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u n X L + u l. CoNSlDENA
: TON.
Choice location, I2
!: rooms, lot 5ox165; very
fine surroundings. SEC, oot
Near Scott Circle, hand
some solid brownstone
front, lot 25x1oo. $4,000
Handsome new house,
near Church of Cove
nant, IA rooms, lot
25xIo5, stable. ....... .$22, 5ot
Choice corner overlook
ing Conn. ave-, modern
double house, very fine
location. .$21 ,oot
Very handsome white
stone front, near 18th
!. and N. H. ave-, ID
!: rooms. .$3o,oot
. Whitestone front near
!: Conn. ave. and r ST.,
: IL rooms. .$1o,5o'
: North of and near Dit
pont Circle, handsome
: new house and stable. :. .$I4,oot
j: Very attractive English
basement house, II
rooms, elegant location. ST. 500
!: Handsome colonialhouse,
4o-foot lot, very attract
: i've. .$25.oot
: Corner near Dupont Cir
Gle, IL rooms, baths,
8 sleeping rooms. .$14,oot
: Handsome solid brown
. stone front on Mass.
ave., IL rooms. ........ .$26,oot
: Elegant marble front IS
!: room house on R. I.
ave-, lot 25xI3o. .$35,oot
: R. l. ave. near 10th ST.,
IL rooms, lot 2oxI25,
alley. .$I2,oot
: R. l. ave near 18th; very
!: large lot; II rooms or
!: more. .$Io,oot
R. I. ave-, west of 9th ST..
10 rooms; lot over 22
feet wide. 5000
Handsome corner Wash
ington Heights; II
rooms; magnificent out
look; an Sill 900 value,
reduced to. 80. $1,000
K street, not far from
Conn. ave.; very attrac-
tive front of brownstone
and brick; 10 rooms and
. baths; hot-water heat;
modern in every detail;
very we'll constructed;
40 feet front. So, SOC
Semi-detached house,
. Washington Heights
) wide, covered stone
porch; side light; very
light dining room and
hall; very handsome
bath room; ample closet
; space: hot-water heat;
good lot. ........ $4,000
. Washington H Ell ghts,
) close to two car lines;
II-room house on Co.
lumbia road; artistic
, plan. -. ............... S,5OC
Fine detached home; II
rooms; lot 5ox165; fine
surroundings: splendid
finish; one of the best
residence streets in city. .$22, DOC
IS street near Conn. ave. 3;
; handsome home of 10
rooms; $500 was
loaned on property. go. $3.50
; Euclid street; a remark
ably fine home; built Of
selected materials; two
fine baths; must be seen
to be appreciated. ...... $4,000
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Fire destroyed the annex to the Passaic
county IN. j. Jail and caused a panic
among the prisoners. No one was hurt.
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To reach all the people
in Washington all the time
advertise in The Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10
WEIRD WEATHER TALES AS TOLD IN TELEGRAPH TIPS
MASTERS ART OF
SKATING ON WATER
snecial to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
NEW BUFFALO, Mich, Feb. O.
N Andy Young, champion ice skater
l of southern Michigan, has mas
tered, at least partially, the art of skat-
ing on water. He let out the secret Of
his achievement the other night to a
party of friends, and after some per-
suasion yielded to their opportunities
and gave a test exhibition.
1T all depends on the speed" de-
clared Young. "If ono has the speed
and can keep one'su head at critical
times il is not very difficult.
Il began practice on ice sufficient TO
hold me and then gradually worked
down to a point where the ice was
