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Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-15

or by local improvements An instance
of increase in value from the lapse of
time and from proposed public inn
provements is the northwest corner of
Sixth avenue and Thirty-fourth street,
the site of the old Broadway tabernacle
About 1910 the lot was purchased for
S64 900. In 1902 is was sold for 81, 300, 000
having become twenty times more val
liable in fifty years. Last year. after
il was decided to terminate the McA doc
tunnel at Greeley place the land was
sold TO the promoters of a department.
store enterprise for $2,OOO,O0O. or an in
crease of more than 80 per cent in three
years.
In 1901, before the Pennsylvania rail-
road commenced to buy property on
and around Seventh avenue land there
was worth some $500 front foot Wit h
in much less than years time values
in that vicinity had increased % per
10 to 90 per cent, until now front foot
brings some $4,000. The influence on
realty prices of so great an improve
ment as the Pennsylvania station, in
conjunction with smaller improvements
like those of Greeley place and a new
department store on Fifth avenue is
felt throughout a region more than a
mile square bounded by Madison and
Tenth avenues, by Thirtieth and Thir-
ty-siXth streets. making an average in
crease of 80 13 per cent and causing
spectators to prophesy new loca tion
for the theater, hotel and department
store districts
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you get tired and then go to the noun
tains? All that is necessary to do is to
hire some land, move your house, and
there you are "
The portable house is not limited to
the needs Of cottage life. A plan of
any kind of house may be sent to the
factory, and in about three weeks the
completed house will be delivered. Small
stores, newsstands, lunch rooms, fruit
stands, barber shops, bicycle repair
shops, Children's play houses, summer
kitchens, Photographic galleries, golf
houses, gatetenders houses, hunters
camps, bath houses, voting precincts,
dog kennels and chicken coopS are to be
purchased ready made.
Just to give you an idea of the
business said the man who sells the
portable houses, this morning as l was
coming in on the train l fell in with a
man. and in a few minutes we We're
talking portable houses He had never
heard of them and was interested
enough to find all sorts and kinds of
objections. AS we separated he said:
"I've got a house I've been trying to
get rid of for five years, and | guess |
don't want to invest in any more prop
erty, but you might send me an esti-
mate on a chicken coop
II sent it; he bought it, and now we
are negotiating in regard to dog
kennel.
"The portable garage is one of the
most popular structures we sell. There
is a com bination garage, with a room
in the rear for the chauffeur. These
garages cost from $150 to $295, according
to construction.
zone of the most popular portables is
the children's play house. 1t is quite a
step from the child's play house to the
portable church, but we are at present
negotiating for the sale of one to con-
gregation in Flatbush.
"They have a fund of $4,000, and the
reason they desire a portable church is
that they fear that if they put up per-
manent structure costing that amount
they will never be able to raise enough
money to enlarge or rebuild. For $4,000
we can turn them out a very pretty
structure, fireproof, orthodox and spa
cious enough for their needs.
"Do we fit out many bridal couples?'
and at the question a smile fitted
across his flee. Now just answer that
question yourself. How many young
people do you know who are hesitating
on the brink of matrimony because they
can't afford it?
"They talk it over. The would-be hus-
band balks at flats and boarding
houses. They spend their Saturday
afternoons and holidays in the company
of real estate agents. Now, the port
able house is an answer to all their
problems. All they have got to do is TO
lease a plot of ground. if they don't
want to buy. have it cleared, send a
plan to the factory, and i'm three weeks
or month the house is ready for them,
zone young couple told me that they
We're married i'm the morning, took the
train somewhere to New Jersey, drove
out a mile or so to the land they had
! leased, hired the farmer next door to
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-15
Necessity of Teegraphone in WelEqupped Business Offices


