarettes sold in one
day by one cigar store.
Making an average between the
large stores, some of which sell as
many as 1850 in one day, and the
smaller stores, which average about
1000 per day, and multiply in this num-
ber by 150 the number of retail cigar
stores in the city, we have the number
of cigarettes sold by the cigar stores in
one day.
And Grocers, Too
Then the sales of the 600 grocery
stores are to be considered. A fair
average of their sales was found to be
80, oIy r,P ,,io 70 fAh
100 factory made cigarettes per day.
Multiplying this number by 900, and
then adding the retail cigar stores, we
get $500.
This estimate does not include the
sales of drug stores and cafes and
is probably less than the number
actually sold.
"These figures might give Judge Willis
Brown of Salt Lake, who is doing an
excellent work here and in other cities,
an appreciation of the immensity of
his task in Los Angeles. He can get
an approximate idea of the number of
cigarette smokers by dividing 497, 500
by Is, which Is about the average num-
Der smoked by each smoker"
In speaking of the sales of cigarette
tobacco, even some of the dealers were
appalled, by the actual number of cigar
cites sold daily by them.
Cigarette smoking is growing fast"
said a prominent Spring street dealer,
"and it cuts our dividends. The boys
are passing the cigars up for cigarettes.
Most of the purchasers are young fell
lows.
"These figures will appall many who
do not smoke, but the great mass Of
smokers will go on keeping up their
pace, killing themselves, and laugh
ingly telling you that it is better to
smoke here than hereafter. But fools
there are, even as you and l."
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

another means has been suggested by
which the people caa get to their
homes late at night. -
Frank Virgins, secretary of the
chamber of commerce, suggests that
the railway companies run motor cars
If the electric power is shut off.
Undoubtedly this means of transpor-
tation will be adopted on the Los An
geles-Pscific line as soon as it is made
broad guage. Several motor cars are
now being constructed for the South
ern Pacific.
The question that the people are ask
ing themselves now is this:
will Huntington refuse to run owl
cars until we force him to do it or
until ne is forced to do it by COM
petition?"
People Have Been Patient
"Can Huntington disregard the good
feeling of the public by refusing to
grant its small demands?"
The people have been waiting pa
tiently to see If the trolley magnate
would graciously give them what they
are every day asking for but they
have grown tired of this now and are
willing to rise up and demand their
rights.
Probably Huntington would find that
If some of his franchises were about
to expire. There is one thing that he
must remember, and that Is that the
popular good will means as much to
him in the future as his own great
financial past and his own financial
genius.
1t is said that he intends to again ask
for the $1,000,000 river bed franchise
this summer after people have partly
forgotten about the way that one of
his agents tried to secure it before.
The people will not forget this but
would not their Ill feeling toward Hunt
ington be greatly soothed If he would
grant them a request for which they
expect to pay?
What Frank Virgins Says
Frank Virgins. secretary of the
chamber Of commerce, resides in
"Hoosler's Roost" at Ocean Park,
where the American flag is kept float
ing from staff. He gets home early,
except on state occasions, when he ID
kept at the chamber engaged in eX-
tending the "glad hand" to dis
tinguished visitors from the north and
east. He uses the suburban cars. and
personally has no use for an owl car
on the city lines. He is free to con-
fess, however, that there is need of
improved conditions. In brief inter-
view he said:
"Los Angeles is no longer a country
town-the Angel city is a f1ourishing
and rapidly growing metropolis with
constantly increasing demands for the
best of everything in the land in the
way of accommodations.
Even now the enterprising newspa-
pers of the Atlantic coast are referring
to Los Angeles as the New York of
the Pacific coast. We plead guilty.
We are progressive, and In the line Of
transportation we should have the
best. The day service of the city and
suburban lines now is matchless. There
is need of better service at night for
many reasons.
As to Motor Cars
"In my judgment the several cleo
trio railway companies will meet the
demands of the public, but whether
they will use electric cars or motor
cars I cannot say. Motor cars run at
intervals of thirty minutes or an hour
on belt line, or sent out and brought
back to q central point In time to make
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
INTERPRETATIONS

