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Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29
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INITIATIVE PETITION
PROVES insufficient
ALMOST TWO THOUSAND OF
THE SlGNERS UNQUALIFIED
City Attorneys Opinion Is Awaited,
but Supplementary Document, 1t
is Thought, Unquestionably
Can Be Submitted

The checking up of the initiative petit
tion for the charter amendments was
finished by the city clerks staff yes
terday afternoon, and Immediately the
city clerk reported to the council that
the petition was insufficient.
The petition submitted contained H.
013 signatures. OF this number 1t was
found that there was a total of 1872
qualified electors, while 94S5 qualified
voters signatures would be necessary
to make the mandate imperative on the
council to submit the amendments to
vote of the people.
When the report of the city clerk
was read 1t was Immediately referred
to the city attorney. While the city
attorney has expressed no opinion on
it others versed in the law under which
the petition was submitted declare the
petitioners can have ample time, in fact
all the time they want, to submit sup
Elementary petitions The proceeding
is brought under the state constitution
and not under the city charter, as many
enormously believe.
The state constitution on this point
is so simple as to be confusing. 1t pro-
vides no machinery whatever for hand
ling the petitions. 1t simply says that
whenever Is per cent of the qualified
electors of a city shall petition the
council to amend the charter the coun-
ell must submit the amendments to
vote of the people. 1t does not say
whether the election shall be a special
or general election, or whether supple
mentary petitions may or may not be
filed. The fact that it is silent on this
last point is taken as an indication that
additional petitions may be submitted
and at any time the petitioners see fit
The city charter, in providing for
initiative legislation, defines the MA
chinery for such initiation, and, among
other things. declares supplementary
petitions may be submitted within ten
days after the city clerk has reported
the petition insufficient.
The fact that the 11,013 names were
secured within a few weeks after the
Municipal league began the circulation
of the petition gives the friends of the
movement hope that in a few days suf-
ficient additional names will be sum-
mitted to make the petition mandatory.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29
RESTRICT AREA OPEN
TO STREET SPEAKERS
COUNCIL PASSES AMENDMENT 7
TO RECENT ORDINANCE
Socialists and Salvation Army BotF
Represented as Dissatisfied, but
No Demonstration Is Made
by Either

With only Councilman Wallace Vot-
ing against the measure the amended
free speech limiting ordinance was
passed by the council yesterday.
The ordinance was so amended as
to include in the restricted d1slrlct
Fifth street, from Main to San Pedro;
This action was taken on the demand
of the King Edward hotel that 1t be
placed in the restricted district, as
many of the guests complained they
could not sleep at night for the noise
made by street preachers ana otners.
Although a number of members OF the
Socialist party, who are opposed 10 the
additional restriction, were present, no
demonstration was made and no one
from the Socialist ranks spoke against
its passage.
The council felt it had compromised
a little with the Socialists in striking
out a clause that was in the ordinance
when 1t was first introduced last week.
This clause was that from 1880 to
O'Clock the streets would be free TO
anyone who wished to use them for
street speaking purposes. This clause
was admittedly for the benefit of the
Salvation Army, which now must keep
outside the restricted district.
The Socialists had protested against
this clause in the ordinance, declaring
it a special privilege, as only the Sal.
Vatlon ARMY coulu '"Ne az ''-'
it,
Councilman Blanchard, chairman OF
the legislative committee, was re-
sponsible for the elimination of this
clause. He declared he could see a
long hard fight If it was left in, and
that it ,savored much of special
privilege Councilman Wallace was
equally in favor of it, and made hard
fight on the floor of the council to nave
the ordinance passed with the clause
in it. He said the Salvation Army was
prepared to resist the street speaking
restriction by suffering martyrdom In
iail If 1t was not allowed the half hour
in which to hold its meeting on the
business streets. Councilman Clampitt
was the only one that wanted the or
dirance left as 1t stood, as 1t now
pIeases the greatest number of persons
and only few take exceptions to 1t.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29

