Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-07

are framed in a setting altogether love-
". The cost of this one link between
the keys was q million and mar DOL
lars for two miles Of construction, put
unless a ferry is operated SO that the
traveller may see 1t from distance, he
will miss any adequate view or THIS
noble and impressive structure.
"Only one more stretch of open water
comparable with this remains to be
bridged. It extends from Knights Key.
the present terminus, to Bahia
Honda"
New York has five saturnalia every
year-New Years night, Decoration
day, Fourth of July, election night ana
Thanksgiving-and not the least OF
these is election night" says w. d.
Howells in Harper's for February. IF
{ is a right first Tuesday of Novem-
her, the daytime wind will be veering
from west to south and back, sun ana
cloud will equally share the hours pc
tween them, and a not unnatural quiet
as of political passions hushed under
the blanket of the Australian ballot
will prevail. The streets will be rather
emptied than filed, and the litter OF
straw and scraT paper, and the ordure
and other filth of the. great slattern
town will blow agreeably about under
your feet and into your eyes ana
teeth. But with the falling of the
night there viii be a rise of the urban
spirits: the sidewalks will thicken win
citizens of all ages and sexes and ma
tons: and If you will then seek some
large center for the cinematographlc
dissemination of the election news you
will find yourself one of a multitude
gloating on the scenes OF comedy anu
tragedy thrown UP on the canvas TO
I'm. n fianPa for the returns.
Along the cutbstones are stationed
wagons for tie sale of the Wind ana
ctring instruments, whose raw harsh
discords of whistling and twanglng
will begin with the sight of the vote
from the first precinct. Meantime po-
licemen, nervously fondling their ciups
In their hands, hang upon the lrIhses
of the crowd which Is yet so good-na-
tured that 1t seems to have no i'm
pulse hut to lift children on its Shout
ders ard nut pretty girls before H. ana
caress Odd women and cripples into IA
yorable positions, so that they may
see better. You will wish to leave IL
before the clubbing begins, ana either
90 home to the slumbers which the
whistli1g and twanging will duly at
tend, or 4oin the diners going INTO OF
coming out of the restaurants, OF the
throngs strolling down into the falry
realms or B1OuuNdy' uiiNCi eAN A
of the WHISTLES and the actresses.
Ainslee's for February has story by
o. Henry, who holds the unique posi-
tion in American fiction Of being abso-
iutely in a class of his own. THE Me-
mento," which Ainslee's is so fortunate
as to publish, is a story OF the Tour
million not one of the collection pup
lished in book form, but an entirely
new story of the same type-and is one
of the very best that has ever come
from this gifted authors pen.
In an article on the American war
fleets 13.772-mile peace cruise into the
Pacific the February Popular Mechan-
les gives an interesting list of the sup
plies necessary for the cruise. Among
the items mentioned are 100000
pounds of flour, 100000 pounds of po-
tatoes. $4,000 dozen eggs and 10000
pounds of chocolate candy 1t is esti-
mated that the fleet will consume $780,
600 tons of coal on the voyage. the
,.4so1a iS iIlt1ct1a fed