Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-24

Chorus: (All double-forte.)
Three frenzicd lads who all unwary
Hope next year the town to carry;
Thinking votes the past will bury
Three from the self-same school,
Three of the bath house pool!'
[Selection from the revised ''Mlkado," sung
with great success at the ocean beaches]
1t was sunrise. The first suggestion of
a warm Tuesday had been duly heralded
by the town Waterman in the city of
Ocean Park.
Suddenly telephone bell rang. 1t was
the home of Dana Burks, mayor OF the
fourishing beach city-mayor by virtue
of his Craftsmanship in the board of trus-
tees. At the far end of the line stood
Force Parker. trustee.
accept my resignation" was the mes
sage.
write it," suggested the chairman.
And write 1t he did, sending 1t In by
messenger. And now, alas, the destinies
of the city by the sea are temporarily
guided by only three citizens, where less
than thirty-six hours ago there were
five.
Few there are who believe that the
disturbances at Ocean Park will bring on
civil war, but at the same time 1t is not
improbable that the courts will even
oSNeANAAASA@N
the widely exploited difficulties which
have arisen in the municipal administra-
ton during the incumbency of the (pasO
present board.
Tt is all about the failure of the city
trustees to call a special election WITHIN
sixty days to allow the people to decide
for or against the disincorporation of the
city.
The board took UP the petition, after
long delay, on Monday night and with an
excruciating sense of irony decided that
there should be special election by all
means. then selected the second Tuesday
of the fourth month of the year lsOS as
the logical date of holding the same.
whereat the petitioners ragged and
fumed that date being the same on
which the terms of the present admins
traitors expire.
Two Trustees Resign
David Evans, trustee, wouldn't stand
for it, and resigned instanter.
Yesterday incoming Chairman-Mayor
Burks received the resignation or force
Parker, trustee.
So the administration now consists OF
Chairman Burks, Trustee Jones and Trus-
tee Robinson, who have the power to ap-
point successors to Messrs. Evans ana
Parker, and who are declaring that the
citizens of Ocean Park have no fear that
only Representative liSll WAL pS N'ONSA4
to fill these offices.
On Top of all Mr.. Burks says he will
be candidate for reelection next April
and will win by a great majority.
II will be a warm contest from now on
There Is something in the law about spec
ial elections and those who are opposing
the board of trustees led 1t is supposed
by Abbot Kinney and his friends, aver
that they will go to court and ask for a
writ compelling the board to set the date
ahead about seven months.
Mr.. Kinney is the father of Venice and
has a large following.
Burks Calls 1t Malice
Strong are the complaints lodged
against the present trustees, but on the
other side is Chairman Burks declaring
the whole scheme for a special election
"a plain. case of malice, jealousy and
envy" and calling Mr.. Kinney "a shrewd
politician making a big bluff and work
ing wires from behind the scenes to in
flame lot of paid hirelings to rouse the
people to act against the best interests
of the CITY, but very much to the interest
of himself and his fortune"
Chairman Burks when asked why the
board disregarded the desire of the petit
TONERS replied: Because We do not be-
Iieve that majority of the people of
ocean Park are In sympathy with the
movements LIldI 10 OIlS ASdSOA'
"The other is that by putting the cleo
ton off until next April 1t will give the
sound-thinking populace of our city a
chance to inquire into the situation and
by doing so overcome by their own OBJ
eervations the arguments advanced by
the Undergraduates. Personally 1
will leave the soundness of our stand to
the people by becoming a candidate for
reelection next April. And L expect to
win by great majority"
But all this is only the beginning of
the nixup. Verify, trouble breweth!
1t is emphatically claimed by the adj
herents of Mr.. Kinney and set forth by
them in a sizzling statement published
after a recent meeting in the chamber of
commerce that the people Of Ocean Park
"are not represented by the present trus-
tees" and that on the petition to disin-
corporate there were more names than
there were voters at the last municipal
election Yet the petition was ignored.
Says 1t Wouldn't Garry
"But," says the chairman of trustees,
s.the chances are ten to one that the plan
to disincorporate would not carry in a
thousand years.
"The whole proposition is so utterly
absurd to the careful thinking people of
ocean Park" declares Mr.. Burks, that
it is not worth discussing"
In the statement TeIerTeu 10, duuTeSSeu
to the people of Santa Monica bay, the
protesting element go so far as to accuse
the trustees of treason. This occurs in
the seventh clause of the protest, which
reads:
"And above all other things we dis
approve the protest against the action of
the city trustees in taking over without
consideration the entire sewage of the
old city of Santa Monica and dumping
the same on our beach to our great loss
and injury This is the third summer
that this wrong has been continued 1t
was done by a board Of trustees, all Of
whom were then stockholders in the
ocean Park bath house 1t has been con-
tinued under the constant protest of the
citizens of the city of Ocean Park and
has never been asked for by any body
of citizens anywhere.
"The great volume of Santa Monica
sewage forced through the Inadequate
mains and plant OF Ocean Park, which
was not planned for this large neighbor-
ing city deteriorates our plant, threat
ems our great cement walk and involves
an unjustified cost for repair and re-