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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-18

tons OF central California, y these
ideas should mature, viii become veri-
table haunts OF some OF the choicest
game animals OF the uorld--aninlals
gathered from the four quarters OF tie
earth. II Will be the worlds menag-
crle-thc most wonderful sportsnaan's
paradise conceivable vast natural
ZOO containing every species OF anil
NAL that can thrive IN any OF the eli
matte conditions OF this state; and
those who have strdicd indigenous and
exotic conditions say that the peculiar
mountain and desert topography OF
California affords every element, tenn.
perature and condition TO he found
anywhere--in fact. that California is
an epitome OF every land and Sky. and
that there is no animal. properly adopt
ed and climatically adjusted, which
viii not do rs well in this State as in
It's native habitat. Just as we have
restocked our lakes and rivers with
many varieties OF fish, and procured
the most desirable finny tribes of the
world; Just as we have imported nu-
merous swarms of scale-consuming in
sects, so are we to obtain and propa-
gate the most desirable animals. AMI
mals that will benefit the farmer, al
though not good game or flesh food.
also Will be introduced: but pains will
be taken to select those which, If not
companionable, will not be mutually
formidable or bloodthirsty.
TO ascertain the exact conditions of
chmate demanded by each family of
mammals is a difficult task requiring
familiarity with geological sciences and
with the worlds climatic phases. Men
VIII be appointed for this work before
the ANIMALS are placed. But this will
be taken up subsequent to the importa-
uons from Africa. 1t is already estab-
nshed. so the promoters claim. that any
variety OF African animal will thrive
IN California. After the success of the
African Importation is assured. men
VIII be sent to India, South America
Australia and elsewhere to procure
stiil other creatures of the wild which.
1t Is thought will also thrive here.
Interest Among Nimrods.
The Chamber OF Commerce of Los
Angeles has Endorsed the movement:
president Roosevelt has given it his
nearly approval and promise of CO.
operation; many prominent citizens are
working industriously to father the
idea, and 1t is no longer to be laughed
at Most interested in the proposition,
perhaps, is Major +. r. Burnham of
Pasadena, the noted Doer Wa. officer.
whose experiences as a nimrod in Afri-
ca have thoroughly familiarized him
with the game there. Working IN con-
junction with Major Burnham is the
eminept South African engineer, John
Hays Hammond. Gardner WILLIAMS.
wellrknown sportsman and friend OF
the gentlemen named. is also actively
promoting the plan and has been In
strumental In having part OF the
Wichita reserve Get aside for African
antelope. Congress at its last session
appropriated $4,000 TO aid him =. this,
his initial experiment
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-18
BY M. Grier Kidder

NE Of the saddest losses by our
fire was our library. To thou
sands of men. the library was
city Of refuge. and 1t is pathetic
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-18

Among those which would thrive on
the desert are the sable antelope, or
potaquaine lAegoceros niger, the
gemsbook fOryx Eazella), the oyrx
(oryx leucoryx), the Gland loreas can
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-27
FINANCIAL BOSSES

Along with the growth of political
leadership or bossism, as one prefers to
call it, this country is witnessing a re-
markable expansion of influence WELD
ed by financial leaders or bosses. These
men do not actually own all or even a
majority of the stock of the corpora
tions whose finances they direct. Some
of them own only a small portion of
the stocks or bonds of these corpora
tions. But they have displayed such a
genius for leadership and such a facul-
ty for handling those who do control
paper evidences of ownership that they
influence the affairs of these companies
almost at will. Their followers support
them as blindly as political partisans
aid their accredited champions.
There was a time when state laws
were adequate to control or curb those
who spoke for the biggest corporations.
But that time long since has passed
away. Each days developments in the
realm of high finance make it more ap-
parent that the federal law makers did
not act any too soon when they passed
the Sherman and Elkins laws, thus
arming the federal government with
weapons to be used against those
whose corporate ambition is only lin
tied by the national boundaries. Those
who object to giving the nation greater
power to deal with the big financial
bosses should reflect on how helpless
the states would be should they try to
control them. The federal laws must
run even with the efforts of the big
financial bosses to subvert our institu-
tions for their own profit.-Binghamto
Press,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-27
NEW TYPES OF MOTOR HORNS

