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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-09-05
WHY'S IN BLUEFIELD.

Why do all the gates open on
walks in Blueheld?
Why have we not 80 inch sewer
pipes instead of II inch?
Why does every shower food our
back yards.
Why is Princeton avenue cleaned
so neatly each day?
And Blueneld avenue polluted with
chicken coops and COW manure?
Why have we not an alley opened
mp from Hun. Andrews & Thomas
Wholesale house to Blueheld Hard
ware Company's?
Why are non-residents appointed
TO city positions. when there are
many taxpayers who are practical
men who need the job?
Why do citizens have to pay 33
per cent more for what they con
sumo than they would have to I'm a
modern city?
why does common labor receive
only $50 per day?
why are some of our street cor
ners blocked by young men loafers
smoking cigarettes. holding sparring
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-09-05
OPENING OF SCHOOL.

The public schools OF Blueneld will
open Monday September 18th.
II is desired that all of the teach
er3 meet with the Superintendent on
Wednesday. September 18th. at 10
a. m. In the High School Building
for interview and preliminary ar
rangements.
The new school building In ~orth
hluefield and the addition To the
West End building are being pushed
to completion as rapidly as posi-
bile.
J. w. TfNSLEY. Supt. Schools
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-09-05
ONE OF THE FEAT
URES YESTERDAY

Anderson, of the Bluefield team.
did some good playing yesterday.
Especially in his battlAy. All this
young man needs is a show and he
well develop into one of the best
hall players Blueheld has ever pro-
duced
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-09-05
BR0WN-HALL.

Mr. Efile Brown aud Miss Temple
Hail were married by the Rev. T..
{. Clark In the Presbyterian church
last night The bridal party left on
No is for an extended tour and will
be absent for quite n while. There
was large attendance at tho church
70 witness the ceremony ana many
friends accompanied the happy coup
lie TO the train. The ceremonies were
impressive in every way aud the
music excellent.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-09-05

Mr. c. o. Palmer, of Charlottesville.
Va is visiting Mrs. NJ. a. Jenkins,
Of this city.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-09-05
The Leader.
ALL ABOUT BLUEFIELD

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The oyster is now in season-an-
other sign that winter is approach
ing
Let's have hrstclass college in
Bluefcld Talk about it to your
friends and gct them Interested. It
must come.
There is always somethinG new
and attractive at the grocery store Of
Sublettc n Barnes. verything frush
and clean and the best to be had If
you want groceries that viii please
you should cali and see
Miss ldella Dobbins of Roanoke,
who has been visiting Mrs. f. Dick
erson, of this city. has returned to
her home accompanied by Miss An
ME Dickerson. OF this city. who goes
to Roanoke to attend college.
Bluencld is "a great town TO do
things There is always something
on the tapis i'm Bluefeld. If 1t is not
one thing it is another. Always sorle-
thing going on to attract your atten-
ton. and stu always busy CDut'n-
ual change for the better is always
the program OF progressive Blueheld
n4 N ~ .ftft go nf I'M mt IN.
get residence on the north side.
for we have confidence i'm that 10
cality as coming section OF Blue
field For quiet home convenient
TO business the north side is loom
ing mp more prominently all tho
time
Now that the busy season is open
ing up, let MS remember that there
is much TO be done i'm Bluefeld this
winter. We are going right ahead
with "A steady pull, but we should not
let up anywhere. Make your plans.
put them into execution and all will
be well with our city Our future
looms mp brightly and everything is
ON the go, let US keep the procession
OF progress moving.
10 is now mp TO the people i'm Mer-
Ger county to do something about the
management OF their own affairs. Are
YOU satisfied with ring rule? Are you
content 10 allow a few men TO fatten
upon the taxes you pay? Would it
not be better for all concerned to
have a change? Men who rule and
hold Office all the time become care
less as to the interest of the masses.
Let MS investigate and turn the ras-
Gals out
The Leader is with the people and
wants TO help Blucfeld grow. II
wants 10 become the representative
newspaper of this region. That the
paper will he improved i'm every way
at an early date will soon he seen by
our patrons We have preferred to
proceed slowly at first and be sure
of our permanency. Now that our flu
ture is assured we are preparing to
launch out in every way and make
the Leader better and more readable
in all the requisites that 80 TO make
a good newspaper
That rousing farce comedy. not tha
vulgar slap-stick order, bn; one with
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-09-05

