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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-30
Pronosnls For schooI SunnIlea


Notice is hereby given that the Board
OF Education Of the City of Los Angeles
Will receive sealed proposals for supplies
in the various classif1cations as noted in
the printed catalogue In the hands of the
Secretary. at his office. No. ais Chamber
Of Commerce Bldg, until Friday, July
9Th. 1906. at II o'clock a. M. for the fur
nishing and delivery of supplies for the
school department at such times and in
such quantities as may be designated by
the Board of Education during the fiscal
year ending June 30th. 1907.
All bids must be made on the printed
catalogue now In the hands Of, and will
be accompanied with a certified check of
500, payable to the order Of the Board OF
Education, as a guarantee that the party
bidding will, If his bid is accepted, ex-
ecute to the said Board the required con-
tract, In accordance with his bid, and
will, when the quantities that are esti-
mated will be purchased under his con-
give a bond with sufficient surety to full
fill such contract in such amount as
may hereafter be fixed by the Board
Bidders must furnish samples Of goods
bid upon when necessary. as noted in the
catalogue.
rhe Board reserves the right to reject
any and all bids
All bids must be sealed and addressed
to the Secretary of the Board, at No. AS
Chamber of Commerce Bldg, and will be
opened there in public, by the Secretary
or the Purchasing Committee, on Friday.
July 9Th. 1906, at II O'Clock a. m.
Preference will be given, where other
conditions are equal, to goods manufac--
tured In California.
Dated, Los Angeles. June 22d, 1906
n. s. AVERILL, Secretary.
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-30
TESTS GASOLINE CAN
WITH LIGHTED MATCH
CHARLES ANDREWS is BADLY
BURNED
Explosion Follows Contact of Fire
and oi;-Grocery Store Is Damaged
by Flames to the Extent of Two
Hundred Dollars

With a lighted match in his hand,
Charles Andrews, a grocer at $50 Caro-
lima street, attempted to find out If
kerosene or gasoline was in a five
gallon can yesterday morning. After
his face had been badly burned by the
explosion which followed, the man de-
clded that there was gasoline instead
of kerosene in the can.
Andrews was badly burned by the
explosion and was taken to the receiv-
ing hospital
The fire department answered the
alarm of fire which the gasoline explo-
sion caused and about 5000 damage was
done before the flames were extin-
guished
During the fire Lieutenant Mills of
engine company II suffered badly
sprained hand by the recon of a strong
stream OF water. The injured member
was dressed and Mills was able to SUI
eprintendent the fighting with little
difficulty.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-30
HIS LIBERTY SHORT LIVED
w. M. Jenkins, Discharged on Petty
larceny Charge, Is Rearrested
Immediately

After having been acquitted on a
charge of petty larceny, w. NJ. Jenkins,
a negro, was rearrested on a similar
charge and taken before Judge Cham
bers TO answer for the alleged steal
ing OF some cloth from a tailor at
2445s South Broadway.
Yesterday morning Jenkins was ex-
amlned on a petty larceny charge be-
that the man had stolen a camera from
John Cook, photographer at 244lh
South Broadway.
After the man had been acquitted
he started to leave the court room with
mis- wife, but was detained by the po-
lice to show why he should not be sem
fenced for the alleged stealing of cloth
from the firm of Barre a Van Pelt.
Jenkins will appear this morning be-
fore Judge Chambers to enter his plea.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-30
W. A. sPALDING. Secretary.
6-30-7-1-13 lat
Notice for Bid. for SCIENCE BuIIdIng for


Notice Is hereby given that the Board Of
Trustees of the Los Angeles City High
School District will receive bids for the
construction and completion of a three
story brick science building for the Los
Angeles High School, situated on the High
School Site, near the corner of Hill and
Rock streets, in the City Of Los Angeles
California. to be constructed IN accord
pared by Dennis & Farwell. architects
and on Ale in the office, Of the Secretary
of the Board. ais Chamber of Commerce
building. All labor and materials TO be
furnished and excavations made by the
Xii bids must be accompanied by a
certified check for per cents OF the
amount of the bid, payable to. the order
Of the Board of Trustees Of the Los
Angeles City High School District. and
must be sealed and filed with the Sec
retary, at his office, on or before Friday
July 1S, 1906 at 3 o'clock p m, at which
time the bids viii be opened In public by
the Secretary or the Building Com
mittee.
The Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
Dated. Los Angeles, June 27 1906
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-30
Notice for BID for school BuIldInr

