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Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
AFFECTS WESTERN TRAFFIC
Burlington Extension Offsets Oriental
Trade Losses

The Burlington Great Northern ex-
tension to Ashland, Wis: has been
completed, and mixed service has
been inaugurated over it. though it
will not be in full operation for a
month. This extension gives the Bur-
lington direct connection with Lake
Superior and opens up a new route
for Nebraska grain traffic to, the At
lantic seaboard. In fact, it constitutes
a short line from Denver to Duluth,
and bringssthe Colorado capital into
direct communication with the north
ern lake region.
What the full effect of the opening of
this new route will be on eastern traffic
remains to be seen That it will have
important bearings on future traffic
affairs is accepted as certain, and off,
cials of the road hope one immediate
result will be a great increase to the
roads tonnage, which may help in
some measure to offset a great loss
which the road has sustained in orien-
tai traffic the last year.
Since the close of the Japanese war;
and since the Chinese boycott on
American goods was inaugurated, the
Burlington's oriental traffic has fallen
off by one-half During the last four
months japanese imports decreased 20
per cent and her imports increased to
about the same extent, clearly indicat-
ing that that country intends not only
to be it's own manufacturers, but to
seize the largest possible portion of the
Chinese import trade. Burlington
officials, therefore see the necessity of
reaching out in other directions to
make good these losses.
Traffic conditions on the road at
present are, generally speaking, in
highly satisfactory condition, and all
Indications point to year of great
prosperity for the entire system About
the only disquietng symptom at pres
ent is the disturbed condition of grain
and flour rates at the Missouri river
1t is believed that this trouble will be
of short duration. Probably the end
of the coming month, when the new
rate law will become effective, will see
the end of 1t, Under the operations of
the new rate law ii is believed rate
disturbances will be of rare occurrence,
because of the provision that any new
rates made must be i'm effect for thirty
days. That provision will of itself
give rates a stability they never here
tofore have possessed.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
WHOLESALE THEFTS ALLEGED
Three Prisoners Are Suspected of Be-
ing Responsible for Disap-
pearance Of Bicycles

Complaints were issued from the Of
flee of the deputy district attorney II
the police station yesterday, charging
Sam CARRIER, a messenger boy living
at 1s4O Paloma street, with grand lar
eeny, and Fred Moser, 740 Banning
street, and j. w. Varley, 73O Crockel
street, with receiving stolen property
The three prisoners who are sus-
pected OF being implicated in scheme
to steal bicycles by the wholesale and
dispose of them after changing their
appearance. probably viii be arraigned
in the police court tomorrow.
II Is alleged by police that CARRIER
alone stole more than fifteen wheels
and the parts Of many others.
At Varley's home the police say they
found evidence of thefts and a trunk
full Of bicycle parts were found at Gar
ber's place.
1t is believed CARRIER committed most
of the alleged thefts and afterwards
turned over the wheels to Moser and
Varley
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
HARTMAN ADDS
TO BLOCK SYSTEM
INSTALLS 500 MILES ON COAST
LINE FIRST
Signal Service Car Headed for Los
AngeIes-Other Forces Working
Toward Omaha-RaiIroad
News Notes

The Southern Pacific will soon have
the block system in operation on 500
miles of track on the Pacific coast,
and by the end of the year hope to
have 1885 miles of the signal system
in use, beside 100 miles of the staff
system which is being installed in the
Sierra mountain districts.
special signal service car of the
Southern Pacific is on the way to Los
Angeles from the north, in charge of
w w. Slater, chief signal engineer.
Slater in making a tour of the Coast
and other divisions is making arrange
ments for the extension of the block
signal system over all the Hartman
lines from Los Angeles to San Fran
CISCO and east to Omaha.
The company is working a number of
electrical gangs between Los Angeles
and San Francisco and putting the
block system along the rails in differ
ent divisions.
1t is being put In between Ventura
and Santa Barbara, and is now COM
plete as far north as Summerland
Within two weeks 1t will be in oper-
alton between Santa Barbara and Ven
tura
The company is working south to
Montalvo and will push on from that
station to Los Angeles
Another gang is working south from
San Jose and next month to gangs
viii be working out Of San Luis
Obispo.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
FINE POETICAL FEELING
SHOWN IN CHOLO LIFE
Los Angeles Woman Who Has Made Study Of
the Poorer Class of Mexicans Tells of Their
Traits in a Book Now in Press