Read tho Daily Leader every day.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-09-05

The patterns are ideal this fall the workmanship
need not be questioned so come in and let %,
show you we consider il favor SO trouble &,
us our statesmen arc paid TO serve you
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27

the reconstruction of the northern city
is well advanced. The rebuilding of n
great city involves a period of many
months, no matter how energetically
the work may be prosecuted.
Upon Los Angeles now devolves the
duty, as the chief city of California,
pro tempore at least, to see that the
name and the fame of the state suffer
no clouding by reason of the calamity
at San Francisco. To abandon the
Fiesta, when every preparation for it
is complete, would indicate a degree
of weakness which this city never has
evinced.
Instead of abandoning the Fiesta
the dauntless spirit of Los Angeles
calls for a heroic attempt TO make the
event, if possible, greater and grander
than has been planned. Los Angeles
should show to the whole country its
fitness for the pretension to leadership
in the destiny of the state.
And, having determined fully upon
making the Fiesta excel all former fes-
tivals of its kind, bend all energies
to the task of bringing hither the Ma
tional Educational convention which
was slated for meeting in San Fran
cisco.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27
MODERN BUILDINGS NOW

The estimates of property loss from
the San Francisco catastrophe are
whiting down rapidly. 1t appears
now that many large buildings. sup
posed to have been entirely ruined,
will require only moderate expense to
make them as good as new. This seems
to be true of all the modern steel frame
structures.
A great deal of light has been cast on
this Subject, which is exceptionally
interesting to citizens of Los Angeles,
by fellow townsman of recognized
authority The person is Mr.. Carl
Leonardt, probably the most extensive
building contractor on the Pacific
coast who has made personal inspec-
ton of prominent buildings that sur
vived both earthquake and fire at San
Francisco.
Mr.. Leonardt says: "All of the big
modern buildings I found but little
damaged. and capable of being restored
Immediately at comparatively little
cost"
The Call building, as readers Will
recollect. was rated as complete loss
in the early reports. Concerning it Mr..
T,aonardt saws: "I examined it first Of
all. 1t is perfectly sound and safe The
damage was done by flames soaring up
through the elevator shaft and COM
municating through their heat to the
offices. where the furniture and WIN
dow castings were burned" 1t can be
restored within two months. he says,
at a figure named which is trivial COM
nared with the first cost of the struc-
ture.
A similar Judgment is expressed by
Mr.. Leonardt relative to score or more
of the modern buildings examined by
him. A typical instance noted Is tnat Oh
the big Monadnock building. lie says
of it: 1.-The dynamiting of that magnlt-
cent building was one of the most an
surd features of the whole fire. But
thev couldn't destroy it even by dyna-
mite In construction it is the same
tvpe as the H. w. Hellman building IN
this citv and would stand against all
earthouakes and fires And for re-
storing it he names a figure one-thlrd
less than the figure necessary to restore
the Call building.
So it begins to appear that the earth
ouake's work has been greatly mag
nified. that only old and obsolete build
ings suffered to any considerable eX-
tent thereby and that the loss is at
trihutable almost solely to those cir
cumstances and the resultant conha-
grafton
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27
IGNORANT NEW WORKERS

At an evening function in Harlem
last week the familiarity of the average
New Yorker with his or her own city
was put TO a novel test and with most
amusing results. ig,ef ~
The hostess produced an envelope
containing twenty-odd views of Gotham
capftally photographed and reproduced.
The caption line running below each
view was clipped away and number
written on the back of the picture.
Each guest received sheet from u
pocket tablet on which to write his
Buesses as to the identity of the various
buildings, squares. corners, monuments
and other objects of interest. Each an
swer to avoid confusion was numbered
like the view for which it was intended
The results were most surprising Not
one list in all was absolutely correct.
That of a New Yorker of thirty year,
standing contained three full-fledged
errors. The prize was carried off by n
comparatively new arrival from an
other city who guessed all but two of
the pictures correctly.
When the funny man of the party
suggested a trip on the rubberneolS
wagon "to see New York" guilty laugh
ter went round the roora.-New York
Press $3.50 '.tat fNf -- 'eH ft
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27
GENERAL GREELY IN COMMAND