paper thin and from that to slush ice
and then open water on short flights.
The speedy skater started back where
the ice was solid, then he gradually in
creased his momentum until he at
tanned a velocity of about ninety miles
AN hour. When he struck a thin piece
of ice it bent in a long graceful wave
about him, and the return to firm ice
showed no trace of the place where the
daring skater had passed.
Those Watching the wizard of the
steel runners were amazed to see him
skim across a field of slush ice with
scarcely movement IN the water be-
meath it. This feat was greeted by pro-
longed cheers
At last Young restSd and prepared
for the final test. He used a special
pair of long racing skates with knife
edged runners.
Mr. Young made a long start from a
point three miles up the lake. BY the
time he reached the open water his
speed was estimated at 175 miles an
hour. His skates flashed in the sun
light like the spokes of speeding
bicycle.
Beside the open water the group of
awe-stIicken spectators stood breath
lessly watching the speeding man.
For nearly a quarter of a mile Young
sped over the sur6Ace of the water.
Just as the skater approached the ice
once more his skate caught in the top
of a wave and he was thrown into the
water from which he was rescued with
difficulty.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10
SKI JUMPERS RECORD
BEATEN BY MARSUPIAL
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
q TACEYVILLE, Me, Feb. 9-'I can
beat any man, beast or fish that
ever walked, ran or swan, when
it comes to ski jumping" boasted
Frank Tracy, who has something of a
local reputation as a snowshoer. He
holds the record between the Mata-
CANNON and Bark Camp Meadows, and
between Lake Katahdin and Bourcey's
camp at Pogey stream. Tracy's boast
led to his undOing, because Martin
Bracket laid a trap for him.
Skis are thin strips of wood from six
to nine feet in length, and. strapped to
the feet, offer a speedy variation of
snowshoeing. In jumping contests the
individual speeds down the side of a
hill until he reaches a small precipice
and from there is projected into space a
greater or less distance, according to
the skill of the jumper at the take-off
and to the velocity.
John Cushman was chosen to referee
the contest and great interest was
taken in it because the betting was
heavy. Charles Mcclure had bet two
pairs of larrigans against a fox skin
that Tracy would beat Brackets un-
Known by thirty feet.
The contest took place on the banks
of Mud creek. Tracy took a long start
and went down the hill at a speed es-
timated at 120 miles an hour. His
jump was 191 feet, and he was unable
to come to "A halt before he had gone
two miles.
Martin Brackets unknown proved to
be a huge Australian kangaroo. The
skis were strapped on the marsupials
feet and 1t was started down the hill.
The kangaroo squatted into a small
lump, Offering little surface to the wind
and sped onward with incredible speed,
steering with it's tail At the take-off
the animal threw it's mighty strength
into the jump and cleared a distance
nearly an eighth Of mile. The last
trace of the animal was near McLeOd's s
camp. 1t is believed it has returned
to Australia. Bracket cleared up a
neat sum by his clever trick.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10

