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Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
KEEN RIVALRY IN WEST
Practically All Construction Work Is
Toward Pacific Coast

At the present time railroad con-
struction in the eastern part of the
United States is confined chiefly to in
creasing the facilities and the capacities
of roads already in operation. This is
done by laying third, fourth and fifth
and even sixth tracks, and by enlarging
and improving terminals and by the
classification of yards. There has been
very little new railroad building in the
east, while in the west big operations
have been planned and are in process
of execution.
The Hill line, extending from the
Portland & Seattle railway, has con-
lstructed asline 22o miles in length with
maximum eastbound grade of only
210 of l per cent. With the compile
ton of this line, the Hill line will have
stronger competition than ever with
the Hartman line, and this will make
the rivalry between these two big sys-
TENS still keener. Mr.. Hartman will
extend the Southern Pacific system
northward from Portland to Seattle,
and farther south is the projected ex-
tension of the st. Paul road to the
Pacific coast.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
HIGHER SALARIES RULE NOW
Increase In Travel, Accompanied by
More Money for Trainmen

without question: said passenger
official yesterday, there is handsome
increase in travel over ten years ago.
1.-THE passenger traffic over some roads
is now 80 per cent greater than 1t was
ten years ago.
"That there is a general increase in
passenger traffic is shown by statistics
from month to month. and with this
has come an advance in salary of the
passenger officials in every line Of the
service.
1.-THE first road to advance salaries
was the New York Central. 1t placed
George Daniels in charge of Its pas
senger service. This seems to have
started the higher salaries for passen-
ger officials generally, and with this
there has been an Improvement In the
service.
This change is noticeable at the
meetings of the passenger officials. Only
a few years ago at these meetings many
of the passenger men indulged too
freely in liquor. In this matter, how
ever, there has been a general reform.
Men who were too liberal in their Ideas
in this respect have been dropped and
their places filled with sober men,"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
RETURN TO NEGLECTED WAYS
OF THEIR MOTHERS
Millinery, Dressmaking and Cooking
Glasses of Young Women's Chris
tian Association Filled with
Earnest Students

| It's bonnets, shirt waists and salads
with the women, and bonnets come
| first.
This is according to the pretty clerk
at the Young Women's Christian asso-
citation. when she gave the figures for
the association classes that opened last
month in millinery, sewing and COOK
ing.
TWo-thirdS more women are learn
ing to make hats than are learning to
cook, and the shirt waist class strikes
the medium.
And the three classes include almost
800 women.
Club women, business women, So
ciety women and Just mothers" COM
pose the classes, and the club women
predominate.
The women are all going back to the
lost art of being domestic, and hoop
skirts and side curls may follow in the
wake.
Ibsen, Ice cream soda and the ''philo-
sophy of rearing growing families along
the lines of ethical culture" are being
forgotten, while the women study out
just how chiffon should be cut and
whether doo-dads look better than
plumes.
Back to Bread and Biscuit
And the salads-bien! If mere man
could only conceive of a third of the
salad concoctions he'd hasten to join
club where the chef knows nothing
above beefsteak and onions.
Besides which, plain cooking is be-
ing taught and croquets and "left
overs" turned into dainty nothings,
and old-fashioned short cake is made,
along with the grandmother's art OF
bread and biscuit
isn't it too sweet to learn to cook
nd sew?" said woman at the morn
ing class, who lives near Westlake
park. II was taught to play the piano
and sing instead of domestic arts, and
now I'm learning something useful for
the first time, and I'm genius"
Then she lowered her voice to the
faintest hint of a whisper and said
behind her hand:
"But 1 practice my sewing on my
little daughter, Dorothy. She's not old
enough for her clothes to make any
difference; and all OF the money l used
10 pay her dressmaker / now have to
spend"
The club and society women who do
not have to work because they have
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
HEARD AROUND
THE CORRIDORS
RY THE EAYESDROPPER
GOLD SEEKERS
PROSPECT IN BOAT

