Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
LECTURES MAYOR;
FINE is REDUCED
NEW JERSEY MAN DRIVES TOO
FAST IN CAPITAL
"Prisoner" Takes Opportunity of Tell
ing city's Chief Executive Few
Things About Common
Courtesies


WASHINGTON, May s.-"What cour-
tesies are due from one mayor to am
other?" The views of Mayor Mar;
Pagan, the Jersey City "reformer," and
Mayor Garrett Of Glen Echo. Maryland,
on this important question conflict.
Glen Echo consists of half hundred
houses situate over the District of Co.
lumbia boundary line on the Conduit
road, which runs from Washington to
Great Falls, from which we obtain our
water supply The principal source of
revenue to Glen Echo is from fines lew
| led on, automobilists who violate it's
speed laws in passing along the Con-
duit road. Mayor Pagan and party
visiting Washington, when the McClel-
Ian statue was unveiled tool a spin up
the road to the famous Cabin Johns
bridge. While merrily speeding along
at fast clip they were observed by
Marshal Collins, stationed by the road .
side with watch in one hand and a
| trusty bike in the other.
| A moment later a furiously pedaling
bicyclist, coat-tails out behind and hat
jammed over ears, could be seen chas-
ing a record breaking auto. and Incl
dentally swallowing much dust. If the
Fagan party paid any attention to Col
Inns it was only to speculate on his
|
keep pace with a Jersey "'skeeter"
After time the auto drew UP beside
the road and the party disembarked to
| view the scenery and other things.
Shortly afterward Industrious Collins
| appeared. twenty-five dollars collat-
eral," he said.
| The New Jerseyites explained, first
calmly, then volubly and finally yocif-
| erously All Collins could think of to
reply was twenty-five dollars" Final
ly in disgust the party surrendered and
put up the money. Later they ap-
peared before Mayor Garrett, to whom
| Mayor Fagan read a lecture on the
courtesies due visiting city executives.
The lecture so impressed Mayor Garrett
that he reduced the fine from $25 to
| $40.
This recalls a clever trick played
some years ago which explains why
one local pawnbroker will not loan on
colored gems. During the races a
handsome, well dressed and prosperous
looking chap strolled in and pulled off
ring set with magnificent ruby.
"They hit me hard yesterday" he re-
marked, casually; "let me have $500 on
that" The broker took it to the light,
suuinted at it under glass, bit 1t,
tested it with acid and finally said:
That's fine stone," and made the
loan. "It ought to be-" replied the.
| speculator at cost $4,000. I'm going
to beat them today and get it out to-
morrow" Next day he appeared with
a roll of bills to choke COW and
skinning off three centuries and an X
called for his ring and told the broker
to give the change to the boy. This
little comedy was enacted a number
of times during the next three weeks.
Sometimes the speculator had money;
| I,nN
the broker got careless and after a
while no longer examined the ring, ex-
cept to see that it was the same.
Meanwhile the loan had increased until
the stranger was getting $500 on the
ring.
One day he obtained this amount and
presumably departed with the races.
Months passed and finally the year of
the redemption period expired. The
pawnbroker was elated to think he had
acquired $4,000 ruby for $500. JOY
fully he drew it from his safe, but 1T
no longer sparkled The last time he
called the stranger had substituted
fine paste imitation for the genuine ar
ticle. OF course the pawnbrokeri could
not prosecute I'm, for If he chose to
lend $500 on paste ruby that was his
business. But he takes no chances
now.
| Sad intelligence is conveyed to the
department of commerce and labor in
| the report that the German meer-
| schaum industry is threatened with in
evitable decline and likely extinction.
| Consul lift at Annaberg says the manu-
facturers are unable to secure an ade-
quate supply OF the raw material and
must pay greatly increased prices for
the meager quantities they can get.
Practically all the known deposits or
meerschaum have been exhausted ex-
cept in the mines of Eski-Schebir, in
| Asia Minor, where the output is very
small. English and American manu-
facturers have secured control OF this
entire output and the German manufac-
turerS are about to be frozen out.
Ruhla, Germany, will be most affected.
The industry was established there in
1867. and the average annual output is
about $40, 900 genuine meerschaum pipes
with amber mouthpieces with millions
of limitations. For number of years
, between three and four thousand work
men have been employed in this Indus
try at Ruhla and the shutting off of the
supply of raw material endangers the
existence of the town.
Experiments made by the health
authorities of Manila with copper sui
phate as a germicide for cholera germs
have been discouraging. Solutions vary
ing in strength from one in $4,000 to one
organisms were introduced. From solu-
tions varying from one in 100000 to
one in 100000 living cholera organisms
were recovered, and they were also re-
covered after period of four hours in
strength of one in 100000 AS the
drinking of copper sulphate solution at
strength of one in 10000 for a pro-
longed period could scarcely be recon-
mended, prediction as to the value Of
this substance as a germicide for city
water supplies where there is danger Of
cholera were not verified.
According to the bureau of labor the
wholesale prices of farm and food pro-
ducts show general and in some cases
large increase for 1907 over 1906.
Especially is this noted in cattle and
hogs and wheat and products there
from. The price of steers, from good
to choice, show an increase of &c per
cent, and choice to extra 81 per cent
No figures are given on steaks or roasts.
but the consumer is likely to place the
increase at 100 per cent. The price of
hogs increased 17.S per cent for heavy