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Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
TWO MORE CITIES ARE BORN
Lordsburg and Huntington Park Are
Added to the List in Los
ANGELES County

Two infant cities were added to the
long list of Los Angeles county mu-
inequalities yesterday when the petit
tions of Lordsburg and Huntington
Park were allowed and elections or
dered.
The Huntington Park Incorporation
as a city of the sixth class has hung
in the balance for several months and
not until the supervisors had shaved
off several tracts of country property
from the proposed boundaries of the
new city would the property owners
consent to vote the settlement in as a
city
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
HONORS AWAIT THIS MAN
Citizen of Los Angeles, Address Un-
Known, Is Appointed ConseI for
Peruvian Government

Somewhere in Los Angeles is a man
whom the Peruvian government is
anxious to honor with a consularship.
Mayor McAleer has in his possession
letters patent and exequator naming
Elmer F. Mackosich as the Peruvian
consul for this locality but Mayor
McAleer cannot locate Mr. Makosich.
The mayor yesterday received a let
ter from Alfredo Benardes of the
Peruvian legation at Washington, in
closing papers signed by the president
of the Peruvian republic and President
Roosevelt, appointing Mr.. Mackosich
consul for this locality. The letter
contained the frank statement that
Mr.. Mackosich's address was unknown.
No such name can be found in the
city directory and inquiries made by
the mayor have so far been unsuc-
cessful.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
GAS FOR FUEL

A dainty lunch can be pre-
pared in FIVE minutes with GAS,
and you don't roast yourself in
the operation. Clean and pleas
ant in summer, the best Fuel all
the time.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
WOMAN TELLS OF CRUELTY

Glare e. Blair yesterday was granted
an interlocutory decree Of divorce from
Samuel Blair by judge Conrey in de-
partment 5 of the superior court. She
was married at Encinitas, Mexico. in
1896. and later with her husband. came
to Los Angeles. According to Mrs.
Blair's statements, her husband, who Is
a dentist repeatedly hit and kicked her.
The decree of divorce was granted
after the woman's evidence had been
corroborated.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
Railroad Notes

New locomotives for the Rock Island
line and the Frisco systems, which are
built on the large contract with the
American Locomotive works, are COM
ing forward at the rate of twenty ii
week.
One of the most interesting recent
pieces of bridge construction in the
country has just been done for the
Pittsburg SS Lake Erie. The Luclus
Engineering and Constructing company
and the Penn Bridge company have
completed a bridge across the She
mango river at New Castle junction for
the Pittsburg & Lake Erie's four track
system extension from Pittsburg to
Youngstown. The bridge replaces a
historic structure-the old viaduct in
which the Pennsylvania & Ohio canal
was carried across the Shenango river.
The masonry of this viaduct was used
for the two-track railroad bridge from
the time the Lake Erie road was built,
about twenty-eight years ago, until re-
placed by the present heavy structure.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31

roll s.ss... ss'' ''''s 'SSVAf'oStiVf
These figures do not include valu-
ations of railroad rights of way, the
assessments of which will be added to
the roll when they are received from the
state board Of equalization.
With this last report from the city
assessor 1t is now the duty OF the coun-
ell to FIX the tax rate for the ensuing
year. 1t Is not considered probable that
the present rate of si.1O a hundred will
be reduced.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
biblical Law

Husband-Job's wife was to blame
for his boils.
Wife-She wasn't either.
Husband--I beg your pardon. Didn't
she keep him in hot water?-The Boz
hemian.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
WORK OF LAYING RAILS
UP BEACH SOON TO BEGIN
BY Associated Press.

SANTA MONICA, July 30.-A steel
gang was forwarded up the beach to-
day to pitch camp on Rindge's Malibu
ranch and begin laying steel on the
Malibu Hueneme & Port Los Angeles
railway Six miles of grade has been
completed. Ties have been distributed
along the right of way and steel rails
are on the new wharf.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31

Mrs. Lawrence is the chief aid of DR..
b. M. Lawrence the anti-cigarette
worker in their campaigns.
Both are now in Los Angeles prepar-
ing for another of their camp wagon
trips, lecturing and giving demonstra-
tions of the effects of smoking on the
young.
They will take a number of boys
with them.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31

Fiber-Grass and BaskeG suit Cases
$3.50 to $500 In our leather goods de-
partment. Good things for the beach or
mountain trips. Sanborn. Val & Co..
257 So Broadway.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
Natures Way Is Best.

