Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-05
LEADERS VEXED
At LONG DELAY
PASADENA FEARS FAILURE OF
CHERISHED PLAN
Union Printers obtain Shorter Day
Without Frietion.-West Still
Without Prize Money.
Throop Booms
Pasadena Agency,
81 North Raymond Avenue.
Telephone. Main 1903.


PASADENA. Jan. 4--Thc committee
OF the board of trade appointed some
time ago to search for some means
whereby the will of the people relative
TO the purchase Of the local water
plants can be Consummated held a se-
cret meeting this afternoon and am
other this evening.
w. S. Wright Of the law firm of
Wright, Bell q Ward was i'm consulta-
tion with the committee and it is be-
lieved outlined some line of action
which will shortly be made public.
The present city administration. re-
lying on the advice of city Attorney
Fitzgerald, Is simply waiting develop
ments, an attitude which is maddeniug
to the men who worked 80 long and so
effectively in bringing the people to
vote at the last election almost unan-
imously for municipal ownership of
water.
1t is believed that the board of trade
committee is preparing to offer the
administration what Mayor Water
house says is lacking, a definite plar
for settling the veXed question. Attor-
ney Wright expresses himself as be-
ing in favor of buying the water plants
in spite of the existing suits against
the Pasadena Land and Water COM
pany. He says: "If we wait for law
SullS we never VIII DuNs s'uCCeSSIul
business men are those who prosecute
their business on right lines and regard
law suits as incidents. No great indus
tries in the way of transportation. in
the furnishing of power. light, water
or fuel. could succeed if the promoters
We're to adopt the tind policy of sus-
pending operations because law suits
were begun under 1t. 1t is probable
that the most that the South Pasadena
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frmation of the same rights which the
West Side company recognized in its
proposed sale to the city. That COM
pany only proposed to sell subject to
those rights. If we wait much longer
we will not have money enough to buy
the plants"
These remarks by Attorney Wright
some time ago have been adopted as
the battle cry of the men who are try
ing to convince Mayor Waterhouse over
the head of his legal adviser in the
city attorneys office that the time is
ripe for doing what the people ordered
by their ballots.
Accept the Eight-Hour Day
With the first working day of the
new year. January 2, thirty-four union
printers i'm the Crown City began work.
ing but eight hours a day with no dim
mutton in their weekly wages. Every
printing office i'm the city with but
two exceptions, the Morris-Thurston
company and the Jackson Printing
company, readily agreed to the plan of
the international Typographical union
and it was put into practice without
friction. Some six months ago the
principal employers of union printers
in the city voluntarily cut half hour
from the nine-hour day then in force
here and at the same time informed
their employees that if the experiment
proved satisfactory another cut of a
half hour would be made at the open
ing of the year.
Judges Decision Not Final
President Neff of the Tournament of
Roses association informed The Herald
tonight that the statement of the
Judges that they have awarded the
first prize in the chariot race to c. c.
West is premature.
Mr. Neff says that in the first place
it is not within the province of the
judges to award the prize and i'm the
second place that the charges of foul
made by reputable citizens cannot thus
he lightly brushed aside without d
searching and definite investigation.
The statement of the president of
the Tournament association and the
statement of the judges as announced
yesterday, When placed side by side
bear all the earmarks Of friction with
in the organization. Mr.. Linnard, one
of the judges of the chariot races, is
also a member of the board of directors
OF the Tournament association and has
been most active in furthering its in
terests.
President Neff has done the work Of
ten men to the same laudable end. 1t
would seriously cripple the future work
of the organization should the Virgins
protest destroy the harmony which has
hitherto been existing i'm the managing