Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-11
Monster Meeting Is
Held at Simpsons
Lee Gates, William MulhoIland, Frank
: Tyrrell and Others Address En-.
thusiastlc Audience - All
Vote "Aye" for Bonds

: clIeered for Owens river for the bonds,
! for "Bill" Mulholland and for Mr..
Gates. Then, in response to a call for
{ a vote, every man and woman in the
crowd voted AYE" for the bonds,
demand for the negative being met
only with silence and then-laughter.
II was the last big meeting of the
Owens river campaig. Tonight Messrs.
Mulholland and Lippincott Will speak at
the University of Southern California,
hit that meeting will not be held un-
der the auspices of the campaign COM
naittee. Last night also an open air
meeting was held in the Plaza, at which
addresses were made in Spanish as
well as in English, but the Simpson
auditorium gathering was the main
meeting and 1t attracted pig attend
ance.
! Rev. Baker P. Lee presided and be-
fare he arose to introduce the first
speaker practically every seat on the
ground floor of the big assembly room
was occupied while the balcony also
was packed with interested audltors'
There was a fair sprinkling of women
in the audience. but by far the biggest
part of the crowd was made up OF reg
istered voters.
Audience Enthusiastic
:Of the many meetings held last
nights probably was the most entnu-
siastfc. In the same auditorium which
2, few nights before had witnessed the
discontinue of the antis-or auntles,
as they might appropriately be termed
"a large audience of discriminating
men and women applauded and cheered
the several speakers in way that leit
NO nossibility of doubt as TO the sentl- |
ments entertaied.
Annlause was frequent and prolonged
throughout the evening, but II re-
rnained for Lee c. Gates, the last
SPEAKER on the program. to arouse the
audience to it's highest pitch of enthu-
siaam Mr.. Gates. near the close of his
address delivered a vivid apostrophe
to a drop Of wter, tracing the course
of the moisture from the time II was
taken I'D from the earth by the sun S
rays, CONCEALED by the colder strata OF
the upper air, deposited on the Sierra
a crest as snow, inert and apparently
: dead, only to spring into renewed llte
" at the kiss of the summer sun; and 10
b go purling, dancing, leaping madly
v down the mountains side into the vail
"a lew below there to be caught up py
at man TRANSPORTED for hundreds OF miles
81 in the owens river aqueduct and ultl-
e mately to do its share IN making
rs Southern California an earthly para
{, disc. % 1t.
III.
address with rare feeling and his words
were distinctly audible in every part OF
the big auditorium. 1t was poetlcaI
effort and the audience cheered MIN
and cheered him again.
|, Before he introduced Frank u. Tyr
rell as the first speaker of the evening
the Rev. Baker P. Lee himself spoke
briefly in favor of the bonds. He said
! that in Los Angeles pretty much every
body seemed to be talking water. In
fact. the city appeared to him to be an
s ideal place in which to hold a conven-
J ton of the w. c. 7. U. Then he re-
marked that he had come here from
Kentucky, state in which Water-and
when he got that far the crowd laughed. |
( "You can laugh il you WILL he re-
Joined quickly but 1 want to say to
| YOU that all this hard drinking COM
monty attributed to Kentuckians is
Inothing in the world but pure moon
tshine."
l The audience caught the joke and
llaughed again.
q Later in his talk he again raised a
11augh, though unintentionally. He had,
q he said, been out in the country play
! ing golf, when he CHANGED to notice
) a field covered with piles of wheat or
a sheaves of hay, he didn't quite know
i which, but at any rate the sight had
d reminded him of the great possibili
= Ties OIL IH6 country WuGil 1iIl5dbcu
Ewfth Owens river water. The 'sheaves
{ of hay were too much for a few men
ain the audience wh1 had been brought
I UP outside of the cities, but the
nspeaker's point suffered not a whit
4 from his unfamiliarity with agricul-
Atural methods.
3 $50 to the Polls"
4 Before introducing the first speak
Her. said Mr.. Lee, in conclusion, Il
Il want to say to you: Go to the polls.
III firmly believe that the vote to be
= cast next Wednesday will be ten to
); one for the bonds, but don't you stay
= at home and imagine the other fellow
Il will do the voting for you. He might
rrSnot vote right"
y Frank G. Tyrrell was then intro
= -ttduced. Mr.. Tyrrell is a word painter.
= He dealth very little with dry facts
!, and figures, leaving those for Messrs.
g sMulholland and Lippincott, who were
to follow Instead, he drew picture
= of Los Angeles future as the me-
= tropolis of the Pacific coast and one
= OF The greatest cities in the country,
y the growth made possible by the water
. seesupply to be brought here from Owens
la9val1ey. To the real estate men he said:
i ,s'Little drops of water, little grains of
at1dake a mighty difference in the price of
1f land"
tsand urged them, if they would have
. ireal estate values remain at their pres
tent level to vote and work for the
skOwens river bonds.
X William Mulholland spoke on the
itpresent sources of water supply, de-
h claring that practically all of the
-.-water now used in Los Angeles comes
ofrom the Los Angeles river. In be-
his talk he declared facetious-
ly that he is getting tired of his job.
There's plenty of enthusiasm here
,e tonight" he said, but I've seen just
e as much before, particularly when 1
a,have addressed audiences of work
Iningmen. This is the fourteenth or
h fifteenth speech have been called on
Z to make, and don't believe they're
Unnecessary. 1t seems to me the people
sshave been practically unanimously in
favor OF this thing from the very be-
y ginning"
MuIholIand Talks
< TO illustrate his talk Mr.. Mulhol-
-xland produced a relief map of the Los
Il Angeles basin and showed the head
slwaters of the Los Angeles river. Then
fhe took up the statements made by
z the antis to the effect that an ample