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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-07
Notice of Award of Contract

Pursuant to the Resolution of Award
of the Board of Public Works of the
City of Los Angeles, adopted April -,
hereby given that said Board of Public
Works, in open session, on the 9th day
of April, 1906, opened, examined and
or bids offered for the following work,
to wit:
1st. That a cement curb return be con-
structed along the line Of the roadway
MICHIGAN AVENUE,
at each corner of the intersection of said
Mcl igan avenue with each street from
to the west curb line of Evergreen ave-
nue. Excepting along such portions
of the line of said roadway upon
Sas Mn'sn ALREADY ef been cosstr@cfed st 'ufo to
the official line and grade), in accord
ance with specifications for constructing
cement curbs on file In the ofhce of the
City Clerk, said specifications being No.
% New Series).
End That cement sidewalk five %
feet in width be constructed along each
side of said Michigan avenue from the
east curb line of Pleasant avenue to the
west curb line of Evergreen avenue lex
cepting such portions Of said street be-
or asphalt sidewalk five (5) feet in width
has been constructed to the official line
| and grade). said sidewalk to be con-
structed in accordance with specifications
in the office of the City Cuerk of said
| City, said specifications being No. q
| New Series).
And thereafter, to wit: On the 18th
day of April, 1906, said Board of Public
Works awarded the contract for said
work to the lowest regular responGibie
bidder, to wit:
To H. N. and G. w. Barnes, at the
prices named for said work in their pro-
posal on file. to wit:
80 cents per lineal foot for cement
curb.
1O1a cents per square foot for side
walk.
Office of the Board of Public Works.
Los Angeles. Cal, June 6. 1906.
| HORACE b. FERRIS,
| 6-6-7 ct Secretary.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-07
NotIce--CIvI serrice mrnn,tnntrnn.

=, ...-,.-- -.,. June 2, 1906.
~, Civil Service Rules and Regulations
OF the City Of Los Angeles, notice IS
hereby given that a competitive exam
| nation VIII be held on Saturday the
| 18th day of June, 1905, beginning at
o'clock q. m, at Grand Avenue school,
in the City of Los Angeles, Cal. for then
mission to the eligible list in ciassihoa-
| tions ana divisions as designated below:
Division K. Grade T. Class "a, Meat
| Inspector. Health Department
Division X Grade 1. Class 81. Sanitary
Inspector. Health Department.
Division ", Grade IA, Glass 1, Meter
Inspector, Water Department.
Division r. Grade 3. Class 2. stem
ographer and Assistant Assessment
Clerk; street Department.
Division r, Grade A. Glass g. En-
gneer Steam Sweeper. Street Depart
| ment
Division Diyision A 4, Grade s. Class 1, Cashier
Division G. Grade 3. Glass 2, Assistant
ment
Division c, Grade -, Class =, 1nspec-
| tor Reinforced Concrete Buildings
Division II. Grade Z, Glass 2. Assistant
Superintendent outfall Sewer, En-
gneer's Department.
| Division II. Grade g. Glass l. Drafts
| man, Engineers Department.
Division H. Grade l. Class 2, Assistant
Engineer. Engineers Department
Division II, Grade 3. Class 1, Inspec-
tor, Engineers Department.
Division II, Grade 1. Class 4, Assist
ant Grade Computer, Engineers De-
partment.
Division II, Grade 6. Class I, Counter
Clerk, Engineers Department.
Also on the same date at Turn Verein
hall: 1345 South Figueroa:
Division Q. Grade 1, Glass "a. Ser
geant, Police Department.
Division Q, Grade 1, Class 2b, Bailiff,
| Police Department.
Entrances for the above examinations
are limited 8 follows:
Sergeant, to Patrolman and Detec-
| tives
Bailiff. to Patrolman and Detectives
Also, on the same date and at the
same place. will be held competitive ex-
eligible lists in divisions and eiassifca-
tions designated below:
Division Q. Grade l. Glass g. Patrol
man, Police Department.
| Said competitive examinations will in
clude tests of proficiency in Reading,
Writing. Spelling, Arithmetic, knowT-
edge of the duties of the sew
peccp e.perenes a%sd tEnSn1 and
physical health; muscular strength;
soundness and acuteness of faculties;
such qualifications as will fairly attest
the capacity of persons examined to
discharge the duties of positions which
they seek. Applicants must appear in
Commission. not less than eight days
| before the date fixed for the examine
| tion. and file under OATH an application
In form prescribed by the Commission.
request.
BY order. of the Board OF Civil Ser
JOHN r. HAYNES.
President.
w. A. sPALDING. Secretary.
6-2-15 lat
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-07
Notice for Bids for school building

