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Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
TOURNAMENTLAWS
ARE PROMULGATED
PARADE TO START ON TIME,
WITH LATES LEFT OUT
Pictures of Beautiful Vehicles Must Be
Snapshots, for Disqualification
Comes to Those Who
Pause
Pasadena Agency,
16ja East Colorado Street.
Telephone Main 102


PASADENA, Dec. 9.-Dr. Ralph
Skillen who has been named grand
marshal for the great tournament OF
roses this year, one of the most I'M
portant places connected with the Dig
annual floral show, this evening makes
several announcements of the utmost
Importance both to those who will take
part in the parade of roses and those
who will witness the pageant.
First and foremost in importance Is
the announcement of Grand Marshal
SlSillen that the parade shall start on
time whether all of the entries are IN
line or not. In the nearly twenty years
during which the annual tournament
of roses on New Years day has de-
lighted great crowds not one of the
parades has ever been known to leave
on schedule and, of late years, the
whole program of the day has been
more or less disarranged because the
parade lasted longer than scheduled
This year DR.. Skllen says he shall
order the parade to move at 1O:45
O'Clock in the morning whether all are
in line or not This means that the
people from Los Angeles must be on
hand fully half or three-quarters Of
an hour earlier than usual.
The second parade innovation Will
be the assembling of divisions. This
year this will be done backwards.
That is, the first division will be
formed the farthest south on South
Orange Grove avenue of all, the sec
ond division on the next cross street
north, and so on. AS the first division
moves north on Orange Grove avenue
the second division will fall into place
behind and then the third division,
until all of the more than half dozen
sections are lined up.
Another new rule concerns the taxi
ing of photographs of the parade. 1t
has become almost a custom to, have
a photographer stationed at the Hotel
Green corner and there have each par
ticularly handsome entry halted and
took" This year any vehicle halting
at any part of the parade to be took"
will be disqualified from a chance at
the handsome prizes so lavishly Of
fered.
A good part of the judging for pa
rade prizes will be done before the
parade starts. This means that any
entry not in it's division place at least
half an hour before the parade starts
is likely to be left out of the judging
altogether.
Another novelty will be the enlist
ing this time of more than ordinarily
expert horsemen, in fact, cowboys, in
the roles of marshaPs aids. OF course
all of the aids will not be cowboys,
but a couple or so will, and these men
will be kept moving up and down the
line to help those in distress.
This plan is the result of a runaway
or so last time the great show took
place While no serious runaway has
ever taken place it can be readily
seen that should a frightened team of
horses dash through the crowds which
line the all too narrow streets the
most serious consequences might en-
sue.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
SAY FIRE WAS INcENDIARY
Police Believe Thief Robbed Store and
Attempted to Burn II After
ward

Fire, thought to have been of in
cendiary origin, was discovered In the
rear of the grocery of L. Salluzzi 629
Central avenue, last night.
1t is thought by the police the fire
was started by some person who had
first robbed the store and then set a
match to a pile Of boxes and waste
paper in the rear of the building. A
window I'm the store was broken and
many things were disarranged, but
owing to the absence of the proprietor
It was impossible to learn whether any
thing had been taken.
The fire was discovered by pedes-
trians, who saw smoke arising from the
boxes. A still alarm was sent in and
the department reached the scene In
time to put the blaze out before much
damage had been done. 1t is esti-
mated that about 500 damage had been
done to the building and about one
half that amount to the stock.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
VISITORS TALK TO PEOPLE
FROM PASADENA PULPITS
Special to The Herald.