Notice is hereby given that the Board
of Education of the City of Los Angeles
will receive bids for the construction
and completion of an eight-room add
tion TO the Washington street school
long avenue, in the City of Los Angeles.
TO be constructed in accordance with
plans and specifications on file in the
office of tho Secretary of the Board, AIS
Chamber of Commerce building. All
labor and material to be furnished and
excavations made by the contractor.
All bids must be accompanied by q
certified check for 10 per cent OF the
amount of the bid, payable to the order
of the Board OF Education. and must be
sealed and filed with the Secretary. at
his office. on or before Friday, July
s, 1906. at o'clock p. m.. at which
time the bids will be opened in public
by the Secretary.
The Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
Los Angeles, Cal. June 26, 1906.
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-30


In accordance with Section l. Rule
tions of the City of Los Angeles, notice
Is hereby given that a competitive ex-
animation will be held on Saturday,
the. 14th day of July 1906, beginning at
in the City of Los Angeles. Cal, for
the purpose of examining applicants
for admission to the eligible list in
classifications and divisions as desig-
mated below:
Division R, Grade 10, Glass 1. Janitor
School Department.
Division r, Grade IL, Class Id, Paint
er, School Department.
Division r, Grade IL, Glass 1b, Car
penter School Department.
Division V, Grade IA. Class 1, Meter
Inspector, Water Department.
Division p, Grade II, Glass 1, Superin
tendept Play Grounds.
Division p, Director Play Grounds.
Division p. Caretaker Play Grounds
Division L, Grade l, Glass 6, General
Attendant, Library.
Division l.. Grade 1, Glass 8, Director
of Study and Research, Library.
Division II, Grade l. Class 3. Sur
veyor, Engineers Department.
Division Fl. Grade 4. Glass 1, Instru-
mentman Engineers Department,
Division II, Grade 5, Glass 1, Chain
man, Engineers Department.
Division G, Grade l, Class 2. Guide
Also, at Barrel Springs, Kern county
Cal on the same date, will be held ex-
aminations for Surveyor. Instrument
man and Chairman, Engineers Depart
ment, as noted above
Said competitive examination will in
clude tests of proficiency in Reading,
Writing. Spelling, Arithmetic, lknowl-
edge of the duties of the several posi-
tons named, general and specific ex-
perience tending to AZ the applicant
cular strength. soundness and acute
ness of faculties, personal habits,
moral character and such qualifications
as will fairly attest the capacity of
persons examined to discharge, the
Applicants must appear In person ar
the Office of the Civil Service Commis-
sion not less than eight days before
the date fixed for the Examination, and
file, under oath, an application in form
prescribed by the commission. blanks
for which will be furnished on request
BY order of the Board of Civil Ser
vice Commissioners.
JOHN r. HAYNES,
Chairman.
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-30
Notice OF Appeal

Notice to contractors and parties in
terested in the improvemfnt Of Eagle
mute has filed her appeal appealing
from the acts and determinations OF the
Board OF Public Works I'M issuing the
assessment for the improvement OF lot
/, block 81, Garvanza Addition No. 1.
Said appeal will be heard by the
Council OF the City OF Los Angeles at it's
meeting OF July 2. 1906, at O'clock d.
m. or as soon thereafter as the same
can be heard.
IL. j. LELANDE.
o.26-S0 bt City Clerk.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-30

Notice is hereby given that the Board
of Education of the City of Los Angeles
will receive bids for the construction
and completion of flye-room addition
to the Boyd street school build
ing at Boyd street, near San
PEDRO Street. in the City Of Los Angeles,
to be constructed In accordance with
plans and specifications on file in the
office of the Secretary of the Board, 418
Chamber of Commerce building. All
labor and material to be furnished and
excavations made by the contractor.
All bids must be accompanied by a
certified check for 10 per cent of the
amount of the bid, payable to the order
OF the Board OF Education. and must be
sealed and filed with the Secretary, at
his office. on or before Friday, July
O. 1906. at 3 o'clock p. M. at which
time the bids will be opened in public
by the Secretary.
The Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
Los Angeles. Cal, June 20. 1905.
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-30
PUBLIC ADVERTISING