Notice is hereby given that the Board
of Education of the City of Los An
geles will receive bids for the con-
struction and completion of an eight
room school building and known as the
annex to the Main Street school build
ing. situated at Main and Fifty-second
streets. in Los Angeles, city. To be
constructed in accordance with plans
and specifications on file in the office OF
the Secretary of the Board. 41S Cham
ber of Commerce Building, All labor
and material to be furnished and exca-
vations made by the contractor.
All bids must be accompanied by a
certified check for ten per cent of the
amount of the bid. payable to the order
of the Board of Education, and must be
sealed and filed with the Secretary, at
his office. on or before Friday, June Is.
1906. at o'clock p. M, at which time
tho bids will be opened I'm public by the
Secretary. The Board reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
N S. AVERILL. Secy.
Los Angeles. June 1. 1906.
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-07
Notice of Award of Contract

Pursuant to the Resolution of Award
Of the Board of Public Works of the
City of Los Angeles, adopted April 10,
1906. directing this notice, notice is
hereby given that said Board of Public
Works. In open session, on the 9th day
OF April, 1906, opened, examined and
publicly declared all sealed proposals
or bids offered for the following work,
to wit:
TWENTY SEVENTH STREET
in said city from the west line of Long
Beach avenue to the east line
G3 Ssg of streess nfudUs Except S
and intersections as are required
by law TO be kept in order or repair by
tracks thereon and also excepting such
portions, as have already been graded and
sraveied to the official grade in mac accord
ance with the plans and profile on file in
the office Of the City Engineer. and spec;
Angeles, on file in the office of the
City Clerk Of said city, said specifica-
I'd. That a cement curb be constructed
along each line of the roadway of said
Twenty.seventh street. from the west
ne the east of Ling me Of 8eaoS Revn
the. line of said roadway upon
ready been constructed to the official
line and grade). in accordance with speci-
fications for constructing cement .curbs:
specifications being No. 90 New
Series).
Sd. That cement sidewalk five B) feet
in width be constructed along each side
of said Twenty-seventh street from tho
west line of Long Beach ave-
nue. to the east line Of Nevln
said street between said points along
which a cement or asphalt sidewalk
Aye .(5) feet in width has been construct
sidewalk to be constructed in accordance
sdsWsfs on ale in fSe sSes5faci ofee y
eaonsS as S bnF dsFk ssd NsSy Nfty ssaesp sae Speo
The Council of said city finds
upon estimate of the. City Engineer
mem. will be greater than fifty cents
per front foot along each line of said
street, including the cost of intersec-
ance of an Act of the Legislature of
the State OF California, approved Febru-
ary 27th' 1898, as amended by an Act
named Act, which amending Act be-
came a law March I'd. 1899, that bonds
sha!l be issued to represent the cost OF
serial. extending over a period of ten
years. an even proportion of the prin
cipal sum of which shall be payable
ary of each year. by coupon. after their
date. until the whole are paid and TO
bear interest at the rate of seven "a
nually on the second days of January
and July of each and every year.
And thereafter. to wit: On the 18th
Works awarded the contract for said
work to the lowest regular responsible
| bidder. to wit:
To H. H. Curtis. at the prices named
for said work in his proposal, on file. to
wit:
$1,s5 per llneal foot for grading and
graveling
S5 cents per. lineal foot for cement curb
! u cents per square foot for sidewalk.
Office OF the Board of Public Works,
| Los Angeles, Cal, June 6, 1906.
| HORACE B. FERRIS,
6-6-7 2t Secretary
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-07
NotIce for RIdn for schooI BuIIdIng

