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Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

money, but it was used for no good
enlightened or Vivifying purpose.
While the Bonanza magnates osten-
tatiously started the Nevada bank
with a capital of $1O,O0O000, it did no
good to the community All it seemed
to know how to do with its money was
to loan it on steadily dwindlirG stock
margins.
Jim Keene announced, with far more
definiteness and success than Thomas
w. Lawson has yet succeeded in ac-
complishing in his operations of a later
date, the end of the mining madness.
He stood to his guns, selling Consoli-
dated Virginia down from $3.50 and
California from $S40 a share till they
reached figures in the declension that
he found it unsafe to trifle with. With
a stake of ten or fifteen million dol
lars Keene went on to Chicago to get
'busted' in a wheat deal.
But at no stage of the tremendous
mining developments of which the
Bonanza outfit was the most sensa-
tional feature was there any attempt
made actually to develop the northern
and central counties. The little money
that was loaned for development work
was advanced at rates that meant the
ruin of the borrower A regularly re-
curing record of ruin was the finale
of all attempts to stimulate the de-
velopment of that magnificent section
of California which is now resentfully
regarding the miracles of development
which are reported from the south
land.
Worse Here for a While
And yet, for a while, the state Of
things down here was worse even than
in the counties around and to the north
of San Francisco. That is to say, as
1a,, Il In1 ,f,11
percolated down from the Golden
Gate. In those evil days there were
prodigies of usury that have probably
not elsewhere been rivaled in the his
tory of the earth. There are pretty
well-establshed instances of a federal
judge, who was looked upon as a
pretty good sort of a man, Judge
Witherby by name, who has been
known to lend money at the rate of
IL 1-2 per cent a day, taking as Sc
curity the cattle and sheep of men
who were wont to "blow" the money
in at monte. No less a man than eX-
Governor John G.. Downey, loaned the
owner of the Santa Gertrudes ranch,
where Downey City and neighboring
hamlets now stand, and let the loan
run on to foreclosure at IL IL per
cent month. compromising monthly.
The original sum advanced in this
,oan was SoVOi anu WHeh ~ aiilouIlIeI NC,
TO $4,000 a mortgage was taken on that
sum on the Santa Gertrudes ranch,
and a property then worth hundred
thousand dollars, and now worth
million dollars, was gathered in out
of the wet in less than five years by
the ex-governor. The unfortunate
carpenter, the mortgage, signalized
the sale by blowing his brains out in
stanter
All this incredible usury originally
started in San Francisco, in the city
that was so long known as "the Toll
+aker by the Sea-" Fortunately the
people of the south would not long
stand for such vagaries of finance.
Here in Los Angeles we thought that
we could do better than submit to the
exactions of the Toll Taker." We
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04
Sometime About the Ways and Byways of Graft

wv graft Sa' in tnsse 5rsa' days." Hsa' 'ssS ssi5
the Cheerful Pessimist. "ir
fact we don't hear much else. We
hear of graft in business and graft in
politics, of grating insurance drec-
tors, grating state officials, grating
Legislators and grating policemen
Every reform candidate is an anti
graft candidate; every reform measure
is an anti-graft bill"
Grating in these days, when not ap-
piled TO orchards or patching up some
person who has parted inVoluntarily
with some portion of his epidermis
means getting something you are not
entitled to. The dictionaries, although
grating in this form is as old as
Ptolemy fail to give us any definition
of graft. True, George Washington
Plunkitt of New York, the Stableman
senator, has defined honest graft
but the dictionaries have not as yet in
corporated that definition in their
pages.
A good dictionary definition of graft
1 take it, would be:
Graft, V. /. Getting something one
is not entitled to by means of official
position or by winking at a violation
of the laws"
Now let us take one day out of our
lives, any day, and see how the tender
tendrils of graft begin and wax fat
until they become great in trunk and
foliage.
The milkman comes at o'clock. 1t
is a nuisance to get out of warm bed
and break into the delicious doze which
is the forerunner of getting-up time
The janitor, however, is already up,
Why not ask him to take care of your
milk and send it up to you an hour
later? Ask the janitor to do so and
he will tell you it isn't his business to
look out for the tenants milk. "Give
you so cents a week." you say. The jan
itor's frown changes into a smile and
your beauty sleep is not disturbed. Not
exactly graft.
The health board says you must not
mix garbage, waste paper and sweep
ings 1t is so much easier, however.
for the servant to put all three in one
pail. The first time you mix them the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04
(Written for The Herald by Joseph D.
Lynch)