appear before the council in their be-
half yesterday afternoon and ask the
council If 1t would please pay the feed
bills for the animals.
They have been receiving SO a day,
out of which they must maintain theft
horses and buggies, and Attorney
Adams told the council that, when all
expenses were paid, the sewer f1ushers
actually have less than the common day
laborers, although they do a higher
grade of work. The finance commitee
at it's session during the morning had
recommended that the sewer fiushers
be put on monthly basis and paid $50
month.
While this will not equal the feed
bills 1t is a slight advance, and the
flushers will have the advantage OF
holidays with pay, which is not the
case under the daily wage system.
A sewer flusher said last night that
when the monthly feed and repair bills
were paid it would leave each flusher
the snug little fortune of s55 out of his
monthly salary.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29
HOUSING COMMISSION IS
WITHOUT LEGAL EXISTENCE
At Present 1t Is Merely a Voluntary
Body, but Oversight Is to Be
Remedied by Passage
of Ordinance

Although tile housing commission
has been one of the most active de-
partments of the city government for
the last three years, 1t was learned
yesterday that it is not officially con-
nected with the city.
The commission was appointed by
Mayor McAleer during the latter part
of his administration, but he did not
take the council into cooperation
with him, and, as consequence, no
ordinance was passed giving the COM
mission an official standing.
When Mayor Harper came into Of
flee he found the commission busy al
leViating the suffering in the tenement
districts, and he reappointed the MEM
bers chosen by Mayor McAleer to con-
tinue their good work. A new mayor
and a new council was in power, and
the fact that the housing commission
was merely voluntary body was
oveylooked.
The defect was not discovered until
the city attorney was ordered by the
finance committee last week to draw
up an ordinance placing sanitary in-'
spector at the disposal of the COM
mission. 1t was then found that the
ordinance could not be drawn, because,
legally. there was no such commits
sion. The oversight is TO be remedied
by an ordinance.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29
CANNOT DECIDE ON
GAMEWELL DEMANDS
COMMITTEES REPORT IS UN-
EXPECTEDLY MILD
Manual Fire Alarm System
Throughout the City as
Soon as Possible

Instead of the thrilling report from
the special committee of the coun-
ell on the GameWell fire alarm boxes,
in which it was expected charges of
misconduct on the part of former coun-
cilmen would be made, that which the
committee made to the council yester-
day was very mild affair
The committee said it was unable to
report at this time on the unpaid de-
mands of the Gamewell Fire Alarm
and Police Telegraph company for the
reason that the attorney for the COM
pany had evidence which he wished to
submit as soon as certain legal points
had been decided.
1t recommended that the city install
as soon as possible a complete manual
fire alarm system throughout the city
and stated that before this was done it
would be necessary to have a centrally
located main office with Its own under
ground and overhead system of wires.
The installation of this system, the
committee says, will obviate the neces
sity of purchasing any more fire alarm
boxes as expensive as those now in use.
Furthermore, the committee recon-
mends that a district be formed in a
residence portion of the city in which
the manual system be installed with
100 boxes, and that the boxes now in
use in such district be removed to
other parts of the city as soon as it
can be done with safety. Open speci-
fcations for this work are to be made
and every manufacturer of fire alarm
systems is to be invited to bid.
In addition, the committee reported
a recommendation to purchase the
right to use the Foster police and fire
alarm signal system, now in use in
the Westmoreland tract and other prl-
vate districts. The widow of Charles
S. Foster, the inventor has agreed to
sell the right to the city for $500, the
price fixed by her husband before his
death. demand for this amount was
drawn on the fire alarm and police
signal department.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29
CITY HALL NOTES

A pipe line for the Union Oil COM
pany on Alameda street was ordered
advertised.
Marshall Singleton, secretary Of the
police department, was ordered to ap-
pear before the finance committee and
explain irregularities in acquisitions.
The protest against the improvement
of Avenue Fifty-fve, between Pasa-
dena and Carlotta avenues, was not
sufficient, and the council denied the
protest and ordered the work to pro-
ceed.
The protest against the improvement
Of Grand avenue, between First and
Court streets, was sufficient to stop
proceedings, but the council laid the
matter over a week and will discuss
it at its next meeting.
The communication from DR.. q. c..
Moore of the board of education, in
which he gave the resolution of the
board against permitting the auditor to
examine the books, was filed without
reading by the council.
The special committee of the coun-
Gil handling the matter will ask the
city attorney to draw up an agree
ment for the use of the r. A. Nc
Cracken water fountains on the city's
streets. These fountains will retail ice
water at penny a drink by a slot
device.
The billboard ordinance will be re-
vised to exempt from license men who
place placards in windows to adver-
tise their own business. The milk or
diuance was passed by. the council. 1t
prohibits milk being sold in any way
except in sealed bottles, and estab-
fishes a higher standard for butter
milk
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29
ALEXANDRA WOMAN IS
ONE OF THE HEIRS
BALL ESTATE is VALUED AT
S5O,OOO,OOO
Mrs. Franc OglIvy Wood Learns She
Is Entitled to Interest In Rich
Lands and Accumu-
lated Cash