Notice is hereby given that the Board
OF Education of the City of Los An
geles will receive bids for the con-
struction and completion of an eleven
room school building on the Magnolia
avenue School site. at the corner of
Magnolia avenue and Seventeenth
street. in Los Angeles city. To be
constructed In accordance with plans
and specifications on file in the office of
the Secretary OF the Board, AIS Cham
ber of Commerce Building. All labor
and material to be furnished and exca-
vations made by the contractor.
All bids must be accompanied by a
certified check for ten per cent OF the
amount OF the bid. payable TO the order
OF the Board OF Education. and must be
sealed and filed with the Secretary, at
his office, on or before Friday. June is,
1906, at 3 o'clock p. M, at which time
the bids will be opened in public by the
Secretary The Board reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
N. s. AVERILL. Seey.
Los Angeles, June 1, 1905,
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-07
Notice for Bids for school building

Notice is hereby given that the board
of Education of the City of Los An
geles will receive bids for the con-
struction and completion OF an eleven
room school building on the site known
of Logan and Montana streets. in Los
Angeles city. To be constructed in ac-
cordance with plans and specifications
the Board. 418 Chamber OF Commerce
Building. All labor and material to be
furnished and excavations made by the
contractor.
All bids must be accompanied by a
certified check for ten per cent of the
amount of the bid. payable to the order
sealed and filed with the Secretary. at
his office. on or before Friday, June 10,
1906, at o'clock p. m.,. at which time
the bids will be opened In public by the
Secretary The Board reserves the right
to reject any or all bids:
N. s. AVERILL. Secy.
Los Angeles. June l. 1906.
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-07
PUBLIC ADVERTISING

Building, All labor and material to be
furnished and excavations made by tho
contractor.
All bids must be accompanied by a
certified check for ten per cent of the
amount OF the bid payable to the order
OF the Board of Education. and must be
sealed and filed with the Secretary, at
his office, on or before Friday, June f5,
1905, at O'Clock p. M. at which time
the bids will be opened I'm public by tho
secretary. The Board reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
N s. AVERILI, secy.
Los Angeles, June T. 1905.
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-07
LkaAL NOTICES
Notice of Special Meeting Of Stock
holders


Notice is hereby given that in pursuance
of a resolution OF the board of directors
of Los Angeles Laundry company, cor
poration adopted at a special meeting of
said board duly held on the 22d day of
May, 1906, at the office of said corporation
in the City of Los Angeles. County Of Los
Angeles, State of California, a meeting Of
the stockholders of said corporation Is
hereby called for and will be held at the
office of said corporation at No. esS San
Fernando street. In the said City of Los
Angeles. said place of meeting to be at
the principal place Of business of said
corporation, and at the building where
the board of directors of the corpora
ton usually meet, on Monday, the 24th
day of July 1906, at 10 o'clock a. M on
that date, for the purpose Of considering
and acting and voting upon the PROPOSE
tlon of increasing. the capital stock of
said corporation from $40,OOO.0Q. divided
into 1000 shares Of the par value of $40
each to $50 10000 to be divided into 5000
shares of the par value of $40 each, and
for the purpose Of transacting such other
and further business as may properly
come before said meeting.
A. X MORGAN,
Secretary Of Los Angeles Laundry COM
Dated Los Angeles. Cal. May % 1905.
5-24-31 6-7-l4-2l-2S 7--5-12-19 9t
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-07
NotIce for Bids for school BuiIding

OF Education of the City of Los AM
geles will receive bids for the com
struction and completion, OF an eight
as the Hobart Boulevard School
Site. between Tenth and San Ma
rino streets. To be constructed In ao-
cordsnce with plans and sPeclneationss
the Board. AIS Chamber OF Commerce
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-07

Owing TO the rush OF business the
ern California Music company Will be
open Wednesday and Saturday evenings
for the accommodation OF Herald sub
scribers.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-07

Talk-o-Phone free. See the proposition
IN today's Herald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-16

within the organic Limitations, the
duty Of putting the machinery Of gov
eminent into operation.
The facility with which our Consti-
tuition is amended is standing invi-
tation to any one and every one to
engraft on the organic law pet schmes
which are properly matters for legis-
lation. The result has been that at
every. session Of the legislature since
the first session in April, 1887, from
one to five or six amendments to the
Constitution have been proposed
Some of those proposed amendments
have been ratified by the people, and
some have been rejected by the peo-
pie 1t is now very difficult for even
the professional mind to determine
what is the Constitution of Florida.
Any one can easily tell, by turning to
the resolutions published with the
session laws, what amendments have
been proposed, but not which have
been ratified and are a part of
the Constitution of the state. Many OF
the provisions of the original instru-
ment, as well as many Of the amend
ments to that instrument, are self
executing; that is, requiring no leg
islation to put them into operation,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-16