Automobile horns are now being
made decoratively, like electroliers.
The electrolier in the beginning was
simply q glass bulb at the end of a
cord, but 1t is now a beautiful girl
holding a radiant lily, or a winged boy
with a shining star in his hand. So the
automobile horn, in the beginning a
plain bugle of brass, is now developing
from that into something beautiful.
One Of the new horns is in the shape
of a frog; a great brass frog, squatting,
with open mouth. The frog idea is
carried out even to the note of the horn
itself, the note being deep, metallic,
short-a frog-like sound. This frog has
two big green eyes, and a little lamp,
lighted behind them at night, makes
them shine splendidly.
There is another horn in the likeness
OF a serpent. Above the open mouth is
little coronet- shaped light, and in
graceful coils the body, over a yard
long, runs back to the bulb beside the
chauffeur's hand.
An extra" horn, for those who want
something extravagant and bizarre, has
a photographic attachment. This horn,
shaped like a dwarf-a creature all
head, with mouth open-emits a hoarse
Look out!"
These improved automobile horns
come from France, and they are very
expensive.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-27

them laughed brutally and said: What
was she standing at the windol for? "
For this exploit the soldier WHO killed
the girl received a reward of n rubles
(9D by order OF the czar.
Old Head on Young Shoulders
One boy that l met was only ia
clean-sklnned, healthy boy, with smile
that Is rare in Russia. Except that his
fair hair stood all on end without a
parting, he would have passed for just
the best type of an English i1blio
shoolboy, interested chiefly in games Of
ball, but beginning to be conscious that
there were other things equally impor-
tant in the world, and that In two or
three years he would be required TO
know enough Latin and Greek to go to
oxford or Cambridge. His father had
been a large landowner, and the boy
had come to Moscow for his schooling,
but 1t was not games or Latin verses
that occupied his mind. In looks he was
little more than a child; in manner, in
self-confidenCe and knowledge Of the
world he was almost midde-aged. and
day and night he thought of nothing
but the movement
The first time 1 saw him his hand was
wrapped in surgical bandages. "An ac-
cident in a laboratory" he said, and
asked no more. lie was very tired tnat
night-had been for long ride.
Dressed as a peasant. he had ridden for
days and nights through the country
round Moscow, had slept from time to
time in the peasants huts and lived on
their black Cruel, (which wasn't very
nice" What had he been doing? All
the whips of cZardom would not have
made him tell.
Next time l found him in a friendly
circle of men and girls, while he was
drinking tea and laughing and talking
with the rest, more gay than my. He
had been in school all day, and when
we left the party toward midnight l
asked him if he was going back to his
lodging. mo" he said. II am on duty
till 4 in the morning. and he walked
away to the bridge leading over the
river to the southern quarter of. the
city.
If the bureaucracy works with armies
of hireling spies, the revolution has its
armies, too; and they are not hirelings.
They are men and women who will die
and take nothing. Organized and
directed from week to week. they keep
watch throughout the city. They report
the movement of troops, they know
exactly the military force present in
each quarter, they observe the increase
or lessening of police, they know on
what night the bands of exiles are re-
moved to the outlying station for ST.
beria they listen at barracks and
prisons for the dull sounds of execu-
ton
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-27
AN OBSOLETE AWAkENER

An antiquary of Chicago took down
from it's hook a strange old-world in
strument-an oaken wand ending in
T, one fork of the a rabbits tail,
the other fork a piece of embossed
brass.
You can't guess what this is" said
the antiquary. 1T is an awakener; it
woke up sleepers in church. Nova
days, what with vitascope sermons,
phonograph sermons and other latter
day devices, church congregations keep
awake better than theater ones, and
awakeners are obsolete, But in the past
it was not So
"In the past men slept so much in
church that bequests were made to
rouse them. Pious persons left certain
sums for the hire of an attendant to
tiptoe through the church and call back
from dreamland the various worshipers
who had gone there. Salem, Gloucester
and Boston have had such bequests.
"The attendants carried wands of
various kinds. This one here is typi-
cal. Its bearer, sneaking upon a wo-
man sleeper, would tickle her face with
the rabbits tail, recalling her from
dreamland gently. But a man sleeper
he would rap on the head with the en-
bossed brass-a good, hard rap that
sometimes raised bump.
"If you want this awakener-it is
from Gloucester, and 1t is dated 1853
Il can let you have it for 49,"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-27
pJscoNTENT

