Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-11
BLASTING KEEPS
C8LEGROVE ASTIR
SCARED RESIDENTS DODGE
SECTIONS OF TREES
Property Owners, Anxious to Protect
Lives and Homes, Find Contractor
Defiant and Legal Redress
Hard to Get

Colegrove is again unhappy. Fo
weeks the citizens of the town wher,
the big trees once made the place beau
tiful have viewed with sorrow anC
anger the destruction Of the beautiful
eucalypts which formed leafy bower
across Santa Monica avenue.
Now the shock and roar of heavy ar
tillery strikes terror to the hearts o
housewives.
The merciless march OF the chain
gang, which has steadily strewn devas
tatlon ON every side, has been viewed
with apprehension. but the stumr
blaster with his deadly dynamite ha.
aroused a storm of wrath.
| Where the big eucalyptus were
chopped down, between Anisquam and
Seward streets on Santa Monica av.
enue and south on Seward av.
enue for a distance of a quarter of a
mile, contractor Is removing the
| stumps.
Dynamites the Stumps
The residents of the district say that
the contractors method has been tc
bore big hole in the doomed stump
put a stick of dynamite therein, plug
1t up, light the fuse and take to the
tall timber for his own safety, allow
ing the decentralized fragments of
timber to fall where they might.
| From appearances a good many OF
| the fragments fell upon roofs of houses
and did considerable damage to prop
erty
When the bombardment first began
| last week a general but mild protest
went up in the neighborhood. With al
most the first blast heavy piece of
timber was hurled 15O feet and fell
against the side Of the front steps of
the residence of William Brown, who
lives at Anisquam and Santa Monica
avenue. Had any one been in the
front yard at the time death might
have followed the explosion.
The next blast hurled a heavy piece
! Of eucalyptus wood, which was thrown
several hundred feet into the air and
fell on the roof of the residence of DR.
H. A. Noel. who lives 100 yards away
from the scene of the blasting.
Woman Narrowly Escapes
Mrs. Noel was in the garden when
the great log came hurting through
the air. Although badly frightened
Mrs. Noel was unable to move and
when the projectile struck timber on
small upper gable 1t fell to the main
roof, where it did considerable dam
age and then rebounded into the yard
within few feet of the woman.
DR.. Noel said yesterday that his
wife was badly frightened. She has
been confined to her bed since the ac-
cident. and has been kept in a state
of nervous terror by the cannonading.
Il started out at once to take legal
steps to stop the blasting" said DIR.
Noel, but l heard that Mr.. Fisher of
the Hollywood Lumber company had
applied for an injunction and 1 went
no further. 1 wish had gone on, how
ever for I might have stopped the
blasting and saved my wife great
deal of suffering"
f. d. Myer, who lives on Santa
Monica avenue, near Anisquam, said
that big piece of timber came over
his house, broke wire clothes line
and struck the fence. He said the
timber must have weighed thirty
pounds and would have meant death
to anyone who might have been struck
by 1t.
Mr.. Myer grew indignant when talk
ing about 1t and said:
Those people have no earthly right
to endanger lives of residents in any
such manner. Our protests, however,
have not been of much avail. 1 hope
something may be done to stop them
before some one Is killed."
B. A. Heraszthy, who lives at Seward
avenue and Santa Monica, said:
Il have been trying to stop Bogen-
schneider, the contractor, from doing
any more of that shooting. / first
made complaint to Attorney McCor-
mick and he advised me to come in
at once and get out a warrant for the
mans arrest.
II told him then-that was on Friday
Of not fl i,,to
Los Angeles the man would shoot up
the place, and that / wanted him
stopped at once Mr. Mccormick there
upon advised me to go to Sherman
to swear out the complaint. Mr..
Fisher and I then went to Sherman
and found Justice Moore.
Justice Moore Acts
Moore telephoned to Attorney Nc
Cormick and was told that the man
had been notified to stop the blasting
and positively instructed not to put
in any more shots without a permit
from the county supervisors authoriz-
ing him to use the explosives on the
public highway.
1--WE came back somewhat reassured
but Saturday morning the lombard
ment began again. | went in to the
district attorneys office but by the
tlme reached Inere l. IOuIlu IL ClOSeu
l went looking for Supervisor Graham
but he was not to be found.
ION Sunday I communicated with
Mr.. Graham. The supervisor said he
hadn't given Bogenschneider permis-
sion to blast and that he didn't think
there would be any more of it,
"Bogenschneider and his workmen
have told me several times that they
had permission from the supervisor toI
go ahead with the blasting. 1 went be-
fore the board of supervisors Monday
and Mr.. Graham said in the presence
of the other merbers of the board that
he had not given the contractor per-
mission to blast.
Friday night Bogenschneider came
to my house and brought two men with
him. He called me out. He said the
men were to be witnesses to what he
said.
Contractor Harangues