The appointment of Gen. Greedy as
chief commander of federal troops at
San Francisco will aid greatly in in
spring public confidence. Gen. Fun
ston did effective service in the emer-
gency that confronted him, but COM
mander of broader experience and more
mature Judgment was demanded for
the complete evolution of order from
chaos.
Readers of the older class will not
doubt the ability Of Gen. Greedy TO
handle the situation at San Francisco
in creditable manner. Younger readers
are not acquainted, except historically
with incidents in his career that at
tracted the attention of the Whole
American people fer weeks.
1t was Lieut.. A. w. GreeIy' now
major general, who commanded the i'll
fated circumpolar expedition of 1881
In prosecuting that work on behalf OF
the government he reached, with his
company of thrty-fve men, the highest
latitude ever attained by man down to
that time-S3 degrees, "a minutes. lie
discovered new land north of Green
land and crossed Grinnell Land to the
polar sea. Two relief expeditions on
which he depended for supplies, at GER
| tain 'points southwark, failed to reach
their destination, and the expedition
was forced to retreat to Cape Sabine
There the lack of any kind of food re-
duced the party to famine, and only
seven, including Greedy, lived until the
arrival of succor.
Gen. Greedy was the first volunteer
private of the Civil War to reach th'
rank of brigadier general in the regu
lar army He has been chief sigma
officer of the United States army since
1887. ...
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27
LOS ANGELES YELLOW ENEMY

Only two knockers of Los Angeles
Fiesta exist. The imperial potentate
of the Shriners, a foreigner, who nat
urally knows little of the geography
of this country, especially of California,
and who became panic stricken when
he heard of the San Francisco catas-
trophe and hurredly issued an "edict"
calling the convention off, may not
be wholly to blame.
For the other "knocker" no excuse can
ever be made. 1t is the Hearst yellow,
the viper which Los Angeles foolishly
has allowed to nest in it's vicinity, has
tolerated and not scotched; the decrier
of every step of progress, every move
ment of advance, that Los Angeles has
ever taken. This vulture that feeds
on the conceit of its unspeakable owner
and only lives to vaunt his overween-
ing personal ambitions is again, as it
always is, engaged in damning the city
with every means in its power. With
all the space it can spare from its
fulsome praise of Hearst and its lying
claims about what Hearst has done, it
fights the material progress of the city
that harbors it, traduces its honor,
name.
From the day it first stuck its jaun-
diced face into the city's atmosphere
it has done its best to poison it, No
longer ago than the Owens river cleo
ton it belched forth lies and filth and
actually won 647 votes against the big
gest thing the city ever undertook
During all the labor troubles it has
ever Haunted red flag. Throughout
the San Francisco disaster it has sent
forth alarmist reports about Los An
| geles to influence against the prosper
ity of the city And every effort of re-
| lief this city has made. it has brazenly
and atrociousy pre-empted as its own
But now it adds to all this record by
attacking Los Angeles Fiesta, the one
thing needed to inspire confidence il
| all California, and spreading false re
ports and fighting the good of the cit!
as it has ever done since it began it,
noisonle career.
The city cannot prevent the knock
ing that Collins of Canada may do
he is beyond it's jurisdiction. But tn
business men of Los Angeles who hav
warmed this Hearst yellow viper il
their bosoms can stop it if they desire
And if they don't, it is their own faul
il it continues to poison the atmospher
of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27
WHAT SCIENCE HAS TO SAY OF EARTHQUAKES

