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Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07
THE sEISMoGRAPH

From Washington and from various
college observatories in the United
States and from points In England.
Germany and Italy are reported rec
ords by seismograph of the earth dis
turbances which brought Wednesdays
disaster to San Francisco. On The Isle
of Wight, at the laboratory of John
Milne. the inventor of modern earth
quake measuring instruments, even the
approximate location of the trouble was
indicated
In its simplest form an earthquake
indicator might be tray with notched
edges so filled with mercury that a
shaking of the earth would cause an
overflow in the direction of the move
ment. In the instrument used by sci
ence the pendulum is employed, YER
tical by some Italians, horizontal by
the Japanese, English, most European
and American observers. A movement
of the earth affects everything but the
pendulum, which is so freely hung as
to remain stationary, and recording
device makes the result visible. OF old.
with the vertical pendulum, sharp
point drew the profile of the movements
on a blackened surface Photographic
paper in moving strips serves the mod
ern instruments.
The horizontal pendulum turns on a
vertical axis and carries at its extrem-
ity heavy weight which earth shock
does not reach. In the Milne seismo-
graph a platinum sheet attached to
this weight has slit intersecting at
right angles a slit in a second sheet
underneath. In times of quiet reflected
light passing through both slits makes
one point and prints straight line on
the moving bromide paper When the
earth shakes the lower slit moves and
the line becomes crooked according to
work arrangement with shutters and
light times the disturbance.
The instruments are so delicate as
sometimes to indicate shocks no men
have felt The records which they made
of Wednesdays disaster cannot fail TO
inspire a new popular respect for the
achievements of modern science.--New
York World.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07
WORLD
CANADA is SCENE OF ACTIVE
BUILDING
]. J. Hill VIII Solve Difficulties Of
Transportation With His Trunk
Lines, Which Are Being Cen.
strueted--oeneraI News

With the invasion OF the great wheat
helds OF Canada by American farmers
ana the transportation OF the grain TO
the United States and thence to the
worlds markets began a struggle by
Canadians to secure a means whereby
as much Of the money for Transporting
the product be kept I'm Canada.
Heretofore all of the grain that has
been shipped to the coast over Canadian
soil has required several landings.
which has been so expensive that the
farmers have sought an American
outlet.
Canada is one OF the most active
scenes for railroad building at present.
James ]. HILL with his Hudson Bay
route. promises to solve all difficulties.
1t will be long trunk line and the
grain after 1t is once put into the cars
ia carried direct to the ocean.
Hill has secured by purchase and by
grants from the government rights
enough to cover all of western Canada.
with a network Of steel The Great
Northern and the Canadian Northern
will be built to Pas Mission, 500 miles
southwest of Fort Churchill on Hudson
bay, with all possible speed.
The Canadian government controls
several roads and has a very good sys-
tenn, but 1t il said that Hill takes the
lead when 1t comes to rapid road build
ing.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07
A NERVY TOWN COUNCIL

Our good friends of the FatherIand,
ruled as they are by "Meinself und
Gott," are usually credited with being
too phlegmatic to be very original. They
do not go in much for innovations, and
are slow to change the existing order
unless Wilhelm says they must. But
once in long while they do flash forth
with an edict so startling, so sane, so
intrepid and withal so sensible, that
even while the more volatile peoples of
earth stand in amaze, they applaud in
sympathy.
One is moved to this by noting a tele-
gram from Nordhausen, Prussian Sax
ony-a place hitherto scarcely on the
map but now destined to everlasting
emblazonment on the tablets Of Fame
reading:
"The town council of Nordhausen has
issued an ordinance prohibiting women
from allowing the trains OF their
dresses to drag in the streets as a
measure for the protection of health
and for the prevention of tainting the
air with DUST
Shades of Worth and Paquin. but
read that again, will yc.? The town
council has ISSUED an ordinance"
Why, imagine what that means-all the
power of the municipality is concen-
trated therein! And what does the or
dinance say? That ''the trains of wom-
EMS dresses must not drag in the
streets!" Womens dresses! The town
council!
Pray, isn't this most astounding? In
what other land under the shining sun
could such a thing be? Not in France
though there Dame Fashion hath her
habitat. Not in England, though Lon
don streets be grimy as a muck heap.
Not in America, though the most
powerful of all forces-humor-has
poked fun at the trailing skirt since
first it was. No; none of these lands
dared do more than prate Of the evil.
But along comes Nordhausen. in Prus-
sian Saxony, with nervy town coun-
ell, and with one fell ordinance it elimi-
mates what all the health authorities,
doctors, husbands, clumsy footed Doors
and sanitary officers on earth have
fought for years in vain.
Verify, Herren Town Council of Nord-
hausen. Prussian SaxonY we doff our
bonnets to ye!
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07
PUT ON HOLIDAY GARB

