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Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
AS CENTER
OF FINANCE
CITY IS A GIBRALTAR IN
STRENGTH
LOS ANGELES. WITH 4s BANKS, is
Ac SOLID AS A ROCK
An Interesting Chapter on Our city's
stabiIity-Abovs Criticism and
Earning Flattering Conn
ment
A GIBRALTAR
STRENGTH

Coming through the recent financial
furry without a shock or scare. with
confidence reigning supreme, the present
seems an especially fitting time to speak
of Los Angeles as a financial center.
The marvellous growth and expansion
of Los Angeles in recent years has
created a proportionate demand for
money and not only the older banks. but
many new ones have found a profitable
field.
There are forty-six banks in Los An
geles-twenty-seve commercial banks,
thirteen savings banks, and six trust
companies. Two years ago there were
but thirty such institutions. The total
deposits amount to over $1o0,000,0O0.
Twenty yeirs ago the bank clearingB--
in 1SSS-were $S6, 100000. For the clearing
year of 1907, they were $623 100000, an in
crease of more than 1000 per cent. Had
1t not been for the recent disturbances the
increase for the year would have been at
least $780, The following table
shows the clearings by years:
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
ROSEDALE MEMORIAL PARK

river, was built in 1887, and since that
time rlany additions and improvements
have been made, until now it is one Of
the most modern and complete in the
country.
The chapel is for the free use of all
patrons of the cemetery, whether the
remains of loved ones be inferred or
,mated.
The receiving vault is situated in
one of the most beautiful sections of
the cemetery The graceful lines of
Grecian architecture of the Doric order
only serve to heighten the massive
simplicity and beauty of the structure.
No expense has been spared to make
this building one of the finest and most
complete of it's kind to be found any
where. In construction the receiving
vault is OF reinformed concrete and
steel, being absolutely flreproof
throughout. Recent enlargement has
more than doubled its capacity, so that
tire vault will be ample in size for
years to come.
The interior of the building is most
pleasing-ornamental bronze and iron
work, combined with beautiful art
glass and mosaic thing, being used to-
produce simple elegance. Here the re-
mains of loved ones can be placed for
temporary keeping until such time as
final disposition shall have been de-
cided upon.
A separate section of the building
constitutes the columbarium which
contains q large number of spaces or
inches for the permanent preservation
of incinerated remains. The ashes are
placed in strong metal boxes or orna-
m ental urns of special designs, receiv-
ing the best of care under perpetual
guardianship.
The Rosedale Cemetery association isl
twenty-th years old 1t is COM
posed OF substantial and responsible
c liens, possesses ample capital, and
has no bonded or other Indebtedness.
1t is further securely intrenched by its
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
A MILLION
A MONTH
SUCH Is MARVELLOUS BUILDING
RECORD
TOTAL FOR LAST YEAR WAS
OVER s1s,ooo,ooo
Los Angeles Has Showing of Which
She Is Justly Proud for New
Building OPERA
tons

For six years past building in Los An
geles has progressed at the average rate
of over a million dollars a month Last
year 1t was at the rate of million and
half-the total for the twelve months be-
ing over $18,OO0,0O0.
This year the proud average has been
maintained, though the high water mark
has not been reached. The total for the
year, according to the official report, is
s13,S51,S5
Between December 1. 1889, and Novem-
ber 80, 1907, the vast sum Of SIP, ,7O4,466 has
been put into new buildings.
During the municipal year just ended
77OO permits were issued. The buildings
constructed If placed together would have
frontage of more than twenty-five
miles Within the past year more than
400 residences have been built.
There are eleven steel frame structures,
thirteen reinforced concrete buildings,
ten class B brick buildings, twelve
churches, etc,
The ward report for 1867 is as follows:
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

streets of Los Angeles were graded and
asphalt paved during the past year.
This doubles the total asphalted street
measurement.
Fifty and one-half miles of sewers
one-fourth of the entire sewer system
were opened during the year of 1907.
Eight miles of sewers opened in any
one year was the highest record ever
made heretofore. The system totals
219 miles.
Thirty-four miles of streets have
been graded and graveled during the
past year.
Forty eight miles of guttering has
been done.
Forty miles of cement sidewalks have
been laid
ne immense outfall sewer, twelve
miles to the ocean, has been completed.
The city has $50 miles of streets. OF
this number 382 miles are graded, grav-
eled and oiled. There are seventy one
miles of streets asphalt paved.
This year 11.721 electrical permits
were issued, gain of 800 per cent in
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