can be placed In instant connection
with the teleEraphones located in the
typewriting room of the hotel. dictate
letters and have them delivered ready
for signature within a few minutes
The same plan has been suggested for
a New York office building. provid-
ing means for quick dictation to ma
chimes located in the central typewrit-
ing establishment. The steel discs
used are so light that they can be
mailed for two cents, if one wishes to
send a letter or a speech and have it
delivered in his own voice at some dis
tant point
AT least one office in the New York
financial district is to be so equipped
that every word spoken in one of the
rooms may he taken down by a tele-
graphone, noiselessly. but industrious
ly eavesdropping in the vicinity of the
unwary caller. There is no means Of
knowing that there is a witness pres
ent who will give testimony at the push
of button. 1t is well within the
bounds of probability that the proceed
ngs of board meetings will come to be
recorded i'm this way. In the meantime
it is well enough to avoid making COM
promising statements in Vicinities
where a telegraphone may be con-
Cealed.
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Beauty Takes Regular Exercise

was heard of it. But all the time the
inventor aided by American experts,
has been transforming his experimental
model into a thoroughly practical piece
of office equipment, for which the de-
mand has already outrun the supply.
An American company has been formed
to control the invention, which promises
to make as many fortunes as were
made by the Mergenthaler typesetting
machine.
The principle of operation is the same
in the wire and disc machines, the main
difference being that with mile or two
of fine steel strands. compactly wound
on a spool, the capacity is greatly in
creased. A single spool of wire allows
for half an hours continuous dictation.
For correspondence purposes the
beauty of the telegraphone is that the
typewriter operator can transcribe at
any distance from the recording in
strument. that is. any distance covered
by the scope of the telephone. There
is no carrying about of records or
cylinders All the typist need do is
to take up his end of the connecting
wire, press a button and proceed to
put into type the words that come
through the receiver from the ma
chine, which may just as well be a
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the things a woman should study faith
fully The girl who is tired out i'm the
middle of the day has herself to blame
for It. She has let her muscles get soft.
Here is the recipe given by a beauty
Of three seasons for preserving her
good looks all day long. THE trouble
is the approaching tendency to fat. To
avoid this | divide my day into four
distinct parts, and right after break
fast begin to carry out the parts. The
first part Is that Of walking. | dress
myself In white. And with my parasol
in my hand I start out. feel that
look picturesque and know that every
body admires me. This ought to be
enough for any woman.
81 like to walk two hours and If the
time can he spared IT is time well spent.
one reduces ones weight and one
breathes good air and one becomes
tranquil.
81 take my chest exercises rowing
my boat, and I try to put in a good
hour at It every day. Automobiling is
not as good as rowing because of the
dust. But the automobile girl can
steady her nerves and so gain some-
thing from the pastime,"
The popular summer beauty who finds
her strength giving out in the middle
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help them, and slept that same night in
the completed home.
"One of our greatest successes we en-
pect to be the mother-in-law port
able. This is so designed that when the
bridegroom hears of mothers first visit
he can take down the l. with the guest
chamber in 1t and pack it away, and
when she feels that she must go back
rather than incommode them the house
is in its original shape a half hour
| later.
Another use for the portable house
is for the country club. One in particu-
lar that has it's club house built, its
lakes stocked, has number of mem
bers all eager to try the joys of sum-
mer on their own land. They cannot
get houses built in time, and they have
sent for half a dozen cottages with
single rooms, plazas and ellis, and the
probability Is that they will be so salts
fed that they will never take the trou-
BILE to build another more permanent
in construction than these will be-"
Another call on the portable house
agent is made by hunters, canoeists and
campers who are looking for a COM
Portable place to sleep in at night as
well as a place where they can stow
their dunnage. For them is designed a
plain, compact and convenient portable
camp. Such a camp 7X9 feet, can easily
be erected by two men in thirty min
utes. It's weight does not exceed 500
pounds and it can easily be transported
from place to place
One of the most constant customers
of the portable house companies is the
South American The government is
also good customer, and a great many
houses have been sent to the canal zone
for the workers. Another customer is
San Francisco since the fire. Many
people are still undecided whether or
not they will permanently remain there
the portable house gives them an oppor-
tunity to make up their mind, and if
they decide to come eRst all they have
got to do is to fasten it on an automo-
bile and get out.
I'm fact" says the portable agent 81
honestly believe that if San Francisco
had been built of portable houses, as it
should have been, not one would have
been lost. New York sun.
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sasss SO sAAa