woman, published by Los Angeles
woman and managed by a Los Angeles
woman, it might we'll be styled and
surely a success by Los Angeles women
will follow.
Mrs. Ida Meacham Strowbridge, that
indefatigable worker in the arts and
crafts, and who is an authoress of no
mean note, has taken charge of the
publication, which will bear the name
of Artesemia bindery, her own insti-
tuition which has gained note through
out Southern California and beyond the
confines of the Golden state for the
artistic work produced under her super
vision.
Aside from all this, which would suit
most women, Mrs. Strowbridge is the
only Los Angeles woman to publish her
own work and make a financial sue
cess of it. While Mrs. Strowbridge does
not count money as her sole success,
yet it is the manner in which the ap-
prevail of the world is shown, and there
fore it is of double value.
I'm a Miners Mirage Land" which
she issued two years ago. has become
well known and greatly helped her to
establish her bindery, which is COM
plete in itself in her cozy and "homey''
home on East Avenue Forty-one, be-
meath spreading sycamore trees.
Her motto "do not pray for easy
lives" explains her success in her diff
ferent lines of work, and occupies a
prominent place in her "den" which ad-
joins her bindery.
THE Hieroglyphic of Love" will be
issued in about two months by Art
semia bindery. Miss Mathews with the
aid of Mrs. Strowbridge. will in it give
to the reading public a charming book
of a class of people little known even
in the southland, and misunderstood by
nine tenths of the people.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
MUNICIPAL LEAGUE
APPEALS TO COUNCIL
FAILS TO CARRY OUT RECENT
DIRE THREATS
1t Respectfully Requests That orii-
nance Embodying Its Views on
Saloon Sites Be Passed and Not
Referred to Police Commissioners

Several days ago the Municipal
league issued statement that if the
council did not take some action on
its request compelling the consent of a
majority of the frontage when the loca-
tion of a saloon was to be changed.
something dire and dreadful would
happen to the members of the council.
The league, evidently, does not mean
to stick by it's bluff, for 1t sent the
following communication to every
member of the council yesterday:
Il would respectfully call your at
tention to the fact that measures
granting to property owners the right
to say whether saloon shall be loca ted
near their frontage has been lying in
orahle body for nearly three weeks
without action.
THE Municipal league asks that you
call up this matter and see that it Se-
cures final vote-one way or the
other.
I'VE are informed that some of the
members of the council advocate re-
ferring this matter to the police COM
mission. In view of the fact that a
Similar proposition has already been
laid before the police commission by
this league and has been refused, a
vote on the part of the council to re-
fer this ordinance to them is of course
euqivalent to vote to refusing its
passage This is. moreover, legis-
lative issue rather than an adminis-
trative one
S'We believe that the property own
ers of this city desire the passage of
this ordinance, with practical unani-
mity-this or some ordinance to about
the same effect.
1--WE ask your favorable consideration
of the measure at the earliest practice
able time"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
REVEALS EcRETs OF CRAFT
Production of "Zaza" at BeIasco Shows
How Storms Are Man.
ufactured

The "Zaza" that will be played at the
Belasco this week would hardly be
recognized by its French author.
The first act of the original "Zaza"
represented a large room, supposed TO
be Zaza's dressing room in provincial
music hall, near Paris. David Belasco
argued that the theater going public
would welcome the sight of real stage,
so he assigned Zaza a diminutive affair
of a room, and utilized the rest of the
stage to represent the scenes behind
the curtain of a theater He showed
that the whistling wind was achieved
by means of a large wheel with paddles,
over which piece of silk was stretched,
and the velocity of the wind depended
altogether upon the energy with which
the wheel was turned and the tautness
of the silk over the paddles. The famil-
lar horses hoofs were proved to be
nothing else than halves of cocoanut
shells in the hands of stage hands who
pounded them upon marble slabs; stage
thunder was shown to be nothing more
dangerous than the shaking of a huge
piece of sheet iron, while lightning is
easily manufactured for stage purposes
by means of two carbons being brought
in contact for a brief period. The roar
of the surf Mr.. Belasco found could be
splendidly reproduced by rolling a
quart or two of bird shot along rough
wooden trough, and even the beautiful
snow could be turned into the driven"
variety by means of quantity of finely
cut paper tossed against the revolving
blades of an electric fan. In short Be-
lasco revealed to the theater goers who
witnessed the performances of "Zaza"
all the articles of his craft, much to the
dissatisfaction and disgust of the
French authors of "Zaza," but greatly
to the entertainment of his audiences.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
PUSH THE BEN HUR TRIBES
Six Members Installed and a Select
Minstrel Show Is
PLANNED

