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Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
To JOIN WELLMAN
IN HUNT FOR POLE
Major Hersey, Member Of Arctic Expe-
dtlon, Expects to Reach Goal
Within Thlrty-slx Hours After
Leaving spltzbergen
By Associated Press.

by Associated Bress'
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1S.-Maj. II.
B. Hersey, United States weather
bureau inspector, who arrived yester-
day. discussed the plans OF the Well
man Arctic expedition, which will take
the aerial route to the pole and of
which he will be the second In COM
mand. Mai HeIsey is here on his an
nual tour of inspection, having visited
the weather bureaus of the northwest.
In speaking of the preparations Tor
the trip to the pole, Maj. Hersey said
that headquarters for the expedition
were established on Spitzbergen Islands
last year. Supplies were brought to
the uninhabted islands from France
and Norway, machine shops and bal
loon sheds have been built and n
staunch Arctic ice vessel purchased as
tender for the airshlp.
The ship is diriglble balloon, with
n bag 165 feet long and car 100 feet
long. The lifting power is $4,000 pounds.
The airship will be equipped with
power to drive her for fifteen days, but
under ordinary conditions 1t will take
but thirty-six hours to make the trip.
The airship is now on the way to Nor
way, and Maj. Hersey will join the eX-
pedition in the spring in time for the
early trials.
The major says he hopes If everything
goes well to reach the north pole in
thirty-six hours from Spitzbergen, Nor
way.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
QUESTION OF GAS

The local gas service question is too
important to be handled inconsider-
ately. even by jealous citizens who
mean we'll It is truly "a condition,
rot theory, that confronts us" in this
matter. Next to the water and trans
portation service, the gas supply is the
most important utility that Los Angeles
has to deal with.
What citizens want in this respect is
an adequate supply Of good gas at a
reasonable price. They do not seek a
quarrel with the present purveyors Of
the commodity; nor do they desire to
engage in the gas making business.
They have not the millions of dollars
available for either buying the existing
plant or installing a new one. Even II
they had barrels Of surplus cash they
would he loath to take the risk of plac-
ing so much additional power in the
hands Of the chief rulers of Los Ange-
les-the manipulators of the politico-
railway machine, or so-called "organ-
ization."
It is serious question In the minds
OF thoughtful citizens whether. in view
Of political conditions in this city, It
would not be jumping from the frying
pan into the fire" to introduce munich
PAL management of the gas service.
Los Angeles must have a satisfactory
gas supply. That proposition is indis-
putable, but considerate citizens doubt
the wisdom of trying the costly expert
ment of municipal operation of a plant,
If good service can be had otherwise.
The Herald introduced the attack on
the gas company but 1t is considerate
enough to recognize the extraordinary
conditions that have prevailed this
winter conditions which, If foreseen,
would have been a warning to flll our
coal bins last summer.
The worst is over, probably, in the
annoyance to which we all have been
subject this winter in the matter of gas
service. Before entering upon the ques-
tionable project of municipal gas. let
us give the gas company chance to
redeem its promises to make the service
satisfactory to the public. That would
be in accordance with the common rule
of fairness. Then if the promise fails of
redemption, it will be time enough to
consider the municipal experiment.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
The MODERN LocHlNvAR

When young LochinYar rode out from the
west
lie claimed that his automobile was the
best;
1t was painted dark red and it brilliantly
Shone:
He fired his chauffeur and ran II alone!
He shot over ruts with zipp and jar
And people fed madly from young
Lochlnyar.
With a whirr of his wheels and a hum Of
his cogs
He knocked down the children and ran
over dogs
lie frightened the horses and laughed at
their pranks,
And men who got angry he looked on as
cranks,
He gave her the very last notch on the
bar.
Lochinyar.
lie stayed not at bridges, he stopped not
for stone,
He calmly took all of the road as his own
TIL he came to a crossing and smashed
through gate
And endeaVOred to butt through train
load OF freight
They searched, and at last lying under
car,
They found a few chunks of the bold
LoehlnYar.
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
LIMIT OF RUFFIANISM