of Che day can recuperate in one OF
two or three ways.
When tired bodily go to your room.
loosen all your clothing, darken the
room and lie down fiat on your back,
with two or three pillows under your
head. BE comfortable. In half an hour
you will be a good as new.
The nerves may be rested by taking
the half hour nerve rest Get 2 cup
Of hot weak tea, a hammock and a
bunch of roses. Rest, smell the roses,
sip the tea and let the hammock drift.
In half an hour your nerves will be
rested
The tired girl can take the gra SIS cure.
She can go barefOoted in the early
morning while the dew is fresh. She
can go upon a summer diet all sun
cooked food. She can rest her mind
and employ her body while she is try
ing the various cures But when she
is seen in public she must he in good
spirits. for the world has little use for
a beauty who is out Of sorts.
Her Belleship viii Be Unquestioned
But the main thing is tranquil nerves
and unruffled temper. The girl who
can maintain these at a summer resort
is certain to be the belle and her belle
ship will be unquestioned. Not only
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He had a teamster arrested for hitting
mule with his hat
He rebuked "A lady cyclist who. appeared
in a bloomer rig;
And he might have had her arrested, too
if her husband hadn't been big.
He fixed 1t so that on Sunday morn at
neither shop nor bar
Could the smoker get cigarette or even
a mild cigar.
For a boy who was stealing apples, he got
ten days in Jail;
Which also he got for another boy who
was fetching his fathers ale.
He abolished poker parties and whist at
a dime a point,
And the local club disbanded when he
called II a gamblers Joint
In fact. there was nothing he didn't do,
and nothing he left undone
Till his town became the moralest town
tSat existed under the sun.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-15
THE TRUTH ABOUT "eEN.HuR,

How "Ben-H Hur" came to be written
and published has been told many
times, but unfortunately, few of the
prevalent tales concerning this remark
able work are in accordance with the
facts. Recently it has been stated in
popular magazine that Ben Hur" "be-
longed to the long list of manuscripts
which met with repeated rejection"
This is not the fact. The story was
first submitted to Harper & Brothers
for publication and promptly accepted.
The book, moreover, was a reasonable,
though not remarkable, success in its
first year. The fact which surprised
the publishers was that it's sales We're
doubled in the year following. II ad-
vanced from year to year by geomet-
rical progression until it became the
most widely selling book in American
literature. Many interesting facts con-
cerning the inspiration and growth of
Ben Hur" are set down by General
Wallace in his autobiography, which
is one of the important forthcoming
publications.-Ha Weekly.
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wear; she has to make special cal
culation upon the weather. she must
know deal about the climate and the
tendencies of the resort at which she
is stopping. and she must be familiar
with every peculiarly of the place.
Became Cross and Lost Her Beledom
At Saratoga last summer the belle Of
the season, the prettiest girl of the
summer resort, lost her belledom once
and forever. The occasion was drive
out to the lake. She was clad all in
chiffons and her good nature was not
sufficient to stand the test. She shiv-
cred, and the chills made her cross.
Take me home" she said testify.
And her escort, the best catch of the
season drove her back to the hotel.
she isn't such a great beauty after
ALL he said next day.
The summer girl must be agreeable
or nobody will like her The bathing
girl who always must have the softest
spot along the beach and who must
be given the use of the ropes and the
best bathing room and the incest of
sand chairs and the noblest of every
thing all along the line never will be
the belle.
How to be beautiful in a bathing suit
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Unpopular Law and Order Man of the Small Suburban Town
sssa.