A dispatch from Washington, d. c.,
printed recently in The Herald, has
brought the news to Mrs. Franc
Ogilvy Wood of Alhambra that she Is
one of the heirs to the $50,000.00O estate
of a Revolutionary soldier, Joseph
Ball.
For some reason the Ball estate was
not divided at his death. 1t comprises
$3.50 acres of land in Pennsylvania,
Virginia, Kentucky and the Carolinas.
Part of this contains valuable iron de-
posits, and the cash returns from the
lands is said to have accumulated to
$1,S50,00O.
When Ball died the heirs were two
sisters, both of whom married. Mrs.
Wood traces her ancestry back to the
families of both sisters, through the
marriage OF descendants of both. The
Daniel Mccarthy family came from
one branch and the Chichester family
came through the other. Both are
widely known as old Virginia families.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29
SEWER FLUSHERS GET
MUNIFICENT ADVANCE
WILL NOW NET SALARY OF
S55 A MONTH
Appeal to Council to Pay Horse Feed
Bills Proves FruItless, but
They Are Not Wage
workers

Sewer fiushers, by a new labor or
dinance passed by the city council yes
terday, will now receive the muhlncent
sum of $50 a month.
This amount, however, really will not
buy as many groceries as 1t would &p-
pear for the sewer fiusher must main
tain a horse and buggy at his own ex-
pense, and If the horse dies or the
buggy is smashed in wreck he must
buy another.
The city's sewer flushers, who, when
their feed and repair bills are psld
have but a small amount left over with
which to feed several hungry children,
paid George p. Adams. an attorney, TO
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29
FIFTH STREET FINALLY TO
BE PAVED WITH ASPHALT
Costs of Previous Proceedings Still
Unpaid-CounciI Orders City Clerk
TO Present Final Ordinance
for Adoption

After being held up for a year or
more, Fifth street, from Olive to Hope,
is finally to be paved with asphalt.
Soon after the proceedings for this
work had begun DR.. e. S. Brainerd
protested to the board Of public works
on the ground that If the Normal
school property We're sold, it might
necessitate a change of grade, and 1t
was unwise to begin pavement proceed
ings at that time. deal for the sale
of the property was on, but 1t was not
consummated.
The board agreed to abandon pro-
ceedings if DIR. Brainerd would pay the
costs to the time of abandonment. The
matter was left in that shape and
Dlaced in the hands of the city clerk
March 10. The costs of the proceedings
have not been paid according to agree
ment, and the city clerk yesterday re-
ported the matter to the council. The
council ordered the clerk to present q
final ordinance for the paving at the
next meeting.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29

The Wood home, "Woodhurst," at
AIhambra, is known through the mod
cling of the house as a typical old Vir-
ginia place.
A feature of interest mentioned in
The Herald's dispatch was the fact
that a young woman who is cashier
in a Washington restaurant, Miss
Elosia Singleton, was astonished to
learn that she was one of the heirs
to the estate. Miss Singleton had a
letter from a brother in st. Mary's,
va, stating he and she are among the
heirs, their great grandmother having
been a sister of the old soldier.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29
WORKMAN FALLS FIVE
STORIES; ESCAPES WITH
SCRATCH AND BRUISE