IAVING been challenged by the
n Sacramento Bee, the Chico Post
and several other journals of
Northern and Central California as to
the respective attractions Of the two
sections, l propose, with perfect good
humor, to show why the southern por-
tion of the state has made such aston
ishing advances. while the northern
portion of our noble commonwealth has
stood, to employ a sporting term, like
horse tied to a post.
To begin with San Francisco early in
her history earned for herself the title
of 1.-The Toll-taker by the Sea" For
decades on decades the unquestioned
metropolis of the Pacific coast enjoyed
the absolute dominance of trade on this
side of the continent She was the
beneficiary of all the mining camps,
Oregon Washington, Idaho, Montana
Arizona, Nevada and, to a great degree,
New Mexico and Utah poured their
mineral treasures into her lap. They
were greater and more abundant than
had been known in the history of the
world. l is not too much to say that
treasure to that favored spot to an
amount of the precious metals equal
to tWo-fifths of the gold coin cirCula-
tion of the world found its way to the
plethoric Golfers of the Golden Gate.
Had the merchants and business men
of San Francisco responded to the sit
uation with intelligence and energy
there would be more minted gold dol
lars in that city today than could be
found even in such cities as London,
Paris and New York. Even as it was,
when the Spanish war broke out it was
found necessary TO send east from the
insignificant little brick building which
still stands a little distance from Mont
gomery street, which is the San Fran
cisco sub-treasury, the sum of sixty
million dollars i'm gold coin. There was
an almost equal amount of gold coin
in the mint on Fifth street, which
would have followed suit if the Span
ish war had not come to such a speedy
and glorious end. At the same time,
when these enormous amounts of
money We're at the call of the govern
ment in San Francisco there were up
wards of one hundred and twenty mill
lions of dollars in three of the savings
banks of that city.
She Did Nothing
At all times loaded down with gold
coin, what did San Francisco do with
her unquestioned opportunity to make
herself the greatest agency of devel-
opment on earth? She did absolutely
| nothing. Instead of stimulating devel-
opment she constituted herself the
greatest and most remorseless usurer
ever known on earth. Instead of con-
sututing herself the leader of expan-
sion and growth she devoted herself
to the labors of cent per cent. With a
great state needing money for develop
ment she dealt 1t out parsimoniously-
too little of it at too oppressive rates.
If the bankers of that city loaned
money to ranchero it was with the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

dent which occurred here in Los An
geles. Col. r. S. Baker had built the
block which bears his name more to
show his confidence in the city than
anything else, and then in the clouds of
despond following the disastrous
drought and smallpox epidemic of
1857, he desired to borrow $4,000
from the bankers of San Francisco and
he found 1t hard to get it at a most
usurious rate.
Perhaps more than any one thing it
was this hard and relentless financial
policy of San Francisco which started
the dependence of the people of the
southern counties on the east. Bankers
and capitalists, seeing such a peculiar
condition of things, began to pour in
here from the east. Though they We're
attracted by high rates of interest,
these rates were as nothing to the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

hope and expectation of gathering him
in, bag and baggage, scrip and scrip
page.
When l arrived in San Francisco in
July. 1872, this Shylock regime was at
its height Although the pre-eminence
of San Francisco could only be main
tanned by the establishment and sue
cess of manufactures, at that time a
glass manufacturer from the east had
built his works and before completion
they had been burned down. Instead
of sympathizing with a man whose
plans had been backed with his own
money and helping him out, the bank
ers of San Francisco acted as if there
was something amusing in the PROPOSE
ton.
This idea of helping nobody who
might need help was the instinct of the
San Francisco bankers. 1t was Illus
trated in a special manner by an Incl
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04
A STRANDED FLOpODORA COMPANY
WALKING HONE FROM THE N0aTH POLE