are interested because of the fact that
many of their employees are being made
daily victims of the lottery graft.
The old style "nigger policy" is a
decent game compared to the lottery
because of the fact that whoever drew
the lucky number in the policy received
the prize without any comment. In
the San Francisco lotteries, however, it
is case of play all the time with hope
always before you and no one getting
the big money but the company.
Los Angeles is known throughout the
country as the home of Chinese lottery.
The celestials have from fifteen to twen-
ty companies in Los Angeles all the
time, and the greatest part of their
trade is with white people. But COM
plants are rarely ever filed on the Chi
nese lottery proposition, for the Chinese
are superstitious in that line and the
white man is given the squarest kind of
deal. More white men win eums rang
ing from $1.50 to $50 in Chinese lotteries
than have ever been known to win in
any white lotteries conducted in this
country.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10
NEW SLED so FAST
1T BURNS COASTER
sneciaI to The Herald.

speciaI to The Herald
II AKUS, Mich, Feb. 9,-Harvey
r Line, inventor of many excellent
utilities, overstepped his capa-
bilities when he devised his frictionless
coaster. He tried it himself few days
ago with painful results, both to his
pride and boCy
He had held that the sharp runners of
sleds cut too deeply into the snow
thereby retarding the speed, and as a
substitute he offered a coaster made of
steel and much resembling a tlat-bot-
toned skiff. That it could go faster
than any other style he was certain,
and in the event of an accident there
was less chance of serious injury.
ut will blister anything on the hill"
confidently remarked the young man, as
he prepared for the trial trip.
The frictionless coaster started With
every dip on Rudy's hill 1t gathered
momentum, and it moved faster than
any coaster the spectators had ever
seen.
Finally. with a despairing cry he
turned the coaster into fence and,
creeping out of the debris, he extin-
guished his burning clothing in handy
snoWbank
But the most peculiar feature of the
incident is the apparently indelible
mark left by the coaster on the snow.
AS soon as the excitement attendant on
the near cremation of Line had sub
sided ii was seen that where the coaster
had touched the snow it had left a
dark brown streak for the entire dis
tance. The curious crowd delyed into
this brown snow and was amazed to
find that the same popularity extended
for almost its entire depth. Near the
ground the dark brown merged into
lighter and still lighter shades until,
just above the earth. it again regained
its virgin purity.
The only explanation the people of
this locality can give Is that the coaster
intended to be frictionless was In real
ity quite the reverse and the intense
heat generated by the speeding sled
had actually cooked the snow. AS the
weather was very cold the cooked snow
froze Immediately after the coaster had
passed over it. producing the phe-
nomenon.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10
WATER POLO AND SKATING
FURNISH DAYS DIVERSION
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
w WINNIPEG, Man. Feb. 9.-The
wv annual midwinter outing Of
the Caledonian club was held
at this place today, when 5000 sons Of
Burns congregated at the st. Boniface
park to make merry. The weather was
warmer than yesterday, the thermom-
eter registering only seven degrees be-
low zero.
Special trains were run by the c. p.
and Lac du Bonnet railroads, and over
1900 excursionists Joined in the fes-
tivities.
Tally-hos carried the visitors to the
river where special boats ferried them
over to st. BOnifaCe. The BOnifaCe
Pipers met them at the shore and con-
Quoted them to the park, where an
outdoor field and aquatic program had
been arranged,
The Wesleyan team, i'm a closely
played game of water polo defeated the
BOnifacos by a score of to 4. The
home team carried off the honors, how
ever in the long distance skating con-
test that followed.
The Winnipeg cricket team upheld
the honor of their town by carrying all
before them but Antoine Gardipee, the
local snow shoe champion and ski
jumper. went down to defeat before
Louis lie Lone, an unknown suburban
contestant
For the ladies, potato races on the
green grass formed a diversion, their
white lawn dresses making a pretty
picture on the broad lawns.
The most exciting event Of the day
was the half-mile swimming contest in
which four contestants from all the
outlying sections We're entered. After
tying with the Winnipeg man for first
three times Pierre Gossleiu, champion
of the St. Boniface Aquatic club, won
the coveted prize, and with it the cup
offered by the local Caledonian club.
Toboggan slides furnished amusement
for the 23O or more youngsters who
accompanied their elders, but the
pleasures of the day were slightly
marred by AN accident which resulted
in the injuring of TelesphOre Gagnon,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10
CITY'S FINANCES
NEED BOLSTERINC
IN SEPTEMBER PURSE STRINGS
WILL LOOSEN
Pending Time When New Assessment
VIII BE Available, Finance Conn
mlttee Of Council Has
% Hard Shedding

Although not all the members of the
finance committee of the city council
attended yesterdays meeting II was
decided to expedite the legislation in
the committees hands in proposed or
dinances which do not involve an in
crease in the citys financial burdens.
The city is much in need of cash
between now and September, at which
time additional funds from the in
creased assessment then available will
reduce the financial stress. It's treas
ury guardians and wizards have tried
in vain to- scrape together enough
funds to run the city with it's present
means. but the only hope is in dis
tributing additional taxes on business
which can afford to pay more and thus
accumulate a working capital" In
this task the mayors office is lending
much thought and aid.
Auditor Mushet is keeping a watch-
full eye on all bills and demands and
none will be allowed which do not
conform to the ordinances.
Warning has been sent to all heads
of departments to be economical and to
order nothing without the prior ap-
proval of the supply committee.
These two orders are intended to
stop extravaganza and waste. They
have so far caused much hardship,
officials say. Director of Research
Jones of the public library, for in
stance, reported to Mayor Harper Il
few days ago that for six weeks he
had been trying to get ball of twine,
and the library force has been put
to the expedient of using odds and
ends of string in tying up bundles.
When licenses have been imposed
as is proposition Turkish bath and
massage parlors space under side
walks and alleys, pool rooms, tele-
graph and telephone poles, dairy wa
gons and other items which have es-
capped licenses or are paying less pro-
portionately than in other cities it is
possible that enough funds can be
raised monthly to meet the most press
ing claims. OF these the fire Depart
ment stands at the head of the list,
because of the warning of the national
board of fire underwriters that addi-
tional companies, must be stationed in
the business section at once.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10
Testimonial to Harley Hamilton