The function strengthening and tissue
building plan of treating chronic, linger-
ing and obstinate cases of disease as pur-
sued by DIR. Pierce, is following after
Natures plan of restoring health.
He uses natural remedies, that is
extracts from native medicinal roots,
prepared by processes wrought out by
the expenditure of much time and
money without the use of alcohol, and
by slSillful combination in just the right
proportions.
Used as ingredients of DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery; Black Cherry
bark, Queens root, Golden Seal root,
Bloodroot and Stone root, specially exert
their influence in cases of lung, bronchial
and throat troubles, and this 1DIsCov-
ERY" is, therefore, a sovereign remedy
for bronchitis, laryngitis, chronic coughs,
catarrh and kindred ailments.
The above native roots also have the
strongest possible endorsement from the
leading medical writer's, of all the several
schools of practice, for the cure not only
of the diseases named above but also for
Indigestion, torpor of liver, or bilious
ness, obstinate constipation. kidney and
bladder troubles and catarrh, no matter
where located.
You don't have to take DR.. Pierce's
say-so alone as TO this; what he claims
for his "Discovery is backed up by the
writings of the most eminent men in the
medical profession. A request by postal
card or letter, addressed to DIR. r. V.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y, for a little book
Of extracts from eminent medical au-
thorities endorsing the ingredients Of his
medicines, will bring a little book free
that is worthy OF your attention If
needing a good, safe, reliable remedy of
kya0t0l1 composition for the cure OF almost
any old chronic, or lingering malady.
DR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con-
stipation. One little "Pellet is a gentle
laxative, and two mild cathartic.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31

So much advice he gave away
To win the crowds admiring .hout,
That when he needed some one day
He found his store had given out.
Washington Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
TAX RATE NOW TO BE FIXED

City Assessor Lewis made his final
report to the council yesterday on the
condition of the assessment rolls since
equalization. His figures are as follows:
Old city .............$1 ,471,425
Unsecured personal property 12.346,7O9
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31

and women is DIR. Pierce's
Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser. A splendid l00s-page
volume, with engravings
and colored plates. A copy,
paper-coVered, will be sent
TO anyone sending 81 cents
In one-cent stamps, TO pay
the cost of mailing only, to
DIR. r. v. Pierce. Buffalo, N.
Y. Cloth-bOund, 81 stamps
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
Children's Boomers acc

And here are skirts, too made of extra good quail
ity black sateen; cut full and wide; finished with
deep hem; sizes to IL. Second floor, today, each,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
WOmen'S Drawers ACC

OF good muslin; cut full, with wide lawn ruffle
trimmed with lace insertion and wide lace edge
a good value at 59c Today, to @ second floor
49c
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22

Venetian balconies. Beyond stretched
transparency 150 feet long and twenty
feet high, showing most realistically a
street in the city of canals. Between
this and the dining room was water
way on which piled a gondola with
party of troubadors who played and
sang as they passed to and fro. The
tables were set about the room at one
end of which a beautiful garden of
growing palms and flowers had been
laid out, in its center fountain which
tossed it's light spray almost to the
ceiling. Thousands of tinted electric,
lights shed soft. blue illumination
over the whole, giving the effect of
Italian twilight. One could scarcely
realize that shut out only by the sturdy
walls of the hotel and thick hangings
were the glare and the rumble of
Longacre square.
OF elaborte schemes and picturesque
effects created for the twentieth CEN
tury diner there is an endless variety,
New York furnishes the most striking
examples, and the most numerous,
though London and Paris vie with her
for the honors of extravaganza. Nine.
Madeleine Lemaires dinners are per-
haps the most notable of Paris. She
has a special fondness for the ancient
in effects, and in a Grecian court her
guests sit at Greek feast carried out
with faithful literalness in every detail,
even to the service of rose leaves. They
wear Grecian costumes and are attend
ed by walters arrayed in flowing robes
of Athens who serve the dishes in the
old Athenian fashion.
The dinner which most stirred Lon
don was given in honor of Barney Bar
nato, the African millionaire. The hall
was arranged to represent South Afri-
can mining camp and the dinner was
served in tents by kaffir walters. An
other London feast which was unique
in some ways was the Kesser dinner,
at which the guests were on a gondoia
floating in a typical Venetian scene.
To come back to Broadway again, the.
famous Sherry's supplies numerous
examples of elaborate display and novel
arrangement. notable supper given
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
Electricity ON the Railroads