PASADENA, Dec. 9.-The Very Rev.
j. j. wilkins, dean of the Pro- Cathedral
of Los Angeles, spoke this morning in
All Saints Episcopal church to a very
fair sized audience. The visit of the
dean had been anticipated by very
many in Pasadena, but the inclemency
of the weather kept many at home.
Rev. S. G. Durham of the First Uni
Versalist church practically turned the
morning services in his church today
over to the AntiSaloon league. A rep
resentative of the league spoke on the
saloons and the evil they do and the
talk was freely interspersed with illus
trations and statistics.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
is HARTMAN COPYING HILL,
Union Pacific Spending $5o,ooo,ooo for
New Construction

cific shows an enormous amount of new
construction is under way throughout
the northwest.
Lines now building will cost, ii is
estimated, not less than $50, 100000.
This marks a departure from the
former policy of the management of
this company, which has been for in
tensive instead of extensive develop
ment.
The policy of Mr.. Hill, investors have
noted, has been extensive, rather than
intensive. 1t is regarded as an in
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
WESTERN WAR is IN SIGHT
Rock Island After Chicago Omaha
Mail Business

The greatest railway speed war ever
known may result from the determi-
nation Of the Rock Island people to get
a share of the fast mail business be-
tween Chicago and omaha, for which
the government is now paying the Bur-
lington and Northwestern road $780,
600 a year.
Official notice is given that Decem-
Der Is the Rock Island system will put
In service this new train for mail ex-
clusively, which will leave Chicago at
S:15 p. m. and make the run to Omaha
In ten hours and thirty minutes.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
James C. Blair Has Retired

SpecIlI 10 The Herald.
NEW YORK, Dec. Announcement
was made today that at a meeting of
the voting trustees of the Seaboard
Air Line Railroad company, held re-
Gently for the purpose of organization,
James C. Blair retired from the chair
manship of the executive committee
and was superseded by Alfred Walter
the president of the company. Presi-
dent Walter became a member of the
executive committee on the retirement
of j. B. Dennis, member of the firm
of Blair & Co.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
To Replace Water Gap ouarries

STROUDSBURG, Pa, Dec. 9.-The
Lackawanna Railroad company has
purchased 1875 acres of land near
Spragueville, this county, and will build
an immense stone crusher plant. The
land contains a good supply of fine
quality of flint ballast material. Sew
eral years ago the company erected at
Delaware Water Gap a crusher cost
ing 100000, but was compelled to dis
continue operations by the courts.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
Crate Causes Fire

Fire, caused ly defective CRATE, did
$40 damage to the residence of j. j.
Heron, 1876 Dewey avenue, about 9
o'clock last night. An alarm was sent
in. but by the time the department had
arrived the flames were extinguished.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
Dwarf switch Stands rest

In addition to the block signal sys-
tenn in service on the Hartman line
another Improvement to safeguard
travel is a dwarf switch stand which is
new and something better than the Or
binary switch equipment. These stands
are not more than four feet high but
they have proved satisfactory in warn
ing engineers and trainmetn of danger
ahead
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10

teresting circumstance that Mr.. Har-
riman seems to have adopted the Hill
idea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19