The tribe of Ben Eur has opened an
active campaign to increase Its mem
bership in Southern California.
AT the last meeting Of Slmonides
court the beautiful initiatory ceremon-
ial was conferred upon six members.
The principal parts were taken by
II. S. Vreeland as Arrius, w. l.. White
man as Ben Hur, and Miss Emma F..
Schell as Tesaker.
Charter night will shortly be observed
with all its impressiveness
The California quartet has rendered
it's services to give a minstrel show in
the near future,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
Free Ride to
RedOndO

Every day by electric line every 20 minutes.
All lots 800. $4 down, $4 per month, no
interest, no taxes.
Rich soil and plenty of pure water, only
~ cents per thousand gallons Electric
light and electric power now on the tract.
Come one, come all. Get your free cleo
trio railway tickets at our office, 124 South
Broadway, Los Angeles.
Free car tickets from Los Angeles to Re-
dondo and return every day, every 20 min
utes, by electric railway. Call at our office
for free car tickets. Don't delay Lots are
selling fast Soon will be all sold. Do it
now. All lots one price-no more no less.
Only $50 per lot; $4 down, "a per month
No interest, no taxes
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
THO would believe that the
wv cholos, who live in box cars and
in the poorer districts of So

IVX-THO would believe that the
| wv cholos, who live in box cars and
in the poorer districts of So
noratown. speak their language with
more fluency and finer poetical feel
ing than do the same class of Ameri-
cans?
| That they do so is vouched for by
Miss Amanda Mathews, the talented
daughter of Newell p. Mathews of
ISouth Union avenue.
Miss Mathews first became interested
| in the Mexicans of the lower classes
when she spent four years in Mexico.
There she learned the pretty Spanish
language and became so interested in
the cholo class that on her return to
Los Angeles, about five years ago, she
entered with a vim into the college
settlement work.
ChoIos Have Poetic Feeling
In a soft, dreamy voice that betokens
the dreamer of dreams that have come
true, through her own indomitable will
and energy, Miss Mathews told of the
cholos.
II have found them very interesting"
she said "and l have put down their
little episodes, smoothed down, Of
course, to some extent, in my stories
which have been published in the diff
ferent magazines. have arranged these
into book which will soon be pub
lished.
my book will deal with Mexican life
in Sonoratown, among the class called
cholos. But do you know, they are very
interesting when you know them.
"They are more poetical than their
class In the American race" and here
the little woman might have said 81
told you So" for to hundreds, nay thou
sands of readers she will open new
vista leading to the better and finer
side of these people. Especially will this
be so of the easterners, some of whom
look upon the common Mexicans as
little better than savages, fit only to
dig dirt In the streets.
More About Their Virtues
But to the Californian who knows
them more intimately they show a diff
ferent side, yet few appreciate them to
the degree attained by Miss Mathews.
In continuing ON beir virtues, Miss
Mathews said
"Their relations that of parents to
children are very beautiful. The re-
spect and obeDience to old age Is
markedly so in this day"
Miss Mathews has called her book
"The Hieroglyphics Of Love. after the
first story i'm the book
Nor are the stories the only thing OF
interest about the book which viii soon
be issued. A book by Los Angeles
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
Seven oraanlzatlons Unite
By Associated Pres.

BY ANsOClaIeu FIt-s-
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4.-The
seven organizations represented in the
employ of the United railroads have
resolved to act in harmony and unity
in presenting demands upon the street
railway company. This decision was
reached at a secret session at which
delegates were present. The car men,
which includes gripmen and conduct
ors, will meet to discuss the advisibil-
ity of sympathetic strike
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
Jury Summons Barlow

CHICAGO, Aug. 4.-Henry c. Bar
low former president of the Evans
vile & Terre Haute railroad, was sum-
moned today to appear before the
grand jury, which win begin an inVes-
tigation Monday into the Standard Oil
companys relations with various rail
roads centerlng i'm Chicago,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
MAKE FIRE SUFFERERS GLAD
Southern Pacific to Distribute Forty
Thousand Dollars Among Sufferers

