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Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14
The Laundered Collar

washing, today, is a question of
chemicals, not of labor" said a dele
gate to the national convention Of
laundrymen in Philadelphia.
He sat down, and there was a burst
of applause. But Carter McGrath Of
Atlanta said
'It is well for us to look to the chem
istry of washing, and to get out labor
saving machines, but there is still an
other thing for us to look to: Let us
try to make clothes washed by us last
as long as they used to do when washed
at home"
Mr. McGrath smiled.
"A cynic told me a story the other
day." he said, land it is our duty to
knock the bottom out of such yarns, to
destroy their reasons for existing.
"There was "A prisoner in a cell,
lamenting his lot, He longed for saw,
or a file.
suddenly the man spied on the floor
package of laundry that the jailer had
Just tossed in.
"'saved' he cried Historically, and
opened the packed, and taking from 1t
stand-up collar, the poor fellow cut
his way swiftly through the steel bars
to freedom with the sawlike edge"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14

Akoun followed the circuit-Omaha,
Buffalo, Charleston, st. Louis and Port
land-each time and place presenting
the Streets of Cairo under some name
or other, and with notifications in the
muscle dances to suit the fastidious,
more or less. Now he has returned to
his original Midway Plaisance" name
for the whole amusement section. Mr..
Akouh is general manager for the Mid
way attractions.
The Venice Winter Carnival and In
ternational exposition is the fun title
of the enterprise which opens today at
Venice. II is a pretty long title, and
the enterprise is going to run a long
time; moreover, ii is concern of con-
siderable magnitude.
But it is the Midway, which has its
grand opening this morning. that is
the newest thing at Venice. The Mid
way buildings have sprung up since the
close of the Portland exposition.
These buildings stand in long,
curved row, following the slight bend
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14

these spielers IS I[i-Ki the monkey
man, whose only utterance is the gut
tural "Aa-aa-aa-aa!" but when once
heard that is never forgotten. When
you have nightmares you hear Ki-Kis
"Aa-aa-aa-aa,' When you are out
alone at night i'm a desolate place and
don't know where YOU are going to
sleep or whether you will get your
breakfast before your supper you will
hear that awful "Aaaa-aa-aa!" and
wish to goodness gracious that you
hadn't wandered from your own fire.
side. Probably thirty millions of per-
sons at the various worlds fairs the past
dozen years have heard the monkey
mans vowelstiC. voodooistc exclama-
ton. Ki-ki is the only and original,
and he is engaged for the season at
Venice with Fernand Akoun's Temple
of AIirth, where you laugh and grow
lean, because you shake off your sur
plus flesh.
1t was the common report at Portland
last year that the entire Lewis and
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14

where in the neighborhood of 27,OOO
acres. Sir Robert afterward sold it to
d. Freeman for $3.50 an acre. Mr. Free
man has since sold portions Of it to
the Inglewood and Redondo Beach
companies and to other purchasers at
figures which send it's values high up
in the millions.
Bank Failure Sales
In 1876 the banking firm of Temple
& Workman was supposed to be the
richest financial institution and the
members of the firm the richest men
in Southern California. In September
of that year the Bank of California
failed, and it's failure very shortly was
followed by that Of the Temple *
Workman bank of Los Angeles. The
firm had immensely valuable ranchos,
including the Puente, La Merced and
the San Felipe LUgo and city property
valued at half a million dollars. Will
lam Workman owned at least twenty
six and F. p. f. Temple twenty five
thousand acres of the best land in Los
Angeles county.
Temple posted up to San Francisco
and borrowed $500. 900 from T.. ]. Bald
win and reopened his bank. giving n
mortgage therefor on the total posses =
sions of Temple & Workman. He
weathered the storm for few months,
when he was again obliged to close the
doors of the bank. with liabilities of
eleven hundred thousand dollars. The
partners and the bank We're thrown
into bankruptcy and the Temple &
Workman, now the Newmark block,
other city property and all those splen-
did ranches were acquired by Baldwin
in satisfaction of his 100000 mortgage,
the creditors of the bank and depositOrs
getting nothing. This property was
easily worth more than $3000,000 then
and a moderate estimate of its value
now would easily exceed $4,000, 900.
These ranchos, his city proper, the
Santa Anita ranch which the New
marks had bought for $4,000 and had
sold to Baldwin for 100000, with the
San Francisquito, and what he re-
tans of the Cienega rancho, should
make L. ]. Baldwin, after II. E. Hunt
ington the largest taxpayer in Los
Angeles county.
The Santa Monica Y San Vicente
rancho was purchased by Col. r. S.
Baker from one of the Sepulvedas for
less than $3.50 an acre. Col. Baker
aftcrWard sold three-fourths of the 80,
coo acres of which it consists to Sen
ator John p. Jones for nearly 5000, 900,
the transaction taking place in 1874
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14
Case of Too
Much Melody