Californians, always optimistic, had
presumed that in the case of preced-
ing Republican legislatures the limit
of shamelessness had long since been
reached and that as a consequence
they could not do any worse, no mat
ter whom they elected as members Of
the California assembly.
But they were mistaken. The pres
ent assembly. scarce three weeks in
session, has already exceeded all past
efforts in legislative graft and general
ruffianism.
The San Francisco Chronicle, a Re-
publican organ, reports that 1.-THE SEN
ate met this morning and listened to
prayer by Chaplain Darling"-the same
Darling who made such humorous
prayers at the beginning of the session
| that the senatorial outlaws were only
restrained by the presidents gavel-
! from which the name of the Sevior
of the world was carefully omitted" "
This was to be expected from such
chaplain but it appears that in per-
forming this remarkable act he was
carrying out the orders of certain ser
ators. for it is recorded that Senator
Wolfe of San Francisco, acting on be-
half of some of the senators, event so
far as to call the chaplain's attention"
and to suggest the omission.
1.-The rest of us would like to be ex-
cused," said Senator Wolfe, from any
further references to the Man of Naz-
areth."
And this in the great and glorious
state of California-not in mining
camp or on the desert, but in the city
of Sacramento and by a senator from a
city that was once the metropolis of the
state,
But the Chronicles report does not
stop there 1t proceeds to say that
following the prayer Lieutenant Gov
ernor Porter reminded the senators
that they should rise and address the
chair when doing a little thing like pre-
senting a bill which they wished to
become a law of the state. But the free
and easy manners of a gentleman's
club continued to prevail until Sena-
tor Muenter of Stockton unbottled for
himself the Walls of executive wrath
by calling ON a page instead of the
chair for recognition when he had a
bunch Of bills to introduce. Muenter
was called down by name"
And this is the assembly which the
Republicans Of California, acting at
the dictation Of the Southern Pacific
machine, fought so hard to elect and
expressed so much joy over their sue
cess.
The Herald calls the attention of all
decent Republicans to the uneXampled
shamelessness of this assembly to the
end that at the next election there
may possibly be instituted some spirit
ed reforms. A legislature that "khows
not God or his Christ" and that does
not understand or appreciate the COM
moncst courtesies or refinements of
| civilization does not represent Cali
fornia and is a disgrace to the state.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

sojourners- the exeorable con-
dition Of most of the city's streets.
The situation in this respect is abso-
lutely inexcusable. The most enthu-
siastic citizen is not courageous enough
to attempt a defense Of the condition
Of our thoroughfares. Any effort at
excuse meets with a result like that
Of a person caught in quagmire-
the more he struggles the deeper he
sinks.
The abominable condition OF our
streets this winter will cost. in the
direct effect abroad, a great deal more
than It would have cost to make the
city a model of cleanliness. 1t is
known that many tourists intending
to remain here throughout the winter
have turned in disgust from our filthy
streets and hurried away to more in
viting localities And there is no
doubt that some capitalists have re-
celved such unfavorable impressions
of the city because of its neglected
streets as to cause a change of pur-
pose in the matter of investments.
Los Angeles might study with profit
the conclusion arrived at a few days
ago by the board of trade of Redlands.
1t was, as expressed by a prominent
member that "the best way to ad-
vertise Redlands is to beautify the
clty--the streets and home places and
public places" Instead of sending
money to eastern publications for ad-
vertising purposes the policy was ad-
vocated of devoting expenditures for
advertising purposes to the improve
ment of streets, the planting of trees
and in every way possible adding to
the beauties and attractiveness of the
town"
1t is folly for Los Angeles to make
expensive efforts to attract visitors
without first providing some induce
ment for them to remain. Persons
abroad will continue to be attracted
by descriptions of our normal climate
and by illustrations of our splendid
business and residential structures,
but all such attractions are lost sight
of when the stranger sinks ankle deep
in mud on prominent streets.
The streets of Los Angeles should
be kept as clean and tidy as the streets
of leading eastern cities. The ques-
ton of cost is a secondary matter
This winter we are literally driving
thousands of visitors from the city
by the intolerable conditions in ques-
ton, for which there is not, and can
not be, any valid excuse.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
TOURISTS AND BAD STREETS