With the advancement of popular
sentiment there has been allied a COM
pelling desire for the expression of
that sentiment in the highest and most
beautiful concrete form possible. In
place of Golgotha there is given rest
and peace and beauty.
Nowhere is the progress that has
tion than in Rosedale, an endowed
cemetery of the highest type; most ad-
vantageously located, with strong
financial backing. possessing every
element along both practical and ideal
lines, and with clearly defined, stable
icy extending over score of years.
The highest degree of human art and
skill and the enrichment of time, aided
by abundant capital, have given Rose
dale beauty and harmony of design in
which Mature in her visible forms" is
pre-eminent. There is nothing more
beautiful than the highest types of
nature. Progress has brought to man
recognition of this great truth; and
more and more the artificial is being
subordinated to the natural. This is
fully recognized in the controlling pol
icy of Rosedale and the passing years
but add to its charms.
Not alone those whose loved ones
have been laid to rest in Rosedale are
attracted to it, but also those who
cherish the beautiful in nature go
there, seeking place apart from the
conflicts. of daily existence. The liv-
ing as well as the dead, find rest and
peace In this memorial park
The Rosedale Cemetery association
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

was organized in 1884, and location
comprising eighty acres of land was
secured between washington and Pico
streets, over three miles from the busi-
ness center, yet most convenient of
access, either by three lines of street
railroad, or by well-paved avenues.
More than twenty years have been
spent in improving Rosedale, and adj
vantage has been taken of every new
ed approved idea. The lawn system,
together with the endowment plan for
perpetual care and maintenance of the
letery, was early adopted.
These features have proved to be
most attractive and useful Not only
is the proper care assured, but the
work is done on a harmonious and
consistent plan which adds greatly to
the general beauty of the cemetery.
Rosedales endowment fund at the
present time amounts to more than
1926, 900, and is increasing rapidly. The
cemetery association is bound by law
to carry out the provisions of it's con-
tracts for the perpetual care of the
cemetery
Rosedale owns it's own water plant,
pumping from artesian wells an pn-
limited water supply which is sys-
tematically distributed throughout the
grounds. 1t is scarcely necessary to
explain that this Is a very important
consideration in Southern California,
where irrigation is essential during
nearly every month in the year. With
such abundant use of water, the beauty
of Rosedale need never fade.
The cemetery association is pos
sessed >of all adjuncts necessary for the
conducting of a cemetery business,
such as a crematory. a chapel and a
public receiving vault.
The crematory, which was the first
one constructed west of the Mississippi
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
MOST MARVELLOUS CLOCK
IN ALL THE WORLD

Los Angeles is the home of mechanical
marvel at which the whole scientific world
stood aghast when it's perfection was an
nounced--a gearless, one-wheel clock, run
without a spring or the usual cog ar
rangements common to timepieces the
world over.
G. H. Brigden of Brigden e. Petersen,
the popular jewelers. in the Hotel Alexan-
dria, 507 South Spring street, is the in
ventor of this anomaly-a clock OF SO few
parts and such simple mechanism that it
stands as one Of the worlds marvels.
The face of the clock is disc, some
eight inches in diameter, perforated by
sixty quarter-inch holes. Thirty of the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

Some of the large buildings in course of
construction In 1907 are as follows Ham
burger building, Broadway and Eighth
streets, six stories Of steel costing ST.
100000.
Trustee Company building. Broadway,
between Fourth and Fif1a streets, ten
stories, steel and reinforced concrete,
$275, 400
Pease Brothers building, Hill street, be-
tween Sixth and Seventh, steel and rein
forced concrete, eight stories, $780, 600.
Central building, southwest corner Main
and Sixth streets; steel frame, ten stories,
$500 900.
International Savings and Exchange
bank, Temple and Spring streets; ten
stories, $3.50, ,000
Forester building, Broadway, between
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