oh, that was a great assemblage out in
the public square
He would never have known how the town
had grown If he had not seen II there,
de saw the druggist-the barber there; he
saw unshaVen men,
He saw the humble vendor of beer, and
several others-and then
He was seized by a score Of willing hands,
and hls cheeks began TO pale.
AS they hoisted him high without telling
him why and set him astride rail
Yes, they took that too, too virtuous man,
the moral townships pride,
And on the humiliating rail they gave him
a painful ride;
And they gave him ticket TO Somewhere
Else, and they saw that he got there,
too
And went plaeidly back on their moral
track to the things they used TO do.
Puck.
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TH HE out Of door girl, the athletic
girl, the golf girl. the girl who
swims, who rows. who sails and
who autos is the bells Of the summer
resort-and her reign is a precarious
one.
Bellies are made and deposed in day
at the summer resorts. and a sunburned
nose. scorched cheeks, an air Of dull.
watery eyes and peeling hands are
likely to dethrone any belle. To be
belle of a summer resort she must be
an out Of door girl fifteen hours a day
and to remain the belle she must pre-
serve her hair. her hands, her eyes, her
complexion-for while men fall in love
with sun kissed maids and adore beau
tiful faces tanned to rich russet colors
by winds ard sun. there is no record
of a man falling i'm love with girl
whose nose was peeled and cheeks
cracked or whose hands look like those
of a laborer.
The belle of the summer resort is the
outing girl-and the season is the sea-
son of all seasons for the girl who is
good looking but not beautiful 1t is
her chance to shine, and il she is jolly
ana popular WIN neT younger ulObllCA y
and their friends, ready for any eX-
cursion or lark, and crafty enough to
keep her complexion and her temper
at all times she will remain the belle of
the season and probably come home
just in time to prepare her trousseau
for an October wedding.
Before she goes yachting she must
train herself for it-and especially she
must prepare her hands for the ordeal.
She must take a handful of something
softening and rub it into the backs and
palms. Then she must wear her heavy
gloves-and at night. when she takes off
the gloves the hands will be as lovely
and delicate and as softly comforting
to hold as if they never had been eX-
posed to sun or weather.
In yachting she uses her own brand
of rose water and glycerine on her
face, and before she attempts an auto
mobile excursion she does the same
and puts powder on her face to fill the
open pores. Otherwise she simply oils
her face, removes the oil and dusts the
face with a little cosmetic, and she is
ready for the sun.
The pretty girl at summer resort,
and the popular one, is the girl who
can brave all kinds of weather with
out finding fault If ii rains she is de-
lighted; if it blows she is pleased: if
the weather turns hot she says she
likes a hot spell, while if it turns cold
she is positive that there is nothing
in all the world quite as agreeable as
chilly weather. She has to study her
self in order to be a BILE to do this. She
has to learn what kind of clothing to
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hundred miles as a few feet away.
Or the machine and operator may be in
an isolated room and the dictation car
ried on over a wire from another office.
One push button starts the machine.
another stops it and Il third one re-
verses It,
Brokers Keep Tab on Wire Orders
Wall street brokers were the first to
see the possibilities of the telegra phone
as piece of office machinery. BY
connecting it with the telephone a
word for word record of everything
that comes and goes over the wire
is made. If there is a dispute over
an order to buy or sell stocks the tele-
graphone record of the customers
voice shows what his Instructions were.
The advertising department of a daily
newspaper, where a great many orders
are received by phone and where mis-
understanding are frequent, uses a
telegraphone to make magnetic
transcript of everything that passes
over the wire. In this way the one
weakness of the telephone as a means
of communica tion-that it keeps no
record--has been eliminated.
There is already a scheme on foot
to equip a large hotel so that guests
in their rooms by using the telephone
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-15
A CATCH

The late Susan b. Anthony once at
tended a wedding in Rochester, and at
the reception she said to the bride
groom:
IF you want this marriage to be a
happy one, you must be as kind and
tender always as you are now Never
relax for a moment your attitude Of
loving solicitude. Never relax it, though
you find hundred excuses for doing so.
such excuses, believe me, are easy
to find. | once knew a young couple
whose marriage had not turned out as
happily as it should have done. The
wife said to the husband one evening"
Before we We're married, dear you
were always giving ME presents, Why
do you never give me any now?
MY love, the husband replied,
did you ever hear of a fisherman CIV
ing bait to a fish he had caught?"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-15