I undertaking establishments" said the
guide. "The city is arranged with an
| eye of the greatest convenience of the
| greatest number. Since the discovery
of the elixir of life 301O, by Prof. Koch
| pasteur, the percentages of death show
| that only per cent die of other than
automobilous causes, and for that
reason the Speedway and the undertake
ing people were placed together.
| above these stands the stratum
| given over to hotels and theaters. Fol-
lowing the pace set by New York and
| Chicago near the close of the nineteenth
| century it was found desirable to have
| an average of two large hotels and one
theater to every $4,000 square feet of
the city's superficial area. The hotel
dwelling population of Philyorgo is now
three and a half billion, one-third of
whom are permanent, the balance
| transient.
Peculiar Hotels
"a peculiarity of the Philyorgo hotel
, as differentiated from the hotels of
ancient times is that in each hostelry
are to be found accommoda tions rang
| ing in price from the Mills basis on the
| top floor to the 100000 a year suites
on the first, second and third. In the
| Mills apartments the patron enjoys a
| comfortable box stall, furnished with
patent collapsible beds. which by an
automatic arrangement worked from
| the office elects the sleeper to the floor
| at sunrise in order that he may be at
work betimes, and under the operation
of the compulsory bathing law, passed
in 3063 the flooring of the room, ar
ranged like a trap door, yielding to the
weight of the body, lowers the occu-
pant into a tank filed with fresh hygeia
water, charged with electricity, and of
an antiseptic quality, that materially
increases ones eagerness for work
while destroying all germs that might
prove detrimental to the general good.
1.-The 100000 suites, on the other
hand, are the most marvelously ap-
pointed apartments known to modern
science. The appliances invented by
experts in luxury for the promotion of
the comfort of the rich have attained
to the highest degree of perfection, and
the hotels of Philyorgo now provide on
this 100000 basis anything a patron
may cali for from a college education
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04
Retarded Northern CALIFORNIA; Growth

Shylock prescription which had been
established by San Francisco and
which had crushed the whole state, and,
to a most wretched degree, any people
who had shown anything like enter
prise.
San Francisco has not adhered to the
methods which for so long paralyzed
the state and which characterized hex
when the Comstock lode alone was
pouring thirty or forty million dollars
a year into her exchequer. But she did
her work of misadventure we'll for a
score Of years and succeeded in neu-
tralizing the splendid advantages of our
glorious state and in transferring the
scepter to the south.
GIutted With Wealth
When the Comstock lode ceased
pouring its imperial revenues into San
Francisco, that city was glutted with
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

You would think So" smiled the
pilot, but it was discovered as long
ago as the twentieth century that two
financiers, meeting head on, could go
through each other without breaking
a bone or shedding a drop of blood"
The effect of this observation upon
my own nerve centers was such that
my hand, still on the screw of the in
strdment shook the focus back six
hundred and thirty-eight years, so
delicate was the adjustment of this
spectrophone, and I found myself gap
ing upon a stranded Florodora company
walking home from the north pole. but
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04
M CRED A aEesPE ED pI WE SEE Tue sotss osef The CITY ee

where I live we're being run down by
automobiles all the time, and last
month an airship smashed III through
my flat window and came out the
other side of the house, carrying my
bureau, all the electric light fixtures
and grand piano along with it,
"There is a special automobile floor
in the city of Philyorgo, and except on
the roof, where the people live when
they are not working, the city is air.
ship proof"
zone whole floor given over to auto
mobiles?" cried another passenger.
"Well-almost. Automobiles and
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

II speedily rediscovered the airship and
its party by a few turns of the pilot
describing the third stratum as the
artery for all the city trucking.
1T has the very great advantage not
only of keeping the wheels of commerce
constantly in notion" said the guide.
but it confines to a single floor of
this great city about seventy per cent
of the bad language which in the early
days of New York and Chicago perme-
ated pretty much the whole city. Above
the trucking floor is the structure de-
voted to the wholesale trade, and above
that is to be found the floor Whereon
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

are located the department stores and
smaller shops. To get to these shoppers
use the two strata above, one of which
is devoted entirely to the use of Pc
destrians and the other to carriages.
In this way the maximum of safety for
foot passengers on the highways is OBJ
tianed, since persons found walking on
the carriage way are promptly arrested,
and of course it is impossible, even in
cases of a runaway. for a horse and
carriage to appear upon the stratum
devoted to pedestrians
How about automobiles and air.
ships?' asked timid passenger. "Out
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-28
K. OF c. FLOURISHlNG
Fourteen Applications Received
Plans for Coming Events.