Pacific Cigar & Tobacco company
Directors, HI. H. Sands, d. F. Hibbard,
and j. Irving McKenna; capital stock,
50000; $500 subscribed.
Newport company-Directors, H. C.
Hall, Harry Kelly, T. c. Edie, r. d.
Schmitz and ]. Nearsden; capital stock.
$4,000: SIS subscribed.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
eENTRY's HOUSE is BURNED
Alleged Defective wiring Causes a
Blaze on East Twenty
fourth Street

A house occupied by John F. Gentry
at 1926 East Twenty-fourth street,
caught fire yesterday afternoon, by
reason of defective electric wiring, and
the building was in blaze before the
arrival of the department.
A stream of water quickly subdued
the flames and the total loss was not
over $500.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
CAR VICTIM THREATENS SUIT
Mrs. Cook, Hurt on FIgueroa Street,
Is Confined In Good Samarl-
tan Hospital

Attorneys have been retained by Mrs.
Minnie Cook, who claims to have been
injured at Figueroc street and Sunset
boulevard by being thrown from car
of the Los Angeles-Pacific Railway
company April 5.
Mrs. Cook since the accident has been
at the Good Samaritan hospital. where
she will he required to stay for some
weeks.
She is not a resident of Los Angeles,
but is to stay until her case against
the transportation company Is settled.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

don't use them is no reason why others
may not. Bring on the all-night car
service. It's a good thing"
r. H. Mutually, secretary of the park
department. is enthusiastic over the
plan for all-night street cars.
You bet we need them," he said
yesterday. "All-night cars are one of
the best things Los Angeles could have
now. We are no longer Jay town.
We are entitled to everything that
every other city of this size has and
all-night cars are included"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
solid walls

Red or green 76 inch wide burlap makes
a beautiful solid wall between molding
and base without seam; 36 inch and 40
inch burlaps in all colors. Best paint
81 so; good shades s5c; good paper and
border for 12-ft. room 81. WALTER
BROS. 627 s. Spring st
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

''The growing Importance of Los An
geles imperatIvely demands an all night
street car service."-Willard L. Good
win, clerk of council committees.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

"Bring ON the all night car service
it's n good thing."-Martin BetkouSki
member of the fire commission.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
COL. JAMES 3. LANKERsHIM

I COL. JAMES B. LANKERSHIM
"The size of the city now demands
all night car service."-Mayor owen
McAleer.
1--WE are progressive and in the line
of transportation we should have the
best."-Frank Virgins, Secretary OF
Chamber of Commerce
"Of course we need all night car
service."-Councilman Bernard Healy
"This city has reached a point where
IL can afford to adopt some such met
rOpOlitan airs and all night cars would
meet my hearty apprOval"-Councll-
"One of the best things TINT could
happen to this city now would be an all
night car service."-Councilman P. ".
Harmon.
f'This city Is big enough and import
/ am going to do what can to see that
1t gets it."-Councilman George Smith.
"A1I night cars are something we
have been nedinE for long time."-
Councilman Fred Ford.
E'The sooner the owl car system il
installed the better 1t will be for Los
advancements in the city."-Col. ]. B..
LankerShim
'T think 1t would be n most excellent
thing."-Rev. j. ]. wilkins.
az should consider 1t splendid nd
vancement."-Rev. w. c. Clatworthy.
"And then. you know, there are lovers
and they like to hold hands. must
help them along to keep up my marry
ing reputation 1 have in the cust."-
Rev. S. A. Northrop.
"I am decidedly in favor of the owl
car system."-J. o. Koepfi, former
president of the chamber of commerce.
'Los Angeles is characteristic for it's
outside homes and the owl service
would be of great benefit."-Oscar c.
Mueller, director of the chamber of
commerce.
"Bring ON the all night car service.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

clos Angeles has reached a point
where the Installation of the owl ear
system is n neceSsity."-S. ]. Whitmore,
manager of the Alexandria.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

CLOS Angeles is characteristic for it,
outside homes and the owl servic.
would be of great benefit."-Oscar c
Mueller, director of the chamber o.
cOmmarCp
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