and to be assessed to pay the benefits,
damages and costs thereof are hereby
described as follows:
Beginning at the most easterly corner
of lot H. block 10, Map of the Park
Tract, as ner map recorded in Book z, at
pages 26 and u, Miscellaneous Records
of Los Angeles County; thence southerly
ner o<ASaid lot Ia; thence easterly in a
directTfne to the most easterly corner of
lot 13, said block 10; thence southerly in a
direct line to the most southerly corner
of lot Z, said block 10; thence westerly
in a direct line to the most easterly cor
ner of lot G. said block 10; thence south
erly in direct line to the most south
erly along the northerly line of Temple
street to the easterly line of Victor street;
thence northerly along the easterly line
of Victor street to the southerly line of
Bellevue avenue; thence easterly along
the southerly line of Bellevue avenue to
the point of beginning.
Excepting therefrom any land therein
contained which is now a part of any
public street or alley
Sec. 8. The Board of Public Works
shall cause notice of the pass
age of this Ordinance to be posted in
the manner and within the time pro-
vided by law.
Sec. 4. The City Clerk shall certify to
the passage of this Ordinance and shall
cause the same to be published
for ten days in the Los Angeles Herald
and thereupon and thereafter 1t shall
take effect and be in force.
i hereby certify that the foregoing Or
the City Of Los Angeles at its meeting Of
June Is, 1906.
H. ]. LELANDB.
City Clerk.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-30

NOTICE TOT ScnOOl
Notice is hereby given that the Board
OF Education OF the City OF Los Angeles
will receive bids for the construction
and completion OF a four-room addition
TO the Fifty-fourth avenue school build
ing at Fifty fourth avenue and Monte
Vista street, In the City of Los Angeles,
to be constructed in accordance with
plans and specifications on file In the
office of the Secretary OF the Board, AIS
Chamber OF Commerce building, All
labor and material to be furnished and
excavations made by the ntractor.
All bids must be accompanied by a
certified check for 10 per cent OF the
amount of the bid, payable 10 the order
OF the Board OF Education. ana must be
sealed and filed with the Secretary, at
his office. on Or before Friday, July
6, 1906. at 3 o'clock p. m.,. at which
time the bids will be opened in public
by the Secretary.
The Board reserves the right TO reject
any or all bids.
Los Angeles, Cal, June 26. 1906.
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-30
BnnIx Opeu TonIeht

Tho ConsoIldated Bank OF Los An-
geles. 124 South Broadway, In the
Chamber OF Commerce building, will be
Open tonight. as usual. 10 accommodate te
the public IN general and its old pat
rons
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-30
INDEX TOPUBLIc ADVERTISING
NEW TODAY

Notice of civil service examinations
for positions in the School Department
and other departments.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-30

The Herald will sch you SIS worth of
records and GIVE you a ak months'
subscription to The Herald and a SIS
Ialk-o- Phone absolutely frea
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-30

City Clerk.
Approved this 21st day of June, 1905.
$3.50 TIA lot Mayor.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-30

Los Angeles. CAL June se. 1906.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-06

The most amazing stupidity conceiv.
able of any people with foreheads IL
that they should allow their supply
Of food to pass into the hands Of one
speculative interest, says Charles Ed.
ward Russell In a powerful article
written by him In the Appeal to Rea.
son. You can understand how q care
less community might tolerate mo.
nopoly of some things, how It might
endure to have its transportation, for
instance, or Its electric light, control.
led by one ownership, for men can
live without sleeping cars or arc
lamps; but that 1t should tolerate a
monopoly Of the primal necessity Of
food Is beyond comprehension and
without precedent. Even naked saw.
ages have uniformly been too wise
for that, and the only nation that has
ever submitted to such q monstrous
condition Is our own.
From thousand illustrations Of the
injuries we all suffer from this idiotic
arrangement let US cite one.
There IL no way Of communicating
disease to the human body surer than
through infected meat tissue. Some
Of the worst and most destructive ba.
GILL that prey upon mankind are com.
mon among the animals he eats for
food. Cows have tuberculosis and
spread vast quantities Of It through
the human population. It 10 80 com.
mon among cows that the wise and
the forewarned will use none but ster-
ilixed milk. What II hog cholera"
among swine Is merely typhoid fever
In men. Trlchinea In hogs poisons
human beings. Both these diseases
are common among swine.
Worse than aii these, and more
deadly, 10 another fact that 10 seldom
commented upon because It 10 too ap'
palllng to dwell much upon. What Il
called "lumpy Jaw In cattle u simply
cancer. The germs Of cancer are
communicable. Many cattle have
"lumpy Jaw" Any animal with
"lumpy Jaw" 10 unit for human
food.
This opens q neld that demands the
immediate attention OF the govern
ment. Cancer 10 the most terrible Of
all diseases. After Il has reached q
certain stage Of development Il 10 ab'
solutely incurable. lts progress ID
that stage may be without the pa
tient's knowledge or suspicion. Ita
advance beyond that stage cannot
even be checked. II slays its victims
with the most horrible torture.
In this country the recent increase
Of this most terrible Of human AZ
hictions has been something to alarm
us all. It was once rare; It now
threatens to become common. In the
Cincinnati hospital, In the year 1870
II, the number Of cancerous patients
was one In 6S7. In 1904 the number
was one In 273. In 1870. when thu
total population Of the city was PIG.
go, the number Of cancer cases re-
ported at all the institutions was e
In 1000. with a total population ol
325.0O2, the number Of cancer casel
reported at all the institutions wal
l08, and In 1908, with about the same
population, the number was 207.
append the table that shows this 40
tonishing increase.
Here 10 q similar report from two
weil.known hospitals elsewhere:
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEW
| YORK.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-06