II should be the duty Of every busi-
ness man and Of every householder Of
Los Angeles to begin this morning the
work Of decorating IN the most lavish
manner possible his home and his place
Of business in honor Of La Fiesta and
the visiting shriners. This is a civic
duty he owes this city.
We have invited the shriners here at
this time, and despite the cold feet of
their edict-emItting potentate they are
coming In droves. Grand and costly
plans and preparations for their
pleasure have been making for months.
Great floral and electric parades will be
given during Fiesta week proper for
their edihcation. Entertainment most
lavish will be offered them, and from
now on for three weeks to come they
Will have the time Of their lives.
But to make this season Of merriment
ft and enticing, the city must put on
its holiday garb. This place was not
touched by the San Francisco disaster,
and while It sympathizes deeply with
its northern sister and is doing all
possible to aid her. Los Angeles has no
call to sit down in sackcloth and ashes
and mourn over something she cannot
help. Rather, IL is her duty, as the
present metropolis of the Pacific coast,
the biggest city west of the Missouri
river, to demonstrate in every possible
way that she is as full Of ginger, life,
beauty and hustle as ever; that the
new responsibilities thrust upon her
have neither daunted nor worried her.
The guests of the city these Shriners
are, and right royalty glad Los Angeles
is to see them, too. Therefore let Los
Angeles show that gladness and well
come by the most lavish display of
gayety she ever donned. Let banners
and flags drape every street; let fes-
toons and flowers decorate every build
ing; let the glad hand extend from
every doorway and make every wearer
Of the fez bless the day that he refused
to believe Coldfeet Collins and Hyena
Hearst and came here on his own hook
TO have a good time-and got It!
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07
DESERVED LOSERS

One class Of losers at San Francisco
viii get neither assistance nor sympa-
thy. They are the professional money
lenders who make a business Of "shav-
ing" salaries OF municipal employees at
extortionate rates. II is said that
sixty per cent Of such employees in san
Francisco draw their salaries through
brokers'" The vast sums thus Indicated
were hypotheosted for April. The
salaries were obtained for the month
from the money sharks, less the dis
counts. and the orders received in re-
turn, for reimbursement, were mostly
destroyed In the FIRE.
The practice of shaving such salaries
prevails in Los Angeles to an extent
far too great, but 1t seems to have
reached the limit of abuse In San Fran
cisco. The losses sustained by employees
in discounts represent only one phase
OF the iniquity. The statement is made
that "the profit in the business has be-
come so great that the privilege of ne
gotiating such loans has become po-
litlcal plum" And Furthermore in order
to secure this plum "some brokers have
advanced large sums for campaign pur-
poses, with the understanding that in
return the business should be directed
to Nem."
The salary shaving business. there
fore, is a political asset, of the party
machine In San Francisco. is there any
reason to doubt that the same business
in Los Angeles Is an asset Of the local
Republican Organization" AS the
civil service commission has just is
sued an edict against "pernicious
activity" in politics, on the part of city
employees, It might be well to inquire
how far the San Francisco plan in
question has been employed in procur-
ing financial grease for the Republican
machine in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07
AN INTOLERABLE NUISANCE

The sentiment of broad religious toll
GRAFTON for which Los Angeles is dis.
tinguished should not be imposed upon
by such takers and bowling dervishes
as are wont to make might hideous and
day horrible" Probably there is not
another city in the United States
wherein freakish antics in the name of
religion are so common as in this city.
New cults of fanatics sprout here like
mushrooms after a warm rain. No
fault would be found with such growths
If only the fanatics themselves were
concerned, but they are apt to develop
into public nuisances.
1t is too much of stretch of religious
latitude to allow a group of zealots to
disturb the peace and quietude of a
neighborhood. A worse local affliction
hardly can be imagined than the howl
ing and shrieking that emanate from
the meeting places of some such group,
often prolonged late at night, banishing
sleep and provoking profanity.
The fact that such dlsturbers of a
neighorhood may be sincere in their
strange performances is no excuse for
permitting them to become public nui-
sances.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07
NOT OF MUCH CONSEQUENCE