"I nm decidedly I'm fnvor of the owl
car system."-J. o. Koepfli former
president of the chamber of commerce.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

"And then. you know, there are lovers
| and they like to hold hands. must
ing reputation 1 have in the enst."-
Rev. S. A. Northrop.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-10-25

A contest over the will of the
late Thomas H. Wickes, former
ly vice-president of the Pullman
Palace Car Company, reveals a
sad condition of immortality. He
was three times married, twice
divorced because of his drunken
licentious habits. His former
valet tells of his crawling up the
steps of his home because too in
toxicatcd to walk, and of the
drunken orgies in which he often
INDUCED. Yet this man, living
this kind of life. was the main
obstacle In preventing the settle.
ment of the troubles when the
Pullman employees demanded liv-
ing wages. But for his obstinacy
the strike would not have lasted
long That strike, It will be re-
membered, caused the Chicago
riots and gave an impulse to an
archism, making Debs hero and
martyr. Wickes' will is contest
ed on the ground that he had be
come irrational through drink
and selfindulgence. Yet he was
entrusted with the well-being oil
thousands of men and women.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-10-25
A Bank of the People.

The retirement of the controll-
er of the British Postoffice Saw
ings. Bank, after a ffteen-year
period of service, furnishes an
occasion to the London press to
review the growth and improve
ments OF that institution. The
record is certainly remarkable ;
the development during the per-
iod has been such as to dem IN
strate alike the great need and
the popular appreciation of the
postal bank in Great Britain.
Whatever we may think of the
proposal to establish such banks
in this. country the facts are in
teresting.
In 1890 one person in seven
was a depositor in that bank; to-
day the proportion is 1 to 4.35.
The actual number of depositors
is ten millions, and the aggregate
moneys belonging to them have
risen from about $340,000.000 t.
over $76O,000,000. The average
deposit stands today at $50, fig
ure which refutes the assertion of
those who say that the bank has
forgotten its original mission and
is simply taking care of the ac.
cumulations of the prol,ertied
classes. AS the report in the Lon
don Times says. "a bank will,
ten millions of customers is un-
doubtedly the bank of the peo-
pie" in country like England.
The facilities and convenicnces
of the bank have been steadily
and intelligently extended. I'm
due restrictions that were
thought necessary at the outset
have cen relaxed or abandoned.
Checks are accepted, money may
be Withdrawn without notice AM
by telegraph, deposits made in
the colonies are transferred TO
the home country without loss.
and SO on. Deposits can row be
made at about $4,000 postoihces
and substations.
Children as we'll as adults are
encouraged to save and open ac-
counts. At more than 400.
schools money is received and
placed by the postoffice bank in
the name of the pupils. Over
5000 penny banks keep accounts
with the postal bank.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-10-25
Poles Made of Cement.

That cement telegraph and tele-
phone poles will be in use in the near
future to take the place of the already
costly wooden poles, is shown by an
experiment recently made by the
Pennsylvania Railroad company A
gang of men have just completed the
installation of cement telegraph poles
at Naples, Ind, covering a distance
OF one mile. These poles are from
twenty-five to thirty feet long, nine
inches square at the base for a dis
lance of seven feet and taper to six
inches at the top, being octagonal in
shape from the base portion. They
have inches on two sides at conven-
ieat distances to accommodate the
spurs of the linemen who wis.,. to
climb them, and two holes in the top
for the reception of the iron rods
which holds the cross arms. The
poles weigh about 1850 pounds.
Eight men erected them by means Of
a jb pole and tackle without diff
Guilty, putting TIM in the ground from
FIVE to six and half feet, the depth
being regulated by the character of
the soil. So far as known, these are
the only poles of their kind in the
United States. The first cost was con-
,,dar,bta of ~ourca. t,s,t fbou will II a
forever and they are considere !
cheaper in the long run than wood.
There are fifty-one of these poles
erected.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-10-25
A Peoples Government.