by the same stresses In the earth's
crust, partly due to secular contraction,
that tilt and fold rock strata into
mountains The strains to which the
rocks are subjected when suddenly re-
lieved by the rocks giving way produce
many earthquakes. In fact, the slight
earthquakes of frequent occurrence III
the Alps. Himalayas and in southern
oregon indicate that mountain build
ing is still i'm progress. The seismic
zone that encircles the earth is there
fore simply zone of weakness in the
earths crust, within which crustal
movements are frequent.
Earthquakes in regions remote from
any volcano have usually. when care
fully studied, been traced TO some line
of rock weakness as a fault. Such
earthquakes are merely phenomena ac-
compauying rock movements that may
in time greatly modify the earth's sur
face. The frightful loss of life caused
by some violent earthquakes has led
to their geological importance being
exaggerated. Many earthquakes i'll
Japan are believed to be caused by
accumulations of submarine sediments
sliding down the steep slope Of the
continental shelf just east of Japan.
Or' EIA
Aside from the destruction of life and
property the work done by most earth
quakes is relatively unimportant. OF
geological effects may be mentioned
landsides in mountainous regions, as
in the earthquakes in 1870 in north
western Greece. Such landslides may
divert the course of streams. Violent
earthquakes are frequently accompan-
led by the opening of fissures in the
ground, which may or may not close
again. Several were formed in the
Charleston earthquake, while the Mis-
sissippi valley earthquake resulted, APP
parently, i'm depressions of the surface
over considerable areas. AS noted be-
fore, earthquakes frequently accom-
pany the formation of faults. Thus the
owens valley, California, earthquake
QS72), accompanied the formation of
faults along the base of the Sierra Ne
vadas, the maximum throw being twen-
ty feet. In the Lisbon earthquake that
killed $4,000 people, the quay sank into
the sea, with all the people near it. In
the Calabrian earthquake QSI3), which
killed $4,000 people, more than 200 lakes
and small swamps were formed. Lyell
says an earthquake at the mouth OF
the Indus QS19 resulted in forming a
lake covering 2000 square miles. While
downward displacements of the earth s
crust are of common occurrence, ele.
Vations are much less common, and
some geologists deny that any elevation
has ever been observed after an earth
oh
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27

Shriners in this city are in every
way proving their loyalty and devotion
to Los Angeles. Every inducement
they could offer has been presented to
Collins of Canada, imperial potentate,
but until yesterday the Shriners We're
not aware that the Los Angeles Ex-
aminer had endeavored to nullify all
their efforts by wiring to Collins to
call off the meeting of Shriners in this
city. Collins telegraphs from Toronto
to the Hearst yellow: Am of your
way of thinking. Meeting at Los An
geles absolutely called Off Business
men of this city are slowly learning
the character and purpose of the
Hearst sheet. 1t means to injure Los
Angeles whenever it can.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27
POOR MOTHERS "coLD FEET"

A vulgar, pretty little girl who made
quite a sensation in the art student
set here a few months ago before she
went abroad was summoned to
neighboring city by the death of her
brother. She brought her poor, shrink
ing mother to Chicago when she re-
turned a day after the funeral and that
evening acquaintances discovered the
two at the theater The mother was
in deep mourning, but the pretty girl,
as usual. wore red roses in her hat,
which was pinned to the seat before
her, and her face was wreathed IN
smiles of expectant admiration. See
ing her acquaintances she blushed a
trine and, leaning across the timid
woman in black, remarked loudly:
Say, [ just dragged mother out to-
night. She's got awfully cold feet
about coming. Tell her it's all right"
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27
NO rALTERING HERE

Not only should Los Angeles have its
Fiesta next month, in accordance with
program and preparation, but a siren
uous effort should be made to make
this city the gathering point in July
for the National Educational associa-
ton.
Instead of corking up Los Angeles
because of San Francisco's misfortune,
we should rather make greater effort
on behalf of California because of that
misfortune. Los Angeles at present
is the metropolis of the Golden state
and it will hold that distinction until
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27
cALIFoRNIALEANsoNTHIscITY

