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Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-15
CLERK DELIVERS SUIT;
ROBBED AND LOCKED IN
C. C. Desmond's Store Is Victimized
by Two Men Using Old Scheme
of Ordering Goods Sent to
False Address

G. c. Desmond was made the victim
Saturday evening of the old scheme of
ordering goods delivered to a false ad-
dress. Otto Newberg, a clerk in Des-
mond's mems furnishings store at Third
and Spring streets, made the delivery
and was locked in a vacant house at
4724 Normandie avenue. after being
robbed of his watch and cash.
A suit Of clothes was ordered from
Desmond's store by telephone by man
who gave a complete description of
what he desired. Newberg took the
suit, but when he stepped up to ring
the bell at the address on Normandie
avenue the door opened and two men
seized him and forced him into the
house. He was roughly warned to keep
quiet or he would be choked to death.
The men searched him and found 20
cents and watch. Taking these and
the suit they locked the door after
them. Newberg made his escape
through a window and telephoned the
store.
The police were given a full descrip-
ton of the men, but kept the matter
quiet until yesterday, hoping to find the
men at the race track. The men were
roughly dressed and of medium size.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-15
TWO MORE NURSES ALLOWED
SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION
Council Recognizes Vast Amount of
Work Done by College oreaniza-
ton and Provides Relief
Sought

Astonished at the vast amount of
work the nurses OF the College Settle
ment association has done the past
year, the council yesterday provided
for two more nurses and $50 a month
for medicine and medical supplies.
The annual report of the association
shows in the past year the three nurses
had made $4,000 calls on persons i'll,
making an average of fifteen or six
teen a day each, and showing also the
work is getting beyond their efforts.
One or the nurses added yesterday
will do nothing but maternity work
and the other will assist the three al
ready engaged in relieving the suf-
fering of the poor residents of the city.
chiefly in the congested districts of the
Eighth ward
Councilmen Yonkin and Lyon OPP
posed the views of the women who APP
peared TO ask the favor Of the council
They both insisted the additional two
nurses allowed should be selected from
the civil service lists. Some objection
was raised to this because the nurses
on the civil service list are not trained
in settlement work.
1t finally was agreed, however, the
nurses should be selected from this
list but even when Lyon and Yonkin
had gained what they demanded they
refused to vote for it.
The association is not bound to OBJ
serve civil service rules, because the
nurses are employed by the associa-
ton, and are not regularly constituted
employees of the city.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-15
GARBAGE QUESTION STILL
VEXES THE CITY COUNCIL
Plan Is Suggested by Councilman by
Which 1t Is Believed Suitable
Contract can Be Exc
cuted

The council yesterday threshed over
the question of collecting. city garbage
for nearly an hour but failed to reach
any conclusion and postponed action
on the matter one week.
1t is evident no contract can be made
at tine expiration of the present one,
which will end December 81; but Me
CURE & Mcclure. who now have the
contract will continue the collection
at the present rates until some DEFINITE
settlement is made.
Councilman DromgOld endeavored to
have the council adopt a resolution
authorizing the board of public works
to advertise for ideas. Mr.. Dromsold S
plan is that persons and firms inter-
ested in the garbage question shall be
authorized to submit propositions from
which the board of public works can
select a method for garbage disposal
which it deems to be for the best in
terests of the city and draw up its
specifications along this line. then ad-
vertise for bids.
DR.. George H. Kress, secretary of the
public health commission of the State
Medical association, and holding the
same position on the same committee
of the county association, and T. F.
Wheeler chairman of the garbage COM
mittee of the City club appeared be
fore the council yesterday to protest
against disposing Of garbage for feed
ing hogs. Dr. Kress declared it insant-
tary and a menace ito public health.
This protest is a result of the pro-
posal of d. F. Cooper of Denver. Colo.
to collect the city's garbage for
period of ten years at no expense to
the city.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-15
EDUCATED RUSSIANS
PLAY IN HARD LUCK
After Desperate Efforts to Obtain
Work, They Are Assisted by Beth
Iehem institution and Set
to Digging