An official of transatlantic steam
ship line tells of the excitement on
board one Of his companys vessels sew
eral days out from Liverpool caused
by an accident to the steering gear, a.
nlishap trlfling enough in reality, but
which rurnor magnified. The captain
was soon approached by a lady passen-
ger rs it true captain asked she,
anxiously, that we have lost one of our
screws?"
mot at all, madam" was the reply
of the officer "There was some little
difficulty with one of them, but it has
been repaired, so that now everything
Is all right"
"Well, I'm very glad to hear that. :"
responded the lady, with a relieved
look, although 1 was far from sharing
the apprehension of the rest of the pas
sengers. After ALL" she added reflect
iyely, "why should we worry, even if
there was something the matter with
the screw? It's under the water and
doesn't show."-Woman's Home Com
DaniOn.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07
SHREK FROM KANSAS

A paroxysmal publication in the SEM
blance Of newspaper, called Appeal
to Reason" is being distributed broad
cast in Los Angeles. 1t purports to be
special issue of a paper printed in
Girard, Kas. At it's head is this state
ment: "2,240,000 copies of this issue
were purchased and paid for by the
trade unionists and socialists of the
United States and Canada before the
paper was put to press" The paper,
as flamingly announced, 'is published
as an advocate of international social
ism, the movement which favors the
ownership of the earth by all the peo-
ple-not by a part OF the people,"
Across the top of the sheet is printed
this slogan IF Moyer-Haywood die,
twenty million workingmen will know
the reason why!"
This outburst relates to the approach
ing trial of men who are under indict-
ment for participation in the assassina-
tion of Former Governor Steunenberg of
Idaho, presumably in revenge for the
6Ofcihoi 1SbAOii CUHlleCliOD Win the
strike of the Western Federation of
Miners.
No American citizen worthy of the
distinction will countenance an attempt
to overawe the judiciary-the bulwark
of law and orderly such methods of
intimidation as are here pointed out
The inculpated men in question loudly
proclaim their innocence. Every good
citizen will hope that they may make
the claim good. But if their guilt is
unmistakable, involving the death pen
atty, the American people will indorse
the enforcement of the law to the letter;
and no twenty million workingmen,
nor any other considerable number,
will countenance the criminal threat of
the Kansas shrieker.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07
DoN'Ts FOR CHILDREN

L Every child and adult can be help
full to fight consumption. School chill
dren can help by complying with the
following rules:
Do not spit except in a spittoon, or
piece of cloth, or a handkerchief
used for that purpose alone. On your
return home have the cloth burned by
your mother or the handkerchief put
in water until ready for the wash.
Never spit on a slate, floor, side
walk or playground.
Do not put your fingers in your
mouth.
Do not pick your nose or wipe it
on your hand or sleeve.
Do not wet your finger in your mouth
when turning the leaves of books.
Do not put pencils in your mouth
or wet them with your lips.
Do not hold money in your mouth.
Do not put pins in your mouth.
Do not put anything in your mouth
except food and drink.
Do not swap apple cores, candy,
chewing gum, half eaten food, whistles,
bean blowers, or anything that is put
in the mouth.
Peel, and wash your fruit before eat
ing it.
Do not kiss anyone on the mouth.
Never cough or sneeze in a person $
face. Turn your face to one side, or
hold handkerchief before your mouth.
Keep your face and hands and fin-
gernails clean; wash your hands with
soap and water before each meal.
When you don't feel well, have cut
yourself, or have been hurt by others,
do not be. afraid to report to the
teacher
Be just as careful and cleanly about
your person at home as in school.
Clean your teeth with toothbrush
and water, If possible, after each meal,
but at least on getting up in the morn
ing and on going to bed at night. Chi
cago Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07