ally fighting to preserve the Confed-
crate Capital. Savannah had capitu.
lated two days before, and Sherman
had finished his March to the Sea"
There were no Injuries, and but few
necessities in the land. It took three
hundred dollars in a depleted cur
rency to buy a single dollar in gold.
Our ports were all blOckaded tight.
Coffee was worth a hundred dollars
a pound, and more, and it took fifty
dollars to buy a paper of cambria
needles.
That Christmas Santa Claus
brought me piece of homemade
candy from sorghum syrup, wrapped
in piece of the Richmond States
Edward A. Pollard's paper. In addi-
ton to this l had a pocket knife
made from an old buggy spring in
the plantation blacksmith shop. This
was the last Christmas under the old
regime. Before another year the
mules and the negroes had all gone
off with the Federal army and the
old plantation life had disappeared
forever.
lhCIC 10 oOHlSIlLuSS IHOIe lHSDlTd-
ton in the ruins than in the triumphs
of our lives. 1 defy any man to go
back to the most sacred place in all
his memory and stand, uncovered.
amid the shadows, and not come back
better from the retrospect. All you.
who seemingly, have no prospects in
the future, look backward down the
| long vistas, once flooded with sun
shine. Some have turned away from
happy homes, and behind the gaudy
! hives of sin. hear the heartbeat and
the sob. To all these I bring a tri-
butte from the past, some fragrant
flower from the lifes unsullied gar
den, a token to touch the hidden as
pirations In your silent soul.
OF all the people we meet to-day
some will carry burdened hearts. a
smile, gentle word, a hand-shake as
We pass, may be all the Christmas
gift that they want.
VIII every man and woman who
reads these lines for this one time
surrender self, and devote this day.
at least, to making others happy?
Don't be so much concerned about
what you give your friends. A man
may sometimes be selfish even in his
liberality, embarrassing one by giving
to another. After all, it is not the
giving that We do. but the sunshine
that we scatter that brightens up the
world
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which should always be avoided when
possible in an organic law.
There are many things in the Con-
stitution that a well-considered and
constructed instrument would leave to
legislative enactment; there are some
limitations that should be in the Cou-
stitution which are not there. The
whole instrument needs recasting. and
can only be brought into an intelligi-
bic and satisfactory shape by a con-
vention
The conditions which prevailed In
1885, when the present Constitution
was framed, and which produced this
bungling, no longer exist. The causes
producing those conditions have long
since disappeared, and of course with
them the conditions. A convention of
to-day possessed of very much less
ability than the Convention of 1885,
could and would build a more salts
factory organic law-one more per-
manent In its character, more concise
and complying more nearly with the
approved idea Of what a consti.
stitutiOn should be.
This hastily written article very i'm
perfectly gives an idea of the cum
brous and unsatisfactory instrument
which we call our organic law; but
to enter into detail would requira
much space, and much time
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-16

pies in her cheeks; and then l won
dered if the rich mans daughter re-
ceived ten million times more pleas
ure from her gift than did little Bess.
The answer to this question came
not long ago when l read where the
daughter of this millionaire was the
complainant in a divorce proceeding.
Bess is a middle aged woman now
and she has not had a great many
silver dollars since that time, but Is
still living at the same old place up
In the blue grass region of Kentucky,
surrounded by as happy a family as
You will find anywhere in all this
Southland of ours.
1t is not the quantity Of what We
give, but the pleasure Of the re-
cipient, that gives us joy If you can
not give your daughter a grand piano
to-day, just give your boy har-
monica and you will have music In
the house all the same.
There is one particular Christmas
impressed upon my memory-Decem-
Der 18th, 1864. The sunshine had
nearly gone from the Southern sky.
Grant was relentlessly driving Lee on
toward Richmond, who was heroic
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By State Senator John S. Beard.