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 4.-South-
ern Pacific clerks. trainmen, freight
handlers and other employees who suf-
fered losses in the fire are soon to have
about $4,000 or Whereabouts distrib-
uted among them as a partial recon-
pense for what they lost.
Probably 150 of the local employees
will get varying sums of 5000, $500 or
$400, aggregating 100000 or $4,000. No
official is getting anything.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
HOPE TO LIFT THE BLOCKADE
Heavy Demurrage Charges on Hay at
San Francisco

EY Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4.-Manage
e. E. Mote Of the Pacific Car Service
bureau announced that the bureau, as
means of lifting the blockade of
lumber and hay, which involves about
1900 cars, would on August charge
demurrage rates on unloaded hay as
follows:
First day, 81 per car; second day,
50; third day. SO; fourth day 81, and
SIS for every day thereafter that a car
of hay remained unloaded
On August 16 the same rule will be-
come effective as regards unloaded
lumber.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
MORGAN coNsoLIDATEs LINES
Hooking Valley and kanawha Routes
in Merger
By AasOcIated Press.

NEW YORK, Oct. Al. p. Morgan
& CO., acting at the request of stock
holders of the Hooking Valley Rail-
way company and the. Kanawha e
Michigan Railway company, today
gave notice that they have prepared
plan for the consolidation of those
companies and will act as managers i'm
carrying the plan into execution.
II is proposed to use the consolidated
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
Pierce Goes to Europe
BY AssoeIal.d Press.

NEW YORK. Aug. 4.-Winslow S.
Pierce Of the law firm of Pierce &
Greer which has in charge negotia-
tiens looking to the creation of a new
bond issue of $500, 100000 for the Wa
bash railroad, sailed for Europe today
on the steamship ST. Louis.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
GRANT CHARTER TO OMAHA
New Denver Line Starts in Northeast
ern Kansas

Special TO The Herald.
topeka. Aug. 4.-The state charter
board granted authority to the Omaha
g. Denver Short Line Railroad COM
pany to build a line through north
eastern Kansas,
The company, as its name indicates,
is constructing line from Denver to
Omaha. II is to build the line through
the counties Of Cheyenne. Rawlins,
Decatur, Norton and Phillips In
Kansas.
The application for authority to do
business In Kansas was filed with the
charter board by w. II. Rossington of
Topeka The trustees Of the company
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05

company to issue 4 per cent thirty-year
gold bonds to the amount of $S0,OOO,-
900 and stock to the amount of 3d.
100000.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05

The Herald Will sell you SIS worth OF
records and GIVE yon a six months
gubscript, n to The Herald and a SIS
Talk-o-Phone absolutely free
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05

IneSS EXCURSION tickeNs are good on
the Caiiornla Limlte1 ana 9 stop can
either the going or return trip. They
are limited to October 81 for the return
trip.
Ask Mr. McGee at No. Ss4 S. Spring
street IL YOU desire more details, and
make your sleeping car reservations
early.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05

are Charles M. Allaire, Charles L. Hor-
ton, Clarence S. Debore all of Is Wall
street, New York, and Daniel B. Ellis
and Percy B. Robinson of Denver.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
Get a Home Of
Your Own.
Get, a Start i'm the
World in This Way.

Buy a town lot on easy terms in
this Paradise of America.
on'tspend all you make. What
good is it to live in cities with
paved streets if you don't own
anything? Don't be satisfied sim
ply with the enjoyment of our
glorious climate own some of the
earth which is so blessed. Just
as soon as you own home you
will become a better man in every
way. Your friends will then rec
ognize and respect you as a prop
erty owner, and you will profit by
increase in values.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05

ralSoPSous sSS 'SSs free %S''S of TRs Herald SET
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
Baek Enst ExcursIona

The Santa Fe will make the following
cheap excursion rates to eastern cities
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-02
Canada's Greatest Year.
Detroit Free Press.