After sleeping out and starving to-
gether for four months Vladimer Plat
nitsky and his friend, M. Ostin, two
educated young Russians, who left
good positions in their own country to
try their fortunes in golden California,
applied at Bethlehenl-lnstitute for aid
a few days ago. Piatnitsky is a pure
Muscovite, handsome, tall, fair and
what a physical culture expert would
call "well set up" He was trained in
railroad service and was a station
master-a position that carries more
prestige with it in Russia than it does
i'm this country-before he started out
with his comrade to hunt the end Of
the rainbow. Ostin is an electrical en-
gineer with a mastery of five Ian
guages.
Both men have had frightful ex-
periences in their four months battle
against ill fortune since landing in this
country After the money they
brought with them had been spent for
living expenses they had a desperate
time of it searching for work and try
ing to find enough to keep life in their
bodies Not being able to find any
other employment. they attempted to
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-15
PASSES LAW TO
PROHIBIT POOLS
COUNTY BOARD TO PREVENT
BETTING ON HORSES
ORDINANCE is DRASTIC IN ITS
APPLICATION
Severe Penalty Attached to Measure,
Which Includes in Its Provisions
Principals, Agents and Own
ers of Resorts

An ordinance prohibiting the con-
Quoting or carrying on of pool rooms
or other places where pools are sold on
horse races or other contests was
adopted by the board of supervisors
yesterday and viii become effective
January L.
The ordinance will not apply to in
corporated cities, but its effect is ex-
pected to build up the pool selling at
Arcadia by taking away the privilege
to conduct places where pools may be
sold in smaller towns. 1t is held to be
drastic in terms, imposing on violators
a fine of not less than $500 or i'm
prisonment in the county jail for
term not less than six months, or both
In its provisions it includes principals,
agents, employees or otherwise, engaged
in the business of pool selling on horse
races or other contests.
Persons who rent buildings for these
purposes are also made liable to fine
and imprisonment, and the leasing of
telegraph or telephone lines, to be used
in connection with pool selling, is also
regarded as a violation of the law
The vote on the ordinance, which was
introduced without warning by Super
visor Wilson, was the occasion for sur
prise for it developed break in the
solid three Patterson, Wilson and
Eldridge. Eldridge voted against the
ordinance Alexander and Manning
joined with the other two members
who, with Eldridge, have for so long
stood together on every question of i'm
portance.
In fact, it was stated by Eldridge
later that he had not even been con-
suited in regard to the ordinance. There
was little or no discussion after its in
PRODUCTION, Eldridge merely saying he
would like to have more time.
What has occasioned the disruption
of the trio is a matter for comment
None of the three members would say
anything but a vague feeling of hos
tility was apparent.
The reason for the Introduction of the
ordinance is also a mystery Efforts
have been made prior to yesterday to
pass a county law of this nature, but
without success. 1t was said yesterday
that a pool room which had been doing
business in Wilson's district recently
had been closed, and when this was
done opposition ceased.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-15

the ushers sent to the roof, but that
hasn't solved the question, and a series
of box compartments in the lobby seems
the only move left
But the hats are not our worst
worry" said Mr.. Drown yesterday.
I'VE have a new woe now. 1t is the
woman who comes in tired with her
Christmas shopping for a rest during
the daily matinee, and off her wearied
tootsies slip her too-tight oXfords
Thus she sits in cool-footed comfort till
the curtain goes down, and then she
tries to get back into her shoe.
Nov. this wasn't so hard before the
advent of the new sheath gown and the
big hat But. with the skin-tight skirt
and the immense headgear, fashionable
woman simply cannot reach her foot
without splitting something. The con-
sequence is that she calls an usher to
of women and only dozen or so
ushers you can imagine the ensuing
trouble.
"Of course, as you know, the house
is dark just before the final curtain.
while the motion pictures are shown.
In this dark spell my lady begins to
tumble around for her footgear. She
finds it, but is confronted with the diff
ficulty of getting it on. She finds tina.
Sile cGIlilOl Sloop over anu " II hei Scll,
so the earlier ones hobble to the dress
ing room and induce the maid to help
them.
But during this shopping rush So
many have found the daily Orpheum
matinee delightful resting place for a
couple of hours that the maid has been
swamped. Every time the pictures go
on we find the aisles peppered with
women with one or both shoes off, look
ing for first aid to the shoeless. The
ushers are their victims, and many a
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-15
LARGE HATS, SMALL
SHOES AND SHEATH
GOWNS BIG PROBLEM
Women's Chapeaux Swamp the Or
pheums Seating Capacity and Un-
shod Matrons lIobble About
Imploring Assistance