O. After fall of Ave stories yesterday o
@ afternoon in an elevator used for hoist &,
q ing material In the Pacific Mutual z,
q building now being erected at Sixth z,
a and Olive streets, j. A. McClain, a q
q workman, crawled out of the wreck of 8
A the elevator with one scratch on his I.
a face. another ON his arm and a small q,
q bruise on his back. @
q McCIain was on the elevator at the Z.
q ffth floor when II suddenly began TO q
<x drop. He clutched at the rope In an Z.
q effort to stop the cage and the friction 8
q of the rope against his arm and face (.
q caused the bruises. When the eIeva- q
q tor crashed to the bottom and buried 3
q McClain In the debris other worIxnen g
8 hurried to the cellar expecting to carry 3
q out McClain's body. only to see him 3
q push aside the boards and walk out q
q He was attended by DIR. ii. G. Stinch- 3
O. field, who has offices in the Wright q
q q Calender building. He was taken q
3 to the emergency hospital to recuper- 9
q ate from the shock. q
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Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29

Quick climatic changes try strong consti-
tutons and cause, among other evils. nasal
oetarrh, a troublesome and offensive disease
sneezing, snuffling and difficult breathing
and the foul discharge into the throat--all
are ended by Elys Cream Balm. This
honest remedy contains no cocaine. mercury.
nor other harmful ingredient The worst
cases yield to treatment In short time.
All druggists soc.
II you prefer to use an atomizer, ask for
LIQUID Cream Balm. 1t has all the good
qualities of the solid form OF this remedy
and will rid you of catarrh or hay fever.
No cocaine to breed dreadful habit. No
mercury to dry out the secretion. Price
75c, with spraying tube. All druggists, or
mailed by Ely Bros. Sc Warren street,
New York.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29
SOUTHERN PACIFIC TO
BE TRIED FOR REBATING

Demurrers to the three charges of
rebating against the Southern Pacific
railroad were overruled by Justice
Welborn yesterday, as the court had
passed in previous cases on all the
points involved in the demurrers.
Pleas of not guilty were then entered
and the case was continued. 1t will
probably come up on the January cal
endar, and the date for trial will be
set.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29

If you want 10 go east. c. Haydock, Agen
Illinois Central II. r.. lis W. eth.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29
Close Quarters

Redd-It is said that the entire pop
ulation of the world could be placed
on the Isle of Wight.
Greene-But the automobile would
keep us jumping so we'd look like a
lot of animated fieas.-Y onkers States
man.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29
We Want 1t All!

Thirty days considered cash. We want
all the piano business for the rest of
the month. We are generally willing
to divide, but 300 pianos must be sold.
No money required, but 81 for 81 for
cash in 30 days, as advertised Bart
lett Music Co.. 231 Broadway, opp. city
nall. 9-27-X
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14
f F arm esa
Garden
il FRUIT CROP.

Some Ideas Worth Putting Into Prac-
tice Next Season.
It is q mistake to suppose that frul,
bearing plants will do their best II
they receive attention only now ano
then. Irregular care will not mount e
much. Moreover, the cultivator should
as soon as the bearing season Is over
begin to consider what may be lone
to induce a better crop next year.
Many old plantations Of raspberries
and %blackberries that are filed witt
dead canes and weeds can be SO re
newed and renovated that they vii
bear an abundance OF fine fruit. II
keep a berry patch in the highest state
Of productiveness the old canes Should
be removed after fruiting and the
young growth Of small ane properly
pruned out and thinned in the row. II
this is neglected next year you VII
have a small crop of inferior berries
good neither to eat o to sell.
Blackberries and the red or sucker
varieties of raspberries require similar
culture. In May begin to cultivate ant
to thin plants in the row. Blackber
ries should be thinned so the plants
will stand at an average distance Of
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14
The Ny In the Ointment
Back to Nature and Sanity.

Recently the mosquitoes held q ma
tional convention on my farm. Great
enthusiasm prevailed.
It was at about this time the colo
mel came to see me. He was en-
raptured with the scenery. This was
before he had made the acquaintance
Of the mosquitoes.
'aThere is not a more enhancing spot
than this in America" said the colonel.
''This river is like a gem in a setting
Of mountains. There is not a thing
to mar its beauty slap. It Is a har-
mony without a discord slap, a piano.
rama Of nature on which the eye slap
can rest and never tire (biff, slap.
See the green slopes Of the mountains
slap reflected in the waters below
(bif, swish, slap. Notice how cool
slap and delightful is the air (drat
these mosquitoesD. This (slap) is a
spectacle (bif, bang, slap Of gran
deur"- But the sentence was never
finished, for just now there came on
a fresh brigade Of mosquitoes, and
they Immediately went to work on the
colonel's neck and nose. The result
was that his language suddenly be-
came too warm to reproduce, while his
gesticulations were even mor sensa-
ional than his words. 81
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A Path to Truth.