The music lovers of this city are to
give Harley Hamilton a deserved testi-
monial at Simpson auditorium Febru-
airy IL. The musical portion of the pro-
gram comes from the Women's Sym
phony orchestra, which Mr.. Hamilton
directed long before he assumed the
same position with the Los Angeles
Symphony. Program numbers include
the following selections:
Grand march from Tannhauser. Wagner
Two movements from Symphonic
Violin SOLO
(a) Air for G string. .Bach-Wilhem
(b) Romanza .............,.......SV SVendsen
Miss Gle Chew.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10
OPENS NEW LINE
TO POINT FIRM|N
PACIFIC ELECTRIC EXTENDS
BEYOND SAN PEDRO
Fatal Wrecks Reported in Various
Sections of the United States-Up-
State Excursion Planned.
Railroad News

The extension of the Pacific Electric
railroad to Point Firmin will be op-
Grated today for the first time.
rhe new section extends from San
Pedro to the government breakwater,
then to Firmin The local cars in the
beach city will be run through from
Fifth and Front streets to the terminus
of the line.
Owing to it's inaccessibility the
breakwater has been but little visited
though fishermen have been anxious to
get there for years.
The views at the lighthouse are beau
tiful. There is a bluff $50 feet high
while the beach is very rocky, differ
ing from most of those on the nearby
coast. Seals are frequently seen on
the rocks, and abalones are found there
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10

residents of the Turlock- Modesto irri-
CATION district to Los Angeles this
week is the decision to run a return
excursion to that point for Los An
geles people and visitors. The plans
were made yesterday.
In order to secure a one-fare rate
for the round trip it was stated that
at least sixty persons would have to
buy tickets, and in a few minutes the
members of the visiting party pledged
100 tickets. Thus the excursion north
is already an assured success. These
tickets will be distributed among such
Southern Califorpians as will find time
or opportunity to make the trip. On
the committee are d. f. Lane. D. r.
Shafer and w. H. Coward, who will
confer with the railroad authorities,
reporting Monday at 10 a. m. at the
chamber of commerce. The excursion
will take place in about two weeks.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10

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Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10
SYmphonY Orchestra

THE fourth concert of this seasons
series by the Los Angeles Sym
phony orchestra will take place
next Friday afternoon, February Is, at
the Mason opera house. The program
will open with the "Leonore" symphony
by Raft, consisting of four movements
in three parts and founded upon Bur-
gers beautiful ballad, "Leonore.' The
first two movements are Indicative of
the joy of love, while part second is
devoted to the separation and part
third reunion in death. A second num-
Der is Rubinstein's ballet music from
the opera "Feramors.' The soloist for
this concert is William James Chick
and his selection the much loved torea-
dor song from Carmen"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10
GOULD TO BUILD SHIPS, TOO
Will Compete with Hill and Hartman
with Coast Steamers

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9.-The Call
says:'"It is announced on good author-
ity in steamship circles that the West
ern Pacific company has decided to op-
crate a fleet of fine vessels in connec-
ton with it's coast to coast and
through to the far east system of rail-
roads.
ITO compete with Hill line steamers
of Puget Sound and the several COM
panies that operate vessels from this
port the Gould people will cause to be
constructed at least three and perhaps
five ships that will equal the great
liners on. the Atlantic between New
York and Europe"
PLAN UPSTATE EXCURSION
Modesto =TurIock Visitors Get Up Re-
turn Outing
One of the fruits of the excursion of
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10
American Ships Crash
T'' o'''Po OI uoTI
By Associated Press