THE perpleXed problem of how tC
dispose OF singing teachers ant
their students promises to be
solved this fall at the woman's hote
by seSregating them to the twelfth
floor, with hopes that the roof garden
will catch the overflow of vocal dis.
tress. The complaints made to the desk
" guests whose love for the Heavenly
Maid in throes of bringing forth dis
cords and sustaining them from dawn
to midnight would make a volume to
add to the gayety of a raconteur
Il have suffered long and patiently,
said permanent ON setting out for her
summer vacation, from a neighbor who
for six months has never failed to sing
daily and nightly, Has Johnny Got the
Apple" Now | am going away, and
before | return l fervently pray Johnny
VIII have gotten the apple, and choked
tC death! Certainly, if Johnny is still
alive and kicking, l or my sister neigh
Dor will have to seek quarters else
where"
II am great lover OF good music, "
said Johnny's defamer, "but there is no
voice, however well trained or pleasing,
that will not get on ones nerves when
perSlstently heard in the practice scales
and trills. For months some one in the
neighborhood Of the Martha Washing
ton has sung the same exercises until ii
seems at times | should go mad. The
lower and middle notes never reach me;
but the continuous, Colorless screech
Of the upper register is playing havoc
with my ear drum. | have tried to
locate the offender but never was able
to until last Sunday. Intent on going
to church with no choice as to denom-
iEation, ! strolled up Fifth avenue. ]
had not gone far when, following the
crowd. l entered one of the most fash
ionable churches and was ushered to
a seat.
Il had scarcely settled for a morning
OF spiritual refreshment when-horror
of horrors-out of the choir loft rose a
voice that went higher and higher until
it threatened TO hit the Holy Ghost
descending from the Vaulted ceiling.
Had fire burst in all consuming
flames from the pulpit | could not have
made quicker exit from that church,
THE singer was my neighbor. To be
inflicted six days of the week was quite
enough. Scripture sustained me in the
belief that / was entitled to rest on the
seventh from those piercing, tremulous
upper notes"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14

Clark exposition was to be taken bodily
to Venice, but that was a manifest i'm
possibility. However, it is almost a
fact that the Trail" has been moved
bodily to the Venetian city. Long be-
fore the end of the exposition at Port
land there came to Los Angeles the
oldest Midway man, in point of eX-
perience, now iving-Gaston Akoun
Twenty years experience and eighteen
big eXpositions, in Europe, Asia, Aus
tralia and America have given CASTOR
Akoun very fair smattering of the
Midway show business. 1t was Akoun
who originated'the Streets Of cairo. He
put on that novelty at the Columbian
exposition in Chicago i'm 1893, and first
introduced to the western world the
oriental dances in which muscular con-
tortiOns provided the chief feature. You
may remember the stir created by the
Introduction Of these dances at Chicago.
Even Chicago couldn't stand for them
all at once, but by degrees the Windy
City came around to the situation.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14
HOW THE ROW BEGAN