made that Il will go Democratic next
Iall with a loss OF some Republican
congressman. In Iowa Secretary Shaw
has just had a rude reminder that the
tariff reform sentiment is stronger
than his popularity. The Republicans
OF Pennsylvania are disorganized. A
Democratic state treasurer was elected
i'm that state last fall, and while the
tariff orthodoxy Of Pennsylvania Is un-
shaken, there is Republican trouble
enough there to give occasion for un-
easiness.
But for the operations Of Hearst
New York would almost certainly elect
a Democratic governor this fall, and
Notwithstanding the abomlnably unfair
and partisan Republican reapportion-
ment the legislature might even be
won for the Democrats. Mr.. Odell is
ugly over the attempts to crush him,
and he still has good deal Of strength
UP the state If the legislature falls
TO pass the mortgage tax bill. or IL the
governor again vetoes It, a good many
Republicans Of New York city will for
that reason vote against their party
next fall. Nor is fractional strife by
any means at an end in Ohio, where a
Democratic governor was elected last
year.
The activities and the utterances of
MT. Roosevelt may have continued to
win for him, and so for his party, the
support Of some radical Democrats and
Socialists. But II that is true IL Ia no
less true that among that class that
has always been the substance and the
bone and the snew of the Republican
party, the class that has formulated it's
policies and supplied the money for it's
campaigns, the president has Since his
election In 1904 steadily lost ground.
So far from giving him their conf
dence, they are actually afraid of him.
His recent venture i'm the discussion of
means to prevent by federal interfer-
ence the accumulation and transfer of
great fortunes was not only disquietlng
in itself, but as an indication of his
continual restless seeking out of new
ways to put the business of the coun-
try and the affairs of men under fed
eral control it awakens dread of his
future activities. Nobody can tell what
he is going to do next.
The tactics of the Democrats there
fore, and the coming assaults of that
party upon the Republican position dis
turb the leaders less than the things
thought, said, or intended In their own
ranks. 1t Is well for the St. . ouis
Globe Democrat and the stand-patterS
to put on a bold front and defy the
enemy. They could hardly do other
wise. But it is not at all certain that
an old-fashioned tariff contest would,
save in a small number Of states,
strengthen the Republican lines and
give them confidence as to the issue Of
the fight
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07

Nothing would please the Repub-
licans more than to see the Democrats
make an assault on the tariff IN the
congressional canvass this year" says
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat. This Is
brave and manly. But after ALL 1t Is
not an assault upon the tariff by DEM
ocrats that the Republicans fear. The
Democrats have been assaillng the tar
tn for a generation. The utmost that
John Sharp Williams and his party
associates in the house could do would
not make the Republicans uneasy.
1t is Republican assaults on the tariff
that alarm the stand-patters. Leaders
in the old-tlme tariff fights long ago
concluded that the tariff would not be
reformed until the Republicans them
selves took up the work. Appeals TO
the consumer have always been futile.
All these years he has gone on blindly
voting for the Candidates of the high
tariff party oblivious alike Of argument
and of proof. The burdens he has
borne patiently and in Ignorance now
begin to weigh heavily upon the shoul-
ders of manufacturers. They are not
at all ignorant, and they are becoming
impatient. For the most part they are
Republicans, and It is through Repub-
lican voices that their new convictions
are made known, their increasingly in
sistent demands expressed.
Now n Democratic assault upon the
tariff reinforced by a Republican as
sault would be formidable. To meet
this combined onslaught the Republic
can leaders responsible for the fall con-
gressional campaign are already or
ganizing their forces. Our st. Louis
contemporary is doubtless quite right
when he says that the raising OF the
tariff issue would put an interest in
the campaign which the Republicans
had not looked for, and would furnish
a powerful incentive for them to get
out their entire vote"
Republicans of prominence in Wash
ington were not long ago discussing
with visible concern the outlook for the
party in the congressional elections. 1t
was said rather openly that the Dem
Gratis might win a majority In the
house. The advance of the Demo-
Gratis may not carry them quite so far
as that, but undoubtedly the Repub-
Iicans are face to face with the pros
pect of a serious loss of seats, and
states enough may be transferred to
the Democratic side to cause no little
uneasiness about the presidential cam
paign IN 1908. Mr.. Mccall frankly
said in the house the other day that If
the Republicans of Massachusetts had
supposed the session would pass with
out any relief from tariff exaotions the
state would have gone Democratic last
November. Predictions are confidently
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07
A FAVORED INSTRUMENT

The story is told of a newly rich
woman who on the occasion of her
daughters wedding gave large recep-
ton, for which music was furnished by
an orchestra of twelve pieces.
The leader of this orchestra was a
violinist who had achieved a social as
well as a professional success and the
rich woman evidently wished to recog-
nize this fact and make clear her
knowledge Of it.
butler approached the musicians, who
were having a short intermisson, and
in his loftiest manner he said, after re-
ferring to paper in his hand:
The violin eats in the dining room;
the rest Of the instruments eats in the
try."-Youth's Companion.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07
SURVEYORS RETRAcINo ROUTE
Data Destroyed by San Francisco Fire
Is Being Collected Again
BY Associated Press.