The Orpheum management has two
serious troubles these days, and how to
obviate them is causing gray hairs to
appear in the head of Clarence Drown
One is the big hat question Women
chapeaux are so immense just now
that it is impossible for the fair wear
ers TO hold them in their laps, in the
time-honored fashion, or to pin them to
the seats in front of them because they
interfere with their own knees and
with the "billieburkes' which are now
the fashionable feminine hair style.
These "bilieburkes" stick out so far
behind that they edge over upon the
space of the seatholder back of then
owners, and consequently the hat can
not find its normal resting place. The
dressing room has long since proved in
adequate.
New hooks were provided, but one
hat takes up a space about yard IN
circumference and obliterates more
hooks than can be placed for the over
flow. The ushers' dressing room has
been thrown into the check room, and
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-15
Y. M. C. A. TO OPEN ITS
LYCEUM COURSE TONIGHT

The opening number of the Euterpean
Lyceum course offered by the Young
Mems Christian association in its new
building during the season of 1869 will
be given tonight.
The program: "Cavatina from Ira
viata" (VcrdD, rendered by Mons. De-
(Schubert, Y. M. c. A. concert trio,
consisting of Ernest Marx, violin; r. j.
Dobbs, clarinet, and N. l.. Ridderhof.
piano; (a) "Septett of Lucia" by Don
izetti, OBJ Cavalleria Rusticana' by
Mascagni, saxophone quartet; "Old
Ace" Fred Emerson Brooks, a reading
by f. r. jones' 20 Milo Fernando"
from Opera Favorita" Donazetti-Le-
febre).
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-15
BICKFORD COMMITTED TO
ASYLUM AS PEING INSANE

Fred l.. Bickford. who escaped from
a sanitarium at Garvanza about ten
days ago and was found later IN
company with number of tramps
near OXnard, was committed to the
asylum at Patton by the lunacy COM
mission yesterday.
Bickford said he had broken down
under the strain of overwOrk and left
the sanitarium because he needed exer-
else and fresh air. Physicians told the
commission the young man was suf-
fering from a religious mania; that he
believed he was Jesus Christ, and that
other persons associated with him in
church work at Long Beach were
saints.
Bickford did not deny this yesterday.
IF II Is not true, the facts viii be
made known i'm time, and If it is true,
that will also develop he said.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-15
MASKS AND FULL BURGLAR
OUTFIT FOUND IN ROOM
Prisoner Accused of Entering Room
in the Linwood Dary-His Pre-
Iiminary Examination viii
Be Held Today

Harry Gray alias Harland Burton,
was arraigned i'm Police Justice Aus
tins court yesterday ON a charge of
burglary and his preliminary hearing
was set for today.
Burton was arrested by Detectives
Hosick and Jones at Third street and
Central avenue December 10. On being
searched a black mask was found in
an overcoat pocket. Later the detec-
tives searched Buttons room in an
apartment house on Central avenue,
near Fourth street. and found a grip
containing a complete outfit of burglar
tools On the floor were scraps of the
material of which the mask was made.
In the grip, along with the ''jimmies,"
drills, saws, etc, were found three
black masks, two revolvers and slung-
shot.
Prisoner is accused of entering the
room of Peter Peterson at the Lin
wood dairy the night of December 9.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-15
SCHOOL BOARD
IS INDICATED
GRAND Jury REPORT PRAISES
EDUCATIONAL BODY
FINDS NO EVIDENCE OF ANY
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Only Errors That Were Made Were
Those of Bookkeeping, De-
clare County Ina
quisitors