and destroyed under their supervision.
At retail markets, $3.50 pounds Of
dressed meats; 24,15O pounds ot Nsh.
ana 00S6 pounds Of poultry, mans
and rabbits were condemned and dc.
stroyed.
"The Commissioner has issued the
following instructions to the chief In.
spector at the Union Stock Yards:
"'While actinomycosls IL usually
confined to the head, and may be said
In one sense to he Q localized disease.
and while some inspectors condemn
only the part involved. I believe 1t Il
safest and most practicable to con.
demn the entire carcass wherever the
electromagnetic abscess opens into the
mouth, pharynx, larynx or any part Of
the digestive or respiratory tract; or
when the lymphatic glands are inv0lv.
ed; or where there are actinomycotic
tum0rs In the lungs; or when the 10.
sions have become generalixed, since
generalization In actinomycosis ap.
pears to run a very atypic course.
making the detection Of oil f0ci inside
the muscle very difiicult; therefore.
the entire carcass Is to be condemned.
"ln cases where tho actinomy ycotlc
LESSONS are positively localized, the In.
fected part may be cut away and the
remains of the carcass used.
"'These instructions apply only to
"lumpy jaw" There may be other
reasons why you should want to con.
demn a carcass, and It Is then a mat.
ter Of judgment for you and your men.
But you should never hesitate to con.
demn II you believe the animal to be
not At for human food.'"
The meat inspectors Of the Chicago
Health Department condemned and de-
stroyed 332, ,667 pounds Of meat ut the
Stock Yards during the month Of April.
Just think this over.
With not tenth as many inspectors
as they should have the Health Depart.
ment destroys nearly half a million
pounds Of diseased meat In one month
at the Stock Yards. II 332,087 pounds
OF meat Is condemned and destroyed in
month by IN insufficient number OF
inspectors, how much would be de.
stroyed II the Health Department had
the number Of inspectors that 1t should
have?
The health of Chicago Is at stake.
The Beef Trust Is causing the spread
Of tuberculosis and cancer.
Bad, rotten meat that Is sold to the
people by the Beef Trust causes these
awful diseases.
This awful trust can 60 on spreading
disease, but there Is day Of reckoning
coming.
The people will rise up and demand
that this trust be Investigated and the
guilty men sent to Jail.
The Newspaper Trust cannot save the
Beef Trust
The Eagle was the first paper In the
country to expose the Beef Trust. Now
the good work Is being taken up all
over the United States by daily and
weekly papers and monthly magazines.
The health Of Chicago will always be
in danger so long as diseased meat Is
sold to the people. The Chicago Health
Department Is doing its very best to
stop this diseased meat, but 1t has not
near enough men. The Reef Trust Is
the greatest menace to the public
health that we have.
1t should be stopped.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-06

IL the laws regarding the selling OF
diseased meat were enforced the Beef
Trust would now be In jail.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-06

Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
%, 1906
"a total OF l9s,O02 pounds OF meats
was condemned by the department In
SVectors at the Onion Stock Yards
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-06

II the Beef Trust thinks that the
people will abide by the fake reports OF
investigations made by women's clubs,
college professors and associations com
posed Of so.called business men it Is
greatly mistaken.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-06