The greatest crop I have raised on
my rock farm has been a crop OF
dreams. and here is Il of them:
Nothing is real that is not perma.
nent. Nothing is permanent that is moi
perfect. All else passes away. 1t
strives toward perfection as the wave
on the shore strives up the sand, only
to fail of reaching the top and falling
back.
What, then, Of man is real, perma-
nent and perfect? Gods thought of
man, is it not? Gods thoughts are
things. They actually create in the one
substance, which is spirit. We see but
the apparent man, the symbol in the
manifested world, the imperfect re-
Election like the distorted reflection OF
the moon in the uneven surface Of the
water.
Gods man, the one produced by the
divine thought, is perfect. There is
the eternal Of each of US. There is our
real self. the only real self that exists.
Oh, to keep this thought Of our
selves ever, to function in this i'm
mortal nature that God makes by
thinking of us! That would mean per
feet health, perfect Joy, perfect broth,
erhood and service.
This is one of the visions that have
grown for me on my little rocky farm.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-14
The ship That stayed In the Air.

The Ship That Stayed In tho Air.
Count Zeppelin's spectacular triI
along the Rhine valley in his grea:
dirigible airship was notable for two
things-the ship stayed in the air and
thus earned its right to be called ar
airship, and 1t yielded to the will Of
the navigator as a ship should. An6
the voyage was really a practice scout
Of importance to military uses, al
though that this was intended hat
been denied. 1t was reported that the
d%irigible's course rs originally laid out
was from a point on the boundary be
tween Germany and Switzerland t.
Stuttgart, a place in Germany OF nc
strategic importance; thence to Metz
on the new. frontier, where d
great battle was fought between the
French and Germans in 1870. anG
from there to Mayence, a region Of
the Rhine favorable to the crossing
Of troops. Instead of following this
course the airship lowered over the
valley Of the Rhine where it separates
Switzerland from Germany and Their
turned almost due north, as the Rhine
runs, following it so closely as to pass
directly over the towns and cities or
its banks. In time Of wal this would
be the service Germany would want
an airship scout to perform to see
whether the French might be crossing
that barrier. The fact that the whole
Of the valley available for CROSSING
troops was overlooked between z a. m
and 3 p. m. is important on the mill.
tary side.
Count Zeppelin's machine falls dis.
tinctly within the Fighter than air.
class and has many Of the faults OF
the balloon which has been under de.
velopment for centuries. But in this
trip along the Rhine the %aeronaut ap.
pears to have controlled it admirably,
for he skipped no towns or the route
and encircled cathedral steeples. II
he didn't take the trip originally in.
tended there was method in his varia.
ton of the route.
Whether the Fighter than air. ma.
chine has possibilities greater than
the "heavier than air" machine Is a
question upon which experts differ.
but the fight of Count Zeppelin's air
ship over the Franco-G German frontier
was an impressive performance. II
showed that long distance scouting
with free balloons is possible.
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from the rum shop. l have no quarrel.
understand. with people who wish to
drink nostrums or booze. l am only
stating my own preference.
Give me a wheel, a horse or a rod
and reel, then out to the fields, the
streams and the mountains. That is
life. Human beings were eve intend
ed to be shut up forever in the swell
tering, fostering town. There is o
beauty in the granite piled up by the
earthquake than in the hideous collec.
ton of bricks and mortar piled up by
men. There is more sweetness in the
grass and blossoms than in the clinking
pavements. There is more health In
one good outing than in all the doctors
prescriptions.
Nature is wholesome, genuine. She
does not flatter us or lie to us. b
does not nag at us or restrain us. She
simply gives us our liberty and lets lis
do as we please. She says: Here I
am. Take me or let me alone. I am
free to all and am never Jealous: l
have no favors to offer, yet man can
gain from me whatever he desires. To
the weary I give rest; to the poet and
artist beauty; to the avaricious wealth.:
to the bruised heart balm and healing;
to all health, vigor and wholesome en-
joyment. l sustain in life and fold
back tt my bosom in DEATH"
To one tired of the artificial, the hol-
low and the insincere a day with ma.
ture is like a draft of cold water to one
athirst.