IIades popped in Cactus Center, when,
Jest like a catapult,
The life insurance question hit us on
the 18th ult;
1t began when CHA Hawkins said in
surarco men was thieves
Said the hull CabooGle Of 'em would
stun aces up their sleeves.
lie was took up by slim Johnson,
who's been writin' risks in town,
An before we cleared the barroom
there was three men lyin' down
Slim went shootin' to his office, an he
got four on tine way
While Old Gila, trailin' after, winged a
few with shots astray
SO wo laid siege to the office, an we
punctured Sims tough hide,
An laid him and ella Hawkins, with
their wounds dressed, side by
An old Hawkins got to laughin', lynn
stretched out on the bed,
But at last he checked his smokers, an
before MS last breath, said;
II apologize. most humble. Slim, as fur
as you're concerned,
But / Jest can't help a-laughin' at the
trick that you have turned:
Fer you've dealt your graftin' bosses
quite a hard financial blow
The joke is on you, Johnson--Im in
sured with you, you know
Denver Republican.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14
The 1IoodstaIned Rug

It is stated on the authority OF
London magazine that the czarina,
fearing the baleful influence of a his
torio rug sent by the sultan of Turkey
as gift to the imperial parents on
the occasion of the infants birth, has
sent the young heir to the throne to
place of hiding known only to herself
and the czar. The rug sent by the
sultan Is said to be one known as "the
bloodstained rug of the tenth century,"
which was taken from the walls of a
Moorish palace in the twelfth century,
when it was pronounced bewitched. 1t
next appeared in Rome in the four
teenth century, but was banished from
an Italian palace because of it's un-
canny influence and was moved from
place to place during the next 100
years, leaving death and destruction in
its wake 1t was lost during the six
teenth century, reappearing In the pail
ace of the sultan at the beginning of
the eighteenth, where II remained until
sent to st, Petersburg, where ii arr
rived at the beginning Of the war with
Japan
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14
The Meaninn of "Crowu

Hes what they call a crow said
a well informed police witness at Brent
ford OF a certain youth, explaining that
a "crow" is one who stands on guard
while his associates are busy robbing
to warn them of approaching police, OF
other undesrables. The word is thieves
slang of considerable standing. In 1856.
for instance, the Cornhill Magazine
mentioned 1t as a technical term for a
woman who kept such a watch for 4
burglar. An explanation that at once
suggests itself is that this confederate
is expected to "crow" or give some such
warning noise, but the word may well
point to some study of natural history
In criminal circles. Those familiar
"crows"-rooks-are accustomed to
post sentinels TO signal the coming of
danger.-London Chronicle.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14

skeletons OF the aftet-word; a big
wild animal show. with many trained
animals doing remarkable things. And
there are others.
This Midway has come to stay. It is
TO be open every day and every night
in the week, giving continuous per-
formances; and between the shows, if
you like, you may hear free concert
by Elerys Royal Italian band in the
immense Venetian palm garden, for
merry called the Venice auditorium.
opening off the long fishing pier or you
may enjoy trip aboard the Ship Hotel
Cabrllo, across the pier, without get
ting seasick. Tonight there will be a
grand display of fireworks in front of
the Midway and every night in the
week some special outside attraction
will be provided.
With the opening of the winter car
nival "California's Coney Island" is in
full swing and it promises to be q
point of great interest to tourist and
resident.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14

A BOUT thirteen years ago that was
~ one of the familiar songs, and II
is being revived at Venice, the
new beach resort near Los Angeles.
Venice. be it known, has a Midway
yes, Midway Plaisance; and today it
will open wide for the admission of the
public. If you don't believe it is a Mid
way, go down TO Venice and read the
big ornate sign above the entrance.
MIDWAY PLAISANCE." If you still
have doubts, abandon no hope what
ever, but enter there and keep your
eyes and ears open. You will see the
real Midway spieler and hear him spiel.
and you will behold the bespangled
dancers on the little outside platform,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14

"She ne-e-ev-er saw the Streets oi
Cairo;
On the Midway she had never becnw
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14

Dropping down 10 the southern end
OF the county about the most remark
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09
1.-THE CLICK"