In a partial report made TO Judge
James of the superior court yesterday
the grand jury not only eXonerales tne
city board of education OF any cnarse
of mismanagemen but commehds its
work in caring for the affairs OF the
educational institutions OF Los AhgeIeS'
and while discoveries have been mace
that there have been improper diver
sion OF funds this is due, says the re-
port. merely to errors in bookkeeping.
Various small amounts, aggregatlng
S11SO.41. incurred for the mgh schools
and drawn against the county cohtll-
gent fund, says the grand jury, should
have been charged against the high
school fund, and other items aggregat-
ing 1891 AS, incurred for high schools
and aid from the city building Iund'
should have been charged to the hlgh
school fund.
The Jury found also that difference
of opinion existed between interested
parties i'm the construction of the IAN
guage under which the call for spe-
ciaI bond election of August g. l9O1'
namely "for the purpose of raising
money for furnishing additional schooi
facilities" caused a slight diversion OF
funds. which has been adjusted salts
factorily.
Praises School Board
In closing, the report says:
In view of the early bona elecllou 70
supply additional school funds for TINS
rapidly growing city, and i'll the inter,
ests of education we have gone into all
actions by the board of education, es-
pecially in their handling of school
funds. and have thoroughly examined
the same. and we find there has been
10 misrepresentation of school funds IN
any manner whatever.
aside from these errors in book
keeping, we commend the action of the
city board of education in the conduct
and management of the school affairs
of this city,
The grand jury took up the inquiry
into the affairs of the board of educa-
ton following the charges made by
CITY Auditor Mushet, and when the
board insisted upon an investigation
of their work.
District Attorney Fredericks was
not in charge of the grand jury yester-
CAV. His place was taken by Deputy
q. Raw Horton, and the inquiry into
ownership of property in the redllght
district was continued. Witnesses who
were examined were Henry Braun. n.
r. Gracian. Henry Broderick, Fred
Dohs. Hugh Glassell, 0. B. Fuller and
Mrs. O. Janty The jury will meet
again Wednesday
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-15

utilize their natural talents by trying
to get an engagement to sing in one
of the theaters in San Francisco, and
were successful in getting an opening
at a nickelodeum theater where they
sang nightly until the novelty of their
performance wore off and they We're
discharged.
Piatnitsky has a magnificent bass
voice and Ostin is a lyric tenor A
musician who happened to hear the
former one day last week while DALI
ing at the institute pronounced his
voice remarkable. Though still weak
from their months of privations and
suffering, the two gladly sing when
they are asked. Work has been found
for them-digging bitches at rs cents
a day-and this will enable them to
live until better solution of their
difficulties offers.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-15

Frame your picture for your friend. san
born, Vail h Co., 434 and 1856 3. Broadway.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-15

boy has worn spots in his new uniform
trousers already playing valet to these
women.
"Of course | am glad to have the
women come here, even to rest their
feet, and deem our daily matinee posi-
tive boon. But | am perplexed over
this habit have tried to solve it by
making all the ushers stay until the
pictures are over, and giving them spe-
cial instructions to look after all women
i'm tight skirts who seem to have some
thing on their minds and off their feet.
But, even with the help of the ushers,
the double problem of huge hats and
unshod feet is worrying me consider
ably"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-15
CITY HALL NOTES

f. T.. johnson. tax collector reported to
the city council that the first collection had
netted to the city 81. 917 95033
Tho office of lodging house inspector. which
was abolished several months ago, was re-
created by the council yesterday. The au-
ditor complained that with no one to en-
force the provisions of tho ordinance the city
was losing thousands Of dollars in revenue
The matter Of the Fifty-second street side
walk which brought out a vigorous protest
from the property owners has been settled
bv the council ordering the contractors 10
rebuild about 100 feet OF the walk on the
north side OF the street on the west end.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-15
36-INCH OUTING
FLANNEL.