He spent weeks planning this event The banquet cost him between 5000 and SSOOe It was in such things that he delighted; ; not in a fast life.
 So far as is known, Stensland's involved financial state is due to widespread spec ulation in real estate and building, but the fall of Cashier Henry w Herring is ascribed to wine, women and race horses" What temptations and oppor- tunities led him Into this way remain for his lips alone to tell.
 The police have many stories to sift of Herlng's wayward ways dealing with mysterious trips to Detroit, automobile rides with women nights in gambling houses and the daily stake at Chris" Anderson's s old place at 125 Milwaukee avenue just below the bank
 Herring, 45 years of age has wife and four children, who live In well-fur- nished stone house at 3S20 Prairie ave- nue. He has worked in banks since he was a boy, starting as a messenger boy in the American Trust and Savings Bank. Fifteen years ago he became teller in the Milwaukee State Bank. and in 1901 cashier.
 Of portly. prosperous appearance well clothed and smooth in his manners, Her ing had many friends among the poor people, who looked upon him as they did upon President Stensland-as a man above the ordinary herd, knowing the ways of the big world of finance and fha
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
HOW BANKS CHIEFS GREW.
Stensland and Herring Had Small Be-
 ginning.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 The Stensland family for years has been regarded as one of the leading elo- ments in Chicago's Norwegian citizen ship-a power in wealth and a model of prosperity. The president of the col lapsed bank had a rapid rise since his arrival in the city, and his family today occupies a stately residence in Irving Park. at Byron and Lawndale avenues. It Is estimated that his house and grounds cost from $75,000 to $100,000. When Stensland came to Chicago in 1871 he became interested in the dry goods business Later he transferred his in terests to the insurance business until hc bacame head of the Milwaukee Avenue State Bank. He continued to have many irons in the fire"
 MT. Stensland was born on May g. 1Si7,
 in Stavanger, Norway When only IS years old he left his home and went to Indian. securing a clerlSship, later obtain ing employment as a buyer for English and native merchants, travelling in Hin dustan, Arabia and Persia. Shortly aft | CT his arrival in Chicago he married Karen Eide. He has two children-Theo- dore, an attorney, and Inga. 1 MT. stensland for several years was a member of the board of trade, and was a director of the Worlds Columbian Ex- | position in 1893.
 Some sidelights on the character of the banker were given last night by one of , his friends.
 This will be blow to the. Norwegian colony of Chicago" said this man. MT. l Stensland was one of the most prominent i and respected of his race. He has ! worked hard all his life, and. now in his decling age was reaping, we had thought, a harvest of comfort and quiet wealth He Is a kindly, charitable man. with the habits of the ordinary business | man.
 "He has lived alone in his big resi- dence in Irving Park since the death of his wife, eight years ago, and was fond of entertaining his friends. Last summer he gave a great banquet to the Nor | weigian singers who were visiting here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19

Admiral Brownsen as superintendent. Ad-
 miral Sands succeeded to the superintend-
 ency last fall and from the beginning lie
 failed to be impressed as favorably as
 the President and Admiral Brownson had been. At one of his appearance be- fore the House naval committee during
 the winter he threw cold water on the experiment, declaring that so far as he
 was able to determine the Japanese form
 of exercise, which Is used in both the army and navy of Japan, did not promise
 ever to have much value for practical purposes.
 Recently. it Is understood, word reached
 the President that the course of instruc- ton was about to be dropped at the acad- emy on the ground that the experiment had been sufficient. The president, how ever, Is known to be an enthusiastic ad- l mirer of the art. he having personally investigated It to the extent of taking number of lessons himself a couple of years ago, while the Russo-Japanese war
 was on, and by putting professional
 wrestler of heavy build against a little
 Japanese expert, with disastrous results to the American So, determined that
 it shall be given a thorough trial before
 being abandoned through the condemna-
 ton, heihas ordered that it be continued 1 through the next term.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
Thought He Was Samson.

From the Chicago News.
 T was sleeping in coal shed on the bay front in San Francisco when that earthquake came" said the tramp in tue City Hall park the other day. T was dreaming of good things to eat, when copper pounded the soles of my old shoes with his night stock and called out:
 " Come, now, up with you and out or this'
 Whats the row? says I, as I came out.
 Its against the law to sleep here
 But what harm am l a-doinf
 Don't talk back to mel
 But Pm a-askin of civil question, says I. T crawls in there to sleep and disturb no one and do no damage, and you comes along and routes me out and shakes me around. I'm not bad-tem- pered man, but"
 ''Just then came the quake and that coal pocket took a slide Into the bay and half a dozen buildings came crash ing down. The officer and me was heaVed up and let down like chips. and as soon as his feet was solid under his agin he turns to me with:
 'I.ord. man, if I'd known ye was sam son I'd have let ye sleep there for month";
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
BOLD SEA RANGER
Is Alexander Mclean, Has Had Re-
 markabIe Career.