Los Angeles is getting a great deal
OF free advertising this winter. East
ern people are writing letters to their
friends at home descriptive of expert
ence in the metropolis of the LAND of
sunshine" Eastern newspapers also
are enriched in the correspondence de-
pertinent, 10 some extent, by vivid
word pictures of winter scenes in the
city whore angelic wings presumably
huuer
But the value of this class of free
advertising is questionable, to say the
least, 1t tells Of rain, mud, cold and
other elements of human discomfort.
The business motto that 1T pays TO
advertise a good thing" is a misfit in
this instance. Los Angeles surely Is
entitled to laudation. but the least
said the better about it's chief char
acteristics in this remarkable season.
Los Angeles deserves all the caustic
criticism that it is getting for the chief
source Of complaint on the part of
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
AFTER RAIN. BUSINESS

Not in a dozen years, at least, has
business in Los Angeles been handi-
capped in the early weeks of a year as
it has been to date in 1907. Since the
holidays it is doubtful if there have
been two consecutive days of even fair
ly pleasant weather. Scarcely a day
has passed without more or less rain
fall and intervals of pleasant street
walking, as all mud-waders know, have
been extremely rare. AS for sunshine,
it has been as rare as sacks of coal
labeled "for sale"
All classes of business have suffered
throughout the present month by reason
of the almost incessant rain, but in
certain lines of business the conditions
have been almost prohibitive. In the
real estate line, particularly, the un-
favorable weather has been a serious
handicap. Suburban lot tracts have
been almost inaccessible in some To-
calities and most of them repelled visits
of purchasers by their muddy outlook.
Even in the central parts of the city
the condition of rain and mud dam
pened the desire of investors to inves-
tigate offers
The stores and shops usually are
crowded with customers in the weeks of
January, attracted by the reduced
prices offered in clearing sales. The
fact that such business has been fairly
active, despite the wretched weather,
shows what might have been expected
under favorable conditions.
But the enforced lull in business thus
far in the month will necessarily be
followed by a degree of activity in
tensive enough to make up for lost
time. Customers for real estate or for
merchandise do not abandon their pur-
pose because disagreeable weather
keeps them within doors. They bide
their time and wait patiently for the
clouds to roll by.
Bible readers will remember the di-
vine promise to Noah, neither shall
there any more be a flood to destroy
the earth" The "land of sunshine" is
not "a delusion and a snare" as some
sojourners have been led to suspect.
The extraordinary rainfall of this sea-
son, in duration rather than in vol
ume, will be succeeded by the glorious
normal conditions that have made our
climate famous throughout the world.
And with the coming of settled and
salubrious weather the wheels of Los
Angeles business will revolve with a
degree of rapidity necessary to make
good the loss Of time caused by rain.
mud and general wretchedness.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
Personals

a. A. Robinson of Tucson, Arizona, n
prominent banker, is at the Hollenbeck.
Francis j. Baker of the Baker Iron
works of San Francisco is at the Van
Nuys.
Clarence c. Howard, president of the
American Steel company of st. Louis,
is at the Alexandria.
II. d. Wright, IL prominent lumber
man of Seattle, Wash, and Mrs. Wright
are at the Hollenbeck.
W. f. Stevens, proprietor of Hotel
Stevens and Hotel Seattle, Seattle,
Wash, is at the Hollenbeck.
Bryce w. Turner, superintendent of
Schwab's Montgomery Shoshone mine
at Rhyolite, is at the Alexandria.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Hordes of Eugene,
Ore. are at the Hollenbeck, accompa-
MED by Mrs, Joseph Peroin. Mr.. Hodes
is an extensive hop grower.
C. r. Daniel, a prominent real estate
operator of Lethbridge, Alberta, Cam
ada, is at the Westminster, accom-
panied by Mrs. Lethbridge.
Charles Gates and his party went
around the kite shape track yester-
day in their private car, Constitution"
and today they will leave for San Fran
cisco and thence back to New York
Mr.. and Mrs. William Stansbury. Mrs.
d. w. Korm, Mrs. T. e. Tetherstone
and Mr.. and Mrs. f. A. Cleland COM
pose party OF New Workers at the
Hollenbeck. They are enjoying a pleas
ure trip through the coast states.
A. b. Green, assistant manager of
Alpine tavern is at the Westminster.
Mr.. Green started for Mount Lowe yes
terday, but because of the snow on the
mountains he coulC not make the trip
He says there has not been so much
snow for eighteen years. 1t is five or
six feet deep in some places.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
STEAMER FROZEN FAST
IN COLUMBIA RIVER
BY Associated Press.