Occasionally we hear union men
kicking because at each meeting
there appears the same old workers
'!the click
Who is it that is doing all the
work for that union! Who has
been doing it for the past year!
''The click"
What has been the binding force
so potent III a II the years? Not
money, for they never receive one
cent for all the work they ever did,
and never asked for any; perhaps
it was love for wife, children and
home, night after night these work
ers Joined hands in the work for
their organization; the union has
prospered and is one of the best
organizations in the city, and all
because of the 'the click.''
The union has some committee
work to do; nobody will do it; it
falls to the workers. lot. There is
an election; nobody wants an
Office; the worker takes it. What
would your union be if it was not
for '!thc click.'
If you think the worker is not
doing right by your union, why
don't you come to a meeting and
vote him out of office? But no:
they might have to do some of the
work themselves, and you might
have to lose Il few hours of sleep or
your boss might not like it. Now
what thanks does the worker get 4:
Did he ever get any! No, no; he
would drop dead if any was offered
him. The "inOcker'' goes out and
hollcrS, "Thc union is run by d
click. -
And why? Because some white
llvered son of II lobster did not
have things his own way about
something, or he is after some
thing he wants very bad and is
trying to cast diScrcdit on the hon
est worker who won't let this
lobster pull any wool over his eyes.
The Lord loves Il kicker, but not
this kind.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09
BE A LOYAL UNION MAN.

obey the rules and regulations
OF your union, not to avoid the
punIShmcntS, but to better your
Interests. If you have rules of
which you do not approve, en-
force them and they will be re
pe;lled. DO not expect to sec dol
lars coming to You ut each meeting.
Stop to think of the many advan-
tageS to which YOU have grown ac-
cuStOmed, and now regard as a
matter Of course, but which. if
taken from you, would show the
dcplOrablc condition eXiStingprc-
NlouS to organizations of which
they are Il part, and, like citizens
OF this grand country, will never
realize the enormous benefit unless
it were possible to temporarily
take it from them. Each member
should attend the meeting of his
local and when possible the con-
VcntiOnS of the organizations for
he will then be able to realize how
small the dues are, and that he
secures larger returns than from
the same amount expended in any
other manner.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09
A WORD FOR THE FAILURES.

no among us is able to Justly
compute the debt of gratitude the
world owes to some of it's people
who have not made IL success of
life, and who have died practical
failures, because they have been
too busy trying to make the world
little happier and IL little better.
10 make money iorathemsclves;
people who have been to much oc-
cupied i'll doing good among their
fellow men to accumulate earthly
riches; men who have taken too
much OF their time for the purpose
of distributing the milk of human
kindness to SubScrvc their own
INTEREST," When men fall in
desperate charges against the
enemies of their own country they
are laudcu as heroes. When men
die i'll defense of home and loved
ones monuments are erected to
their memories. When men give
their lives to save those of others,
the world rings with their praise
and honor, but what do those get
who go quietly through life doing
good every day they live, bright
cning the existence of others and
making happier mankind in gener-
al, often sacrificing their own life
interests i'll their services for others.
and finally passing unuoticcd. I'M
wcpt and unsung. into the great
beyond? There, perhaps. at the
hands of Il just God, they may re
ceivc the reward that is due them
and the credit that is honesty and
justly theirs. They got very little
of either here below
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09
"MONEYPHOBIA."

Here is a new word for you,
especially coined to fit the present
craze for wealth which has swept
over the country and for which
men everywhere, who have been
always regarded as the soul ofin
tegrity and honesty, are sacrificing
their honor, health, liberty and
even lives in the mad rush for
golden gain. The assistant At
torney- General of the United States
takes a charitable view of it when
he says:
ono charge is more false than
that we are a money loving
people. No people of any time or
cline ever cared less for money
when earned than we. PRODUCTIVITY
of expenditure rather than mar
row desire to hoard unnecessary
wealth is the distinguishing char
acteristic Of the average American.
If he has strong purpose and an
earnest desire to amass wealth, it
is in most cases because money is
the necessary material for further
constructive work. TO achieve
rather than to acquire is his am
bition. We undoubtly seek larger
fortunes than our fathers. but this
is not only due to our larger needs.
caused by a more complicated and
refined civilization. but also and
principally to Il finer recognition
of our moral responsibility toward
those dependent upon us.
Ills views on this subject are
misleading when we stop to con
slider what men all around us are
giving up for money. The people
of the present age do love money.
Madly, inSancly, better than they
love their souls many of them.
Else why would they make the
awful sacrifices and commit the
damning crimes they do to secure
it. Maybe you will modify it Il
little and say it is not the money
but things it will procure that
they love and crave for. Admit
ing it there is not vindicaliou.
Love of self is ut the bottom of it.
and to attain those desires of the
human heart of today, the means
are not considered. ''Get money
honestly if you can, but get
money! is the motto of today.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09