Complying with The Journals re-
quest, l give my opinion as to the adj
visibility of the legislature taking the
preliminary steps necessary to call a
convention to revise the constitution
of the state.
| am of the opinion that conven-
ton to frame and submit to the people
for ratification constitution is not
only expedient but necessity. The
present constitution, which was form
ulated in 1885, ratified in 1886. and
which went into effect on the LIST
day of January, 1887, as 1t
left the hands of the trainers, is at
best, bungling piece Of legislation.
In saying this no reflection is intend
ed upon the distinguished gentlemen
who constituted that convention. In
character and ability, the constitution
al convention of 1885 was, with the
exception of the Secession Convention
of 1861, the most superior delibera-
tive body ever convened in this state.
The unsatisfactory instrument which
was the result of their labors was the
product of the times-the conflicting
opinions of the different sections OF
the state as to what should be or what
should not be In the organic law pro-
duced the comprises and the ill-consid-
cred and constructed instrument
which is now our Constitution.
This bungling piece Of legislation,
the work of the convention, has been
rendered worse by numerous amend
ments to the original instrument. To
call attention to the many defects OF
the Constitution, would necessitate an
article as long as that instrument, |
will therefore very briefly, and only
in a general way, call attention to
two of it's organic defects, viz: the
facility with which 1t is amended or
changed, and its legislative character.
A constitution or orginic alw should
not be easily changed or amended;
it should be sufficiently stable not to
yield to the impulse of every popular
wave. A constitution is limitation
uuon government: II Is the expression
of the sovereign will limiting and re-
straining the agents of the people. who
discharge the proper functions of the
three departments of government. A
we'll considered constitution organ
ICES the government; distributes its
functions properly among the three de-
partments; limits their powers, and
then stops, leaving to the Legislature
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-16
CRISIS IN THE
GLASS INDUSTRY
Special to The Journal.

Charleroi. Dec 15.-The. crisis in
the glass industry is assuming very
serious proportions and is causing
anxiety throughout the entire district.
BY order of the Parquet Public Prose-
cutor's Department. NJ. Eliaers, man.
ager Of the Delaroue glassworks has
been arrested by gendarmes in the
presence Of his wife and children. The
fictitious drafts issued by the works
exceed 100000 in amount. Further
failures are momentarily expected. A
Charleroi glass exporter has already
committed suicide and several glass
importers in London and New York
are said to have been affected by the
case.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-16

IN this busy, hustling age where
o~ ca.gf concern is for the present
and the future, a little retrospection
nav do us good.
For this one day let the dreamer
sep building castles in the air, and
~ PRACTICAL business man desert his
schemes for gain. We go madly
faaiiu- for the future, almost forget
mi Of The past. There are hallowed
r-rres with which we have not
! c-uGned for years, and sacred al
Is where We ought to kneel once
rTe Send out a royal proclamation
trough the realms of mind and fling
L. Gates of memory wide to see the
Elections trooping home.
The friends of long ago knock gent
Is ~ the door, and we commune
asrin. The baby who left her toys,
Hl'OUChed, one bright Christmas day,
tas Guttered back from beyond the
stars and settled in our hearts again.
A roice hushed, but echoing from
some angel choir, fills our souls with
q melody divine, as we hear again the
lU'abies Of our childhood days. In
some mysterious way We touch the
S';rit world, and unseen faces. at our
lirding peer beyond the horizon Of
Tine.
Almost every Christmas day Of our
entire life contains some conspicuous
and long professions of 81
lent shapes, marching out of sight,
come Enthusiastically up from the mists
10 answer the bugle call of memory.
1t has been a rule of mine to spend
Christmas DAY at home, but a good
many years ago. on Christmas Eve |
found myself out of reach of home, so
spent Christmas day with a
friend who lived in q distant state
was reading the press dispatches in
2 daIy paper, when one particular
Fem attracted my attention and I
rad 1t 70 MY host. A certain rich
American, then In politics. had given
lis daughter a silver mine as a
Christmas present The output of
The mine, at that time, was ten mil
lion dollars a year.
4 little girl some four years of age.
surrounded by a lot Of dolls and toys.
vas playing on the floor. when my
friend said. Come here Bess. I have
- silver mine, but will give you a
silver dollar for a present" AS the
Dir dropped into her baby hand it
rched some hidden fount of ioy. and
" merriment in her eyes rippled out
orr her face and filed up the dim
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SALVATION
ARMY WORK
Organization Is Doing a
Splendid Work In
Pensacola.
BY Capt. n. r. Hartman

1t is no longer necessary to explain
to the public what the Salvation Ar
my is and what the workers of this
organization stand for, because every
thinking man and woman can plainly