Discomfort that Is not intelligent tol-
lows four lines-W discomfort at fall
ings that are shared by the people most
indignant over them: (2) discomfort
with things that are incident to life it
self and have no relation to the way
men order their affairs and discharge
their trusts; (3) discomfort at the fall
ures Of other men which are really not
their failures at all but the failures of
civilization; az discomfort that spells
envy, Incompetence or idleness in it's
possessor.
You can fill out this outline by speci-
fications drawn from current affairs.
There Is graft" for instance. 1t has
been epidemic, from the cook who must
have her commission on purchases and
the grocer who pays it, to the Industrial
magnate who is never happy without
his rebate. The discomfort that makes
the grating grocer rail at the grating
magnate, without mending his own
ways, Is not intelligent discomfort.
As for the discomfort that spells
envy, incompetence or idleness, It is as
old as human nature. outside of the
political field, among their own ac-
quaintances, men discern It clearly and
Judge 1t severely. The noblest discon-
tent is discomfort with yourself, with
the way you are doing your duty in the
world. 1t prompts you to rend your
own heart and not your neighbors gar
ments. It's possessor moves against
public wrongs and for public better
ment, inspired, not by the thought that
the other fellow has more than he, but
by the thought that he has not done
his duty as a citizen, and his brother
man is suffering from his fault.-New
York Mail
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-27
FACTS SMALL BUT DIvERTING

The Saturday Review never wearies
of jibes at America, at American mill
lionaires and canned shoes. Its brains
never refuse to invent epithets for us
not at all smooth and flattering. All
evil practices originate in America, as
tile Review sees the world. Is food
adulterated in any country?-if the
importation itself is not from America,
the idea is. The Cosmopolitan is led
to wonder, then, if the Saturday Re-
view noted in another London print,
by daily issue, conversation heard
in the London slums and of this pur-
port:
Social worker visiting home, to
young woman: What do you work at 2
young woman: I works in a jam
factory
"'What do you do there?'
"'I makes the Seeds
"'Make the seeds! What do you
mean?'
"'I makes the seeds out er wood.
The public don't like jam without
seeds. Boston Transcript.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-27
CARPERS' GUN is SPIKED

The knockers and speculative sharks
project are struck dumb by the formal
report of the expert board of engineers.
Whatever growing may come from
such sources hereafter will be devoid
of public interest. In face of the facts
and figures presented by the eminent
authoritie- from abroad any further
adverse comment from interested local
sources will be ridiculous waste of
energy.
The conclusions of the expert en-
gineers meet the highest hopes of the
city water officials and of the COM
munity as well. In every particular the
correctness of estimates and conclusions
of the local officials has been indorsed
by the board of experts. The feasibil-
! ity of the undertaking, the cost of con-
struction, the quantity and quality of
the water and the prospective revenue
from electric generation-all the results
of the experts approve and confirm the
conclusions of the city's engineers.
The constant perversion that the
aqueduct would cost $5O,OOO,OOO as pro-
claimed by a mouthpiece of the local
electric companies, is effectively
silenced by the report of the experts.
The cost of the whole project will not
reach half the figure claimed by dis
gruntled opponents. The figure for the
bare work of construction, as given in
the report, is $1S221, 800. To that is
added the cost of several needful ad
juncts that were not included in the
original estimates of the local engineers.
For instance the experts allow $1,150,
ono for the construction of a railway
along part Of the aqueduct line, to-
gether with telegraph and telephone
system. The sum Of 100000 is added
for a cement plant, whereby a great
saving will be effected. The engineer
ing and contingent expenses provided
for by the experts foot up 1904, 900.
Including all the adjuncts, however
the total cost parallels the early esti-
mate of Chief Engineer Mulholland
almost exactly. Mulholland's maximum
figure was s2s.OOOOOO and that of the ex-
perts is only $11O,7OO more. A final ad-
dition is made, however, for '1and and
water rights and for all legal and other
expenses connected with their acquisi,
tion from estimates presented by
Messrs. Mulholland and Mathews. in
cluding what has already been ex,
pended" With that addition the grand
total of cost amounts 20 s24. .4S5. 900.
At cost OF less than S25, 900, 900, COW
ering every direct and indirect feature
Of expense, Los Angeles will have a
water supply sufficient for population
of 100000, and the water will be the
best and purest enjoyed by any large
American city. And the use of tbs
water in the generation OF electricity
without any detriment whatever, would
produce sufficient revenue to pay all
expenses of operation. and the interest
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-27
THE MAN WHO Is WANTED