Men have gone prospecting on burros,
on bicycles, in automobiles and on foot,
but Edwin c. Brewster, who arrived
at the Alexandria yesterday, was one
of the first men to go prospecting in a
boat.
Mr.. Brewster, who is associated with
Malcolm Macdonald, Don Gillies and
others of Nevada's big mining, men, has
just completed a tour of various mining
properties in the Bullfrog district and
farther north, but it was at Walker
lake that he had his most thrilling eX-
perience.
When the Indian reservation. there
was thrown open for settlement there
was mad rush of prospectors, who
went in every conveyance they could
find, but Mr.. Brewster and his associ-
ates had a better way. Before leaving
Los Angeles three weeks ago, Mr..
Pedro and had it shipped to the Indian
agency at Schurz, by the Southern Pa
cific.
IAN edict was issued that no boat
should be launched on the lake untk
the signal was given, but alas, we never
received this,order," said Mr.. Brewster.
"In the middle of the night we moved
the boat from Schurz to Modoc, and
there we launched her. BY the time
tell us not to. the deed was already
done.
"Mr. Macdonald broke a bottle of
champagne, and we christened her Do
lores.' Mr.. Parkhurst sat i'm the stern
and waved the Stars and Stripes, and
when the signal was given we shot
across the lake and landed before the
others We're fairly started. 1t was
seven miles across. but you may be sure
we wasted no time in covering those
miles.
I'VE staked out sixty claims and To-
Gated two townsites One on the
mountain side of the lake we named
Avalon, and the other Gillies, after
Don Gillies. We have three fine cop
per showings and some properties that
show gold assaying $9S ton"
Mr. Brewster whom they call Boost
er" In Nevada. because he always
"poosts" and never knocks" left Beat
ty Monday morning after seeing j. Ross
Clark and Charles NJ Schwab and his
party of eastern capitalists.
"Mr Schwab intended to spend Fri
day visiting his Montgomery -Shoshone
property and other mines in the Bull
frog district, in which he is interested,
and the party expected to go to Green
water, and then make a flying trip on
to Goldheld and Tonopah." said Mr..
Brewster '"rhey told me they expected
to be IN Los Angeles Tuesday or We'd
nesday though IL is not probable they
will remain here long.
There has been increased activity in
the mining districts of Nevada in the
last two weeks" said Mr.. Brewster II
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07

a general inspection Of selected por-
tions of the track, and the chief en-
pineer of maintenance of way M. L.
Rvers will announce the result from
st. Louis headquarters.
The following premiums will be
awarded at the close Of the inspection:
First premium, 1900, to the roadmaster
having the best average line and sur
face; second premium, 500, to the road
master having the second best average;
third premium, $50, to the roadmaster
having the third best average. Section
foremen's first premium, $25, to the
section foreman having the best aver
ape line and surface on each superin-
tendent's division included In the in
snection: section foremen's second
nrenniurn. ten days leave of absence at
fuIl nav. with transportation for himself
and immediate family to any point on
the system, to be awarded the section
foreman having the second best ave-
rage line and surface on each superin-
tendent's division covered by the in
spection.
In addition to the system inspection,
each division will make a track In
spection, as a result of which the fol-
lowing premiums will be awarded: First
premium, for section having the best
average line and surface on each road
masters district; the section foreman
will be given one weeks leave of abb
sence at full pay, with transportation
to any point in the system and board
marked Premium Section" Will be
placed on his tool house, this board TO
be maintained until an ensuing annual
inspection.
The foreman having the best section
on the superintendent's division will re-
ceive a board marked First Premium
Section" and will be given ten days
leave of absence instead of one week.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
Personals

George j. Myers, a shoe manufacturer
of Boston, is at the Hayward.
F. B. Keever, a mining man of Gold
field, Nevada, is at the Angelus.
H. NJ. Celsey, prominent insurance
man of Chicago. is at the Alexandria.
j. Harvey Mcguire, his wife and son
James, of Alpine tavern, are at the
Hayward
George f. Farris and wife arrived at
the Hayward yesterday in their auto
mobile from Claremont.
P. d. rrempe, assistant Manager of
the Westinghouse Electrical company
of San Francisco, is at the Hayward.
H. w. Kellogg of Battle Creek, Mich
who has been regular winter visitor
to Los Angeles for several years, is at
the Hollenbeck
Miss Edna Smell daughter of the pro-
prietor of Hotel del Monte, arrived in
Los Angeles yesterday for visit with
Mrs. A. c. Bllicke.
Henry Newton. Chicago capitalist
has arrived at the Lankershim for the
winter. Mr.. Newton is an enthusiastic
golf player and it is rumored that he
will give some of the local players
hard game.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Underhill, who
were recently married at Santa Bar
bara, are at the Van Nuys Mrs. I'M
derhill was formerly Dibblee, one of
Santa Barbara's most popular society
girls. Other prominent people from
Santa Barbara at the Van Nuys are
G. c. Loss and Miss Loss.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
WOMEN STUDY Willy ARTS OF
ENSNARING TIMOROUS MEN

day, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and
Saturday in the association class rooms
and the girls who are single and have
to work meet in the evenings of the
same days.
Women Who Attend
Among the members of the morning
classes in millinery are Mrs. H. H.
Yerrington, 400 Alvarado street; Mrs.
G. e. Richards, 1911 Magnolia street;
Mrs. w. E. Barnes and in the cooking
classes are Mrs. Stephen Innes, Mrs.
c. e. Richards, Mrs w. C. Brain, Mrs.
c. A. Miller, 1910 Figueroa street. A
host of women are in the shirt waist
and skirt classes, among them Mrs e.
M. Johnson, Mrs. A. L. Bean, Mrs.
Ralph Boyles of Alhambra, Mrs. j. c..
Wilson, 1419 Wilton place.
1T seems to be a fad now for women
to be domestic" said Miss Tatum, as
sociation secretary. Women who
never studied the domestic arts, before
are now anxious to become proficient
in home keeping.
"And the business girls are eager to
acquire knowledge of housekeeping
while formerly they seemed to care
more for lessons to aid in personal
adornment."
Which looks as if a large number of
engagements would shortly be an
nounced.
But the puzzle is:
Where do the professional milliners,
dressmakers and cooks get OFF,"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
BODY AND BRAIN
NEED BUILDING UP

Physicians all agree that at this season
of the year Du6y's Pure Malt Whis-
key Is most valuable prevention
and cure for the many diseases that
are prevalent during the Fall and
Winter months.
During the fall months before the
cold and biting blasts of winter arrive
to bring with them disease i'm many
forms. that oftimes are followed by
serious illnesses and deaths, each one
should be careful to prepare and have
the body in condition that is proof
against these attacks, by nourishing,
building up and strengthening by the
regular use of Duffy's Pure Malt Whis-
key, which prevents decay of the
tissues, tones and invigorates the
hearts action purifes the blood makes
digestion perfect, and prolongs life by
imparting fresh Vigor to every function
and organ of the body
Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey is an alb
solutely pure and scientific distillation
from malt, containing medical,
strengthening and invigorating ingre-
dients not found in any other whiskey
or medicine, and is prescribed by large
numbers of doctors and used in many
hospitals exclusively. "Duny's" is the
only absolute preventative and cure OF
pneumonia, consumption, grip. bron-
chitis asthma, stomach and nervous
disorders indigestion, dyspepsia. ma
laria and low feVers.
All druggists and groeers, or direct
$1.OO a bottle. Medical booklet free
Duny Malt Whiskey Co.. Rochester
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
445, ,44e,e41 RIDE IN PAST YEAR
Railroad Statistics Show 217,341 Miles
in the United States
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated FreSS.
NEW YORK, Nov. 6.--There were
217,341 miles of completed railroads in
the United States at the end of 1905, OF
which the advance pages have just been
issued. This is net increase of rail-
road mileage in 1905 of 4716 miles.
The capital stock represented
amounted to $36,741, 956, 1926, according to
the same authority, and the bonded
debt to $57, ,425, ,261, ,091.
The total liabilities of the lines ag-
aggregate $16,292, SSO,S2S. against $15,-
495, ,504,651 in 1904.
The cost of the roads and their equip
ment is figured at $12, 143, 997, ,551, against
$11, 1854, 191, 1854 in the previous year.
The total traffic revenue was $2,112,-
1870, with operating expenses of ST.
1858, ,549,574.
The passengers numbered 445, ,446, ,641,
and they were carried 23,9O6, 420, ,668
miles.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
GIVE PREMIUM FOR GOOD TRACK
Missouri Pacific Encourages Road
masters and Section Men

The Missouri Pacific management is
inaugurating the system of awarding
premiums in the fall of each year for
roadmasters and section foremen,
based upon inspection of the best re-
suits attained the tracks of the two
lines, the Missouri Pacific and the Iron
Mountain. Division engineers will make
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07