nrrom the New York Herald
 nut since our women must walk gay,
 And money buys their gear
 uhe sealing boats they flleh that way
 At hazard year by year.
 English they be. and Japanese that hang
 On the Brown Bears flank
 And some be Scot but the worst. God
 wot.
 And the boldest thieves be Tank.
 If Alexander Mclean really planned the recent raid on the rookeres on St. Paul hsland he has added another jeweled link 10 his cable adventure. Probably no sea ranger since Captain Kidd has figured so prominently in story, though the public q1istory of this remarkable person ex- tends over not more than dozen years.
 Although well known in Aleutlans and Bering Sea for some time Captain Mc- neans personality was first disclosed to the country at large in May, 1904, in the harbor of San Francisco. It was sup posed then that his schooner, tie Car mencita, was fitting out for nefarious sealing expedition, but nothing could be proved against her, and she was per mitted to sail out of the Golden Gate as free as the west wind. It was rumored 
 a sealing outfit in Half Moon Bay and proceeded to the Kuriles and the Smoky Sea, as she was reported in that neigh borhood at various times for year.
 Captain Mclean was next heard of when still master of the Carmencita. He was arrested in September, 1905 in Vlc- aoria, B. C., by the Canadian authorities at the rquest of the American consul Again nothing definite was obtained against his schooner, for this time she was under the Mexican flag.
 Cleared of this specific trouble, Mclean appeared at various points in the Pacific sometimes under his own flag, sometimes under the Norwegian emblem; and then the captains of the revenue cutters in the north began to recall him as the chief of many a furious raid of previous years. It was always said he was close to piracy, hut 1t could never be proved against him. He was suspected and was challenged, but never convicted
 The Commander Islands. owned by the Russians, presented about that time the finest of all killing grounds for the hollu- scillSie. The "Asatic herd' was the tech- nical term for this seal people, and know ing that the Russian navy was busy in another part of the world Mclean de- scended in his might, expecting to meet with no resistance But the coast guard was as crafty as he, and beat him off.
 Mclean was overwhelmed once, too on the perimeter of the restricted Pribiloff group by the British cruiser Sheerwater, but again the Mexican flag atforded nm protection until that government finally withdrew it by revoking his license.
 It Is not at all improbable that kpllng elevated the captain into verse in The Rhyme of the Three Sealers,' when the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
Feverish conqueror of Fever.

From the Chicago Daily Tribune.
 The Scotch highball and the gin rickey were named as sovereign preventyes of typhoid fever by Health Commissioner Whalen yesterday in discussing the Rogers Park water evil However, he as- serts that whisky drinkers are not im- mune from the disease, unless they make sure of having some alcohol in everything they drink The suggestion. which was made in a humorous spirit, doubtless will be hailed with acclaim by certain bibu- lous gentlemen, Dr. Whalen believes
 'If there are any typhoid germs in the water a man drinks. whisky or other al- cohol liquor will kill them," said pr. Whalen "Typhoid germs cannot live in alcohol. The danger, however, IS haroiy great enough to warrant the people or Pooers Park in forsaking temperance"
 The Gawk makes best advertisini cuts-Aqe-Herald Building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
Would Libel Motor Cars.
From Truth.

From lTull
 Having had plenty of experience of the disadvantages of barren judgments l can deply sympathize with those who get such judgments against motorists. One way in which the effects of a judgment may be defeated is by the defendant be- ing penniless. Such a one may have hired a motor for day Other methods well known to lawyers are debenture policies, bills of sale, and, above all, the ever blessed creation of chancery, the marriage settlement. Now there is an exception to this law of judgment being against the person. In case of ships the ship is primarily liable for the accident. This is called an action in rem. Simi- larly, in the case of motors I would make the vehicle itself liable for the amount of ajudgment as well as the owner or hirer. In other words, de- benture policy. bill of sale. or marrige settlement would not avail. nor would the owner of a car be able to dispose of it or use 1t until the Judgment was satisfied, unlesss sufficient security had been given to the satisfaction of the court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
guilty Reuben Paine of the stralsund as