The Beef Trust laughs at pure food
laws.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-06

Thirty years ago, according to the
Chicago Health Department, the ma.
jority Of the deaths In Chicago were
among infants. Now, thanks to the
Beef Trust, the great majority Of the
casDle who die are adults, the avera0s
age of the deceased having increased
from infancy In 1875 to 81 years 10
1905!
New-York tribune., 1906-02-18

comfortable little farm which she and her husband
had created which would have brought, l sup
pose, a thousand dollars. | said: Take your
money and 60 back to England, to your brothers
and sisters and your old home.
She replied with fine frenzy OF rage which would
have sounded well in a Greek tragedy: Il go back
there? Not l! 60 back to their bloody Manchester
where they have shut out Gods light by their
bloody chimbevs? Not l." Absolute solitude
without neighbor within two three miles, was
better than the bloody chmbleys" of this bloody
Manchester" The woman had been glad of the
chance to curse the home in which she born.
That IS a side of the picture which one does not
he climbs TO the fifteenth story of sky
scraper in New-Yor1 to attend three
scarlet-fever children who in bed there If you
ask the mother of those children why she and her
husband came to New-York they will find it hard
TO tell you. Ii you ask her whether she would like
TO take up the Manchester womans empty house
IN New w-Hampshlre, she Will not know what you
mean. You make your hurried visit and go across
the street to the fourteenth story of another sky
scraper there and when your day is you are in
no condition to work out the questions of the con-
gestion OF cities the machinery which will arrest
1t IS easy to make faces meet the young
countryman with his wife when they from
Podunk to Newly Ork and to ask them what they have
for; but it is foolish suppose that the conges
ton of cities results from their mex perence gnor
ance. There some important people who work
ing with them in this matter Of crowding the towns
New-York tribune., 1906-02-18

NILS convenient phrase The RuSh TO the
Cities is used more or less carelessly TO
describe one OF the misfortunes OF the last
century which no one quite understands
People who have TO deal with it in the larger
CIties md themselves pOweTless TO arrest It. In the
end they come round 10 see that the causes of it
not OF their making and that they have as much
they do in healing the sick, in clothing the
naked, and IN providing homes for the homeless
who the results OF the congestion Of cities As
an academic phrase 1t means, alas! question of no
consequence TO anybody. II is discussed more
less, but often among the writers what is
called sociology where one does not get much
comfort.
Just at this moment one or two changes are
taking place which seem 10 give some little help
IN the matter. few years before his death the late
Lord Salisbury expressed his hope that the transfer
OF power to considerable distances by electric wires
might create civilization, a form of
civilized life. by enlarging Very much the number
OF small factory and diminishing IN the
proportion the number OF crowded millionaire
towns of to-day. do not think that this result has
Yet followed; still II IS TO be looked for among
the possibilities OF the future.
More effective has been the curious change in
social order brought about by the trolley. The
operative in the factory town Is now able to live
two. three or four miles from the engine which Is
his partner his daily work As one passes through
the large manufacturing towns OF New-York, OF
New Jersey and all New-England, he sees already
an increased number OF comfortable dwelling houses
winch IN what YOU might call the suburbs OF
factory towns. These give homes TO the working
people in factories where they can still God
sky and feel His sunshine-hOrnes with cultivated
land by each OF them for gardening or II you please,
for feeding a pig, goat a COW or horse. This
emancipation such working people gain from the
trolley.
Some years ago IN walking IN NewHampsl1re l
stopped 10 make q call old woman an old
friend OF mine, IN comfortable house which her
husband had built dozen years before IN the
wilderness. ! found TO my regret that he had died
the winter before. His widow was carrying on
the place with her own hands and with no help
besides but that OF the good God. She told me she
could do everything but plow, and that in the spring
she had TO hire plowman She told me that her
husband had loaded his gun a little before he died
for an attack the hawks which
troubled their hen-yard. but he had -
had no chance 10 FIRE of the gun and
the hawks had become more auda-
cious. Only the day before We talked
together a hawk had entered her
kitchen while she At work and
had seized Z chicken which had
taken refuge there. Would l not be
good enough 10 60 into the garden 90
and see If ] could not arrest his career?
This gave me a good text 10 speak
about, and / suggested 10 her that a ~
hfe 50 lonely as hers had great in -
cOrveniences. l asked her why she 49,
would not let her friends sell this -.