Homeless enIldIeu received and placed
q homes for sdopX Xon cApRIy Eey o
society. ss4 bradbury building. Los An
geles.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
Give Ralse at saoramento

By Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 6.-The South
ern Pacific Railroad company today an
nounced raise of 21s cents an hour to
its employees in the Sacramento black
smith shops. The men had threatened
to go on a strike Thursday.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07

Everything you want you will hnd In
the CLASSIFIED page. One cent word
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07

men Mr.. Brock of the Brock road and
he says that trains will be running
into eBatty over his line by Christmas.
The Clark road into Rhyolite will be
completed early in December, and Bo-
rax Smith is also rushing work on the
BoraX line. Things are certainly rush.
ing out there now, and indications are
for greater activity in the future"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
Germans Like America

Edwald Knocht of Wiesbaden, Ger
many, one of the owners of the porce-
lain works of that place, is at the Hol-
lenbeck Mr.. Knocht has an Office in
New York and in Paris, and he pays
an annual visit to this country. He
cannot say enough in praise of the
people and customs of America, and
says he looks forward with much pleas
ure each year. to his visit to Southern
California.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
ENFORCE RULES
ON ELEVATORS
ADDITIONAL DEPUTY HAS WIDE
MORAL EFFECT
Four Hundred Operators Now Carry
Licenses and They No Longer
Act as Messenger Boys
in Buildings

Recent elevator accidents in Los An
in granting additional help in the Of
fee of the elevator inspector. The ap-
pointment has had wide moral eff
feet.
Now weekly special sessions of the
board of engineers for examinations
are held in order that the young men
in charge of lists may get all the tech
nical information in which they are de-
ficient.
Next Tuesday night another special
meeting of the board will be held in
the city hall for the benefit of all who
care to attend. If this session does not
include the new operators who have
not passed the examination special
meeting will be held the following Sat-
urday night.
Four Hundred Operators
There are about 400 elevator opera
tors employed in Los Angeles.
Last weeks crusade to compel OBJ
servance of the law caused more than
100 license renewals.
Owners and agents of the new build1
ings in process of erection have made
inquiries at the city hall concerning
dates of examinations for operators,
and the elevator examiner declared
last evening that there was no excuse
for further violation of the ordinance.
Practically every elevator operator
in Los Angeles now has license, and
obeys the city law requiring 1t to be
posted in the car he operates.
Another result scheduled to follow
is an increase in the wages of the
operators.
1--WE have succeeded In breaking up
the practice in vogue in many build
ings of using the elevator conductor as
a general messenger boy, letter car
rier paper distributor and telephone
man." said an attache of the office yes
terday. "rhen, too. no one is per-
mitted on the car unless the conductor
is aboard or standing right at the
gate"
Homeless enIldIeu received and placed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-03
DANA BEGINS SUIT.
Never Consented to Merger of Big To-
 bacco Companies.

Newark, N. J., November 2.-Trial of suit brought by Richard T. Dana ad- ministrator of the estate of Richard F. Dana, to set aside the merger of the original American Tobacco company, the Consolidated Tobacco company and the Continental Tobacco company, was begun before Vice Chancellor Pitney today Dana holds fifty shares of the stock of the original American Tobacco company He alleges that he never consented to the merger and had no knowledge of it until after it had been effected. He asks that the American Tobacco company be or dered to make an accounting to the stock holders of the original company, and be restrained from using the name Ameri- can.
 Counsel for the defendant company said in reply that every detail of the merger was carried out in strict conformity of the law; that all the stockholders of the company were notified in advance, and that the action of the directors in con- summating the merger was ratified by a. practically unanimous vote of the stock holders of the several companies One of the witnesses in court was James B. Duke, the president of the American To- bacco company Vice Chancellor Pitney said he might not be able to sit on the case, as the Morristown bank, of which he is president, owns thousands of bonds of the American Tobacco company. Coun- sel for the complainant said he would not object on that score, and the trial was begun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-03
Cotton Damaues in October.