Ioy ENooUVItI ItU -TCSS,
SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 9.-The At
lantic Transportation company steamer
Menominee. from Antwerp for Philadel-
phia, put in here this afternoon badly
damaged as the result of a collision
off Beach Head last night with the
French steamer Pre- dent lie Roy Fal-
liere. The plates of the Menominee' s
starboard bow were torn open to the
waters edge. The water filled her for
ward compartment but the bulkheads
held it from entering other parts. There
was no panic aboard the Menominee,
which sent a boat over to the French
steamer The latter was considerably
damaged but proceeded to Dunkirk.
Eleven frst-class passengers and
eighteen cattlemen aboard the Menom-
inee were transferred TO the st. Louis,
out bound for New York.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10
Manhattan Limited coIIldes

BY AssOClated Press.
PlTTSBURG, Feb 9.-The Manhat-
tan limited on the Pennsylvania road,
which left for the east at 1855 a. M,
was wrecked fifteen miles from here by
running into a freight train loaded with
coke The passenger engine left the
track, the mail car 1nd combination
mail and express cars were burning,
and three freight cars were demolished.
The engineer of the limited and three
mail clerks were injured. Many pas
sengers ON the limited were thrown 20
the floors and bruised.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-10
HUNDREDS ARE
SWIM DIED BY
FAKE LOTTERY
Business Men to Ask
Fraud Order
San Francisco Concern Floods Los
Angeles with Tickets and False
Reports Of Fabulous
Earnings

In an attempt to head off the gigantic
swindles that are daily perpetrated In
Los Angeles by means Of the lottery
system, local business men are prepar-
ing to make complaint to the United
States district attorney here, demand
ing that the sending of lottery tickets
through the mails from San Francisco
be stopped and the offenders be pun
ished.
The old adage that a sucker is born
every minute has been changed in Los
Angeles to doubling of the number of
suckers born per minute.
Every day hundreds of lottery tickets
are sent into Los Angeles from San
Francisco The envelopes containing
the tickets bear no stamp or sign by
which they could be traced. There is
no suggestion about the letter to indi-
cate that 1t is other than one of a per-
sonal nature.
These letters contain a lottery ticket
and an advertisement giving fictitious
names and numbers of enormous prizes
paid out. The winning numbers are
given in list with the prizes for each.
That the company is conducting fake
of the rawest kind is evident by the
fact that the numbers supposed to have
been drawn promiscuously from the lot
terry pile invariably are followed by the
same number with reversed figures; for
instance, a number such as 729 will be
stated to have drawn a prize of s10
and number 792, the next number
drawn, will raw the same amount.
Not more than once in a year will
numbers of that similarity be drawn in
succession from a lottery, yet in the
companies now perpetra ting frauds on
Los Angeles people that sort of thing
seems to occur every other number or
two on their list of prizes drawn during
the week.
Are Widely Circulated
These letters are circulated in every
store, every business hou. e, every office
building in Los Angeles. The man who
makes a dollar day receives his morn
ing envelope; his dollar is as good as
the next mans to tie lottery gang.
The real estate man sets his, the shop
girl receives :; lottery ticket to start
the day with. The directories of Los
Angeles have been well searched and
If once a man buys ticket he is con-
stantly besieged and his name put on
the lists of numerous companies.
Americans have the reputation of be-
ing peculiarly susceptible to the fascin-
alton of the lottery game. The Louisi-
ana Benefit company worked an inter-
national graft for years. Through the
activity of the postal department the
company reorSaniZed as the Honduras
company and again as the Little Hon
duras company, then in Mexico the
Beneficencia Pubilca company came
into existence, md now a company
known as the Original Little Benefi-
cencia Publica company Of San Fran
cisco is flooding Los Angeles with its
tickets. This company claims to have
existed since September, 1898. Its tick
cts are listed as "wholes, 50; halves,
81; quarters, so cents, and eighths, 25
cents.'
With each ticket an imaginary list of
winners of prizes is sent out. Most of