Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
INCORPORATION
OR ANNEXATION
PASADENA SUBURB UNDECID-
ED ON COURSE
Leading AItadena Citizens Still OPP
pose Merging Into Crown City
and Seek Another Way of
Present Relief
Pasadena Agency,
IL North Raymond Avenue.
Telephone Main 1147.

Pasadena Agency.
IL North Raymond Avenue.
Telephone Main 114f.
PASADENA, March is. 49, The Alta
dena Improvement association VIII
meet tomorrow evening at La Mariposa
hotel with much important business
scheduled for consideration. Foremost
on the list will be the matter of annex
alton to Pasadena or failing that inn
mediate incorporation OF the village
Prominent citizens of the little foothill
city do not admit the probability of any
serious movement just now looking to
annexation and say that most of the
agitation for annexation has been from
without and not from within. Altadena
has not suffered this year in the matter
of storm water ravages as it did last
year and these citizens say that with
better graded streets. paved cutters and
straightcr streets the problem bids fair
to solve itself. Incorporation is looked
upon as a certain panaCea for the few
ills these citizens admit the little village
has. Some are suggesting that park
located to the east of the cemetery
would put a stop to the threatening
extension of the cemetery in that direc-
ton and that incorporation must pre-
cede this step. Certain it is that from
present indications tomorrow nights
meeting will be one of the most inn
portant of the year
Speaks on Missions
DIR. Homer c. Stuntz superintendent
of Methodist missions in the Philippine
islands. was speaker at the First
Methodist Episcopal church this morn
ing and the announcement of his COM
ing attracted a crowd which taxed the
capacity of the church. Dr. Stuntz un
hesitatingly launched into a defense
of United States occupation of the is
lands and told in graphic form of the
work of the Methodist church by which,
since the taking over of the islands
by the United States, $4,000 members
have been added to that one denomina-
ton. He expressed his approval of the
action of Governor Wood in the recent
campaign against the Moro bandits as
apparently necessary under the circum-
stances. He spoke of the awakening
of ASiatic peoples at the present time
as a most encouraging sign. DIR. StuntZ
is in this country for the purpose of
raising million dollars as an endow-
ment for great Methodist university
to be established on the islands for
the thousands of native students who
are coming up through the schools es-
tablished and conducted by the govern
ment. While commencing many of the
acts of the American government of the
islands, DIR. Stuntz bitterly opposed its
attitude toward the saloon question,
toward the sale of opium. the excessive
taxation and other administrative prob
lens. The Methodist Episcopal church,
according to DR.. Stuntz, is spending
$4,000 in it's missionary work in the
Philippines this year, sum absurdiY
insufficient for the tremendous possi-
bilities lying open there before the
church.
A Home for the Lieutenant?
Between the handsome residences of
Robert j. Burdette and Benjamin Bios
som on South Orange Grove avenue
stands a cottage in the center of ill
kept grounds, u place which has been
noticed by everyone who has passed
down the millionaires drive because of
its shabby appearance and general air
of being out of place beside its wealthy,
well kept neighbors. The property is
said to have been at one time part of
the adjoining estate of Sunnycrest.
The owner now lives somewhere in the
east and little attention is paid to the
building or to the grounds around it.
It is rumored that Adolphus Busch, the
millionaire brewer, whose palatial man.
sion lies the third south of this prop
erty, has been endeavoring to purchase
this place, for so long time an eye
sore to the neighborhood, intending to
turn it into a suitable home for his
newly made son-in-law, Lieut.. Schar-
rer. Rumor even says that the pur-
chase has been made. But in this case
the wish may be the father of the
thought again. The ear of the mill
lionaire brewer could not be secured
this evening to affirm or deny the truth
of the rumor, but Attorney Lockwood,
who Is known to represent Mr. Busch
in occasional real estate transactions,
vigorously denied that his client had
ever cast longing eyes upon the prop
erty in question, let alone sought to
purchase it. The rumor is given for
what it is worth, however.
Discredits Story
Constable Harley Newell spent some
time this afternoon at Lamanda Park in
vestgating the story that a resident of
that place was drowned in a wash dur
ing the heavy rainstorm OF Thursday
night. He could find nothing to give
color to the story and states that i'm his
opinion the whole affair is a fabrica-
ton. On Friday night an emplOyc of
the Pacific Electric brought y similar
story into the city. He told how a
Mexican whose name could not be
learned had fallen into the torrent and
would have been drowned had not a
young lad of the name of Schafer
travey swan to his rescue. The news
could not be verified by inquiry among
citizens of Lamanda Park and vicinity
and was dropped as a good natured
fake. The later version of the story
may have developed from this. Citi-
zens remember how about two years
ago some wag cunningly circulated a
runor to the effect that II Lamanda
Park minister of the gospel had been
shot-a rumor which caused much eX-
citement until 1T was proven to be
false. About the only truth to the
latest rumor seems to be that during
the recent storm enough water did pass
through the wash in question to drown
any hapless individual who should fall
into IT,