The government is the people.
and it is within their power e
make it good, BAD or mediocre as
they please. Their duty is &c
make and keen clean all govern
ment, be it national state, county
|city, town or hamies. If the peo
|ple refuse to do It they MAY res;
assured no one else will. The
greatest party loyalty is thai
which endeavors to purge its par
|ty of the bad men, those who are
lin the party solely for personal
gain.
In the election this fall voters
would do we'll to be goscrncd by
this thought. Appeals are now
being made to them by many
men wholly unfit for public ser
vice. Such men deserve defeat
voting for them cannot aid the
cause of clean and decent cleo
tons. Remember that.-South
Bend Tribune.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-10-25

John Sponseller Shoots His Wife at
Her Home Near Bourbon.


john oponseiier VINO resided IN
iippecanoe township three miles
southeast oil bourbon shot ms wife
tw'oe Sunday morning and then turn
cd the revolver on himself, but ms
ann was not steady enough TIC put
bullet IN his own brain which would
undoubtedly have been a better thing
than he is in the habit OF doing.
Sponseller and his wife had been sep
arated three years. He came. home
Saturday night and reconciliation
was apparently effected. Sunday
morning between nine and ten o'clock
the old trouble was renewed and
Sponseller drew a revolver and shot
at his wife The bullet grazed her
head but did not hurt her. She ran
out OF the house and he followed her
hiring two shots as She ran. One of
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-10-25
Tariff Reform.

Tariff reform will come about
naturally, through the medium OF
the individual demand of the in
terests involved. A law passed to
encourage industry will work it.
self out into principles of indus
trial development, and this devel-
opment will by its very elements
eliminate such conditions as are
foreign to true progress, and will
modify such schedules as are moi
equable and mutually beneficial
to consumer and producer. The
only caution necessary is that the
Republican party be ready tc
move with the natural move
ments and comply with such de-
mands as grow out of the univer-
sal and crystallized principles OF
society.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-10-25

Testimony accumulates TO
show that the natural gas field
in the neighborhood of Robinson,
ILL.,, Is capable of furnishing a
large supply of gas. The only alb
solute proof, of course, lies in the
sinking of wells and the result,
but as far as this test has gone
the Indications are certainly en-
couraging. With a pressure rang
ing from 200 to 335 pounds in the
wells already sunk and a flow of
100000 feet daily from a single
we'll, the probability Is that a ter
ritory has been found as rich in
gas as that of the new exhausted
Indiana district was orig
inally. Experts, In regard to out
ward indications and geological
formations, confirm this view.
The Robinson field Is twenty
miles northwest of Vincennes
which Is expecting to draw on 1t
for local use, and is about rs
miles distant from indianapolis.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-10-25

Probably few people are aware
that the greatest earthquake our
country has experienced since its
sediment was the now alTost
forgotten earthquake OF Kew
Madrid, the first tremors of
which took place on Dec 16, 1871
Strange is that trait of human
nature by which the most APP
palling of natures manifestations
slip rapidly from the memory, 50
that only a hundred sears later
little but tradition remains of the
earthquake which changed the
confguration of extensive areas
of the Mississippi valley, raising
some portions, depressing others
shifting the course of streams
and draining old swamps at one
point and forming new lakes at
others. All this and more. how
ever, took place during the sue
cessive vibrations which shook
New Madrid region almost con-
tinuously for a period of many
months in 1911 and 1912. Y
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-10-25
Crawls for Thirty Miles.

After wandering since Tues.
day through the woods and fields
until he had become exhausted
James Hall, an old soldier oil
Dunkirk, aged II years, crawled
from Jay county to Blackford
county, Indiana. then fell uncon.
scious, a mass of cuts and bruises
into ditch by the roadside, five
miles southwest of Hartford
City, suffering intense agony
from his injuries and weak fror
hunger, thirst and exposure.
He was found by Orvi,le
Lytle, farmer, who picked him
up for dead. He was finally re.
vived and all he could whisper
was that he would give anyone
his gold watch who would take
him to the poorhouse. Lytle de-
livered him to the in6rmary
where he was found by relatives
and a party of Dunkirk citizens
who had spent three days search
ing for him.
The party was led by Rev. +
o. Fritts, his son-in-law, of Bun
ker Hill, Ind, who learned of his
absence and was searching for
him. The old mans mind is a
blank and it is believed he will
die from his terrible experience
He is believed to have crawled
on his hands and knees more
than thirty miles.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-10-25