y farmer gravely discussing the
labor union recently was heard to
say that no doubt the union was a
good thing in its way, but he did
not believe in strikes. \ few min
utcs later he was heard to complain
that the dealers in farm products
fixed both the buying and selling
price. and to advocate a combina
ton on the part of the farmer to
hold his products out of the market
until better price was granted
Did it ever occur to him that that
even find some strike breakers in
his own class:
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09

The union is the last ANALYSIS is
a business institution. Some union
men think a union card is IL lottery
ticket. and they expect every num-
Der to win prize. They put in a
cent, get back - cents. and then
Kick because they didn't get IA
dollar. As 4 matter Of fact, the
the cost of a union card is the best
investment i'll the world. because
1t inevitably returns many hun
dred per cent. in cash to the in
VeStor, besides bringing conditions
OF employment ont of Savaccry in
to civilization.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09

True education is that which de
velops all that is best in man. IRE
Spcctive of his capacity for asSimi-
lating general knowledge The
education that simply fits IA youth
for '.making his way in the world. =
as the saying goes, is responsible
for that low standard of political
and business morals which finds
its natural expression in grating
and dishonesty. The development
of character in youth Is of far more
importance than the development
of brains and muscle. No man i
manly nor woman womanly. who
lacks character. no matter how per
fecty developed he or She may be
III other respects
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09

All this rant and cant about the
open shop Authorization is posi-,
lively enervating. Reduced to its
final analysis, it means simply that
the workingman shall not be allow
ed to combine for Self-protcction.
holders and bondholdcrS can have
all kinds of close corporations for
the purpose of mulcting the public
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09

I he members of each union
ought as far as possible to help the
members of all other uniouS-that
is. they should do all they can not
alone for the union of their own
craft. but for the unions of other
crafts in the general interest of
unionism. Buying only un ION
labeled goods accompliShcs this
object. If the printer needs a hat.
let him help the liattclS' union by
buying one with their label on it:
If the matters wants a coat. let him
get one with the garment makers
label: if the tailor needs shoes. he
should see that the Shocmaker>'
label is ON the sole: if the shoe
maker wishes the comfort of n
a smoke. let him demand a cigar
or tobacco with the cigarmakcr>-
union label ON il. And 50 on
throughout the circle.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09

Today is Your day and mine. the
only day we have. the day in which
we play our part. What our part
may signify i'll the great whole we
may not understand. but We are
here to play il, and now is our
time This we know. it is a cvni-
clsm- 1t l. for us TO express love
in terms of hclpfulnc>s. This we
Know. for we have learned from
SAD experience that any other
source of life leads toward decay
and waste.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09

The trades union movement was
never numerically, financially OF
intellectually in better condition
it is now, but it is not by any
means as good, strong or powerful
as 1T can be, should be and will be
if we but do our duty.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09

cam | in West Virginia or
Russia" Was the question
a commercial Traveller asked
upon his return trip up Cabin
Creek some time ago. You'll have
search us.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1906
LABOR'S WATCHWORD.

WE WILL STAND BY OUR
FRIEEnS AND ADMINISTER a STING.
WHO ARE EITHER INDTFFERE.NT
NEGLIGENT OR HOSTILE, AND
FORDS, SECURE THE ELECTION OF
INTELLIGENT, HONEST, EARNEST
TRADES UNIONISTS, WITH CLEAR,
UNELEMISlIID, pAID-UP UNION
CARDS IN THEIR POSSESSION.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09

The Labor Day Edition of the
Argus will be a valuable advertis-
ing medium for our enterpriSing
merchants who want to reach the
people.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09

w hen Il man won't listen to
reason there is no reason why he
should be listened to.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09

The flush of victory seldom
comes from Il one card draw.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09

a fool can often make money,
but it requires Il wise man to spend
judiciously.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09

Above all things, remember The
Union Label.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-09

The sage brush has begun TO
rustic.