The World of Affairs has been wanting
a man
For years that must meet with a
certain condition.
Measure up to a standard, conform with
By which he'll be. tested who gets the
position.
He need not be brilliant, have erudite
mind
Though these shant count against
him, these attributes Vaunted,
But the chap whom the World of Af-
fairs hopes to find
Is the fellow who's always on hand
when he's wanted.
A young mans preferred, but then age
scarce win count
Against him If he's one on whom they
To do his work we'll, small or great the
amount,
And be there to do it. without call
or beckon
Any one of million can turn off the
tasks
II by the boss" shown them nagged,
spurred on, and taunted
That is. If he's near-but the kind the
world asks
Is the fellow who's always on hand
when he's wanted.
Proficiency counts, as a matter OF
But the main thing is readiness, free
from diversion,
An attention to duty that ne'er asks
divorce
From the desk for a ball game OF
summer excursion.
Is II you that they want? VIII you do
There's no doubt
This demand for a man in your face
will be fiaunted;
For it's open TO all-the supply has run
out
OF the fellows who're always on
hand when they're wanted
Roy Farrell Greene. In Leslie
Weekly
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-27
MINISTER MAKES A sLuNDER

Bishop Coleman of Delaware was de-
scribing in Wilmington some Of the adj
ventures that had marked his summer
walking trip through Pennsylvania and
Maryland. For many years the bishop
has devoted his vacation to walking,
covering in ten days 200 miles or more.
"The SEXTON of quaint old Maryland
church, he said, Showed me through
the cool, dim building one warm after
noon, and as we were departing point
ed to the Bible on the lectern and
smiled.
ga strange thing happened last Sun
day in connection with that Bible he
said. we had a strange minister
preaching here, and when he opened
the book he came upon a notice and
read It out with all due solemnity.
at was request for the congrega-
tion's sympathy and prayers for John
o. Griggs, who had been deeply af-
fiicted by the loss OF his wife
"The sexton paused and chuckled
softly.
"'You see SIR he said, our regular
minister had been using that paper as
book marker more than year, and
John O. Griggs. in a natty gray suit,
sat in a front pew with the new wife he
had taken just the week before. In
dianapolis Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-27
ANOTHER S2o,ooo,ooo CROP

An exhaustive review Of conditions
i'm the citrus fruit industry of Southern
California is published annually, at
about this time, by the Riverside Press
In addition to facts bearing on the
last crop an exceptionally accurate
estimate, as experience proves, is made
of the probable output for the coming
season. Each district division in the
citrus fruit belt is treated, the data
thus presented being gathered from
special reports furnished by recognized
authorities in the several districts.
The general conclusion of the Press
as to the coming season is given thus:
MANY of the reports would suggest
the probability Of a somewhat lighter
orange crop than last year, but figur-
ing up the estimates given we reach a
grand total about the same as the ac-
tual shipments of last year" In some
localities there was considerable loss
by high winds in November, but there
is compensation in the slightly larger
average sizes this season and in the in
creased area of bearing orchards,
The actual shipments of citrus fruits
last season amounted to 25,963 carloads,
22,175 being of oranges and 37SS of
lemons. For the present season the
estimate Of the Press is: Oranges, $4,000
carloads; lemons, 1900 carloads. The
estimate for the leading orange dis
tricts are as follows: Riverside dis
trict, $500 carloads; Redlands district,
3400; Ontario -Cucamonga, 1500 Po-
mona, 1900; Highgrove, 1900; Covina,
HOO; Azusa, 1000; Orange county, 800;
San Dimas-Lordsburg 800; Fullerton
700; Alhambra-P Pasadena, 700; Rialto,
SIS; Duarte- Monrovia. $50; Glendora
$50; Moreno, $50.
The estimate on the lemon crop
places Los Angeles and Riverside coun-
ties on level of production, each with
1000 carloads San Bernardino county
is credited with 800 carloads of lemons;
San Diego, 700; Ventura, 45O; Santa
Barbara, 200; Orange, so.
The outlook for marketing the pres
ent orange crop is highly favorable
now, but much will depend on the
weather during January and Febru-
airy. Last season the conditions dur
ing those months were exceptionally
favorable There is reason to believe
that the general return to growers will
be nearly if not quite equal to that of
last year, which means that Southern
Californias golden fruit will again re-
turn to the producers about 2O,OOO,OOO
golden dollars.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-27
OLD WHALING STATION