MARYSVILLE, May 6.-Orders have
been given for the work of building the
Northern Electric railway from Oro-
vile junction to Marysville. Grading
Will begin tomorrow near Biggs to be
finished in ninety days
The California Midland surveyors are
now retracing this route from here to
Grass Valley and Auburn to make new
maps and replace the data destroyed
by the San Francisco fire.
Both these roads were to have been
under construction two weeks ago, but
the disaster at San Francisco prevented
the beginning of operations.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07

quoted above in regard to the safety
Of wooden structures. there is no cause
whatever for apprehension. Our homes
are all right; they are not built upon
shaky, flled-in ground, and no geo
logical fault" underlies them.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07
viii Be Secure From Floods

While the Salt Lake road has been
repaired from the damage done by the
spring washouts sufficiently to allow
the safe passage of trains, hundreds OF
workmen are still busy on the 100 miles
OF track that was washed out and a
large amount of work yet remains to
be done The owners and officials of
the road declare that the track, when
all repair work is done, will be secure
against any rainfall that may come
even though it be as heavy as that
which fell last spring.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07
Hartman Favors Panama Canal

Il. HI. Hartman, president of the
Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and
allied lines, in a speech In Seattle de-
MED the statements that have been
made declaring that he is opposed to
the Panama canal. He declared that
the opposite was true, but warned the
people against what he termed the
ant1-railroad agitation" He said that
while water transportation should he
encouraged the people must not forget
that land transportation is of more
value,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07
WHO KILLED POOR YourH7

Who killed poor Youth?
81" said Desire;
81 killed poor Youth with my red fire."
Who saw him die?
Said Love: "It was I;
saw him die while stood by"
Who'll make his shroud?
We" said the Years;
"We'll make his shroud out Of Loves
tears"
Who'll take him to the grave?
a." said RemorSe;
'I'll take him to grave on my dark
horse"
Who'll ring the knell?
with my great bell,
l." said old Wisdom. I'll ring his
knell."
Garnet Noel Wiley in The Bohemian
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07

II you, through mistaken pity. picked
up viper, nourished 1t and then We're
stung by 1t, would you continGa to hold
Il in your bosom? Hardly. Yet. in
the case Of the ghoulish Hearst and
his viper sheet. that's what the mer-
chants Of Los Angeles are doing. Any
time they want to scotch this snake In
the grass they can. It's up 70 them.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07

An even thousand saloons quit busi-
ness in Chicago last week and 1900
more policemen began work That
makes the ratio between cops and
booze parlors about to now.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07
LOVE

Love is a pleasing pastime---
Matter of rose and ring
Love is a pest for frolic hearts;
List to the songs they sing!
Love is a draft OF aloes,
Love is a lesson deep
(How we may guard the treasure
Given us to keep.
Love is a cruel sorrow
Love Is the heart OF rest;
Love Is a fearful madness
Love Is our worst--and best
Love is the isle of visions
Iet us, O Love, set Said
Love is the test OF heroes;
Love Is Iife's Holy Grael.
-Jeanie Peet In American Magazlne
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07

That Cincinnati man who killed him
self by Ieaping from the Eiffel towel in
Paris went long way to accomplish
his end. He might have found oblivion
just as easily in the Ohio river.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-07
Perverted Proverhs

Many are called but few get UP.
Virtue is its only reward
Poverty may be no crime, but it's
punishment is hard labor for life.-
Not every editor will take joke
Faint heart never won rich lady.
Take care of the girl and her dol
lars will take care of you.
A self-made martyr is jaw forever
Better homely wife than one not at
home.
A hungry man can't eat good advice.
An idle heart is the fortune hunters
workshop.
W H C.