guilty Reuben Paine of the stralsund as serts:
 "But I've six thousand skins below and
 Yeddo Port to see;
 And there's never law of God or man
 runs north of Fifty-three."
 It remained. however. for Jack London to portray one of the darkest figures in fiction, for the terrible form of Wolf Larsen was hewn, it is said. from the life of Alexander Mclean. Without the refinement of cruelty exhibited in Cap tain Silver's character, there remains in the figure of Larsen, of the Sea Wolf, more of horror and dread than any Eng fish sea novelist has ever succeeded in portraying. But somber as Is the life of Wolf Larsen, no one can say that Alex ander McLean's career has been less fe- rocious and morose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
TO CONTINUE JIU-JITSU.
Roosevelt Insists on Longer Trial
 at Naval Academy.

From the Washington Post.
 Although Rear Admiral Sands, superin- tendent of the naval academy. has ex- pressed himself as doubting the value of jiu-jitsu in the navy, and recommended to Congress last winter that the experl- ment at Annapolis be abandoned, Presi- dent Roosevelt has taken hand In the matter, and has ordered that the course of instruction in the Japanese art of self-defense be continued at least anoth- CT year.
 Japanese instructors In this exercise were employed at Annapolis in the fall of 1904 during the administration of Rear
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
Raspberry Jam.

1rannie Merritt Farmer in the Woman's ;
 Home Companion for August
 Pick over the raspberries. Mash a lew m +ba bottom of a preserving kettle, using vvooden masher. and so continue until all the fruit Is used Heat slowly to the boiling point, and add gradually an equal quantity of heated sugar Cook slowly forty minutes and put in stone jar or jelly tumblerS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
Jury Was Experienced.
Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 .'F'latman, I hear you were arrested the other day for insulting and brow-beating a ianitor. How did you come out?'
 T was tried for it and acquitted
 ''On the ground that 1t was justihableY' ''No; the jury couldn't be made to be- neve such a thing was possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19

We want to dwell with especial empha- sis upon the caption of today's advertise ment, "We Guarantee Positions to Gradu- ates,' and we feel that we are justified in doing so because of the fact that when youne man or woman decides to enter the commercial field in his or her effort to at tain marked degree of success he or she is naturally interested in knowing that the school with which they cast their lot will do all that is fair and just towards insur- ing their success by furnishing them with a good paying position.
 Guaranteeing positions to our graduates is not difficult or risky proposition with us at all. for the fact of the matter is, we
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19

We want you to feel and to understand that this talk is not written out just to see how it looks imprint on paper We want you to take every word of it to yourself personally, just as though we were right with you advising you and talking for your good and welfare-and so ardent and ear
 nest are we that we want to say that unless you are energetic and ambitious and want to accomplish something above the average
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
WE GUARANTEE POSITIONS
 TO OUR GRADUATES


are completely overrun with demands and applications from the largest and best known firms throughout the State and the whole South for competent stenographers and bookkeepers-an this state of affairs has existed for more than year Doing the work as well as we do, we cannot educate young people fast enough to fill the vacan- cies that are reported to us.
 Merchants, bankers and professional men have grown to know and to recognize the superiority of the teachings of this mod ern Business School, and as a result our students are shown a decided preference by them.
 We want you to make up your mind to better your condition. YOU CAN DO TT!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
Quite a Blow.

From Harpers Weekly.
 "why has old Gotrox made new willy His doctor advised a change of heir
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
If Van Are Ambitious and Eas,. Wheeler Diploma

if you are "come-day- go -day-Lord- bring Sunday" sort of person then stay where you are. The commercial world wants the other sort, and to them offers the most fattering inducements.
 That's our whole story. Ii It hts you come and see us. We will do our utmost to boost you on to success.
 Our phones number is 119. If you can not phone drop us postal