George Raschid, of Pickens
w. Va, the leper who has been
no end of trouble to the health
boards of several states for the
last four or five months, will
bother them no more. The un-
fortunate man died Friday. His
leath was not due to the dread
disease that had made him an
outcast from his fellow men, ac-
~ording to the doctors who ex-
amined him after death, but was
attributed to heart disease. New
ertheless, the unfortunate body
showed the rapid strides that the
disease had made in the last ten
lays. Two of his fingers and the
toes of one foot were almost off.
his tongue was covered with
sores and badly swollen. The
officials of the county, after being
notified of his death, were at :
loss how to dispose of the body,
but will probably decide on Gre
nation.
Raschid had been sent from
county to county and State to
State in box cars, finally landing
in ,Pickens, w. Va.,. He was
quarantined and no one ventured
near him except physicians and
the disposition of the unwelcome
guest had become a problem to
the authorities. 1t was suggested
recently that he be deported to
his native land and the local au-
thorities were negotiating with
the government with such an OBJ
ject in view when the man died.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-10-25
Tolstoy on Old Age.

"You are young and / am old,
Tolstoy is quoted as saying to an
interviewer, "but as you grow
older you will find, as | have
found, that day follows day, and
there does not seem to be much
change in you, until suddenly
you hear people speaking of you
as an old man. 1t is the same
with an age in history; day fol-
lows day, and there does not
seem to be much change, until
suddenly it is found that the age
is become old. 1t is finished; it
is out of date. The present move
ment in Russia is not riot, it is
not even a revolution-it is the
end of an age"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-10-25

| The award of medals by the
Carnegie Hero Fund Commits
sion to commemorate the brav-
cry of two 1ndianians is in each
case a just and proper token of
appreciation of noble deed. One
of these heroes, James A. Cod
man, at the time city. engineer of
Warsaw, lost his life in the at
tempt to rescue the city marshal
from sewer entrance or well.
He went down with the full
knowledge that the gas or choke
damp at the bottom of the well
might be fatal. Presumably he
hoped to be able to refrain from
breathing until after he had
graspcd and withdrawn the body
of his friend, but as he had reach
ed the spot after a swift run of
some distance and was exhausted
he could not do this, and the two
men died together. A policeman
with equal heroism descended af-
ter him, but was withdrawn bare
ly alive, and his case is pending
before the commission, having
been presented by his friends. In
addition to the medal sent to the
widow of Goldman, $500 has
been awarded in trust to his
children.
The other medal goes to Ar
thur Simon, a 15-year-old-boy of
Wabash, who, at great risk to his
own lie, rescued his sister and
another girl from drowning. In
the one case the token will be
forever a cherished treasure in
the Goldman family, testifying as
it does to the fact that the hus-
band and father was a man of
that courageous and unselfsh
class which is ready to lay down
life for others, and no heroism is
greater than this. The boy, if he
is modest as most heroes are.
will not flaunt his gift, but will
naturally and properly feel pride
in it as badge of honor. Such
tokens are proudly held and
treasured by soldiers. Why not
by those in civil life fortunate
enough to win them?
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-10-25
That Marked Dollar Bill.

"A few years ago an Allen coun-
ty (Kansas) farmer put his I'M
tia1s on q dollar bill. Next day
he went to the nearest town and
spent it with a merchant. Before
the year was out he got the dol
lar back. Four times in six
years the. dollar came back to
him for produce and three times
he heard of it being in the peck
cts of his neighbors. The last
time he got it back four years ago
he sent it to mail-order house.
He has never seen that dollar bill
since, nor never will. That dollar
bill will never help. to pay any
more school or road tax for him,
will never build or brighten any
of the homes of his community.
He sent it entirely out of the cir
Gle of usefulness to himself and
his neighbors.