N NO other way has the de-
n velopment of our higher civil
ization been exemplified to
greater advantage than by the
change in public sentiment re-
TTTT garding cemeteries.
lllll Ignorance and old-itme SUI
perstitions have vanished, and in their
places are enlightened views and ideas
that have combined to make the
grave a cherished connecting link be-
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

tween mortals and that which is be-
yond.
The love of those still among the
living for those who have passed
away is perpetuated and symbolized
in the most ideal manner; the OUT
ward forms Of grief and sympathy
and respect are expressed in a. way
that makes for the uplifting Of hu-
manity and for the enhancement of
the world beautiful.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

large endowment fund, which is au-
thorized by the statutes in the civil
code of the state of California. and
which place the matter of the future
of Rosedale cemetery beyond question
and assures it's perpetuity as burial
place.
forting assurance that no matter what
changes may take place in the growth
of Los Angeles, this cemetery is to be
maintained inviolate as calm and
peaceful Quiet Clry," and each sue
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
lie ward report for 1867 is as follows:

Total Tor one Year. ............ 200 $i3S5I. I54
The following table shows the building
record for the various years from Decem
ber, 1859, to date:
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

or controlled by the city An enormous
amount of work of this kind has been
done during the past year and much
more is projected for the coming year.
During the ten months ending Septem-
Der 80, 1907, nearly 100000 was actually
expended for street improvements in Los
Angeles, divided as follows:
Grading. etc ........................s5 s5s7.5ss sS
Paving, ETC. 4ol 64f w
Sewers s3z'V4z oV
Iotal
The sewer item does not include the
cost of the outfall sewer, but only the
cost of the sewers laid inside the city
limits. For the year the total expendi-
lures will approximate $1,5O0,000
This shows that Los Angeles is maxi
ing an honest attempt to have Its public
Improvements keep pace with the enor-
nous and rapid increase in the popula-
tion-a difficult task under the most Ia
vorable conditions, according to the re-
port of Homer Hamlin, city engineer.
Thirty-six and one-half miles of the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

seven years; 1875 arc lights were in
stalled, bringing the total of lamps in
service to 1895.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

cessive year will but add to the gem
eral beauty and attractiveness of
the place.
The Park
How beautiful: A garden fair is
heaven,
Flowers of all hues, and smiling in
the sun,
where all was waste and wilderness
before.
Wen do We initiate, ye gods of earth,
The great Creator. GOETHE.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-23
Cure of Lung Trouble.

1T is now eleven years since l
had a narrow escape from consump-
tion," writes C. O. Floyd, leading
business man of Kershaw, S. c. Il
had rundown in weight to 1875
pounds, and coughing was constant,
both by day and by night Finally
l began taking Dr. Kings New Dis
coyery, and continued this for about
six months, when my cough and
lung trouble were entirely gone and
| was restored to my normal weight
10 pounds" Thousands of persons
are healed every year. Guaranteed
at Dawson Drug Cos. drug store.
oOc and $1.00. Trial bottle free.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-23
TO ENJOY A GOOD DINNER.
How to Avoid Distress and Indiges-
ton After Eating.

ton After Eating.
Let us show you how to enjoy
good dinner, how to regain the appe-
tite of your childhood, and to relish
your food.
There is no need of any self-deny-
ing diet list, no call for nasty and
disagreeable medicine, no list of
hard exercises; simply a Mona
stomach tablet before each meal,
and one before going to bed, and it
will so strengthen the stomach that
a good dinner will give you pleas
ure and comfort without the least
fear of distress.
The best proof of the value of our
advice is the fact that Dawson Drug
Co. and Peoples Drug Store give a
positive guarantee applying to two
soc boxes of Mi-o-na) that your
money will be refunded unless the
remedy cures. A guarantee like this
must give you confidence in Mi-o-na
stomach tablets.
Mi-o-na is not mere digestive
with only temporary relief, but
specific for al disorders Of the stom
ach, strengthening the digestive or
CANS and making a permanent cure.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-23