ing similar preparations for the intro
duction of electricity; indeed, there Is
not steam railroad man in the coun-
try who would have pooh-poohed the
idea f1Ve years ago that will not tell
you now that the electric railway era
has dawned and that the electric To-
comotive is the coming propelling agent
for railroad trains
AS to the advantages of the electric
railway over steam.' they are so gem
orally recognized that they scarcely
need mentioning. If this were not the
case, their introduction would NOD ap-
peal to the railroad companies. But
there cannot be any question that the
travelling public will also derive BEN
efits from the change. The operation
of electric trains being cheaper, there
will be many more trains and thus in
| creased accommodations. The electric
locomotive will be cleaner. There will
be no smoke, no dirt, no cinders,
! neither will it be so noisy.
| Apart from the wonderful effects
which this change will produce upon
the future method of railroad transpor-
tation, the immediate results are
worthy of consideration. There are the
large amounts of money that will be
spent to effect this change. At con-
servative estimate, there are now about
$500, 100000 appropriated by the various
railroad companies throughout this
country to be used in the purchase of
electrical machinery. This, of course.
means an activity in the electrical bus
mess not equaled by any period in the
history of that industry, and 1t Will
again emphasize a fact, which has long
been patent to the men at the head of
the electrical manufacturing COM
panies, and that is that the electrical
industry of America leads the world.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22

episode of real life could be imagined:
no keener satire on the red tape ana
arbitrary bureaucracy that wrap about
a railroad could be penned.
pigs is Pigs by Ellis Parker But
& Co.
To all those seeking to make choice
between the new cars of the present
season. the Hand Book of Gasoline
Automobiles" third edition. 19O6) just
issued by the Association of Licensed
Automobile Manufacturers, has the
unique virtue of being entirely free
from commendation of any car and af-
fords a most convenient method of
comparing the chief features of the
leading models, both foreign and do
mestic.
The new spring publications of The
American Book company show an ex-
cellent line of school books, many OF
the highest class. Among them are a
fine translation of Victor E. Francois,
A. M, of La Pondre aux Yeax," by
Labeche & Martini Scheuler's William
Tell" edited by f. G. Roedder, prepared
for young students; STRAINS I'm Son
nenschein" and Elm Grunes Blatt,
edited by +. L. Swiggert. A. NJ, two
short idyllic tales, with notes; Adams
'Iysias," edited by Charles Dadwir
Adams. Phi. D., an introduction to Attic
oratory; "The Golden Fleece" issued
as a school reader, by r. Van Bergen
A. NJ Manual of American Litera-
ture," by j. B. Smiley, A NJ; Brooks
and Nine Choice Poems," selected BY
James Baldwin.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22

little lambs. Overhead was suspended q
huge ball which suddenly burst and
showered American Beauty roses on
those beneath It,
For theatrical eject in transforma-
tion and color design the college girls
dinner at the Astor a short time ago
was noteworthy. The big banquet hail
was fashioned to represent Japanese
garden. The tables were in three long
rows, and at each table four guests sat
in the shade of a brilliantly colored
Japanese umbrella, around the edge OF
which were hung tiny lanterns. When
dinner had been served there came the
startling transformation. At a signal,
every umbrella, as If by magic, rose to
the ceiling and remained there, form-
ing a wonderfully pretty canopy. Then,
before the guests had ceased gazing
inward and wondering chow it was all
done" the tables had been cleared away
and in place of the dining room they
found themselves in a beautifully APP
pointed reception room. The Whole
secret of the magic ceiling was in three
electric cables which were completely
hidden from view by the daintily col
ored wide-spreading umprellas sus-
pended from them.
The vast amount of study required
for the production of such displays, the
hours and hours of labor necessary TO
bring them to fulfillment, are but part
of the banquet managers work. The
banquet itself is a gigantic undertaking,
for under his supervision come the Sc
lection of dishes, their cooking, the
table decorations and appointments,
the silver glass and china, the mode
of service and the hundred and one
other details. A great dining palace
like that i'll the AstoT seats from fifteen
hundred to two thousand persons, all
of whom must be served simultaneous
ly and each of whom must be served
as if he alone were to be considered.
This gives some idea, perhaps, Of the
banquet managers task.
The office of this modern magician
suggests, with it's rolltop desk, its
typewriter and it's telephone, the Of
flee of any manager of large. enter
prises. Here he meets the people Who'
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22