\ The New York Journal of Commerce has gathered information concerning the condition of the cotton crop down to the end of October. It's correspond- ents agree in saying that there has been a falling off in condition of over ten points, with the exception of Geor- gia, Louisiana and Texas The month of October did not bring rains in Texas, and the unpicked cotton in that state nearly held it's own.
 Picking is somewhat backward. Only 56 per cent of the crop had been gathered up to October 23, as against 69 per cent in 1905, 76 per cent in 1904, and 57 per cent in 1903.
 The Alabama correspondents of the Journal of Commerce report that 57 been picked up to October 23. It is reasonable to say that up today two. tnlrdS or the entlre crop or the coun- try has been picked. The deteriora- tion in October was heavy in all the states except Texas and Oklahoma wnere a heavy outturn is expected. The truth is, the reports from Texas and the two territories are doing more to depress prices than all else. They point to a thirteen-million-bal crop, and the bears decline to consider the reduction in condition in Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and the Caro- linas. And yet one-half of the crop Is grown in the states in which the quality of unpi"ked cotton was mate. rially hurt in October.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-03
Prices of Iron Advancing.

No. foundry iron for this years delivery is worth $20 ton and up- wards. It is not worth that price be- cause iron has been cornered, for it has not been An iron famine prevails. The country's prosperity and growth are outrunning it's capacity for produc ing the needfnl amount of the great commercial metal and this condition promises to last throughout another calendar year. The truth is, no one can foresee it's ending.
 This naturally excites the inquiry under the shadow of Red mountain. "Why can we not produce iron up to home wants?" We have the capital, the enterprise and the needed energy. Why then must an iron famine exist H. this country?
 It seems to be primarily due to car shortage and to a scarcity of labor. These lead on to an ore famine and coke famine, and the result is that iron cannot be made quickly enough in quantities large enough to satisfy all sorts of melters and converters in a vast country that is growing by leaps and bounds, and that Is as full of prosperity as an egg is of meat.
 This district will do it's part to meet the demands of consumers. State Mine Inspector Gray estimates that it will mine this year 13,000,000 tons of coal It should then mine 14,000,000 tons next year, and from that amount enough coke could be made to enable us next year to make in this district two million tons of pig iron.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-03

go over to the Union forces and cen to enlist there.
 Commissioner Lindsey asks Coy. ernor Terrell to ask the legislature to amend the pension laws of Georgia so that he can proceed to purge the states pension rolls of fraudulent cases. Georgia pays none of her vet erans less than $50 a year, and this considerable pension operates no doubt to increase the number of fraudulent cases.
 The subject is one that may need attention here, although no complaint of frauds has been heard in this state. Possibly none exist It would, how eyer be wise to provide against them especially if Alabama is to treat her veterans as generously as Georgia does her old soldiers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-03
THE VALE OF AVOCA.

By Thomas Moore. There is not in this wide world valley
 so sweet As that vale, In whose bosom the orlght
 waters meet: O. the last ray of feeling and life must
 depart Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade
 from my heart. Yet it was not that nature had shed OCT
 the scene Here puress of crystal and brightest of
 green Twas not the soft magic of streamlet or
 hill o. no, it was something more exquisite
 still. 'rwas that friends the beloved of my
 bosom were near. Who made eyry dear scene of enchant-
 ment more dear.
 turc improve, When we see them reflected from looks
 that we love. Sweet vale of Avoca. how calm could
 rest In thy bosom of shade. with the friends
 I love best; Where the storms that we feel in this cold
 world should cease, And our hearts, like thy waters, be min
 gled in peace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-03
CRAPSEY CASE AGAIN.
Ecclesiastical Court Is Reviewing Con-
 viction or Heresy.

New York, November 2.-rhe ecclesias astts cal court of review of the second de- partment, resumed today it's hearing of the appeal from the decision of the dio- cesan court, in the diocese of Western New York, which convicted Dr. Algernon $. Crapsey, rector of St. Andrews Epis- copal church, Rochester, of heretical teachings. Dr. Crapsey was convicted at Batavia, N. Y, last April. The appeal was first heard two weeks ago, and the court is now sitting to prepare it's de- csions. Two sessions were held today Adjournment was taken to November 16 when it is expected a decision may be announced. Today's sessions were behind closed doors The members of the court later refused to tell the temper of that body toward Dr. Crapsey.
 One member however. did say: "We have determined that justice shall be done. Some of these men have come here repeatedly at large expense, and from considerable distance. Justice we are att tempting to get, and justice we are de- termined to have, if the heavens fall. dc not know how the church will like it." It was learned that when the court met two weeks ago it WAS determined to have each member submit an opinion in writing.
 This was done today and the considera- tion of these documents occupied the attention of the court.