Monterey is now a famous fishing
point, and according to scientists the
Monterey bay contains a greater vari-
ETY. of game and edible fishes than any
other body of water on the Pacific
coast. AT their regular run there ap-
pear the salmon, yellowtail mackerel,
smelt and half a dozen members of the
cod family. besides the monster sea-
bass and other varieties of the finny
tribe.
The old whaling station is still intact
and bears the repute of having once
been the premier port for that branch
of work on the coast. AS many as 300
whales have been captured in one
month in the bay. No whales have been
seen there for years, and the fact of
their absence is verified by the annual
export of fish to San Francisco, which
amounts to more than 100000 pounds
yearly.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-27
KNOWS THE FEELINGS OF SAUL

When ]. Pierpont Morgan sailed to
Naples, a stop was made at Ponta
Delgrada in the Azores and thence a
deputation came to call upon the mag
nate.
The talk during the reception turned
to music, and a lady asked Mr.. Nor
gan if he had ever heard the Gregorian
music that is sung in the Sistine
chapel in Rome.
II have" said Mr.. Morgan.
"And how do you like it?" the lady
asked. "Those chants, you know, are
said to be sung to the tunes which
were used in David's time"
Mr.. Morgan smiled.
"I could never understand till now,"
he said, why Saul threw his javelln
at David. d."-Philadelph Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-27
WHERE UNION HINGES

There Is much significance IN the re-
suit Of Long Beach's annexation cleo
tion last Monday. It means good
deal more than the mere refusal Of the
neighboring communities to consum-
mate the wooing Of the vigorous and
handsome city by the sea. Long Beach
was an eager suitor, but no ardent
youth ever received a colder "mitten"
from the object Of his alteration.
The vote i'm Long Beach first de-
mands attention in seeking the signifi-
cance Of the elections in the several
towns. That city claims a population
approximating 20 900, and on that basis
II should have about 1000 votes. An
nexation has been "in the air" Of Long
Beach many weeks. In the "hot air"
manifestation there has been strenuous
opposition to union with Los Angeles
but most earnest desire for the annex
alton to that city of the towns which
voted on the question last Monday. 1t
would seem, therefore, that the elec-
ton in Long Beach should have
brought out a very heavy vote.
But the vote polled reveals, unmis-
takably, the sentiment of the people of
Long Beach on the annexation ques-
ton. 1t shows that the opponents II
union with Los Angeles comprise the
small but vociferous element, and that
the great mass of quiet, thoughtful
citizens are thinking of something
more important to their city than the
gathering in of some contiguous terri
tory.
Instead of anything within miles of
1000 votes polled in Long Beach on
Monday the total affirmative vote re-
ported was 2OO-just per cent of the
assumed total. The negative vote was
a round dozen. This practical ignoring
of the issue by nineteen-twentieths of
the voters proves conclusively that the
people of Long Beach are in no mood
for the shadow of annexation without
outlying territory concerned showed
that the union was not acceptable on
any terms, as they voted it down by
more than two to one.
The people of Long Beach-the solid
mass, not the effervescent part-un-
doubtedly desire union with Los Ange-
les if they can have it on satisfactory
terms. 1t would be a reflection on
their intelligence to assume that they
fail to perceive the benefits that would
accrue from becoming the chief resi-
Dental section of Los Angeles down
at the seaside. The discerning people
of Long Beach know that their proX-
unity to the greater city has made
Long Beach all that it is, and that all
its hopes for the future are allied with
the fortunes of Los Angeles.
There is every reason to believe that
the substantial underlying sentiment
in all the coast district, from Santa
Monica to Long Beach inclusive, is
favorable to consolidate with Los An
geles. But the people all along the
line demand to know whether it is an
orange or a lemon that Los Angeles
is handing to them.
And they have right to know. The
citizens of Los Angeles would be the
last people on earth to consider an
important proposition without having
the clearest understanding, clinched
and riveted as to where they were
att in the transaction. do unto 9TH
ers," etc.