playing the part of hosts, have charge
of dinner arrangements and goes over
the details of the entertainment with
them He suggests, consults, advises
and decides on each item, not only or
the menu, but of decorations and of
service. Frequently, and particularly
in the case of clubs and societies, he
is offered a fixed figure and must
lay out a scheme to come within It's
limits.
When the commercial arrangements,
so to speak, have been made he sits
down to map out his campaign. A
typewriter plan is sent to the steward
showing just what his department may
be required to do; another to the cleo
trician, one to the head waiter one to
the chef, one to the wine keeper, and
one to the "confectioner of souvenirs"
These are the banquet managers
trusted lieutenants, without whom his
successes would be little more than
frantic endeavors.
OF all the army of people employed
for one of these grand occasions, per-
haps the head walters duty is the most
strenuous and exacting, for the sue
cess of the banquet depends very
largely on the manner and method of
it's service. Under his command are
hundred men trained with military
precision, each to know his exact place
and duty and to attend to that alone.
The good and faithful waiter might be
the only man in the field of action, 50
indifferent is he to everything outside
his own particular sphere.
Close to the banquet hall are several
"bases of delivery from the kitchen,
where long rows of walters stand as
each course is served, watching for the
signal to pass the steaffiifis dishes &c
other walters who in turn put them on
the tables The signal is given by an
electric light which the head waiter
flashes by pressing button in any part
of the banquet room. 1t shows stimuli
taneously in the kitchen and at the
slides just outside the dining room
doors, so that there shall not be an in
stant's delay but each successive
course shall appear and vanish as IL
at the waving of a magic wand.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22

lamar Agha, wealthy Kurd, has
taken a bride for his son STA Mahomet,
and along with the governor, city Of
ficials, Kurdish Aghas and Begs, /
was invited to the festivities. In front
of the Isouse a band of fifty young
kurds in picturesque costume were
dancing to the pounding of a drum.
Entering the house we were conducted
to the guest room, where we were re-
ceived by the old Agha Tamar.
THE guest room was about sixteen
by eighteen feet in size, well carpeted
with Persian rugs. There We're three
modern windows, set with glass and
capable of being opened. These were
however, sealed up air tight and it
was a warm day, and there was stove
in the room not quite red hot. Besides
the stove there We're fifty guests in
the room, all of them except the mis-
sionary smoking. Perhaps you can
imagine the atmosphere. The stove
was finally carried out, not because
of the heat, but TO make room for the
dancers.
"These We're young Kurds handsome
fellows, in flowing and highly colored
garments. They danced, sometimes
one alone, sometimes two or three to-
gether. Flirting bright colored ker-
chiefs with the tips of his fingers. the
dancer first postures with the upper
part of his body, and then, as the flute
shrills louder, he keeps time to it
in a slow measured tread of the feet,
moving in a circle about the room.
One young man gave a sword dance.
He was handsome fellow with smiling
lips, sparkling eyes and a daredevil
/ face marred by scars which suggested
sword play of more serious sort Then
| there were Kurdish songs of war and
of love.
"These performances were kept up,
without intermsson, for two hours.
Then came dinner. Servants brought
in large pewter trays which were set
on low stools. The guests seated them
selves on the floor around these trays,
each one being supplied with large
Turkish towel and a spoon. There were
ten courses, each brought in upon a
handsome metal dish Without excep-
| ton the food was toothsome; meats
and soups, vegetables, preserves and
sweetmeats, cooked after a manner un-
| known to us, and differently served
but all delicious. There were also
sheep curds, cold, tart and delicious
| to the taste, and bread which is un-
surpassed in the world. 1t is thin as
a wafer, thoroughly baked, crisp and
with flavor all it's own. Some one
and make his fortune.
"Tea was served to us when we
came, and after dinner. the trays hav-
Ing been removed and the guests seat
ed comfortably on the cushions. Turk
ish coffee was served in dainty little
cups, An American cannot but be inn
pressed with the complete lack of self
consciousness, embarrassment anc
awkwardness in a gathering of this
FfTN1 fraM 80 q
town of the Kurds. This was true OF
host and guests, dancers and servants
everything was simple, hearty and free
There We're no women present, and the
bride was not introduced at all. II
fact she had not yet been brough
from her home. This was reserved foI
the second day of the feast, the com
pany going in procession to escort he,
to the home of her husband"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
Had a Small
Joke ON Spring