During the week following the great
disaster at San Francisco 1t was but
natural that business should be largely
suspended in Los Angeles. Our rela-
tions With the chief city of California
have always been close, not only In
financial and commercial way. but by
actual ties of kinship. Therefore 1t
was only in keeping with the very
nature of things that all hearts and
hands should turn out of the customary
channels of trade and fall to work
gathering and forwarding that relief
which Los Angeles knows so well how
to place quickly and Systematically.
But the shock is over now. Los An
geles has wept, sincerely and pro-
foundly, as it felt. She has relieved the
suffering in her sister city to large
extent and win continue her aid as
stood in the breach, as was her duty,
with both hands extended, pressing
upon the stricken metropolis all that
she had. Today she is feeding and
housing the sufferers who have come
this way, and glad to be of service to
her unfortunate neighbors, friends and
relatives.
But Los Angeles has a destiny Of her
own to work out. BY a disaster which
has wrung every heart and destroyed
the states metropolis, Los Angeles has
suddenly become the chief city of the
Pacific coast, succeeding to the great
commerce and traffic of San Francisco
This sudden responsibility and duty
finds Los Angeles in position that will
require all the effort, energy and skill
that can be put forth to meet salts
factorily. Evidences appear on every
hand that Los Angeles has begun the
necessary preparation, and within a
few days the whole city should be astir
with business and a redoubled traffic.
We must not and need not abate one
farthinS of our continued contributions
to the sufferers at San Francisco, nor
one fraction of our deep sympathy and
distress, but we must act like brave
men in the consideration of home af-
fairs and duties that will strengthen
us for larger giving and longer con-
tinued help
Commerce and trade are turning to-
ward Los Angeles from all directions.
The great business which has been
done in San Francisco is knocking at
our gates and demanding immediate
relief. Meet it! open wide the doors
and extend to these industries that con-
sideration which their necessity and i'm
portance demand.
The situation requires prompt action
| by all the organized forces of the city.
Pull togetherl And pull hard! Start
every wheel and put every piece OF
machinery in motion. Open wide every
avenue of financial circulation and
| jump into the middle of the great work
of upbuilding Los Angeles. California
expects us to do this. The whole state
leans now upon Los Angeles for a
quick recovery from the disaster to Sen
Francisco Pitch in now, every man
and woman in this city, and push for
ward the destiny of beautiful Los An
geles. 1t is as much your duty as it
is to give. Keep on giving, but also
keep on working -S
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27
PUBLISHING HIS VOCABULARY

The man whose house was next door
was scraping an acquaintance with the
man who had just moved in.
II see you have an automobile he
said. 81 suppose you will use the barn
as a garridge?"
Yes: expect to use it as a
garahzh." responded the new neighbor.
This held him for a minute or two,
and then he made another overture.
'The man that lived here last year, .
he said, used this back yard as a
cabbahzh patch. ."-Chicago Tribune,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27
The RISK TOO GREAT

He desired to take out life insur-
ance policy for $4,000.
Smilingly, eagerly, the agent drew
fortm the blank forms and began the
usual series of questions.
"Query six" he said at length, "are
you an automobilist?'
NO" was the ready repoinder, "I am
not"
"Motor-cyclist, perhaps?"
mo"
The agent with sigh laid down his
pen.
II am sorry" he said, but we no
longer insure pedestrians" "-Minneap
oils Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27

The National Educational associ9-
TONS executive committee meets to-
morrow to discuss the coming conven-
tion. Los Angeles strong request that
the convention come here should land
the meeting.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27

Chicago is now busy sneeringly al
1uding to California and earthquakes,
and declaring that the Windy City is
free of them. Perhaps, but the Al
mighty has made life in Chicago hellish
enough without need of anything more
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27

An earthquake at Rockland, Me, yes
terday shows that seismic disturbances
are just as liable to occur east as they
are west. But nobody in Boston or
New York will be alarmed over the
Rockland quiver, and nobody in the
west will he afraid to visit New York
or Boston because of the Rockland
quake.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27

Merchants and business men gener-
ally predict for Los Angeles the great
est advancement this year in the his
tory of the city's progress. Let every
body get busy in preparation for the
demands that viii be made upon every
industry and every branch of trade.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27

The withdrawal of the militia from
Springfield, Mo, reminds us that there
We're dongs down there recently that
killed three times as many persons as
ever were harmed by any shiver the
earth may have had in Southern Cali
1ornia since time began. They hanged
three negroes, you remember
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27

The tax assessors estimate of Los
Angeles taxable wealth for this year
is s19O,OOO, 900, an increase of $3S,OOO,0 900
over his figures of last year. That is
growing some.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27

The Hearst yellow is baying the moon
again, bowling against the Fiesta. Now
that this vile sheet is knocking it, the
Fiesta is certain to be great.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27

Of course, Los Angeles is after the
National Educational association meet
ing. Anything to aid San Francisco in
its distress, and keep the good faith of
California.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27

The president certainly made a de-
cided blunder in refusing to accept for
eign aid rendered San Francisco. Char
ity is not bounded by the United States,
Mr. Roosevelt.