Neat pink and blue patterns. This
same quality, 81 inches wide, retails
at 1212c. This width 10c yard. Linn
it II yards. No phone or mail or
ders.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-15
ROBBERS BLOW OPEN
SAFE IN LAUNDRY

At an early hour yesterday robbers
entered the Glendale steam laundry at
Glendale and blew open the safe with
A gold watch and dia-
mond stickDin were stolen.
The robbery was reported to Sheriff
Hamnel and deputies were sent out to
investigate. No arrests have been
made.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-12-30
PROGRESS OF
THE Dam

While there has been practically no
water for sluicing for the last several
months a visitor to the Nuuanu dam
would be surprised at the manner in
which the work has progressed. The
structure is nearly thirty-five feet
higher than it was last summer and
everything is in readiness for an i'm
mense amount of work when the rains
give the water needed for sluicing.
In the meantime the work is by no
means stopped. When visited yester-
day by Star reporter there were
three gangs of men, r. work. The lar
gest of these was WORKING on the spill
way, clearing off the ground to the
proper level and laying the re-enforced
concrete for the bottom and Sides The
larger part of this work has already
been completed.
A second gang was at work on the
big tower which will be in the midst
of the reservoir when the work is COM
pleted, placing the house which will
surmount the structure, in position. A
third but smaller gang was at work
on the trestles which will carry the
fumes for sluicing down to the end OF
the dam.
The work is apparently in good
shape, though it has been much de-
layed by the lack of rain. The best
thing to be noticed was the fact that
the wait has given time for the earth
work to pack in splendid shape, while
preparations have been made so that
when the sluicing water is once avail
able, there will be no further delays
in the completion of the dam.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-12-30
RUSHING OAHU War WORK
MILITARY TROLLEY TO WAIKIKI
PHOTOGRAPH MAPS OF ISLAND
GIBRAL TARING DIAMOND HEAD
100 CARPENTERS FOR CAVALRY CAMP

together, so that now the mountainous
region and all the rest of the Island
of Oahu have been strategically sur
veyed with the exception of Leilehua,
where the cavalry camp is to spring
up, and the Army work at Pearl Har-
bor
BIRD's-EYE MAPS BY THE CAM
ERA.
Each detachment of Engineers is ac-
companied by an Army photographer
and that major portion of the island
which has already been covered by
the Engineers has been photographed
from the high elevations of the noun
tains. This method so far improves
upon others and rapidity of the opera
tion is so assured thereby, that most
of the data required are already in the
hands of the Engineers. Elevations Of
principal mountains have been defin-
itely ascertained and it is understood
that the data are at variance in sew
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men
APPEAL TO CONGRESS
DOLE AND MCCLELLAN STATE THEIR WASHINGTON IN
FAVOR OF LEGISLATION TO GIVE PROTECTION
APPLE NDUsTRY-THEc CHEAPER COMPETING TRIO
PICAL COUNTRIES

Especial Correspondence of The Starr
WASHINGTON, d. c., December O.
The following is a statement submit
ted to the Ways and Means Committee
of Congress, by James ID. Dole, presi-
dent of the Hawaiian Pineapple Grow
ers Association, and George b. Nc
Clellan, secretary to Delegate Kuhio:
Hawaiian growers do not ask for
prohibitiye tariff on pineapples. We
advocate a rate Of duty that will give
the government an increased revenue
on the pineapples now imported, and
one that will more nearly approximate
the bare difference in cost of produc-
ton, due to cheaper labor abroad, and
the use of duty-paid materials, cans,
and machinery used by the domestic
packer.
Broadly speaking, we ask only a YER
bal correction OF paragraph 263 10 make
effective the original intent OF the
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their gains to the ring.
The Twelve Dollar Club proposition
is interesting, particularly on account
of the fact that it was common knowl-
edge that but few arrests were made
in Iwilei when the fleet was here,
though the district was claimed to be
tightly closed. a levy of $12 was
made on each girl, and in all cases so
far as can be ascertained it was paid.
This was not the end Only last
week an agent of the protecting in
fiuence made his rounds, calling on
each of the women for contribution
of 81. Just after this demand had
been made, the news of the Breckons
investigation came out and so far as
can be found the matter was dropped.
Whoever the collector was. he became
frightened and the only money paid
was that made on the first visit. IL
the women had put off the payment
for few days they saved their money.
In the case of the fallen women
themselves, the matter comes under the
Office of immigration Inspector Brown,
who will be forced to obtain the war
rants for the arrest of those to be
charged from Washington. The court
proceedings will take place in this city.
The case of Susuki and Hini SusuKi