Drowned chest
wouldn't | make pretty father?
Why, the first time tried to hold
a baby 1 would let him drop and
break his head. It's Mexico or the
Philippines or dinky old Argentine
for me.
The Indian survives.
The pinto pony grazed around at
his feet, and he pulled his pipe for
minute. And then
"Now, wouldn't it jar you to think
that the Indian has outlived the cow
boy after all? That's the hell of it.
We must go alone. We are the last
of what the literary fellers call a
type. But the old paint-faced In
dams remain, and the government
feeds EN-. That's what makes me
want to go out and"t turn loose this
old gun of mine six times more for
luck. Still, it's all in the game, and
when a man calls the turn wrong
he's got no right to holler when the
dealer rakes in the chips. It's just
a case of betting on the wrong card.
We thought it was going to last for
ever. We thought there was room
enough in other parts of the country
for the fool farmers without their
trying to cut up the big ranches.
That's where we got off wrong. And
the ID Indian, who didn't think,
who didn't have to think, is here,
and we are the ones to go. And
the first son of gun of an Indian
who laughs at me is going to get
what's coming to him. He's going
to get it so the doctors won't be of
much use to him.
Some fellers have been telling
me to give it up and settle down, to
acquire a section of land and raise
a family. Now that sounds good to
a man who has always had police
man to see that he got home all right
every night and who wears slippers
when he goes out on the porch to
get his morning paper, but none of
it for Willie. The old saddle for a
pillow, the ground for a bed and the
long vail OF the coyote to sing me
to sleep. I'd Just as soon be in jail
as cooped up in a cottage. The
stampede, the long, long days on the
Montana trail, the night rides, the
thirst and the hunger and the good
old windy ranges are what call to
me- A man who has had his feet
frozen to his stirrups, who has had
snow blindness and sand blindness,
who has thrown wild steers with his
naked hands and snapped rattle
snakes heads off as a child would
pop a whip would look like fool
beside fireside, with a baby on his
knee.
There was a long pause and the
pipe sent long streamers into the
hazy blue of the sky. He kicked
with his heels in the sand and
watched the sun going down.
well, Wen go up into British
Columbia, maybe. They tell me
there's big ranges up there. Any
way we're not wanted here. It's
skiddoo. Go away, old peoples, go
away. If it wasn't that the Indian
has got the laugh on us at the last
That's the rub. That's the pinch
ing shoe. Still, it all comes to the
same in the end"
He swung himself into the saddle,
and the pony swept across the plain
in a long, easy lope. For miles you
could see him, lonely figure lined
against the sun He disappeared
over a rise in the prairie and the
shadows fell The last of the old
time cowboys had become just
memory.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-23
TO OPEN WITH PRAYER.
Kalamazoo Editor Who Thinks News
paper Men Need 1t.

John A Ross, managing editor of
the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gazette, an
nounced last week that the news de-
partment of the Gazette would be
opened every day in the future with
prayer by himself or ministers OF the
city.
The announcement created consid-
cradle surprise, as Ross until recent
ly expressed but little religious SEN
timent.
II believe that the reporters will
be able to do better work and that
the object of the newspaper will be
more thoroughly reached in this
way than heretofore, said Mr.. Ross.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-23
The AIeanest Man in Texas.

A Texas legislator wants the state
legislature to enact a quart law"
tie says the meanest man that ever
lived was the one who invented the
snort quart bottle. 1t is believed
the proposed law will go through
with a whoop p"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-23
Made Her Omit Talking.

In Milwaukee the other day a man
of the name of Wapp silenced the
scolding of his mOther-in-law By cut
ting off her head with a meat knife
That was really a very rude way of
requesting the lady to quit talking.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-23
SHOES AT $50 A PAIR.
New York Cobbler Is Selling Magic
Shoes to Prominent People.

Shoes to Prominent People.
Magic shoes" at $65 per pair is
what a New York shoemaker has
been selling to certain prominent
people in that city. The shoemaker,
who is certainly entitled to be called
professor, claimed that his shoes
would cure corns, bunions, ingrow-
ing nails, govt and all other ailments
of the feet, and he had among his
customers some men and women
whose names are familiar through
out the country One of his GUS
toners was Bishop Potter, who wore
magic shoes at $65 per pair and
said they gave great relief.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-23
CIGARS GREAT TEMPTERS
TO THEFT AMONG RAILROAD
MEN, 1T IS CHARGED.
Reason for the Railroad Commas
sion's Refusal to Change the
Classification of Cigars in
Rate Schedule.