PORTLAND, Jan. 1S.-The steam
ship Colombia of the San Francisco and
Portland Steamship company's line is
still fast in the ice three miles above
st. Heens in the Columbia river.
The steamer Roanoke of the North
Pacific Steamship company is also tied
up at st. Helens. The temperature is
rising on the upper river and a change
in the situation is looked for soon.
With a rapid thaw and the volume of
heavy ice in the river at all points
above, considerable damage may result.
The dams will give way and the ice
will come down in a bunch.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
The Lesson of the Rain

Who said there wasn't any sun
Because the clouds obscured it?
Who said the rain would never cease
When hard twas to endure it?
The sun came out. a golden orb:
The sky was bright with splendors;
The rain has passed and is forgot
Save by its own defenders.
When life is dull and dark and grim;
When all seems gray and dreary,
Remember this: The sun will shine
Sometime, all bright and CHEEKY.
w. II. c.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
APPEALS TO GERMAN
EMPEROR FOR RELEASE
BY Associated Press.

NORFOLK, Neb., Jan. 1S.-Joseph
Holdoeblo, an inmate of the state asy-
lum here, has appealed to the emperor
of Germany to secure his release.
Holdoeblo is q German citizen.
For two years the question of Holdoe-
bios sanity has been under discussion.
His friends assert that he is perfectly
sane and different physicians have so
pronounced him. Holdoebler says he
is a victim of a plot on the part of
relatives.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
Interests Anuelenos

Earle r, Clemens, who came down
from Rhyolite to tell Angelenos q little
the Rhyolite board of trade. says he
thinks he will have all Los Angeles up
there, Judging by the crowds that have
attended his illustrated lectures in the
chamber of commerce the last two
days.
MIR. Clemens has been telling the peo-
pie that the Bullfrog district is the
greatest thing that has ever happened
in Southern Nevada, and apparently
they are taking his word for It. He will
give another lecture this morning be-
tween IL and 10 O'Clock.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
Postpones Brownsville Probe
By Associated Press.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-The senate
today deferred further action on the
Brownsville matter until Monday. 1t
passed bill for the relief of the earth
quake smitten at Jamaica, adopted a
resolution directing an investigation of
the lumber trust and passed a bill
increasing the artillery corps of the
army,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

Below zero in Spokane, the middle
west under a blanket of ice, New York
and Florida frost bitten, while Jamaica
and Cuba have troubles of their own.
This is still the only real winter resort
on the map.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
Homeseeksrs. Cub Toniahf.

Every one desiring to secure farm home
in California is invited to the meeting at
o'clock this evening in Home Extension Hall,
chamber OF Commerce. Fourth new town and
colony now being formed. also the Los Ange-
les Acre Lot Club. Land distributed at whole
.ale TO members Come and learn.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

The persistence of the crossing squad
is most commendable; in the face of re-
peated difficulties it stuck to its work,
Now il has a chance to accomplish
some permanent good.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
Come In Private Car

A private car company which arrived
at the Van Nuys yesterday from San
Francisco en- route to Mexico for n
pleasure trip is composed of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Martin, Miss Crocker,
Miss Jolliffe and Messrs. Mutually and
Simpkins.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
The Incomplete Letterist

Hubby-Wife, dear. why are you
frowning so over that letter you're
writing?
Wifey-Oh, l carefully said every
thing I had to say before l signed it,
and now [ can't think of a thing for the
DISQUALIFICATION Transcript
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

Good roads enthusiasts viii meet
next week 10 plan boulevards, When
will good streets enthusiasts get to-
gether on the paving proposition?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
JAPANESE TRAINING SHIPS
RETURN TO NIPPON
BY Associa ted Press.