San Salvador Council, KNIGHTS OF
Columbus, held a meeting III thelr
rooms in the Savings Bank building,
last night. A large number OF the
members were present. Fourteen ap-
plications were received, which alone
shows the council to be IN a flourish
ing condition. The first degree will
be exemplined the latter part of jan
uary. The date February D has been
set for their annual ball to be held
in Wilder hall.
Solemn vespers will be held in st.
Mary's Roman Catholic church the
last part of January or the first part
of February, whenever will be the
best for Monsignor O'Connell, the
chaplain of the council, to have it.
The installation of the newly-elect-
ed officers will take place Thursday,
January 10, by District Deputy Meri-
dan. of Red Bank council. A large
delegation is expected.
A special meeting will be held next
Wednesday to make final arrange
ments for the banquet and theatre
party of the fourth degree team of
the council.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-28

BRANCH HERE
LOCat Circle of National Jewish
Society Organized at Meet
ing at Beth MOrdeCai.

AS a result of a meeting held last
night at the temple Beth Mordecai, at
which Miss jeanette M. Goldberg
spoke, a branch of the Jewish Chau-
tauqua Society was formed here. Miss
Goldberg is the eastern representa-
tive of that society. She spoke before
a large gathering in the temple Beth
Mordecai in Hobart street.
She was introduced by the presi-
dent of the congregation, Leo
Schwartz.
Miss Goldberg spoke on the objects
of the society and the result of its
work. Her address was highly inter-
esting.
Following the address by, Miss
Goldberg, Rev. DR.. e. l.. Solomon de-
livered a short address in which he
approved of the plan the congrega-
ton was forming in starting a branch
of that well-known society.
Following DR.. Solomon's address,
steps were taken to form a home
reading circle, which will meet week.
ly. The society was formed with
twenty-five members, who will meet
in the Beth Mordecai chapel next
Thursday night, at which time per-
manent officers will. be elected. A
meeting place for the society will also
be decided on at this meeting.
Miss Goldberg will leave here to-
day for Jersey City, where an effort
will be made to form a branch of the
society.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-28
A CHARACTER TO PLAY ON.

From Fanch," by H. G. Rowland,
in the December Metropolitan Maya
zine.
Fanch Guillenec was a Breton sar-
dine fisherman who fished or lay
aboard the Salvar-Ar-Bed, G. c. 1926.
Fanch, as he clattered down the
digue in his heavy sabots with a bas-
ket of sardines in either fist, looked
a handsome, is somewhat awkward,
blond young Hercules, but like many
of his class, this apparent strength
was misleading. Though huge of
bone and muscle Fanch was really
less strong than one of the peasant
girls who carried kelp from the beach
to the farm; also when one looked
more closely into his face n found
it lacking. The blue eyes were less
sapphire than l~apis-lazuli, dull and
often shot with distended blood-ves-
sells; also they were vacant in express
sion, while the fine strong features,
though regular and pleasing, wore
one invariable expression. Lack of
nourishing food, lack of regular sleep,
too much work, and most of all, too
much eau-de-vie had held Fanch in a
slightly lower class than hal of the
big farm draught horses who at least
were normal of their kind.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-28
RINK is OPENED
Large Crowd Attended First Night
at Lyceum Rink.

The Lyceum roller skating rink at
Jefferson street and New Brunswick
avenue, opened last night with a full
house. At one time during the even
ing all the skates were in use. The
rink, although not fully completed as
yet, was in good shape. The interior
was lighted almost as bright as day
by twenty-four large arc burners.
Outside in front of each entrance was
a gas arc. Music was furnished by
Steinhauser's orchestra.
The formal opening of the rink
will be held the latter part of next
week, at which time the building will
be entirely completed. The balcony
will then have been fitted with seats
for spectators, and seats will be
placed around the floor. Announces
ment of the appearance of Prof.
Bailey, a champion roller-skater.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-28
PRAISE FOR THE
COUNTY BOARDS
State Board Of Equalization Of
Taxes Submits Report Says
Assessments Are Low.
pecial to The EVENING NEWS:

Special to The EVENING VIEWS.
TRENTON, Dec. 2S:-The State
Board of Equalization of Taxes has
presented its annual report to Cover
nor Stokes and one of it's chief feat
ures is an emphatic endorsement of
the county tax boards. This is sig
nifcant because of the opposition to
the boards which has cropped out in
several sections of the state and in
view of the democratic threat heard
in some uuartes that an effort will be
made this winter to repeal the act of
1906 creating the county boards.
Speaking of these boards the report
If the State Board says:
These boards have been in exist
nee but a few short months. Their
powers to correct glazing faults in
the manner of assessing taxes is un-
doubted. The beginning of their lab
ors give promise of success, and seem
to Justify the confidence of those re-
sponsible for their creation, that the
count boards will be a permanent
weighty factor in bringing about and
maintaining equal taxation, and pro-
ducing a condition where all taX pay
ers are treated exactly alike, without
prejudice or favoritism." The report
also emphasizes the fact that the
county boards have corrective and en-
forcing powers, and it calls especial
attention to the provision of the new
law which empowers these boards to
remove law-breaking assessors.
This important statement Is given:
Summing up our experiences gener-
ally, it is fair to say that a large pro-
portion of the property of the state is
assessed away below it's true value.
AS a rule, it the purely agricultural
districts, farms are assessed nearly,
if not quite, at true value, and this is
true also of the stock and farming
implements" The document shows
that outside of bank stock very little
personal property is assessed in New
Jersey, except household furniture
and the like. 1t says there is prac-
tically no assessment of intangible
personal property. According to the
State Board real estate outside the
rural communities is assessed at only
from forty to seventy per cent. of its
true value.
The following table is given, show
ing the increase In ratables in each
county over those of last year and
the increase in the entire state:
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-28
TWO LICENSES
ARE REFUSED.
speciol to the Et nNiNG NEWS:

NEW BRUNSWICK, Dec. 28:-
The court today refused the license
applications of Alexander Czersensky
and Bill Fasekass in Woodbridge
township and held up the application
of w. II. Nash, of Roosevelt, to give
him a chance to clear himself of the
charges made against him in a letter
to the court, to the effect that there
had been riots in his place, that he
kept open until Sunday morning and
that he allowed gambling to go on
there.
Max Glass, CARRIER & Company,
Max Cast and Timothy Neville. all of
Roosevelt, got their licenses renewed
and Gaiser Kish, John Nelson, James
MCGOWAN, Stephen Galaida and
Thomas Feeney, all of Woodbridge,
were granted licenses.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-28
q PIANO.

Organs having two or three key
boards are being used practically ev-
erywhere, but a piano having three
keyboards is one of the novelties of
recent date. A South Carolina in
ventor is responsible for its con-
struction. OF course, the question
will instantly arise, how can can a
performer operate three k~eyboards
with only two hands? On the upper
keyboards practically no question is
necessary. They are controlled and
released by weights. The notes con
nected with these extra keyboards
are really what might be termed ''sus-
tanned notes." If the player wishes
to sustain the sound of a certain note.
or an octave, for instance, he strikes
the note, the latter being sustained
until the feight controlling that note
is released. Every piano player will
instantly recognize the advantage of
this arrangement. lie would be in
teresting at least to hear one OF these
instruments played.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-28
JOHN FRIICE BURIED.
Funeral Held Yesterday Afternoon
From His Wife's Residence.

The funeral of John Friice, who
died on Monday night following in
iuries received in falling down stairs,
took place from his wife's home, cor
ner of William and North First
streets, yesterday afternoon and was
attended by a number of friends and
relatives. A delegation from Law
renee Lodge, Odd Fellows, of which
he was a member, was present and
acetd as pallbearers. A number of
flowers were received, including a
large pillow from the Odd Fellows.
/. Rev. J.. F. Christensen, pastor of
st. Stephens Danish Lutheran
church, otficiated. Interment took
place in Alpine cemetery.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-28
SPIELERS DANCED.
Ball In Wilder Hall Attended by
Great Crowd.

The Spielers' Social Club held their
second annual ball last night in Will
der hall. The hall was crowded. The
order of dancing was arranged in two
parts, with a short intermission. Re-
freshments were served during the
evening.
About IL o'clock supper was
served, which had been arranged by
Frank Schantz, Frank Houser and B.
F. Davis. Dancing was continued I'M
til early this morning.
The committee of arrangements
were M. O'Hara, John Geraghty,
Frank Shultz and Paul Miller. B. F.
Davis was floor manager. Music was
furnished by Nelson's orchestra.