The fiscal year just closed was for
Canada the greatest in the history of
her commerce. American interest IN
this trade development is fairly illus
trated by the fact that the United
States sold to Canada 61.4 per cent of
all her purchases. Her imports last
year from the United States alone
were only a little less in value than
her total imports from all countries
in 1900. England is the heaviest buy
err in our markets. with Germany in
the second place and Canada in the
third The United States supplied ola
per cent of Canada's foreign require
ments England supplied 23.5 per cent
France 2.6 per cent, Germany 2.3 per
cent and her purchases from all other
lands are included in the remaining
1912 per cent.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-02
MISS SMART A FIND

The well known manager, Edward
r. Salter. announces another Califor-
mia find in the person of Marietta
Smart whom he is starring In
"A Mad Love" the present seasons
emotionally dramatic sensation, and
which is generally accepted as the
modern successor to East Lynne,
an adaptation from Lady Audley's
Secret" revised so as to meet the taste
of the times. 1t will be the attraction
at Keylor Grand theater Wednesday
and Thursday, Oct. 8 and 4.
As a play it is described as ORA
matte relief from the general run of
similar works. depending WIDELY and
solely on its truth of nature. its moral
lesson and consistency. There is a
prologue and three intensely interest
ing acts. and it is one of those rare dra-
matte offerings wherein the audience
becomes so deeply enthused as to
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-02
THE SEASONS SENSATION.

The popular new Orpheum has
caught on in good shape and the
management is more than keeping
every promise made to the public
prior to the opening, and that the
good people of Walla Walla are
showing their appreciation is amply
attested by the liberal patronage and
generous applause with which they
greet every act put on at this popu-
lar play house.
The current weeks bill is full Of
features, in fact every turn put on is
a distinctive feature of itself.
Friday night is gift night" and
the coupons given out during the en-
tire week will be honOred for this
drawing. Prizes for this drawing will
be a beautiful diamond ring and two
choice Pride of the Valley" hams.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-02

fancy the various characters their
friends or enemies, in keeping with
the incidents of the play, or in other
words, become imaginative partici-
pants. A splendid company, present.
ing splendid play, always has been
and always will be welcomed the world
over. and that is what may be looked
forward to in the forthcoming presen-
tation of "A Mad Love- in this city,
with that admirable actress, Miss
Marietta Smart, in the leading role,
This attraction is unique in the point
of fact that while it especially ap-
peals to the finer senses of all woman
kind, it is equally as entertaining and
interesting to the sterner sex. 1t is a
sermon story of true wOman's love
for a man unworthy of her, and as
the story unfdds, there are many
episodes and pictures of daily life that
make the audience think, for it is a
truthful tale throughout.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-02
Great Descriptive Melodies.

"The Royal Chef the great New
York and Chicago musical success, is
announced to appear at Keylor Grand
on Oct. 5 and 6. This musical play
abounds in music if high order. while
the story is one of the most interest
ing and novel ever written for the
background of musical comedy. In
song hits, the Royal Cher is special
ly prolific and from the list of them,
and there are no less than twenty, it
is wholly a matter of individual opin-
ion, which is the singiest and most
whistly. They include, Its a Way
They Have in Chicago" when Old
Glory Floats from Everywhere" tale
of a Tailless Frog" Let Me Go Back"
I'D like to break My Way Into So
ciety," Maiden and the Kissing Bug, y
would You If You Were l." "O'Reil-
ly," "In the Morning." What Color
of Eyes do You Love Best" etc. They
range in theme from the serious to the
comic, from the sentimental to the
patriotic Messrs. Stoddard and Tay-
lor have furnished good verse, while
Mr.. Ben Nj. Jerome's music is of the
kind that you carry with you from the
playhouse and hum on your way home.
Most productions are deemed FORUM
ate in possessing two or three songs
that hit the popular fancy, while near
ly every one of the "Chef's" has
caught on and is in great vogue. 1t
is declared that not since the days of
Dave Braham" has such descriptive
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-02
SEATTLE TO BUILD BR|DGEs
To Be Issued to Pay For Steel
Structures.

SEATTLE, Oct. 2.-Seattle is pre-
pairing for an issue of bonds again
to the extent of about 100000.
These bonds are for the purpose Of
building three steel bridges across the
government canal and for construct
ing the mammoth north sewer outlet.
The bridges, or the city's portion of
the bridges, will cost $1,000,000. The
sewer improvement will cost $2,000,-
600.
The council will introduce the bills
tonight and the mayor will call a
special meeting for Wednesday night
to complete the passage.
The object is to get the matter be-
fore the people at the regular election
the second Tuesday in November.