NA71RELEss telegraphy has pre-
wv pared us for almost any
kind OF inventive wizardry.
But the Danish Edison" Valde-
mar Poulsen. has come forward to
prove that there are things quite as
mysterious as aerograms. For a demon
stration of this fact one has only to
talk into the receiver of the Poulsen
"telegraphone,' - have his words invisibly
registered upon the wire or disc that
takes the place of the wax records of a
phonograph and then hear his remarks
repeated with a distinctness that is
startling.
So far as the untutored observer can
see there is nothing about the mecha-
nism of the telegraphone to account for
its performances. In a phonOgraph it
is easy to follow the convolutions of the
steel pin scratching its way about over
the wax cylinder. or tracing a devious
path in the grooves of a permanent
hard-rubber record. There is nothing
so obvious about the Poulsen machine.
In this the voice is recorded in the
fern of electromagnetic impressions
upon a thin steel disc or wire. one-hun-
dredth of an inch in diameter. There is
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ney, Alexander Hamilton. left the Ran
dali farm and estate of about fifteen
acres two miles up the Albany Post
road, in perpetuity for the maintenance
of a "snug harbor' for unfortunate and
disa hled seamen. The collateral heirs
at once Instituted suit and a legal battle
ensued which dragged on for more than
twenty years, but the provisions of the
will remain unbroken. At that time the
farm with its rural rOadways and en-
trance at the junction of Lafayette
and Astor places. was valued at S4233.
Today two plots of it, upon which stand
the buildings of a large department
store. are appraised a $1O0OO0O each.
Today, outside of settled business
districts where values steadily increase
the rise in property values, though per-
haps not so great. is more sensational
II is caused either by skillful advertising g
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will the tranquility of nerves and the
peace of mind reflect beauty upon her,
but they are the qualities most needed
to reign over the crowd i'm the resort
The girl who can keep her temper,
her dignity and her good comradeship
intact through the upsetting of a boat,
through being caught I'm q rainstorm
miles from home in an auto. who can
brave mud and water, heat and dust
and still keep merry attracts men more
than any spoiled beauty who retires
pouting from the field at the first mis-
hap, who shows temper and spoils her
beauty by anger
Besides, If the qualities Of merriment
good nature. sturdy comradeship en-
dure during the trying months of July
and August-and If the girl always
looks comfortable and CHEEKY under
any and all circumstances she will
make the catch of the season-no mat
ter at what resort she is placed.
Bad Disposition Destroys Beauty
To do this she must be of a happy
disposition, but even the girl of ord
nary temper can manage to train her
self to these things Besides, nothing
destroys beauty SO suddenly or gives
one the appearance of the spoiled child
(Which all men hate) than letting go OF
ones temper. It spoils the complexion,
stroys the beauty
The belle of the summer resort should
wear white or at any rate never any
thing but washable garments. Any
girl, no matter how homely, really is
beauty in white wash stuff, freshly
laundered always.
Should Wear White
If you intend to become the belle do
not spend your money for expensive
clothes. Lay in a vast supply of white
things that will wash, and. just as soon
as you arrive on the scene of the sum
mer triumphs, hunt up the laundry and
make arrangements.
No after how hot or uncomfortable
the day, the girl can look cool in white
duck, in white linen with Il little ad-
vantageous use of the powder puff,
Besides. in white you always are
ready for anything-to accept invita-
tions to boat. to ride, or to dance.
White is the color for the summer re-
sort, and to be a belle one should affect
nothing else.
Then these are the rules for the sum-
mer resort belle:
Keep your temper.
Be ready for anything.
Use your powder brush effectively.
Wear nothing but white
Rest yourself scientifically.
Prepare your hands and complexion
for the test.
Never talk too much.
Wear sensible clothes
Do all these things, and. even If you
are positively plain, you may be the
belle.-Chicago Tribune.
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Merely Rental of $4,000 Year


America in 1888. names like Goelet.
RhinelandeT. Barclay and Roosevelt
were, as now, synonymous with wealth
and realty possessions. Today the
Goelet estate is valued at over one
hundred millions, and embraces scat
tered properties from the upper east
side to the lower west side. Hannah
Goelet married an ancestor of Elbridge
T. Gerry, and when the latter, with all
the wealth of property that had de-
scended to him, married, his wife, who
was one of the heirs of the Hoffman
estate brought a handsome dowry in
Manhattan realty.
largely to the fact that their grand
father had faith enough in the future
of New York to pay $500 each for some
eighty odd lots comprising the block
bounded by Fifth and Sixth avenues
and Forty-second and Forty-third