TOXIC, Jan. 1S.-The training squad
ron which sailed for Honolulu January
Is is now returning to Yokosuka. The
squadron encountered a severe storm
lasting three days. The masts of the
vessels were broken and other damage
was sustained. No details have been
received here.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

Miss Ellen Terry says the civilized
part of the United States is east Of
Chicago and north of Washington one
is willing to indorse the first part of her
assertion, If she will begin again west
of Cook county.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

The San Francisco school row has at
last broken into the courts-where it
belonged all the time. Now a satisfac-
tory solution may be expected.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

A good many soubrettes in Paris who
have enjoyed the Congos illegitimate
pold has surrendered his grip on that
benighted region. But no one else will.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

That man overcome by gas couldn't
tell where it came from. There is no
difficulty nowadays telling where il
doesn't come from-the pipes.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

However, that Canadian is not the
only man who has had fits because of
Los Angeles gas.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

Ascot park is now officially in the
city and its booze supply is threatened
accordingly. Ascot without booze will
soon close up.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

Another message from Roosevelt is
promised. He seems determined to pass
into history as the greatest message
president of the age.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

A Russian town reports an earth
quake Sure it wasn't merely a bomb
explosion in a neighboring settlement?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

1t must be delightful for belated east
erners to Chamber off BLOODHOUND trains
into such day as was yesterday
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

It must make the Snooze feel like a
penny whistle in a circus to notice how
little attention is paid to it's owens
river knocks.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

No one believed that a congressman
really was bashful; this increase in
salaries shows that it was all only a
bluff.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

Good bouevards are all right, but
good streets are the most pressing need
in Los Angeles right now
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

congressman have got over their
bashful spirit, it seems. They have now
voted to increase their own salaries.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

That great rush of bills spoken of at
Sacramento of course has no reference
to the sort that pass as currency.
Oh, no!
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

Cincinnati is threatened by a flood.
Cincinnati is a pretty dirty town and
needs it's annual bath badly.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

The chances are that the heavens just
leaked themselves out; another rain will
fall when they catch up.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

A Russian official was slain by
school boy. Queer things they teach in
school over there.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

Certainly give congressman more
salary; they are entitled to it.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

More official steps toward the COM
pletion of the owens river aqueduct and
things begin to look like actualities.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

Will the Snooze now kindly throw a
few more fits? The route of the Owens
river conduit has been decided upon.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

Go out and look at the snow on the
mountains That's what they are get
ting back east. Like to be there?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

Still no one regrets that the weather
man guessed wrong yesterday.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

When it comes to real weather Los
Angeles still is able to offer the best.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

The outfall sewer will be finished this
year, it is declared. Well, here's hop
ing that it will beat the Panama canal,
anyhow.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

This bright and snappy weather ought
to put even the easterner in good humor
again.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

King Leopold having surrendered the
Congo, justice to the natives is possible
at last.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

For once, Wollaber was wrong on his
rain predictions. How delightful
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
Population of Los Angeles. Isl, ,463

The licorice paste trust has been
stuck.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

Nothing the matter with this weather.
Is there?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
Not Asleep, Though Snoren

George Snoren is going to leave for
Minneapolis the first part of next
month. We hear he feels kind of dis
couraged, as he says there is nothing
in it for him in this holy part of tho
country.-Olivia (Minn) Review.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

due the credit that the affair was one
without a flaw.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

AS If the czar We're not maligned
enough he is now said to write poetry.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

This Hartman row gives John d. a
well earned rest, anyhow.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
Pi-LineS and Pick-UpS
Since the pain

Take away my goloshes;
Put my rubbers in the shed:
My umbrellas In the closet
And my cravanette rye shed.
Get my new suit from the taIlor's.
Let the Niger shine my shoes;
Fetch my plug hat from the corner.
Brush tho dust off-from dlsuse.
For the sun is shining gayly
For the first time since / came:
Folks parading out in Broadway;
QUICK! | want I'm on the game.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

~ oaIrle Nation says she would vote
we we republican ticket If she lived in
~ ". ,.osui,Ilston' That's all right-only
'hey don't vote in Washington.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

some women are so jealous they won't
opportunity. e'"0i"'c ~"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

chicago is looking for the prettiest
s~oi,an so.,, IN town. She is judged by her
features, not by her feet. bv the w9v.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
A Kentucky farmer has dug up a POI
of gold. From his mint bed, eh?

Lemons are going up. They are
scarce because so many are handed.
perhaps