HERE have been grave allega-
tions for some time that the New
York Tenderloin is getting slow.
Late one recent afternoon d faithful
policeman picked up about twelve
dozen wire springs from bed belong
ing to a Brooklyn man which had been
dropped by a careless truckman at
Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth street.
The springs were taken to the Tender
loin station The moment he set eyes
on them Sergt. Mccarthy spoke up,
without a moments hesitation:
"Ha, spring is here"
Two minutes later Acting Captain
Mccain came in. From the bright
light that slowly overspread his face it
was evident that he was awaiting a
chance to distinguish himself. And
when there was a complete lull I'M the
conversation Acting Captain McCann
declared openly:
"Ha, spring is here"
Say, yelled Sergt. Mccarthy to the
doorman, leave those springs in full
view here. Well see how many others
are fioored with this spring thought"
About everybody who came in used
the springs. BY 10 o'clock small
group hung around the Fifth avenue
people who drifted in. They noted the
bright light breaking upon the faces of
every person the moment his eyes fell
upon the springs. End always 1t came
out in one form or another: Spring is
here!"
A professional bondsman, who knows
that not great deal of conversation
is allowed to him in the station, could
not hold himself in check. He had to
get it out:
"Ah. there is spring even in the Ten
derloin."
| The families Of two raided disorderly
houses saw their chance and seized it,.
Even a drunken woman, sent up from
| the West Twentieth street station,
gazed fixedly at the wire tangles, and,
shutting one eye, whispered over the
desk:
"Sho-oh! it's shpring here, is it?'
| BY IL o'clock the spring chestnut had
become so wearisome that Sergt Nc
Carthy commanded the doorman to
take the bundle OF wires into the cellar.
"Get 'em out of my sight" he COM
planned "B' gee, I'll be dreamin' about
springs this night. Talk about the Tin
derloin bein slow It's the quickest lot
of folks in the city"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
HUNDRED DOLLARS a pla

A. HUNDRED DOLLARS plate
n may seem a rather oxtravagant
dinner bill, yet 1t is by no means
a rare one Forty, fifty and sixty dol
lars q. plate are quite ordinary charges
for twentieth century banquets. Even
the widest imagination, of course
could hardly conjure up list of deli
cacies expensive enough to foot up such
an amount, and 1t would be difficult TO
conceive of an appetite so expensive to
satiate.
Nightingale's tongues and humming
birds wings, washed down with the
costliest of wines, would not satisfy the
up-to-date diner, however. The caterer
does not depend entirely upon his cher
and his steward for the success of great
Functions" Artists and mechanical
geniuses are his chief assistants; he
must be able to transform banquet
hall into plaza in Venice, corner OF
old Japan, or an ancient Greek or Ro-
man palace, as his guests tastes or
whims may dictate.
The fads of millionaires and the
fancies Of clubs and societies, always
seeking the unusual, have brought TO
pass the ndred-dollar-a-plate dinner.
The production of the surroundings
they demand necessitates the outlay OF
thousands of dollars for each separate
banquet-it would never do &c nave
two banquets alike, as goes without
saving. There was recently given in
the new Hotel Astor in New YORK city
bachelor dinner at which the guests
were seated in corner of Venice; the
effect was a. masterpiece of scenic art
and electrical ingenuity, and that, quite
as much as the rich viands. was what
the host wanted and was paying for.
The doors along the corridor at the
sides of the great banquet hall were
removed and in their places balustrades
were set to give the appearance OF
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
THEY ALWAYS AGREE

/ do not always quite agree
With what she may propose,
But though ii may seem wrong to me
You bet 1t always goes.
] am not one to veX my wife
With endless contradiction.
or cloud the gentle creatures life
By harsh, unkind restriction.
If Emma Jane prefers her club
To staying home at night,
She knows full well her loving hub
VIII tell her it's all right:
And if she hates to have me smoke,
Why. then, | loath to tease. her.
Why should | any storm evoke?
It's easier to please her.
And so / live in happiness
No jarring or contention;
None of the clashes that distress
Some couples l could mention.
| don't require her to obey
Her will would not break it,
j always let her have her way
Because l know she'd take II.
Chicago News.