Rate Schedule.
The state railroad commission mas
lust refused a petition of certain
merchants asking for a change IN !
the classification of cigars which
would have amounted to consider
able reduction in the freight rate
charged on this commodity.
The matter, apparently inslgnlh-
cant in itself. has some interesting
reasons back of it. Under the pres
ent requirements merchants shipping
cigars are compelled not only to box
them, but to "strap and seal them,
which amounts to tying them around
with strong twine or rope and then
sealing the Irvine to the package so
that any tampering with it might be
easily detected. What the merchants
especially sought in this petition was
to get rid of the strapping and seal
ing part of the arrangement, but the
commission has decided that no
change is justified.
All of this precaution is necessi-
tated as the result of human tempta-
ton. When there is practical GER
tainty of detection the packages are
rarely tempered with.
A Great Tempter.
There is no more tempting article
of freight shipped than cigars, said
an old freight claim agent, speak
ing of the matter. That has been
my experience, We have had more
claims for stolen cigars than for the
loss by theft or other cause of any
other one article of freight. Unless
securely packed package of cigars
may be easily opened and such guam
tity as the thief desires taken out.
Consider a package of cigars leav-
ing the merchants store by dray.
The driver of the dray has been
known to go into an unfrequented
alley, open the box, take what he
wanted, seal it up again, and. the loss
is never discovered until it reaches
destination. There is no way to fix
and theft then, and the railroad is
called on to pay.
The Line OF Temptation.
There are half a dozen or more
men In the direct line of temptation
when q box of cigars is concerned. !
First there is the drayman at the
point of origin oE the shipment !
Then there are the clerks and en- !
ployes at the depot. Next come the !
brakeman or conductor on She
freight train. Then they pass
through the hands of the agent and |
employees at the point of destination. !
Finally they are delivered to the
drayman who carts them from the !
station to the consignee. The pack
age might be broken and rihed by
anyone of these, and detection be-
comes a very difficult matter
Necessity of Sealed Packages.
NOW II the package is sealed
when it leaves the store Of the ship
per, and that seal is in good condi-
ton when it reaches the freight de-
pot the drayman is relieved of sus-
pici0n, And so it is with each one
in turn until it is discovered that
the seal haas been broken Then it
is possible TO locate the theft with
some accuracy. The requirement,
therefore, we think, is a legitimate
one, and we are glad that the com
mission saw fit to let it stand 1t
is at once a source of protection
against the loss of property and
against yielding to temptation by
the weak
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-23
Special Announcement Regarding the
National Pure Food and Drug Law.

We are pleased to announce that
Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs,
colds and lung troubles is not af-
fected by the national pure food and
drug law, as it contains no opiates
or other harmful drugs, and we rec
ommend it as a safe remedy for
children and adults Kendrick S
Drug Store, Dawson; H. A. Wall,
Brentwood
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-23
A HIVE OF USEFUL BEES.

B patient, 3 prayerful, B humble,
mild,
B wise as a Solomon, B meek as a
child,
B studious, B thoughtful, B loving,
B kind,
Beware you make matter subservient
to mind
B cautious, B prudent, B trustful,
B true,
B courteous to all men, but friendly
with few;
B temperate in argument, pleasure
and wine,
B careful of conduct, of money and
B cheerful, B grateful, B hopeful,
B firm,
B peaceful, benevolent, B willing to
learn;
3 courageous, b gentle, B liberal,
B just,
b aspiring, B humble, because thou
art dust;
B patient, circumspect, B sound in
the faith,
b active, devoted, B faithful till
death;
B honest, B holy, B transparent and
pure,
B dependent, B Christlike, and you'll
be secure.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-02-02
Notice Of Final Settlement.

In the matter Of the estate ofC. W. Fore
man, deceased.
Notice IL hereby given, that on Monday,
the 18th day Of February, A. u. 1907, being
one eof the regular days Of the December
County, in the state of Colorado, /, Lulu
Babbitt, Administrative of said estate. will
appeaf9before the Judge Ofsaid court, pre-
sent my ANAL settlement as such Adminis-
tratrfx, pray the approval Of the same, and
will then apply to be discharged as such
Admtnlstratrix. At which time and place
sent objections to the xame II any there be.
Dated at Meeker Colorado, Jan. %. 1907.
LULU BABBfTT,
Administrative Of the Estate Of
f2-fN c. w. Foreman. deceased.